Los Angeles Dodgers vs Pittsburgh Pirates
August 15, 1962 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 15, 1962 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Los Angeles Dodgers 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 6

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Wills ss 5 0 1 0
Gilliam 2b 5 0 1 0
Davis W. cf 4 1 3 1
Davis T. 3b 4 0 0 0
Fairly 1b 4 0 2 0
Howard rf 4 1 1 0
Moon lf 4 1 2 2
Roseboro c 3 0 0 0
Drysdale p 1 0 0 0
  Harkness ph 1 0 0 0
  Roebuck p 0 0 0 0
  Walls ph 1 0 1 0
  Perranoski p 0 0 0 0
  Snider ph 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 3 11 3
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Virdon cf 4 0 0 0
Groat ss 4 2 2 0
Skinner lf 4 1 2 0
Burgess c 3 1 1 0
Clemente rf 4 0 2 3
Clendenon 1b 4 0 0 0
Hoak 3b 2 1 0 0
Mazeroski 2b 4 1 2 2
Friend p 4 0 0 0
  Olivo p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 6 9 5
Los Angeles 000 002 0103112
Pittsburgh 032 000 10x690
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Drysdale  L (21-6) 4.0 6 5 4 2 3
  Roebuck   2.0 1 0 0 1 0
  Perranoski   2.0 2 1 1 0 2
Totals
8.0
9
6
5
3
5
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Friend  W (13-11) 8.2 11 3 3 2 4
  Olivo  SV (7) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
11
3
3
2
4

  E–W Davis (11), Roseboro (10).  DP–Pittsburgh 2.  2B–Los Angeles Moon (8,off Friend), Pittsburgh Burgess (14,off Drysdale); Skinner (26,off Drysdale); Groat (20,off Perranoski).  3B–Pittsburgh Mazeroski (8,off Drysdale).  HR–Los Angeles Moon (4,6th inning off Friend 1 on, 2 out); W Davis (16,8th inning off Friend 0 on, 0 out).  IBB–Roseboro (7,by Friend); Burgess (7,by Drysdale).  Team LOB–8.  Team–6.  WP–Drysdale (6), Roebuck (8).  IBB–Drysdale (5,Burgess); Friend (7,Roseboro).  U-HP–Frank Secory, 1B–Tony Venzon, 2B–Paul Pryor, 3B–Augie Donatelli.  T–2:28.  A–25,670.
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