Brooklyn Dodgers vs Pittsburgh Pirates
May 3, 1936 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 3, 1936 at Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 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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Brooklyn Dodgers 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 6

Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Bordagaray rf 4 0 0 0
Cooney cf 5 2 2 0
Hassett 1b 4 1 2 1
Bucher 3b 3 0 2 0
Lindstrom lf 4 1 1 1
  Phelps ph 1 0 0 0
Frey 2b 4 1 1 0
Geraghty ss 2 0 0 0
Berres c 4 0 1 1
Mungo p 4 0 2 0
  Brandt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 5 11 3
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Jensen lf 5 0 1 0
Waner rf 4 0 0 0
Hafey cf 3 2 1 0
Vaughan ss 4 1 2 2
Suhr 1b 4 1 3 1
Young 2b 4 1 2 0
Brubaker 3b 4 1 1 2
Padden c 4 0 1 1
Birkofer p 2 0 0 0
  Swift p 0 0 0 0
  Dickshot ph 1 0 0 0
  Hoyt p 1 0 0 0
Totals 36 6 11 6
Brooklyn 000 004 1005113
Pittsburgh 000 002 04x6112
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Mungo  L(2-4) 7.1 11 6 5 1 4
  Brandt   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
11
6
5
1
4
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Birkofer   5.1 7 4 4 2 1
  Swift   1.2 3 1 1 0 0
  Hoyt  W(2-0) 2.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
11
5
5
3
2

  E–Hassett (2), Bucher (7), Geraghty (4), Vaughan (4), Padden (1).  DP–Brooklyn 1. Bucher-Frey-Hassett.  2B–Brooklyn Cooney (1); Hassett (5), Pittsburgh Hafey (3); Young (5).  3B–Pittsburgh Brubaker (2).  HR–Pittsburgh Vaughan (2,6th inning off Mungo 1 on).  SH–Hassett (2); Bucher 2 (2).  Team LOB–9.  Team–7.  U–Bill Stewart, Babe Pinelli, Cy Pfirman.  T–2:02.  A–10,000.
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