Milwaukee Braves vs Pittsburgh Pirates
June 19, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 19, 1956 at Forbes Field. The Milwaukee Braves 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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Milwaukee Braves 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 3

Milwaukee Braves ab   r   h rbi
O'Connell 2b 2 2 1 0
Bruton cf 3 1 0 2
Mathews 3b 3 0 0 0
Aaron rf 5 0 2 2
Thomson lf 4 0 0 0
Adcock 1b 3 0 0 0
  Torre 1b 1 0 1 0
Crandall c 4 1 2 0
Logan ss 4 1 2 1
Burdette p 3 0 0 0
  Sleater p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 5 8 5
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Virdon cf 5 0 3 0
Cole 2b,3b 3 1 0 0
Thomas 3b,2b,lf 4 1 2 0
Long 1b 4 0 0 0
Walls rf 3 0 1 1
Clemente lf,2b 3 0 0 0
  Munger p 0 0 0 0
  Hall ph 1 0 1 1
Shepard c 3 0 1 0
  O'Brien pr,ss 1 0 0 0
Groat ss 2 0 0 0
  Skinner ph 1 0 0 0
  Kravitz c 1 1 1 0
Friend p 2 0 0 0
  Freese ph,3b 2 0 1 0
Totals 35 3 10 2
Milwaukee 001 010 210581
Pittsburgh 200 000 0013101
  Milwaukee Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Burdette  W(6-3) 8.2 10 3 1 2 3
  Sleater  SV(1) 0.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
10
3
1
2
4
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Friend  L(11-4) 7.0 5 4 4 5 1
  Munger   2.0 3 1 1 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
5
5
5
2

  E–Crandall (1), Long (6).  2B–Milwaukee Logan (7), Pittsburgh Thomas (10); Freese (8).  3B–Milwaukee O'Connell (6); Crandall (1).  SH–Burdette (5).  SF–Bruton 2 (3).  IBB–Mathews (4).  Team LOB–8.  Team–7.  CS–Walls (3); Walls (3).  U-HP–Vic Delmore, 1B–Bill Engeln, 2B–Augie Donatelli, 3B–Jocko Conlan.
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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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