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Events

• 1877 - Harry McCormick of the Syracuse Stars (League Alliance) pitches the earliest known minor league no-hitter against Indianapolis.
• 1897 - Future Hall of Fame catcher Roger Bresnahan makes his major league debut as a pitcher for the Senators, shutting out the Browns, 3 - 0.
• 1901 - At Boston, Cy Young goes 15 innings to defeat Detroit, 2 - 1, for his 25th win of the year.
• 1903 - In Philadelphia, Boston pitcher "Long" Tom Hughes goes long over the left field fence to win his own game against the A's, 4 - 2.
• 1904 - At Robison Field, the Giants score seven runs in three innings off Jack Taylor and Christy Mathewson eases to a 9 - 3 win over the Cards.
• 1906 - After Boston manager Jimmy Collins takes a vacation without permission, he is suspended. Chick Stahl is named acting manager and Collins will never manage in the majors again.
• 1907 - Christy Mathewson fashions a three-hit shutout over the Cardinals and drives in the only run with a double. Ed Karger takes the hard-luck loss.
• 1908 - With electric bulletin boards also showing the action in Chicago, the Cubs arrive back home for a three-game sweep to move within one-half game of the lead. Chicago wins today, 5 - 1, then takes the day off tomorrow.
• 1909 - Still pitching doubleheaders, Joe McGinnity wins a pair for Newark over Buffalo in the Eastern League.
• 1910:
  • In the first of two, Highlander P Jack Warhop swipes home in 6th. His run is the difference as New York beats the White Sox, 4 - 3.
  • Inventor George Cahill brings his patented lighting system to South Side Park. Using twenty 137,000 candlepower arc lights, two amateur teams play a night game before 20,000. However, the first American League night game won't be played there until 1939.
  • At Chicago's West Side Park, the Cubs pulls off a 3rd-inning triple play - 2B Johnny Evers to 3B Heinie Zimmerman - against the Giants, but New York wins handily, 18 - 9. The Giants tally 23 hits to the Cubs' 15 in beating the league-leaders.
  • In Boston, Red Sox hurler Charley "Sea Lion" Hall pitches a 7 - 1 one-hit win over Cleveland. Elmer Koestner's single is the only hit.
  • Washington 2B Red Killefer sets a major league mark by sacrificing four times in the first game of a doubleheader against Detroit.
• 1911 - Chicago's Ed Walsh pitches a 5 - 0 no-hitter against the Red Sox. A 4th-inning walk produces the only Red Sox runner. After going 18-20 in 1910, Walsh bounces back to win 27 and lead the league in games (56), IP (369), and strikeouts (255).
• 1912:
  • In response to demands for an alternative way to rate pitchers besides wins and losses, the National League will officially keep ERA's for the first time; the Giants' Jeff Tesreau will lead the league at 1.96. Despite an increase in .300 hitters from 22 to 32 this year, there will be 19 pitchers with ERA's under 3.00. The American League will not make ERA part of its official statistics until 1913.
  • Owen Wilson triples for his third game in a row, a 4th-inning drive off Walt Dickson good for three runs. Pittsburgh beats Boston, 9 - 4.
  • It takes a one-hitter by Art Fromme, but the Reds finally beat New York, and Christy Mathewson 2 - 0. Art Fletcher's single is the only safety. The Giants' lead shrinks to 3 1/2 games over the Cubs.
• 1915:
  • Detroit snaps the Red Sox win streak, stopping Boston, 7 - 6 in 12 innings. Boston still leads the league by 4 1/2 games.
  • Christy Mathewson wins his eighth and last game of the year edging the Pirates, 2 - 1. Babe Adams takes the loss.
• 1917:
  • At Detroit, Ty Cobb is 3 for 4 to lead the Tigers to a 5 - 1 win over the Red Sox and lefty Babe Ruth.
  • In the 4th inning in New York, Pirates swiftie Max Carey beats out a bunt single, and goes to second base on a single by Tony Boeckel. Both runners steal on the next pitch from Rube Benton and, with Boeckel entangled with New York 2B Buck Herzog, Carey steals home as well. Wilbur Cooper makes the one run stand up for the 1 - 0 win. For Carey, it is his 13th steal of home en route to a National League record 33 steals of home.
• 1918 - Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in the chemical warfare branch of the Army.
• 1921 - The Bucs reel out of New York after dropping their fifth straight loss to the Giants as Art Nehf, pitching with two days' rest, wins, 3 - 1. The Giants are just 2 1/2 games in back.
• 1922 - The Yankees increase their lead by beating the Browns, 2 - 1, in 11 innings. Hank Severeid's home run is the only score for the Browns. An apparent two-run double off the LF wall by Eddie Foster in the 10th is ruled foul. The Yanks take the series, three games to one.
• 1926 - Veteran P Dutch Ruether is picked up from Washington by the Yankees.
• 1929 - Rogers Hornsby has four hits and Sheriff Blake allows six to lead the Cubs to a 4 - 1 win over the Reds. Chicago now leads by 14 1/2 games, the greatest lead a National League team has enjoyed at this stage since the 1906 Cubs.
• 1935 - The Yankees outslug the White Sox, 13 - 10, in the first game of two. In the second game, Lou Gehrig ties an American League record with five walks as the Yanks lose, 4 - 3.
• 1937 - Dodger right-hander Fred Frankhouse tosses a rained-shortened (8 2/3 innings) no-hitter, beating the Reds, 5 - 0.
• 1938 - Joe DiMaggio has three triples in the first game of a doubleheader with Cleveland, an 8 - 7 win in New York. Monte Pearson has a no-hitter in the second game, winning his tenth straight game, 13 - 0. The Yankees, playing their sixth successive doubleheader, increase their lead to 12 games.
• 1939 - In the second 1939 East-West Game, Josh Gibson drives in four and Ed Stone gets three hits to lead a 10 - 2 rout by the East.
• 1941 - Charlie Root uses his arm and then his bat with a clutch single in the 9th inning to win his 200th game. Trailing the Cincinnati Reds, 4 - 3, the Cubs win, 6 - 4, with the 42-year-old Root going the route.
• 1942:
  • Brooklyn salvages a win, 4 - 1, to leave St. Louis with a 5 1/2 game lead.
  • With the score tied 4 - 4 in the 11th at Wrigley Field, the Reds load the bases with no outs. Chicago then turns a triple play. Bill Nicholson poles a homer in the bottom of the frame for a 5 - 4 win.
• 1946 - At the Owners' Meeting, a committee formed to study integration, which includes Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey, delivers its secretive report defending the covert color barrier which exists in professional baseball. The absurd reasons given why blacks shouldn't be allowed to play in the big leagues include an absence of skills due to inferior training and lack of fundamentals as well as the need to respect existing Negro League contracts, but another lesser known motivation may have been profit, as revealed later in the report: "The Negro leagues rent their parks in many cities from clubs in Organized Baseball (and) Club owners in the major leagues are reluctant to give up revenues amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars every year" and the fear white fans would be driven away if black players attracted more minorities to the ballpark.
• 1948:
  • Hank Majeski of the Athletics hits six doubles in a doubleheader against the Browns, pacing the dogged A's to wins of 6 - 0 and 9 - 1. He is the third American League player to collect six long hits in an afternoon and just the second to do it in two regulation-length games. Hal McRae, on the same date in 1974, will do it next in the AL.
  • Johnny Schmitz leads the Cubs to a 1 - 0 win over the first-place Braves at Wrigley Field. Schmitz allows just six hits, including two triples, but doubles and scores the game's only run in the bottom of the 9th. Johnny Sain takes the loss.
• 1949:
  • Former Mexican League players Max Lanier and Fred Martin drop their $2.5 million suit against baseball.
  • Jeff Heath of the Braves ties a game against Cincinnati with a pinch-hit homer, then wins it with a later homer. He becomes the first player to do so in major league history; it will be 36 years until Donnie Scott becomes the second.
• 1950:
  • The Indians' Ray Boone and Clyde Vollmer of the Red Sox match grand slams today. Boone's comes in the seven-run 3rd to give Bob Feller a 7 - 0 cushion. Vollmer's pinch slam against Al Benton in the Sox's six-run 7th helps Boston to an 11 - 9 win. It is the Red Sox's ninth slam of the season.
  • Yankee Allie Reynolds hurls a two-hitter in a 2 - 1 win over the White Sox.
• 1951:
  • The Giants win two more from the Cubs, including a 5 - 4, twelve-inning complete game victory for Larry Jansen. It is his 17th win. The Cubs score in the top of the 12th, but the Giants score two off Dutch Leonard to win. Behind Al Corwin's pitching, the Giants take the nitecap, 6 - 3.
  • Scoring all the Phillies' runs in the victory over the Reds, Del Wilber hits three solo homers making it the first time in major league history a player has accounted for all the runs in a 3 - 0 game with home runs. The 32-year-old catcher will only hit a total of 19 homers during his major league career.
  • "The two fine Italian arms of Branca and Furillo had a no-hitter running for eight innings" writes columnist Dick Young; in the 3rd inning, Ralph Branca's no-hitter seems broken by a one-hop shot to right field by pitcher Mel Queen, but Carl Furillo guns him out at first. Branca, pitching on two days rest, finally gives up two Pirate hits in the 9th before winning, 5 - 0. In the nitecap the Pirates jump on Erv Palica for three runs in the 1st inning and hold on for a 5 - 3 win behind Bill Werle and Vern Law. Clyde McCullough is the "Big Un" with a two-run double and a two-run homer. The Pirates continue to be the only team with a season edge on the Dodgers.
• 1954:
  • In an 11 - 0 White Sox win, Chicago 3B Cass Michaels has his head fractured by a pitch from A's Marion Fricano. Michaels is sidelined the rest of the year, and the injury will effectively end his 12-year major-league career.
  • In the championship game of the Little League World Series, Schenectady, NY, defeats Colton, CA, 7 - 5. Future Cubs 2B Ken Hubbs stars for Colton. This team later becomes the subject of a best-selling book by Martin Ralbovsky, Destiny's Darlings.
• 1955 - Dodger bonus baby Sandy Koufax fans 14 Redlegs in a 7 - 0 win, as the two-team total of 23 strikeouts ties a record.
• 1956 - Curt Roberts of Columbus (International League) hits four home runs in a row in a seven-inning game against the Havana Sugar Kings.
• 1957:
  • Bob Hazle, hitting .526 since being recalled from Wichita, hits two two-run homers, as the Braves beat the Phillies, 7 - 3, for Warren Spahn's 219th career win, moving him to a sixth on the career list. Spahn also hits his 18th career home run, also good for sixth (tied with Schoolboy Rowe) on the career list for pitchers.
  • Stan Musial, swinging at a 4th-inning pitch, tears a muscle and chips a bone, ending his consecutive game streak. Four days later he will pinch-run in a game suspended on July 21st, officially giving him 895 consecutive games played.
• 1958:
  • The Braves' Bob Trowbridge walks Orlando Cepeda with the bases full in the 12th to give the Giants a 4 - 3 win. It is the Giants' first win in their past nine games against the Braves.
  • Owner Clark Griffith says that the Senators will probably accept a good offer from Minneapolis/St. Paul, if one is made. President Dwight D. Eisenhower says that the Senators should improve the team and stay in Washington, DC.
• 1960 - After pitching 32 2/3 innings without allowing a run, Braves P Lew Burdette gives up a Felipe Alou home run as San Francisco defeats Milwaukee, 3 - 1.
• 1961:
  • Detroit's Rocky Colavito ties an American League record with four home runs - three in the second game, in a doubleheader pummeling of the Senators, 7 - 4 and 10 - 1 at Washington.
  • With first place on the line after the Dodgers have won two games from them, Cincinnati rallies from a 5 - 1 deficit to a 6 - 5 first-game win over Los Angeles. Gene Freese hits a three-run homer in the 7th and Wally Post adds a two-run double in the 8th. Rookie Ken Johnson is an 8 - 3 winner in the nightcap as the Reds pummel Don Drysdale. The sweep gives the Reds a 3 1/2 game lead in the National League.
  • The Orioles' Milt Pappas is the whole show as he blanks the Twins, 3 - 0. He allows just two hits while belting two homers. Eddie Robinson adds a homer.
• 1962 - The 36th and last Negro Leagues East-West Game is played in Kansas City's Municipal Stadium. The moribund Negro American League will disband within two months.
• 1963 - Willie Mays, Orlando Cepeda, and Felipe Alou hit consecutive round-trippers in the 3rd inning of San Francisco's 7 - 2 win against St. Louis.
• 1965:
  • When one hears of a runner being "cut down going from first to third", what immediately springs to mind is probably not the following scenario, enacted in Houston's Astrodome by Pirate right fielder Roberto Clemente and recounted by The Sporting News' Les Biederman: "Clemente made an almost unheard-of assist in this game. With runners on first and second and Pirates charging for the plate, Bob Lillis pushed a bunt into the vacated shortstop position for one run. Walter Bond tried to go from first to third but Clemente, sizing up the situation quickly, came in from right field..." Second baseman Bill Mazeroski recalls: "Roberto raced in from right field, dove for the ball, and with his face in the dirt threw out the runner going to third base!" The dumbfounded Bond becomes the 8th frame's first out while Rusty Staub scores from second, building Houston's lead to two. Two more will score before the inning ends and yet another two in the top of the 9th. The Bucs then mount a furious 9th-inning comeback. After scoring six runs to tie the game, they win it with another run in the 11th, 7 - 6.
  • Dodger P Don Drysdale wins in Philadelphia, but the Phils don't make it easy. Drysdale wins, 9 - 8, to end his nine-game losing streak to the Phillies. He last beat them on June 1, 1962, which was his 13th straight victory over the Phils.
• 1966 - At Dodger Stadium, Juan Marichal outduels Don Drysdale to give the Giants a 4 - 2 win.
• 1967 - In a critical game with the White Sox, Boston RF Jose Tartabull makes a great throw home in the 9th to Elston Howard to nail Ken Berry trying to score from third base. Boston wins, 4 - 3 behind two homers by Carl Yastrzemski.
• 1968 - Sweeping a doubleheader from Oakland, 5 - 3 and 7 - 2, at Memorial Stadium, the Orioles stay four games in back of first-place Detroit.
• 1969 - New York's 4 - 1 win at San Diego, its 74th of the year, sets a club record. Meanwhile, Chicago loses for the seventh time in the last eight games, a 6 - 3 loss to the Reds' Tony Cloninger. Ken Holtzman is the loser. Chicago is now just two games ahead of the "Amazing Mets".
• 1970 - Mike Cuellar wins his 20th game for Baltimore, defeating the A's, 6 - 4. Chuck Dobson is the loser, giving up four runs in 2+ innings.
• 1971:
  • Detroit's Willie Horton is struck in the eye by a pitch from Chicago's Rich Hinton, sidelining him for 28 games. Hinton, in his first major league start, lasts 2 2/3 innings in taking the loss. Joe Coleman wins.
  • Pinch hitter Jimmy Stewart leads the Reds to a win as he hits a 9th-inning bases-loaded triple against the Cardinals, then scores on Pete Rose's sacrifice fly. The Reds score five in the 9th to win, 8 - 7.
• 1972:
  • The Cardinals trade .314 hitter Matty Alou to the A's for two players, Bill Voss and minor leaguer Steve Easton. The A's will send Matty on to the Yanks in November.
  • The Tigers' Willie Horton clouts an 11th-inning two-run home run to beat Minnesota, 5 - 3, in the opener of two. In the nightcap, Joe Coleman pitches 11 shutout innings against Minnesota before Aurelio Rodriguez's home run gives him the 1 - 0 win. This is the third win in a row for the Tigers on 11th-inning homers. Rodriguez hit one to start the streak.
• 1973 - The first-place Orioles beat the Rangers, 6 - 1, for their 14th consecutive victory. It is the longest winning streak in the American League since 1960, and in the major leagues since 1965. The streak began on August 12th.
• 1974:
  • New York's Benny Ayala homers in his first major league at bat as the Mets top the Astros, 4 - 2. He's the first National League rookie in 13 years to go deep in his first at bat.
  • Hal McRae ties the major league record with six extra-base hits - five doubles and a home run - as the Royals split a doubleheader with the Indians.
• 1975 - The Twins' Craig Kusick ties the major-league record by being hit by pitches three times in a game, an 11-inning 1 - 0 win over the Brewers. Bert Blyleven goes the distance for the win.
• 1977:
  • Dan Driessen and Johnny Bench hit back-to-back homers in the 9th inning to give the Reds a 5 - 4 win over the Phils. Tug McGraw serves up both. Driessen's homer is a line drive that hits the center field wall at Riverfront Stadium and rebounds back over Jerry Martin's head all the way to the infield for an inside-the-park home run. Bench follows with one over the left field wall.
  • At Yankee Stadium, Rangers Bump Wills and Toby Harrah hit back-to-back inside-the-park homers on consecutive pitches. Texas wins the game, 8 - 2.
  • Boston DH Tommy Helms and 3B Butch Hobson hit back-to-back home runs in a 7 - 5 win over the Twins. It is the 15th time this year that Sox hitters have homered consecutively, tying a major league record.
• 1978 - The Reds' Joe Morgan belts his 200th homer to become the first player in history to have 200 homers and 500 stolen bases.
• 1980:
  • Phillies Steve Carlton (20-7) becomes the first National League pitcher to win 20 games this season, combining with Tug McGraw to beat the Dodgers, 4 - 3. Carlton will win an NL-high 24 games, while pitching 304 innings, the last major league pitcher to throw more than 300 innings in a season.
  • Pitcher and coach Hub Kittle becomes the oldest man to play in an organized baseball game when he starts for Springfield (American Association) against Iowa at the age of 63 years and six months. Kittle retires the side in the 1st inning, then tosses one pitch to retire a batter in the 2nd frame before exiting.
• 1982:
  • Dodger pinch hitters Rick Monday and Mike Marshall hit homers against the Cubs in a 9 - 4 Los Angeles win. The last time two pinch hitters connected for round trippers in the National League was August 23, 1975 when Monday combined with then-Cub teammate Champ Summers to do it.
  • With Ted Simmons catching and Doc Medich pitching in a 5 - 4 loss to the Brewers, the A's Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brock's 1974 single-season record of 118 stolen bases. By stealing a total of four bases, Rickey ends the day with 122 and will finish the season with 130.
• 1984 - Dave Kingman hits a double and homer to help Oakland score six runs in the 7th inning, but that's all the A's score in losing to the Yankees, 7 - 6. Bobby Meacham has two homers, including the game-winner in the 8th, to back Dave Righetti's relief win. Bill Caudill loses.
• 1986:
  • With a most unusual game-ending double play, the Mets beat the Padres in the 11th, 6 - 5. Knocked on his back tagging out Garry Templeton trying to score on Tim Flannery's single to center, John Gibbons, from a prone position, throws a strike to Howard Johnson who tags out Flannery trying to get to third, completing the twin killing (8-2-5).
  • In Seattle's 4 - 1 win over Baltimore, the M's Harold Reynolds ties the major league mark with 12 assists at 2B. He's the second second sacker to do it this season.
  • Nolan Ryan posts his 250th career victory, allowing one hit in six innings as the Astros beat the Cubs, 7 - 1.
• 1987 - The Royals fire manager Billy Gardner, who replaced Dick Howser in spring training, and replace him with John Wathan, the former Kansas City catcher who was managing the club's Triple A Omaha affiliate. In Wathan's major league managerial debut, the Royals win, 3 - 2, on George Brett's 10th-inning home run to move within three games of first-place Minnesota.
• 1988 - Tommy Lasorda wins his 1,000th game as a manager as Los Angeles tops Philadelphia, 4 - 2.
• 1990:
  • For Texas, Charlie Hough allows ten walks in five innings before being lifted in the 6th. California can score just three runs off him but scores four off two relievers to win, 7 - 3.
  • The Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes when a huge swarm of gnats descends onto the field through the open SkyDome roof. Milwaukee scratches out a 4 - 2 win.
  • Boston's Ellis Burks homers twice in an eight-run 4th inning of a 12 - 4 pasting of Cleveland. It is only the second time a Sox hitter has homered twice in an inning (Bill Regan, on June 16, 1928, was the first). Burks has five RBIs to back Mike Boddicker's win. Boddicker holds the Tribe scoreless through six frames.
• 1992 - The Mets trade P David Cone to the front-running Blue Jays in exchange for IF Jeff Kent and OF Ryan Thompson. Because of the trade, Cone will miss leading the National League in strikeouts by one as John Smoltz registers a K on the final day of the season. Cone, who led the NL in strikeouts the past two seasons, would have been the league's first pitcher in 50 years to lead in strikeouts for three consecutive years.
• 1995:
  • Montreal P Kirk Rueter hurls a one-hit, 1 - 0 shutout over the Giants. San Francisco's only hit is a single by C Kirt Manwaring.
  • Catcher Mike Piazza collects four long hits - two doubles and two home runs, including a grand slam - good for seven ribbies, to lead the Dodgers to a 9 - 1 victory over Philadelphia. Piazza is now hitting .367, tied for the lead in the major leagues.
• 1996:
  • The Twins defeat the Blue Jays, 6 - 4, in 11 innings, with the help of five hits from DH Paul Molitor.
  • Roger Clemens (8-11) wins his fourth in a row, beating the Angels, 2 - 1.
• 1997:
  • Oakland defeats the Yankees, 8 - 7, as DH Dave Magadan leads the way with five hits, including a home run.
  • The Dodgers best the Pirates, 9 - 5, with the help of five hits by OF Otis Nixon and six RBIs from C Mike Piazza. Los Angeles now leads the National League West by 1 1/2 games over the Giants.
  • In honor of first baseman Jim Thome's birthday, the Indians begin pulling up their socks to just below the knees. The Tribe will win 17 of 27 games en route to clinching the American League Central flag while sporting this new look.
  • The White Sox trade OF Darren Lewis to the Dodgers in exchange for a player to be named.
• 1999:
  • The Reds defeat the Expos, 4 - 1. In the process, Cincinnati P Ron Villone stops OF Vladimir Guerrero's 31-game hitting streak, the longest in the majors in 12 years. Guerrero grounds to short, is intentionally walked, and fouls out in his three at bats.
  • The Indians take out some insurance, picking up DH Harold Baines from the Orioles for P Juan Aracena and a player to be named.
  • The Padres edge the Brewers, 8 - 7, despite five hits, including a double, by 3B Jeff Cirillo.
  • Major league umpires are warned by the league presidents that they will be fired if they strike next week. There has been talk of a strike over baseball's refusal to allow 22 umpires to withdraw their resignations, which are effective on September 2nd.
  • Desperate for lefty pitching, the Rangers acquire Jeff Fassero from the Mariners for a player to be named later. Fassero, his mechanics shaky after off-season surgery, will win his first start, September 6th, against Chicago.
• 2000:
  • Led by Darrin Fletcher's three home runs, the Blue Jays beat the Rangers, 6 - 4.
  • Bobby Abreu of the Philadelphia Phillies hits a pair of solo homers, including a game-winning inside-the-park shot off Giants reliever Aaron Fultz in the 10th inning to win, 2 - 1. Abreu's homer, his 20th, is the fifth inside-the-park game-ender in Phillies history, and the first since Bob Dernier did it in 1989, also against the Giants. Ed Vosberg picks up his first win since 1997.
  • The Angels edge the Indians, 10 - 9, as OF Tim Salmon hits his 30th home run of the year in the 5th inning. Anaheim becomes the first team in American League history to have four players (Troy Glaus, Mo Vaughn, Garret Anderson and Salmon) reach the 30-homer mark in a single season. The Blue Jays are close with two hitters over 30 and two at 28. It's been done seven times in the National League.
• 2001:
  • With his 17th dinger this month, Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa ties the National League record for August homers established by Willie Mays in 1965. Tiger Rudy York set the major league mark going yard 18 times in the eighth month of 1937.
  • In the Nippon Ham Fighters-Fukuoka Daiei Hawks contest, Michihiro Ogasawara doubles and tallies on Yukio Tanaka's single, breaking a 51-year Japanese record by scoring a run in 17 consecutive games. Indian Kenny Lofton (2000) and Yankee Red Rolfe (1939) share the major league record of 18 straight games.
• 2002:
  • The White Sox down the Blue Jays, 8 - 4. Rookie 3B Joe Crede's 9th-inning two-run homer ties the score and his 10th-inning grand slam wins it. Crede drives home seven runs in the game.
  • Barry Bonds slugs three home runs and a double to lead the Giants to a 7 - 4 win over the Rockies. It is the fourth three-homer game of Bonds's career.
  • The Angels defeat the Devil Rays, 7 - 3, as OF Darin Erstad gets five hits, including a pair of doubles, for Anaheim.
  • The Twins top the Mariners, 5 - 2. Minnesota SS Cristian Guzman is held hitless, ending his 23-game hitting streak.
• 2005:
  • Jeff Kent becomes the first player to hit 300 homers as a second baseman. The Dodger infielder, who surpassed Ryne Sandberg's total of 277 last September, is the major league leader at this position with Joe Gordon holding the American League record with 246.
  • After losing a no-hitter with two outs in the 9th inning against the Yomiuri Giants earlier in the season, Fumiya Nishiguchi (16-4) sees his perfect game against the expansion Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles go into extra innings. The Seibu Lions right-hander gives up a hit and has to settle for a ten-inning complete game shutout.
• 2008 - Major League Baseball places Pedro Alvarez on the restricted list for failing to sign the contract he verbally agreed to prior to the August 15th signing deadline. The Pittsburgh Pirates selected Alvarez second overall in the 2008 amateur draft.
• 2009 - Ryan Zimmerman and Adam Dunn hit home runs in Washington's 5 - 4 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Washington is 20-21 since Jim Riggleman took over for Manny Acta as manager, while Chicago has gone 6-15 since August 5th, when the Cubs were in a first-place tie with St. Louis in the NL Central. In the game, Nats CF Nyjer Morgan breaks a bone in his left hand sliding into third base and will miss the remainder of the season.
• 2010:
  • Jay Bruce hits three home runs in Cincinnati's 7 - 1 win over the Cubs. Chris Valaika also homers off Cubs starter Tom Gorzelanny for his first major league long ball as Johnny Cueto picks up the win.
  • The Twins strengthen their bullpen for the postseason, picking up Brian Fuentes from the Angels in return for a player to be named later, a few days after claiming Randy Flores on waivers from the Rockies.
  • One day after losing a game 20 - 8 to Helena, the Casper Ghosts of the Pioneer League get some measure of revenge as they crush Missoula, 26 - 3.
• 2011:
  • Justin Verlander does not pitch one of his better starts, giving up four runs, including a pair of solo homers to Luke Hughes and Jason Repko, and leaves after giving up his second hit of the day to Drew Butera, who is hitting well below the Mendoza Line, with no out in the 6th, but his teammates pick him up and he gets credit for the Tigers' 6 - 4 win over the Twins. This makes him the major leagues' first 20-game winner this year, the first in the majors to reach the mark in August since Curt Schilling did it with Arizona in 2002, and the first 20-game winner for the Tigers since Bill Gullickson in 1990. Jose Valverde picks up the save with a perfect 9th inning. He has now converted 40 straight save opportunities over two seasons, tying Dennis Eckersley for the second-longest streak in American League history, but still 14 behind Tom Gordon's record of 54.
  • On a rain-soaked day at Fenway Park, the Red Sox manage to complete a doubleheader sweep of the A's, 9 - 3 and 4 - 0, in spite of a series of rain delays totalling over three hours. The Sox jump on Guillermo Moscoso for eight runs in four innings in the opener, including a two-run homer by Jason Varitek as Jon Lester is the winner. David Ortiz, who is 5 for 8 on the day, smacks a 2nd-inning homer off Graham Godfrey in the nitecap that sends the Sox on the way to victory. Erik Bedard pitches four scoreless innings but remains winless for the Sox, having to give way to Alfredo Aceves (9-1) after yet another lengthy delay. The teams were anxious to get the two games in, with Hurricane Irene about to hit Boston; the storm is responsible for cancelling five other games today, and is expected to wipe out the entire schedule in the Northeast tomorrow.
• 2012:
  • Felix Hernandez is at it again, pitching a five-hit shutout to beat the Twins, 1 - 0. Eric Thames' solo homer off Liam Hendriks in the 8th acounts for the game's only run. Hendriks falls to 0-7 lifetime, while Hernandez (13-5) has his fourth 1-0 victory of the season, including his perfect game on August 15th. Only two other pitchers have won four such decisions in a season since 1969: Ferguson Jenkins in 1974 and Bert Blyleven in 1976. Also, only two other hurlers (Carl Hubbell, in 1933, and Dick Rudolph, in 1916) had tossed three 1 - 0 wins in a month.
  • Adrian Beltre remains red hot. After being named the American League Player of the Week for his historic combination of hitting for the cycle and having a three-homer game, he goes 3 for 3 with a home run and four RBI in Texas's 6 - 5 win over the Rays. Beltre is now hitting .385 with 6 homers and 13 RBI in his last eight games.
• 2013:
  • The Pittsburgh Pirates, having just fallen out of first place, add a power bat with Marlon Byrd. They also acquire backup catcher John Buck in the deal with the Mets, sending over middle infield prospect Dilson Herrera and a player to be named later (Vic Black). Pittsburgh has just lost one corner outfielder, Starling Marte, to a hand injury, and has been struggling in production from the other corner.
  • Alfonso Soriano hits the 399th and 400th home runs of his major league career in a 7 - 1 Yankees win over Toronto. He takes J.A. Happ deep to back a strong outing from Andy Pettitte.
• 2014:
  • Another top Cubs prospect homers in his major league debut, three weeks after Javier Baez. Cuban OF Jorge Soler goes deep in his first career at-bat, against Mat Latos of the Reds in the 2nd inning, immediately after Luis Valbuena had also homered. Soler adds an RBI single later in the game, but Chicago still falls, 7 - 5. For the Reds, rookie OF Billy Hamilton steals his 50th base of the year, the ninth player in team history to reach the mark.
  • David Price of the Tigers has a historically bad outing in a start against the Yankees. In the 3rd inning, he allows a base hit to the first nine batters he faces before being lifted; he is the first pitcher to allow nine straight hits since Bob Forsch on August 3, 1989, and ends up allowing eight earned runs on 12 hits in only two innings, something accomplished by only three other pitchers before him. For their part, the Yankees fall one shy of the American League record for consecutive hits as they win, 8 - 4.
• 2015 - Arbitrator Fredric Horowitz rules against Barry Bonds in his claim that teams colluded to keep him out of the game after he broke the all-time home run record in 2007.
• 2017:
  • Kitasuna wins its fourth Little League World Series title, the 11th by a Japanese team, as the Tokyo entry tops Lufkin, TX, 12 - 2, in the finale of the 2017 Little League World Series. Keitaro Miyahara drives in five runs and falls a single shy of the cycle while Tsubasa Tomii strikes out nine in five innings.
  • CF Byron Buxton has a career game, hitting three homers, scoring four runs and driving in five to lead the Twins to a 7 - 2 win over the Blue Jays.
• 2020 - Another seven major league games are postponed on the second day of protests across the sports world against police brutality and racism, following the postponement of three games yesterday. The most poignant moment takes place at Citi Field where players from the Mets and Marlins take their position on the field, observe a 42-second moment of silence in memory of Jackie Robinson, then walk off as Marlins OF Lewis Brinson drapes a "Black Lives Matter" tee-shirt over home plate.
• 2021 - In one of the wildest games of the year, the White Sox defeat the Cubs, 17 - 13. Yasmani Grandal, in his first game back after going on the injured list in early July with a knee injury, ties a team record with eight RBIs and also hits two homers to lead the ChiSox attack. Patrick Wisdom also hits a pair of homers for the Cubs.
• 2023:
  • The team representing El Segundo, CA wins the 2023 Little League World Series thanks to a 6th-inning walk-off homer from Louis Lappe against Willemstad, Curaçao. The final score is 6 - 5 as Curaçao loses in the final game for the second straight year.
  • Draci Brno wins its 24th Extraliga title, topping the Tempo Titans Praha, three games to two. Juan Jaime throws a two-hitter and fans 11 in the finale, Arnošt Dubový scores two and Šimon Klacl drives in a pair in the 4 - 1 win.
• 2024 - An unusual record is set in today's game between the Braves and Twins at Target Field as the two starting pitchers combine for 28 letters between their two last names, beating the previous high of 25. Neither Spencer Schwellenbach nor Simeon Woods Richardson figure in the decision, however, as the Braves prevail, 8 - 6, in ten innings.

Births

• 1838 - Lew Simmons, manager (d. 1911)
• 1847 - John McKelvey, outfielder (d. 1944)
• 1860 - Scrappy Carroll, outfielder (d. 1942)
• 1867 - Dan Long, outfielder (d. 1929)
• 1869 - William Locke, owner (d. 1913)
• 1874 - Doc McJames, pitcher (d. 1901)
• 1875 - Ed Biecher, outfielder (d. 1939)
• 1875 - Ed Hahn, outfielder (d. 1941)
• 1875 - Dave Wright, pitcher (d. 1946)
• 1877 - Spencer Abbott, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1951)
• 1877 - Kitty Brashear, pitcher (d. 1934)
• 1878 - Bobby Winston, outfielder (d. 1952)
• 1879 - Paul Sentell, infielder; umpire (d. 1923)
• 1883 - Baldy Louden, infielder (d. 1935)
• 1888 - Bob Troy, pitcher (d. 1918)
• 1892 - Hal Janvrin, infielder (d. 1962)
• 1893 - Carl East, outfielder (d. 1953)
• 1893 - Howie Haworth, catcher (d. 1953)
• 1893 - Dizzy Nutter, outfielder (d. 1958)
• 1894 - Eddie Mulligan, infielder (d. 1982)
• 1895 - William Chandler, college coach (d. 1953)
• 1898 - Clarence Fisher, pitcher (d. 1965)
• 1898 - Frank Wayenberg, pitcher (d. 1975)
• 1901 - Johnny Berger, catcher (d. 1979)
• 1901 - Phil Collins, pitcher (d. 1948)
• 1903 - Charlie Engle, infielder (d. 1983)
• 1903 - Marv Gudat, outfielder (d. 1954)
• 1906 - Luis Tiant Sr., pitcher; All-Star (d. 1976)
• 1907 - Berl Huffman, college coach (d. 1990)
• 1910 - Ewald Pyle, pitcher (d. 2004)
• 1911 - Roy Helser, minor league pitcher (d. 1994)
• 1911 - Louise Nippert, owner (d. 2012)
• 1912 - Jay Kirke Jr., minor league outfielder and manager (d. 1994)
• 1912 - Ted Olson, pitcher (d. 1980)
• 1913 - Hap Glenn, infielder (d. 1977)
• 1915 - Emil Verban, infielder; All-Star (d. 1989)
• 1916 - Fred Russell, writer (d. 2013)
• 1917 - Peanuts Lowrey, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1986)
• 1918 - Joe Wiley, infielder (d. 1993)
• 1919 - Tommy Butts, infielder; All-Star (d. 1972)
• 1921 - Edmund Keehan, minor league outfielder (d. 2012)
• 1921 - Nick Picciuto, infielder (d. 1997)
• 1923 - Don Grate, pitcher (d. 2014)
• 1931 - Joe Cunningham, infielder; All-Star (d. 2021)
• 1932 - Jim King, outfielder (d. 2015)
• 1933 - Don Brown, college coach (d. 2020)
• 1934 - Em Lindbeck, pinch hitter (d. 2008)
• 1935 - Ernie Broglio, pitcher (d. 2019)
• 1936 - Yoshinori Hirose, NPB outfielder; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1937 - Lew Randall, minor league outfielder (d. 2014)
• 1938 - Joe McCabe, catcher
• 1939 - José Lizondro, minor league pitcher (d. ~2019)
• 1943 - Tommy Smith, minor league catcher
• 1944 - Johnny Hairston, catcher/outfielder
• 1945 - Tatsuhiko Tanaka, NPB infielder
• 1946 - Ed Herrmann, catcher; All-Star (d. 2013)
• 1946 - Ray Peters, pitcher
• 1947 - Jim York, pitcher
• 1948 - Lew Beasley, outfielder
• 1949 - Rich Wurster, college coach
• 1951 - Buddy Bell, infielder, manager; All-Star
• 1951 - Noriyoshi Sano, NPB outfielder
• 1952 - Marshall Edwards, outfielder
• 1952 - Mike Edwards, infielder
• 1955 - Pat Kelly, catcher
• 1956 - Rick Steirer, pitcher
• 1959 - Yasuhiko Sugimoto, Japanese national team manager
• 1961 - Mike Maddux, pitcher
• 1962 - Mike Shelton, minor league pitcher
• 1963 - Yoshiaki Kanemura, NPB infielder
• 1965 - José Mota, minor league infielder (d. 2018)
• 1967 - Brian McRae, outfielder
• 1967 - Willie Smith, pitcher
• 1968 - Colin Dixon, minor league infielder
• 1968 - Doug Kimbler, minor league infielder
• 1969 - Leonor Hernandez, minor league coach
• 1970 - Jim Thome, infielder; All-Star
• 1971 - Gerad Cawhorn, minor league player
• 1971 - Tim Moore, minor league outfielder
• 1972 - Kyung-hwan Cho, KBO outfielder
• 1972 - Eric Newman, college coach
• 1973 - Rick Gorecki, pitcher
• 1974 - Tamotsu Sakamoto, Japanese national team pitcher
• 1974 - Jose Vidro, infielder; All-Star
• 1975 - Trent Durrington, infielder
• 1975 - Frankie Sanders, minor league player
• 1976 - Tomokazu Iba, NPB pitcher
• 1977 - Justin Miller, pitcher (d. 2013)
• 1979 - Tommy Murphy, outfielder
• 1979 - Andy Pratt, pitcher
• 1979 - Andrew Salvo, minor league infielder
• 1980 - Brett Parker, minor league player
• 1980 - Mike Silva, scout
• 1981 - Kazuaki Minami, NPB pitcher
• 1981 - Erik Vardijan, Croatian national team pitcher
• 1983 - Billy Buckner, pitcher
• 1983 - Yulkin German, minor league pitcher
• 1983 - Mike Larson, Bundesliga outfielder
• 1984 - Chen-Nan Lee, CPBL outfielder
• 1985 - Brandon Douglas, minor league infielder
• 1985 - Juston Street, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Scott Bittle, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Jordy Mercer, infielder
• 1987 - Brett Bochy, pitcher
• 1987 - Kalin Dreyer, South African national team pitcher
• 1987 - Sen-Fu Tsai, CPBL infielder
• 1988 - A.J. Achter, pitcher
• 1988 - Seth Frankoff, pitcher
• 1988 - Miku Kayano, Japanese womens' national team pitcher-outfielder
• 1988 - Jason Markovitz, minor league pitcher
• 1988 - Mike Olt, infielder
• 1988 - Myrio Richard, minor league outfielder
• 1988 - Heath Wyatt, minor league pitcher
• 1989 - Jae-hoon Choi, KBO catcher
• 1989 - Alexander Cruz, Guam national team pitcher
• 1989 - Josh Vitters, infielder
• 1989 - Cody Winiarski, minor league pitcher
• 1990 - Stefan Jarrin, minor league infielder
• 1990 - Nick Tropeano, pitcher
• 1990 - Tsung-Hao Wang, Taiwan national team pitcher
• 1991 - Patrick Wisdom, infielder
• 1992 - Rodolfo Penalo, minor league infielder
• 1992 - Spenser Watkins, pitcher
• 1993 - Sam Travis, infielder
• 1994 - Felix Zimmerle, Austrian national team infielder
• 1995 - Jasson Atondo, minor league infielder
• 1996 - José Roca, minor league pitcher
• 1997 - Swindly Lint, Curaçao national team player
• 1997 - Antonio Torres-Skerrett, minor league catcher
• 1997 - Hiroki Suzuki, Japanese national team pitcher
• 1998 - Victor Castaneda, minor league pitcher
• 1999 - Grant Lavigne, minor league infielder
• 2004 - Steve Mufareh, Palestinian national team pitcher

Deaths

• 1897 - Sam Moran, pitcher (b. 1870)
• 1905 - Heinie Kappel, infielder (b. 1863)
• 1917 - Cy Alberts, pitcher (b. 1882)
• 1920 - Toby Lyons, pitcher (b. 1869)
• 1925 - Pat Powers, manager (b. 1860)
• 1929 - George Sneeden, umpire (b. 1860)
• 1929 - Charlie Snow, catcher (b. 1849)
• 1934 - Henry Kohler, infielder (b. 1852)
• 1943 - Frank Truesdale, infielder (b. 1884)
• 1947 - She Donahue, infielder (b. 1877)
• 1953 - Charlie Shields, pitcher (b. 1879)
• 1958 - Bobby Marshall, Negro League catcher and manager (b. 1880)
• 1958 - Clyde Dean, minor league pitcher (b. 1921)
• 1959 - Claude Jonnard, pitcher (b. 1897)
• 1960 - Mike Getto, college coach (b. 1905)
• 1960 - Henry Wright, pitcher (b. 1906)
• 1971 - Bill Clarkson, pitcher (b. 1898)
• 1972 - John Barnes, catcher (b. 1903)
• 1973 - Herman Layne, outfielder (b. 1901)
• 1975 - Alex Remneas, pitcher (b. 1886)
• 1976 - Bill Mizeur, pinch hitter (b. 1897)
• 1980 - John Wilson, pitcher (b. 1903)
• 1985 - Rogelio Crespo, infielder (b. 1894)
• 1985 - Johnny Lindell, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1916)
• 1986 - Mojuro Tonoka, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1898)
• 1989 - Hal Kelleher, pitcher (b. 1913)
• 1994 - Sig Gryska, infielder (b. 1914)
• 2000 - Bob Mahoney, pitcher (b. 1928)
• 2004 - Willie Crawford, outfielder (b. 1946)
• 2008 - Em Lindbeck, pinch hitter (b. 1934)
• 2011 - Frank Fanovich, pitcher (b. 1923)
• 2014 - Charley Lodes, college coach (b. 1941)
• 2016 - Leon Everitt, pitcher (b. 1947)
• 2018 - Buzzy Keller, scout (b. 1933)
• 2018 - Pete Smith, scout (b. 1933)
• 2020 - Kazuo Fukushima, amateur pitcher; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1931)
• 2022 - Garry Harris, minor league infielder (b. 1962)
• 2023 - Pat Corrales, catcher, manager (b. 1941)