Come the last week or so of a mediocre season, a baseball player mostly wants to get it over with, to get home and think about next spring, when everyone starts even.
So when the Brooklyn Dodgers were obliged to host the Pittsburgh Pirates for a game of baseball on the chilly evening of Sept. 24, 1957, everyone did so as efficiently as possible. Batters stayed in the box, swung at the first decent pitch and the game was over in two hours and three minutes.
The Dodgers won, 2-0, over a Pirate team notable only for having a young Roberto Clemente in center field. For the home team, Elmer Valo doubled in the first inning to score Junior Gilliam, and Gil Hodges singled in the third to drive in Gino Cimoli.
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