Chicago Cubs vs St. Louis Cardinals
April 25, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 25, 1956 at Busch Stadium I. The St. Louis Cardinals 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 0, St. Louis Cardinals 6

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Hoak 3b 3 0 0 0
Baker 2b 3 0 1 0
Kellert 1b 3 0 0 0
Banks ss 4 0 1 0
Irvin lf 3 0 0 0
Moryn rf 2 0 0 0
Whisenant cf 3 0 0 0
Chiti c 3 0 0 0
Jones p 1 0 0 0
  Miksis ph 1 0 0 0
  Piktuzis p 0 0 0 0
  Winceniak ph 1 0 0 0
  Davis p 0 0 0 0
Totals 27 0 2 0
St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Blasingame ss 2 2 0 0
Schoendienst 2b 4 0 1 0
Musial rf 4 1 1 2
Boyer 3b 3 1 0 0
Moon 1b 4 1 2 1
Virdon cf 1 1 0 0
Repulski lf 4 0 2 2
Sarni c 3 0 1 1
Haddix p 3 0 0 0
Totals 28 6 7 6
Chicago 000 000 000020
St. Louis 300 101 10x670
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Jones  L(1-1) 4.0 4 4 4 3 2
  Piktuzis   3.0 3 2 2 1 2
  Davis   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
7
6
6
4
4
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Haddix  W(1-0) 9.0 2 0 0 5 3
Totals
9.0
2
0
0
5
3

  E–None.  DP–Chicago 2. Banks-Baker-Kellert, Banks-Baker-Kellert, St. Louis 2. Blasingame-Schoendienst-Moon, Boyer-Moon.  2B–St. Louis Musial (1,off Jones); Moon (3,off Jones)..  Team LOB–5.  SH–Virdon (1,off Piktuzis).  HBP–Virdon (1,by Jones).  IBB–Virdon (1,by Jones).  Team–4.  U-HP–Shag Crawford, 1B–Lee Ballanfant, 2B–Artie Gore, 3B–Bill Jackowski.  T–2:11.  A–3,378.
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