New York Giants vs Milwaukee Braves
July 17, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 17, 1956 at County Stadium. The New York Giants defeated the Milwaukee Braves and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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New York Giants 8, Milwaukee Braves 6

New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Bressoud ss 5 0 2 0
Schoendienst 2b 4 1 1 0
Mays cf 5 2 3 1
Thompson 3b,lf 6 0 1 1
White 1b 5 2 2 2
Rhodes lf 3 1 1 1
  Westrum c 2 0 1 0
Lennon rf 3 0 0 0
  Castleman ph 0 0 0 0
  Mueller ph 1 0 1 1
  Spencer pr,3b 1 0 0 0
Sarni c 3 0 0 0
  Wilhelm p 0 0 0 0
  McCall p 0 0 0 0
  Wilson ph 0 0 0 0
  Antonelli p 1 0 0 0
Gomez p 0 0 0 0
  Grissom p 2 0 0 0
  Brandt ph,lf,rf 3 2 2 1
Totals 44 8 14 7
Milwaukee Braves ab   r   h rbi
O'Connell 2b 4 2 2 1
Logan ss 5 1 1 0
Mathews 3b 4 1 1 0
Aaron rf 5 1 2 4
Covington lf 3 0 2 1
  Thomson lf 2 0 0 0
Bruton cf 5 0 0 0
Adcock 1b 0 0 0 0
  Torre pr,1b 4 0 1 0
Rice c 3 1 0 0
  Mantilla pr 0 0 0 0
  Crandall c 2 0 1 0
Crone p 1 0 0 0
  Tanner ph 1 0 0 0
  Sleater p 0 0 0 0
  Conley p 1 0 0 0
  Pafko ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 41 6 10 6
New York 000 301 110 028143
Milwaukee 210 000 300 006102
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Gomez   1.0 3 3 3 1 0
  Grissom   5.0 5 0 0 0 2
  Wilhelm   0.0 0 2 2 2 0
  McCall   1.0 1 1 1 0 0
  Antonelli  W(9-8) 4.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
11.0
10
6
6
4
3
  Milwaukee Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Crone   6.0 6 4 4 1 5
  Sleater   1.1 3 2 2 2 2
  Conley  L(4-6) 3.2 5 2 2 2 0
Totals
11.0
14
8
8
5
7

  E–Bressoud (8), Thompson (12), Lennon (3), Logan (15), Rice (4).  DP–New York 3. Schoendienst-Bressoud-White, Schoendienst-Bressoud, Bressoud-White, Milwaukee 1. Mathews.  2B–New York Mays (12); Mueller (6), Milwaukee O'Connell (11); Torre (5).  HR–New York White (12,4th inning off Crone 1 on); Rhodes (4,4th inning off Crone 0 on); Brandt (4,7th inning off Sleater 0 on), Milwaukee Aaron (12,7th inning off McCall 2 on).  SH–Bressoud (4); Crone (4).  IBB–Wilson (1).  Team LOB–9.  HBP–Adcock (1).  Team–8.  SB–White (9).  U-HP–Bill Jackowski, 1B–Lee Ballanfant, 2B–Shag Crawford, 3B–Artie Gore.
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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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