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1958 BOSTON RED SOX ...
This was Tom Yawkey's 25th year owning the club, and in 1958, Red Sox once again finished in third place, 13 games out and were in no position to ever threaten the Yankees. They had the best home record (49-28) in the league but couldn't win away from Fenway Park. They acquired Pete Runnels, from the Washington Senators, to play second base on January 23rd for Norm Zauchin and Albie Pearson. Batting in front of Ted Williams, Runnels got to see a lot of good pitches and he challenged Ted all year long for the batting crown. Jackie Jensen had his best baseball season in 1958. He slugged a career-high 35 home runs, drove in a league-leading 122 runs, and hit .286. He started his first All-Star Game, hitting third and playing the entire game in right field (he was hitless in four at-bats). Over the last five years, Jensen had amassed more RBIs than any active player in the American League. After the season he was named the league’s Most Valuable Player, receiving nine of 24 first-place votes to beat out Bob Turley and Rocky Colavito.
Frank Malzone was another offensive threat, batting .295 and did a great job of fielding at third base. Starting in 1958, each league awarded a Gold Glove and Malzone won for thirdbasemen. Jimmy Piersall suffered through his worst season, hitting just .237 with eight home runs, as he battled a rib cage injury suffered when Tigers infielder Billy Martin landed on him after a slide at second base.
Even with a
great offense, the Sox pitchers were average at best. Only
three pitchers won ten games.
Ike Delock, who shuttled
between starting and the bullpen, won 14 games,
Frank
Sullivan won 13 and
Tom Brewer had 11 wins. Delock did win
13 consecutive games, going back to 1957, until he was
defeated by the White Sox on July 26th.
Sullivan had 10
complete games and tied
Brewer for the team lead in that
category.
Brewer After what he accomplished the year before, Ted Williams became bulletproof. Even though he was ill-mannered and self-centered, what he had accomplished amazed everyone. Now he was considered a principled non-conformist, who was willing to take the unpopular position and stand up for what he believed. On February 6th, Ted signed his contract for $125,00 with $65,000 in deferred payments. While fishing in Maine, Ted slipped on a rock and reported to spring training with a twisted ankle. He then missed opening day because he had some bad seafood and was suffering from food poisoning.
On opening day in Washington, the Sox put their 17th different infield, in the last 25 years on the field. They'd started 19 different right fielders, 15 thirdbasemen, 14 shortstops and firstbasemen, 13 catchers, 10 secondbasemen and nine centerfielders. The Sox lost 5 to 2. The next day was the season opener at Fenway Park and the Sox hosted the Yankees. Willard Nixon dueled Don Larsen in a scoreless deadlock for six innings, until Yogi Berra broke it up with a two-run homer and the Yanks won, 3-0. The next day, Dave Sisler threw a six-hitter at the Yanks and won, 3 to 1. In the series finale, Jackie Jensen launched his third homer of the season over the left field nets in the ninth inning, to keep the Yanks from shutting out the Sox in the 3-1 rubber game. The only bright spot in April for the 4-10 Red Sox, happened on the last day of the month. On April 30th, Ted Williams collected his 1000th extra base hit, a ninth inning homer against the Athletics, but the Sox lost 11-4.
On May 1st, the Sox were frustrated by leaving 11 runners on bases and leaving the bases loaded three times. Then in the ninth inning they came thru by scoring the tying run, before Jimmy Piersall ended it with a walk-off double high off the wall, for a 6 to 6 win. After losing a close first game of a doubleheader, 2 to1, there was never a more unusual pitching duel in the second game. Young Frank Baumann bested the veteran Hoyt Wilhem, in a 12 inning battle that Baumann won, giving his Sox a split with the Indians, on May 4th. Tied at 1-1, into the 12th inning the game went and Gene Stephens legged out a drag bunt to lead off. Billy Consolo forced him at second and went to second on a wild pitch. Then Frank Malzone lined a single, bringing Consolo home with the game winning run, 2-1.
Malzone's bat was hot. He was batting .192 on April 27th and in over the next seven games, he knocked out 16 hits in 34 at-bats for .417 average with nine RBIs and was batting .296 overall. One of the season's highlights came on May 18th when the Boston Sports Lodge (a unit of the B'nai B'rith Jewish service organization) presented the 25 outstanding Red Sox players of Tom Yawkey's first 25 years of ownership. As part of the festivities, the selected players took batting practice and fielded in front of the crowd before the regularly-scheduled Red Sox game against the Orioles. In the game that day against the Orioles, Jackie Jensen banged out a home run and three singles in an 8-4 Sox win, after going 3-for-3 the game before, hitting .280.
Ted Williams
On May 22nd,
Ted hit the 16th grandslam homer of his
career in Kansas City. It carried the Sox to an 8 to 5
win.
June started with two losses to the Yankees. The game on June 4th showed the Sox problems in microcosm. They blew a 3-0 lead over the Indians, heaved a couple of wild throws into their dugout, forgot to back-up the plate and lost 7-5.
On
June 8th, the Red Sox
unleashed a barrage of homers, to come from behind and defeat the
Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in extra
innings. Down a run in the 10th inning,
Jackie
Jensen slugged a two-run homer, his second of the
game, to decide the opener.
Jensen's eighth inning homer sealed the deal on June
12th, as the Sox beat the Tigers, 4 to 2.
Jensen was featured on the cover of Sports
Illustrated in June, under the headline “Wheel Horse
of the Red Sox,” but much of the story focused on
Jensen’s
frustrations with the life of a ballplayer. The Sox put up their seventh win in their last 10 games
on June 14th, by beating the Athletics, 7 to 1. In the
last three games, Dave Sisler,
Tom Brewer and
Frank
Sullivan had allowed only six runs in total.
Frank Malzone
had knocked out 15 hits in his last 21 trips. This streak put the Sox in second place, but eight
games behind the Yankees. The Sox then lost seven of
their next eight and on June 22nd were back in fourth
place, ten games out.
Ted Williams homered after a 20 year absence, to put
the Sox out front, but Pumpsie Green was the star in an
exhibition game between the Sox and the Minneapolis
Millers, the Sox AAA club on June 16th. Pumpsie's bases
loaded triple brought the Millers from behind and ahead to
stay, 14-10.
Ike Delock held the Cleveland Indians to just five
hits, striking out 12 batters on June 26th. The Sox won
the game in Cleveland, 2 to 1, thanks to Delock's solid
pitching and
Ted's ninth inning homer.
Ted homered again
the next night and again on two nights later. Jackie
Jensen slugged his 18th homer to break a 1-1
deadlock in Kansas City on June 20th, but the A's bounced
back to win. The next day
Jensen slugged another in
another loss. In Detroit on June 28th,
The next
day, with the Sox down 5 to 1 going into the ninth inning,
In the
first game of the July 4th doubleheader,
Jensen slugged a
tie-breaking double and the Sox won 5-1, on a neat
five-hitter by
Frank
Sullivan. But they lost the second
game and found themselves 12 games behind the Yanks.
Jensen JENSEN HOMERS
Jensen The Sox
then put together a six game winning streak at Fenway,
from July 14th thru July 19th. The first game was won on a
bases loaded walk to Ted Lepcio in the 10th inning. The
next game was won on
Jackie
Jensen's three-run homer
against the A's, 5 to 2.
Jensen and Billy Consolo sparked
a come-from-behind four run surge that gave
Ike Delock his
ninth win on July 16th. On
July 18th, in the
debut of pitcher
Bill Monbouquette,
Pete
Runnels collected
five hits while
Frank Malzone hit a tie-breaking grandslam
homer, that gave Red Sox another come-from-behind victory,
11 to 9. Runnels put together five hits to
take over the American League batting leadership with a
.334 BA. He banged out three doubles and two singles in
six times up.
JIM BUNNING'S NO-HITTER
The Sox and Tigers finished their series at Fenway with
a doubleheader on July 20th. Jim Bunning threw a no-hitter
in the first game, beating the Sox 3-0 and striking out 12
batters. He became the third visiting pitcher to do so at
Fenway Park. Walter Johnson did it in 1920, Ted Lyons in
1926, and George Mogridge threw one in 1917, but allowed a
run. The fact that
Ike Delock stayed undefeated, beating
the Tigers, 5-2, winning his tenth game, in the nitecap
was anti-climactic. The Sox went on the road to visit the midwest cities at
the end of July. In Detroit on July 28th,
Pete
Runnels was
the star.
Runnels had three hits an upped his batting
average to .328 while
Williams, who went hitless, was
hitting to .304.
Jackie
Jensen was hitting .307, leading
the league with 29 homers and 89 RBIs. After losing 10 of the 12 games on the trip the press
was calling for manager, Mike Higgins, to be removed. But
the Sox then swept a doubleheader in Cleveland, on Labor
Day, to salvage a piece of the trip.
Ted Williams knocked
out a two-run homer into the upper deck of Municipal
Stadium, in the ninth inning, to give the Sox a 3-2
victory. In the second game,
Pete
Runnels slashed a
two-run double that tied the game and scored, what proved
to be the winning run, on Marty Keough's single.
Runnels
got three hits in six trips during the doubleheader. The Sox returned to Fenway in second place, 16 games
behind the Yankees. Five teams trailed within three games
of the Red Sox. Only the last place Washington Senators
were far behind, and it was the Senators that the Sox took
three straight from, when they came home. In the first game of the series on August 5th,
In Yankee Stadium on August 9th, the Sox beat up the
Yankees, 9 to 6. It was "Old Timers" day and Hall-of-famer
George Sisler watched his son, Dave, keep the Yanks quiet
for five innings.
Runnels and
Jensen doubled, and
Malzone
had three hits including a homer. When the Yankees came to Fenway,
Runnels slugged a two
run homer in the first inning that was good enough to put
the Sox on top of the Yanks, 6 to 2, on August 15th. The
next game,
Runnels had two more hits as the Sox won, 7 to
4. in the final game,
Ike Delock was breezing along
winning 6-2.
Jensen had singled home two runs and
Williams was 4-for-4 with an RBI double. But the
Yankees came back and Delock held on for a 6 to 5 win.
That was three straight wins over New York. Their A.L.
lead was 13 1/2 games however. PETE RUNNELS & TED
Pete
Runnels was leading the league, batting .330. But
Ted Williams was hot, had boosted his average to .316 and
was hitting .433 over the past two weeks.
Frank Malzone powered the Sox to a 4-3 win over the
Indians at Fenway on August 22nd. It gave
Ike Delock
his 12th win of the season.
Malzone powered a homer in the
fourth inning and drove home
Runnels, who had
doubled, with the winning run in the eighth inning. Jackie
Jensen singled home the winning run in the
bottom of the 11th inning to back up the brilliant relief
job by Murray Wall on
August 24th. It gave the Red Sox a sweep of the
doubleheader with the Kansas City Athletics. Wall allowed
only one runner to reach base in 7 2/3 innings of sharp
relief and retired the last 14 batters to pick up his
seventh win. Pete Daley (.455 BA) was the star when Baltimore
visited Fenway on August 29th. He cracked a triple and a
three-run homer to knock in four of the five runs the Sox
scored in a 5 to 2 win. Daley had a winning percentage of
.600 in the games he started as the catcher. In the next
game, Pete had three hits, but the Sox lost to the
Orioles. The Sox ended August and their homestand with a 10-6
record, good for 3rd place, two games behind the White Sox
and 12 1/2 games behind New York.
Pete
Runnels had a 10 game hitting streak snapped.
Then he went 0-14, saw his batting average slip to .321,
now behind Harvey Kuenn (.325 BA) in the A.L. batting
race. The Sox started September by losing three-of-four in
New York, but the won three-of-four in Baltimore. On
September 4th, the Sox beat the Orioles, 5 to 2. The win
was propelled by
Pete
Runnels, who broke out of a slump by doubling
home the tying run in the fifth inning and singled in the
winning run in the seventh. On September 7th,
Runnels
(.323 BA) had a two-run homer and a single in Baltimore,
to regain the batting lead. But in Chicago on September 9th,
Ted Williams,
who had been out for two weeks with a the flu, came back
and laced out two hits in his first two times at bat. He
hoisted his batting average up to .318 and was only three
points behind the league leader,
Pete
Runnels (.321 BA). Two hits on September 11th
pushed
The batting race grew tighter and tighter. On September
16th,
Runnels
still held the lead with a .319 BA.
The Sox continued the trip in Chicago and lost all
three games. In Cleveland they lost two, two in Detroit
and two of three in Kansas City.
Williams
had been out and during the trip while,
Jensen
and
Malzone
had slumped.
Jensen's
batting average went from .309 to .288.
Malzone
started at .306 and finished the trip batting .292. W At Fenway Park, the Sox
Tom Brewer
shutout the Senators, 2-0 on September 19th.
Runnels
knocked out two hits and
TED'S TANTRUM On September 21st,
Ted Williams' temper
again put him in serious trouble. When the Sox retook the field,
But as far as
the batting contest went,
With six games left,
Runnels put on a spurt, but
Williams was hitting .403 over his last 55 games of
the season. On September 23rd, against the Yankees,
Three Sox errors gave the Yankees a 7-5 win in the final
game at Fenway on September 24th.
The Sox traveled to Washington to finish the season with
four games. They swept a doubleheader from the Nats on
September 26th.
Williams
had two hits in three trips in the first game, including
his 24th homer but sat out the second game.
Runnels
was 0-4 in the opener and knocked out two hits in five at
bats in the second game. They were both tied, batting .322
at days end.
In the third game,
Runnels tripled the first time up
while
In the last
game of the season, Williams popped a double and slugged a
home run, while
Runnels
went 0-for-4.
And so,
Ted Williams
won his sixth and final batting title, going 7-for-11 in
the final series, finishing with a .328 BA, while
Runnels
went 5-for-19, finishing the season batting .322
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| DATE | RECORD | PLACE | GB/GF | OPPONENT | SCORE | PITCHER | W/L | |||
| 04/14/1958 | 0-1 | 8th | -1 | at Washington Senators | L | 5-2 | Frank Sullivan | 0-1 | ||
| 04/15/1958 | 0-2 | 8th | -1 1/2 | New York Yankees | L | 3-0 | Willard Nixon | 0-1 | ||
| 04/16/1958 | 1-2 | 6th | -1 1/2 | New York Yankees | W | 3-1 | Dick Sisler | 1-0 | ||
| 04/17/1958 | 1-3 | 8th | -2 | New York Yankees | L | 3-1 | Tom Brewer | 0-1 | ||
| 04/18/1958 | 1-3 | 8th | -2 | |||||||
| 04/19/1958 | 1-4 | 8th | -3 | at Washington Senators | L | 4-3 | Leo Kiely | 0-1 | ||
| 04/20/1958 | 1-5 | 8th | -4 | at Washington Senators | L | 6-5 | Murray Wall | 0-1 | ||
| 04/21/1958 | 1-6 | 8th | -5 | at New York Yankees | L | 4-1 | Willard Nixon | 0-2 | ||
| 04/22/1958 | 1-7 | 8th | -6 | at New York Yankees | L | 12-7 | Dave Sisler | 1-1 | ||
| 04/23/1958 | 2-7 | 8th | -5 | Baltimore Orioles | W | 7-5 | Tom Brewer | 1-1 | ||
| 04/24/1958 | 3-7 | 7th | -4 1/2 | Baltimore Orioles | W | 4-3 | Mike Fornieles | 1-0 | ||
| 04/25/1958 | 3-8 | 8th | -4 1/2 | Washington Senators | L | 2-0 | Frank Baumann | 0-1 | ||
| 04/26/1958 | 3-9 | 8th | -5 1/2 | Washington Senators | L | 7-5 | Willard Nixon | 0-3 | ||
| 04/27/1958 | 4-9 | 7th | -5 | Washington Senators | W | 7-5 | Dave Sisler | 2-1 | ||
| 04/28/1958 | 4-9 | 7th | -5 | |||||||
| 04/29/1958 | 4-9 | 7th | -5 1/2 | Kansas City Athletics | pp | |||||
| 04/30/1958 | 4-10 | 7th | -5 1/2 | Kansas City Athletics | L | 11-4 | Tom Brewer | 1-2 | ||
| 05/01/1958 | 5-10 | 7th | -5 | Kansas City Athletics | W | 7-6 | Ike Delock | 1-0 | ||
| 05/02/1958 | 6-10 | 7th | -5 | Detroit Tigers | W | 6-0 | Dave Sisler | 3-1 | ||
| 05/03/1958 | 6-10 | 7th | -5 | Detroit Tigers | pp | |||||
| 05/04/1958 | 6-11 | 7th | -5 | Cleveland Indians | L | 2-1 | Tom Brewer | 1-3 | ||
| 7-11 | 7th | -5 | W | 2-1 | Frank Baumann | 1-1 | ||||
| 05/05/1958 | 8-11 | 7th | -4 1/2 | Cleveland Indians | W | 8-5 | Bob Smith | 1-0 | ||
| 05/06/1958 | 9-11 | 6th | -4 | Cleveland Indians | W | 7-5 | Murray Wall | 1-1 | ||
| 05/07/1958 | 9-11 | 6th | -4 | Chicago White Sox | pp | |||||
| 05/08/1958 | 9-11 | 6th | -4 | |||||||
| 05/09/1958 | 10-11 | 4th | -4 | at Baltimore Orioles | W | 13-5 | Dave Sisler | 4-1 | ||
| 05/10/1958 | 10-12 | 6th | -5 | at Baltimore Orioles | L | 5-2 | Tom Brewer | 1-4 | ||
| 05/11/1958 | 10-13 | 7th | -6 | at Baltimore Orioles | L | 3-2 | Mike Fornieles | 1-1 | ||
| 10-14 | 7th | -6 | L | 4-0 | Willard Nixon | 0-4 | ||||
| 05/12/1958 | 10-15 | 7th | -6 1/2 | at Washington Senators | L | 5-4 | Murray Wall | 1-2 | ||
| 05/13/1958 | 11-15 | 7th | -6 1/2 | at Washington Senators | W | 9-6 | Bob Smith | 2-0 | ||
| 05/14/1958 | 12-15 | 6th | -6 1/2 | at Washington Senators | W | 7-5 | Leo Kiely | 1-1 | ||
| 05/15/1958 | 12-15 | 7th | -6 1/2 | |||||||
| 05/16/1958 | 12-15 | 7th | -7 | Baltimore Orioles | pp | |||||
| 05/17/1958 | 13-15 | 5th | -7 | Baltimore Orioles | W | 7-4 | Murray Wall | 2-2 | ||
| 13-16 | 5th | -7 1/2 | L | 5-3 | Frank Baumann | 1-2 | ||||
| 05/18/1958 | 14-16 | 5th | -8 | Baltimore Orioles | W | 8-4 | Frank Sullivan | 1-1 | ||
| 05/19/1958 | 14-16 | 5th | -8 | |||||||
| 05/20/1958 | 15-16 | 4th | -8 | at Cleveland Indians | W | 6-1 | Bob Smith | 3-0 | ||
| 05/21/1958 | 15-17 | 5th | -9 | at Cleveland Indians | L | 3-2 | Murray Wall | 2-3 | ||
| 05/22/1958 | 16-17 | 5th | -9 | at Kansas City Athletics | W | 8-5 | Mike Fornieles | 2-1 | ||
| 05/23/1958 | 17-17 | 3rd | -9 | at Kansas City Athletics | W | 9-1 | Willard Nixon | 1-4 | ||
| 05/24/1958 | 18-17 | 2nd | -8 | at Kansas City Athletics | W | 5-4 | Murray Wall | 3-3 | ||
| 05/25/1958 | 19-17 | 2nd | -9 | at Chicago White Sox | W | 6-3 | Frank Baumann | 2-2 | ||
| 19-18 | 2nd | -9 | L | 4-3 | Mike Fornieles | 2-2 | ||||
| 05/26/1958 | 19-18 | 2nd | -9 | |||||||
| 05/27/1958 | 19-19 | 3rd | -9 | at Detroit Tigers | L | 3-2 | Tom Brewer | 1-5 | ||
| 05/28/1958 | 19-20 | 4th | -9 | at Detroit Tigers | L | 4-2 | Willard Nixon | 1-5 | ||
| 05/29/1958 | 19-20 | 4th | -9 | |||||||
| 05/30/1958 | 20-20 | 5th | -8 | at Baltimore Orioles | W | 2-0 | Frank Sullivan | 2-1 | ||
| 20-21 | 5th | -8 | L | 2-0 | Bob Smith | 3-1 | ||||
| 05/31/1958 | 20-22 | 5th | -9 | New York Yankees | L | 5-4 | Willard Nixon | 1-6 | ||
| 06/01/1958 | 20-23 | 5th | -10 | New York Yankees | L | 10-4 | Murray Wall | 3-4 | ||
| 06/02/1958 | 20-23 | 5th | -10 1/2 | |||||||
| 06/03/1958 | 21-23 | 3rd | -10 1/2 | Cleveland Indians | W | 7-3 | Tom Brewer | 2-5 | ||
| 06/04/1958 | 21-24 | 5th | -10 1/2 | Cleveland Indians | L | 7-5 | Dave Sisler | 4-2 | ||
| 06/05/1958 | 22-24 | 3rd | -10 | Cleveland Indians | W | 5-3 | Mike Fornieles | 3-2 | ||
| 06/06/1958 | 23-24 | 3rd | -10 | Chicago White Sox | W | 3-2 | Ike Delock | 2-0 | ||
| 06/07/1958 | 24-24 | 3rd | -10 | Chicago White Sox | W | 7-6 | Ike Delock | 3-0 | ||
| 06/08/1958 | 25-24 | 3rd | -9 | Chicago White Sox | W | 6-5 | Leo Kiely | 2-1 | ||
| 26-24 | 3rd | -8 | W | 4-1 | Dave Sisler | 5-2 | ||||
| 06/09/1958 | 27-24 | 2nd | -7 1/2 | Detroit Tigers | W | 9-4 | Frank Sullivan | 3-1 | ||
| 06/10/1958 | 27-24 | 3rd | -7 1/2 | Detroit Tigers | pp | |||||
| 06/11/1958 | 27-25 | 2nd | -8 1/2 | Detroit Tigers | L | 7-0 | Mike Fornieles | 3-3 | ||
| 27-26 | 2nd | -9 1/2 | L | 9-3 | Murray Wall | 3-5 | ||||
| 06/12/1958 | 28-26 | 2nd | -9 | Detroit Tigers | W | 4-2 | Dave Sisler | 6-2 | ||
| 06/13/1958 | 29-26 | 2nd | -8 | Kansas City Athletics | W | 9-3 | Tom Brewer | 3-5 | ||
| 06/14/1958 | 30-26 | 2nd | -7 | Kansas City Athletics | W | 7-1 | Frank Sullivan | 4-1 | ||
| 06/15/1958 | 30-27 | 2nd | -7 | Kansas City Athletics | L | 17-6 | Willard Nixon | 1-7 | ||
| 30-28 | 2nd | -7 | L | 9-4 | Mike Fornieles | 3-4 | ||||
| 06/16/1958 | 30-28 | 3rd | -12 1/2 | Minneapolis Millers |
L |
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| 06/17/1958 | 30-29 | 2nd | -8 | at Chicago White Sox | L | 4-0 | Dave Sisler | 6-3 | ||
| 06/18/1958 | 31-29 | 2nd | -8 | at Chicago White Sox | W | 13-9 | Ike Delock | 4-0 | ||
