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Dodgers
@ Cardinals
Sportsman's Park
July 2, 1959
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The information below contains details about the Major League Baseball game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Los Angeles Dodgers, played on July 2, 1959 at Sportsman's Park.
Game Summary
Date | July 2, 1959 |
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Visiting Team |
Los Angeles Dodgers
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Home Team |
St. Louis Cardinals
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Winning Pitcher | — |
Losing Pitcher | — |
Save | — |
Game Winning RBI | — |
Game Info
Date | July 2, 1959 |
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Day of Week | Thu |
Day / Night | N |
Visiting Team | Los Angeles Dodgers |
Home Team | St. Louis Cardinals |
Visiting Starting Pitcher | Danny McDevitt |
Home Starting Pitcher | Dick Ricketts |
Ballpark | Sportsman's Park |
City | St. Louis |
State | MO |
Attendance | 25,704 |
Time of Game | 2 hours 34 minutes |
Umpires | HP: Bill Jackowski 1B: Shag Crawford 2B: Vic Delmore 3B: Al Barlick |
Los Angeles Dodgers Lineup
Name | Position |
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Jim Gilliam | Third Baseman |
Charlie Neal | Second Baseman |
Wally Moon | Left Fielder |
Duke Snider | Right Fielder |
Gil Hodges | First Baseman |
John Roseboro | Catcher |
Ron Fairly | Center Fielder |
Don Zimmer | Shortstop |
Danny McDevitt | Pitcher |
Walter Alston | Manager |
St. Louis Cardinals Lineup
Name | Position |
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Don Blasingame | Second Baseman |
Gino Cimoli | Center Fielder |
Bill White | First Baseman |
Ken Boyer | Third Baseman |
Joe Cunningham | Right Fielder |
Gene Oliver | Left Fielder |
Hal Smith | Catcher |
Alex Grammas | Shortstop |
Dick Ricketts | Pitcher |
Solly Hemus | Manager |
All Plays in Game (back to top)
Dodgers
@ Cardinals
Sportsman's Park
July 2, 1959
Top 1
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Dodgers, 0 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 2-2, RoB: ---
Gilliam vs. Ricketts
Gilliam hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Ricketts fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. View Play -
Dodgers, 0 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 1-1, RoB: 1--
Neal vs. Ricketts
Neal hits a ball on the ground towards short. Grammas fields it and throws to second for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 0 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 3-2, RoB: 1--
Moon vs. Ricketts
Moon strikes out. There goes Neal. The throw from Smith to Grammas, and Neal is out. View Play
Bottom 1
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Dodgers, 0 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 1-1, RoB: ---
Blasingame vs. McDevitt
Blasingame hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Neal settles under it and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 0 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-1, RoB: ---
Cimoli vs. McDevitt
Cimoli hits a ball on the ground towards short. Zimmer scoops it up and throws to first for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 0 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-2, RoB: ---
White vs. McDevitt
White hits a fly ball into left field. Moon settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. View Play
Top 2
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Dodgers, 0 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 3-1, RoB: ---
Snider vs. Ricketts
Snider takes first base on ball four. View Play -
Dodgers, 0 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 1-2, RoB: 1--
Hodges vs. Ricketts
Hodges hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer juggles the ball. That's an error on Boyer. Snider moves to second. View Play -
Dodgers, 0 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 1-0, RoB: 12-
Roseboro vs. Ricketts
Roseboro hits a fly ball into right field. Cunningham settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 0 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: 12-
Fairly vs. Ricketts
Fairly hits a popup, foul, in front of the plate. Smith settles under it and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 0 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 2-1, RoB: 12-
Zimmer vs. Ricketts
Zimmer hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to first for the out. View Play
Bottom 2
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Dodgers, 0 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 3-0, RoB: ---
Boyer vs. McDevitt
Boyer takes first base on ball four. View Play -
Dodgers, 0 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 1-2, RoB: 1--
Cunningham vs. McDevitt
Cunningham hits a ball on the ground towards short. Zimmer fields it and throws to second for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 0 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 2-2, RoB: 1--
Oliver vs. McDevitt
Oliver strikes out. View Play -
Dodgers, 0 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Smith vs. McDevitt
Smith hits a ball on the ground towards short. Zimmer fields it and throws to second for the out. View Play
Top 3
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Dodgers, 0 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 1-0, RoB: ---
McDevitt vs. Ricketts
McDevitt hits a line drive into right field. Cunningham settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 0 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-1, RoB: ---
Gilliam vs. Ricketts
Gilliam hits a fly ball into left field, out of the reach of Oliver who is chasing the ball. Gilliam reaches third base with a triple. View Play -
Dodgers, 0 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-1, RoB: --3
Neal vs. Ricketts
Neal hits a fly ball into right field, out of the reach of Cunningham who is chasing the ball. Neal reaches third base with a triple. Gilliam scores. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 1-0, RoB: --3
Moon vs. Ricketts
Moon hits a line drive towards first. White reaches out and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: --3
Snider vs. Ricketts
Snider hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame scoops it up and throws to first for the out. View Play
Bottom 3
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Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 1-1, RoB: ---
Grammas vs. McDevitt
Grammas hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Ricketts vs. McDevitt
Ricketts bunts towards first. Hodges scoops it up and throws to first, with Neal covering, for the out. Grammas moves to second. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 3-2, RoB: -2-
