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Events, births and deaths that occurred on August 19.

Events

• 1900 - In American League action, Rube Waddell throws two complete games as Milwaukee sweeps a doubleheader from the Chicago White Stockings, 2 - 1 and 1 - 0. After throwing 17 innings in the first game, the colorful southpaw is coaxed by skipper Connie Mack, who promises him a few days off to go fishing to pitch the nightcap, he hurls a five-inning one-hitter. The AL is till considered a minor league this season, but will upgrade its status in the off-season.
• 1901:
  • Kid Nichols and Christy Mathewson square off for the third time in seven days, with Nichols winning easily, 11 - 6. New York makes four errors, but a tired Matty is pasted for 13 hits while striking out just one.
  • At St. Louis, the Pirates knock out the National League's leading pitcher Jack Harper (21-8) in the 3rd en route to a 9 - 5 win. Harper will end up at 23-13.
• 1902 - Baltimore outfielder Kip Selbach sets the post-1900 mark in the American League by making four errors, a mark tied by Braves flychaser Fred Nicholson in 1922.
• 1908 - The Highlanders' Jack Chesbro allows 11 hits, but shuts out Detroit, 7 - 0.
• 1910 - At Cincinnati, the Giants win, 9 - 3, beating Jack Rowan. Christy Mathewson allows nine hits in coasting to his 20th win of the year and his 17th straight victory over the Reds.
• 1911 - Thirty-five thousand gather at the not-yet-completed Polo Grounds to watch the Reds finally get to Christy Mathewson after 22 straight losses, beating him for the first time since May 1908. Matty, after saving the 5 - 4 opener for Hooks Wiltse with two scoreless frames, starts the nightcap, goes five innings, and loses, 7 - 4. Mike Mitchell leads the Reds in the nitecap by hitting for the cycle off Matty, and adding a double.
• 1913 - Grover Alexander is reached for nine straight hits and six runs as the Cubs defeat Phillies, 10 - 4.
• 1914 - Lefty Tyler stops the Reds for a 3 - 2 Braves win.
• 1915 - Red Faber pitches the White Sox to a 2 - 1 win over the Red Sox, beating Rube Foster. With the Tigers' win over the A's, Boston and Detroit are virtually tied for 1st.
• 1917 - Coaching at third base in a 1 - 1 game against Washington, Ty Cobb gives baserunner George Burns a shove when Burns stops at third on a long hit; Burns keeps going and scores the winning run. Clark Griffith protests, and Ban Johnson upholds him, as the rules now ban coaches from touching a runner. The game is replayed, and Washington wins, 2 - 0.
• 1918 - Walter Johnson beats St. Louis, 4 - 3, in 14 innings. It is the ninth time this season that the Big Train has worked at least ten innings in a game, including two of 18 innings, one of 15 innings, and another of 14 innings.
• 1920 - The Indians beat New York, 3 - 2. They leave town with a half-game lead over Chicago and 1 1/2 over the Yankees, in what will be the tightest race since 1908.
• 1921 - At the age of 34, Ty Cobb becomes the youngest player to collect 3000 hits when he singles off Red Sox hurler Elmer Myers.
• 1922 - In Philadelphia, the Browns and A's split a pair, with St. Louis taking the opener, 9 - 5. Urban Shocker is backed by Ken Williams' 31st home run. He hits his 32nd in the nitecap, but the A's win, 6 - 5, when Bing Miller bangs a two-run homer in the 8th off Rasty Wright. The split allows the Yankees, winner over Chicago, to move back into first place.
• 1925 - The Phils finally solve Reds righthander Pete Donohue, 5 - 4, after losing to him 20 straight times.
• 1930:
  • In the first of two, Chicago's Hack Wilson connects off Phils P Les Sweetland for his 43rd home run, tying Chuck Klein's National League record set last year. In RF, Klein waves to Wilson as he circles the bases. The Phils hold on for a 9 - 8 win with Claude Willoughby the winner over rookie Bud Teachout. The second game ends in a 6 - 6 tie after 16 innings.
  • Goose Goslin hits three consecutive home runs for St. Louis to back George Blaeholder's 7 - 0 shutout of the Philadelphia A's.
• 1931:
  • At Chicago, Lefty Grove (25-2) wins his 16th consecutive game, 4 - 2, tying the American League record set by Walter Johnson and Joe Wood in 1912. Grove holds the Sox scoreless till the 9th, while the A's score in the 2nd, 3rd and 8th off Red Faber. Grove has completed all but one of the wins.
  • The Giants score single runs in each of the last three innings to beat the Reds, 6 - 5. Giants Shanty Hogan is the first catcher to start three double plays. The three DPs ties a major-league record for catchers and only one other catcher will match him: Damian Miller, in 1999.
• 1934 - The Harvard University varsity team tours Japan, winning only five of 11 games against collegiate and club teams.
• 1940 - Hot-hitting Jimmie Foxx belts his 33rd home run, against Cleveland.
• 1941 - Pittsburgh Pirates manager Frankie Frisch is ejected by umpire Jocko Conlan from the second game of a doubleheader when he appears on the field with an umbrella to protest the playing conditions at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. The rainy argument is later portrayed in a famous oil painting by artist Norman Rockwell.
• 1945:
  • The Yankees win the first of two with the White Sox, 4 - 2, to break their nine-game losing streak. Chicago takes the nitecap, 2 - 0, as Lefty Grove gives up just five hits.
  • In the second game of a doubleheader against the Reds, 37-year-old slugger Jimmie Foxx makes his first major league start, pitching the first seven innings for the Philadelphia Phillies. He leaves with a 4 - 1 lead, and Andy Karl saves Foxx's only decision, a 6 - 2 final. Double X's ERA in ten appearances is 1.52. The lidlifter goes to the Phils as well, 5 - 0, though they are mathematically eliminated from a first-place finish.
• 1947 - Led by Eddie Miller's grand slam and six RBIs, the Reds trounce the Giants, 6 - 1. Johnny Vander Meer is the winner over Dave Koslo.
• 1948 - In the Eastern Shore League, Ed Santulli of Rehoboth Beach pitches a 10 - 0 no-hitter over Federalsburg, the third no-hitter in the league in four days. On August 16th, Ed Black of Salisbury no-hit Milford, 4 - 0, while Gene Kern of Cambridge did the same, beating Federalsburg, 12 - 0.
• 1950:
  • The Gillette Safety Razor Co. pays $800,000 for TV rights to the World Series. Radio rights will add another $175,000 more.
  • The Pirates outslug the Cubs, 13 - 9, for their sixth win in seven games. Ralph Kiner slugs two homers to put him seven days and nine games ahead of last year's pace, when he hit 54. He has rapped eight dingers this month and four in the last five games. Clyde McCullough adds a bases-loaded triple, sac fly, and two-run double, while Johnny Hopp homers. The Cubs answer with homers by Hank Sauer, Mickey Owen, and Roy Smalley, but it's not enough. Reliever Bob Rush loses to Murry Dickson.
• 1951:
  • In Philadelphia, the Giants overcome a four-run deficit to win, 5 - 4, and cut Brooklyn's lead to eight games. Al Corwin wins in relief, after Bobby Thomson's two-run homer gets the Giants on the board. The Giants have won nine in a row.
  • Wearing uniform number 1/8, forty-three-inch-tall Eddie Gaedel walks on four pitches from Bob Cain in his only major league appearance. Bill Veeck's idea of playing the midget was legal at the time but is later outlawed.
  • In Boston, the Braves score five in the 6th and roll over the Dodgers, 13 - 4. Warren Spahn picks up his 15th win and his 21st complete game. A 2nd-inning homer by Willard Marshall, off Ralph Branca, starts the scoring.
• 1955:
  • Willie Mays and Roberto Clemente, tit for tat. Having had his birthday thunder stolen by Clemente earlier this year, Mays returns the favor, or tries to. The game actually comes one day after Clemente's birthday. the Giants' Mays hits a solo homer in the 3rd to put Pittsburgh in a 2 - 0 hole, but Clemente then contributes a big blow to a decisive three-run rally that puts Pittsburgh ahead to stay. This time, while not a 430-foot triple over Mays's head, it's a similarly-sized blast – "a tremendous wallop," to quote the Pittsburgh Press, "over the left-center wall."
  • Robin Roberts of the Phils defeats Don Newcombe of the Dodgers, 3 - 2, to become the first 20-game winner of the year.
• 1957 - The New York Giants Board of Directors votes 9 - 1 in favor of moving the team to San Francisco.
• 1958:
  • Dick Stuart's two-run, tie-breaking 450-foot unmanned expedition to Waveland Avenue puts Pittsburgh in the winner's circle, 4 - 2, over the Chicago Cubs. Stuart's clout, in conjunction with an earlier two-run blast by Bill Mazeroski, helps boost the surging Bucs to their 20th win in 28 tries, moving them from last place on July 22nd to third place today, making up eight games on the floundering Giants in the process. Roberto Clemente's stellar defense keeps the Cubs' bats at bay. Cubs' beat writer Richard Dozer writes: "The Cubs couldn't get an offensive menace started, due largely to the Pirates' right fielder, Roberto Clemente. He made two sensational catches: one acrobatic catch of Bobby Thomson's liner in the 4th inning and one in the 8th inning to rob Walt Moryn of a single that would have sent Ernie Banks to third with no one out. Clemente also threw out Dale Long, who was attempting to move from first to third on Sam Taylor's single in the 2nd inning and it was speedy Roberto's single in the 6th that preceded Stuart's 450-foot home run."
  • In an oddity, each starting player of the Douglas Copper Kings team hits a home run in a 22 - 8 rout of the Chihuahua Dorados (Arizona-Mexico League).
• 1959 - Honolulu seeks a franchise in the Continental League.
