Brooklyn Dodgers vs Chicago Cubs
August 31, 1948 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 31, 1948 at Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cubs defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."
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Brooklyn Dodgers 0, Chicago Cubs 3
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Shuba lf 3 0 0 0
Robinson 2b 3 0 0 0
Reese ss 3 0 0 0
Hermanski rf 3 0 1 0
Snider cf 3 0 0 0
Hodges 1b 3 0 0 0
Edwards c 2 0 0 0
  Reiser ph 1 0 0 0
Cox 3b 3 0 0 0
Barney p 2 0 0 0
  Vaughan ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 27 0 1 0
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Verban 2b 4 0 1 0
Waitkus lf 4 0 0 0
Lowrey cf 4 0 0 0
Pafko 3b 4 2 2 0
Cavarretta 1b 2 0 1 0
Nicholson rf 3 1 2 0
Scheffing c 4 0 1 3
Smalley ss 3 0 1 0
Borowy p 3 0 0 0
Totals 31 3 8 3
Brooklyn 000 000 000–010
Chicago 000 201 00x–380
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Barney  L(12-9) 8.0 8 3 3 2 2
Totals
8.0
8
3
3
2
2
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Borowy  W(5-5) 9.0 1 0 0 0 7
Totals
9.0
1
0
0
0
7
  E–None.  DP–Brooklyn 1. Snider-Robinson-Reese.  2B–Chicago Verban (13).  3B–Chicago Scheffing (2).  Team LOB–0.  HBP–Nicholson (2).  Team–7.  U–George Barr, Lee Ballanfant, Al Barlick.
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