Blasingame vs. McDevitt
Blasingame hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Neal fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Grammas moves to third. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1-3
Cimoli vs. McDevitt
Cimoli hits a ball on the ground towards short. Zimmer fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play. View Play
Top 4
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Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-1, RoB: ---
Hodges vs. Ricketts
Hodges hits a line drive towards the mound. Ricketts can't hold onto the ball. That's a base hit. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 2-2, RoB: 1--
Roseboro vs. Ricketts
Roseboro hits a ball on the ground towards short. Grammas fields it and throws to second for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 1-1, RoB: 1--
Fairly vs. Ricketts
Fairly hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. There goes Roseboro trying to get to third. Cunningham throws the ball in to Boyer, who tags Roseboro for the out. Fairly moves to second. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 3-0, RoB: -2-
Zimmer vs. Ricketts
Zimmer is walked intentionally. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 2-2, RoB: 12-
McDevitt vs. Ricketts
McDevitt strikes out. View Play
Bottom 4
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Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-2, RoB: ---
White vs. McDevitt
White hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Boyer vs. McDevitt
Boyer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Zimmer fields it and throws to second for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-2, RoB: 1--
Cunningham vs. McDevitt
Cunningham hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Neal fields it and throws to second for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 1-1, RoB: 1--
Oliver vs. McDevitt
Oliver hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Cunningham moves to second. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: 12-
Smith vs. McDevitt
Smith hits a ball on the ground towards short. Zimmer fields it and throws to second for the out. View Play
Top 5
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Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 2-2, RoB: ---
Gilliam vs. Ricketts
Gilliam hits a ball on the ground towards third. Boyer fields it and throws to first for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 1-1, RoB: ---
Neal vs. Ricketts
Neal hits a ball on the ground into left field for a base hit. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 2-1, RoB: 1--
Moon vs. Ricketts
Moon hits a fly ball into left field. Oliver settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 2-2, RoB: 1--
Snider vs. Ricketts
Snider hits a fly ball into right field. Cunningham settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. View Play
Bottom 5
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Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Grammas vs. McDevitt
Grammas hits a ball on the ground towards short. Zimmer fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Ricketts vs. McDevitt
Ricketts bunts in front of the plate. Roseboro catches it and throws to second to double up Grammas. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-1, RoB: ---
Blasingame vs. McDevitt
Blasingame hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Neal settles under it and makes the catch for the out. View Play
Top 6
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Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 3-0, RoB: ---
Hodges vs. Ricketts
Hodges takes first base on ball four. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-1, RoB: 1--
Roseboro vs. Ricketts
Roseboro hits a fly ball into left field. Oliver settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Fairly vs. Ricketts
Fairly hits a line drive into left field. Oliver settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-2, RoB: 1--
Zimmer vs. Ricketts
Zimmer strikes out. View Play
Bottom 6
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Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 3-2, RoB: ---
Cimoli vs. McDevitt
Cimoli hits a ball on the ground towards short. Zimmer scoops it up and throws to first for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
White vs. McDevitt
White hits a ball on the ground towards short. Zimmer scoops it up and throws to first for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 3-2, RoB: ---
Boyer vs. McDevitt
Boyer strikes out. View Play
Top 7
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Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 3-2, RoB: ---
McDevitt vs. Ricketts
McDevitt hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 3-1, RoB: 1--
Gilliam vs. Ricketts
Gilliam takes first base on ball four. McDevitt moves to second. View Play -
Dodgers, 1 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-1, RoB: 12-
Neal vs. Ricketts
Neal bunts towards the mound. Ricketts picks it up and throws it away. That's a base hit and an error on Ricketts. McDevitt scores. Gilliam moves to third. View Play -
Dodgers, 2 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 1-0, RoB: 1-3
Moon vs. Blaylock
Gary Blaylock now pitching.
Moon hits a ball on the ground into right field for a base hit. Gilliam scores. Neal moves to third. View Play -
Dodgers, 3 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 2-2, RoB: 1-3
Snider vs. Blaylock
Snider strikes out. View Play -
Dodgers, 3 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 1-2, RoB: 1-3
Hodges vs. Blaylock
Hodges strikes out. View Play -
Dodgers, 3 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-1, RoB: 1-3
Roseboro vs. Blaylock
Roseboro hits a ball on the ground towards first. White scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Roseboro for the out. View Play
Bottom 7
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Dodgers, 3 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 2-2, RoB: ---
Cunningham vs. McDevitt
Cunningham hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. View Play -
Dodgers, 3 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 2-2, RoB: 1--
Oliver vs. McDevitt
Oliver strikes out. View Play -
Dodgers, 3 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 2-2, RoB: 1--
Smith vs. McDevitt
Smith hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Cunningham moves to second. View Play -
Dodgers, 3 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-1, RoB: 12-
Jablonski vs. McDevitt
Ray Jablonski pinch hits for Alex Grammas.
