Pittsburgh Pirates vs Chicago Cubs
August 14, 1918 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 14, 1918 at Weeghman Park. The Chicago Cubs defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 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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Pittsburgh Pirates 0, Chicago Cubs 2

Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Boone ss,2b 4 0 0 0
Leach lf 3 0 0 0
Carey cf 3 0 1 0
Southworth rf 4 0 1 0
Cutshaw 2b 2 0 0 0
  Ellam ss 1 0 0 0
Mollwitz 1b 4 0 0 0
McKechnie 3b 4 0 1 0
Schmidt c 3 0 1 0
Comstock p 2 0 0 0
  Hinchman ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 4 0
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Flack rf 4 1 1 0
Hollocher ss 3 0 2 0
Mann lf 4 1 1 1
Paskert cf 3 0 1 1
Merkle 1b 3 0 0 0
Pick 2b 3 0 0 0
Deal 3b 3 0 0 0
Killefer c 3 0 0 0
Vaughn p 3 0 1 0
Totals 29 2 6 2
Pittsburgh 000 000 000043
Chicago 200 000 00x261
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Comstock  L(4-5) 8.0 6 2 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
6
2
0
0
1
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Vaughn  W(21-8) 9.0 4 0 0 5 4
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
5
4

  E–Leach (4), Southworth (3), Ellam (9), Hollocher (43).  DP–Pittsburgh 1. Southworth-Boone-Mollwitz, Chicago 1. Pick-Killefer-Merkle.  2B–Chicago Hollocher (18).  Team LOB–9.  SH–Hollocher (22).  Team–4.  U–Ernie Quigley, Pete Harrison.  T–1:38.  A–2,000.
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