Chicago Cubs vs Pittsburgh Pirates
May 24, 1942 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 24, 1942 at Forbes Field. 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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Chicago Cubs 11, Pittsburgh Pirates 4

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Hack 3b 3 2 0 1
Merullo ss 5 2 3 1
Cavarretta 1b 5 2 3 3
Nicholson rf 6 2 2 3
Dallessandro lf 2 0 1 1
  Gilbert cf 1 0 0 0
Stringer 2b 5 0 2 0
Lowrey cf,lf 5 1 2 1
McCullough c 4 1 1 0
  Scheffing c 0 0 0 0
Passeau p 4 1 0 0
Totals 40 11 14 10
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Coscarart ss 5 1 1 0
Martin 2b 3 0 0 0
Elliott 3b 4 1 0 0
Wasdell rf 3 0 0 1
Fletcher 1b 4 0 2 0
Van Robays lf 4 1 1 1
DiMaggio cf 4 1 2 0
Lopez c 3 0 1 0
Heintzelman p 1 0 1 2
  Dietz p 1 0 0 0
  Stewart ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 8 4
Chicago 002 205 02011142
Pittsburgh 022 000 000483
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Passeau  W(6-3) 9.0 8 4 2 5 3
Totals
9.0
8
4
2
5
3
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Heintzelman  L(3-5) 5.1 9 9 8 6 4
  Dietz   3.2 5 2 2 2 3
Totals
9.0
14
11
10
8
7

  E–Cavarretta (2), Lowrey (1), Coscarart (9), Wasdell (2), Fletcher (3).  DP–Chicago 1, Pittsburgh 1. Lopez-Elliott.  2B–Chicago Cavarretta (7), Pittsburgh Fletcher (3); DiMaggio (7).  3B–Pittsburgh Coscarart (2).  SH–Passeau (3); Heintzelman (2).  Team LOB–11.  Team–8.  U–Jocko Conlan, Beans Reardon, Larry Goetz.  T–2:22.  A–16,746.
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