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Events

• 1903 - The Boston Americans whip Cleveland, scoring in each of the eight innings they bat to win, 14 - 7. Boston collects 23 hits to Cleveland's 12.
• 1904 - The Giants sweep two from Brooklyn as Christy Mathewson wins the opener, 2 - 1, allowing just four hits. Two of the hits, a triple and homer, are by rookie Emil Batch. Joe McGinnity wins the nitecap, 5 - 3.
• 1905:
  • The Highlanders find themselves a little short on infielders so RF Willie Keeler, who is lefthanded, plays 2B in both games of a twin bill. The talented Keeler played two games at shortstop for New York in 1893.
  • At Boston, the leading Giants sweep two from the Beaneaters, winning 3 - 1 and 7 - 1. In the opener, Christy Mathewson wins his tenth straight, beating Irv Young, who allows just three hits. Boston notches eight off Matty.
• 1909:
  • The University of Wisconsin baseball team arrives in Tokyo to begin a series of games against Japanese schools.
  • President Taft attends a Cubs-Giants game in Chicago and players are introduced to him before the game. Giants ace Christy Mathewson then outdeals Chicago ace Three Finger Brown, 2 - 1, with each allowing seven hits. Taft downs popcorn and lemonade during the match, according to the Chicago Tribune.
• 1910 - Christy Mathewson stops the Bucs on five hits, as the Giants top Pittsburgh, 3 - 1, to move a half-game behind the second-place Pirates. Lefty Leifield takes the loss.
• 1911:
  • At Forbes Field, Rube Marquard, with relief from Christy Mathewson, beats the Pirates, 6 - 2. Before the game the Giants' mascot, Victory Faust, strikes out Honus Wagner on three pitches, to the delight of the 20,000 fans.
  • For the second time in a week, an American League rookie debuts with a shutout; the Browns' Elmer Brown stops the Senators, 6 - 0.
  • Boston's Smoky Joe Wood and rookie Buck O'Brien toss back-to-back shutouts to beat Cleveland. Wood wins, 6 - 0, and O'Brien follows with a 3 - 0 win. O'Brien, who relieved in his last appearance, will finish all five of his starts, going 5-1.
• 1912:
  • The Reds shut out the Phillies in a twinbill, winning 6 - 0 and 1 - 0. Art Fromme allows four hits in the lid-lifter, while Rube Benton outduels Grover Cleveland Alexander, 1 - 0, in the nitecap. Benton allows five hits.
  • The Cubs riddle Christy Mathewson for ten hits to beat the Giants, 4 - 3. Jimmy Archer's solo homer is the game winner.
  • The Pirates' 2 - 1 win over Brooklyn is their 12th in a row; they will overtake the Cubs and finish second.
• 1915 - In the first game of an important four-game series at Fenway Park, the Tigers (90-48) and Red Sox (90-44) square off. Detroit knocks out starter Rube Foster, then rookie reliever Carl Mays keeps throwing at Ty Cobb till he hits the Tiger star on the wrist. Cobb slings his bat at Mays in retaliation, and the crowd reacts by throwing bottles at Cobb. The next inning, Cobb catches a fly ball for the final out and then needs a police escort to leave the field. The Tigers win, 6 - 1.
• 1916:
  • The Reds' Fred Toney pitches 12 innings in the nitecap against Brooklyn before the game is called at 1 - 1 apiece. Zack Wheat goes hitless to end his hitting streak at 29 games. He'll put together a streak of 26 in 1919.
  • At National League Park, Grover Cleveland Alexander is coasting with a two-hit, 6 - 0 lead in the 8th over the Cubs, when weak-hitting Steve Yerkes lines a single followed by manager Joe Tinker's only hit of the year. On a double play grounder, 1B Fred Luderus pulls his foot off the bag and Chicago goes on to score three runs. Second-place Philadelphia wins, 6 - 3, to pull within one and a half games of Brooklyn.
• 1919 - Dutch Ruether beats the Giants, 4 - 3, to clinch the Reds' first pennant since their American Association days.
• 1920:
  • Chicago's Dickie Kerr tops the Yankees, 8 - 3, the loss dropping New York to second place behind Cleveland.
  • Duster Mails delivers for the Indians, canceling the Senators, 1 - 0, for his fourth win without a loss. Joe Sewell scores the lone run.
• 1922 - Pennant fever rages in St. Louis, as the Yankees come to town with a half-game lead. Bob Shawkey outpitches Urban Shocker, 2 - 1, as George Sisler ties Ty Cobb's 1911 record by hitting in his 40th straight game. While chasing a fly ball in the 9th, New York OF Whitey Witt is hit in the head and knocked cold by a soda bottle thrown from the bleachers. Ban Johnson will initially offer a $1,000 reward for the name of the bottle-thrower. Then, to calm the crowds, the American League offers the theory that Witt stepped on the bottle and it flew up and hit him. The incident leads to a ban on the sale of bottled drinks in ballparks.
• 1923 - The Cubs lose, 10 - 6, to the Giants in Chicago, despite the hitting of Hack Miller who collects three doubles and a triple. A riot occurs in the 8th inning when umpire Charlie Moran makes an out call at second base on Sparky Adams, Moran is pelted by hundreds of pop bottles. Judge Landis, in attendance at the game, shakes his cane at the angry mob, and play is held up for 15 minutes. John McGraw and the umpires need a police escort at the conclusion.
• 1924 - Jim Bottomley goes 6 for 6, including two homers, and a record 12 RBIs as the Cardinals beat the Dodgers, 17 - 3. The previous mark of 11 RBIs in one game was established in 1892 by today's opposing Dodger manager, Wilbert Robinson.
• 1925:
  • In the first of two games, Cubs veteran Grover Alexander wins 3 - 0 over Boston. Boston comes back to take the second game, 8 - 6.
  • John Bates of Nashville (Southern Association) goes hitless ending his 46-game hitting streak. He hit .371 during the streak.
• 1926:
  • The Giants clean house early, giving Heinie Groh his release and allowing Irish Meusel to buy out his. Irish will finish out his career with a season in Brooklyn.
  • En route to a 23 - 3 rout of the Phillies at the Baker Bowl, the Cardinals cross home plate 12 times during the 3rd inning. The dozen runs establishes a franchise record.
  • George Sisler of St. Louis becomes the first modern player (post-1900) to hit into three triple plays in his career. Sisler hits into the third triple killing of his career in a 5 - 1 loss to the A's, the others occurring on September 14, 1921, and August 5, 1922. Sisler will remain tied with 19th Century players Joe Start and Deacon McGuire until August 6, 1967, when Brooks Robinson hits into his fourth triple play.
• 1930 - Brooklyn's collapse begins. The Cardinals tie for first place when Bill Hallahan outduels Dazzy Vance, 1 - 0, in ten innings. After going missing for a day, Flint Rhem returns to the Cardinals with an improbable story that he was kidnapped by gamblers and forced to drink bootleg whiskey.
• 1931 - World Series tickets can now be printed as the St. Louis Cardinals repeat as National League champions. They beat the Phillies, 6 - 3, behind Bill Hallahan's 18th win of the year, and prepare for a rematch of the 1930 World Series. Earlier in the day, The Reds clinched it for the Birds by sweeping the Giants, 7 - 3 and 4 - 3.
• 1933:
  • The Giants win two over the second-place Cubs, winning the first one, 2 - 1, behind Carl Hubbell's 22nd win. New York takes the nitecap, 6 - 3.
  • In St. Louis, the Cardinals edge the Dodgers, 14 - 13, and pull off a triple steal in the 7th inning. The second game is called in the 5th with Brooklyn ahead, 4 - 2.
• 1934 - The largest turnout in Polo Grounds history, 62,573, suffers as the Deans take two from the Giants. Diz needs relief from Tex Carleton for a 5 - 3 opener, but Paul goes 11 innings for a 3 - 1 win in the nitecap.
• 1935:
  • Pittsburgh reliever Mace Brown pitches five innings of shutout relief to beat Boston, 5 - 3. Wally Berger's third double of the game in the 9th is the only hit he allows. The Bucs' Gus Suhr plays 1B in the last inning to run his streak of consecutive games played to 619, a new National League record. The old mark was set by Eddie Brown from 1924 to 1928.
  • In the opener of a critical four-game series in Chicago, the Giants lose, 8 - 3, to Lon Warneke. The Cubs have now won 12 straight.
• 1937 - Future Hall of Fame member Martin Dihigo pitches the first professional no-hit, no-run game on Mexican soil, a 4 - 0 victory against Nogales at Veracruz. In 1938, Dihigo will lead the Mexican League in four categories: ERA (0.90), wins (18-2), strikeouts (184), and batting (.387).
• 1939 - The New York Yankees clinch their fourth successive pennant with a win over Detroit.
• 1940:
  • A rhubarb at Ebbets Field results in a suspension and fine for Leo Durocher for "inciting a riot." Perhaps better known from the game is the photo showing an obese Brooklyn fan astride George Magerkurth, pummeling the veteran umpire.
  • Called up from the Eastern League in August, Phillies rookie Danny Litwhiler singles in both games of 7 - 1 and 3 - 2 losses to St. Louis, extending his hitting streak to 21 straight games. He will be stopped tomorrow by Whitey Moore at Cincinnati. He will hit .345 in 36 games.
  • Rookie Johnny Lucadello of the St. Louis Browns hits homers from each side of the plate versus the New York Yankees in a 16 - 4 Browns win. Only Wally Schang, in 1916, had accomplished the same in the American League. Mickey Mantle in 1955 will be the next AL player to do it. These are the only home runs Lucadello will hit all year.
• 1944 - Jack Kramer's one-hitter against the White Sox puts the Browns back into first place.
• 1948 - Joe DiMaggio hits his 300th career home run, joining Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mel Ott, Jimmie Foxx, Rogers Hornsby, Chuck Klein and Hank Greenberg as the only major leaguers to reach this milestone.
• 1950:
  • At Ebbets Field, Reds rookie Ted Tappe pinch hits in the 8th and homers in his first major league at bat. The round-tripper, off Erv Palica, helps cement a 6 - 3 win over Brooklyn. Tappe will hit four more homers, all as a member of the Chicago Cubs.
  • Rookie Whitey Ford tosses a six-hitter to give the Yankees the rubber game in Detroit, 8 - 1, and move them back into first place. Joe DiMaggio hits his 30th homer and the Yanks score seven runs in the 9th as Ford drives to his seventh win without a loss. The Red Sox will follow the Yankees into Detroit and sweep three from the Tigers.
• 1951:
  • The visiting - and rampaging - Giants sweep the Pirates, 7 - 1 and 6 - 4. Larry Jansen wins his 19th and Sal Maglie collects his 23rd. It is Maglie's 11th straight win over the Bucs. The Giants collect 29 hits in the two games, including six by Al Dark, in handing losses to Howie Pollet and reliever Murry Dickson. The Dodgers' lead of four and a half games is their slimmest since July 4th.
  • At Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio's long triple off Bob Feller scores two runs in the 5th and Allie Reynolds holds on for a 5 - 1 New York win. The Yanks take over first place for good by a margin of .003 points over Cleveland.
  • In Chicago, the Dodgers beat up on the Cubs, winning, 6 - 1, behind rookie Clem Labine. Rookie Bob Kelly takes the loss, allowing six hits, including Gil Hodges' 38th homer.
• 1952 - Pacific Coast League's Sacramento manager, former major league all-star second baseman Joe Gordon, pinch hits homers in both ends of a doubleheader. The first one, a grand slam, wins the game, 4 - 1.
• 1955 - Slugger Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring running out a bunt. He will make just two pinch-hit appearances in September, and he will go to bat in the World Series just ten times.
• 1957 - The Los Angeles City Council approves a 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for a ballpark for the Dodgers if the club will finance a public recreation area.
• 1958:
  • Former American League batting champion George Stirnweiss is killed in a train wreck in Red Bank, NJ.
  • Yankee killer Frank Lary is the third pitcher to beat them seven times in the same season, as the Tiger star defeats them, 4 - 2. Ed Walsh (9-1 in 1908) and Ed Cicotte (7-1 in 1916) were the others.
  • The Pirates keep their slim pennant hopes alive as they win a suspended game from the Cards, 2 - 1, then take the regular game, 3 - 1, behind Ron Kline. In the opener, young George Witt (9-2) picks up where he left off when the game was suspended six weeks ago, winning his eighth straight game. For Witt, plagued with arm troubles all year, it is his last appearance of the year, as he leaves on the 24th to finish his senior year at Long Beach State. Witt's 1.61 ERA in 106 innings is the National League's best. Alas, he'll go 0-7 next season with a 6.96 ERA.
• 1960:
  • At the age of 39, Warren Spahn pitches a no-hitter, beating the Phillies, 4 - 0. The crafty lefty sets an all-time Braves record with 15 strikeouts.
  • With Ty Cobb among the 49,055 fans in attendance at Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle cracks a two-run homer, his 35th, off the O's Chuck Estrada to give New York a 2 - 0 lead in the 1st. Yogi Berra adds a home run. In the last of the 8th, Bobby Richardson's hit off Estrada's glove drives in two runs for a 5 - 3 New York win.
• 1961:
  • At Detroit, Roger Maris connects for #57, off Frank Lary, to stay a game ahead of Babe Ruth's 1927 home run pace. But Lary wins his 21st, 10 - 4, over Ralph Terry, with help from Norm Cash, who belts a homer, his 37th, and a triple. Al Kaline adds four hits and a sac fly.
  • The Senators acquire P Claude Osteen from the Reds for 1B Dave Sisler and cash.
• 1962 - Willie Mays celebrates his return to the lineup by cracking a three-run home run in the 8th inning, his 44th of the year, to tie the Pirates, 4 - 4. Pittsburgh tops the Giants in the 10th inning when Smoky Burgess hits a two-run home run.
• 1963 - The Dodgers and Cardinals begin a first-place showdown before 32,442 fans at Busch Stadium. Ron Perranoski saves a 3 - 1 win for Johnny Podres and the Dodgers.
• 1964:
  • The White Sox move into a first-place tie (88-61) with Baltimore by besting Detroit, 4 - 1, while the Orioles lose to Minnesota 2 - 1. The Yanks are one point behind.
  • Phillies pitcher Jim Bunning (17-4), starting on two days' rest after pitching ten innings in Houston, loses to the Colt .45s, 6 - 5. Bunning had won eight in a row. Manager Gene Mauch will be highly criticized for his overuse of his top pitchers down the stretch as Philadelphia blows its season-long lead.
• 1965:
  • Claude Osteen launches a Dodgers winning streak as he shuts out the Cubs, 2 - 0. The Dodgers will win their next three, all by shutouts, in St. Louis.
  • Bobby Bolin's 5 - 1 win at Houston gives the Giants 14 straight wins, the longest National League streak since 1951.
  • At Fenway Park, Red Sox Dave Morehead pitches a 2 - 0 no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians.
• 1966 - The Mets (5) and Giants (3) tie a major-league record by using eight pinch hitters in the 9th inning as the Mets win, 5 - 4. Willie McCovey hits a 500-foot home run, judged the longest ever at Candlestick Park.
• 1967:
  • The Phils top the Dodgers, 8 - 4, in 11 innings, when Rick Joseph hits a pinch grand slam to end it.
  • Norm Cash drives in five runs and John Hiller goes the distance, enabling Detroit to take the American League lead with a 9 - 1 win over the Yankees.
• 1968:
  • One day after seeing their team mathematically eliminated, only 2,361 fans show up at Candlestick Park, the smallest crowd to see a game since the Giants moved to San Francisco in 1958. The Giants win, 8 - 4, over Cincinnati, as the normally ever cheerful Willie Mays engages in a shouting match with two spectators.
  • Umpires Al Salerno and Bill Valentine are fired by American League President Joe Cronin. The men in blue claim the dismissals are due to their efforts organizing a union.
• 1969 - Juan Marichal blanks the Braves, 2 - 0, as the Giants regain first place.
• 1970 - Clyde Wright joins Dean Chance (1964) as the Angels' second twenty-game winner as he beats the Twins, 5 - 1. Bert Blyleven, 19-year-old rookie, ties an American League record by striking out the first six batters. He strikes out ten in 6 2/3 innings.
• 1971:
  • At Candlestick Park, George Foster hits an 8th-inning grand slam to pace the Reds to an 8 - 1 win over the Giants.
  • At New York, lefty Juan Pizarro of the Cubs shuts out the Mets and Tom Seaver, 1 - 0. Pizarro does it all, clubbing a solo homer to win his own game. It's Pizarro's second shutout in a row and Seaver's first loss after seven straight wins. Tom's last loss was August 1st, also to Pizarro.
• 1972:
  • Following the Reds-Padres game at Riverfront Stadium, "This is your Life" host Ralph Edwards surprises Johnny Bench as the catcher is the featured guest on the program. With cameras rolling, Bench's family and friends appear as Edwards narrates the show.
  • Joe Coleman wins his 17th game and Dick McAuliffe clouts two home runs and drives in four to lead Detroit to a 6 - 2 win in Milwaukee. This is Detroit's fifth win in a row and keeps them a percentage point behind Boston.
  • In an 18 - 5 victory over the Mets, Cub infielder Glenn Beckert goes 0 for 6 and sets a record by leaving 12 men on base.
