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Chicago Cubs vs San Francisco Giants August 8, 1961 Box Score
The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 8, 1961 at Candlestick Park. The San Francisco Giants defeated the Chicago Cubs 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 Tuesday, August 8, 1961 at Candlestick Park |
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| Chicago |
0 | 0 | 1 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| San Francisco |
3 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 0 | 3 | | 2 | 0 | x | – | 8 | 10 | 0 |
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| Chicago Cubs |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Cardwell L (9-10) |
5.0 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
6 |
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Elston |
2.0 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
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Ellsworth |
1.0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Totals |
8.0 |
10 |
8 |
8 |
3 |
8 |
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| San Francisco Giants |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Sanford W (7-6) |
9.0 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
9 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
9 |
E–Banks (15). 2B–Chicago Bouchee (10,off Sanford); Will (7,off Sanford), San Francisco Amalfitano (7,off Cardwell). 3B–Chicago Ashburn (3,off Sanford), San Francisco Pagan (2,off Elston); Bailey (1,off Elston). HR–San Francisco Sanford (3,6th inning off Elston 1 on, 2 out). HBP–Cardwell (1,by Sanford); Cepeda (6,by Cardwell). Team LOB–4. SH–Sanford (5,off Ellsworth). Team–5. SB–Mays 2 (14,2nd base off Cardwell/Taylor,3rd base off Cardwell/Taylor); Cepeda (7,2nd base off Cardwell/Taylor). WP–Cardwell (5). HBP–Cardwell (5,Cepeda); Sanford (5,Cardwell). U-HP–Stan Landes, 1B–Al Forman, 2B–Tom Gorman, 3B–Dusty Boggess. T–2:40. A–10,977. |
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| Game played on Tuesday, August 8, 1961 at Candlestick Park |
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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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