Milwaukee Braves vs Chicago Cubs
May 24, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 24, 1957 at Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cubs defeated the Milwaukee Braves 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

Milwaukee Braves 1, Chicago Cubs 5

Milwaukee Braves ab   r   h rbi
O'Connell 2b 3 0 0 0
  Sawatski ph 1 0 0 0
  Murff p 0 0 0 0
  Thomson ph 1 0 0 0
  Jolly p 0 0 0 0
Aaron rf 5 0 1 0
Mathews 3b 4 1 3 0
Adcock 1b 5 0 1 1
Tanner lf 3 0 0 0
Logan ss 3 0 0 0
Bruton cf 4 0 1 0
Crandall c 4 0 1 0
Spahn p 2 0 1 0
  Torre ph 0 0 0 0
  Cole pr,2b 1 0 1 0
Totals 36 1 9 1
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Morgan 2b 3 0 2 0
Walls cf 3 0 0 0
Banks 3b 3 0 0 0
Long 1b 4 1 1 0
Bolger lf 4 2 2 1
Ernaga rf 3 2 2 2
Neeman c 3 0 1 2
Littrell ss 3 0 1 0
Drabowsky p 3 0 0 0
Totals 29 5 9 5
Milwaukee 100 000 000190
Chicago 010 202 00x590
  Milwaukee Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Spahn  L (4-2) 5.0 6 3 3 2 4
  Murff   2.0 3 2 2 0 3
  Jolly   1.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
8.0
9
5
5
3
7
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Drabowsky  W (2-3) 9.0 9 1 1 4 5
Totals
9.0
9
1
1
4
5

  E–None.  DP–Milwaukee 2. Crandall-O'Connell, Mathews-O'Connell-Adcock.  2B–Milwaukee Adcock (7,off Drabowsky); Bruton (7,off Drabowsky), Chicago Morgan (1,off Spahn); Littrell (1,off Spahn); Long (4,off Murff)..  3B–Chicago Ernaga (1,off Spahn).  HR–Chicago Ernaga (1,2nd inning off Spahn 0 on 1 out).  HBP–Torre (1,by Drabowsky).  Team LOB–13.  SH–Walls (2,off Spahn).  SF–Neeman (1,off Spahn).  Team–5.  U-HP–Bill Jackowski, 1B–Shag Crawford, 2B–Tony Venzon, 3B–Lee Ballanfant.  T–2:45.  A–6,487.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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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."