Yankees @ Senators
July 8, 1956

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Bottom 2	R	H	E
Yankees	3	2	0
Senators	0	0	1

Bottom 2	R	H	E
Yankees	3	2	0
Senators	1	1	1

Jim Lemon Season Stats

	Game	Season
Average	.000	.297
OBP	.000	.373
At Bats	0	293
Hits	0	87
• Singles	0	55
• Doubles	0	16
• Triples	0	6
• Home Runs	0	10
Walks	0	36
RBI’s	0	55

Tommy Byrne Season Stats

Wins	Losses	Saves
3	1	2

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Griffith Stadium - July 8, 1956

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Home Run

Tommy Byrne

Yogi Berra

Bill Skowron

Jerry Coleman

Andy Carey

Gil McDougald

Elston Howard

Mickey Mantle

Hank Bauer

Jim Lemon

Count: - , 0 Outs

Count: - , 0 Outs

Lemon hits a long drive deep into center field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.

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Top 2 Byrne is called out on strikes.

Top 2 Coleman strikes out.

Top 2 Carey hits a fly ball into center field. Olson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 1 Sievers strikes out. There goes Yost. The throw from Berra and Yost is out.

Bottom 1 Runnels hits a line drive into left field. Howard settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Bottom 1 Roig takes first base on ball four. Yost moves to second.

Bottom 1 Yost takes first base on ball four.

Top 1 Howard hits a fly ball into left field. Sievers settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

Top 1 Skowron hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run.. Two runs are unearned.

Top 1 The ball gets by Fitz Gerald for a passed ball. Mantle scores. Berra moves to third. That run is unearned.

Top 1 Berra hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Lemon. Berra reaches second base with a double. Mantle moves to third.

Top 1 Mantle hits a ball on the ground towards third. Yost fields it, and throws to first. And he throws it away. That's an error on Yost.

Top 1 Bauer hits a line drive towards the mound. Stobbs reaches out and makes the catch for the out.

Top 1 McDougald hits a fly ball into right field. Lemon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.

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