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  • 1901 - Ban Johnson suspends Baltimore 1B Burt Hart for striking umpire John Haskell yesterday, stating "This is the first time a player in the American League has struck an umpire, and it is an offense that cannot be overlooked." The 31-year-old Hart will never play again.
  • 1901 - In Boston's 10-5 win in game 1at Baltimore, the Bostons pull off a triple play. Pitcher Lewis starts the TP, which goes to Jimmy Collins (3B), Schreckongost (C), Ferriss (2B), and Parent (SS). The Orioles take game 2, 10-4.
  • 1901 - The hits keep coming. In Cleveland, Milwaukee manager Hugh Duffy hits umpire Al Mannassau when a fly ball nicking the foul line is called fair, scoring the winning runs in a 5-4 win for the Blues. Duffy is suspended indefinitely.
  • 1902 - For the 2nd time this year, Boston's Cy Young gives up six runs in the first inning and is lifted. This times the Browns bomb him enroute to a 12-4 victory in St. Louis. Young will complete 41 of 43 starts this year.
  • 1903 - The Giants sweep the Phillies at the Polo Grounds, taking the opener 7-5 behind Christy Mathewson. Matty surrenders five hits, but fans 10. Dummy Taylor wins the nitecap, 6-2, to put the Giants back into 2nd place.
  • 1903 - Reds SS Tommy Corcoran sets a ML mark when he records 14 assists in Cincinnati's 4-2 regulation win over the Cardinals. Lave Cross, in 1897, racked up 15 assists in a 12 inning game.
  • 1904 - The Giants swap outfielders sending rookie OF Moose McCormick (.266) west to the Reds who in turn send him to Pittsburgh for Harry Sebring (269). The Reds ship Mike Donlin (.356) to the Giants. Turkey Mike, sitting out a month's suspension for drunken behavior in Chicago, will enjoy the New York life style and being reunited with John McGraw, for whom he starred at Baltimore, in 1901. He'll help the Giants win two straight pennants.
  • 1906 - On John McGraw's orders, umpire James Johnstone is refused admittance to the Polo Grounds, and the ump, standing outside the Polo Grounds, forfeits the match to the Cubs. McGraw insists the game go on with a player from each team umpiring. McGraw picks reserve Sam Strang, but Cubs manager Frank Chance refuses to go along, pointing out the game has already been forfeited.
  • 1907 - Senator hurler Walter Johnson wins his first major league game beating the Indians, 7-2. The 'Big Train' will tally 416 victories during his 21-year career.
  • 1907 - The A's Socks Seybold socks a homer off Ed Killian to beat the Tigers. Killian had not given up a homer since September 19, 1903-1001 innings. He lost that game as well, and will tee up just nine homers in his short career.
  • 1907 - Washington's Walter Johnson wins the first of his total 416 victories, 7-2 over Cleveland. Cleveland manages just four hits.
  • 1909 - In St. Louis, the Giants shell Fred Beebe for six hits and four runs in the first inning, and Christy Mathewson coasts to a 7-1 win.
  • 1911 - The matchup between Three Finger Brown and Christy Mathewson is something less than a pitching duel as Chicago bangs out 10 hits, including two singles, a double and a triple by Joe Tinker. Tinker also adds a steal of home. The Giants collect 13 hits, but Chicago wins the game, 8 - 6.
  • 1912 - At Pittsburgh, the Pirates win their 3rd straight against the leading Giants, belting Christy Mathewson for 15 hits and six runs in eight innings. Spitballer Marty O'Toole allows seven hits to win, 7 - 2.
  • 1912 - Browns manager-1B George Stovall makes seven assists, topping Willard Brown's record of six in a game for Louisville in 1893.
  • 1914 - Grover Cleveland Alexander (16-9) shuts out the Reds and leads the Phillies offense with four hits, including a double, and two runs scored.
  • 1915 - Another Hall of Famer takes a turn on the mound, as George Sisler pitches to two Yankees in the 6th inning, hitting one and walking the other. The Browns-Yankees game is called at the end of 10 innings with the score tied 4 - 4.
  • 1915 - For the 2nd time in six weeks, Pirate hurler Al Mamaux combines to throw a doubleheader shut out. This time his partner is Bob Harmon, as Mamaux stops the Phils 6 - 0 and Harmon follows with a 9 - 0 win.
  • 1915 - In Chicago, the White Sox top the Senators 6 - 2. Relieving for the losing pitcher Jim Shaw is future Hall of Famer Sam Rice, who will pitch only eight more times before going to the outfield for two decades. Playing RF in the game for Washington is Walter Johnson, filling in for the injured Danny Moeller.
  • 1915 - As Brooklyn's rookie pitcher steps to the mound, St. Louis manager Miller Huggins, coaching at 3B, calls for the ball. The rookie obliges, Huggins steps aside, and the Cardinal runner scores. A change in the rules will prevent such trickery in the future.
  • 1915 - At Fenway, Smoky Joe Wood fires a one-hitter, beating Cleveland, 2 - 0. Bill Wambsganss single is the only Cleveland hit. For Wood, it is his 5th one-hitter, and the 3rd over regulation distance.
  • 1915 - At Redland Field, New York's Christy Mathewson pitches a five hitter to beat Pete Schneider and the Reds, 5 - 4.
  • 1916 - At St. Louis, the Browns score two runs in the 7th against Nats starter Bert Gallia to tie the game. Ayers relieves and Walter Johnson pitches the last 1 1/3 innings, allowing a tally in the 10th for a 3 - 2 St. Louis win. The official scorer kindly gives the loss to Gallia.
  • 1916 - The Braves whitewash the Reds twice, winning 2 - 0 and 6 - 0. Jesse Barnes and Frank Allen are the winning pitchers.
  • 1920 - Following an all-night drinking bout and a fight at the Lamb's Club in New York, John McGraw will be indicted for violating the Volstead (Prohibition) Act and charged with assault, but he will be acquitted. He will also be called to testify in Chicago hearings investigating gambling and bribery among players, including Hal Chase and Heinie Zimmerman.
  • 1921 - The Cubs replace manager Johnny Evers with Bill Killefer. With Pete Alexander, the former batterymate of "Reindeer Bill" the mound, the Cubs lose to the Giants, 7 - 2, at Cubs Park. New York third sacker Frankie Frisch is knocked out by a deflected ground ball.
  • 1922 - Ken Williams hits two HRs (#29 and #30) in the sixth inning, off starter George Mogridge and reliever Eric Erickson, as the Browns score nine times against Washington in a 16 - 6 win. Williams is the first to do so since the 1890s. Both homers follow doubles by Jacobson, also tying a major-league record, as the Browns bang out a major-league record seven extra base hits in the frame.
  • 1922 - A record ten Pirates collect two or more hits as the Pirates tally 22 hits to pound the seventh-place Phillies, 17 - 10. The Phils knock out the Bucs ace Cooper, scoring six runs in two 2/3 innings, but the Pirates score eight in the fourth to take the lead. Three Pirate pitchers are 5-for-5 at the plate, including Whitey Glazner's home run, and the only Buc batter to not contribute two safeties is cleanup hitter Clyde Barnhart.
  • 1923 - Hitting a double and five singles, Indian Frank Bower goes 6-for-6 as Cleveland routs the Senators, 22-2.
  • 1929 - For the 2nd game in a row, Babe Ruth hits a grand slam home run as the Yanks roll to a 13 - 1 win over the A's in the lidlifter. Cochrane homers in his one at bat for the A's only run as the Yankees score 10 runs in the first two innings. George Pipgras is the winner. The A's take the nitecap, 4 - 2, as George Earnshaw goes eight innings for the win.
  • 1930 - Chet Brewer and Smokey Joe Williams duel in one of the most famous Negro League games ever. Brewer fans 19 and allows 4 hits, while Williams whiffed 25 and gave up one hit in a 12-inning, 1-0 victory.
  • 1934 - Dizzy Dean becomes the first pitcher to reach 20 wins this season with a 2-0 shutout over the Reds.
  • 1940 - A crowd of 53,997, an National League record for a night game, watches the Dodgers beat the Giants 8 - 4 on Mel Ott Night at the Polo Grounds. Only Chicago and Boston are without lights in the NL. New York's large turnout is due to its being Mel Ott Night.
  • 1943 - The Giants leave eighteen runners on base, exactly two each inning in a 9-6 loss to the Phillies.
  • 1943 - The Giants strand 18 runners in a 9-6 loss to the Phillies. Mel Ott's team leaves two runners on in every inning to symbolize their dreary season that will result in 98 losses and the first Giant tailend finish since 1915.
  • 1948 - Before 66,000 fans, New York's Vic Raschi (14-4) allows four singles in stopping the Indians, 5 - 0. DiMaggio has a pair of doubles, drives in three runs, and swipes home on the front end of a double steal.
  • 1949 - Lineup juggling is a Casey Stengel forte as his Yankees suffer injury after injury. Against the Browns, 13 different Yankees score a run in the first game of a doubleheader.
  • 1950 - Three white players of the Chicago American Giants are barred by police from participating in a Negro American League doubleheader against the Birmingham Black Barons.
  • 1950 - Police bar three white players"”Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, and Frank Dyle, all of the Chicago American Giants"”from playing in the Negro American League against the Birmingham Black Barons, who sweep a doubleheader.
  • 1951 - Bobby Doerr suffers a severe sacroiliac pain that forces the future Hall of Famer into early retirement. The Red Sox regular 2B for 13 seasons, Doerr will become a Red Sox coach.
  • 1951 - The Phils shut out the Braves 1 - 0 in 15 innings in the 2nd game of a doubleheader as reliever Ken Heintzelman bests Warren Spahn, also in relief. The Phils capture the opener, 3 - 1, on Robin Roberts' 15th win.
  • 1951 - Senator Edwin C. Johnson backs the reserve clause in his testimony, citing his bill to exempt baseball from antitrust legislation.
  • 1951 - In a day-night doubleheader the Dodgers sweep a pair from the Giants, taking the first game 7 - 2 behind the solid relief of Carl Erskine. Gil Hodges, Duke Snider and Carl Furillo homer. Brooklyn takes the nitecap, 6 - 5, in 10 innings after jumping on Maglie for a 5 - 1 lead. Snider and Furillo homer again, while Bobby Thomson goes deep for the Giants. Cox's RBI single wins it, giving the Dodgers an 11 1/2 game margin, the greatest lead in Brooklyn history.
  • 1952 - Umpire Bill McGowan is suspended indefinitely by the AL. In a game in St. Louis, McGowan had thrown out Tiger P Billy Hoeft, who had been heckling him from the dugout. When St. Louis writers, who had had a stormy relationship over the years with the veteran McGowan, ask him to identify the player, the umpire refuses, then adds an obscene gesture. The writers' complaint results in a suspension.
  • 1955 - After a 12-17 record in July, the Yankees are in a 4-team race. Tiger Frank Lary beats New York 4-2 in game one, and New York then earns a critical 3-2 10th-inning win on a Mickey Mantle homer off Babe Birrer. The Yanks finish the day in a virtual tie with Chicago, a 1/2 game ahead of Cleveland, and 11Ž2 games ahead of Boston.
  • 1956 - The Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans, as the Red Sox edge the Yanks in 11 innings on Williams's bases-loaded walk. It is Williams's third spitting incident in three weeks. The spitting started after the crowd of 36,350, a record for night games at Fenway Park, started booing the Splendid Splinter for muffing Mickey Mantle's windblown fly in the 11th. Before the game, RF Jackie Jensen had to be restrained by teammates from going into the stands after a heckler. The previous year Jensen had challenged a fan to come out of the stands.
  • 1956 - The largest crowd in minor league history (57,000) see Miami's 51-year-old Satchel Paige beat Columbus (IL) in the Orange Bowl.
  • 1957 - Hank Bauer of the Yanks hits his second consecutive lead-off HR, against Washington, as the first-place Yankees lose 3-2.
  • 1960 - The White Sox win a pair from the Senators, with reliever Gerry Staley picking up two victories. Staley will be 13 - 8, all in relief, with both wins and losses topping the American League relievers.
  • 1962 - Yankees SS Tony Kubek, in his first at bat after returning from military service, homers in a 14 - 1 Yankee win over the Twins.
  • 1963 - In the Mets 7 - 3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals, Jim Hickman hits for the cycle, doing it in order. Both are firsts for the New York Mets.
  • 1963 - At Chicago, Sandy Koufax lock horns for the 2nd time this year with Dick Ellsworth, a battle that ends in a 1 - 1 draw. Koufax is removed with one out in the 10th inning, while Ellsworth is replaced after the 10th. The Dodgers go on to win, 3 - 1 over the Cubs with neither starter getting a decision.
  • 1964 - The 10th-place Mets send 1B Frank Thomas to the National League-leading Phils (1 1/2 games ahead of the Giants) for P Gary Kroll, OF Wayne Graham, and cash. Thomas, seemingly the answer to the Phils' 1st base problem, rode the Mets' team bus to Philadelphia, then found out he was traded. He then drives in two runs as the Phils top the Mets 9 - 4. The Phils will take the next two games with Thomas collecting five RBIs in the sweep.
