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- 1845 - Alexander Cartwright presents the first set of baseball rules, 20 in total.
- 1883 - Cleveland's one-arm pitcher Hugh Daily no-hits Philadelphia, 1 - 0.
- 1889 - Old Hoss Radbourn pitches a complete doubleheader for Boston but fails to win either game. After losing the opener to Cleveland, 3 - 0, he has to hit a home run himself in the 9th inning of the nightcap to salvage a 4 - 4 tie.
- 1900 - At the Polo Grounds, Christy Mathewson makes his first start, pitching a complete game loss to the Orphans. Chicago wins, 6 - 5, scoring four runs in the 1st, thanks to an error by 1B Jack Doyle.
- 1901 - The Baltimore Orioles edge the A's, 12 - 10. In the 9th, the A's have the tying runs on base with two out when Connie Mack sends up pinch-hitter Doc Powers to bat for Nap Lajoie, who is sulking and refuses to hit. Powers flies out to end the game.
- 1902 - Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers and Frank Chance play their first game as a SS-2B-1B combo for Chicago. Germany Schaefer is at 3B as Chicago clips St. Louis, 12 - 0.
- 1906 - At St. Louis, Chicago tops the Cardinals, 6 - 2, as Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown wins his 11th straight.
- 1907:
- Pittsburgh's Nick Maddox makes his major league debut and tosses a nifty 4 - 0 shutout over the St. Louis Cards.
- At Washington Park, Christy Mathewson tops Jim Pastorius, 2 - 1, striking out 11 Superbas batters. Dan McGann is 4 for 4 for New York, while teammate Jack Hannifin collects a single, double, triple and two walks in his five trips to the plate.
- 1908:
- An error by Pittsburgh's Charlie Starr accounts for all three Reds runs as the Pirates lose, 3 - 2. The loss drops the Pirates to third place.
- Lancaster (Ohio State League) P Walt "Smoke" Justis hurls his fourth no-hitter of the season, defeating Marion, 3 - 0. His other gems came on July 19th, August 2nd and September 8th. Justis had no record in two major league appearances with Detroit in 1905.
- Browns pitcher Rube Waddell gives up a Detroit run in the 1st when Ty Cobb triples home Matty McIntyre, but ties the game when he singles a run home in the 2nd. Waddell allows nothing after that and the Browns win, 2 - 1, when Syd Smith singles in the winner in the bottom of the 11th.
- 1909 - Ty Cobb clinches the American League home run title with his ninth round-tripper. It is an inside-the-park drive against the Browns. In fact, all his nine home runs this season are inside-the-park, including two on July 15th. Only Sam Crawford (12 in 1901) has hit more inside-the-park homers in a year than Cobb.
- 1915 - The Kansas City Packers of the Federal League are the first major league team to play a game against inmates inside a prison as they visit the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, KS. They win handily, 23 - 1, as they play all of their regulars in the game.
- 1920 - Carl Mays, who started yesterday, opens today for the Yankees in Detroit. This time he is more effective, stopping Detroit on two runs. Babe Ruth hits his 49th home run and Mays drives in the final run of a 4 - 2 win.
- 1922:
- The Browns announce that George Sisler has severely strained ligaments and cannot lift his right arm over his head. He might be out for the remainder of the season, jeopardizing the Browns' pennant chances and Sisler's 39-game hitting streak. Ironically, the injury occurred when Sisler tried to catch a throw on a hit by Ty Cobb, whose streak he is trying to break. Without Sisler, the Browns rally to beat the Tigers, 8 - 6. Baby Doll Jacobson, playing 1B, makes two errors.
- The powerful Baltimore Orioles win their fourth straight International League pennant. The O's are paced by Lefty Grove (18-8), in his third of five seasons (108-36) in Baltimore.
- Pittsburgh sweeps a pair from the visiting Braves, winning 8 - 1 and 6 - 1. Wilbur Cooper and Johnny Morrison are the winners. Joe Genewich makes his major league debut in relief for the Braves. Genewich jumped from the sandlots, where he was making $5 a game pitching, directly to the Braves, bypassing the minors.
- 1923 - The White Sox buy OF Maurice Archdeacon from Rochester (International League) for $50,000. After batting .402 in 22 games, the little speed merchant will drop to .319, then to .111, then out of sight.
- 1924 - Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance shuts out the Reds, 2 - 0, for his 14th win in a row.
- 1925 - Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance narrowly misses back-to-back no-hitters over Philadelphia, pitching a 10 - 1 no-hitter five days after a 1 - 0 one-hitter. The Phils' lone run is scored by Chicken Hawks, who reaches second base on an error. Five days earlier it was Hawks' 2nd-inning single that ruined Vance's no-hitter. On June 17, 1923, Vance lost a no-hitter with two out in the 9th. In the second game, the Phils win, 7 - 3, behind Hawks' grand slam.
- 1927 - Babe Ruth hits two home runs, to bring his season's total to 52, and the Yankees win a pair from Cleveland to clinch the American League pennant with a 98-41 record and 17-game lead. It is Miller Huggins' fifth pennant, tying him with Connie Mack.
- 1931:
- At Wrigley Field, the Cubs win 11 - 7 over the Braves when player-manager Rogers Hornsby cracks an 11th-inning pinch grand slam. This is the first extra-inning pinch grand slam in major league history. The Cubs take the second game, 8 - 1, behind Guy Bush's one-hitter, his second of the year. His first was against the Cards on August 9th.
