Milwaukee Braves vs Brooklyn Dodgers
August 30, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 30, 1955 at Ebbets Field. 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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Milwaukee Braves 6, Brooklyn Dodgers 8

Milwaukee Braves ab   r   h rbi
Bruton cf 4 0 0 0
O'Connell 2b 4 0 0 0
Mathews 3b 3 1 1 0
Aaron rf 4 0 0 0
Logan ss 4 2 2 2
Crowe 1b 4 2 2 2
Thomson lf 4 1 1 2
Crandall c 2 0 0 0
  Rice c 2 0 1 0
  Spahn pr 0 0 0 0
Burdette p 1 0 1 0
  Johnson p 0 0 0 0
  Taylor ph 1 0 0 0
  Jolly p 0 0 0 0
  Tanner ph 1 0 0 0
  Paine p 0 0 0 0
  Pafko ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 6 8 6
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 3 1 0 0
Reese ss 3 2 1 0
Snider cf 5 2 4 3
Campanella c 4 2 3 3
Furillo rf 5 0 2 2
Robinson 3b 4 0 0 0
Hodges 1b 4 0 1 0
Amoros lf 3 0 0 0
Newcombe p 2 1 1 0
  Bessent p 1 0 0 0
  Labine p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 8 12 8
Milwaukee 020 002 002682
Brooklyn 002 402 00x8120
  Milwaukee Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Burdette   2.1 4 2 2 3 0
  Johnson  L(4-6) 1.2 3 4 4 4 2
  Jolly   2.0 3 2 2 1 1
  Paine   2.0 2 0 0 0 3
Totals
8.0
12
8
8
8
6
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Newcombe  W(19-4) 6.0 5 4 4 1 2
  Bessent   2.2 3 2 2 0 1
  Labine  SV(7) 0.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
6
6
1
4

  E–Thomson 2 (4).  2B–Milwaukee Burdette (4,off Newcombe); Mathews (21,off Newcombe)..  HR–Milwaukee Thomson (12,2nd inning off Newcombe 1 on 2 out); Logan (12,6th inning off Newcombe 1 on 2 out); Crowe (9,9th inning off Bessent 1 on 1 out)..  Team LOB–3.  CS–Gilliam (12,2nd base by Burdette/Crandall).  U-HP–Tom Gorman, 1B–Dusty Boggess, 2B–Bill Engeln, 3B–Babe Pinelli.  T–2:41.  A–21,995.
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