New York Giants vs Pittsburgh Pirates
August 12, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 12, 1956 at Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the New York Giants 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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New York Giants 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 3
New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Brandt rf 4 0 0 0
Schoendienst 2b 4 0 0 0
Mays cf 4 0 0 0
Rhodes lf 4 2 1 0
White 1b 3 0 0 1
Castleman 3b 4 0 2 1
Sarni c 4 0 1 0
Spencer ss 3 0 1 0
Gomez p 0 0 0 0
  Ridzik p 1 0 0 0
  Thompson ph 1 0 1 0
  Wilhelm p 0 0 0 0
  Mueller ph 1 0 0 0
  Grissom p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 6 2
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Virdon cf 4 0 1 2
Groat ss 4 0 2 0
Walls lf 2 0 0 0
Clemente rf 4 0 0 0
Thomas 3b 3 1 1 0
Long 1b 3 0 0 0
Foiles c 2 1 0 0
Mazeroski 2b 3 1 1 1
Law p 3 0 0 0
Totals 28 3 5 3
New York 000 000 101–260
Pittsburgh 030 000 00x–352
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Gomez  L(6-12) 1.2 4 3 3 1 0
  Ridzik   3.1 1 0 0 1 1
  Wilhelm   2.0 0 0 0 0 3
  Grissom   1.0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
8.0
5
3
3
3
4
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Law  W(5-13) 9.0 6 2 1 0 1
Totals
9.0
6
2
1
0
1
  E–Groat (22), Thomas (9).  DP–Pittsburgh 1. Groat-Mazeroski-Long.  2B–Pittsburgh Thomas (20).  3B–New York Rhodes (3), Pittsburgh Virdon (7).  SF–White (3).  Team LOB–5.  Team–4.  CS–Walls (4).  U-HP–Lee Ballanfant, 1B–Dusty Boggess, 2B–Shag Crawford, 3B–Artie Gore.
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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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