  • Expo P Balor Moore extends his scoreless innings streak to 25 before serving up a 7th-inning three-run home run to lose to the Phillies, 3 - 1. The home run is the first for Phils rookie Mike Schmidt.
• 1975:
  • Rennie Stennett ties a major league mark established in 1892 going 7 for 7 in a nine-inning game. The Pirates' second baseman gets two hits in one inning twice (in the 1st and 5th innings), helping make the game the most one-sided shutout since 1900, as the Bucs crush the Cubs at Wrigley Field, 22 - 0.
  • At Fenway Park, Luis Tiant shuts out the Orioles, 2 - 0, for the Red Sox. It's the Señor's first shutout of the year after leading the American League in 1974.
• 1977 - Seattle and Doc Medich beat Kansas City, 4 - 1, to end the Royals' winning streak at 16 games - the longest in the majors in 24 years.
• 1978 - With 55,091 looking on, the Yankees snap a 2 - 2 tie with a 9th-inning triple by Willie Randolph and a sacrifice fly by Thurman Munson to beat the Red Sox, 3 - 2. New York now leads Boston by three and a half games. The Yanks first score on a Reggie Jackson two-run blast in the 5th. Both starters, Catfish Hunter and Mike Torrez, go the distance.
• 1979:
  • At Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Bombers hold Catfish Hunter Day to honor their future Hall of Fame pitcher who will be retiring at the end of the season at the age of 33. A 20-year-old left-hander named Dave Righetti makes his major league debut for the hometown team.
  • Willie Wilson hits his fifth inside-the-park homer this season in a 6 - 3 loss to Seattle at Kansas City. It is the most inside-the-park homers hit in a season since Kiki Cuyler hit eight for the Pirates in 1925.
• 1983:
  • Minnesota's Tim Teufel goes 5 for 5 with a triple and the first two home runs of his major league career in an 11 - 4 win over the Blue Jays.
  • Yutaka Fukumoto hits his 36th homer to lead off a game, setting a new world record. It will be broken by Rickey Henderson.
• 1985 - Detroit's Nelson Simmons hits a home run from each side of the plate, the first Tiger to do so. But the Orioles answer with six homers of their own in overpowering the Tigers, 14 - 7. Cal Ripken hits his second homer of the game in the 8th, and Eddie Murray and Fred Lynn follow with successive homers. The three straight tie a Birds record.
• 1987:
  • In a 6 - 4 win, California's Bob Boone catches his 1,919th major league game to break the record held by Hall of Fame member Al Lopez.
  • Cleveland's Joe Carter joins the 30/30 club, stealing his 30th base of the season in a 5 - 3 loss to Seattle.
• 1988 - The Reds' Tom Browning pitches a perfect game against the Dodgers, striking out eight and allowing only eight balls to be hit out of the infield in his 1 - 0 victory. Over three starts including the perfect game he retires 40 consecutive batters - one shy of a major league record.
• 1989 - Pirates ace John Smiley (12-7) scatters nine hits to top the Cubs' Greg Maddux (17-12). The Bucs win, 8 - 6, but the Cubs still lead by five and a half games over the Mets and Cardinals.
• 1990 - Cleveland trades pending free agent Bud Black (11-10) to Toronto for Mauro Gozzo, Steve Cummings, and Alex Sanchez. Black will sign with the Giants on November 9th.
• 1991:
  • Kevin Tapani (15-8) becomes the Twins' third 15-game winner, pitching a three-hitter for 7 2/3 inning against the Royals. The Twins win, 9 - 0, jumping on Mark Gubicza. Tapani is 13-2 since June 5th.
  • Atlanta OF Otis Nixon is suspended for 60 days for violating baseball's drug policy. Nixon, who had been arrested on charges of cocaine possession in 1987, is currently leading the National League with 72 stolen bases. He will miss the postseason due to the suspension. Meanwhile, the Braves blow a three-run lead and lose to the Giants, 8 - 5, at Candlestick Park. Darren Lewis scores half the Giants' runs.
  • Boneheaded baserunning almost costs the Dodgers a win over the Reds. With one out in the 11th, and the score 3 - 3, Los Angeles has Jose Offerman on third base, with Brett Butler on first. When Lenny Harris hits a ground ball, Offerman tries to score but fails to touch the plate and is tagged out on the throw. Harris is called out for passing Butler, who inexplicably stands watching the play. But the Dodgers rally with three runs in the 12th to win, 6 - 5. Eddie Murray hits his first triple of the year and Eric Karros has his first major league hit, a double, before Joey Hamilton's game-winning single. L.A. sets a National League record in the 4 1/2-hour marathon by using 27 players, including nine pitchers. The Reds use 19.
  • Barry Bonds homers and drives in his 100th run for the second consecutive season, just the eighth Pirate to accomplish that. Pittsburgh beats the Cubs, 9 - 2.
• 1992:
  • The Cubs blow out the Phils, 14 - 9, to give Greg Maddux his 18th win. Maddux gives up three earned runs in six innings. Led by Andre Dawson's four hits, the first four hitters collect 11 hits and 11 ribbies for the Cubs. Dave Hollins homers for the Phils, while Dawson, Ryne Sandberg and Rick Wilkins go deep for Chicago. Mark Grace makes an error, ending his streak of 102 errorless games at 1B; his streak began after two errors on May 18th vs. the Dodgers.
  • White Sox 1B Frank Thomas gets five hits, all singles, in Chicago's 9 - 6 win over the Yankees. Rookie Sterling Hitchcock loses his first big league decision.
• 1993 - At the age of 41, the Twins' Dave Winfield becomes the 19th major leaguer to collect 3000 hits as he singles to left off A's ace Dennis Eckersley in a 5 - 1 home victory over Oakland.
• 1995 - San Diego beats the Cubs, 12 - 4, as Sammy Sosa and Ken Caminiti each pound a pair of homers. Caminiti collects one from each side of the plate. Tony Gwynn (.367) has three ribbies in going 3 for 5.
