St. Louis Cardinals vs Pittsburgh Pirates
June 15, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 15, 1956 at Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 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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St. Louis Cardinals 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 12

St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Lockman 1b 4 0 2 0
Dark ss 4 0 1 0
Musial rf 3 0 0 0
Boyer 3b 4 1 1 0
Moon cf 4 0 1 0
Sauer lf 4 0 0 0
Smith c 4 0 1 1
Blasingame 2b 3 0 0 0
Mizell p 1 0 0 0
  McDaniel p 0 0 0 0
  Morgan ph 1 0 0 0
  Jackson p 0 0 0 0
  Hatton ph 1 0 1 0
  Kinder p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 1 7 1
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Virdon cf 4 1 2 2
Groat ss 4 0 1 2
Clemente lf 5 0 2 1
Long 1b 4 1 1 0
Thomas 3b 4 2 3 1
  Freese 3b 1 1 1 0
Walls rf 4 2 1 1
Foiles c 4 3 2 4
O'Brien 2b 3 2 0 0
Kline p 3 0 0 0
Totals 36 12 13 11
St. Louis 000 000 100173
Pittsburgh 033 002 13x12130
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Mizell  L(7-3) 2.0 6 5 5 2 3
  McDaniel   3.0 3 1 1 1 2
  Jackson   2.0 2 3 1 3 1
  Kinder   1.0 2 3 3 1 0
Totals
8.0
13
12
10
7
6
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Kline  W(6-4) 9.0 7 1 1 1 7
Totals
9.0
7
1
1
1
7

  E–Lockman 2 (6), Dark (10).  DP–St. Louis 1. Dark-Blasingame-Lockman, Pittsburgh 1. Long.  PB–Foiles (4).  2B–St. Louis Moon (10,off Kline), Pittsburgh Thomas (8,off Mizell); Foiles (2,off McDaniel)..  3B–Pittsburgh Walls (6,off Mizell).  HR–Pittsburgh Foiles (3,8th inning off Kinder 2 on 2 out).  Team LOB–6.  SH–Kline (1,off Jackson).  IBB–Groat (2,by Jackson); Long (7,by Jackson).  Team–8.  U-HP–Frank Secory, 1B–Stan Landes, 2B–Larry Goetz, 3B–Frank Dascoli.  T–2:39.  A–26,276.
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