Pittsburgh Pirates vs Milwaukee Braves
July 31, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 31, 1957 at County Stadium. The Milwaukee Braves 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, Milwaukee Braves 4

Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Freese 3b 4 0 1 0
Virdon cf 3 0 0 0
  Mejias rf 1 0 0 0
Groat ss 3 1 1 0
Skinner lf 4 1 2 1
Thomas 1b 4 0 0 0
Clemente rf,cf 4 0 2 0
Mazeroski 2b 3 0 0 0
Rand c 1 0 0 0
  Fondy ph 1 0 0 0
  Peterson c 0 0 0 0
  Baker ph 1 0 0 0
  Foiles c 1 0 1 0
Purkey p 2 0 0 0
  Kline p 0 0 0 0
  King p 0 0 0 0
  Smith ph 1 0 1 0
  Swanson p 0 0 0 0
  Pendleton ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 2 8 1
Milwaukee Braves ab   r   h rbi
Schoendienst 2b 3 1 3 1
Jones 1b 4 0 1 0
Mathews 3b 4 0 0 0
Aaron cf 4 1 1 0
Covington lf 4 1 1 0
Hazle rf 4 0 1 1
Logan ss 4 1 1 1
Rice c 4 0 1 0
Buhl p 3 0 2 0
Totals 34 4 11 3
Pittsburgh 000 000 002281
Milwaukee 001 012 00x4111
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Purkey  L (10-9) 5.0 9 4 4 0 1
  Kline   0.2 2 0 0 1 0
  King   1.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Swanson   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
11
4
4
1
1
  Milwaukee Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Buhl  W (13-6) 9.0 8 2 1 2 5
Totals
9.0
8
2
1
2
5

  E–Peterson (1), Logan (19).  DP–Milwaukee 2. Mathews-Schoendienst-Jones, Logan-Jones.  2B–Pittsburgh Clemente (12,off Buhl); Groat (18,off Buhl); Skinner (8,off Buhl)., Milwaukee Schoendienst (23,off Purkey); Hazle (1,off Purkey).  HR–Milwaukee Schoendienst (11,3rd inning off Purkey 0 on 1 out); Logan (8,5th inning off Purkey 0 on 0 out)..  Team LOB–7.  Team–7.  U-HP–Frank Dascoli, 1B–Frank Secory, 2B–Stan Landes, 3B–Bill Baker.  T–2:22.  A–24,522.
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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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