Braves Baseball Blog

August 28, 1957 at the Polo Grounds
Giants 12, Braves 6  (77-48)

The Giants took it to the Braves as they finished up with a split of their two game series.  A pair of errors resulted in five unearned runs as Gene Conley took the loss.  He gave up nine runs (four earned) on eight hits and two walks with a strikeout in 2 2/3 innings.  Juan Pizarro gave up three runs in four innings of relief.

Hank Aaron went three for four with a walk and three RBIs.  Joe Torre went three for six with two runs while Eddie Mathews belted his 26th homerun of the season.