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Events, births and deaths that occurred on August 10.

Events

• 1901:
  • Frank Isbell of the Chicago White Sox strands eleven runners on the base paths to set an American League record, but Chicago prevails, 2 - 1, over Boston.
  • In the second game of a doubleheader, Washington P Dale Gear gives up an American League-record 41 total bases in losing, 13 - 0, to the Athletics. The 23 hits include four doubles, four triples, and two homers. Philadelphia A's P Snake Wiltse, brother of Hooks, has two doubles and two triples, just one of three hurlers in history to collect four extra-base hits in a game. His ten total bases is a major-league record for a pitcher. Snake was acquired last month from the Pirates. In the opener, a 9 - 4 Washington win, Nats' pitcher Win Mercer becomes the first AL hurler to steal home. Nap Lajoie has a pair of homers for the A's in that game, his second game in a row with two homers. He hit two in yesterday's win in the second game. He will lead the AL with 14, drive in 125 runs, and hit .422 to win the Triple Crown.
• 1902 - At Chicago, Boston tops the White Sox, 5 - 4, in 11 innings, as Cy Young records his 25th win of the year.
• 1903:
  • At Boston's Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young tosses no-hit ball for seven innings, and beats the A's, 7 - 2.
  • Brooklyn's Henry Schmidt drops his second game in three days to the Giants, this time losing 3 - 1 to Christy Mathewson. Matty wins his 20th and loses his shutout in the 9th on a passed ball by John Warner. Schmidt, 29, will win 21 games in this, his only season in the majors. A westerner, he will return his 1904 contract unsigned with the note, "I do not like living in the East and will not report."
• 1904 - Jack Chesbro is knocked out by the White Sox after pitching 30 complete games in a row. For the year he will win 41 games, pitching 48 complete games out of 51 starts for the Highlanders. All are post-1900 records. His 455 innings pitched will be topped only by Ed Walsh's 464 in 1908.
• 1905:
  • In a great pitching duel, New York ace Christy Mathewson allows three Chicago hits, while the Giants manage just four off Ed Reulbach. New York tallies an unearned run in the 6th for the game's only score.
  • Catchers are not expected to hit triples, but Boston Beaneater backstop Pat Moran legs out a trio of three-base hits against the Pirates.
• 1908 - Twenty thousand fans, the largest ever to watch a Monday game, crowd the Polo Grounds to see the matchup of Christy Mathewson and the Cubs' Orval Overall. Matty doesn't disappoint, winning, 3 - 2.
• 1911 - The Detroit club announces that a new grandstand, costing $300,000, will be built for the 1912 season.
• 1912:
  • Led by Grover Cleveland Alexander, the Phils whip the Reds, 10 - 2. Pete wins the game on the mound and also adds a home run.
  • In a game at Boston, Chicago star Johnny Evers pushes umpire Bill Finneran after the latter challenges Evers, Heinie Zimmerman, and Frank Chance to fight him under the stands after the game. Evers will be suspended for five days. Red Downs will fill in at 2B for Chicago.
• 1914 - Bill James tops the Reds, 3 - 1, to push the Braves past the Cubs (53-48) and the Cardinals (54-49).
• 1915:
  • In Washington, Detroit 3B Ossie Vitt is hit by a Walter Johnson fastball and, after being knocked out for five minutes, leaves the game with a concussion. A rattled Johnson then allows four runs in the 1st inning, two on a homer by George Burns, and another four through the 6th inning to lose (he will be 17-2 at home this year). Ty Cobb, observing Johnson's fear of hitting a batter, will begin to crowd the plate on the Washington ace from here on. Cobb will average .435 for the rest of his career against Walter, after topping .222 only once in the previous eight years.
  • Babe Ruth is 2 for 4 while pitching the Red Sox to a 10 - 3 win over the Browns in the second of two. Ruth strikes out seven in winning his tenth.
• 1917:
  • Babe Ruth beats the Tigers, 5 - 4, giving up just four hits. The Babe's drive into the CF bleachers, said to be the longest hit at Fenway Park, is the difference. The homer is Babe's first of the year.
  • Four days after shutting out the Browns, Walter Johnson pitches a one-hitter against the Chicago White Sox.
• 1919 - More than 28,00 crowd Wrigley Field to watch Grover Cleveland Alexander shut the Giants out, 2 - 0
• 1920 - Failure to cover first base in the 7th costs Bill Doak a no-hitter in the Cards' 5 - 1 win over the Phils. Doak, a good-fielding pitcher, invented a glove with an adjustable pocket. The Rawlings Sporting Goods company began producing a Bill Doak glove in the spring of this year and the model will remain popular for decades.
• 1922 - The Pirates continue their hot hitting, crushing the Phils, 12 - 4, on 16 hits. Today's hitting stars are LF Carson Bigbee with five hits, and starter Hal Carlson, who lofts his first major-league homer. The remarkable team effort results in the fifth game in a row in which every Pirate in the lineup collects a hit. The Bucs have now won 11 straight and their team average is .309. The Bucs will win two more to run their streaks to 13 games, good enough for third place behind the Giants.
• 1924 - Ty Cobb steals second base once, third base twice, and home once in the Tigers' 13 - 7 win over Boston that puts them on top in the American League.
• 1929 - Pitching for the visiting Cards, Grover Alexander beats the Phils, 7 - 1, for his 373rd and last National League victory. It is noted at the time that he ties Christy Mathewson for NL wins. Relieving after eight innings, he pitches four scoreless relief innings to win, 11 - 9, in 12 innings of the nitecap. The Phils take the opener, 7 - 1. Alexander will be sent back to St. Louis on August 20th after one too many curfew violations and finish the season at 9-8.
• 1930:
  • The last-place Phillies win, 18 - 0, as Claude Willoughby defeats the Reds in the first game of a twin bill, then take the second game, 4 - 3. Chuck Klein and Lefty O'Doul each total six hits in the two games. The Phils will tie the major league mark they set last season by playing just six shutout games, winning four and losing two.
  • Before 45,000 fans, the Cubs sweep two from the Boston Braves at Wrigley Field to move a game back of Brooklyn. Hack Wilson drives home seven runs on three homers, the last his 39th, to back up Charlie Root's three-hit shutout in the opener. The Cubs win, 6 - 0, beating Bob Smith. Pat Malone completes the sweep. twirling a five-hitter to beat Bruce Cunningham, 11 - 1, in the nitecap.
  • In a Sunday doubleheader in St. Louis, 21,000 fans cheer as the Cards sweep two from the first-place Robins. Burleigh Grimes takes the opener, 8 - 2, despite Babe Herman starting a triple play for Brooklyn. Bill Hallahan strikes out 12 to win the nitecap, 4 - 0. The fourth-place Cards are now nine games behind Brooklyn.
  • At Fenway Park, Detroit's Earl Whitehill wins his ninth straight, beating the Red Sox, 4 - 2. The Sox score their two runs in the 9th. Detroit collects nine hits, but John Stone goes hitless ending his 23-game hitting streak.
• 1934 - Babe Ruth announces this is definitely his final season as a regular player. He says he will seek a managerial role and will pinch-hit, but will then go back on his decision to play with the Boston Braves in 1935.
• 1935 - George Selkirk drives in eight runs, one short of Jimmie Foxx's American League record, with two home runs and a single.
• 1936:
  • The Cards are back in first place, beating the Cubs in a game interrupted by a fight between former teammates Dizzy Dean and Tex Carleton.
  • Buddy Myer, last year's American League batting champ, is sent home by Washington to recover from a season-long stomach ailment.
• 1937:
  • Cubs 1B Ripper Collins fractures his right ankle sliding into home plate in a game with Pittsburgh.
  • Washington 3B Buddy Lewis makes four errors in a game with the A's, tying the record set in 1901.
• 1944 - Red Barrett of the Boston Braves throws only 58 pitches and shuts out the Cincinnati Reds, 2 - 0. This is the major-league record for fewest pitches in a nine-inning game. The game takes one hour, 15 minutes, the shortest night game ever.
• 1945 - Richard Muckerman buys out Don Barnes' interest in the St. Louis Browns and now controls 50 percent of the club.
• 1947 - With five hits, Stan Musial finally lifts his average over .300, and the Cardinals make a run at the Dodgers, sweeping the Pirates, 5 - 0 and 7 - 5. Murry Dickson allows four hits in the shutout. Musial will finish at .312, and the Cards, five games back of Brooklyn.
• 1950 - In the second game of a twinbill, Washington pitcher Gene Bearden bats eighth with batterymate Len Okrie in the ninth spot. Bearden picks up a hit but loses the game, 4 - 3, to Boston's Walt Masterson. Masterson swipes a base, the first stolen base by a Red Sox pitcher this year.
• 1951 - Ramón Bragaña, manager of the Azules de Veracruz, intentionally walks René González (Tuneros de San Luis) with the bases loaded, the only such occurrence in Mexican League history. The order is given by Jorge Pasquel, owner of the club.
• 1953 - Bob Porterfield of the Senators has his second one-hitter of the season, as he masters the Red Sox, 2 - 0.
• 1956 - Cincinnati C Ed Bailey hits a grand slam as the Redlegs win, 8 - 1, over Milwaukee, to move into second place, a half game behind the Braves and a half game ahead of the Dodgers.
• 1957 - Mickey Mantle blasts a 460-foot homer to become the first player to clear the center-field hedge at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore as the Yankees beat the Orioles, 6 - 3.
• 1958 - In the nightcap of a doubleheader against the Reds, Pirates CF Bill Virdon records two assists in the 7th, tying a major-league mark. The Reds win, 4 - 3.
• 1959 - Ken Boyer of the Cardinals begins a 29-game hitting streak, the longest since Stan Musial's 30 games in 1950. The Giants score three in the 9th to win, 3 - 2.
• 1960 - Ted Williams hits a pair of homers and a double to pace the Red Sox to a 6 - 1 win over the Indians. Ted has 21 homers for the season. The first of the two today, #512, moves Ted past Mel Ott into fourth place on the all-time list. After the game, Williams announces that he will retire at the end of the season.
• 1961 - Roberto Clemente utilizes the entire "toolbox," but can't quite keep the Cardinals from beating the Pirates, 3 - 2. Clemente's 9th-inning leadoff laser over the right field screen pulls Pittsburgh to within one, but that's how it ends. Earlier in the game, Clemente crushed the ball a couple of times with nothing to show for it. Les Biederman of the Pittsburgh Press writes: "Clemente twice tried to handle things with his bat but he hit the ball too hard. He hit a vicious line drive to Bill White in the 1st inning but the Card first baseman turned it into a double play. The same thing happened in the 3rd but this time his smash went straight to Julian Javier." While drawing blanks at the plate, Clemente keeps the game close with his arm, doubling Ken Boyer off first in the 4th and cutting down Curt Flood trying to stretch a 5th-inning single. But he's not done there, reports United Press International: "St. Louis threatened to break the game wide open in the 6th by loading the bases. But Clemente made a running over-the-head catch of [starting pitcher] Ray Sadecki's liner to deep right to quelch the uprising."
• 1962:
  • At Buffalo, NY, Columbus (International League) beats Buffalo, 6 - 5, in 12 innings. Bob Veale of Columbus strikes out 22 Bison batters in nine innings.
  • In the first of three games with the Dodgers at Candlestick Park, Billy O'Dell coasts to an 11 - 2 win over Johnny Podres. The loss cuts the Dodger lead to four games.
• 1963:
  • Benched for poor hitting, Brooks Robinson sees his streak of 463 straight games at third stopped. Brooks pinch hits in the 8th inning, however, as the Senators edge the Orioles, 6 - 5. Boog Powell smashes three homers in a losing cause.
  • In the A's 6 - 3 win, A's pinch-hit star George Alusik suffers a broken wrist when hit by the Indians' Pedro Ramos's pitch.
• 1965:
  • In the second of two at Fenway Park, the Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits a ball that appears to hit the net above the Green Monster, but is ruled in play by Lou DiMuro. Robinson reaches third with a triple, and then adds a homer in the 7th. Brooks lost another homer last year. The O's win, 12 - 4, after losing the opener, 15 - 5.
  • At New York, Jim Kaat benefits from sloppy Yankee fielding and Minnesota scores six unearned runs to beat the Yankees, 7 - 3.
• 1966 - Chuck Dressen dies of a heart attack in Detroit, at age 67. He had managed the Tigers earlier in the season.
• 1968 - On Old Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium, the Twins stop the Yankees, 3 - 2. New York's only scores are two solo shots by Mickey Mantle off Jim Merritt. It is the Mick's 46th two-homer game.
• 1969:
  • Mike Cuellar's (15-9) string of 35 straight batters retired is ended by Cesar Tovar, who also spoils Cuellar's no-hit bid in a 2 - 0 win against the Twins. Tovar has the only hit in a game for the third time, and the second time this season.
  • Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to the Cubs with a 4 - 2 win at Los Angeles, but needs relief help to do it. Sutton tops Ken Holtzman, who handed Sutton his last four losses to Chicago. It is one short of the most consecutive losses by any pitcher to one club in major league history, and is the National League record for straight losses to a team from the start of a career. Sutton will close out his career with a record of 18-20 versus the Cubs.
• 1971:
  • Sixteen baseball researchers at Cooperstown form the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), with founder Robert Davids as president.
  • The Giants' Juan Marichal pitches the 50th shutout of his career, a 1 - 0 squeaker over Montreal. He leads all active hurlers in this category.
  • Harmon Killebrew becomes the tenth player to amass 500 home runs, and adds his 501st, but the Orioles beat the Twins, 4 - 3. Mike Cuellar picks up the win.
• 1974 - Jorge Lebron, the youngest professional player ever, makes his debut for the Phillies' farm club Auburn. The fourteen-year-old shortstop plays three games before returning to Puerto Rico to finish junior high school.
• 1976 - Jim Palmer one-hits the Twins, as the O's win, 2 - 0. Mike Cubbage's single in the 2nd is the only hit.
• 1977:
  • For the second time in two years, a doubleheader at the Vet goes past three a.m. The Phils top the Expos in the first game, 6 - 1, in a game that starts an hour late because of rain. A 2:27 delay in the 3rd takes its toll on the 46,664 fans in attendance. The second game gets underway at 11:50 p.m. and lasts until 3:23 a.m. with the same result as the first game.
  • Billy Martin installs Reggie Jackson as the Yankees' regular clean-up hitter. The Yanks beat the A's, 6 - 3, as Ron Guidry outpitches Vida Blue. Graig Nettles belts his 26th homer of the season. New York will win 40 of its final 53 games on the way to a World Series title, with Jackson contributing 13 home runs and 49 RBIs.
• 1978:
  • In his second career start, Dodger P Bob Welch beats the Giants and Vida Blue, 12 - 2, to put the Los Angeles into a tie for first place.
  • A's 2B Mike Edwards ties the major-league record with two unassisted double plays during a 16 - 5 loss to the Angels.
  • The Red Sox trip the Indians, 6 - 5, in 13 innings as Butch Hobson scores the tying run on a Little League home run: he lofts a pop fly behind second base and races around to second as 2B Duane Kuiper loses the ball in the sun. Kuiper picks up the ball but bumps into 1B Andre Thornton and the ball rolls towards first base and C Bo Diaz. With Hobson motoring towards third base, Diaz overthrows the base. Hobson, having slid into third, picks himself up and races home. The throw from the outfield to Diaz is in time, but he can't get the ball out of his glove and a sliding Hobson is home free. A George Scott double and Rick Burleson single then win the game. Bob Stanley (8-1) picks up the victory.
• 1979 - Dan Ford hits for the cycle but his Angels lose, 8 - 6, to the Mariners.
• 1980 - Steve McCatty becomes the fourth A's starter to pitch a 14-inning complete game this season, losing 2 - 1 to Seattle despite pitching a six-hitter. Teammates Matt Keough (on May 17th), Mike Norris (June 11th), and Rick Langford (July 20th) have also pitched 14-inning complete games for manager Billy Martin, who will later be widely criticized for ruining their arms through overwork.
• 1981:
  • The Dodgers re-open the season with a 4 - 0 victory over the Reds.
  • The Phillies' Pete Rose passes Stan Musial as the all-time National League hit leader when he collects his 3,631st off Cardinal hurler Mark Littell.
