1957_Pittsburgh_Pirates_season

1957 Pittsburgh Pirates
1957 Pittsburgh Pirates
League	National League
Ballpark	Forbes Field
City	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Owners	John W. Galbreath (majority shareholder); Bing Crosby, Thomas P. Johnson, Branch Rickey (minority shareholders)
General managers	Joe L. Brown
Managers	Bobby Bragan, Danny Murtaugh
Television	KDKA-TV ; Bob Prince, Paul Long
Radio	KDKA; Bob Prince, Dick Bingham

1957 Pittsburgh Pirates season

Major League Baseball team season

The 1957 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 76th season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; the 71st in the National League. The Pirates finished tied with the Chicago Cubs for eighth and last in the league standings with a record of 62–92.

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The first season to be broadcast on television, the games were aired on KDKA-TV, making them the last of the original MLB teams to debut television broadcasts of its home and away games.

Regular season

The Pittsburgh Pirates played the Brooklyn Dodgers in the final game at Ebbets Field. The game was contested on September 24, 1957, and Brooklyn pitcher Danny McDevitt pitched a complete-game shutout, winning 2–0. He had nine strikeouts while allowing just five hits.^[2]

Game log

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1957 Game Log: 62–92 (Home: 36–41; Away: 26–51)

April: 4–8 (Home: 3–2; Away: 1–6)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
1	April 16	Giants	9–2	Friend (1–0)	Antonelli	—	33,405	1–0
2	April 18	@ Dodgers	1–6	Maglie	Arroyo (0–1)	—	11,202	1–1
3	April 20	@ Dodgers	0–2	Podres	Friend (1–1)	—	11,083	1–2
4	April 21	@ Dodgers	6–3	Purkey (1–0)	Newcombe	Face (1)		2–2
5	April 21	@ Dodgers	4–7	Drysdale	Kline (0–1)	Labine	19,635	2–3
6	April 22	@ Giants	1–3	Gomez	Arroyo (0–2)	—	5,403	2–4
7	April 23	@ Giants	0–1	Burnside	Kline (0–2)	—	3,445	2–5
8	April 24	@ Phillies	5–8	Simmons	Friend (1–2)	Miller	15,849	2–6
9	April 26	Dodgers	7–1	Purkey (2–0)	Podres	—	26,918	3–6
10	April 27	Dodgers	2–6	Newcombe	Kline (0–3)	—	12,926	3–7
11	April 28	Dodgers	3–0	Friend (2–2)	Craig	—	17,317	4–7
12	April 30	Cardinals	5–6 (13)	Jackson	Face (0–1)	—	19,291	4–8

May: 7–19 (Home: 4–13; Away: 3–6)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
13	May 1	Cardinals	2–9	Schmidt	Purkey (2–1)	Smith	4,919	4–9
14	May 2	Braves	5–8 (10)	Burdette	Face (0–2)	Murff	14,131	4–10
15	May 3	Braves	7–8 (11)	Murff	Face (0–3)	Spahn	16,621	4–11
16	May 4	Braves	1–0	Law (1–0)	Pizarro	—	6,398	5–11
17	May 5	Redlegs	2–6	Lawrence	Arroyo (0–3)	—		5–12
18	May 5	Redlegs	3–7	Gross	Purkey (2–2)	—	23,629	5–13
19	May 7	Cubs	8–10 (14)	Lown	Pepper (0–1)	Collum	9,957	5–14
20	May 8	Cubs	1–7	Drott	Law (1–1)	—	7,896	5–15
21	May 10	Phillies	1–3	Sanford	Kline (0–4)	—	10,027	5–16
22	May 11	Phillies	2–7	Haddix	Friend (2–3)	—	4,994	5–17
23	May 12	Phillies	2–6	Simmons	Arroyo (0–4)	Miller		5–18
24	May 12	Phillies	6–1	Law (2–1)	Roberts	—	10,457	6–18
25	May 14	@ Cubs	8–6	Arroyo (1–4)	Drott	Face (2)	2,478	7–18
26	May 16	@ Braves	2–1	Friend (3–3)	Pizarro	—	15,622	8–18
27	May 18	@ Braves	5–6	Burdette	Smith (0–1)	—	18,850	8–19
28	May 19	@ Redlegs	7–8	Acker	Purkey (2–3)	—		8–20
29	May 19	@ Redlegs	4–5	Acker	Kline (0–5)	—	24,564	8–21
30	May 24	@ Phillies	3–7	Sanford	Friend (3–4)	Farrell	17,340	8–22
31	May 25	@ Phillies	6–8	Haddix	Kline (0–6)	Farrell	6,445	8–23
32	May 26	@ Phillies	13–5	Face (1–3)	Simmons	—		9–23
33	May 26	@ Phillies	3–6	Cardwell	Arroyo (1–5)	—	13,557	9–24
34	May 28	Dodgers	3–2 (11)	Face (2–3)	Newcombe	—	13,259	10–24
35	May 29	Dodgers	0–1	Podres	Kline (0–7)	—	3,610	10–25
36	May 30	Dodgers	3–4	Maglie	Law (2–2)	Labine		10–26
37	May 30	Dodgers	2–1	Purkey (3–3)	Koufax	—	24,263	11–26
38	May 31	Giants	2–3	Worthington	Face (2–4)	—	13,070	11–27

June: 15–19 (Home: 10–8; Away: 5–11)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
39	June 1	Giants	2–3	Worthington	Friend (3–5)	—	5,301	11–28
40	June 2	Giants	3–2	Kline (1–7)	Barclay	Arroyo (1)		12–28
41	June 2	Giants	2–0	Purkey (4–3)	Burnside	—	12,792	13–28
42	June 3	Giants	6–5	King (1–0)	Margoneri	Face (3)	7,504	14–28
43	June 4	Cardinals	5–4	Arroyo (2–5)	Wilhelm	Face (4)	12,178	15–28
44	June 5	Cardinals	1–5	McDaniel	Friend (3–6)	—	12,570	15–29
45	June 6	Cardinals	0–6	Dickson	Kline (1–8)	—	4,017	15–30
46	June 7	Braves	0–5	Spahn	Purkey (4–4)	—	21,762	15–31
47	June 9	Braves	1–2 (11)	Trowbridge	Friend (3–7)	Johnson		15–32
48	June 9	Braves	5–3	Kline (2–8)	Pizarro	Face (5)	21,888	16–32
49	June 10	Redlegs	5–2	Law (3–2)	Nuxhall	—	11,471	17–32
50	June 11	Redlegs	8–1	Purkey (5–4)	Gross	—	10,653	18–32
51	June 12	Redlegs	4–3 (10)	Face (3–4)	Acker	—	14,920	19–32
52	June 13	Redlegs	3–2	Friend (4–7)	Jeffcoat	—	7,346	20–32
53	June 14	Cubs	5–11	Drott	Kline (2–9)	Elston	17,088	20–33
54	June 15	Cubs	1–5	Drabowsky	Law (3–3)	—	7,495	20–34
55	June 16	Cubs	1–4	Kaiser	Arroyo (2–6)	Lown		20–35
56	June 16	Cubs	5–4	Law (4–3)	Brosnan	—	18,525	21–35
57	June 17	@ Braves	7–5	Purkey (6–4)	Jolly	Law (1)	26,664	22–35
58	June 18	@ Cardinals	8–1	Swanson (1–0)	Jackson	—	17,694	23–35
59	June 19	@ Cardinals	2–5	Jones	Kline (2–10)	—		23–36
60	June 19	@ Cardinals	1–5	McDaniel	Purkey (6–5)	Wilhelm	25,880	23–37
61	June 20	@ Cardinals	4–7	Dickson	Arroyo (2–7)	Merritt	11,223	23–38
62	June 21	@ Redlegs	3–2 (11)	Purkey (7–5)	Jeffcoat	—	19,648	24–38
63	June 22	@ Redlegs	3–6 (11)	Lawrence	Purkey (7–6)	—	9,299	24–39
64	June 23	@ Redlegs	3–5	Jeffcoat	Swanson (1–1)	—		24–40
65	June 23	@ Redlegs	2–5	Acker	Kline (2–11)	Sanchez	22,188	24–41
66	June 25	@ Cubs	3–5	Hillman	Friend (4–8)	Lown	5,002	24–42
67	June 26	@ Cubs	15–5	Law (5–3)	Poholsky	—		25–42
68	June 26	@ Cubs	5–5 (11)			—	7,460	25–42
69	June 27	@ Cubs	5–4 (10)	King (2–0)	Lown	—	4,900	26–42
70	June 28	@ Braves	2–4	Spahn	Friend (4–9)	—	27,087	26–43
71	June 29	@ Braves	6–13	Pizarro	O'Brien (0–1)	—	22,383	26–44
72	June 30	@ Braves	4–7	Johnson	Law (5–4)	—		26–45
73	June 30	@ Braves	5–6 (13)	Jolly	Arroyo (2–8)	—	36,283	26–46