• 1961:
  • The Reds surge to a three-game lead in the National League by topping the Cards, 3 - 1, behind Joey Jay. The Reds get on the board in the 6th on Wally Post's homer, his 16th. He has now homered this year in every NL park.
  • The Red Sox top the Tigers, 5 - 3, as the two teams combine to hit into eight double plays, tying the major-league record for nine innings.
  • The Phils rally in the 9th, but strand 11 and lose, 4 - 3 to Milwaukee. For the hapless Quakers, it is their 22nd loss in a row. For the Braves, it is their ninth win in a row. The Phils have 13 hits off Tony Cloninger, the winner, while Frank Sullivan allows just seven. The Braves score all their runs in the 3rd, the big blow being Frank Thomas's two-run homer.
• 1962:
  • Gino Cimoli, Wayne Causey, and Billy Bryan of the Athletics hit consecutive home runs in the 7th inning, but Elston Howard has two home runs and eight RBIs; Bill Skowron, a home run and four RBIs; Mickey Mantle, a grand slam and seven RBIs, and Skowron four RBIs as the Yankees rout the A's, 21 - 7. Mantle adds two stolen bases before Jack Reed takes over in CF and has two at bats.
  • Cleveland Indians President Mike Wilson dies at age 74.
• 1965:
  • At San Francisco, Don Drysdale faces Warren Spahn in the start of a critical four-game series. Drysdale lasts longer than Spahn, allowing five runs through eleven innings and leaves with the game tied. The Dodgers win it in 15 innings, 6 - 5.
  • At Wrigley Field, Reds hurler Jim Maloney no-hits the Cubs, 1 - 0, with the only run scoring on a Leo Cardenas homer in the 10th inning. Earlier in the season, Maloney had also no-hit the Mets for ten innings, but lost the game in the 11th when Johnny Lewis homered off him.
• 1967 - The Red Sox continue winning, beating California, 12 - 11.
• 1968 - Bob Gibson pitches the Cardinals to a 2 - 0 win over the Phillies. Gibson strikes out Dick Allen four times, the seventh time this season the Phils' slugger has K'ed four times. He will strike out a career-high 161 times this season.
• 1969:
  • John Hollison dies in Chicago at age 99. He was the last surviving major league pitcher to throw from a mound 50 feet from home plate. He pitched in one game in 1892
  • At Wrigley Field, Ken Holtzman no-hits the Braves, 3 - 0, with Ron Santo's 1st-inning homer providing all of the Cubs' runs.
• 1970 - Fergie Jenkins homers and his teammates add another six as Chicago coasts over San Diego, 12 - 2. Jim Hickman (2), Glenn Beckert, Johnny Callison, Joe Pepitone, and Billy Williams also hit round trippers for Chicago. Six of the Cub homers are solo shots and San Diego adds a solo homer: the seven solo homers by two teams sets a National League record and ties the major league mark set on April 29, 1962.
• 1970 - The White Sox erupt for 11 runs on ten hits in the 9th inning to defeat the Red Sox, 13 - 5.
• 1973 - Behind P Jim Rooker, the Pirates top San Francisco, 5 - 0, to move two games out of first in the National League East. Rooker also leads the way hitting 3 for 3 .
• 1974 - Reds 2B Joe Morgan drives in seven runs as Cincinnati rolls over Philadelphia, 15 - 2. Morgan has a grand slam and a three-run homer, then leaves after three innings when the Reds build a 14 - 0 lead.
• 1975:
  • The Astros hire Bill Virdon, recently dismissed by the Yankees, to replace Preston Gomez as manager.
  • The Cardinals' Lynn McGlothen strikes out three Reds on nine pitches in the 2nd inning of a 2 - 1 victory. The loss snaps the Reds' nine-game win streak.
• 1977 - Backed by homers from Reggie Jackson and Bucky Dent, Mike Torrez hurls his sixth complete game in a row and New York beats Texas, 8 - 1. The Yanks are now 2 1/2 games back of Boston.
• 1980:
  • Jon Matlack holds George Brett hitless, snapping his hitting streak at 30 consecutive games, but Kansas City rallies for three runs in the 9th to beat Texas, 4 - 3. Brett batted .467 during the streak and knocked in 42 runs.
  • Baltimore's Steve Stone becomes the first 20-game winner in the major leagues this season, holding the Angels hitless for 7 1/3 innings on the way to a 5 - 2 victory.
• 1982 - Scheduled to pitch against the Expos in a home game, Braves rookie Pascual Perez misses the start of the game when he can't find his way to the ballpark. Perez circles on the interstate several times but gets lost. He will be given a Braves jacket with the new number I-85 on it. Phil Niekro takes the mound and wins, 5 - 4, to run his record to 11-3.
• 1983 - The Dodgers trade pitchers Dave Stewart and Ricky Wright to Texas for star pitcher Rick Honeycutt, who is 14-8 with an American League-best 2.42 ERA for the Rangers. Honeycutt will go 2-3 down the stretch for the Dodgers, but still wins the AL ERA title because his 174 2/3 innings pitched were already enough to qualify.
