Milwaukee Braves vs Chicago Cubs
May 25, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 25, 1957 at Wrigley Field. The Milwaukee Braves defeated the Chicago Cubs 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 7, Chicago Cubs 6

Milwaukee Braves ab   r   h rbi
Bruton cf 5 1 2 1
Cole 2b 2 0 0 0
  Logan ph,ss 3 1 3 1
Mathews 3b 4 0 1 0
Aaron rf 4 0 2 1
Adcock 1b 3 2 3 2
Mantilla ss,2b 3 1 0 0
Tanner lf 3 0 1 1
  Thomson ph,lf 2 0 1 0
Rice c 1 0 0 0
  Burdette pr 0 1 0 0
  Sawatski c 1 0 0 1
  Johnson p 1 0 0 0
  Spahn p 0 0 0 0
Buhl p 0 0 0 0
  Phillips p 1 0 0 0
  Crone p 0 0 0 0
  Pafko ph 0 0 0 0
  Jolly p 0 0 0 0
  Torre ph 0 0 0 0
  Crandall ph,c 3 1 1 0
Totals 36 7 14 7
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Morgan 2b 4 1 3 0
Speake lf 4 2 3 3
Banks 3b 4 0 0 1
Long 1b 3 0 1 0
Moryn rf 3 0 0 0
  Walls ph 1 0 0 0
Bolger cf 3 0 0 0
Neeman c 3 2 2 1
Littrell ss 4 0 1 0
Kaiser p 1 1 0 0
  Elston p 0 0 0 0
  Littlefield p 1 0 0 0
  Lown p 0 0 0 0
  Brosnan p 0 0 0 0
  Ernaga ph 1 0 0 0
  Poholsky p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 6 10 5
Milwaukee 000 112 1207141
Chicago 210 200 0016100
  Milwaukee Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Buhl   1.1 6 3 2 1 0
  Phillips   2.0 1 2 2 4 0
  Crone   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Jolly   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Johnson  W (2-0) 3.2 3 1 1 2 2
  Spahn  SV (2) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
10
6
5
7
2
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Kaiser   5.0 6 3 3 4 2
  Elston   0.2 1 1 1 1 0
  Littlefield   1.0 3 1 1 1 3
  Lown  L (2-1) 0.2 3 2 2 1 0
  Brosnan   0.2 0 0 0 1 0
  Poholsky   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
14
7
7
8
6

  E–Mathews (3).  DP–Milwaukee 4. Mantilla-Cole-Adcock, Cole-Adcock, Logan-Mathews, Adcock-Logan, Chicago 2. Littrell-Morgan-Long, Littrell-Morgan-Long.  2B–Milwaukee Aaron (8,off Kaiser); Adcock (8,off Littlefield)., Chicago Speake (1,off Phillips); Morgan (2,off Johnson)..  3B–Milwaukee Bruton (3,off Lown).  HR–Milwaukee Adcock (7,4th inning off Kaiser 0 on 2 out), Chicago Neeman (5,2nd inning off Buhl 0 on 0 out); Speake (3,9th inning off Johnson 0 on 1 out)..  SH–Johnson (1,off Poholsky).  SF–Aaron (1,off Brosnan); Banks (1,off Buhl).  IBB–Mantilla (1,by Littlefield).  Team LOB–12.  HBP–Bolger (2,by Jolly).  Team–8.  SB–Morgan (1,3rd base off Johnson/Crandall).  U-HP–Shag Crawford, 1B–Tony Venzon, 2B–Lee Ballanfant, 3B–Bill Jackowski.  T–3:24.  A–6,553.
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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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