San Francisco Giants vs Chicago Cubs
May 17, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 17, 1958 at Wrigley Field. The San Francisco Giants 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)
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San Francisco Giants 9, Chicago Cubs 4

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Davenport 3b 5 0 1 0
Kirkland rf 5 1 1 0
Mays cf 4 2 2 1
Cepeda 1b 5 2 2 2
Spencer ss 5 1 1 3
Sauer lf 4 0 2 0
  Taussig pr,lf 0 1 0 0
Schmidt c 4 1 1 0
O'Connell 2b 3 1 1 1
Gomez p 4 0 1 2
Totals 39 9 12 9
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Taylor T. 2b 2 0 0 0
  Smith ph 1 0 0 0
  Freeman p 0 0 0 0
  Nichols p 0 0 0 0
  Adams ph 1 0 1 0
  Fodge p 0 0 0 0
Walls rf 4 0 1 0
Banks ss 4 0 0 0
Long 1b 4 0 1 0
Bolger cf 3 2 1 0
Moryn lf 3 2 1 1
Taylor S. c 4 0 0 0
Thomson 3b 4 0 2 3
Hobbie p 1 0 0 0
  Tanner ph 0 0 0 0
  Goryl 2b 2 0 0 0
Totals 33 4 7 4
San Francisco 003 010 0419121
Chicago 000 020 002472
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Gomez  W (4-2) 9.0 7 4 4 3 8
Totals
9.0
7
4
4
3
8
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Hobbie  L (2-4) 5.0 6 4 4 2 3
  Freeman   2.2 5 4 4 0 2
  Nichols   0.1 0 0 0 0 0
  Fodge   1.0 1 1 1 0 0
Totals
9.0
12
9
9
2
5

  E–Mays (4), Banks (5), Thomson (4).  DP–San Francisco 1. Spencer-O'Connell-Cepeda, Chicago 1. Thomson.  2B–San Francisco Gomez (4,off Freeman), Chicago Moryn (11,off Gomez); Adams (2,off Gomez).  HR–San Francisco Spencer (9,3rd inning off Hobbie 2 on 2 out); Cepeda 2 (11,5th inning off Hobbie 0 on 2 out,9th inning off Fodge 0 on 2 out); Mays (11,8th inning off Freeman 0 on 0 out).  Team LOB–5.  Team–5.  U-HP–Vic Delmore, 1B–Al Barlick, 2B–Bill Jackowski, 3B–Stan Landes.  T–2:20.  A–17,419.
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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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