Brooklyn Dodgers vs Pittsburgh Pirates
September 22, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 22, 1956 at Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 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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Brooklyn Dodgers 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 5

Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b,lf,rf,lf 5 0 1 0
Reese ss 4 0 1 1
Snider cf 5 0 0 0
Robinson 3b 4 0 3 0
Amoros lf 1 0 0 0
  Neal ph,2b 3 0 1 0
Furillo rf,lf,rf 4 0 1 0
Hodges 1b 4 0 0 0
Campanella c 3 0 1 0
  Zimmer pr 0 0 0 0
Erskine p 0 0 0 0
  Roebuck p 1 1 1 0
  Demeter ph 1 0 0 0
  Drysdale p 0 0 0 0
  Fernandez ph 1 0 0 0
  Bessent p 0 0 0 0
  Jackson ph 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 1 9 1
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Clemente rf 4 0 0 0
Virdon cf 4 1 2 0
Walls lf 4 1 1 0
Skinner 1b 3 2 1 2
Thomas 3b 4 0 0 0
Groat ss 4 1 3 2
Shepard c 3 0 1 0
Mazeroski 2b 4 0 1 0
Law p 0 0 0 0
  Arroyo p 2 0 1 1
  Friend p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 5 10 5
Brooklyn 001 000 000191
Pittsburgh 300 110 00x5101
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Erskine  L(13-11) 1.0 5 3 3 0 0
  Roebuck   3.0 2 1 1 0 0
  Drysdale   2.0 2 1 0 1 1
  Bessent   2.0 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
8.0
10
5
4
1
3
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Law   2.0 5 1 1 0 0
  Arroyo  W(3-3) 6.0 4 0 0 3 5
  Friend  SV(3) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
9
1
1
3
7

  E–Drysdale (2), Groat (31).  DP–Pittsburgh 1. Groat-Skinner.  2B–Brooklyn Robinson (14,off Arroyo), Pittsburgh Virdon (22,off Drysdale).  3B–Pittsburgh Skinner (3,off Erskine); Shepard (2,off Bessent).  Team LOB–11.  SH–Law (3,off Roebuck); Shepard (8,off Roebuck).  Team–6.  U-HP–Augie Donatelli, 1B–Tom Gorman, 2B–Babe Pinelli, 3B–Hal Dixon.  T–2:23.  A–6,452.
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