Los Angeles Dodgers vs Pittsburgh Pirates
September 12, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 12, 1958 at Forbes Field. The Los Angeles Dodgers 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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Los Angeles Dodgers 7, Pittsburgh Pirates 3

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 3 2 1 1
Roseboro c 3 2 1 1
Snider cf 5 1 4 4
Hodges 1b 4 0 0 0
Fairly lf 4 1 1 1
Howard rf 4 0 1 0
  Cimoli rf 0 0 0 0
Robinson 3b 2 0 0 0
  Miles ph 1 0 0 0
  Zimmer 3b 0 0 0 0
Lillis ss 4 1 1 0
Craig p 3 0 0 0
Totals 33 7 9 7
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Virdon cf 5 0 0 0
Clemente rf 4 0 1 0
Stuart 1b 4 0 0 0
Skinner lf 3 1 1 0
Thomas 3b 4 1 1 0
Mazeroski 2b 4 1 2 0
Groat ss 4 0 1 1
Hall c 2 0 0 1
  Mejias ph 1 0 0 0
  Blackburn p 0 0 0 0
  Kluszewski ph 1 0 0 0
Kline p 2 0 0 0
  Williams p 0 0 0 0
  Kravitz ph,c 1 0 1 0
Totals 35 3 7 2
Los Angeles 012 021 100791
Pittsburgh 020 100 000371
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Craig  W (1-0) 9.0 7 3 2 2 5
Totals
9.0
7
3
2
2
5
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Kline  L (12-15) 4.0 6 5 5 3 3
  Williams   3.0 3 2 2 1 2
  Blackburn   2.0 0 0 0 2 0
Totals
9.0
9
7
7
6
5

  E–Lillis (2), Mazeroski (15).  DP–Pittsburgh 2. Stuart-Groat-Stuart, Blackburn-Groat-Stuart.  2B–Los Angeles Snider (11,off Kline).  3B–Los Angeles Roseboro (8,off Kline).  HR–Los Angeles Fairly (1,2nd inning off Kline 0 on 0 out); Snider (14,7th inning off Williams 0 on 0 out)..  Team LOB–5.  Team–7.  SB–Zimmer (14,2nd base off Blackburn/Kravitz).  CS–Zimmer (2,Home by Blackburn/Kravitz).  U-HP–Frank Dascoli, 1B–Augie Donatelli, 2B–Shag Crawford, 3B–Vinnie Smith.
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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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