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Events, births and deaths that occurred on October 3.

Events

• 1890 - Al Johnson, one of the main backers of the Players League, purchases the Cincinnati Reds of the National League with a plan to transfer them to the fledgling circuit. However, the Players League will fold before he can do so, and he will in turn sell the team to John T. Brush, a minority owner of the New York Giants.
• 1897 - Cap Anson closes out a remarkable 27-year career that started in the National Association in 1871. He hits two home runs for the Chicago Colts in the first game of a doubleheader against St. Louis. At age 45, he becomes the oldest player to homer in the majors, a record since surpassed by Jack Quinn (46) and Julio Franco (48).
• 1903 - Deacon Phillippe wins his second start in two days as the Pirates take the lead over Boston in the World Series, two games to one.
• 1904 - Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants strikes out 16 Cardinals in a 3 - 1 Giants victory, which takes only one hour and 15 minutes.
• 1909:
  • With the National League pennant already decided, today's game between the Pirates and Cubs is still remarkable as it is the first time in major league history that two teams with 100 or more wins have met on the field. It will happen again a few times in the postseason in future years, but not in the regular season until the first game of the three-game playoff between the Giants and Dodgers on October 1, 1962.
  • Tigers outfielder Ty Cobb wins the American league Triple Crown, leading both major leagues with a .377 batting average, 9 homers and 107 RBIs.
• 1919 - Rookie pitcher Dickie Kerr throws a three-hit shutout as the Chicago White Sox win, 3 - 0, over the Cincinnati Reds in Game 3 of the World Series. Shoeless Joe Jackson has two hits and Chick Gandil drives in two runs as the White Sox cut Cincinnati's lead to two games to one. Cuban Dolf Luque becomes the first Hispanic player to appear in a World Series game, pitching one inning of relief for the Reds.
• 1920 - In a 16 - 7 win over the White Sox, George Sisler of the St. Louis Browns collects his 257th hit of the season to set a major league record that will last until the 21st century. He also pitches a scoreless 9th inning in relief for St. Louis.
• 1926:
  • After the Yankees score twice in the 2nd inning, Grover Cleveland Alexander sets down the last 21 batters, striking out ten, in Game 2 of the World Series. Billy Southworth and Tommy Thevenow collect three hits each for a 6 - 2 Cardinals win.
  • Thirty years before Don Larsen will accomplish the feat, Claude "Red" Grier of the Atlantic City Bacharach Giants pitches a post-season no-hitter against the Chicago American Giants, walking six and striking out eight in Baltimore's Maryland Park. Grier was shelled in the 2nd inning of Game 2 yesterday, but has no trouble today, winning 10 - 0.
• 1934 - Dizzy Dean wins the opening game of the World Series, 8 - 3. Detroit Tigers manager Mickey Cochrane holds back his ace pitcher, Schoolboy Rowe, and veteran General Crowder is ineffective as Joe Medwick goes 4 for 4, including a home run. The Tigers make five errors.
• 1937 - Johnny Allen's bid for a perfect season is spoiled in 1 - 0 loss to the Tigers as Jake Wade pitches a one-hitter. The Indians pitcher falls one short in his bid to tie Walter Johnson's American League record of 16 straight wins, to finish the season at 15-1.
• 1940 - In the World Series, Jimmy Ripple's two-run home run in the 3rd inning of Game 2 provides the winning margin as the Cincinnati Reds end the National League's ten-game Series losing streak with a 5 - 3 win over the Tigers.
• 1942 - Ernie White of the Cardinals fires a six-hit shutout against the Yankees, besting Spud Chandler, 2 - 0, in Game 3 of the World Series.
• 1945 - The Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs face each other in the World Series for the fourth time. Hank Borowy pitches a six-hitter and Hal Newhouser is demolished with eight runs in three innings as the Cubs win, 9 - 0.
• 1946 - The St. Louis Cardinals win the National League pennant by beating the Brooklyn Dodgers, 8 - 4, and sweeping a best-of-three playoff.
• 1947 - New York Yankees pitcher Bill Bevens holds the Brooklyn Dodgers hitless until two are out in the 9th inning when pinch-hitter Cookie Lavagetto doubles in two runs for a 3 - 2 Brooklyn victory in Game 4 of the World Series.
• 1948 - After taking his position in center field in the bottom of the 8th inning at Fenway Park, Joe DiMaggio is removed from the game by Yankees manager Bucky Harris. As the superstar of their hated rivals limps off the field, the enthusiastic Red Sox crowd of 35,000 gives Joltin’ Joe a lengthy and loud standing ovation, a gesture he will later refer to as one of the greatest thrills of his career.