• 1996:
  • Steve Finley's lead-off home run in the 11th gives the Padres a 2 - 1 win over the host Giants. San Francisco's only run is Barry Bonds' 40th homer, and he joins Hank Aaron and Jose Canseco as the only players with 40 home runs and 30 stolen bases in a season.
  • A 5th-inning triple off Royals pitcher Jose Rosado gives the Twins' Paul Molitor 3000 hits. He will become the first major leaguer to accomplish this milestone in a season in which he collects 200 hits. It is the first time a three-bagger is a career 3000th hit.
  • The Mariners stop the Rangers, 6 - 0, as Jamie Moyer pitches eight innings of hitless ball. Edgar Martinez collects his 50th double, just the fifth player this century to hit 50 doubles in two straight years.
  • Backed by two three-run homers from Tim Raines, celebrating his 37th birthday, Jimmy Key stops the Blue Jays, 10 - 0. Raines' second home run, a 457-foot blast to center field, is the longest hit by a Yankee this year. The Yanks are now three games up in the American League East.
  • In their 5 - 2 loss to the Braves, Mets OF Lance Johnson hits his 20th triple. He's the first National Leaguer to reach that plateau since Willie Mays in 1957.
• 1997:
  • For the second straight day, the Giants lose on a home run, as the Braves win, 6 - 4. Eddie Perez's grand slam in the 6th gives the Braves a major league record-tying 11 slams for the year.
  • The Yankees sweep the Red Sox, winning 2 - 0 and 4 - 3. Andy Pettitte pitches eight innings in the opener, striking out a career-high 12. Willie Banks is the winner in the nitecap with 6 2/3 innings.
  • Phillies' right-hander Curt Schilling whiffs nine Mets, becoming the thirteenth player in major league history since 1900 to record 300 strikeouts in a season.
  • In Miami, Florida's Bobby Bonilla fouls off six two-strike pitches before blasting a grand slam with two outs in the 9th inning to give the Marlins a dramatic 9 - 6 win. For Bonilla, it is his eighth career slam. Larry Walker, Andres Galarraga, and Vinny Castilla homer for Colorado, which sets a National League record with 223 homers this year.
  • Jimmy Key, 0-7 in his last nine starts at Camden Yards, beats the Cleveland Indians, 7 - 2, to give the Orioles a split in a day-night doubleheader. Roberto Alomar has three hits and three RBIs and Brady Anderson and Rafael Palmeiro homer in the win. In the opener, Charles Nagy pitches five-hit ball into the 7th inning and Matt Williams drives home two runs to lead the Indians to a 4 - 2 victory.
  • At Wrigley Field, Kevin Tapani pitches a one-hitter for his first National League shutout and Sammy Sosa breaks a scoreless tie with a two-run, 6th-inning homer as Chicago beats Cincinnati, 5 - 0. Bret Boone's leadoff single in the 6th is the only Reds hit.
  • Mark McGwire hits his 52nd home run hours after signing a three-year contract with the Cards for $28.5 million. But Cardinals closer Dennis Eckersley collapses in the 9th and the Dodgers come back to win, 7 - 6. McGwire's 517-foot 1st-inning blast, the longest ever measured at Busch Stadium, ties him for the major league lead with Ken Griffey, Jr..
• 1998:
  • For only the 30th time in major league history and the 12th time it has been done consecutively, four batters strike out in one inning. Thanks to Randy Knorr's passed ball, Marlin rookie Kirt Ojala accomplishes the feat in the 4th inning of the Marlins' 3 - 2 defeat to the Expos.
  • Ken Griffey, Jr. steals his 20th base of the season in a 4 - 1 victory over Oakland. He becomes just the third player in history to record at least 50 home runs and at least 20 stolen bases in the same season. Willie Mays and Brady Anderson are the others.
  • Sammy Sosa's grand slam in the 8th inning, his 63rd home run of the year, leads the Cubs to a 6 - 3 win over San Diego. He now has 154 RBIs for the season.
  • With homers in four straight at-bats and five in two games, Cleveland's Manny Ramirez ties a major league record. The Indian right fielder, who homered in his final three at-bats last night, goes deep off Twin Bob Tewksbury in the 1st and takes 3-2 pitch to left in the 5th for his fifth homer in six at-bats.
  • Tom Gordon ties Jose Mesa's major league single-season record with his 38th consecutive save and sets a Red Sox mark with his 41st save of the season as Boston defeats the Orioles, 4 - 3.
  • Detroit P Sean Runyan makes his 84th appearance of the season in the Tigers' 2 - 1 loss to Toronto. He breaks Mike Myers' rookie record of 83 set in 1996.
• 1999 - In a 7 - 1 Kansas City win over Anaheim, Carlos Beltran collects his 100th RBI. He's the first rookie since Mark McGwire, in 1987, to reach that level.
• 2000:
  • Cub outfielder Sammy Sosa joins Mark McGwire (1997-1999) as the only major leaguer to hit 50 home runs three consecutive seasons.
  • Seattle's Jamie Moyer (13-9) scatters three hits over seven scoreless innings to coast to his 11th straight win over the Orioles, winning 14 - 0. Alex Rodriguez hits his 37th home run in the 1st off Mike Mussina. Moyer, 11-1 against his old team, started his win streak on April 18, 1996, when he was with Boston.
• 2002 - Giant left fielder Barry Bonds walks three times breaking his own record for bases on balls in a season with 178. Approximately one-third of the free passes given to the San Francisco slugger have been intentional (60 out of 178).
• 2007:
  • Jim Thome hits his 500th home run, a two-run walk-off shot off Dustin Moseley that gives the White Sox a 9 - 7 victory over the Angels. Thome is the third player to reach the milestone this season, after Frank Thomas and Alex Rodriguez.
