New York Giants vs Brooklyn Dodgers
August 31, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 31, 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

New York Giants 5, Brooklyn Dodgers 7

New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
O'Connell 2b 4 1 0 0
Mueller rf 4 0 2 2
Mays cf 5 1 2 0
Jablonski 3b 5 1 1 2
Sauer lf 3 0 0 0
Spencer ss 4 0 0 0
Lockman 1b 4 1 2 0
Thomas c 4 1 1 0
Worthington p 1 0 0 0
  Harris ph 0 0 0 1
  Grissom p 0 0 0 0
  Thomson ph 1 0 0 0
  Miller p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 5 8 5
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 5 1 2 0
Cimoli lf 4 2 2 2
Snider cf 2 0 1 0
Hodges 1b 4 1 1 2
Furillo rf 4 0 1 1
Neal ss 4 1 1 0
Reese 3b 4 0 2 1
Roseboro c 4 0 1 0
  Walker c 0 0 0 0
Maglie p 2 0 0 0
  Koufax p 0 0 0 0
  Roebuck p 2 2 2 1
Totals 35 7 13 7
New York 000 023 000580
Brooklyn 100 122 01x7133
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Worthington   5.0 8 4 4 2 5
  Grissom  L (4-4) 2.0 3 2 2 1 3
  Miller   1.0 2 1 1 0 1
Totals
8.0
13
7
7
3
9
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Maglie   5.2 7 5 2 2 3
  Koufax   0.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Roebuck  W (7-2) 3.1 0 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
8
5
2
3
5

  E–Reese 2 (15), Roseboro (3).  2B–New York Thomas (9,off Maglie); Lockman (9,off Maglie)., Brooklyn Cimoli 2 (16,off Worthington,off Grissom); Neal (11,off Worthington)..  HR–New York Jablonski (8,5th inning off Maglie 1 on 2 out), Brooklyn Hodges (24,5th inning off Worthington 1 on 1 out); Roebuck (2,8th inning off Miller 0 on 1 out)..  SF–Harris (2,off Maglie).  HBP–Worthington (1,by Maglie).  Team LOB–8.  IBB–Snider (11,by Grissom).  Team–7.  CS–Gilliam (8,2nd base by Miller/Thomas).  U-HP–Tom Gorman, 1B–Dusty Boggess, 2B–Ken Burkhart, 3B–Hal Dixon.
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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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