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Chicago Cubs vs Pittsburgh Pirates
May 18, 1956 Box Score
The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 18, 1956 at Forbes Field. The Chicago Cubs 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 Friday, May 18, 1956 at Forbes Field |
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| Chicago |
0 | 0 | 0 | | 2 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 3 | 8 | 2 |
| Pittsburgh |
0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 2 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 2 | 7 | 1 |
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| Chicago Cubs |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Minner |
6.2 |
6 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
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Lown W(1-1) |
2.1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
7 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
5 |
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| Pittsburgh Pirates |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Law |
5.0 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
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King |
1.0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Face L(2-1) |
3.0 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
8 |
3 |
3 |
1 |
9 |
E–Miksis (1), Landrith (2), Walls (2). DP–Chicago 1. Baker-Banks-Fondy. PB–Kravitz (3). 2B–Pittsburgh Virdon (3,off Minner). HR–Chicago Miksis (1,4th inning off Law 0 on). Team LOB–4. HBP–Freese (2,by Lown). IBB–Thomas (2,by Minner). Team–9. CS–Banks (4); Walls (2,2nd base by Minner/Landrith). U-HP–Stan Landes, 1B–Tom Gorman, 2B–Babe Pinelli, 3B–Dusty Boggess. |
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| Game played on Friday, May 18, 1956 at Forbes Field |
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Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.
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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