Pittsburgh Pirates vs New York Giants
September 2, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 2, 1957 at Polo Grounds V. The New York Giants 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 5, New York Giants 11

Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Clemente rf 4 0 0 0
  Face p 0 0 0 0
  Arroyo p 0 0 0 0
  Pendleton ph 0 0 0 0
Freese 3b 5 1 2 2
Groat ss 4 1 2 0
Skinner lf 4 1 1 0
Thomas 1b,rf 3 0 0 1
Mazeroski 2b 3 0 1 0
Virdon cf 4 0 0 0
Foiles c 2 0 0 0
  Baker ph 1 0 0 0
  Rand c 1 0 0 0
Kline p 1 0 0 0
  Swanson p 0 0 0 0
  Smith ph 1 1 1 0
  Purkey p 0 0 0 0
  Fondy ph,1b 2 1 2 1
Totals 35 5 9 4
New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
O'Connell 2b 4 1 1 0
Mueller rf 5 1 2 0
Mays cf 4 1 0 0
Jablonski 3b 3 3 1 0
  Thomson lf 1 1 1 0
Sauer lf 3 3 3 6
  Virgil 3b 1 1 1 3
Spencer ss 4 0 0 0
Lockman 1b 4 0 2 0
Thomas c 3 0 2 2
Barclay p 2 0 1 0
  Monzant p 2 0 0 0
Totals 36 11 14 11
Pittsburgh 000 013 100591
New York 023 000 33x11141
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Kline   3.2 5 5 2 4 0
  Swanson   1.1 0 0 0 1 3
  Purkey   1.0 2 0 0 0 1
  Face  L (4-6) 0.1 3 3 3 1 0
  Arroyo   1.2 4 3 3 0 1
Totals
8.0
14
11
8
6
5
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Barclay   5.1 6 4 3 0 3
  Monzant  W (3-1) 3.2 3 1 1 1 4
Totals
9.0
9
5
4
1
7

  E–Freese (14).  DP–Pittsburgh 2. Freese-Mazeroski-Thomas, Freese-Groat-Thomas.  2B–Pittsburgh Groat (24,off Barclay).  3B–Pittsburgh Skinner (5,off Barclay).  HR–Pittsburgh Freese (6,6th inning off Barclay 1 on 1 out); Fondy (2,7th inning off Monzant 0 on 1 out)..  SF–Thomas (10,off Barclay).  HBP–Pendleton (1,by Monzant).  Team LOB–6.  U-HP–Ken Burkhart, 1B–Hal Dixon, 2B–Tom Gorman, 3B–Dusty Boggess.  T–2:25.
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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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