New York Giants vs Milwaukee Braves
August 21, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 21, 1956 at County Stadium. The Milwaukee Braves 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)
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New York Giants 2, Milwaukee Braves 6

New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Mueller rf 4 0 2 0
Schoendienst 2b 4 1 2 0
Mays cf 3 1 1 0
Thompson 3b 4 0 0 0
White 1b 4 0 2 2
Rhodes lf 4 0 0 0
Spencer ss 4 0 1 0
Westrum c 4 0 2 0
Margoneri p 2 0 0 0
  Brandt ph 1 0 0 0
  Surkont p 0 0 0 0
  Castleman ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 2 10 2
Milwaukee Braves ab   r   h rbi
O'Connell 2b 5 0 0 0
Logan ss 4 1 1 0
Aaron rf 3 0 1 1
Mathews 3b 4 1 2 0
Adcock 1b 3 1 1 1
  Torre 1b 0 0 0 0
Thomson cf,lf 3 1 0 0
Pafko lf 3 1 2 0
  Bruton cf 1 0 0 1
Rice c 3 1 2 2
Conley p 4 0 1 1
Totals 33 6 10 6
New York 002 000 0002101
Milwaukee 030 010 02x6101
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Margoneri  L(5-3) 6.0 8 4 4 2 3
  Surkont   2.0 2 2 2 2 0
Totals
8.0
10
6
6
4
3
  Milwaukee Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Conley  W(7-7) 9.0 10 2 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
10
2
0
1
2

  E–Mays (5), Pafko (1).  DP–New York 1. Schoendienst-Spencer-White, Milwaukee 3. Conley-Rice-Adcock, Adcock-Logan-Adcock, O'Connell-Logan-Torre.  2B–New York White (17,off Conley); Westrum (2,off Conley), Milwaukee Rice (9,off Margoneri); Aaron (26,off Margoneri).  3B–Milwaukee Mathews (2,off Surkont).  HR–Milwaukee Adcock (31,2nd inning off Margoneri 0 on 1 out); Rice (3,2nd inning off Margoneri 1 on 2 out).  Team LOB–7.  IBB–Adcock (5,by Margoneri); Rice (2,by Surkont).  Team–7.  U-HP–Babe Pinelli, 1B–Hal Dixon, 2B–Augie Donatelli, 3B–Tom Gorman.  T–2:20.  A–34,770.
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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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