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Pittsburgh Pirates vs Cincinnati Redlegs
May 5, 1956 Box Score
The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 5, 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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"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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| Game played on Saturday, May 5, 1956 at Crosley Field |
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| Pittsburgh |
0 | 0 | 1 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 2 | 1 | 2 | | 0 | – | 6 | 9 | 0 |
| Cincinnati |
0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 0 | 3 | 1 | | 1 | – | 7 | 10 | 1 |
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| Pittsburgh Pirates |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Law |
6.0 |
5 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
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Littlefield |
1.2 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
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Face |
0.1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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King L(1-1) |
1.1 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
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McMahan |
0.0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Totals |
9.1 |
10 |
7 |
7 |
3 |
2 |
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| Cincinnati Redlegs |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Nuxhall |
8.0 |
6 |
4 |
4 |
6 |
1 |
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Freeman |
0.0 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
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LaPalme W(1-0) |
2.0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Totals |
10.0 |
9 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
1 |
E–Bailey (2). DP–Pittsburgh 1. Law-Groat-Long, Cincinnati 1. Temple-McMillan-Kluszewski. 2B–Pittsburgh Shepard (2,off Nuxhall); Clemente 2 (4,off Nuxhall 2); Skinner (2,off Freeman). HR–Pittsburgh Freese (1,7th inning off Nuxhall 1 on 2 out), Cincinnati Post (9,5th inning off Law 0 on 1 out); Nuxhall (1,6th inning off Law 0 on 0 out); Robinson (4,8th inning off Face 2 on 2 out); Kluszewski (3,9th inning off King 0 on 1 out). SH–Freese (2,off LaPalme); Robinson (1,off Law). SF–Law (1,off Nuxhall). Team LOB–7. Team–4. U-HP–Artie Gore, 1B–Bill Jackowski, 2B–Shag Crawford, 3B–Lee Ballanfant. T–2:40. A–4,481. |
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| Game played on Saturday, May 5, 1956 at Crosley Field |
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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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