San Francisco Giants vs Cincinnati Redlegs
May 20, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 20, 1958 at Crosley Field. The San Francisco Giants defeated the Cincinnati Redlegs 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, Cincinnati Redlegs 2

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Davenport 3b 5 1 1 0
O'Connell 2b 4 0 0 0
Mays cf 4 2 2 0
Sauer lf 3 1 1 1
  Taussig pr,lf 0 0 0 0
Cepeda 1b 3 0 1 1
Spencer ss 4 0 2 2
Schmidt c 4 0 2 0
Kirkland rf 4 0 0 0
McCormick p 4 0 0 0
Totals 35 4 9 4
Cincinnati Redlegs ab   r   h rbi
Temple 2b 1 0 1 0
Whisenant rf 3 0 0 1
Robinson lf 4 0 1 1
Crowe 1b 4 0 0 0
Hoak 3b 4 0 1 0
Bailey c 4 0 1 0
Bell cf 3 0 0 0
McMillan ss 3 1 1 0
Haddix p 1 1 0 0
  Acker p 0 0 0 0
  Bilko ph 1 0 0 0
  Jeffcoat p 0 0 0 0
Totals 28 2 5 2
San Francisco 000 101 020490
Cincinnati 001 010 000251
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
McCormick  W (4-0) 9.0 5 2 2 3 5
Totals
9.0
5
2
2
3
5
  Cincinnati Redlegs IP H R ER BB SO
Haddix  L (1-3) 7.2 9 4 4 1 9
  Acker   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
  Jeffcoat   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
4
4
1
10

  E–Haddix (1).  DP–San Francisco 2. McCormick-Spencer-Cepeda, Schmidt-Spencer.  2B–San Francisco Mays 2 (9,off Haddix 2); Spencer (9,off Haddix), Cincinnati Hoak (15,off McCormick).  HR–San Francisco Sauer (9,6th inning off Haddix 0 on 1 out).  SF–Cepeda (6,off Haddix); Whisenant (1,off McCormick).  IBB–Sauer (2,by Haddix).  Team LOB–6.  SH–Temple (3,off McCormick).  Team–4.  CS–Bailey (1,2nd base by McCormick/Schmidt); Temple (2,2nd base by McCormick/Schmidt).  U–Tony Venzon, Jocko Conlan, Frank Secory.  T–2:14.  A–8,096.
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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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