July: 10–20 (Home: 4–10; Away: 6–10)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
74	July 1	Phillies	4–5	Hearn	Smith (0–2)	Morehead	14,680	26–47
75	July 4	@ Dodgers	5–1	Friend (5–9)	Erskine	—		27–47
76	July 4	@ Dodgers	2–8	Newcombe	Purkey (7–7)	—	20,664	27–48
77	July 5	@ Giants	6–11	Antonelli	Trimble (0–1)	Grissom	4,998	27–49
78	July 6	@ Giants	3–2 (13)	Purkey (8–7)	Miller	—	5,334	28–49
79	July 7	@ Giants	10–6	Swanson (2–1)	Worthington	King (1)		29–49
80	July 7	@ Giants	8–1	Friend (6–9)	Gomez	—	10,825	30–49
81	July 10	Braves	5–2	Purkey (9–7)	Buhl	—	18,731	31–49
82	July 11	Braves	2–7	Trowbridge	Friend (6–10)	—	17,278	31–50
83	July 12	Braves	4–5	Spahn	Face (3–5)	McMahon	20,078	31–51
84	July 13	Braves	3–4	Burdette	Kline (2–12)	—	9,330	31–52
85	July 14	Redlegs	6–9	Freeman	Friend (6–11)	—		31–53
86	July 14	Redlegs	4–12	Nuxhall	Trimble (0–2)	—	24,540	31–54
87	July 16	Cubs	5–3	Friend (7–11)	Rush	—	11,300	32–54
88	July 17	Cubs	3–4	Drabowsky	Kline (2–13)	Littlefield	8,534	32–55
89	July 18	Cubs	6–5	Arroyo (3–8)	Lown	—	3,877	33–55
90	July 19	Cardinals	7–0	Law (6–4)	McDaniel	—	25,774	34–55
91	July 20	Cardinals	4–9	Dickson	Friend (7–12)	Merritt	9,230	34–56
92	July 21	Cardinals	3–7 (10)	Schmidt	Arroyo (3–9)	Wilhelm		34–57
93	July 21	Cardinals	2–11	McDaniel	Purkey (9–8)	—	20,280	34–58
94	July 23	@ Redlegs	6–3 (15)	Law (7–4)	Lawrence	Purkey (1)	17,551	35–58
95	July 24	@ Redlegs	0–2	Nuxhall	Friend (7–13)	—	11,961	35–59
96	July 25	@ Redlegs	1–9	Fowler	Kline (2–14)	—	10,997	35–60
97	July 26	@ Cardinals	3–4 (10)	Schmidt	Kline (2–15)	—	15,352	35–61
98	July 27	@ Cardinals	4–2	Purkey (10–8)	Dickson	—	9,633	36–61
99	July 28	@ Cardinals	0–4	McDaniel	Law (7–5)	—		36–62
100	July 28	@ Cardinals	8–9 (11)	Wilhelm	King (2–1)	—	21,319	36–63
101	July 29	@ Cardinals	0–4	Mizell	Douglas (0–1)	—	10,302	36–64
102	July 30	@ Braves	2–5	Burdette	Swanson (2–2)	—	23,670	36–65
103	July 31	@ Braves	2–4	Buhl	Purkey (10–9)	—	24,522	36–66

August: 12–13 (Home: 8–6; Away: 4–7)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
104	August 2	@ Cubs	4–6	Hillman	Law (7–6)	—	5,414	36–67
105	August 4	@ Cubs	0–6	Drabowsky	Friend (7–14)	—		36–68
106	August 4	@ Cubs	2–3 (11)	Hillman	Arroyo (3–10)	—	14,757	36–69
107	August 6	Phillies	5–3	Kline (3–15)	Sanford	—	11,136	37–69
108	August 8	Phillies	3–6	Simmons	Law (7–7)	Miller	5,238	37–70
109	August 9	Dodgers	2–4	McDevitt	Friend (7–15)	Labine	14,100	37–71
110	August 10	Dodgers	0–3	Drysdale	Purkey (10–10)	—	7,751	37–72
111	August 11	Dodgers	4–3 (10)	Law (8–7)	Labine	—		38–72
112	August 11	Dodgers	6–2	Douglas (1–1)	Craig	Face (6)	18,350	39–72
113	August 13	@ Phillies	6–0	Friend (8–15)	Hacker	—	14,129	40–72
114	August 14	@ Phillies	10–3	Law (9–7)	Simmons	—	8,641	41–72
115	August 16	@ Dodgers	1–4	Podres	Purkey (10–11)	Roebuck	9,592	41–73
116	August 17	@ Dodgers	7–3	Kline (4–15)	Koufax	—	6,830	42–73
117	August 18	@ Dodgers	1–2	Maglie	Friend (8–16)	—	14,416	42–74
118	August 18	@ Dodgers	8–6	Face (4–5)	Labine	Purkey (2)	14,416	43–74
119	August 20	Braves	1–3	Spahn	Arroyo (3–11)	—	21,328	43–75
120	August 22	Redlegs	8–3	Friend (9–16)	Gross	—	10,027	44–75
121	August 23	Redlegs	0–6	Nuxhall	Purkey (10–12)	—	13,223	44–76
122	August 24	Redlegs	4–1	Kline (5–15)	Lawrence	—	7,037	45–76
123	August 25	Cubs	3–0	Law (10–7)	Drabowsky	—		46–76
124	August 25	Cubs	2–8	Elston	Douglas (1–2)	Lown	11,770	46–77
125	August 27	Cardinals	2–1	Friend (10–16)	McDaniel	—	12,845	47–77
126	August 28	Cardinals	2–0	Kline (6–15)	Jackson	—	10,367	48–77
127	August 30	@ Phillies	3–4	Sanford	Law (10–8)	—	8,157	48–78
128	August 31	@ Phillies	1–7	Cardwell	Friend (10–17)	—	5,141	48–79

September: 14–13 (Home: 7–2; Away: 7–11)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
129	September 1	@ Phillies	3–11	Roberts	Purkey (10–13)	—		48–80
130	September 1	@ Phillies	6–3	Douglas (2–2)	Simmons	Face (7)	11,294	49–80
131	September 2	@ Giants	5–11	Monzant	Face (4–6)	—		49–81
132	September 2	@ Giants	3–4	Antonelli	O'Brien (0–2)	Grissom	10,310	49–82
133	September 3	@ Giants	5–6 (12)	Miller	Smith (0–3)	—		49–83
134	September 4	Giants	2–0	Friend (11–17)	McCormick	—	8,909	50–83
135	September 5	Giants	4–2	Douglas (3–2)	Worthington	Face (8)	5,189	51–83
136	September 6	Phillies	3–2	Kline (7–15)	Haddix	—	6,915	52–83
137	September 7	Phillies	6–3	Swanson (3–2)	Sanford	Face (9)	4,612	53–83
138	September 8	Phillies	4–7	Farrell	Purkey (10–14)	Roberts		53–84
139	September 8	Phillies	6–2	Smith (1–3)	Hacker	—	12,021	54–84
140	September 10	@ Braves	3–4	Burdette	Douglas (3–3)	—	22,257	54–85
141	September 11	@ Braves	2–1	Kline (8–15)	Spahn	—	14,713	55–85
142	September 13	@ Cubs	4–1	Friend (12–17)	Elston	—		56–85
143	September 13	@ Cubs	2–1	Smith (2–3)	Drabowsky	Face (10)	2,197	57–85
144	September 14	@ Cubs	3–1	O'Brien (1–2)	Brosnan	—		58–85
145	September 14	@ Cubs	3–7	Brosnan	O'Brien (1–3)	Lown	6,170	58–86
146	September 15	@ Cardinals	6–9	Wehmeier	Kline (8–16)	Muffett		58–87
147	September 15	@ Cardinals	3–11	Jones	Swanson (3–3)	Muffett	24,577	58–88
148	September 17	@ Redlegs	5–9	Nuxhall	Friend (12–18)	Kennedy	3,676	58–89
149	September 18	@ Redlegs	1–2	Lawrence	Smith (2–4)	—	3,607	58–90
150	September 21	Giants	5–4	Purkey (11–14)	Worthington	—		59–90
151	September 21	Giants	5–9	Gomez	Witt (0–1)	Grissom	8,110	59–91
152	September 22	Giants	5–1	Friend (13–18)	Monzant	—	19,574	60–91
153	September 24	@ Dodgers	0–2	McDevitt	Daniels (0–1)	—	6,702	60–92
154	September 28	@ Giants	1–0	Kline (9–16)	Gomez	—		61–92
155	September 29	@ Giants	9–1	Friend (14–18)	Antonelli	—	11,606	62–92

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From 1882–1906, the team played in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, which became annexed by Pittsburgh as the North Side in 1907.

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Sports Illustrated, December 6, 2010, Volume 113, Number 21, p.24, Published by Time Inc.

