Brooklyn Dodgers vs New York Giants
May 12, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 12, 1957 at Polo Grounds V. 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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Brooklyn Dodgers 5, New York Giants 0

Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam lf 5 0 2 1
Reese ss 4 1 1 0
Snider cf 4 2 2 1
Furillo rf 4 1 1 1
Hodges 1b 4 0 2 0
Campanella c 3 0 0 1
Zimmer 3b 4 0 0 1
Neal 2b 4 1 1 0
Podres p 4 0 0 0
Totals 36 5 9 5
New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Schoendienst 2b 4 0 2 0
Mueller rf 3 0 0 0
Mays cf 4 0 2 0
Sauer lf 4 0 1 0
  Gomez pr 0 0 0 0
Harris 1b 4 0 0 0
Spencer ss 4 0 0 0
Katt c 3 0 0 0
Virgil 3b 3 0 1 0
Burnside p 0 0 0 0
  Barclay p 2 0 0 0
  Jablonski ph 1 0 0 0
  Ridzik p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 0 6 0
Brooklyn 301 001 000591
New York 000 000 000061
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Podres  W (2-2) 9.0 6 0 0 1 3
Totals
9.0
6
0
0
1
3
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Burnside  L (1-2) 0.1 3 3 3 1 1
  Barclay   7.2 5 2 1 2 2
  Ridzik   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
5
4
3
3

  E–Zimmer (6), Virgil (3).  DP–Brooklyn 1. Reese-Neal-Hodges, New York 1. Spencer-Schoendienst-Harris.  2B–Brooklyn Neal (1,off Barclay); Gilliam (7,off Barclay), New York Mays (3,off Podres); Schoendienst (4,off Podres)..  HR–Brooklyn Snider (4,3rd inning off Barclay 0 on 0 out).  HBP–Furillo (2,by Barclay).  Team LOB–8.  Team–6.  U-HP–Frank Secory, 1B–Stan Landes, 2B–Bill Baker, 3B–Frank Dascoli.  T–2:22.  A–17,696.
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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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