Pittsburgh Pirates vs New York Giants
August 5, 1950 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 5, 1950 at Polo Grounds V. 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Pittsburgh Pirates 0, New York Giants 5
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Dillinger 3b 4 0 1 0
Bell rf 4 0 0 0
Hopp 1b 2 0 0 0
Kiner lf 3 0 0 0
Westlake cf 3 0 0 0
O'Connell ss 2 0 0 0
Castiglione 2b 2 0 0 0
Mueller c 2 0 0 0
  Beard ph 1 0 0 0
  McCullough c 0 0 0 0
Queen p 1 0 0 0
  MacDonald p 0 0 0 0
  Schenz ph 1 0 0 0
  Pierro p 0 0 0 0
  Lombardi p 1 0 0 0
Totals 26 0 1 0
New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Stanky 2b 5 1 1 0
Lockman lf 4 1 1 0
Mueller rf 4 2 3 1
Thompson 3b 2 1 1 1
Westrum c 3 0 1 0
Irvin 1b 2 0 1 2
Dark ss 3 0 0 1
Thomson cf 4 0 1 0
Hearn p 4 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 9 5
Pittsburgh 000 000 000–010
New York 200 020 10x–591
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Queen  L(4-10) 4.1 7 4 4 4 4
  MacDonald   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Pierro   2.0 2 1 1 1 1
  Lombardi   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
9
5
5
5
5
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Hearn  W(3-1) 9.0 1 0 0 5 6
Totals
9.0
1
0
0
5
6
  E–Irvin (2).  DP–Pittsburgh 1. O'Connell-Castiglione-Hopp, New York 1. Thompson-Stanky-Irvin.  2B–New York Lockman (18); D. Mueller (9); Thompson (11); Irvin (10).  Team LOB–4.  HBP–Dark (4).  Team–8.  U–Lou Jorda, Larry Goetz, Frank Dascoli.
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.