Pittsburgh Pirates vs Brooklyn Dodgers
April 20, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 20, 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 0, Brooklyn Dodgers 2
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Clemente rf 4 0 1 0
Virdon cf 4 0 1 0
Walls lf 1 0 1 0
  Mejias pr,lf 2 0 0 0
Thomas 3b 3 0 1 0
  Hall pr 0 0 0 0
Long 1b 4 0 0 0
Groat ss 4 0 0 0
Foiles c 4 0 1 0
Mazeroski 2b 3 0 1 0
Friend p 2 0 0 0
  Pendleton ph 1 0 0 0
  Face p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 0 6 0
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 4 0 0 0
Cimoli lf 3 0 0 0
Snider cf 3 1 1 1
Furillo rf 3 1 2 1
Hodges 1b 3 0 0 0
Jackson 3b 3 0 0 0
Campanella c 3 0 1 0
Zimmer ss 3 0 0 0
Podres p 3 0 0 0
Totals 28 2 4 2
Pittsburgh 000 000 000–060
Brooklyn 000 200 00x–240
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Friend  L (1-1) 7.0 4 2 2 0 1
  Face   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
4
2
2
0
2
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Podres  W (1-0) 9.0 6 0 0 2 9
Totals
9.0
6
0
0
2
9
  E–None.  DP–Brooklyn 1. Hodges.  2B–Pittsburgh Virdon (1,off Podres).  HR–Brooklyn Snider (2,4th inning off Friend 0 on 2 out); Furillo (1,4th inning off Friend 0 on 2 out)..  Team LOB–7.  Team–2.  U-HP–Hal Dixon, 1B–Ken Burkhart, 2B–Dusty Boggess, 3B–Tom Gorman.
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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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