St. Louis Cardinals vs Los Angeles Dodgers
May 31, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 31, 1959 at LA Memorial Coliseum. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 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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St. Louis Cardinals 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 5

St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Blasingame 2b 4 1 1 1
Cimoli cf 5 0 1 0
Musial 1b 5 0 0 0
Jablonski 3b 3 2 2 1
Cunningham rf 3 0 0 0
Essegian lf 3 0 0 0
Smith H. c 4 0 2 1
Tate ss 3 0 0 0
  Flood ph 0 0 0 0
  Boyer ss 0 0 0 0
Blaylock p 2 0 0 0
  Nunn p 0 0 0 0
  Smith B. ph 0 0 0 0
  Brosnan p 0 0 0 0
  Green ph 1 0 0 0
  Cheney p 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 6 3
Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 3b 4 1 0 0
Neal 2b 4 1 1 1
Moon lf 3 1 2 0
Hodges 1b 3 1 0 0
Fairly rf 3 0 1 1
Demeter cf 4 0 2 2
Roseboro c 4 1 2 0
Zimmer ss 2 0 1 1
Koufax p 3 0 0 0
  Klippstein p 0 0 0 0
  McDevitt p 1 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 9 5
St. Louis 000 111 000360
Los Angeles 300 101 00x590
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Blaylock  L (3-3) 5.0 8 5 5 5 5
  Nunn   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Brosnan   1.0 0 0 0 0 1
  Cheney   1.0 1 0 0 1 2
Totals
8.0
9
5
5
6
9
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Koufax  W (1-1) 6.0 5 3 3 5 9
  Klippstein   0.0 1 0 0 0 0
  McDevitt  SV (1) 3.0 0 0 0 1 5
Totals
9.0
6
3
3
6
14

  E–None.  DP–St. Louis 1. Jablonski-Blasingame.  2B–Los Angeles Roseboro (5,off G. Blaylock).  HR–St. Louis Jablonski (2,4th inning off Koufax 0 on 1 out); Blasingame (1,5th inning off Koufax 0 on 1 out), Los Angeles Neal (6,4th inning off G. Blaylock 0 on 2 out).  Team LOB–9.  IBB–Zimmer 2 (6,by G. Blaylock,by Cheney).  Team–8.  SB–Jablonski (1,2nd base off Koufax/Roseboro).  U-HP–Vic Delmore, 1B–Al Barlick, 2B–Bill Jackowski, 3B–Shag Crawford.
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