1938 All-Star Game Box Score

Baseball Almanac is pleased to present the box score to the 1938 Midsummer Classic which was played on July 6, 1938 at Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio.

"Before the no-hitter against Boston on June eleventh that year (1938) I was just a rookie that nobody, but Bill McKechnie knew." - Johnny Vander Meer

1938 All-Star Game

American League 1 vs National League 4
July 6, 1938 Crosley Field

American League
Name Pos AB R H RBI
Mike Kreevich lf 2 0 0 0
   e-Doc Cramer ph-lf 2 0 0 0
Charlie Gehringer 2b 3 0 1 0
Earl Averill cf 4 0 0 0
Jimmie Foxx 1b-3b 4 0 1 0
Joe DiMaggio rf 4 1 1 0
Bill Dickey c 4 0 1 0
Joe Cronin ss 3 0 2 1
Buddy Lewis 3b 1 0 0 0
   b-Lou Gehrig ph-1b 3 0 1 0

Lefty Gomez

p 1 0 0 0
   Johnny Allen p 1 0 0 0
   d-Rudy York ph 1 0 0 0
   Lefty Grove p 0 0 0 0
   e-Bob Johnson ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 1 7 1

 

National League
Name Pos AB R H RBI
Stan Hack 3b 4 1 1 0
Billy Herman 2b 4 0 1 0
Ival Goodman rf 3 0 0 0
Joe Medwick lf 4 0 1 0
Mel Ott cf 4 1 1 0
Ernie Lombardi c 4 0 2 1
Frank McCormick 1b 4 1 1 1
Leo Durocher ss 3 1 1 0

Johnny Vander Meer

p 0 0 0 0
   a-Hank Leiber ph 1 0 0 0
   Bill Lee p 1 0 0 0
   Mace Brown p 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 8 2

 

a: Lined out for Vander Meer in 3rd inning.
b: Grounded out for Lewis in 5th inning.
c: Grounded out for Kreevich in 6th inning.
d: Struck out for Allen in 7th inning.
e: Struck out for Grove in 9th inning.

Doubles: Dickey, Cronin.
Errors: Foxx, DiMaggio, Cronin, Dickey.
Left on Base: A.L. 8, N.L. 6.
Stolen Bases: Goodman, DiMaggio.
Triple: Ott.

All-Star Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

American League

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 4

National League

1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 x 4 8 0
American League
Name IP H R ER BB SO

Lefty Gomez

3.0 2 1 0 0 1
   Johnny Allen 3.0 2 1 1 0 3
   Lefty Grove 2.0 4 2 0 0 3

 

National League
Name IP H R ER BB SO

Johnny Vander Meer

3.0 1 0 0 0 1
   Bill Lee 3.0 1 0 0 1 2
   Mace Brown 3.0 5 1 1 1 2

 

Hit by Pitcher: Goodman (by Allen).
Losing Pitcher
: Gomez.
Winning Pitcher: Vander Meer.

Attendance: 27,067.
Length of Game: 1:58.
Umpires A.L.: HP: Steve Basil, 2B: Harry Geisel.
Umpires N.L.: 1B: Lee Ballanfant, 3B: Bill Klem.


Did you know that this was the first All-Star game played without a home run being hit by either team?

Bill Terry, who managed the National League All-Stars in 1938, chose Johnny Vander Meer as his starting pitcher because this was the season of Vander Meer's successive no-hitters.

Seventh inning play-by-play: Lefty Grove pitching and Frank McCormick hit a single. Leo Durocher laid down a bunt to move the runner to second. When Jimmie Foxx fielded the ball, he overthrew first base and Joe DiMaggio retrieved the ball. Durocher had been circling the bases and was approaching home when DiMaggio attempted to throw him out, but overthrew the plate allowing Durocher to score on the first and only All-Star "bunt home run"