August 26

From BR Bullpen


January	February
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
March	April
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
May	June
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
July	August
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
September	October
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
November	December
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Stats of players who were born this day
Stats of players who died on this day
Standings on this day
Permanent link to Today's Entry
Sources
Baseball Library Chronology
Today in Baseball History

Events, births and deaths that occurred on August 26.

[edit] Events

1901 - New York's Christy Mathewson allows just three hits in beating the Phils, 3-1.
1902 - At Cincinnati, Christy Mathewson tosses his 7th shut out of the year, beating the Reds, 6-0. Henry Thielman loses his 3rd encounter of the year with Matty.
1903 - The Boston Beaneaters drive Christy Mathewson from the mound with five runs in the 6th to take a 6-5 lead over the Giants and hold on to win by that score. When Roger Bresnahan is called out at home in the 9th New York and John McGraw and Billy Gilbert lead the argument against August Moran. Moran tosses them for their troubles. New York wins the nitecap, 3-2, in 10 innings.
1905 - The Giants beat up on the Reds again, winning 2 - 0 and 6 - 5. New York scores four runs in the nitecap on wild pitches by Orval Overall, but when the Reds load the bases with no outs in the 9th, Christy Mathewson relieves Dummy Taylor and gets three straight outs.
1908 - The Giants sweep, scoring a run in the 8th and two in the 9th to trip Irv Young and the host Pirates, 4-3. Christy Mathewson, in relief, is given the win, though by today's scoring he would receive a save. New York's 8-game win streak puts them ahead of Pittsburgh and Chicago by three 1/2 games.
1910 - In Pittsburgh's 4 - 2 win over host Brooklyn, a NL record is set when the Buc outfield makes just one putout and the Brooklyn OF none.
1911 - Pittsburgh, playing without Honus Wagner, is no match for Christy Mathewson, as the Giants win, 6 - 2. Tommy Leach makes three errors behind Howie Camnitz. The Giants announce that for the first 11 playing days at the new Polo Grounds, the average attendance was 23,864.
1911 - Now pitching for the Rustlers, Cy Young delights the hometown Boston fans by pitching a complete game against the Cardinals, winning, 5 - 4.
1912 - At Boston, Chief Wilson has his 2nd three-triple doubleheader this year. The fleet Buc triples off Otto Hess in the game one win, 5 - 4. In the nitecap, an 8 - 4 loss, he triples in the 6th and 8th innings off Ed Donnelly.
1912 - Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends under AL rules of the time. In the 2nd game of a doubleheader against the Browns, he relieves Tom Hughes with one out and two on in the 7th inning of a 2 - 2 game. The two runners score on a Pete Compton single up the middle and the Nationals lose, 4 - 3. The two runs are charged to Johnson, not Hughes, giving him the defeat. Under the NL's rules, Johnson would not be charged with the loss. After the season, AL president Ban Johnson will change the rules to conform with the senior circuit, but he will deny he does it because of this game.
1913 - Cincinnati's Chief Johnson surrenders just three hits to New York, but loses a 1 - 0 decision to Christy Mathewson. Fred Merkle triples in the 7th and scores the only run.
1914 - The Giants lose 1 - 0 to the Cardinals, managing just three hits off Bill Doak, but win game two on a 2-hitter by Christy Mathewson over Slim Sallee. The 4 - 0 win is Matty's 20th.
1916 - The Reds, led by Christy Mathewson, top the Giants at the Polo Grounds, 4 - 2, beating up on the newly re-acquired Slim Sallee.
1916 - At Philadelphia's Shibe Park, A's hurler Joe Bush no-hits the Indians, 5-0. 'Bullet Joe' will win 15 of the last place Athletics 36 victories this season.
1918 - Ban Johnson casts the deciding vote in a National Commission decision awarding the disputed services of P Jack Quinn to the Yankees for 1919 over the claim of the White Sox, for whom Quinn was 5-1 this year.
1919 - Giants 1B Hal Chase handles 35 chances against the Pirates in a doubleheader.
1922 - The Yankees take over first place by beating the Browns, 9 - 2, behind Carl Mays. Rasty Wright is the loser.
1926 - Pittsburgh RF Paul Waner goes 6-for-6, including 2 doubles and a triple, in a game against St. Louis.
1929 - In the 8th inning of a 5 - 5 game at Wrigley Field, Cubs 3B Norm McMillan hits a line drive down the LF line with the bases loaded. Reds LF Evar Swanson, shaded toward center, can't find the ball, which he sees bounce off a gutter in foul territory. McMillan circles the bases and four runs score. Later, Cubs relief P Ken Penner picks up his jacket in the bullpen and discovers the ball in his right sleeve. It is Chicago's 8th grand slam of the year.
1929 - Abraham Mills, National League president 1883 - 84, author of the National Agreement and original reserve clause that governed baseball's early years, dies at 84.
1930 - Hack Wilson has four RBIs to lead the Cubs over the Pirates 7 - 5. Wilson cracks a 2-run single in the 5th, but then allows a Lloyd Waner liner to skip by him for an inside-the-park-HR, and vows to atone. He hits his 44th home run, off young Larry French, breaking Chuck Klein's one-year-old National League record.
1930 - In San Francisco, Dolph Camilli's brother, Frankie, dies after a boxing match yesterday with heavyweight Max Baer. Fighting under the name Frankie Campbell, he has his neck broken in the 5th round by a Baer punch and never recovers. Camilli, a star for Sacramento (PCL), will win the NL MVP in 1941.
1933 - Cleveland's Wes Ferrell stops Heinie Manush's hitting streak at 33, as Washington loses 5-4 in 11 innings.
1934 - Tiger Schoolboy Rowe wins his 16th consecutive game. The Waco, TX native singles home the winning run in the ninth in a 4-2 victory over the Senators.
1935 - Lumbering 1B Zeke Bonura of the White Sox steals home with two outs in the 15th inning to beat the Yankees 9-8.
1939 - The first major-league baseball game is telecast from Ebbets Field as the Reds play the Dodgers in a doubleheader. Red Barber broadcasts the game over W2XBS. The Dodgers take the first game 6-2, and the Reds take the second 5-1.
1940 - Bucky Walters pitches the first-place Reds to a 3 - 2 win over the lowly Phillies. Bucky wins his 18th, driving in two runs with a homer and single. Ancient - 40 in December - Syl Johnson then holds the Reds to three hits to win the nitecap, 6 - 1.
1940 - Bob Feller rescues Mel Harder in the 7th and the Indians top the Senators, 4 - 3. Hal Trosky's two-run homer off Dutch Leonard is the big blow for the Tribe. Cleveland leads the idle Tigers by three games.
1942 - Johnny Beazley wins his 16th game of the year, 2 - 1 over the Dodgers in 10 innings. The win caps a sweep of Brooklyn, with Max Lanier having edged Larry French in the opener two days before.
1945 - Red Sox pitcher Boo Ferriss wins his 20th game, beating the A's 4 - 3 and doubling home the game winner in the 10th inning.
1947 - Dan Bankhead becomes the major league's first black pitcher. He doesn't do well in a relief stint giving up ten hits and six runs in three and third innings in a 16-3 loss to the Pirates, but the Dodger rookie hits a home run in his first major league at-bat.
1948 - The Cubs sweep two from the Braves, 5 - 1 and 5 - 2, despite a near-riot that holds up play for 20 minutes in the nitecap. The reaction by the fans comes when Jocko Conlan rules that a drive by Phil Cavarretta in the 3rd inning is a ground-rule double, not an inside the park homer. Conlan makes his call after Braves LF Jeff Heath "loses" the ball in the Wrigley Field vines, though it is really by his feet. The fans shower the field in protest and Conlan bawls out some of Chicago's finest for not taking any action. When play is resumed, Andy Pafko walks and Peanuts Lowrey hits a bases-loaded triple.
1949 - For choking an umpire in the Florida International League, Miami Sun Sox manager Pepper Martin is fined $100 and suspended for the remaining 2 weeks in the season.
1950 - Roy Campanella of the [[1950 Dodgers|Dodgers hits three HRs in a 7 - 5 win over the Reds at Crosley Field.
1951 - At the Polo Grounds, Chuck Connors clubs his 2nd and last ML homer, a three-run shot off Sal Maglie in the 9th to give the visiting Cubs a temporary 4 - 4 tie. Wes Westrum then answers with his 2nd homer of the game, off reliever Walt Dubiel, and New York wins, 5 - 4. New York takes the nitecap, 5 - 1, to run their victory streak to 14 games. Jim Hearn tops Cal McLish. Willie Mays electrifies the crowd in the 6th by singling, advancing on a balk and a short fly, and stealing home. The Giants trail by six games.
