|
New York Giants vs Brooklyn Dodgers
August 16, 1956 Box Score
The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 16, 1956 at Ebbets Field. The Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the New York Giants 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) |
|
|
| Game played on Thursday, August 16, 1956 at Ebbets Field |
|
|
| New York |
0 | 3 | 0 | | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | – | 9 | 16 | 1 |
| Brooklyn |
4 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 4 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | – | 10 | 17 | 1 |
|
| New York Giants |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
|
Gomez |
0.1 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
|
Ridzik |
3.2 |
6 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
|
Grissom |
0.2 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
|
McCall |
0.1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Wilhelm |
2.0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
|
Littlefield L(0-5) |
5.1 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
| Totals |
12.1 |
17 |
10 |
10 |
6 |
6 |
|
| Brooklyn Dodgers |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
|
Erskine |
4.1 |
8 |
6 |
6 |
2 |
2 |
|
Roebuck |
0.2 |
2 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
0 |
|
Bessent |
7.0 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
|
Drysdale W(3-3) |
1.0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Totals |
13.0 |
16 |
9 |
9 |
6 |
7 |
E–Littlefield (1), Campanella (9). DP–New York 1. White-Spencer-White, Brooklyn 3. Jackson-Robinson-Hodges, Bessent-Fernandez-Hodges, Fernandez-Robinson. 2B–New York White (16,off Erskine); Schoendienst (16,off Erskine); Rhodes (8,off Erskine); Mays (15,off Bessent); Castleman (10,off Bessent), Brooklyn Fernandez (1,off Ridzik); Gilliam (13,off Ridzik); Furillo (26,off Ridzik); Hodges (20,off Grissom). 3B–New York Sarni (4,off Erskine); Brandt (6,off Bessent). HR–New York Mays (22,5th inning off Erskine 2 on 1 out); Thompson (6,6th inning off Roebuck 2 on 0 out), Brooklyn Snider (33,13th inning off Littlefield 0 on 1 out). SH–Brandt (4,off Bessent); Fernandez (3,off Littlefield). IBB–Mays (14,by Bessent); Campanella (9,by Grissom). Team LOB–10. Team–10. CS–Furillo (1,2nd base by Ridzik/Sarni); Fernandez (3,2nd base by Wilhelm/Sarni); Furillo (1,2nd base by Ridzik/Sarni); Fernandez (3,2nd base by Wilhelm/Sarni). U-HP–Stan Landes, 1B–Dusty Boggess, 2B–Shag Crawford, 3B–Lee Ballanfant. |
|
| Game played on Thursday, August 16, 1956 at Ebbets Field |
Baseball Almanac Box Score |  |
 |
 |
 |
|
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."
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
