Chicago Cubs vs Brooklyn Dodgers
August 23, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 23, 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 4, Brooklyn Dodgers 6
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Fondy 1b 5 1 3 1
Baker 2b 5 0 1 0
Baumholtz rf 4 0 1 1
Banks ss 5 0 1 0
Speake lf 3 0 0 0
Miksis 3b 4 0 0 0
Bolger cf 3 1 1 0
Chiti c 3 1 1 0
Rush p 3 1 0 0
  Tremel p 0 0 0 0
  Merriman ph 1 0 0 0
  Kaiser p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 4 8 2
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 4 2 1 0
Reese ss 4 1 1 0
Snider cf 5 1 2 2
Campanella c 3 1 1 1
Furillo rf 5 1 3 2
Kellert 1b 4 0 2 0
  Amoros pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Robinson 3b 4 0 0 0
Hodges lf,1b 2 0 1 0
Newcombe p 1 0 0 0
  Bessent p 2 0 0 0
Totals 34 6 11 5
Chicago 130 000 000–481
Brooklyn 300 010 20x–6113
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Rush  L(10-9) 6.1 10 6 5 3 2
  Tremel   0.2 0 0 0 1 1
  Kaiser   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
11
6
5
4
4
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Newcombe   2.2 4 4 1 3 1
  Bessent  W(6-0) 6.1 4 0 0 0 5
Totals
9.0
8
4
1
3
6
  E–Baker (26).  2B–Chicago Banks (22,off Newcombe).  SF–Baumholtz (3,off Newcombe).  IBB–Chiti (4,by Newcombe).  Team LOB–9.  SB–Bolger (2,2nd base off Newcombe/Campanella).  U-HP–Tom Gorman, 1B–Dusty Boggess, 2B–Bill Engeln, 3B–Babe Pinelli.
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