Pittsburgh Pirates vs Brooklyn Dodgers
August 16, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 16, 1957 at Roosevelt Stadium. 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 1, Brooklyn Dodgers 4

Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Clemente rf 4 0 1 0
Freese 3b 4 0 0 0
Groat ss 4 0 2 0
Skinner lf 4 0 0 0
Thomas 1b 3 0 0 0
Mazeroski 2b 4 1 2 0
Virdon cf 3 0 0 0
  Pendleton ph 0 0 0 0
  Fondy ph 1 0 0 0
Foiles c 3 0 1 1
Purkey p 2 0 0 0
  Swanson p 0 0 0 0
  Baker ph 1 0 0 0
  King p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 1 6 1
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 4 0 1 0
Furillo rf 4 1 2 0
Snider cf 4 0 0 0
Hodges 1b 3 1 2 1
Valo lf 3 0 1 1
  Cimoli pr,lf 1 0 0 0
Neal ss 2 1 0 1
Zimmer 3b 4 0 2 1
Roseboro c 3 0 0 0
Podres p 3 1 1 0
  Roebuck p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 9 4
Pittsburgh 010 000 000160
Brooklyn 010 120 00x490
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Purkey  L (10-11) 4.2 8 4 4 0 2
  Swanson   2.1 1 0 0 2 1
  King   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
9
4
4
2
4
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Podres  W (10-5) 8.1 6 1 1 2 3
  Roebuck  SV (5) 0.2 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
2
4

  E–None.  DP–Pittsburgh 1. Groat-Mazeroski-Thomas.  2B–Pittsburgh Foiles (9,off Podres); Groat (20,off Podres)., Brooklyn Hodges (22,off Purkey); Gilliam (23,off Purkey).  Team LOB–7.  SF–Neal (1,off Purkey).  HBP–Neal (7,by Purkey).  Team–7.  U-HP–Stan Landes, 1B–Bill Baker, 2B–Frank Dascoli, 3B–Frank Secory.  T–1:58.  A–9,592.
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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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