- Yankee Tony Lazzeri steals second base, reaches third, then steals home in the 12th to give Lefty Gomez a 2 - 1 win over Detroit in the lidlifter. New York edges the Tigers, 4 - 3, in the nitecap although Earl Whitehill holds them to six hits. One of the hits is a two-run home run by Lou Gehrig in the 6th.
- After the Giants lose, 1 - 0, to Larry Benton in the opener, Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons pitches New York to a 9 - 4 nitecap win over the Reds. Bill Terry contributes two doubles and two home runs in the win.
- Cardinal P Paul Derringer has his scoreless inning streak stopped at 33, but manages to beat the Phils, 6 - 2, on six hits.
- 1932 - Brooklyn's Jack Quinn earns his 247th major league victory at age 49, pitching a complete game 6 - 5 win over the Cardinals. It is the final win of his career. Dizzy Dean fans nine in the nitecap, but the Cards lose, 3 - 1. Quinn will hold the record as oldest pitcher to win a game until April 17, 2012, when he will be eclipsed by Jamie Moyer.
- 1933 - The White Sox toss their veterans at the A's and almost pull off a sweep. Sam Jones, 41, tops Philadelphia, 3 - 2 in the opener, but the Mackmen then beat 44-year-old Red Faber, 4 - 2, in the nitecap.
- 1934:
- With his fiancee, Edna Mae Skinner of Oklahoma, watching, Schoolboy Rowe halts the Tiger skid with a 2 - 0 win over Washington. He asks in a radio interview: "How'm I doing, Edna?"
- Judge Landis sells the World Series broadcast rights to the Ford Motor Company for $100,000. Previously no fee had been charged.
- Lefty Gomez pitches a three-hitter against the Indians for his 25th win.
- 1935 - Friday the 13th brings bad luck to the Cards. Trailing the Giants, 10 - 6, in the last of the 9th, the Cards tie it up and then give the ball to Dizzy Dean. But the Giants score three in the 10th against the tired star to win, 13 - 10. With Larry French and the Cubs beating the Dodgers, 4 - 1, St. Louis now leads the National League by four percentage points.
- 1936:
- The Cardinals and Giants split a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds before 64,417, the largest crowd in the 60-year history of the National League.
- Indians teenage pitching phenom Bob Feller ties the major league record and sets a new American League record by striking out 17 batters as he two-hits the A's, 5 - 2. After the season, "Bullet Bob" will return to his Van Meter, Iowa home to graduate from high school.
- 1937 - Manager Charlie Dressen presses Reds GM Warren Giles for a contract renewal and is fired. Chief scout Bobby Wallace takes over the last-place team.
- 1938 - A special committee names Alexander Cartwright to Baseball's Hall of Fame for originating the sport's basic concepts. Henry Chadwick, inventor of the box score and the first baseball writer, is also honored.
- 1941 - The Dodgers' Whit Wyatt beats the Cards' Mort Cooper, 1 - 0, in St. Louis. Dixie Walker's double in the 8th is the first Dodger hit. Walker then relays a stolen sign to Billy Herman, who singles him home.
- 1942 - Chicago Cub SS Lennie Merullo makes a major league record four errors in the 2nd inning of the nightcap against the Boston Braves. Merullo's son is born today and is named Boots. The Cubs win, 12 - 8, after losing the first game, 10 - 6.
- 1946 - The Boston Red Sox clinch the American League pennant, edging the Cleveland Indians, 1 - 0, on Ted Williams' inside-the-park home run, the only one of his career. Williams punches the ball over the shift when LF Fat Pat Seerey pulls in behind the SS position. The Boston margin at the season's end will be 12 games.
- 1948 - Cleveland P Don Black suffers a cerebral hemorrhage while at bat against the Browns. Black's life will hang in the balance for a week; his career will end. Owner Bill Veeck of the Indians arranges a benefit game for Black on September 22nd, a contest that attracts 76,000, and $40,000 of the receipts are turned over to the pitcher.
- 1949 - For the second time in his career, Ralph Kiner hits home runs in four consecutive at-bats, over two games. He performed the same feat in 1947. The two homers today are numbers 33 and 34 for the season. Kiner's 1949 total will include 25 on the road, 29 at Forbes Field, 14 of them in the bullpen enclosure still known as Greenberg Gardens (which will become known as Kiner Korner).
- 1950 - Sal Maglie's string of scoreless innings ends at 45, but he beats the Pirates, 3 - 1, in a rain-shortened seven-inning game. Pirate Gus Bell's 257-foot fly ball barely clears the right field wall at the Polo Grounds. For Maglie, it is his 11th straight win.
- 1951:
- Yankees leadoff hitter Mickey Mantle drives a Virgil Trucks pitch deep into the right field upper deck to start the Yankee scoring. Witnesses say that if Mantle had hit it more to center field, the ball would have traveled 600 feet. Mantle then K's three times, as Trucks drives over New York for a 9 - 2 Detroit win. Trucks adds a pair of RBIs.
- The Cards play a rare doubleheader - the first in the 20th century - with two different teams, defeating the Giants, 6 - 4, in the first game in the afternoon when they score six runs against Sal Maglie in the 2nd inning. In the nitecap, against the Braves, the Cards manage just one hit - by pitcher Al Brazle - in losing to Warren Spahn, 2 - 0. The Cards' total attendance is 8,865 - 4,160 for the Giants and 4,705 for the Braves. It is the first time since 1883 that three-team twin bill has been played.
- 1952:
- OF Frank Carswell of the Buffalo Bisons wins the International League batting title with a .344 average. He also leads the league in home runs with 30 and has 101 RBI.
- Warren Spahn strikes out six Pirates in a row en route to an 8 - 0 win in Boston.
- 1953:
- Red Sox C Sammy White makes an unassisted double play.
- Bob Trice becomes the first black player to appear for the A's. The former Homestead Grays hurler, who was both the Pitcher of the Year and the Rookie of the Year in the International League this year, will only pitch in three games for Philadelphia this season, 19 next year and a few more in 1956.
- 1954 - Redlegs slugger Ted Kluszewski scores a run in a 6 - 5 loss to the Pirates. Big Klu has scored in 17 consecutive games, a modern record.
- 1958 - The Braves' Warren Spahn becomes the first lefty to win 20 or more games nine times, as he beats St. Louis, 8 - 2. Eddie Plank and Lefty Grove each won 20 games eight times.
- 1959:
- Glen Hobbie of the Cubs stops Ken Boyer's hitting streak at 29 games. He was 41 for 117 for a .350 mark over the course of his streak. Hobbie allows just four hits in shutting out the Cards, 8 - 0.
- The Braves' Red Schoendienst returns to the line-up for the first time since being diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis last November.
- 1960:
- Nellie Fox hits a two-out home run in the 11th to give the visiting White Sox a 6 - 5 win over the Senators. It is Nellie's second home run of the year.
- Eighteen-year-old OF Danny Murphy becomes the youngest Cub to hit a home run when he clouts a three-run homer off Bob Purkey, but the Reds win, 8 - 6, in Cincinnati. Murphy will play just 49 games for the Cubs from 1960 to 1962. He will come back as a pitcher for the White Sox in 1969 and 1970.
- 1962
- In Kansas City's 5 - 4 win over the Angels, 17-year-old Ed Kirkpatrick pinch hits in the 9th for Los Angeles. He is the youngest player in the American League since Jim Derrington, in 1956, and no one younger will debut this century in the AL.
- Washington OF Jim Piersall is arrested for going into the stands after a heckling fan prior to a game against Baltimore. He is charged with disorderly conduct, but later cleared. Joe Hicks replaces Jimmy in the 7 - 1 loss to the Orioles. O's winning pitcher Chuck Estrada clouts one of the three Birds homers.
- 1963 - Jim Bouton's 20th win, 2 - 0 at Minnesota, clinches the Yankees' 28th pennant.
- 1964 - St. Louis becomes the first National League club to score in each inning since the Giants did it on June 1, 1923. They coast, 15 - 2, at Wrigley Field with Curt Simmons improving his record to 15-9. Dick Ellsworth goes to 14-15 for Chicago. Julian Javier, Lou Brock and Mike Shannon homer for the Birds. A dropped pop-up in the top of the 9th secures St. Louis' place in history.
- 1965 - At the Astrodome facing Don Nottebart, Giant outfielder Willie Mays becomes the fifth player in major league history to hit 500 career home runs. The "Say Hey Kid" will hit a league-leading and career-high 52 home runs en route to his second MVP season. Juan Marichal gets his 22nd victory, a 5 - 1 decision over Houston. It is the 11th straight win for San Francisco, which now has a two-and-a-half-game lead in the National League pennant race.
- 1967 - At Comiskey Park Cleveland and Chicago play a marathon 17-inning game, the White Sox ultimately winning, 1 - 0, on a game-ending RBI single by Rocky Colavito against his former squad. The contest features excellent starting pitching by Sonny Siebert and Gary Peters. Siebert goes 11 innings, allowing just four hits and no walks to Chicago batters. Peters also pitches 11 innings, yielding only one hit while walking ten Indians.
- 1969:
- Baltimore becomes the American League East champs when Tom Phoebus wins the clincher, 10 - 5, over Cleveland. Baltimore is 18 games ahead of Detroit with 17 to play.
- Detroit is eliminated when they lose to the Senators, 11 - 6. The Nats score five in the 5th, three coming home on a Ken McMullen homer, one of his four hits in the game. Detroit rallies in the 6th on Willie Horton's third grand slam of the year, but McMullen knocks home another two runs to give Darold Knowles (7-3) the win over Tom Timmermann.
- In a 6 - 4 defeat to the Reds, Bobby Bonds becomes the fourth player in major league history steal at least 30 bases and hit at least 30 home runs in the same season. The other members of the 30/30 club include Ken Williams (1922), Willie Mays (1956 & 1957) and Hank Aaron (1963). Bonds will have four more 30-30 seasons during his career.
- 1970:
- At Wrigley Field, the Pirates lead the Cubs, 2 - 1, with two outs and no one on in the 9th when Willie Smith hits a routine fly to Matty Alou. Alou drops it and three singles later the Cubs have a 3 - 2 win. The victory puts the Cubs a game behind the Bucs and a half-game behind the Mets.
- Kansas City sweeps a pair from Oakland, winning both by 8 - 7 scores. In the 11-inning opener, A's SS Bert Campaneris sets an American League record by participating in six double plays. It will be tied in the National League.
- 1971 - Frank Robinson of the Orioles homers in each game of a doubleheader split with Detroit, becoming the 11th member of the 500 home run club with his second shot. Amazingly, six years prior to the day, Willie Mays became the fifth member. The O's win the opener, 9 - 1, behind Dave McNally's 13th consecutive win. The Tigers use 17 hits to win the nitecap, 10 - 5, for Fred Scherman, who pitches 8 2/3 innings in relief of Joe Niekro.
- 1972:
- The Reds' Johnny Bench hits a two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th to beat the Braves, 8 - 6. He hit a grand slam yesterday in a 7 - 5 win over Atlanta, and he'll have 11 homers and 33 ribbies for September.
- Frank Howard, who is not playing regularly for the Tigers, hits a three-run homer off Dave McNally of the Orioles for a Detroit victory. It is his 13th career four-bagger off his favorite pitcher. He had hit one with the Rangers on July 18th, and 11 with the Senators from 1965 to 1971.
- Roberto Clemente's final career regular-season home run – No. 240 – propels Pittsburgh to a 6 - 4 win over Chicago. It comes, appropriately enough, off Fergie Jenkins, Clemente's old friend and frequent HR victim and within the "friendly confines" of Wrigley Field. Today's blast is a two-run, tie-breaking bomb, "crashed deep into the center field seats," as per Post-Gazette scribe Charley Feeney. "Clemente just hit everything I had," admits Jenkins. "He hit a slider for a single, a fastball for a triple and another slider for the home run. He's something.”
- 1973 - During an 8 - 6 win over the Padres, the Giants' Tito Fuentes ties a major-league record by being hit by pitches three times.
- 1974:
- The Phillies set a National League record by using 27 players during a 17-inning, 7 - 3, loss to the Cardinals. The Cards had set the record two days earlier.
- With 16 games remaining, the enigmatic Dick Allen of the White Sox announces he is quitting the team. His 32 home runs, the last of which was hit August 16th, will still be enough to lead the American League.
- 1977 - The Dodgers' Dusty Baker drives in a team-record five runs in one inning, the 2nd, as Los Angeles whips the Padres, 18 - 4. Los Angeles leads the NL West by 13 1/2 games.
- 1982 - Steve Carlton (20-9) shuts out St. Louis, 2 - 0, on three hits and raps a solo home run to become the major league's first 20-game winner this season.
- 1983:
- Dan Quisenberry breaks John Hiller's all-time single-season save record, recording the final two outs of the Royals' 4 - 3 win over the Angels for his 39th save of the season.
- Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals three bases in a 6 - 5 win over Texas to give him 101 for the season and a major league-record three consecutive seasons with 100 or more.
- Mets C Mike Fitzgerald becomes the 48th player in major league history to hit a home run in his first at-bat, connecting for a solo shot off Tony Ghelfi in the 2nd inning of New York's 5 - 1 win over Philadelphia.
- 1985 - The Rangers trade P Dave Stewart to the Phillies for pitcher Rick Surhoff, whose brother B.J. Surhoff was the first overall pick in the amateur draft in June.
- 1986 - The Rangers set a club record with seven home runs in a 14 - 1 rout of Minnesota. Five of the home runs come off Twins starter Bert Blyleven, who will yield a major league-record 50 this season.
- 1987 - Chicago's Floyd Bannister faces the minimum 27 batters in a 2 - 0 one-hitter against Seattle, striking out ten while walking none. Hard-luck loser Mark Langston pitches a two-hitter for the Mariners.
- 1989 - Fay Vincent is elected baseball's eighth commissioner, succeeding the late Bart Giamatti, whom he served as deputy commissioner.
- 1991:
- Toronto OF Joe Carter drives in a run in the Blue Jays' 7 - 6 victory over the A's, becoming the first player in history to reach the 100 plateau in three consecutive seasons with three different teams. Nine players had collected 100 RBI with three teams, but none consecutively.
- A 55-ton concrete beam crashes onto an empty public walkway at Olympic Stadium in Montreal. The Expos will reschedule all of their 13 remaining home games, playing them on the road while the stadium is repaired and growing cracks in concrete ribs supporting the stadium are checked out.
- 1992 - Cleveland's Kenny Lofton steals his 53rd and 54th bases breaking the American League rookie record of 53 set by Donie Bush in 1909. Lofton will swipe a league-high 66 bases, 12 ahead of another rookie, Pat Listach, and lead AL center fielders with 14 assists. He scores both runs today, including the winner in the 9th, to beat the White Sox, 2 - 1. Eric Plunk is the winner with Steve Olin picking up his 25th save.
- 1993:
- The Astros' game against the Rockies in Colorado is postponed when the Denver area is hit by a late-summer storm which deposits more than five inches of snow. Just 24 hours before game time, it had been 92 degrees.
- Royals C Mike Macfarlane twice is charged with throwing errors to first base following strikeouts in Kansas City's 9 - 0 win over Chicago.
- 1995 - Tigers Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell set a new American League record for joint appearances - 1,915 games.
- 1996:
- By hitting his 30th home run, Dante Bichette joins his teammate Ellis Burks as a member of the 30/30 club. The Rockies join the 1987 New York Mets as the only teams in history to have two 30-30 players (Howard Johnson and Darryl Strawberry) during the same season.
- Toronto C Charlie O'Brien unveils a hockey-style catcher's mask in the game against the Yankees. The mask is a success and will be adopted by many of Charlie's peers, but the Blue Jays lose to the New Yorkers, 4 - 1. Andy Pettitte wins his 21st.
- 1997:
- In St. Louis, Tony Gwynn reaches 200 hits for the fifth time in his career in the Padres' 8 - 3 win over the Cardinals. Greg Vaughn has a three-run double to lead the attack.
- The Mets, down 6 - 0 with one strike to go in the bottom of the 9th, rally to tie the Expos. Carl Everett ties the game with a grand slam. Two innings later, Bernard Gilkey hits a three-run homer to end it, 9 - 6. Facing Dustin Hermanson, the Mets manage just one hit through the first eight innings, and that is a blooper by Carlos Mendoza, his first major league hit. Two singles and two relievers later the Mets tie it. John Franco is the winner over Steve Kline.
- The Dodgers drop a 5 - 1 decision to the Astros as Tom Candiotti's knuckleball does all sorts of tricks in the 1st inning. Candiotti hits three Houston batters in the frame, and another to lead off the 2nd, to tie a major league mark. C Mike Piazza also records two passed balls in the inning as the Astros score four of their five runs.
- 1998:
- Sammy Sosa hits his 61st and 62nd home runs of the season against the Milwaukee Brewers to tie the National League record of ten multi-homer games in a single season set by Ralph Kiner in 1947. The two home runs pace the Cubs to an 11 - 10 win, and tie Sosa with Mark McGwire for the home run lead.
- Arizona defeats the Reds, 5 - 0, behind the one-hit pitching of Andy Benes. Gregg Olson picks up the last two outs for the save, as 1B Sean Casey gets the only hit for Cincinnati.
- 1999 - Mike Hampton (20-3) wins his 20th game, 13 - 2, over the Phils and the Astros win their club-record 11th straight game.
- 2001:
- Due the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Major League Baseball postpones all games through September 17th. The 91 missed games, the most regular-season contests not played since World War I forced the cancellation of the final month of the 1918 season, are re-scheduled for the week after the regular season was supposed to end, meaning the World Series is likely to extend into November for the first time in history.
- The International League cancels the Governors' Cup playoff in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attack. Louisville held a 1 - 0 over Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
- 2002:
- Oriole infielder Mike Bordick establishes a new American League record playing his 96th consecutive errorless game at shortstop. The mark was held by former teammate Cal Ripken Jr..
- The U.S. Senate passes a resolution honoring Tiger broadcaster Ernie Harwell who is retiring at the end of the season. The 84-year-old has been a major league baseball announcer for 55 years.
- 2003 - After signing a one-day contract, Ken Daneyko grounds out to short in his professional baseball debut with the Newark Bears. The former New Jersey Devils defenseman, who was honored by the team before the game, plays a doubleheader against the Pennsylvania Road Warriors in a game started in a driving rainstorm and called immediately after his at bat, before it has become official.
- 2005 - During the six-run 2nd-inning uprising by the Padres, each Dodger outfielder commits an error. The fielding miscues of Ricky Ledee (LF), Jose Cruz Jr. (RF) and Jayson Werth (CF) contribute to the 6 - 4 loss to first-place San Diego.
- 2008 - Francisco Rodriguez records his 58th save in the Angels' 5 - 2 win over the Mariners. This breaks the record of 57 saves in a season held since 1990 by Bobby Thigpen. He will end the season with 62.
- 2009:
- By hitting an infield single in the second game of Seattle's doubleheader against Texas, Ichiro Suzuki reaches the 200 hit mark for the ninth straight year, a first in major league history. Texas wins the opener, 7 - 2, but loses the nitecap, 5 - 0, as Felix Hernandez wins his 15th of the year.
- Philadelphia sweeps New York, 5 - 4 and 1 - 0, in a day/night doubleheader that draws almost 90,000 fans to Citizens Bank Park. In the nitecap, Pedro Martinez reminds the crowd of his glory days by shutting out the Mets over eight innings before Ryan Madson comes in to finish the game. The only blight on Philly's day are the continuing struggles of closer Brad Lidge, who gives up two runs in the 9th in saving the opening win.
- Cory Luebke comes within four outs of throwing a no-hitter in the 2009 Baseball World Cup. Facing Team Canada, Luebke fans ten and has his gem spoiled by a Chris Robinson single. The USA goes on to an 8 - 0 rout.
- 2010:
- Reid Brignac hits a walk-off homer in the 11th inning to lead the Rays to a 1 - 0 win over the Yankees and puts Tampa Bay into first place in the AL East. Brignac enters the game in the 9th inning, after Carl Crawford is ejected for arguing a called third strike, but his blast off Sergio Mitre ends a great pitching duel that started with CC Sabathia and David Price facing each other.
- The Padres stop the Rockies' ten-game winning streak with a 6 - 4 win at Coors Field. Miguel Tejada drives in four runs and Ernesto Frieri records his first career win in relief of rookie Cory Luebke, while Heath Bell earns his 41st save of the year.
- 2011:
- Mariano Rivera becomes the second pitcher to record 600 saves, one year after Trevor Hoffman, in preserving New York's 3 - 2 win over Seattle with a scoreless 9th inning. "Mo" is only one save behind Hoffman's all-time record, as Hoffman retired after last season.
- It took him eight tries since he recorded his last win on July 24th, but 45-year-old Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield, the major leagues' active win leader, finally records victory number 200. He pitches six innings and leaves with a 6 - 5 lead over the Blue Jays, then his teammates get to work padding that cushion, as the game ends 18 - 6. In the 9th inning, P Junichi Tazawa makes his return to the majors two years after an injury interrupted a promising major league debut.
- Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers continue to steamroll over opponents. Verlander picks up his 23rd win - the first pitcher to reach that total since Barry Zito in 2002 - when he pitches seven shutout innings over the White Sox, for a 5 - 0 win. Verlander has won his last 11 starts, something no one has done for the Bengals since Hal Newhouser in 1946. The win is also Detroit's 11th straight this month.
- 2013:
- Chris Davis hits his 50th homer of the year off Steve Delabar in the 8th to lead the Orioles to a 5 - 3 win over Toronto. Davis joins Babe Ruth and Albert Belle as the only players to hit 50 dingers and 40 doubles in the same season.
- It may be too little too late, but the Nationals are finally getting hot, winning their seventh straight and 18th in 23 games, 6 - 1 over the Phillies. They are now four and a half games back of a wild card slot, but time is running out. Ross Ohlendorf, making an emergency start in place of ace Stephen Strasburg, picks up the win.
- Masahiro Tanaka of the Rakuten Golden Eagles improves to 21-0 in 2013, having won his last 25 decisions. He breaks Kazuhisa Inao's 57-year-old Nippon Pro Baseball record for 20 consecutive wins in a season.
- 2014 - The Dodgers crush the Giants, 17 - 0, setting a record for most runs by a visiting team at AT&T Park. The Dodgers' 24 hits are the most by any team at the ballpark. Zack Greinke pitches six scoreless innings and adds a double and homer, while Hanley Ramirez has four hits and Matt Kemp goes 3 for 3.
- 2015 - The Mets win their seventh straight in dramatic fashion as Daniel Murphy hits a game-tying three-run homer off Ryan Kelly of the Braves with two out in the 9th. They then score three runs in the 10th, benefiting from an ill-timed throwing error by 3B Hector Olivera, to win, 10 - 7. It is their first four-game sweep of the Braves since 1989, while the Braves have lost 12 straight at home for the first time since 1931.
- 2017 - The Indians set a new American League record with their 21st consecutive win when they defeat the Tigers, 5 - 3. Detroit manages to take a 1 - 0 lead against Mike Clevinger in the 1st, but in the bottom of the inning, Jay Bruce hits a three-run homer off Buck Farmer and Cleveland nurses that lead until the end of the game. The win also ties the major league record of 21 consecutive wins, set by the 1935 Chicago Cubs.
- 2020 - Alec Mills of the Cubs pitches a no-hitter, defeating the Brewers, 12 - 0, in only the 15th start of his career.
- 2021 - By defeating the Padres, 9 - 1, the Giants, who were given little chance of being contenders before the season started, become the first major league team to clinch a postseason slot this year. However, they are still in a tight race with the Dodgers for the division title in the NL West, and the team that finishes second is almost certain to host the Wild Card Game.
- 2022:
- Two rookie pitchers for the Twins, Joe Ryan and Jovani Moran, combine to keep the Royals hitless until one out in the 9th when, after back-to-back walks, another rookie, Bobby Witt Jr., doubles to end the bid for a no-hitter. Another single and a sacrifice fly make the final score 6 - 3 in the Twins' favor. Ryan goes seven innings, but is removed by manager Rocco Baldelli after throwing 106 pitches.
- By hitting a pair of homers for the Yakult Swallows, Munetaka Murakami ties the all-time NPB record set in 1964 by the legendary Sadaharu Oh for most homers in a season by a Japanese player with 55. The record was later tied by two foreigners, Tuffy Rhodes and Alex Cabrera, before being topped by another gaijin, Wladimir Balentien, who hit 60 in 2013. With 15 games left in the season, Murakami has a shot at beating that record as well.
- 2023:
- France makes its Women's Baseball World Cup debut. Angélique André scores a 1st-inning run off Venezuela's Frandelis Garcia and Camille Foucher blanks the former Bronze Medalists in that frame, but Venezuela comes back for an easy win as expected, 11 - 1. CF Marbel Diaz scores three and C Mariana Valdez drives in four.
- By defeating the Phillies, 4 - 1, the Braves clinch their sixth straight NL East division title, the first major league team to clinch this year. Austin Riley drives in three of the runs with a two-run homer and a sacrifice fly.
- 2024 - The Tigers come within one out of a combined no-hitter against the Orioles, before Gunnar Henderson breaks the spell with a two-out triple in the 9th. In a bullpen game, Beau Brieske records the first four outs before turning the ball over to rookie Brant Hurter, who records 17 consecutive outs. Adley Rutschman draws a walk to lead off the 8th for the O's first baserunner, but Brenan Hanifee completes the 8th inning and Tyler Holton records the first two outs in the 9th without according a safety before Henderson's hit. Holton then strikes out Anthony Santander to end the game, a 1 - 0 win for Detroit.
Births[edit]
- 1830 - Alonzo Slote, pre-MLB player (d. 1901)
- 1864 - Al Schellhase, catcher (d. 1919)
- 1887 - Harry Redmond, infielder (d. 1960)
- 1890 - Walt Marbet, pitcher (d. 1956)
- 1893 - John Kelleher, infielder (d. 1960)
- 1893 - Mike McNally, infielder (d. 1965)
- 1893 - Dutch Ruether, pitcher (d. 1970)
- 1894 - Sam Crane, infielder (d. 1955)
- 1894 - Dink O'Brien, catcher (d. 1971)
- 1896 - Pat Collins, catcher (d. 1960)
- 1896 - Art Stokes, pitcher (d. 1962)
- 1896 - Jasper Washington, infielder (d. 1960)
- 1896 - Roy Wilson, pitcher (d. 1969)
- 1897 - Eddie Rommel, pitcher (d. 1970)
- 1898 - Curt Fullerton, pitcher (d. 1975)
- 1898 - Glenn Killinger, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1988)
- 1903 - Rabbit Warstler, infielder (d. 1964)
- 1904 - Fujio Nagasawa, NPB infielder (d. 1985)
- 1906 - Thornton Lee, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1997)
- 1906 - Jim Levey, infielder (d. 1970)
- 1907 - John Campbell, pitcher (d. 1995)
- 1908 - Otho Nitcholas, pitcher (d. 1986)
- 1909 - Jelly Jackson, infielder (d. 1980)
- 1913 - Charley Justice, outfielder (d. 1974)
- 1913 - Booker McDaniel, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1974)
- 1913 - Roy Zimmerman, infielder (d. 1991)
- 1915 - Morrie Aderholt, outfielder (d. 1955)
- 1915 - Nick Gregory, minor league outfielder (d. 1973)
- 1918 - Bill Caplinger, minor league pitcher (d. 2018)
- 1920 - Ed Sudol, umpire (d. 2004)
- 1922 - Armando Báez, Cuban national team infielder (d. 2010)
- 1923 - Acie Griggs, outfielder (d. 2007)
- 1924 - Kazuhiro Kuroda, NPB outfielder (d. 2007)
- 1924 - Sam Moir, minor league infielder (d. 2018)
- 1927 - Jenny Romatowski, AAGPBL catcher (d. 2014)
- 1928 - Jim Melton, minor league pitcher
- 1930 - George Susce, pitcher
- 1932 - Delio Amado León, announcer (d. 1996)
- 1933 - Don Whittington, Negro League infielder
- 1934 - Tom Hughes, pitcher
- 1938 - Bob Heffner, pitcher
- 1939 - Hsiang-Jui Feng, Taiwanese national team pitcher
- 1939 - Tom Parsons, pitcher
- 1939 - Silvano Quezada, minor league pitcher
- 1941 - Ryozo Kato, NPB commissioner
- 1942 - Takashi Teraoka, NPB outfielder (d. 2011)
- 1944 - Irish O'Reilly, college coach (d. 2018)
- 1945 - Rick Wise, pitcher; All-Star
- 1947 - Mike Adamson, pitcher (d. 2022)
- 1949 - Rick Dempsey, catcher
- 1949 - John Henry, owner
- 1949 - Jim Obradovich, infielder (d. 2012)
- 1949 - Roger Williams, college coach
- 1951 - Tom McMillan, infielder
- 1951 - Charles Minott, minor league pitcher (d. 1979)
- 1954 - John Harris, infielder
- 1954 - Billy Smith, pitcher
- 1955 - Mike Fischlin, infielder
- 1959 - Jose Lorenzana, Puerto Rican national team catcher
- 1959 - Jackie Wright, minor league infielder (d. 2021)
- 1960 - Ariel Delgado, Nicaraguan national team infielder
- 1960 - Steve Roadcap, minor league catcher and manager
- 1962 - Jen-An Chen, TML outfielder
- 1963 - Rodney McCray, outfielder
- 1964 - Greg Hibbard, pitcher
- 1965 - Steve Curry, pitcher
- 1965 - Jeff Kipila, minor league infielder
- 1967 - Tom Allison, scout
- 1967 - Rod Correia, infielder
- 1968 - Erik Bennett, pitcher
- 1968 - Denny Neagle, pitcher; All-Star
- 1968 - Obed Plascencia Jr., minor league outfielder
- 1968 - Tetsuya Sugo, Japanese national team pitcher
- 1968 - Bernie Williams, outfielder; All-Star
- 1969 - Jeff Bigler, minor league infielder
- 1969 - Russ Davis, infielder
- 1969 - Marcos Garcia, minor league pitcher
- 1970 - James Vida, minor league infielder
- 1971 - Brent Brede, outfielder
- 1971 - Tom McCormick, minor league pitcher
- 1971 - Tom Nevers, minor league infielder
- 1971 - Armando Rios, outfielder
- 1972 - Nelson Cruz, pitcher
- 1972 - Bryce Darnell, college coach
- 1972 - Chan Perry, outfielder
- 1972 - Bob Scafa, minor league pitcher
- 1973 - Todd Abbott, minor league pitcher
- 1973 - Ivica Anić, Croatian national team pitcher
- 1973 - Lien-Hung Chen, CPBL outfielder and manager
- 1973 - Jimmy Summers, Hoofdklasse pitcher
- 1976 - Jose Cueto, minor league pitcher
- 1976 - Wade Miller, pitcher
- 1976 - Masanobu Okubo, NPB pitcher
- 1976 - Jeremy Robinson, minor league pitcher (d. 2014)
- 1977 - Masahiro Araki, NPB infielder
- 1977 - Ryan Cameron, minor league pitcher
