Brooklyn Dodgers vs Milwaukee Braves
August 3, 1953 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 3, 1953 at County Stadium. The Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the Milwaukee 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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Brooklyn Dodgers 1, Milwaukee Braves 0

Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 3 0 0 0
Reese ss 4 0 0 0
Snider cf 2 0 2 0
Hodges 1b 3 0 0 0
Campanella c 3 0 0 0
Shuba lf 2 0 0 0
  Thompson pr,lf 0 1 0 0
Furillo rf 3 0 0 0
Cox 3b 2 0 1 0
Meyer p 3 0 1 1
Totals 25 1 4 1
Milwaukee Braves ab   r   h rbi
Bruton cf 3 0 0 0
Pendleton ss 3 0 0 0
Mathews 3b 3 0 1 0
Pafko rf 2 0 0 0
Adcock 1b 3 0 0 0
Crandall c 3 0 1 0
Gordon lf 2 0 1 0
Dittmer 2b 2 0 1 0
Burdette p 2 0 0 0
Totals 23 0 4 0
Brooklyn 000 000 1140
Milwaukee 000 000 0040
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Meyer  W(11-4) 7.0 4 0 0 0 3
Totals
7.0
4
0
0
0
3
  Milwaukee Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Burdette  L(8-2) 7.0 4 1 1 4 2
Totals
7.0
4
1
1
4
2

  E–None.  DP–Brooklyn 1. Gilliam-Reese.  IBB–Cox (8,by Burdette).  Team LOB–7.  SH–Pafko (9,off Meyer).  Team–3.  U-HP–Tom Gorman, 1B–Augie Donatelli, 2B–Jocko Conlan, 3B–Lon Warneke.
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