1951 - The Pirates club the Dodgers, 12 - 11 to win the opener of two with the league leaders. Brooklyn chases Howie Pollet and takes a 9 - 2 lead but the Bucs roar back with eight runs in the 7th inning. Clyde King, unscored on in his last eight games, is the loser. The Dodgers load the bases in the 9th, and Murry Dickson walks pinch-hitter Cal Abrams to force in a run and make the score 12 - 11. But Carl Furillo and Pee Wee Reese fail to deliver. Pete Castiglione has two homers for the Pirates. Brooklyn wins the second game, 4 - 3, when Jackie Robinson homers in the 10th, off Ted Wilks. Andy Pafko homers in the 8th, off Bob Friend, and Preacher Roe (17-2) goes all the way.
1951 - Rookie hurler Niles Jordan of the Phillies blanks the Reds 2 - 0 in his first ML start. Jordan gives up three hits, the same number allowed by loser Willie Ramsdell. The Reds win the opener, 4 - 2, as Ewell Blackwell bests Robin Roberts.
1951 - In the 2nd game against the Yanks, veteran infielder Bert Haas hits a pinch homer in the 6th for the White Sox, his last ML at bat. The Sox will release the 37-year old tomorrow. The Yanks win 8 - 6, to remain a game behind the Indians. The Sox take the opener, 3 - 2, behind Saul Rogovin.
1953 - Giants OF Dusty Rhodes, hitting just .167, connects for three HRs in a row at the Polo Grounds in a 13-4 win over the Cardinals. Teammate Al Dark goes 5-for-5 with his own HR.
1955 - Vic Wertz of the Indians is diagnosed as having non-paralytic polio and is lost for the season. He will return next year.
1956 - The Yankees announce the purchase of OF Enos Slaughter from Kansas City.
1957 - The Red Sox hit four HRs and score 10 runs in the third and go on to rip the Athletics 16-0.
1957 - Yankee-killer Frank Lary stops New York as Detroit wins 5-2. The New York lead is now down to 3 and a half games, as they start a crucial series in Chicago. They will win all three games with the Sox.
1959 - The Indians stretch their winning streak to eight games when Rocky Colavito snaps a 4 - 4 tie with an 8th inning home run. Jim Perry, in relief of Gary Bell, picks up the win, 5 - 4, over New York.
1959 - It's "Al Smith Day" at Comiskey Park, with every fan named Smith, Schmidt, Smythe or Smithe admitted free and given a button stating "I'm a Smith and I'm for Al." Smith himself doesn't help, going hitless as the White Sox lose to Boston, 7 - 6. Bill Monbouquette is the winner.
1960 - The Yanks crash five solo homers and four pinch hits, the latter tying an American League record, to top the Indians 7 - 6.
1961 - Ed Short becomes GM of the White Sox, replacing Hank Greenberg.
1961 - Hitting his 51st home run against the Kansas City A's, Roger Maris has the most homers in major league history at this point in the season.
1962 - At Chicago, Dick Ellsworth stops the Braves 4 - 1 and stops Hank Aaron's hitting streak of 25 games. The Cubs tie a major-league record with three straight sacrifice bunts in the 6th inning following a bunt single by Ellsworth.
1962 - The Twins Jack Kralick no-hits the A's and wins, 1 - 0, on Lenny Green's sacrifice fly off Bill Fischer. A 3 - 2 walk to George Alusik with one out in the 9th spoils the bid for a perfect game. Alusik had beaten Kralick with a 2-run home run on August 8.
1962 - Robin Roberts, discarded earlier in the year by the Yankees, beats Whitey Ford 2 - 1 on home runs by Brooks Robinson and Jim Gentile to complete a 5-game Oriole sweep of the sagging Yankees. The Twins and Angels are now three games behind New York.
1962 - After the Indians beat the Red Sox, 10 - 5 in game 1, Cleveland's Dick Donovan holds the Red Sox homerless in the nitecap to win, 4 - 0. It is Donovan's 100th ML win. The Sox had hit homers in 13 straight games.
