Pittsburgh Pirates vs New York Giants
April 23, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 23, 1957 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."
"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, New York Giants 1
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Clemente rf 4 0 0 0
Mejias lf 4 0 1 0
Thomas 3b 4 0 1 0
  Hall pr 0 0 0 0
Long 1b 3 0 0 0
Groat ss 4 0 1 0
Virdon cf 3 0 0 0
Foiles c 3 0 0 0
Mazeroski 2b 2 0 0 0
  Freese ph,2b 1 0 0 0
Kline p 2 0 0 0
  Pendleton ph 0 0 0 0
  Kuzava p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 0 3 0
New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Schoendienst 2b 4 0 1 0
Virgil 3b 4 0 2 0
Mays cf 4 1 1 0
Sauer lf 3 0 2 1
  Lockman pr,lf 1 0 0 0
Rhodes rf 4 0 0 0
  Mueller rf 0 0 0 0
Harris 1b 3 0 2 0
Rodgers ss 2 0 0 0
Westrum c 3 0 0 0
Burnside p 3 0 0 0
Totals 31 1 8 1
Pittsburgh 000 000 000–030
New York 000 100 00x–181
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Kline  L (0-2) 7.0 8 1 1 2 6
  Kuzava   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
1
1
2
6
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Burnside  W (1-0) 9.0 3 0 0 2 3
Totals
9.0
3
0
0
2
3
  E–Lockman (2).  DP–Pittsburgh 1. Thomas-Mazeroski-Long.  2B–New York Mays (1,off Kline).  Team LOB–5.  Team–8.  U-HP–Hal Dixon, 1B–Ken Burkhart, 2B–Dusty Boggess, 3B–Tom Gorman.  T–2:15.  A–3,445.
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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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