  • Seattle's Julio Cruz is caught stealing by California's Ed Ott on a pitchout, ending his consecutive stolen base streak at 32. Cruz tied the American League record set by Willie Wilson.
• 1982 - Bob Lillis replaces Bill Virdon as manager of the Houston Astros. Virdon was the senior manager in the National League, having managed the Astros since 1975.
• 1983 - Al Oliver collects his 2,500th career hit, a 7th-inning single off Carlos Diaz, as the Expos beat the Mets, 5 - 3.
• 1985:
  • Willie McGee goes 7 for 10 in the Cardinals' doubleheader sweep of the Phillies, 5 - 4 and 13 - 4, to raise his batting average to .351. McGee will lead the National League with a .353 mark this season.
  • Oakland's Dave Kingman becomes the 21st player to hit 400 career home runs, belting a two-run shot off Matt Young in the 1st inning of the A's 11 - 5 win at Seattle.
• 1986:
  • During Billy Martin Day at Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Bombers retire uniform number 1 to honor their scrappy second baseman and four-time manager.
  • Pitcher Bob Forsch hits a grand slam to lead the Cardinals to a 5 - 4 win over the Pirates, and reliever Todd Worrell records his 24th save to break the major league rookie record set by Doug Corbett in 1980.
• 1987:
  • Cardinals 1B Jack Clark sets a National League record by drawing a walk in his 16th consecutive game, a 6 - 0 win over Pittsburgh.
  • Phillies pitcher Kevin Gross becomes the second pitcher in eight days to be ejected for scuffing the baseball when umpires discover sandpaper in his glove during the 5th inning of a 4 - 2 win over the Cubs. Like Joe Niekro, Gross will be suspended for ten games, and won't get his glove returned until August, 1991.
  • Paul Molitor singles in the 3rd inning against the Rangers to run his hitting streak to 25 games. The Brewers win in the 12th, 4 - 3.
  • At Seattle, Oakland's super rookie Mark McGwire belts his 38th homer, a solo shot off Mike Moore, to tie the major league rookie record for homers in a season.
• 1988 - The Dodgers release Don Sutton, the 12th-winningest pitcher in major league history and the club's all-time victory leader.
• 1989:
  • Nolan Ryan falls short in yet another no-hit bid, giving up a one-out single to Dave Bergman in the 9th inning and eventually needing relief in a 4 - 1 win over the Tigers.
  • Dave Dravecky pitches seven shutout innings and beats the Reds, 4 - 3, for his first win of the year. The Giants pitcher, recovering from arm surgery, has been in extensive rehab.
• 1991 - The game between the Astros and Braves is delayed for five minutes when a moth becomes lodged in the ear of Houston OF Mike Simms. Astros trainer Dave Labossiere removes the insect with a pair of tweezers. The Braves record a 4 - 0 victory when the game is finally completed.
• 1992 - The Mets' Vince Coleman will end the season with just 27 walks, but he picks up five today against the Pirates to tie the 20th century mark. Pittsburgh breaks a 1 - 1 tie against the host Mets, scoring three runs in the 16th inning to win, 4 - 2. Reliever Dennis Cook wins as the Bucs' Andy Van Slyke and the Mets' Bill Pecota homer. John Franco pitches his second of four straight games, a season-high effort that puts him back on the disabled list.
• 1993:
  • Mets P Bret Saberhagen admits to having sprayed bleach at three reporters on July 27th. He agrees to donate one day's pay - $15,384.61 - to the Eye Research Foundation.
  • The Phillies obtain P Bobby Thigpen from the White Sox in exchange for P Jose DeLeon.
• 1994 - Minnesota OF Kirby Puckett drives in seven runs as the Twins defeat the Red Sox by a score of 17 - 7.
• 1995:
  • The Tigers trade P Mike Henneman to the Astros in exchange for a player to be named.
  • The Cardinals are awarded a 2 - 1 victory by forfeit over the Dodgers at "Ball Day" at Dodger Stadium. In the bottom of the 9th, Raul Mondesi strikes out and is then ejected for arguing the call. Tommy Lasorda gets thumbed as well when he joins the discussion. With that, the fans bombard the field with more than 200 balls they had received as souvenirs and the umps order the Cardinals into the dugout. It is the first forfeit in the major leagues since the infamous Disco Demolition Night promotion on July 12, 1979.
  • Yankees' C Mike Stanley hits three home runs and drives home seven runs, but it's not enough to prevent New York from losing to Cleveland by a score of 10 - 9.
• 1996:
  • Eddie Murray blasts his 18th career grand slam, highlighting an eight-run 9th inning, as Baltimore beats the White Sox, 13 - 4. Murray's slam ties him for second place with Willie McCovey.
  • The Rockies jump to a 7 - 0 lead over the Braves, then need back-to-back homers in the 10th to win, 9 - 7. Andres Galarraga, with his second homer, and Vinny Castilla homer off Mark Wohlers for the victory. Galarraga now leads the National League in RBIs with 107.
  • The Royals roll to an 18 - 3 win over California as Johnny Damon hits a grand slam and drives in seven runs. Jim Abbott loses his 11th straight decision.
• 1997:
  • Angels IF-OF Tony Phillips is arrested after allegedly buying a small quantity of freebase cocaine at a motel in Anaheim.
  • Pitcher Greg Maddux signs a $57.5 million, five-year contract with the Braves to become baseball's highest-paid player.
• 1998:
  • The Athletics trade P Mike Fetters to the Angels in exchange for a player to be named and cash.
