San Francisco Giants vs Los Angeles Dodgers
August 9, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 9, 1958 at LA Memorial Coliseum. The San Francisco Giants 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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San Francisco Giants 6, Los Angeles Dodgers 3

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Alou rf 4 0 0 0
Davenport 3b 4 2 3 1
Mays cf 4 1 0 0
Sauer lf 4 2 2 4
  Lockman pr,lf 0 1 0 0
Cepeda 1b 4 0 1 0
Spencer ss 3 0 1 0
Schmidt c 3 0 0 0
  Wagner ph 1 0 0 1
  Thomas c 0 0 0 0
O'Connell 2b 4 0 0 0
Antonelli p 3 0 1 0
  Grissom p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 6 8 6
Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 3b 4 1 1 0
Cimoli lf 3 1 2 0
Neal 2b 4 1 0 0
Furillo rf 4 0 2 1
Hodges 1b 5 0 1 2
Zimmer ss 4 0 0 0
Demeter cf 4 0 1 0
Pignatano c 4 0 2 0
Podres p 2 0 0 0
  Reese ph 1 0 0 0
  Labine p 0 0 0 0
  Larker ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 36 3 9 3
San Francisco 300 001 011681
Los Angeles 200 000 001393
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Antonelli  W (12-10) 8.1 8 3 3 5 7
  Grissom  SV (9) 0.2 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
3
3
5
7
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Podres  L (10-10) 6.0 5 4 3 1 7
  Labine   3.0 3 2 1 0 2
Totals
9.0
8
6
4
1
9

  E–O'Connell (6), Neal 2 (14), Zimmer (16).  DP–San Francisco 1. Spencer-O'Connell-Cepeda, Los Angeles 1. Podres-Neal-Hodges.  HR–San Francisco Sauer 2 (12,1st inning off Podres 2 on 1 out,6th inning off Podres 0 on 2 out); Davenport (5,8th inning off Labine 0 on 2 out).  Team LOB–2.  Team–11.  CS–Cepeda (12,2nd base by Podres/Pignatano).  SB–Gilliam (9,2nd base off Antonelli/Schmidt).  U-HP–Shag Crawford, 1B–Vinnie Smith, 2B–Frank Dascoli, 3B–Augie Donatelli.  T–2:47.  A–46,178.
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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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