San Francisco Giants vs Pittsburgh Pirates
September 9, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 9, 1958 at Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the San Francisco Giants 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

San Francisco Giants 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 2

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Davenport 3b 4 0 0 0
  White ph 1 0 0 0
  Jones p 0 0 0 0
Spencer ss,2b 4 0 1 0
Mays cf 3 1 0 0
Kirkland rf 3 0 0 0
Cepeda 1b 4 0 2 1
Brandt lf 4 0 1 0
Schmidt c 4 0 1 0
O'Connell 2b 1 0 0 0
  Wagner ph 1 0 1 0
  Rodgers ss 0 0 0 0
Miller p 1 0 0 0
  Lockman ph 0 0 0 0
  Bressoud 3b 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 6 1
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Virdon cf 4 0 1 0
Clemente rf 4 0 0 0
Stuart 1b 4 0 0 0
Skinner lf 3 0 1 0
Thomas 3b 4 0 1 0
Mazeroski 2b 4 2 2 1
Groat ss 3 0 1 0
Hall c 3 0 2 0
  Kluszewski ph 1 0 1 1
Witt p 3 0 1 0
  Face p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 10 2
San Francisco 000 001 000161
Pittsburgh 010 000 0012100
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Miller   8.0 8 1 1 1 7
  Jones  L (2-1) 0.0 2 1 1 1 0
Totals
8.0
10
2
2
2
7
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Witt   8.2 6 1 1 5 4
  Face  W (5-2) 0.1 0 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
6
4

  E–Cepeda (15).  DP–San Francisco 2. Spencer-O'Connell-Cepeda, Spencer-O'Connell-Cepeda, Pittsburgh 2. Hall-Thomas, Thomas-Stuart-Groat.  2B–San Francisco Cepeda (31,off Witt); Wagner (6,off Witt), Pittsburgh Mazeroski (22,off Jones).  HR–Pittsburgh Mazeroski (17,2nd inning off Miller 0 on 2 out).  SH–Miller (4,off Witt).  IBB–Lockman (4,by Face); Groat (7,by Jones).  Team LOB–9.  Team–9.  SB–Mays (25,2nd base off Witt/Hall).  CS–O'Connell (2,3rd base by Witt/Hall).  U-HP–Tony Venzon, 1B–Frank Secory, 2B–Jocko Conlan, 3B–Ed Sudol.  T–2:23.  A–32,250.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

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."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook