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Events

• 1888 - Tim Keefe's nineteen-game winning streak ends when Gus Krock and the White Stockings defeat the Giants.
• 1902 - Little Tommy Leach of Pittsburgh, hits two home runs at Boston. He will close out the season with only six, all inside-the-park, but it is enough to give him sole leadership of the National League, which totals only 99. Leach's leading number is the lowest since Paul Hines hit four in a 60-game schedule in 1878.
• 1903 - In Detroit, Cy Young picks up his 20th win as Boston wins, 6 - 3.
• 1908 - The Nationals' Walter Johnson hurls a 1 - 0 victory over the White Sox, allowing just two hits, the first a 9th-inning single by Sox P Doc White.
• 1909 - Chicago pitcher Ed Reulbach's 14-game winning streak is stopped by the Giants, 5 - 2. New York has now won nine in a row, but Chicago will stop that tomorrow.
• 1911 - Rube Marquard bests young Grover Cleveland Alexander, 3 - 2, in 12 innings. Rube strikes out 13 Quakers to give New York the victory.
• 1912:
  • In the first game of a twin bill against Vean Gregg, Stuffy McInnis has two inside-the-park home runs to pace the A's to an 8 - 3 win over Cleveland. Philadelphia takes the nitecap, 2 - 0.
  • Tris Speaker runs his hitting streak to 20 games, lining a hit in the first game of today's twin bill with the Browns. This is Speaker's third long streak of the season; earlier he had streaks of 20 games and 30 games, the only player in history to have three such streaks in a year. In the nitecap, Smoky Joe Wood wins his 25th, beating the Browns, 8 - 0. He allows four hits and strikes out nine.
  • The Pirates score an unearned run in the 10th to beat Grover Cleveland Alexander and the Phils, 2 - 1. It is Pete's first loss to Pittsburgh.
• 1913:
  • At the Polo Grounds, the Pirates broadside Christy Mathewson for eight hits and eight runs in just three innings. Honus Wagner goes 4 for 5 on the afternoon with two hits off Matty: one a single and the other a three-run homer. The only time the Giants get Hans out is when a pitch hits his bat as he tries to get out of way and the ball rolls fair. The Giants make a game of it, but lose, 8 - 6.
  • William H. Locke, who bought the second-place Phils earlier this year, dies. His cousin William Baker will succeed him.
• 1914 - The Braves pound another 11 hits off Jeff Tesreau, and the Braves beat the Giants, 7 - 3. Bill James is the winner with help from Joe Connolly, who belts a homer, double and single.
• 1915 - In the first match-up of Babe Ruth and Walter Johnson, the Babe comes away the winner, 4 - 3. He also goes 2 for 3 and scores a Boston run in the come-from-behind victory. Ruth is hitting .370, second in the American League behind Ty Cobb - albeit in far fewer at-bats as he is still a full-time pitcher at this point.
• 1916 - In a Monday doubleheader in Philadelphia, 17,000 fans cheer as the Phils sweep the Giants, winning, 9 - 0 and 7 - 4. Grover Cleveland Alexander applies the whitewash in the opener and Eppa Rixey wins the nitecap.
• 1917 - The Giants and the Brooklyn Robins split a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds. New York's Ferdie Schupp takes the opener, 5 - 4, and ex-Giant Rube Marquard wins the second game for Brooklyn, 3 - 1. A highlight of the nitecap is a fight between Brooklyn's Casey Stengel and Giant SS Art Fletcher.
• 1919:
  • Babe Ruth hits No. 17, the first of seven home runs in 12 days, which will include his fourth grand slam, an American League record until 1959. The Yankees overcome Muddy Ruel's hitting into a triple play and beat the Tigers in 15 innings, 5 - 4.
  • In a total of two hours and seventeen minutes, the Robins and Cubs split a doubleheader. In the opener, the Cubs blank Brooklyn, 2 - 0, in one hour and ten minutes and in the nightcap it takes the Dodgers one hour and seven minutes to shut out Chicago, 1 - 0.
  • Chicago White Sox CF Happy Felsch ties the major-league record with four OF assists in one game, but Boston beats the White Sox, 15 - 6.
• 1921 - The Browns open their home stand with a 7 - 5 win over Detroit. George Sisler continues his hot hitting, going 4 for 4.
• 1922 - Lizzie Murphy of the Providence all-stars plays 1B for an American League all-star team in an exhibition game against the Boston Red Sox, making her the first female to play for a major-league team. Other all-stars are Chick Shorten, Tilly Walker, Frank Bruggy, Bootnose Hofmann, Jim Bagby, Nick Altrock and Donie Bush. The all-stars win, 3 - 2, when Doc Johnston triples home Pep Young in the 10th. The proceeds benefit the family of former Sox player and manager Tommy McCarthy. The future Hall of Famer passed away August 5th.
• 1927 - Willie "Pigmeat" Powell of the Chicago American Giants pitches a no-hitter against the Memphis Red Sox, winning, 5 - 0. It is the third no-hitter so far this year in the Negro Leagues. Two more near no-hitters will be thrown later this year, one broken up in extra innings and another shortened by darkness to seven innings.
• 1929:
  • It is Charlie Gehringer Day in Detroit, and the popular 2B handles ten chances in the field, hits three singles and a home run, and steals home in a 17 - 13 win over the Yankees.
  • The Pirates reduce the idle Cubs' lead by a game by defeating the Braves, 1 - 0, behind lefty Jesse Petty. Percy Jones allows just three hits and the Pirates score without the aid of a hit.
• 1930:
  • The Cubs top the faltering Robins, 5 - 1, as Pat Malone picks up the victory.
  • Wes Ferrell of Cleveland breezes to a 15 - 0 win over the league-leading A's for his 20th win.
• 1932:
  • Cardinals rookie Dizzy Dean fans six Cubs in a row, one less than the record, and wins, 2 - 1, in the 10th.
  • Jack Quinn, at 49, becomes the oldest pitcher to win a major league game. He relieves Van Mungo in the 9th with the game between Brooklyn and New York tied at 1 all. The Dodgers win in the 10th after Johnny Frederick hits a pinch-hit home run off Carl Hubbell in the 9th to tie the game. It is Frederick's fourth pinch-hit homer of the year, for a new major-league record. He will have six by the season's end.
• 1933 - Jimmie Foxx hits for the cycle and drives in nine runs to break the American League record, as the A's beat the Indians, 11 - 5. A record eight players will hit for the cycle this year.
• 1934:
  • The largest weekday crowd in history watches as the Tigers sweep a pair at Yankee Stadium. It is the Tigers' 14th straight; Schoolboy Rowe has won 13 in succession. Tomorrow, the Yankees will end the Tiger streak.
  • The Deans are suspended by the Cards for failing to accompany the team for an exhibition game in Detroit yesterday, and Dizzy is charged for two uniforms he tore up - the second for the benefit of the photographers.
• 1935:
  • Schoolboy Rowe beats the Senators, 18 - 2, and also goes 5 for 5 at the plate. His hits include a double and a triple, and he scores three and knocks in three.
  • The largest midweek crowd in National League history, 50,868, sees the Giants and Cards split at the Polo Grounds.
• 1937 - In a doubleheader against the Browns, the Tigers set a major league record scoring 36 runs. The Tigers take the first game, 16 - 1, behind Elden Auker pitching a complete game four-hitter while hitting two homers. The nightcap sees Detroit win handily, 20 - 7, while slugging six homers. Pete Fox tallies eight times in the double dip.
• 1940 - Cleveland's Al Smith pitches a one-hitter in beating the White Sox for his 13th victory. A 3rd-inning single is the only safety.
• 1941 - Jonas Gaines of the NNL Baltimore Elite Giants beats the NAL St. Louis Stars, 3 - 1, in an interleague game at Hammond, Indiana, striking out 19 opposing batters, an all-time high for Negro league pitchers. However, since it is an interleague game, is will not be recognized as a record for any particular league.
• 1942 - The Yankees turn a major league-record seven double plays in an 11 - 2 win over the Athletics. Bill Dickey guns down two runners following third strikes, three are started by the double play combo of Phil Rizzuto and Joe Gordon, reliever Johnny Murphy triggers another, and 3B Red Rolfe initiates one. The seven twin killings give the Yankees 150 on the year; they'll finish with 190, just missing the (since surpassed) major league mark of 194 they set the previous season.
• 1945:
  • Cleveland's Lou Boudreau suffers a broken right ankle in a collision at second base with Dolph Camilli, but the Tribe beats the Red Sox, 3 - 0, behind Jim Bagby's three-hitter.
  • Giants rookie Sal Maglie makes his first major league start, beating the Reds, 5 - 2. It is Cincy's 11th straight loss. They'll lose a pair tomorrow before winning.
• 1948 - Rookie George Vico drives in seven runs to pace the Tigers to a 10 - 3 win over the Browns. Vico is one better than a cycle, collecting two doubles, a triple and homer to back Virgil Trucks' sparkling one-hit relief effort over 6+ innings.
• 1949 - The East wins the 1949 East-West Game, 4 - 0. Bob Griffith and Pullman Porter hold the West hitless for six frames before they get two hits off Pat Scantlebury in the final three innings. Fernando Pedroso outhits the entire West offense, three to two, while Howard Easterling has two hits and produces three runs.
• 1950:
  • Before 60,120, the Indians turn back the Tigers, 3 - 2, in ten innings, and reduce Detroit's first-place advantage to 2 1/2 games. Al Rosen ties the game in the 9th with a two-out home run. RF Bob Kennedy helps the Tribe's cause by starting a triple play from the outfield, recalling Tribe LF Charlie Jamieson's two triple plays of 1928.
  • The Reds plate 11 runs in the 3rd inning as they beat the host Pirates, 13 - 8.
• 1951:
  • In a night game at the Polo Grounds - the last of 14 night games this year - the Giants' righty George Spencer beats the Dodgers, 4 - 2. Erv Palica takes the loss, as the Giants jump on him early. Alvin Dark doubles and comes home on Don Mueller's homer. An out later, Whitey Lockman homers and Palica doesn't make the 2nd inning. The Dodgers score in the 8th on successive homers by Billy Cox and Duke Snider.
  • Ted Williams hits two home runs to take the American League lead, and the Red Sox pull off a triple play to beat the A's, 7 - 4. With his 25th home run, Ted reaches 100 RBIs.
• 1952 - The St. Louis Browns send Ned Garver to the Tigers for slugger Vic Wertz in a deal involving six other players.
• 1954 - Dodgers slugger Duke Snider fans twice in the 6th inning of a game against the Giants, as the Dodgers hold on to a 6 - 5 victory.
• 1955 - Cardinals manager Harry Walker pulls a shift by moving P Tom Poholsky to LF and bringing in lefty Luis Arroyo to face slugger Ted Kluszewski of the Redlegs. Big Klu foils the manager by homering. The Cards rally to win anyway, 5 - 4.
• 1958:
  • Manager Birdie Tebbetts of the Reds resigns. Jimmy Dykes takes over as interim manager.
  • Indian Vic Power steals home twice in the same game; he will only have a total of three stolen bases for the entire season.
• 1959:
  • Reds teammates Vada Pinson and Frank Robinson go 5 for 6 in the first game of a doubleheader as Cincinnati outlast the Phils, 15 - 13. The Reds trail, 11 - 3, after three innings, and score five in the 9th to win.
  • Red Sox 1B Vic Wertz hits a pinch grand slam off Ryne Duren of the Yanks to pace the 11 - 6 Boston win. Pete Runnels of the Red Sox walks twice in one inning to tie a major league record.
• 1960:
  • The Pirates sweep a doubleheader from second-place St. Louis to take a six-game lead in the National League pennant race. Don Hoak's RBI single in the 11th inning gives Pittsburgh a 3 - 2 win in the nightcap, following a 9 - 4 win in the opener. The Cards' Bill White connects for the cycle in the opener.
  • The Yankees lose a doubleheader to Washington and fall to third place in the American League, a half game behind the Orioles and White Sox. P Camilo Pascual's grand slam is the difference in a 5 - 4 first-game win. In the second game, Mickey Mantle, believing there are two outs, jogs to first base on a grounder to third. The Senators turn a double play, with New York's Roger Maris suffering bruised ribs trying to break it up at second base. Maris will miss 18 games as a result. Mantle is heavily booed, and manager Casey Stengel replaces him with Bob Cerv. The clubs set a major-league record by using 17 pinch hitters - nine by the Yankees - in the doubleheader (more than 18 innings), while playing a major-league record 24 errorless innings.
• 1961:
  • At Memorial Coliseum, the Cards' Ernie Broglio allows just five Dodger hits in shutting out Los Angeles, 5 - 0. Don Drysdale takes the loss. For the Dodgers, this will be the start of a ten-game losing streak.
  • The Reds purchase Darrell Johnson from the Phils.
  • In a 9 - 2 defeat to the Cubs' Dick Ellsworth, the Phillies drop their 17th consecutive game and for the 11th straight time the opposing pitcher throws a complete game against the team.
• 1964 - Bo Belinsky is suspended by the Angels after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer. Four days later Belinsky will be assigned to Hawaii (Pacific Coast League), then suspended for the season when he refuses to report.
• 1966:
  • The Yanks sweep two from the Indians, winning the nitecap, 6 - 4. The Indians help in the second game by making six errors in one inning, one short of the record. Mickey Mantle helps with a homer off lefty Jack Kralick, but he'll sit the next 12 days after reinjuring his knee.
  • Art Shamsky hits his fourth consecutive home run, tying the major league record, but the Reds lose again to the Pirates, 4 - 2. Shamsky had not played the day before, and did not come in today until the 7th inning when his two-run homer puts the Reds up, 2 - 1. The homer streak will end tomorrow in Los Angeles, when he delivers a pinch single against Bob Miller.
• 1967:
  • After whipping the Mets eight straight times, Jim Bunning finally loses to the New Yorkers. The Mets beat Philadelphia, 8 - 3.
  • Despite a 2 - 1 loss to the Twins, the Angels are within 1 1/2 games of first place.
• 1968 - Montreal officially becomes a member of the National League when new owner Charles Bronfman meets all of the expansion club's outstanding financial obligations.
• 1969:
  • In a 3 - 2 win over the White Sox, the Yankees' Horace Clarke triples with two on in the 9th, then scores the winning run on a passed ball. Wilbur Wood takes the loss while Jack Aker is the winner.
  • The eventual World Champ Mets drop to third place, nine and half games behind the front-running Cubs.
• 1970 - For a record-tying fourth time, Cesar Tovar has the Twins' only hit, a single. This time Washington's Dick Bosman is the pitcher, winning, 1 - 0.
• 1971:
  • Thanks to outstanding defensive plays by outfielder Jose Cruz and third baseman Joe Torre, Cardinal fireballer Bob Gibson no-hits the Pirates, 11 - 0.
  • The Braves purchase infielder Tony LaRussa from the Oakland A's.
• 1972 - In Atlanta, Johnny Bench drives in five runs on a home run, double and single, to lead the Reds to a 12 - 2 win over the Braves.
• 1973 - Don Baylor is 5 for 5 to lead the Orioles to a 12 - 10 win over Texas. Baylor has nine hits in his last two games.
• 1975 - The Reds' George Foster continues his hot hitting, collecting five RBIs in a 6 - 1 win over the visiting Pirates.
• 1976 - The Orioles sweep two from the White Sox, 8 - 6 and 6 - 5. The O's are paced by grand slams off the bats of Reggie Jackson and Lee May.
• 1977:
  • The Yankees collect 15 hits, including homers by Mickey Rivers and Graig Nettles, to swamp the Angels, 15 - 3. Dick Tidrow allows just two hits in six innings for the win.
  • After taking the opener, 12 - 5, the Indians light up Milwaukee's Bill Travers for 18 hits and 14 runs to win, 14 - 5. It will be 21 years before another pitcher - Mike Oquist on August 3, 1998 versus the Yankees - allows 14 runs.
  • Carl Yastrzemski leads the Red Sox to an 11 - 1 pasting of Seattle by collecting his 506th career double. This moves Yaz past Babe Ruth on the all-time list. Boston has now defeated Seattle ten straight times.
• 1979 - The Astros' Joaquin Andujar hurls a four-hitter and hits a two-run inside-the-park homer, to defeat the Expos, 2 - 1.
• 1981:
  • Mike Schmidt hits his 300th career home run off Mike Scott as Philadelphia beats the Mets, 8 - 4.
  • Mariners OF Jeff Burroughs hits three home runs in a 13 - 3 win over the Twins, giving Seattle a split of a doubleheader.
• 1982:
  • Atlanta snaps an 11-game losing streak with a 6 - 5 win over the Padres and moves back within 1 1/2 games of first-place Los Angeles in the National League West. Atlanta had held first place since April 27th before the streak.
  • With his 12,365th career at-bat, the Phillies' Pete Rose passes Hank Aaron to become the all-time leader in plate appearances.
• 1986 - Against the Giants, Reds player-manager Pete Rose is 3 for 4 as the Reds win, 2 - 0.
• 1987 - Oakland's Mark McGwire slugs his 39th home run of the season, off Don Sutton in the 6th inning, in a 12-inning, 7 - 6, win over California, breaking the major-league record for rookies shared by Wally Berger and Frank Robinson. McGwire will finish the season with a whopping 49 homers.
• 1988 - Detroit pounds Boston, 18 - 6, at Fenway Park to end the Red Sox's American League-record home winning streak at 24 games, two shy of the major-league record held by the 1916 New York Giants. Roger Clemens gives up eight runs in 1 1/3 innings as the temperature hits 97 degrees.
• 1990 - California posts a 9 - 5 win over the Yankees with the winning margin coming on an inside-the-park grand slam by Luis Polonia. Yankee RF Jesse Barfield misses a shoestring catch and his leisurely pursuit of the ball allows Polonia to score. Jim Abbott is the winner. Barfield will misplay another drive into a four-run inside-the-park home run in two weeks.
• 1991:
  • Seattle's Randy Johnson tosses a one-hitter against the Oakland A's, losing the no-hitter in the 9th inning when Mike Gallego singles. He records his 11th win of the year with the 4 - 0 victory.
  • Jeff Reardon of the Red Sox and Lee Smith of the Cardinals both reach the 30-save level for the sixth consecutive season, tying the major league record. Reardon notches his in a 2- 1 win over Cleveland, while Smith saves St. Louis' 5 - 4 victory over the Mets.
  • San Diego's Fred McGriff hits a grand slam for the second game in a row, tying a major league mark. He is the 12th player - but just the third National Leaguer - to perform the feat, with Babe Ruth the only one to do so twice. His blast brings home all San Diego's runs in a 4 - 1 win over the Astros.
  • California's Dave Winfield slugs the 400th home run of his career, becoming the 23rd player in history to reach the milestone, in a 7 - 4 win over the Minnesota Twins. The blow comes off Minnesota southpaw David West.
• 1992 - Atlanta's Tom Glavine (18-3) leaves after seven innings and Randy St. Claire and Mike Stanton mop up a 15 - 0 whitewash over Pittsburgh. Lonnie Smith has five hits and Brian Hunter and Otis Nixon four apiece for the Braves. St. Claire, in his second year with Atlanta, along with his father Ebba, is the first father-son pair to play for the Braves. Starter Zane Smith allows four runs in a third of an inning to lose.
• 1995 - The Red Sox trade OF Wes Chamberlain to the Royals in exchange for OF Chris James.
• 1996:
  • Giants infielder Shawon Dunston is operated on and will miss the remainder of the season. Dunston suffered a head injury on August 4th in a collision with Astro SS Ricky Gutierrez.
  • Marlins OF Andre Dawson, in his 21st major league season, announces he will retire at the end of the year.
  • The Braves bring up Andruw Jones. He is believed to be the first player since Phils pitcher Pat Combs in 1989 to start a season in A ball, then play in AA, Triple-A, and the majors in the same season.
  • The Red Sox clip the Blue Jays, 8 - 6, on a four-run 9th inning. Jacob Brumfield has a pair of homers for the Jays and Otis Nixon swipes four bases.
• 1997:
  • The Indians best the Tigers, 12 - 1, in the 15,000th game in franchise history. The Tigers are the only other American League team to have played as many contests.
  • The Twins trade 1B Greg Colbrunn to the Braves in exchange for a player to be named later.
• 1998:
  • The A's Rickey Henderson's stolen base in the 1st inning against the Tigers makes the 39-year-old the oldest player to steal 50 bases in a season.
  • Baltimore C Chris Hoiles becomes the ninth player - and the first catcher - to hit two grand slams in a single game, doing so in a 15 - 3 win over the Indians. Hoiles connects in the 3rd and 8th innings.
