Tuesday, December 20, 2011

1956 Top Mound Showdown - Lemon vs Ford

Whitey Ford (10-72) vs Bob Lemon (10-66)

1956 Yankees  000 302 000 -  5  3  1
1956 Indians  000 100 100 -  2  7  0

W - Ford      L - Lemon

Home Runs - Bill Skowron 2 (Yankees)
 
Bob Skowron was a one man wrecking crew taking Lemon deep twice for the only hits Lemon allowed. Unfortunately for the Indians, Lemon was a bit wild and allowed three walks in front of the two blasts which plated all five Yankee runs.
Ford scattered 7 hits in getting the complete game win.

        IP   H   R  ER   SO  BB
Ford    9   7   2   2    3   3
Lemon   6   2   5   5    4   4

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