  • The Dutch national team wins the 2007 European Championship for their fifth straight title. This also clinches them a spot in the 2008 Olympics. In the finale, Roger Bernadina scores three times in the 6 - 1 win, while David Bergman carries a no-hitter into the 7th against Great Britain.
  • The Braves start three players with the same surname - 3B Chipper Jones, LF Brandon Jones and CF Andruw Jones. The last time a team had done that was the 1999 Pirates with Emil Brown, Adrian Brown and Brant Brown. The 2001 Pirates did not capitalize on the chance when they had Enrique Wilson, Jack Wilson and Craig Wilson.
  • Yasuhiko Yabuta plunks Greg LaRocca with a pitch. It is the 24th time this year LaRocca has been hit by a pitch, tying the Nippon Pro Baseball record, held for over 50 years by Yoshiyuki Iwamoto. LaRocca will break the record tomorrow.
• 2008 - In the last homestand at Yankee Stadium, Derek Jeter passes Lou Gehrig for the most career hits at the storied ballpark. He collects his 1,270th hit in the venue, a single past Juan Uribe while facing Gavin Floyd. The Yanks still lose, 6 - 2, to the ChiSox.
• 2009:
  • Jorge de la Rosa, who started the season 0-6, pitches eight scoreless innings as the Rockies beat San Francisco, 4 - 3. De la Rosa registers his 15th win in outpitching Matt Cain and prevents Colorado from being swept in the three-game series, but the Rockies' bullpen makes the game more exciting than need be. Franklin Morales starts the 9th by giving up three singles and a run; Rafael Betancourt comes to his rescue, but an error, a stolen base and an RBI groundout bring the Giants within 90 feet of tying the game before Nate Schierholtz strikes out to end it. Colorado leads S.F. by three and a half games in the wild card race.
  • Mark Reynolds strikes out four times to reach the 200 mark for the second consecutive year as his Diamondbacks lose, 6 - 5, in ten innings to San Diego. Reynolds set the all-time record with 204 strikeouts last year, but that is now under threat. Justin Upton collects five hits for the losers.
  • Peter Moylan pitches his 75th game of the season and still has not allowed a home run; this is a new record for most consecutive homerless outings to begin a season, breaking Chad Bradford's two-year-old mark.
• 2012:
  • The Italian national team wins the 2012 European Championship, marking the first time since 1989-1991 that they have repeated as victors. After edging the Netherlands in their first meeting, they easily win today, 8 - 3. Former major leaguer Shairon Martis fails to last through the 3rd and prospect Juan Carlos Sulbaran is no better, as the two combine to allow eight runs in 3 2/3 IP before Tom Stuifbergen relieves and shuts down Italy the remainder of the way. Italy's captain Mario Chiarini drives in three, while John Mariotti gets the win. Lorenzo Avagnina is the game's big star, going 4 for 5 with a double, steal, two runs and two RBI and finishes as the MVP of these Euros.
  • The Orioles secure their first winning record since 1997 with a 9 - 5 win over the Athletics, giving them 82 wins on the year. Matt Wieters homers twice off Dan Straily to lead the offense, but the O's can't gain ground on the first-place Yankees, who beat the Rays, 6 - 4, behind Hiroki Kuroda and Rafael Soriano's 40th save of the season. At the end of the day, New York leads by one game over Baltimore and five over the falling Rays.
• 2013:
  • Andrew Cashner makes a bid to become the first pitcher in Padres history to throw a no-hitter, but falls short, allowing a 7th-inning hit to Jose Tabata after retiring the first 18 batters. He settles for a one-hitter in beating the Pirates, 2 - 0, facing the minimum 27 batters. Pittsburgh remains tied with St. Louis, beaten 6 - 2 at Colorado, in the NL Central.
  • The Royals beat the Indians, 7 - 1, in a match with significant implications for the AL wild card race. James Shields strikes out a season-high ten batters as the Royals move within two and a half games of a postseason slot, with Cleveland two games ahead of them as a number of other teams are also still in contention.
• 2014:
  • Two more teams punch their tickets to the postseason. The Orioles are the AL East champions for the first time since 1997 after defeating the Blue Jays, 8 - 2, and the Nationals clinch the NL East crown for the second time in three years when they beat the Atlanta Braves, 3 - 0.
  • The Cubs' Jake Arrieta throws a one-hitter in shutting out the Reds, 7 - 0. Brandon Phillips' two-out double in the 8th is the only blemish as Arrieta strikes out 13.
• 2015:
  • Bryce Harper hits his 40th home run in Washington's 12 - 2 win over the Phillies. Only six other players have hit 40 homers in a season before turning 23.
  • Rick van den Hurk goes eight shutout innings, allowing four hits and fanning ten, to beat the Orix Buffaloes, 2 - 0. The Softbank Hawks hurler improves to 9-0 to start his Nippon Pro Baseball career, breaking the NPB record for consecutive wins to begin a career; Kazuhisa Inao set the mark in 1956 and Hisashi Aikyo tied it from 2001-2006. Van den Hurk ties the record for most wins by a foreign player to start a season, following Gene Bacque (1964) and Tai-Yuan Kuo (1994). He will not get another decision in the regular season, then go 2-0 in the postseason.
• 2017 - In Sweden, the Sölvesborg Firehawks win their first Elitserien title, sweeping the Rättvik Butchers in three games.
• 2020 - Trailing the Blue Jays by half a game at the start of a three-game series at New Yankee Stadium, the Yankees leapfrog over their rivals with a pair of drubbings, 20 - 6 yesterday and 13 - 2 today, hitting a team-record 13 homers over the two games. Today, D.J. LeMahieu propels Tanner Roark's first pitch of the game over the fence, and the Yanks will hit six more before the game ends, with LeMahieu hitting a second one, Kyle Higashioka having the first three-homer game of his career, and Luke Voit hitting his major league-leading 19th long ball. Gerrit Cole does not allow a hit over the first five innings before lifting his foot off the gas pedal and cruising to his sixth win of the year, and the 100th of his career.
