San Francisco Giants vs Chicago Cubs
May 18, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 18, 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 4, Chicago Cubs 0

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Davenport 3b 5 1 3 1
Kirkland rf 4 0 2 1
Mays cf 5 0 2 0
Cepeda 1b 4 0 0 0
Spencer ss 4 0 0 0
King lf 3 1 0 0
  Taussig lf 0 0 0 0
O'Connell 2b 4 2 3 1
Thomas c 3 0 1 1
Miller p 4 0 0 0
Totals 36 4 11 4
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Taylor T. 2b 3 0 0 0
  Bolger ph,cf 1 0 0 0
Walls rf 3 0 0 0
Banks ss 3 0 0 0
Long 1b 4 0 0 0
Moryn lf 3 0 1 0
Thomson cf,3b 4 0 0 0
Taylor S. c 2 0 1 0
Goryl 3b,2b 4 0 1 0
Brosnan p 1 0 0 0
  Hillman p 0 0 0 0
  Tanner ph 1 0 0 0
  Drott p 0 0 0 0
  Smith ph 1 0 0 0
  Elston p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 0 3 0
San Francisco 010 300 0004111
Chicago 000 000 000030
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Miller  W (1-0) 9.0 3 0 0 5 5
Totals
9.0
3
0
0
5
5
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Brosnan  L (3-4) 3.2 8 4 4 2 3
  Hillman   1.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Drott   3.0 3 0 0 0 3
  Elston   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
11
4
4
2
8

  E–O'Connell (1).  DP–San Francisco 1. Miller-O'Connell-Cepeda.  PB–Thomas (3).  2B–San Francisco Davenport 2 (8,off Brosnan 2); O'Connell (4,off Brosnan); Thomas (1,off Drott); Mays (7,off Drott).  3B–San Francisco O'Connell (1,off Brosnan).  SF–Thomas (1,off Brosnan).  Team LOB–8.  SB–Kirkland (2,3rd base off Brosnan/S. Taylor); Cepeda (3,2nd base off Brosnan/S. Taylor).  U-HP–Bill Jackowski, 1B–Stan Landes, 2B–Vic Delmore, 3B–Al Barlick.  T–2:11.  A–33,224.
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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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