Pittsburgh Pirates vs Cincinnati Redlegs
May 4, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 4, 1956 at Crosley Field. The Cincinnati Redlegs defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Pittsburgh Pirates 3, Cincinnati Redlegs 4

Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Freese 3b 4 0 1 0
Skinner rf 4 2 2 0
Long 1b 4 0 0 0
Thomas lf 3 1 1 2
Kravitz c 4 0 0 0
Walls cf 4 0 2 1
Groat ss 3 0 0 0
Roberts 2b 3 0 0 0
Hall p 2 0 0 0
  Atwell ph 1 0 0 0
  Face p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 6 3
Cincinnati Redlegs ab   r   h rbi
Temple 2b 4 0 0 0
  Bridges 2b 0 0 0 0
Robinson lf 3 0 1 1
Bell cf 4 0 0 0
Jablonski 3b 3 1 0 0
Kluszewski 1b 4 0 0 0
Post rf 3 2 1 0
Bailey c 4 1 2 0
McMillan ss 3 0 2 2
Fowler p 0 0 0 1
Totals 28 4 6 4
Pittsburgh 000 102 000360
Cincinnati 000 022 00x460
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Hall  L(0-3) 6.0 5 4 4 4 3
  Face   2.0 1 0 0 0 5
Totals
8.0
6
4
4
4
8
  Cincinnati Redlegs IP H R ER BB SO
Fowler  W(2-1) 9.0 6 3 3 1 3
Totals
9.0
6
3
3
1
3

  E–None.  2B–Pittsburgh Skinner (1,off Fowler).  HR–Pittsburgh Thomas (7,6th inning off Fowler 1 on 1 out).  Team LOB–3.  SH–Fowler (1,off D. Hall); McMillan (1,off D. Hall)..  SF–Fowler (1,off D. Hall).  Team–7.  U-HP–Lee Ballanfant, 1B–Artie Gore, 2B–Bill Jackowski, 3B–Shag Crawford.  T–2:20.  A–6,438.
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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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