New York Giants vs Brooklyn Dodgers
September 7, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 7, 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)
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New York Giants 1, Brooklyn Dodgers 3

New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Mueller rf 5 0 0 0
Schoendienst 2b 5 0 1 0
Mays cf 5 0 0 0
Brandt lf 4 0 0 0
Sarni c 4 0 0 0
White 1b 4 1 2 0
Castleman 3b 4 0 2 0
Spencer ss 3 0 0 1
Worthington p 2 0 1 0
  Rhodes ph 1 0 0 0
  Wilhelm p 0 0 0 0
  Thompson ph 1 0 0 0
  Littlefield p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 1 6 1
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 3 1 1 0
Reese ss 3 0 0 0
Snider cf 5 0 0 0
Robinson 3b 5 0 1 1
Amoros lf,rf,lf 3 0 2 0
  Fernandez ph 0 1 0 0
Hodges 1b 5 0 0 0
Furillo rf,lf,rf 5 1 1 2
Walker c 4 0 1 0
Newcombe p 3 0 0 0
Totals 36 3 6 3
New York 000 010 000 00162
Brooklyn 000 001 000 02360
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Worthington   7.0 5 1 1 4 3
  Wilhelm   2.0 0 0 0 0 2
  Littlefield  L(3-6) 1.2 1 2 2 2 2
Totals
10.2
6
3
3
6
7
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Newcombe  W(23-6) 11.0 6 1 1 0 4
Totals
11.0
6
1
1
0
4

  E–Castleman (13), Worthington (4).  2B–New York Castleman (14,off Newcombe).  HR–Brooklyn Furillo (18,11th inning off Littlefield 1 on 2 out).  SF–Spencer (3,off Newcombe).  Team LOB–5.  SH–Reese (12,off Worthington).  Team–8.  CS–Gilliam (8,2nd base by Worthington/Sarni); Amoros (4,2nd base by Worthington/Sarni); Robinson (6,2nd base by Littlefield/Sarni).  U-HP–Larry Goetz, 1B–Frank Dascoli, 2B–Frank Secory, 3B–Bill Engeln.
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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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