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Events

• 1900 - St. Louis C Wilbert Robinson objects to umpire John Gaffney calling a Brooklyn runner safe at home, and throws the ball at the ump. Gaffney swings his mask at Robby and tosses him out of the game. Cardinals captain John McGraw refuses to put in another catcher, claiming one is injured and the other suspended. The ump forfeits the game to the Superbas. The Brooklyn fans object to the suspension of play and President Charlie Ebbets refunds money to those who want it.
• 1901 - All games are canceled out of respect for the funeral of President William McKinley, who died September 14th from gunshot wounds.
• 1903 - Cleveland's Ed Killian loses to the Americans when he gives up a home run to Fred Parent. Killian will pitch 1,001 innings before serving up another round-tripper, to Socks Seybold, on August 7, 1907.
• 1906 - At Boston, Chicago clinches the National League pennant by topping Boston, 3 - 1. Ed Reulbach is the winner.
• 1908:
  • Ed Reulbach pitches ten innings in the second game of a doubleheader against the Phils before the scoreless game is called on account of darkness.
  • More than 30,000 fans in New York watch the Pirates snap a 2 - 2 tie in the 10th by scoring four runs. Lefty Leifield picks up the win for Pittsburgh.
• 1912 - At Cleveland, the Red Sox lose an unusual doubleheader to the Cleveland Naps. Cleveland takes the lidlifter, 9 - 3, when the game is called on account of rain after five innings. The rain stops and the second game begins, only to be also called, this time after six innings because of darkness. The Naps win, 6 - 0.
• 1913 - The Giants continue to both lead the league and sport cold bats, barely holding on to split with the Cardinals. Christy Mathewson drops the opener, 1 - 0, in ten innings when Fred Snodgrass misplays a fly ball into a triple. New York takes the nitecap, 2 - 0.
• 1914:
  • Ed Lafitte pitches a 6 - 2 no-hitter for the Brooklyn Tip-Tops (Federal League) over the Kansas City Packers. Wildness costs him the two runs. He will lead the FL with 127 walks.
  • Before the Phils-Cards game, Grover Cleveland Alexander is presented with a check for $1,000 for winning 25 games. Alex proceeds to win his 25th, allowing just two hits while fanning 11.
• 1915 - Dick Whitworth of the Chicago American Giants no-hits the Chicago Giants, 4 - 0, in the first game of a doubleheader.
• 1916:
  • At Philadelphia, the White Sox tie a major-league record when three pinch runners score in the 9th inning. The Sox win, 5 - 4, over the A's.
  • Phils ace Grover Cleveland Alexander gives up two runs, both unearned, and loses to the Cubs, 2 - 0. Hippo Vaughn outduels Alex as the Phils fall two games behind Brooklyn.
• 1917 - In the first of two, the host Red Sox make eight errors to help the Tigers to a 5 - 2 win.
• 1920:
  • Behind Jim Bagby, the Indians top the Red Sox, 2 - 0, in a Sunday game at home. It is Bagby's 29th win of the year and keeps the Indians one and a half games ahead of Chicago.
  • In New York, Babe Ruth's movie opens at Madison Square Garden. It has been retitled Headin Home.
• 1922 - Against the Senators' Walter Johnson, Ken Williams hit his 39th home run of the year in the 4th, and Pat Collins, subbing for George Sisler at 1B, adds another solo home run in the 7th to give the Browns a 2 - 1 lead. But the Senators rally to win, 4 - 3, with Johnson earning the win over Elam Vangilder. Sisler pinch hits and strikes out.
• 1924 - The Senators coast to a 15 - 9 win in St. Louis to stay even with the Yankees.
• 1925 - In St. Louis, the Cardinals roll over Brooklyn, 15 - 3, behind Wee Willie Sherdel. In the 7th inning, the Red Birds rub it in with two steals of home, tying a major league record. It's the last time it's been done in the National League. Oakland will steal home twice in the 1st inning on May 28, 1980.
• 1925:
  • The Pirates pip the Braves, 2 - 1, as Kiki Cuyler has his second straight 4-for-4 game. The two teams total 23 hits - Pittsburgh 13 - but score just three runs.
  • In the second game of a twinbill, the White Sox take a 15 - 0 lead against Washington after five innings, but Chicago P Ted Lyons will have to pitch to 18 different batters as Senators manager Bucky Harris juggles his lineup and sends in pinch-hitters. With a no-hitter going, Lyons continues to bear down. Finally, with two out in the 9th, Washington's Bobby Veach gets a base hit to break the no-hitter. The final is 17 - 0 for Lyons with Tom Zachary taking the loss. Washington outfielder Sam Rice's streak of nine hits in a row is stopped, but he will end the season with 182 singles, an American League record until 1980. Washington takes the opener, 3 - 2, behind Dutch Ruether.
  • Eppa Rixey becomes the second Reds pitcher to win 20 this season, beating the Phillies, 7 - 2. The Reds' big three of Pete Donohue, Rixey and Dolf Luque will finish 1-2-3 in innings pitched.
  • At Chicago, the Cubs beat the Giants, 6 - 2, behind Sheriff Blake. Taking the loss is Jack Scott, the first of ten straight losses the Cubs will hand him.
• 1926:
  • At Cleveland's League Park, a crowd of 31,000 watch the Yankees hold back the Indians, 8 - 3, in the final of a six-game series. In the 7th, Babe Ruth parks his 43rd homer of the year and Lou Gehrig follows with another home run, both off Emil Levsen. Gehrig adds three doubles and five RBIs to lead the Yankee charge. Dutch Ruether picks up the New York win.
  • The White Sox beat Boston 6 - 3, the same score as yesterday, to complete a five-game sweep of the Bosox in Chicago.
• 1929 - Joe Sewell sets a major league record by playing in his 115th consecutive game without striking out. The Indians third baseman will be fanned only four times in 578 at-bats this season.
• 1931 - Lefty Grove becomes the first pitcher to win 30 games since Jim Bagby did it in 1920 when he beats the White Sox, 2 - 1.
• 1933:
  • The Yankees pile up 34 hits and drub the White Sox twice, 10 - 1 and 10 - 3. George Uhle and Charlie Devens are the recipients of the offensive largesse. Joe Sewell has six hits for the afternoon, while Lou Gehrig has six RBIs. Gehrig hits home run #30 in the first game, following immediately after Dixie Walker hits a homer. Lou is now even with Babe Ruth, who sat out the afternoon.
  • Although they lose to St. Louis, 12 - 3, the Giants clinch the pennant when runner-up Pittsburgh splits a pair in Philadelphia.
• 1934 - Tom Yawkey decides to eliminate advertising on fences at Fenway Park.
• 1935 - The Cubs complete a four-game sweep of the Giants, beating Carl Hubbell for their 16th straight win, 6 - 1. Billy Herman has three hits and is 11 for 18 in the series with the Giants. The 16 wins in a row is most in the National League since the 1924 Brooklyn Robins won 15. Giants manager Bill Terry tells reporters that, "the Cubs will win ... they are playing way over their heads."
• 1937:
  • Tigers first baseman Hank Greenberg becomes the first player to hit a homer into the center field bleachers at Yankee Stadium. Detroit wins, 8 - 1.
  • In a benefit game played at the Polo Grounds, "Schoolboy" Johnny Taylor, pitching for a chosen All-Star Negro National League team, no-hits Satchel Paige and his "Dominican All-Stars", 2 - 0. Paige's team had won the Denver Post Tournament and had taken the Dominican League title earlier in the year.
• 1946 - Washington's Sherry Robertson leads off with a home run against Cleveland. It is his second consecutive leadoff homer, having connected yesterday in Detroit.
• 1951:
  • At Wrigley Field, the Phils' Bubba Church (15-10) defeats the Cubs, 5 - 1, for his tenth win in a row over the Cubs in his two years with Philadelphia. Bob Rush takes the loss.
  • Larry Doby of the Indians walks five times in a 15 - 2 cakewalk over the Red Sox in Boston. Early Wynn picks up his 20th win. Cleveland now returns home to play five of six games against Detroit; their record is 16-1 against the Tigers. Meanwhile, the Yankees are victorious when Mickey Mantle hits a three-run homer off Chicago's Lou Kretlow to win, 5 - 3. A small crowd of 12,127 watch the game at the Stadium. The Indians and Yankees have been tied now for 11 days. The Yanks now have nine games left, eight against Boston.
  • In St. Louis, Preacher Roe is given a Cadillac by his neighbors from the Ozarks, then pitches a 3 - 0 five-hitter over the Cards. Roe is now 21-2. Filling in for the ailing Roy Campanella, backup catcher Mickey Livingston has two RBI.
• 1955 - Cubs infielder Ernie Banks hits his fifth grand slam of the season to establish a new major league mark, but Rip Repulski's 12th-inning homer off Jim Davis proves to be the difference as the Cardinals beat Chicago, 6 - 5.
• 1956 - For the third time in his career, P Don Newcombe hits two home runs in one game, in a 17 - 2 laugher. The win puts the Dodgers a half game in front of the Braves.
• 1960 - Chicago's pennant hopes are damaged with a nitecap 7 - 6 loss to the Tigers, after they win the opener, 8 - 4. Pinch-hitter Norm Cash scores the decisive run in the second game. Cash thus ends his year by grounding into no double plays, the first American Leaguer to do this since league records on this were started in 1940. Teammate Dick McAuliffe and Roger Repoz will duplicate this in 1968.
• 1961 - The Giants clobber Warren Spahn for four home runs, one of them a grand slam by Willie Mays, and then rally in the 8th and 9th to top the Braves, 11 - 10. The two teams combine for eight home runs and 57 total bases, but the short ball wins it - Harvey Kuenn's tie-breaking single in the 8th, and Ed Bailey's sacks-full single in the 9th.
• 1962 - Walt Bond and John Romano twice hit back-to-back home runs for the Indians to help beat the Athletics, 10 - 9. They both hit doubles as well - a major league first when added to the back-to-backs - as Bond collects six RBIs and Romano four. Dick Donovan gains his 20th win, though he is chased in the 6th.
• 1963 - At Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles, 476 lonely fans watch the Angels and Orioles game. The Angels win, 7 - 2, behind Bo Belinsky.
• 1964:
  • The Colt .45s drop Harry Craft (61-88) as manager. He is replaced by Lum Harris.
  • The Yanks move a half game ahead of the rained-out O's by defeating the A's, 8 - 3. Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris homer and Ralph Terry pitches effectively in relief of Al Downing.
  • The Dodger-Phils matchup in Los Angeles goes 15 innings, when with two outs in the bottom of the 16th, Willie Davis singles, steals second, and takes third on a wild pitch. With rookie reliever Morrie Steevens making his first big league appearance, Davis swipes home to give the Dodgers the 4 - 3 win. His steal of home is the latest in any game in the National League and ties Hal Trosky's 16th-inning swipe of home in a 1944 game. The Phils now lead by five and a half games.
  • In the first game of a doubleheader, the Reds stun the Cardinals, 7 - 5, when Frank Robinson connects for a three-run 9th-inning home run off Bob Gibson. The Cards take the second game, 2 - 0, scoring both runs on C Don Pavletich's throwing error on a double steal. Ray Sadecki wins his 18th.
• 1966:
  • Don Drysdale stops the Phils, 6 - 1, for a needed Dodgers win.
  • Dan Topping sells his ten percent stock interest in the Yankees to CBS and resigns as club president. CBS executive Mike Burke succeeds him.
• 1967:
  • Wes Westrum (57-94) resigns as manager of the Mets following a 4 - 3 loss to the Dodgers. Coach Salty Parker takes over and will be 4-7 for the rest of the season. Two days later the board of directors announces it will try to obtain Gil Hodges as manager.
  • Boston rallies again to beat Detroit, 4 - 2, scoring three runs in the 9th inning. Jose Santiago (10-4) wins for the second time in two days. The loss drops Detroit from first place down to fourth. Dave Boswell throws a two-hitter to give the Twins an 8 - 2 win over the Athletics. Joel Horlen wins his 18th game, a 3 - 0 blanking of the Angels, to leave the Sox in third place, a half-game behind the co-leaders, Boston and the Twins.
