Milwaukee Braves vs Brooklyn Dodgers
September 11, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 11, 1956 at Ebbets Field. The Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the Milwaukee Braves 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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Milwaukee Braves 2, Brooklyn Dodgers 4

Milwaukee Braves ab   r   h rbi
Mantilla ss 4 0 2 0
O'Connell 2b 3 0 1 0
Aaron rf 4 0 0 0
Mathews 3b 4 1 2 1
Adcock 1b 4 1 1 1
Pafko lf 3 0 1 0
  Thomson lf 1 0 0 0
Bruton cf 4 0 0 0
Rice c 1 0 0 0
  Tanner ph 1 0 0 0
  Crandall c 2 0 1 0
Buhl p 1 0 0 0
  Trowbridge p 0 0 0 0
  Hersh ph 1 0 0 0
  Crone p 0 0 0 0
  Torre ph 1 0 0 0
  Johnson p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 2 8 2
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 3 0 1 0
Reese ss 3 0 0 0
Snider cf 3 0 0 0
Robinson 3b 3 1 1 0
Amoros lf 2 1 0 0
Furillo rf 4 0 1 0
Hodges 1b 3 2 1 1
Campanella c 2 0 0 0
Maglie p 4 0 1 2
Totals 27 4 5 3
Milwaukee 010 000 001281
Brooklyn 000 200 02x450
  Milwaukee Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Buhl  L(16-8) 3.2 2 2 2 7 2
  Trowbridge   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Crone   2.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Johnson   2.0 3 2 2 1 3
Totals
8.0
5
4
4
8
6
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Maglie  W(10-4) 9.0 8 2 2 0 6
Totals
9.0
8
2
2
0
6

  E–Johnson (1).  DP–Milwaukee 1. Mantilla-O'Connell-Adcock.  2B–Milwaukee Pafko (3,off Maglie).  HR–Milwaukee Mathews (35,2nd inning off Maglie 0 on 0 out); Adcock (36,9th inning off Maglie 0 on 0 out), Brooklyn Hodges (27,8th inning off Johnson 0 on 2 out).  SH–O'Connell (14,off Maglie); Amoros (8,off Johnson).  Team LOB–6.  Team–8.  U-HP–Babe Pinelli, 1B–Hal Dixon, 2B–Augie Donatelli, 3B–Tom Gorman.  T–2:33.  A–33,384.
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