Jablonski hits a ball on the ground towards short. Zimmer fields it, throws to second for one, and over to first - double play. View Play
Top 8
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Dodgers, 3 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Fairly vs. Blaylock
Lee Tate now playing shortstop.
Fairly hits a fly ball into right field for a base hit. View Play -
Dodgers, 3 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 1-2, RoB: 1--
Zimmer vs. Blaylock
Zimmer strikes out. View Play -
Dodgers, 3 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-2, RoB: 1--
McDevitt vs. Blaylock
McDevitt bunts towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Fairly moves to second. View Play -
Dodgers, 3 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-1, RoB: 12-
Gilliam vs. Blaylock
Don Demeter pinch runs for Ron Fairly.
Gilliam hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Blasingame fields it and throws to second for the out. Demeter moves to third. View Play -
Dodgers, 3 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1-3
Neal vs. Blaylock
There's a wild pitch. Demeter scores. Gilliam moves to second. View Play -
Dodgers, 4 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 3-2, RoB: -2-
Neal vs. Blaylock
Neal strikes out. View Play
Bottom 8
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Dodgers, 4 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 2-1, RoB: ---
Gray vs. McDevitt
Don Demeter now playing center field. Dick Gray pinch hits for Gary Blaylock.
Gray hits a ball on the ground towards short. Zimmer scoops it up and throws to first for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 4 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 3-2, RoB: ---
Blasingame vs. McDevitt
Blasingame hits a ball on the ground towards short. Zimmer fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. View Play -
Dodgers, 4 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-1, RoB: 1--
Cimoli vs. McDevitt
Cimoli hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Blasingame moves to third. View Play -
Dodgers, 4 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 1-0, RoB: 1-3
White vs. McDevitt
White hits a line drive towards third. Gilliam catches it and throws to first to double up Cimoli. View Play
Top 9
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Dodgers, 4 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Moon vs. Jeffcoat
Hal Jeffcoat now pitching. Dick Gray now playing second base.
Moon hits a ball on the ground towards short. Tate scoops it up and throws to first for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 4 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 1-0, RoB: ---
Snider vs. Jeffcoat
Snider hits a popup towards short. Tate settles under it and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 4 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 3-2, RoB: ---
Hodges vs. Jeffcoat
Hodges hits a line drive towards third. Boyer reaches out and makes the catch for the out. View Play
Bottom 9
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Dodgers, 4 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 0, Count: 1-0, RoB: ---
Boyer vs. McDevitt
Boyer hits a line drive into right field. Snider settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 4 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: ---
Cunningham vs. McDevitt
Cunningham hits a ball on the ground into center field for a base hit. View Play -
Dodgers, 4 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 1, Count: 0-0, RoB: 1--
Oliver vs. McDevitt
Oliver hits a ball on the ground towards short. Zimmer fields it and throws to second for the out. View Play -
Dodgers, 4 - Cardinals, 0
Outs: 2, Count: 0-2, RoB: 1--
Smith vs. McDevitt
Smith strikes out. View Play
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Box Score (back to top)
Game of 7/2/1959 -- Los Angeles at St.Louis (N) Los Angeles AB R H RBI St.Louis AB R H RBI Gilliam J, 3b 4 2 2 0 Blasingame D, 2b 4 0 2 0 Neal C, 2b 5 0 3 1 Jeffcoat H, p 0 0 0 0 Moon W, lf 5 0 1 1 Cimoli G, cf 4 0 1 0 Snider D, rf 4 0 0 0 White B, 1b 4 0 1 0 Hodges G, 1b 4 0 1 0 Boyer K, 3b 3 0 0 0 Roseboro J, c 4 0 0 0 Cunningham J, rf 4 0 2 0 Fairly R, cf 4 0 2 0 Oliver G, lf 4 0 1 0 Demeter D, pr-cf 0 1 0 0 Smith H, c 4 0 1 0 Zimmer D, ss 3 0 0 0 Grammas A, ss 2 0 2 0 McDevitt D, p 4 1 2 0 Jablonski R, ph 1 0 0 0 Tate L, ss 0 0 0 0 Ricketts D, p 1 0 0 0 Blaylock G, p 0 0 0 0 Gray D, ph-2b 1 0 0 0 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 37 4 11 2 32 0 10 0 Los Angeles 001 000 210 -- 4 St.Louis 000 000 000 -- 0 Los Angeles IP H R ER BB SO McDevitt D (W) 9.0 10 0 0 1 4 St.Louis IP H R ER BB SO Ricketts D (L)* 6.0 8 3 3 4 3 Blaylock G 2.0 3 1 1 0 4 Jeffcoat H 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 * Pitched to 3 batters in 7th E -- Boyer K, Ricketts D DP -- Los Angeles 4, St.Louis 1 LOB -- Los Angeles 10, St.Louis 7 3B -- Gilliam J, Neal C CS -- Neal C SH -- Ricketts D WP -- Blaylock G T -- 2:34 A -- 25704
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