Brooklyn Dodgers vs Pittsburgh Pirates
April 20, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 20, 1956 at Forbes 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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Brooklyn Dodgers 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 0

Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam lf 3 2 2 4
  Cimoli lf 1 0 0 0
Reese ss 4 0 0 0
Snider cf 4 0 1 0
Campanella c 4 0 1 1
Hodges 1b 3 0 0 0
Robinson 3b 4 0 0 0
Furillo rf 4 1 1 0
Neal 2b 4 2 2 0
Craig p 3 0 0 0
Totals 34 5 7 5
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Clemente cf 4 0 1 0
Groat ss 4 0 1 0
Long 1b 4 0 0 0
Thomas lf 4 0 1 0
Ward rf 3 0 0 0
Freese 3b 3 0 0 0
Atwell c 2 0 0 0
  Roberts 2b 0 0 0 0
  Cole ph,2b 1 0 0 0
O'Brien 2b 1 0 0 0
  Kravitz ph,c 1 0 1 0
Hall p 1 0 0 0
  Skinner ph 1 0 0 0
  Face p 0 0 0 0
  Donoso p 0 0 0 0
  Walls ph 1 0 0 0
  King p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 0 4 0
Brooklyn 002 001 200570
Pittsburgh 000 000 000042
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Craig  W(1-0) 9.0 4 0 0 1 8
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
1
8
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Hall  L(0-1) 6.0 4 3 3 2 1
  Face   0.1 2 2 2 1 1
  Donoso   1.2 1 0 0 0 1
  King   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
7
5
5
3
4

  E–Clemente (1), Kravitz (3).  DP–Brooklyn 1. Robinson-Neal-Hodges, Pittsburgh 1. Groat-J. O'Brien-Long.  2B–Brooklyn Campanella (2,off D. Hall), Pittsburgh Thomas (1,off Craig); Kravitz (2,off Craig)..  HR–Brooklyn Gilliam (2,3rd inning off D. Hall 1 on 2 out).  Team LOB–5.  Team–4.  SB–Gilliam (1,2nd base off D. Hall/Atwell).  U-HP–Bill Engeln, 1B–Vic Delmore, 2B–Jocko Conlan, 3B–Augie Donatelli.
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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."

     

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