San Francisco Giants vs Los Angeles Dodgers
August 3, 1961 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 3, 1961 at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Francisco Giants 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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San Francisco Giants 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 4

San Francisco Giants ab   r   h rbi
Amalfitano 2b 3 1 0 0
Kuenn lf 4 0 0 0
Alou rf 4 0 1 1
Mays cf 4 1 1 0
Cepeda 1b 4 0 1 1
Davenport 3b 4 0 0 0
Orsino c 4 0 1 0
  Miller p 0 0 0 0
Pagan ss 3 1 1 0
  McCovey ph 1 0 0 0
  Bowman ss 0 0 0 0
Sanford p 2 0 0 0
  Bailey c 0 0 0 0
Totals 33 3 5 2
Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Wills ss 4 0 1 1
Davis W. cf 4 0 1 0
Davis T. rf 5 0 0 0
Moon lf 4 1 1 0
Roseboro c 5 1 1 1
Hodges 1b 1 0 0 1
Spencer 3b 3 0 1 0
  Gilliam pr,3b 0 0 0 0
Neal 2b 4 1 1 0
Williams p 2 0 0 0
  Snider ph 1 0 0 0
  Sherry p 0 1 0 0
Totals 33 4 6 3
San Francisco 000 210 000 0352
Los Angeles 011 000 001 1461
  San Francisco Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Sanford  L (6-6) 9.0 6 4 3 4 1
  Miller   0.2 0 0 0 2 0
Totals
9.2
6
4
3
6
1
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Williams   7.0 4 3 1 1 4
  Sherry  W (3-2) 3.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
10.0
5
3
1
1
5

  E–Amalfitano (7), Sanford (3), Roseboro (9).  PB–Roseboro (5).  2B–Los Angeles Moon (14,off Sanford); W Davis (16,off Sanford).  HR–Los Angeles Roseboro (16,9th inning off Sanford 0 on, 0 out).  SH–Sanford (4,off Williams); Wills (8,off Miller).  Team LOB–2.  SF–Hodges (2,off Sanford).  IBB–W Davis (4,by Miller).  Team–8.  IBB–Miller (5,W Davis).  U-HP–Stan Landes, 1B–Al Forman, 2B–Tom Gorman, 3B–Dusty Boggess.  T–2:57.  A–33,505.
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