Pittsburgh Pirates vs Brooklyn Dodgers
April 18, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 18, 1957 at Ebbets Field. The Brooklyn Dodgers 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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Pittsburgh Pirates 1, Brooklyn Dodgers 6

Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Walls lf 4 0 2 0
Virdon cf 3 0 0 1
Long 1b 3 0 1 0
Kravitz c 4 0 0 0
Thomas 3b 4 0 0 0
Smith rf 4 0 0 0
Groat ss 3 0 1 0
Arroyo p 1 0 0 0
  Skinner ph 0 0 0 0
  Purkey p 0 0 0 0
  Churn p 0 0 0 0
  Mejias ph 1 1 0 0
  King p 0 0 0 0
  Powers ph 1 0 0 0
Mazeroski 2b 2 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 4 1
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 5 1 3 0
Cimoli lf 4 1 1 0
Snider cf 4 1 1 2
Furillo rf 4 1 2 1
Hodges 1b 4 2 3 1
Jackson 3b 3 0 2 1
Campanella c 3 0 2 1
Zimmer ss 4 0 0 0
Maglie p 3 0 0 0
Totals 34 6 14 6
Pittsburgh 000 000 010140
Brooklyn 100 101 21x6142
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Arroyo  L (0-1) 4.0 4 2 2 1 2
  Purkey   2.0 5 1 1 0 0
  Churn   1.0 2 2 2 0 0
  King   1.0 3 1 1 0 0
Totals
8.0
14
6
6
1
2
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Maglie  W (1-0) 9.0 4 1 0 3 5
Totals
9.0
4
1
0
3
5

  E–Zimmer 2 (2).  DP–Pittsburgh 2. Thomas-Mazeroski-Long, Purkey-Long, Brooklyn 1. Zimmer-Gilliam-Hodges.  2B–Pittsburgh Groat (1,off Maglie), Brooklyn Gilliam (1,off Arroyo); Hodges (1,off King)..  HR–Brooklyn Hodges (2,4th inning off Arroyo 0 on 0 out); Snider (1,7th inning off Churn 1 on 2 out)..  SH–Mazeroski (1,off Maglie); Maglie (1,off King).  SF–Virdon (1,off Maglie).  Team LOB–7.  HBP–Campanella (1,by Arroyo).  Team–7.  SB–Gilliam (1,2nd base off Churn/Kravitz).  U-HP–Tom Gorman, 1B–Hal Dixon, 2B–Ken Burkhart, 3B–Dusty Boggess.
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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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