1966 - With Baltimore trailing Boston 2 - 0 in the 9th inning, Vic Roznovsky and Boog Powell sting Lee Stange with back-to-back pinch-hit home runs to tie the game. This is just the 3rd time history that back-to-back pinch home runs have occurred. Baltimore wins in the 12th, 3 - 2.
1966 - After seeing caricature of himself on the scoreboard an angry Leo Durocher calls the Astrodome's press box to have it remove. When nothing is done, the enraged Cubs manager rips the phone out of the dugout wall and tosses it onto the infield.
1966 - Against the Dodgers, Giants fireballer Bobby Bolin ties a major-league record by fanning the first five batters in the game. But the Dodgers win the game, 4 - 0.
1966 - Detroit's Earl Wilson, winner of six straight, hits an 8th inning homer to give himself a 5 - 3 lead over New York. But the Yankees, batting against reliever Hank Aguirre in the 9th, tally one run on a Clete Boyer single, and win it, 6 - 5, when Mickey Mantle clouts a pinch homer over a leaping Al Kaline in RF. The win still leaves New York (57 - 72) in last place.
1967 - Dean Chance pitches his 2nd no-hitter of the month, a 2 - 1 victory and the Twins sweep Cleveland to take the American League lead. The victory gives Chance a 17-9 record and lowers his ERA to 2.42.
1968 - The Phils take a 5 - 0 lead over the Reds, only to lose 6 - 5. Jim Beauchamp hits a run-scoring single in the 7th for the winner.
1968 - Playing the last of nine games in Milwaukee, the White Sox draw a crowd (42,808) but lose to Earl Wilson and the first-place Tigers, 3 - 0. Wilson is hit by a pitch in the 2nd with the bases loaded to bring home the first run.
1968 - There is a record tying mark of seven shutouts thrown today in the 16 games played. It's the 5th times it's happened, the mark will be topped in 1972.
1968 - In their first of two straight doubleheaders, Dave McNally makes it easy in the opener by belting a first-inning grand slam, off the A's Chuck Dobson. The O's score seven runs in the inning and beat the A's. 8 - 2. The A's come back in the nitecap, winning 2 - 0 behind Catfish Hunter and Diego Segui.
1969 - Willie McCovey drives in six runs with homer #40, a grand slam, a sac fly and a single, while Bobby Bonds drives in another five as the Giants bomb the Phils 13 - 4. The win is the Giants 6th in a row and they keep their half game lead in the West. McCovey's slam - his 2nd of the year - is his career 10th and his six RBIs ups his season total to 106. Gaylord Perry (16-10) is the winner.
1970 - In the Reds, 6 - 5 win over the visiting Phillies, Jim Merritt notches his 20th win of the year. Jim Bunning takes the loss. Merritt is the first Reds lefty to win 20 since 1925, but will be 6 - 26 the rest of his career.
1972 - Leo Durocher, formerly of the Cubs, replaces Harry Walker as manager of the Astros. It is only the 2nd time someone has managed two National League teams in the same season. The first was in 1948, when Durocher piloted the Dodgers and the Giants.
1972 - At Wrigley Field, Ron Santo records his 2,000th career hit, a 3-run home run off Ron Bryant. Santo's hit, driving in his 1,200th run, is the margin of victory as the Cubs top the Giants, 10 - 9.
1972 - The Red Sox score five in the 9th to top Texas, 7 - 6.
1973 - In a 10 - 1 win over the Royals, Oriole Paul Blair hits an inside-the-park grand slam off Paul Splittorff. Amos Otis and Steve Hovley collide in midair while chasing Blair's ball to help the O's win their 13th straight.
1975 - The first eight Pirates hit safely against the Braves, tying the major-league record set just three weeks earlier by the Phillies. Pittsburgh wins, 8 - 2.
1977 - New York wins its 12th in 13 games when Graig Nettles triples home two runs in the 9th inning to give the Bombers a 6 - 5 win over Texas. With the Red Sox losing, the Yankees move in front by two games.
1979 - At Shea Stadium, the Reds Tom Seaver shuts out the Mets, 8 - 0, for his 11th consecutive win.
