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Pittsburgh Pirates vs New York Giants
August 19, 1956 Box Score
The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 19, 1956 at Polo Grounds V. The New York Giants 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 Sunday, August 19, 1956 at Polo Grounds V |
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| Pittsburgh |
0 | 3 | 1 | | 0 | 0 | 2 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 6 | 10 | 1 |
| New York |
1 | 0 | 3 | | 2 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 1 | x | – | 7 | 7 | 0 |
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| Pittsburgh Pirates |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Face |
3.1 |
6 |
6 |
6 |
0 |
1 |
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Hall L(0-6) |
4.2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
| Totals |
8.0 |
7 |
7 |
6 |
1 |
3 |
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| New York Giants |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Hearn |
1.2 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
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Littlefield |
4.0 |
3 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
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Wilhelm W(3-7) |
3.1 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
10 |
6 |
6 |
3 |
4 |
E–Long (17). 2B–Pittsburgh Clemente (18). 3B–Pittsburgh Virdon (8); Clemente (5), New York White (5). HR–Pittsburgh Mazeroski (2,2nd inning off Hearn 1 on), New York Brandt (9,1st inning off Face 0 on 0 out); Mays (24,3rd inning off Face 1 on); Castleman (11,4th inning off Face 1 on); Spencer (12,3rd inning off Face 0 on). SF–Thomas (6). Team LOB–6. SH–Littlefield (1). Team–1. U-HP–Hal Dixon, 1B–Augie Donatelli, 2B–Tom Gorman, 3B–Babe Pinelli. |
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| Game played on Sunday, August 19, 1956 at Polo Grounds V |
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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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