August 5
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Events[edit]
- 1901
- In the first of two in Philly, Giant OF Ike Van Zandt makes an 11th-inning error and Philadelphia goes on to score three runs and win, 6 - 3. Van Zandt came on in the 9th after starting LF Kip Selbach was tossed for protesting strike calls. Christy Mathewson takes the loss for New York.
- Burt Hart punches John Haskell and will be banned for life as a result his assault on the umpire. The Oriole first baseman will play only 58 games in his major league career.
- At Cincinnati, Topsy Hartsel strokes two inside-the-park homers, but they are not enough as Chicago loses to the Reds, 10 - 7. Whitey Guese takes the decision over Jock Menefee.
- 1902
- Cleveland rookie Otto Hess, who made his debut two days ago, wobbles to a 7 - 6, ten-inning win over the Washington Nationals. The Nats test the rookie by laying down 14 bunts, three of which are misplayed by Hess, four are hits, and seven go for sacrifices. Cleveland SS John Gochnauer breaks his finger in the 3rd inning when he tries to flag down a line drive hit by Ed Delahanty. Gochnauer stays in the game and doubles in the tying runs in the 8th inning and doubles home the winner off Case Patten in the 10th.
- The first-place Pirates whip New York, 3 - 0 behind Jesse Tannehill's two-hitter. Christy Mathewson strikes out 11 Bucs in the loss.
- 1904 - The Highlanders beat Cleveland, 5 - 0, to send the American League into a virtual three-way tie. New York is first (.614) with Chicago (.613) and Cleveland (.611) close behind.
- 1905
- Highlanders 1B Hal Chase has a record 38 putouts in a doubleheader sweep versus the visiting Browns. The Highlanders win, 3 - 1 and 6 - 5.
- The Reds score eight runs in the 1st en route to a 19 - 6 win over Brooklyn. Miller Huggins scores five runs for Cincinnati.
- Umpire George Bausewine is once again in the middle of controversy, forfeiting a game to the Pirates with the score tied 5 - 5 in the 9th when the Giants argue too long over his safe call at third base. New York will appeal the forfeiture, but on August 26th, National League President Harry Pulliam will uphold the ump's decision. By the rules of the day, Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson is charged with the loss.
- 1908 - The Nationals' Otis Clymer and Jim Delahanty draw indefinite suspensions for abusing umpire Silk O'Loughlin in Cleveland. Delahanty, a Cleveland native, is later fined $50 and barred from the Cleveland ballpark for one year for his unbecoming conduct.
- 1909 - The Washington Nationals complete a marathon run of eight straight doubleheaders, a major-league record until the National League Braves top it in 1928.
- 1910 - The Giants salvage the last game in their series against the first-place Cubs, chasing Floyd Kroh for an 10 - 1 win. Christy Mathewson is the victor.
- 1911 - Cubs manager Frank Chance suspends Joe Tinker and fines him $150 for indifferent play. He is reinstated the next day.
- 1912
- At St. Louis, the Cards' Ed Konetchy hits two inside-the-park homers in an 8 - 4 win over Brooklyn.
- At Comiskey Park, Walter Johnson relieves Carl Cashion with two outs in the 8th and stops the White Sox. Johnson throws another two innings of hitless ball and drives in the winning run to give Washington an 8 - 7 win. Johnson has now won nine out of ten decisions against the White Sox this season.
- 1915 - Against Pittsburgh, the Phillies lose, 1 - 0, when Quaker backstop Bill Killefer throws wildly past third base in the 9th. Grover Cleveland Alexander is saddled with the loss.
- 1916
- The Red Sox stop the Browns' win streak, winning 4 - 1, behind Ernie Shore. St. Louis takes the nitecap, 6 - 3.
- Grover Cleveland Alexander strokes two hits, but the Phils and Alex lose to the Cardinals, 2 - 0.
- 1921 - KDKA radio station provides its listeners with the first-ever broadcast of a major league game. Harold Arlin becomes baseball's first play-by-play announcer as he details the action as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Phillies at Forbes Field, 8 - 5.
- 1922
- Rogers Hornsby sets a new National League single-season home run record with his 28th, eclipsing a 38-year-old mark set by Ed Williamson of the Chicago White Stockings in 1884. Hornsby's 6th-inning solo shot off Jimmy Ring provides St. Louis's sole means of support in this 9 - 1 Philly rout.
- Tommy McCarthy, a top outfielder in the 1890s, dies at 58. He will enter the Hall of Fame in 1946. On the 14th, an all-star team will beat the Red Sox in a benefit game that raises more than $5,000 for his family.
- Pittsburgh roughs up Boston starter Rube Marquard and beats the last-place Braves, 9 - 3.
- 1923
- Against the Browns, Babe Ruth again bats righthanded. After the Babe hits his 26th and 27th home runs off Ray Kolp, relief P Elam Vangilder takes no chances with Ruth and walks him intentionally in the 11th and again in the 13th inning. Ruth bats righty against Vangilder. Bob Meusel's single wins the game, 9 - 8.
