Chicago Cubs vs Brooklyn Dodgers
August 24, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 24, 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 5, Brooklyn Dodgers 9

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Fondy 1b 4 1 1 0
Baker 2b 5 1 1 0
Baumholtz rf 5 1 3 0
Banks ss 4 2 2 2
Speake lf 3 0 0 0
Miksis 3b 2 0 1 2
Bolger cf 4 0 0 0
Chiti c 2 0 0 0
  Merriman ph 1 0 0 0
  McCullough c 0 0 0 0
  Cooper ph,c 1 0 0 0
Hacker p 2 0 0 0
  Hillman p 0 0 0 0
  King ph 1 0 1 0
  Tremel p 0 0 0 0
  Jackson ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 5 9 4
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Robinson 3b 3 1 0 0
Reese ss 3 2 1 0
Snider cf 4 0 1 1
Campanella c 4 1 1 2
Furillo rf 5 2 4 0
Kellert 1b 4 2 2 4
  Amoros lf 1 0 0 0
Hodges lf,1b 4 1 2 1
Zimmer 2b 3 0 0 0
Meyer p 2 0 0 0
  Labine p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 9 11 8
Chicago 003 002 000594
Brooklyn 203 031 00x9112
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Hacker  L(10-13) 4.0 8 8 7 3 2
  Hillman   2.0 1 1 1 1 2
  Tremel   2.0 2 0 0 1 2
Totals
8.0
11
9
8
5
6
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Meyer  W(4-1) 7.1 8 5 4 4 5
  Labine  SV(5) 1.2 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
9
5
4
4
7

  E–Fondy (11), Baker (27), Miksis (5), Tremel (1).  2B–Chicago Banks (23,off Meyer); Miksis (10,off Meyer).  3B–Chicago Banks (5,off Meyer).  Team LOB–7.  CS–Reese (6,2nd base by Hacker/Chiti).  U-HP–Dusty Boggess, 1B–Bill Engeln, 2B–Babe Pinelli, 3B–Tom Gorman.  T–2:36.  A–7,845.
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