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

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 3, 1956 at Ebbets Field. The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

St. Louis Cardinals 11, Brooklyn Dodgers 8

St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Blasingame 2b 6 0 0 0
Dark ss 5 1 1 0
Musial 1b 5 1 2 1
Boyer 3b 6 1 1 0
Moon rf 5 3 4 2
Lockman lf,cf 3 1 0 1
Peete cf 1 0 0 0
  Del Greco ph,cf 3 0 0 0
  Nelson ph 1 0 0 0
  Repulski lf 0 1 0 0
Cooper c 6 2 3 4
  Wehmeier pr 0 0 0 0
  Smith c 0 0 0 0
Poholsky p 2 1 1 1
  Jackson p 1 0 0 0
  Collum p 2 0 0 0
Totals 46 11 12 9
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 5 0 2 0
Reese ss 7 1 1 0
Snider cf 6 2 2 0
Furillo rf 6 1 2 0
Robinson 3b 6 1 4 3
Hodges 1b 6 3 4 2
Amoros lf 5 0 1 0
Campanella c 4 0 2 2
Craig p 0 0 0 0
  Newcombe ph 1 0 0 0
  Lehman p 0 0 0 0
  Bessent p 1 0 0 0
  Jackson ph 1 0 1 1
  Drysdale p 0 0 0 0
  Mitchell ph 1 0 0 0
  Labine p 1 0 0 0
Totals 50 8 19 8
St. Louis 123 200 000 00311121
Brooklyn 020 001 320 0008191
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Poholsky   6.1 14 5 5 3 4
  Jackson   1.1 4 3 3 2 1
  Collum  W(5-1) 4.1 1 0 0 3 4
Totals
12.0
19
8
8
8
9
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Craig   2.0 4 3 2 2 2
  Lehman   0.0 1 2 2 1 0
  Bessent   4.0 4 3 3 0 3
  Drysdale   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Labine  L(9-5) 5.0 3 3 3 2 2
Totals
12.0
12
11
10
5
7

  E–Musial (2), Reese (18).  DP–St. Louis 3. Dark-Musial, Poholsky-Dark-Musial, Boyer-Blasingame-Musial.  PB–Cooper (2).  2B–St. Louis Musial (24,off Bessent).  3B–St. Louis Moon (8,off Bessent); Dark (6,off Bessent).  HR–St. Louis Cooper (2,2nd inning off Craig 0 on 1 out), Brooklyn Hodges (22,7th inning off Jackson 1 on 1 out).  SH–Poholsky (3,off Bessent); Lockman (4,off Labine).  SF–Musial (7,off Craig); Lockman (2,off Bessent).  IBB–Repulski (3,by Labine).  Team LOB–8.  Team–14.  U-HP–Vic Delmore, 1B–Jocko Conlan, 2B–Artie Gore, 3B–Bill Jackowski.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

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."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook