Giants @ Cubs
September 23, 1959

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Bottom 10 R H E
Giants 8 16 0
Cubs 8 13 0
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Giants 8 16 0
Cubs 9 14 0

Cal Neeman Season Stats

  Game Season
Average .000 .160
OBP .000 .229
At Bats 1 100
Hits 0 16
• Singles 0 12
• Doubles 0 2
• Triples 0 0
• Home Runs 0 2
Walks 0 9
RBI’s 0 6

Eddie Fisher Season Stats

Wins Losses Saves
2 4 1
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Wrigley Field - September 23, 1959
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Home Run
Eddie Fisher
Bob Schmidt
Willie McCovey
Daryl Spencer
Jose Pagan
Eddie Bressoud
Orlando Cepeda
Willie Mays
Felipe Alou
Cal Neeman

Final Stats

  Runs Hits Errors LOB
San Francisco Giants 8 16 0 8
Chicago Cubs 9 14 0 13
Winning Pitcher Don Elston
Losing Pitcher Eddie Fisher
Save (none)
Game Winning RBI Cal Neeman
Attendance 4,940
Time of Game 3 hours 44 minutes
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Count:  - , 2 Outs
Count:  - , 2 Outs

End of Game

Neeman hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.

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PRIOR PLAYS:
Bottom 10 Thomson hits a fly ball into left field. Cepeda settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 10 Eddie Fisher now pitching. Banks hits a popup towards short. Bressoud settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 10 Pagan hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 10 Willie Kirkland pinch hits for Mike McCormick. Kirkland hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 10 Bressoud hits a fly ball into left field. Thomson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 9 Walls is called out on strikes.
Bottom 9 Altman strikes out.
Bottom 9 Taylor takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 9 There's a wild pitch. Dark moves to third.
Bottom 9 Elston bunts towards the mound. McCormick fields it and throws to first for the out. Dark moves to second.
Bottom 9 Dark takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 Schmidt hits a popup, foul, towards third. Dark settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Don Elston now pitching. Spencer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Cepeda moves to second.
Top 9 Cepeda takes first base on ball four.
Top 9 McCovey hits a popup in front of the plate. Neeman settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 9 Dale Long now playing first base. Cal Neeman now catching. Mays hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 8 Randy Jackson pinch hits for Sammy Taylor. Jackson hits a ball on the ground towards third. Pagan fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 8 Cal Neeman pinch hits for Jim Marshall. Neeman hits a popup, foul, towards first. McCovey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Thomson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Banks moves to third. Thomson moves to second.
Bottom 8 Banks hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 8 Walls hits a popup towards the right side of the infield. Spencer settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 8 Bob Schmidt now catching. Mike McCormick now pitching. Altman hits a long drive deep into right field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 8 Alou hits a fly ball into right field. Walls settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 8 Pagan takes first base on ball four.
Top 8 Jackie Brandt pinch hits for Bud Byerly. Brandt hits a line drive into center field, out of the reach of Altman who is chasing the ball. Brandt reaches third base with a triple. Bressoud goes all the way around to score.
Top 8 Bressoud hits a ball on the ground into left center field for a base hit.
Top 8 Bob Schmidt pinch hits for Hobie Landrith. Schmidt strikes out.
Top 8 Spencer hits a ball on the ground towards third. Dark fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 7 Taylor hits a popup in front of the plate. Landrith settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 7 Henry hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Byerly fields it and throws to first for the out. Dark moves to second.
Bottom 7 Dark takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 7 Taylor hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spencer scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 7 Cepeda strikes out.
Top 7 Bill Henry now pitching. McCovey hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Thomson. McCovey reaches second base with a double. Thomson throws the ball in to Dark who tags McCovey trying to catch an extra base, for the out.
Top 7 Mays hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Top 7 Alou hits a fly ball into left field. Thomson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Pagan tags and scores.
Top 7 The umpire calls a balk on Anderson Pagan moves to third.
Top 7 Pagan hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Thomson. Pagan reaches second base with a double.
Bottom 6 Marshall hits a ball on the ground towards first. McCovey scoops up the ball, races to the bag, and beats Marshall for the out.
Bottom 6 Thomson hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Bottom 6 Banks hits a ball on the ground towards short. Bressoud scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 6 Bud Byerly now pitching. Walls hits a ball on the ground towards third. Pagan fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Leon Wagner pinch hits for Al Worthington. Wagner hits a fly ball into left field. Thomson settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 6 Bressoud hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.
