Washington Senators vs New York Yankees
July 1, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 1, 1956 at Yankee Stadium. The New York Yankees defeated the Washington Senators and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

"The box score is the catechism of baseball, ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye." - Author Stanley Cohen in The Man in the Crowd (1981)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Washington Senators 6, New York Yankees 8

Washington Senators ab   r   h rbi
Yost 3b 4 1 1 0
Roig 2b 4 1 2 2
  Herzog cf 1 0 0 0
Runnels 1b,2b 5 1 1 2
Sievers lf,1b 2 1 1 0
Lemon rf 4 1 1 2
Olson cf,lf 4 0 0 0
Courtney c 4 0 3 0
Valdivielso ss 4 0 0 0
Stewart p 1 0 0 0
  Oravetz ph 1 1 1 0
  Chakales p 0 0 0 0
  Fitz Gerald ph 1 0 0 0
  Stone p 0 0 0 0
  Ramos p 0 0 0 0
  Berberet ph 1 0 0 0
  Byerly p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 6 10 6
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Martin 2b 4 0 0 0
Cerv lf 1 2 0 0
  Siebern ph,lf 2 0 0 0
Howard c 3 1 2 2
  Carroll pr 0 1 0 0
Mantle cf 3 2 2 4
Skowron 1b 2 0 1 0
Bauer rf 4 0 0 0
Carey 3b 3 0 0 0
Coleman ss 2 1 0 0
  McDougald ph 0 0 0 0
  Berra ph 1 0 0 0
  Rizzuto ss 0 0 0 0
Byrne p 3 1 1 0
  Sturdivant p 1 0 0 0
Totals 29 8 6 6
Washington 000 210 3006102
New York 002 300 102860
  Washington Senators IP H R ER BB SO
Stewart   4.0 2 5 2 8 1
  Chakales   2.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Stone   0.1 2 1 1 1 0
  Ramos   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Byerly  L (0-1) 1.0 2 2 2 0 1
Totals
8.0
6
8
5
9
2
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Byrne   6.2 9 6 6 3 6
  Sturdivant  W (6-1) 2.1 1 0 0 0 3
Totals
9.0
10
6
6
3
9

  E–Roig (1), Valdivielso (9).  DP–Washington 1. Runnels-Valdivielso-Sievers.  2B–Washington Oravetz (2,off Byrne); Sievers (13,off Byrne); Roig (1,off Byrne)..  HR–Washington Lemon (10,4th inning off Byrne 1 on 1 out); Runnels (5,7th inning off Byrne 1 on 2 out), New York Mantle 2 (29,7th inning off Stone 0 on 0 out,9th inning off Byerly 1 on 0 out).  Team LOB–6.  SH–Martin (5,off Stewart).  SF–Howard (1,off Stewart).  Team–8.  U-HP–Eddie Hurley, 1B–Nestor Chylak, 2B–Hank Soar, 3B–Joe Paparella.  T–3:00.  A–25,702.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."