New York Giants vs Pittsburgh Pirates
August 6, 1939 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 6, 1939 at Forbes Field. The New York Giants 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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New York Giants 9, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Whitehead 2b 4 0 2 0
Jurges ss 4 3 3 1
Demaree cf 5 2 2 0
Ott rf 3 3 1 1
Danning c 3 0 1 2
Bonura 1b 5 0 2 4
Ripple lf 5 0 1 0
Hafey 3b 5 1 3 1
Schumacher p 3 0 1 0
  Melton p 1 0 0 0
Totals 38 9 16 9
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Waner L. cf 2 1 1 0
  Bell cf 2 0 0 1
Waner P. rf 5 1 1 1
Vaughan ss 5 0 0 1
Klein lf 4 0 1 0
Fletcher 1b 4 0 0 1
Handley 3b 4 0 0 0
Young 2b 3 1 0 0
Berres c 3 1 2 0
  Rizzo ph 1 0 0 0
  Mueller c 0 0 0 0
Bowman p 0 0 0 0
  Butcher p 0 1 0 0
  Sewell p 1 0 0 0
  Clemensen p 1 0 1 1
  Tobin ph 1 0 0 0
  Heintzelman p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 5 6 5
New York 211 203 000–9163
Pittsburgh 003 002 000–560
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Schumacher  W(7-7) 5.0 5 5 5 4 1
  Melton  SV(4) 4.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
6
5
5
4
1
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Bowman  L(9-6) 2.2 7 4 4 2 2
  Butcher   1.0 5 2 2 0 0
  Sewell   1.1 3 3 3 1 2
  Clemensen   3.0 1 0 0 1 0
  Heintzelman   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
16
9
9
4
4
  E–Whitehead 2 (13), Jurges (16).  DP–Pittsburgh 1. Vaughan-Young-Fletcher.  2B–New York Jurges (15); Demaree (16); Ott (21); Hafey (3), Pittsburgh P. Waner (14); Klein (13); Clemensen (1).  SH–Danning (3); Melton (6).  HBP–Whitehead (4).  Team LOB–9.  Team–8.  SB–Handley (15).  U–Bick Campbell, Larry Goetz, Dolly Stark.
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