New York Giants vs Pittsburgh Pirates
September 21, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 21, 1957 at Forbes Field. 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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New York Giants 9, Pittsburgh Pirates 5

New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
O'Connell 2b 5 2 1 0
Mays cf 6 0 1 0
Jablonski 3b 2 2 1 1
  Virgil 3b 2 0 1 0
Harris 1b 5 3 4 7
Thomson rf 5 0 2 1
Rhodes lf 5 0 1 0
Spencer ss 4 0 2 0
Thomas c 3 1 0 0
Gomez p 4 1 2 0
  Grissom p 1 0 0 0
Totals 42 9 15 9
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Baker 3b 5 1 3 1
Smith rf 4 1 1 0
Groat ss 5 0 1 0
Skinner lf 5 0 2 0
Thomas 1b 5 1 2 2
Mazeroski 2b 4 0 0 0
Clemente cf 3 1 1 0
Kravitz c 4 0 1 2
Witt p 0 0 0 0
  O'Brien p 1 0 0 0
  Fondy ph 1 0 0 0
  Douglas p 0 0 0 0
  Swanson p 0 0 0 0
  Powers ph 1 0 0 0
  Arroyo p 0 0 0 0
  Freese ph 1 1 0 0
  Face p 0 0 0 0
Totals 39 5 11 5
New York 330 120 0009153
Pittsburgh 100 002 1105110
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Gomez  W (15-12) 6.2 10 4 2 2 4
  Grissom  SV (14) 2.1 1 1 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
1
1
0
0
0
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Witt  L (0-1) 1.1 4 6 6 5 1
  O'Brien   2.2 4 1 1 0 1
  Douglas   1.0 3 2 2 1 1
  Swanson   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Arroyo   2.0 2 0 0 0 0
  Face   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
1
0
0
0
0

  E–Virgil 2 (12), Harris (7).  DP–New York 2. Spencer-O'Connell-Harris, Virgil-O'Connell-Harris.  2B–New York Rhodes (5,off Swanson), Pittsburgh Kravitz (1,off Gomez).  3B–New York Harris (3,off Witt).  HR–New York Harris 2 (9,2nd inning off Witt 2 on 1 out,4th inning off E. O'Brien 0 on 1 out).  Team LOB–12.  Team–9.  U-HP–Frank Dascoli, 1B–Frank Secory, 2B–Stan Landes, 3B–Bill Baker.  T–2:36.  A–8,110.
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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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