| 06/19/1958 | 31-30 | 2nd | -9 | at Chicago White Sox | L | 4-0 | Frank Sullivan | 4-2 | ||
| 06/20/1958 | 31-31 | 2nd | -9 | at Kansas City Athletics | L | 5-3 | Bob Smith | 3-2 | ||
| 06/21/1958 | 31-32 | 4th | -9 | at Kansas City Athletics | L | 8-5 | Dave Sisler | 6-4 | ||
| 06/22/1958 | 31-33 | 4th | -10 | at Kansas City Athletics | L | 2-1 | Tom Brewer | 3-6 | ||
| 06/23/1958 | 31-33 | 4th | -9 1/2 | |||||||
| 06/24/1958 | 32-33 | 4th | -9 1/2 | at Cleveland Indians | W | 4-3 | Leo Kiely | 3-1 | ||
| 06/25/1958 | 32-33 | 4th | -9 1/2 | at Cleveland Indians | pp | |||||
| 06/26/1958 | 33-33 | 3rd | -9 1/2 | at Cleveland Indians | W | 2-1 | Ike Delock | 5-0 | ||
| 06/27/1958 | 33-34 | 4th | -10 1/2 | at Detroit Tigers | L | 7-4 | Murray Wall | 3-6 | ||
| 06/28/1958 | 34-34 | 3rd | -10 1/2 | at Detroit Tigers | W | 6-5 | Bob Smith | 4-2 | ||
| 06/29/1958 | 35-34 | 3rd | -9 1/2 | at Detroit Tigers | W | 10-7 | Frank Sullivan | 5-2 | ||
| 06/30/1958 | 35-34 | 3rd | -9 1/2 | |||||||
| 07/01/1958 | 36-34 | 3rd | -9 | Washington Senators | W | 10-5 | Ike Delock | 6-0 | ||
| 07/02/1958 | 36-35 | 3rd | -10 | Washington Senators | L | 5-3 | Tom Brewer | 3-7 | ||
| 07/03/1958 | 36-36 | 3rd | -11 | Baltimore Orioles | L | 7-5 | Murray Wall | 3-7 | ||
| 07/04/1958 | 37-36 | 3rd | -12 | Baltimore Orioles | W | 5-1 | Frank Sullivan | 6-2 | ||
| 37-37 | 3rd | -12 | L | 5-3 | Mike Fornieles | 3-5 | ||||
| 07/05/1958 | 37-37 | 3rd | -12 | at New York Yankees |
T |
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| 07/06/1958 | 38-37 | 2nd | -11 | at New York Yankees | W | 10-4 | Ike Delock | 7-0 | ||
| 07/07/1958 | All Star Game Break | |||||||||
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| 07/10/1958 | 39-37 | 2nd | -11 | Chicago White Sox | W | 11-2 | Frank Sullivan | 7-2 | ||
| 07/11/1958 | 40-37 | 2nd | -11 | Chicago White Sox | W | 6-1 | Ike Delock | 8-0 | ||
| 07/12/1958 | 40-38 | 2nd | -12 | Chicago White Sox | L | 7-4 | Bob Smith | 4-3 | ||
| 40-39 | 2nd | -12 1/2 | L | 13-5 | Mike Fornieles | 3-6 | ||||
| 07/13/1958 | 40-40 | 3rd | -13 | Cleveland Indians | L | 9-4 | Tom Brewer | 3-8 | ||
| 07/14/1958 | 41-40 | 2nd | -13 | Cleveland Indians | W | 4-3 | Murray Wall | 4-7 | ||
| 07/15/1958 | 42-40 | 2nd | -12 | Kansas City Athletics | W | 5-2 | Frank Sullivan | 8-2 | ||
| 07/16/1958 | 43-40 | 2nd | -12 | Kansas City Athletics | W | 5-2 | Ike Delock | 9-0 | ||
| 07/17/1958 | 44-40 | 2nd | -12 | Kansas City Athletics | W | 6-2 | Tom Brewer | 4-8 | ||
| 07/18/1958 | 45-40 | 2nd | -11 | Detroit Tigers | W | 11-9 | Murray Wall | 5-7 | ||
| 07/19/1958 | 46-40 | 2nd | -10 | Detroit Tigers | W | 7-6 | Leo Kiely | 4-1 | ||
| 07/20/1958 | 46-41 | 2nd | -11 | Detroit Tigers | L | 3-0 | Frank Sullivan | 8-3 | ||
| 47-41 | 2nd | -11 | W | 5-2 | Ike Delock | 10-0 | ||||
| 07/21/1958 | 47-41 | 2nd | -11 | |||||||
| 07/22/1958 | 47-42 | 2nd | -12 | at Kansas City Athletics | L | 4-3 | Tom Brewer | 4-9 | ||
| 07/23/1958 | 47-43 | 2nd | -13 | at Kansas City Athletics | L | 3-1 | 0-1 | |||
| 07/24/1958 | 47-43 | 2nd | -13 1/2 | at Kansas City Athletics | pp | |||||
| 07/25/1958 | 47-44 | 2nd | -14 1/2 | at Chicago White Sox | L | 4-0 | Frank Sullivan | 8-4 | ||