• 2022 - Yordan Alvarez hits three home runs to lead Houston to a 5 - 0 win over the Athletics, clinching a postseason slot. Justin Verlander (17-3) is the winner in his return from a calf injury that has kept him out of action since the end of August.
• 2023 - Matt Waldron gives up two runs in 5 1/3 innings to lead the Padres to a 5 - 2 win over the A's, picking up his first big league win. He is the first knuckleball pitcher to win a game in the majors since Steven Wright in September of 2018, keeping a dying art form alive.
• 2024 - After 141 consecutive plate appearances without being K'ed, Luis Arraez goes down on strikes at the conclusion of a nine-pitch battle with Houston's Spencer Arrighetti. It is the longest such streak since Juan Pierre went 147 plate appearances without striking out in 2004. Arraez gets a hit in his next two at-bats, raising his NL-leading batting average to .323 and leading the Padres to a 3 - 1 win.

Births

• 1849 - Rit Harrison, catcher/infielder (d. 1888)
• 1857 - Bill Henderson, manager (d. 1929)
• 1859 - Bill Irwin, pitcher (d. 1933)
• 1864 - Henry Easterday, infielder (d. 1895)
• 1865 - George McVey, catcher/infielder (d. 1896)
• 1867 - Spider Clark, outfielder (d. 1892)
• 1869 - Gus McGinnis, pitcher (d. 1904)
• 1870 - Sam Moran, pitcher (d. 1897)
• 1877 - George McConnell, pitcher (d. 1964)
• 1887 - Jim Galloway, infielder (d. 1950)
• 1891 - Henry Blackmon, infielder (d. 1924)
• 1891 - George Orme, outfielder (d. 1962)
• 1894 - Rogelio Crespo, infielder (d. 1985)
• 1896 - Mack Eggleston, catcher; manager (d. 1980)
• 1898 - Al Lefevre, infielder (d. 1982)
• 1899 - Heinie Mueller, outfielder (d. 1975)
• 1901 - Ken Ash, pitcher (d. 1979)
• 1901 - Larry Brown, catcher, manager; All-Star (d. 1972)
• 1904 - Edgar Barnhart, pitcher (d. 1984)
• 1905 - Dinny McNamara, outfielder (d. 1963)
• 1905 - Joe Vance, pitcher (d. 1978)
• 1908 - Buster Mills, outfielder, manager (d. 1991)
• 1911 - Mex Johnson, infielder; All-Star (d. 2005)
• 1911 - John Lyles, infielder; All-Star (d. 1954)
• 1912 - Emil Bildilli, pitcher (d. 1946)
• 1916 - Michio Shigematsu, NPB pitcher (d. 1979)
• 1919 - Bruce Konopka, infielder (d. 1996)
• 1919 - Penny O'Brian, AAGPBL outfielder (d. 2010)
• 1922 - Con Dempsey, pitcher (d. 2006)
• 1924 - Hank Peters, General Manager (d. 2015)
• 1926 - Kurt Krieger, pitcher (d. 1970)
• 1926 - Rogers McKee, pitcher (d. 2014)
• 1928 - Vito Valentinetti, pitcher (d. 2021)
• 1929 - Maxine Kline, AAGPBL pitcher (d. 2022)
• 1930 - Ron Mrozinski, pitcher (d. 2005)
• 1931 - Ollie Brantley, minor league pitcher (d. 2020)
• 1931 - Jerry Schypinski, infielder (d. 2019)
• 1932 - Germán Doria, Venezuelan national team pitcher
• 1934 - Doug Gassaway, scout (d. 2017)
• 1937 - Vince Naimoli, owner (d. 2019)
• 1938 - Arley Kangas, minor league player (d. 2022)
• 1944 - Chuck Brinkman, catcher
• 1944 - George Pena, minor league catcher (d. 2021)
• 1945 - Bob Chlupsa, pitcher (d. 2024)
• 1945 - Ed Sprague, pitcher (d. 2020)
• 1945 - Hector Torres, infielder
• 1947 - Gary Ross, pitcher
• 1949 - Mike Garman, pitcher
• 1949 - Roger Moret, pitcher (d. 2020)
• 1953 - Chris Knapp, pitcher
• 1954 - Alonso Alleyne, minor league infielder
• 1954 - Masaharu Mitsui, NPB pitcher
• 1955 - Joe Edelen, pitcher
• 1955 - John Higgins, umpire (d. 2020)
• 1955 - Robin Yount, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer
• 1958 - Orel Hershiser, pitcher; All-Star
• 1959 - Tim Raines, outfielder; All-Star
• 1959 - Rick Stromer, minor league infielder
• 1959 - Chieh-Jen Yang, CPBL pitcher
• 1960 - Mel Hall, outfielder
• 1960 - Dan Jennings, manager
• 1960 - Mickey Tettleton, catcher; All-Star
• 1961 - Dan Cataline, minor league outfielder
• 1961 - Scott Medvin, pitcher
• 1961 - Mark Parent, catcher
• 1961 - Chris Pittaro, infielder
• 1963 - Bobby Bell, minor league catcher
• 1965 - Kuo-Chong Lo, CPBL infielder and manager
• 1965 - Juan Padilla, Cuban league infielder and manager
• 1967 - Mitch Hannahs, minor league second baseman and college coach
• 1967 - Rafaelito Mercedes, CPBL infielder (d. 2002)
• 1968 - Mark Acre, pitcher
• 1970 - Giorge Díaz, Cuban league pitcher
• 1970 - Bronswell Patrick, pitcher
• 1970 - Paul Shuey, pitcher
• 1971 - Scott Pace, minor league pitcher
• 1972 - Jose Mateo, Puerto Rican national team pitcher
• 1972 - Brian Tollberg, pitcher
• 1973 - Desi Relaford, infielder
• 1974 - Brian Whitlock, minor league player
