Chicago Cubs vs St. Louis Cardinals
April 21, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 21, 1957 at Busch Stadium I. The Chicago Cubs defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 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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Chicago Cubs 5, St. Louis Cardinals 3

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Wise 2b 6 1 2 1
Fondy 1b 6 0 2 1
Banks ss 3 1 1 0
Moryn rf 4 1 1 0
Baker 3b 4 0 1 2
Lennon cf 5 0 0 0
  Valentinetti p 0 0 0 0
  Littlefield p 0 0 0 0
Bolger lf 5 1 1 0
Neeman c 4 0 2 0
  Kindall pr 0 0 0 0
  Silvera c 1 1 1 0
Kaiser p 3 0 0 0
  Speake ph 1 0 0 0
  Collum p 0 0 0 0
  Del Greco ph,cf 1 0 1 1
Totals 43 5 12 5
St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Blasingame 2b 5 1 2 0
Dark ss 5 1 2 2
Musial 1b 5 0 3 1
Ennis rf 3 0 0 0
  Harmon pr,rf 0 0 0 0
  Cunningham ph 0 0 0 0
Moon lf 5 0 0 0
Boyer 3b 5 0 1 0
Smith H. c 1 0 0 0
  Landrith c 3 0 0 0
Smith B. cf 4 1 1 0
Wehmeier p 0 0 0 0
  Cheney p 1 0 0 0
  King ph 1 0 0 0
  Jackson p 2 0 1 0
  Wilhelm p 0 0 0 0
Totals 40 3 10 3
Chicago 201 000 000 025120
St. Louis 100 002 000 003100
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Kaiser   8.0 8 3 3 0 2
  Collum  W (1-0) 2.0 1 0 0 1 1
  Valentinetti   0.1 1 0 0 1 1
  Littlefield  SV (1) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
11.0
10
3
3
2
4
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Wehmeier   2.0 5 3 3 1 1
  Cheney   4.0 2 0 0 2 6
  Jackson  L (0-1) 4.2 5 2 2 0 2
  Wilhelm   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
11.0
12
5
5
3
9

  E–None.  DP–Chicago 3. Kaiser-Wise-Fondy, Banks-Wise-Fondy, Banks-Wise-Fondy.  2B–Chicago Baker (2,off Wehmeier); Wise (1,off Wehmeier); Neeman (1,off Jackson)..  HBP–Banks (1,by Wehmeier).  Team LOB–9.  CS–Fondy (1,3rd base by Cheney/Landrith).  U-HP–Vic Delmore, 1B–Vinnie Smith, 2B–Jocko Conlan, 3B–Augie Donatelli.  T–3:15.
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