August 27

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1897 - Future Hall of Fame catcher Senator Roger Bresnahan makes his major league debut as a pitcher shutting out the Browns, 3-0.
1901 - At Boston, Cy Young goes 15 innings to defeat Detroit, 2-1, for his 25th win of the year.
1903 - In Philadelphia, Boston pitcher Tom Hughes goes long over the LF fence to win his own game against the A's, 4-2.
1904 - At Robison Field, the Giants score seven runs in three innings off Jack Taylor and Christy Mathewson eases to a 9 - 3 win over the Cards.
1907 - Christy Mathewson fashions a 3-hit shutout over the Cardinals and driving in the only run with a double. Ed Karger takes the hard luck loss.
1908 - With electric bulletin boards also showing the action in Chicago, the Colts arrive back home for a three-game sweep to move within one-half game of the lead. Chicago wins today, 5-1, then takes the day off tomorrow.
1909 - Still pitching doubleheaders, Joe "Iron Man" McGinnity wins a pair for Newark over Buffalo in the Eastern League.
1910 - In the first of 2, Highlander P Jack Warhop swipes home in 6th. His run is the difference as New York beats the White Sox, 4 - 3.
1910 - Inventor George Cahill brings his patented lighting system White Sox Park. Using twenty 137,000 candlepower arc lights, two amateur teams play a night game before 20,000. However, the first AL night game won't be played there until 1939.
1910 - At Chicago's West Side Park, Chicago pulls off a 3rd-inning triple play"”2B Johnny Evers to 3B Heinie Zimmerman"”against the Giants, but New York wins handily, 18 - 9. The Giants tally 23 hits to the Cubs 15 in beating the league-leaders.
1910 - In Boston, Red Sox hurler Sea Lion Hall pitches a 7 - 1 one-hit win over Cleveland. Elmer Koestner's single is the only hit.
1910 - Washington 2B Red Killefer sets a ML mark by sacrificing four times in the first game of a doubleheader against Detroit.
1911 - At Comiskey Park, Chicago hurler Ed Walsh, Sr. no-hits the Red Sox, 5-0. The future Hall of Famer's son, Edward Arthur, will also pitch for the White Sox from 1928-1932.
1911 - Chicago's Ed Walsh pitches a 5 - 0 no-hitter against the Red Sox. A 4th-inning walk produces the only Red Sox runner. After going 18 - 20 in 1910, Walsh bounces back to win 27 and lead the AL in games (56), IP (369), and strikeouts (255).
1912 - In response to demands for an alternative way to rate pitchers besides wins and losses, the NL will officially keep ERA's for the first time; the Giants Jeff Tesreau will lead the league at 1.96. Despite an increase in .300 hitters from 22 to 32 this year, there will be 19 pitchers with ERA's under 3.00. The AL will not make ERA part of their official statistics until 1913.
1912 - Owen Wilson triples for his 3rd game in a row, a 4th inning drive off Walt Dickson good for three runs. Pittsburgh beats Boston, 9 - 4.
1912 - It takes a one-hitter by Art Fromme, but the Reds finally beat New York, and Christy Mathewson 2 - 0. Art Fletcher's single is the only safety. The Giants' lead shrinks to three 1/2 games over the Cubs.
1915 - Detroit snaps the Red Sox win streak, stopping Boston, 7 - 6 in 12 innings. Boston still leads the American League by four 1/2 games.
1915 - Christy Mathewson wins his 8th and last game of the year edging the Pirates, 2 - 1. Babe Adams takes the loss.
1917 - At Detroit, Ty Cobb is 3-for-4 to lead the Tigers to a 5 - 1 win over the Red Sox and lefty Babe Ruth.
1917 - In the 4th inning in New York, Pirates swiftie Max Carey beats out a bunt single, and goes to 2B on a single by Tony Boekel. Both runners steal on the next pitch from Rube Benton and, with Boekel entangled with New York 2B Buck Herzog, Carey steals home as well. Wilbur Cooper makes the one run stand up for the 1 - 0 win. For Carey, it is his 13th steal of home enroute to a NL record 33 steals of home.
1918 - Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in the chemical warfare branch of the Army.
1921 - The Bucs reel out of New York after dropping their fifth straight loss to the Giants as Art Nehf, pitching with two days rest, wins 3 - 1. The Giants are just two 1/2 games in back.
1922 - The Yankees increase their lead by beating the Browns, 2 - 1, in 11 innings on Meusel's sac fly. Hank Severeid's HR is the only score for the Browns. An apparent two run double off the LF wall by Eddie Foster in the 10th is ruled foul by Moriarty. The Yanks take the series, 3 - 1.
1926 - Veteran P Dutch Ruether is picked up from Washington by the Yankees.
1929 - Hornsby has four hits and Sheriff Blake allows six to lead the Cubs to a 4 - 1 win over the Reds. Chicago now leads by 14 1/2 games, the greatest lead a National League team has enjoyed at this stage since the 1906 version of the Cubs.
1935 - The Yankees outslug the White Sox 13-10 in the first game of 2. In the second game, Lou Gehrig ties an AL record with five walks as the Yanks lose 4-3.
1937 - Dodger right-hander Fred Frankhouse tosses a rained shorten (8 2/3 innings) no-hitter beating the Reds, 5-0.
1937 - Fred Frankhouse of the Dodgers loses his chance to pitch a full no-hitter when rain stops the game with two out in the eighth; the hitless Reds lose 5-0.
1938 - In the first game of a twin bill at Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio hits three consecutive triples. His offensive outburst helps the Bronx Bombers edge the Indians, 8-7.
1938 - Monte Pearson becomes the first pitcher to throw a no hitter in Yankee Stadium. Facing only 27 batters, thanks to two double plays, he beats his former team, the Indians, 13-0 for his 10th consecutive victory.
1938 - Joe DiMaggio has three triples in the first game of a doubleheader with Cleveland, an 8-7 win in New York. Monte Pearson has a no-hitter in the 2nd game, winning his 10th straight game, 13-0. The Yankees, playing their sixth successive doubleheader, increase their AL lead to 12 games.
1941 - Charlie Root uses his arm and then his bat with a clutch single in the ninth inning to win his 200th game. Trailing the Cincinnati Reds 4-3, the Cubs win 6-4 with the 42-year-old Root going the route.
1941 - Beating the Braves 6-4, Charlie Root, best known for giving up Babe Ruth's 'called' home run, becomes the first pitcher to win 200 games in a Cub uniform.
1942 - Brooklyn salvages a win, 4 - 1, to leave St. Louis with a five 1/2 game lead.
1942 - With the score tied 4 - 4 in the 11th at Wrigley, the Reds load the bases with no outs. Chicago then turns a triple play"”McCullough, Merullo, and Cavarretta. Bill Nicholson poles a homer in the bottom of the frame for a 5 - 4 win.
1946 - At Owners' Meeting, a committee formed to study integration, which includes Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey, delivers its secretive report defending the covert color barrier which exists in professional baseball. The absurd reasons given why blacks shouldn't be allow to play in the big leagues include an absence of skills due to inferior training and lack of fundamentals as well as the need to respect existing Negro League contracts, but another lesser known motivation may have been profit as revealed later in the report, "The Negro leagues rent their parks in many cities from clubs in Organized Baseball (and) Club owners in the major leagues are reluctant to give up revenues amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars every year" and the fear white fans would be driven away if black players attracted more minorities to the ballpark.
1948 - Hank Majeski of the Athletics hits six doubles in a doubleheader against the Browns, pacing the dogged A's to wins of 6 - 0 and 9 - 1. He is the 3rd American League player to collect six long hits in an afternoon and just the 2nd to do it in two regulation length games. Hal McRae, on the same date in 1974, will do it next in the AL.
1948 - Johnny Schmitz leads the Cubs to a 1 - 0 win over the first-place Braves at Wrigley Field. Schmitz allows just six hits, including two triples, but doubles and scores the games only run in the bottom of the 9th. Johnny Sain takes the loss.
1949 - Former Mexican Leaguers Max Lanier and Fred Martin drop their $2.5 million suit against baseball.
1950 - The Indians Ray Boone and Clyde Vollmer of the Red Sox match grand slams today. Boone's comes in the 7-run third to give Bob Feller a 7 - 0 cushion. Vollmer's pinch slam against Al Benton in the Sox 6-run seventh helps Boston to an 11 - 9 win. It is the Red Sox ninth slam of the season.
1950 - Yankee Allie Reynolds hurls a 2-hitter in a 2 - 1 win over the White Sox.
1951 - The Giants win two more from the Cubs, including a 5 - 4, twelve-inning complete game victory for Larry Jansen. It is his 17th win. The Cubs score in the top of the 12th, but the Giants score two off Dutch Leonard to win. Behind Al Corwin's pitching and homers by Stanky and Irwin, the Giants take the nitecap, 6 - 3.
1951 - Scoring all the Phillies' runs in the victory over the Reds, Del Wilber hits three solo homers making it the first time in major league history a player has accounted for all the runs in 3-0 game with home runs. The 32-year old catcher will only hit a total of 19 homers during his major league career.
1951 - "The two fine Italian arms of Branca and Furillo had a no-hitter running for eight innings" writes columnist Dick Young; in the 3rd inning Ralph Branca's no-hitter seems broken by a one-hop shot to RF by pitcher Mel Queen, but Carl Furillo guns him out at first. Branca, pitching on two days rest, finally gives up two Pirate hits in the 9th before winning, 5 - 0. In the nitecap the Pirates jump on Erv Palica for three runs in the first inning and hold on for a 5 - 3 win behind Bill Werle and Vern Law. Clyde McCullough is the "Big Un" with a two-run double and a two-run homer. The Pirates continue to be the only team with a season edge on the Dodgers.
1951 - At Shibe Park, light-hitting reserve C Del Wilber of the Phillies hits three home runs in three at bats to provide Ken Johnson with all his support. Johnson beats the Reds Ken Raffensberger 3 - 0 in the nightcap after Jocko Thompson shuts out Cincinnati 2 - 0 in the first game. Wilber went back to the minors in 1949 to manage in the Texas League.
1954 - In an 11-0 White Sox win, Chicago 3B Cass Michaels has his head fractured by a pitch from A's Marion Fricano. Michaels is sidelined the rest of the year, and the injury will effectively end his 12-year major-league career.
1954 - In the championship game of the Little League WS, Schenectady, NY, defeats Colton, CA, 7-5. Future NL Rookie of the Year, Cub 2B Ken Hubbs stars for Colton in 1954. This team later becomes the subject of a best-selling book by Martin Ralbovsky, Destiny's Darlings.
1955 - Dodger bonus baby Sandy Koufax fans 14 Redlegs in a 7-0 win, as the 2-team total of 23 strikeouts ties a record.
1955 - In his second big league start, bonus baby Sandy Koufax two-hits the Reds at Ebbets Field, 7-0. Showing his future dominance of the 1960's, the southpaw strikes out 14 Cincinnati batters.
1956 - Curt Roberts of Columbus (IL) hits four HRs in a row in a seven-inning game against the Havana Cubans.
1957 - Hurricane Bob Hazle, hitting .526 since being recalled from Wichita, hits two 2-run HRs, as the Braves beat the Phillies 7-3 for Warren Spahn's 219th career win, moving him to a 6th on the career list. Spahn also hits his 18th career HR, also good for sixth (tie with Schoolboy Rowe) on the career list
1957 - Stan Musial, swinging at a fourth-inning pitch, tears a muscle and chips a bone, ending his consecutive- game streak. Four days later he will pinch-run in a game suspended on July 21st, officially giving him 895 consecutive games played.
