Chicago Cubs vs San Francisco Giants
August 16, 1958 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 16, 1958 at Seals Stadium. 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)
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Chicago Cubs 4, San Francisco Giants 7

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Taylor T. 2b 4 1 1 2
Dark 3b 4 0 1 0
Walls rf 4 0 1 0
Banks ss 3 2 2 2
Bolger lf 2 0 1 0
  Moryn ph,lf 2 0 0 0
Long 1b 4 0 2 0
Thomson cf 4 0 0 0
Neeman c 4 1 2 0
Drott p 2 0 0 0
  Elston p 0 0 0 0
  Jackson ph 1 0 0 0
  Hobbie p 0 0 0 0
  Taylor S. ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 4 10 4
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
O'Connell 2b 4 0 0 0
Davenport 3b 4 1 1 1
Mays cf 4 1 1 2
Wagner lf 4 0 0 0
  Alou lf 0 0 0 0
Cepeda 1b 4 2 3 1
Kirkland rf 4 1 2 1
Spencer ss 3 0 0 0
Schmidt c 3 1 2 1
McCormick p 1 0 0 0
  White ph 1 1 1 1
  Jones p 1 0 0 0
Totals 33 7 10 7
Chicago 002 100 0104101
San Francisco 010 041 01x7100
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Drott  L (5-10) 5.0 6 6 3 1 5
  Elston   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Hobbie   2.0 3 1 1 1 0
Totals
8.0
10
7
4
2
5
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
McCormick  W (9-5) 5.0 7 3 3 0 3
  Jones  SV (1) 4.0 3 1 1 1 1
Totals
9.0
10
4
4
1
4

  E–T. Taylor (18).  2B–Chicago Walls (17,off McCormick), San Francisco Schmidt (17,off Drott); Cepeda (23,off Drott); Kirkland (19,off Elston).  HR–Chicago T. Taylor (4,3rd inning off McCormick 1 on 2 out); Banks 2 (37,4th inning off McCormick 0 on 0 out,8th inning off Jones 0 on 1 out), San Francisco Cepeda (23,2nd inning off Drott 0 on 1 out); Mays (20,5th inning off Drott 1 on 2 out)..  Team LOB–5.  Team–4.  CS–Bolger (1,2nd base by McCormick/Schmidt).  U-HP–Hal Dixon, 1B–Tom Gorman, 2B–Dusty Boggess, 3B–Ken Burkhart.  T–2:23.  A–17,617.
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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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