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  • 1892 - In a match up of 300-game winners at Philadelphia Baseball Grounds, Phillies' submariner Tim Keefe sinks Jim "Pud" Galvin and the Browns, 2-0. The next time two National League pitchers with 300 or more victories will faced each other will occur in 2005 when Greg Maddux of the Cubs beats Astros ace Roger Clemens at Minute Maid Park, 3-2.
  • 1900 - In the last of the 9th at Brooklyn, with two outs and the score tied at 5-5 with the Reds, an intentional walk to Deacon McGuire goes awry. McGuire reaches out and taps a Noodles Hahn pitch, but the catcher picks it up, then drops it, and the winning run scores.
  • 1902 - At Brooklyn, the Superbas maul the Phillies, 10-1, nicking Doc White for 14 hits. Doc gets his due in the 4-run 5th inning when he strikes 4 batters out, the first pitcher to strike out 4 in an inning since 1888 and the first to do it at 60' 6" (the record books list Wiltse in 1906 as the first this century). Dahlen and Irwin strike out while 2 runs score. Wheeler's swinging 3rd strike gets past Dooin with Hearne (Ahearn in the box score) scoring. Kitson singles and Sheckard strikes out for the 4th K. White fans 5 in the game.
  • 1908 - According to a Chicago newspaper contest, the Giants' Mike Donlin, the National League's leading hitter, is baseball's most popular player. Turkey Mike tops Honus Wagner by a wide margin and will be awarded a trophy cup. Donlin was involved in a car accident on the 18th when the car he was riding in on Michigan Avenue, collided with another vehicle driven by Chicago Mayor Busse.
  • 1908 - In St. Louis, the Cards split with the Giants, with Harry Sallee losing the opener, 4-2. Christy Mathewson wins his 21st straight over St. Louis, though he gives up 11 hits in the victory. The Cards beat Dummy Taylor in the nitecap, 3-1, in 12 innings.
  • 1911 - The Rustlers acquire SS Al Bridwell and C Hank Gowdy from the Giants for Buck Herzog. For Bridwell and Herzog, it is their 2nd tours of duty with their teams, while the young Gowdy will be the Boston catcher for the next ten years.
  • 1914 - Dick Rudolph throws a 3-hitter to give the Braves their second straight whitewash of the Pirates, winning 6 - 0. Rudolph will end the year with 27, victories, tied with Alexander; one of his credited wins is a game in which he started and left after three innings. The Braves move ahead of the Reds and Phils into 4th place.
  • 1915 - Babe Ruth pitches and bats the Red Sox to a 4-2 win over the host St. Louis Browns. Ruth is 4-for-4 with a tremendous homer and two doubles, and knocks in three runs. He scatters five hits with the two St. Louis runs coming on Heinie Wagner errors.
  • 1916 - Christy Mathewson, in his first game as the Reds manager, puts Edd Roush in CF, and the future star responds with a two-run triple and goes 3-for-5. But the Phils top Cincy, 6-4.
  • 1917 - The Red and White Sox battle to a 15-inning 5-5 tie called on account of darkness. Babe Ruth tosses the last five innings for Boston, giving up no runs in his first relief appearance of the year. Chicago will win the next two games to keep a firm hold on first place.
  • 1921 - The Indians bang out nine doubles, and the Yankees 7 for an AL record 16 in Cleveland's 17-8 win. The Indians cling to a 2-game lead.
  • 1921 - Red Faber wins his 20th game, but it is not easy. He goes 14 innings before edging the A's 2-1. There will be five 20-game winners in the AL, 4 in the NL.
  • 1922 - The Cubs edge Brooklyn 1-0 as Grover Cleveland Alexander wins the duel with Dutch Ruether. Ray Grimes, who drove in three runs yesterday, doubles in the only Cub tally. Grimes now has RBIs in 15 straight games.
  • 1928 - Jimmie Foxx hits the longest drive ever seen out of Shibe Park as the A's take two from St. Louis, increasing their lead over the third-place Browns to 10 games.
  • 1930 - Four pinch-hit HRs are hit in a doubleheader between Brooklyn and St. Louis. Hal Lee and Harvey Hendrick connect for Brooklyn, and George Puccinelli and Jim Bottomley, for the Cards. The HRs are the first major-league hits for both Lee and Puccinelli.
  • 1936 - Mickey Cochrane has a relapse, and Del Baker again takes charge of the Tigers. Detroit takes a pair from the visiting A's, winning 8-0 behind Tommy Bridges, and 9-8, as Schoolboy Rowe wins in relief. The Tigers score a pair in the 8th inning when, with the bases loaded, Mickey Owen hits into a double play. Goslin scores the tying run and Walker, who reaches 3rd on the play, scores when 1B Chubby Dean is caught napping.
