St. Louis Cardinals vs New York Giants
June 7, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 7, 1957 at Polo Grounds V. The St. Louis Cardinals 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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St. Louis Cardinals 5, New York Giants 3

St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Blasingame 2b 5 0 1 1
Dark ss 5 1 1 0
Musial 1b 4 0 1 1
Moon lf 4 1 1 1
Ennis rf 5 1 1 2
Boyer cf 5 0 0 0
  Smith B. cf 0 0 0 0
Smith H. c 5 0 1 0
Kasko 3b 5 0 1 0
Jackson p 4 2 2 0
  Merritt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 42 5 9 5
New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Lockman 1b 4 0 2 1
Schoendienst 2b 5 0 2 1
Mays cf 4 0 0 0
Sauer lf 4 1 1 1
  Rodgers pr 0 0 0 0
Spencer ss 4 0 0 0
Rhodes rf 4 0 0 0
Katt c 4 0 1 0
  Castleman pr 0 0 0 0
  Westrum c 0 0 0 0
Virgil 3b 4 1 1 0
Barclay p 4 1 0 0
Totals 37 3 7 3
St. Louis 001 002 000 02591
New York 002 001 000 00372
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Jackson  W (7-2) 10.0 7 3 2 3 3
  Merritt  SV (1) 1.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
11.0
7
3
2
4
3
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Barclay  L (3-5) 11.0 9 5 3 2 1
Totals
11.0
9
5
3
2
1

  E–Dark (7), Spencer (10), Virgil (6).  DP–St. Louis 4. Musial-Dark-Musial, Dark-Blasingame-Musial, Dark-Musial, Dark-Musial, New York 1. Barclay-Spencer-Lockman.  2B–St. Louis Jackson (1,off Barclay).  HR–St. Louis Ennis (5,11th inning off Barclay 1 on 1 out), New York Sauer (10,6th inning off Jackson 0 on 1 out).  SF–Moon (2,off Barclay).  IBB–Musial (6,by Barclay); Mays (4,by Jackson).  Team LOB–7.  Team–5.  U–Dusty Boggess, Tom Gorman, Hal Dixon.  T–2:44.  A–8,419.
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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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