Brooklyn Dodgers vs St. Louis Cardinals
May 3, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 3, 1956 at Busch Stadium I. The Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 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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Brooklyn Dodgers 7, St. Louis Cardinals 3

Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam lf 5 0 3 0
  Cimoli lf 0 0 0 0
Reese ss 3 1 1 0
Snider cf 4 1 1 0
Campanella c 5 2 2 2
Hodges 1b 4 1 1 1
Robinson 3b 4 1 1 2
Furillo rf 4 1 2 2
Neal 2b 4 0 1 0
Newcombe p 4 0 0 0
  Labine p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 7 12 7
St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Blasingame ss,3b 5 1 1 0
Schoendienst 2b 4 0 2 1
Musial rf 4 0 1 0
Boyer 3b 4 0 2 0
  Schofield pr,ss 0 0 0 0
Moon 1b 4 1 2 0
Virdon cf 4 0 1 0
Repulski lf 4 1 2 2
Sarni c 4 0 0 0
Flowers p 0 0 0 0
  Miller p 0 0 0 0
  Hemus ph 1 0 0 0
  Jones p 1 0 0 0
  Frazier ph 1 0 0 0
  Jackson p 0 0 0 0
  Cooper ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 37 3 11 3
Brooklyn 403 000 0007120
St. Louis 100 000 2003111
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Newcombe  W(3-1) 8.0 11 3 3 0 2
  Labine  SV(1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
11
3
3
0
3
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Flowers  L(1-1) 0.2 3 4 4 1 1
  Miller   2.1 6 3 3 1 2
  Jones   4.0 2 0 0 2 0
  Jackson   2.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
12
7
7
4
4

  E–Blasingame (2).  DP–Brooklyn 1. Reese-Neal-Hodges, St. Louis 1. Blasingame-Schoendienst-Moon.  2B–Brooklyn Reese (3,off Flowers); Furillo (7,off Miller)., St. Louis Blasingame (2,off Newcombe); Musial (3,off Newcombe); Moon (5,off Newcombe); Schoendienst (3,off Newcombe).  3B–Brooklyn Robinson (2,off Flowers).  HR–Brooklyn Campanella (5,3rd inning off Miller 0 on 0 out); Hodges (4,3rd inning off Miller 0 on 0 out); Furillo (1,3rd inning off Miller 0 on 1 out)., St. Louis Repulski (1,7th inning off Newcombe 1 on 1 out).  SH–Reese (2,off Jones).  Team LOB–8.  Team–7.  U-HP–Jocko Conlan, 1B–Augie Donatelli, 2B–Bill Engeln, 3B–Vic Delmore.  T–2:41.  A–14,734.
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