  • White Sox OF Albert Belle drives in his 100th run of the season in a 5 - 3 win over Oakland. He joins Jimmie Foxx, Lou Gehrig, and Babe Ruth as the only players to record at least 30 homers and 100 RBIs in seven consecutive seasons.
  • The Orioles trade OF Jeffrey Hammonds to the Reds in exchange for IF-OF Willie Greene.
• 1999:
  • Major league umpires drop the federal lawsuit which they filed on July 26th.
  • The Red Sox defeat the Royals, 9 - 6, as Boston P Tim Wakefield ties a major league record by striking out four batters in the 9th inning. Kansas City C Chad Kreuter gets two hits in the game, his first breaking a streak of 38 consecutive at bats without a hit. It is the longest hitless streak in the majors since Dann Howitt of Oakland and Seattle went 0 for 43 in 1992.
  • The Orioles defeat the Devil Rays, 17 - 1. All nine Baltimore starters score at least one run and reach base at least twice. SS Mike Bordick leads the attack with four hits, including two doubles, and five RBI.
• 2000 - Winning for the first time in 16 starts, David Cone ends the worst slump of his career as the Yankees beat the A's, 12 - 6. Newly-acquired Jose Canseco hits a three-run homer into the upper deck to help Cone stop the skid.
• 2001:
  • In Kotna, Poland, Khovrio of Moscow becomes the first Russian team to qualify for the Little League World Series. The team, which is also the first to be made of all native Europeans, defeats the Tbilisi YMCA of Georgia, 12 - 2.
  • The Cubs claim Miguel Cairo and Gary Matthews, Jr. off waivers by St. Louis and Pittsburgh respectively.
  • Colorado slams Cincinnati, 16 - 7, as newly-acquired rookie 2B Jose Ortiz strokes five hits, including a double and home run, and drives in four runs.
  • The Royals defeat the Tigers, 7 - 3, in a game marked by a 6th-inning brawl set off when Kansas City 1B Mike Sweeney charges Detroit P Jeff Weaver after Weaver calls him a profane name. Numerous punches are thrown as both benches and bullpens clear. After a 12-minute delay, the game resumes with Sweeney, KC coach Al Nipper, and Detroit coach Doug Mansolino ejected from the contest. Sweeney will be suspended ten games for his actions, and Detroit catcher Robert Fick eight games. Five other players and four coaches will also be disciplined.
• 2002:
  • The Cubs wallop the Rockies, 15 - 1, as Sammy Sosa clouts three home runs and drives home nine runs.
  • The Giants beat the Pirates, 8 - 3, as Barry Bonds draws three intentional walks to give him a major league-record 46 for the season. The three intentional passes also tie a record for a nine-inning game. Bonds will receive 68 intentional walks this year, 23 more than the old record, set by the Giants' Willie McCovey in 1969.
  • The Diamondbacks beat the Marlins, 9 - 2, as Randy Johnson fans 14 Florida batters to move past Tom Seaver into fifth place on the all-time list.
• 2003 - Rafael Furcal becomes the 12th player to turn an unassisted triple play in big league history. With Cardinals on first (Orlando Palmeiro) and second (Mike Matheny) in the 5th inning, the Braves shortstop makes a leaping catch of pitcher Woody Williams' liner and steps on second base to double up Matheny before tagging out Palmeiro who is attempting to get back to first base.
• 2004:
  • After signing last year's American League Rookie of the Year to a five-year, $16 million deal on May 6th, the Royals send Angel Berroa to the Wichita Wranglers, their Double A affiliate in the Texas League. The struggling shortstop is hitting only .249 with 5 homers and 30 ribbies compared to last season's award-winning performance when the 26-year-old Dominican batted .287 with 17 homers and 73 RBIs in his first full season in the major leagues.
  • Taking a cab to Shea Stadium from nearby LaGuardia Airport, Mets starting pitcher Tom Glavine is injured as the taxi collides with an SUV. The 38-year-old two-time Cy Young Award winner loses his front two teeth and needs over 40 stitches to close facial lacerations.
• 2005:
  • Radio talk-show host Larry Krueger, who caused an uproar in the team's clubhouse, is fired by KNBR, the flagship station of the Giants, for making inappropriate racial remarks. During a postgame rant the controversial on-air personality said the team had too many "brain-dead Caribbean hitters" and tells his listeners that manager Felipe Alou's mind "has turned to Cream of Wheat".
  • After being released from the hospital, an 18-year-old fan appears in court to face criminal charges of trespassing, reckless endangerment, and criminal mischief stemming from his 40-foot plunge last night from the upper deck of Yankee Stadium into the netting behind home plate. Team owner George Steinbrenner called the incident "... the only exciting thing that happened today," after his struggling club loses to the first-place White Sox, 2 - 1.
  • Jackie Robinson's former Negro League roommate, 103-year-old Ted Radcliffe, thought at the time to be the oldest professional baseball player, dies after a long battle with cancer. He was dubbed "Double Duty" by Damon Runyon after hitting a grand slam in the opener of a 1932 Yankee Stadium doubleheader and then hurling a shutout in the night cap.
• 2007 - Rick Guttormson of the Softbank Hawks becomes the first player in the history of Nippon Pro Baseball to be suspended for a positive banned-substance test. Guttormson tested positively for Finasteride, which is known as a masking agent for steroids. NPB instituted its steroid policy this year.
