Brooklyn Dodgers vs New York Giants
September 7, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 7, 1957 at Polo Grounds V. 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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Brooklyn Dodgers 5, New York Giants 4

Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 3 1 1 0
Reese 3b 4 1 2 1
Snider cf 4 1 1 3
Hodges 1b 4 0 0 0
Furillo rf 4 1 3 1
Cimoli lf 4 0 0 0
Neal ss 4 0 2 0
Walker c 4 1 1 0
McDevitt p 1 0 0 0
  Craig p 3 0 0 0
Totals 35 5 10 5
New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
O'Connell 2b 3 0 0 0
Mueller rf 5 0 1 0
Mays cf 4 1 1 1
Jablonski 3b 4 1 2 0
Sauer lf 4 0 2 0
  Bressoud pr 0 0 0 0
  Grissom p 0 0 0 0
  Rhodes ph 1 0 0 0
Spencer ss 4 1 1 0
Thomas c 4 1 1 3
Lockman 1b 3 0 0 0
Gomez p 2 0 0 0
  Worthington p 0 0 0 0
  Constable p 0 0 0 0
  Thomson lf 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 4 8 4
Brooklyn 000 013 1005100
New York 030 000 001480
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
McDevitt   3.2 4 3 3 6 3
  Craig  W (6-8) 5.1 4 1 1 1 1
Totals
9.0
8
4
4
7
4
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Gomez  L (14-12) 5.1 7 4 4 0 2
  Worthington   1.0 2 1 1 1 1
  Constable   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Grissom   2.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
10
5
5
1
4

  E–None.  DP–New York 1. O'Connell-Lockman.  2B–New York Sauer (13,off Craig).  HR–Brooklyn Furillo (12,5th inning off Gomez 0 on 0 out); Snider (37,6th inning off Gomez 2 on 0 out), New York Thomas (6,2nd inning off McDevitt 2 on 1 out); Mays (32,9th inning off Craig 0 on 0 out)..  Team LOB–4.  IBB–Lockman (3,by Craig).  Team–11.  U-HP–Tony Venzon, 1B–Lee Ballanfant, 2B–Bill Jackowski, 3B–Shag Crawford.  T–2:37.  A–41,629.
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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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