San Francisco Giants vs Pittsburgh Pirates
September 16, 1962 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 16, 1962 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 4, Pittsburgh Pirates 6

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Alou M. rf 5 1 3 1
Kuenn lf 5 1 2 0
McCovey 1b 3 0 0 0
  Cepeda ph,1b 2 0 0 0
Mays cf 3 1 1 3
Bailey c 4 0 1 0
  Boles pr 0 0 0 0
  Bolin p 0 0 0 0
  Miller p 0 0 0 0
Davenport 3b 4 0 0 0
Hiller 2b 4 1 1 0
Pagan ss 4 0 0 0
Perry p 1 0 1 0
  Haller ph 1 0 0 0
  Larsen p 0 0 0 0
  Alou F. ph 1 0 0 0
  Orsino c 1 0 0 0
Totals 38 4 9 4
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Virdon cf 4 1 2 0
Groat ss 3 0 0 1
Skinner lf 4 0 1 0
  Goss ph,lf 1 0 0 0
Clemente rf 3 1 2 0
Clendenon 1b 5 0 1 1
Mazeroski 2b 4 2 2 1
Bailey 3b 4 0 1 1
Neeman c 3 1 1 0
  Marshall ph 0 0 0 0
  Gibbon p 0 0 0 0
  Stargell ph 1 0 0 0
McBean p 2 0 0 0
  Olivo p 0 0 0 0
  Face p 0 0 0 0
  Burgess ph,c 2 1 1 2
Totals 36 6 11 6
San Francisco 000 010 030 0491
Pittsburgh 001 210 000 26110
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Perry   4.0 5 3 2 0 4
  Larsen   3.0 2 1 1 1 1
  Bolin   0.1 1 0 0 1 0
  Miller  L (4-7) 2.1 3 2 2 2 4
Totals
9.2
11
6
5
4
9
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
McBean   7.1 7 3 3 1 5
  Olivo   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Face   0.1 2 1 1 0 0
  Gibbon  W (3-4) 2.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
10.0
9
4
4
1
6

  E–Perry (1).  DP–Pittsburgh 1.  2B–San Francisco Bailey (8,off Face).  3B–Pittsburgh Mazeroski (9,off Perry).  HR–San Francisco Mays (44,8th inning off Face 2 on, 2 out), Pittsburgh Burgess (13,10th inning off Miller 1 on, 2 out).  Team LOB–5.  SH–McBean (4,off Perry); Virdon (1,off Perry); Groat (4,off Miller); Bailey (1,off Miller).  SF–Groat (6,off Perry).  IBB–Clemente 2 (9,by Larsen,by Miller).  Team–10.  WP–Perry (3), Miller (5), McBean (4).  IBB–Larsen (4,Clemente); Miller (6,Clemente).  U-HP–Al Barlick, 1B–Ed Vargo, 2B–Shag Crawford, 3B–Doug Harvey.  T–3:19.  A–14,216.
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