• 1999:
  • With his 20th stolen base in Chicago, Texas backstop Ivan Rodriguez becomes the first catcher in major league history with 20 homers and 20 stolen bases in the same season.
  • Boston defeats Seattle, 13 - 2, as rookie DH Brian Daubach goes 5 for 5, including a home run, and drives home six runs. He'll drive in another five tomorrow.
  • The Rockies and Expos combine to hit ten home runs in Colorado's 11 - 8 victory. Four players - Montreal's Geoff Blum and Colorado's Edgard Clemente, Todd Helton and Dante Bichette - each hit a pair, while Jose Vidro and Rondell White also connect. It is only the third time in major league history that four players have each hit two home runs in the same game.
  • Oakland scores eight runs in the 1st inning on its way to a 13 - 5 win over Toronto.
• 2000 - The Tigers score eight runs in the 5th inning and go on to defeat the Mariners, 15 - 4.
• 2002:
  • Two contests in the American League go 14 innings. Geronimo Gil hits a two-out 14th-inning homer to give Baltimore a 6 - 5 victory over Minnesota, while the Yankees overcome a straight steal of home by Mike Sweeney to beat the Royals, 3 - 2. Bernie Williams hits an RBI single to give Ramiro Mendoza the win.
  • Reds C Jason LaRue has a bad 1st inning with knuckleballer Jared Fernandez on the mound, and allows three consecutive passed balls and a run-scoring wild pitch. LaRue will lead the majors this year with 20 passed balls. The Diamondbacks break a tie in the 6th as Tony Womack singles off reliever John Riedling to win, 7 - 2, their 18th win out of 22 games. Luis Gonzalez misses the game because of a strained rib cage, and ends his major league high streak of 446 consecutive games played.
• 2003 - Despite a massive blackout in the Northeast, the game between the Mets and the Giants at Shea Stadium is the only postponement on the major league schedule. Although the cities of Detroit, Toronto and Cleveland are without electricity, the Tigers, Blue Jays and Indians either have the day off or are playing on the road.
• 2004 - The Florida State League's Daytona Cubs will be forced to shift their home games into away contests as Hurricane Charley causes extensive damage to their historic ballpark, Jackie Robinson Stadium. The facility, which was built in 1914 and renamed for Jackie Robinson to commemorate the site where the future Hall of Famer and civil rights advocate played his first exhibition game with the Montreal Royals, was also damaged by Hurricane Donna (1966) and Hurricane Floyd (1999).
• 2007:
  • Bobby Cox is ejected by Ted Barrett for arguing a strike call against Chipper Jones. It is Cox's 132nd career major league ejection, breaking the record held for over 70 years by John McGraw.
  • Jose Offerman is arrested on two counts of second-degree assault. Offerman, playing for the Long Island Ducks, is hit by a pitch from Matt Beech. He hits Beech and catcher John Nathans with his bat, breaking Beech's finger and giving Nathans a serious concussion. He posts a $10,000 bond.
• 2008:
  • Team USA beats the Dutch national team, 7 - 0, in eight innings in the 2008 Olympics, the game being shortened by rain. Matt LaPorta hits a three-run homer off Shairon Martis while Stephen Strasburg allows only one hit in seven innings, striking out 11; Sharnol Adriana gets the lone Dutch safety.
  • Cuba edges Canada, 7 - 6, in a slugfest. Canadian LF Nick Weglarz goes 4 for 4 with two homers, three runs and three RBI and RF Mike Saunders also goes deep. For Cuba, both Alexander Mayeta and Alfredo Despaigne deliver two-run homers.
  • Japan beats Taiwan, 6 - 1, behind the pitching of Hideaki Wakui. National team veteran Shinnosuke Abe homers.
  • For the first time in franchise history, the Tampa Bay Rays are 26 games over .500 as they beat the A's, 7 - 6. B.J. Upton drives in a run off Brad Ziegler, ending Ziegler's record scoreless streak to start a career at 39 innings. Carlos Pena leads off the 12th inning with the winning homer for the Rays.
  • For the sixth time in major league history, four straight batters go deep. Jim Thome, Paul Konerko, Alexei Ramirez and Juan Uribe accomplish the feat, powering the Pale Hose to a 9 - 2 win over the Royals.
  • Andy LaRoche and Adam LaRoche appear together for the Pirates in a 3 - 1 loss to the Reds, going 1 for 6 with a walk between them. They become the eighth pair of brothers to play together in franchise history but the first in 50 years.
• 2009:
  • The Orioles' Felix Pie hits for the cycle and Baltimore sets team records for extra-base hits (12) and doubles (9) in a 16 - 6 drubbing of the Angels.
  • Adam Wainwright of the Cards becomes the first 14-game winner in the National League this year with a 9 - 2 win over the Padres. He also hits his fifth career home run in the game, as part of his team's 15-hit attack.
  • The Cubs jump to a 14 - 0 lead after two innings in crushing the Pirates, 17 - 2. The Cubs send 15 batters to the plate and score ten runs in the 2nd inning in support of Randy Wells' pitching. Derrek Lee drives in seven runs.
• 2010:
  • Dae-ho Lee of the Lotte Giants goes deep for the ninth straight game, a feat that is announced as a world record.
  • Alex Rodriguez hits three homers and drives in five runs, taking over the American League RBI lead with 97, as the Yankees defeat the Royals, 8 - 3. Phil Hughes is the winner.
  • The Laredo Broncos of the independent United Baseball League announce that they have signed retired slugger Jose Canseco to serve as a player-coach. The 46-year-old Canseco last played in the Golden Baseball League in 2006; his last sporting endeavor was losing a boxing match to 60-year-old Gary Hogan before a minor league game on July 9th.
• 2011:
  • The Diamondbacks beat the Mets, 5 - 3, but lose pitcher Jason Marquis for the rest of the season. Marquis is hit on the shin by a batted ball hit by Angel Pagan in the 3rd inning. Thinking it's only a bad bruise, Marquis continues pitching through the pain into the 4th inning, when he collapses while throwing a pitch that plunks Josh Thole. He is diagnosed with a fractured right fibula.
  • The usually quiet bats of the San Francisco Giants erupt for four homers in support of Ryan Vogelsong's tenth win in a 5 - 2 beating of the Marlins. The first homer, hit by Cody Ross in the 3rd inning off Chris Volstad, is a two-run shot that breaks a record string of 21 consecutive solo homers by Giants batters since July 6th. For his part, Brandon Belt hits two solo homers later in the game.
• 2012:
  • The Tigers' Miguel Cabrera becomes the first player to reach 100 RBI this season and Doug Fister does not allow an earned run over eight innings to even his record at 7-7 after a poor start as Detroit defeats Minnesota, 8 - 4.
  • Hiroki Kuroda pitches a two-hitter in shutting out the Rangers, 3 - 0. All three Yankees runs score in the 7th, when Nick Swisher homers off Alexi Ogando with Derek Jeter on base, and Mark Teixeira follows with a solo blast.
• 2013:
  • Alfonso Soriano goes 3-for-3 with a pair of homers and a career-high seven RBIs in the Yankees' 11 - 3 win over the Angels. Yesterday, Soriano had another two-homer game with six RBI. His 13 ribbies in two games are the second-most in Yankees history: Hall of Famer Tony Lazzeri drove in 15 in two games in 1936.
  • An intentional walk is not always a great strategy, as an Eastern League game between the New Hampshire Fisher Cats and New Britain Rock Cats demonstrates. New Hampshire leads, 5 - 3, entering the bottom of the 7th and final inning of the second game of a doubleheader, but allows New Britain to tie the game with three doubles. With runners on second and third base and one out, the Fisher Cats elect to walk Reynaldo Rodriguez intentionally to set up a double play, but it goes horribly wrong as P Alan Farina's fourth ball goes a foot over the catcher's head and to the backstop, allowing Angel Morales to score the winning run from third base.
• 2014:
  • At their quarterly meeting in Baltimore, MD, Major League Baseball owners choose MLB Chief Operating Officer Rob Manfred to succeed Bud Selig as Commissioner. While a number of rounds of voting are necessary, the final vote is 30-0 in favor of Manfred. He is slated to take over from Selig on January 15, 2015.
  • As had been expected, the owners of rooftop terraces across the street from Wrigley Field file suit against the Chicago Cubs in an attempt to prevent the team from going ahead with renovations to the century-old ballpark which would cut down on their business. In the spring, the owners had failed to come to an agreement with Cubs principal Tom Ricketts, who decided to press ahead without their consent; the city of Chicago, IL and its Landmarks Commission are also named as defendants.
• 2015:
  • Matt Kemp becomes the first player in Padres history to hit for the cycle in a 9 - 5 win over the Rockies.
  • Red Sox manager John Farrell announces that he needs to undergo treatment for cancer and will take a leave of absence for the rest of the season. Bench coach Torey Lovullo takes over for him on an interim basis. Farrell explains that the form of lymphoma he is fighting is "highly curable" and that he plans to be back at the helm next year.
• 2016 - Francisco Mejia of the Lynchburg Hillcats goes 0 for 3 with a walk in a game against the Winston-Salem Dash to end his hitting streak at 50 games. It was the longest hitting streak in the minors since Roman Mejias had 55 in 1954.
• 2017 - In his first game back since undergoing treatment for testicular cancer, Chad Bettis pitches seven scoreless innings as the Rockies defeat the Braves, 3 - 0. The win is credited to reliever Rex Brothers, however, as the game is still scoreless when Bettis, who has not pitched all season, exits the mound.
• 2019 - With his 3,167th hit, Albert Pujols passes countryman Adrian Beltre for most by a player from the Dominican Republic, and by any player born outside the United States.
• 2021:
  • In his first major league start, Tyler Gilbert of the Diamondbacks tosses a no-hitter defeating the Padres, 7 - 0. The last pitcher to throw a no-hitter in his first start had been Bobo Holloman back in 1953, and today's is the eighth of the season, matching the all-time single season record set in 1884.
  • Two years and one day after his last appearance, and after undergoing Tommy John surgery, Chris Sale makes his highly-anticipated return to the mound for the Red Sox. He gives up two runs in five innings and his teammates make sure that this is enough to win, as they bash five homers on their way to 16 - 2 win over the Orioles, handing the Birds a tenth straight loss. Boston's first four hitters go a combined 11 for 11 with eight runs and seven RBIs before making a first out.
