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Events

• 1902 - In a doubleheader with the Orioles, the A's bring Rube Waddell in for eight innings of relief in the opening win. Rube comes back to pitch another two innings of relief in the nitecap to pick up his second win for the day. It won't happen again until 1915.
• 1904:
  • A crowd of 15,250 cheer the first-place Giants to a pair of one-run wins over the Phillies. Roger Bresnahan's 9th-inning triple scores two in the opener, as Hooks Wiltse earns his 11th straight win. Luther Taylor wins the nitecap, 6 - 5, as the Giants finish four straight doubleheaders with five victories, a loss and a tie. New York leads the second-place Cubs by 17 games.
  • The A's Eddie Plank and Boston's Cy Young face each other, with the Athletics prevailing, 1 - 0, in 13 innings.
• 1908:
  • Bull Durham of the Indianapolis Indians pitches and wins both ends of a doubleheader against the Toledo Mud Hens. This is the fifth doubleheader this season in which Durham has accomplished this feat. Previously he beat the Milwaukee Brewers (June 14), Columbus Senators (July 18), St. Paul Apostles (July 25), and the Louisville Colonels (August 8).
  • Detroit takes its second straight extra-inning game from the White Sox, 6 - 5, in 11 innings, and the Naps beat the Browns, 5 - 2. The American League race leaves Detroit 75-52, Chicago 72-57, St. Louis 71-57.
• 1912:
  • Philadelphia A's rookie Stan Coveleski makes his first appearance in the majors and shuts out Detroit, 3 - 0.
  • Boston's Smoky Joe Wood wins his 15th straight, with 9th-inning relief help from Charley Hall, beating the White Sox, 5 - 4. He scatters 12 hits and strikes out five. There is some question about which pitcher should receive credit for the win, but American League president Ban Johnson will rule in favor of Wood.
• 1913 - Honus Wagner is given a souvenir bat carved from a piece of wood taken from naval hero Oliver Perry's flagship Niagara, which was sunk in Lake Erie 100 years earlier.
• 1915:
  • Boston's Babe Ruth wins his 15th of the year, stopping the visiting A's, 7 - 2, on six hits. Ruth, third in the American League in hitting, although with two few plate appearances to qualify for the batting title, is 0 for 4 at the plate.
  • St. Louis (Federal League) pitcher Dave Davenport follows up his no-hitter of three days ago with a two-hitter, beating Newark, 3 - 0.
  • Rogers Hornsby, brought up a week earlier from Class D Denison (Western Association), makes his major league debut for the Cardinals. With the Cards trailing the Reds, 7 - 0, after six innings, Hornsby plays shortstop and goes hitless in two appearances against Cincinnati rookie King Lear, who wins, 7 - 1.
• 1917 - A red-hot Grover Alexander, chasing thirty wins, beats the Braves, 5 - 2, for the Phils.
• 1918 - Players on both sides of the World Series threaten to strike unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers. They back off, however, when told they will appear greedy while their countrymen are fighting a war. There are no fines, but no World Series rings or mementos are given out this year. On the field, Hippo Vaughn comes back with two days of rest and blanks the Red Sox, 3 - 0, on five hits in Game 5.
• 1919 - The Indians' Ray Caldwell, struck by lightning two weeks earlier, no-hits his former teammates the Yankees, 3 - 0, at the Polo Grounds.
• 1921 - Catcher Wally Schang has five of the Yankees' 21 hits as the New Yorkers wallop the A's, 19 - 3. A major league record-tying five Yankees collect two hits in the 9th inning: Schang, Carl Mays, Elmer Miller, Roger Peckinpaugh, and Babe Ruth. Ruth's second hit, a single, hits Peck for the third out. Winning P Mays gives up 13 hits to Philadelphia in winning his 16th straight over them.
• 1922 - The Yankees play their farewell home game in the Polo Grounds. An estimated 40,000 overflow the stadium with another 25,000 turned away. Joe Bush beats the Philadelphia A's, 10 - 3, in the opener, and Waite Hoyt edges the A's in the second, 2 - 1. Plans are in the works to expand the park to 56,000 capacity, but this is the last regular season American League game at the Polo Grounds. The Yanks will play their next 18 games on the road, before facing their landlords, the New York Giants, in the World Series, and then open in Yankee Stadium next spring.
• 1924 - At the Polo Grounds, the Giants rip the Braves, 22 - 1, in the opener of a doubleheader. Frankie Frisch goes 6 for 6 before grounding out.
• 1925 - Bob Meusel, Babe Ruth, and Lou Gehrig hit successive homers in the 4th inning of the first game versus the A's, all off Dolly Gray. New York wins, 7 - 3. Then, Ruth and OF Ben Paschal hit back-to-back homers in the 4th inning of the second game, but New York loses, 5 - 4.
• 1926 - In the Browns' 5 - 4 win over the White Sox, pitcher Win Ballou stops Harry McCurdy's consecutive hit streak at ten; Win also wins.
• 1928 - The Giants gain 1 1/2 games on the Cards and Cubs by winning two from Boston while the leaders lose. Fred Fitzsimmons wins the opener for the Giants, 4 - 1, and Joe Genewich wins the nitecap, 11 - 0.
• 1933 - The first Negro League East-West All-Star Game is played at Comiskey Park. Willie Foster goes the distance in the West's 11 - 7 victory.
• 1934:
  • Burleigh Grimes, in his second stint with the Pirates this year, picks up his 270th win, in relief, as the Pirates beat the Giants, 9 - 7. It is the Hall of Famer's last major league win.
  • Dizzy Dean wins his 25th game, beating the Phillies, 4 - 1. It is the fifth straight for the Cards, now four games behind.
• 1935:
  • Chicago beats the Braves, 4 - 0, behind Charlie Root for their seventh straight win. Freddie Lindstrom is the batting star with a double and single to drive home a pair as Chicago stays a game behind the Cardinals and one and a half ahead of the Giants. The Giants win a pair today, 4 - 3 and 4 - 2, over the Pirates, while the Cards score three in the 8th to edge the Phils, 4 - 2.
  • The Browns triumph, 8 - 6, over the A's, handing the Mackmen their 13th straight loss. Jimmie Foxx is 2 for 3 for the A's.
  • Washington's Bobo Newsom scatters six hits to shut out the leading Tigers, 6 - 0. Schoolboy Rowe pitches six innings to take the loss.
• 1938 - Jimmie Foxx of the Red Sox hits two home runs in a game for the ninth time this season, breaking a record held by Babe Ruth and Hack Wilson.
• 1940 - Former major league infielder Sam Crane, serving time for the 1930 murder of his former sweetheart and her boyfriend, starts parole proceedings.
• 1941 - Johnny Schmitz makes his major league debut and notches a victory by throwing only one pitch in the 9th inning of the Cubs' 5 - 4 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
• 1950:
  • The Red Sox win their 22nd in a row at home from the Athletics, 6 - 2, a streak dating back to 1949. The Red Sox won all 11 games two years in a row.
  • San Francisco (Pacific Coast League) lefty Al Lien throws a 17-inning, 1 - 0, shutout over the Hollywood Stars.
  • In an 8 - 1 victory over the Washington Senators, Yankee clipper Joe DiMaggio becomes the first major leaguer to hit three home runs at Griffith Stadium.
• 1955 - OF Hank Bauer of the Yankees, pressed into emergency service as a catcher, permits a passed ball, setting up the winning run in a 9 - 8 loss to the White Sox.
• 1958:
  • Dick Stuart clouts a 10th-inning homer to give Bob Friend his 20th win of the year as the Pirates beat the Giants, 6 - 4.
  • In Cleveland, 50,021 fans turn out for "Back the Indians" night. It is Cleveland's largest crowd since 1955, but the Yankees dampen the enthusiasm with an 8 - 3 win.
• 1959:
  • Mickey Mantle goes 5 for 6, including a home run, in a 12 - 1 romp over Kansas City's Ray Herbert.
  • Brothers Jim and Ed Bailey form the battery for the Cincinnati Reds in the second game of a doubleheader against the Cubs. Jim is charged with the 6 - 3 loss in his major league debut.
• 1960 - In Detroit, Mickey Mantle unloads a cannon shot for three runs in the 6th inning, the ball clearing the right field roof and landing in the Brooks Lumber Yard across Trumbull Avenue. New York pins a 5 - 1 loss on Paul Foytack that moves them a half game in first place ahead of Baltimore, losers today. In June, 1985, Mantle's blow will retroactively be measured at 643 feet, and will be listed in The Guinness Book of World Records at that distance.
• 1961:
  • The Reds' Bob Purkey allows just two hits in beating the visiting Cards, 5 - 2.
  • The Yankees sweep the Indians, 7 - 6 and 9 - 3, their 12th win in a row at home, and the Indians' 20th loss in a row at Yankee Stadium. Mickey Mantle hits home run number 53 in the nitecap, while Roger Maris, homerless, stays at 56. The official scorecard credits Mantle with two runs scored: it will be discovered in 1995 that one of the runs should go to Bill Skowron. In the second game, Clete Boyer sends a Jim Perry pitch into the left field corner that hits the lower deck of the grandstand and bounces back into play. While home plate umpire Joe Linsalata calls it a home run, the other two umps agree with Tribe CF Jimmy Piersall who contends the ball is in play. Boyer's home run trot is interrupted at 3B with a tag out.
  • At Chicago, the Phillies score seven runs in the 7th, including Don Demeter's grand slam, and notch six more in the 8th to beat the Cubs, 14 - 6. There is some solace for the Cubs as they introduce a pair of gems: Ken Hubbs debuts with two hits and two runs and Lou Brock has one hit, one run and a pair of errors.
• 1962:
  • Against Hank Aguirre, Mickey Mantle clouts a 4th-inning home run, the 400th of his career, to tie the game, 1 - 1. The Yanks score two in the 9th off Aguirre to beat Detroit, 3 - 1. The victory, combined with a Minnesota loss, gives the Yanks a three-and-a-half-game lead over the Twins. The surprising Angels are in third place, four games back.
  • The Angels' Dean Chance loses his no-hit bid when Zoilo Versalles singles in the 8th inning for the only Twins hit. Chance wins, 5 - 0.
• 1963:
  • At New York, the Giants trail, 3 - 0, after seven innings when manager Alvin Dark sends up three consecutive Alous to bat in the 8th. Pinch hitter Jesus Alou grounds out, pinch hitter Matty Alou strikes out, and leadoff hitter Felipe Alou bounces back to P Carlton Willey. The Giants lose, 4 - 2. Willie McCovey's 38th homer and Orlando Cepeda's 29th account for San Francisco's scoring.
  • Stan Musial hits a home run in his first at bat as a grandfather, and Bob Gibson (17-8) blanks the Cubs, 8 - 0.
• 1964:
  • Baltimore tops the Senators, 12 - 5, despite Brooks Robinson hitting into his second triple play. Brooks will hit into a record four triple killings by the time he hangs up his glove.
  • The Phils split a two-game series with the Cards and build a six-game lead in the National League on Chris Short's 5 - 1 win. Short strikes out 12 throwing no curves to win his 16th.
• 1965:
  • Phils rookie Ferguson Jenkins debuts with 4 1/3 innings of relief against the Cardinals and picks up his first victory. Philadelphia wins, 5 - 4, in 12 innings. It is the Phillies' 10,000th game decision since 1900.
  • The Orioles sweep a pair from Kansas City, 5 - 2 and 10 - 5. In the second game, the O's get consecutive home runs by in 8th from Brooks Robinson, Curt Blefary, and Jerry Adair.
• 1966 - Cardinal P Dick Hughes tops the Pirates on Tim McCarver's bases-loaded hit off the right field wall. Pittsburgh falls a game in back of the Dodgers.
• 1967:
  • At Candlestick Park, San Francisco hurler Gaylord Perry's 40-inning team record consecutive scoreless streak comes to an end as the Cubs score an unearned run in the 7th inning of a 2 - 1 loss to Giants. The future Hall of Fame member will match his franchise mark with another string of scoreless innings in 1970.
  • In the first game of a doubleheader, White Sox Joe Horlen no-hits the Tigers, 6 - 0. Cisco Carlos, Hoyt Wilhelm, and Bob Locker combine to shut out Detroit in the second game.
  • Minnesota leads the tight American League race after edging the Orioles, 4 - 2, at Baltimore.
• 1968:
  • Don Wilson, who struck out 18 Reds on July 14th, fans 16 Reds today while pitching the Astros to a 3 - 2 win in the first game. The Reds win the nitecap, 4 - 3.
  • Billy Williams hits three home runs in a game for the first time in his career. It's all the Cubs' scoring, as they beat the Mets, 3 - 1, behind Bill Hands. Added to two home runs on September 8th, Williams has a major league-record-tying five over two straight games.
• 1969:
  • Using a major-league record 27 players in one game, the Royals lose, 11 - 4, at California. Andy Messersmith faces 20 different batters in the complete game win, while Kansas City uses six pitchers. Bubba Morton plays just three innings but drives in five runs.
  • The Mets sweep the Montreal Expos, 3 - 2 in 12 innings and 7 - 1, and move into first place for the first time in their history. Meanwhile, the Cubs drop a 6 - 2 decision to the Phils, and drop to second place, one game back of New York. The Cubs are out of first place after 155 days atop the National League East.
• 1970:
  • Lee May hits a 1st-inning grand slam off Joe Moeller, and the Reds roll to a 13 - 4 win over the host Dodgers.
  • Cleveland whips the Senators, 13 - 4. Frank Howard, with no walks today, hits two homers for Washington. Cleveland pitchers will walk Howard 30 times this season, 12 intentionally.
• 1971:
  • Houston's Jack Billingham scores his second straight 1 - 0 victory, beating Cincinnati five days after victimizing San Francisco.
  • Atlanta's Earl Williams, zeroing in on NL Rookie of the Year honors, makes his 31st home run one prodigious and almost perfectly symmetrical complement to its April 18th counterpart. Just as Williams' third home run was the first ever to reach the upper deck in newly opened Veterans Stadium, his third-from-last is the fourth, and what will prove to be final, upper-decker in the history of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (preceded, in order of appearance, by Willie Smith, Willie McCovey and Hank Aaron). The 6th-inning solo shot provides the first run, and Aaron's 11th-inning walk-off the final two (bridged by Williams' 8th-inning, game-tying sac fly), in Atlanta's late/extra-inning, three-time-come-from-behind 7 - 5 win over the division-leading Giants.
  • Katsuya Nomura reaches 4,018 total bases to set the Nippon Pro Baseball record.
• 1972 - A round-robin tournament, the World Baseball Championship, replacing the Junior World Series, begins, with Hawaii defeating a team of Caribbean All-Stars 6 - 2. The series proves to be a financial and artistic failure.
• 1973:
  • Against the Giants, Hank Aaron connects for his 37th homer (career #710) in the 3rd inning, and then is lifted in the 4th when he doesn't feel well. Infielder Marty Perez pinch hits for Aaron. Davey Johnson adds his 40th homer of the year.
  • The Brewers reach 70 wins for the first time in franchise history, besting the Tigers. Jim Colborn goes all the way for his 19th win and Dave May hits his 25th home run of the year.
• 1974:
  • Cardinal outfielder Lou Brock ties and breaks Maury Wills' single-season stolen base record with his 104th and 105th swipes against the Phillies.
  • Cubs pinch hitters Carmen Fanzone and Jim Tyrone each clout homers against the Pirates, but the Bucs win, 12 - 4.
  • Former batting champion Alex Johnson, purchased by the Yankees from the Texas Rangers yesterday, arrives in Boston during the Red Sox-Yankee game. With the score tied 1 - 1 in the 12th, Johnson socks a pinch-homer to win it for New York, 2 - 1.
• 1976 - Nolan Ryan hurls a three-hit, 3 - 2, victory for California, fanning 18 White Sox batsmen. Bart Johnson is the losing pitcher.
• 1977:
  • Roy Howell leads the way with 13 total bases (two home runs, two doubles and a single) and nine RBIs as the Blue Jays rout the Yankees, 19 - 3.
  • White Sox knuckleballer Wilbur Wood hits three batters in the 1st inning on the way to a 6 - 1 loss to the Angels. All of Wilbur's plunks are consecutive, tying a record set by Dock Ellis three years ago.
• 1978 - The Red Sox throw 22-year-old Bobby Sprowl at the Yankees and the lefty lasts just two-thirds of an inning, walking three and allowing one hit. The Yankees take the lead and top the Red Sox, 7 - 4, behind Ed Figueroa and Rich Gossage. Boston collects just five hits, including Fred Lynn's 21st homer. The Yankees outhit the Red Sox 67-21, and outscore them 42-9, in a four-game sweep that will become known in lore as the "Boston Massacre". It leaves the teams in a tie for first place, and caps a remarkable Yankee march to the top from fourth place and 14 games out.
• 1980:
  • The Phillies' Marty Bystrom makes his first major league start and beats the Mets, 5 - 0. Bystrom's outstanding pitching down the stretch will be key to the Phillies' winning a division title.
  • Houston moves into a first-place tie with the Dodgers in the NL West by beating Los Angeles, 6 - 5.
  • Montreal freshman Bill Gullickson strikes out 18, the most ever by a rookie, as the Expos beat the Cubs, 4 - 2. His total will be topped by Kerry Wood in 1998.
• 1981 - The Reds send P Doug Bair to the Cards for P Joe Edelen and 2B Neil Fiala.
• 1985 - To bolster their pitching staff for the pennant race, the Angels acquire veteran Don Sutton from the A's for two players to be named later.
• 1986 - Eric Davis leads the Reds to a 14 - 2 pasting of the host Giants by belting three home runs, scoring five runs and knocking in four. His first two homers are off starter Vida Blue.
• 1988 - Orel Hershiser shuts out the Reds, 5 - 0, to become a 20-game winner for the first time. It is his second straight shutout.
• 1989:
  • Five days after hitting a home run for the Yankees in a 12 - 2 win over the Mariners, Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown in his NFL debut with the Atlanta Falcons. Sanders hit .234 in 14 games for New York this year in his first attempt at playing two sports professionally.
  • Cubs rookie Steve Wilson strikes out ten batters in five innings, and relievers add eight more to help beat the Cards, 4 - 1. Fellow rookie Dwight Smith contributes a two-run home run. Chicago leads St. Louis by two and a half games and Montreal by four.
• 1990 - In the first head-to-head match-up of pitchers named Abbott, Jim Abbott's Angels beat Paul Abbott's Twins, 3 - 1. Minnesota's Carmen Castillo pinch hits late in the game to complete the successful "Abbott and Castillo" revival.
• 1992 - The Reds' Glenn Braggs closes out his career by clouting a homer in his last at bat, off Steve Avery. Braggs tears cartilage in his right knee on the swing, and is forced to leave the game. Atlanta eventually wins, 3 - 2.
• 1996:
  • In the Dodgers' 5 - 4 win over the Reds, Brett Butler breaks his hand on a bunt attempt when he is hit by a pitch. The 39-year-old Butler, who battled back from cancer surgery, is out for the year after playing five games.
  • The Expos use nine pitchers in a vain attempt to stop the Cubs. Chicago wins, 10 - 3. The nine pitchers in a regulation game matches the major league mark set by the 1949 Browns, who used nine in a season-ending promotion.
• 1997:
  • The Rangers overcome a five-run deficit in the 9th inning to defeat the Dodgers, 13 - 12. Rusty Greer drives in the winner with a two-out single, the fourth time this year he's done it in the Rangers' final at-bat.
  • The American Association plays its final game tonight in Des Moines, IA with the Buffalo Bisons defeating the Iowa Cubs for the final league title. The Association's existing teams will merge with the International League and the Pacific Coast League in 1998.
  • In a 7 - 6 loss to the Giants, Cardinal Mark McGwire becomes only the second player in major league history to hit 50 home runs in consecutive seasons. Babe Ruth accomplished the feat twice in the 1920-1921 and 1927-1928 seasons.
• 1999:
  • The Indians score 12 runs in the 4th inning - one short of the American League record for the inning - on their way to a 14 - 6 win over the White Sox.
  • The Rockies call up John Cangelosi from the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, where he has played the past month. The veteran needs 12 days of major league service to reach his ten-year pension.
  • The Red Sox trip the Yankees, 3 - 1, as Pedro Martinez hurls an impressive one-hitter for his 21st victory of the year. Martinez strikes out 17 batters, the most Yankees ever fanned in a single game. DH Chili Davis' 2nd-inning home run is New York's only safety. Chuck Knoblauch, leading off the game, gives the Yankees their only other baserunner; he is caught stealing, so Martinez faces just one over the minimum.
  • Umpires opposed to union chief Richie Phillips announce plans to form a new union and seek certification to represent all umpires.
• 2000 - The Marlins defeat the Diamondbacks, 4 - 3, in 12 innings. Randy Johnson strikes out 14 Florida players in seven innings, including Mike Lowell to end the 4th for his 3,000th career strikeout. He is the 12th hurler to reach the milestone. Johnson's first strikeout of the game gives him 300 for the third consecutive year. Only Nolan Ryan has reached 300 Ks more times (6).
• 2001 - The Cardinals shut out the Brewers, 8 - 0, as Darryl Kile pitches six innings for the win. Mark McGwire hits his 24th homer. Jamey Wright is the loser and also fails to plunk any batters, ending his possible major-league record of hitting a batter in ten straight games.
• 2002:
  • A game after their ten-game win streak ends, the Angels inch closer to the first-place A's with a 6 - 5 win at Anaheim. The A's blow a 4 - 0 lead but the Angels tie in the 4th and go ahead on Shawn Wooten's two-run double in the 6th. The Angels lead the Mariners by six games in the wild card race.
  • Alex Rodriguez breaks the home run record for shortstops he established last season. The Ranger infielder slugs his major league-leading 52nd and 53rd home runs of the season, helping Texas to defeat the Mariners, 3 - 2.
• 2003 - Javy Lopez homers off Phillies righty Vicente Padilla to give the Braves a franchise-record 216 home runs for the season. The 1996 Orioles hold the major league mark with 257 and the Astros established the National League record at 249 in 2000.
• 2007 - Troy Tulowitzki homers off of Kyle Lohse. It is his 20th home run of the season and gives him the record for National League rookie shortstops. Ernie Banks had held the record with 19 for 53 years.
• 2009:
  • Jesús Cota ties the Baseball World Cup record with three home runs as Mexico tops Taiwan, 8 - 0. Cota matches the mark held by Antonio Munoz, Luis Casanova and Sharnol Adriana. In other action in the 2009 Baseball World Cup, defending champion Team USA gets upset, 13 - 9, by the Venezuelan national team as the bullpen allows 12 runs in six innings; grand slams by Dirimo Chavez and Rene Reyes play major roles.
  • The Rockies win their eighth straight game with a 5 - 1 defeat of Cincinnati, highlighted by Garrett Atkins' two-run homer. After a 9-1 homestand, the Rox have a four-and-a-half-game lead in the wild card race and are only two games behind Los Angeles in the NL West.
  • SS Ian Desmond has a memorable major league debut as he homers and drives in four runs in Washington's 8 - 7 victory over Philadelphia. The Nats lead 8 - 2 coming into the 9th, but a pinch grand slam by Matt Stairs and a run-scoring double by Shane Victorino bring the Phils within one. Ron Villone ends the comeback attempt by inducing Ryan Howard to ground into a game-ending double play.
• 2010 - The Yankees and Rangers set a major league record by using a combined 19 pitchers in a 13-inning game, won, 6 - 5, by the Rangers in Arlington, TX. Scott Feldman, normally a starter, records the win by pitching a scoreless 13th inning as the 11th hurler used by Texas, which itself ties a major league record. The Rangers win the game when Nelson Cruz leads off the bottom of the 13th inning with a homer off Chad Gaudin.
• 2011:
  • Dan Haren pitches a four-hit shutout, denying CC Sabathia his bid for his 20th win of the year, as the Angels blank the Yankees, 6 - 0. The win moves the Halos to within one and a half games of the AL West-leading Texas Rangers. The Angels score their last five runs off rookies Hector Noesi and George Kontos, after Sabathia departs after six innings, trailing, 1 - 0. Jorge Posada is pressed into service behind the plate for the first time this season for the Yankees after Russell Martin leaves the game with a bruised thumb in the 2nd inning.
