San Francisco Giants vs Chicago Cubs
August 4, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 4, 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

San Francisco Giants 6, Chicago Cubs 4

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Bressoud 2b 3 1 2 3
Kirkland rf 5 0 0 0
Mays cf 5 2 3 1
Wagner lf 3 0 0 1
  Alou lf 1 0 0 0
Cepeda 1b 5 0 0 0
Spencer ss 2 1 0 0
Schmidt c 5 2 2 1
Davenport 3b 3 0 1 0
McCormick p 1 0 0 0
  Giel p 1 0 0 0
  Grissom p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 6 8 6
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Taylor 2b 4 1 0 0
  Neeman ph 1 0 0 0
Dark 3b 3 0 3 2
Banks ss 4 1 1 0
Thomson cf 4 1 1 0
Walls rf 2 0 0 0
Bolger lf 1 0 0 0
  Moryn ph,lf 3 0 1 2
Long 1b 4 0 1 0
Thacker c 3 0 0 0
  Adams ph 1 0 0 0
Drott p 1 1 1 0
  Jackson ph 1 0 0 0
  Hobbie p 0 0 0 0
  Tanner ph 1 0 1 0
Totals 33 4 9 4
San Francisco 121 010 010681
Chicago 004 000 000491
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
McCormick   2.2 5 4 1 1 0
  Giel  W (3-4) 5.2 4 0 0 3 4
  Grissom  SV (8) 0.2 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
4
1
4
4
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Drott  L (4-8) 7.0 6 5 3 5 4
  Hobbie   2.0 2 1 1 1 2
Totals
9.0
8
6
4
6
6

  E–Bressoud (6), Banks (22).  DP–San Francisco 3. Bressoud-Cepeda, Bressoud-Spencer-Cepeda, Davenport-Bressoud-Cepeda.  2B–San Francisco Bressoud (5,off Drott); Mays (22,off Drott).  HR–San Francisco Mays (17,3rd inning off Drott 0 on 0 out).  SH–Davenport (10,off Drott); Giel (4,off Drott).  HBP–Giel (1,by Hobbie).  Team LOB–10.  Team–6.  SB–Mays (21,3rd base off Drott/Thacker).  CS–Dark (1,2nd base by Giel/Schmidt).  U-HP–Ed Sudol, 1B–Tony Venzon, 2B–Jocko Conlan, 3B–Frank Secory.  T–2:45.  A–15,765.
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