New York Yankees vs Brooklyn Dodgers
October 10, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 10, 1956 at Ebbets Field. The New York Yankees defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 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 9, Brooklyn Dodgers 0

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Bauer rf 5 1 1 0
Martin 2b 5 2 2 0
Mantle cf 4 1 1 0
Berra c 3 3 2 4
Skowron 1b 5 1 1 4
Howard lf 5 1 2 1
McDougald ss 4 0 1 0
Carey 3b 3 0 0 0
Kucks p 3 0 0 0
Totals 37 9 10 9
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 4 0 0 0
Reese ss 2 0 0 0
Snider cf 4 0 2 0
Robinson 3b 3 0 0 0
Hodges 1b 3 0 0 0
Amoros lf 3 0 0 0
Furillo rf 3 0 1 0
Campanella c 3 0 0 0
Newcombe p 1 0 0 0
  Bessent p 0 0 0 0
  Mitchell ph 1 0 0 0
  Craig p 0 0 0 0
  Roebuck p 0 0 0 0
  Walker ph 1 0 0 0
  Erskine p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 0 3 0
New York 202 100 4009100
Brooklyn 000 000 000031
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Kucks  W (1-0) 9.0 3 0 0 3 1
Totals
9.0
3
0
0
3
1
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Newcombe  L (0-1) 3.0 5 5 5 1 4
  Bessent  3 2.0 0 0 1 1 0
  Craig  0 3.0 4 4 2 0 1
  Roebuck  2 0.0 0 0 0 3 0
  Erskine  1 0.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
10
9
9
4
8

  E–Reese (1).  DP–New York 2 Kucks-Martin-Skowron, McDougald-Skowron.  2B–New York Mantle (1,off Bessent); Howard (1,off Craig).  HR–New York Berra 2 (3,1st inning off Newcombe 1 on 2 out,3rd inning off Newcombe 1 on 2 out); Howard (1,4th inning off Newcombe 0 on 0 out); Skowron (1,7th inning off Craig 3 on 0 out).  SH–Kucks (1,off Bessent).  IBB–Berra 2 (2,by Bessent,by Craig).  Team LOB–6.  Team–4.  SB–Bauer (1,2nd base off Newcombe/Campanella).  U-HP–Dusty Boggess, 1B–Larry Napp, 2B–Babe Pinelli, 3B–Hank Soar.  T–2:19.  A–33,782.
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."