• 1975 - Billy Eppler, General Manager
• 1975 - Ryan Sienko, coach
• 1976 - Chad Whitaker, minor league player
• 1976 - Chad Harville, pitcher
• 1979 - Chris George, pitcher
• 1979 - Bobby Korecky, pitcher
• 1979 - Logan Stout, college coach
• 1980 - Jean-Baptiste Breton, Division Elite utility man
• 1980 - Joo-youn Han, South Korean women's national team pitcher
• 1980 - Mats Jones, Elitserien infielder-pitcher
• 1981 - Mike Rozema, minor league infielder
• 1982 - Chris Carter, outfielder
• 1982 - Michael Martinez, outfielder
• 1982 - Jonash Ponce, Philippines national team outfielder
• 1982 - Ramon Ramirez, pitcher
• 1983 - Brandon Moss, outfielder; All-Star
• 1985 - Matt Harrison, pitcher; All-Star
• 1985 - Jim Murphy, minor league infielder
• 1985 - Nick Nosti, Serie A1 outfielder
• 1985 - Ludwin Obispo, minor league infielder
• 1985 - Chorye Spoone, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Gordon Beckham, infielder
• 1986 - Eliezer Zambrano, minor league catcher
• 1987 - Zvonimir Ivančan, Croatian national team infielder
• 1987 - Rafael Revollo, Bolivian national team catcher
• 1988 - Jilton Calderon, Nicaraguan national team outfielder
• 1988 - Brett Kennedy, minor league pitcher and manager
• 1989 - Robbie Grossman, outfielder
• 1989 - Chris Stout, minor league pitcher and manager
• 1990 - Mike Reeves, minor league catcher
• 1991 - Christian Christopoulos, Greek national team catcher
• 1991 - Young-pyo Ko, KBO pitcher
• 1992 - Dylan De Meyer, minor league pitcher
• 1992 - Tyler Hollick, minor league outfielder
• 1992 - Jakob Junis, pitcher
• 1992 - Hunter Lockwood, minor league outfielder
• 1992 - Eric Tenorio, Northern Mariana Islands national team utility man
• 1993 - Peter Maris, minor league infielder
• 1994 - Brandon Gold, minor league pitcher
• 1994 - Lincoln Hochmuth, college coach
• 1995 - Travis Seabrooke, minor league pitcher
• 1996 - Dylan Coleman, pitcher
• 1996 - Matt Vierling, outfielder
• 1996 - Fuyang Zhao, China Baseball League pitcher
• 1997 - Ángel Padrón, minor league pitcher
• 1998 - Chin-Hao Yang, CPBL infielder
• 1999 - Jan Figueroa, minor league pitcher
• 1999 - Tucupita Marcano, infielder
• 1999 - Joshua Pineda, Philippines national team pitcher
• 1999 - Rodney Theophile, minor league pitcher
• 2000 - Quinn Priester, pitcher
• 2000 - Omar Shublaq, Palestinian national team catcher
• 2001 - Darryl Collins, minor league outfielder
• 2001 - Hyeong-jun So, KBO pitcher
• 2003 - Tzu-Yu Tseng, CPBL infielder

Deaths

• 1894 - Terry Larkin, pitcher (b. 1856)
• 1909 - Herman Long, infielder (b. 1866)
• 1913 - Ollie Gfroerer, minor league outfielder and manager (b. 1875)
• 1915 - Wally Goldsmith, infielder (b. 1848)
• 1933 - George Gore, outfielder, manager (b. 1854)
• 1936 - Henry Lampe, pitcher (b. 1872)
• 1944 - Farmer Steelman, catcher (b. 1875)
• 1946 - Emil Bildilli, pitcher (b. 1912)
• 1952 - Earl Sheely, infielder (b. 1893)
• 1955 - George Brown, outfielder (b. 1885)
• 1955 - Dan Sherman, pitcher (b. 1890)
• 1959 - Willis Chamness, minor league pitcher (b. 1923)
• 1963 - Johnny Niggeling, pitcher (b. 1903)
• 1964 - Herb Conyers, infielder (b. 1921)
• 1967 - Lee King, outfielder (b. 1892)
• 1968 - Henry Bostick, infielder (b. 1895)
• 1970 - Minoru Kasamatsu, NPB pitcher (b. 1916)
• 1970 - Ray Shook, pinch runner (b. 1889)
• 1972 - Eddie Waitkus, infielder; All-Star (b. 1919)
• 1973 - Tom Long, pitcher (b. 1898)
• 1974 - Frank Walker, outfielder (b. 1894)
• 1975 - Takeshi Hibino, NPB catcher (b. 1920)
• 1977 - Luis Cabrera, pitcher (b. 1919)
• 1978 - Bill Foster, pitcher; All-Star, Hall of Fame (b. 1904)
• 1979 - Charlie Deal, infielder (b. 1891)
• 1987 - Kermit Wahl, infielder (b. 1922)
• 1988 - Bob Trice, pitcher (b. 1926)
• 1993 - Ray Faust, minor league pitcher (b. 1928)
• 1993 - Max Marshall, outfielder (b. 1913)
• 1994 - Harry Chozen, catcher (b. 1915)
• 1997 - Michinori Tsubouchi, NPB outfielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1914)
• 1999 - Paul Gregory, pitcher (b. 1908)
• 1999 - Doug Hansen, pinch runner (b. 1928)
• 1999 - Ace Williams, pitcher (b. 1917)
• 2005 - Lou Almada, minor league outfielder (b. 1907)
• 2010 - Wayne Twitchell, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1948)
• 2012 - Hsiang-Mu Wu, CPBL manager (b. 1942)
• 2013 - Joaquín Portobanco, Nicaraguan national team pitcher (b. 1934)
• 2016 - W.P. Kinsella, writer (b. 1935)
• 2020 - Timothy Banner, college coach (b. 1956)