New York Mets vs Pittsburgh Pirates
May 1, 1966 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 1, 1966 at Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the New York Mets 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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New York Mets 0, Pittsburgh Pirates 8

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Hunt 2b 4 0 0 0
  Eilers p 0 0 0 0
McMillan ss 3 0 0 0
  Hiller 2b 1 0 1 0
Boyer 3b 3 0 1 0
Hickman rf 4 0 0 0
Swoboda lf 4 0 0 0
Kranepool 1b 3 0 0 0
Grote c 3 0 2 0
Murphy cf 1 0 0 0
Fisher p 1 0 0 0
  Sutherland p 0 0 0 0
  Bressoud ph,ss 1 0 0 0
Totals 28 0 4 0
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Alou cf 5 2 2 0
Mota lf 5 1 1 0
Clemente rf 4 2 4 2
Pagliaroni c 5 1 2 1
Mazeroski 2b 4 0 0 0
Pagan ss 4 1 1 1
Clendenon 1b 3 1 1 1
Bailey 3b 2 0 1 1
Veale p 4 0 0 0
Totals 36 8 12 6
New York 000 000 000041
Pittsburgh 100 151 00x8121
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Fisher  L (0-4) 4.1 5 5 4 4 3
  Sutherland   2.2 5 3 3 1 1
  Eilers   1.0 2 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
12
8
7
5
4
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Veale  W (2-1) 9.0 4 0 0 2 9
Totals
9.0
4
0
0
2
9

  E–Hunt (5), Clendenon (2).  DP–Pittsburgh 2.  2B–Pittsburgh Clemente 2 (4,off Fisher 2); Alou (3,off Fisher); Pagliaroni (2,off Fisher); Bailey (5,off Sutherland).  3B–Pittsburgh Clendenon (1,off Sutherland); Alou (5,off Sutherland).  SH–Fisher (1,off Veale); Murphy (1,off Veale).  Team LOB–5.  IBB–Bailey (2,by Sutherland).  Team–9.  SB–Mazeroski (1,2nd base off Fisher/Grote); Bailey (1,2nd base off Sutherland/Grote); Clendenon (2,Home off Sutherland/Grote).  IBB–Sutherland (2,Bailey).  U-HP–Paul Pryor, 1B–John Kibler, 2B–Bill Jackowski, 3B–Ed Sudol.  T–2:53.  A–29,433.
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