New York Yankees vs Brooklyn Dodgers
October 5, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 5, 1956 at Ebbets Field. The Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees 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

New York Yankees 8, Brooklyn Dodgers 13

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
McDougald ss 3 0 1 0
Slaughter lf 4 3 2 1
Mantle cf 4 1 1 0
Berra c 4 1 2 4
Collins 1b 4 0 1 2
Bauer rf 5 0 1 0
Martin 3b,2b 4 1 1 0
Coleman 2b 2 0 0 0
  Skowron ph 1 0 0 0
  Carey 3b 0 0 0 0
Larsen p 1 1 1 1
  Kucks p 0 0 0 0
  Byrne p 0 0 0 0
  Sturdivant p 0 0 0 0
  Morgan p 1 1 1 0
  Turley p 0 0 0 0
  Siebern ph 1 0 0 0
  McDermott p 1 0 1 0
Totals 35 8 12 8
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 3 1 1 2
Reese ss 6 1 1 2
Snider cf 4 3 2 3
Robinson 3b 4 2 2 0
Hodges 1b 3 2 3 4
Amoros lf 4 1 0 0
  Jackson ph 1 0 0 0
  Cimoli lf 0 0 0 0
Furillo rf 4 2 2 0
Campanella c 3 1 0 1
Newcombe p 0 0 0 0
  Roebuck p 0 0 0 0
  Mitchell ph 1 0 0 0
  Bessent p 2 0 1 1
Totals 35 13 12 13
New York 150 100 0018122
Brooklyn 061 220 02x13120
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Larsen  1.2 1.0 4 0 4 0 0
  Kucks  0 1.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Byrne  0.1 1.0 1 0 0 1 1
  Sturdivant  0.2 2.0 1 1 2 2 0
  Morgan  L (0-1) 2.0 5 4 4 2 3
  Turley  0.1 0.0 0 0 0 1 0
  McDermott  3 2.0 2 1 3 3 0
Totals
9.0
12
13
6
11
10
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Newcombe  1.2 6.0 6 6 2 0 1
  Roebuck  0.1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Bessent  W (1-0) 7.0 6 2 2 2 4
Totals
13.0
12
8
8
4
4

  E–Collins (1), Bauer (1).  DP–New York 1 Martin-Collins, Brooklyn 1 Reese-Gilliam-Hodges.  2B–Brooklyn Hodges 2 (2,off Morgan 2).  HR–New York Berra (1,2nd inning off Newcombe 3 on 2 out), Brooklyn Snider (1,2nd inning off Byrne 2 on 2 out).  SH–Coleman (1,off Newcombe); McDougald (1,off Bessent); Bessent (1,off McDermott).  SF–Slaughter (1,off Bessent); Campanella (1,off Larsen).  Team LOB–7.  IBB–Campanella (1,by Morgan).  Team–11.  WP–Bessent (1).  U-HP–Hank Soar, 1B–Dusty Boggess, 2B–Larry Napp, 3B–Babe Pinelli.  T–3:26.  A–36,217.
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."