• 1985:
  • The Mets move into first place in the National League East with a 1 - 0 win over the Expos. Ron Darling, with relief help from Roger McDowell, is the winner.
  • At Milwaukee, Roy Smalley's homer in the 5th is the Twins' only hit off Danny Darwin. The Brewers win, 2 - 1.
• 1987 - Paul Molitor collects four hits to extend his hitting streak to 34 games and tie Dom DiMaggio for 11th on the all-time list. The Brewers beat Cleveland, 13 - 2. Rob Deer has a grand slam for the Brewers, and tomorrow will hit another to become just the 11th player in history to hit grand slams in consecutive games.
• 1990:
  • Bobby Thigpen records his 40th save as the Chicago White Sox beat the Rangers, 4 - 2. He becomes only the eighth reliever to reach this milestone in major league history.
  • Dodger SS Jose Offerman leads off the bottom of the 1st with a home run off Dennis Martinez in his first major league at bat, but that is all the L.A. scoring as Montreal wins, 2 - 1. Offerman had not homered all season in the minors.
• 1992:
  • Tom Glavine (19-3) wins his 13th in a row, stopping the Expos, 4 - 2. Mike Stanton gets the last two outs. Jeff Blauser's two-run homer off starter Chris Nabholz is the big blow.
  • Mariners 2B Bret Boone makes his major league debut against the Orioles. By doing so, he becomes the first third-generation player in the major leagues, following in the footsteps of his grandfather Ray, and his father Bob. Boone goes 1 for 4 and drives in a run in Seattle's 10 - 8 victory.
• 1995 - The Devil Rays name Braves assistant general manager Chuck LaMar as the franchise's first general manager.
• 1996:
  • The Phils release Mitch Williams, who was 1-2 with Scranton-Wilkes-Barre.
  • Rondell White hits a 2nd-inning grand slam off a Tom Candiotti curve ball, to give the Expos a 7 - 3 win over the Dodgers. The Expos have a one-game lead over the Cardinals for the wild card spot.
• 1998:
  • Toronto downs Seattle by a score of 16 - 2. The Blue Jays hit seven homers in the contest, including two each by Shawn Green and Carlos Delgado.
  • The Expos beat Arizona, 8 - 2, giving Felipe Alou his 521st career win as manager of the Montreal Expos, most in franchise history. Buck Rodgers had 520. Alou's good luck charm is P Dustin Hermanson, who allows three hits in seven innings. Hermanson was also the starting and winning pitcher in Alou's 400th, 450th, and 500th win.
• 1999 - Cincinnati defeats Pittsburgh, 1 - 0, as P Pete Harnisch hurls a one-hitter. Harnisch fans 12 in his eight innings of work, allowing only a 7th-inning single to SS Mike Benjamin, and Scott Williamson pitches the hitless 9th.
• 2000:
  • The Astros defeat the Brewers, 10 - 8, as Jeff Bagwell hits two home runs and drives home five runs. Bagwell becomes the first Houston player to reach 300 homers in his career.
  • The Diamondbacks defeat the Cubs, 11 - 3, scoring eight runs in the 3rd inning to tie a franchise mark.
  • The Yankees beat the Angels, 9 - 1, hitting a major league record-tying three sacrifice flies in the 3rd inning.
• 2001:
  • Greg Colbrunn hits a pinch-hit home run in the Diamondbacks' 13 - 6 win over the Cubs. Colbrunn's blast is the 13th round-tripper by a pinch-hitter for Arizona this year, breaking the National League mark set by the 1957 Redlegs.
  • The Mariners rout the Yankees, 10 - 2, as OF Mike Cameron gets four hits (including two home runs) and drives home eight runs. OF Ichiro Suzuki stretches his hitting streak to 16 games, giving him three streaks of 15 or more games this year. He's the first major leaguer with three 15-game streaks in the same season since Milwaukee's Cecil Cooper in 1980.
  • The Orioles bounce back from a 6 - 1 deficit to defeat the Red Sox, 13 - 7. Jeff Conine has five hits for Baltimore. The Birds steal five bases on slow Hideo Nomo.
  • Danny Almonte, pitching for the Bronx Little League entry, the Rolando Paulino All-Stars, hurls the first perfect game since 1957 in the Little League World Series, beating the eventual winner, Apopka, FL, 2 - 0. The Bronx team will win the following week, but all the victories will be stripped from them when an investigation proves a number of rules infractions, not the least of which is that Almonte is too old. His brother, who pitched the previous year, will also be shown to be too old.
• 2005:
  • As skipper of the Fort Worth Cats of the Central Baseball League, Bobby Bragan becomes the oldest person to ever to manage a professional baseball game. The 87-year-old, whose one day of employment is shortened by being ejected in the 3rd inning for arguing balls and strikes, is eight days older than Connie Mack, who managed his last game for the 1950 Athletics.
