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Events, births and deaths that occurred on August 17.

Events

• 1894 - Jack Wadsworth of the Louisville Colonels sets a National League record giving up 28 singles in one game.
• 1900 - Reds pitcher Bill Phillips punches Phillies batter Roy Thomas after Thomas fouls off a dozen pitches in the 8th inning. Phillips is ejected but the Reds win in the 11th.
• 1903 - Ban Johnson orders betting suppressed at all American League parks, a noble but futile gesture.
• 1904:
  • At Chicago's South Side Park, Boston American hurler Jesse Tannehill no-hits the White Sox, 6 - 0. Jesse's brother Lee Tannehill is in Chicago's line-up, playing third base.
  • Christy Mathewson starts his second in a row against Pittsburgh and again the host Bucs rough him up, collecting 13 hits and six runs. But New York counters with 13 hits and nine runs against Charlie Case to win, 9 - 6. Honus Wagner gets thrown out of the game after objecting to John McGraw's interference with a throw from the Bucs 3B Tommy Leach.
• 1905 - Christy Mathewson pitches his second straight three-hit shutout against Chicago, this time beating Bob Wicker, 3 - 0.
• 1907:
  • A match-up of Three Finger Brown and Christy Mathewson attracts a crowd of 20,000 at the Polo Grounds. Matty is unhittable for eight innings, with only a bunt single for the Cubs. But Chicago scores two in the 9th to tie as reliever Jack Pfiester matches Matty for the last three innings. Johnny Kling wins it, 3 - 2, for the Cubs in the 12th with a drive into the LF bleachers.
  • Pittsburgh CF Tommy Leach leads the Bucs to a 5 - 1 win over Boston with three great catches and a steal of home.
• 1908 - In a rain-shortened game, Christy Mathewson throws his mitt on the field and defeats the Cards, 3 - 0, in six innings, with Harry Sallee taking the loss. With the Giants at bat in the 5th, John McGraw signals Cy Seymour to steal home - even though Cards C Bill Ludwig has the ball. Shad Barry, the next batter, then strikes out on three pitches, as the Giants race to beat the downpour.
• 1909:
  • Walter Johnson gives up four hits in topping the A's Albert Bender in 12 innings. The Nats win, 1 - 0, but the overwork will take its toll on the young ace. He will develop a sore arm and in his next two outings he will give up 27 hits.
  • Nap Lajoie resigns as Cleveland manager with the team in sixth place, but he remains as a player.
• 1912 - Chicago's Jimmy Archer singles home Vic Saier in the 11th to give the Cubs a 6 - 5 win over Christy Mathewson. The Giants' lead has now slipped to five games.
• 1913 - The A's break another attendance record in Cleveland, drawing 25,017 to watch the home team's 6 - 2 win.
• 1914:
  • In Manchester, NH, Babe Ruth pitches the Red Sox to a 4 - 2 exhibition win over the local New England League team. Ruth will be sent to the Providence Grays of the International League the following day after finally clearing waivers.
  • The Braves sweep two from the Reds, winning 11 - 1 behind Dick Rudolph and 5 - 3 with Bill James on the mound.
• 1915:
  • Lefty Rube Benton pitches a 3 - 2 win for Pittsburgh over Chicago, but both the Cubs and Giants protest the win, claiming Rube belongs to New York. A week later, National League directors agree with them, upholding his purchase by the Giants from the Reds.
  • Fritz Maisel of the Yankees steals second base, third base, and home in the 9th inning against Philadelphia.
  • Jack Coombs bests Christy Mathewson again as the Robins top New York, 3 - 2.
• 1919 - The Tigers draw a record 31,500 at home, but lose, 4 - 2, to the Senators in 11 innings. Ten ground rule doubles are hit into the crowd lining the outfield.
• 1920 - Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman dies as a result of being hit by a pitch thrown by Yankee submariner Carl Mays the day before. The tragedy remains the only on-field fatality in major league history.
• 1921 - In Cleveland, on the anniversary of the death of Ray Chapman, YWCA members hand out rosebuds to the 6,000 fans as they enter the park. The second-place Indians give up four runs to the A's in the 1st, then Cleveland's Charlie Jamieson hits a sharp liner that caroms off the forehead of A's 2B Johnny Walker, knocking him out and sending him to the hospital. When play is resumed after ten minutes, the Indians score five runs and go on to win, 15 - 8. Cleveland also sets a record by racking up 10 assists in the 1st inning. Rain washes out the second game of the doubleheader.
• 1923:
  • After 111 games, Babe Ruth is hitting .401 with 31 homers. He'll wind up with his highest batting average, .393. With 205 hits, a major league record 170 walks, and 4 times hit by pitches, Ruth will reach base a record 379 times.
  • The Cardinals stop Dazzy Vance after ten straight wins, 8 - 5.
• 1929:
  • The Yankees buy P Lefty Gomez from San Francisco (Pacific Coast League) for delivery in September 1930.
  • Aided by a triple play started by 2B George Grantham, the Pirates trip the Braves, 3 - 2.
• 1932 - The Cubs and the Braves play 19 innings, the longest game of the season, with Chicago winning 3 - 2. Guy Bush wins in relief. The following day he will again beat the Braves with a brief extra-inning outing.
• 1933:
  • On his way to establishing the mark of playing in 2,130 consecutive games, Lou Gehrig quietly surpasses Everett Scott's previous record of 1,308 games. The first baseman's single and triple don't prevent the last-place Browns from beating the Yankees in ten innings at Sportsman's Park, 7 - 6.
  • Earl Averill hits for the cycle, as the Indians beat the A's 15 - 4.
• 1934:
  • Paul Dean accepts the fine levied a few days earlier on both him and his brother Dizzy for skipping out on an exhibition game in Detroit, and is reinstated.
  • Ed Coleman of the A's hits three consecutive home runs in the first game of a doubleheader, a 9 - 8 win in ten innings over the White Sox.
• 1937 - In Cincinnati, the Cardinals beat the Reds with the final out being recorded at 12:02 a.m., making it the first major league game ever completed after midnight.
• 1940:
  • Jimmie Foxx homers in his fifth straight game as the Red Sox outslug the Senators, 12 - 9. Foxx's feat sets a club record.
  • Stan Hack's fourth hit of the game, a two-out single in the 13th, gives the Cubs a 6 - 5 win over the Pirates. Claude Passeau, the last of five Cub pitchers, is the winner. Veteran Danny MacFayden takes the loss for the Bucs.
• 1943 - Nick Etten of the Yankees singles twice off White Sox hurler Bill Dietrich, breaking a 17-game stretch in which Etten didn't single. Six of the games were hitless, but Etten either doubled or homered in the other games.
• 1944 - Yankee OF Johnny Lindell, converted from a pitcher the year before, hits four straight doubles to share a major-league mark.
• 1948:
  • A day after Babe Ruth dies, Yankee Tommy Henrich hits his fourth grand slam of the season tying one of the Bambino's records. The hit, off the Senators' Sid Hudson, allows him to join Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Rudy York - and, later, Al Rosen and Ray Boone - for the American League record. Henrich, who broke in with the Yankees in 1937, had never hit a grand slam before this season. Bob Porterfield wins for New York, 8 - 1.
  • An estimated crowd of 100,000 fans pass by the body of Babe Ruth which is on display at Yankee Stadium.
  • Indians rookie Gene Bearden shuts out the Browns, 8 - 0, to improve his record to 12-3.
  • The first night game in NPB history is held at Yokohama Peace Stadium. The Chunichi Dragons top the Yomiuri Giants, 3 - 2, behind the pitching of Jiro Hoshida.
• 1950 - In the American League's first Ladies Night Game, the Red Sox top the A's, 10 - 6, at Fenway Park. It is the 19th straight loss for the A's at Fenway Park, stretching back to a win on September 12, 1948. Bobby Doerr hits a 1st-inning grand slam off lefty Joe Murray in his major-league debut.
• 1953 - Bob Kuzava of the Yanks shuts out the Athletics, 9 - 0, allowing 11 hits along the way.
• 1957 - Richie Ashburn, known for his ability to foul pitches off, hits spectator Alice Roth twice in the same at bat. The first one breaks her nose, and the second one hits her while she is being removed from her seat on a stretcher. Ironically, she is the wife of Earl Roth, the sports editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin. The Phils win, 3 - 1, over New York.
• 1960 - Clem Labine, picked up the previous day after being released by Detroit, pitches 3 2/3 innings of hitless ball for Pittsburgh to save a 5 - 3 win over the Phils.
• 1961:
  • Charles Finley denies he plans to move the Kansas City Athletics to Texas. "I have no plans to move. We are a Kansas City team, and besides, we have no place to move to." He says he put out no feelers to other cities about moving the A's.
  • Chuck Weatherspoon hits his seventh grand slam of the season for Wilson (Carolina League) in a game against Winston-Salem.
  • It takes the Phils 11 innings at County Stadium, but they finally lose to the Braves, 7 - 6 when Al Spangler singles home the winner. For Philadelphia, it is their 20th loss in a row, a modern major league record. The Phils lose a 6 - 4 lead in the 8th when Joe Adcock slams a two-run homer off Art Mahaffey to tie the game.
  • The Indians edge the Red Sox in the 14th inning, 4 - 3, when Mike Fornieles walks in the winning run. Cleveland ties the game in the 9th on John Romano's two-run homer into the upper deck.
• 1963 - Oriole Dick Hall's perfect inning of relief against the Athletics gives him 28 consecutive batters retired since July 24th (5 appearances). The Orioles win, 6 - 1.
• 1964 - General manager Bing Devine and business manager Art Routzong of the Cardinals are fired by owner August Busch. The popular Devine, who engineered the Lou Brock trade, leaves with the Cardinals in fifth place.
• 1966:
  • For the second successive day, the Orioles score five runs in the 9th to defeat the Red Sox. Today the score is 8 - 4; yesterday, it was 6 - 4.
  • Willie Mays takes second place on the all-time home run list with a 4th-inning blast off Ray Washburn. San Francisco is one-half game out of first place after beating the Cards, 4 - 3.
• 1967 - The Tigers trade P Fred Gladding and cash to the Astros for veteran Eddie Mathews.
• 1969:
  • The Tigers tie a club record with six homers, and Denny McLain wins his 19th, beating the A's at Oakland, 9 - 4. Al Kaline homers in the 7th and 9th off relievers, but the first three Bengal homers come off starter Catfish Hunter.
  • After the Pirates open with five runs in the 1st inning, the Reds answer with four tallies as Pete Rose and Bobby Tolan, the first two Reds hitters in the game, belt homers off Pittsburgh's Steve Blass. It's a record-setting second time this year that the duo has led off a game this way: Don Drysdale was greeted on April 7th with double dingers. It's Pittsburgh day, however, as they win, 8 - 5.
  • The Phils' streak of four shutouts and 39 consecutive scoreless innings ends when Astros OF Sandy Valdespino steals home in the 1st. Dick Allen and Doug Rader match homers as the Astros win, 3 - 2.
• 1971:
  • At Tacoma, Tacoma's Burt Hooton ties a Pacific Coast League record when he strikes out 19 in a 5 - 1 win over Eugene.
  • Houston tops the Pirates, 6 - 5, as Bucs 2B Bill Mazeroski records his 2,000th career hit.
• 1972 - Steve Carlton (20-6) becomes the first 20-game winner this season as he wins his 15th straight, a 9 - 4 Phillie victory over the Reds.
• 1973 - At Shea Stadium, 42-year-old New York Mets outfielder Willie Mays hits the 660th and final home run of his career off Reds lefty Don Gullett. Third-string catcher Hal King belts a pinch-hit homer in the top of the 10th inning giving Cincinnati a 2 - 1 victory.
• 1974 - Cleveland purchases former National League batting champ Rico Carty from Cordoba of the Mexican League. He will hit .363 for the rest of the season.
• 1975 - During the Reds' 3 - 1 win over the Pirates, Pete Rose singles off Bruce Kison for career hit number 2,500.
• 1976 - Royals third baseman George Brett steals home in the 10th inning to beat the Indians, 4 - 3.
• 1977:
  • Montreal ends the Phillies' 13-game win streak with a bang, winning 13 - 0. Stan Bahnsen is the winner over Steve Carlton. The 13 games is a club record for this century: three times in the 19th Century the club won 16 straight.
  • Records fall as the Mexican League concludes its season. Ironman hurler Aurelio Lopez of the Mexico City Reds racks up his 30th save to go with a record 19 victories in relief. Veteran Tampico 1B Hector Espino hits only 14 home runs, but raises his career total to 435, a new minor league record. Thirty-eight-year-old Vic Davalillo, the league's top hitter at .384, is purchased by the Dodgers.
• 1979:
  • The Royals release George Scott, who will sign with the Yankees on August 26th.
  • The Cubs sell veteran Ted Sizemore to the Red Sox for a player to be named later (C Mike O'Berry).
• 1980:
  • Al Oliver belts four home runs - one in the opener and three in the nightcap - as the Rangers sweep a doubleheader from the Tigers, 9 - 3 and 12 - 6. He is the second American League player to hit four home runs in a doubleheader this season. Al also adds a double and triple in the opener and his 21 total bases for the two games is a record.
  • George Brett goes 4 for 4 with five RBI in an 8 - 3 Kansas City win, raising his batting average to .401 and extending his hitting streak to 29 consecutive games.
• 1982 - Cincinnati's Mario Soto fans 15 Mets in a 9 - 2 victory to raise his league-leading strikeout total to 209. Soto walks none. He will finish the season with 274 strikeouts, second only to Steve Carlton's 286. The Reds' Cesar Cedeno steals his 500th base, just the tenth player in history to reach that level.
• 1983 - At County Stadium, the Brewers' Tom Candiotti makes his first major league start and pitches a complete game, beating the Red Sox, 5 - 1. Candiotti, who will not throw a knuckler until 1985, will go 4 - 0 in his first four decisions, compiling an 0.84 ERA. He'll shut out the Angels on August 25th.
• 1984 - At Detroit, the Tigers draw 36,496 to break their attendance mark of 2,031,847 set in 1968. They also top the Mariners, 6 - 2, behind Milt Wilcox. Alan Trammell returns to SS for the first time in 39 games and adds two hits.
• 1985:
  • Reggie Jackson hits his 522nd career home run off Oakland's Bill Krueger to move past Ted Williams and Willie McCovey into eighth place on the all-time list.
  • The Phils use a barrage of six homers to overwhelm the Cubs at Chicago, 10 - 4. Darren Daulton and Rick Schu go back-to back in the 4th and Juan Samuel, Glenn Wilson and Mike Schmidt hit consecutive homers in the 7th. One out later, Daulton hits his second of the game.
• 1986:
  • Pete Rose makes his final major league appearance, striking out as a pinch hitter against Goose Gossage. The Reds lose, 9 - 5, to the visiting Padres. A bright spot is Barry Larkin hitting his first major league home run, off LaMarr Hoyt.
  • Steve Carlton wins his first American League game and the 320th of his career as the White Sox beat the Brewers, 7 - 4.
  • The Red Sox trade highly-touted SS Rey Quinones, and pitchers Mike Brown and Mike Trujillo to the Mariners for SS Spike Owen and OFs Dave Henderson and John Christensen.
• 1987 - A 3rd-inning bunt single gives Paul Molitor the longest hitting streak of the 1980s at 32 games. Milwaukee defeats Cleveland, 5 - 3.
• 1989 - Orioles SS Cal Ripken plays in his 1,208th consecutive game to move past Steve Garvey into third place on the all-time list. He goes 3 for 5 with a home run to help Baltimore to an 11 - 6 win over Toronto.
• 1990:
  • Oakland's Bob Welch (20-4) wins his 20th game of the season, 8 - 3 over the Orioles. Mark McGwire hits his 31st homer and drives in three.
  • In Chicago's 4 - 2 win over Texas in the second game of a doubleheader, Carlton Fisk homers off Charlie Hough to become the White Sox's all-time home run leader (with 187) and the all-time leader in home runs by a catcher (328). Texas wins the opener in the bottom of the 13th inning when Gary Pettis hits a leadoff triple, and scores on Ruben Sierra's drive. Texas wastes a ten-inning effort from Nolan Ryan in which he strikes out 15. Greg Hibbard goes eight frames for the Chisox.
• 1992 - Dodgers P Kevin Gross tosses a no-hitter in defeating the Giants by a score of 2 - 0. It is the eighth no-hitter in L.A. Dodgers history. Gross throws 99 pitches, 71 for strikes. The only threat is an 8th-inning liner by Robby Thompson that SS Jose Offerman snares. Eric Karros hits his 17th home run to provide the margin.
• 1993:
  • The Reds trade 1B Randy Milligan to the Indians in exchange for a player to be named.
  • The Class A Bellingham Mariners score 17 runs in the 3rd inning of their 25 - 2 win over Spokane.
• 1994:
  • Two workers involved in repairing the roof of the Kingdome in Seattle are killed when their basket on a construction crane falls 250 feet to the floor of the stadium.
  • Former major league 1B Willie Aikens is convicted by a federal jury on four counts of distributing crack cocaine and one count of using a gun in a drug transaction. He could face at least 15 years in prison.
• 1996:
  • Boston's Roger Clemens (6-11) stops the Angels, 6 - 0, collecting his first shutout since April 20, 1994. It is the Rocket's 37th shutout, leaving him one behind Cy Young for the most in Sox history.
  • Thomas Howard has his fourth consecutive three-hit game to lead the Reds to a 5 - 3 win over the Rockies. Howard has two doubles and a run-scoring triple and scores three runs.
• 1997 - Boston's Nomar Garciaparra hits in his 20th straight game, tying Fred Lynn's Boston rookie record. Boston wins, 10 - 5, sweeping four from the Twins. Minnesota has lost nine straight,
• 1999:
  • Sic transit gloria. The Cards send Jose Jimenez to AAA Memphis less than two months after his no-hitter against Arizona. He joins Bobo Holloman as the only pitcher to go to the minors in the same year in which he pitched a no-hitter.
  • Oriole reliever Jesse Orosco, 42, sets a major league mark pitching in his 1,072nd game, passing Dennis Eckersley on the all-time career appearance list.
• 2000 - The Orioles defeat the White Sox, 5 - 3. Chicago P James Baldwin ties an American League record by hitting four batters with pitches in the contest. Previously, he had hit only two in 154 innings.
• 2001:
  • Toronto beats Texas, 11 - 3, as Jeff Frye becomes the second Blue Jay ever to hit for the cycle. Frye's final hit of the evening is a liner to deep right-center that, in other circumstances, might have gone for a double. But with his team safely in the lead, Frye stops at first to record a single and give himself a cycle, as the hit allows Homer Bush to score easily from first base. After the game, Frye finds a bicycle leaning against his locker, the traditional reward for the feat. Kelly Gruber is the only other Toronto player to accomplish the feat.
  • Atlanta's Greg Maddux pitches the Braves to a 2 - 1 win over the Giants and Livan Hernandez. Hernandez came into the game with eight straight hits and in his first at bat reaches on an error. He goes 1 for 3. John Smoltz racks up his first regular-season save, striking out four batters.
  • The Brewers defeat the Reds, 5 - 1. Cincinnati P Jose Rijo hurls the last two scoreless innings in relief, his first major league action in six years.
• 2002:
  • Homering in the 7th inning off Mariners starter James Baldwin, Yankee All-Star Alfonso Soriano becomes the first second baseman to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in the same season. Bobby Bonds is the only other Yankee to post a 30/30 season, accomplishing the feat in 1975. New York OF Bernie Williams singles in his first at bat to give him 11 consecutive hits. He makes an out his next time up to fall one short of the major league record.
  • Houston scores five runs in the 9th inning to beat Cincinnati, 6 - 1. SS Jose Vizcaino gets five hits, including a leadoff home run.
  • Going, going, Yan. For the second day in a row, Tampa Bay's Esteban Yan gives up a two-out homer in the 9th, and it costs him his closer's job. Yesterday, Raul Ibanez hit a two-run homer to give Kansas City a 6 - 5 win. Today, Brent Mayne ties the score with a solo home run, then Mike Sweeney ices it for K.C., 7 - 3, in the 12th with a three-run shot. Ibanez adds a homer.
  • The Padres down the Expos, 6 - 5. In doing so, they set a new major-league record for pitchers used in a season when reliever Jonathan Johnson pitches a perfect 7th to earn the win. Gene Kingsale caps a four-run 8th with a two-run pinch double. A streaker, clad in shorts, then runs across the field and slides into second base at Kingsale's feet.
  • Alex Rodriguez becomes the sixth player and the first infielder to compile five consecutive 40-home run seasons. Babe Ruth established the record with seven straight 40-homer seasons from 1926 to 1932.