• 1951 - Bobby Thomson hits a three-run home run off Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers with one out in the bottom of the 9th inning to give the New York Giants a dramatic 5 - 4 playoff victory and the National League pennant. The blast will become known in baseball lore as the Shot Heard 'Round the World.
• 1955 - The Yankees beat the Dodgers, 5 - 1, behind the pitching of Whitey Ford, to force a seventh game in the 1955 World Series.
• 1956 - Sal Maglie and the Brooklyn Dodgers defeat the Yankees, 6 - 3, in the opening game of the World Series.
• 1957 - In Game 2 of the World Series, Lew Burdette wins the first of his three decisions against the Yankees. Burdette and the Milwaukee Braves beat Bobby Shantz, 4 - 2.
• 1962 - The San Francisco Giants rally for four runs in the 9th inning to win the third game of the tie-breaking playoffs, 6 - 4, over the Los Angeles Dodgers and move on to the World Series.
• 1963 - The Dodgers win Game 2 of the World Series, 4 - 1, as Johnny Podres defeats Al Downing. Ron Perranoski records the final two outs for the save as the Yankees score their only run in the 9th - one of only four they will score all series. The Dodgers score twice before a single out is recorded in the top of the 1st, as Maury Wills singles and steals second, Jim Gilliam singles and takes second on an error, and Willie Davis drives them both in with a double. Bill Skowron adds a solo homer against his former team in the 4th.
• 1965 - Bob Gibson beats Houston, 5 - 2, to win 20 games for the first time.
• 1966 - Tigers GM James Campbell announces former Reds and Phillies skipper Mayo Smith will replace the late Chuck Dressen, the team's manager who died in August following a heart attack. Bob Swift, a Detroit coach who had been named to fill the position on an interim basis, was unable to complete the season, after being diagnosed with lung cancer. Sadly, he too will pass away in a couple of weeks.
• 1968 - In Game 2 of the World Series, Mickey Lolich of the Detroit Tigers ties the Series 1-1. Lolich pitches a six-hitter and hits his first (and only) major league home run to defeat the Cardinals, 8 - 1.
• 1970 - Mike Cuellar becomes the first pitcher to homer in a League Championship Series game, hitting a grand slam off Jim Perry as the Orioles score seven times against the Twins in the 4th inning. However, he fails to pitch five innings and the Birds hang on for a 10 - 6 win in Game 1 of the ALCS as Dick Hall pitches 4 2/3 scoreless innings in relief.
• 1971:
  • Bob Robertson hits three home runs to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 9 - 4 trouncing of the San Francisco Giants, which ties the National League Championship Series at 1-1.
  • In Baltimore, Dave McNally pitches seven innings and the Orioles score four times off Vida Blue in the bottom of the 7th, highlighted by back-to-back doubles by Curt Motton and Paul Blair, to defeat the Athletics, 5 - 3, in Game 1 of the ALCS. Eddie Watt pitches the final two innings for the save in what is the first postseason game for the A's since they played in the 1931 World Series as the Philadelphia Athletics.
• 1972 - Roric Harrison homers as Baltimore beats Cleveland, 4 - 3, in the second game of a doubleheader. With the designated hitter rule on the horizon, it will be the last home run hit by an American League pitcher until interleague play 25 years later.
• 1974 - Frank Robinson becomes the first black manager in the major leagues, as the Cleveland Indians name him to replace Ken Aspromonte for the 1975 season.
• 1976:
  • Hank Aaron singles in his last major-league at bat and drives in his 2,297th run as the sixth-place Brewers lose to the Tigers, 5 - 2.
  • Kansas City's George Brett edges his Royals teammate Hal McRae (.333 vs .332) for the American League batting crown. There is some controversy as Brett hits an inside-the-park homer in the 9th on what most people feel was a routine fly ball that Twins left fielder Steve Brye doesn't try hard enough to catch. McRae follows by grounding out, ending his chances for the title.
• 1981 - The Milwaukee Brewers and Montreal Expos clinch their first-ever postseason appearances. Milwaukee beats Detroit, 2 - 1, to wrap up the second-half title in the AL East, while Montreal defeats the Mets, 5 - 4, to win the NL East's second playoff spot.
• 1982 - Robin Yount hits two home runs and a triple as the Brewers defeat Baltimore, 10 - 2, to win the AL East championship. Don Sutton, 4-1 since being acquired by the Brewers in late August, is the winning pitcher. The Brewers had lost three in a row to Baltimore to make this last game of the season a do-or-die affair.
• 1986 - The Baltimore Orioles lose to Detroit, 6 - 3, assuring the Orioles of their first last-place finish since moving from St. Louis in 1954.
