St. Louis Cardinals vs Chicago Cubs
May 12, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 12, 1958 at Wrigley Field. The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Chicago Cubs 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

St. Louis Cardinals 6, Chicago Cubs 4

St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Schofield ss 5 0 0 0
Blasingame 2b 5 0 0 0
Musial 1b 4 0 1 0
Cunningham rf 4 1 3 0
  Flood pr,cf 0 0 0 0
Moon cf,rf 5 1 1 0
Noren lf 3 1 2 1
Boyer 3b 1 2 0 0
  Paine p 1 0 0 0
  Jackson p 0 0 0 0
Smith c 5 1 1 1
Barnes p 1 0 0 0
  Green ph 1 0 1 2
  Mabe p 0 0 0 0
  Dark ph,3b 2 0 1 1
Totals 37 6 10 5
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Taylor T. 2b 2 2 1 0
  Tanner ph 1 0 0 0
  Adams 3b 0 0 0 0
  Ernaga ph 1 0 0 0
Walls rf 4 0 1 1
Banks ss 3 1 1 2
Moryn lf 4 0 1 0
Long 1b 3 0 0 0
Taylor S. c 4 0 1 0
  Neeman pr 0 0 0 0
Thomson cf 4 0 1 0
Goryl 3b,2b 3 1 1 0
Hobbie p 1 0 0 1
  Freeman p 0 0 0 0
  Smith ph 1 0 0 0
  Nichols p 0 0 0 0
  Bolger ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 4 7 4
St. Louis 000 240 0006100
Chicago 102 100 000474
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Barnes   3.0 3 3 3 3 3
  Mabe   1.0 1 1 1 0 0
  Paine  W (2-0) 4.0 3 0 0 1 1
  Jackson  SV (2) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
7
4
4
4
5
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Hobbie  L (2-3) 4.1 6 5 4 4 1
  Freeman   2.2 2 1 0 2 0
  Nichols   2.0 2 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
10
6
4
6
1

  E–T. Taylor (6), Walls (2), Banks (4), Goryl (6).  DP–Chicago 1. T. Taylor-Banks-Long.  2B–St. Louis Musial (11,off Hobbie); Green (2,off Hobbie); Cunningham (1,off Freeman), Chicago Moryn (10,off Paine).  3B–Chicago Goryl (3,off Mabe).  HR–Chicago Banks (7,3rd inning off Barnes 1 on 1 out).  SH–Paine (1,off Nichols).  IBB–Noren (1,by Freeman).  Team LOB–11.  SF–Hobbie (1,off Mabe).  Team–6.  SB–T. Taylor (7,2nd base off Barnes/H. Smith).  CS–Moryn (1,3rd base by Paine/H. Smith).  U-HP–Frank Dascoli, 1B–Augie Donatelli, 2B–Shag Crawford, 3B–Vinnie Smith.  T–2:19.  A–5,083.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

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."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook