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Events

• 1869 - The champion Brooklyn Eckfords Club begins a new Championship series with the ex-champion New York Mutuals‚ a most unusual event to occur so soon after the title changed hands. Despite a high wind‚ the Mutuals defeat the Eckfords with five runs in the bottom of the 9th to win‚ 28 - 25.
• 1872 - Albert Thake‚ 22-year-old LF of the Brooklyn Atlantics‚ drowns off Fort Hamilton‚ in New York Harbor‚ while fishing. A benefit game is arranged by Bob Ferguson between the old Brooklyn Atlantics and members of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings.
• 1874 - In Hartford‚ Bobby Mathews allows three hits as the visiting Mutuals win‚ 14 - 0.
• 1879 - Chicago beats Buffalo, 4 - 1, to briefly regain second place over Boston.
• 1880 - Boston OF Charley Jones is suspended by the Boston club for demanding his $378 in back pay and then refusing to play when it is not forthcoming. In reaction to Jones's actions‚ the club suspends‚ fines‚ and blacklists him without paying him anything.
• 1883 - Chicago scores 11 runs in the 3rd inning en route to a 21 - 7 thrashing of Cleveland. Chicago collects nine doubles with Abner Dalrymple and Fred Pfeffer each getting four hits.
• 1885 - Detroit C Charlie Bennett hits a grand slam in the 1st inning‚ leading Detroit to an 8 - 3 victory over the New York Giants. Only two other grand slams are hit this year‚ one by Dave Orr (New York) and one by Tom Brown (Pittsburgh).
• 1886 - Ed "Cannonball" Crane walks 14 and adds five wild pitches and an error in a 15 - 2 loss to Chicago. Formerly an OF‚ Crane has just been pressed into service as a pitcher for the last-place Nationals. He'll emerge as a regular starter for the New York Giants next year.
• 1887 - Following a three-game sweep at the hands of the Detroits‚ Boston removes King Kelly as captain and gives the job back to 1B John Morrill.
• 1888 - St. Louis slugger Tip O'Neill hits a home run over the fence in the 8th inning and lays down a game-winning bunt single in the 10th inning to beat Athletics ace Ed Seward, 3 - 2. O'Neill will win the American Association batting title with a .335 average.
• 1889 - After having led the American Association race all season except for three days in April‚ St. Louis falls to second place behind Brooklyn after losing to Columbus, 6 - 5, on a 10th-inning homer by Dave Orr.
• 1890 - Brooklyn wins three games in one day‚ feasting on Pittsburgh 10 - 9‚ 3 - 2‚ and 8 - 4. In the first game, the losers are down 10 - 0 with two out in the 9th‚ then score nine runs. The game ends as Doggie Miller hits a bases-loaded triple and is out trying to make it a game-tying homer. The three losses extend Pittsburgh's losing streak to 22; it will reach 24 before they win again.
• 1892:
  • Recently released Pirates P Mark "Fido" Baldwin is arrested in his hometown of Homestead, PA‚ for alleged complicity in the recent strike and ensuing riot. Baldwin posts a $2‚000 bail and claims that he was merely a spectator. He will soon rejoin the Pirates and finish the season with a 26-27 record.
  • Rookie P Bill Hawke of St. Louis loads the bases with the Phillies in the 6th‚ but then fans the next three batters on the way to a 4 - 1 win. Tim Keefe takes the loss.
• 1895 - Aaron B. Champion‚ president of the renowned 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings‚ the first professional team‚ dies in London, England.
• 1898 - Nap Lajoie singles against the Browns to become the first hitter this year to reach 150 hits.
• 1902:
  • In today's split of a doubleheader with the Phillies‚ Joe Tinker‚ Johnny Evers‚ and Frank Chance appear together in the Chicago Orphans lineup for the first time‚ but not in the positions that will earn them immortality. Evers‚ a New York State League rookie‚ starts at SS‚ with Tinker at 3B‚ Chance at 1B‚ and veteran Bobby Lowe at 2B. Philadelphia takes the opener‚ 11 - 3, behind Doc White‚ while Chicago is victorious in the nitecap‚ 6 - 1‚ behind Jack Taylor's pitching.
  • At the Polo Grounds‚ the last-place Giants follow a successful road trip (7-4) by dropping two games to the Cards. St. Louis wins‚ 6 - 4, in the first game as five of the first six batters in the 2nd inning lay down bunts. Three runs score. The Cards then pummel Christy Mathewson for 12 hits in the nitecap to win‚ 8 - 2.
• 1905:
  • At the Polo Grounds‚ Christy Mathewson allows three hits‚ strikes out nine and allows no earned runs as New York whips the Phillies‚ 4 - 1.
  • Hillerich & Bradsby sign a contract with Honus Wagner to produce the first autographed model bat.
• 1906
  • The American League's longest game to date takes place in Boston before 16‚000. Rookies Jack Coombs and 24-year-old Joe Harris go the route in a 24-inning struggle‚ ending with a 4 - 1 Athletics victory after 4 hours and 47 minutes. It sets the major league record‚ later broken‚ and is still the AL mark for two pitchers. Two batters single, and then Socks Seybold and Danny Murphy hit triples with two outs to end the contest. Philadelphia's Coombs faces 89 batters‚ striking out a major league record 18 (broken in 1962) and giving up 14 hits‚ while the Americans' Harris fans 14 and yields 16 hits. Harris drops his record to 2-21‚ and will start next year at 0-6 before exiting the majors for Providence‚ holding the distinctions of the worst winning percentage (.091 for a 3-30 record) and the fewest wins for any pitcher with 300 innings pitched. The 24 innings pitched will only be exceeded this century by the 26-inning battle on May 1‚ 1920 between Joe Oeschger and Leon Cadore. There won't be a longer game in the AL until May 8‚ 1984.
  • The Highlanders win their sixth game in three days from Washington‚ sweeping their third straight doubleheader‚ 5 - 4 and 5 - 3‚ for an American League record.
  • With the regular umpires sick from food poisoning‚ Cub P Carl Lundgren and Cardinal C Pete Noonan are picked to officiate at the West Side Grounds. The Cubs‚ behind Mordecai Brown's five-hitter‚ win, 8 - 1, for their 14th win in a row.
  • Tom Fisher‚ former National League pitcher‚ pitches a perfect game for Shreveport in a win over Montgomery in the Southern Association. He strikes out 14.
• 1907 - Cubs P Ed Reulbach‚ who will be 17-4 with a 1.69 ERA‚ goes into the 9th with a 2 - 0 lead over the Cardinals at Chicago. He gives up eight straight hits‚ seven runs‚ and loses the game. The nitecap is stopped after seven innings.
• 1908 - The month starts with the Giants in first place in the National League with a 69-45 record‚ followed by Chicago (70-47) and the Pirates (69-47). New York shakes off its three losses to Chicago by beating up on Boston‚ winning two at South End Grounds. Hooks Wiltse takes the opener‚ 4 - 1‚ and Christy Mathewson coasts home in the second game‚ 8 - 0‚ allowing 3 hits. Luther Taylor pitches the 9th against the Doves.
• 1911:
  • In the first game of a Giants doubleheader‚ Christy Mathewson gives up ten hits but beats the Phils, 3 - 2. In the second game‚ Rube Marquard one-hits the Phils, 2 - 0‚ walks none‚ and fans ten. The Phils' Eddie "Smoke" Stack and Marquard match zeros for seven innings‚ but a walk‚ single and two errors bring home two Giant runs. This is Rube's second one-hitter in a row: his previous start‚ on August 24th‚ resulted in a two-hitter.
  • Whoops! Cleveland beats the White Sox‚ 2 - 1‚ with the help of a successful hidden ball trick in the 9th inning. Chicago pinch runner Felix Chouinard is caught by Cleveland SS Ivy Olson.
• 1913 - In Pittsburgh‚ the Pirates arrive late by train from Chicago for a morning/afternoon doubleheader against Cincinnati. For the morning game‚ they wear their road grays‚ losing 5 - 4 in ten innings. In their home whites for the p.m. game‚ they win‚ 5 - 1.
• 1916 - The Phils whitewash the Robins twice‚ winning 3 - 0 behind Grover Alexander and 6 - 0 to back Eppa Rixey. Alexander's win in the opener is his 14th shutout‚ setting a major league record. The loser is Jack Coombs‚ who had set the record of 13 shutouts while pitching for the A's in 1910.
• 1917:
  • The Cardinals‚ behind the pitching of Oscar Horstmann and Milt Watson‚ win both ends of a doubleheader with Pittsburgh by 1 - 0 scores. Wilbur Cooper takes the loss in the first game on an unearned run in the 9th. Hal Carlson loses the second game. The Cards have now won three straight 1 - 0 games from the Pirates‚ tying the major league mark and setting the National League mark.
  • In the bottom of the 1st inning at Cleveland‚ Tris Speaker tries to steal home with Joe Evans batting. Evans swings and lines the ball into Speaker's face. Tiger manager Hughie Jennings allows a courtesy fielder, Elmer Smith, to play CF in the 2nd frame while Speaker has his face stitched. Speaker then returns to CF in the 3rd.
  • American League president Ban Johnson instructs umpires not to tolerate unnecessary delays. His statement is an outgrowth of a complaint by Charles Comiskey that protests by some managers and players about the condition of the ball in recent games has made it necessary to play two hours or more. The New York Times writes that‚ "Johnson said he would enforce the rule about discoloration of the ball but he has given out no bulletin on the 'shine ball.'"
• 1918 - The Browns and Tigers finish the season with a doubleheader split in St. Louis as the Cleveland Indians refuse to make the trip for the Labor Day doubleheader. In the second game‚ Ty Cobb pitches two innings against the Browns while the Browns' George Sisler pitches one scoreless inning. The Browns win‚ 6 - 2‚ and Sisler hits a double off Cobb. Detroit wins the opener‚ 7 - 2.
• 1919:
  • In the first of two Labor Day games‚ Babe Ruth allows ten Washington hits‚ but wins, 2 - 1. Ruth drives home one run with a triple. The win is his last in a Red Sox uniform. In the nitecap‚ Ruth's 7th-inning homer snaps a 1 - 1 tie as Boston wins‚ 4 - 1. It is the Babe's 24th homer.
  • At St. Louis‚ George Sisler gives the Browns a split for the day with an 11th-inning homer‚ for a 4 - 2 win. The Indians win the opener‚ 5 - 3.
• 1920:
  • The Senators knock out rookie starter Duster Mails‚ but the Indians rally to win, 9 - 5‚ and regain first place from the White Sox‚ losers of six of their last seven games.
  • Carl Mays shuts out the Browns, 3 - 0, on four hits for the Yankees.
  • The Reds beat the Braves‚ 6 - 3, behind Ray Fisher and Dolf Luque to move into first place by two points.
• 1921 - Maurice Archdeacon of Rochester (International League) establishes a new record for circling the bases by completing the circuit in 13 2/5 seconds.
• 1924 - In the second twinbill whitewash in the National League in two weeks‚ the Reds shut out the Cardinals‚ 5 - 0 and 9 - 0. Carl Mays submarines the Birds in the opener and Rube Benton coasts in the nitecap.
• 1925 - In the first of five games in Washington‚ Walter Johnson gives the Senators a 7 - 3 win over the A's. Roger Peckinpaugh drives in three runs for the Senators. The Senators now lead the A's‚ who are in a 12-game losing streak‚ by 4 1/2 games.
• 1926 - Washington and Boston combine for a major league-record 11 sacrifices in a game won by the Senators, 7 - 4. The Sox make four of the sacrifices‚ but it is not enough.
• 1927 - The Pirates take over first place by beating the visiting Cubs‚ 4 - 3. Joe Harris has a double and home run to back the Bucs' Lee Meadows. Both Waners (Paul and Lloyd) cut down runners with throws in the 2nd and 3rd innings.
• 1928:
  • In Washington‚ Republican presidential candidate Herbert Hoover looks on as "Approximately 99 percent of the spectators wore their straw hats‚ hoping the Senators would give them a chance to get excited and hurl them away" (New York Times). Alas‚ the Yankees win‚ 8 - 3. Waite Hoyt is the winner and beneficiary of Bob Meusel's 4-for-4 hitting. Meusel has three RBIs. Garland Braxton takes the loss.
  • Sheriff Blake is red-hot for the Cubs‚ allowing just one hit‚ in besting the Reds' Ray Kolp‚ 1 - 0. The lone Reds hit is a 5th-inning double by Long George Kelly.
• 1930:
  • The Cardinals take a pair from the Pirates and go into first place. Brooklyn‚ New York‚ and Chicago are all bunched at the top of the standings with St. Louis. Cincinnati takes a pair from the Cubs‚ winning‚ 5 - 0‚ behind Red Lucas‚ and‚ 2 - 1‚ behind Benny Frey.
  • In the second of two games‚ Cleveland's Wes Ferrell tops the Browns‚ 9 - 5‚ for his 13th straight win. The Indians take the opener as well‚ winning 13 - 8‚ as pitcher Willis Hudlin helps with a grand slam off the Brownies' Dick Porter.
  • A Labor Day crowd of 72‚000 packs Yankee Stadium to see the World Champion A's split with the New Yorkers. The A's take the opener‚ 3 - 2‚ with reliever Lefty Grove striking out Babe Ruth with two on to end the game. Ruth drives in a run in the nitecap‚ 2 - 0, Yankee win. Red Ruffing pitches his second two-hitter in two weeks to beat George Earnshaw.
• 1931:
  • Lou Gehrig hits his third grand slam in five days and his sixth home run in consecutive games when he connects in a 5 - 1 second-game win over the Red Sox. The blast‚ his 40th of the year‚ comes in the 3rd inning off Ed Morris. Gehrig connects in the opening 11 - 3 win against Milt Gaston‚ belting his 39th homer in the 7th inning. Lou finishes the day with six RBI and has knocked in 21 runs in the past six games.
  • Giants rookie Jim Mooney notches his fourth win since being called up three weeks ago‚ beating the Braves, 4 - 0. It is his second shutout.
• 1933 - In the first of two games with the Braves‚ Carl Hubbell pitches ten innings and drives in the winning run for a 2 - 0 win. He doesn't walk a batter and never goes as deep as a 3-2 count on any hitter‚ holding the Braves to four hits. It is his 20th win and his tenth shutout of the year. Five of the shutouts are 1 - 0‚ a National League record. Fred Frankhouse is the hard-luck loser‚ when his mates make two errors in the 10th. New York then takes the nitecap‚ 5 - 3.
• 1934 - Jimmie Foxx cracks a two-run homer in the 9th‚ his 39th‚ off reliever Lefty Grove‚ to give the A's an 8 - 7 win over the Red Sox. Foxx‚ filling it at 3B for the injured Pinky Higgins‚ has three hits and four RBIs.
• 1935 - In a rain-soaked game‚ the Senators take 14 innings to beat Lefty Grove and the Red Sox‚ 2 - 1. The Nats will win four of five decisions this year off Lefty. Grove will win his next four decisions to finish at 20-12‚ a big comeback from his 8-8 record in 1934.
• 1936:
  • Detroit's Schoolboy Rowe fires his second two-hit game in eight days‚ beating the A's‚ 4 - 1. Rowe beat the Red Sox on August 25th by a 5 - 0 score. Philadelphia is saved from a shutout when Bob Johnson blasts his 22nd home run in the 9th inning. All of Detroit's runs come in a hitless 4th when they use five walks‚ a fielder's choice and error.
  • It is a wet afternoon in St. Louis for the Mound City celebration of the 60th anniversary of the National League. The 1876 recreated game starts at 2:30 with NL publicity head Bill Brandt as the tall-hatted umpire who is shot dead after calling a runner out at home. Following is a 2 1/2 inning match between the 1926 Cards and the current team. Pete Alexander gives up an unearned run in the 1st for the '26 team‚ and Vic Keen pitches the 2nd. George Earnshaw K's four of the 1926 team‚ but does give up a double to Wattie Holm in the 1st. The 1936 Cards win‚ 1 - 0. The regular game between the Giants and Cards is washed out after four innings.
• 1937 - The Giants sign Bill Terry to a five-year contract as manager and farm director at $40‚000 a year.
• 1939 - The Dodgers and Cubs use an open date to play a doubleheader of two rained-out games. The visiting Cubs take the opener‚ 6 - 2, behind Larry French‚ and the Dodgers take the nitecap‚ 3 - 1. In the second game‚ Gabby Hartnett sets a major league record for games caught of 1‚722. The old mark was held by Ray Schalk.
• 1941:
  • Rudy York wallops three home runs and drives in five runs for the Tigers who beat the Browns‚ 9 - 5, in the first game in Detroit. The Tigers rattle 20 hits in the nitecap to win‚ 16 - 8.
  • In the first of two this Labor Day‚ Dolph Camilli hits the 200th home run of his career against the Braves to put the game into extra innings. Camilli then gives the Dodgers a 6 - 5 victory in the 15th inning with his fifth hit of the game. Camilli's 29th homer of the year ties the game in the 8th‚ his double in the 10th with two on keeps the Dodgers alive‚ and a two-out single in the 15th wins the game. The second game is cut short at 2 - 2 with Al Javery on the mound for Boston; he'll get no rest tomorrow as he is the loser in a 9 - 2 Brooklyn win.
  • At Fenway Park‚ the Red Sox sweep two from the Senators‚ 13 - 9 and 10 - 3. Ted Williams has only five official at bats‚ but has three hits - all homers - to take over the American League lead from Charlie Keller. Ted walks four times.
• 1942:
  • The second-place Cardinals match Brooklyn by recalling OF Erv Dusak. Cards' owner Sam Breadon responds‚ "They can have their Newsom‚ but I'd rather have Dusak. He has been one of the most sought-after players in the minor leagues." Dusak‚ however‚ hits just .185. After going 24-9 in July and 25-8 in August‚ the Cardinals are still 3 1/2 games behind Brooklyn. Brooklyn beats Pittsburgh today‚ 4 - 2.
  • A story in the Chicago Tribune reports that player-manager Parnell Woods of the Negro American League Cleveland Buckeyes‚ and two teammates have been invited to try out with the Indians at the start of the 1943 season. The two teammates are Gene Bremmer and Sam Jethroe‚ who is leading the league in hitting with a .450 average.
• 1944:
  • The Giants lose to Brooklyn, 8 - 1‚ as Giant Joe Medwick is hit on the elbow and leaves the game for treatment. With both teams out of the race‚ Dodgers manager Leo Durocher agrees to allow Medwick to re-enter the game if Durocher can pick the courtesy pinch runner for him. He selects slow-footed Gus Mancuso‚ who is promptly erased on a double play ground ball.
  • Desperate times call for desperate measures. The Senators start semi-pro pitcher Jug Thesenga‚ who holds the Yankees scoreless for five innings before the roof caves in. But the Senators rally to win‚ 10 - 7‚ behind reliever Roger Wolff‚ who snaps his personal 11-game losing streak.
• 1945:
  • The Phils beat the Braves, 8 - 3, in Boston‚ as Vince DiMaggio hits his fourth grand slam of the year‚ tying a major league mark. An injury will shortly end the season for the senior DiMaggio.
  • Detroit's Hal Newhouser wrenches his back pitching against the Indians' Bob Feller. Newhouser leaves the game in the 7th and will stay behind when the team leaves for New York‚ but will rejoin them on the 7th. The Tigers win, 5 - 4, behind Jim Tobin and are just 1 1/2 games ahead of the second-place Senators.
• 1947
  • Jack Lohrke hits a homer against the Braves‚ number 183 for the season for the Giants‚ breaking the major league record held by the 1936 Yankees. Mel Ott's club had hit five home runs in a doubleheader against the Cubs on August 24th to break Chicago's 1929 NL record. The Giants will finish with 221 homers‚ led by Johnny Mize‚ Walker Cooper‚ Willard Marshall‚ and rookie Bobby Thomson.
  • In 7 - 4 loss in the nitecap of a doubleheader‚ A's 1B Ferris Fain participates in six double plays to tie the major league record. Washington takes the opener as well‚ 4 - 0‚ on Mickey Haefner's seven-hitter.
• 1948 - The host Braves split a pair with the Reds‚ as Johnny Vander Meer bests Warren Spahn‚ 3 - 1, in the opener. Glenn Elliott‚ just up from the AAA Brewers‚ is awarded the victory in the 11 - 1 nitecap‚ even though he pitches just three innings. Elliott collides with Ted Kluszewski while running to first base and is injured after pitching his only innings of 1948. Reliever Clyde Shoun throws the last six innings.
• 1949 - Washington's Dick Weik should change his name to Walk as he hands out 13 bases on balls in nine innings‚ losing to the White Sox‚ 3 - 0. He matches Tommy Byrne's largesse earlier in the year and he'll close out his career in 1954 with more walks than innings pitched. Randy Gumpert is the winner today as both pitchers allow four hits apiece.
• 1951 - OF Don Mueller hits three home runs in an 8 - 1 Giants win over the Dodgers. His first homer comes against Ralph Branca‚ coming off two consecutive shutouts‚ and Mueller hits his third home run‚ a two-run shot, off Phil Haugstad. Sal Maglie is the winner‚ giving up seven singles and hits Jackie Robinson on the wrist in the 3rd to force home the only Dodger run. Whitey Lockman gets plunked twice for New York. Al Dark and Eddie Stanky combine in the 5th on a triple play off a liner by Pee Wee Reese.
• 1952 - In the second game of a doubleheader in St. Louis‚ the Indians lose a critical game‚ 2 - 1‚ in five innings when rain halts the game for the second and last time. The Indians are ahead in the 6th‚ but a porous tarp turns the infield into a quagmire‚ washing out their three runs. The Indians protest the game‚ saying Bill Veeck told the grounds crew to work slowly‚ but Will Harridge will reject the protest.
• 1953:
  • The Cards hit five home runs‚ all of them solo shots‚ but lose to the Dodgers' Preacher Roe‚ 12 - 5. The Dodgers collect 17 hits in the win. The five solo homers - one each by Stan Musial‚ Harry Elliott‚ and Rip Repulski‚ and two by Steve Bilko - tie a National League record.
  • Chicago's Virgil Trucks surrenders a homer to Mickey Mantle in the 7th that proves to be the game-winner‚ as the White Sox lose to the Yankees‚ 3 - 2.
• 1954 - At Crosley Field‚ the Redlegs' Ted Kluszewski hits two home runs to break his own club mark of 40 homers. He will wind up with 49 for the season. Despite the Klu clouts‚ Cincinnati loses to Philadelphia‚ 9 - 3. In a pre-game stunt‚ Reds catcher Hobie Landrith catches a ball dropped out of a helicopter hovering some 500-600 feet over the field.
• 1956 - Sparked by Warren Spahn's two-hit pitching and the clutch hitting of Joe Adcock‚ the Braves beat the Cards‚ 3 - 1. Adcock has three RBIs. Despite the win‚ the Braves' lead is cut to two games as the Dodgers sweep a pair from the Giants.
• 1957:
  • The Yankees purchase Sal "the Barber" Maglie from the Dodgers‚ but he is ineligible for World Series play. Maglie is the last man to play for all three New York teams.
  • The New York Giants visit the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field for the last time. 18,000 fans turn out for a 7 - 5 Giants win.
• 1958:
  • The Cardinals' Vinegar Bend Mizell beats the Reds‚ 1 - 0‚ while walking a National League-record (for a shutout) nine batters. The Reds also swipe five bases. Mizell allows four hits‚ the same number as his opponent Joe Nuxhall‚ who loses on an unearned run. The Reds come back to win the second game of the doubleheader‚ 9 - 3. Alex Kellner is the winner with 8 1/3 innings or shutout relief.
  • In San Francisco‚ the Giants sweep a doubleheader from the Dodgers (and five of six in the Labor Day series) by taking the first in an A.M.-P.M. doubleheader‚ 8 - 6. Willie Mays goes 5 for 5 with two doubles and a home run to drive in five runs. The nitecap is a memorable 4 hour, 35 minute marathon. The Giants tie the game in the 9th on Bob Schmidt's homer‚ and the Dodgers go ahead‚ 5 - 4‚ in the 16th on Carl Furillo's RBI. Whitey Lockman's home run in the bottom of the 16th ties it‚ then a bunt single by Ray Jablonski is followed by another bunt by P Ruben Gomez. Errors by Johnny Roseboro and Furillo follow, allowing Jabo to score the winning run‚ 6 - 5. Mays is 11 for 20 for the series‚ with four homers. San Francisco Police Chief Frank Ahern‚ sitting behind home plate‚ dies of a heart attack at the climax of the second game.
  • Bob Buhl‚ sidelined by shoulder ailments‚ makes his first appearance since May 13th‚ beating the Cubs‚ 2 - 1, for the first-place Braves. He beats Bob Anderson. The Cubs rout former teammate Bob Rush in the nitecap to win, 9 - 3. Glen Hobbie picks up his third win of the year against the Braves and his tenth overall.
• 1960 - For the second time in the climatically-challenged ballpark's inaugural season, Roberto Clemente conquers the infamous Candlestick Park crosswind with a powerful home run putting the Bucs up over the Giants by a 3 - 0 score. The blast travels over and beyond the 420-foot mark and is described as "the hardest-hit ball hit there all year."
• 1961 - The American League's biggest crowd of the year‚ 65‚566‚ sees Whitey Ford and Don Mossi duel at Yankee Stadium as a week-end battle for first place begins. Two-out‚ 9th-inning hits by Elston Howard‚ Yogi Berra‚ and Bill Skowron give New York a 1 - 0 win over the Tigers.
• 1962:
  • Cubs 30-year-old rookie Cuno Barragan‚ sidelined since spring training when he broke his ankle‚ finally gets his first at bat and hits his only major league home run. His clout comes off Giants P Dick LeMay‚ but the Cubs lose, 4 - 3, in 14 innings.
  • The Reds' Vada Pinson has four singles and a double in a 10 - 5 win at San Francisco.
• 1963:
  • Yankees CF Tom Tresh joins teammate Mickey Mantle among four American League and five National League players to hit homers left- and righthanded in one game. The Yanks beat Baltimore, 5 - 4. A tired Mantle‚ who had partied the night before‚ adds a pinch homer in the 8th‚ jumping on the first pitch from Mike McCormick.
  • At Pittsburgh‚ Bill Virdon hits a two-out game-ending grand slam to give the Bucs a 6 - 4 win over the Reds.
  • Tim Harkness cracks a two-run game-ending homer in the 16th to give the Mets a 6 - 4 win over the Braves. It is Harkness's second homer of the game.
  • Cleveland takes a pair from the Tigers‚ winning 6 - 3 and 3 - 1. Mike de la Hoz hits a 1st-inning grand slam in the opener for the margin.
  • P Curt Simmons of the Cardinals drives in a run with a triple in the 2nd and then steals home on an aborted squeeze play. He also knocks in another run and beats the Phils, 7 - 3. Simmons‚ who in his 20-year career will steal just two bases‚ is on third base when a squeeze play goes awry‚ and beats a wide throw home from P Chris Short. It is the last steal of home by a pitcher until 1983‚ and just the fourth in the National League in the last 40 years. Harry Dorish in 1950 stole home‚ the last time an American League pitcher did pull off such a theft.
• 1964:
  • Southpaw relief P Masanori Murakami becomes the first major league player from Japan. He debuts in a 4 - 1 San Francisco loss at New York. His first 11 innings will be scoreless ones.
  • The Phillies top Houston, 4 - 3, on three solo home runs in the 7th inning. Johnny Callison‚ Wes Covington‚ and Frank Thomas supply the power outbursts.
  • The Cardinals move past the faltering Giants into third place with a 5 - 4 win over the Braves. Former Brave‚ now Cardinals utility C‚ Bob Uecker hits his first home run of the year‚ then singles in the winning run in the 9th to win it for the Birds. St. Louis is 7 1/2 in back of the first-place Phils.
  • At Crosley Field‚ Jim Maloney strikes out 13 in the Reds' 2 - 1 win over Chicago.
• 1965:
  • Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale lose as the Pirates sweep the Dodgers in a doubleheader‚ 3 - 2 and 2 - 1‚ at Pittsburgh. The Pirates are now in fifth place‚ but just 2 1/2 games out of first place.
  • Cincinnati sweeps the Braves, 7 - 6 and 2 - 0, to regain first place‚ while the Giants and Phils are rained out. Jim Maloney strikes out 12 in tossing the shutout for the Reds.
• 1967:
  • Cincinnati's Bob Lee walks Dick Groat with the bases loaded in the 21st inning to give the Giants a 1 - 0 victory at Crosley Field. Twenty scoreless innings tie the major league mark set by the Pirates and the Braves on August 1‚ 1918‚ a game Pittsburgh also won in the 21st‚ 2 - 0. Gaylord Perry‚ with nine one-run losses during the season‚ pitches the first 16 innings of shutout ball‚ with Frank Linzy going the last five. Mel Queen tosses 9 1/3 innings for the Reds.
  • The Cubs start a streak of four straight doubleheaders by beating the Mets‚ 8 - 2‚ behind Fergie Jenkins' 17th win. Former Cub Don Cardwell wins the nitecap‚ 3 - 0‚ striking out 11.
  • Alan Foster of Spokane pitches his Pacific Coast League-record second no-hitter of the year. Both no-nos are 1 - 0 games against Seattle.
• 1968 - Denny McLain notches his 27th win of the season beating the Orioles, 7 - 3. McLain helps the Tiger cause by starting a 3rd-inning triple play.
• 1969:
  • The Giants move past the Reds into first place in the NL West with a 12 - 2 win over Montreal.
  • Willie Davis‚ who cracks a single and double‚ ties the franchise record of hitting in 29 straight games. The mark was set by Zack Wheat in 1916‚ and Davis will double one day later to break it. Andy Kosco adds four straight hits as the Dodgers beat the visiting Mets‚ 10 - 6. Jerry Koosman is k.o.'ed after a third of an inning and takes the loss against Jim Bunning.
• 1970 - The Red Sox take an 8 - 1 lead at Fenway Park‚ but Detroit rallies to win, 10 - 9. The Sox take the lead on a Mike Andrews homer and a grand slam by Tony Conigliaro. The Tigers then use the long ball as well‚ collecting four homers‚ including a grand slam by Jim Price‚ to win. Daryl Patterson is the winner over Sonny Siebert.
• 1971:
  • The Pirates start what is believed to be the first all-black line-up (including several Latinos) in major league history‚ in a 10 - 7 win over the Phillies. The lineup: Rennie Stennett‚ 2B; Gene Clines‚ CF; Roberto Clemente‚ RF; Willie Stargell‚ LF; Manny Sanguillen‚ C; Dave Cash‚ 3B; Al Oliver‚ 1B; Jackie Hernandez‚ SS; and Dock Ellis‚ P. Another black‚ Bob Veale‚ is one of three relievers in the game.
  • At Wrigley Field‚ pitcher Fergie Jenkins leads the Cubs to a 5 - 2 win over Montreal by clouting two home runs and driving in three runs. Bill Stoneman takes the loss.
• 1972:
  • Rod Carew swipes home with two out in the 10th inning to give the Twins a 5 - 4 victory over the Indians. Carew will swipe home 17 times in his career‚ seven times stealing alone. The Twins score their first four runs as Bobby Darwin drives them all in on four hits‚ including two homers.
  • Mel Stottlemyre hurls a four-hitter to stop the White Sox‚ 4 - 0. Rookie Charlie Spikes has two hits in his major league debut‚ drives in a run and saves a run with a sparkling catch in right field.
  • The Reds edge the Expos‚ 1 - 0‚ in 12 innings on Johnny Bench's single. Ross Grimsley and Clay Carroll combine on the shutout.
• 1973 - In San Diego‚ Johnny Bench belts a two-run homer in the 9th as the Reds edge the Padres‚ 3 - 2.
• 1974:
  • During a 5 - 3 win over the Tigers‚ the A's 1B Gene Tenace goes through the entire game without a fielding chance - only the fourth time this century that has occurred at that position. In the same game‚ Detroit's Reggie Sanders homers in his first major league at-bat.
  • Lou Brock steals four bases in an 8 - 1 win over the Giants. This gives him 98 steals for the year.
  • The Major League Scouting Bureau is instituted as a way to cut costs by centralizing scouting. Membership is not mandatory until 1984‚ and only 17 of 24 teams initially agree to the $118‚000 fee for joining. All American League clubs except the Chicago White Sox and (eventually) the Toronto Blue Jays join; in the National League‚ the Chicago Cubs‚ Montreal Expos‚ Pittsburgh Pirates‚ Atlanta Braves‚ Houston Astros and the Cincinnati Reds join. Milwaukee Brewers GM Jim Wilson is put in charge.
  • With Carlton Fisk out through the end of the season‚ the Red Sox purchase C Tim McCarver from the Cardinals. McCarver will play just 11 games this year and 12 next spring in Boston before being reunited with Steve Carlton in Philadelphia.
• 1975:
  • Mets ace Tom Seaver shuts out the Pirates, 3 - 0, and reaches 200 strikeouts for a major league-record eighth straight season.
  • It is "Bob Gibson Day" in St. Louis‚ as dignitaries‚ including August Busch and Bowie Kuhn‚ honor the 39-year-old pitcher. The Cards‚ led by Lou Brock‚ then drill the Cubs‚ 6 - 3. Brock has three singles‚ three stolen bases‚ and scores three times.
• 1976 - Red Sox pitcher Fergie Jenkins rips his Achilles tendon covering first base in the 5th inning against the Rangers. Jenkins (12-11) is through for the year. Tom Murphy relieves and pitches 4 2/3 innings of hitless ball to earn the 3 - 0 victory at Fenway Park.
• 1978 - Making his major league debut‚ Oriole Sammy Stewart fans seven consecutive batters en route to a 9 - 3 win over the White Sox.
• 1979 - Carney Lansford hits three consecutive home runs as the Angels down the Indians, 7 - 4.
• 1980 - Tigers OF Al Cowens and White Sox reliever Ed Farmer publicly end their long-running feud by shaking hands at home plate prior to Chicago's 11 - 3 win at Tiger Stadium. The feud began in 1979 when Farmer broke Cowens' jaw with a pitch‚ and flared again this June 20th when Cowens hit a ground ball off Farmer and attacked the pitcher instead of running to first base. Cowens was suspended for seven games and a warrant was issued for his arrest in Illinois‚ forcing him to skip the previous week's Tigers-White Sox series in Chicago. Farmer agreed to drop the charges in exchange for a handshake‚ and the two players bring out the lineup cards before today's game.
• 1984 - Two weeks after being given a vote of confidence by club owner George Argyros‚ Mariners manager Del Crandall is fired and replaced by tird base coach Chuck Cottier.
• 1985 - The visiting New York Mets edge San Francisco‚ 4 - 3, with Keith Hernandez's two-run homer climaxing a three-run 9th inning. Doug Sisk‚ in relief of Ed Lynch‚ is the winning pitcher. In the 5th‚ Lynch lines to right field and is thrown out 9-3 by RF Joel Youngblood. It's the National League's second 9-3 putout in two months.
• 1986:
  • A's rookie Jose Canseco goes 4 for 5 and hits his 28th home run to become the first major league player with 100 RBI this season. Oakland defeats New York, 9 - 8.
  • Texas Rangers pinch hitters Oddibe McDowell and Darrell Porter blast 9th-inning back-to-back homers off Boston Red Sox reliever Steve Crawford, but the Rangers fall to the Red Sox, 6 - 4.
• 1987:
  • The Red Sox trade two heroes from their 1986 AL Championship team‚ sending DH Don Baylor to the Twins and OF Dave Henderson to the Giants for players to be named later.
  • In a 3 - 2 loss to the Cubs‚ Houston's Billy Hatcher becomes the first player this season to be ejected for using an illegal corked bat‚ and will eventually be suspended for ten games by National League president Bart Giamatti. Hatcher claims he borrowed the bat from P Dave Smith and only used it in batting practice. Baseball has seen a rash of protests regarding allegedly doctored bats this season‚ partly in response to the record number of home runs being hit.
• 1989 - Eight days after banning Pete Rose from baseball for life‚ Commissioner Bart Giamatti dies suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 51.
• 1990:
  • The third inside-the-park grand slam of the season is hit by Boston's Mike Greenwell off Greg Cadaret‚ as the Red Sox beat visiting New York, 15 - 1. Greenwell's grounder eludes Jesse Barfield in the right field corner; Barfield's shoe-top miss on August 14th gave Luis Polonia his slam. The last season with three inside-the-park slams was 1947. Greenwell's only other inside-the-park slam was also off Cadaret‚ in 1989 at Fenway Park. Boston jumps on Yankee starter Andy Hawkins who lasts a third of an inning. Hawkins has now pitched a total of one inning in three starts at Fenway Park and given up 18 runs (ERA 162.00).
  • Bobby Witt allows ten walks against Oakland in seven innings‚ the second Ranger in four days to hand out ten free passes. Before this season‚ the last pitcher to hand out ten walks was Andy Hassler‚ in 1974. Witt also has ten strikeouts and wins‚ 3 - 2‚ for his tenth victory in a row.
• 1993 - Terry Mulholland beats the Cubs‚ 4 - 1‚ the 149th game in a row in which the Phils have scored‚ one short of the National League record set by Pittsburgh in 1924-1925.
• 1995 - Battery charges are dropped against Atlanta manager Bobby Cox‚ who was arrested back on May 7th. Cox tells a judge that counseling has helped his marriage.
• 1996 - After Baltimore manager Davey Johnson has his bat removed in the 5th inning‚ Seattle SS Alex Rodriguez borrows one from Ken Griffey Jr. and belts a three-run homer to lead the Mariners to a 5 - 1 win over the O's. A-Rod's 34th home run pins the loss on David Wells.
• 1997:
  • The Reds lose to the Royals‚ 7 - 4‚ as Pete Rose Jr.‚ son of the all-time hit leader‚ makes his major league debut. After striking out in his first time up‚ Rose singles in his next at bat and finishes with one hit in three trips to the plate. The debut prompts walk-up sales of 15‚000.
  • Before 50‚869 at the Vet‚ the Phillies defeat the Yankees‚ 5 - 1‚ behind Curt Schilling‚ who fans 16 batters in eight innings of action‚ and does not walk a man. The Phils will win the next day to sweep the series with the defending World champs.
• 1998 - Mark McGwire hits his 56th and 57th home runs of the season‚ in a 7 - 1 Cardinals' win over Florida‚ to break Hack Wilson's National League standard for homers in a season. McGwire also eclipses Babe Ruth's record of 114 homers in consecutive seasons set in 1927-1928.
• 1999:
  • Sammy Sosa hits his 56th homer‚ off Sterling Hitchcock‚ to give the Cubs a 1 - 0 win over San Diego. Steve Trachsel is the winner with seven shutout innings. Glenallen Hill's single is the only other Cub hit.
  • Mark McGwire powers his 52nd homer in the Cards' 9 - 3 win over Florida. It is his 509th career dinger and his 494th as a first baseman‚ surpassing Lou Gehrig.
  • Albert Belle's 30th home run of the year helps the Orioles beat Tampa Bay‚ 3 - 1. Belle has now hit 30 homers in eight straight seasons.
  • Atlanta gets a three-run home run from Brian Hunter and a two-run homer from Bret Boone to edge the Reds‚ 8 - 7. Bret's brother Aaron homers for the Reds‚ as does Sean Casey as the Reds lose for the eighth time in nine meetings with Atlanta. Their victory two days before ended the Braves ten-game win streak.
• 2000:
  • Rogers Communications Inc. purchases 80% of the Toronto Blue Jays with Interbrew (now InBev) maintaining a 20% interest and CIBC relinquishing its 10% share.
  • The Baltimore Orioles turn the season's fifth triple play and the first triple-killing in Jacobs Field history in the 2nd inning against the Cleveland Indians. On a pop-up to short, the infield fly rule is not called. With runners at first and second and no outs‚ O's SS Melvin Mora lets Sandy Alomar's pop fly drop‚ apparently intentionally‚ and throws to 2B Jerry Hairston who tags the runner at second as well as the runner coming from first. Alomar‚ believing the infield fly rule has been called‚ retreats to the dugout and is called out for leaving the basepath, resulting in a 6-4-3 triple play. Charlie Manuel doesn't agree and gets tossed. Cleveland overcomes the triple play to win‚ 5 - 2‚ behind Chuck Finley.
  • The Reds ink Hawaiian Dane Sardinha‚ a 2nd-round draft pick in the June amateur draft‚ and high school SS David Espinosa‚ a 23rd-round pick. Both players are represented by agent Scott Boras and held out all summer for long-term major league contracts.
• 2001 - Ryan Klesko's homer in the 13th gives the Padres a 1 - 0 win over Arizona.
• 2002:
  • Boston trims the Indians‚ 7 - 1‚ behind the strong pitching of Tim Wakefield‚ who doesn't allow a hit before Matt Lawton's homer in the 5th. Manny Ramirez and Brian Daubach hit back-to-back home runs‚ and Johnny Damon scores three runs. Jim Thome reaches 100 walks for the fourth consecutive year and the sixth time in his career. Thome is the only player in Indians history to ever have consecutive 100 walks seasons.
  • Arizona tips the Giants‚ 7 - 6‚ as Tony Womack smacks two homers and lays down a 9th-inning bunt single to load the bases. David Dellucci follows with a two-run double to win it. Jeff Kent has two RBIs to reach the 100-RBI mark for the sixth straight time‚ a record for second basemen. D'Back pitchers continue to respect Barry Bonds‚ walking him four times. They walked him twice yesterday and four times on the 30th‚ giving him ten walks in three straight regulation-length games. Barry will have the next day off and collect another walk on the 3rd.
• 2004:
  • The Marlins edge the Mets‚ 5 - 4. Armando Benitez gets the save in relief. It is his tenth save of the year against New York for a new Major League record for saves against one club in a year. He will add one more save to give him 11 against his former teammates.
  • Minnesota's Terry Mulholland goes six innings and allows two runs in the Twins' 4 - 2 win over Baltimore. Mulholland and catcher Pat Borders‚ who was obtained the previous day from Seattle for B.J. Garbe‚ are the first pair of 40-something batterymates since Curt Davis and Clyde Sukeforth for the Dodgers in 1945.
  • Ryan Howard makes his major league debut as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies. In his first plate appearance, as a pinch hitter for pitcher Vicente Padilla, he strikes out against Atlanta Braves pitcher Jaret Wright.
• 2007:
  • Clay Buchholz of the Boston Red Sox pitches a 10 - 0 no-hitter over the Baltimore Orioles in his second career start. He is the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter in his first or second start since Wilson Alvarez did so in 1991, also in his second start.
  • Domingo Guzman becomes the second Dominican in under two weeks to set a Nippon Pro Baseball balk record. Shortly after Esteban Yan had set the single-season record, Guzman issues a record four in a game and ties the record of three in an inning. Like Yan, Guzman is ejected from his record-setting contest after conflict with the umpires.
  • Tomonori Maeda gets his 2,000th career hit. He is the fourth member of the Hiroshima Carp to reach that level, which lets him join the meikyukai.
• 2008:
  • Cliff Lee beats the Pale Hose, 5 - 0, to become the first 20-game winner for the Cleveland Indians in 34 years; Gaylord Perry had done it most recently. No franchise had gone longer without a 20-game winner.
  • Stephen Drew becomes the first player to hit for the cycle at Chase Field. The Diamondbacks beat the Cards, 8 - 6. Adam Dunn, Chris Young and Mark Reynolds also go deep for the D-backs.
  • Adrian Beltre goes 5 for 6 with five runs and hits for the cycle to help the Mariners rout the Rangers, 12 - 6. Beltre is the fourth Mariner to hit for the cycle.
• 2009 - The Rangers have double vision today as they sweep a pair at home from the Blue Jays. Both games end on a 5 - 2, score, with Frank Francisco picking up the save each time. CF Josh Hamilton hits two home runs for Texas, ending a 23-game homer drought and finally reaching double figures for the year, but 3B Michael Young injures his hamstring running out a ground ball in the nitecap and will miss at least two weeks.
• 2010:
  • Already appealing a seven-game suspension for throwing a baseball into the crowd in anger and hitting a fan in Philadelphia on August 21st, Nationals OF Nyjer Morgan is at the center of a bench-clearing brawl in today's 16 - 10 loss to the Florida Marlins. The brawl starts when Chris Volstad thows a ball behind Morgan, who has already been hit by a pitch earlier in the game; Morgan charges the mound and throws a punch at Volstad before 1B Gaby Sanchez tackles him. He needs to be escorted from the field, with his shirt ripped and his face bruised, but pounds his chest and screams at the crowd as he departs. He, Volstad, Marlins manager Edwin Rodriguez and reliever Jose Veras are all ejected from the game after the dust settles, then one inning later, Nats manager Jim Riggleman and P Doug Slaten are also thrown out when Sanchez is hit by a pitch. The trouble started the day before, when Morgan slammed into Marlins catcher Brett Hayes in the 10th inning, separating his shoulder; he infuriates his opponents further when, after his hit-by-pitch, he steals second and third base even though his team trails, 14 - 3. In two days, the National League will hand out suspensions to all involved, including eight games for Morgan, six for Volstad and shorter suspensions for both managers, Nats coach Pat Listach, Slaten, Sanchez and Marlins reliever Alex Sanabia, while Veras escapes with a simple fine and warning. The league cites the succession of incidents in which Morgan has been involved in recent days to explain the unusually long verdict. Morgan will appeal, but now faces the prospect of two weeks of forced inaction.
  • Brandon Allen, just recalled from AAA Reno, hits a grand slam to lead the Diamondbacks to a 5 - 2 win over San Diego for the Padres' seventh consecutive loss. The Pads waste a ten-strikeout effort by starter Mat Latos, who is lifted for a pinch-hitter in the 7th as they take a short-lived 2 - 1 lead.
• 2011:
  • The Phillies move to 41 games above .500 for only the third time in franchise history - the other two were in 1976 - as they complete a four-game road sweep of Cincinnati with a 6 - 4 win. Rookie Vance Worley is cruising with a 6 - 1 lead in the 7th when he allows a three-run pinch homer to Chris Heisey, just activated from the disabled list. His bullpen then takes over and he registers his tenth win of the year; the Phillies have now won his last 12 starts. The Phillies will win again tomorrow to go 42 games above .500 for the first time.
  • The third class of inductees to the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame is announced in New York, NY. Puerto Rican Bernie Williams is one of six contemporary players selected, in addition to six veterans. The group will be enshrined at a ceremony in La Romana, in the Dominican Republic, on February 11th.
• 2012:
  • Josh Beckett wins his first game as a member of the Dodgers, giving one run in 6 2/3 innings in beating the Diamondbacks, 2 - 1. Andre Ethier hits a tie-breaking homer off Matt Albers in the 6th to give the Dodgers the win.
  • David Freese homers and drives in three runs to lead the Cardinals to a 10 - 9 win over the Nationals. Matt Holliday also homers and Matt Carpenter has a three-run double, snapping a hitting slump for the Redbirds, who had scored only once in their previous 32 innings. Adam LaRoche and Danny Espinosa homer for Washington, which gives up a run in the 8th to tie the game, and another in the 9th to lose it when Allen Craig leads off with a single against Drew Storen, steals second and comes in on Freese's single. Jason Motte then picks up his 32nd save­.
• 2013 - Zack Greinke defeats the Padres, 2 - 1, behind Yasiel Puig's 14th homer, to give the Dodgers a three-game sweep. They now lead the NL West by 11 1/2 games.
• 2014:
  • The Astros fire manager Bo Porter and bench coach Dave Trembley, even though the team has already passed last year's total of wins; the firing is the result of a power struggle with GM Jeff Luhnow. Tom Lawless is named interim manager.
  • Cole Hamels of the Phillies combines with three relievers, Jake Diekman, Ken Giles and Jonathan Papelbon, for a 7 - 0 no-hitter over the Braves. Hamels needs 108 pitches to get through the first six innings, allowing five walks and striking out seven, then each reliever pitches a perfect inning to complete the feat, with Giles striking out all three batters he faces in the 8th.
• 2018:
  • South Korea wins its third straight baseball Gold in the Asian Games. In the Gold Medal Game of the 2018 Asian Games, they beat Japan, 3 - 0. Hyeon-jong Yang allows a hit to Shoji Kitamura and a walk to Kohei Sasagawa in the 1st but Yang, Pil-joon Jang and Woo-ram Jung allow no more hits or walks after that. Chi-hong An's two-run single in the bottom of the 1st and a solo homer by Byung-ho Park in the 3rd give South Korea their offense in a game in which Japan holds them to four hits.
  • In the Bronze Medal Game, Taiwan beats China, 10 - 0. Tsung-Hao Wang, Yu-Pu Wang and Bo-Hao Chen combine on a two-hitter, with Shunyi Yang and Fujia Chu getting China's lone hits and Yang their only walk. Leadoff man Ju-Liang Tai scores four runs while Han Lin drives in three.
• 2019:
  • The L&D Amsterdam Pirates win Game 7 of the 2019 Holland Series to complete an impressive comeback from a three games to none deficit against Neptunus, which had won five Holland Series in a row. Jhan Rifaele, Mike Groen and Tom Stuifbergen combine on a five-hit shutout in a 6 - 0 victory, while Diegomar Markwell takes the loss, lasting only 1 1/3 innings. Sharlon Schoop and Delano Selassa each drive in a pair for the victors.
  • Justin Verlander pitches the third no-hitter of his career as the Astros defeat the Blue Jays, 2 - 0. Verlander issues only one walk in pitching the complete game, and is only the sixth pitcher to have performed the feat three or more times. It is the second time that the Jays are his victims, making him only the third pitcher to no-hit the same team team twice.
• 2020:
  • Alex Dickerson hits three homers and two doubles in a 23 - 5 rout of the Rockies by the Giants. The Giants' 23 runs and 27 hits both tie team records, while they are the first team to ever have three different players collect six RBIs in a game - Dickerson, Donovan Solano and Brandon Crawford. They score in each of the first eight innings before C Drew Butera shuts them out in the 9th. Dickerson is just the 12th player to hit five extra-base hits in one game, and his 16 total bases tie a team record held by Willie Mays.
  • Marcell Ozuna also has a good night for the Braves, becoming the first National League player to have a three-homer game at Fenway Park. Atlanta defeats the Red Sox, 10 - 3. The second homer is also the 1,000th career hit for Ozuna.
• 2022 - Spencer Strider improves to 9-4 in his rookie season with eight scoreless innings of two-hit ball against the Rockies in the Braves' 3 - 0 win. He strikes out 16 and walks none, breaking the team record for most K's in a nine-inning game, which was 15, accomplished twice by John Smoltz. Warren Spahn once recorded 18 strikeouts in a game back in 1952, when the Braves were still playing in Boston, but had needed 15 innings to do so. The 16 strikeouts are also the most by any major league pitcher since 2019.
• 2023 - In one of the few highlights in what has been a dismal season for the Yankees, two players make their major league debut in the starting line-up of today's game against the Astros, CF Jasson Domínguez and C Austin Wells. At 20, Domínguez is the youngest position player to make his debut for the Yankees since Stan Javier in 1984, but in his first big league at-bat in the 1st inning, he hits a two-run homer off Justin Verlander. The Yankees go deep four times, including Aaron Judge's 250th career homer, to win, 6 - 2. Incidentally, Judge had been the last Bronx Bomber to start off his career with a long ball, back in 2016.
• 2024 - Garrett Crochet opens his start against the Mets by striking out the first seven batters he faces in succession, tying an American League record held by three other pitchers. The good news ends here for the White Sox however, as they are shut out for the 15th time this season, losing 2 - 0 to complete a winless ten-game home stand. The loss is their 107th of the year, eclipsing the franchise record set in 1970.

Births

• 1848 - Warren Burtis, umpire (d. 1911)
• 1850 - Jim O'Rourke, outfielder, manager; Hall of Famer (d. 1919)
• 1863 - George McMillan, outfielder (d. 1920)
• 1863 - Darby O'Brien, outfielder (d. 1893)
• 1866 - James J. Corbett, minor league infielder (d. 1933)
• 1876 - Jimmy Wiggs, pitcher (d. 1963)
• 1877 - Cy Ferry, pitcher (d. 1938)
• 1880 - Wild Bill Clark, minor league pitcher and manager (d. 1943)
• 1885 - Chuck Rose, pitcher (d. 1961)
• 1888 - Polly Wolfe, outfielder (d. 1938)
• 1889 - Chuck Tompkins, pitcher (d. 1975)
• 1890 - Sam Brenegan, catcher (d. 1956)
• 1891 - Arthur Duchesnil, minor league pitcher (d. 1926)
• 1891 - Austin Walsh, outfielder (d. 1955)
• 1894 - Red Baldwin, minor league catcher (d. 1956)
• 1894 - Fred Nicholson, outfielder (d. 1972)
• 1896 - Maywood Brown, pitcher (d. 1963)
• 1897 - Hilda Chester, fan (d. 1978)
• 1898 - Ed Goebel, outfielder (d. 1959)
• 1900 - Hub Pruett, pitcher (d. 1982)
• 1903 - Foster Edwards, pitcher (d. 1980)
• 1903 - Freddie Moncewicz, infielder (d. 1969)
• 1912 - Masao Nishimura, NPB outfielder and manager (d. 2002)
• 1912 - Ham Schulte, infielder (d. 1993)
• 1912 - Claude Wilborn, outfielder (d. 1992)
• 1913 - Joe Marty, outfielder (d. 1984)
• 1913 - Henry Turner, catcher (d. ????)
• 1916 - Ziggy Marcell, catcher (d. 1990)
• 1917 - Paul Campbell, infielder (d. 2006)
• 1918 - Joe Brown, general manager (d. 2010)
• 1918 - Jim Mallory, outfielder (d. 2001)
• 1919 - Gil Garrido, infielder (d. ????)