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Dee Fondy at Baseball Reference

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v t e National League	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Milwaukee Braves	95	59	0.617	—	45–32	50–27
St. Louis Cardinals	87	67	0.565	8	42–35	45–32
Brooklyn Dodgers	84	70	0.545	11	43–34	41–36
Cincinnati Redlegs	80	74	0.519	15	45–32	35–42
Philadelphia Phillies	77	77	0.500	18	38–39	39–38
New York Giants	69	85	0.448	26	37–40	32–45
Pittsburgh Pirates	62	92	0.403	33	36–41	26–51
Chicago Cubs	62	92	0.403	33	31–46	31–46

1957 National League record v t e Sources:
Team	BRO	CHC	CIN	MIL	NYG	PHI	PIT	STL
Brooklyn	—	17–5	12–10	10–12	12–10	9–13	12–10	12–10
Chicago	5–17	—	7–15	9–13	9–13	8–14–1	12–10–1	12–10
Cincinnati	10–12	15–7	—	4–18	12–10	16–6	14–8	9–13
Milwaukee	12–10	13–9	18–4	—	13–9	12–10–1	16–6	11–11
New York	10–12	13–9	10–12	9–13	—	10–12	9–13	8–14
Philadelphia	13–9	14–8–1	6–16	10–12–1	12–10	—	13–9	9–13
Pittsburgh	10–12	10–12–1	8–14	6–16	13–9	9–13	—	6–16
St. Louis	10–12	10–12	13–9	11–11	14–8	13–9	16–6	—

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	Hank Foiles	109	281	76	.270	9	36
1B	Dee Fondy	95	323	101	.313	2	35
2B	Bill Mazeroski	148	526	149	.283	8	54
SS	Dick Groat	125	501	158	.315	7	54
3B	Gene Freese	114	346	98	.283	6	31
LF	Bob Skinner	126	387	118	.305	13	45
CF	Bill Virdon	144	561	141	.251	8	50
RF	Roberto Clemente	111	451	114	.253	4	30

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Bob Friend	40	277.0	14	18	3.38	143
Ron Kline	40	205.0	9	16	4.04	88
Vern Law	31	172.2	10	8	2.87	55
Whammy Douglas	11	47.0	3	3	3.26	28
Bennie Daniels	1	7.0	0	1	1.29	101
George Witt	1	1.1	0	1	40.50	1

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Bob Purkey	48	179.2	11	14	3.86	51
Luis Arroyo	54	130.2	3	11	4.68	2
Red Swanson	32	72.2	3	3	3.72	29
Joe Trimble	5	19.2	0	2	8.24	9
Eddie O'Brien	3	12.1	1	0	2.19	10
Laurin Pepper	5	9.0	0	0	8.00	4

1957_Pittsburgh_Pirates_season

1957 Pittsburgh Pirates season

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Game log

Opening Day lineup

Notable transactions

Roster

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Other batters

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Other pitchers

Relief pitchers

Farm system

Notes

References

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Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Frank Thomas	151	594	172	.290	23	89
Gene Baker	111	365	97	.266	2	36
Paul Smith	81	150	38	.253	3	11
Román Mejías	58	142	39	.275	2	15
Dick Rand	60	105	23	.219	1	9
Hardy Peterson	30	73	22	.301	2	11
Jim Pendleton	46	59	18	.305	0	9
Danny Kravitz	19	41	6	.146	0	4
Johnny O'Brien	34	35	11	.314	0	1
John Powers	20	35	10	.286	2	8
Dale Long	7	22	4	.182	0	5
Lee Walls	8	22	4	.182	0	0
Buddy Pritchard	23	11	1	.091	0	0
Ken Hamlin	2	1	0	.000	0	0

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
Roy Face	59	4	6	10	3.07	53
Nellie King	36	2	1	1	4.50	23
Bob Smith	20	2	4	0	3.11	35
Johnny O'Brien	16	0	3	0	6.08	19
Dick Hall	8	0	0	0	10.80	7
Chuck Churn	5	0	0	0	4.32	4
Bob Kuzava	4	0	0	0	9.00	1

Level	Team	League	Manager
Open	Hollywood Stars	Pacific Coast League	Clyde King
AAA	Columbus Jets	International League	Frank Oceak
A	Lincoln Chiefs	Western League	Larry Shepard
B	Beaumont Pirates	Big State League	Monty Basgall
C	Douglas Copper Kings	Arizona–Mexico League	Bob Clear
C	San Jose JoSox	California League	Dick Whitman
C	Grand Forks Chiefs	Northern League	Al Kubski and Jack Paepke
D	Salem Rebels	Appalachian League	Lamar Dorton
D	Clinton Pirates	Midwest League	Stan Wentzel
D	Jamestown Falcons	New York–Penn League	Jack Paepke