Los Angeles Dodgers vs Pittsburgh Pirates
July 23, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 23, 1958 at Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 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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Los Angeles Dodgers 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 6

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 3b 4 1 1 0
Cimoli rf 4 0 1 0
Snider cf 4 2 2 1
Larker lf 4 0 1 1
Bilko 1b 4 0 0 0
Zimmer ss 4 0 2 1
Neal 2b 3 0 1 0
Pignatano c 3 0 0 0
  Roseboro ph 1 0 0 0
Koufax p 0 0 0 0
  Labine p 0 0 0 0
  Valo ph 1 0 0 0
  Drysdale p 1 0 0 0
  Reese ph 1 0 0 0
  Erskine p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 3 8 3
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Virdon cf 3 1 0 0
Clemente rf 4 1 1 1
Stuart 1b 4 0 0 0
Thomas 3b 4 1 1 1
Skinner lf 4 2 2 0
  Mejias lf 0 0 0 0
Mazeroski 2b 3 1 1 0
Groat ss 4 0 3 4
Foiles c 2 0 0 0
Friend p 2 0 0 0
  Face p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 6 8 6
Los Angeles 200 000 001380
Pittsburgh 500 000 01x680
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Koufax   0.0 1 2 2 1 0
  Labine  L (3-3) 1.0 3 3 3 1 0
  Drysdale   6.0 1 0 0 1 8
  Erskine   1.0 3 1 1 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
6
6
3
8
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Friend  W (12-11) 8.2 8 3 3 1 10
  Face  SV (10) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
8
3
3
1
10

  E–None.  DP–Los Angeles 1. Friend-Groat-Stuart.  2B–Los Angeles Larker (7,off Friend); Snider (8,off Friend).  3B–Los Angeles Snider (1,off Friend).  Team LOB–5.  U-HP–Vic Delmore, 1B–Frank Secory, 2B–Tony Venzon, 3B–Jocko Conlan.  T–2:17.  A–18,938.
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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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