  • A new internship, announced by the independent minor league team, the Brockton Rox will be dedicated in the memory of an Emerson journalism student accidentally killed by the Boston police during a near riot around Fenway Park after the Red Sox beat the Yankees to win the pennant. "The Victoria Snelgrove Media Internship", which will be awarded to an aspiring journalist will host pre- and post-game radio shows, and hopefully will focus attention on the senseless violence that sometimes follows sporting contests.
• 2007:
  • John Smoltz sets the career Atlanta Braves franchise record for strikeouts. He whiffs Mark Reynolds in the 3rd inning of a 6 - 2 win, one of 13 K's on the day as he passes Phil Niekro's old mark of 2,912.
  • Johan Santana also sets a team strikeout record, this one for a single game, when he fans 17, two more than the old Minnesota Twins record. Santana throws two-hit ball and walks none in an eight-inning gem to beat Kevin Millwood, 1 - 0, in a pitcher's duel. Michael Cuddyer provides the game's lone run with his 12th homer of the season. Michael Young, the All-Star shortstop, leads the K crowd by striking out all four times against Santana.
  • Greg Maddux moves up the historical charts, as he ties Tim Keefe for ninth all-time with 349 wins. He allows one run, two hits and no walks in six innings in a 5 - 3 win over the Astros. Maddux aids his cause with two hits in two at-bats.
• 2008:
  • In a match-up of the two 5-0 teams in the 2008 Olympics, South Korea beats Cuba, 7 - 4. A two-run single by Young-min Ko and two-run throwing error by reliever Norberto González are the big blows.
  • Hideaki Wakui faces the minimum 21 batters in a pitching gem over the Chinese national team in a 10 - 0, seven-inning mercy rule win by Japan. Tsuyoshi Nishioka goes 3 for 3 with three RBI.
  • Team USA beats Taiwan, 4 - 2, as Dexter Fowler drives in two, scores one, doubles and triples. Taiwan is eliminated from medal contention.
  • Canada gets its second win with a 4 - 0 shutout of the Netherlands. Brooks McNiven and three relievers team up on a two-hit gem while Shairon Martis falls to 0-2 in the Olympics.
• 2009:
  • Bologna takes the Italian Series in five games over T&A San Marino, with a 16 - 2 romp in the finale. Claudio Liverziani goes 8 for 14 with eight walks and six RBI for a 1.537 OPS, winning MVP honors. Just over a week later, the Italian Baseball Federation will suspend Liverziani for a positive amphetamine test during the playoffs.
  • Cliff Lee continues to dominate since the Phillies acquired him from Cleveland at the trading deadline. He pitches a two-hitter in an 8 - 1 win over Arizona, after taking a no-hitter into the 6th inning. It is his fourth win and second complete game in four starts since the trade.
• 2010:
  • In the 2010 Hoofdklasse playdowns to determine which team can be relegated, Joey Eijpe throws a no-hitter for HCAW against Almere while Willie Vasquez provides all the offense with a three-run homer.
  • The specter of the 2000s steroid scandal is still around. Today, former pitching great Roger Clemens is indicted on six counts of perjury for allegedly lying during Congressional hearings on PED use in February 2008 when he testified that he had never used banned substances. A number of former teammates and associates have since come forward to provide testimony that contradicts his statements made under oath.
  • The Yankees use a nine-run 6th inning to blow away the Tigers, 11 - 5. Robinson Cano hits a double and homer and collects three RBI in the frame. The Yankees are now a game in front of Tampa Bay, who lose, 4 - 3, to Oakland, but place newly-acquired 1B Lance Berkman on the disabled list with a sprained ankle.
  • The Padres complete a four-game sweep of the Cubs at Wrigley Field with a 5 - 3 victory. Will Venable is the hero, hitting a two-run single in the 7th, then scoring from third base after Chase Headley is retired in a rundown between third base and home and Cubs catcher Koyie Hill leaves home plate uncovered, thinking time has been called. The Padres have won ten of their last 11 games to increase their lead in the NL West to 6 1/2 games ahead of San Francisco, but lose OF Tony Gwynn for a month when he is placed on the disabled list after breaking a bone in his hand swinging the bat a day earlier.
  • The Cards acquire 3B Pedro Feliz from Houston for minor league P David Carpenter. Feliz is hitting a disappointing .221 with 4 homers and 31 RBI after coming to the Astros as a free agent in the off-season.
• 2011:
  • Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts fires general manager Jim Hendry, the man who brought the perennial losers within five outs of the World Series in 2003 and built back-to-back division winners in 2008 and 2009, after nine years on the job. Hendry's success was achieved at the cost of a massive payroll, however, and the team is now on the hook for a number of expensive contracts to underachieving former stars, while headed for a second consecutive fifth-place finish. His players send Hendry out a winner as pinch-hitter Tyler Colvin hits a walk-off single in the 10th inning to give the Cubs a 5 - 4 win over the Cardinals on his last day. Assistant GM Randy Bush is named to take over in the interim but is not in line to succeed Hendry.
