Chicago Cubs vs Cincinnati Redlegs
May 28, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 28, 1958 at Crosley Field. The Chicago Cubs 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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Chicago Cubs 6, Cincinnati Redlegs 4

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Smith 1b 5 0 0 0
Walls rf 5 0 0 0
Dark 3b 5 1 1 0
Banks ss 5 2 2 3
Moryn lf 2 1 0 0
Taylor S. c 4 1 1 0
Thomson cf 4 1 2 0
Goryl 2b 1 0 0 0
  Tanner ph 1 0 0 0
  Taylor T. 2b 1 0 1 1
Drott p 4 0 1 2
Totals 37 6 8 6
Cincinnati Redlegs ab   r   h rbi
Temple 2b 4 0 3 2
Robinson lf 1 0 0 0
  Thurman lf 3 0 0 0
Lynch rf 4 0 0 0
Crowe 1b 4 0 0 0
Hoak 3b 4 0 0 0
Bailey c 3 1 1 0
Bell cf 4 2 2 1
McMillan ss 1 1 0 0
  Fondy ph 0 0 0 1
  Grammas ss 0 0 0 0
Purkey p 1 0 0 0
  Burgess ph 1 0 0 0
  Klippstein p 0 0 0 0
  Lown p 0 0 0 0
  Bilko ph 1 0 0 0
  Schmidt p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 4 6 4
Chicago 000 033 000680
Cincinnati 001 020 100463
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Drott  W (2-1) 9.0 6 4 4 2 7
Totals
9.0
6
4
4
2
7
  Cincinnati Redlegs IP H R ER BB SO
Purkey   5.0 3 3 3 1 1
  Klippstein  L (2-1) 0.2 4 3 3 0 1
  Lown   1.1 1 0 0 0 2
  Schmidt   2.0 0 0 0 2 3
Totals
9.0
8
6
6
3
7

  E–Temple (3), Thurman (1), Schmidt (1).  DP–Cincinnati 1. Hoak-McMillan.  2B–Chicago Thomson (10,off Purkey), Cincinnati Temple 2 (8,off Drott 2).  HR–Chicago Banks 2 (11,5th inning off Purkey 0 on 0 out,6th inning off Klippstein 1 on 1 out), Cincinnati Bell (2,3rd inning off Drott 0 on 0 out).  Team LOB–7.  SF–Fondy (1,off Drott).  Team–3.  U–Stan Landes, Al Barlick, Bill Jackowski.  T–2:29.  A–7,347.
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