Los Angeles Dodgers vs Houston Colt .45s
August 2, 1963 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on August 2, 1963 at Colt Stadium. The Houston Colt .45s defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Los Angeles Dodgers 1, Houston Colt .45s 4

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Wills ss 4 0 0 0
Gilliam 2b 4 1 1 0
Moon rf 3 0 1 0
Davis T. lf 4 0 2 0
Fairly 1b 4 0 2 1
Roseboro c 4 0 0 0
Davis W. cf 3 0 0 0
McMullen 3b 3 0 0 0
Drysdale p 2 0 0 0
  Sherry p 0 0 0 0
  Ferrara ph 1 0 0 0
  Calmus p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 1 6 1
Houston Colt .45s ab   r   h rbi
Spangler lf 4 0 3 0
Runnels 2b 3 0 0 0
  Fazio 2b 0 0 0 0
Aspromonte 3b 4 0 0 0
Warwick rf 3 1 2 1
Staub 1b 3 0 0 0
Wynn cf 4 1 3 2
  Goss cf 0 0 0 0
Bateman c 3 0 0 0
Lillis ss 4 0 1 0
Farrell p 3 2 1 0
Totals 31 4 10 3
Los Angeles 000 100 000160
Houston 020 010 10x4101
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Drysdale  L (13-12) 6.0 9 4 4 3 2
  Sherry   1.0 1 0 0 1 1
  Calmus   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
10
4
4
4
3
  Houston Colt .45s IP H R ER BB SO
Farrell  W (9-8) 9.0 6 1 1 1 3
Totals
9.0
6
1
1
1
3

  E–Lillis (19).  DP–Los Angeles 2, Houston 1.  2B–Houston Wynn (3,off Drysdale); Spangler (17,off Drysdale).  3B–Los Angeles Moon (2,off Farrell).  HR–Houston Wynn (2,2nd inning off Drysdale 1 on, 1 out).  Team LOB–5.  HBP–Bateman (6,by Drysdale).  IBB–Runnels (2,by Drysdale).  Team–8.  CS–Moon (3,Home by Farrell/Bateman).  HBP–Drysdale (7,Bateman).  IBB–Drysdale (7,Runnels).  U-HP–Ed Vargo, 1B–Doug Harvey, 2B–Lee Weyer, 3B–Al Barlick.  T–1:55.  A–13,054.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

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."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook