Pittsburgh Pirates vs Brooklyn Dodgers
August 17, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 17, 1957 at Ebbets Field. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 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 7, Brooklyn Dodgers 3

Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Clemente rf 4 1 2 1
Freese 3b 4 0 1 0
Groat ss 4 2 2 0
Skinner lf 3 1 1 2
Thomas 1b 5 0 2 2
Mazeroski 2b 5 0 0 0
Virdon cf 3 2 2 1
Foiles c 4 1 1 1
Kline p 4 0 0 0
Totals 36 7 11 7
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 5 0 0 0
Furillo rf 2 0 0 0
  Cimoli rf 2 0 0 0
Snider cf 3 1 1 0
Hodges 1b 4 0 0 0
Valo lf 3 1 0 0
Neal ss 3 0 0 0
Campanella c 4 1 4 2
  Roseboro pr 0 0 0 0
Zimmer 3b 4 0 1 0
Koufax p 2 0 0 0
  Labine p 0 0 0 0
  Walker ph 1 0 0 0
  Drysdale p 0 0 0 0
  Jackson ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 3 6 2
Pittsburgh 000 240 0107112
Brooklyn 120 000 000360
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Kline  W (4-15) 9.0 6 3 2 3 6
Totals
9.0
6
3
2
3
6
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Koufax  L (5-3) 4.2 6 6 6 4 5
  Labine   1.1 1 0 0 0 2
  Drysdale   3.0 4 1 1 2 4
Totals
9.0
11
7
7
6
11

  E–Clemente (6), Groat (17).  DP–Brooklyn 2. Neal-Gilliam-Hodges, Neal-Gilliam-Hodges.  2B–Pittsburgh Groat (21,off Koufax); Thomas (24,off Labine); Clemente (14,off Drysdale)., Brooklyn Snider (20,off Kline).  3B–Pittsburgh Foiles (4,off Koufax).  HR–Pittsburgh Skinner (9,4th inning off Koufax 1 on 2 out); Virdon (8,8th inning off Drysdale 0 on 0 out), Brooklyn Campanella (13,2nd inning off Kline 1 on 1 out).  IBB–Skinner (4,by Drysdale).  Team LOB–8.  Team–7.  U-HP–Bill Baker, 1B–Frank Dascoli, 2B–Frank Secory, 3B–Stan Landes.
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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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