  • DH Mitch Moreland slugs two home runs and drives in five runs as the Rangers defeat the White Sox, 7 - 4.
• 2012:
  • The Pirates win a 19-inning marathon at St. Louis, 6 - 3. In the 17th, P James McDonald hits a pinch single and comes to score on Garrett Jones' single which defects just off the glove of P Marc Rzepczynski. However, Juan Cruz is unable to close the game, allowing a game-tying sacrifice fly to Tony Cruz that scores pinch-runner Ryan Jackson in the bottom of the inning. Two innings later, Pedro Alvarez hits a solo homer off Barret Browning and Andrew McCutchen adds a two-run single before Wandy Rodriguez, tomorrow's scheduled starter, pitches a second scoreless inning to wrap up the game.
  • Chad Billingsley wins his sixth straight start, pitching seven innings in a 5 - 0 win over the Braves, and Los Angeles is back in first place in the back-and-forth NL West. Veteran minor league journeyman Luis Cruz hits his second homer in as many days and Mark Ellis drives in the other four runs.
  • In the 2012 Women's Baseball World Cup, Japan tops the USA, 3 - 0, in the Gold Medal game for their third straight title. It is the best US finish since 2006. Yukari Isozaki scatters 7 hits in a complete game shutout to improve to 3-0, 0.33 in the Cup and take MVP honors. In the Bronze Medal game, it's a different story, as host Canada edges Australia in a 17 - 13 slugfest with four RBI apiece from Ashley Stephenson and Stéphanie Savoie and four hits and four runs from Jenna Flannigan. Canada had not gotten a Medal in 2010, the only time they failed to do so in the five Women's World Cups to this point.
  • The Rouen Huskies win their eighth straight French Division I title, topping the Templiers de Sénart, 12 - 8, to take the finals, 3 games to 1. Ethan Paquette goes 3 for 4 with four RBI, Joris Bert scores three runs and Owen Ozanich gets the win in the finale.
  • The Sinon Bulls drop a 10 - 2 game to the Lamigo Monkeys, but Bulls star Yi-Chuan Lin sets a new CPBL record with his 42nd double of the year, breaking Francisco Laureano's 18-year-old mark. Matt DeSalvo gives up the record-setting double.
• 2013 - The Rangers score 11 times in the 3rd inning to hand the Astros a 16 - 5 loss. The 11 runs are the highest single-inning total in the majors this year. Houston utility player Jake Elmore replaces C Carlos Corporan in the 4th, then moves to the mound to pitch a scoreless 8th inning; it is only the 14th time in history that a player has appeared at both positions in the same game; Elmore had not played either position in the majors previously.
• 2015:
  • The Dodgers acquire 2B Chase Utley from the Phillies for minor league OF Darnell Sweeney and P John Richy. Utley will re-join his long-time double play partner with the Phils, SS Jimmy Rollins, while stepping in for an injured Howie Kendrick.
  • Ryan Braun becomes the Brewers' all-time franchise leader in home runs by hitting #252 off former teammate Chris Narveson in an 8 - 7 win over the Marlins. Robin Yount was the previous record holder.
• 2016 - The Astros and Orioles engage in a slugfest in Baltimore, with Houston coming out on top, 15 - 8. After George Springer leads off the game with a homer off Wade Miley, the Orioles set a modern record by hitting four home runs before making an out in their first turn at-bat. Facing Collin McHugh, Adam Jones homers on the first pitch, then Hyun Soo Kim singles, and Manny Machado, Chris Davis and Mark Trumbo all homer in succession for a quick 5 - 1 lead. However, the Astros score 5 runs in the 2nd, and keep going from there to win the game. Springer goes 4 for 5 and José Altuve homers and has five RBIs for Houston as eight long balls are hit overall.
• 2018 - The Mets defeat the Phillies, 8 - 2, in the second edition of the annual MLB Little League Classic staged to coincide with the Little League World Series in Williamsport, PA. Amed Rosario has three hits and three RBIs, with Jeff McNeil adding a two-run single to back the pitching of Jason Vargas.
• 2020 - Manny Machado hits a walk-off grand slam in the 10th inning to lead the Padres to a 6 - 3 win over the Rangers. It is the third straight game in which the Padres have hit a grand slam, something not seen in the National League since the 1895 Cleveland Spiders (there had been three instances in the American League, most recently by the 2006 Chicago White Sox). The Padres will hit another slam tomorrow to claim sole possession of the record, as they complete a four-game sweep of the Rangers.
• 2021 - The Angels match the biggest comeback in team history when they defeat the Tigers, 13 - 10, at Comerica Park, after trailing 10 - 2 in the 6th. Rookie CF Brandon Marsh is at the center of things with two triples; his first one, in the 2nd, should have been his first career big league homer, as it hits the top of the fence in right field before bouncing back to the field. Television replays clearly show that the ball hit beyond the yellow line demarcating homers, but the Angels fail to ask for a video review and the triple stands.
