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Events, births and deaths that occurred on August 21.

Events

• 1901:
  • At Washington, umpire John Haskell is involved in another violent incident during the Washington-White Sox game when Sox SS Frank Shugart punches him after a disputed ball four call, followed by a Nationals bases-loaded triple. Teammate Jack Katoll tries to add his two cents, and a fan jumps in punching Shugart. The police intervene and both players are arrested. Shugart will be expelled. Washington's Win Mercer lives up to his name with an 8 - 0 win over Chicago.
  • In Baltimore, Orioles pitcher Joe McGinnity is tossed for spitting in the face of umpire Tom Connolly. When Detroit's Kid Elberfeld intervenes, he is decked by Baltimore's Mike Donlin. Bill Keister also gets involved, as do some fans, and the police, who arrest the players and a fan. Judge Harry Goldman, a part-owner of the O's, releases the players and fines the fan $100.
• 1902:
  • Sam Leever hurls a two-hitter to give the first place Pirates a 2 - 0 win over the Giants and Christy Mathewson.
  • Philadelphia's Rube Waddell allows three hits in edging the Tigers, 1 - 0, in the opener of a doubleheader. Waddell then pitches the nitecap as well, giving up eight hits before losing, 2 - 1.
• 1903:
  • In their second straight doubleheader, the Pirates and Giants again split, with the Bucs taking the opener, 5 - 0, behind Sam Leever. Christy Mathewson wins the nitecap for New York, 9 - 5, the eighth time he's whipped Pittsburgh this year. Matty scatters ten singles and Ginger Beaumont's double.
  • Ducky Holmes, White Stockings OF, has four assists in a game, tying the major league record. But his team still loses 11 - 3 to Cy Young and the Boston Americans.
• 1905 - The Giants run past the Pirates, 10 - 2, with Christy Mathewson defeating Deacon Phillippe. New York swipes five bases including a steal of home by Art Devlin.
• 1908:
  • Pittsburgh regains first place as Nick Maddox (15-5) beats Brooklyn, 2 - 1 for his eighth win in a row. Maddox drives in both runs as well. Maddox, who won his last five games of 1907, has now won 20 games in 30 appearances, the quickest twenty-game winner ever (This mark will be tied by Russ Ford, in 1910, Boo Ferriss in 1945, and Cal Eldred in 1993).
  • On the third try, Senator Gabby Street catches a ball thrown from the top of the Washington Monument. Scientists estimated the 555-foot drop the ball traveled had a force between 200 and 300 pounds.
• 1909:
  • The Giants edge the Reds, 1 - 0, with Christy Mathewson winning this one. Jack Rowan takes the loss when Larry Doyle walks in the 1st, goes to third base on a ground out and scores on another grounder.
  • Jack Taylor hurls two complete games in the Central League. On the mound for Grand Rapids, he shuts out Terre Haute on two hits to win, 4 - 0, in game one, then wins, 1 - 0, in 11 innings in the second game.
• 1912 - Thomas C. Noyes, president and part owner of the Senators, dies, opening the way for Clark Griffith to eventually become club owner.
• 1913 - The Giants increase their National League lead to ten games by smoking Eddie Stack and the Cubs, 8 - 2. Christy Mathewson rolls to his 22nd win, allowing eight hits. Johnny Evers collects three hits, including a homer in the 5th.
• 1914 - The Reds use a triple and double steal in the 1st inning to score three runs and beat New York ace Christy Mathewson, 3 - 2. Al Demaree relieves Matty in the 6th, but Big Six takes his fourth loss in a row.
• 1915 - Babe Ruth pitches Boston to a 4 - 1 win over the Browns. At bat, the Babe is hitless.
• 1916 - In Boston's 4 - 0 win at Cleveland, Jack Barry has four sacrifices for the Sox, tying a major league record.
• 1917:
  • Reds rookie righthander Hod Eller fans the side on nine pitches in the 9th inning, beating the Giants 7 - 5, and breaking Slim Sallee's ten-game winning streak.
  • Now with the Philadelphia Phils, Albert Bender, 34, pitches his third straight shutout, winning 6 - 0 over the Cubs. In his last active season, Bender will turn in four shutouts and win eight with two losses and a 1.67 ERA. His mound partner from the glory days of the A's, Eddie Plank, will also close out his career, ending the season 5-6 for the St. Louis Browns with a 1.79 ERA.
• 1919 - Phillies catcher Bert Adams ties a National League record for backstops as he records seven assists in one game.
• 1921 - At St. Louis, the largest crowd of the season cheer as the Browns sweep a pair from the Yankees, winning 5 - 4 and 10 - 0.
• 1926:
  • White Sox hurler Ted Lyons pitches a no-hitter, beating the Red Sox at Fenway Park, 6 - 0.
  • Rabbit Maranville, hitting .235, is released by the Robins.
• 1929 - Cubs 1B Charlie Grimm is sidelined for the rest of the regular season with a hand injury, but he'll be okay for the World Series.
• 1930 - Chick Hafey hits for the cycle, as the Cards beat the Phillies at St. Louis, 16 - 6.
• 1931 - Babe Ruth becomes the first major leaguer to hit 600 career home runs as the Yankees defeat the Browns, 11 - 7.
• 1932 - Wes Ferrell becomes the first 20th-century pitcher to win 20 or more games in each of his first four seasons, beating Washington, 11 - 5.
• 1933 - The Yankees and White Sox play an 18-inning game which ends in a 3 - 3 tie.
• 1936:
  • Babe Herman, who quit the Reds in a dispute over a bonus, rejoins the team on orders from Commissioner Landis.
  • Wes Ferrell, in a tantrum for what he considers shabby support, walks off the mound during a Yankee rally and is suspended and fined $1,000 by Boston manager Joe Cronin. It is the second time in five days he has walked off the mound, having done it in Boston the previous Sunday in a game against the Senators. Ferrell, furious when he hears about the fine, says he will not pay it. "They can suspend me or trade me, but they're not getting any dough from me." The Red Sox lift the suspension in four days and will trade Ferrell after the season.
• 1937 - Brooklyn OF Johnny Cooney ties the major-league record with four extra-base hits: three doubles and a triple.
• 1938 - The West wins the 1938 East-West Game, 5 - 4, when Neil Robinson hits a three-run inside-the-park homer between the legs of East CF Sammy Bankhead. Hilton Smith and Double Duty Radcliffe allow only one run in eight innings of relief for a struggling Sug Cornelius.
• 1940 - Rookie pitcher Charlie Frye belts a two-run pinch homer to give the Phils a win over the Cubs.
• 1947 - The first Little League World Series tournament is held in Williamsport, PA. The Maynard Midgets of Williamsport, with a tourney batting average of .625, win the World Series, 16 - 7.
• 1948:
  • Cleveland's streak of victories (8), shutouts (4) and scoreless innings (47) ends in the 9th inning when Bob Lemon walks Pat Seerey and yields home runs to Aaron Robinson and Dave Philley in a 3 - 2 loss to the White Sox.
  • Representatives of Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela, meeting in Havana, agree to stage a four-country round-robin 12-game tournament to be known as the Serie del Caribe (Caribbean Series) and to be launched in Cuba during February 1949. The Dominican Republic and Mexico will also later participate on a regular basis.
• 1949 - A barrage of bottles from the Philadelphia stands as protest of a decision by umpire George Barr over a trapped fly ball results in the first forfeiture in the major leagues in seven years. The Giants, who receive this forfeit, gave one away in 1942 when hordes of youngsters invaded the field.
• 1951:
  • Bob Feller wins his 20th, stopping the Senators, 4 - 0, and keeping the Indians a game ahead of the Yankees. Feller is the American League's first 20-game winner this season.
  • The Giants manage just one run in seven innings off Reds knuckleballer Willie Ramsdell, but the wheels come off "The Knuck" in the 8th: Eddie Stanky belts a leadoff homer, Whitey Lockman adds a two-run shot, and Wes Westrum finishes with a three-run roundtripper off reliever Frank Smith. George Spencer (9-4) wins in relief, 7 - 4.
  • Major General Emmett O'Donnell is selected by the owners to be the new commissioner, but President Harry Truman overrules the decision stating the officer is needed in Korea in his post as commander of bombers.
• 1953 - Major league player representatives Ralph Kiner (National League) and Allie Reynolds (American League) hire labor leader John Norman Lewis at $15,000 per annum to give legal advice to players in their negotiations with the owners.
• 1957 - Masaichi Kaneda throws the fourth perfect game in Nippon Pro Baseball history as the Kokutetsu Swallows defeat the Chunichi Dragons, 1 - 0.
• 1960 - In the 28th year of the Negro Leagues East-West Game, the last game at Chicago's Comiskey Park is played before approximately 5,000 spectators and almost no media coverage. The West squad beats the East, 8 - 4. The game will be played for two more years in other cities before ending.
• 1961 - In their first appearance in Boston since moving to Milwaukee, the Braves defeat the Red Sox, 4 - 1. Warren Spahn pitches the 1st inning, striking out rookies Chuck Schilling and Carl Yastrzemski. The exhibition game is for the benefit of the Jimmy Fund.
• 1963:
  • In the Orioles sweep of the Angels, Orioles SS Luis Aparicio becomes the first major league player since George Case in 1945 to reach 300 career steals. The O's win, 7 - 4 and 3 - 2.
  • Jerry Lynch's major league-record 15th pinch-hit home run gives the Pirates a 7 - 6 win in Chicago.
• 1964 - Reds reliever Billy McCool pitches 6 2/3 innings of stellar relief to beat the Dodgers, 3 - 2. McCool allows one hit and strikes out nine.
• 1966 - Houston's Dave Giusti does it all today as he blanks to Reds, 11 - 0, and drives in six runs on two bases-loaded doubles.
• 1967:
  • Charlie Finley releases Ken Harrelson after a public argument between the two, making Harrelson baseball's first free agent. Harrelson is quoted as calling Finley a menace to baseball.
  • Jim Maloney, who gave up nine hits on the 16th, allows just two hits, as the Reds beat the Giants, 2 - 0. Maloney pitches hitless ball over the last seven innings.
• 1968 - Monte Irvin is named special assistant to Commissioner William Eckert.
• 1969 - Jim Merritt pitches Cincinnati back into the National League West lead with a 5 - 3 win at St. Louis.
• 1971:
  • Mickey Lolich allows six hits as Detroit beats the Brewers, 7 - 2. It is Lolich's 20th win of the year.
  • Pitching in relief, the Reds' Jim Merritt (1-11) records his only win of the year. A 20-game winner last season, Merritt, started the year with 11 straight losses, one short of the National League record.
  • For the second time in ten days, Dave Roberts of the Padres and Tom Seaver of the Mets lock up in a pitchers duel, but this time, Seaver comes out on top, 2 - 1. Ed Spiezio hits a solo homer for San Diego in the 3rd, then Cleon Jones triples and comes in to tie the score on a sacrifice fly for the Mets in the 7th. Jones then ends the game with a walk-off home run with two outs on the bottom of the 9th, only the third hit allowed by Roberts. Seaver and Roberts will finish first and second respectively in the National League ERA race.
• 1972:
  • On his birthday, Jim Beauchamp of the New York Mets hits his first two home runs of the season. The second one comes in the bottom of the 9th inning to defeat the Houston Astros.
  • Phil Niekro and the Braves beat the Phillies, 2 - 1, in 11 innings, to snap Steve Carlton's 15-game winning streak. After retiring 19 batters in a row, Carlton (20-7) puts two runners on in the 11th, before Mike Lum singles home the winner.
• 1973:
  • Cleveland's Walt Williams singles with two outs in the 9th, breaking up Stan Bahnsen's no-hitter. Bahnsen completes the one-hit shutout and the White Sox win, 4 - 0.
  • Rick Wise hits the second grand slam of his career, off Roric Harrison, as the Cards score seven runs in the 3rd inning. But the Braves score six runs in the 6th to win, 11 - 7.
• 1974 - Red Sox pitcher Roger Moret earns a new contract from Tom Yawkey today by tossing a one-hitter against the visiting White Sox, to win, 4 - 0. Dick Allen's 7th-inning single is the lone hit as Moret strikes out 12.
• 1975 - The Reuschel brothers of the Cubs join forces to blank the Dodgers, 6 - 0. Rick goes 6 1/3 innings and Paul finishes the game for the first combined shutout thrown by siblings.
• 1977:
  • Pittsburgh's Rennie Stennett, batting .336 for the season, breaks his right leg sliding into second base during a 5 - 4 loss to San Francisco. He will be out for the year, falling 12 plate appearances short of qualifying for the batting title, won by teammate Dave Parker at .338. Stennett will never again hit higher than .244.
  • Graig Nettles' home run and double account for both Yankee runs in a 2 - 1 win over Texas. Ron Guidry picks up his tenth win of the year and the Yankees cut the Red Sox's lead to one-half game.
  • Rick Dempsey returns to active duty for the Baltimore Orioles after breaking his finger, and Brooks Robinson goes on the voluntary retired list, ending his illustrious 23-year career, all with the Orioles.
  • Tom Seaver makes his first appearance in Shea Stadium as a member of the Reds, and pitches a six-hitter to beat the Mets, 5 - 1. Tom Terrific strikes out 11, has a double at the plate and scores twice.
• 1978 - Ken Griffey drives in six runs, on two homers and a single, but it is not enough as his Reds lose, 14 - 9 to St. Louis.
• 1979 - The Mets win a protested game against the Astros, 5 - 0. With two outs in the 9th inning, Houston's Jeffrey Leonard flies to CF to apparently end the game. Umpire Doug Harvey rules that time had been called, and orders Leonard back to the plate. He then singles to left. The Mets were without a first baseman, however, so the umps order Leonard to bat once more. He flies to LF to end the game.
• 1980 - Rob Wilfong's 1st-inning single is the only hit off Jack Morris. The Tiger ace beats the Twins, 4 - 2.
• 1981 - In a Pioneer League game at Helena, Lethbridge's Sid Fernandez strikes out 21 Phillies batters. El Sid wins, 6 - 0.
• 1982 - Brewer reliever Rollie Fingers become the first player in major league history to record 300 career saves as Milwaukee defeat the Mariners, 3 - 2.
• 1983 - On the same day, two minor leaguers, Vince Coleman and Donell Nixon, break Rickey Henderson's single-season record by stealing their 131st base of the season.
• 1984:
  • Red Sox rookie Roger Clemens strikes out 15 and walks none as Boston whips Kansas City, 11 - 1.
  • At Detroit, Lance Parrish cracks a 1st-inning grand slam off Lary Sorensen, and the Tigers drive by the A's, 12 - 6. Milt Wilcox goes six innings for the win.
• 1985 - Manager Stan Wasiak of Vero Beach (Florida State League) becomes the first minor league manager to record 2,500 wins as Vero Beach wins 3 - 2 over Miami. The win comes less then a week after Wasiak set the record for most wins. He has managed for 36 consecutive seasons.
• 1986 - Spike Owen becomes the first major leaguer in 40 years to score six runs in a game as the Red Sox rout the Indians, 24 - 5.
• 1987:
  • Dale Murphy hits his 300th career home run as Atlanta beats Pittsburgh, 5 - 4. He stroked his 1,500th hit on August 5th.
  • Andre Dawson belts his 39th and 40th home runs of the season and Lee Smith picks up his 30th save in Chicago's 7 - 5 win over the Astros.
• 1989 - Cubs rookie OF Jerome Walton goes 0 for 4 in a 6 - 5, 10-inning loss to the Reds, ending his hitting streak at 30 consecutive games.
• 1990:
  • For the last time this century, two rookie pitchers debut against each other as Paul Abbott of the Twins squares off against Jim Campbell of the Royals. Abbott is the loser as the Royals win, 8 - 7. He'll do better in his next outing, allowing three Texas hits in eight innings.
  • Trailing 11 - 1 after seven innings, the Phillies score two in the 8th and nine more in the 9th inning to beat the Dodgers, 12 - 11.
  • Billy Hatcher ties a major-league record with four doubles to pace the Reds to an 8 - 1 win over the Cubs. Rick Mahler beats Mike Harkey. The only score for Chicago is Ryne Sandberg's 29th homer. Reds manager Lou Piniella argues with umpire Dutch Rennert after Barry Larkin is called out at first at the end of the 5th inning. After throwing his hat down, Piniella is ejected; in response, Piniella rips first base out of the ground and throws it twice toward right field.
• 1991:
  • The Helena Brewers beat Idaho Falls, 28 - 0 in the Pioneer League. Helena has 27 hits, including six homers, but sets no records. The good news for Idaho Falls is no errors, and their last pitcher is 1B Loren Gress. He outpitches the real pitchers, giving up no runs and a hit in 1 1/3 innings.
  • After nearly two months off with a chronic backache, David Justice rejoins the Atlanta Braves in time for tonight's twinbill with the Reds. Even without him, the Braves are just two games behind the Dodgers in the National League West.
  • Toronto manager Cito Gaston is hospitalized with a herniated disk and Gene Tenace takes over on an interim basis. He'll be 13-6 in his first 19 games to keep Toronto on top.
  • Yankees OF Bernie Williams fans five consecutive times in a 7 - 4 loss to the Royals to tie the major league mark for a nine-inning game. He's consoled by Yankee hitting coach Frank Howard, one of the 28 batters who share the mark.