• 2022 - Drew Rasmussen of the Rays is perfect through the first eight innings before Jorge Mateo doubles on his first pitch of the 9th. The Rays win, 4 - 1, on a combined one-hitter as Jason Adam records the final two outs.
• 2023 - The Marlins use consecutive 8th-inning homers by Jorge Soler, Luis Arraez and Josh Bell to notch a 5 - 1 win over the Astros. The first two homers come off Framber Valdez and the third off Hector Neris as the win temporarily moves Miami into the last wild card spot in the NL. It is only the second time in franchise history that they have hit three straight homers, with the other instance dating back to 1998.
• 2024 - With a long ball off Chad Kuhl in the 8th inning, Aaron Judge reaches the 300 Home Runs mark, doing so in fewer games (955) and at-bats (3,431) than anyone before him. The homer follows a rare intentional walk issued to Juan Soto and is part of an emphatic 10 - 2 win by the Yankees over the White Sox.

Births

• 1846 - Harry Schafer, infielder (d. 1935)
• 1848 - Amos Booth, infielder (d. 1921)
• 1854 - Frederick Thayer, college coach, inventor (d. 1913)
• 1856 - Alex McKinnon, infielder, manager (d. 1887)
• 1863 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer, author (d. 1940)
• 1867 - Cupid Childs, infielder (d. 1912)
• 1867 - Frank Hafner, pitcher (d. 1957)
• 1881 - Bill O'Hara, outfielder (d. 1931)
• 1884 - Bill Reynolds, catcher (d. 1924)
• 1887 - Fred Lamline, pitcher (d. 1970)
• 1887 - Art Phelan, infielder (d. 1964)
• 1888 - Babe Borton, infielder (d. 1954)
• 1888 - Al Clancy, infielder (d. 1951)
• 1892 - Clyde Anheier, minor league infielder (d. 1980)
• 1898 - Bill Clowers, pitcher (d. 1978)
• 1899 - Skinny Graham, pitcher (d. 1973)
• 1901 - Oscar Siemer, catcher (d. 1959)
• 1903 - Tom Finley, infielder (d. 1933)
• 1904 - Les Cox, pitcher (d. 1934)
• 1910 - Billy Myers, infielder (d. 1995)
• 1912 - Paul Dean, pitcher (d. 1981)
• 1916 - Fumio Fujimura, NPB player and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1992)
• 1917 - Lou Bekeza, minor league player and manager (d. 2004)
• 1920 - Tsuneo Mitomi, NPB pitcher (d. 2005)
• 1920 - Ned Wulk, college coach (d. 2003)
• 1923 - Jorge Arrieta, Venezuelan national team pitcher (d. 1970)
• 1927 - John Sanderson, infielder (d. 2008)
• 1928 - Carroll Beringer, minor league pitcher, coach (d. 2011)
• 1929 - Jim Pisoni, outfielder (d. 2007)
• 1930 - Dale Coogan, infielder (d. 1989)
• 1930 - Earl Weaver, manager; Hall of Famer (d. 2013)
• 1931 - Rich Ritzheimer, minor league infielder (d. 2013)
• 1937 - Bert Cueto, pitcher (d. 2011)
• 1937 - Joe Horlen, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2022)
• 1942 - Charlie Haygood, minor league pitcher (d. 2017)
• 1945 - Ichiro Hiraoka, NPB pitcher (d. 1995)
• 1945 - Hank Zacharias, scout
• 1947 - Bruce Nash, author
• 1947 - John Wyatt, minor league outfielder
• 1950 - Jim Mason, infielder
• 1952 - Billy Blitzer, scout
• 1954 - Mark Fidrych, pitcher; All-Star
• 1958 - Giuseppe Carelli, Serie A1 outfielder
• 1958 - Mike Mayock, broadcaster
• 1959 - Don Carman, pitcher
• 1959 - Magic Johnson, owner
• 1959 - Dale Scott, umpire
• 1960 - Amos Lewis, minor league infielder
• 1960 - Edwin Rodriguez, infielder
• 1962 - Mark Gubicza, pitcher; All-Star
• 1963 - Mike Cook, pitcher
• 1964 - Ian Lamplugh, umpire
• 1964 - Mark Leonard, outfielder
• 1964 - Rich Morales, scout
• 1964 - Tommy Shields, infielder
• 1966 - Dana Allison, pitcher
• 1966 - Ernie Baker, minor league pitcher
• 1967 - Joe Grahe, pitcher
• 1968 - Cole Hyson, minor league pitcher
• 1969 - Jim Robinson, scout
• 1970 - Mike Borzello, coach
• 1971 - Mark Loretta, infielder; All-Star
• 1971 - Juan Andujar, minor league player
• 1972 - David Manning, pitcher
• 1974 - Matt Curtis, minor league player
• 1975 - Eric Cammack, pitcher
• 1975 - McKay Christensen, outfielder
• 1975 - Scott Stewart, pitcher
• 1976 - Blaine Mull, minor league pitcher
• 1977 - Scott Chiasson, pitcher
• 1977 - Eric Johnson, minor league player
• 1977 - Tim LaMonte, coach
