Brooklyn Dodgers vs Pittsburgh Pirates
August 10, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 10, 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 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 0

Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 4 1 3 0
Reese 3b 3 0 0 1
Snider cf 4 1 1 1
Hodges 1b 4 1 1 0
Amoros lf 3 0 0 0
Neal ss 4 0 0 0
Cimoli rf 4 0 2 1
Walker c 3 0 0 0
Drysdale p 4 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 7 3
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Clemente rf 4 0 1 0
Virdon cf 4 0 0 0
Groat ss 4 0 1 0
Skinner lf 4 0 0 0
Thomas 1b 4 0 1 0
Freese 3b 4 0 1 0
Mazeroski 2b 4 0 1 0
Foiles c 2 0 0 0
  Baker ph 1 0 0 0
  Rand c 0 0 0 0
Purkey p 1 0 1 0
  Fondy ph 1 0 1 0
  Swanson p 0 0 0 0
  Smith ph 1 0 0 0
  Face p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 0 7 0
Brooklyn 000 210 000371
Pittsburgh 000 000 000072
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Drysdale  W (10-6) 9.0 7 0 0 0 9
Totals
9.0
7
0
0
0
9
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Purkey  L (10-10) 5.0 5 3 3 1 1
  Swanson   3.0 1 0 0 1 1
  Face   1.0 1 0 0 1 1
Totals
9.0
7
3
3
3
3

  E–Hodges (12), Mazeroski 2 (14).  DP–Brooklyn 1. Neal-Gilliam-Hodges, Pittsburgh 1. Freese-Mazeroski-Thomas.  2B–Brooklyn Hodges (19,off Purkey).  3B–Brooklyn Gilliam (4,off Purkey), Pittsburgh Purkey (2,off Drysdale).  HR–Brooklyn Snider (28,4th inning off Purkey 0 on 0 out).  IBB–Walker (4,by Face).  Team LOB–6.  Team–7.  SB–Walker (2,2nd base off Face/Rand).  U-HP–Vinnie Smith, 1B–Jocko Conlan, 2B–Augie Donatelli, 3B–Vic Delmore.
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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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