New York Mets vs St. Louis Cardinals
May 26, 1963 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 26, 1963 at Busch Stadium I. The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the New York Mets and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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New York Mets 4, St. Louis Cardinals 7

New York Mets ab   r   h rbi
Piersall cf 5 1 3 0
Neal 3b 5 0 2 0
Hunt 2b 4 0 2 1
Cook lf 3 0 0 0
  Snider lf 1 0 0 0
Kranepool 1b 4 0 0 0
Hickman rf 3 2 2 0
Moran ss 4 1 2 1
Sherry c 3 0 0 1
Cisco p 0 0 0 1
  Rowe p 2 0 0 0
  Bearnarth p 1 0 0 0
  MacKenzie p 0 0 0 0
  Stallard p 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 4 11 4
St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Flood cf 5 0 1 0
Groat ss 4 1 2 0
  Maxvill pr,ss 0 1 0 0
White 1b 4 2 4 0
Musial lf 5 1 1 0
  Carmel rf 0 0 0 0
Boyer 3b 5 1 5 3
Altman rf 3 0 0 0
  James ph,lf 1 1 1 3
Javier 2b 4 0 0 0
McCarver c 1 0 1 0
  Oliver ph,c 2 0 0 0
Simmons p 3 0 1 0
  Sawatski ph 1 0 0 0
  Bauta p 0 0 0 0
Totals 38 7 16 6
New York 021 100 0004110
St. Louis 102 000 04x7161
  New York Mets IP H R ER BB SO
Cisco   2.2 6 3 3 4 1
  Rowe   3.1 5 0 0 0 2
  Bearnarth  L (1-1) 1.1 3 2 2 1 0
  MacKenzie   0.1 2 2 2 0 0
  Stallard   0.1 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
16
7
7
5
4
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Simmons   7.0 11 4 4 2 8
  Bauta  W (2-1) 2.0 0 0 0 0 2
Totals
9.0
11
4
4
2
10

  E–Boyer (13).  DP–New York 1.  2B–New York Piersall (1,off Simmons); Hickman 2 (8,off Simmons 2), St. Louis Boyer 2 (8,off Cisco,off Rowe).  HR–St. Louis James (3,8th inning off MacKenzie 2 on, 2 out).  SH–Cook (2,off Simmons).  SF–Sherry (1,off Simmons); Cisco (1,off Simmons).  IBB–Hickman (1,by Simmons).  Team LOB–9.  Team–12.  CS–Flood (5,2nd base by Cisco/Sherry).  BK–Cisco (1).  IBB–Simmons (2,Hickman).  U-HP–Stan Landes, 1B–Ed Sudol, 2B–Al Forman, 3B–Tom Gorman.  T–2:54.
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