• 1968 - Denny McLain's 31st win is overshadowed by Mickey Mantle's 535th homer. McLain allegedly calls C Jim Price out and tells him to inform Mantle he's throwing the slugger nothing but fastballs. The home run gives Mantle undisputed hold of third place on the all-time home run list. Mantle tips his cap to Denny as he rounds third base. Joe Pepitone, the next batter, signals where he would like the ball, and McLain dusts him. The Tigers win the game, 6 - 2, the 12th straight complete game for the Tigers staff.
• 1969 - Hank Bauer is fired as manager of the Athletics. John McNamara takes over.
• 1970:
  • Roberto Clemente, out of action since September 4th, drives in one run and scores the other in Pittsburgh's 2 - 1 victory over New York, as the NL East-leading Bucs maintain their one-and-a-half--game margin over Chicago in spite of Pittsburgh's pitchers issuing nine free passes.
  • The Giants' Gaylord Perry retires the first 19 batters and settles for three-hitter in beating the Padres, 3 - 0. It is Perry's fourth straight shutout.
  • Boston's Billy Conigliaro connects for a 4th-inning home run off Washington's Jim Hannan, and in the 7th frame, brother Tony wallops a solo shot off Joe Grzenda. The Red Sox win, 11 - 3, after taking the first game, 7 - 3. The brothers also homered in the same game on July 4th. Billy will end the year with 18 home runs, while Tony will connect for 36. Frank Howard is frustrated with five strikeouts in the first game.
  • Syracuse (International League) beats Omaha (American Association), 5 - 3, in 11 innings, thereby winning the Junior World Series.
• 1971 - Dodgers Al Downing and Don Sutton hurl shutouts during a 12 - 0, 4 - 0, doubleheader triumph over the Braves. The Dodgers have 19 hits in the opener, including four by Willie Davis. Los Angeles now trails the Giants by one and a half games.
• 1972:
  • The Twins' Cesar Tovar hits for the cycle as Minnesota beats Texas, 5 - 3.
  • In a 15-inning contest with Chicago, the A's set an extra-inning record by using 30 players, including six second basemen and ten pinch-hitters. Together the two clubs use 51 players, another record. Oakland still loses, 8 - 7.
• 1973:
  • The Braves' Davey Johnson hits his 43rd homer (42nd as a second baseman) tying Rogers Hornsby's record for the most home runs at the position.
  • In San Francisco, Fred Norman pitches a two-hitter as the Reds beat the Giants, 5 - 1.
  • Chicago's Ron Santo and Billy Williams celebrate their long association together by each hitting their 20th homer of the season in an 8 - 6 win over Montreal. It is number 325 for Santo and 376 for Williams in more than 2,000 games together.
  • The Angels down the Rangers, 6 - 2 and 9 - 4, at Arlington Stadium. Frank Robinson homers in the 32nd different park of his major league career - a record.
• 1976 - Catfish Hunter notches his 200th career victory as the Yankees stop Milwaukee, 2 - 1. Since 1901, only Christy Mathewson and Grover Cleveland Alexander have hit the 200 mark before their 31st birthday, but arm trouble will limit Catfish to 224 wins. He'll win 17 this year, after five straight 20-win seasons.
• 1977:
  • Former catcher Paddy Livingston dies at age 97, in Cleveland, OH. He was the last surviving player from the American League's first season (1901).
  • With two singles in his first two at-bats, Ted Cox ties and then breaks the 1933 Senators' Cecil Travis record of five consecutive hits at the start of a career. The Red Sox rookie designated hitter had gone 4 for 4 in Baltimore yesterday and is successful in his first six major league plate appearances.
• 1978:
  • The Phils lose to Montreal, 5 - 2, and now lead the Pirates by one game with 12 to play. Rookie Scott Sanderson stops the Quakers. The Phils are 19-18 since August 12th.
  • During a 12 - 11 win over the Cubs, the Pirates' 38-year-old, lead-footed Willie Stargell attempts to steal second base. The Cubs SS waits with the ball as Stargell slides ten feet short of the base, signaling "time-out." The Pirates lead, 11 - 2, in the 7th, but the Cubs rally and tie it in the 9th. Dave Parker homers in the 11th off Bruce Sutter to give the Bucs their seventh straight win and 30th in their last 38 since August 12th. Besides his two homers, Parker adds two run-scoring singles.
• 1980:
  • At Tiger Stadium, Al Kaline becomes the first player in franchise history to have his uniform number retired. The Hall of Famer, who wore the number 6, roamed the outfield for Detroit from 1953 to 1974.
  • The Reds light up Jerry Reuss (17-6) for eight runs in two innings, en route to a 10 - 7 win over the Dodgers. Reuss serves up a grand slam to Johnny Bench, the ninth slam off him this year, a National League record. Steve Garvey and Ron Cey solo for the Dodgers.
• 1981 - Reds reliever Joe Edelen allows just one hit in six innings of shutout relief as the Reds down the Dodgers, 7 - 3. Dodger 2B Jack Perconte ties the major-league record with 12 assists.
• 1982:
  • Mariners rookie Orlando Mercado becomes the third player to hit a grand slam for his first major league hit. Bill Duggleby (1898 - first at-bat) and Bobby Bonds (1968 - third at-bat) were the other two players to accomplish the feat.
  • Milwaukee scores nine runs in the 8th to roll over the Yankees, 14 - 1. Don Sutton is the victor. Gorman Thomas has a double and home run in the big inning and Paul Molitor adds a home run as well.
• 1983:
  • Denver (American Association) beats Portland (Pacific Coast League), 5 - 4, to give the Tidewater Tides (International League) the championship in the first AAA World Series. Manager Davey Johnson's Tides won three of their four games in the double round-robin tournament to edge second-place Portland, which finished 2-2.