• 1993:
  • The Tigers trade OF Rob Deer to the Red Sox for a player to be named. Deer will homer tomorrow in his first at bat for the Sox in a 3 - 2 loss to the Indians.
  • After allowing a homer in a 3 - 2 loss to Houston, Phils pitcher Terry Mulholland breaks his right hand punching a water cooler. "It's stupid, but it really would've been stupid if I had hit it with my left hand," responds the southpaw.
• 1996:
  • Derek Jeter hits a home run off Jason Dickson's first major league pitch, but that's all the scoring for the slumping Yankees as the Angels' rookie wins, 7 - 1. Chili Davis has a pair of homers, the first off loser Jimmy Key (9-10).
  • The Rockies end Andy Benes's ten-game win streak, beating the Cardinals, 10 - 2. The Rocks also claim Giants C Steve Decker, while the Giants claim the Rocks' Trenidad Hubbard, essentially trading both waived players for one another.
  • Phils ace Curt Schilling faces 28 batters in a two-hit, 6 - 0 win over the Dodgers. Schilling strikes out 12. Rookie Scott Rolen hits his first two major league homers, both off Hideo Nomo.
  • Cal Ripken is 4 for 5, including a homer, to lead the surging Orioles to a 10 - 5 win over the Mariners. The O's overcome a pair of homers by Alex Rodriguez to win their 16th in 22 games.
• 1999:
  • In their current four-game series against the Giants, the Dodgers start pitchers from four different countries - none of them Americans, something they have done before, but this time, the Dodgers have three continents covered. In yesterday's 6 - 5 win it was Eric Gagné of Canada; In today's 9 - 4 win it is Jeff Williams of Australia; In tomorrow's 5 - 4 loss, it will be Ismael Valdes of Mexico; and the next day it will be Chan Ho Park from South Korea, in a 5 - 3 win.
  • Orioles outfielder Brady Anderson becomes only the third player in major league history to lead off both games of a doubleheader with a home run. It doesn't help as the White Sox sweep the twin bill.
• 2000:
  • Devil Rays P Bryan Rekar is arrested on a misdemeanor charge of domestic battery.
  • Potomac's Esix Snead breaks Lenny Dykstra's Carolina League record of 105 steals by swiping his 106th. Snead has a batting average of .242 and OBA of .338. It's the tenth time in the last 20 years that a minor leaguer has stolen 100 or more bases in a season.
  • The Brewers defeat the Diamondbacks, 16 - 8, scoring eight runs in a 2nd inning which features three home runs.
• 2001 - The International League's Triple-A game between Rochester (Orioles) and Ottawa (Expos) features Tim Raines and his son Tim Jr. as opponents. It is believed to be the first contest involving a dad and his son facing each other during the regular season on the professional level. The two will briefly be teammates with the Orioles at the end of the season.
• 2002:
  • The Athletics win their eighth straight game behind Cory Lidle's one-hitter, beating Cleveland by a score of 6 - 0. Lidle gives up a two-out single to Ellis Burks in the 1st inning, walks the next batter, then retires the last 25 batters. It is the fourth straight start for Lidle in which he's been part of a shutout, but it is the only one he's completed.
  • The Astros obtain RP Tom Gordon from the Cubs in exchange for minor league P Russ Rohlicek and two players to be named.
  • In the longest game ever played in Little League World Series history, Louisville, KY beats Fort Worth, TX in the US semifinal in 11 innings, 2 - 1. A record-setting 49 strikeouts are recorded as Fort Worth's Walker Kelly strikes out 21 in nine two-hit innings and Louisville's Aaron Alvey fans 19 batters over nine no-hit inning.
  • The Expos' first selection in the amateur draft (fifth overall), Clint Everts, signs a deal with Montreal which gives him a $2.5 million signing bonus. The Houston Cypress Falls High School's right-hander, along with teammate left-hander Scott Kazmir (Mets), are only the fourth pair of high school teammates selected in the first round of the same draft.
  • The Cardinals defeat the Pirates, 4 - 1, for Tony LaRussa's 1,887th career win as a manager, moving him into tenth place on the all-time list.
• 2003:
  • Miguel Tejada starts his 559th consecutive game to establish a team record. The A's shortstop, who has the longest active streak in the majors, last missed a game on May 1, 2000.
  • Much to the delight of the 34,844 fans at Fenway Park and the embarrassment of the team's first baseman, the "Rally Karaoke Guy" makes his debut as a video of Kevin Millar as a Los Angeles City College freshman doing an impersonation of Bruce Springsteen singing "Born in the USA," is shown on the scoreboard prior to the start of the 6th inning. The video, which was played at a clubhouse meeting in Texas as a prank by a college friend of Millar's who is now a FBI agent, appears to be Boston's answer to the Rally Monkey of Anaheim as the Red Sox win their first game in a week, beating the A's, 14 - 5.
  • At Dodger Stadium, Vladimir Guerrero hits his 226th career home run breaking Andre Dawson's club record. The Expos right fielder hits his milestone round-tripper off Odalis Perez, a 454-foot shot over the left field wall.
• 2005:
  • Florida suspends its bat boy for six games after the 11-year-old accepts former Marlin and current Dodger hurler Brad Penny's $500 dare to drink a gallon of milk in less than an hour without throwing up. The sixth grader, who is able to drink the quantity in the allotted time but cannot keep it down, will be offered by the Milk Processor Education Program a promise to pay off the dare and will cover the lost wages resulting from the suspension if he agrees to drink three glasses every 24 hours.
  • Using teammate Cliff Floyd's bat, Mike Jacobs hits a three-run home run in his first major league at-bat, pinch-hitting in the 5th inning. The left-handed hitting backstop becomes the fourth Mets rookie to go deep in his big league debut, joining Benny Ayala, Mike Fitzgerald and Kazuo Matsui.
• 2007:
  • Rookie Diamondbacks third baseman Mark Reynolds strikes out for the ninth straight plate appearance, tying the major league record for position players. David Bush is the opposing hurler; in Reynolds' next appearance, Bush hits him with a pitch to end the streak. Reynolds ties the mark held by Adolfo Phillips (1966), Steve Balboni (1984), Eric Davis (1987), Reggie Jackson (1987) and Bo Jackson (1988). During the streak, Reynolds became the batter who enabled John Smoltz to become the Atlanta Braves career strikeout leader.
  • Garret Anderson drives in ten runs, setting a Angels franchise record. Anderson doubles in Chone Figgins and Orlando Cabrera in the 1st against Mike Mussina. In the 2nd, he doubles home Vladimir Guerrero. In the 3rd, he cracks a three-run homer against Edwar Ramirez. In the 6th, he hits a grand slam, this one off Sean Henn. The Angels top the Yankees, 18 - 9.
  • Esteban Yan of the Hanshin Tigers commits his 12th balk of the season, setting a new Nippon Pro Baseball record. He follows by intentionally hitting the next batter, earning him an ejection.
  • Undrafted Zach Peterson of the Idaho Falls Chukars sets a Pioneer League record with 11 straight strikeouts in a game. Jeff Montgomery had once whiffed 11 straight, but over three contests.
• 2009:
  • Hideki Matsui hits a pair of three-run homers and drives in seven as the Yankees destroy the Red Sox, 20 - 11, at Fenway Park. The only highlight for the Sox comes when Jacoby Ellsbury steals his 54th base of the season in the 1st, breaking the franchise record held by Tommy Harper.
  • The Twins defeat Kansas City, 5 - 4, in a sloppy game that sees both teams' closers falter. The Twins score three in the 6th thanks to a throwing error, a wild pitch, and a blooper reel play by RF Josh Anderson that allows Denard Span to race around the bases. Coming in to close a 4 - 3 lead in the 9th, Minnesota's Joe Nathan gives up a two-out home run to pinch-hitter Brayan Pena to send the game into extra innings. The Royals' Joakim Soria then gives up a single to Alexi Casilla and a triple to Orlando Cabrera to put the Twins back on top and give Nathan another chance to close. But the Royals put two more men on before Mark Teahen finally lines out to right field to end the game.
• 2010:
  • Josh Bell hits the first two homers of his major league career, and teammates Ty Wigginton and Luke Scott join him in going yard, as the Orioles rough up Texas's Cliff Lee, 8 - 6. It is the first time this season Lee fails to complete six innings, being chased after pitching 5 2/3 innings.
  • Rookie Peter Bourjos also hits his first career homer, for the Angels against the Twins. He adds a triple and drives in four in his team's 9 - 3 win. Losing P Kevin Slowey is placed on the disabled list after the game with a strained right forearm, as is reliever Ron Mahay, who hurts his shoulder while fielding a ground ball.
  • Matt Stairs hits the record-breaking 21st pinch home run of his career. It is a two-run shot off Kameron Loe in the 8th inning of the Padres' 6 - 5 loss to Milwaukee.
  • Casey Kotchman goes 3 for 4 in a 9 - 5 Mariners loss to the Yankees, but makes his first error in 275 games. The previous major league record for errorless games at first base had been held by Kevin Youkilis.
• 2011:
  • The Tigers score seven runs off Cleveland's Ubaldo Jimenez in the 3rd, including homers from Delmon Young and Victor Martinez, but the Indians slowly claw back. In the 4th, both benches are warned when Tigers starter Rick Porcello throws a pitch behind Asdrubal Cabrera shortly before being chased from the game. In the 6th, Tigers manager Jim Leyland is ejected by third base umpire Alan Porter for arguing a tag play at the base on Wilson Betemit. Detroit closer José Valverde then pitches the 9th with a one-run lead, but puts the first two men he faces on base courtesy of a walk and a hit-by-pitch. After Jack Hannahan's successful sacrifice bunt, he gets pinch-hitter Matt LaPorta to fly to short center field; CF Austin Jackson unloads a superb throw to the plate that nails Kosuke Fukudome trying to score from third base, for a spectacular game-ending double play. Detroit completes a three-game sweep with the 8 - 7 win and Valverde has now been perfect in all 37 of his save opportunities this year.
  • In his first major league start, the Blue Jays' Luis Pérez holds the Athletics to one hit and a pair of walks in six innings. Jose Bautista then leads off the 7th with his 36th homer off Guillermo Moscoso to give Toronto a 1 - 0 lead, and reliever Casey Janssen makes it hold with three hitless innings to complete the combined one-hitter.
  • With 3B Alex Rodriguez back in the line-up for the first time since July 7th, the Yankees shut out the Twins, 3 - 0. Curtis Granderson, who has had no problem hitting the ball out of the park all year, keeps his 7th-inning hit within the confines, but races around the bases for an inside-the-park homer that doubles the Yankees' lead. Mark Teixeira follows with a more conventional home run and Ivan Nova improves to 13-4 on the year. A-Rod and Jim Thome become the first members of the 600 home run club to appear in the same contest since Willie Mays and Hank Aaron 38 years prior.
  • The Padres retire uniform number 51 worn by reliever Trevor Hoffman during his stellar career before their game with the Florida Marlins, then Will Venable caps off the day with a game-winning single off Edward Mujica against a five-man infield for a 4 - 3 win. Hoffman's successor as the Padres' closer, Heath Bell, gives up a homer to Mike Cameron with two outs in the top of the 9th for a blown save, but earns the win instead.
• 2012:
  • SS Billy Hamilton of the Pensacola Blue Wahoos steals his 146th base of the season, beating the all-time minor league record set by Vince Coleman in 1983.
  • In his first start since pitching a perfect game, Felix Hernandez of the Mariners surrenders a base hit to Indians lead-off hitter Jason Kipnis, but wins the game, 5 - 1, thanks to Jesus Montero's three-run homer in the 7th. It is Seattle's seventh straight win.
