Boston Braves vs Chicago Cubs
August 3, 1951 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 3, 1951 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 1, Chicago Cubs 2

Boston Braves ab   r   h rbi
Hartsfield 2b 5 0 1 0
Jethroe cf 4 0 0 0
Torgeson 1b 3 0 0 0
Elliott 3b 4 0 2 0
Gordon lf 4 1 1 0
Marshall rf 4 0 1 0
Cooper c 4 0 1 0
Logan ss 4 0 1 0
Bickford p 3 0 1 1
  Sisti ph 1 0 1 0
Totals 36 1 9 1
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Miksis 2b 3 1 1 0
Jeffcoat lf 4 0 1 1
Baumholtz cf 3 0 1 0
Jackson 3b 3 0 0 1
Hermanski rf 2 0 0 0
Connors 1b 3 0 1 0
Burgess c 3 0 2 0
Smalley ss 3 0 0 0
Minner p 2 1 0 0
Totals 26 2 6 2
Boston 010 000 000190
Chicago 100 000 01x260
  Boston Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Bickford  L(11-9) 8.0 6 2 2 2 2
Totals
8.0
6
2
2
2
2
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Minner  W(5-10) 9.0 9 1 1 1 4
Totals
9.0
9
1
1
1
4

  E–None.  DP–Boston 2. Elliott-Hartsfield-Torgeson, Bickford-Logan-Torgeson.  2B–Boston Elliott (22,off Minner); Sisti (10,off Minner), Chicago Baumholtz (21,off Bickford).  Team LOB–9.  SH–Miksis (5,off Bickford).  Team–3.  SB–Hartsfield (7,2nd base off Minner/Burgess).  U–Artie Gore, Jocko Conlan, Bill Stewart.  T–1:48.  A–7,303.
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