• 2003
  • The Rally Monkey, the Angels' unofficial mascot, is honored for its contribution to last season's world championship with its own bobblehead doll promotion. The Rally Monkey Bobble Belly joins other dolls given to fans this year paying tribute to Troy Glaus (2002 World Series MVP) , Adam Kennedy (ALCS MVP), and Mike Scioscia (AL Manager of the Year) and will wear an Anaheim jersey with the name of an honored player on the back.
  • Peanuts character Charlie Brown joins late broadcaster Bob Prince, Negro League star Josh Gibson, former catcher Manny Sanguillen, and current shortstop Jack Wilson when he is honored by the Pirates with a bobblehead doll give-away day. Almost ten percent of the nearly 18,000 Peanuts strips created by Charles Schulz focused on baseball.
• 2004 - As she enters Raley Field at 6:27 p.m., five-year-old Olivia Perez is honored by the Sacramento RiverCats as she becomes the four millionth fan in franchise history. The Triple A affiliate of the Oakland A's reaches the milestone faster than any club in minor league baseball history.
• 2005 - St. Louis announces the franchise has broken its single-season attendance record of 3.43 million set in 1989. The first-place Cardinals have sold 3.45 million tickets for the team's farewell season at 40-year-old Busch Stadium.
• 2007 - Brandon Webb shuts out the Braves, 4 - 0, for his third straight shutout. It has been nine years since another pitcher (Roger Clemens) threw three consecutive complete games. Webb has now pitched 42 straight scoreless innings, the first pitcher to top 40 since Orel Hershiser in 1988. He ties Rube Foster for 12th in major league history and ranks fifth since 1940, trailing Hershiser, Don Drysdale, Bob Gibson and Sal Maglie.
• 2008:
  • In a 2008 Olympics game continued from Thursday after a rain delay, South Korea surprisingly needs 11 innings to beat China. Seung-yeop Lee delivers the game-winning hit.
  • R.A. Dickey becomes the fifth major league pitcher to throw four wild pitches in one inning; two of them score runs in a 11 - 8 Mariners loss to the Twins. On another wild throw, Kenji Johjima is charged with a passed ball.
• 2009:
  • Stephen Strasburg, the first overall pick in the 2009 amateur draft, signs a record-breaking deal with the Washington Nationals, at "11:58 and 43 seconds", according to team president Stan Kasten. The deadline for signing was midnight. The deal will pay the right-handed pitcher $15.1 million over four years.
  • The Tigers obtain slugging 1B Aubrey Huff from the Orioles in a trade for Brett Jacobson. Huff is hitting .253 with 13 homers and 72 RBI.
• 2010:
  • The Mets place closer Francisco Rodriguez on the disqualified list and will not pay him until he is able to pitch again. He suffered a season-ending thumb injury punching his father-in-law last week, an action for which he faces criminal assault charges. The Mets may still try to void the last year of his contract as well, worth $11.5 million, although such a decision would be certain to be contested by the Players union.
  • Hyun-jin Ryu of the Hanwha Eagles throws his 23rd straight quality start, dating back over a year. The Korea Times states that this is a world record, as Chris Carpenter and Bob Gibson each had 22 in a row.
  • Jim Thome ties the major league record for career walk-off home runs with his 12th, as the Twins beat the White Sox, 7 - 6. Thome catches Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Frank Robinson and Babe Ruth.
• 2011:
  • The injury-ravaged Giants, missing their top two relievers, closer Brian Wilson and set-up man Sergio Romo, build an early 7 - 1 lead over the Braves behind the pitching of Matt Cain. Things get more difficult when the bullpen takes over in the 9th and gives up four runs until Jeremy Affeldt manages to strike out Brian McCann, representing the tying run, for the last out in a 7 - 5 win. The slumping Giants manage to pick up a game on the Diamondbacks in the NL West race.
  • The Rays get their third straight stellar performance by a starting pitcher as David Price throws eight scoreless innings, giving up only three hits, in a 4 - 0 win over the Red Sox. Price's gem follows a complete game three-hitter by James Shields, and a three-hit shutout by Jeff Niemann in the first two games of the series at Fenway Park. The Sox still manage to save something, winning the opener, 3 - 1, in spite of Shields's great effort. It is the first time in Red Sox history they have been held to three hits or less in three straight games at home.
• 2012:
  • The Angels' Jered Weaver gets roughed up, giving up nine earned runs in three innings in the worst start of his career as Tampa Bay cruises to a 12 - 3 win at Angels Stadium. Weaver's ERA shoots up from 2.22 to 2.74 as a result of the outing, and he faces seven batters without recording an out in the 4th before manager Mike Scioscia mercifully removes him from the game. James Shields is the winner while B.J. Upton goes 4 for 5 with a homer and three RBI.
  • Prince Fielder hits a pair of two-run homers to lead Detroit to a 5 - 3 win over the Orioles. The second shot, off J.C. Romero in the 8th, breaks a 3 - 3 tie. The Bengals' other run is the result of a 1st-inning homer by their other big bopper, Miguel Cabrera.
  • In the last day of first-round action at the 2012 Women's Baseball World Cup, host Canada loses for the first time, dropping a 9 - 7 decision to Japan as Ayako Rokkaku scores three, Yukiko Kon hits a three-run triple and Yui Shingu gets the win. Also, Venezuela stuns the USA by a 5 - 1 margin and Australia clinches the fourth spot in the semifinals by beating Taiwan, 11 - 4, behind the arm of Brittany Hepburn and the bat of Bronwyn Gell.
