New York Giants vs Brooklyn Dodgers
August 14, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 14, 1956 at Ebbets Field. The New York Giants 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)
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New York Giants 3, Brooklyn Dodgers 1

New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Brandt rf,lf 4 0 1 1
Schoendienst 2b 4 0 0 0
Mays cf 4 1 1 2
Rhodes lf 3 0 1 0
  Grissom p 0 0 0 0
White 1b 4 0 0 0
Castleman 3b 4 0 1 0
Sarni c 3 0 0 0
Spencer ss 3 1 2 0
Hearn p 2 0 0 0
  Thompson ph 1 0 1 0
  Bressoud pr 0 1 0 0
  Mueller rf 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 7 3
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam rf,lf 4 0 2 1
Reese ss 4 0 1 0
Snider cf 3 0 0 0
Robinson 2b 3 0 1 0
Jackson 3b 4 0 0 0
Hodges 1b 4 0 1 0
Amoros lf 1 1 0 0
  Cimoli rf 0 0 0 0
  Walker ph 1 0 0 0
Howell c 3 0 1 0
Maglie p 2 0 0 0
  Mitchell ph 1 0 0 0
  Labine p 0 0 0 0
  Neal ph 1 0 1 0
Totals 31 1 7 1
New York 000 000 030371
Brooklyn 000 000 100170
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Hearn  W(5-11) 7.0 5 1 1 5 3
  Grissom  SV(7) 2.0 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
7
1
1
5
4
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Maglie   7.0 4 0 0 2 4
  Labine  L(9-6) 2.0 3 3 3 0 2
Totals
9.0
7
3
3
2
6

  E–Spencer (14).  DP–New York 2. Schoendienst-Spencer-White, Spencer-White, Brooklyn 2. Hodges-Reese, Jackson-Robinson.  2B–New York Castleman (8,off Maglie); Rhodes (7,off Maglie); Thompson (9,off Labine), Brooklyn Gilliam (12,off Hearn); Howell (2,off Grissom).  HR–New York Mays (20,8th inning off Labine 1 on 2 out).  Team LOB–4.  SH–Howell (1,off Hearn).  Team–9.  CS–Gilliam (5,2nd base by Hearn/Sarni); Gilliam (5,2nd base by Hearn/Sarni).  U-HP–Shag Crawford, 1B–Lee Ballanfant, 2B–Stan Landes, 3B–Dusty Boggess.
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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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