• 2022"
  • The Sugar Land Space Cowboys of the Pacific Coast League score 17 runs in the 6th inning of the second game of a doubleheader against Oklahoma City on their way to a 21 - 4 win. The inning features ten hits, nine walks and a hit batsman as four pitchers get battered, while two Sugar Land batters reach base three times. However, this falls one run short of the minor league record of 18, set by the Waco Cubs on August 6, 1930.
  • The Marlins Puerto Cruz win their 13th Division de Honor title this century, sweeping the Astros Valencia in three games in the finals. The finale is a one-sided affair as Ronald Medrano and two relievers throw a no-hitter while the offense pounds out 12 runs, with five RBI from Wander Encarnacion, who falls a triple shy of the cycle. Cuban veteran Yosvany Torres takes the loss.
• 2023 - In a 10 - 3 win by the Mariners over the Astros, Julio Rodríguez goes 4 for 6 to match Milt Stock's record, set in 1925, of four consecutive games with four or more hits. Rodríguez went 17 for 22 in those games, the most hits by any player over a four-game span, bettering Stock who had 16 hits during his four games.

Births

• 1852 - Charles Boles, umpire (d. 1917)
• 1861 - Joe Cantillon, manager (d. 1930)
• 1863 - Clarence Stephens, pitcher (d. 1947)
• 1870 - Tom Williams, pitcher (d. 1940)
• 1878 - Billy Milligan, pitcher (d. 1928)
• 1883 - George Ferguson, pitcher (d. 1943)
• 1884 - Speed Kelly, infielder (d. 1949)
• 1888 - Mike Murphy, catcher (d. 1952)
• 1891 - Al DeVormer, catcher (d. 1966)
• 1891 - Herbert Hill, pitcher (d. 1970)
• 1891 - Ike McAuley, infielder (d. 1928)
• 1892 - Rags Faircloth, pitcher (d. 1953)
• 1903 - Estel Crabtree, outfielder (d. 1967)
• 1906 - Tex Carleton, pitcher (d. 1977)
• 1910 - Atley Donald, pitcher (d. 1992)
• 1912 - Les Rock, infielder (d. 1991)
• 1915 - Harry Barnes, catcher (d. 1993)
• 1915 - Bill Nagel, infielder (d. 1981)
• 1916 - Mike Briscese, umpire (d. 1997)
• 1919 - Lou Louden, catcher; All-Star (d. 1989)
• 1919 - Dick McGowen, college coach (d. 2003)
• 1922 - Pud Miller, minor league outfielder (d. 1978)
• 1925 - Don Dwyer, minor league infielder (d. 2004)
• 1928 - Jim Finigan, infielder; All-Star (d. 1981)
• 1929 - William Sowell, minor league outfielder (d. 2012)
• 1933 - Walt Owens, college coach
• 1933 - Harold Stout, college coach (d. 2017)
• 1935 - Jim Campbell, college coach (d. 2012)
• 1935 - Bobby Richardson, infielder; All-Star
• 1937 - Jim Lehew, pitcher (d. 2016)
• 1941 - Fred Lasher, pitcher (d. 2022)
• 1942 - Frankie Sweeting, Bahamas national team pitcher
• 1947 - Joe Borowy, minor league pitcher (d. 2018)
• 1948 - John Boles, manager
• 1949 - Paul Mitchell, pitcher
• 1950 - Stephen McCartney, minor league outfielder-infielder
• 1950 - Mike Phillips, infielder
• 1950 - Tom Pratt, minor league pitcher (d. 2012)
• 1951 - Luis Gomez, infielder
• 1952 - Tim Blackwell, catcher
• 1953 - Minggao Chen, international umpire
• 1954 - Reggie Baldwin, catcher
• 1955 - Terry Harper, outfielder
• 1955 - Silvio Martinez, pitcher
• 1955 - Ned Yost, catcher, manager
• 1956 - Ron Roenicke, outfielder
• 1957 - Scott Meyer, catcher
• 1958 - Luis DeLeon, pitcher
• 1958 - Gary Gaetti, infielder; All-Star
• 1960 - Ron Darling, pitcher; All-Star
• 1960 - Glenn Godwin, minor league pitcher
• 1960 - Sap Randall, infielder
• 1961 - Mark Ciardi, pitcher
• 1962 - Kazuyuki Ono, NPB pitcher
• 1966 - Woody Williams, pitcher; All-Star
• 1967 - Scott Fredrickson, pitcher
• 1969 - Matt Franco, infielder
• 1969 - Miguel Jimenez, pitcher
• 1970 - Rob Augustine, minor league player
• 1970 - Jeff Tam, pitcher
• 1970 - Tae-won Choi, KBO infielder
• 1972 - Alex Andreopoulos, minor league catcher
• 1972 - Jed Hansen, infielder
