New York Giants vs Pittsburgh Pirates
May 22, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 22, 1955 at Forbes Field. 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)
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New York Giants 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 3
New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Williams 2b 4 2 2 0
Dark ss 4 2 3 0
Mueller rf 5 0 2 5
Irvin lf 2 0 1 0
  Rhodes ph,lf 2 0 0 0
Mays cf 3 0 1 0
Thompson 3b 2 0 0 0
Lockman 1b 4 0 0 0
Westrum c 3 0 2 0
  Amalfitano pr 0 1 0 0
  Katt c 0 0 0 0
Antonelli p 0 0 0 0
  Castleman ph 0 0 0 0
  Corwin p 0 0 0 0
  Hofman ph 1 0 0 0
  Wilhelm p 0 0 0 0
  Taylor ph 1 0 0 0
  Grissom p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 11 5
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Freese G. 2b 4 0 1 1
Groat ss 3 0 0 1
Clemente rf 4 0 0 0
Freese G. 3b 3 0 0 0
Gordon lf 3 1 2 0
  Montemayor pr,lf 1 0 0 0
Thomas cf 4 1 2 0
Shepard c 3 1 2 0
Ward 1b 4 0 0 0
Littlefield p 2 0 2 1
  Wade p 0 0 0 0
  Long ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 9 3
New York 000 000 23–5111
Pittsburgh 030 000 00–390
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Antonelli   3.0 4 3 3 1 2
  Corwin   2.0 1 0 0 2 1
  Wilhelm  W(2-0) 2.0 2 0 0 0 1
  Grissom   1.0 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
9
3
3
3
5
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Littlefield   6.0 9 2 2 5 1
  Wade  L(0-1) 2.0 2 3 3 2 0
Totals
8.0
11
5
5
7
1
  E–Dark (9).  DP–New York 1. Dark-Williams-Lockman, Pittsburgh 2. Gene Freese-Groat-Ward, Groat-Ward.  PB–Westrum (3).  2B–New York Dark (7); Mueller (9)..  SH–Antonelli (1).  HBP–Williams (1).  Team LOB–11.  SF–Groat (1).  IBB–Shepard (2).  Team–9.  U-HP–Lon Warneke, 1B–Frank Secory, 2B–Larry Goetz, 3B–Frank Dascoli.
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