  • 1936 - Cardinals slugger Joe Medwick has 10 hits in succession to equal the National League record. He had seven hits in his last seven times at bat in a doubleheader on the 19th, and he hits safely in his first three today. He is finally stopped by the Giants' Carl Hubbell. The Giants break a 1-1 tie on Dick Bartell's homer in the 10th off Dizzy Dean to win, 2-1.
  • 1937 - Rogers Hornsby is fired as manager of the St. Louis Browns for playing the horses; Jim Bottomley takes over.
  • 1945 - The Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Athletics battle to a 1-1 tie in 24 innings. Les Mueller hurls 19 2/3 innings for the Tigers. No hurler has matched this endurance feat.
  • 1946 - Lew Flick of Little Rock (Southern Association) gets nine straight hits in a 19-inning game. Flick gets 3 more hits in the 2nd game of the doubleheader.
  • 1953 - The Milwaukee Braves suffer their worst shutout loss in the history of the franchise, losing to the Phils 10-0.
  • 1956 - In a 13-6 defeat to the Cardinals, Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese becomes one of five active players to collect 2,000 hits and teammate Junior Gilliam sets a major league record by handling 12 assists at second base.
  • 1957 - Cubs relief P Jim Brosnan falls on the mound while warming up, injuring his Achilles tendon. He leaves the game without throwing a single pitch to a batter.
  • 1959 - Under intense public pressure and the Massachusetts Committee Against Discrimination investigation, the Red Sox become the last club to integrate. Fourteen years after the club passes on Jackie Robinson, despite a successful tryout in 1945, Elijah 'Pumpsie' Green pinch runs and plays shortstop to become the first black to play for the Red Sox. Tomorrow, Green goes 0-for-3 against Early Wynn in a 5-4 Sox win that propels them into 1st place.
  • 1960 - Robin Roberts pitches his 3rd career one-hitter, and the 3rd one-hitter of the season in new Candlestick Park. Felipe Alou spoils Roberts' no-hit bid in the 5th inning of a 3-0 Philadelphia win. 3B Joe Morgan fields the hit, but falls down and cannot make a throw.
  • 1961 - Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris slam back-to-back home runs in the first inning for New York, but it takes a 2-out, 9th-inning pinch-hit grand slam by Johnny Blanchard to finally subdue the Red Sox, 11-8, at Fenway. The pinch slam is the American League's 6th of the season, a new record.
  • 1961 - With each team stranding 15 base runners, the Angels and Senators tie the major-league record for runners left on base by two clubs in a 9-inning game. Los Angeles wins 16-5.
  • 1962 - Houston P Dick Farrell admits to having thrown a spitball to Stan Musial in the previous day's game against the Cardinals.
  • 1962 - The Reds purchase pitcher Joe Nuxhall from San Diego (PCL). For Nuxhall, it is his 3rd tour of duty with the Reds.
  • 1963 - Jerry Lynch's ML record-tying 14th pinch-hit home run, a 3-run shot off the Cubs' Lindy McDaniel in the 9th inning, ties the game, and the Bucs win 6-5 in 14 innings. The Cubs take the opener 5-1.
  • 1963 - The usually mild-mannered Dodger manager Walter Alston is thrown out of both games of a doubleheader as the Braves sweep a twin bill for the first and only time in Milwaukee, 7-2 and 13-7. To make matters worse, the Los Angeles skipper has beer thrown in his face by a hometown fan as he leaves the second game.
  • 1966 - Minnesota P Jim Merritt beats the Senators 1-0 and ties an American League record with seven straight strikeouts.
  • 1969 - A gala All-Star Game banquet in Washington is one of baseball's great events. An all-time team and all-time living team is announced. Babe Ruth is selected Greatest All-Time Player, and Joe DiMaggio, Greatest Living Player.
  • 1970 - Clay Kirby has a no-hitter going for eight innings, but with two outs in the 8th and trailing 1-0, Padres manager Preston Gomez lifts him for a pinch hitter Cito Gaston. Gaston fails to get a hit off Mets starter Jim McAndrew, and reliever Jack Baldschun gives up two runs in the 9th. The Padres lose 3-0. Gomez will repeat the mistake on September 4, 1974.
  • 1972 - Billy Williams drives in six runs to lead the Cubs to an 11-3 win over the Astros. Williams has four hits, including a double and homer to give Bill Bonham (1-0) his only win of the year. Ken Forsch takes the loss.
  • 1972 - The Yankees sweep the Angels, winning 6-0 and 3-0 over the Angels. Fritz Peterson and Mel Stottlemyre Sr. apply the whitewash.
  • 1972 - The Dodgers release P Hoyt Wilhelm, ending his Hall of Fame career two days before his 49th birthday. Wilhelm appeared in 1,070 games, the most of any ML pitcher to that point. He is also the last WW2 vet to play in the majors; He survived the Battle of the Bulge, suffering a permanent neck wound in the action.
  • 1973 - Atlanta Brave Hank Aaron hits a Ken Brett fastball into the left-CF stands for a 2-run home run during an 8-4 loss to the Phillies. It is career home run 700 for Aaron, only the 2nd player to reach that milestone.
  • 1975 - Ted Simmons has a 4th-inning home run erased because his grooved bat is illegal. The Cardinals play the game under protest but beat the Padres anyway as rookie Eric Rasmussen wins his ML debut, 4-0.
  • 1975 - The Mets' Felix Millan has four straight singles but is wiped out each time when Joe Torre grounds into four straight DPs, tying a ML record. New York loses 6-2 to the Astros.
  • 1976 - Montreal trades Jim Dwyer and Pepe Mangual to the New York Mets for Del Unser and Wayne Garrett.
  • 1976 - The Mets lose to the Reds 4-0 on Fred Norman's 4-hitter.
  • 1977 - Catfish Hunter tosses a 7-0 shutout against the Brewers to snap the Yankees 3-game loss streak. Milwaukee comes back in the nitecap to win, 5-4, in 10 innings.
  • 1978 - The Indians' Mike Paxton strikes out four batters in the 5th inning of an 11-0 win over the Mariners.
  • 1982 - Mired in last place in the NL West, 24 games below .500, the Reds fire manager John McNamara and replace him with 3B coach Russ Nixon.
  • 1986 - Jose Canseco cranks a Walt Terrell pitch into the upper deck of the CF bleachers at Tiger Stadium. The A's slugger has now hit a home run in every American League Park.
  • 1988 - In a pair of trades, Seattle sends DH Ken Phelps to the Yankees for OF Jay Buhner and 1B-DH Steve Balboni, and deals OF Glenn Wilson to the Pirates for IF-OF Darnell Coles.
  • 1988 - Red Sox veteran Jim Rice is suspended for three games by the club for shoving manager Joe Morgan. Rice was angered when Morgan replaced him with pinch hitter Spike Owen in the 8th inning of Boston's eventual 9-7 win over Minnesota.
  • 1990 - In his first ML start, Baltimore's Big Ben McDonald shuts out Chicago 2-0. McDonald was the first pick in the 1989 June draft. It is the first shut out in a American League debut in 15 years.
  • 1991 - The Expos trade P Oil Can Boyd to the Rangers for pitchers Jonathan Hurst and Joey Eischen, and a player to be named later. Boyd last pitched on the 19th, shutting out the Giants, 6-0, on five hits.
  • 1991 - Losing 14-1 to the Twins, the Red Sox put OF Steve Lyons on the mound. Lyons, who pitched once last year for Chicago, toils one inning giving up two hits and recording a strikeout. Kevin Tapani is the winner as the first-place Twins complete a 4-game sweep.
  • 1992 - Royals rookie P Hipolito Pichardo hurls a one-hitter against the Red Sox, defeating Boston by a score of 8-0. Luis Rivera's double in the 6th inning is the only safety.
  • 1992 - Randy Johnson (5-11) strikes out 13 batters in six innings, but gives up six runs - 3 earned - in losing to Detroit, 6-2. Frank Tanana is the winner. It is Johnson's 8th loss in a row, the longest losing streak for an American League starter this year.
  • 1992 - Former National League Cy Young Award winner Mark Davis is traded by the Royals to the Braves in exchange for P Juan Berenguer.
  • 1993 - In Minnesota's 7-2 win over Detroit, Tony Phillips goes 0 for 4 with two strikeouts against two Minnesota Twins pitchers - Kevin Tapani and Carl Willis. It is his only game without a hit, walk or hit batsmen in a string of 101 games.
  • 1993 - Astros shortstop Jose Uribe walks on a 3-2 count thanks to home umpire Harry Wendelstedt losing track of the pitches.
  • 1993 - Mariner OF Jay Buhner collects five hits in Seattle's 10-3 win over the Yankees, who had traded him to Seattle exactly five years prior. Erik Hanson goes all the allowing no earned runs to beat Jimmy Key (12-3).
  • 1994 - The Phillies trade P Shawn Boskie to the Mariners in exchange for a player to be named.
  • 1995 - The Reds trade OF Deion Sanders, pitching prospects John Roper, Ricky Pickett and Scott Service, and IF David McCarty to the Giants for pitchers Mark Portugal and Dave Burba, and OF Darren Lewis.
  • 1996 - The Orioles trade P Kent Mercker to the Indians in exchange for DH Eddie Murray. Murray returns to the Flock needing just eight homers to reach 500.
  • 1996 - Oakland defeats Texas, 11-8, despite five hits - including a double and homer - by Rangers OF Rusty Greer. Terry Steinbach homers twice to extend his hitting streak to 21 games.
  • 1997 - Four days after the birth of his second child, Yankees OF Mark Whiten is arrested in Milwaukee and charged with second-degree sexual assault of a 31-year-old woman.
  • 1997 - Phillies ace Curt Schilling fans 15 in eight innings, the most in the National League this season, but loses 3-2 to the visiting Pirates. Home runs by Al Martin and Kevin Polcovich are the difference. Polcovich homers in the seventh after he missing a suicide-squeeze bunt, resulting in a Buc runner being tagged out. Before the game, the Phillies trade veteran Darren Daulton to Florida for outfielder Billy McMillon.
  • 1997 - Wilson Alvarez strikes out four Detroit batters in the 7th inning, with Phil Nevin fanning on a wild pitch, in leading the White Sox to a 3-0 win over Detroit. Alvarez is the first White Sox pitcher and 28th player to strike out four batters in an inning.
  • 1997 - Henry Rodriguez, in a 7-for-76 slump, bangs a two-out, ninth-inning grand slam as the Montreal Expos beat the visiting Rockies, 8-4. For Colorado, it is their 16th loss in its last 18 games.
  • 1997 - At Miami, Wally Joyner is 3-for-4 with two walks, to lead the Padres to a 10-2 gaffing of the Florida Marlins. Joyner singles, doubles, triples, scores twice, and swipes two bases, including home on the back end of a double steal. The Marlins finally turn to John Cangelosi, who becomes the first position player to pitch for the Marlins. The outfielder walks one in a scoreless ninth inning and retires Joyner on a fly ball. Cangelosi also pitched two scoreless innings for Pittsburgh against Los Angeles in 1988 and one scoreless inning for Houston against Chicago in 1995. Tony Gwynn is 1-for-5 and finishes the four-game series 2-for-17, dropping his average to .385.
  • 1997 - Angels pitcher Rich DeLucia has surgery to remove an aneurysm in his right shoulder and is expected to be out for the season.
  • 1998 - In Houston, Rockies pitcher Mark Brownson (6-8 at Colorado Springs) makes a spectacular major league debut firing a 4-hit 5-0 shutout. Houston's first hit is in the 6th inning. The win snaps the Rocks' 9-game road losing streak.
  • 1998 - Kerry Wood out-duels Greg Maddux as the Cubs defeat the Braves before a sellout crowd. Woods strikes out 11 in seven 2/3 innings, the 6th time in 18 starts he's reached double figures. For Maddux (13-4), it is his first loss to his former team after seven wins.
  • 1999 - The Reds defeat the Cardinals, 1-0, behind the 1-hit pitching of Ron Villone (8 innings) and Scott Williamson (1 inning). OF J.D. Drew's double is the only hit for St. Louis.
  • 2000 - Thanks to Harold Baines' four hits, the Orioles halt its 20-game Canadian losing streak defeating the Blue Jays, 9-5. It is Baltimore's first victory north of the border since June 13, 1998.
  • 2000 - Wasting no time in his new capacity as Cubs GM, Andy MacPhail sends popular OF Glenallen Hill to the Yankees for minor league pitcher Ben Ford and Oswaldo Mairena.
  • 2001 - The Dodgers set a LA team record as they trounce the Rockies, 22-7, the most runs scored by a Dodgers team since July 10, 1943, when they beat the Pirates. LA breaks open the game with nine runs in the 8th inning. The Dodgers last scored 20 runs at home in 1957, beating the Braves, 20-4. For the Rockies, it is the 5th time they have had a team run up 20 runs on them; they've yet to do it themselves. The franchise record for the Blue is 25, done on May 20, 1896 and September 23, 1901.
  • 2001 - The Angels defeat the Orioles, 6-5, in 10 innings. 3B Troy Glaus hits a pair of home runs, making him the fastest Angel ever to the 100 career home run mark.
  • 2002 - The Royals score a run in the bottom half of the 10th inning to pull out a 13-12 win over the Indians. Milton Bradley gets five hits for Cleveland, including three 2Bs and a home run.
  • 2002 - Orioles P Scott Erickson is arrested after getting into a domestic dispute with his girlfriend. He is charged with second-degree assault.
  • 2004 - A third piece of concrete, which apparently fell from the park's upper deck, is discovered at Wrigley Field by a club employee. Two other chunks have also fallen recently in different sections in the at 90-year-old stadium prompting Mayor Richard Daley to say he would not hesitate to close sections -- or all -- of the facility to protect fans from potential harm.
  • 2004 - Mark Buehrle faces the minimum 27 batters as the White Sox rout the Indians, 14-0. Throwing just ninety pitches, the 25-year old southpaw allows only two hits with both runners being erased as result of a double play.
  • 2007:

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