Los Angeles Dodgers vs Chicago White Sox
October 2, 1959 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 2, 1959 at Comiskey Park I. The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Chicago White Sox 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, Chicago White Sox 3

Los Angeles Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 3b 4 1 1 0
Neal 2b 5 2 2 3
Moon lf 3 0 1 0
Snider cf 4 0 1 0
  Demeter cf 0 0 0 0
Larker rf 3 0 0 0
  Sherry p 1 0 0 0
Hodges 1b 4 0 0 0
Roseboro c 4 0 1 0
Wills ss 4 0 1 0
Podres p 2 0 1 0
  Essegian ph 1 1 1 1
  Fairly rf 1 0 0 0
Totals 36 4 9 4
Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Aparicio ss 5 1 2 0
Fox 2b 4 0 0 0
Landis cf 3 1 0 0
Kluszewski 1b 4 0 1 1
  Torgeson pr,1b 0 1 0 0
Lollar c 4 0 2 1
Smith lf 3 0 1 1
Phillips 3b 3 0 1 0
  Goodman ph,3b 1 0 0 0
McAnany rf 3 0 0 0
  Rivera rf 1 0 0 0
Shaw p 3 0 1 0
  Lown p 0 0 0 0
  Cash ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 3 8 3
Los Angeles 000 010 300491
Chicago 200 000 010380
  Los Angeles Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Podres  W (1-0) 6.0 5 2 2 3 3
  Sherry  SV (1) 3.0 3 1 1 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
3
3
3
4
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Shaw  L (0-1) 6.2 8 4 4 1 1
  Lown  2.1 1.0 0 0 1 3 0
Totals
7.2
9
4
4
2
4

  E–Wills (1).  2B–Chicago Aparicio (1,off Podres); Phillips (1,off Podres); Smith (3,off Sherry).  HR–Los Angeles Neal 2 (2,5th inning off Shaw 0 on 2 out,7th inning off Shaw 1 on 2 out); Essegian (1,7th inning off Shaw 0 on 2 out).  Team LOB–7.  Team–8.  SB–Moon (1,2nd base off Shaw/Lollar); Gilliam (1,2nd base off Lown/Lollar).  U-HP–Frank Dascoli, 1B–Eddie Hurley, 2B–Frank Secory, 3B–Bill Summers.  T–2:21.  A–47,368.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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