  • 1964 - Steve Barber and Harvey Haddix beat the Yankees 2 - 0 to boost the Orioles back into first place.
  • 1966 - Lee Bales gets off to a shaky ML start, striking out four times, as the Braves beat the Phillies 3 - 0. Bales equals the National League record first set by Billy Sunday (May 22, 1883) for most initial-game K's.
  • 1968 - In his major league debut, A's Joe Keough hits a home run in his first at-bat.
  • 1968 - Oakland's Joe Keough makes his ML debut with a first-at bat, home run in a 2nd-game 4 - 3 win over the Yankees. New York wins the opener 3 - 0.
  • 1969 - Phils' manager Bob Skinner quits saying he had little front office support in his attempts to discipline slugger Dick Allen. Coach George Myatt will manage the team for the rest of the season.
  • 1971 - Vida Blue becomes the first 20-game winner in the major leagues this season with a 1 - 0, 3-hit gem over the White Sox. Joel Horlen balks in the game's only run.
  • 1972 - When Cleon Jones misses a shoestring catch in the bottom of the 13th inning, Ted Sizemore races around with an inside-the-park homer to give the Cards a 3 - 2 win over the 2nd place Mets. Diego Segui, in relief of Bob Gibson who pitches 10 innings, is the winner. Mets 2B Ken Boswell has no chances to tie a major-league record for an extra inning game.
  • 1972 - Ron Allen hits three home runs as the Yankees beat the Dodgers 8 - 3 in the annual Hall of Fame game. The contest is preceded by inductions of eight new members.
  • 1972 - Eddie Mathews takes over as Braves manager following the dismissal of Luman Harris. Things don't change as the Reds squash the Braves, 9 - 1, at Riverfront Stadium.
  • 1972 - A horde of grasshoppers invades the field at Midland (Texas League) after the first game of a doubleheader, causing the postponement of the 2nd game.
  • 1973 - In Cincinnati, Don Gullett pitches a 2-hitter to beat the Cubs, 1 - 0. The only run is a home run by Joe Morgan.
  • 1973 - Two days after Phil Niekro's no-hitter, the Braves purchase Joe Niekro, Phil's pitching brother, from the Tigers.
  • 1974 - As part of a youth movement, the Tigers release 1B Norm Cash and sell OF Jim Northrup to Montreal.
  • 1977 - Mike Torrez snaps a 3-game Yankee losing streak with his 3rd straight victory. The Yankees will win 20 of their next 23 games over Western Division opponents.
  • 1977 - At Oakland, the Red Sox win their 9th straight on the road, beating the A's, 5 - 2. It is Boston's 10th win in a row.
  • 1978 - Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, and Larry MacPhail are inducted at Cooperstown.
  • 1983 - The Yankees honor Bobby Mercer by giving him a day at the Yankee Stadium.
  • 1984 - The White Sox and Yankees split a doubleheader with Chicago's 6 - 3 triumph in Game One stopping New York's 8-game win streak. Waite Hoyt is the winner. Ron Guidry strikes out 13 t win the nitecap, 7 - 0. He finishes with a flourish, striking out the side on nine pitches in the 9th.
  • 1984 - Bill Buckner and Tony Armas each hit grand slams in the first two innings off Tigers ace Jack Morris to spark the Red Sox to a 12 - 7 victory in the first game. Detroit takes the 2nd game 7 - 5 in 11 innings, after scoring a run in the 9th to tie. Lance Parrish's two-run homer ends it and Aurelio Lopez goes 9 - 0.
  • 1984 - The Cubs sweep a pair from the visiting Mets, winning 8 - 6 and 8 - 4. Rick Sutcliffe (9 - 1) beats Ron Darling (10-5) in the opener, benefiting from a 6-run 5th inning. Keith Moreland hits a 3-run home run and Ron Cey a 2-run shot in the 5th. A 5-run 4th in game two propels Chicago to the win for reliever Tim Stoddard. Lee Smith notches his 25th save.
  • 1985 - A five-year agreement between the union and owners, which includes salary arbitration eligibility increasing from two years to three years, ends the two-day mid-season players' strike. The season will resume tomorrow.
  • 1987 - Bill Mazeroski's uniform jersey #9 is officially retired from active service by the Pittsburgh Pirates.
  • 1988 - A record five sacrifice flies are hit by the Mariners (D. Coles, A. Davis, J. Presley, J. Buhner & R. Quinones) in a 12-7 victory over the A's.
