Brooklyn Dodgers vs Pittsburgh Pirates
April 28, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 28, 1957 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 0, Pittsburgh Pirates 3

Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 5 0 2 0
Cimoli lf 5 0 0 0
Snider cf 3 0 0 0
Furillo rf 4 0 2 0
Hodges 1b 4 0 2 0
Neal 3b 4 0 0 0
Campanella c 3 0 0 0
  Pignatano pr 0 0 0 0
Zimmer ss 3 0 1 0
Craig p 1 0 0 0
  Amoros ph 0 0 0 0
  Labine p 0 0 0 0
  Valo ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 0 7 0
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Walls lf 4 0 1 0
Virdon cf 3 1 1 0
Clemente rf 4 0 1 0
Thomas 1b 4 0 3 1
Freese 3b 4 1 1 0
Groat ss 3 1 1 1
Mazeroski 2b 2 0 1 0
Foiles c 2 0 1 1
Friend p 3 0 0 0
Totals 29 3 10 3
Brooklyn 000 000 000070
Pittsburgh 000 010 11x3101
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Craig  L (1-1) 6.0 6 1 1 1 1
  Labine   2.0 4 2 2 1 1
Totals
8.0
10
3
3
2
2
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Friend  W (2-2) 9.0 7 0 0 4 2
Totals
9.0
7
0
0
4
2

  E–Groat (2).  DP–Brooklyn 1. Craig-Zimmer-Hodges, Pittsburgh 1. Mazeroski-Groat-Thomas.  2B–Brooklyn Hodges (4,off Friend), Pittsburgh Walls (1,off Craig); Mazeroski (2,off Labine); Virdon (3,off Labine)..  3B–Brooklyn Hodges (1,off Friend), Pittsburgh Freese (1,off Labine).  SH–Craig (2,off Friend); Mazeroski (2,off Craig).  IBB–Zimmer (1,by Friend).  Team LOB–11.  SF–Groat (2,off Labine).  Team–6.  U-HP–Bill Jackowski, 1B–Shag Crawford, 2B–Tony Venzon, 3B–Lee Ballanfant.
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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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