Cincinnati Reds vs Chicago Cubs
May 13, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 13, 1959 at Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cubs defeated the Cincinnati Reds 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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Cincinnati Reds 0, Chicago Cubs 10

Cincinnati Reds ab   r   h rbi
Temple 2b 4 0 1 0
Pinson cf 3 0 0 0
Lynch lf 3 0 0 0
Robinson 1b 4 0 0 0
Bell rf 4 0 0 0
Thomas 3b 3 0 0 0
Bailey c 3 0 2 0
McMillan ss 4 0 0 0
Purkey p 1 0 0 0
  Schmidt p 0 0 0 0
  Pendleton ph 1 0 0 0
  Rudolph p 0 0 0 0
  Newcombe ph 0 0 0 0
  O'Toole p 0 0 0 0
Totals 30 0 3 0
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Taylor T. 2b 5 2 2 1
Dark 3b 5 3 3 2
Banks ss 5 1 2 5
Moryn lf 5 0 2 0
Long 1b 3 1 0 0
Thomson cf 3 0 2 1
Walls rf 4 1 1 0
Taylor S. c 4 1 1 0
Hobbie p 3 1 0 0
Totals 37 10 13 9
Cincinnati 000 000 000030
Chicago 007 000 12x10130
  Cincinnati Reds IP H R ER BB SO
Purkey  L (4-3) 2.0 5 6 6 1 0
  Schmidt   2.0 1 1 1 1 3
  Rudolph   2.0 2 0 0 0 1
  O'Toole   2.0 5 3 2 1 2
Totals
8.0
13
10
9
3
6
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Hobbie  W (4-3) 9.0 3 0 0 5 6
Totals
9.0
3
0
0
5
6

  E–None.  PB–E. Bailey (1).  2B–Cincinnati Temple (13,off Hobbie), Chicago Thomson (4,off Schmidt); Moryn (6,off Rudolph)..  3B–Chicago T. Taylor (2,off O'Toole); Dark (3,off O'Toole)..  HR–Chicago Banks (8,3rd inning off Purkey 3 on 0 out).  Team LOB–8.  Team–6.  SB–Pinson (5,2nd base off Hobbie/S. Taylor).  U-HP–Tom Gorman, 1B–Dusty Boggess, 2B–Stan Landes, 3B–Ed Sudol.  T–2:26.  A–3,705.
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