• 1977 - Juan Pierre, outfielder
• 1978 - Jeff Deardorff, minor league infielder
• 1979 - Angel Santos, infielder
• 1979 - Kathy Welsh, Australian women's national team pitcher
• 1980 - Matt Klentak, General Manager
• 1981 - Ki-nam Park, KBO infielder
• 1981 - Mike Renery, minor league pitcher
• 1981 - Chris Saenz, pitcher
• 1983 - Ismael Castro, minor league infielder
• 1984 - Nevin Ashley, catcher
• 1984 - Clay Buchholz, pitcher; All-Star
• 1984 - Garibardi German, Dominican national team player
• 1984 - Jorge Moncada, coach
• 1985 - Chidsanu Janrak, Thai national team outfielder
• 1985 - Isaac Palencia, minor league infielder
• 1985 - C.J. Retherford, minor league infielder
• 1985 - Esmil Rogers, pitcher
• 1985 - Chris Valaika, infielder
• 1987 - Héctor Acevedo, Puerto Rican national team pitcher
• 1987 - Rob Flanigan, minor league infielder
• 1987 - Jeremy Hazelbaker, outfielder
• 1987 - David Peralta, outfielder
• 1987 - Jeremy Shelby, minor league outfielder
• 1987 - Tim Tebow, minor league outfielder
• 1987 - Daniel Tiburcio, minor league pitcher
• 1987 - Julio Torres, minor league pitcher
• 1988 - Alex Liddi, infielder
• 1989 - Chris Bisson, minor league infielder
• 1989 - Delta Cleary, minor league outfielder
• 1990 - Jacob Booden, minor league pitcher
• 1990 - Takahiro Matsuba, NPB pitcher
• 1990 - Chris Rowley, pitcher
• 1991 - Dylan Covey, pitcher
• 1991 - Giovanny Gallegos, pitcher
• 1991 - Jorge Guzman, minor league pitcher
• 1992 - Josh Bell, infielder; All-Star
• 1992 - Chace Numata, minor league catcher (d. 2019)
• 1993 - Drew Hasler, minor league pitcher
• 1995 - TJ Friedl, outfielder
• 1995 - Josh Maciejewski, pitcher
• 1995 - Stephen Ridings, pitcher
• 1996 - Benjamin Thaqi, Bundesliga pitcher
• 1997 - Eric Wagaman, infielder
• 1998 - Cade Cavalli, pitcher
• 1999 - Joe Boyle, pitcher
• 2000 - Braden Halladay, drafted pitcher
• 2000 - Shota Morishita, NPB outfielder
• 2000 - Johan Rojas, outfielder
• 2001 - Colt Keith, infielder
• 2001 - Tsz-Yin Jordan Wen, Hong Kong national team pitcher
• 2002 - Marco Artitzu, Serie A1 pitcher
• 2002 - Cheng-Jui Sung, CPBL outfielder

Deaths

• 1907 - Scott Hastings, catcher, manager (b. 1847)
• 1913 - Chummy Gray, pitcher (b. 1873)
• 1913 - William Locke, owner (d. 1869)
• 1925 - Asa Stratton, infielder (b. 1853)
• 1931 - Bob Edmondson, outfielder (b. 1879)
• 1934 - Guy Morrison, pitcher (b. 1895)
• 1940 - Charlie Hollocher, infielder (b. 1896)
• 1943 - Joe Kelley, outfielder, manager; Hall of Famer (b. 1871)
• 1945 - Tommy Clarke, catcher (b. 1888)
• 1947 - Woody Crowson, pitcher (b. 1918)
• 1948 - Phil Collins, pitcher (b. 1901)
• 1954 - Fabian Kowalik, pitcher (b. 1908)
• 1956 - Frank Dupee, pitcher (b. 1877)
• 1956 - Wilfredo Salas, pitcher (b. 1922)
• 1957 - Tim Hendryx, outfielder (b. 1891)
• 1960 - Fred Clarke, outfielder, manager; Hall of Famer (b. 1872)
• 1960 - Henry Keupper, pitcher (b. 1887)
• 1961 - Harry Colliflower, pitcher (b. 1869)
• 1968 - Ray Mowe, infielder (b. 1889)
• 1970 - Leon Ruffin, catcher; All-Star (b. 1912)
• 1972 - Bricktop Wright, outfielder (b. 1908)
• 1973 - Claude Willoughby, pitcher (b. 1898)
• 1974 - Lefty Robinson, pitcher (b. 1891)
• 1977 - Sam Odom, pitcher (b. 1919)
• 1978 - Maury Newlin, pitcher (b. 1914)
• 1979 - Mack Wheat, catcher (b. 1893)
• 1984 - Spud Davis, catcher, manager (b. 1904)
• 1984 - Lynn McGlothen, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1950)
• 1987 - Nora Listach, outfielder (b. 1910)
• 1997 - George Pfister, catcher (b. 1918)
• 1999 - Evelyn Adams, AAGPBL infielder (b. 1923)
• 1999 - Pat Mullin, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1917)
• 1999 - Pee Wee Reese, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1918)
• 2000 - Ken Heintzelman, pitcher (b. 1915)
• 2001 - Earl Anthony, signed pitcher (b. 1938)
• 2013 - Mack Rankin, owner (b. 1930)
• 2014 - Joseph Fugere, umpire (b. 1940)
• 2016 - Yasumitsu Toyoda, NPB infielder; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1935)
• 2022 - George Kernek, infielder (b. 1940)