Los Angeles Dodgers vs Chicago Cubs
July 4, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 4, 1959 at Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cubs 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 1, Chicago Cubs 2
Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 3b 3 0 0 0
Neal 2b 4 0 0 0
Moon lf 4 0 1 0
Snider rf 4 1 1 1
Hodges 1b 4 0 1 0
Fairly cf 4 0 1 0
  Pignatano pr 0 0 0 0
Roseboro c 3 0 0 0
Wills ss 3 0 1 0
Sherry p 2 0 1 0
  Larker ph 1 0 0 0
  Klippstein p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 6 1
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Taylor T. 2b 4 0 0 0
Dark 3b 3 0 0 0
Noren cf 4 0 0 0
  Altman cf 0 0 0 0
Banks ss 4 0 0 0
Moryn lf 2 0 1 0
  Thomson lf 0 0 0 0
Long 1b 3 1 1 0
Walls rf 3 1 1 0
Taylor S. c 3 0 1 2
Anderson p 3 0 0 0
Totals 29 2 4 2
Los Angeles 000 000 001–161
Chicago 000 200 00x–240
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Sherry  L (0-1) 7.0 4 2 0 1 7
  Klippstein   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
4
2
0
1
7
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Anderson  W (5-7) 9.0 6 1 1 2 4
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
2
4
  E–Gilliam (7).  3B–Chicago S. Taylor (2,off L. Sherry).  HR–Los Angeles Snider (11,9th inning off Anderson 0 on 1 out).  Team LOB–6.  HBP–Moryn (2,by L. Sherry).  Team–5.  U-HP–Vinnie Smith, 1B–Frank Dascoli, 2B–Frank Secory, 3B–Hal Dixon.  T–1:56.
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