  • Phillies 2B Joe Morgan celebrates his 40th birthday by going 4 for 5 with two home runs in a 7 - 6 win over the Cubs. He will go 4 for 5 again tomorrow in an 8 - 5 win over the Cubs. He's the second player to celebrate his 40th birthday with a dinger: Bob Thurman was the first, in 1957.
• 1985 - Vince Coleman steals his 100th base of the season and teammate Tom Herr drives in his 100th run, but the Cardinals lose to the Phillies, 6 - 3.
• 1986:
  • White Sox pitcher Joe Cowley, who had been demoted to the minors earlier in the season, pitches an ugly no-hitter against the Angels. Cowley walks seven batters and allows a sacrifice fly as Chicago wins, 7 - 1. For Cowley, this win is his high note, as he won't record another big league victory, going 0-4 with the Phils in 1987.
  • Tom Seaver pitches the final game of his career in the major leagues, for the Red Sox against the Blue Jays, a four-inning effort resulting in a loss.
• 1988 - Oakland clinches the American League West title with a 5 - 3 win over the second-place Twins.
• 1989 - San Diego's Mark Davis becomes the seventh pitcher ever to save 40 games in a season by nailing down the Padres' 5 - 1 win over the Reds. He will finish the season with 44 saves, one shy of Bruce Sutter's National League record.
• 1990 - Doug Drabek wins his 20th game and Barry Bonds hits his 30th and 31st home runs, as Pittsburgh beats Chicago, 8 - 7. In two days, Bonds will steal his 50th base of the season.
• 1993 - The Phils lose, 6 - 5, to the Expos when John Kruk makes a 9th-inning error. With their second loss in three games to Montreal, the Phils' lead drops to four games with 11 to play. Their biggest lead has been 11 1/2 games.
• 1995:
  • San Diego pummels Colorado, 15 - 4, as 3B Ken Caminiti drives home eight runs with four hits, including a pair of homers, again from each side of the plate. Caminiti has now hit a pair of homers, right and left-handed, in three of his last four games. He's the only major leaguer to ever to do it three times in a month. Jody Reed has four hits and four runs for the Pads. Andres Galarraga connects for his 30th homer, giving the Rockies four players with 30+ homers. This matches the 1977 Dodgers.
  • Cleveland OF Albert Belle strokes three home runs the team's 8 - 2 win over the White Sox, giving him five home runs over two consecutive games to tie a major league mark.
• 1997:
  • Matt Williams must have an honest face, because he pulls the hidden ball trick for the third time, nabbing rookie Jed Hansen, in the Indians' 6 - 2 win over the Royals in the second game of a doubleheader. Williams uses the same ploy in all three instances. He asks the runner if he would step away from the bag so that he can brush off the dirt. The runners comply, and Williams slaps the tag on. The Royals win the opener, 10 - 3.
  • The White Sox tie Boston, 4 - 4, at Fenway Park on Albert Belle's 9th-inning grand slam off Tom Gordon, then win in the 10th on Frank Thomas's single. The Red Sox had tied the game in the bottom of the 9th on pinch homers by Curtis Pride and Scott Hatteberg. Boston wastes Butch Henry's 7 2/3 shutout innings, while Mike Sirotka's one run in eight innings goes unrewarded. Nomar Garciaparra has a pair of doubles to break Ted Williams's Red Sox rookie record for total bases. His total is 348 on his way to 365. Tony Oliva set the American League rookie record in 1964 with 374.
  • Marlins C Charles Johnson ties Buddy Rosar's mark for consecutive games without an error (117), but does make his only passed ball of the year, as the Marlins defeat the Mets, 5 - 2, Johnson will finish the year with 124 games without an E.
• 1998:
  • Kazuhiro Sasaki saves his 39th game for a new Nippon Pro Baseball record.
  • Indian Manny Ramirez belts two homers to raise his five-game total to eight, becoming only the second player in history to do so. Frank Howard accomplished the feat twice in 1968.
  • Mariners SS Alex Rodriguez hits his 40th home run of the season, off Jack McDowell of the Angels, to become the third player in history to have 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in the same season. Jose Canseco and Barry Bonds are the others. The Mariners lose the game, however, 5 - 3.
  • Texas strikes two home run marks today. Mike Simms of the Rangers hits his 16th home run of the year to tie the major league mark for most home runs with less than 200 at-bats in a season. Eddie Robinson of the Yankees and Bob Thurman of the Redlegs accomplished the feat in 1955 and 1957, respectively. Juan Gonzalez belts his 300th career homer, off Jimmy Haynes, but the Rangers lose to Oakland, however, 8 - 4.
  • Braves lefty Tom Glavine wins his 20th, shutting out Arizona, 5 - 0. The victory gives the Braves their second straight season of 100 wins, the first team in two decades to accomplish that. The Phillies of 1976-1977 posted identical 101-61 marks.
  • The Giants score seven runs in the 3rd inning, and six more in the 4th, as they demolish the Dodgers by a score of 18 - 4. Bill Mueller and Jeff Kent bang grand slams in the two frames, just the second time in Giants history that two players have hit grand slams in a game (April 26, 1970 was the other).
• 2000:
  • After a 16 - 3 loss to Toronto, New York manager Joe Torre has a team meeting, and blisters the Yankees for poor play. It won't help as they lose their next seven games - 15 - 4, 2 - 1, 11 - 1, 11 - 3, 13 - 2, 9 - 1 and 7 - 3.
  • The Pirates bash the Phillies, 12 - 8, scoring nine runs in the 6th inning.
  • A Dodger fan, in addition to other court-ordered decisions, has been banned from attending home games for 18 months because he threw coffee in the face of a Met fan cheering a grand slam hit by catcher Todd Pratt.
• 2001:
  • Tampa Bay defeats Boston, 12 - 2, scoring a season-high eight runs in the 6th inning. Aubrey Huff has a career-high five RBIs for the Devil Rays.
  • Going wire-to-wire in first place, the Mariners become the first team to clinch a playoff berth this season by downing the Angels, 5 - 0, for their 106th win of the year.
