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Events

• 1900 - Matching Buck Freeman's feat of five weeks ago, Brooklyn's Bill Dahlen laces two triples in the 8th inning as his team beats Philadelphia, 14 - 3.
• 1904:
  • Christy Mathewson and the visiting Giants top the Reds, 3 - 1, beating Noodles Hahn. Matty drives in one of the three runs scored in the 8th with a single and improves his record to 28-9.
  • At Boston, the Americans rack up 18 hits to defeat Detroit, 13 - 0.
• 1905 - Making his major league debut, Ty Cobb doubles off Highlander Jack Chesbro in a 5 - 3 Tiger victory at Detroit's Bennett Park.
• 1906:
  • Righthander Slow Joe Doyle of the Highlanders becomes the first 20th century player to start out with two shutouts when he beats the Washington Nationals, 5 - 0. Of his 23 lifetime victories, seven will be shutouts. He is nicknamed "Slow" because of his time-consuming pace on the mound. The Yanks take the nitecap as well, 9 - 8, to begin a sweep of five doubleheaders in six days. They'll outscore their opponents 76 - 31.
  • At National League Park, the Phils and Giants swap shutouts. The Quakers win the opener, 2 - 0, when Tully Sparks allows just three hits to outpitch Christy Mathewson. Iron Joe McGinnity then blanks the hosts, 1 - 0, to hand Bill Duggleby the loss.
• 1908 - Chicago beats the Giants for their ninth straight win to tighten the National League race; Chicago finishes August a half-game out, with the Pirates a game out of first.
• 1909 - The Cubs and Giants swap shutouts in this Monday doubleheader. Chicago wins the opener, 2 - 0, in 11 innings, and Christy Mathewson outpitches Ed Reulbach in the nitecap to win, 5 - 0, on five hits.
• 1910:
  • For the second time in four days, a Red Sox pitcher throws a one-hitter as Ray Collins beats the visiting White Sox, 4 - 0. Paul Meloan's single is the only hit.
  • The Giants beat Babe Adams and the Pirates, 5 - 2, to sweep the three-game series with Pittsburgh. The Bucs batter Christy Mathewson for 12 hits, but he wins his 22nd.
• 1912 - At Detroit's Navin Field, Browns hurler Earl Hamilton no-hits the Tigers, 5 - 1.
• 1913 - The Giants score six runs against Grover Cleveland Alexander, but the Phillies come back from the 6 - 0 deficit to score eight against Christy Mathewson. With two outs in the top of the 9th, and the Phils leading 8 - 6 over New York, umpire Bill Brennan, acceding to a request by the wily John McGraw, orders Phils captain Mickey Doolan (Phils manager Red Dooin had been ejected during the six-run 6th) to have spectators removed from the center field bleachers, where they are waving hats, newspapers, and handkerchiefs to distract the batters. When Doolan refuses, Brennan forfeits the game, 9 - 0, to the Giants. Bedlam ensues and later, when the two umpires and Giants players try to board the train at the North Philadelphia Station, they are attacked by fans. The police draw their revolvers to control the crowd. The Phils protest the forfeit and National League president Thomas Lynch will reverse the umpire and rule the game an 8 - 6 Phils win. The Giants then appeal. NL directors say both Brennan and Lynch are wrong, and order the game completed from the point at which it was stopped. The game will be finished October 2nd, with the outcome the same.
• 1915 - Three-time 20-game winner Larry Cheney is traded by the Cubs to Brooklyn for OF Joe Schultz.
• 1916:
  • Dutch Leonard of the Red Sox no-hits the Browns at Fenway Park, 4 - 0.
  • On the last day of the North Carolina State League season, the Asheville Tourists and Winston-Salem Twins decide to advance the start of their afternoon game by a half hour to allow Winston-Salem to catch an early train home. They also play the game at breakneck speed, with players running to and from their positions on the field, pitchers lobbing the ball to the batters, who swing at every pitch and then run until tagged out. Winston-Salem wins the game, 2 - 1, in 31 minutes. The teams forget to advise the umpire of the change of time, and three innings have already been played by the time he shows up at the ballpark. The game only receives local coverage and will be completely forgotten until a researcher unearths an account a half-century later.
• 1918:
  • In just fifty-seven minutes, the Giants beat the Robins, 1 - 0.
  • Carl Mays of the Red Sox wins two games, 12 - 0 and 4 - 1 over the A's to finish at 21-13 as the season is abbreviated because of World War I.
• 1921:
  • At Brooklyn, the Pirates win, 8 - 2, behind Whitey Glazner's pitching. Whitey gets help from Dave Robertson, who hits for the cycle.
  • The Cubs and Braves each pull a triple play, but they do not help. The Cubs lose to the Giants, 5 - 3, and Boston falls to the Reds, 6 - 4.
• 1922 - After hitting home run number 28 in the 1st inning, Babe Ruth argues too strongly over a called strike in his next at bat, and he is thrown out of the game. He'll be suspended for the fifth time of the year, and be out for three days.
• 1929 - At Pittsburgh, Pie Traynor is 5 for 5 to lead a 21-hit attack that sinks the Cubs, 15 - 0. It is the Pirates' fourth win over the Cubs in three days.
• 1930:
  • Hack Wilson returns to the Cubs lineup and drives in six runs on his 45th and 46th homers of the year to lead Chicago over the Cardinals, 16 - 4. For August, Hack hits 13 homers and drives in 53 runs.
  • New York's Carl Hubbell loses to Brooklyn, 1 - 0, giving up a run in the 9th. With a runner on third base, King Carl walks two intentionally and then walks in the winning run. Giant coach Dave Bancroft argues the call with umpire Lou Jorda so loudly that he is suspended for three games.
• 1931 - At Boston, Ben Chapman and Lou Gehrig each have four hits and together total nine RBIs as the Yanks roll over the Red Sox, 14 - 4. One of Gehrig's hits is a homer, his 37th, and two of Chapman's leave the park. Hal Rhyne has four hits for Boston.
• 1932 - Wes Ferrell is suspended ten days by the Indians for insubordination.
• 1939 - Yankee rookie Atley Donald pitches a baseball at 94.7 miles per hours to establish a new record for a fastball.
• 1941 - The Cardinals' Lon Warneke no-hits the Cincinnati Reds, 2 - 0, with only three balls hit to the outfield. It is Warneke's 15th victory of the season and, with the Dodgers' doubleheader loss to the Giants, puts St. Louis in first place by two percentage points.
• 1942 - The Giants' Mel Ott collects his 2,500th hit in a 5 - 5 tie in Chicago in the second game. In the opener, the Giants win, 8 - 6, as Ace Adams beats Hi Bithorn.
• 1945:
  • Stan Hack of the Cubs becomes No. 82 in the 2,000-hit club when he collects a 1st-inning single off Pirate pitcher Preacher Roe. Earlier in the season the Senators' Joe Kuhel and Red Sox OF Bob Johnson made the list. Hack scores after his safety, but the Pirates win, 6 - 4, over the first-place Cubs.
  • Yankees rookie Bill Bevens, 28, retires the first 18 Red Sox batters before giving up a walk and a double to Bob Johnson, the only hit for the Sox. Bevens wins, 7 - 1, defeating Boo Ferriss who was trying for his 21st win.
• 1950:
  • The Tigers drop out of first place for the first time since June 10th when they split a pair with the Senators, losing 3 - 2 in 11 innings, then taking the nitecap, 10 - 8.
  • Eddie Stanky of the Giants walks twice in the 6th inning against the Pirates for a total of seven straight times over two games, tying the major-league record set by Billy Rogell and Mel Ott. The Giants win, 4 - 0, behind Sal Maglie.
• 1951:
  • The A's topple the Indians, 6 - 2, beating Bob Feller and knocking the Tribe into second place, a half game behind the idle Yankees. Morrie Martin and Carl Scheib combine for the win.
  • The Giants move to an 8 - 1 lead after five inning over the Pirates behind two homers by Willie Mays. But George Spencer wilts in the heat and gives up homers to Frank Thomas - his first in the majors - and pinch hitter Gus Bell. After Pete Castiglione and Bill Rigney match homers, Ralph Kiner powers one in the 9th inning to give Pittsburgh a 10 - 9 victory. For Kiner, it is his 37th.
  • Brooklyn's Preacher Roe, with relief help from Clyde King, stops the Reds, 3 - 1, for his 18th win.
• 1953:
  • Led by OF Jim Pendleton's three home runs, the Braves tie the Yankees' 1939 major-league record for the most homers in a game with eight in their 19 - 4 win over Pittsburgh in the first game of a doubleheader. Pendleton is only the second rookie in history to hit three home runs in one game. In the second game, the Braves hit four more long balls to win 11 - 5. The 12 homers in a doubleheader shatter the previous mark of nine. Eddie Mathews's four dingers for the day give him a National League-leading 43; he will end the season with 47 home runs, 30 of them on the road, to set a major-league record.
  • The Dodgers rip St. Louis, 20 - 4, with the help of two big innings. Dodger Jackie Robinson fans twice in the 3rd inning, while Gil Hodges walks twice in the 6th. Roy Campanella's five RBIs ties the National League season mark of most RBIs by a catcher (122).
• 1954:
  • The Indians complete an 11-home-game sweep of the Red Sox, the first such sweep since the Yankees blanked St. Louis Browns in 1927.
  • In beating St. Louis 4 - 1 on four hits, Johnny Antonelli becomes the first lefty to win 20 games for the Giants since Carl Hubbell and Cliff Melton in 1937.
• 1958 - The Orioles' Dick Williams plays all three outfield positions without a single putout or assist in a 7 - 2 win against Boston.
• 1959:
  • Before 66,586 fans in Cleveland, the White Sox sweep a doubleheader with the Indians to move in front by 6 1/2 games. Former Indian Early Wynn, judged too old at 39, wins the opener, 6 - 3, then the Sox win the nitecap, 9 - 4. Another former Indian, Al Smith, scores from second base on a fly ball. The Sox will beat the Indians 15 out of 22 games this season.
  • In the second of two games, the Pirates, down 5 - 0, tie the Phillies in the 9th inning, then win in the 10th, 7 - 6. The victory goes to Elroy Face, even though he gives up a home run to Ed Bouchee in the top of the 10th. Face is now 17-0 and the Pirates are just four games in back of the leading Giants.
• 1960:
  • In Los Angeles, Roberto Clemente takes Sandy Koufax very, very deep, the ball carrying far beyond the 375-foot mark in right field. This puts Pittsburgh up, 4 - 0, bringing the pitcher's evening to an early end, on their way to a 5 - 2 win.
  • At San Francisco, Sam Jones strikes out 14 Phillies and drives in the winning run in the 5th to beat Robin Roberts, 2 - 1.
  • Boston 2B Pete Runnels goes 6 for 7, as the Red Sox edge the Tigers in the 15-inning opener of a twin bill. His 15th-inning double brings Frank Malzone home with the winning run to win, 5 - 4. Runnels has three more hits in the nightcap victory, 3 - 2 in ten innings. His six hits are the most in an American League game since July 8, 1955. With 9 for 11 in the doubleheader, Runnels ties the major league record.
• 1961 - Mickey Mantle connects for home run number 47, off the Twins' Jim Kaat, as the Yanks win, 4 - 0.
• 1962 - San Francisco's 3 - 2 win over the Braves ties a major league record, as all five runs score on home runs.
• 1963:
  • Ken Boyer's three-run homer leads the Cardinals to an 11 - 6 win over host Philadelphia, and starts the Birds on a nine-game win streak. St. Louis will win 19 out of 20 to end up a game behind the Dodgers.
  • The Twins' power continues in a 5 - 3 win over the White Sox. Minnesota has 19 home runs in its last five games, tying the major-league record set by the Giants in 1954.
• 1964 - Milwaukee (8) and San Francisco (7) combine to use a major league-record 15 pinch hitters in two nine-inning games. The Giants win the opening marathon, 15 - 10, then win, 7 - 4. The Milwaukee refreshment stands, down to $13 in pennies, drop their prices; beer goes from 31 cents to 30 cents, hot dogs from 26 cents to 25 cents, hot sandwiches from 62 cents to 60 cents.
• 1965 - Following his doctor's advice, Casey Stengel announces his retirement as manager of the Mets. He will head up Mets scouting in California. Stengel ends a 25-year managerial career that included ten pennants with the Yankees, followed by a dismal 175-404 record with the expansion Mets. The 75-year-old Stengel has been in professional baseball since 1910.
• 1966 - Pete Rose becomes the 12th player in major league history to hit home runs left- and righthanded in one game, as the Reds win 6 - 4 over the Cards.
• 1968 - In the showdown in Detroit, 53,575 fans cheer as P Earl Wilson pitches a four-hit 9 - 1 victory over second-place Baltimore. Wilson adds four RBIs on two hits, including his fifth home run of the year.
• 1969:
  • Washington 2B Tim Cullen ties a major-league record with three consecutive errors in the 8th inning, but the Senators beat Oakland, 11 - 3. Frank Howard leads the offense with four hits, including his 41st home run, and his first stolen base in three years.
  • Merv Rettenmund drives in three runs to lead the Orioles to a 6 - 3 win over the Angels. The O's score their last run on a single by Brooks Robinson in the 7th and three consecutive passed balls by Joe Azcue which ties the American League record. He is the first backstop on the 20th Century list not to be catching Hoyt Wilhelm, though Wilhelm comes in to relief Vern Geishert in the 8th.
• 1970 - In the first of two at Chicago, the Red Sox roll to a 22 - 11 win over the White Sox. This is the tenth time in history that the Red Sox have scored 20 or more runs. Ken Brett is the victor.
• 1972 - In Pittsburgh, announcer Bob Prince turns the mike over to Harold Arlin. On August 5, 1921, Arlin was the first announcer to broadcast a live play-by-play game, on KDKA. Today he calls a few innings while his grandson, Steve, is on the mound for San Diego against the Pirates.
• 1973:
  • After a ten-inning, 1 - 0, loss to Cardinals, the last-place Mets drop to 61-71. They'll finish at 82-79 and make it to first place in the National League East.
  • Yutaka Enatsu not only throws an 11-inning no-hitter for the Hanshin Tigers against the Chunichi Dragons, but he hits a homer in the bottom of the 11th for the game's lone run.
• 1974 - The Rangers' Dave Nelson steals second, third base, and home in the 1st inning, only the third such performance in the major leagues since 1928, but it's not enough as Texas loses to Cleveland, 7 - 3.
• 1975 - The Braves fire skipper Clyde King, naming Connie Ryan as interim manager.
• 1976:
  • At Fenway Park, Jim Rice clouts a 5th-inning home run against Texas, the 100th homer this year for the Sox. They now have hit 100 homers or more for 31 straight years.
  • The A's purchase veteran Willie McCovey from the Padres.
• 1977 - Against the Yankees, the Mariners tie the score, 5 - 5, in the 8th inning, then lose in the 11th, 6 - 5, when Mickey Rivers leads off the inning with a home run.
• 1978:
  • The Reds are rained out at Riverfront Stadium for the first time since the Stadium opened in 1970. The second half of a twinbill was rained out on July 18, 1971, but no rain checks were issued.
  • Sadaharu Oh hits his 34th home run of the season and the 800th of his career. The ball lands in the shoe of a fan who had removed it to feel more comfortable.
• 1980 - Houston veteran Vern Ruhle improves his record to 8 - 3 by shutting out the Cubs.
• 1982:
  • In an effort to bolster its pitching staff for the pennant race, Milwaukee trades minor leaguers Kevin Bass, Frank DiPino, and Mike Madden to the Astros for veteran starter Don Sutton. Sutton has won 13 games for Houston this year. The Brewers are 4 1/2 games ahead of the Red Sox.
  • In a slugfest featuring seven homers - two by Dwight Evans - Oakland beats Boston, 9 - 7.
  • The Phillies split a pair with the Braves, winning 6 - 1 on Dick Ruthven's three-hitter, before losing the second game, 11 - 9. Dale Murphy's home run is Atlanta's only score in the opener. Mike Schmidt has an inside-the-park home run in the second game, the second of three he'll hit.
• 1984:
  • Jim Rice grounds into his 33rd double play of the season, establishing a new major league mark. The Red Sox outfielder breaks a 1954 record set by another Boston flycatcher, Jackie Jensen.
  • Bill Virdon is fired as manager of the Expos and will be replaced by Jim Fanning.
• 1986:
  • Roger Clemens becomes the major leagues' first 20-game winner this season, striking out 11 Indians in a 7 - 3 victory to raise his record to 20-4.
  • Yankee hurlers Tommy John (43) and Joe Niekro (41) become the first 40+ pitchers since 1933 to start both ends of a doubleheader. John loses, 1 - 0, and Niekro pitches five innings for a 3 - 0 victory over the Mariners.
• 1988:
  • At Chicago, the Pirates nip the Cubs, 10 - 9, in ten innings. Scott Medvin is the winner over Rich Gossage.
  • Kent Tekulve becomes the second pitcher in major league history after Hoyt Wilhelm to appear in 1,000 games by pitching two innings in Philadelphia's 7 - 5 win over San Francisco.
• 1989:
  • The Yankees send veteran slugger Ken Phelps, hitting .249, to Oakland for minor league P Scott Holcomb.
  • St. Louis leaves 16 runners on base in a 2 - 0, 13-inning loss to the Reds, setting a major-league record for runners left on base in a shutout.
• 1990:
  • Minnesota CF John Moses misplays a long drive by Ron Karkovice, and the White Sox catcher ends up with an inside-the-park grand slam. That's all the scoring Jack McDowell needs as the Sox win, 4 - 3.
  • Boston's Roger Clemens reaches 20 wins for the third time in five years by beating Cleveland, 9 - 2. Rocket strikes out nine and walks none.
• 1991 - The Rangers trade 3B Steve Buechele to the Pirates in exchange for prospect Kurt Miller and a player to be named later. The "later named" is another pitching prospect, Hector Fajardo.
• 1992:
  • Trailing 3 - 1 to the Reds in the 9th, Bobby Bonilla hits a dramatic three-run homer off Rob Dibble to give the Mets a 4 - 3 win.
  • Boston 1B Scott Cooper records five hits in the Red Sox's 4 - 2, ten-inning win over the Angels.
  • Cubs rookie P Jim Bullinger tosses a one-hitter against the Giants in his third big league start, defeating San Francisco, 3 - 1. The only hit he allows is Kirt Manwaring's home run in the 8th inning.
  • The Red Sox send P Jeff Reardon to the Braves in exchange for minor leaguers Nate Minchey and Sean Ross.
• 1993 - Oakland P Rich Gossage breaks his right wrist when he trips over a ball bag prior to the Athletics' game with Toronto. The Blue Jays beat Oakland, 4 - 2.
• 1995:
  • Tiger teammates Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell tie an American League record by playing in their 1,914th game together, a 10 - 7 loss to the White Sox. The record was set by Kansas City's George Brett and Frank White.
  • Angels power prospect Todd Greene hits his 40th home run as Vancouver (Pacific Coast League) beats Salt Lake City, 14 - 5. Greene is the first minor leaguer to reach 40 dingers since Danny Tartabull for Calgary in 1985.
• 1996:
  • Adding their eighth new player this month, the Yankees reacquire 3B Charlie Hayes from the Pirates in exchange for a player to be named. This makes Wade Boggs a platoon player and he angrily states, "I'll get my 3,000 hits somewhere."
  • Eddie Murray clouts his 499th homer and newly-acquired Pete Incaviglia adds a grand slam as the Orioles beat the Mariners, 5 - 2. The O's are four back of the Yankees, down from 12 games on July 29th.
  • Mark McGwire pounds his 45th homer and drives in three runs as the A's beat the Red Sox, 7 - 0. The loss snaps the Sox's five-game win streak. The third-place Sox have been the American League's hottest team since the All-Star break, going 33-17; on August 1st, Boston was 17 games out of first place, and since then have gained 11 games. A's pitchers will record shutouts in their next two games as well.
  • The Padres' Scott Sanders pitches one-hit ball over eight innings and strikes out ten to beat the Expos, 6 - 0. David Segui has the only hit for Montreal.
• 1997:
  • Behind Alex Fernandez, the Marlins solidify their hold on the National League wild card position with a 4 - 1 victory over the Blue Jays. OF Shawn Green has all three of Toronto's hits.
  • Yankee P David Wells threatens to punch out owner George Steinbrenner during a clubhouse argument.
  • The Brewers acquire OF Darrin Jackson from the Twins in exchange for a player to be named.
  • Boston SS Nomar Garciaparra goes hitless as the Red Sox fall to the Braves, 15 - 2. The collar brings to an end his 30-game hitting streak (July 26-August 29: .383 : 54/141), the longest streak ever for an American League rookie.
• 1998:
  • Curt Schilling throws his major league-leading 13th complete game, stopping the Giants, 5 - 4. Schilling is helped by a triple play as he raises his strikeout total to a National League-high 258. Barry Bonds hits homers #29 and #30, the seventh straight year he's had 30 homers and the eighth year he's reached 100 RBIs.
  • The Cardinals honor Jack Buck with a new statue in Buck's likeness. The Hall of Fame broadcaster began announcing Cardinals games in 1954.
  • Toms River, NJ becomes the first American team since 1993 to win the Little League World Series as Chris Cardone hits home runs in consecutive at-bats, including a game-deciding two-run shot beating Kashima, Ibaraki, Japan, 12 - 9.
  • Mark McGwire's 55th home run leads the Cardinals to an 8 - 7 victory over the Braves.
  • Sammy Sosa's 54th homer leads the Cubs to a 4 - 3 win over Colorado.
  • Roger Clemens racks up his third straight shutout, extending his scoreless inning streak to 29, as Toronto tops the Twins, 6 - 0. The Rocket is unbeaten in his last 17 starts.
• 1999:
  • In an article in the New York Times, former major league OF Billy Bean reveals his fears as a gay man in the world of major league baseball. Former Dodger Glenn Burke, who died of AIDS in 1995, is the only other ex-player to have acknowledged his homosexuality.
  • Barry Bonds clubs a pair of homers, including a two-run no-out game-winner in the 10th, to give the Giants a 6 - 4 win over the Phillies. The win goes to Rich Rodriguez, who has won seven straight since last losing on June 13, 1997. The second-place Giants have now won 10 of 12.
  • The Mets roll over the Astros, 17 - 1, as 2B Edgardo Alfonzo goes 6 for 6, a club record, with a double, three homers, five RBI, and six runs scored. The six runs scored ties the modern major league mark. Alfonzo is the only the fifth player ever to hit three home runs while going 6 for 6.
• 2000:
  • As the Braves come to bat in the bottom of the 9th inning trailing the Reds, 4 - 2, a power spike causes most of the lights to go out at Turner Field causing a 12-minute delay. As the Atlanta crowd waits for play to resume it is treated to a rendition of the song, "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia". Earning his 1,600th victory, manager Bobby Cox passes former Los Angeles Dodgers skipper, Tommy Lasorda, on the career list for most managerial victories and puts him 14th on the all-time list.
  • On a night when every player in the Astros' starting lineup gets a hit, reserve catcher Tony Eusebio's hitting streak ends at 24 games establishing a new Houston team record.
• 2001:
  • 3B Bill Mueller's walk-off home run gives the Cubs a 5 - 4 victory over the Marlins. 1B Fred McGriff hits a three-run home run as he reaches 80 RBIs for the 14th straight season, becoming only the second player in major league history to do so. Hank Aaron holds the record with 17 straight years.
  • The Little League forfeits all games won by the Bronx World Series entry after it is discovered that star pitcher Danny Almonte is 14. Sports Illustrated first broke the story with evidence of two birth registrations, the second, which took two years off, made just weeks before the boy entered the United States. Continued protests of racism against Dominicans prompts further investigations which will show that Almonte and others did not even attend school in the Bronx, did not play the requisite number of games with their Bronx team, that their coach had been banned from Caribbean Little League play in 1988 for using overage players, and that Danny's older brother was 14 when he played last year.
  • Led by Eric Chavez, who drives home eight runs, the A's defeat the Orioles, 15 - 0.
  • The Mariners defeat the Devil Rays, 4 - 0, giving them a major-league record 27 consecutive regular-season road series without losing a series. The old record of 26 road series without a loss was set by the 1906 Chicago Cubs.
• 2002 - After marathon negotiation sessions to avoid a players' strike just hours away, Bud Selig announces the players union and owners have reached a settlement on a new four-year Collective Bargaining Agreement without the need for a work stoppage. The new agreement, called "historic" by the Commissioner, gives the owners the economic restraints they wanted as the players are assured no teams will be contracted until the 2007 season, with a revenue sharing plan to be gradually implemented during the span of the contract.
• 2005 - In the long tradition of the Bronx Bombers, Alex Rodriguez becomes only the second right-handed batter in Yankees history to hit 40 homers in a season. The Yankees' third baseman joins Joe DiMaggio, who hit 46 homers in 1937, the only time "Joltin' Joe" reached the 40 mark.
• 2008 - A bad year off the field for the Clemens clan continues. While Roger Clemens has faced claims of adultery and steroid use, son Koby Clemens and Salem Avalanche teammates Mark Ori and Jimmy Goethals are arrested for their role in a restaurant fight. The charges of disorderly conduct will later be dropped.
• 2009:
  • Chula Vista, CA wins the 2009 Little League World Series, defeating Taoyuan County of Taiwan, 6 - 3, in the finals.
  • The Heidenheim Heideköpfe win a doubleheader from the Mannheim Tornados to take their first German Bundesliga title, three games to two in the finals. Simon Gühring makes his return from a leg fracture with three home runs and eight RBI on the day, while Peter Dankerl wins the finale.
  • Edgar Renteria hits a grand slam in the 7th inning as San Francisco defeats Colorado, 9 - 5, completing a three-game sweep that puts the two teams in a tie in the National League wild card race.
  • Zack Greinke pitches a one-hitter to beat Seattle, 3 - 0. The Royals hurler allows only a 2nd-inning single by Kenji Johjima.
  • Alex Ramirez of the Yomiuri Giants collects 150 hits for the eighth straight season, setting a new Nippon Pro Baseball record; Kazuo Matsui had held the mark prior to Ramirez.
• 2010:
  • Mike Moustakas of Omaha (Pacific Coast League) hits two homers and drives in five runs in the 3rd inning of a game with Round Rock, but he's far from done. He adds a three-run double in the 4th and a three-run homer in the 7th to finish with a franchise-record 11 RBI as Omaha wins, 23 - 5. Moustakas is also named the Texas League Player of the Year today after hitting .341 with 21 homers and 76 RBI for Northwest Arkansas prior to his promotion to AAA Omaha. He now leads all minor league players with 34 homers.
  • Carlos Zambrano becomes the first major league pitcher to homer in eight straight seasons since Gary Peters (1963-1971), launching one in a 14 - 2 Cubs rout of Pittsburgh.
• 2011:
  • CC Sabathia finally defeats the Red Sox this season, after going 0-4 with a 7.20 ERA in his previous efforts against them this year. The Yankees win, 5 - 2, at Fenway Park to move to within a half-game of the lead in the AL East. In a moment typical of the tense rivalry between the two teams, Francisco Cervelli hits only the third home run of his career for the Yanks in the 5th, then is plunked by Sox starter John Lackey in his next at-bat, leading to both benches clearing and the ejection of New York pitching coach Larry Rothschild.
  • Rookie Mike Trout hits two homers as the Angels whip the Mariners, 13 - 6. The 20-year-old drives in five runs and the Angels score eight in the 5th inning to give Jerome Williams his second victory in a week, after he had gone six years between wins.
• 2012:
  • The Athletics complete a four-game sweep of the Indians with a 12 - 7 win at Progressive Field, their eighth victory in their last nine games. As a result, they remain one game ahead of Baltimore in the race for the second wild card. The Indians continue their free fall, with a record of 5-27 since July 27th. Things start well for Cleveland, as Jason Kipnis hits a lead-off homer off Jarrod Parker, but the A's tee off on Justin Masterson for three homers and eight runs in four innings. George Kottaras and Josh Reddick drive in three runs apiece, while Coco Crisp and Cliff Pennington hit two-run homers
  • In a battle of Italian teams, Fortitudo Bologna beats Caffe Danesi Nettuno, 4 - 3, to win the 2012 European Cup, their second European Cup in three years. Nick Pugliese gets the win. Carlos Richetti takes the loss by allowing the tie-breaking run in the bottom of the 9th, as Leonardo De Donno doubles in Claudio Liverziani. In the Bronze Medal Game, the Amsterdam Pirates survive a late rally to top the Rouen Huskies, 8 - 7, pounding Owen Ozanich for 15 hits in 5 2/3 innings. Roelie Henrique and Percy Isenia both get three hits for the winners, while Maxime Lefevre gets four hits and three RBI for the French powerhouse.
• 2013:
  • The Pirates tie the Cardinals atop the NL Central again, winning, 5 - 0, behind four RBI from Garrett Jones and two-hit pitching over eight innings from Francisco Liriano. Pittsburgh continues to pound Shelby Miller this year.
  • Several teams make moves shortly before the playoff roster deadline, as the Indians get Jason Kubel for a player to be named later or cash from the Diamondbacks, St. Louis picks up John Axford from the Brewers for a player to be named, and Baltimore gets Michael Morse from Seattle for Xavier Avery.
  • The Latino Baseball Hall of Fame announces its 15 newest members, namely Teddy Higuera, Mike Cuellar, Tony Armas, Juan Gonzalez, Matty Alou, Tony Fernandez, Silvio Garcia, Vic Davalillo, Vic Power, Felipe Montemayor, Santos Amaro, Julian Javier, Humberto Robinson, Cookie Rojas and Rennie Stennett.
• 2014:
  • The Angels use eight different pitchers - a team record for a nine-inning game - in shutting out the A's, 2 - 0. Reliever Cory Rasmus gets things going by pitching the first three innings, and a different pitcher is used for each of the last five innings. In the 4th, Michael Roth gets himself in a bases loaded, one-out jam, but Yoslan Herrera induces Jonny Gomes to hit into an inning-ending double play and is the one who ends up with credit for the win. Ironically, for the A's, Jeff Samardzija throws a complete game but loses, a loss that increases the Angels' lead in the AL West to four games.
  • Jake Peavy pitches no-hit ball for the Giants until one out in the 8th, before Mark Reynolds of the Brewers breaks up his bid for immortality with a single. Peavy also records the 2,000th strikeout of his career in the 3 - 1 win.
  • Unipol Bologna wins the 2014 Italian Series in seven games. Down three games to two, they take the last two on the road. Today, manager Marco Nanni turns to Raul Rivero, usually the closer and one who struggled in Games 1 and 3 but starred in Game 4. The move turns out superbly as Rivero allows only two hits and two walks while fanning 12 in a shutout 4 - 0 win. Claudio Liverziani drives in Juan Carlos Infante with a 1st-inning run to hand Roberto Corradini the loss. Guillermo Rodriguez later homers and singles in a run and is named series MVP with a .379/.455/.621 batting line and ten RBI in seven games.
  • The Templiers de Sénart win their first French Division I title after finishing second four times in the prior seven years. They sweep the Paris Université Club in three games and become the first team other than the Rouen Huskies to win since 2004. The Templiers rely heavily on Cuban players as long-time Templiers backstop Ernesto Martínez goes 3 for 5 with a homer in the finale to give him a French title to go with his Cuban Serie Nacional one. Ciro Silvino Licea (finals MVP) gets the win and Raudelin Legra the save. Jacques Boucheron goes 3 for 4 with a run and a RBI as the top native French threat in the 5 - 4 win in the finale.
• 2015:
  • The team from Tokyo wins the 2015 Little League World Series, defeating Lewisberry, PA, 18 - 11, in the final game. Lewisberry scores ten runs in the 1st and leads 10 - 2, but their Japanese opponents come back. The teams combine for a championship-record 30 hits and 29 runs.
  • The Dodgers fall victim to a no-hitter for the second time in ten days as Jake Arrieta of the Cubs pulls the trick with a 2 - 0 shutout in which he strikes out 12. It is his major league-leading 17th win of the year and he is helped by the official scorer charging SS Starlin Castro with an error on a close play on Kiké Hernandez's ground ball in the 3rd. Having also been handcuffed by Mike Fiers of the Astros on August 21st, it is the first time in their long history that the Dodgers have been victims of two no-hitters in one season.
• 2019:
  • The autopsy results for Tyler Skaggs, who was found dead in his hotel room a suburb of Dallas, TX on July 1st, are released. They reveal that the death was the result of an overdose of opioids, something which has become an epidemic in North America in recent years. Another shocking development is that Skaggs's family alleges that an employee of the Angels was involved in supplying the drugs, something which police is now investigating and which will eventually lead to a team employee being arrested, charged and convicted.
  • Ten-year minor league veteran Chace Numata is seriously injured in a skateboarding accident in Erie, PA, where he was concluding his season as a catcher with the Erie SeaWolves. He is found unconscious and bleeding from the head in the small hours of the morning by a passing motorist and will die in hospital two days later. According to security footage, his motorized skateboard stopped suddenly and sent him falling forward.
• 2020:
  • For the first time in major league history, all three of a team's starting outfielders homer twice as the Cubs defeat the Reds, 10 - 1. Ian Happ, Kyle Schwarber and Jason Heyward are the record-setting flychasers.
  • It's a busy day on the transactions front with the trading deadline moved to August 31st. The Padres pull off the biggest deal, obtaining C Austin Nola, P Dan Altavilla and P Austin Adams from the Mariners in return for IF Ty France, OF Taylor Trammell, P Andres Munoz and C Luis Torrens. Looking to make the postseason for the first time in 14 years, the Padres also acquire another catcher, Jason Castro, from the Angels for P Gerardo Reyes and 1B/DH Mitch Moreland from Boston for prospects Hudson Potts and Jeisson Rosario. This follows the acquisition of relief pitcher Trevor Rosenthal a day earlier.
• 2021 - The Heidenheim Heideköpfe pull off a three-peat by beating the Bonn Capitals, three games to one, in the finals of Germany's Bundesliga-1. Game 4 is an 11 - 2 romp as finals MVP Enorbel Marquez goes the distance with 13 K at age 46, while Drew Janssen scores four and Simon Gühring three. Ludwig Glaser drives in three and wins his eighth Bundesliga title.
• 2022 - James Outman, who hit .462 in his first major league stint with the Dodgers earlier this month, hits for the cycle for the second time in four games for Oklahoma City (Pacific Coast League), having also done so on August 26th. He pulls off the feat in a 17 - 8 win over Round Rock thanks to a 9th-inning single, after drawing a walk in both the 7th and 8th innings.

Births

• 1850 - Cal McVey, infielder, manager (d. 1926)
• 1857 - James Meagher, umpire (d. 1928)
• 1859 - Jim Powell, infielder (d. 1929)
• 1863 - John Rudderham, outfielder (d. 1942)
• 1864 - Pete Weckbecker, catcher (d. 1935)
• 1866 - Frank Pears, pitcher; umpire (d. 1923)
• 1870 - Will Thompson, pitcher (d. 1962)
• 1872 - Davey Dunkle, pitcher (d. 1941)
• 1878 - Carlos Smith, minor league outfielder and manager (d. 1955)
• 1878 - Charlie Starr, infielder (d. 1937)
• 1879 - Peaches O'Neill, catcher (d. 1955)
• 1880 - Charlie Armbruster, catcher (d. 1964)
• 1883 - Bill Brinker, infielder/outfielder (d. 1965)
• 1883 - Sam Edmonston, pitcher (d. 1979)
• 1884 - Andy Sullivan, infielder (d. 1920)
• 1886 - Wib Smith, catcher (d. 1959)
• 1886 - Bert Tooley, infielder (d. 1976)
• 1887 - Tom Seaton, pitcher (d. 1940)
• 1891 - Howard Millard, minor league executive (d. 1961)
• 1891 - Steve Partenheimer, infielder (d. 1971)
• 1891 - Pol Perritt, pitcher (d. 1947)
• 1893 - Ralph Head, pitcher (d. 1962)
• 1894 - Bing Miller, outfielder (d. 1966)
• 1898 - Kiki Cuyler, outfielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 1950)
• 1902 - Pete Cote, pinch hitter (d. 1987)
• 1906 - Bob Friedrichs, pitcher (d. 1997)
• 1911 - Stan Watts, college coach (d. 2000)
• 1914 - Buddy Hancken, catcher (d. 2007)
• 1916 - Johnny Lindell, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1985)
• 1917 - Red Embree, pitcher (d. 1996)
• 1918 - Billy Johnson, infielder; All-Star (d. 2006)
• 1918 - Ted Williams, outfielder, manager; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 2002)
• 1920 - Eduardo Green, minor league outfielder (d. 1980)
• 1922 - Martha Rommelaere, AAGPBL outfielder (d. 2011)
• 1923 - Irwin Castille, Negro League infielder (d. 1982)
• 1924 - Frank Sacka, catcher (d. 1994)
• 1927 - Gordon Goldsberry, infielder (d. 1996)
• 1928 - Doris Neal, AAGPBL infielder (d. 2012)
• 1929 - Ralph Albers, minor league pitcher (d. 2008)
• 1933 - Hisafumi Kawamura, NPB pitcher (d. 2005)
• 1935 - Al Forthmann, minor league infielder and manager
• 1935 - Frank Funk, pitcher
• 1941 - Carmen Fanzone, infielder
• 1941 - Archie Moore, outfielder
• 1943 - Koichiro Sasaki, NPB pitcher (d. 1989)
• 1944 - Tug McGraw, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2004)
• 1945 - Tommy Dean, infielder
• 1948 - Steve Simpson, pitcher (d. 1989)
• 1950 - Dave Chalk, infielder; All-Star
• 1950 - Mike McQueen, pitcher (d. 2017)
• 1950 - Andy Merchant, catcher
• 1952 - Kenichi Kajima, NPB pitcher
• 1955 - Renie Martin, pitcher
• 1955 - Yutaka Ono, NPB pitcher; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1956 - Steve Baker, pitcher
• 1956 - Scott Brown, pitcher
• 1956 - Roger Erickson, pitcher
• 1956 - Willie Mueller, pitcher
• 1957 - Tim Mooney, college coach
• 1957 - Junji Ogawa, NPB outfielder and manager
• 1957 - Takashi Osanai, NPB infielder
• 1957 - Dave Smith, pitcher
• 1957 - Thomas Wesley, college coach (b. 2009)
• 1959 - Yukiichi Komazaki, NPB outfielder
• 1959 - Jun-Lang Wang, CPBL outfielder and manager
• 1960 - Randy O'Neal, pitcher
• 1960 - Ricky Seilheimer, catcher
• 1963 - Gun-woo Kim, KBO pitcher and infielder
• 1967 - Andy Cook, pitcher
• 1967 - Randy Kotchman, minor league infielder
• 1970 - Gustavo Martínez, minor league pitcher
• 1970 - Ricky Ward, minor league infielder
• 1971 - Cliff Shanks, minor league infielder (d. 2013)
• 1972 - Jose Herrera, outfielder
• 1972 - Yasuyuki Saigo, Japanese national team infielder
• 1974 - Dave Becker, minor league catcher
• 1974 - Gianluca Cibati, Serie A1 outfielder
• 1974 - Christophe Dassy, First Division infielder and manager
• 1974 - Kris Foster, pitcher
• 1975 - Joey Espada, manager
• 1975 - Bucky Jacobsen, infielder
• 1975 - Kazuyuki Maeda, NPB pitcher
• 1976 - Mike Koplove, pitcher
• 1976 - Brian Shackelford, pitcher
• 1977 - Jon Adkins, pitcher
• 1977 - Rich Austin, minor league outfielder and manager
• 1977 - Marlon Byrd, outfielder; All-Star
• 1978 - Cliff Lee, pitcher; All-Star
• 1978 - Todd Wellemeyer, pitcher
• 1979 - Scott Richmond, pitcher
• 1979 - Luis Rivas, infielder
• 1980 - Russ Adams, infielder
• 1980 - Roberto Hernandez, pitcher; All-Star
• 1980 - Bobby Kingsbury, minor league outfielder
• 1981 - Adam Wainwright, pitcher; All-Star
• 1982 - Brian Marshall, minor league pitcher
• 1982 - Sean Marshall, pitcher
• 1983 - Roberto Alvarez, minor league player
• 1983 - Michael Ekstrom, pitcher
• 1983 - Chris Getz, infielder
• 1983 - Yevhenii Tkachenko, Ukrainian national team pitcher
• 1984 - Steven Wright, pitcher; All-Star
• 1984 - Hunter Mense, coach
• 1986 - Matt Sheely, minor league outfielder
• 1987 - Tyler Cannon, minor league infielder
• 1989 - Hilde Bosker, Dutch women's national team infielder
• 1989 - Billy Burns, outfielder
• 1989 - DJ Johnson, pitcher
• 1989 - Anthony Renteria, minor league outfielder
• 1990 - Mark Montgomery, minor league pitcher
• 1990 - Stosh Wawrzasek, minor league pitcher
• 1991 - Shane Carle, pitcher
• 1991 - Matt Hockenberry, minor league pitcher
• 1992 - Leuma Fualefau, American Samoa national team outfielder
• 1993 - Edwin Fierro, minor league pitcher
• 1993 - Soo-haeng Jo, KBO outfielder
• 1993 - Jen-Lei Liao, minor league pitcher
• 1994 - Taylor Hearn, pitcher
• 1994 - Daniel Robert, pitcher
• 1994 - Eduardo Rochac, Salvadoran national team player
• 1995 - Sean Reid-Foley, pitcher
• 1996 - José Caballero, infielder
• 1997 - Ángel Felipe, pitcher
• 1997 - Nolan Soliveres, French Division I catcher
• 1999 - Woo-jin An, KBO pitcher
• 1999 - Nao Fukuda, New Zealand national team pitcher
• 2000 - Luke Little, pitcher
• 2001 - Hayden Birdsong, pitcher
• 2002 - Samaria Benítez, Mexican women's national team infielder

Deaths

• 1884 - Gus Ruhl, umpire (b. 1858)
• 1902 - Rome Chambers, pitcher (b. 1875)
• 1915 - William Coon, outfielder (b. 1855)
• 1931 - Tinsley Ginn, outfielder (b. 1891)
• 1935 - Leo Smith, infielder (b. 1859)
• 1938 - Gene Moore, pitcher (b. 1885)
• 1943 - Charles Van Sickle, umpire (b. 1876)
• 1944 - Bill Duggleby, pitcher (b. 1874)
• 1952 - Arky Vaughan, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1912)
• 1958 - Frank Demaree, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1910)
• 1964 - Bob Jones, infielder (b. 1889)
• 1965 - Frank Papish, pitcher (b. 1917)
• 1969 - Stew Bolen, pitcher (b. 1902)
• 1969 - Tim McKeithan, pitcher (b. 1906)
• 1972 - Hank Garrity, college coach (b. 1900)
• 1972 - Henry Miller, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1917)
• 1977 - Leo Hannibal, pitcher (b. 1911)
• 1978 - Ed Sicking, infielder (b. 1897)
• 1986 - Bill Higdon, outfielder (b. 1924)
• 1987 - Dick Young, writer (b. 1917)
• 1989 - Buddy Burbage, outfielder (b. 1907)
• 1989 - Joe Collins, infielder (b. 1922)
• 1990 - Lou Garland, pitcher (b. 1905)
• 1992 - Masao Date, amateur player; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1911)
• 1999 - Warren Huston, infielder (b. 1913)
• 2003 - Claude Passeau, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1909)
• 2005 - Eli Hodkey, pitcher (b. 1917)
• 2007 - Hal Jeffcoat, outfielder/pitcher (b. 1924)
• 2009 - Jack Phillips, infielder (b. 1921)
• 2012 - Nat Peeples, catcher (b. 1926)
• 2017 - Harold Stout, college coach (b. 1933)
• 2018 - Pete Spasoff, minor league pitcher (b. 1933)
• 2020 - Keith Lampard, outfielder (b. 1945)
• 2021 - Darrell Blevins, college coach (b. 1967)
• 2021 - Kuang-Huei Wang, CPBL infielder and manager (b. 1954)
• 2022 - Larry Womack, minor league pitcher (b. 1946)