New York Yankees vs Brooklyn Dodgers
October 9, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 9, 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 0, Brooklyn Dodgers 1

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Bauer rf 5 0 2 0
Collins 1b 5 0 2 0
Mantle cf 3 0 0 0
Berra c 4 0 2 0
Slaughter lf 3 0 0 0
Martin 2b 4 0 1 0
McDougald ss 4 0 0 0
Carey 3b 4 0 0 0
Turley p 4 0 0 0
Totals 36 0 7 0
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 3 1 1 0
Reese ss 4 0 0 0
Snider cf 2 0 1 0
Robinson 3b 4 0 1 1
Hodges 1b 3 0 0 0
Amoros lf 3 0 0 0
Furillo rf 4 0 0 0
Campanella c 4 0 0 0
Labine p 4 0 1 0
Totals 31 1 4 1
New York 000 000 000 0070
Brooklyn 000 000 000 1140
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Turley  L (0-1) 9.2 4 1 1 8 11
Totals
9.2
4
1
1
8
11
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Labine  W (1-0) 10.0 7 0 0 2 5
Totals
10.0
7
0
0
2
5

  E–None.  DP–Brooklyn 1 Gilliam-Reese-Hodges.  2B–New York Berra (2,off Labine); Collins (2,off Labine), Brooklyn Labine (1,off Turley).  IBB–Mantle (1,by Labine); Snider 2 (3,by Turley 2).  Team LOB–8.  SH–Reese (1,off Turley).  Team–10.  IBB–Labine (2,Mantle).  U-HP–Hank Soar, 1B–Dusty Boggess, 2B–Larry Napp, 3B–Babe Pinelli.  T–2:37.  A–33,224.
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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."