Pittsburgh Pirates vs Brooklyn Dodgers
July 4, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 4, 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 2, Brooklyn Dodgers 8
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Virdon cf 4 0 1 0
Mazeroski 2b 4 1 2 1
  Pritchard 2b 0 0 0 0
Fondy 1b 4 0 1 0
Thomas lf 4 1 2 0
Groat ss 4 0 2 0
Baker 3b 4 0 0 0
Mejias rf 3 0 1 0
Foiles c 2 0 0 1
Purkey p 2 0 0 0
  Face p 0 0 0 0
  Smith ph 1 0 0 0
  King p 0 0 0 0
  Skinner ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 9 2
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 4 1 1 0
Amoros lf 4 1 1 0
Snider cf 4 3 3 2
Cimoli rf 2 1 1 0
Hodges 1b 4 0 0 0
Neal ss 4 2 2 3
Reese 3b 3 0 1 1
Walker c 3 0 1 1
Newcombe p 4 0 1 0
Totals 32 8 11 7
Pittsburgh 001 000 001–290
Brooklyn 000 340 10x–8110
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Purkey  L (7-7) 4.0 8 6 6 2 0
  Face   2.0 2 1 1 1 2
  King   2.0 1 1 1 0 1
Totals
8.0
11
8
8
3
3
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Newcombe  W (8-6) 9.0 9 2 2 2 3
Totals
9.0
9
2
2
2
3
  E–None.  DP–Pittsburgh 1. Mazeroski-Groat-Fondy.  2B–Pittsburgh Mejias (6,off Newcombe).  HR–Pittsburgh Mazeroski (6,3rd inning off Newcombe 0 on 1 out).  SF–Foiles (1,off Newcombe).  Team LOB–7.  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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