New York Giants vs Brooklyn Dodgers
August 5, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 5, 1957 at Ebbets Field. 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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New York Giants 2, Brooklyn Dodgers 5

New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
O'Connell 2b 5 1 2 0
Mays cf 5 1 4 2
Jablonski 3b 4 0 0 0
Harris 1b 4 0 0 0
Sauer lf 4 0 1 0
Spencer ss 4 0 1 0
Rhodes rf 3 0 1 0
Thomas c 3 0 0 0
  Mueller ph 1 0 1 0
Crone p 2 0 0 0
  Thomson ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 36 2 10 2
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 3 2 0 1
Cimoli cf 4 1 3 1
Valo lf 4 0 0 1
Hodges 1b 4 0 1 1
Furillo rf 4 1 2 0
Campanella c 4 0 1 0
Jackson 3b 4 0 0 0
  Zimmer pr,3b 0 0 0 0
Neal ss 4 1 1 1
Drysdale p 3 0 1 0
  Labine p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 9 5
New York 002 000 0002102
Brooklyn 011 010 20x591
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Crone  L (4-6) 8.0 9 5 4 1 7
Totals
8.0
9
5
4
1
7
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Drysdale  W (9-6) 8.2 10 2 2 2 3
  Labine  SV (16) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
10
2
2
2
3

  E–Mays (3), Spencer (22), Drysdale (2).  DP–New York 1. Spencer-Harris, Brooklyn 1. Drysdale-Neal-Hodges.  2B–New York Sauer (7,off Drysdale); O'Connell (17,off Drysdale)., Brooklyn Neal (8,off Crone).  HR–New York Mays (25,3rd inning off Drysdale 1 on 0 out).  Team LOB–9.  Team–6.  SB–Gilliam 2 (17,2nd base off Crone/Thomas 2).  U-HP–Frank Secory, 1B–Stan Landes, 2B–Bill Baker, 3B–Frank Dascoli.  T–2:39.  A–15,070.
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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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