Brooklyn Dodgers vs Pittsburgh Pirates
April 27, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 27, 1957 at Forbes 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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Brooklyn Dodgers 6, Pittsburgh Pirates 2

Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 5 0 1 0
Cimoli lf 5 1 2 2
Snider cf 4 0 2 1
Furillo rf 4 0 0 0
Hodges 1b 5 0 1 0
Neal 3b 3 2 2 0
Campanella c 4 1 2 1
Zimmer ss 3 1 2 0
Newcombe p 4 1 2 2
Totals 37 6 14 6
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Clemente rf 4 2 2 0
Virdon cf 4 0 3 1
Groat ss 3 0 0 1
Skinner 1b 4 0 1 0
Walls lf 2 0 0 0
  Kravitz c 2 0 0 0
Thomas 3b 4 0 1 0
  Pritchard pr 0 0 0 0
Foiles c 1 0 0 0
  Smith ph,lf 3 0 1 0
Mazeroski 2b 3 0 1 0
Kline p 1 0 0 0
  Law p 0 0 0 0
  Freese ph 1 0 0 0
  King p 0 0 0 0
  Arroyo p 0 0 0 0
  Powers ph 1 0 0 0
  Churn p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 9 2
Brooklyn 002 110 0206140
Pittsburgh 000 001 010291
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Newcombe  W (1-1) 9.0 9 2 2 0 3
Totals
9.0
9
2
2
0
3
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Kline  L (0-3) 4.2 10 4 4 1 3
  Law   1.1 0 0 0 0 0
  King   1.1 2 2 2 1 0
  Arroyo   0.2 1 0 0 0 0
  Churn   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
14
6
6
2
4

  E–Foiles (1).  DP–Brooklyn 1. Neal-Gilliam-Hodges.  2B–Pittsburgh Virdon (2,off Newcombe).  3B–Brooklyn Cimoli (1,off Kline); Snider (1,off King)., Pittsburgh Mazeroski (1,off Newcombe).  SH–Zimmer (1,off King); Furillo (1,off Churn)..  SF–Snider (1,off Kline); Groat (1,off Newcombe).  Team LOB–9.  Team–5.  SB–Neal (1,2nd base off Kline/Foiles).  U-HP–Lee Ballanfant, 1B–Bill Jackowski, 2B–Shag Crawford, 3B–Tony Venzon.
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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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