  • The Rays are also making a playoff push, beating the Red Sox, 6 - 5, to cut another game off their lead in the Wild Card race. Rays closer Jeff Farnsworth suffers a blown save when he gives up back-to-back homers to Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Jacoby Ellsbury with one out in the 9th inning to tie the game at 5-all. Farnsworth then issues a double to Dustin Pedroia and walks Adrian Gonzalez, but Cesar Ramos steps in to get the Rays out of the jam. In the bottom of the 11th, the Rays win the game when Desmond Jennings hits a lead-off triple and Evan Longoria drives him in with a single.
  • T&A San Marino cruises to its second Italian Baseball League title, beating Nettuno, 10 - 1, in Game 7 of the 2011 Italian Series. Henry Bonilla and Darwin Cubillan combine on the pitching, while Carlos Duran and Giovanni Pantaleoni both hit two-run homers in the 2nd inning. Shortstop Anthony Granato is named Series MVP; he went deep three times and drove in nine from the leadoff slot.
• 2013 - Clay Buchholz is victorious in his return to the mound for the Red Sox after being out since June with a strained neck. He gives up no runs over five innings to improve to 10-0 on the year as the Sox blank the Rays, 2 - 0.
• 2015 - The last-place Phillies fire General Manager Ruben Amaro Jr. Such a decision was widely expected after the Phillies hired Andy MacPhail to be the team's new President in June.
• 2016 - Rich Hill throws seven perfect innings against the Marlins, but is pulled by Dodgers manager Dave Roberts because of concern over a previous blister problem. Joe Blanton takes over in the 8th, but after two outs he gives up a single to Jeff Francoeur. Dee Gordon adds another single with two outs in the 9th, but the Dodgers win, 5 - 0. In the 7th, RF Yasiel Puig had kept Hill's bid alive with a superb diving catch, depriving Martin Prado of a likely extra-base hit. It's the second time this year that Roberts removes a pitcher with a no-hit bid going late in a game, having done the same to rookie Ross Stripling back in April.
• 2017:
  • The Nationals become the first team to clinch a postseason slot this season, after a 3 - 2 win over the Phillies combined with the Marlins' 10 - 8 loss to the Braves. It is the first time in franchise history that the Nats win back-to-back division titles.
  • The USA junior national team wins the 2017 U-18 Baseball World Cup for their ninth title (two shy of all-time leader Cuba) and fourth in a row. In the Gold Medal game, they romp past South Korea, 8 - 0. Matthew Liberatore, Mitchell Wilson, Mason Denaburg and J.T. Ginn combine on a four-hitter while tourney MVP Triston Casas scores two, drives in three, doubles and homers. Five-time Gold Medalist South Korea gets its first Silver. In the Bronze Medal Game, Japan tops host Canada, 8 - 1, for its first Bronze (it had won four Silvers but no Golds or Bronzes before).
  • The Toros de Tijuana take revenge on the Pericos de Puebla in the Mexican League finals; after losing last year's title matches to Puebla, Tijuana takes four of five for this year's championship. In Game 5, they hit five home runs off five different pitchers in a 15 - 3 rout. Corey Brown scores four, Dustin Martin hits a grand slam and Cyle Hankerd drives in four to back winning hurler Miguel Pena, while Josh Roenicke takes the loss. Roberto Lopez is named finals MVP after hitting .455 and driving in six.
• 2019:
  • The Austrian national team wins its first European Championship game. After going 0-6 in their prior appearance, in 2007, and starting the 2019 European Championship 0-3, they pound Croatia, 12 - 1, in a seven-inning mercy rule rout. Alex Seidl allows just two hits in going the distance, Dominik Talir cracks a grand slam and Samuel Hackl drives in three.
  • With a 7 - 3 win over the Orioles, the Dodgers clinch their seventh straight NL West division title. Only the Atlanta Braves have done better, with 11 straight titles in the NL East from 1995 to 2005.
• 2022:
  • 42-year-old Albert Pujols, who has stated many times that he will retire at the end of the season, hits his 17th homer of the year and #696 of his career off J.T. Brubaker of the Pirates in the 6th inning of a 7 - 5 Cardinals win to tie Alex Rodriguez for fourth place on the all-time list. He will pass him by hitting another homer tomorrow.
  • The Rättvik Butchers win their first Swedish title in 20 years. They sweep the Leksand Lumberjacks in the Elitserien finals, three games to nine. In today's 11 - 5 win, Oskar Jerfsten drives in three and Joel Johnson scores three while Joe Wittig gets the win over Jakob Syrén.
• 2023:
  • Japan wins its first world junior title, taking down host and previously unbeaten Taiwan in the finale of the 2023 U-18 Baseball World Cup, 2 - 1. Yugo Maeda shakes off a 1st-inning run to finish with a four-hit complete game and Minato Maruta scores the winning run. For the first time, Asian teams sweep the medals, as South Korea topples defending champion USA, 4 - 0, in the Bronze Medal Game.
