Los Angeles Dodgers vs Cincinnati Redlegs
May 23, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 23, 1958 at Crosley Field. The Cincinnati Redlegs 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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Los Angeles Dodgers 1, Cincinnati Redlegs 4

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 3b 5 0 3 0
Roseboro c 4 0 1 0
Valo lf 4 0 0 0
Furillo rf 3 0 1 0
Neal 2b 4 1 1 1
Hodges 1b 3 0 1 0
Cimoli cf 3 0 0 0
  Larker ph 0 0 0 0
Zimmer ss 4 0 1 0
Podres p 2 0 0 0
  Snider ph 1 0 0 0
  Roebuck p 0 0 0 0
  Walker ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 34 1 8 1
Cincinnati Redlegs ab   r   h rbi
Temple 2b 3 1 1 0
Whisenant rf 2 0 2 1
Robinson lf 3 0 0 0
Crowe 1b 3 0 0 1
Hoak 3b 4 0 1 0
Bailey c 4 1 1 1
Bell cf 4 0 0 0
Grammas ss 4 1 3 0
Purkey p 2 1 0 0
  Jeffcoat p 1 0 0 0
Totals 30 4 8 3
Los Angeles 000 000 100181
Cincinnati 000 031 00x481
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Podres  L (4-3) 6.0 7 4 4 3 4
  Roebuck   2.0 1 0 0 1 3
Totals
8.0
8
4
4
4
7
  Cincinnati Redlegs IP H R ER BB SO
Purkey  W (5-1) 7.0 8 1 1 1 0
  Jeffcoat  SV (6) 2.0 0 0 0 2 1
Totals
9.0
8
1
1
3
1

  E–Hodges (4), Temple (2).  DP–Cincinnati 2. Temple-Grammas-Crowe, Temple-Grammas-Crowe.  2B–Los Angeles Hodges (3,off Purkey), Cincinnati Whisenant (2,off Podres); Grammas 2 (2,off Podres,off Roebuck).  HR–Los Angeles Neal (8,7th inning off Purkey 0 on 0 out), Cincinnati Bailey (4,6th inning off Podres 0 on 0 out).  Team LOB–9.  SH–Purkey (1,off Podres).  SF–Crowe (2,off Podres).  Team–8.  SB–Robinson (5,2nd base off Roebuck/Roseboro).  CS–Hoak (4,2nd base by Podres/Roseboro).  U–Frank Secory, Tony Venzon, Jocko Conlan.
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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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