Chicago Cubs vs Pittsburgh Pirates
September 11, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 11, 1956 at Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Chicago Cubs 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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Chicago Cubs 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Hoak 3b 3 0 0 1
Baker 2b 5 0 0 0
Banks ss 5 0 2 1
Moryn rf 5 1 2 0
King lf 3 0 2 0
  Miksis lf 0 0 0 0
Whisenant cf 4 1 2 0
Landrith c 2 0 0 1
Kellert 1b 3 1 0 0
Rush p 3 0 0 0
  Lown p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 8 3
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Clemente rf 5 0 2 1
Virdon cf 4 0 1 0
Walls lf 3 0 0 0
Long 1b 4 1 1 1
Thomas 3b 4 2 2 1
Foiles c 4 0 0 0
Groat ss 3 0 2 1
Mazeroski 2b 4 1 2 0
Hall p 1 0 0 0
  Waters p 0 0 0 0
  Naranjo p 0 0 0 0
  Skinner ph 1 0 0 0
  Face p 0 0 0 0
  O'Brien ph 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 10 4
Chicago 001 002 000–380
Pittsburgh 010 000 021–4101
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Rush   7.1 8 3 3 3 6
  Lown  L(8-7) 1.0 2 1 1 0 0
Totals
8.1
10
4
4
3
6
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Hall   5.0 6 3 2 3 1
  Waters   0.0 0 0 0 1 0
  Naranjo   2.0 1 0 0 2 2
  Face  W(12-9) 2.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
3
2
6
4
  E–Thomas (15), Thomas (15).  DP–Pittsburgh 2.  2B–Pittsburgh Virdon (20); Groat (18).  HR–Pittsburgh Long (27,8th inning off Rush 0 on); Thomas (21,8th inning off Rush 0 on).  SH–Landrith (6); J. O'Brien (4).  IBB–Kellert (1).  Team LOB–10.  Team–8.  U-HP–Dusty Boggess, 1B–Shag Crawford, 2B–Lee Ballanfant, 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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