Brooklyn Dodgers vs Philadelphia Phillies
July 8, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 8, 1956 at Connie Mack Stadium. The Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 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 9, Philadelphia Phillies 2

Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam lf 4 0 2 1
  Cimoli lf 1 0 0 0
Reese ss 6 1 1 1
Snider cf 5 2 2 0
Jackson 3b 4 1 1 0
Hodges 1b 3 2 1 0
Robinson 2b 3 1 0 0
  Neal 2b 1 0 1 2
Furillo rf 5 1 2 1
Campanella c 2 1 2 1
Newcombe p 5 0 2 2
Totals 39 9 14 8
Philadelphia Phillies ab   r   h rbi
Ashburn cf 4 0 1 0
Blaylock 1b 4 0 0 0
Lopata c 3 1 1 0
Ennis lf 4 1 1 2
Valo rf 4 0 0 0
Jones 3b 3 0 1 0
Hamner ss 3 0 0 0
Kazanski 2b 3 0 0 0
Miller S. p 1 0 0 0
  Hemus ph 1 0 0 0
  Miller B. p 0 0 0 0
  Greengrass ph 1 0 0 0
  Pillette p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 4 2
Brooklyn 120 011 2209141
Philadelphia 000 000 002242
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Newcombe  W(11-5) 9.0 4 2 2 1 3
Totals
9.0
4
2
2
1
3
  Philadelphia Phillies IP H R ER BB SO
Miller S.  L(4-6) 6.0 9 5 3 4 1
  Miller B.   2.0 5 4 4 2 1
  Pillette   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
14
9
7
6
3

  E–Jackson (2), Jones (6), Hamner (12).  DP–Brooklyn 1. Hodges-Reese-Newcombe, Philadelphia 2. Hamner-Blaylock, Hamner-Blaylock.  2B–Brooklyn Jackson (10,off S. Miller); Furillo (18,off S. Miller); Neal (3,off B. Miller), Philadelphia Lopata (23,off Newcombe).  3B–Brooklyn Gilliam (6,off S. Miller).  HR–Brooklyn Reese (4,6th inning off S. Miller 0 on 1 out), Philadelphia Ennis (15,9th inning off Newcombe 1 on 2 out).  SH–Gilliam (4,off S. Miller); Jackson (3,off B. Miller)..  HBP–Campanella (1,by B. Miller).  IBB–Snider (15,by S. Miller); Campanella (6,by S. Miller); Hodges (4,by B. Miller)..  Team LOB–12.  Team–3.  SB–Snider (2,2nd base off S. Miller/Lopata).  U-HP–Larry Goetz, 1B–Frank Dascoli, 2B–Frank Secory, 3B–Stan Landes.
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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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