• 1987 - Benito Santiago's 34-game hitting streak, a rookie record, ends as the San Diego Padres snap a nine-game losing streak with a 1 - 0 victory over the Dodgers.
• 1988 - Hal Lanier is fired after three seasons at the helm of the Houston Astros. Having won Manager of the Year honors in 1986, Hal closes his run with a 254-232 record.
• 1990:
  • George Brett of the Kansas City Royals becomes the first player in major league history to win a batting title in three different decades. Brett goes 1 for 1 in Kansas City's 5 - 2 loss to the Cleveland Indians to win the American League batting title with a .329 average. Brett also won AL batting titles in 1976 and 1980.
  • Willie McGee becomes the first major league player to win a batting title in a league in which he didn't finish the season. McGee, who had a .335 average when St. Louis traded him to Oakland on August 28th, wins his second National League batting crown when Eddie Murray of the Dodgers and Dave Magadan of the New York Mets fail to catch him on the season's final day, finishing at .330 and .328 respectively.
• 1993:
  • The Toronto Blue Jays become the first team in American League history to have teammates finish 1-2-3 in the batting race. John Olerud leads the league with a .363 batting average. Paul Molitor finishes at .332 and Roberto Alomar closes the season at .326.
  • The San Francisco Giants need to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers on the final day of the season to force a one-game playoff with the Atlanta Braves for the NL West title, but the Dodgers have other plans. Los Angeles rips the Giants, 12 - 1. At 103-59, San Francisco becomes the first club since the 1954 Yankees to win that many games and not play in the postseason.
  • The expansion Rockies become the fourth National League team, but the only one this century, not to record a shutout during the season.
• 1995 - Tony Peña hits a home run to left field in the 13th inning to give the Indians a 5 - 4 victory over the Boston Red Sox in the first game of their AL division series. It is Cleveland's first postseason victory since the 1948 World Series.
• 1996 - The Devil Rays and Tropicana Dole Beverages of North America, located in nearby Bradenton, FL, announce an agreement that renames the ThunderDome. The ballpark will become known as Tropicana Field with the city of St. Petersburg, FL receiving more than $13 million as part of the sweet deal. The Devil Rays will play their inaugural season there in 1998.
• 1997 - The Atlanta Braves and Florida Marlins both sweep their respective NL Division Series. The Braves, behind a three-hitter by John Smoltz, complete the sweep of Houston with a 4 - 1 win. The Marlins ride a grand slam by Devon White to a 6 - 2 win and sweep of San Francisco.
• 1998 - Houston loses another 2 - 1 heartbreaker to the Padres in Game 3 of the NLDS, having lost Game 1 by the same score. The Astros tie the score on a bases-loaded walk to Craig Biggio in the top of the 7th, only to see Jim Leyritz homer off Scott Elarton in the bottom of the inning.
• 1999:
  • On the final day of the season, Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hits his 65th home run, moving past Ted Williams and Willie McCovey into tenth place on the career list with 522. McGwire finishes with a two-homer edge over Chicago's Sammy Sosa, who hits his 63rd on the same day.
  • The Astros play their last regular season game at the Astrodome and finish in style, defeating the Dodgers, 9 - 4, to clinch the NL West title. Mike Hampton wins his 22nd game of the year.
• 2000 - Against the Braves, Cardinals rookie starter Rick Ankiel sets a modern-day major league record by uncorking five wild pitches in the 3rd inning of Game 1 of the NLDS. The left-hander joins Buffalo's Bert Cunningham, who accomplished the same feat in the 1st inning in an 1890 Players League contest. St. Louis still pulls off the win, 7 - 5.
• 2001 - Barry Bonds breaks Babe Ruth's major league record established in 1923 of 170 bases on balls. he will finish the season with 177 walks, and increase the record to 198 in 2002 and 232 in 2004.
• 2002 - Alex Cabrera hits his 55th home run, tying the Nippon Pro Baseball record set by Sadaharu Oh in 1964 and matched by Tuffy Rhodes in 2001. Cabrera ends the season with 55 homers.
• 2004:
  • The final game in Montreal Expos team history is played away from home, against the New York Mets at Shea Stadium. New York defeats Montreal, 8 - 1. Jamey Carroll scores the final Expos run and Endy Chavez becomes the final Expos batter when he grounds out in the top of the 9th to end the game. Ironically, it was at Shea Stadium that the Expos played their first ever game in 1969.
  • Blue Jays television announcer John Cerutti is found dead in his SkyDome hotel room.
• 2005 - The ax begins to fall as two managers are fired the day after the season ends. Jim Tracy and Alan Trammell are fired by the Dodgers and Tigers, respectively.
• 2007 - Walt Jocketty resigns after 13 seasons as General Manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. During his tenure, the Cardinals reached the postseason seven times and won the 2006 World Series.
• 2008 - Jerry Manuel inks a two-year deal to manage the New York Mets.
• 2009:
  • The Toronto Blue Jays fire General Manager J.P. Ricciardi with one year left on his contract. 32-year-old Alex Anthopoulos, a Canadian who began his career as an unpaid intern with the late Montreal Expos, takes over the job.
  • Minnesota catches up with Detroit atop the AL Central as the Tigers lose, 5 - 1, to the White Sox, and the Twins beat Kansas City, 5 - 4. Michael Cuddyer, hitting .352 with 22 RBI since taking over at 1B for the injured Justin Morneau, hits his 31st homer in the win. Detroit had been in first place since July 24th and had led by as many as seven games.
  • St. Louis first baseman Albert Pujols ties a major league record with his 184th assist of the season. He matches the mark set by Bill Buckner with the Red Sox in 1985. He will finish the year with 185.
• 2011:
  • Detroit takes a two-games-to-one lead in its ALDS with a 5 - 4 win over the Yankees. Justin Verlander gives up two runs in the 1st inning, but then settles down. The Tigers score twice in the 3rd off CC Sabathia, then Jhonny Peralta puts them ahead with an RBI double in the 5th. The Yankees tie the game at 4 in the 7th on Brett Gardner's two-run double, but Delmon Young hits a solo homer off Rafael Soriano in the bottom of the inning to make Verlander a winner.
  • The Rangers take a two games to one lead over the Rays in the other ALDS. Mike Napoli hits a two-run homer off David Price to put Texas ahead, 2 - 1, in the 7th, then Josh Hamilton hits a two-run single to complete a four-run inning. The Rangers' bullpen gives up two late runs, but holds on for a 4 - 3 win. Desmond Jennings hits two homers for the Rays.
• 2012:
  • Miguel Cabrera goes 0 for 2 in a 1 - 0 Tigers win to end the season but still winds up as Major League Baseball's first Triple Crown winner since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967. Cabrera led the American League with a .330 average, 44 homers and 139 RBI. He survives a late charge by Curtis Granderson, who homers twice today to finish at 43.
  • The Oakland A's win their finale, 12 - 5 over Texas, completing a three-game sweep and passing the Rangers for the AL West division title, though Texas does get a Wild Card berth. The other Wild Card goes to the Orioles, as the Yankees win the AL East Division thanks to Baltimore's 4 - 1 loss to the Rays; Evan Longoria hits three homers for Tampa Bay.
  • Dan Johnson goes deep three times for the White Sox. Before Longoria and Johnson had their three-homer days, only two players had ended their team's season with three-homer contests: Gus Zernial and Richie Allen.
• 2013:
  • The Buchbinder Legionaere Regensburg win the Bundesliga-1 title, three games to two, over the Solingen Alligators. Solingen goes up, 5 - 1, after 5 1/2 innings thanks to home runs from Kai Gronauer and Dominik Wulf but Regensburg rallies against André Hughes, with a two-run double by Christopher Howard tying it in the bottom of the 7th. Ludwig Glaser's two-run homer gives Regensburg their last runs in a 9 - 7 win. Matt Vance is named finals MVP.
  • The Cardinals score seven runs in the bottom of the 3rd to run away with Game 1 of the NLDS, 9 - 1 over the Pirates. Carlos Beltran ties Babe Ruth for the second-most postseason homers ever, with his 15th long ball, a monster three-run shot off A.J. Burnett that opens the scoring. Adam Wainwright is the winner.
  • The Dodgers take Game 1 of the other NLDS as Clayton Kershaw strikes out 12 Braves batters in seven innings in a 6 - 1 win. Adrian Gonzalez hits a two-run homer off loser Kris Medlen.
• 2014
  • The Orioles once again victimize the Tigers' bullpen in the 8th inning to win Game 2 of the ALDS, 7 - 6. Trailing 6 - 3, they score four runs against Joba Chamberlain and Joakim Soria after scoring seven off three relievers in the same inning the previous night. The O's now lead the series, two games to none.
  • The Giants tie a National League record with their ninth straight postseason win, dating back to their successful run to the 2012 World Series title, as they defeat the Nationals, 3 - 2, in Game 1 of the first NLDS. The Giants score a pair of early runs off losing pitcher Stephen Strasburg and manage to hold on after rookie reliever Hunter Strickland allows a pair of solo homers to Bryce Harper and Asdrubal Cabrera in the 7th.
  • The Cardinals stun the Dodgers with a 10 - 9 win in the first game of the other NLDS. Leading 6 - 2 and with Clayton Kershaw having allowed only a pair of solo homers through six innings, the Cards put together an eight-run 7th inning, capped by a three-run double by Matt Carpenter off the Dodgers' ace. Los Angeles manages to score three runs over the last two innings, but Yasiel Puig ends the game by striking out against Trevor Rosenthal with the tying run on third base.
  • In the final postseason contest of the day, the Royals take a two-games-to-none lead in their ALDS, once again stunning the Angels, 4 - 1, courtesy of a two-run homer by 1B Eric Hosmer in the 11th. The Royals are the first team to win three straight postseason games in extra innings.
• 2015:
  • Max Scherzer of the Nationals pitches his second no-hitter of the season, 2 - 0 over the Mets, also striking out 17 batters. Only an error by SS Yunel Escobar keeps him from a perfect game. He is only the fifth pitcher, and the first since Nolan Ryan in 1973, to throw two no-hitters in a season, and his game score of 104 is the highest since Kerry Wood's 20-strikeout performance in 1998. The 17 Ks set a new Nationals team record, and tie Ryan's record for most in a no-hitter.
  • The Heidenheim Heideköpfe win their second Baseball-Bundesliga title, topping recent powerhouse Regensburg Legionäre three games to two. Luke Sommer gets the win in the 8 - 7 Game 5 finale in relief of Pete Sikaras, while Gianny Fracchiolla takes the loss. Finals MVP Simon Gühring homers and drives in two today.
  • The K. Deurne Spartans win the Belgian Series, three games to one. They top the Borgerhout Squirrels 4 - 3 in today's contest to wrap it up. It is the first time the Spartans win the First Division title; since 2000's Mortsel Stars victory, every Belgian title had gone to a team that had won it all previously.
• 2016 - On the day after the end of the regular season, the musical chairs of managers begins. The White Sox name bench coach Rick Renteria to succeed Robin Ventura, who resigned a day ago, as their new manager, while the Diamondbacks fire both GM Dave Stewart and manager Chip Hale after a disappointing season. The Rockies also make a move, announcing that Walt Weiss will not return as manager, while the Marlins part ways with Barry Bonds after only one season as their hitting coach.
• 2017 - The postseason opens with the American League Wild Card Game between the Twins and Yankees at New Yankee Stadium. As expected, the Yankees win, 8 - 4, but the game doesn't go according to script: the Twins score three runs in the 1st and chase starter Luis Severino after only one out, after he gives up long balls to Brian Dozier and Eddie Rosario. But the Twins' starter, Ervin Santana, is not any better, as he allows a three-run blast to Didi Gregorius in the bottom of the 1st and is taken out after two innings, having given up another homer to Brett Gardner. The Yankees then win the battle of the bullpens, as their relievers ring up 13 strikeouts in eight innings, while the Yankees continue to score, including a two-run shot by Aaron Judge off Jose Berrios in the 4th.
• 2018:
  • Three days after finishing a historically bad season with just 47 wins, the Orioles dismiss long-time manager Buck Showalter.
  • MLB issues a ruling in the case of Cubs SS Addison Russell, who has been on administrative leave since September 21st following allegations of domestic violence. He is handed a 40-game suspension, retroactive to the start of his leave, with the remainder to be served at the start of the 2019 season.
  • The Yankees defeat the Athletics in the Wild Card Game, 7 - 2, and will now face their arch-enemy, the Red Sox in the Division Series. They take a quick 2 - 0 lead in the 1st against "opener" Liam Hendriks as Aaron Judge homers after a lead-off walk by Andrew McCutchen. After the A's waste a couple of good opportunities to get back in the game in the 4th and 5th innings, the Yanks put the game away with four runs in the 6th, Luke Voit's triple off Blake Treinen being the big blow.
• 2019:
  • The Mets fire manager Mickey Callaway after two rocky seasons at the helm which were more akin to a soap opera than the workings of a contending team.
  • The Dodgers win Game 1 of the NLDS, 6 - 0 over Washington, behind a dominant performance by Walker Buehler who allows just one run in six innings while striking out eight. Max Muncy drives in three runs, while Los Angeles benefits from the Nationals' generosity, drawing seven walks, three of which result in runs.
  • In the other Division Series, the game is tied 3 - 3 in the top of the 9th when St. Louis scores four runs against Braves closer Mark Melancon on two-run doubles by Marcell Ozuna and Kolten Wong. Closer Carlos Martinez makes things interesting in the bottom of the inning by allowing a two-run homer to Ronald Acuna and a solo one to Freddie Freeman before recording the final two outs of a wild 7 - 6 win.
• 2020 - Matt Klentak steps down as General Manager of the Phillies, a few days after the team failed to qualify for the postseason in spite of having the sixth highest payroll in the majors.
• 2021 - The final day of the Major League season brings closure to the remaining undecided races. The Giants defeat the Padres, 11 - 4, to clinch the NL West title, as the Dodgers finish one game behind; their 105 wins are the most ever by a team finishing second, and they will need to put everything on the line in the Wild Card Game, where they will host the Cardinals in a few days. In the American League wild card race, the pressure is on both the Red Sox and Yankees to win as the Blue Jays take a quick and large lead on their way to defeating the Orioles, 12 - 4. The two leaders avoid a one-game playoff against the Jays by scoring the winning run in their respective games in the 9th inning: first the Yankees defeat the Rays, 1 - 0, thanks to Aaron Judge's RBI, then a two-run homer by Rafael Devers provides Boston with a 7 - 5 win over the Nationals, in a game in which they trailed, 5 - 1, at one point. The two long-time rivals finish with identical 92-70 records, but it's the Red Sox who will host the Wild Card Game thanks to their better head-to-head record.
• 2022:
  • The Phillies are the final team to clinch a spot for this year's postseason, with a 3 - 0 win over the Astros at Minute Maid Park behind the combined pitching of Aaron Nola and Zach Eflin. The Phillies had not made it to the postseason since 2011, which was the longest active drought in the majors after the Mariners, whose own drought had lasted a decade longer, clinched a spot a few days earlier.
  • Tony LaRussa officially announces his retirement as manager of the White Sox. He had to step down suddenly on August 31st on orders from his doctors due to concerns over his heart pacemaker, and never returned. Bench coach Miguel Cairo has been guiding the team in the interim.
  • Munetaka Murakami sets a new NPB record for home runs by a Japanese player when he slugs #56 for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows against the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in the last game of the season, breaking a tie with the legendary Sadaharu Oh. He had been stuck at 55 for 61 at-bats after tying Oh's record on September 13th.
• 2023:
  • The 2023 Postseason opens with the Wild Card Series. In the second series in the AL, Texas shuts out Tampa Bay, 4 - 0, behind a great start by Jordan Montgomery, who also turns the game's most spectacular defensive play, diving to catch a bunt. In the first series, Minnesota snaps a record 18-game postseason losing streak dating back to 2004 by defeating the Blue Jays, 3 - 1. Royce Lewis drives in all three runs with a pair of homers.
  • In the first NLWC, Arizona comes back from an early 3 - 0 deficit with three homers off Brewers ace Corbin Burnes and takes Game 1 by a 6 - 3 score. In the other series, Philadelphia rides a solid start by Zack Wheeler to a 4 - 1 Game 1 win over Miami.
• 2024 - Game 3 of the Wild Card Series between the Mets and Brewers starts off as a pitchers duel with José Quintana and Tobias Myers putting up goose eggs for six and five innings respectively. Milwaukee breaks through in the bottom of the 7th with back-to-back solo homers off José Butto by pinch-hitter Jake Bauers and Sal Frelick, but with closer Devin Williams on the mound in the 9th, Pete Alonso hits a three-run homer and the Mets add an insurance run to win, 4 - 2, and move on to the Division Series.

Births

• 1850 - Alexander Nevin, infielder (d. 1921)
• 1866 - Mike Goodfellow, outfielder (d. 1920)
• 1872 - Fred Clarke, outfielder, manager; Hall of Famer (d. 1960)
• 1874 - John Callahan, pitcher (d. 1954)
• 1875 - Tom Maher, pinch-hitter (d. 1947)
• 1877 - Bill Byers, catcher (d. 1948)
• 1880 - Henry Thielman, pitcher (d. 1942)
• 1881 - Phil Reardon, outfielder (d. 1920)
• 1887 - Armando Marsans, outfielder (d. 1960)
• 1890 - Fred House, pitcher (d. 1923)
• 1891 - Jack Richardson, pitcher (d. 1970)
• 1895 - Bert Lewis, pitcher (d. 1950)
• 1900 - Charlie Dorman, catcher (d. 1928)
• 1905 - Red Dorman, outfielder (d. 1974)
• 1905 - Johnny Riddle, catcher (d. 1998)
• 1909 - Johnny Broaca, pitcher (d. 1985)
• 1910 - Bob Bowman, pitcher (d. 1972)
• 1910 - Felix Evans, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1993)
• 1910 - Ewing Waddy, pitcher (d. 1962)
• 1913 - Dom Dallessandro, outfielder (d. 1988)
• 1914 - Woody Wheaton, outfielder (d. 1995)
• 1915 - Joe Lehan, minor league infielder (d. 2013)
• 1915 - Charlie Letchas, infielder (d. 1995)
• 1917 - Frank Kalin, outfielder (d. 1975)
• 1919 - Joe Wood, infielder (d. 1985)
• 1922 - Jake Eisenhart, pitcher (d. 1987)
• 1924 - George Marquette, minor league infielder, college coach (d. 2008)
• 1925 - Chris Haughey, pitcher (d. 2022)
• 1927 - Neil MacCarl, writer (d. 2011)
• 1928 - Bill Harrington, pitcher (d. 2022)
• 1928 - Dave Melton, outfielder (d. 2008)
• 1928 - Joe Menarchek, minor league pitcher (d. 2014)
• 1929 - Nancy Cato, AAGPBL infielder (d. 2012)
• 1930 - Lavoy Hatchett, college coach (d. 2013)
• 1931 - Bob Skinner, outfielder, manager; All-Star
• 1932 - Phil Clark, pitcher (d. 2018)
• 1933 - Yasuhiko Kawai, NPB catcher (d. 1984)
• 1936 - Jack Lamabe, pitcher (d. 2007)
• 1947 - Chuck Scrivener, infielder
• 1949 - Jim Breazeale, infielder
• 1949 - Steve Foucault, pitcher
• 1950 - Salvador Colorado, minor league pitcher; Salon de la Fama (d. 2021)
• 1951 - Dave Winfield, outfielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer
• 1953 - Tamotsu Nagai, NPB pitcher
• 1954 - Dennis Eckersley, pitcher; All-Star, Hall of Famer
• 1954 - Joe Gates, infielder (d. 2010)
• 1954 - Bert Roberge, pitcher
• 1955 - Jim Joyce, umpire
• 1956 - Bob Kearney, catcher
• 1958 - Bob Laurie, scout
• 1958 - Daryl Sconiers, infielder
• 1961 - Hiromasa Fujita, NPB catcher
• 1962 - Rick Surhoff, pitcher
• 1966 - Darrin Fletcher, catcher; All-Star
• 1966 - Scott Taylor, pitcher
• 1967 - Junior Felix, outfielder
• 1967 - Tetsuya Katahira, NPB outfielder
• 1968 - Jim Byrd, pinch runner
• 1968 - Javier Gonzalez, minor league catcher
• 1969 - Ismael Cruz, scout
• 1969 - Seigo Fujishima, NPB outfielder
• 1970 - Roger Bailey, pitcher
• 1970 - Jay Davis, minor league and KBO outfielder
• 1970 - Manny Martinez, outfielder
• 1971 - Adrian Abrahamowicz, college coach (d. 2022)
• 1971 - Wil Cordero, infielder; All-Star
• 1971 - Tim Hyers, infielder
• 1971 - Earl Johnson, minor league outfielder
• 1972 - Hee-bong An, KBO infielder
• 1972 - Ole Drews, Bundesliga outfielder
• 1973 - Brandon Hyde, coach
• 1973 - Alan Phillips, South African national team infielder
• 1973 - Kerry Robinson, outfielder
• 1973 - Danny Wout, Hoofdklasse pitcher
• 1974 - Alex Ramirez, outfielder
• 1975 - Scott Cassidy, pitcher
• 1975 - Mark Du Plessis, South African national team pitcher
• 1975 - Mike Johnson, pitcher
• 1976 - Hideyuki Akao, Japanese national team outfielder
• 1976 - Casey Dunn, college coach
• 1976 - John Sarmiento, Guam national team player
• 1976 - Shih-Chin Tsai, CPBL pitcher
• 1976 - Shih-Fan Tsai, CPBL outfielder
• 1977 - Eric Munson, infielder
• 1977 - Kazuyuki Shirai, NPB umpire
• 1978 - Steve Kent, pitcher
• 1978 - Kris Sutton, minor league pitcher
• 1979 - Jarrett England, scout
• 1980 - Chia-Hung Chen, CPBL infielder
• 1980 - Brent Metheny, minor league infielder
• 1981 - Matt Murton, outfielder
• 1982 - Brett Carroll, outfielder
• 1982 - Mike Conroy, minor league player
• 1982 - Jonel Pacheco, minor league outfielder
