Los Angeles Dodgers vs St. Louis Cardinals
July 2, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 2, 1959 at Busch Stadium I. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 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 4, St. Louis Cardinals 0

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 3b 4 2 2 0
Neal 2b 5 0 3 1
Moon lf 5 0 1 1
Snider rf 4 0 0 0
Hodges 1b 4 0 1 0
Roseboro c 4 0 0 0
Fairly cf 4 0 2 0
  Demeter pr,cf 0 1 0 0
Zimmer ss 3 0 0 0
McDevitt p 4 1 2 0
Totals 37 4 11 2
St. Louis Cardinals ab   r   h rbi
Blasingame 2b 4 0 2 0
  Jeffcoat p 0 0 0 0
Cimoli cf 4 0 1 0
White 1b 4 0 1 0
Boyer 3b 3 0 0 0
Cunningham rf 4 0 2 0
Oliver lf 4 0 1 0
Smith c 4 0 1 0
Grammas ss 2 0 2 0
  Jablonski ph 1 0 0 0
  Tate ss 0 0 0 0
Ricketts p 1 0 0 0
  Blaylock p 0 0 0 0
  Gray ph,2b 1 0 0 0
Totals 32 0 10 0
Los Angeles 001 000 2104110
St. Louis 000 000 0000102
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
McDevitt  W (8-6) 9.0 10 0 0 1 4
Totals
9.0
10
0
0
1
4
  St. Louis Cardinals IP H R ER BB SO
Ricketts  L (1-4) 6.0 8 3 3 4 3
  Blaylock   2.0 3 1 1 0 4
  Jeffcoat   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
11
4
4
4
7

  E–Boyer (9), Ricketts (1).  DP–Los Angeles 4. Zimmer-Neal-Hodges, Roseboro-Neal, Zimmer-Neal-Hodges, Gilliam-Hodges, St. Louis 1. H. Smith-Grammas.  3B–Los Angeles Gilliam (2,off Ricketts); Neal (5,off Ricketts).  IBB–Zimmer (7,by Ricketts).  Team LOB–10.  SH–Ricketts (2,off McDevitt).  Team–7.  CS–Neal (5,2nd base by Ricketts/H. Smith).  U-HP–Bill Jackowski, 1B–Shag Crawford, 2B–Vic Delmore, 3B–Al Barlick.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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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."