Chicago Cubs vs Pittsburgh Pirates
September 4, 1919 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 4, 1919 at Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Pirates 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)
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Chicago Cubs 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Flack rf 5 0 1 0
Hollocher ss 5 0 1 0
Herzog 2b 5 0 1 0
Robertson cf 5 1 3 0
Merkle 1b 4 0 0 0
Barber lf 4 1 3 0
  Paskert ph,lf 1 0 0 0
Deal 3b 4 1 2 2
Daly c 4 0 1 1
Martin p 2 0 0 0
  Magee ph 1 0 0 0
  Bailey p 1 0 0 0
  Hendrix p 0 0 0 0
Totals 41 3 12 3
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Bigbee lf 5 0 3 1
Carey cf 5 1 3 0
Southworth rf 5 0 1 0
Whitted 1b 4 1 2 0
Barbare 3b 4 0 0 1
Cutshaw 2b 4 0 0 0
Terry ss 3 1 0 0
Schmidt c 4 0 1 1
  Nicholson pr 0 1 0 0
  Cooper p 0 0 0 0
Adams p 3 0 0 0
  Lee ph,c 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 4 10 3
Chicago 000 000 003 0–3121
Pittsburgh 001 000 002 1–4100
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Martin   7.0 5 1 0 2 1
  Bailey  L(3-4) 2.1 5 3 1 1 1
  Hendrix   0.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.1
10
4
1
3
2
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Adams   9.0 10 3 3 0 2
  Cooper  W(17-10) 1.0 2 0 0 1 0
Totals
10.0
12
3
3
1
2
  E–Hollocher (37).  DP–Chicago 1. Herzog-Hollocher-Merkle.  PB–Daly (1).  2B–Chicago Herzog (10), Pittsburgh Carey (8); Schmidt (6).  3B–Chicago Flack (4); Deal (5), Pittsburgh Bigbee (3); Whitted (4).  Team LOB–9.  SH–Barbare (13).  Team–9.  SB–Robertson (3); Deal (11).  U–Cy Rigler, Lord Byron.
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