• 1919 - Jim Hopper, pitcher (d. 1982)
• 1919 - Bill Ricks, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1987)
• 1921 - Joe Erautt, catcher (d. 1976)
• 1921 - Michio Nishizawa, NPB infielder and pitcher; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1977)
• 1921 - Clyde Nelson, infielder; All-Star (d. 1949)
• 1922 - Joe Astroth, catcher (d. 2013)
• 1922 - Vic Barnhart, infielder (d. 2017)
• 1924 - Ed Samcoff, infielder (d. 2018)
• 1927 - Cloyd Boyer, pitcher (d. 2021)
• 1927 - Tom Burgess, infielder (d. 2008)
• 1927 - Bob DiPietro, outfielder (d. 2012)
• 1929 - Mava Thomas, AAGPBL player (d. 2013)
• 1930 - Dean Stone, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2018)
• 1935 - Dong-jun Seo, South Korea national team pitcher (d. 2014)
• 1936 - Pedro Pérez, minor league pitcher
• 1938 - Merlin Nippert, pitcher
• 1939 - Rico Carty, outfielder; All-Star
• 1940 - Pat House, pitcher
• 1943 - Fred Rath, pitcher
• 1946 - Monty Montgomery, pitcher
• 1947 - Craig Skok, pitcher
• 1947 - Hans Slaap, Hoofdklasse infielder (d. 2023)
• 1948 - Dick Lange, pitcher
• 1949 - Gary Ignasiak, pitcher
• 1949 - Garry Maddox, outfielder
• 1950 - Kenny Brooks, minor league pitcher
• 1950 - Manny Crespo, minor league infielder and manager
• 1950 - Hsu-Feng Tsai, CPBL pitcher
• 1951 - Rex Goodson, minor league outfielder
• 1953 - Rob Wilfong, infielder
• 1957 - Dave Rucker, pitcher
• 1957 - Kazuhiro Yamauchi, NPB pitcher
• 1962 - Tetsuya Okubo, Japanese national team coach
• 1963 - Brad Pounders, minor league infielder
• 1963 - Jesús Ríos, minor league pitcher; Salon de la Fama
• 1963 - Sheng-Feng Tsai, CPBL outfielder (d. 2018)
• 1964 - Vinnie Degifico, minor league infielder (d. 2022)
• 1964 - Luis Lopez, catcher/infielder
• 1964 - David West, pitcher (d. 2022)
• 1964 - Tsung-Lung Yu, CPBL infielder
• 1965 - Johnny Almaraz, minor league pitcher
• 1965 - Tadami Nakatani, NPB outfielder
• 1967 - Chris Ebright, college coach
• 1968 - Daisei Sugimoto, NPB umpire
• 1970 - Ken Bonifay, minor league infielder
• 1971 - Hideshi Honda, NPB umpire
• 1971 - Derek Wallace, pitcher
• 1972 - David Allen, minor league pitcher
• 1972 - Bill Blanchette, minor league pitcher
• 1972 - Kevin Orie, infielder
• 1972 - John Patton, minor league pitcher
• 1972 - Gil Perez, minor league pitcher
• 1974 - Jeff Andrews, minor league pitcher
• 1976 - Lance Davis, pitcher
• 1976 - Yoshihiro Doi, NPB pitcher
• 1978 - Stephen Smitherman, outfielder
• 1980 - Shogo Akada, NPB outfielder
• 1981 - Luis Rojas, manager
• 1982 - Omar Falcon, minor league catcher
• 1982 - Gilberto Mejia, minor league infielder and manager
• 1983 - José Constanza, outfielder
• 1983 - Kyle Reynolds, minor league infielder
• 1984 - Marlon Arias, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Brian Broderick, pitcher
• 1986 - Kyle Ginley, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Aaron Pribanic, minor league pitcher
• 1987 - David Carpenter, pitcher
• 1987 - Trey Manz, minor league catcher
• 1987 - Sean O'Sullivan, pitcher
• 1987 - Trayvon Robinson, outfielder
• 1988 - Ray Hernandez, minor league pitcher and manager
• 1988 - Taichi Ishiyama, NPB pitcher
• 1989 - Brian Aanderud, minor league infielder
• 1989 - Zach Babitt, minor league infielder
• 1989 - Ruben Tejada, infielder
• 1990 - Francisco Martinez, minor league infielder
• 1990 - Jennald Pareja, Philippines national team infielder
• 1990 - Ydwin Villegas, minor league infielder and manager
• 1991 - Seon-gi Kim, minor league pitcher
• 1991 - Aren Kuri, NPB pitcher
• 1991 - Trey Nielsen, minor league pitcher
• 1992 - José Soler, Puerto Rican national team pitcher
• 1993 - Shota Imanaga, pitcher; All-Star
• 1993 - Johan Klarberg, Elitserien outfielder
• 1993 - Tsu-Yang Peng, Taiwan national team designated hitter
• 1995 - Eduard Bazardo, pitcher
• 1995 - Jared Johnson, minor league pitcher
• 1996 - Endy Morales, college coach
• 1997 - Anthony Veneziano, pitcher
• 1998 - Kuan-Ting Chang, CPBL outfielder
• 1999 - Jordan Wicks, pitcher
• 2000 - Derwin Barreto, minor league infielder
• 2000 - Josh Wolf, minor league pitcher
• 2003 - Nien-En Kong, CPBL outfielder
• 2005 - Sheng-En Lin, minor league infielder

Deaths

• 1872 - Al Thake, outfielder (b. 1849)
• 1890 - Ben Young, umpire (b. 1859)
• 1891 - A.C. Bredberg, umpire (b. 1850)
• 1895 - Aaron Burt Champion, executive (b. 1842)
• 1923 - Frank McManus, catcher (b. 1874)
• 1930 - John Reccius, outfielder (b. 1859)
• 1940 - Gus Dundon, infielder (b. 1874)
• 1943 - Joe Connolly, outfielder (b. 1884)
• 1943 - Eddie Matteson, pitcher (b. 1884)
• 1949 - Larry McClure, outfielder (b. 1884)
• 1951 - Bill Klem Hall of Famer (b. 1874)
• 1954 - Wimpy Quinn, pitcher (b. 1918)
• 1955 - Jim Oglesby, infielder (b. 1905)
• 1957 - Sakae Suzuka, inventor; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1888)
• 1962 - Hank Garrity, catcher (b. 1908)
• 1962 - Duke Shirey, pitcher (b. 1898)
• 1965 - Ivy Olson, infielder (b. 1885)
• 1965 - Kotaro Mori, NPB pitcher (b. 1915)
• 1967 - Floyd Kranson, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1913)
• 1970 - Ben Spencer, outfielder (b. 1890)
• 1976 - Mike Meola, pitcher (b. 1905)
• 1979 - Buck Ewing, catcher (b. 1903)
• 1980 - Frank LaManna, pitcher (b. 1919)
• 1984 - Tsutomu Ina, NPB pitcher (b. 1934)
• 1987 - Karl Condon, minor league infielder (b. 1897)
• 1987 - Pinky Whitney, infielder; All-Star (b. 1905)
• 1988 - Teruo Namiki, NPB infielder (b. 1938)
• 1990 - Buster Adams, outfielder (b. 1915)
• 1994 - Bob Greenwood, pitcher (b. 1928)
• 1995 - Dick Bouknight, minor league catcher (b. 1919)
• 1999 - Doc Marshall, infielder (b. 1906)
• 1999 - Boots Poffenberger, pitcher (b. 1915)
• 2003 - Hector Rodriguez, infielder (b. 1920)
• 2006 - Ted Davidson, pitcher (b. 1939)
• 2007 - Mel Roberts, coach (b. 1943)
• 2010 - Don Lang, infielder (b. 1915)
• 2014 - Rogers McKee, pitcher (b. 1926)
• 2014 - Charlie Powell, minor league player (b. 1932)
• 2016 - Doo-yeol Yoo, KBO infielder (b. 1956)
• 2017 - Elby Bushong, minor league catcher (b. 1944)
• 2017 - Paul Schaal, infielder (b. 1943)
• 2017 - Stan Swanson, outfielder (b. 1944)
• 2018 - Rico Carty, Jr., minor league infielder (b. 1971)
• 2019 - David Sawicki, college coach (b. 1972)
• 2022 - John Gamble, infielder (b. 1948)
• 2022 - Alejo O'Reilly, Serie Nacional infielder (b. 1961)
• 2024 - Bob Blaylock, pitcher (b. 1935)