1958 - The Braves Bob Trowbridge walks Orlando Cepeda with the bases full in the 12th to give the Giants a 4-3 win. It is the Giants first win in the past nine games against the Braves.
1958 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower says that the Senators should improve the team and stay in Washington, DC.
1958 - Owner Clark Griffith says that the Senators will probably accept a good offer from Minneapolis/St. Paul, if one is made.
1960 - After pitching 32 2/3 innings without allowing a run, Braves P Lew Burdette gives up a Felipe Alou home run as San Francisco defeats Milwaukee 3 - 1.
1961 - Detroit's Rocky Colavito ties an American League record with four home runs"”three in the 2nd game, in a doubleheader pummeling of the Senators 7 - 4 and 10 - 1 at Washington.
1961 - With first place on the line after the Dodgers have won two games from them, Cincinnati rallies from a 5 - 1 deficit to a 6 - 5 first-game win over Los Angeles. Gene Freese hits a 3-run homer in the 7th and Wally Post adds a 2-run double in the 8th. Rookie Ken Johnson is an 8 - 3 winner in the nightcap as the Reds pummel Don Drysdale. The sweep gives the Reds a three 1/2 game lead in the National League.
1961 - The Orioles Milt Pappas is the whole show as he blanks the Twins, 3 - 0. He allows just two hits while belting two homers. Eddie Robinson adds a homer.
1963 - Willie Mays, Orlando Cepeda, and Felipe Alou hit consecutive round-trippers in the 3rd inning of San Francisco's 7 - 2 win against St. Louis.
1965 - Dodger P Don Drysdale wins in Philadelphia, but the Phils don't make it easy. Drysdale wins 9 - 8, to end his 9-game losing streak to the Phillies. He last beat them on June 1, 1962, which was his 13th straight victory over the Phils.
1966 - At Dodger Stadium, Juan Marichal outduels Don Drysdale to give the Giants a 4 - 2 win.
1967 - In a critical game with the White Sox, Boston RF Jose Tartabull makes a great throw home in the 9th to Elston Howard to nail Ken Berry trying to score from 3B. Boston wins, 4 - 3 behind two homers by Yaz.
1968 - Sweeping a doubleheader from Oakland 5 - 3 and 7 - 2 at Memorial Stadium, the Orioles stay four games in back of first-place Detroit.
1969 - New York's 4 - 1 win at San Diego, its 74th of the year, sets a club record.
1969 - Chicago loses for the 7th time in the last eight games, a 6 - 3 loss to the Reds Tony Cloninger. Ken Holtzman is the loser. Chicago is now just two games ahead of the Amazing Mets.
1970 - Mike Cuellar wins his 20th game for Baltimore, defeating the A's, 6 - 4. Chuck Dobson is the loser, giving up four runs in 2+ innings.
1971 - Detroit's Willie Horton is struck in the eye by a pitch from Chicago's Rich Hinton, sidelining him for 28 games. Hinton, in his first ML start, last two 2/3 innings in taking the loss. Joe Coleman wins.
1971 - Pinch hitter Jimmy Stewart leads the Reds to a win as he hits a 9th inning bases loaded triple against the Cardinals, then scores on Pete Rose's sac fly. The Reds score five in the 9th to win, 8 - 7.
1972 - The Cardinals trade .314 hitter Matty Alou to the A's for two players, Bill Voss and minor leaguer Steve Easton. The A's will send Matty on to the Yanks in November.
1972 - The Tigers Willie Horton clouts an 11th-inning 2-run home run to beat Minnesota 5 - 3 in the opener of 2. In the nightcap, Joe Coleman pitches 11 shutout innings against Minnesota before Aurelio Rodriguez's home run gives him the 1 - 0 win. This is the 3rd win in a row for the Tigers on 11th-inning homers. Rodriguez hit one to start the streak.
1973 - The 1st-place Orioles beat the Rangers 6 - 1 for their 14th consecutive victory. It is the longest winning streak in the American League since 1960, and in the major leagues since 1965. The streak began on August 12.
1974 - New York's Benny Ayala homers in his first ML at bat as the Mets top the Astros 4 - 2. He's the first National League rookie in 13 years to go deep on his 1st at bat.
1974 - At Shea Stadium, Benny Ayala becomes the first National Leaguer in 13 years to hit a home run in his first major league at-bat. The Met rookie goes deep off Astros' hurler Tom Griffin in New York's 4-2 win.
1974 - Hal McRae ties the major-league record with six extra-base hits"”5 doubles and a home run"”as the Royals split a doubleheader with the Indians.
1975 - The Twins Craig Kusick ties the major-league record by being hit with pitches three times in a game, an 11-inning 1 - 0 win over the Brewers. Bert Blyleven goes the distance for the win.
1977 - Dan Driessen and Johnny Bench hit back-to-back homers in the 9th inning to give the Reds a 5 - 4 win over the Phils. Tug McGraw serves up both. Driessen's homer is a line drive that hits the CF wall at Riverfront and rebounds back over Jerry Martin's head all the way to the infield for an IPHR. Bench follows with one over the LF wall.
1977 - At Yankee Stadium, Rangers Bump Wills and Toby Harrah hit back-to-back inside-the-park on consecutive pitches. Texas wins the game, 8-2.
1977 - Rangers Toby Harrah and Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park home runs on consecutive pitches off Ken Clay, highlighting an 8 - 2 win over the Yankees, only the 2nd loss for New York in 14 games. It ties the ML mark and it is the first time since 1946 that two batters have connected consecutively on IPHRs.
1977 - Continuing the theme of the day, Boston DH Tommy Helms and 3B Butch Hobson hit back-to-back home runs in a 7 - 5 win over the Twins. It is the 15th time this year that Sox hitters have homered consecutively, tying a ML record. Montgomery and Scott also homer for the Hubmen.
1978 - By hitting his 200th home run, Reds' second baseman Joe Morgan becomes the first major leaguer to hit 200 homers as well as steal 500 bases.
1978 - The Reds Joe Morgan belts his 200th homer and becomes the first player in history to have 200 homers and 500 stolen bases.
1980 - Phillies Steve Carlton (20-7) becomes the first National League pitcher to win 20 games this season, combining with Tug McGraw to beat the Dodgers, 4 - 3. Carlton will win an NL-high 24 games, while pitching 304 innings, the last ML pitcher to throw more than 300 innings in a season.
1980 - Pitcher and coach Hub Kittle becomes the oldest man to play in an organized baseball game when he starts for Springfield (American Association) against Iowa at the age of 63 years and six months. Kittle retires the side in the first inning, then tosses one pitch to retire a batter in the 2nd frame before exiting.
1982 - Dodger pinch hitters Rick Monday and Mike Marshall hit homers against Cubs in a 9 - 4 LA win. The last time two pinch hitters connected for round trippers in the National League was August 23, 1975 when Monday combined with then-Cub teammate Champ Summers to do it.
1982 - Rickey Henderson steals four bases in Oakland's 5 - 4 loss to Milwaukee to raise his total to 122 and break Lou Brock's single-season record of 118. The record-breaking 119th steal comes off pitcher Doc Medich and catcher Ted Simmons on a 3rd-inning pitchout. Milwaukee is now six 1/2 games ahead in the American League East.
1982 - In the 5-4 loss to the Brewers, A's Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brock's 1974 single season record of 118 stolen bases. By stealing a total of four bases Rickey ends the day with 122 and will finish the season with 130.
1984 - Dave Kingman hits a double and homer to help Oakland score seven runs in the 7th inning, but that's all the A's score in losing to the Yankees, 7 - 6. Bobby Meacham has two homers, including the game winner in the 8th, to back Dave Righetti's relief win. Bill Caudill loses.
1986 - With a most unusual game-ending double play, the Mets beat Padres in the 11th, 6-5. Knocked on his back tagging out Gary Templeton trying to score on Tim Flannery's single to center, John Gibbons, from a prone position, throws a strike to Howard Johnson who tags out Flannery trying to get to third completing the twin killing (8-2-5).
1986 - In Seattle's 4 - 1 win over Baltimore, the M's Harold Reynolds ties the ML mark with 12 assists at 2B. He's the second second sacker to do it this season.
1986 - Nolan Ryan posts his 250th career victory, allowing one hit in six innings as the Astros beat the Cubs 7 - 1.
1987 - The Royals fire manager Billy Gardner, who replaced Dick Howser in spring training, and replace him with John Wathan, the former Kansas City catcher who was managing the club's Triple A Omaha affiliate. In Wathan's ML managerial debut, the Royals win 3 - 2 on George Brett's 10th-inning home run to move within three games of first-place Minnesota.
1988 - Tommy Lasorda wins his 1,000th game as a manager as Los Angeles tops Philadelphia 4 - 2.
1990 - For Texas, Charlie Hough allows 10 walks in five innings before being lifted in the 6th. California can score just three runs off him but scores four off two relievers to win, 7 - 3.
1990 - The Brewers-Blue Jays game is delayed 35 minutes when a huge swarm of gnats descends onto the field through the open SkyDome roof. Milwaukee scratches out a 4 - 2 win.
1990 - Boston's Ellis Burks homers twice in an 8-run 4th inning of a 12 - 4 pasting of Cleveland. It is only the 2nd time a Sox hitter has homered twice in an inning (Bill Regan, June 16, 1928). Burks has five RBIs to back Mike Boddicker's win. Boddicker holds the Tribe scoreless through six frames.
1992 - The Mets trade P David Cone to the front runner Blue Jays in exchange for IF Jeff Kent and OF Ryan Thompson. Cone will miss leading the NL in strikeouts by one as John Smoltz registers a K on the final day of the season. Cone, who led the NL in strikeouts the past two seasons, would have been the first NL pitcher in 50 years to lead in strikeouts for three consecutive years.
1995 - Montreal P Kirk Rueter hurls a 1-hit, 1-0 shutout over the Giants. SF's only hit is a single by C Kirt Manwaring.
1995 - Catcher Mike Piazza collects four long hits"”2 doubles and two home runs, including a grand slam"”good for seven ribbies, to lead the Dodgers to a 9-1 victory over Philadelphia. Piazza is now hitting .367, tied for the lead in the ML.
1996 - The Twins defeat the Blue Jays, 6-4 in 11 innings, with the help of five hits from DH Paul Molitor.
1996 - Roger Clemens (8-11) wins his 4th in a row, beating the Angels, 2 - 1. Sox reliever Heath Slocumb gives up the one run in the 9th.
1997 - Oakland defeats the Yankees, 8-7, as DH Dave Magadan leads the way with five hits, including a home run.
1997 - Indian teammates honor Jim Thome by wearing their socks high, a fashion statement they'll continue into the World Series. But today they might've shaved their heads instead as Matt Williams drives in a major-league record tying six runs in a 10-run 4th as the Indians beat California, 10 - 4. Williams has a 3-run double and a 3-run home run. In between his hits, Marquis Grissom clouts a grand slam. Williams six ribbies in an inning is a club record. The last batter to knock in six in a frame was Matt Stairs, on July 5, 1996.
1997 - The Dodgers best the Pirates, 9-5, with the help of five hits by OF Otis Nixon and six RBIs from C Mike Piazza. LA now leads the NL West by one 1/2 games over the Giants.
1997 - In honor of first baseman Jim Thome's birthday, the Indians begin pulling up their socks to just below the knees. The Tribe will win 17 of 27 games en route to clinching American League East flag while sporting this new look.