- 1977 - Grant Roberts, pitcher
- 1978 - Mark Hanrahan, minor league pitcher
- 1980 - Daisuke Matsuzaka, pitcher
- 1980 - German Melendez, minor league pitcher and manager
- 1981 - Justin James, pitcher
- 1982 - Donald Duarte, Cuban league infielder
- 1982 - Kazuhiro Hatakeyama, NPB infielder
- 1982 - Kang-min Kim, KBO outfielder
- 1982 - Matt Rogelstad, minor league infielder
- 1982 - Rickie Weeks, infielder; All-Star
- 1983 - Andy LaRoche, infielder
- 1984 - Jesse English, pitcher
- 1984 - Georgios Lempesis, Greek national team outfielder
- 1985 - Salvador Sanchez, minor league outfielder
- 1985 - Luke French, pitcher
- 1985 - Brad Meyers, minor league pitcher
- 1986 - Benjamin Dille, Hoofdklasse infielder
- 1988 - Andy Wilkins, infielder
- 1988 - Marcus Walden, pitcher
- 1989 - Eric Perez, Virgin Islands national team infielder
- 1990 - Sneider Batista, minor league infielder
- 1990 - Steve Hathaway, pitcher
- 1990 - Gabriel Noriega, minor league infielder
- 1990 - Fazal Ur Rehman, Pakistani national team outfielder
- 1991 - Juan Berger, Guatemalan national team outfielder
- 1991 - Óscar Jiménez, Division Honor pitcher
- 1991 - Zach Lee, pitcher
- 1991 - Ho-Nam Leung, Hong Kong national team pitcher
- 1991 - Kyle Zimmer, pitcher
- 1992 - Matthew Kent, minor league pitcher
- 1993 - Fernando Perez, minor league infielder
- 1993 - Jeff Singer, minor league pitcher
- 1993 - Keita Watanabe, NPB pitcher
- 1995 - Marcel Jiménez, Bundesliga outfielder
- 1995 - Cheng-Hsien Lin, CPBL pitcher
- 1996 - Branden Becker, minor league infielder
- 1996 - Jhonathan Díaz, pitcher
- 1996 - Alfonso Rivas, infielder
- 1996 - Max Wotell, minor league pitcher
- 1997 - Taylor Trammell, outfielder
- 1998 - Gerardo Carrillo, minor league pitcher
- 1998 - Félix Rodas, Salvadoran national team pitcher
- 1999 - Nick Pogue, minor league pitcher
- 1999 - Mael Zan, French Division I player
- 2000 - Osleivis Basabe, infielder
- 2001 - Yhoswar García, minor league outfielder
- 2002 - Luis Orellana, Honduran national team pitcher
- 2002 - Renato Samuel Jr., Philippines national team catcher
- 2004 - Nikau Pouaka-Grego, minor league infielder
- 2004 - Kin-Nam Tsang, Hong Kong national team pitcher
Deaths[edit]
- 1917 - Gene Derby, catcher (b. 1860)
- 1933 - Bill Brennan, umpire (b. 1880)
- 1933 - Joe Harrington, infielder (b. 1869)
- 1945 - Cy Blanton, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1908)
- 1946 - Ed Gagnier, infielder (b. 1883)
- 1947 - Ed Lennon, pitcher (b. 1897)
- 1949 - Tim Jordan, infielder (b. 1879)
- 1951 - Scrappy Brown, infielder (b. 1899)
- 1952 - Al Clauss, pitcher (b. 1891)
- 1953 - Wesley Callahan, infielder (b. 1888)
- 1954 - Roy Grimes, infielder (b. 1893)
- 1960 - Ralph Mattis, outfielder (b. 1890)
- 1966 - Ralph Comstock, pitcher (b. 1887)
- 1967 - Ralph LaPointe, infielder (b. 1922)
- 1967 - Joe Stanley, outfielder (b. 1881)
- 1970 - Lee Riley, outfielder (b. 1906)
- 1973 - Vince Barton, outfielder (b. 1908)
- 1973 - John MacLean, broadcaster (b. 1921)
- 1973 - Johnny McCarthy, infielder (b. 1910)
- 1975 - Clyde Glass, minor league player and manager (b. 1901)
- 1987 - Charlie Parks, catcher (b. 1917)
- 1979 - Hap Ward, outfielder (b. 1885)
- 1980 - Eduardo Green, minor league outfielder (b. 1920)
- 1980 - Charlie Pechous, infielder (b. 1896)
- 1991 - Orlando Asbury, pitcher (b. 1897)
- 2001 - Jorge Comellas, pitcher (b. 1916)
- 2003 - Johnny Welaj, outfielder (b. 1914)
- 2006 - Walter Crosby, catcher (b. 1921)
- 2008 - Jim Spooner, college coach (b. ~1946)
- 2009 - Lonny Frey, infielder; All-Star (b. 1910)
- 2012 - Jack Pierce, infielder; Salon de la Fama (b. 1949)
- 2012 - Robert Seebold, minor league outfielder (b. 1924)
- 2013 - Dan Osinski, pitcher (b. 1933)
- 2014 - Harry Pilarski, minor league pitcher (b. 1921)
- 2014 - Frank Torre, infielder (b. 1931)
- 2015 - Jane Badini, AAGPBL pitcher (b. 1924)
- 2015 - Erma Bergmann, AAGPBL pitcher (b. 1924)
- 2017 - Pete Domenici, minor league pitcher (b. 1932)
- 2019 - Alex Grammas, infielder, manager (b. 1926)
- 2020 - Charles Peterson, minor league outfielder (b. 1974)
- 2021 - Ruly Carpenter, owner (b. 1940)
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