New York Giants vs Brooklyn Dodgers
April 25, 1953 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 25, 1953 at Ebbets Field. The New York Giants defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 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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New York Giants 7, Brooklyn Dodgers 5

New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Williams 2b 4 0 1 0
Dark ss 5 1 2 3
Thomson cf 4 2 1 0
Irvin lf 4 1 2 2
Lockman 1b 5 0 1 1
Spencer 3b 5 0 0 0
Thompson rf 3 1 0 0
Yvars c 1 0 0 0
  Wilson ph 0 0 0 0
  Calderone c 1 1 1 0
Maglie p 1 0 0 0
  Mueller ph 1 0 1 1
  Gomez pr 0 0 0 0
  Wilhelm p 1 1 1 0
Totals 35 7 10 7
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 3 0 0 0
Reese ss 4 0 1 0
Snider cf 4 1 1 0
Robinson 3b 3 1 1 0
Campanella c 3 1 2 1
Shuba lf 4 2 2 2
Furillo rf 4 0 1 1
Hodges 1b 2 0 0 0
Meyer p 3 0 0 0
  Black p 0 0 0 0
  Cox ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 8 4
New York 002 001 2207101
Brooklyn 014 000 000580
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Maglie   5.0 8 5 4 3 4
  Wilhelm  W(1-0) 4.0 0 0 0 2 3
Totals
9.0
8
5
4
5
7
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Meyer   6.1 7 5 5 6 1
  Black  L(1-1) 2.2 3 2 2 1 1
Totals
9.0
10
7
7
7
2

  E–Irvin (3).  DP–New York 3. Williams-Dark-Lockman, Yvars-Dark, Wilhelm-Dark-Lockman, Brooklyn 1. Shuba-Campanella-Robinson.  2B–New York Williams (1,off Meyer), Brooklyn Shuba 2 (2,off Maglie 2); Robinson (2,off Maglie).  3B–Brooklyn Snider (1,off Maglie).  HR–New York Dark (1,3rd inning off Meyer 0 on 1 out); Irvin (1,7th inning off Meyer 1 on 1 out)..  Team LOB–8.  Team–4.  CS–Gilliam (3,2nd base by Maglie/Yvars); Gilliam (3,2nd base by Maglie/Yvars).  U-HP–Larry Goetz, 1B–Frank Dascoli, 2B–Frank Secory, 3B–Hal Dixon.  T–2:40.  A–19,936.
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