  • The Cardinals beat the Brewers, 8 - 2, as Matt Morris wins his 20th game of the season. Albert Pujols drives in three runs for St. Louis to set a new National League rookie mark with 120 for the season. The old mark of 119 was set by Wally Berger of the Boston Braves in 1930.
  • Major League Baseball and the Players Association announce the creation of the MLB-MLBPA Disaster Relief Fund. The organizations will each donate $10 million to aid the victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks.
  • Defeating the White Sox, 6 - 3, Roger Clemens becomes the first major league pitcher to have a season won-loss record of 20-1. The five-time Cy Young Award winner has won his last 16 decisions.
• 2002:
  • In his major league debut, Twins rookie Michael Ryan strokes two singles, scores two runs and drives in two runs in the nine-run 1st inning against the Tigers. Unfortunately, the game is rained out in the 2nd inning, meaning none of the statistics will be official.
  • In Chicago, the Royals top the White Sox, 2 - 1. In the 9th inning of the contest, Kansas City first base coach Tom Gamboa is attacked by two shirtless fans who jump out of the stands. He suffers several minor cuts, and the father, William Ligue, Jr., and his son, are arrested and charged with assault.
  • Toronto beats Baltimore, 9 - 3, as Blue Jays OF Shannon Stewart gets five hits, including a double and home run.
  • The Expos beat the Marlins behind Bartolo Colon. Colon becomes just the second pitcher in major league history to win ten games in each league in a single season, having also done so with Cleveland before being traded to Montreal. Colon joins Hank Borowy who turned the feat for the Yankees and Cubs in 1945.
  • The Braves defeat the Phillies, 6 - 0, as Bobby Cox becomes the 12th manager in major league history to reach the 1,800 win mark.
• 2008 - Marlins rookie Cameron Maybin goes 4 for 5 with two steals to extend his streak to ten consecutive times reaching base before being retired. Maybin, now hitting .818 since being acquired from Detroit, ties the Florida Marlins franchise record for consecutive times on base. Led by Maybin, the Marlins top Philadelphia, 14 - 8, to break a seven-game winning streak by the Phils, knocking them from first place in the NL East.
• 2009:
  • Randy Johnson pitches for the first time in two months, facing three Dodger batters in making his first regular-season relief appearance since he set a record with 16 strikeouts in completing a suspended game on July 18, 2001. Things don't go as well this time, as he gives up two doubles, and the Giants are crushed by Los Angeles, 12 - 1. Combined with Colorado's 10 - 4 defeat of the Diamondbacks, the Giants now trail the Rockies by three and a half games in the wild card race.
  • In the only other playoff race that's still up in the air, the Twins beat the Tigers, 6 - 2, thanks to their quirky ballpark. Trailing 2 - 1 in the 8th against Detroit ace Justin Verlander in one of the last-ever regular-season games to be played in the Metrodome, Orlando Cabrera hits a routine fly ball that LF Don Kelly loses against the roof and lets bounce for a double. Two batters later, Jason Kubel hits a two-run single as Minnesota rallies for five runs to win the game and reduce the Tigers' lead in the AL Central to two games.
• 2010 - Rookie OF Tyler Colvin of the Cubs suffers a frightening injury. He is standing at third base when teammate Welington Castillo shatters his bat while hitting a double down the third base line. One of the shards pierces Colvin's chest and punctures a lung.
• 2011 - Mariano Rivera throws a perfect 9th inning in the Yankess' 6 - 4 win over the Twins, striking out rookie Chris Parmelee for the final out, to record the 602nd save of his career. He passes Trevor Hoffman for the all-time lead in the category.
• 2012:
  • Ichiro Suzuki goes 7 for 8 as the Yankees sweep a doubleheader with the Blue Jays, 4 - 2 and 2 - 1. Andy Pettitte makes his return to the mound from a broken fibula in winning the opener, while Derek Jeter collects his 200th hit of the season in the nitecap, tying Lou Gehrig who also recorded 200 hits eight times for the Yankees.
  • The Dodgers defeat the Nationals, 7 - 6, in the second game of a doubleheader with some help from a botched call. Matt Kemp is credited with a run scored in the 4th inning, giving Los Angeles a 6 - 0 lead, even though he crosses the plate after Adrian Gonzalez is tagged out at third base for the inning's final out. The Nationals then manage to tie the score with a six-run 8th inning, but Kemp leads off the 9th with a solo homer off Tyler Clippard to account for the deciding run. Following a 3 - 1 win in the opener, a sweep of the twinbill would have clinched a playoff spot for Washington for the first time since moving to the nation's capital in 2005.
  • Israel gets a pair of homers from 1B Nate Freiman to defeat South Africa, 7 - 3, in the opening game of the 2013 World Baseball Classic Qualifiers in Jupiter, FL. Eric Berger is the winner over Dylan Unsworth.
• 2013:
  • Los Angeles clinches the NL West title with a 7 - 6 win over Arizona at Chase Field. The D-Backs are miffed when the Dodgers' players celebrate the event by climbing the right-center field wall and jumping into the pool there for an improvised party, a gesture the home team finds disrespectful. Hanley Ramirez homers twice for L.A. then leaves the game early because of a strained hamstring that has been bothering him all season.
  • Boston also clinches a postseason slot after defeating the Orioles, 3 - 1, as John Lackey pitches a two-hit complete game. The Sox's magic number to ensure they win the AL East title is down to one.
• 2014 - Clayton Kershaw becomes the first 20-game winner in the majors this year as the Dodgers defeat the Cubs, 14 - 5. A.J. Ellis hits a pair of two-run homers and Matt Kemp and Yasiel Puig add three-run shots each as Los Angeles clinches a postseason slot with the win.
• 2015 - In Game 4 of the 2015 Holland Series, Corendon Kinheim slugger Bryan Engelhardt homers off Kenny Vandenbranden and Jorian van Acker of Neptunus in an 8 - 4 win. It is the first multi-homer game in a Holland Series since Lars Koehorst in 1999; as with Koehorst's team, though, Kinheim goes down in defeat, losing all four other games of the Series.
