Chicago Cubs vs Pittsburgh Pirates
August 25, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 25, 1957 at Forbes Field. The Chicago Cubs 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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Chicago Cubs 8, Pittsburgh Pirates 2

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Adams 3b 2 0 2 1
  Kindall pr,2b 2 0 0 0
Speake cf 5 0 1 1
Tanner lf 4 0 0 0
Moryn rf 5 1 1 0
Long 1b 5 2 3 1
Banks ss 5 2 2 0
Neeman c 5 2 2 2
Morgan 2b,3b 5 1 3 1
Elston p 1 0 1 1
  Lown p 2 0 1 1
Totals 41 8 16 8
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 1 1 1
Thomas 1b 4 1 1 1
Freese 3b 2 0 1 0
Mazeroski 2b 3 0 0 0
Rand c 3 0 1 0
Douglas p 0 0 0 0
  Smith P. ph 1 0 0 0
  Purkey p 0 0 0 0
  Arroyo p 0 0 0 0
  Swanson p 0 0 0 0
  Pritchard ph 1 0 0 0
  Smith B. p 0 0 0 0
  Baker ph 1 0 0 0
  King p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 2 6 2
Chicago 020 130 0118160
Pittsburgh 000 100 100261
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Elston  W (5-5) 5.0 5 1 1 0 3
  Lown  SV (9) 4.0 1 1 1 1 2
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
1
5
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Douglas  L (1-2) 3.0 4 2 2 1 1
  Purkey   0.1 3 1 1 0 0
  Arroyo   0.2 3 3 3 0 0
  Swanson   1.0 1 0 0 1 0
  Smith   3.0 3 1 1 0 2
  King   1.0 2 1 1 0 0
Totals
9.0
16
8
8
2
3

  E–None.  DP–Chicago 1. Long.  2B–Chicago Neeman (15,off Arroyo); Long (14,off B. Smith); Morgan (17,off King)..  SH–Elston (2,off Douglas).  HBP–Adams (2,by Douglas); Elston (1,by Purkey)..  Team LOB–11.  U-HP–Frank Secory, 1B–Stan Landes, 2B–Bill Baker, 3B–Frank Dascoli.  T–2:32.  A–11,770.
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