  • Corendon Kinheim completes a stunning sweep of DOOR Neptunus in the 2012 Holland Series with a 9 - 2 pounding, thanks to home runs by Dirk van 't Klooster and Bryan Engelhardt and a 13-strikeout gem by Series MVP David Bergman. Kinheim had fired head coach Eelco Jansen in the first round of the playoffs but rallies under replacement Hans Lemmink to win it all.
• 2013 - With a 1st-inning single off Toronto's R.A. Dickey, Ichiro Suzuki gets his 4,000 hit between Japan (1,278) and the United States (2,722). He is only the third player to reach the milestone at such a high level, following Ty Cobb and Pete Rose, who both collected all their hits in the United States major leagues. Only one other Japanese player, Isao Harimoto, had 3,000 hits.
• 2014:
  • The Angels complete a four-game sweep of the Red Sox at Fenway Park to consolidate their position as the best team in the majors at this point. Rookie Matt Shoemaker improves to 12-4 as he keeps the Sox hitless through 6 2/3 innings before Will Middlebrooks hits a double for Boston's only safety in a 2 - 0 loss. Earlier today, the Angels get bad news when they learn that P Garrett Richards, who injured his knee the day before, is out for the season. They call up veteran Wade LeBlanc from AAA to take Richards' place and acquire 2B Gordon Beckham from the White Sox to add some infield depth in anticipation of the postseason.
  • Game 3 of the 2014 Italian Series goes down to the final batter. With ASD Rimini trailing Fortitudo Bologna, 2 - 1, in the bottom of the 9th and two outs, Adolfo Gomez singles off Raul Rivero and Giuseppe Spinelli walks. Filippo Crepaldi relieves Rivero but gives up a game-ending, two-run single to Riccardo Bertagnon.
• 2015:
  • Mike Fiers of the Astros pitches the fifth no-hitter of the season, defeating the Dodgers, 3 - 0, in an interleague contest. He strikes out 11 and retires the last 21 batters in a row. It is the first time in his career that he reaches the 9th inning in a game he has started.
  • Trading deadline acquisition Yoenis Cespedes continues to make his presence felt in the Mets line-up as he homers three times, including a grand slam, and collects seven RBIs in a 14 - 9 win over the Rockies. He also has two other hits and drives a ball to the warning track in the 9th inning. Travis d'Arnaud and Michael Conforto also homer for New York.
• 2016:
  • Unipol Bologna beats Rimini in the 2016 Italian Series, four games to two. Game 6, which had been delayed by rain, is marked by two rain delays before finally being called after six innings. Bologna's Ryan Searle and Rimini's Ricardo Hernández pitch fine games, but Alessandro Vaglio doubles in two runs off Hernández in the 4th for all the game's runs. Searle and Raul Rivero combine on a one-hitter. Osman Marval is named Series MVP after hitting .464 with five doubles.
  • In the Czech Republic, Draci Brno routs defending champion Kotlářka Praha, 21 - 9, with a ten-run 8th inning in Game 5 of the Extraliga finals. Brno thus takes the Extraliga title, three games to two. Martin Schneider has four hits and seven RBI and is one of four players to go deep for Draci Brno, which wins its 20th title in 22 years. Jason Jarvis and Michal Ondráček each have four hits, four RBI and a homer in the romp. Radim Chroust gets the win. Lukáš Ercoli is handed the loss; Ercoli and four relievers combine to allow 19 hits and seven walks while the team makes five errors.
  • The Gateway Grizzlies trail the Joliet Slammers, 3 - 0, in the bottom of the 2nd, when Brandon Thomas hits a grand slam off Spencer Medick as his team rallies for a 17 - 6 win. Thomas' homer makes the news, though, because it breaks the window of his car, which was sitting in the parking lot at the time of the big blast.
• 2017 - The Salem-Keizer Volcanoes of the Northwest League begin their game against the Hillsboro Hops at 9:35 am on a Monday. It is no mistake, as this is timed precisely to allow fans to view a rare total eclipse of the sun, whose band of total darkness passes precisely over the Willamette Valley of Oregon around 10:17 a.m. Fans are invited to the ballpark for breakfast starting at 6:00 a.m. and are issued eclipse-viewing glasses, while the home team wears special uniforms for the occasion. An "eclipse delay" is called a half-hour into the game to allow fans to view the celestial phenomenon before play resumes.
• 2018:
  • The Nationals have apparently thrown in the towel on a season in which they were prohibitive preseason favorites to win a third straight division title. Today, playing below .500, they dispatch two veterans, 2B Daniel Murphy, who heads to the Cubs in return for a minor leaguer, and 1B Matt Adams, who returns to the Cardinals after being claimed off waivers. They also place their highest-profile player, OF Bryce Harper, on waivers, but pull him back when the Dodgers claim him but are only willing to pay his remaining salary and not offer any players in return.
  • The Baseball Australia Hall of Fame announces its class of 2018: 1940s and 1950s shortstop Ben Shom, 1970s and 1980s pitcher Greg Elkson, 1980s and 1990s star Brett Ward and 1990s and 2000s pitcher Mark Ettles, the second Australian to win a game in the majors.
• 2019:
  • In spite of pitching a two-hitter against his former team, the Tigers, Houston's Justin Verlander ends up on the losing end of a 2 - 1 decision as both hits are solo homers, by John Hicks and Ronny Rodriguez. Hicks's blast to lead off the 9th breaks a 1 - 1 tie while four pitchers limit the Astros to a single run. The game ends as Robinson Chirinos, trying to complete a cycle, is gunned down at third base attempting to stretch a double into a triple.
  • With over a month left to go in the season, Orioles pitchers tie a major league record when Aaron Brooks allows a 3rd-inning homer to Whit Merrifield of the Royals, the 258th long ball allowed by Orioles pitchers this year, tying the 2016 Cincinnati Reds. Tonight's homer is of little concern to the Birds, however, as they hit four of their own on their way to an easy 8 - 1 win.