  • Four Brewers pitchers keep the Yankees hitless until the 11th, with Corbin Burnes (8 innings), Devin Williams and Abner Uribe (both 1 inning) combining to strike out 11 over the first ten innings. The Brewers score once in the top of the 11th, but after one out, Joel Payamps allows a double to Oswaldo Cabrera, cashing in the designated runner to end the no-hit bid and tie the score again. Both teams score twice in the 12th, including a two-run homer by New York's Giancarlo Stanton, before Kyle Higashioka finally ends it with a run-scoring double off Hoby Milner in the 13th for a 4 - 3 final score. The Yankees almost win the game with two outs in the 10th when Anthony Volpe sends a long drive to the wall with a runner on base; OFs Sal Frelick and Joey Wiemer collide at full speed, but Frelick manages to hang on to the ball for a fantastic inning-ending catch that keeps the no-hitter and the scoreless tie alive.
• 2024 - By leading off the bottom of the 1st with a homer off Taj Bradley at Citizens Bank Park, Kyle Schwarber sets a new record with his 14th leadoff homer of the season. The Phillies go on to defeat the Rays, 9 - 4. The previous record holder was Alfonso Soriano, who had hit 13 such long balls for the 2003 Yankees.

Births

• 1843 - Charlie Byrne, manager (d. 1898)
• 1863 - Louis Pelouze, outfielder (d. 1939)
• 1864 - Danny Murphy, catcher (d. 1915)
• 1868 - Dusty Miller, outfielder (d. 1945)
• 1872 - Joe Berry, catcher (d. 1961)
• 1875 - Mike Lynch, outfielder (d. 1947)
• 1875 - Hub Knoll, minor league outfielder (d. 1906)
• 1880 - Harry Niles, outfielder (d. 1953)
• 1880 - Barney Pelty, pitcher (d. 1939)
• 1881 - Tony Tonneman, catcher (d. 1951)
• 1884 - Jack Lapp, catcher (d. 1920)
• 1886 - Blaine Durbin, outfielder (d. 1943)
• 1888 - Marty Krug, infielder (d. 1966)
• 1891 - Joe Evers, pinch runner (d. 1949)
• 1895 - George Kelly, infielder; Hall of Famer (d. 1984)
• 1896 - Sammy Hale, infielder (d. 1974)
• 1897 - Poindexter Williams, catcher, manager (d. 1969)
• 1899 - Augie Johns, pitcher (d. 1975)
• 1902 - Johnnie Oden, infielder (d. 1972)
• 1904 - Arlie Tarbert, outfielder (d. 1946)
• 1904 - Hoss Walker, infielder and manager (d. 1984)
• 1905 - Steve Bysco, minor league pitcher and manager (d. ????)
• 1905 - James Calleran, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1965)
• 1905 - Irv Jeffries, infielder (d. 1982)
• 1910 - Buddy Blair, infielder (d. 1996)
• 1910 - Eddie Sawyer, manager (d. 1997)
• 1911 - Johnnie Chambers, pitcher (d. 1977)
• 1919 - Frank Pearson, pitcher (d. 1977)
• 1924 - Ted Kluszewski, infielder; All-Star (d. 1988)
• 1926 - Lew Fauth, minor league pitcher (d. 2017)
• 1926 - Homer Ray Wilson, minor league infielder/manager
• 1927 - Brandy Davis, outfielder (d. 2005)
• 1928 - Bob Garber, pitcher (d. 1999)
• 1928 - Romualdo Urías, minor league infielder (d. 2004)
• 1931 - Harry Anderson, outfielder (d. 1998)
• 1934 - Roger Maris, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1985)
• 1940 - Bob Chance, infielder (d. 2013)
• 1941 - José Miguel Pineda, Cuban league manager
• 1944 - Jim Hibbs, pinch hitter
• 1947 - Junzo Uchida, NPB outfielder
• 1949 - Bob Elliott, writer
• 1951 - Randy Wiles, pitcher (d. 2015)
• 1954 - Craig Cacek, infielder
• 1954 - Preston Hanna, pitcher (d. 2023)
• 1957 - Len Whitehouse, pitcher
• 1958 - Hideaki Takazawa, NPB outfielder
• 1959 - Bruce Robbins, pitcher
• 1961 - Melan Borja, Guam national team catcher (d. 2017)
• 1961 - Tadahiro Sakaemura, NPB outfielder
• 1963 - Randy Johnson, pitcher; All-Star; Hall of Fame
• 1963 - Terry Wells, pitcher
• 1964 - Joe Kraemer, pitcher
• 1964 - Kuang-Hung Lin, CPBL pitcher and coach
• 1964 - Peter Vogler, Australian national team outfielder
• 1965 - Antonio Scull, Cuban league infielder
• 1965 - Tim Sherrill, pitcher
• 1966 - Riccardo Ingram, outfielder (d. 2015)
• 1966 - Chris Leach, minor league outfielder
• 1970 - Emiliano Ginanneschi, Italian Baseball League pitcher
• 1970 - Jamie Wolkosky, Canadian national team pitcher
