St. Louis Cardinals vs Chicago Cubs
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 Wrigley Field. The St. Louis Cardinals 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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St. Louis Cardinals 3, Chicago Cubs 2

St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Boyer cf 4 0 1 0
Blasingame 2b 4 1 1 0
Cunningham 1b 2 0 0 1
Moon rf,lf 5 0 1 1
Cooper c 4 0 0 0
Dark ss 4 1 1 0
Ennis lf 3 0 2 1
  Smith pr,rf 0 0 0 0
Kasko 3b 3 1 1 0
Wehmeier p 4 0 0 0
  Muffett p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 7 3
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Adams 3b 2 1 1 2
Speake cf 4 0 0 0
Tanner lf 4 0 1 0
Moryn rf 4 0 0 0
Long 1b 4 0 0 0
Banks ss 3 0 0 0
Neeman c 4 1 1 0
Morgan 2b 2 0 0 0
  Bolger ph 1 0 0 0
  Kindall 2b 0 0 0 0
Elston p 2 0 0 0
  Will ph 1 0 1 0
  Lown p 0 0 0 0
  Littlefield p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 4 2
St. Louis 000 110 001371
Chicago 002 000 000240
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Wehmeier  W (7-6) 8.0 3 2 2 2 4
  Muffett  SV (4) 1.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
4
2
2
3
5
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Elston   8.0 7 2 2 3 7
  Lown  L (5-5) 0.2 0 1 1 2 0
  Littlefield   0.1 0 0 0 2 1
Totals
9.0
7
3
3
7
8

  E–Ennis (9).  PB–Cooper (1).  2B–St. Louis Dark (21,off Elston); Ennis (20,off Elston); Kasko (12,off Elston)..  HR–Chicago Adams (1,3rd inning off Wehmeier 1 on 2 out).  Team LOB–10.  Team–5.  SB–Blasingame (18,2nd base off Elston/Neeman).  CS–Boyer (8,2nd base by Elston/Neeman).  U-HP–Frank Secory, 1B–Stan Landes, 2B–Bill Baker, 3B–Frank Dascoli.  T–2:56.  A–13,437.
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