Pittsburgh Pirates vs New York Giants
September 11, 1946 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 11, 1946 at Polo Grounds V. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the New York Giants 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Pittsburgh Pirates 7, New York Giants 5
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Whitehead 2b 5 1 1 1
Fletcher 1b 3 2 1 1
Russell cf 4 1 2 2
Salkeld c 4 0 1 0
Workman rf 4 0 2 2
Gustine ss 4 0 1 1
Kiner lf 3 1 0 0
Handley 3b 3 1 1 0
Gables p 2 1 0 0
  Heintzelman p 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 7 9 7
New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Rucker cf 5 0 1 0
Witek 2b 5 0 0 0
Marshall rf 3 1 1 1
Cooper c 5 1 2 0
Young 1b 4 0 0 1
Gordon lf 3 1 1 0
Thomson 3b 1 1 0 0
Kerr ss 4 1 1 0
Voiselle p 1 0 1 2
  Gee p 1 0 0 0
  Lombardi ph 1 0 1 1
  Blattner pr 0 0 0 0
  Budnick p 0 0 0 0
  Jones p 0 0 0 0
  Rigney ph 1 0 0 0
  Kraus p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 8 5
Pittsburgh 003 400 000–792
New York 020 002 100–582
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Gables  W(1-4) 5.2 6 4 2 5 2
  Heintzelman  SV(1) 3.1 2 1 1 1 3
Totals
9.0
8
5
3
6
5
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Voiselle  L(8-14) 3.0 5 6 5 4 1
  Gee   3.0 3 1 1 0 3
  Budnick   1.1 1 0 0 0 0
  Jones   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Kraus   1.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
9
7
6
5
4
  E–Whitehead (5), Salkeld (6), Marshall (6), Voiselle (3).  DP–New York 1. Kraus-Kerr-Young.  2B–Pittsburgh Fletcher (22), New York Cooper (10).  HR–New York Marshall (11,7th inning off Heintzelman 0 on).  SH–Gables (2).  Team LOB–5.  Team–8.  U–Bill Stewart, George Magerkurth.  T–2:13.  A–6,358.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."
     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook

Copyright © 2000-2013. All Rights Reserved by Baseball-Almanac. Privacy Policy.Design by Geisler Young. Web hosting by Hosting 4 Less.
Part of the Baseball Almanac family: 755 Home Runs | Baseball Box Scores | Baseball Fever | Football Almanac | Pigskin Fever | Today in Baseball History.