• 1982 - Matt Young, outfielder
• 1983 - Claudio Matumoto Jr., Brazilian national team pitcher
• 1984 - Lance Barrett, umpire
• 1985 - Drew Bignall, Great Britain national team pitcher
• 1985 - Rafael Gil, minor league catcher
• 1985 - Max Warren, Bundesliga outfielder
• 1986 - Carlos Teller, minor league pitcher
• 1988 - Mike Belfiore, pitcher
• 1988 - Edward Concepción, minor league pitcher
• 1988 - Phil Gosselin, infielder
• 1988 - Nathan Vineyard, minor league pitcher
• 1988 - Naoya Washiya, minor league outfielder
• 1989 - Sam Bishop, New Zealand national team pitcher
• 1989 - Sung-bum Na, KBO outfielder
• 1990 - Kelvin Silvania, minor league infielder
• 1990 - Júnior Sosa, minor league outfielder
• 1991 - Adam Plutko, pitcher
• 1991 - Brock Stewart, pitcher
• 1992 - Sai Zhang, China Baseball League infielder
• 1993 - Kevin Kramer, infielder
• 1993 - Ta-Hsiang Yang, CPBL pitcher
• 1994 - Hua-Ching Lin, CPBL pitcher
• 1994 - Jen-Ho Tseng, pitcher
• 1995 - Zach Stroman, Great Britain national team infielder-outfielder
• 1996 - Masaru Fujii, NPB pitcher
• 1996 - Ian Oxnevad, minor league pitcher
• 1998 - Netithorn Nualla Ong, Thai national team infielder-outfielder
• 1998 - Julián Pedrouzo, Argentinian national team outfielder
• 1998 - Peun Silouanglath, Laotian national team infielder
• 2000 - C.J. Abrams, infielder; All-Star
• 2000 - Daniel Just, Extraliga pitcher
• 2001 - Jaydenn Estanista, minor league pitcher
• 2002 - Eric Silva, minor league pitcher
• 2002 - Kang-hoon Woo, KBO pitcher

Deaths

• 1895 - Harry Wright, outfielder, manager; Hall of Famer (b. 1835)
• 1936 - John Heisman, college coach (b. 1869)
• 1938 - Morgan Murphy, catcher (b. 1867)
• 1939 - Dick Jackson, infielder (b. 1897)
• 1941 - Bert Inks, pitcher (b. 1871)
• 1942 - Pinky Hargrave, catcher (b. 1896)
• 1942 - Jack Tighe, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1870)
• 1949 - John Donahue, outfielder (b. 1894)
• 1953 - Adolph Schinkle, minor league outfielder and pitcher (b. 1894)
• 1961 - Carlos Ratliff, minor league infielder and college coach (b. 1910)
• 1962 - Don Songer, pitcher (b. 1900)
• 1965 - Delos Drake, outfielder (b. 1886)
• 1965 - Jerry McCarthy, infielder (b. 1923)
• 1967 - Fritz Mollwitz, infielder (b. 1890)
• 1975 - Elmer Knetzer, pitcher (b. 1885)
• 1982 - Leo Ogorek, minor league outfielder (b. 1909)
• 1986 - Vince DiMaggio, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1912)
• 1986 - Heinie Mueller, infielder (b. 1912)
• 1995 - Nippy Jones, infielder (b. 1925)
• 1995 - Gene Smith, infielder; All-Star (b. 1911)
• 1996 - Tom Callahan, USA national team outfielder (b. 1921)
• 1999 - Paul Burris, catcher (b. 1923)
• 2003 - Greg Biagini, coach (b. 1952)
• 2004 - Ken Brondell, pitcher (b. 1921)
• 2004 - John Cerutti, pitcher (b. 1960)
• 2005 - Mario Encarnacion, outfielder (b. 1975)
• 2006 - Ivan Kuester, scout (b. 1920)
• 2007 - Bunky Stewart, pitcher (b. 1931)
• 2008 - Red Zar, scout (b. 1920)
• 2010 - Lou Ortiz, minor league infielder (b. 1923)
• 2011 - Paul Eames, minor league catcher and manager; scout (b. 1927)
• 2011 - Dustin Kellogg, minor league pitcher (b. 1993)
• 2011 - Akio Saionji, NPB infielder (b. 1937)
• 2013 - Charles Brockell, college coach (b. 1934)
• 2013 - Bob Chance, infielder (b. 1940)
• 2013 - Dan Van Cleve, minor league outfielder (b. 1962)
• 2014 - Comer Cottrell, owner (b. 1931)
• 2015 - S. Lee Ross, owner (b. 1936)
• 2017 - John Herrnstein, outfielder (b. 1938)
• 2018 - Julio Hazel, Hoofdklasse outfielder (b. 1942)
• 2018 - Marty Pattin, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1943)
• 2020 - Charlie Haeger, pitcher (b. 1983)
• 2022 - Al Neiger, pitcher (b. 1939)
• 2023 - Joe Christopher, outfielder (b. 1935)
• 2024 - Bob Speake, outfielder (b. 1930)