New York Mets vs Chicago Cubs
August 24, 1963 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 24, 1963 at Wrigley Field. The New York Mets 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

New York Mets 5, Chicago Cubs 0

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Hickman 3b 4 1 2 1
Harkness 1b 3 0 0 0
Hunt 2b 3 1 0 0
Gonder c 4 0 2 0
  Kanehl pr,lf 0 1 0 0
Snider rf 3 0 0 0
  Christopher pr,rf 0 1 0 0
Thomas lf 4 0 1 1
  Coleman pr 0 0 0 0
  Sherry c 0 0 0 0
Carmel cf 4 1 2 1
Moran ss 4 0 1 0
Willey p 3 0 0 1
Totals 32 5 8 4
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Grammas ss 4 0 0 0
Brock rf 4 0 1 0
Burton cf 4 0 1 0
Santo 3b 4 0 1 0
Williams lf 4 0 0 0
Hubbs 2b 4 0 2 0
Banks 1b 4 0 1 0
Bertell c 2 0 0 0
  Ranew ph,c 1 0 0 0
Koonce p 2 0 0 0
  Landrum ph 1 0 0 0
  Elston p 0 0 0 0
  Baker p 0 0 0 0
  Hobbie p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 0 6 0
New York 100 010 003580
Chicago 000 000 000061
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Willey  W (8-11) 9.0 6 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
6
0
0
0
1
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Koonce  L (1-3) 8.0 5 2 2 1 7
  Elston   0.0 1 2 2 0 0
  Baker   0.0 0 1 1 1 0
  Hobbie   1.0 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
5
5
2
8

  E–Ranew (2).  DP–Chicago 2.  PB–Gonder (8).  2B–Chicago Burton (14,off Willey); Brock (17,off Willey).  HR–New York Hickman (13,1st inning off Koonce 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Willey (3,off Koonce).  HBP–Hunt (8,by Elston).  Team LOB–4.  Team–7.  SB–Carmel (2,2nd base off Koonce/Bertell).  CS–Gonder (2,2nd base by Koonce/Bertell); Moran (6,2nd base by Hobbie/Ranew).  WP–Willey (6), Baker (3).  HBP–Elston (1,Hunt).  U-HP–Ed Vargo, 1B–Doug Harvey, 2B–Lee Weyer, 3B–Al Barlick.  T–2:18.  A–5,128.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

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."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook