The St. Louis Cardinals pulled it off against the Milwaukee Braves, 6 to 5, on April 21, 1956.

1956 St. Louis Cardinals

Final

MIL

Braves

3-1

5

STL

Cardinals

2-2

6

MIL

STL

1

0

0

2

1

2

3

2

0

4

2

1

5

0

2

6

0

0

7

0

1

8

0

0

9

0

R

5

6

H

7

10

E

1

1

Batters

Player AB R H RBI HR BB SO SB CS TB
Danny O'Connell 2B 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Johnny Logan SS 4 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 4
Eddie Mathews 3B 3 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1
Hank Aaron RF 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
Bobby Thomson LF 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1
Joe Adcock 1B 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bill Bruton CF 4 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 5
Del Crandall C 4 1 2 2 1 0 1 0 0 5
Red Murff P 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chet Nichols P 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dave Jolly P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wes Covington PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 5 7 5 3 3 4 0 1 16

Pitchers

Player IP H R ER BB SO HR
Red Murff 5.0 7 5 4 1 2 2
Chet Nichols (L) 2.0 3 1 1 2 1 0
Dave Jolly 1.0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Totals 8.0 10 6 5 4 3 2

Batters

Player AB R H RBI HR BB SO SB CS TB
Don Blasingame SS 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Red Schoendienst 2B 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Stan Musial LF,RF 3 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 2
Joe Frazier RF 3 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 4
Hank Sauer PH,LF 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Jackie Brandt LF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Wally Moon 1B 4 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
Ken Boyer 3B 3 2 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 6
Bill Virdon CF 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bill Sarni C 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Willard Schmidt P 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Joe Cunningham PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lindy McDaniel P 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Totals 30 6 10 5 2 4 3 0 0 16

Pitchers

Player IP H R ER BB SO HR
Willard Schmidt 4.0 5 5 5 2 2 3
Lindy McDaniel (W) 5.0 2 0 0 1 2 0
Totals 9.0 7 5 5 3 4 3

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