  • 1988 - Darnell Coles, Alvin Davis, Jim Presley, Jay Buhner, and Rey Quinones all hit sacrifice flies in a 12 - 7 win over Oakland, giving the Mariners a American League record.
  • 1990 - Dave Winfield collects his 2,500th career hit, a single off Tom Bolton, as California loses to Boston 6 - 3.
  • 1990 - The Expos send pitcher Zane Smith to the Pirates for rookie OF Moises Alou. Alou will have just 20 at bats this year and miss all of next year because of shoulder surgery.
  • 1991 - Deion Sanders makes the conversion from baseball to football, practicing with the Atlanta Falcons for the first time. Neon Deion hits .304 in 97 games with the Braves, and his 14 triples will lead the majors.
  • 1991 - Schottzie, the St. Bernard mascot of the Cincinnati Reds, is put to sleep. The dog is buried at team owner Marge Schott's home, with a Reds' cap on its head.
  • 1992 - Boston slugger Jack Clark files for bankruptcy, listing debts of $11,459,305.97 and assets of $4,781,780. Clark is in the middle of a 3-year contract worth $8.7 million. Among other things, Clark owns 18 automobiles.
  • 1992 - The Giants announce that the team has been sold to a group of Tampa Bay investors for a reported $110 million an the team will move to St. Petersburg for 1993. The move will be blocked by other investors.
  • 1992 - As of today, the No. one hitters in the AL and NL, Edgar Martinez and John Kruk, are both hitting .341. The No. two hitters in each league, Kirby Puckett and Andy Van Slyke, are both hitting .331. The No. three hitters in each league, Shane Mack and Gary Sheffield, are both hitting .329.
  • 1992 - The Mets obtain OF Kevin Bass from the Giants for a player to be named.
  • 1993 - The Mets Bret Saberhagen injures his left knee and will miss the rest of the season.
  • 1993 - Indian P Bob Ojeda returns to action following the spring training accident which took the lives of teammates Steve Olin and Tim Crews. He hurls two innings in the Orioles 8-6 win over Cleveland.
  • 1994 - Pittsburgh SS Jay Bell strokes five base hits, including a pair of doubles, leading the Pirates to a 6-5 win over the Cardinals. His single in the bottom of the 9th brings home the winning run.
  • 1995 - In a South Atlantic League game at Fayetteville, four Fayetteville pitchers combine to strike out 19 batters but still lose to Savannah, 6 - 1. Scott Gardner strikes out five batters in the 7th inning.
  • 1998 - Pete Harnisch pitches six innings of shutout ball, and Belinda and Williams continue the whitewash as the Reds roll 17 - 0 over Milwaukee. Reggie Sanders drives in three runs with two doubles and a homer. Sanders, Sean Casey and Aaron Boone all hit bases loaded doubles in the 12-run 6th inning. Eddie Taubensee and Barry Larkin also homer in the game.
  • 1998 - The Orioles pound the Twins, 16 - 9, as OF Brady Anderson gets five hits, including two doubles and two homers, drives home four runs and scores 3.
  • 1998 - Mark McGwire lines a single against the Cubs, driving in two runs. For Big Mac, they are his first runs driven in without a homer since June 7. The Cards roll over the Cubs, 16 - 3 as Kent Bottenfield allows just three hits in seven innings. Ray Lankford has a 3 - run homer in the 1st for St. Louis off Stevens, in relief of Steve Trachsel who lasts just 1/3 of an inning.
  • 1998 - The Indians home run leader Matt Williams breaks his right hand when he is hit by a Wilson Alvarez pitch. Williams will not make another appearance till September 16.
  • 1998 - The Angels obtain P Jeff Juden from the Brewers in exchange for a player to be named.
  • 1998 - Rookie OF Shane Spencer gets five hits, including two doubles and two home runs, while driving home three runs and scoring four in New York's 14 - 2 pasting of Kansas City in the 2nd game of a doubleheader. The Yankees also took the 1st contest by a score of 8 - 2.
  • 1999 - For the second consecutive day, a major leaguer gets his 3000th career hit as Wade Boggs homers in the sixth off Indian Chris Haney. The Devil Rays' third baseman, who is the first player to reach the milestone with a home run, rounds the bases pointing skyward blowing a kiss in memory of his mom and gets down on his knees to kiss home plate.