• 2016:
  • Former pitcher Curt Schilling and other officials of "38 Studios" agree to pay $2.5 million to the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation in settlement of a lawsuit over the failure of the video game design company. If approved by a judge, the settlement will close the case while Rhode Island taxpayers will still be on the hook for $28.2 million lost in the venture.
  • The Giants face the Dodgers with both teams battling for a postseason slot and aces Clayton Kershaw and Madison Bumgarner opposing each other on the mound. Kershaw, recently back from a lengthy stay on the disabled list, gives up only one run in six innings, but Bumgarner is better, as he allows no runs on one hit while striking out ten in seven innings. However, he gets into a verbal clash with Dodgers RF Yasiel Puig at the end of the 7th, both benches clear, and when the 8th inning gets underway, it's reliever Will Smith who is pitching. With Bumgarner out of the way, the Dodgers rally for two runs in the last two innings and walk off with a 2 - 1 win on Adrian Gonzalez's run-scoring double in the 9th.
• 2017:
  • With over 300 games left to play in the season, Major League Baseball sets a new record for most home runs when Alex Gordon hits #5,964, eclipsing the mark set in 2000. If players maintain their pace over the remaining two weeks, the final total should be over 6,100.
  • Kean Wong goes 3 for 4 with a grand slam to lead the Durham Bulls to a 5 - 3 win over the Memphis Redbirds in the Triple-A National Championship Game played at PNC Field in Moosic, PA, Wong is named the game's MVP. Top prospect Brent Honeywell, in a rare relief appearance, works 2 2/3 innings for the win.
  • With a 1 - 0 win over Baltimore, the Red Sox tie a franchise record with their 15th extra-inning win of the season (against three losses). The only run of the game scores when Jackie Bradley Jr. crosses home plate on a wild pitch by Brad Brach with the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the 11th inning.
• 2018 - The Red Sox's magic number to clinch a third straight AL East title remains at two as they lose to the Yankees, 10 - 1, their second straight loss against their nearest pursuers. Luis Severino pitches seven strong innings for his 18th win and 1B Luke Voit adds to his Cinderella story as he goes 4 for 4, homers twice and scores four runs to lead New York's offence.
• 2019:
  • With a 9 - 1 win over the Angels, the Yankees clinch their first division title since 2012. However, the news is not all good as they also learn that pitcher Domingo German, their leading winner with a record of 18-4, has been placed on an administrative leave by the Commissioner's office as a result of domestic violence allegations. He will miss the postseason as a result.
  • In day two of the 2019 Europe/Africa Olympic Qualifier, Israel gets a huge 8 - 1 rout of the Netherlands behind the pitching of Jon Moscot, Jeremy Bleich, DJ Sharabi and Jonathan de Marte. They chase Diegomar Markwell in the 2nd after a three-run double by Mitch Glasser. Spain tops South Africa, 7 - 1, behind the arm of Ricardo Hernández and a grand slam by Blake Ochoa. Host Italy triumphs over Czechia, 5 - 1, as Chris Colabello drives in four, Drew Maggi scores three and the pitchers scatter ten hits.
• 2020:
  • Shortly before his Tigers are to play a game against the Indians, veteran manager Ron Gardenhire announces his retirement, effective immediately, claiming he is stressed and not feeling well. Lloyd McClendon will complete the season as interim manager.
  • In Czechia, Draci Brno wins its 22nd Extraliga title, ending the two-year reign of the Arrows Ostrava. Petr Čech hits a two-run homer in the 8th off Boris Bokaj in a 4 - 1 win as Brno takes the finals from Ostrava, three games to one. Ondřej Furko throws seven shutout innings and Martin Schneider closes it out.
• 2021:
  • At the 2021 European Championship, the Dutch national team wins its 24th European title in 33 tries. It tops a newcomer, Israel (which still earns its first medal in the event), 9 - 4. Former major leaguer Roger Bernadina's three-run homer in the 7th ties it at 4 and Ray-Patrick Didder then scores the winner. A two-run double by Sharlon Schoop and two-run homer by Dashenko Ricardo in the 8th provide insurance. Wendell Floranus saves the win for Mike Groen. Israel gets a two-run homer from Assaf Lowengart as their big blow. Bernadina wins European Championship MVP, the second former big leaguer to take that award (Ivanon Coffie had won it 16 years prior). Italy (used to playing for the title) beats Spain in the Bronze Medal Game. Tiago Da Silva, Matteo Bocchi and Alex Bassani scatter ten hits. Elián Leyva throws six shutout innings but Italy rallies off the bullpen for two runs in the 7th to win it.
  • Eddie Rosario hits for the cycle in support of Max Fried's pitching to lead the Braves to a 3 - 0 win over the Giants. He accomplishes the feat barely a month after teammate Freddie Freeman did so on August 18th.
• 2022 - In his return from a two-week stint on the injured list, Max Scherzer earns career win #200 with six perfect innings against the Milwaukee Brewers. That is one more frame than his manager, Buck Showalter, was planning to give him, but Scherzer is going so well that he convinces his skipper to let him pitch the 6th. The perfect game ends when Tylor Megill allows a hit to the first batter he faces in the 7th, but the Mets win easily, 7 - 2, to clinch a slot in the postseason for the first time since 2016.
• 2023 - St. Petersburg, FL Mayor Ken Welch and the Tampa Bay Rays announce a plan to redevelop the entire district around Tropicana Field that includes the construction of a new futuristic ballpark at a cost of $1.3 billion, with a target opening date of 2028. The new facility would be part of an integrated neighborhood to be built at a total cost of $6 billion over 20 years. There are still issues to be resolved before the plan becomes a reality, but this is the closest the Rays have ever been to securing their long-term future, given that the lease on their inadequate current home will expire after the 2027 season.
• 2024:
  • Shohei Ohtani kicks down the door of a brand new club of which he is the only member - the 50-50 club. Today, he gets his first six-hit game, and three of his hits are homers, giving him 51 on the season. He also steals two bases, also reaching (and going past) the 50 mark, all the while driving in ten runs in a 20 - 4 demolition of the Marlins by the Dodgers. Less than a month ago he became only the sixth member of the 40-40 club, but he now stands all alone in this new level of otherworldly excellence, and incidentally has set a new Dodgers single-season record for home runs (breaking Shawn Green's mark).