• 2008 - The Tampa Bay Rays set a new franchise record for wins; never having topped 70 in any of ten prior seasons, the Rays win their 71st game before mid-August to go to 71-46. They top the Mariners, 11 - 3, with three-run homers by Willy Aybar and Shawn Riggans. Edwin Jackson gets the victory. The Rays will finish the year with 97 wins and represent the American League in the World Series.
• 2009:
  • In a surprise move, the Blue Jays place starting RF Alex Rios on waivers; the two-time All-Star is claimed by the Chicago White Sox. Jays general manager J.P. Ricciardi explains that the move is meant to give the team additional financial flexibility as Rios, who is hitting .264 with 14 homers and 62 RBI, is due more than $60 million until 2015. In the game that follows, Toronto ends the Yankees' eight-game winning streak with a 5 - 4 win, thanks to 5 2/3 innings of scoreless work from its bullpen.
  • Troy Tulowitzki of the Rockies hits for the cycle and drives in seven runs in an 11 - 5 win over the Cubs. He is the first Colorado player to accomplish the feat since Mike Lansing on June 18, 2000.
• 2010:
  • The second game of the series for the NL Central lead between the Cardinals and Reds is marred by a 1st-inning bench-clearing brawl which starts when St. Louis catcher Yadier Molina has words with Cincinnati 2B Brandon Phillips about the latter's earlier statements to the media which Cardinal players found demeaning. After the fracas, the Cards go on to win, 8 - 4, and tie the Reds for the division lead. Jaime Garcia beats Johnny Cueto. Major League Baseball will hand a seven-game suspension to Cueto, who spiked an opposing player during the brawl, and two-game suspensions to managers Dusty Baker and Tony LaRussa for their role in the melee; four players are issued fines, in addition to the two skippers.
  • Meanwhile, the AL Central race is also close, but Minnesota now has a one-game lead over the White Sox following tonight's 12 - 6 win over their rivals. They are propelled by five homers - by Jim Thome, J.J. Hardy, Joe Mauer, Michael Cuddyer and Jason Kubel; Scott Baker is the winner.
• 2011:
  • The Giants set an obscure record, but it is little consolation as they relent the NL West lead to the Diamondbacks. In the Giants' 9 - 2 loss to the Pirates, Pablo Sandoval hits a solo homer off Jeff Karstens - the 19th consecutive solo shot by the team, tying a record set by the Philadelphia Phillies in 1914. The Giants' last long ball with men on base was on July 6th. Meanwhile in Phoenix, the D-Backs set down the Astros, 6 - 3, as Henry Sosa is the loser in his major league debut, to go half a game up on the Giants. Josh Collmenter is the winner.
  • Curtis Granderson, otherwise having a tremendous season, is embarrassed when he falls for the "play that never works", when the opposing pitcher fakes a throw to third base, then throws to first. Granderson is picked off by Jordan Walden of the Angels to end the Yankees' 6 - 4 loss to the Halos. Yanks manager Joe Girardi is philosophical about the blunder though: "Our aggressiveness has won us a lot of ballgames; tonight it cost us", adding that baserunners were 15 for 15 in steal attempts against the Angels' closer this year.
• 2012:
  • Austin Jackson runs wild as the Tigers defeat Texas, 6 - 2. He triples in the 4th to score Detroit's first run, then after the Bengals score four runs to go ahead in the 6th, he caps the scoring in the 7th with the Tigers' first inside-the-park homer in five years when Nelson Cruz makes an ill-advised attempt to catch his drive rather than let it bounce in front of him for a double; the ball skips past Cruz all the way to the wall. Prince Fielder hits a three-run homer for Detroit as Max Scherzer is the winner over Scott Feldman.
  • The 2012 Italian Series opens with a bang. Defending champions T&A San Marino lead, 3 - 0, after six innings, but blow it to fall behind, 5 - 3, by the end of the 8th. In the bottom of the 9th, they promptly score five runs off former major leaguers Francisco Cruceta and Mark DiFelice, with DeFelice allowing hits to both batters he faces, a two-run tying single to Giovanni Pantaleoni and a three-run pinch-hit homer by Marco Yepez, the 2010 Italian Series MVP.
• 2013:
  • The Marlins end the Braves' 14-game winning streak as Miami's Adeiny Hechavarria scores the game's only run on a wild pitch by Jordan Walden in the 9th inning after leading off the frame with a triple. Young starters Nathan Eovaldi and Alex Wood pitch seven and six scoreless innings respectively.
  • Juan Uribe of the Dodgers falls victim to the hidden ball trick in the 4th inning, but it's the only highlight on the day for the Rays, who fall, 5 - 0, as Los Angeles is now 19-3 since the All-Star break. Zack Greinke pitches 6 1/3 innings for the win.
• 2014 - The Blue Jays defeat the Tigers, 6 - 5, in the longest game in team history in terms of both time and innings, thanks to a run-scoring single by Jose Bautista in the 19th inning, after 6 hours and 37 minutes of baseball. The winning hit comes off Rick Porcello, normally a starter but pressed into action out fo the bullpen by the length of the game. Melky Cabrera is the first player since Rod Carew on May 12, 1972 to reach base eight times in a game. Chad Jenkins throws six scoreless innings for the win. The Tigers take an early 5 - 0 lead against starter Mark Buehrle who is chased in the 4th, but the Jays claw back and tie the game in the bottom of the 9th.
• 2016 - Rangers slugger Prince Fielder formally announces that his career is over at 32, the result of having undergone a second spinal fusion surgery a few weeks earlier, making him medically unable to perform although he has four years remaining on his contract. He is the third prominent home run hitter to announce his retirement in a week, following Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez.