• 1972 - Jorge Moreno, minor leaguer
• 1973 - Leonardo Mazzanti, Italian Baseball League outfielder
• 1973 - Britt Reames, pitcher
• 1974 - Brian Cooper, pitcher
• 1975 - Ayano Matsumoto, Japanese women's national team coach
• 1975 - Juan Sosa, outfielder
• 1976 - Brett Gray, minor league pitcher
• 1976 - Todd Ozias, minor league pitcher
• 1976 - Goefrey Tomlinson, minor league infielder
• 1977 - Matt White, pitcher
• 1978 - Eude Brito, pitcher
• 1978 - Chris Capuano, pitcher; All-Star
• 1979 - Rocky Cherry, pitcher
• 1979 - Daniel Freire, Spanish national team infielder
• 1979 - Daniel Parker, minor league pitcher and manager
• 1980 - Lance Cormier, pitcher
• 1980 - Hiro Iida, minor league pitcher
• 1981 - Ryan Murphy, minor league pitcher
• 1981 - Zachary Parker, minor league pitcher
• 1981 - Scott Roehl, minor league player
• 1982 - J.J. Hardy, infielder; All-Star
• 1982 - Tom Woodring, umpire
• 1983 - Juan Cedeno, minor league pitcher
• 1983 - Trey Hearne, minor league pitcher
• 1984 - Marcos Carvajal, pitcher (d. 2018)
• 1984 - John Mariotti, minor league pitcher
• 1985 - Josh Fields, pitcher
• 1985 - Kaimi Mead, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Austin Adams, pitcher
• 1986 - Marco Duarte, minor league pitcher
• 1987 - Winston Márquez, minor league pitcher
• 1987 - Daniel Mráz, Extraliga outfielder-pitcher
• 1988 - Danny Black, minor league infielder
• 1988 - Chris Smith, pitcher
• 1989 - Jake Sanchez, minor league pitcher
• 1989 - Cody Yount, minor league infielder
• 1990 - Peter Mooney, minor league infielder
• 1991 - Shane Broyles, minor league pitcher
• 1991 - Ivan Julio, minor league pitcher
• 1991 - Julio Perez, minor league infielder
• 1992 - Bryce Cherry, Hoofdklasse player
• 1992 - Manuel Hernández, minor league outfielder
• 1993 - Demetrius Moorer, minor league outfielder
• 1993 - Moisses Pargas, Elitserien pitcher
• 1994 - Alex De Goti, infielder
• 1994 - Marcus Greene, minor league catcher
• 1994 - Yau-Pang Ng, Hong Kong national team pitcher
• 1994 - Eduardo Palacios, Salvadoran national team pitcher
• 1995 - Artur Strzalka, minor league pitcher
• 1997 - Kris Bubic, pitcher
• 1997 - Travis Swaggerty, outfielder
• 2002 - Keiner Manrique, Colombian national team infielder
• 2003 - Zaid Flynn, New Zealand national team pitcher

Deaths

• 1897 - Jim McKeever, catcher (b. 1861)
• 1908 - Doc Bushong, catcher (b. 1856)
• 1910 - Bill Lennon, catcher, manager (b. 1845)
• 1924 - Bill Keister, infielder (b. 1871)
• 1926 - George Cobb, pitcher (b. 1865)
• 1933 - Robert Drury, owner (b. 1878)
• 1942 - Jesse Duryea, pitcher (b. 1859)
• 1946 - Bob McKinney, infielder (b. 1875)
• 1949 - Judson Hyames, college coach (b. 1888)
• 1951 - Ollie Hanson, pitcher (b. 1896)
• 1952 - Bill Carpenter, umpire (b. 1873)
• 1952 - George McAvoy, pinch hitter (b. 1884)
• 1958 - Jim Nasium, writer/cartoonist (b. 1874)
• 1962 - Mike Wilson (b. 1887)
• 1963 - Carl Zamloch, pitcher (b. 1889)
• 1965 - Larry Jacobus, pitcher (b. 1893)
• 1967 - George Walker, pitcher (b. 1915)
• 1969 - Alex Carrasquel, pitcher (b. 1912)
• 1969 - John Hollison, pitcher (b. 1870)
• 1974 - Augie Bergamo, outfielder (b. 1917)
• 1976 - Johnny Walker, infielder (b. 1896)
• 1977 - Bob Klinger, pitcher (b. 1908)
• 1977 - Chuck Wortman, infielder (b. 1892)
• 1999 - Dee Fondy, infielder (b. 1924)
• 2008 - Terry Watkins, minor league pitcher (b. 1956)
• 2010 - Dom Moselle, college coach (b. 1925)
• 2014 - Jackie Mayo, outfielder (b. 1925)
• 2018 - Joe Landrum, pitcher (b. 1928)
• 2018 - Phil Pote, scout (b. 1933)
• 2019 - Al Jackson, pitcher (b. 1935)
• 2020 - Peter van 't Klooster, Hoofdklasse infielder (b. 1944)
• 2021 - Bill Freehan, catcher; All-Star (b. 1941)
• 2022 - John Wockenfuss, catcher (b. 1949)