• 1972 - Freddie Diaz, minor league infielder
• 1972 - Juan Dilone, minor league outfielder and manager
• 1973 - Darryl Gonsalves, South African national team catcher
• 1973 - Mike Saipe, pitcher
• 1977 - Danys Baez, pitcher; All-Star
• 1977 - Massimo Casseri, Serie A1 pitcher
• 1977 - Chad Hermansen, outfielder
• 1978 - Nick Green, infielder
• 1979 - Tomoshi Aoki, minor league outfielder
• 1979 - Troy Doering, college coach
• 1979 - Bas de Jong, Hoofdklasse outfielder
• 1981 - Po-Ching Chiang, CPBL pitcher
• 1981 - Jeremy Cleveland, scout
• 1981 - Kameron Loe, pitcher
• 1981 - Connor Robertson, pitcher
• 1982 - Cibney Bello, minor league pitcher
• 1982 - Yasutaka Hattori, NPB pitcher
• 1983 - Lance Pendleton, pitcher
• 1983 - Joey Votto, infielder; All-Star
• 1984 - Quensley Bazoer, Hoofdklasse outfielder
• 1984 - Andrew Brown, infielder
• 1984 - Skylar Meade, college coach
• 1984 - David Mixon, minor league pitcher
• 1985 - Matt Angle, outfielder
• 1985 - Ryan Powell, scout
• 1985 - Anthony Swarzak, pitcher
• 1985 - Neil Walker, infielder
• 1986 - Jeffrey Arends, Hoofdklasse infielder and manager
• 1986 - Amalio Diaz, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - O'Leary Ise, Palauan national team infielder
• 1986 - Justin Toole, minor league infielder
• 1987 - Paul Goldschmidt, infielder; All-Star
• 1987 - Philipp Howard, Bundesliga infielder
• 1987 - James Murrey, French Division I pitcher
• 1988 - Billy Rowell, minor league infielder
• 1991 - Wes Darvill, minor league infielder
• 1991 - Fidencio Flores, minor league pitcher
• 1991 - Gionny Fracchiolla, minor league pitcher
• 1991 - Alex Hebert, USA women's national team catcher
• 1992 - Phillip Evans, infielder
• 1992 - Jack Graham, minor league infielder
• 1992 - Gerardo Juárez, minor league pitcher
• 1992 - Chad Kuhl, pitcher
• 1992 - Kyle Smith, minor league pitcher
• 1992 - Mitch Walding, infielder
• 1993 - Ayendy Pérez, minor league outfielder
• 1994 - Ray Kerr, pitcher
• 1994 - Dustin Peterson, outfielder
• 1994 - Ting Chuan Oscar Tay, Singaporean national team outfielder
• 1995 - Mike Baumann, pitcher
• 1995 - Luis González, outfielder
• 1996 - Carlos Pérez, catcher
• 1996 - Blake Perkins, outfielder
• 1998 - Iván Houellemont, minor league infielder
• 1998 - Landen Roupp, pitcher
• 1999 - Pao-Chi Hsieh, CPBL pitcher
• 1999 - Yuto Koga, NPB catcher
• 2001 - Denae Benites, USA women's national team catcher
• 2001 - Miguel Gómez, minor league pitcher
• 2001 - Juan Guerrero, minor league outfielder
• 2001 - Chia-Hsiang Lee, CPBL pitcher
• 2001 - Marco Luciano, infielder
• 2003 - Ji-min Choi, KBO pitcher
• 2003 - Tzu-Chieh Tien, CPBL outfielder
• 2004 - Yerko Mora, Chilean national team pitcher

Deaths

• 1905 - Pete Browning, outfielder (b. 1861)
• 1918 - Ed Cassian, pitcher (b. 1867)
• 1926 - Llewellyn Legg, minor league infielder (b. ~1856)
• 1935 - Pug Bennett, infielder (b. 1874)
• 1940 - Bill Shipke, infielder (b. 1880)
• 1951 - Hank DeBerry, catcher (b. 1894)
• 1955 - Shano Collins, outfielder, manager (b. 1885)
• 1956 - Eddie Brown, outfielder (b. 1891)
• 1957 - Sam Ferraris, minor league pitcher (b. 1888)
• 1958 - Arlas Taylor, pitcher (b. 1896)
• 1962 - Bill Herring, pitcher (b. 1893)
• 1969 - William Barbeau, infielder (b. 1882)
• 1971 - Jimmie Humphries, minor league player, manager and owner (b. 1889)
• 1973 - Roy Johnson, outfielder (b. 1903)
• 1975 - Lance Richbourg, outfielder (b. 1897)
• 1976 - Otis Carter, outfielder (b. 1902)
• 1980 - Honey Lott, infielder/outfielder (b. 1925)
• 1984 - Jackie Gallagher, outfielder (b. 1902)
• 1984 - Johnny Marcum, pitcher (b. 1909)
• 1988 - Yoshio Gomi, NPB infielder (b. 1917)
• 2006 - Al Gardella, infielder (b. 1918)
• 2006 - Al Kubski, scout (b. 1916)
• 2007 - Kiro Osafune, NPB executive; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1924)
• 2012 - Tom Saffell, outfielder (b. 1921)
• 2013 - Lou Ott, minor league infielder (b. 1925)
• 2014 - Grant Dunlap, outfielder (b. 1923)
• 2014 - George Spencer, pitcher (b. 1926)