• 2017 - Dexter Fowler has a career night as he hits a grand slam and drives in five runs to lead St. Louis to an 8 - 6 win over the Royals. It is the sixth straight win for the Cards, who are now back within one game of the first-place Cubs in the NL Central after having trailed by as many as 6 1/2 games in mid-July.
• 2018 - The Orioles' awful season continues as they blow an early 8 - 3 lead against Boston to lose, 19 - 12. This puts them 46 1/2 games back of the division-leading Red Sox, with 46 games remaining, meaning they are mathematically eliminated. It matches the earliest date this has happened in baseball history, set by the 1932 Red Sox and copied by the 1962 Mets, two notoriously awful teams, and the 46 games left to play at the time of elimination is a new record in the divisional era.
• 2019:
  • In only his tenth major league game, rookie Aristides Aquino has a three-homer game to lead the Reds to a 10 - 1 win over the Cubs. He is only the second major leaguer to hit seven homers in his first ten games, after Trevor Story in 2016, and Bobby Estalella is the only other player in history to have hit three homers in a game that quickly, also doing so in his tenth game in 1997.
  • Another hot-hitting rookie, Yordan Alvarez, also has a three-homer game, scoring five runs and driving in seven as the Astros demolish the Orioles, 23 - 2. Alvarez now has 51 RBIs in 45 games, beating the previous record of 47 set by Ted Williams in his rookie year. The Astros collect 25 hits as five different players have three or more. The 23 runs and 13 extra-base hits are both Houston franchise records.
• 2022 - 1B Chandler Redmond of the Springfield Cardinals hits only the second "home run cycle" in professional baseball history: it consists of hitting four home runs - a solo one, a two-run shot, a three-run shot and a grand slam. Redmond also adds a single and drives in 11 runs in his team's record-setting 21 - 4 win over Amarillo, as Springfield hits a team record eight homers and also sets a new record for runs. The only other player to hit a home run cycle was Tyrone Horne of Arkansas - also the AA affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals in the Texas League - on July 27, 1998.

Births

• 1847 - Scott Hastings, catcher, manager (d. 1907)
• 1848 - Larry Ressler, outfielder (d. 1918)
• 1850 - Jim Clinton, outfielder, manager (d. 1921)
• 1859 - Larry Corcoran, pitcher (d. 1891)
• 1859 - Sid Farrar, infielder (d. 1935)
• 1863 - George Henry, outfielder (d. 1934)
• 1866 - Ed Beatin, pitcher (d. 1925)
• 1866 - Herb Goodall, pitcher (d. 1938)
• 1870 - August Williams, pitcher (d. 1890)
• 1872 - Yokio Aoi, amateur pitcher; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1937)
• 1872 - John Heileman, infielder (d. 1940)
• 1877 - Truck Eagan, infielder (d. 1949)
• 1888 - Charlie Hartman, pitcher (d. 1960)
• 1892 - Elmer Jacobs, pitcher (d. 1958)
• 1893 - Howard Lindimore, minor league infielder (d. 1933)
• 1895 - Joe Schepner, infielder (d. 1959)
• 1897 - Frank Welch, outfielder (d. 1957)
• 1897 - Charlie Wooldridge, infielder (d. 1982)
• 1905 - Jim Oglesby, infielder (d. 1955)
• 1905 - Ed Wineapple, pitcher (d. 1996)
• 1907 - Ches Buchanan, pitcher (d. 1964)
• 1908 - Odell Hale, infielder (d. 1980)
• 1908 - Bill Trotter, pitcher (d. 1984)
• 1908 - Willie Wells, infielder, manager; Hall of Fame (d. 1989)
• 1911 - Taffy Wright, outfielder (d. 1981)
• 1916 - Buddy Lewis, infielder; All-Star (d. 2011)
• 1916 - Jim Mertz, pitcher (d. 2003)
• 1917 - Cliff McClanahan, USA national team pitcher (d. 2014)
• 1918 - Harry Schwarts, umpire (d. 1963)
• 1922 - Clint Hartung, pitcher/outfielder (d. 2010)
• 1923 - Lloyd Gearhart, outfielder (d. 2001)
• 1923 - Pete Gebrian, pitcher (d. 2005)
• 1923 - Bob Porterfield, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1980)
• 1926 - Elizabeth Farrow, AAGPBL pitcher (d. 2010)
• 1927 - Bob Chakales, pitcher (d. 2010)
• 1931 - Takao Sato, NPB outfielder and manager (d. 2005)
• 1933 - Rocky Colavito, outfielder; All-Star (d. 2024)
• 1939 - Johnny Lewis, outfielder (d. 2018)
• 1939 - Charlie Shoemaker, infielder (d. 1990)
• 1949 - Tom Brown, pitcher
• 1949 - Jimmy McMath, outfielder (d. 2010)
• 1951 - Shigeru Kurihashi, NPB outfielder
• 1953 - Tim Brookens, minor league infielder
• 1953 - Tom Brookens, infielder
• 1959 - Rich DeVincenzo, minor league pitcher
• 1960 - Ross Jones, Australian national team pitcher
