Cincinnati Reds vs Pittsburgh Pirates
September 21, 1940 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 21, 1940 at Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Cincinnati Reds 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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Cincinnati Reds 7, Pittsburgh Pirates 8
Cincinnati Reds ab   r   h rbi
Joost 2b,ss 5 0 1 0
McCormick M. cf 5 3 3 1
Craft rf 4 1 1 1
McCormick F. 1b 4 0 1 2
Arnovich lf 5 0 3 3
Baker c 5 0 0 0
Riggs 3b 5 0 1 0
Myers ss 4 1 1 0
  Frey 2b 1 0 0 0
Thompson p 1 0 0 0
  Hutchings p 0 1 0 0
  Ripple ph 1 1 1 0
  Riddle p 1 0 0 0
Totals 41 7 12 7
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Gustine 2b 6 1 2 0
Garms 3b 6 3 5 2
Elliott rf 5 2 3 1
Vaughan ss 3 1 2 3
Van Robays lf 5 0 1 0
Fletcher 1b 4 0 2 2
DiMaggio cf 3 1 0 0
Schultz c 4 0 0 0
Dietz p 3 0 0 0
  Klinger p 0 0 0 0
  Brown p 0 0 0 0
  Waner ph 1 0 0 0
  MacFayden p 0 0 0 0
  Bowman ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 41 8 15 8
Cincinnati 100 002 400 0–7120
Pittsburgh 103 300 000 1–8153
  Cincinnati Reds IP H R ER BB SO
Thompson   3.2 9 7 7 2 2
  Hutchings   2.1 2 0 0 0 2
  Riddle  L(1-1) 3.2 4 1 1 4 1
Totals
9.2
15
8
8
6
5
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Dietz   6.1 8 5 4 2 3
  Klinger   0.1 2 2 0 1 1
  Brown   1.1 0 0 0 0 2
  MacFayden  W(5-4) 2.0 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
10.0
12
7
4
3
7
  E–Garms (8), Vaughan (49), Schultz (2).  DP–Pittsburgh 1. Vaughan-Gustine-Fletcher.  2B–Cincinnati M. McCormick (20), Pittsburgh Gustine (32); Garms (23).  3B–Pittsburgh Vaughan (15); Fletcher (7).  Team LOB–7.  Team–10.  SB–Elliott (11).  U–Beans Reardon, Larry Goetz, Babe Pinelli.  T–2:33.  A–6,395.
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