Top 6 Landrith hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 6 Spencer hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 5 Altman hits a fly ball into right field. Alou settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Taylor hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Cepeda. Taylor reaches second base with a double. Taylor scores.
Bottom 5 Anderson hits a popup towards short. Bressoud settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 5 Dark hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Worthington fields it and throws to first for the out. Taylor moves to second.
Bottom 5 Taylor takes first base on ball four.
Top 5 Cepeda hits a ball on the ground towards third. Dark fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 5 McCovey hits a ball on the ground towards first. The ball bounces off Marshall, and towards Taylor, who fields it and throws to first for the out. Alou scores. Mays moves to second.
Top 5 Mays hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Alou moves to third.
Top 5 Alou hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Thomson. Alou reaches second base with a double.
Top 5 Pagan strikes out.
Bottom 4 Marshall hits a ball on the ground towards the mound. Worthington fields it and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 4 Thomson hits a fly ball into center field. Mays settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Taylor tags and scores. Altman tags and moves to third.
Bottom 4 Al Worthington now pitching. Banks hits a popup, foul, towards third. Pagan settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 4 Walls takes first base on ball four. Anderson scores. Taylor moves to third. Altman moves to second.
Bottom 4 Altman bunts towards the mound. Jones fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Anderson moves to third. Taylor moves to second.
Bottom 4 Taylor bunts towards the mound. Jones fields the ball and throws it to first. Safe. Anderson moves to second.
Bottom 4 Gordon Jones now pitching. Anderson takes first base on ball four.
Top 4 Dusty Rhodes pinch hits for Stu Miller. Rhodes hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Taylor fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 4 Bressoud hits a popup towards short. Banks settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 4 Landrith hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 4 Jim Marshall now playing first base. Sammy Taylor now catching. Spencer hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Dark hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spencer scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 3 Sammy Taylor pinch hits for Earl Averill. Taylor takes first base on ball four. Marshall moves to second.
Bottom 3 Stu Miller now pitching. Jim Marshall pinch hits for Art Schult. Marshall hits a ball on the ground into right center field for a base hit. Banks scores. Thomson moves to third.
Bottom 3 Thomson hits a line drive into center field for a base hit. Banks moves to second.
Bottom 3 Banks hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 3 Walls hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A home run.
Bottom 3 Altman hits a popup towards first. McCovey settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 3 Taylor hits a fly ball into center field. Mays settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 3 Cepeda hits a ball on the ground towards third. Dark fields it and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 McCovey hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Top 3 Mays hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Taylor scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 2 Anderson strikes out.
Bottom 2 Dark hits a fly ball into center field. Mays settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out. Schult moves to third.
Bottom 2 Averill hits a fly ball into right field. Alou settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 2 Schult hits a line drive into right field, out of the reach of Alou. Schult reaches second base with a double.
Top 2 Alou hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Taylor fields the ball and can't make a play. That's a base hit. There goes Bressoud trying to get to home. Taylor throws to Averill who tags Bressoud for the out. Antonelli moves to second.
Top 2 Pagan hits a fly ball into center field. Altman settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Top 2 Antonelli bunts towards the mound. Anderson fields it and throws to third for the out. Bressoud moves to second.
Top 2 Bressoud hits a line drive into right field for a base hit. Landrith moves to second.
Top 2 Landrith hits a line drive into center field for a base hit.
Bottom 1 Thomson hits a ball on the ground towards the right side of the infield. Spencer scoops it up and throws to first for the out.
Bottom 1 Banks hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Bottom 1 Walls takes first base on ball four.
Bottom 1 Altman hits a fly ball into right field. Alou settles under the ball and makes the catch for the out.
Bottom 1 Taylor hits a popup towards short. Bressoud settles under it and makes the catch for the out.
Top 1 Spencer is called out on strikes.
Top 1 Cepeda hits a long drive deep into left field. That ball is going, going, gone. A two run home run..
Top 1 McCovey hits a line drive into left field, out of the reach of Thomson. McCovey reaches second base with a double. Alou scores.
Top 1 Mays hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks scoops it up and throws to first for the out. Alou moves to second.
Top 1 Alou hits a ball on the ground towards short. Banks fields it and throws to second for the out.
Top 1 Pagan hits a line drive into left field for a base hit.