  • Draci Brno wins its 25th Extraliga title, topping Hroši Brno 4 games to 1. In the 4-3 victory today, they trail 3-2 entering the 9th but take advantage of wildness from long-time Mexican League hurler Ivan Zavala, a wild pitch scoring Michal Šindelka with the winner. Jhenderson Hurtado fans 10 in a complete game victory, while Martin Červinka has 3 hits and 2 RBI.

Births

• 1852 - Franklin Mitchell, umpire (d. 1909)
• 1856 - Phil Baker, infielder (d. 1940)
• 1859 - Yank Robinson, infielder (d. 1894)
• 1862 - Lefty Marr, outfielder (d. 1912)
• 1865 - John Dovey, owner (d. ????)
• 1867 - Sadie McMahon, pitcher (d. 1954)
• 1871 - Dewey McDougal, pitcher (d. 1935)
• 1872 - Henry Lampe, pitcher (d. 1936)
• 1884 - Jack Ryan, pitcher (d. 1949)
• 1885 - Norm Price, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1963)
• 1886 - Frank Harter, pitcher (d. 1959)
• 1889 - Ralph Young, infielder (d. 1965)
• 1890 - Ray Hartranft, pitcher (d. 1955)
• 1890 - Stuffy McInnis, infielder, manager (d. 1960)
• 1897 - Astyanax Douglass, catcher (d. 1975)
• 1900 - Jim Wright, pitcher (d. 1963)
• 1901 - Bill Plummer, minor league pitcher (d. 1979)
• 1902 - Jim Begley, infielder (d. 1957)
• 1902 - Bruce Connatser, infielder (d. 1971)
• 1902 - Hubert Wilson, pitcher (d. 1981)
• 1903 - Carl Lind, infielder (d. 1946)
• 1906 - Cap Clark, catcher (d. 1957)
• 1906 - Joe Wiggins, infielder (d. 1984)
• 1907 - Ulysses McAtee, infielder (d. ????)
• 1909 - Hersh Martin, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1980)
• 1909 - Frank Reiber, catcher (d. 2002)
• 1913 - Red Barkley, infielder (d. 2000)
• 1913 - Nick Etten, infielder; All-Star (d. 1990)
• 1914 - Dick O'Connell, General Manager (d. 2002)
• 1915 - Paul Kardow, pitcher (d. 1968)
• 1916 - Rube Fischer, pitcher (d. 1997)
• 1916 - Bob McNamara, infielder (d. 2011)
• 1920 - Roger Angell, author (d. 2022)
• 1921 - Epitacio Torres, minor league outfielder; Salon de la Fama (d. 1971)
• 1924 - Vern Benson, infielder, manager (d. 2014)
• 1924 - Bob Murphy, announcer (d. 2004)
• 1925 - Jack McCloskey, college coach (d. 2017)
• 1926 - Stanley Glenn, catcher (d. 2011)
• 1926 - Duke Snider, outfielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 2011)
• 1926 - Murray Wall, pitcher (d. 1971)
• 1927 - Bill Sarni, catcher (d. 1983)
• 1929 - Ray Shearer, outfielder (d. 1982)
• 1930 - Bob Turley, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2013)
• 1930 - Bill Williams, umpire (d. 1998)
• 1931 - Ron Shoop, catcher (d. 2003)
• 1931 - Akira Takahashi, NPB pitcher (d. 1992)
• 1932 - Mike Royko, journalist (d. 1997)
• 1933 - Katsuhiko Ishikawa, NPB pitcher (d. 2013)
• 1936 - Don Allegrucci, minor league infielder (d. 2014)
• 1937 - Chris Short, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1991)
• 1937 - Larry Whiteside, writer (d. 2007)
• 1940 - Susumu Oba, NPB pitcher
• 1943 - Mike Derrick, outfielder (d. 2009)
• 1943 - Joe Morgan, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 2020)
• 1944 - Russ Nagelson, outfielder
• 1946 - Joe Ferguson, catcher
• 1946 - Ron Lolich, outfielder
• 1947 - Masaji Hiramatsu, NPB pitcher; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1948 - Toshiyuki Mimura, NPB infielder and manager (d. 2009)
• 1950 - Buddy Schultz, pitcher
• 1951 - Nardi Contreras, pitcher
• 1952 - Kenn Cunningham , minor league manager
• 1954 - Terry Abbott, minor league pitcher
• 1955 - Charlie Reliford, umpire
• 1957 - Peter Hondius, Hoofdklasse outfielder (d. 2019)
• 1959 - Keith Champion, minor league catcher and manager
• 1959 - Todd Hutcheson, trainer
• 1960 - Stan Hilton, minor league player
• 1960 - Phil Stephenson, infielder
• 1962 - Randy Myers, pitcher; All-Star
• 1962 - Ken Rosenthal, writer
• 1962 - Chun-Ta Wu, CPBL infielder
• 1963 - Mark Pike, minor league outfielder
• 1964 - Mark Baca, scout
• 1965 - Isaiah Clark, minor league infielder
• 1966 - Kenjiro Nomura, NPB infielder
• 1967 - Jim Abbott, pitcher
• 1968 - Pedro Munoz, outfielder
• 1969 - Brian McArn, minor league outfielder
• 1969 - Yu-Hsiang Lin, TML infielder
• 1969 - Lee Plemel, minor league pitcher
• 1969 - Rafael Rijo, scout
• 1969 - Marc Ronan, catcher
• 1971 - Joey Dawley, pitcher
• 1971 - Jose Manuel Hernandez, minor league pitcher
• 1973 - Dmitry Golubev, Russian national team outfielder
• 1974 - Sung-Yung Lo, CPBL outfielder
• 1975 - Chieh-Chun Lee, CPBL pitcher
• 1975 - Walter Monje, Bolivian national team infielder
