San Francisco Giants vs Pittsburgh Pirates
June 18, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 18, 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 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 1

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Bressoud 2b 5 1 1 0
Lockman rf,lf 5 0 1 1
Spencer ss 5 0 1 0
Sauer lf 3 0 1 0
  Taussig pr,lf 0 0 0 0
  Mays ph,cf 2 0 0 0
Cepeda 1b 3 0 3 0
Alou cf,rf 4 0 0 0
Davenport 3b 3 0 0 0
Thomas c 3 0 1 0
  Speake pr 0 0 0 0
  Schmidt c 1 1 1 0
Giel p 3 0 0 0
  Grissom p 0 0 0 0
Totals 37 2 9 1
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Virdon cf 5 1 1 0
Skinner lf 3 0 1 0
Groat ss 4 0 0 0
Kluszewski 1b 3 0 1 1
Thomas 3b 4 0 0 0
Mejias rf 4 0 0 0
Mazeroski 2b 4 0 1 0
Foiles c 2 0 0 0
  Schofield ph 1 0 0 0
Friend p 3 0 0 0
  Powers ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 1 4 1
San Francisco 100 000 000 1290
Pittsburgh 001 000 000 0141
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Giel  W (1-1) 9.0 4 1 1 3 6
  Grissom  SV (5) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
10.0
4
1
1
3
7
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Friend  L (9-6) 10.0 9 2 2 3 7
Totals
10.0
9
2
2
3
7

  E–Groat (12).  DP–Pittsburgh 3. Mazeroski-Kluszewski, Mazeroski-Groat-Kluszewski, Friend-Groat-Kluszewski.  2B–San Francisco Bressoud (3,off Friend); Cepeda (13,off Friend); Thomas (3,off Friend).  IBB–Cepeda (3,by Friend).  Team LOB–8.  Team–6.  U–Jocko Conlan, Frank Secory, Tony Venzon.  T–2:39.  A–21,512.
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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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