Chicago Cubs vs Brooklyn Dodgers
May 1, 1953 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 1, 1953 at Ebbets Field. The Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the Chicago Cubs 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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Chicago Cubs 5, Brooklyn Dodgers 6

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Miksis ss 4 0 1 0
Baumholtz rf 5 1 1 0
Fondy 1b 5 0 0 0
Sauer lf 3 2 2 0
Ward cf 3 1 0 0
  Jeffcoat cf 0 0 0 0
Serena 2b 4 0 1 1
  Ramazzotti 2b 0 0 0 0
Jackson 3b 3 0 0 0
Atwell c 4 1 3 4
Lown p 3 0 0 0
  Leonard p 0 0 0 0
  Baczewski p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 8 5
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 4 0 1 2
Reese ss 5 1 1 2
Snider cf 5 0 2 0
Campanella c 3 0 0 0
Shuba lf 4 0 1 0
  Antonello ph,lf 1 0 0 0
Hodges 1b 1 2 0 0
Thompson rf 3 1 1 0
Cox 3b 4 1 2 0
Meyer p 3 0 1 0
  Walker ph 1 0 1 2
  Mauro pr 0 1 0 0
  Black p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 6 10 6
Chicago 010 000 130583
Brooklyn 010 001 04x6100
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Lown   7.0 9 5 4 6 4
  Leonard  L(0-1) 0.2 1 1 1 1 1
  Baczewski   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
10
6
5
7
5
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Meyer  W(2-1) 8.0 8 5 5 4 3
  Black  SV(1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
5
5
4
3

  E–Serena (1), Atwell 2 (4).  DP–Chicago 1. Jackson-Serena.  2B–Chicago Sauer (1,off Meyer), Brooklyn Cox (1,off Lown).  HR–Chicago Atwell (1,7th inning off Meyer 0 on 1 out), Brooklyn Reese (3,8th inning off Leonard 1 on 1 out).  SH–Miksis (1,off Meyer).  IBB–Ward (1,by Meyer).  Team LOB–7.  Team–11.  SB–Snider (4,2nd base off Lown/Atwell).  U–Frank Dascoli, Hal Dixon, Larry Goetz.  T–2:55.  A–10,631.
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