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Chicago Cubs vs New York Giants
September 18, 1956 Box Score
The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 18, 1956 at Polo Grounds V. The Chicago Cubs defeated the New York Giants and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."
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"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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| Game played on Tuesday, September 18, 1956 at Polo Grounds V |
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| Chicago |
3 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 1 | – | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| New York |
0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | 2 | 4 | 2 |
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| Chicago Cubs |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Rush W(13-8) |
9.0 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
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| New York Giants |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Gomez L(7-16) |
3.0 |
6 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
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Littlefield |
3.0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
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Hearn |
2.0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
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Wilhelm |
0.0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
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McCall |
1.0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
9 |
4 |
3 |
6 |
7 |
E–Mays (8), White (14), Mays (8), White (14). 2B–Chicago Baker (21,off Gomez); Banks (22,off Gomez); Whisenant (16,off Gomez). HR–Chicago Kellert (3,9th inning off Wilhelm 0 on 0 out), New York Thompson (8,7th inning off Rush 1 on 1 out). SH–Whisenant (5,off Littlefield). IBB–Banks (17,by McCall). Team LOB–10. HBP–Sarni (2,by Rush). Team–3. CS–Whisenant (3,Home by Littlefield/Hofman). U-HP–Dusty Boggess, 1B–Shag Crawford, 2B–Lee Ballanfant, 3B–Artie Gore. T–2:33. |
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| Game played on Tuesday, September 18, 1956 at Polo Grounds V |
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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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