New York Giants vs Brooklyn Dodgers
September 9, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 9, 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 6

New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Mueller rf 4 0 0 0
Schoendienst 2b 4 0 0 0
Mays cf 4 1 2 1
Thompson 3b 4 0 0 0
Brandt lf 2 0 0 0
White 1b 3 0 0 0
Sarni c 3 0 0 0
Spencer ss 3 0 1 0
Surkont p 2 0 0 0
  Gomez p 0 0 0 0
  Rhodes ph 0 0 0 0
  Ridzik p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 1 3 1
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 3 1 1 0
Reese ss 3 0 0 0
Snider cf 2 1 1 1
Robinson 3b 3 1 0 0
Amoros lf 2 1 0 0
Furillo rf 3 1 2 4
Hodges 1b 4 0 1 0
Walker c 4 0 0 0
Drysdale p 3 1 1 1
Totals 27 6 6 6
New York 100 000 000130
Brooklyn 000 320 01x661
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Surkont  L(2-2) 4.0 4 5 5 3 1
  Gomez   3.0 1 0 0 1 1
  Ridzik   1.0 1 1 1 1 0
Totals
8.0
6
6
6
5
2
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Drysdale  W(5-5) 9.0 3 1 1 2 3
Totals
9.0
3
1
1
2
3

  E–Gilliam (12), Gilliam (12).  DP–New York 2. Walker-Reese, Robinson-Gilliam-Hodges, Brooklyn 2. Walker-Reese, Robinson-Gilliam-Hodges.  2B–Brooklyn Gilliam (21,off Surkont).  HR–New York Mays (30,1st inning off Drysdale 0 on 2 out), Brooklyn Furillo (19,4th inning off Surkont 2 on 1 out); Drysdale (1,5th inning off Surkont 0 on 0 out).  Team LOB–3.  SH–Reese (13,off Gomez); Amoros (7,off Ridzik).  SF–Snider (4,off Gomez).  Team–5.  SB–Mays (33,2nd base off Drysdale/Walker).  CS–Brandt (5,2nd base by Drysdale/Walker).  U-HP–Frank Secory, 1B–Bill Engeln, 2B–Larry Goetz, 3B–Frank Dascoli.
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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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