  • 1999 - Just one day after Tony Gwynn reaches the historic milestone, Devil Rays' 3B Wade Boggs also gets the 3000th hit of his career in Tampa Bay's 15-10 loss to Cleveland. Boggs goes 3-for-4 in the contest, reaching the 3000 mark with a 6th inning home run off Chris Haney.
  • 1999 - The Braves infielders looked inept when they let an infield pop-up drop between them in the 9th inning of a 15-4 victory over the Giants. But SS Ozzie Guillen turned the miscue into an unusual foul ball. The towering pop by J.T. Snow falls on the pitcher's mound when second baseman Bret Boone called off the other infielders, then couldn't reach the ball. Guillen lets it bounce toward the third-base line. As soon as it is in foul territory, he grabs the ball, turning it into a foul. Snow then flies out.
  • 2000 - The Yankees obtain Jose Canseco from the Devil Rays. The move, which mystifies even manager Joe Torre, is presumably designed to keep the high priced slugger away from AL East rivals.
  • 2000 - The Yankees claim Jose Canseco off waivers from the Devil Rays.
  • 2001 - Black Betsy, Shoeless Joe Jackson's 40-ounce warped hickory bat, is won by 30-year-old businessman Rob Mitchell in a 10-day eBay auction. The $577,610 price tag is believed to be the largest amount ever paid for a baseball bat.
  • 2001 - Passing the mark of 68 established Christy Mathewson (Giants - 1913) and Randy Jones (Padres -1976), Braves right-hander Greg Maddux sets the National League record for consecutive innings without allowing a walk as he pitches six innings without a giving up a base on balls to extend the new record to 70 1-3 innings. The major league record with 84 1-3 innings set in 1962 by A's hurler Bill Fischer.
  • 2001 - Home plate umpire Angel Hernandez ejects Steve 'Mongo' McMichael from Wrigley Field as the former Chicago Bear football player is about to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh inning stretch. McMichael, presently a pro wrestler, tells the crowd over the P.A. system "he'll have a talk with the ump" concerning a close call made by earlier in the game and then boos and blows a kiss toward the ump.
  • 2001 - During the 7th inning stretch of the Cubs 5 - 4 win over the Rockies, former Chicago Bears player Steve McMichael leads the crowd in the singing of Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Prior to singing, however, McMichael, upset at a call that went against the Cubs in the previous inning, tells the crowd, "Don't worry, I'll have some speaks with that home plate umpire after the game." Umpire Angel Hernandez throws McMichael out of the game, as the umps fear his remarks could incite the crowd. The Cubs win in 9th when Ricky Gutierrez slides under a tag at home.
  • 2001 - Boston's backstop Scott Hatteberg hits into a triple play, but the catcher redeems himself in his next at-bat by hitting a grand slam putting the Red Sox ahead in a 10-7 win over the Rangers. The triple killing, the third in Texas history, occurs when Hatteberg lines to shortstop Alex Rodriguez who flips to second base doubling up the runner on second with second baseman Randy Velarde tagging the running arriving from first.
  • 2001 - The Braves defeat the Astros, 6 - 5, as Greg Maddux sets a NL record for consecutive innings without a walk. Maddux hurls six innings in the game to extend his streak to 70 1/3 frames without a free pass. The old mark of 68 innings was held by Christy Mathewson, in 1913, and Randy Jones, in 1976. Maddux left the game with the streak intact and is 14 IP away from the major league record, set by Bill Fischer in 1962.
  • 2002 - The Mariners upend the Blue Jays, 5 - 4, despite Toronto SS Chris Woodward's three home runs.
  • 2002 - In a historic move, ML baseball players end their long - held opposition to mandatory drug testing by agreeing to be tested for illegal steroids beginning in 2003.
  • 2002 - Major leaguers agree to be checked randomly for illegal steroids starting next year. The proposal, which addresses a major issue in the current contract talks, ends the players decades-old opposition to mandatory drug testing.
  • 2002 - After piloting the club to a 45-45 record as the interim skipper, Clint Hurdle is given a two-year contract extension by the Rockies. The club's former hitting coach replaced Buddy Bell, who was fired April 26.
  • 2003 - Fireballer Eric Gagne ties the single-season record for consecutive saves to start a season established in 1995 by Jose Mesa of the Indians. The Dodger closer strikes out the Reds' side in the ninth inning for his 38th save this season and 46th consecutive regular-season save overall.
  • 2003 - Albert Pujols joins Jose Canseco as the only other player in major league history to hit 30 home runs and drive in 100 runs during of their first three seasons.
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