Pittsburgh Pirates vs Brooklyn Dodgers
April 14, 1953 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 14, 1953 at Ebbets Field. The Brooklyn Dodgers 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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Pittsburgh Pirates 5, Brooklyn Dodgers 8

Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Smith 1b 5 0 2 0
Castiglione 3b 5 0 0 1
Metkovich cf 4 0 0 0
Kiner lf 5 1 1 0
O'Connell 2b 3 1 1 0
Abrams rf 2 1 0 0
Garagiola c 3 1 1 2
Cole ss 2 1 1 2
Dickson p 2 0 0 0
  LaPalme p 0 0 0 0
  Koshorek ph 1 0 0 0
  Hetki p 0 0 0 0
  Montemayor ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 5 6 5
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 5 1 1 0
Reese ss 3 1 1 0
Snider cf 4 2 2 3
Robinson 3b 3 2 2 0
  Cox 3b 1 0 1 0
Campanella c 4 2 3 3
Thompson lf 3 0 0 1
Hodges 1b 4 0 1 0
Furillo rf 4 0 2 1
Erskine p 1 0 0 0
  Black p 3 0 0 0
Totals 35 8 13 8
Pittsburgh 000 400 001560
Brooklyn 000 440 00x8130
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Dickson  L(0-1) 4.1 10 8 8 1 3
  LaPalme   0.2 2 0 0 0 0
  Hetki   3.0 1 0 0 0 3
Totals
8.0
13
8
8
1
6
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Erskine   3.0 4 4 4 4 1
  Black  W(1-0) 6.0 2 1 1 3 4
Totals
9.0
6
5
5
7
5

  E–None.  2B–Pittsburgh O'Connell (1,off Erskine); Garagiola (1,off Erskine); P. Smith (1,off Black)., Brooklyn Snider (1,off Dickson).  HR–Brooklyn Campanella (1,4th inning off Dickson 2 on 1 out); Snider (1,5th inning off Dickson 1 on 1 out)..  Team LOB–8.  SH–Reese (1,off Dickson).  Team–5.  U-HP–Larry Goetz, 1B–Frank Dascoli, 2B–Frank Secory, 3B–Hal Dixon.  T–2:35.  A–12,433.
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