- Kansas City Monarchs Hall of Fame pitchers José Méndez and Bullet Rogan combine for a no-hitter against the Milwaukee Bears, winning 7 - 0 at Kansas City's newly-opened Muehlebach Field. Méndez pitches five perfect innings before being relieved by Rogan. Rogan walks the second man he faces, the only baserunner allowed in the game.
- 1925
- Cards RF Jack Smith charges in for a short fly ball and keeps on running, tagging first base to double up the baserunner before he can get back, for a rare unassisted double play.
- Lefty Dickie Kerr, on the injured list since 1921, is reinstated and tries a comeback with the White Sox. He'll start twice, lose once, and after ten relief chores, quit for good.
- 1929 - Despite three triples by Charlie Gehringer, the Senators overwhelm the Tigers, 21 - 5, collecting 21 hits. Sam Rice and Buddy Myer each have four hits and four runs as every hitter in the lineup hits a safety. Winning pitcher Lloyd Brown scores three runs.
- 1931
- For the second time in his career, Jim Bottomley has six hits in six at bats, as the Cards defeat Pittsburgh 16 - 2 on 23 hits. In the opener, Bottomley contributes four hits, but St. Louis loses to the Bucs, 5 - 4.
- The Cubs edge the Reds, 3 - 2 at Wrigley Field, when Leo Durocher boots a ground ball hit by Kiki Cuyler. It ends a string of 251 errorless chances in 53 games for Durocher.
- Detroit P Tommy Bridges has a brush with baseball immortality when he retires the first 26 Washington Senators to face him, before surrendering a hit to pinch hitter Dave Harris. The Tigers win the game, 13 - 0.
- 1933 - Browns OF Sammy West equals the major-league record with four extra-base hits in a 12-inning, 10 - 9 win over the White Sox. He hits one double, two triples, and a home run.
- 1934 - While three teammates stand watching, a fly ball by Jimmie Foxx drops for a double, the only hit given up by Lefty Gomez in the 3 - 1 win by the Yankees over the A's.
- 1935 - In a rain-soaked game between the Yankees and the Red Sox, Lou Gehrig leaves in the 4th inning with another lumbago attack. The teams engage in stalling and hurry-up tactics, and American League President John Heydler fines managers Joe Cronin and Joe McCarthy $100 each.
- 1938 - Forty-year-old Browns P Fred "Cactus" Johnson wins his first major-league game since 1923. He won 252 minor leagues games in his career.
- 1940 - In a rain-shortened 4 - 0 victory over the Tigers, Silent John Whitehead of the St. Louis Browns pitches a six-inning no-hitter. It will be the quiet Texan's only victory this season.
- 1942 - White Sox 1B Don Kolloway's two-out steal of home in the 5th inning is the only run of the game against Tiger lefty Hal Newhouser. Sore-armed Thornton Lee is the winner. There are seven games played today, and five end in shutouts.
- 1945 - The Cubs bang out 22 hits in the first game of a pair to overwhelm the Reds, 12 - 5. Stan Hack has three doubles and a single, and Phil Cavarretta has four hits. The Cubs take the nitecap, 2 - 1, behind Claude Passeau's six-hitter. Chicago has won 17 of their last 18 games.
- 1946 - Mickey Owen quits his Mexican League team. He and Luis Olmo will ask Commissioner Happy Chandler for reinstatement in three days.
- 1947 - Orlando Moreno of Big Spring (Longhorn League) goes hitless, ending his consecutive game hitting streak at 43 games.
- 1948 - Dodger Gene Hermanski hits three successive home runs to offset six Brooklyn errors as the Dodgers beat the Cubs, 6 - 4. The win moves the Dodgers into second place. Carl Erskine starts his first game and earns his third win.
- 1950 - Jim Hearn gives up a leadoff single to Bob Dillinger, then throttles the Pirates the rest of the way for a 5 - 0 win at the Polo Grounds. It is his second win since joining the Giants on July 10th.
- 1952 - Danny Menendez, the owner of the Toledo Mud Hens, is indicted and charged with cheating three fans out of $1,700 worth of tickets after he failed to keep his promise of keeping the team in Ohio until the end of the season. Menendez moved them to Charleston, WV, midway through the season, where they became the Charleston Senators, and kept the proceeds from 38,000 extra seat sales.
- 1953
- St. Louis Browns pitcher Don Larsen goes 3 for 3 and establishes a record for consecutive hits by a pitcher with seven. The rookie hurler will hit .284 in 81 at bats this season.
- Ben Flowers of the Red Sox shuts out the Browns 5 - 0 in his first major league start.
- 1955 - After playing 274 straight games at 2B, Nellie Fox is given a day off by White Sox manager Marty Marion. Fox will come back the next day and play in 798 consecutive games.
- 1957 - The Brooklyn Sports Authority gets an engineering report on a 50,000-seat stadium in the downtown area. It will cost an estimated $20.7 million, including the land site. Indications are that there will be trouble finding a market for the bond issue.
- 1959
- The Senators lose 7 - 3, their 18th loss in a row, before Tex Clevenger shuts out the Indians in the nitecap, 9 - 0.
- Mickey Mantle breaks up a scoreless pitching duel between Detroit's Don Mossi and Bobby Shantz by belting an 8th-inning homer with one on. New York wins at home, 3 - 0.
- Willie McCovey hits two home runs and Willie Mays another as the Giants whip the Braves' Bob Buhl, 4 - 1, to move into first place.
- 1960:
- In a game described by Pirate shortstop Dick Groat as "the greatest I ever played in," and by veteran Forbes Field observer Les Biederman as "probably the most thrilling spectacle ever witnessed by the greater portion of the 33,304 wild-eyed fans," the World Series-bound Bucs buttress their first-place margin over Milwaukee by pulling out a 1 - 0 win over the fifth-place Giants. The game's only run comes in the 8th inning, with Pirate centerfielder Bill Virdon scoring from first on an errant throw by pitcher Sam Jones. But it's the non-scoring plays that are most spectacular: for the Giants, Willie Mays nips a 7th-inning Bucs uprising in the bud with a brilliant throw to cut down Don Hoak going first to third. However, it's the Pirates' Vinegar Bend Mizell who's the chief beneficiary of this game's defensive prowess: the "Say Hey Kid" himself is robbed of a sure extra-base hit by Roberto Clemente in a terrifying catch and crash that knocks the Pirates' right fielder out of the game and out of the lineup for a week as he smashes face-on into the concrete base of the right-centerfield stands, at the 395-foot mark, and collapses on the dirt warning track. Five stitches are required to close a laceration on his chin, and his left knee is sorely damaged. An inning before that, Virdon makes a tremendous running grab of Felipe Alou's bomb to the distant left center light tower, and, in the 8th, Virdon makes what Biederman will describe as "the play of the season," coming close to making a leaping grab of Andre Rodgers' drive to the 406-foot mark in left center, then recovering almost instantly to make a strong, accurate throw to 3B Hoak. Out by a mile is Rodgers, making an ill-advised, two-out try for third.
- 1964:
- After weeks of negotiating, Ford Frick tells the league presidents and club owners he will not run for another term as commissioner.
- "Roberto Clemente scores 2 knockouts: Drysdale in 8, Dodgers in 9." Clemente's 9th-inning liner over the head of second baseman Nate Oliver, his third hit of the game, brings home Gene Alley with the winning run. Visiting beat writer Frank Finch reports: "The crowd of 11,071 figured L.A. had won another one when the Californians reeled off six straight hits with two out in the 6th to take a 3 - 1 lead, but starter Don Drysdale and reliever Ron Perranoski failed to contain the battling Buccos down the stretch. After pitching his way out of several earlier jams, Drysdale was yanked in the 8th when Bill Virdon singled and reached third on Clemente's double. Perranoski (4-6) came in to whiff the dangerous Jerry Lynch, then wild-pitched Virdon across the plate… Perranoski gave up a score-tying home run to Jim Pagliaroni in the last of the 9th and a single to Ducky Schofield to set the stage for Roberto Clemente's game-winning single."
- 1967 - Team USA wins the 1967 Pan American Games, their only baseball Gold Medal in the Pan American Games. The USA edges Cuba, 2 - 1, as Ray Blosse outduels Manuel Alarcón. After a 9th-inning rain delay, George Greer singles in pitcher Blosse with the winning run.
- 1969
- Willie Stargell becomes the first player to hit a home run completely out of Dodger Stadium. The 512-foot, 7th-inning, bases-empty blast breaks a 3 - 3 tie, helping the Pirates defeat Los Angeles, 11 - 3. The 2,500th career hit of Roberto Clemente and a two-run homer from Bill Mazeroski figure prominently in Pittsburgh's seven-run 9th inning. Taking a no-decision in what will prove to be his final Major League appearance is Dodger starter Don Drysdale, pitching with a torn rotator cuff, which, despite assurances that it is "something I'm going to have to learn to pitch with," will lead to his retirement within less than a week.
- Consecutive home runs in the 5th by Dave Marshall, Ron Hunt, and Bobby Bonds highlight the first of two San Francisco wins at Philadelphia. SF wins the first, 6 - 2, and then the second game, 5 - 3, to regain first place in the National League West by one-half game.
- 1971 - The Pirates power to a 7 - 2 win at Montreal, but lose 3B Jose Pagan when his arm is fractured by a pitch in the 5th by John Strohmayer. He will return to be a World Series hero. Pagan, Willie Stargell and Al Oliver homer for the Bucs and Gene Alley adds two triples.
- 1972 - Tiger shortstop Ed Brinkman commits an error, ending his major league record of 72 games and 331 total chances without making a misplay.
- 1973 - Braves knuckleballer Phil Niekro no-hits the Padres, 9 - 0, and improves his record to 11-4. He walks three and strikes out four in recording the first no-hitter by the franchise in Atlanta. Ralph Garr has three hits, three runs, and a steal, and Paul Casanova records an inside-the-park homer on a long fly ball missed by LF Gene Locklear.
- 1974 - In the top of the 9th inning at Dodger Stadium, during an ABC Monday Night telecast of the Reds-Dodger game, Alex Stein, 19, and his tiny Whippet, Ashley, dash onto the field and begin lofting spectacular Frisbee tosses. The crowd roars and the two are caught on NBC cameras, initiating a Frisbee craze. Stein, who snuck his dog into the stadium, is arrested when he leaves the field.
- 1975
- The first seven Phillies hit safely, good for 15 bases, against Bill Bonham (10-8) and the Cubs, in setting a major league record. No pitcher had ever started a game by allowing seven straight hits. Dave Cash leads off with a single, and Larry Bowa matches it. Garry Maddox homers over the LF fence. Greg Luzinski singles, and Jay Johnstone and Tommy Hutton follow with doubles to make it 5 - 0. Mike Schmidt then hits his 22nd homer to finally drive Bonham out of the game. His replacement, Ken Crosby, making his major league debut, gives up a single to Johnny Oates for the eighth straight hit. Dick Ruthven lays down a sacrifice bunt for the first out, but three walks, two hits and a balk make it 10 - 0. The Phils last scored ten runs in a frame on August 13, 1948. Schmidt adds a second homer to help push the final score to 13 - 5.
- Red Sox pitcher Roger Moret, scheduled to pitch today, crashes his car in Connecticut at 4:30 a.m. He's okay and starts, but his Red Sox lose to the Orioles and Jim Palmer, 3 - 0.
- 1979
- The Red Sox demolish the Brewers in a doubleheader, 7 - 2 and 19 - 5. The Sox amass 27 hits in the second game, and are the first team in 30 years to score in eight innings. The only inning in which they fail to score is the 4th, when the first two batters reach base. The scoring deluge makes it easy for manager Don Zimmer, who uses three relief pitchers, each tossing three innings. Dutch-born Win Remmerswaal, the middle pitcher, picks up his first major league win.
- Willie Mays, Warren Giles, and Hack Wilson are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
- The Pirates beat the Phillies, 12 - 8, in the first game of a doubleheader. Philadelphia's Greg Luzinski and Pittsburgh's John Milner each hit a grand slam, and Pete Rose collects his 2,427th career single to break Honus Wagner's National League record.
- In an 8 - 1 win over the Giants, Dodger right-hander Don Sutton becomes the team's all-time strikeout leader with his 2,487th career strikeout.
- In pre-game ceremonies at Wrigley Field, announcer Jack Brickhouse is honored. Today's broadcast is his 5,000th television broadcast of a game.
- 1980 - Expos manager Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game, 11 - 5 over the Mets at Olympic Stadium. He is third in wins among active managers behind Gene Mauch and Earl Weaver. The Expos overcome the offense of Doug Flynn, who ties the modern major-league record with three triples. It was last done in the National League by Ernie Banks, in 1966.
- 1983 - American League president Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees manager Billy Martin for the second time this season because of continuing abuse of umpires. Martin is suspended for two games for calling umpire Dale Ford "a stone liar" after a July 31st game with the White Sox. He earned a three-game suspension earlier this year for kicking dirt on umpire Drew Coble.
- 1984
- Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits his 19th career pinch-hit home run, breaking a major league record shared with Jerry Lynch. His round-tripper gives Toronto a 4 - 3 victory over the Orioles.
- The Royals sweep two from the first-place Tigers, winning, 5 - 4 and 5 - 0, in the first of three straight doubleheaders for Detroit. Kansas City takes the opener when Dane Iorg bloops a double over Ruppert Jones's head in left. Charlie Leibrandt wins the nitecap with relief help from Dan Quisenberry in the 9th.
- Frank Robinson, who has led his club to a 42-64 record, is fired as manager of the Giants and is replaced by Danny Ozark.
- 1985 - Darryl Strawberry belts three home runs in helping to beat the Cubs, 7 - 2, and puts the Mets into first place in the National League East.
- 1986
- At Candlestick Park, Reds center fielder Eric Davis becomes the 4,000th strikeout victim of Giants southpaw Steve Carlton. The historic whiff occurs in the 3rd inning with two runners on base and no outs in the Reds' eventual 11 - 6 victory.
- After Detroit wins the opener, 6 - 5, the second game starts off with Detroit's first two hitters - Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell - belting homers off Cleveland's Jose Roman. It is the third time in a month this has occurred. Whitaker hits another as Detroit wins the shootout, 11 - 9.
- 1990 - Hall of Fame induction ceremonies for Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan are rained out in Cooperstown, NY. The ceremony will be conducted the following day at a local high school.
- 1992 - Oakland A's outfielder Jose Canseco is walked for the seventh consecutive time in the span of two games to tie a major league record.
- 1994
- Atlanta 1B Fred McGriff hits a home run in the Braves' 16 - 6 win over Cincinnati, making him only the ninth major leaguer in history to hit 30 or more homers in seven consecutive seasons.
- At the Astrodome, Jeff Bagwell establishes a new club record for home runs. The Houston first baseman hits number 38, a 5th-inning two-out, two-run homer, off reliever Pat Gomez as the Astros blast the Giants, 12 - 4.
- Baltimore P Ben McDonald one-hits Milwaukee, winning by a score of 4 - 0. McDonald fans nine and walks four in his masterpiece, allowing only a 4th-inning single to Dave Nilsson.
- 1995
- The Dodgers beat the Giants, 3 - 0, behind the one-hit pitching of Hideo Nomo. Royce Clayton's single is the only San Francisco hit, as Los Angeles keeps pace with division-leading Colorado, 3 1/2 games behind the Rockies in the National League West.
- Atlanta's Marquis Grissom gets five singles to lead the Braves to a 9 - 6 triumph over the Expos, increasing the team's lead over second-place Philadelphia to 1 1/2 games in the NL East.
- 1996 - The Orioles score six runs in the 8th inning to take a 13 - 3 lead over the Indians. After scoring one run in their half of the inning, Cleveland comes back with six of their own in the 9th, but falls three short and loses, 13 - 10. Chris Hoiles drives home four runs for the Orioles.
- 1997
- The Red Sox pound out 24 hits, including four home runs, in defeating the Rangers, 17 - 1. Nomar Garciaparra is 4 for 7 with a homer and two doubles and Troy O'Leary homers twice into the upper deck.
- In New York, Houston's Darryl Kile cops his ninth straight decision despite allowing two home runs to John Olerud. Houston hangs on to win, 11 - 8. Kile (16-3) allows eight runs and ten hits in seven innings.
- 1998 - In Houston's 5 - 3 loss to Florida, Craig Biggio sits out, ending his streak of 494 consecutive games played.
- 1999 - Mark McGwire hits his 500th career home run off Padres' hurler Andy Ashby, becoming the 16th major leaguer and the fastest to reach this milestone. The St. Louis slugger is first to accomplish the feat a year after reaching the 400 home run plateau.
- 2000 - Sammy Sosa becomes the first Cubs player to reach 100 RBIs six consecutive times. Hack Wilson did it for five straight seasons from 1926 to 1930.
- 2001
- Dave Winfield, Kirby Puckett, Bill Mazeroski, and Negro League star Hilton Smith are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
- Trailing the Mariners, 14 - 2, the Indians, score 12 times beginning in the 7th inning to tie the score. Cleveland will win the game in the 11th inning, 15 - 14 making it the third time (after the 1911 Tigers and 1925 A's) a team has won after being behind by 12 runs.
- Detroit falls to Oakland by a score of 5 - 1. In doing so, the Tigers tie a major league record by scoring only one run in their fifth consecutive game. The last of the seven teams who did so were the 1968 Los Angeles Dodgers.
- 2002 - In a make-up game against the Angels, the Tigers host "Silent Night". The fans hear no electronic, video and commercial enhancements during Detroit's 6 - 3 loss to Anaheim at Comerica Park.
- 2005 - Albert Pujols becomes the first player to connect for 30 home runs in each of his first five big league seasons. The St. Louis Cardinals first baseman has hit 190 homers during this five-year span from the start of his career, equaling Eddie Mathews' total (1952-1956) and with 25 fewer than Ralph Kiner (1946-1950).
- 2007:
- Tom Glavine becomes the 23rd pitcher and fifth left-hander to win 300 games in the major leagues with an 8 - 3 victory over the Cubs. Glavine allows two runs in 6 1/3 innings for his tenth win of the year against six losses and helps his cause with a single, walk and RBI. Kerry Wood appears for the Cubs, his first major league appearance in over a year.
- Ryan Braun hits his 20th home run in the majors; it comes in his 64th game. This makes him the quickest Milwaukee Brewers player to 20 career homers. Bill Schroeder, with 94 games, held the old record.
- 2009:
- Mets rookie P Jonathon Niese sustains a season-ending groin injury covering first base in the 2nd inning of a start against St. Louis. His replacement, Nelson Figueroa, pitches 4 2/3 scoreless innings and hits a two-run triple in a 9 - 0 win.
- Jim Thome hits two homers, including a three-run blast off Darren Oliver in the 6th, to pace the White Sox to a 6 - 2 win over the Angels. It is the 44th multi-homer game of Thome's career; with 561 round-trippers, he is only two behind Reggie Jackson for 12th place on the all-time list.