1980 - At Milwaukee's County Stadium, George Brett strokes four singles and a double in 5 at-bats as the Royals edge the Brewers, 7-6. The Kansas City third baseman's 5-for-5 performance raises his league-leading batting average to .407.
1980 - In an 8 - 6 Padres win over the Mets and Padres, there are 10 intentional walks handed out, one shy of record set in 1955.
1981 - Cards SS Garry Templeton is suspended indefinitely and fined $5,000 by manager-GM Whitey Herzog after making obscene gestures to the crowd following his ejection in the 3rd inning of a 9 - 4 win over the Giants. He will return to the lineup on September 15.
1982 - The Expos Jeff Reardon (7-3) wins a pair in relief over the Astros, 3 - 2 and 5 - 3.
1984 - In Anaheim, the Tigers use the long ball to beat the Angels, 12 - 6. Kirk Gibson has two homers and four runs scored, Marty Castillo, hits a homer and scores three times, and Chet Lemon belts his first grand slam ever. Tommy John goes just two 2/3 inning in losing to Milt Wilcox (15 - 7). Detroit leads the East by 12 games.
1985 - The Reds beat the Cardinals 7 - 6 and use a record five players with over 2,000 hits apiece - Buddy Bell, Pete Rose, Tony Perez, Dave Concepcion, and Cesar Cedeno.
1985 - The Braves fire manager Eddie Haas, who led the club to a 50-71 record and 12 losses in its last 13 games. Bobby Wine will serve as interim manager.
1987 - Paul Molitor's 39-game hit streak comes to an end as he waits in the on-deck circle watching pinch hitter Rick Manning single home the winning run in a 1-0, 10-inning victory over the Indians.
1987 - The Yankees and Reds exchange starting pitchers, with Dennis Rasmussen going to Cincinnati for Bill Gullickson.
1989 - The Trumbull, CT All-stars become the first American team to win the Little League World Series since 1983.
1989 - Toronto's Dave Stieb pitches his 5th career one-hitter, 7 - 0 over Milwaukee. The spoiler is Robin Yount's 6th-inning single.
1990 - The Red Sox shut out the Blue Jays for the 3rd consecutive day to extend their lead in the East to four games. Toronto, leading the ML in runs scored, loses 2 - 0, 1 - 0, and 1 - 0. Greg Harris (7 2/3 IP) is the winner today, Roger Clemens (CG) yesterday, and Dana Kiecker (8 IP) on the 24th.
1990 - In his first game after six weeks on the disabled list, Bo Jackson homers in his first at bat, off Randy Johnson, to tie a major-league record with four consecutive homers. Bo adds a single and double as KC rolls by Seattle, 8 - 2.
1991 - Number one draft pick Brien Taylor is signed to a guaranteed $1.55 million contract by the Yankees. It is the largest deal ever given to an amateur player, surpassing the $1.2 million paid to Todd Van Poppel by Oakland in 1990.
1991 - At Royals Stadium, Bret Saberhagen fires a no-hitter beating the White Sox, 7-0.
1992 - Pittsburgh rookie P Tim Wakefield defeats Tom Candiotti of the Dodgers, 2-0, in the first matchup of knuckleballers in the NL since 1982. Candiotti gives up nine hits in six innings, while Wakefield (4-1) allows six hits in nine frames.
1993 - Mets co-owner Fred Wilpon announces the OF Vince Coleman will remain on "administrative leave" for the rest of the season, but that he is through as a Met.
1995 - Atlanta P Greg Maddux ties a major league record by notching his 16th consecutive road win, a 7-2 victory over his former team, the Cubs. Maddux now shares the record with Denny McLain, Cal McLish, and Rich Dotson.
1995 - The Athletics defeat the Red Sox by a score of 11-4. All Boston's runs score on C Mike Macfarlane's grand slam. It is the 101st grand slam hit in the majors this season, breaking the record set in 1987.
1996 - The Giants' William Van Landingham allows two hits over eight innings and defeats the visiting Phils, 1 - 0. At one point, Van Landingham retires 17 straight hitters. Curt Schilling allows a run in the 1st, and strikes out 11, in taking the loss.
1996 - The Mets fire manager Dallas Green and replace him with Bobby Valentine.
1997 - The Yankees pound out 22 hits in an 18-2 win over Oakland. Joe Girardi and Rey Sanchez lead the way with four hits apiece.
