Pittsburgh Pirates vs San Francisco Giants
June 22, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 22, 1959 at Seals Stadium. 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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Pittsburgh Pirates 1, San Francisco Giants 4

Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Schofield 2b 4 0 0 0
Groat ss 4 1 2 0
Burgess c 4 0 0 0
Stuart 1b 3 0 1 0
Skinner lf 4 0 0 0
Virdon cf 3 0 1 1
Hoak 3b 2 0 0 0
Mejias rf 3 0 0 0
Kline p 2 0 0 0
  Porterfield p 0 0 0 0
  Kluszewski ph 1 0 0 0
  Blackburn p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 4 1
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Davenport 3b 4 1 2 1
Kirkland rf 4 0 1 1
Mays cf 3 0 0 0
Cepeda 1b 4 0 2 0
Spencer 2b 4 0 0 0
Brandt lf 4 1 1 0
Rodgers ss 2 0 0 0
Hegan c 2 0 0 0
  Rhodes ph 1 0 1 0
  Bressoud pr 0 1 0 0
  Landrith c 0 0 0 0
Fisher p 1 0 0 0
  Wagner ph 1 1 1 1
  Worthington p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 4 8 3
Pittsburgh 000 000 100141
San Francisco 000 000 40x480
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Kline  L (6-4) 6.1 7 4 4 3 4
  Porterfield   0.2 1 0 0 0 0
  Blackburn   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
8
4
4
3
5
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Fisher  W (1-0) 7.0 3 1 1 1 3
  Worthington  SV (3) 2.0 1 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
1
5

  E–Hoak (11).  DP–Pittsburgh 2. Groat-Schofield-Stuart, Schofield-Groat.  2B–San Francisco Cepeda (20,off Kline); Brandt (10,off Kline); Kirkland (7,off Porterfield).  3B–San Francisco Wagner (3,off Kline).  HBP–Hoak (3,by Worthington).  Team LOB–4.  Team–5.  U-HP–Ed Sudol, 1B–Tom Gorman, 2B–Stan Landes, 3B–Dusty Boggess.  T–2:15.  A–11,002.
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