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Friday August 8,1958This date in baseball
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Events that happened in baseball on this date. The page was designed to be like a newspaper sports page with baseball-only. All of the basbeall events for this date have been consolidated into this page. Though historically relevant, it is also a great place to review the prior day's events.

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Month	Day	Year

Games on 1958-08-08

Vis Team	R	Home Team	R	Box	Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher	Save Pitcher
Kansas City Athletics	4	Cleveland Indians	10	Box	Don Ferrarese	Ned Garver	(none)
Chicago White Sox	2	Detroit Tigers	6	Box	Frank Lary	Early Wynn	(none)
Boston Red Sox	0	New York Yankees	2	Box	Whitey Ford	Ike Delock	(none)
Baltimore Orioles	2	Washington Senators I	4	Box	Russ Kemmerer	Hal Brown	Dick Hyde
St. Louis Cardinals	6	Chicago Cubs	3	Box	Vinegar Bend Mizell	Dick Drott	(none)
San Francisco Giants	3	Los Angeles Dodgers	6	Box	Don Drysdale	Ruben Gomez	Johnny Klippstein
Milwaukee Braves	6	Philadelphia Phillies	7	Box	Turk Farrell	Don McMahon	(none)
Cincinnati Reds	0	Pittsburgh Pirates	1	Box	Red Witt	Joe Nuxhall	(none)

Standings as of 1958-08-08

Record in remaining games at far right

Rk	Lg	MLB	AL -	GP	W	L	Pct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Home	Away	StrK	1958 Links	Manager	General Manager	Ballpark	GP	W	L	Pct
1	1	1	New York Yankees	108	72	36	.667	--	543	360	183	40-17	31-20	W4	T S R Log Off Def SP		George Weiss	Yankee Stadium I	46	20	26	.435
2	2	5	Boston Red Sox	104	52	52	.500	18.0	473	462	11	17-31	35-21	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Joe Cronin	Fenway Park	50	27	23	.540
3	3	6	Chicago White Sox	107	53	54	.495	18.5	439	447	-8	23-33	30-21	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Charlie Comiskey	Comiskey Park	47	29	18	.617
4	4	7	Cleveland Indians	107	53	54	.495	18.5	490	459	31	23-31	30-23	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Frank Lane	Cleveland Municipal Stadium	46	24	22	.522
5	5	9	Detroit Tigers	104	51	53	.490	19.0	439	438	1	21-29	30-24	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		John McHale	Briggs Stadium	50	26	24	.520
6	6	14	Baltimore Orioles	104	48	56	.462	22.0	339	386	-47	18-33	29-24	L11	T S R Log Off Def SP		Paul Richards	Memorial Stadium	49	26	23	.531
7	7	15	Kansas City Athletics	102	47	55	.461	22.0	417	462	-45	17-34	29-22	L4	T S R Log Off Def SP		George Selkirk	Municipal Stadium	52	26	26	.500
8	8	16	Washington Senators I	110	47	63	.427	26.0	422	548	-126	20-36	26-28	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Calvin Griffith	Griffith Stadium	44	14	30	.318
Rk	Lg	MLB	NL -	GP	W	L	Pct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Home	Away	StrK	1958 Links	Manager	General Manager	Ballpark	GP	W	L	Pct
1	1	2	Milwaukee Braves	101	58	43	.574	--	448	376	72	27-19	31-24	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP	Fred Haney	John Quinn	County Stadium	53	34	19	.642
2	2	3	Pittsburgh Pirates	101	53	48	.525	5.0	435	404	31	23-30	30-18	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Joe Brown	Forbes Field	53	31	22	.585
3	3	4	San Francisco Giants	108	55	53	.509	6.5	499	501	-2	26-32	29-21	L4	T S R Log Off Def SP		Chub Feeney	Seals Stadium	46	25	21	.543
4	4	8	Philadelphia Phillies	104	51	53	.490	8.5	455	478	-23	24-29	27-24	W3	T S R Log Off Def SP		Roy Hamey	Connie Mack Stadium	50	18	32	.360
6	6	11	St. Louis Cardinals	106	51	55	.481	9.5	423	454	-31	24-31	27-24	W5	T S R Log Off Def SP		Bing Devine	Sportsman's Park	48	21	27	.438
5	5	10	Cincinnati Reds	106	51	55	.481	9.5	465	434	31	24-26	27-29	L3	T S R Log Off Def SP		Gabe Paul	Crosley Field	48	25	23	.521
7	7	12	Chicago Cubs	103	49	54	.476	10.0	488	494	-6	22-25	27-29	L3	T S R Log Off Def SP		John Holland	Wrigley Field	51	23	28	.451
8	8	13	Los Angeles Dodgers	107	50	57	.467	11.0	466	538	-72	25-31	25-26	W3	T S R Log Off Def SP		Buzzie Bavasi	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	47	21	26	.447

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