• 2020 - With their bullpen sporting an ungodly ERA of 8.07, the Phillies make a couple of moves, acquiring David Hale from the Yankees for a prospect and Brandon Workman and Heath Hembree from the Red Sox for Nick Pivetta and another prospect. As a group, Phillies relievers have recorded two saves but five blown saves in 21 games.
• 2022:
  • The annual Little League Classic is staged to coincide with the holding of the Little League World Series in Williamsport, PA. The Orioles, who are the home team, continue their impressive run of late on a national stage as they defeat the Red Sox, 5 - 3. Jorge Mateo has the key hit, a bases-loaded double in the 8th that breaks a 2 - 2 tie.
  • The Rouen Huskies repeat as French Division I champions, beating the Savigny Lions in four games in the finals. In the clincher, Todd Van Steensel saves Esteban Prioul's 6 - 3 win, Louis Brainville scoring three and Bastien Dagneau driving in three.
• 2023 - With a 14 - 2 smackdown of the White Sox, the Mariners win their seventh straight. They score five times in the 1st inning and go on from there, padding their lead with back-to-back homers by Cal Raleigh and Teoscar Hernández in the 6th. Raleigh adds another long ball in 8th and finishes with six RBIs while Hernández has three. With the win streak, Seattle has vaulted past Toronto for the final wild card slot in the AL.

Births

• 1847 - Charlie Gould, infielder, manager (d. 1917)
• 1855 - Charlie Householder, infielder (d. 1913)
• 1866 - Cannonball Titcomb, pitcher (d. 1950)
• 1870 - John Otten, catcher (d. 1905)
• 1875 - Frank Isbell, infielder (d. 1941)
• 1879 - Ollie Johns, pitcher (d. 1961)
• 1882 - Henry Hannon, manager (d. 1958)
• 1883 - Owen Wilson, outfielder (d. 1954)
• 1890 - Cullen Thomas, college coach (d. 1973)
• 1891 - Jim Eschen, outfielder (d. 1960)
• 1891 - Dick Gossett, catcher (d. 1962)
• 1901 - Wes Schulmerich, outfielder (d. 1985)
• 1905 - George Branigan, pitcher (d. 1966)
• 1905 - Cobe Jones, infielder (d. 1969)
• 1905 - Jim Mosolf, outfielder (d. 1979)
• 1905 - Frank Waddey, outfielder (d. 1990)
• 1907 - Wally Hebert, pitcher (d. 1999)
• 1909 - Ed Stone, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1983)
• 1911 - Tom Cafego, outfielder (d. 1961)
• 1911 - Walt Calhoun, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1976)
• 1912 - Woody Williams, infielder (d. 1995)
• 1915 - Andy Hornsby, minor league player (d. 2014)
• 1916 - Murry Dickson, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1989)
• 1917 - Kay Heim, AAGPBL catcher (d. 2015)
• 1918 - Frank Williams, outfielder (d. ????)
• 1919 - Dalmiro Finol, minor league outfielder (d. 1994)
• 1920 - Ben Cardoni, pitcher (d. 1969)
• 1920 - Whitey Platt, outfielder (d. 1970)
• 1920 - John Raczka, minor league infielder (d. 2014)
• 1920 - Gerry Staley, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2008)
• 1921 - Lou Knerr, pitcher (d. 1980)
• 1921 - Vince Pesky, minor league pitcher (d. 2021)
• 1923 - Andrew Dravecky, minor league catcher (d. 1994)
• 1923 - Hilly Flitcraft, pitcher (d. 2003)
• 1925 - Vern Fear, pitcher (d. 1976)
• 1928 - Ron Orlandi, minor league catcher (d. 2017)
• 1928 - Anthony Simone, minor league executive (d. 2015)
• 1929 - Clarence Zieser, minor league pitcher (d. 2012)
• 1937 - Jack Damaska, infielder/outfielder
• 1939 - Jim Beauchamp, infielder (d. 2007)
• 1943 - Kimio Gomyo, Japanese national team coach (d. 2019)
• 1943 - Felix Millan, infielder; All-Star
• 1945 - Jerry Davanon, infielder
• 1946 - Barry Axelrod, agent
• 1946 - Byung-chul Kang, KBO manager
• 1948 - John Ellis, infielder (d. 2022)
• 1948 - Craig Robinson, infielder
• 1949 - Grant Everard, Canadian national team pitcher
• 1951 - John Stearns, catcher; All-Star (d. 2022)
• 1952 - Mike Ibarguen, minor league pitcher (d. 2017)
• 1952 - Chip Lang, pitcher
• 1954 - Bruce Berenyi, pitcher
• 1956 - John Henry Johnson, pitcher
• 1957 - Steve Eddy, pitcher
• 1957 - Frank Pastore, pitcher (d. 2012)
• 1958 - Masahiro Fujikawa, Japanese national team pitcher
• 1963 - Ken Jackson, infielder
• 1963 - Bean Stringfellow, minor league pitcher, agent
• 1964 - Shawn Hillegas, pitcher
• 1965 - Jim Bullinger, pitcher
• 1966 - Tim Doherty, scout
• 1966 - John Wetteland, pitcher; All-Star
• 1968 - Mike Misuraca, pitcher
• 1968 - Karl Rhodes, outfielder
• 1969 - Andujar Cedeno, infielder (d. 2000)
• 1969 - Dave England, minor league pitcher
• 1970 - Craig Counsell, infielder, manager
• 1971 - Lou Pote, pitcher
• 1971 - Rob Mummau, minor league infielder
• 1972 - Dean Crow, pitcher
• 1973 - Mike Bovee, pitcher
• 1973 - Lou Collier, infielder
• 1973 - Chris Lemonis, minor league infielder
• 1973 - Ismael Valdez, pitcher
