Milwaukee Braves vs San Francisco Giants
June 15, 1961 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 15, 1961 at Candlestick Park. The San Francisco Giants defeated the Milwaukee Braves 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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Milwaukee Braves 3, San Francisco Giants 6

Milwaukee Braves ab   r   h rbi
Mantilla rf 5 0 0 0
Bolling 2b 3 1 1 1
Mathews 3b 3 0 1 0
Aaron cf 4 0 0 0
Adcock 1b 3 0 1 0
  Spangler pr 0 0 0 0
Thomas lf 3 1 1 0
Torre c 4 1 2 2
McMillan ss 4 0 0 0
Cloninger p 2 0 0 0
  Nottebart p 0 0 0 0
  Crandall ph 1 0 0 0
  McMahon p 0 0 0 0
  Taylor ph 0 0 0 0
  Maye pr 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 6 3
San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Amalfitano 2b 3 1 2 2
McCovey 1b 3 1 1 2
Kuenn lf 4 0 1 2
Mays cf 4 0 0 0
Bailey c 3 0 0 0
Alou rf 4 0 1 0
Davenport 3b 3 1 1 0
Bressoud ss 4 2 2 0
McCormick p 4 1 1 0
  LeMay p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 6 9 6
Milwaukee 100 000 200361
San Francisco 003 030 00x690
  Milwaukee Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Cloninger  L (0-1) 4.0 6 6 6 2 2
  Nottebart   2.0 2 0 0 0 0
  McMahon   2.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
9
6
6
2
3
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
McCormick  W (7-5) 8.2 6 3 3 5 3
  LeMay  SV (1) 0.1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
6
3
3
5
3

  E–Thomas (1).  2B–San Francisco Bressoud (5,off Cloninger).  HR–Milwaukee Bolling (9,1st inning off McCormick 0 on, 1 out); Torre (5,7th inning off McCormick 1 on, 1 out), San Francisco McCovey (9,3rd inning off Cloninger 1 on, 2 out).  Team LOB–7.  SH–Davenport (1,off McMahon).  SF–Amalfitano (1,off Cloninger).  Team–6.  WP–McCormick (3).  U-HP–Tony Venzon, 1B–Ed Sudol, 2B–Frank Dascoli, 3B–Frank Secory.  T–2:26.  A–11,976.
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