• 1960 - Roberto Radaelli, Italian national team pitcher
• 1962 - Rocetto Gordon, minor league pitcher
• 1962 - Mike Schooler, pitcher
• 1962 - Jesus Silva, minor league pitcher
• 1963 - Jerald Clark, outfielder
• 1964 - Andy Stankiewicz, infielder
• 1964 - Bill Wilkinson, pitcher
• 1965 - Al Osuna, pitcher
• 1966 - Kevin Russ, minor league outfielder
• 1966 - Gerald Williams, outfielder (d. 2022)
• 1967 - Chuck Carr, outfielder (d. 2022)
• 1969 - Mike Juhl, scout
• 1970 - Lonnie Goldberg, minor league infielder
• 1970 - Hisashi Ogura, NPB pitcher
• 1971 - Sal Fasano, catcher
• 1971 - Ryuichi Kawahara, NPB pitcher
• 1972 - Chih-Wei Jen, CPBL infielder
• 1972 - George Mianowski, minor league pitcher
• 1972 - John Rosengren, minor league pitcher
• 1973 - Mark Doubleday, drafted infielder
• 1973 - Fumitoshi Takano, NPB outfielder
• 1974 - Ramiro Balentina, Hoofdklasse player
• 1974 - Joe Mathis, minor league outfielder
• 1974 - Jang-jin No, KBO pitcher
• 1974 - Ray Schmittle, minor league pitcher
• 1975 - Wei-Chih Chen, CPBL infielder and coach
• 1976 - Chung-Wei Pan, CPBL infielder
• 1977 - Lorenzo Barcelo, pitcher
• 1977 - Julio Ramirez, outfielder
• 1978 - Jorge Campillo, pitcher
• 1978 - Mark Freed, minor league pitcher
• 1978 - Kelvin Ryan, minor league outfielder
• 1979 - Dan Johnson, infielder
• 1979 - Brandon Lyon, pitcher
• 1980 - Paulino Reynoso, minor league pitcher
• 1981 - Fernando Cortez, infielder
• 1981 - Chih-Hua Hsu, CPBL pitcher
• 1981 - Nobuaki Yoshida, minor league pitcher
• 1982 - Josh Anderson, outfielder
• 1982 - Jeff Frazier, outfielder
• 1982 - Matt O'Brien, minor league pitcher and scout
• 1983 - Hector Astacio, minor league pitcher
• 1984 - Jose De Los Santos, minor league infielder
• 1984 - Tony Granadillo, minor league infielder
• 1984 - Joe Johnson, minor league pitcher (d. 2015)
• 1985 - Ian Gac, minor league infielder
• 1984 - Jeff Marquez, pitcher
• 1985 - Brian Van Kirk, minor league outfielder
• 1987 - Arturo Barradas, minor league pitcher
• 1987 - Matt den Dekker, outfielder
• 1987 - Wilson Ramos, catcher; All-Star
• 1988 - Otari Aivazasvili, Georgian national team player
• 1988 - Sammy Solis, pitcher
• 1990 - Anthony Gose, outfielder
• 1991 - Jamie Verheyleweghen, Hoofdklasse infielder
• 1992 - Roderick Bernadina, minor league outfielder
• 1992 - Archie Bradley, pitcher
• 1992 - Shota Nakazaki, NPB pitcher
• 1993 - Anthony Banda, pitcher
• 1994 - Chance Adams, pitcher
• 1994 - Javier Robles, minor league infielder
• 1995 - Monte Harrison, outfielder
• 1995 - Allan Winans, pitcher
• 1996 - Carlos Gimenez, Argentinian national team pitcher
• 1996 - Marcelo Martínez, minor league pitcher
• 1997 - Peyton Battenfield, pitcher
• 1998 - Bryan Victrix Castillo, Philippines national team infielder
• 1998 - Mário Gottschall, Extraliga catcher
• 1999 - Randy Romero, minor league outfielder
• 2002 - Elchero Francisca, minor league pitcher
• 2003 - Charles Monterrosa, Salvadoran national team infielder

Deaths

• 1899 - Harry Buker, infielder (b. 1859)
• 1911 - Charles Porter, executive (b. 1843)
• 1912 - Ed Sales, infielder (b. 1861)
• 1933 - Elliot Bigelow, outfielder (b. 1897)
• 1933 - George Mangus, outfielder (b. 1890)
• 1934 - Lemuel Hawkins, infielder (b. 1895)
• 1934 - Joe Ward, infielder (b. 1884)
• 1950 - Leo Kavanagh, infielder (b. 1894)
• 1950 - Paul Trammell, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1888)
• 1951 - Win Kellum, pitcher (b. 1876)
• 1962 - Herbert Murphy, infielder (b. 1886)
• 1963 - Bill Kinsler, outfielder (b. 1867)
• 1966 - Chuck Dressen, infielder, manager (b. 1894)
• 1968 - Charlie Boardman, pitcher (b. 1893)
• 1968 - George Savino, minor league catcher, manager (b. 1909)
• 1989 - Tom Hughes, outfielder (b. 1907)
• 1990 - Cookie Lavagetto, infielder, manager; All-Star (b. 1912)
• 1993 - Bill Ferrazzi, pitcher (b. 1907)
• 2001 - Lou Boudreau, infielder, manager; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1917)
• 2001 - Ramon Monzant, pitcher (b. 1933)
• 2012 - Joe Douse, Negro League pitcher (b. 1930)
• 2013 - Thomas Jenk, USA national team player (b. 1930)
• 2013 - Teodoro Obregón, minor league infielder (b. 1935)
• 2014 - Jim Command, infielder (b. 1928)
• 2014 - Bob Wiesler, pitcher (b. 1930)
• 2017 - Don Gross, pitcher (b. 1931)
• 2017 - Barry Myers, college coach (b. 1938)
• 2022 - Corky Palmer, college coach (b. 1954)
• 2024 - Mike Cubbage, infielder, manager (b. 1950)