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Los Angeles Dodgers vs Cincinnati Reds
August 20, 1959 Box Score
The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 20, 1959 at Crosley Field. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Cincinnati Reds and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."
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"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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| Game played on Thursday, August 20, 1959 at Crosley Field |
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| Los Angeles |
0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 7 | 0 | | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 8 | 11 | 2 |
| Cincinnati |
0 | 0 | 0 | | 1 | 2 | 0 | | 0 | 1 | 1 | – | 5 | 10 | 0 |
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| Los Angeles Dodgers |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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McDevitt W (9-8) |
8.2 |
10 |
5 |
4 |
4 |
5 |
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Sherry SV (1) |
0.1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
10 |
5 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
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| Cincinnati Reds |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Purkey L (10-13) |
4.2 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
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Schmidt |
0.1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
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Acker |
2.0 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
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Brosnan |
2.0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
11 |
8 |
1 |
2 |
7 |
E–Neal (8), Zimmer (10). DP–Los Angeles 2. Neal-Zimmer-Larker, Zimmer-Neal-Larker. PB–E. Bailey (4). 2B–Los Angeles Neal (22,off Purkey); Essegian 2 (5,off Purkey,off Acker); Roseboro (11,off Schmidt), Cincinnati Pinson (42,off McDevitt); Kasko (7,off McDevitt); Robinson (28,off McDevitt). HR–Los Angeles Larker (7,5th inning off Purkey 2 on 2 out); Moon (11,7th inning off Acker 0 on 0 out), Cincinnati Thomas (9,9th inning off McDevitt 0 on 0 out). HBP–McDevitt (1,by Brosnan); E. Bailey (2,by McDevitt). Team LOB–7. IBB–Robinson (7,by McDevitt). Team–10. U-HP–Frank Secory, 1B–Hal Dixon, 2B–Vinnie Smith, 3B–Frank Dascoli. |
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| Game played on Thursday, August 20, 1959 at Crosley Field |
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Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."
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