Los Angeles Dodgers vs Milwaukee Braves
June 7, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 7, 1959 at County Stadium. The Milwaukee Braves 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 2, Milwaukee Braves 8

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 3b 4 0 0 0
Neal 2b 4 0 0 0
Moon lf 3 0 0 0
Hodges 1b 4 1 1 1
Roseboro c 3 0 0 0
Fairly rf 3 0 0 0
Demeter cf 3 1 2 1
Wills ss 2 0 1 0
Drysdale p 2 0 0 0
  McDevitt p 0 0 0 0
  Fowler p 0 0 0 0
  Larker ph 1 0 0 0
  Klippstein p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 2 4 2
Milwaukee Braves ab   r   h rbi
Wise 2b 3 1 1 1
Mathews 3b 5 1 3 2
Aaron rf 3 1 1 0
Vernon lf 3 0 0 0
  Pafko ph,lf 1 1 1 3
Torre 1b 4 1 1 0
Bruton cf 4 1 4 1
Crandall c 4 1 1 1
Mantilla ss 3 1 0 0
Buhl p 4 0 0 0
Totals 34 8 12 8
Los Angeles 000 000 110241
Milwaukee 000 000 80x8120
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Drysdale  L (5-5) 6.1 8 5 5 3 3
  McDevitt   0.0 3 3 3 0 0
  Fowler   0.2 0 0 0 0 0
  Klippstein   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
12
8
8
3
4
  Milwaukee Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Buhl  W (5-3) 9.0 4 2 2 1 6
Totals
9.0
4
2
2
1
6

  E–Hodges (3).  DP–Los Angeles 2. Hodges-Wills, Neal-Hodges.  PB–Roseboro (6).  2B–Milwaukee Aaron (21,off Drysdale); Pafko (2,off McDevitt).  HR–Los Angeles Hodges (8,7th inning off Buhl 0 on 2 out); Demeter (10,8th inning off Buhl 0 on 1 out).  SH–Wills (1,off Buhl).  Team LOB–2.  HBP–Mantilla (1,by Drysdale); Aaron (1,by McDevitt).  IBB–Aaron (5,by Drysdale).  Team–7.  CS–Moon (3,2nd base by Buhl/Crandall).  U-HP–Jocko Conlan, 1B–Ken Burkhart, 2B–Tony Venzon, 3B–Augie Donatelli.  T–2:20.  A–32,399.
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