Pittsburgh Pirates vs Los Angeles Dodgers
April 14, 1961 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 14, 1961 at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."
Baseball Almanac Top Quote

"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

Pittsburgh Pirates 6, Los Angeles Dodgers 3

Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Skinner lf 5 1 1 0
Groat ss 5 1 2 1
Clemente rf 5 1 2 2
Stuart 1b 5 1 2 0
Cimoli cf 5 1 2 2
Hoak 3b 4 0 1 0
Smith c 4 0 0 0
Mazeroski 2b 3 1 1 0
Gibbon p 2 0 0 0
  Labine p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 6 11 5
Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Wills ss 5 0 1 0
Gilliam 3b 5 0 2 0
Davis T. lf 5 1 4 3
Howard 1b 4 0 1 0
  Snider ph 1 0 0 0
Demeter rf 3 0 1 0
Warwick cf 3 0 0 0
Neal 2b 3 1 0 0
Sherry c 4 0 2 0
  Davis W. pr 0 1 0 0
Koufax p 1 0 0 0
  Smith ph 1 0 0 0
  Golden p 0 0 0 0
  Aspromonte ph 1 0 0 0
  Palmquist p 0 0 0 0
  Perranoski p 0 0 0 0
  Hodges ph 1 0 1 0
Totals 37 3 12 3
Pittsburgh 004 000 0116111
Los Angeles 000 000 0123123
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Gibbon  W (1-0) 8.0 11 3 1 3 4
  Labine  SV (2) 1.0 1 0 0 0 2
Totals 9.0 12 3 1 3 6
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Koufax  L (0-1) 5.0 5 4 3 1 3
  Golden   2.0 2 0 0 0 1
  Palmquist   0.2 1 1 0 2 2
  Perranoski   1.1 3 1 1 0 1
Totals 9.0 11 6 4 3 7

  E–Groat (2), Gilliam 2 (2), N Sherry (1).  DP–Pittsburgh 3, Los Angeles 2.  2B–Pittsburgh Groat (1,off Koufax), Los Angeles Gilliam (1,off Gibbon).  3B–Pittsburgh Stuart (1,off Perranoski).  HR–Los Angeles T Davis (1,8th inning off Gibbon 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Gibbon (1,off Koufax).  Team LOB–9.  Team–10.  CS–Stuart (1,2nd base by Koufax/N Sherry).  WP–Palmquist (2).  U–Chris Pelekoudas, Mel Steiner, Jocko Conlan, Augie Donatelli, Ken Burkhart.  T–3:00.  A–28,371.

Baseball Almanac Box Score | Print Friendly and PDF

baseball almanac flat baseball

baseball almanac fast facts

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."