Pittsburgh Pirates vs St. Louis Cardinals
September 15, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 15, 1957 at Busch Stadium I. The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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Pittsburgh Pirates 6, St. Louis Cardinals 9

Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Smith rf 5 0 3 1
Virdon cf 5 0 1 1
Groat ss 5 0 2 0
Skinner lf 5 1 1 0
Thomas 1b 4 1 1 0
Freese 3b 4 1 2 1
Mazeroski 2b 4 1 2 1
Foiles c 1 2 0 0
  Powers ph 1 0 0 1
  Face p 0 0 0 0
Kline p 2 0 0 0
  King p 0 0 0 0
  Purkey p 0 0 0 0
  Fondy ph 1 0 0 0
  O'Brien p 0 0 0 0
  Kravitz ph,c 1 0 0 0
Totals 38 6 12 5
St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Blasingame 2b 4 1 1 0
Moon cf,rf 3 1 0 0
Musial 1b 4 1 1 1
  Smith cf 0 0 0 0
Cunningham rf,1b 4 2 2 1
Ennis lf 4 0 2 1
Boyer 3b 3 2 1 2
Cooper c 4 2 3 1
Kasko ss 4 0 1 3
Wehmeier p 3 0 0 0
  Merritt p 0 0 0 0
  Muffett p 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 9 11 9
Pittsburgh 030 000 1206120
St. Louis 010 260 00x9110
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Kline  L (8-16) 4.0 7 6 6 2 0
  King   0.1 3 2 2 0 0
  Purkey   1.2 1 1 1 0 0
  O'Brien   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Face   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
11
9
9
2
1
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Wehmeier  W (10-6) 7.0 9 5 5 2 4
  Merritt   0.1 2 1 1 0 0
  Muffett  SV (6) 1.2 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
12
6
6
2
4

  E–None.  DP–Pittsburgh 1. Boyer-Blasingame-Musial.  2B–Pittsburgh Groat (29,off Wehmeier); Virdon (28,off Wehmeier); P. Smith (3,off Muffett)..  3B–Pittsburgh Mazeroski (7,off Wehmeier).  Team LOB–7.  U-HP–Tom Gorman, 1B–Dusty Boggess, 2B–Ken Burkhart, 3B–Hal Dixon.  T–2:12.
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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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