• 2013 - The Royals' Miguel Tejada is handed a 105-game suspension for testing positive for amphetamines. In the game that follows, Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers hits a walk-off homer against Aaron Crow in the 9th inning for a 6 - 5 win over the Royals.
• 2014 - Michael Cuddyer returns to the Rockies' line-up after missing 60 days because of a fractured shoulder and hits for the cycle on his first day back as the Rockies sweep the Reds, 10 - 9 and 10 - 5, in a doubleheader. Cuddyer goes 1-for-5 in the opener before collecting his second career cycle in the nitecap; he is only the third player to have one in both leagues, after Bob Watson and John Olerud. Before the games, the Rockies retire uniform number 17 in honor of long-time 1B Todd Helton, who retired after last season.
• 2016:
  • The Commissioner's office issues an indefinite suspension against Astros minor league outfielder Danry Vasquez, one day after the release of a tape from a surveillance camera showing him assaulting his girlfriend in a stairwell at Whataburger Field in Corpus Christi, TX. The Astros immediately announce that he has been handed his unconditional release, as teams no longer show any tolerance for serious incidents of family violence.
  • Down three games to one in the 2016 Italian Series, defending champion Rimini trails Game 5 by a 2 - 1 margin after 5 1/2 innings. In the bottom of the 6th, Daniel Mayora takes Luca Panerati of Bologna deep to tie it. Then, in the 7th, Mayora hits a grand slam off Riccardo De Santis to put Rimini in charge, keeping their hopes alive by forcing a Game 6.
• 2018 - The Cubs tie a major league record by turning seven double plays in a 1 - 0 win over the Pirates. Fittingly, the game ends when David Freese hits a grounder to 3B David Bote who starts the record-tying twin killing. They are the third team to achieve the feat in a nine-inning game.
• 2019:
  • In one of the wildest games of the year, the Brewers defeat the Nationals, 15 - 14, in 14 innings. Eric Thames provides the winning margin with a two-run homer in the top of the 14th, the seventh long ball of the game for Milwaukee. The Brewers blow four different leads in the game, and also erase a three-run deficit against closer Sean Doolittle in the 9th and take a one-run lead, only to see Washington tie the game at 12 - 12 and force extra innings with a run in the bottom of the inning. But the Nats then fail to score the winning run with the bases loaded and none out as Josh Hader strikes out three consecutive batters after blowing the lead. Christian Yelich's second homer puts Milwaukee ahead, 13 - 12, in the 13th, but a sacrifice fly by Victor Robles in the bottom of the frame prolongs things. After Thames' homer, Washington almost manages to equalize again, as they score on a two-out error by Keston Hiura in the bottom of the 14th, but Junior Guerra strikes out pitcher Joe Ross making a rare pinch-hitting appearance to end the game.
  • In another wild game, in Game 2 of the 2019 Italian Series, T&A San Marino blows a 5 - 3 lead with two away in the bottom of the 9th. Eladio Russo singles in Alessandro Vaglio, back-to-back walks tie it and Jose Ferrini's single off Valerio Simone scores Russo with the winner for Unipol Bologna.
• 2020:
  • For the first time of their career, brothers Kyle and Corey Seager meet in a regular season game and, fittingly, both hit homers as Corey's Dodgers defeat Kyle's Mariners, 11 - 9. Because of the six-year age difference between them, the two had never played together growing up, and their only meetings had been in Cactus League games. It's also the first time two brothers homer for opposing teams since Cesar and Felipe Crespo did it on June 7, 2001.
  • With a 2nd-inning long ball off Touki Toussaint, 20-year-old Luis Garcia becomes the first player born in the 2000s to go deep in a major league game in Atlanta's 7 - 6 win over Washington.
• 2022:
  • The Guardians are trailing the Tigers, 4 - 2, entering the bottom of the 8th when they turn the game around on an unusual rally. It starts off badly as Owen Miller and Andres Gimenez both strike out against Andrew Chafin, who also gets Luke Maile swinging, but C Eric Haase can't coral the pitch and the dropped third strike, scored as a wild pitch, allows Maile to reach base. The floodgates then open as the Guardians score six runs on two singles, three doubles, an intentional walk and another single to win the game, 8 - 4.
  • The first-place Yankees, whose offense has been inordinately quiet of late, trail the Rays 4 - 0 before a two-run homer by Gleyber Torres puts them on the scoreboard in the 6th. After a one-hour rain delay, they manage to tie the game with single runs in the 7th and 8th, but in the top of the 10th, closer Aroldis Chapman gives up a three-run double to Francisco Mejia. In the bottom of the frame, however, the Yankees load the bases with a walk and a single, in addition to the designated runner, and Josh Donaldson hits an ultimate grand slam off Jalen Beeks to transform the 7 - 4 deficit into an 8 - 7 walk-off win.
• 2023 - Austin Barnes hits his first homer in almost a year in the 8th inning, accounting for the only run in the Dodgers' 1 - 0 win over the Brewers. It is L.A.'s 11th straight victory.

