Milwaukee Braves vs Chicago Cubs
July 1, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 1, 1956 at Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cubs 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 0, Chicago Cubs 7

Milwaukee Braves ab   r   h rbi
O'Connell 3b 2 0 0 0
  Mathews ph,3b 2 0 0 0
Torre 1b 4 0 0 0
Covington lf 4 0 0 0
Aaron rf 4 0 2 0
Bruton cf 4 0 2 0
Dittmer 2b 3 0 0 0
  Crandall ph 1 0 0 0
Rice c 2 0 0 0
  Mantilla pr 0 0 0 0
  Roselli c 0 0 0 0
  Thomson ph 1 0 0 0
Logan ss 3 0 1 0
Buhl p 1 0 1 0
  Tanner ph 1 0 0 0
  Phillips p 0 0 0 0
  Adcock ph 1 0 0 0
  Johnson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 0 6 0
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Hoak 3b 4 1 0 0
Baker 2b 3 1 1 0
Fondy 1b 4 1 3 1
Banks ss 5 3 3 3
Moryn rf 5 1 1 1
Irvin lf 3 0 1 0
  Kindall pr 0 0 0 0
  Miksis lf 0 0 0 0
Whisenant cf 2 0 1 2
Landrith c 1 0 0 0
Kaiser p 4 0 0 0
Totals 31 7 10 7
Milwaukee 000 000 000061
Chicago 300 001 12x7101
  Milwaukee Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Buhl  L(8-4) 4.0 6 3 3 5 6
  Phillips   2.0 1 1 1 2 1
  Johnson   2.0 3 3 3 2 1
Totals
8.0
10
7
7
9
8
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Kaiser  W(2-2) 9.0 6 0 0 1 5
Totals
9.0
6
0
0
1
5

  E–Rice (3), Irvin (2).  DP–Milwaukee 1. Torre.  2B–Milwaukee Aaron (12,off Kaiser), Chicago Moryn (11,off Buhl).  3B–Chicago Fondy (3,off Buhl).  HR–Chicago Banks 2 (20,7th inning off Johnson 0 on 0 out,8th inning off Johnson 1 on 2 out).  Team LOB–7.  HBP–Baker (2,by Phillips).  Team–10.  U-HP–Shag Crawford, 1B–Artie Gore, 2B–Bill Jackowski, 3B–Lee Ballanfant.  T–2:22.
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Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

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