| 07/26/1958 | 47-45 | 2nd | -15 1/2 | at Chicago White Sox | L | 11-6 | Ike Delock | 10-1 | ||
| 07/27/1958 | 48-45 | 2nd | -14 | at Chicago White Sox | W | 7-3 | Bud Byerly | 3-0 | ||
| 07/28/1958 | 48-46 | 2nd | -15 | at Detroit Tigers | L | 5-4 | Leo Kiely | 4-2 | ||
| 07/29/1958 | 49-46 | 2nd | -14 | at Detroit Tigers | W | 11-8 | Tom Brewer | 5-9 | ||
| 07/30/1958 | 49-47 | 2nd | -14 | at Detroit Tigers | L | 2-1 | Ike Delock | 10-2 | ||
| 07/31/1958 | 49-48 | 2nd | -15 | at Detroit Tigers | L | 3-2 | Bill Monbouquette | 0-2 | ||
| 08/01/1958 | 49-49 | 2nd | -16 | at Cleveland Indians | L | 7-1 | Frank Sullivan | 8-5 | ||
| 49-50 | 2nd | -16 1/2 | L | 3-1 | Dave Sisler | 6-5 | ||||
| 08/02/1958 | 49-51 | 3rd | -17 1/2 | at Cleveland Indians | L | 4-1 | Tom Brewer | 5-10 | ||
| 08/03/1958 | 50-51 | 2nd | -16 1/2 | at Cleveland Indians | W | 3-2 | Murray Wall | 6-7 | ||
| 51-51 | 2nd | -15 1/2 | W | 4-2 | Mike Fornieles | 4-6 | ||||
| 08/04/1958 | 51-51 | 2nd | -16 | |||||||
| 08/05/1958 | 52-51 | 2nd | -16 | Washington Senators | W | 7-1 | Bill Monbouquette | 1-2 | ||
| 08/06/1958 | 53-51 | 2nd | -16 | Washington Senators | W | 8-2 | Tom Brewer | 6-10 | ||
| 08/07/1958 | 54-51 | 2nd | -15 1/2 | Washington Senators | W | 8-4 | Frank Sullivan | 9-5 | ||
| 08/08/1958 | 54-52 | 2nd | -16 1/2 | at New York Yankees | L | 2-0 | Ike Delock | 10-3 | ||
| 08/09/1958 | 55-52 | 2nd | -15 1/2 | at New York Yankees | W | 9-6 | Dave Sisler | 7-5 | ||
| 08/10/1958 | 55-53 | 2nd | -16 1/2 | at New York Yankees | L | 7-5 | Bud Byerly | 3-1 | ||
| 56-53 | 2nd | -15 1/2 | W | 9-3 | Ted Bowsfield | 1-0 | ||||
| 08/11/1958 | 56-54 | 2nd | -15 | at Washington Senators | L | 6-3 | Bill Monbouquette | 1-3 | ||
| 08/12/1958 | 56-54 | 3rd | -15 1/2 | at Washington Senators | pp | |||||
| 08/13/1958 | 56-55 | 3rd | -15 1/2 | at Baltimore Orioles | L | 2-1 | Frank Sullivan | 9-6 | ||
| 08/14/1958 | 56-56 | 3rd | -16 1/2 | New York Yankees | L | 8-2 | Dave Sisler | 7-6 | ||
| 08/15/1958 | 57-56 | 3rd | -15 1/2 | New York Yankees | W | 6-2 | Ted Bowsfield | 2-0 | ||
| 08/16/1958 | 58-56 | 3rd | -14 1/2 | New York Yankees | W | 7-4 | Tom Brewer | 7-10 | ||
| 08/17/1958 | 59-56 | 3rd | -13 1/2 | New York Yankees | W | 6-5 | Ike Delock | 11-3 | ||
| 08/18/1958 | 59-56 | 3rd | -13 1/2 | |||||||
| 08/19/1958 | 59-57 | 3rd | -13 1/2 | Chicago White Sox | L | 7-1 | Frank Sullivan | 9-7 | ||
| 08/20/1958 | 59-58 | 3rd | -14 1/2 | Chicago White Sox | L | 10-8 | Bud Byerly | 3-2 | ||
| 08/21/1958 | 60-58 | 3rd | -14 1/2 | Cleveland Indians | W | 8-6 | Tom Brewer | 8-10 | ||
| 08/22/1958 | 61-58 | 3rd | -14 1/2 | Cleveland Indians | W | 4-3 | Ike Delock | 12-3 | ||
| 08/23/1958 | 61-59 | 3rd | -14 1/2 | Cleveland Indians | L | 8-1 | Dave Sisler | 7-7 | ||
| 08/24/1958 | 62-59 | 3rd | -13 1/2 | Kansas City Athletics | W | 14-3 | Frank Sullivan | 10-7 | ||
| 63-59 | 3rd | -13 1/2 | W | 3-2 | Murray Wall | 7-7 | ||||
| 08/25/1958 | 63-59 | 3rd | -13 1/2 | |||||||
| 08/26/1958 | 63-59 | 3rd | -14 | Detroit Tigers | pp | |||||
| 08/27/1958 | 64-59 | 3rd | -13 1/2 | Detroit Tigers | W | 3-2 | Tom Brewer | 9-10 | ||