1998 - Florida's Derrek Lee, Kevin Orie, and Cliff Floyd hit consecutive home runs in the 9th inning of a game with St. Louis. The Marlins, who were trailing 6 - 0 at the time, go on to tie the game with six runs, then win, 7 - 6, with a run in the 10th. Mark McGwire hits home run #54 for the Cards.
1998 - At Coors Field, manager Phil Garner earns his 500th victory at the Brewers helm making him the only skipper in team history to reach that milestone.
1998 - Atlanta's Andruw Jones steals his 20th base of the season, becoming the youngest player ever to have a 20 homer, 20 steal season. Cesar Cedeno was the previous record-holder. The Braves go on win by a score of 6 - 2.
1998 - The Cubs defeat the Reds, 9 - 2, with the aid of Sammy Sosa's 52nd home run in the 3rd inning.
1999 - The Cubs put Kevin Tapani on the DL for the rest of the season. In the first year of a 2-year contract, Tapani is 0 - 9 in his last 10 starts. They don't need him today as they edge the Giants, 11 - 10 behind Sammy Sosa's 53rd home run.
1999 - Arizona defeats Florida, 12-2, as Randy Johnson wins his 14th game. Johnson fans nine Marlin batters in becoming the fastest pitcher to reach 300 Ks in a season.
2000 - The Devil Rays defeat the Orioles, 4-1, in the 1st game of a DH. Tampa Bay 1B Fred McGriff ties a major league mark by hitting a home run in his 37th different ballpark. Mark McGwire has also performed the feat. The Orioles take the 2nd game, 2-0.
2001 - Led by hot-hitting Adam Dunn's four hits and Ken Griffey, Jr.'s four RBIs, the Reds roll by Montreal, 17 - 4. Robin Jennings, in his ML debut, collects four hits, a Reds club record.
2001 - In the 18th inning, second string catcher Bill Haselman beats out a bases-loaded potential inning-ending double play grounder allowing Chad Curtis to score the winning run in the [[2001 Ranngers|Rangers 8-7 victory over the Red Sox. The 6-hour and 35-minute contest is the longest game ever played in Ranger history.
2001 - The Diamondbacks score in the 10th inning to defeat the Phillies, 4 - 3. Philadelphia rookie SS Jimmy Rollins is caught stealing in the 3rd inning, the first time in his career after a streak of 35 consecutive steals. Luis Gonzalez receives the ultimate compliment when the Phils give him an intentional walk with the bases empty. Gonzalez joins Manny Ramirez, Jason Giambi, Mike Piazza, and Jim Thome as the only players to receive an intentional pass with the bases empty this season. Ramirez is the only one of the group to have been walked intentionally twice this year with no ducks on the pond.
2001 - The Indians edge the Mariners, 4 - 3, ending Ichiro Suzuki's 21 - game hitting streak.
2001 - The Cubs defeat the Cardinals, 6 - 1, as Sammy Sosa hits two more home runs, his 50th and 51st of the season. In doing so, he joins Mark McGwire and Babe Ruth as the only players with four 50 - homer seasons.
2002 - The Red Sox score a 10 - 9, 10 - inning victory over the Angels as Manny Ramirez gets five hits, including a pair of home runs.
2002 - The first video streaming coverage of a major league baseball game takes place on the internet. Approximately 30,000 fans visit MLB.com to see the Yankees defeat the Rangers, 10-3. Alfonso Soriano sets a team record for home runs by a second baseman. The previous mark of 30 was established in 1940 by Joe Gordon.
2007:
- Warner Robins, GA wins the 2007 Little League World Series, 3-2, in extra innings, on a homer by Dalton Carriker. Tokyo had won their last two games on sayonara homers before losing this one. It is the second straight Little League World Series won by a Georgian team and the third US victory in a row.
- The Lancaster JetHawks hit their 204th home run of the year, breaking the two-year-old California League record held by the High Desert Mavericks.
- Tom Shearn debuts for the Reds two days shy of his 30th birthday. He is the oldest pitcher to make his first MLB start for the Reds since former Negro Leaguer Pat Scantlebury in 1956.
- David Wells beats out a bunt single against John Maine in a 6-1 win by the Dodgers. Wells is 44 years old and 248 pounds and says that it is hard for your opponents to field when laughing hysterically.