- 2010:
- In the early hours of the morning, the group led by Nolan Ryan and Chuck Greenberg is confirmed as the winning bidder in the court-ordered auction of the Texas Rangers, part of the bankruptcy proceedings for owner Tom Hicks's sports properties group. The winning bid, valued at $385 million in cash, beats one from Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association; its total value reaches $593 million when the portion of Hicks's debts assumed by the new owners is taken into account.
- A routine pop-up by Jason Kubel with two outs in the 9th hits a catwalk high above Tropicana Field and lands safely behind the pitcher's mound to give Minnesota the lead on its way to an 8 - 6 win. The freak hit negates a six-run comeback by the Rays in the 8th, capped by Jason Bartlett's pinch grand slam. After the loss, manager Joe Maddon lets out his frustration with his home ballpark: "There's a crying need for a real baseball field to be built", he tells the St. Petersburg Times.
- 2011 - The Yankees and Red Sox, tied atop the AL East standings, meet for a three-game series at Fenway Park. New York takes the opener, 3 - 2, thanks a to a big performance by its bullpen. After starter Bartolo Colon comes out in the 5th, with his team trailing, 2 - 0, five relievers pitch 4 1/3 scoreless innings and the Yanks score three runs in the top of the 6th off Jon Lester for the win. Nick Swisher drives in the winning run with a double, Boone Logan is the winner and Mariano Rivera picks up the save.
- 2012:
- The Tigers rally for five runs with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning to pull out a 10 - 8 win over the Indians. Cleveland leads, 8 - 5, with two outs and nobody on in the 10th when Chris Perez opens the floodgates by walking Alex Avila and Andy Dirks. Austin Jackson doubles in a run and Omar Infante follows with a two-run single that ties the game. Miguel Cabrera then hits his 27th homer to cap the wild win. Darin Downs earns his first major league victory.
- A.J. Pierzynski hits a home run for the fifth consecutive game, belting a pinch-hit two-run shot off Jason Isringhausen in the 7th inning to put the White Sox ahead, and Chicago defeats the Angels, 4 - 2.
- 2013 - Major League Baseball hands out 13 suspensions in the Biogenesis Laboratories scandal, in one of the largest disciplinary actions in major league history. Alex Rodriguez is suspended for 211 games - until the end of the 2014 season - but decides to appeal, the only one of the 13 to do so. Seven major leaguers are handed 50-game suspensions that effectively end their season, while five minor leaguers are also disciplined. Ironically, Rodriguez plays his first game of the season for the Yankees following off-season hip surgery; he goes 1 for 4 and is mercilessly booed as New York goes down, 8 - 1, in Chicago.
- 2014 - Highly touted prospect Javier Baez homers in his major league debut for the Cubs, leading off the 12th inning against Boone Logan of the Rockies, to lead his team to a 6 - 5 win.
- 2018 - The Red Sox complete a four-game sweep of the Yankees thanks a stunning 9th-inning comeback against closer Aroldis Chapman who allows three runs by walking the bases loaded with two outs, then allows a two-run single to J.D. Martinez and sees the tying run score on an error by 3B Miguel Andujar. Andrew Benintendi then gives Boston a 5 - 4 win with a run-scoring single in the 10th. Boston now has a lead of 9 1/2 games after the two teams were neck-and-neck until late June.
- 2019 - With a 9th-inning single, Jonathan Villar of the Orioles hits for the cycle, although he is unaware of his feat until first base coach Arnie Beyeler tells him why the fans are cheering inordinately, given the O's are about to lose, 9 - 6 to the Yankees. In the game, the Orioles set a record by allowing multiple homers - five in this case - for the tenth straight game, something never done before. Ironically, barely a week earlier, they had set a record by becoming the first team to hit multiple homers in ten straight games!
- 2021 - Team USA is headed to the Olympic Gold Medal Game for the first time in 21 years, beating South Korea, 7 - 2 at the 2020 Olympics (held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Teenager Eui-lee Lee holds the US to two runs in five innings, one a mammoth homer by Jamie Westbrook, but five relievers are called on in the 6th when the US scores five times. Jack López drives in two for the US while Hye-seong Kim goes 3 for 3 in a losing cause. Ryder Ryan gets the win in relief of Joe Ryan.
- 2022 - The Czech Republic goes to the title game of a European Women's Championship for the first time, beating the Netherlands, 24 - 9, in the semifinals, with four runs apiece from Kristýna El Ghannam and Petra Kolkusová and three shutout innings from Karolína Blažková (whose three-run homer is the first homer ever in a European Women's Championship). In the other semifinal game, host France (the defending champs who will go on to win the title this year) trails newcomer Great Britain, 12 - 6, after five but rallies after Claury Scatliffe is relieved. Léna Sellam singles in Emma Patry with the winner to complete the comeback.
