Milwaukee Braves vs Chicago Cubs
September 2, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 2, 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Milwaukee Braves 23, Chicago Cubs 10

Milwaukee Braves ab   r   h rbi
Schoendienst 2b 5 3 2 0
  Roach ph,2b 1 0 0 0
Torre 1b 5 6 4 0
Mathews 3b 5 4 3 3
Aaron cf 6 4 3 6
Covington lf 6 2 3 6
Hazle rf 7 2 4 2
Mantilla ss 6 2 3 1
Crandall c 6 0 2 3
Burdette p 2 0 0 0
  Johnson p 4 0 2 1
Totals 53 23 26 22
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Adams 3b 5 2 2 1
Speake cf 5 2 2 1
Tanner lf 4 0 1 1
Moryn rf 5 1 1 1
Long 1b 5 1 2 0
Banks ss 5 3 3 4
Neeman c 5 0 2 1
Kindall 2b 5 0 1 1
Rush p 0 0 0 0
  Anderson p 1 0 0 0
  Poholsky p 0 0 0 0
  Bolger ph 1 0 0 0
  Lown p 0 0 0 0
  Will ph 0 1 0 0
  Singleton p 0 0 0 0
  Walls ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 42 10 14 10
Milwaukee 625 203 12223262
Chicago 124 010 02010143
  Milwaukee Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Burdette   2.2 7 7 4 0 0
  Johnson  W (7-2) 6.1 7 3 3 3 7
Totals
9.0
14
10
7
3
7
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Rush  L (4-14) 0.1 4 6 5 1 0
  Anderson   2.1 7 7 7 1 0
  Poholsky   0.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Lown   5.0 12 8 6 3 2
  Singleton   1.0 2 2 2 0 1
Totals
9.0
26
23
20
5
3

  E–Hazle (4), Mantilla (11).  2B–Milwaukee Schoendienst (28,off Rush); Hazle 3 (10,off Rush,off Poholsky,off Lown); Aaron (22,off Lown)..  3B–Milwaukee Mathews (8,off Anderson); Mantilla (1,off Lown); Torre (5,off Singleton).  HR–Milwaukee Covington (17,3rd inning off Anderson 2 on 2 out); Mathews (29,9th inning off Singleton 1 on 0 out).  SF–Covington (6,off Anderson).  HBP–Torre (6,by Anderson).  Team LOB–10.  U-HP–Jocko Conlan, 1B–Augie Donatelli, 2B–Vic Delmore, 3B–Vinnie Smith.  T–3:09.
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."