| 64-60 | 3rd | -13 1/2 | L | 7-2 | Ike Delock | 12-4 | ||||
| 08/28/1958 | 64-60 | 3rd | -13 1/2 | |||||||
| 08/29/1958 | 65-60 | 3rd | -12 1/2 | Baltimore Orioles | W | 5-2 | Frank Sullivan | 11-7 | ||
| 08/30/1958 | 65-61 | 3rd | -12 1/2 | Baltimore Orioles | L | 7-2 | Bill Monbouquette | 1-4 | ||
| 08/31/1958 | 66-61 | 3rd | -12 1/2 | Baltimore Orioles | W | 3-2 | Tom Brewer | 10-10 | ||
| 09/01/1958 | 67-61 | 2nd | -12 1/2 | at New York Yankees | W | 4-2 | Ted Bowsfield | 3-0 | ||
| 67-62 | 2nd | -12 1/2 | L | 4-2 | Ike Delock | 12-5 | ||||
| 09/02/1958 | 67-63 | 2nd | -13 1/2 | at New York Yankees | L | 6-1 | Dave Sisler | 7-8 | ||
| 09/03/1958 | 67-64 | 2nd | -14 1/2 | at New York Yankees | L | 8-5 | Murray Wall | 7-8 | ||
| 09/04/1958 | 68-64 | 3rd | -14 | at Baltimore Orioles | W | 5-2 | Bill Monbouquette | 2-4 | ||
| 09/05/1958 | 69-64 | 3rd | -13 | at Baltimore Orioles | W | 10-2 | Tom Brewer | 11-10 | ||
| 09/06/1958 | 69-65 | 3rd | -13 | at Baltimore Orioles | L | 4-2 | Ike Delock | 12-6 | ||
| 09/07/1958 | 70-65 | 3rd | -12 1/2 | at Baltimore Orioles | W | 6-5 | Dave Sisler | 8-8 | ||
| 09/08/1958 | 70-65 | 3rd | -12 1/2 | |||||||
| 09/09/1958 | 70-66 | 3rd | -12 1/2 | at Chicago White Sox | L | 4-1 | Frank Sullivan | 11-8 | ||
| 09/10/1958 | 70-67 | 3rd | -13 1/2 | at Chicago White Sox | L | 7-2 | Murray Wall | 7-9 | ||
| 09/11/1958 | 70-68 | 3rd | -14 | at Chicago White Sox | L | 4-1 | Ike Delock | 12-7 | ||
| 09/12/1958 | 70-69 | 3rd | -15 | at Cleveland Indians | L | 5-4 | Ted Bowsfield | 3-1 | ||
| 09/13/1958 | 70-70 | 3rd | -16 | at Cleveland Indians | L | 4-1 | Dave Sisler | 8-9 | ||
| 09/14/1958 | 70-71 | 4th | -17 | at Detroit Tigers | L | 6-1 | Frank Sullivan | 11-9 | ||
| 70-72 | 4th | -18 | L | 9-3 | Tom Brewer | 11-11 | ||||
| 09/15/1958 | 70-72 | 4th | -18 | |||||||
| 09/16/1958 | 70-72 | 4th | -17 1/2 | at Kansas City Athletics | pp | |||||
| 09/17/1958 | 70-73 | 4th | -17 1/2 | at Kansas City Athletics | L | 6-3 | Ike Delock | 12-8 | ||
| 71-73 | 4th | -17 | W | 4-2 | Bill Monbouquette | 3-4 | ||||
| 09/18/1958 | 71-74 | 5th | -17 1/2 | at Kansas City Athletics | L | 4-1 | Ted Bowsfield | 3-2 | ||
| 09/19/1958 | 72-74 | 5th | -16 1/2 | Washington Senators | W | 2-0 | Tom Brewer | 12-11 | ||
| 09/20/1958 | 73-74 | 4th | -15 1/2 | Washington Senators | W | 2-0 | Frank Sullivan | 12-9 | ||
| 09/21/1958 | 74-74 | 3rd | -14 1/2 | Washington Senators | W | 2-0 | Ike Delock | 13-8 | ||
| 09/22/1958 | 74-74 | 3rd | -14 1/2 | |||||||
| 09/23/1958 | 75-74 | 3rd | -13 1/2 | New York Yankees | W | 9-8 | Murray Wall | 8-9 | ||
| 09/24/1958 | 75-75 | 3rd | -14 1/2 | New York Yankees | L | 7-5 | Tom Brewer | 12-12 | ||
| 09/25/1958 | 75-75 | 4th | -14 1/2 | |||||||
| 09/26/1958 | 76-75 | 3rd | -13 1/2 | at Washington Senators | W | 6-4 | Ike Delock | 14-8 | ||
| 77-75 | 3rd | -13 | W | 3-1 | Frank Sullivan | 13-9 | ||||
| 09/27/1958 | 78-75 | 3rd | -12 1/2 | at Washington Senators | W | 9-5 | Leo Kiely | 5-2 | ||
| 09/28/1958 | 79-75 | 3rd | -13 | at Washington Senators | W | 6-4 | Ted Bowsfield | 4-2 | ||
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