San Francisco Giants vs Los Angeles Dodgers
April 20, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 20, 1959 at LA Memorial Coliseum. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Francisco Giants 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 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 2

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Davenport 3b 4 0 0 0
Brandt lf 4 0 1 0
Mays cf 3 1 1 1
Cepeda 1b 4 0 0 0
Alou rf 3 0 0 0
Spencer 2b 3 0 0 0
Rodgers ss 3 0 1 0
Schmidt c 3 0 0 0
Jones p 3 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 3 1
Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 3b 4 0 1 0
Moon lf 3 0 1 0
Snider rf 4 0 0 0
Demeter cf 3 1 0 0
Roseboro c 3 0 0 0
Larker 1b 2 0 2 0
Zimmer ss 3 0 1 1
Neal 2b 4 1 1 1
Drysdale p 2 0 0 0
Totals 28 2 6 2
San Francisco 100 000 000130
Los Angeles 010 000 001260
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Jones  L (1-2) 8.0 6 2 2 5 2
Totals
8.0
6
2
2
5
2
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Drysdale  W (2-1) 9.0 3 1 1 1 11
Totals
9.0
3
1
1
1
11

  E–None.  DP–San Francisco 1. Schmidt-Davenport.  2B–Los Angeles Larker (1,off S. Jones).  3B–Los Angeles Gilliam (1,off S. Jones); Moon (2,off S. Jones)..  HR–San Francisco Mays (1,1st inning off Drysdale 0 on 2 out), Los Angeles Neal (1,9th inning off S. Jones 0 on 0 out).  Team LOB–3.  SH–Roseboro (1,off S. Jones).  HBP–Larker (1,by S. Jones).  Team–9.  U-HP–Stan Landes, 1B–Ed Sudol, 2B–Tom Gorman, 3B–Dusty Boggess.  T–2:03.  A–32,946.
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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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