• 1975 - Javier Valentin, catcher
• 1977 - Dennis Pelfrey, minor league infielder and manager
• 1977 - Mike Smith, pitcher
• 1977 - Ramon Soler, minor league infielder
• 1978 - Nick Johnson, infielder
• 1978 - Yasuhiro Nakamura, NPB pitcher
• 1978 - Akichika Yamada, NPB pitcher
• 1979 - Lenny DiNardo, pitcher
• 1979 - Andrew Good, pitcher
• 1980 - Tom Janssen, First Division pitcher
• 1980 - Ryan Roberts, infielder
• 1980 - Ray Sadler, outfielder
• 1981 - Scott Baker, pitcher
• 1981 - Tae-wan Kim, KBO infielder
• 1982 - Sung-hun Park, KBO pitcher
• 1983 - Joey Devine, pitcher
• 1983 - Robinzon Diaz, catcher
• 1983 - Bryan Dumesnil, minor league pitcher
• 1983 - Charlie Haeger, pitcher (d. 2020)
• 1983 - Masanori Hayashi, NPB pitcher
• 1983 - John Jaso, catcher
• 1983 - Michael Knox, minor league pitcher
• 1984 - Aeden McQueary-Ennis, minor league catcher
• 1984 - Danny Valencia, infielder
• 1984 - Kazuki Yoshimi, NPB pitcher
• 1985 - Arshwin Asjes, minor league pitcher
• 1985 - Gio Gonzalez, pitcher; All-Star
• 1986 - Rémi Couarraze, New Caledonia national team pitcher-infielder
• 1986 - Ryan Kussmaul, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Manabu Mima, NPB pitcher
• 1986 - Concepcion Rodriguez, minor league outfielder
• 1986 - Tyler Stohr, scout
• 1986 - Anthony Vasquez, pitcher
• 1987 - Terrence Dayleg, minor league infielder
• 1988 - Saúl González, minor league pitcher
• 1988 - Chris Jones, minor league pitcher
• 1989 - Quincy Lambertina, Hoofdklasse pitcher
• 1989 - George Springer, outfielder; All-Star
• 1989 - Ying-Shan Wang, CPBL pitcher
• 1989 - Kevin Young, minor league outfielder
• 1991 - L'Amour Arurang, Palauan national team pitcher
• 1992 - Jose Briceno, catcher
• 1992 - Franklin Leonard, Virgin Islands national team pitcher
• 1992 - Mike Papi, minor league outfielder
• 1992 - Rodney Polonia, minor league infielder (d. 2020)
• 1992 - Juniel Querecuto, infielder
• 1993 - Yun-Lin Lia, Hong Kong national team pitcher
• 1993 - Tzu-Yu Lin, CPBL pitcher
• 1993 - Cydnee Sanders, US women's national team infielder
• 1993 - Tai-Chun Yang, CPBL infielder
• 1994 - Luke Raley, outfielder
• 1995 - Luis Castro, minor league infielder
• 1996 - Andrew Gross, minor league pitcher
• 1996 - Laurianne Vásquez, Venezuelan women's national team outfielder
• 1997 - Randy Cuentas, Colombian national team pitcher
• 1998 - DL Hall, pitcher
• 1998 - Seth Johnson, pitcher
• 2000 - Kane Swanson, New Zealand national team outfielder
• 2001 - Samuel Aldegheri, pitcher
• 2001 - Tung-En Chen, CPBL catcher
• 2001 - Ben Serunkuma, minor league pitcher
• 2002 - Wen-Hui Pan, minor league pitcher
• 2003 - Fabio Bundi, Swiss national team pitcher

Deaths

• 1902 - Shiki Masaoka, Japanese Hall of Fame (b. 1867)
• 1928 - Victor Jose, umpire (b. 1865)
• 1930 - Arlie Pond, pitcher (b. 1873)
• 1932 - Otto Neu, infielder (b. 1894)
• 1936 - Bill Hart, pitcher (b. 1865)
• 1938 - Pink Hawley, pitcher (b. 1872)
• 1949 - Buck Danner, infielder (b. 1891)
• 1952 - Hugo Bezdek, manager (b. 1884)
• 1958 - Pop Kelchner, scout (b. 1875)
• 1960 - Lew Brockett, pitcher (b. 1880)
• 1963 - Slim Harriss, pitcher (b. 1897)
• 1970 - Dave Danforth, pitcher (b. 1890)
• 1972 - Les Bartholomew, pitcher (b. 1903)
• 1974 - Zack Taylor, catcher, manager (b. 1898)
• 1977 - Paddy Livingston, catcher (b. 1880)
• 1980 - Ralph Capron, outfielder (b. 1889)
• 1986 - Wyatt Turner, catcher (b. 1909)
• 1993 - Frank Wurm, pitcher (b. 1924)
• 1995 - Mem Lovett, pinch hitter (b. 1912)
• 1996 - Nanny Fernandez, infielder (b. 1918)
• 1996 - Hiawatha Shelby, outfielder (b. 1921)
• 1997 - Bill Butland, pitcher (b. 1918)
• 2001 - Émilien Côté, umpire (b. 1928)
• 2001 - Bill Stafford, pitcher (b. 1938)
• 2004 - Alfonso Ramírez, minor league pitcher; Salon de la Fama (b. 1919)
• 2006 - Buddy Peterson, infielder (b. 1925)
• 2008 - Ernie Andres, infielder (b. 1918)
• 2008 - Charles Lindquist, minor league pitcher and manager (b. 1928)
• 2010 - Flores Bolivar, scout (b. 1956)
• 2012 - Robert Knoke, minor league catcher and manager (b. 1930)
• 2013 - Hiroshi Yamauchi, owner (b. 1927)
• 2015 - Bobby Etheridge, infielder (b. 1942)
• 2015 - Walter Young, infielder (b. 1980)
• 2018 - Bill Pinckard, NPB outfielder (b. 1929)
• 2018 - Don Welke, scout (b. 1942)
• 2019 - Sam Hinds, pitcher (b. 1953)
• 2020 - Gary Hughes, scout (b. 1941)
• 2021 - Bill Schudlich, scout (b. 1939)
• 2022 - Maury Wills, infielder, manager; All-Star (b. 1932)