Los Angeles Dodgers vs San Francisco Giants
May 26, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 26, 1959 at Seals Stadium. 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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Los Angeles Dodgers 4, San Francisco Giants 6

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Fairly rf 4 0 1 0
Neal 2b 4 1 1 1
Moon lf 4 1 1 1
Demeter cf 3 1 1 0
Hodges 1b 4 0 1 2
Gray 3b 4 0 0 0
Pignatano c 3 0 0 0
Lillis ss 3 0 0 0
Koufax p 3 1 2 0
  Fowler p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 4 7 4
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
O'Connell 3b 4 0 0 0
Rodgers ss 4 1 1 1
Mays cf 2 1 1 0
Cepeda 1b 4 0 1 0
Brandt lf 3 1 0 0
Alou rf 4 1 2 0
Spencer 2b 3 1 0 0
Schmidt c 3 0 0 0
  Wagner ph 1 1 1 4
Miller p 2 0 0 0
  Bressoud ph 1 0 0 0
  Jones p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 6 6 5
Los Angeles 010 003 000471
San Francisco 100 001 004660
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Koufax  L (0-1) 8.1 5 5 4 4 11
  Fowler   0.0 1 1 1 0 0
Totals
8.1
6
6
5
4
11
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Miller   7.0 5 4 4 1 3
  Jones  W (2-2) 2.0 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
7
4
4
1
4

  E–Neal (2).  DP–Los Angeles 1. Pignatano-Neal, San Francisco 1. Spencer-Cepeda.  2B–Los Angeles Koufax 2 (2,off Miller,off G. Jones); Neal (5,off Miller), San Francisco Mays (10,off Koufax).  3B–Los Angeles Demeter (1,off Miller).  HR–San Francisco Rodgers (5,6th inning off Koufax 0 on 0 out); Wagner (4,9th inning off Fowler 3 on 1 out).  Team LOB–2.  Team–4.  SB–Moon (5,2nd base off Miller/Schmidt).  CS–Cepeda (2,2nd base by Koufax/Pignatano).  U-HP–Shag Crawford, 1B–Vic Delmore, 2B–Al Barlick, 3B–Bill Jackowski.
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