- 2023 - A brawl breaks out in the 6th inning of today's game between Cleveland and Chicago when José Ramírez of the Guardians slides head-first into second base and is tagged hard by White Sox SS Tim Anderson. The two come to blows and chaos breaks lose as a total of six players and coaches, including both protagonists and both managers, are ejected. Incidentally, Chicago wins the game, 7 - 4.
Births[edit]
- 1856 - Hiraoka Hiroshi, Japanese Hall of Fame member (d. 1934)
- 1861 - Ed Coughlin, pitcher/outfielder (d. 1952)
- 1865 - Bob Langsford, infielder (d. 1907)
- 1867 - Jacob Ruppert, owner; Hall of Fame (d. 1939)
- 1872 - Doc Adkins, pitcher (d. 1934)
- 1881 - Shigeru Ohta, writer; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1940)
- 1889 - Ralph McConnaughey, pitcher (d. 1966)
- 1890 - Hal Irelan, infielder (d. 1944)
- 1891 - Yancy Davis, minor league outfielder (d. 1972)
- 1892 - Fred Ostendorf, pitcher (d. 1965)
- 1893 - Jack Harper, pitcher (d. 1927)
- 1897 - Sam Cooper, pitcher (d. ????)
- 1899 - Sam Gibson, pitcher (d. 1983)
- 1899 - Slim McGrew, pitcher (d. 1967)
- 1904 - Vic Frazier, pitcher (d. 1977)
- 1905 - Ray Pepper, outfielder (d. 1996)
- 1913 - Fabian Gaffke, outfielder (d. 1992)
- 1914 - Bob Daughters, pinch runner (d. 1988)
- 1914 - Sonny Boy Jeffries, pitcher (d. 1995)
- 1915 - Bill Randall, outfielder (d. 2013)
- 1915 - Charley Suche, pitcher (d. 1984)
- 1916 - Leamon Johnson, infielder
- 1919 - Pepper Bassett, catcher; All-Star (d. 1981)
- 1919 - Buddy Gremp, infielder (d. 1995)
- 1920 - Francisco Fletes, Nicaraguan national team infielder
- 1920 - Eddie Lukon, outfielder (d. 1996)
- 1920 - Wilbur Snapp, musician (d. 2003)
- 1921 - Ebba St. Claire, catcher (d. 1982)
- 1924 - Rube Novotney, catcher (d. 1987)
- 1924 - Eddie Yuhas, pitcher (d. 1986)
- 1925 - Tony Jacobs, pitcher (d. 1980)
- 1926 - Larry Geracioti, college coach]] (d. 2012)
- 1927 - Rocky Krsnich, infielder (d. 2019)
- 1931 - Jim Campbell, minor league infielder (d. 2008)
- 1931 - Leon Carter, minor league infielder (d. 2018)
- 1935 - Jack McCartan, US national team infielder
- 1937 - Ossie Chavarria, infielder
- 1937 - Bill Pleis, pitcher
- 1937 - Dwight Siebler, pitcher (d. 2021)
- 1939 - Tommie Aaron, infielder (d. 1984)
- 1943 - Nelson Briles, pitcher (d. 2005)
- 1944 - Tim Hill Sr., college coach (d. 2015)
- 1947 - Bernie Carbo, outfielder
- 1951 - Mardie Cornejo, pitcher
- 1953 - Rick Bosetti, outfielder
- 1953 - Jesus de la Rosa, pinch hitter
- 1953 - John Hale, outfielder
- 1953 - Rick Mahler, pitcher (d. 2005)
- 1955 - Sang-yeol Park, KBO pitcher
- 1956 - Dave Edler, infielder
- 1956 - Dave Rozema, pitcher
- 1956 - Takanori Yamauchi, NPB pitcher
- 1958 - Reid Nichols, outfielder
- 1959 - Bob Long, umpire
- 1960 - Jin-wook Kim, KBO pitcher and manager
- 1962 - Jeff Perry, minor league pitcher
- 1963 - Ronald Tiffer, Nicaraguan national team coach
- 1964 - Armando Valdez, minor league pitcher
- 1966 - Jerry Nielsen, pitcher
- 1967 - Steve Gasser, minor league pitcher
- 1967 - Kwang-nam Na, KBO outfielder
- 1968 - Jay Franklin, minor league pitcher
- 1968 - John Olerud, infielder; All-Star
- 1969 - Marcos Armas, infielder
- 1969 - Kenichi Wakatabe, NPB pitcher
- 1971 - Carlos Pulido, pitcher (d. 2023)
- 1972 - John Wasdin, pitcher
- 1973 - Giel ten Bosch, Hoofdklasse infielder
- 1973 - Josh Brinkley, minor league infielder (d. 2003)
- 1973 - Randy Warner, minor league infielder
- 1975 - Clint Balgera, minor league outfielder
- 1975 - Soo-kwan Kim, KBO infielder
- 1976 - Gavin Fingleson, minor league infielder
- 1976 - Bobby Kielty, outfielder
- 1976 - Kyle Leon, minor league outfielder
- 1977 - Eric Hinske, infielder
- 1977 - Stanislav Lemtyuzhnikov, Russian national team outfielder
- 1977 - Mark Mulder, pitcher; All-Star
- 1977 - Al Ready, college coach
- 1978 - Refugio Cervantes, minor league infielder
- 1978 - Jamal Strong, outfielder
- 1979 - Brandon Chaves, minor league infielder
- 1981 - Carl Crawford, outfielder; All-Star
- 1981 - Philip Gajzler, Elitserien outfielder
- 1981 - Tripp Gibson, umpire
- 1981 - Jad Prachniak, college coach
- 1981 - Peter Soteropoulos, minor league pitcher
- 1982 - Kin-Chung Tsang, Hong Kong national team infielder
- 1984 - Sean Kazmar, infielder
- 1985 - Travis Denker, infielder
- 1986 - Cheng-Wei Chang, CPBL outfielder
- 1986 - Tyler Herron, minor league pitcher (d. 2021)
- 1987 - Tim Federowicz, catcher
- 1987 - Jose Ortegano, minor league pitcher
- 1988 - Evan Crawford, minor league outfielder
- 1988 - Carlos Mancheno, Ecuadorian national team pitcher
- 1989 - Chase Bradford, pitcher
- 1989 - Guido Knudson, pitcher
- 1990 - Nick Martinez, pitcher
- 1991 - Andrew Bellatti, pitcher
- 1991 - Ben Heller, pitcher
- 1992 - Domingo Santana, outfielder
- 1994 - Aaron Cox, minor league pitcher (d. 2018)
- 1994 - Jonathan Mottay, French Division I pitcher
- 1994 - Brian Ortiz, Puerto Rican national team outfielder
- 1994 - Collin Woody, minor league infielder
- 1996 - Riski Moehammad Adjhari, Indonesian national team designated hitter
- 1996 - Chetna Sharma, Indian women's national team infielder
- 1997 - Braxton Garrett, pitcher
- 1998 - Rongji Liang, Chinese national team outfielder
- 1998 - Tobias Myers, pitcher
- 2000 - Rene Bodalec, Croatian national team catcher
- 2000 - Luis Guerrero, pitcher
- 2001 - Rikuto Yokoyama, NPB pitcher
Deaths[edit]
- 1896 - Ben Stephens, pitcher (b. 1867)
- 1911 - Bob Caruthers, outfielder, manager (b. 1864)
- 1922 - Tommy McCarthy, outfielder, manager; Hall of Famer (b. 1863)
- 1929 - Tony Brottem, catcher (b. 1891)
- 1932 - Ducky Holmes, outfielder (b. 1869)
- 1940 - Ed Bruyette, outfielder (b. 1874)
- 1955 - Norm Glockson, catcher (b. 1894)
- 1955 - Wilbert Pritchett, pitcher (b. 1897)
- 1956 - Paddy Siglin, infielder (b. 1891)
- 1960 - George Chalmers, pitcher (b. 1888)
- 1963 - Herb Crompton, catcher (b. 1911)
- 1964 - Ed Coleman, outfielder (b. 1901)
- 1969 - Ralph Caldwell, pitcher (b. 1884)
- 1969 - Verdo Elmore, outfielder (b. 1899)
- 1972 - Red McKee, catcher (b. 1890)
- 1975 - Bill Morrell, pitcher (b. 1893)
- 1978 - Jesse Haines, pitcher; Hall of Famer (b. 1893)
- 1982 - John Chisum, infielder (b. 1915)
- 1987 - Jocko Conlon, infielder (b. 1897)
- 1988 - Ralph Michaels, infielder (b. 1902)
- 1989 - Max Macon, pitcher (b. 1915)
- 1992 - Jim Marquis, pitcher (b. 1900)
- 1992 - Lefty Wilkie, pitcher (b. 1914)
- 2002 - Willis Hudlin, pitcher (b. 1906)
- 2002 - Darrell Porter, catcher; All-Star (b. 1952)
- 2005 - Cal Hogue, pitcher (b. 1927)
- 2007 - Al Salerno, umpire (b. 1931)
- 2011 - Frank Ensley, minor league outfielder (b. 1927)
- 2011 - Mitchell Gegax, minor league pitcher (b. 1930)
- 2011 - Neil MacCarl, writer (b. 1927)
- 2012 - Tommy Cantrell, minor league player (b. 1936)
- 2013 - Alfonso Estrada, Nicaraguan national team catcher (b. ~1920)
- 2018 - John Ginter, author (b. ~1950)
- 2018 - Bob Sadowski, pitcher (b. 1938)
- 2020 - Horace Clarke, infielder (b. 1939)
- 2021 - Vito Valentinetti, pitcher (b. 1928)
- 2022 - Blas Cedeno, minor league pitcher (b. 1972)
- 2024 - Jim Umbarger, pitcher (b. 1953)
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