Philadelphia Phillies vs Los Angeles Dodgers
May 5, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 5, 1958 at LA Memorial Coliseum. The Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 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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Philadelphia Phillies 8, Los Angeles Dodgers 3

Philadelphia Phillies ab   r   h rbi
Ashburn cf 4 1 0 0
Philley 1b 4 1 3 0
  Herrera 1b 0 0 0 0
Anderson lf 5 1 1 0
Post rf 1 2 0 1
  Bowman pr,rf 0 0 0 0
Hamner 3b 5 2 2 5
Lopata c 3 1 2 2
Kazanski 2b 3 0 0 0
Fernandez ss 4 0 0 0
Semproch p 4 0 0 0
Totals 33 8 8 8
Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam lf 4 0 1 0
Cimoli cf 4 0 0 0
Neal 2b 3 1 0 0
Hodges 1b 3 1 0 0
Gray 3b 3 0 0 1
Furillo rf 4 1 2 2
Zimmer ss 3 0 1 0
Walker c 3 0 0 0
Drysdale p 0 0 0 0
  Collum p 1 0 0 0
  Larker ph 1 0 0 0
  Sherry p 0 0 0 0
  Snider ph 1 0 1 0
  Erskine p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 3 5 3
Philadelphia 500 030 000880
Los Angeles 000 300 000352
  Philadelphia Phillies IP H R ER BB SO
Semproch  W (3-1) 9.0 5 3 3 5 2
Totals
9.0
5
3
3
5
2
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Drysdale  L (0-5) 2.1 3 5 4 3 1
  Collum   2.2 3 3 3 1 0
  Sherry   2.0 1 0 0 3 1
  Erskine   2.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
8
8
7
8
2

  E–Hodges (2), Drysdale (1).  DP–Philadelphia 2. Fernandez-Kazanski-Philley, Kazanski-Fernandez-Philley, Los Angeles 2. Collum-Zimmer-Hodges, Gray-Neal-Hodges.  2B–Philadelphia Philley (2,off Erskine).  3B–Philadelphia Hamner (1,off Drysdale).  HR–Philadelphia Hamner (1,5th inning off Collum 1 on 1 out); Lopata (2,5th inning off Collum 0 on 1 out), Los Angeles Furillo (2,4th inning off Semproch 1 on 1 out).  HBP–Philley (1,by Drysdale).  Team LOB–7.  Team–5.  CS–Post (1,2nd base by Drysdale/Walker).  U-HP–Bill Jackowski, 1B–Stan Landes, 2B–Vic Delmore, 3B–Al Barlick.
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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."

     

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