New York Giants vs Brooklyn Dodgers
August 15, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 15, 1956 at Roosevelt Stadium. 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 1, Brooklyn Dodgers 0

New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Brandt rf,lf 4 0 2 0
Schoendienst 2b 4 0 0 0
Mays cf 3 1 1 1
Rhodes lf 2 0 0 0
  Mueller rf 1 0 0 0
White 1b 4 0 0 0
Castleman 3b 4 0 1 0
Sarni c 3 0 0 0
Spencer ss 2 0 0 0
Antonelli p 3 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 4 1
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam rf 4 0 0 0
Reese ss 4 0 0 0
Robinson lf 4 0 0 0
Jackson 3b 2 0 0 0
Hodges 1b 3 0 0 0
Snider cf 3 0 1 0
Neal 2b 3 0 1 0
Howell c 3 0 0 0
Newcombe p 2 0 0 0
  Campanella ph 1 0 0 0
  Labine p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 0 2 0
New York 000 100 000140
Brooklyn 000 000 000021
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Antonelli  W(11-12) 9.0 2 0 0 1 11
Totals
9.0
2
0
0
1
11
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Newcombe  L(18-6) 8.0 3 1 1 3 6
  Labine   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
3
6

  E–Hodges (9), Hodges (9).  2B–New York Castleman (9,off Labine), Brooklyn Neal (4,off Antonelli).  HR–New York Mays (21,4th inning off Newcombe 0 on 1 out).  IBB–Mays (13,by Newcombe).  Team LOB–5.  Team–3.  CS–White (7,2nd base by Newcombe/Howell).  U-HP–Lee Ballanfant, 1B–Stan Landes, 2B–Dusty Boggess, 3B–Shag Crawford.  T–2:02.  A–26,385.
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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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