Chicago Cubs vs Brooklyn Dodgers
May 9, 1951 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 9, 1951 at Ebbets Field. The Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the Chicago Cubs and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Chicago Cubs 4, Brooklyn Dodgers 5

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Terwilliger 2b 4 1 1 0
Jackson 3b 4 1 1 0
Baumholtz rf 4 0 2 1
Sauer lf 4 0 0 1
Pafko cf 4 1 2 1
Fondy 1b 4 0 1 0
Owen c 1 0 1 0
  Burgess ph,c 3 0 0 1
Cusick ss 3 0 1 0
  Walker ph 1 0 0 0
Schmitz p 1 0 0 0
  Lown p 1 0 0 0
  Klippstein p 0 0 0 0
  Cavarretta ph 1 1 1 0
  Leonard p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 4 10 4
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Abrams lf 5 1 1 2
Reese ss 4 0 1 1
Snider cf 4 0 3 0
Robinson 2b 1 0 1 0
Hodges 1b 4 0 0 0
Furillo rf 2 1 1 0
Campanella c 4 1 1 0
Cox 3b 3 1 1 1
Van Cuyk p 0 0 0 0
  King p 2 1 0 0
Totals 29 5 9 4
Chicago 200 000 0114101
Brooklyn 020 003 00x592
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Schmitz   1.0 3 2 2 2 0
  Lown  L(0-2) 4.2 4 3 3 5 2
  Klippstein   1.1 2 0 0 1 0
  Leonard   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
9
5
5
8
2
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Van Cuyk   1.0 4 2 2 0 1
  King  W(2-1) 8.0 6 2 2 0 2
Totals
9.0
10
4
4
0
3

  E–Terwilliger (2), Reese (8), Snider (2).  DP–Chicago 3. Jackson-Fondy, Lown-Terwilliger-Fondy, Cusick-Terwilliger-Fondy, Brooklyn 1. Robinson-Hodges.  2B–Chicago Baumholtz (2,off King); Pafko (2,off King), Brooklyn Snider (4,off Schmitz); Campanella (4,off Schmitz); Cox (6,off Schmitz); Abrams (2,off Lown).  3B–Chicago Pafko (3,off Van Cuyk).  Team LOB–4.  SH–King (2,off Lown).  IBB–Robinson (1,by Klippstein).  Team–9.  CS–Fondy (3,2nd base by King/Campanella).  SB–Reese (1,2nd base off Lown/Burgess).  U-HP–Dusty Boggess, 1B–Scotty Robb, 2B–Lon Warneke, 3B–Babe Pinelli.  T–2:15.  A–5,147.
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