Chicago Cubs vs Brooklyn Dodgers
July 20, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 20, 1955 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 1, Brooklyn Dodgers 10

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Merriman cf 3 0 0 0
Baker 2b 3 0 0 0
King rf 4 0 0 0
Banks ss 3 0 0 0
Jackson 3b 3 0 0 0
Sauer lf 3 1 0 0
Fondy 1b 3 0 1 0
McCullough c 3 0 1 1
Jones p 1 0 0 0
  Hillman p 1 0 0 0
  Baumholtz ph 1 0 0 0
  Kaiser p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 1 2 1
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Hoak 3b 1 3 1 0
Reese ss 4 0 1 1
Snider cf 3 2 2 3
  Amoros cf 1 0 0 0
Campanella c 3 1 0 1
Hodges 1b 4 1 1 2
Gilliam lf 5 1 3 0
Furillo rf 4 0 0 0
Zimmer 2b 4 2 2 3
Newcombe p 4 0 0 0
Totals 33 10 10 10
Chicago 010 000 000120
Brooklyn 230 103 10x10101
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Jones  L(9-13) 3.2 5 6 6 5 5
  Hillman   3.1 5 4 4 2 3
  Kaiser   1.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
8.0
10
10
10
8
8
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Newcombe  W(16-1) 9.0 2 1 0 2 8
  Fricano   1.0 0 0 0 1 1
  Harrington   1.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
11.0
14
7
6
9
11

  E–Gilliam (15).  DP–Chicago 1. Banks-Baker-Fondy, Brooklyn 2. Zimmer-Reese-Hodges, Reese-Zimmer-Hodges.  2B–Brooklyn Reese (20,off Jones); Gilliam 2 (10,off Jones,off Hillman).  HR–Brooklyn Snider 2 (33,1st inning off Jones 1 on 1 out,6th inning off Hillman 0 on 2 out); Zimmer 2 (6,2nd inning off Jones 1 on 1 out,7th inning off Hillman 0 on 1 out); Hodges (16,6th inning off Hillman 1 on 2 out)..  Team LOB–2.  HBP–Campanella (3,by Jones).  Team–8.  SB–Hoak (5,2nd base off Jones/McCullough).  U-HP–Bill Engeln, 1B–Babe Pinelli, 2B–Tom Gorman, 3B–Dusty Boggess.
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