Births

• 1861 - Chris McFarland, outfielder (d. 1918)
• 1866 - George Harper, pitcher (d. 1931)
• 1871 - Bill Keister, infielder (d. 1924)
• 1873 - Effie Norton, pitcher (d. 1950)
• 1883 - Walt Justis, pitcher (d. 1941)
• 1887 - Bill Speas, minor league outfielder and manager (d. 1969)
• 1888 - Vince Molyneaux, pitcher (d. 1950)
• 1888 - Roy Whitcraft, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1963)
• 1891 - Jack Powell, pitcher (d. 1930)
• 1891 - Arch Reilly, infielder (d. 1963)
• 1892 - Johnny Rawlings, infielder (d. 1972)
• 1893 - Merritt Corbett, minor league outfielder-catcher (d. 1949)
• 1896 - Doug McWeeny, pitcher (d. 1953)
• 1897 - Joe Bradshaw, pitcher (d. 1985)
• 1897 - Ed Lennon, pitcher (d. 1947)
• 1898 - Bill Pertica, pitcher (d. 1967)
• 1900 - Elmer Pence, outfielder (d. 1968)
• 1901 - Slim Embry, pitcher (d. 1947)
• 1904 - Augie Walsh, pitcher (d. 1985)
• 1905 - Johnny Watwood, outfielder (d. 1980)
• 1905 - Frank Wilton, college coach (d. 1977)
• 1906 - Hub Walker, outfielder (d. 1982)
• 1907 - Ed Durham, pitcher (d. 1976)
• 1907 - Gordon Nell, minor league outfielder and manager (d. 1986)
• 1907 - Diamond Pipkins, pitcher (d. 1975)
• 1910 - Pat McLaughlin, pitcher (d. 1999)
• 1913 - John Griffin, pitcher (d. 1984)
• 1913 - Rudy York, infielder, manager; All-Star (d. 1970)
• 1914 - Hank Soar, umpire (d. 2001)
• 1918 - Ernie Nevel, pitcher (d. 1988)
• 1919 - Clem Hausmann, pitcher (d. 1972)
• 1920 - Vern Bickford, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1960)
• 1921 - Harley Bowers, journalist (d. 2002)
• 1922 - Tom Accardo, minor league infielder and manager (d. 2009)
• 1922 - Glenn Gerdes, college coach (d. 1986)
• 1923 - Tom Clyde, pitcher (d. 2005)
• 1923 - Duke Markell, pitcher (d. 1984)
• 1924 - Larry Ciaffone, outfielder (d. 1991)
• 1927 - Keith Nicolls, minor league pitcher (d. 2017)
• 1930 - Buddy LeRoux, owner (d. 2008)
• 1930 - Buck Varner, outfielder (d. 2000)
• 1931 - Donald Honig, author
• 1933 - Jim Davenport, infielder, manager; All-Star (d. 2016)
• 1934 - Stanley Derry, minor league outfielder (d. 2011)
• 1936 - John Buzhardt, pitcher (d. 2008)
• 1937 - James Hansen, minor league pitcher (d. 2013)
• 1937 - Diego Segui, pitcher
• 1938 - Dick Lines, pitcher
• 1941 - Amaro Costa, scout
• 1941 - Boog Powell, infielder; All-Star
• 1943 - Taira Sumitomo, NPB infielder (d. 2023)
• 1943 - Ken Turner, pitcher (d. 2016)
• 1943 - Jordan Horne, college coach (d. 2020)
• 1944 - Sohachi Aniya, NPB pitcher
• 1944 - Ron Boyer, minor league player
• 1946 - Skip Lockwood, pitcher
• 1948 - Bill Parsons, pitcher
• 1950 - Larry Johnson, catcher (d. 2013)
• 1950 - Dave Lemanczyk, pitcher; All-Star
• 1951 - Butch Hobson, infielder, manager
• 1957 - Bill Landrum, pitcher
• 1959 - Chuck Dougherty, minor league pitcher
• 1959 - Jeff Moronko, infielder
• 1959 - Brad Wellman, infielder
• 1960 - Terry Austin, minor league outfielder
• 1960 - Ko Okamoto, NPB pitcher
• 1963 - Jeff Fischer, pitcher
• 1964 - Reggie Dobie, minor league pitcher
• 1964 - Steve Sharts, minor league pitcher
• 1964 - Hung-Chin Tu, CPBL pitcher
• 1965 - Alex Cole, outfielder (d. 2023)
• 1966 - Tony Barron, outfielder
• 1966 - Bob Protexter, Russian national team coach
• 1967 - Carlos Berrios, Nicaraguan national team outfielder
• 1967 - Kelly Mann, catcher
• 1967 - Jim Paylor, umpire
• 1969 - Chao-Huang Lin, CPBL pitcher
• 1970 - Jorge Posada, catcher; All-Star
• 1971 - Jim Converse, pitcher
• 1971 - Tim Grieve, minor league pitcher
• 1971 - Roberto Ramirez, pitcher
• 1972 - Jeff Abbott, outfielder
• 1972 - Marty Boryczewski, minor league player (d. 2001)
• 1973 - Adam Butler, pitcher
• 1974 - David Davalillo, minor league infielder
• 1974 - Jeff Liefer, infielder
• 1975 - I-Cheng Ke, CPBL catcher
• 1975 - Liang-Tsung Ke, CPBL catcher
• 1975 - Lemay de la Rosa, Cuban league pitcher
• 1976 - Matt Anderson, pitcher
• 1976 - David Gooda, minor league pitcher
• 1976 - Yohanny Valera, catcher
