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 Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Chicago Cubs 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 5, Chicago Cubs 2

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 3b 3 1 2 0
Neal 2b 5 1 1 3
Moon lf 4 0 1 1
Snider cf 1 1 1 1
  Demeter ph,cf 3 0 0 0
Hodges 1b 4 0 1 0
Fairly rf 3 0 1 0
Wills ss 4 0 1 0
Pignatano c 3 1 0 0
Drysdale p 3 1 1 0
Totals 33 5 9 5
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Taylor T. 2b 3 0 0 0
Dark 3b 4 0 1 1
Noren cf 3 0 0 0
Banks ss 4 0 1 0
Moryn lf 4 0 0 0
Long 1b 4 1 1 1
Walls rf 4 0 1 0
Taylor S. c 3 0 0 0
Drabowsky p 1 0 0 0
  Morehead p 0 0 0 0
  Altman ph 1 1 1 0
  Singleton p 0 0 0 0
  Marshall ph 1 0 0 0
  Hobbie p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 5 2
Los Angeles 010 400 000590
Chicago 000 020 000251
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Drysdale  W (9-6) 9.0 5 2 2 1 11
Totals
9.0
5
2
2
1
11
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Drabowsky  L (4-6) 3.2 4 5 5 5 3
  Morehead   1.1 3 0 0 0 0
  Singleton   2.0 2 0 0 1 1
  Hobbie   2.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
9
5
5
6
4

  E–Banks (7), Banks (7).  DP–Los Angeles 1. S. Taylor-Banks, Chicago 1. S. Taylor-Banks.  2B–Los Angeles Gilliam (11,off Drabowsky); Wills (2,off Morehead).  3B–Los Angeles Neal (6,off Drabowsky), Chicago Walls (2,off Drysdale).  HR–Los Angeles Snider (12,2nd inning off Drabowsky 0 on 0 out), Chicago Long (12,5th inning off Drysdale 0 on 0 out).  SH–Gilliam (2,off Singleton); Fairly (3,off Singleton).  Team LOB–9.  HBP–Noren (1,by Drysdale).  Team–5.  CS–Gilliam (6,2nd base by Drabowsky/S. Taylor).  U-HP–Frank Dascoli, 1B–Frank Secory, 2B–Hal Dixon, 3B–Vinnie Smith.  T–2:23.  A–29,440.
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