• 1974 - Ethan Faggett, minor league outfielder
• 1974 - John Hessler, minor league pitcher
• 1975 - Akili Smith, minor league player
• 1976 - Derrin Ebert, pitcher
• 1976 - Ramon Vazquez, infielder
• 1976 - Brett Weber, coach
• 1978 - Jason Marquis, pitcher; All-Star
• 1978 - Lee Gronkiewicz, pitcher
• 1979 - Bryan Edwards, minor league pitcher
• 1980 - Akihiro Higashide, NPB infielder
• 1981 - Dante Brinkley, minor league outfielder
• 1981 - Roger Guzmán, Bolivian national team player
• 1981 - Dae-soo Lee, KBO infielder
• 1981 - Mike Reeves, minor league pitcher and manager
• 1982 - Justin Barnes, minor league pitcher
• 1983 - Jesse Chavez, pitcher
• 1983 - Jeff Clement, catcher
• 1984 - Daniel Lyons, minor league infielder
• 1984 - Dustin Molleken, pitcher
• 1984 - B.J. Upton, infielder
• 1985 - Sean Gleason, minor league pitcher
• 1985 - Brian Parker, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Erik Hamren, pitcher
• 1986 - Tatsuya Kajimoto, NPB pitcher
• 1986 - Jesse Sultanik, Israeli national team outfielder
• 1987 - J.D. Martinez, outfielder; All-Star
• 1987 - Dimitar Nassapov, Bundesliga pitcher
• 1988 - Liacnis Rodriguez, Cuban women's national team pitcher
• 1989 - Ehire Adrianza, infielder
• 1989 - Tim Collins, pitcher
• 1989 - Max Javate, Philippines national team pitcher
• 1989 - Terance Marin, minor league pitcher
• 1989 - Elliot Soto, infielder
• 1990 - Chris Nichols, minor league pitcher
• 1990 - Christian Vazquez, catcher
• 1991 - Fernando Flores, minor league catcher
• 1991 - Brad Haynal, minor league catcher
• 1991 - Sergio Mendez, minor league pitcher
• 1991 - Mason Williams, outfielder
• 1992 - Brandon Drury, infielder
• 1992 - Emilio Guerrero, minor league infielder
• 1993 - Brady Conlan, Philippines national team infielder
• 1993 - Derek Fisher, outfielder
• 1993 - Luke Weaver, pitcher
• 1994 - Chase Vallot, minor league catcher
• 1995 - Ryan Dorow, infielder
• 1995 - Elio Silva, minor league pitcher
• 1997 - Damon King, South African national team pitcher
• 1997 - Leonardo Oliveira, Brazilian national team pitcher
• 1997 - Eric Orze, pitcher
• 1997 - Ryan Pepiot, pitcher
• 1997 - Alan Rangel, minor league pitcher
• 1998 - Amos Willingham, pitcher
• 2000 - Corbin Carroll, outfielder; All-Star
• 2001 - Lucas Braun, minor league pitcher
• 2003 - Sze-Yue Chan, Hong Kong national team infielder

Deaths

• 1903 - Andy Leonard, outfielder (b. 1846)
• 1912 - Thomas C. Noyes, owner (b. 1868)
• 1915 - Blaine Thomas, pitcher (b. 1888)
• 1919 - Bob Clark, catcher (b. 1863)
• 1928 - Joe Mulvey, infielder (b. 1858)
• 1934 - Carl Lundgren, pitcher (b. 1880)
• 1937 - George Wright, infielder, manager, Hall of Famer (b. 1847)
• 1939 - Jiro Kuji, amateur catcher; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1898)
• 1940 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, author (b. 1863)
• 1944 - Lew Post, outfielder (b. 1875)
• 1947 - King Brady, pitcher (b. 1881)
• 1947 - Henry Fox, pitcher (b. 1878)
• 1949 - Ernest Gatewood, catcher (b. 1890)
• 1952 - Jack Ryan, catcher (b. 1868)
• 1957 - Harry Damrau, infielder (b. 1890)
• 1960 - John Kelleher, infielder (b. 1893)
• 1963 - Tom Asmussen, catcher (b. 1876)
• 1964 - Dom Mullaney, umpire (b. 1873)
• 1965 - Bill Harris, pitcher (b. 1900)
• 1967 - Slim McGrew, pitcher (b. 1899)
• 1972 - Eddie Kenna, catcher (b. 1897)
• 1973 - Ira Hutchinson, pitcher (b. 1910)
• 1975 - Ed McLane, outfielder (b. 1881)
• 1976 - Ray Rudisill, minor league outfielder and manager (b. 1916)
• 1984 - Rufus Smith, pitcher (b. 1905)
• 1985 - Roy Luebbe, catcher (b. 1900)
• 1987 - Frank Callaway, infielder (b. 1898)
• 1989 - Ted Wilks, pitcher (b. 1915)
• 1990 - Bill Lasley, pitcher (b. 1902)
• 1990 - Bob Uhl, pitcher (b. 1913)
• 1993 - Felix Evans, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1910)
• 1994 - Luis Villodas, catcher (b. 1918)
• 1997 - Guillermo Molina, pitcher (b. 1909)
• 1999 - Nap Gulley, pitcher (b. 1924)
• 2000 - Russ Kerns, pinch hitter (b. 1920)
• 2003 - Ken Coleman, broadcaster (b. 1925)
• 2004 - Maddy English, AAGPBL infielder (b. 1925)
• 2004 - Bill Powell, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1919)
• 2009 - Greg Montalbano, minor league pitcher (b. 1977)
• 2010 - Satch Davidson, umpire (b. 1936)
• 2014 - Peter Handrinos, author (b. 1972)
• 2014 - Andy Hornsby, minor league player (b. 1915)
• 2015 - René Picota, scout (b. 1933)
• 2017 - Felo Ramírez, broadcaster (b. 1923)
• 2018 - Dean Stone, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1930)
• 2020 - Duane Rochford, minor league pitcher (b. 1975)
• 2021 - Billy Bowman, minor league pitcher (b. 1930)
• 2024 - Nick Mileti, owner (b. 1931)