Pittsburgh Pirates vs Chicago Cubs
June 26, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 26, 1957 at Wrigley Field. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Chicago Cubs 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 15, Chicago Cubs 5

Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Mazeroski 2b 6 2 2 2
Virdon cf 5 1 2 1
  Pendleton pr,rf 1 1 0 0
Fondy 1b 5 2 4 1
Thomas lf 6 3 3 4
Groat ss 5 0 1 1
  Pritchard ss 1 0 0 0
Baker 3b 5 2 1 1
Mejias rf,cf 6 2 4 3
Rand c 3 1 1 0
Law p 4 1 1 2
Totals 47 15 19 15
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Morgan 2b 3 0 0 0
  Wise 2b 1 0 0 0
  Bolger ph 1 0 0 1
Walls cf 5 0 1 0
Tanner lf 4 2 3 1
Banks 3b 4 1 1 1
Moryn rf 4 0 1 0
Long 1b 4 0 2 1
Neeman c 4 1 1 0
Littrell ss 3 0 0 0
  Kindall ss 1 0 0 0
Poholsky p 0 0 0 0
  Brosnan p 1 0 0 0
  Littlefield p 1 0 0 0
  Will ph 1 0 0 0
  Kaiser p 0 0 0 0
  Speake ph 1 1 1 1
Totals 38 5 10 5
Pittsburgh 005 240 40015191
Chicago 000 002 0125101
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Law  W (5-3) 9.0 10 5 5 1 2
Totals
9.0
10
5
5
1
2
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Poholsky  L (1-3) 2.1 6 5 4 2 1
  Brosnan   1.2 5 5 5 1 2
  Littlefield   3.0 7 5 5 2 3
  Kaiser   2.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
19
15
14
5
6

  E–Mazeroski (5), Littrell (9).  DP–Pittsburgh 1. Groat-Mazeroski-Fondy.  2B–Pittsburgh Fondy 2 (11); Thomas 2 (17); Rand (2), Chicago Tanner (6).  3B–Pittsburgh Virdon (4); Mejias (2), Chicago Banks (3); Speake (3).  HR–Pittsburgh Mazeroski (4,5th inning off Littlefield 1 on); Thomas (8,3rd inning off Poholsky 1 on); Mejias (1,7th inning off Littlefield 1 on), Chicago Tanner (5,8th inning off Law 0 on).  Team LOB–10.  Team–6.  SB–Thomas (2).  U-HP–Tony Venzon, 1B–Lee Ballanfant, 2B–Bill Jackowski, 3B–Shag Crawford.
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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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