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1958 Los Angeles Dodgers season

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image	1958 Los Angeles Dodgers Opening Day montage.jpg
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caption	Home opener at the Coliseum on April 18 and Downtown Parade welcoming the Dodgers
name	Los Angeles Dodgers
season	1958
league	National League
ballpark	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
city	Los Angeles
record
divisional_place	7th
owners	Walter O'Malley, James & Dearie Mulvey
president	Walter O'Malley
general_managers	Buzzie Bavasi
managers	Walter Alston
television	KTTV (11)
radio	KMPC
Vin Scully, Jerry Doggett

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The 1958 Los Angeles Dodgers season was the 69th season for the Los Angeles Dodgers franchise in Major League Baseball (MLB), their 1st season in Los Angeles, California, and their 1st season playing their home games at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles California. The Dodgers took the field before 78,672 fans at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on April 18, 1958, to usher in the beginning of the team's new home in Los Angeles. It was a rough season, as the Dodgers finished 21 games in back of the pennant-winning Milwaukee Braves in the National League standings, but it was the beginning of the second phase for the team. Vin Scully and company moved to KTTV (television) and KMPC (radio) from that year onward, and the Dodgers became one of the first teams that commenced Spanish language radio broadcasts for Latinos, with KWKW as the first station to offer a Spanish-language service.

Offseason

Spring training

The Dodgers played their first exhibition game as the Los Angeles Dodgers on March 8, 1958. The team faced the Philadelphia Phillies at Miami Stadium. Ron Negray started for the Dodgers and gave up four runs in a 7 to 4 Dodgers loss. The New York Times noted that as much as the game was a historic milestone for the franchise, it was a chance for manager Walter Alston to evaluate players under game conditions, especially catchers, following Roy Campanella's offseason auto accident that ended his career before he could ever play for Los Angeles.

Regular season

April 15–20, 1958: The Dodgers and Giants played their first six official National League games as representatives of their new cities on the West Coast with back-to-back three-game series, first at Seals Stadium, San Francisco, then at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Giants won four of those six games. In the season opener April 15, San Francisco blanked Los Angeles, 8–0, behind Rubén Gómez' complete game, six-hit shutout. Don Drysdale took the loss, and Charlie Neal notched Los Angeles' first hit, a single, in the second inning. In their home opener April 18 in Los Angeles, the Dodgers built a 5–2 lead behind starting pitcher Carl Erskine, and held on to win 6–5. A throng of 78,762 witnessed the event at the Coliseum. Dick Gray, who hit the first home run in Los Angeles Dodger history April 16 in the second game of the 1958 season, also hit the first four-bagger before their home crowd in the seventh inning, giving Los Angeles an insurance run. The Giants nearly tied the game in the ninth inning, but Jim Davenport was ruled out for failing to touch third base after apparently scoring on a triple by San Francisco's Willie Kirkland.

Opening Day starters	Name	Position
Gino Cimoli	Center fielder
Pee Wee Reese	Shortstop
Duke Snider	Left fielder
Gil Hodges	First baseman
Charlie Neal	Second baseman
Dick Gray	Third baseman
Carl Furillo	Right fielder
Rube Walker	Catcher
Don Drysdale	Starting pitcher

Home opener starters	Name	Position
Jim Gilliam	Left fielder
Pee Wee Reese	Shortstop
Duke Snider	Right fielder
Gil Hodges	First baseman
Charlie Neal	Second baseman
Dick Gray	Third baseman
Gino Cimoli	Center fielder
John Roseboro	Catcher
Carl Erskine	Starting pitcher

April 23, 1958: Gil Hodges hit his 300th home run, and Pee Wee Reese played his 2,000th game, on the same day that Duke Snider injured his arm before the game trying to throw a ball out of the Los Angeles Coliseum.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

June 15, 1958: The Dodgers traded Don Newcombe to Cincinnati Redlegs for Steve Bilko, Johnny Klippstein and players to be named later. The Redlegs completed the deal by sending Art Fowler and Charlie Rabe to the Dodgers on June 23.
August 4, 1958: Randy Jackson was purchased from the Dodgers by the Cleveland Indians.
August 15, 1958: Ramón Conde was purchased by the Dodgers from the Philadelphia Phillies.

Roster

1958 Los Angeles Dodgers
Roster
Pitchers

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	114	384	104	.271	14	43
1B	141	475	123	.259	22	64
2B	140	473	120	.254	22	65
SS	127	455	119	.262	17	60
3B	58	197	49	.249	9	30
LF	147	555	145	.261	2	43
CF	106	327	102	.312	15	58
RF	122	411	119	.290	18	83

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
109	325	80	.246	9	27
99	253	70	.277	4	29
59	147	33	.224	4	17
63	142	31	.218	9	17
43	106	20	.189	5	8
65	101	25	.248	1	14
47	101	21	.208	7	18
20	69	27	.391	1	5
35	65	12	.185	1	4
15	53	15	.283	2	8
25	44	5	.114	1	7
12	30	4	.133	0	4
8	29	7	.241	1	2
8	22	4	.182	0	0
8	15	3	.200	0	0
3	5	1	.200	0	0

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
39	210.1	13	15	3.72	143
27	119.0	9	7	4.01	80
13	48.1	2	6	7.45	26
6	26.1	1	1	3.76	14

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
44	211.2	12	13	4.17	131
40	158.2	11	11	4.48	131
40	102.1	6	6	5.01	58
31	98.1	4	4	5.13	54
11	34.1	0	6	7.86	16
9	32.0	2	1	4.50	16
3	11.2	1	1	4.63	11

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
52	6	6	14	4.15	43
45	3	5	9	3.80	73
32	0	1	5	3.48	26
19	1	0	0	3.33	13
16	0	0	1	4.50	16
5	0	0	0	12.46	2
4	0	0	0	7.15	2
2	0	0	0	8.10	0

Awards and honors

Gold Glove Award
- Gil Hodges

All-stars

1958 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
- Johnny Podres reserve
- John Roseboro reserve

Farm system

Sam Suplizio

LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Montreal

Notes

References

Gordon S. White Jr.. (March 9, 1958). "Phillies Triumph Over Dodgers, 7–4". New York Times.
[[Retrosheet]] [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1958/B04150SFN1958.htm box score: 1958-04-15]
[[Retrosheet]] [http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1958/B04180LAN1958.htm box score: 1958-04-18]
"Duke Snider | the BASEBALL Page".
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/newcodo01.shtml Don Newcombe] at ''Baseball-Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/j/jacksra01.shtml Randy Jackson] at ''Baseball-Reference''
[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/condera01.shtml Ramón Conde] at ''Baseball-Reference''

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