• 1977 - Mike Maroth, pitcher
• 1977 - Jamie Pogue, minor league catcher
• 1978 - Chad Qualls, pitcher
• 1979 - Mario Arévalo, Peruvian national team player
• 1979 - Antwaan Randle El, drafted outfielder
• 1980 - Matt Bimeal, scout
• 1980 - Brett Myers, pitcher
• 1980 - Mike O'Connor, pitcher
• 1980 - Jeff Ridgway, pitcher
• 1980 - Chris Waters, pitcher
• 1981 - Kyle Collins, minor league player
• 1982 - Anthony Manuel, minor league infielder
• 1982 - Travis Metcalf, infielder
• 1982 - Luis J. Pérez, minor league outfielder
• 1982 - Walter Strasser, Austrian national team pitcher
• 1983 - Tuffy Gosewisch, catcher
• 1983 - Tyler Greene, infielder
• 1983 - Uriak Marquez, minor league infielder
• 1983 - Dustin Pedroia, infielder; All-Star
• 1984 - Harrison Bishop, minor league pitcher
• 1984 - Mike Daniel, minor league outfielder
• 1984 - Joe Mandile, minor league player
• 1985 - Derek Tarapacki, Hoofdklasse pitcher
• 1986 - Ryan Mount, minor league pitcher
• 1987 - Jose Flores, minor league player
• 1987 - Shunsuke Fujikawa, NPB outfielder
• 1987 - Thomas Neal, outfielder
• 1988 - Mitch Dening, NPB and minor league outfielder
• 1988 - Justin Willis, minor league pitcher
• 1989 - Christoph Bernacki, Austrian national team infielder
• 1989 - Jinchao Jia, China Baseball League pitcher
• 1990 - Kyle Farmer, catcher
• 1991 - Chris Hawkins, minor league outfielder
• 1991 - Hunter Jones, minor league outfielder
• 1991 - Dillon Overton, pitcher
• 1991 - Matěj Šůcha, Extraliga outfielder
• 1992 - Brett DeGagne, minor league coach
• 1993 - Victor Caratini, catcher
• 1993 - Jesse Winker, outfielder; All-Star
• 1994 - Greg Harris, minor league pitcher
• 1994 - Phanuwat Sukmuang, Thai national team pitcher
• 1995 - Blake Taylor, pitcher
• 1997 - Drey Jameson, pitcher
• 1998 - Elehuris Montero, infielder
• 1998 - Yoshinobu Yamamoto, NPB pitcher
• 1999 - Jairo Capellan, minor league pitcher (d. 2018)
• 1999 - Jonathan Guzmán, minor league infielder
• 1999 - Robby Martin, minor league outfielder

Deaths

• 1914 - Harry Steinfeldt, infielder (b. 1875)
• 1920 - Ray Chapman, infielder (b. 1891)
• 1930 - Harry Maskrey, outfielder (b. 1861)
• 1932 - James Gaffney, owner (b. 1868)
• 1940 - Bock Baker, pitcher (b. 1879)
• 1949 - Chappie Johnson, Negro League catcher and manager (b. 1877)
• 1950 - Pit Gilman, outfielder (b. 1864)
• 1950 - Paddy O'Connor, catcher (b. 1879)
• 1951 - Doc Crandall, pitcher (b. 1887)
• 1951 - Ren Wylie, outfielder (b. 1861)
• 1961 - Jack McCandless, outfielder (b. 1891)
• 1964 - Happy Felsch, outfielder (b. 1891)
• 1967 - Ray Caldwell, pitcher (b. 1888)
• 1968 - Forrest More, pitcher (b. 1881)
• 1969 - Frank Shellenback, pitcher (b. 1898)
• 1969 - Doc Skender, college coach (b. 1906)
• 1971 - Jack Mealey, minor league catcher and manager (b. 1899)
• 1974 - Johnny Barrett, outfielder (b. 1915)
• 1975 - Jack Schulte, infielder (b. 1881)
• 1976 - Bert Tooley, infielder (b. 1886)
• 1980 - Jonah Goldman, infielder (b. 1906)
• 1980 - Hooks Iott, pitcher (b. 1919)
• 1982 - Moxie Meixell, outfielder (b. 1887)
• 1986 - Walt Lanfranconi, pitcher (b. 1916)
• 1986 - Sammy Vick, outfielder (b. 1895)
• 1989 - Fred Frankhouse, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1904)
• 1993 - Al Sima, pitcher (b. 1921)
• 1995 - Ray White, minor league pitcher and manager (b. 1910)
• 1998 - Johnny Lipon, infielder, manager (b. 1922)
• 1999 - Randy Heflin, pitcher (b. 1918)
• 2002 - Jimmy Bloodworth, infielder (b. 1917)
• 2005 - Dottie Hunter, AAGPBL infielder (b. 1916)
• 2006 - Hank Rountree, umpire (b. 1930)
• 2007 - Dee Sanders, pitcher (b. 1921)
• 2009 - Davey Williams, infielder; All-Star (b. 1927)
• 2013 - John Connelly, college coach (b. 1928)
• 2013 - Rod Craig, outfielder (b. 1958)
• 2013 - Jack Harshman, pitcher (b. 1927)
• 2014 - Dick Teed, pinch hitter (b. 1926)
• 2016 - Steve Arlin, pitcher (b. 1945)
• 2018 - Bob Bass, college coach (b. 1929)
• 2019 - Cedric Benson, minor league outfielder (b. 1982)