Boston Braves vs Chicago Cubs
July 14, 1945 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 14, 1945 at Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cubs defeated the Boston Braves 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)
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Boston Braves 5, Chicago Cubs 6

Boston Braves ab   r   h rbi
Joost 2b 4 0 2 0
Culler ss 4 0 0 0
Holmes rf 5 1 3 0
Medwick lf 5 1 2 1
Workman 3b 2 2 0 0
Gillenwater cf 4 1 2 1
Masi c 4 0 0 1
Shupe 1b 4 0 1 1
Hendrickson p 0 0 0 0
  Javery p 4 0 0 0
Totals 36 5 10 4
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Hack 3b 4 0 0 0
Johnson 2b 4 1 1 0
Nicholson rf 4 1 1 0
Cavarretta 1b 3 1 0 0
Pafko cf 3 1 0 1
Lowrey lf 4 2 2 2
Gillespie c 4 0 2 2
  Sauer pr 0 0 0 0
  Williams c 0 0 0 0
Merullo ss 4 0 3 1
Derringer p 0 0 0 0
  Erickson p 1 0 0 0
Totals 31 6 9 6
Boston 031 001 0005101
Chicago 500 000 01x691
  Boston Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Hendrickson   0.1 5 5 5 2 0
  Javery  L(1-3) 7.2 4 1 1 2 2
Totals
8.0
9
6
6
4
2
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Derringer   5.0 6 5 4 3 3
  Erickson  W(5-2) 4.0 4 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
10
5
4
3
5

  E–Culler (17), Hack (4).  DP–Boston 1. Joost-Shupe.  2B–Boston Holmes 2 (25); Medwick (7); Gillenwater 2 (14), Chicago Gillespie (2); Merullo (9).  SH–Culler (5); Derringer 2 (5).  Team LOB–8.  Team–7.  U–Babe Pinelli, Jocko Conlan, Dusty Boggess.  T–1:57.  A–5,500.
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