Milwaukee Braves vs Chicago Cubs
April 16, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 16, 1957 at Wrigley Field. The Milwaukee Braves 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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Milwaukee Braves 4, Chicago Cubs 1
Milwaukee Braves ab   r   h rbi
O'Connell 2b 5 0 2 0
Aaron rf 5 1 2 0
Mathews 3b 4 1 1 1
Adcock 1b 3 1 1 1
  Torre 1b 0 0 0 0
Thomson lf 4 0 0 0
Logan ss 4 1 2 2
Bruton cf 4 0 0 0
Crandall c 2 0 0 0
Spahn p 3 0 0 0
Totals 34 4 8 4
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Fondy 1b 4 0 0 0
Wise 2b 4 0 0 0
Will cf 4 0 0 0
Banks ss 3 0 0 0
Baker 3b 4 0 1 0
Bolger lf 3 0 0 0
Moryn rf 3 0 0 0
Neeman c 3 1 1 0
Rush p 2 0 2 1
  Drott p 0 0 0 0
  Fanning ph 1 0 0 0
  Valentinetti p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 4 1
Milwaukee 000 004 000–480
Chicago 000 010 000–141
  Milwaukee Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Spahn  W (1-0) 9.0 4 1 1 1 5
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
1
5
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Rush  L (0-1) 6.2 8 4 4 1 5
  Drott   1.1 0 0 0 1 1
  Valentinetti   1.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
8
4
4
3
6
  E–Baker (1).  2B–Chicago Rush (1,off Spahn).  3B–Milwaukee Mathews (1,off Rush).  HR–Milwaukee Logan (1,6th inning off Rush 1 on 2 out).  SH–Spahn (1,off Valentinetti).  Team LOB–7.  Team–4.  U-HP–Frank Dascoli, 1B–Frank Secory, 2B–Stan Landes, 3B–Bill Baker.  T–2:16.  A–23,674.
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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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