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Sunday August 17,1958This date in baseball
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Bill Landrum celebrated a birthday on this date.

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 1958-08-17

Vis Team	R	Home Team	R	Box	Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher	Save Pitcher
Washington Senators I	1	Baltimore Orioles	2	Box	Connie Johnson	Russ Kemmerer	(none)
New York Yankees	5	Boston Red Sox	6	Box	Ike Delock	Art Ditmar	Leo Kiely
Cleveland Indians	2	Chicago White Sox	3	Box	Billy Pierce	Mudcat Grant	(none)
Detroit Tigers	1	Kansas City Athletics	4	Box	Bob Grim	Paul Foytack	(none)
Pittsburgh Pirates	3	Cincinnati Reds	4	Box	Tom Acker	Bob Porterfield	(none)
Pittsburgh Pirates	5	Cincinnati Reds	7	Box	Joe Nuxhall	Don Gross	Don Newcombe
St. Louis Cardinals	12	Los Angeles Dodgers	7	Box	Jim Brosnan	Sandy Koufax	(none)
St. Louis Cardinals	3	Los Angeles Dodgers	9	Box	Danny McDevitt	Sam Jones	(none)
Philadelphia Phillies	1	Milwaukee Braves	5	Box	Juan Pizarro	Don Cardwell	(none)
Philadelphia Phillies	1	Milwaukee Braves	4	Box	Lew Burdette	Ray Semproch	(none)
Chicago Cubs	6	San Francisco Giants	8	Box	Al Worthington	Moe Drabowsky	(none)

Standings as of 1958-08-17

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	119	75	44	.630	--	594	427	167	41-20	33-25	L3	T S R Log Off Def SP		George Weiss	Yankee Stadium I	35	17	18	.486
2	2	5	Chicago White Sox	118	62	56	.525	12.5	489	478	11	27-34	35-22	W5	T S R Log Off Def SP		Charlie Comiskey	Comiskey Park	36	20	16	.556
3	3	6	Boston Red Sox	113	57	56	.504	15.0	521	505	16	19-34	38-22	W3	T S R Log Off Def SP		Joe Cronin	Fenway Park	41	22	19	.537
4	4	7	Detroit Tigers	115	56	59	.487	17.0	489	501	-12	23-33	33-26	L4	T S R Log Off Def SP		John McHale	Briggs Stadium	39	21	18	.538
5	5	8	Baltimore Orioles	114	55	59	.482	17.5	387	415	-28	22-35	32-25	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Paul Richards	Memorial Stadium	39	19	20	.487
6	6	9	Cleveland Indians	118	56	62	.475	18.5	533	505	28	23-34	33-28	L3	T S R Log Off Def SP		Frank Lane	Cleveland Municipal Stadium	35	21	14	.600
7	7	15	Kansas City Athletics	113	52	61	.460	20.0	465	513	-48	19-40	32-22	W3	T S R Log Off Def SP		George Selkirk	Municipal Stadium	41	21	20	.512
8	8	16	Washington Senators I	118	51	67	.432	23.5	453	587	-134	22-38	28-30	L2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Calvin Griffith	Griffith Stadium	36	10	26	.278
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	113	67	46	.593	--	506	414	92	32-22	35-24	W7	T S R Log Off Def SP	Fred Haney	John Quinn	County Stadium	41	25	16	.610
2	2	3	Pittsburgh Pirates	111	60	51	.541	6.0	495	445	50	25-33	35-18	L2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Joe Brown	Forbes Field	43	24	19	.558
3	3	4	San Francisco Giants	116	61	55	.526	7.5	551	537	14	28-32	33-23	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Chub Feeney	Seals Stadium	38	19	19	.500
4	4	10	Los Angeles Dodgers	116	55	61	.474	13.5	518	594	-76	25-31	30-30	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Buzzie Bavasi	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	38	16	22	.421
5	5	11	St. Louis Cardinals	116	55	61	.474	13.5	469	510	-41	28-37	27-24	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Bing Devine	Sportsman's Park	38	17	21	.447
6	6	12	Cincinnati Reds	118	55	63	.466	14.5	513	493	20	25-30	30-33	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Gabe Paul	Crosley Field	36	21	15	.583
7	7	13	Philadelphia Phillies	114	53	61	.465	14.5	491	542	-51	24-33	29-28	L6	T S R Log Off Def SP		Roy Hamey	Connie Mack Stadium	40	16	24	.400
8	8	14	Chicago Cubs	112	52	60	.464	14.5	531	539	-8	24-29	28-31	L2	T S R Log Off Def SP		John Holland	Wrigley Field	42	20	22	.476

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