Brooklyn Dodgers vs Pittsburgh Pirates
July 6, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 6, 1955 at Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 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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Brooklyn Dodgers 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 4

Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Hoak 3b 4 0 0 0
Reese ss 4 0 1 0
Snider cf 4 0 1 0
Hodges 1b 4 0 1 0
Amoros lf 3 0 1 0
Zimmer 2b 4 1 2 0
Gilliam rf 4 0 2 1
Walker c 3 0 1 0
Koufax p 2 0 0 0
  Roebuck p 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 1 9 1
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Clemente rf 4 1 1 0
Cole 2b 4 0 1 0
Mejias lf 2 0 1 0
  Lynch ph,lf 1 0 0 0
Thomas cf 2 0 0 0
Long 1b 3 0 1 1
  Saffell pr 0 1 0 0
  Ward 1b 0 0 0 0
Freese 3b 3 1 1 1
Groat ss 3 1 1 1
Peterson c 4 0 0 0
Law p 3 0 1 1
Totals 29 4 7 4
Brooklyn 010 000 000190
Pittsburgh 000 010 03x470
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Koufax   4.2 3 1 1 8 4
  Roebuck  L(5-5) 3.1 4 3 3 0 2
Totals
8.0
7
4
4
8
6
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Law  W(5-3) 9.0 9 1 1 2 10
  Surkont   0.1 2 2 2 2 0
  Donoso   1.2 2 3 3 3 0
Totals
11.0
21
11
11
12
15

  E–None.  DP–Brooklyn 2. Walker-Zimmer-Hodges, Zimmer-Hodges, Pittsburgh 1. Cole-Groat-Ward.  2B–Brooklyn Zimmer (5,off Law), Pittsburgh Law (1,off Roebuck).  3B–Brooklyn Amoros (6,off Law), Pittsburgh Gene Freese (4,off Roebuck).  IBB–Walker (2,by Law).  Team LOB–7.  Team–9.  CS–Amoros (5,2nd base by Law/Peterson); Clemente (2,2nd base by Koufax/Walker).  U-HP–Stan Landes, 1B–Lee Ballanfant, 2B–Al Barlick, 3B–Bill Jackowski.  T–2:37.  A–20,674.
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