The St. Louis Cardinals squeaked out a win over the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3 to 2, on August 23, 1956.

1956 St. Louis Cardinals

Final

PIT

Pirates

51-70

2

STL

Cardinals

60-60

3

PIT

STL

1

0

2

2

0

0

3

0

0

4

0

0

5

0

0

6

1

0

7

0

0

8

1

0

9

0

1

R

2

3

H

8

9

E

0

0

Batters

Player AB R H RBI HR BB SO SB CS TB
Bill Virdon CF 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Bob Skinner 1B 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 3
Lee Walls LF 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
Roberto Clemente RF 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Dick Groat 3B,SS 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bill Mazeroski 2B 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Red Munger P 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dick Hall P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dale Long PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Roy Face P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Eddie O'Brien SS 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Frank Thomas PH,3B 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Jack Shepard C 3 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Johnny O'Brien PR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hank Foiles C 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 8 2 0 4 1 0 0 10

Pitchers

Player IP H R ER BB SO HR
Red Munger 5.0 5 2 2 3 2 0
Dick Hall 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Roy Face (L) 2.1 4 1 1 2 1 0
Totals 8.1 9 3 3 5 3 0

Batters

Player AB R H RBI HR BB SO SB CS TB
Don Blasingame 2B 4 1 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 4
Alvin Dark SS 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stan Musial 1B 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 1
Wally Moon RF 4 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 3
Rocky Nelson LF 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Ken Boyer 3B 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Walker Cooper C 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Bobby Del Greco CF 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Whitey Lockman PH 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Willard Schmidt P 3 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1
Jackie Collum P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bobby Morgan PH 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals 30 3 9 3 0 5 3 1 0 13

Pitchers

Player IP H R ER BB SO HR
Willard Schmidt 8.2 8 2 2 4 1 0
Jackie Collum (W) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 9.0 8 2 2 4 1 0

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