San Francisco Giants vs Pittsburgh Pirates
May 25, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 25, 1958 at Forbes Field. The San Francisco 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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San Francisco Giants 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 2

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Davenport 3b 5 1 1 0
Kirkland rf 5 1 2 2
Mays cf 5 0 2 0
Cepeda 1b 5 0 2 1
Spencer ss 4 1 2 0
Sauer lf 3 0 2 1
  Taussig lf 1 0 0 0
Schmidt c 4 1 1 1
O'Connell 2b 4 0 2 0
Gomez p 4 1 1 0
Totals 40 5 15 5
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Virdon cf 5 0 0 0
Skinner lf 3 1 2 0
Groat ss 4 0 3 0
Kluszewski 1b 4 0 2 0
Thomas 3b 4 0 0 0
Clemente rf 4 0 1 0
Mazeroski 2b 3 1 0 0
Kravitz c 4 0 1 0
Law p 1 0 0 1
  Blackburn p 0 0 0 0
  Baker ph 1 0 0 0
  Porterfield p 0 0 0 0
  Powers ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 2 9 1
San Francisco 010 010 2105153
Pittsburgh 001 100 000291
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Gomez  W (5-3) 9.0 9 2 2 1 2
Totals
9.0
9
2
2
1
2
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Law  L (5-3) 6.2 13 4 3 0 1
  Blackburn   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Porterfield   2.0 2 1 1 0 0
Totals
9.0
15
5
4
0
2

  E–Kirkland (1), Cepeda (6), Gomez (1).  DP–San Francisco 1. Kirkland-Spencer-Cepeda.  2B–San Francisco Spencer (10,off Law); Cepeda (8,off Law); Sauer (4,off Law); Davenport (11,off Law).  3B–San Francisco Mays (6,off Porterfield).  HR–San Francisco Schmidt (6,8th inning off Porterfield 0 on 1 out).  Team LOB–8.  U-HP–Frank Dascoli, 1B–Augie Donatelli, 2B–Shag Crawford, 3B–Vinnie Smith.  T–2:28.
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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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