1997 - The White Sox trade OF Darren Lewis to the Dodgers in exchange for a player to be named.
1999 - The Reds defeat the Expos, 4-1. In the process, Cincinnati P Ron Villone stops OF Vladimir Guerrero's 31-game hitting streak, the longest in the majors in 12 years. Guerrero grounds to short, is intentionally walked, and fouls out in his three at bats.
1999 - The Indians take out some insurance, picking up DH Harold Baines from the Orioles for P Juan Aracena and a player to be named.
1999 - The Padres edge the Brewers, 8-7, despite five hits, including a double, by 3B Jeff Cirillo.
1999 - Major league umpires are warned by the league presidents that they will be fired if they strike next week. There has been talk of a strike over baseball's refusal to allow 22 umpires to withdraw their resignations, which are effective on September 2.
1999 - Desperate for lefty pitching, the Rangers acquire Jeff Fassero from the Mariners for a player to be named later. Fassero, his mechanics shaky after off-season surgery, will win his first start, September 6, against Chicago.
2000 - Led by Darrin Fletcher's three home runs the Blue Jays beat the Rangers, 6 - 4.
2000 - Bobby Abreu of the Philadelphia Phillies hits a pair of solo homers, including a game-winning inside-the-park shot off San Francisco Giant reliever Aaron Fultz in the 10th inning to win 2 - 1. Abreu's homer, his 20th, is the 5th IPHR game-ender in Phillies history and the first since Bob Dernier did it in 1989, also against the Giants. He's the 29th major-leaguer since 1900 to end a game with an IPHR and the 38th extra-inning IP (according to David Vincent). Ed Vosberg (1 - 0) picks up his 1st win since 1997.
2000 - The Angels edge the Indians, 10-9 as OF Tim Salmon hits his 30th home run of the year in the 5th inning. Anaheim become the first team in AL history to have four players (Troy Glaus, Mo Vaughn, Garret Anderson, Salmon) reach the 30-homer mark in a single season. The Blue Jays are close with two hitters over 30 and two at 28. It's been done seven times in the NL.
2001 - With his 17th dinger this month, Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa ties the National League record for August homers established by Willie Mays in 1965. Tiger Rudy York set the major league mark going yard 18 times in the eighth month of 1937.
2001 - In the Nippon Ham Fighters-Fukuoka Daiei Hawks contest, Michihiro Ogasawara doubles and tallies on Yukio Tanaka's single breaking a 51-year Japanese record by scoring a run in 17 consecutive games. Indian Kenny Lofton (2000) and Yankee Red Rolfe (1939) share the major league record of 18 straight games.
2002 - The White Sox down the Blue Jays, 8 - 4. Rookie 3B Joe Crede's 9th inning 2 - run homer ties the score and his 10th inning grand slam wins it. Crede drives home seven runs in the game.
2002 - Barry Bonds slugs three home runs and a double to lead the Giants to a 7 - 4 win over the Rockies. It is the 4th three - homer game of Bonds' career.
2002 - The Angels defeat the Devil Rays, 7 - 3. as OF Darin Erstad gets five hits, including a pair of doubles, for Anaheim.
2002 - The Twins top the Mariners, 5 - 2. Minnesota SS Cristian Guzman is held hitless, ending his 23 - game hitting streak.
2005 - Jeff Kent becomes the first only player to hit 300 homers as a second baseman. The Dodger infielder, who has surpassed Ryne Sandberg's total of 277 last September, is the major league leader at this position with Joe Gordon holding the American League record with 246 round-trippers.
2005 - After losing no-hitter with two outs in the ninth inning against the Yomiuri Giants earlier in the season, Fumiya Nishiguchi (16-4) sees his perfect game against the expansion Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles go into extra innings. The Seibu Lions right-hander gives up a hit and has to settle for a 10-inning complete game shutout.