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Events, births and deaths that occurred on August 3.

Events

• 1901 - Cleveland pitcher Ed Scott goes all the way against Milwaukee and hits a solo home run in the top of the 10th to win, 8 - 7. It is the last game of Scott's career. Bill Reidy serves up the homer in the loss.
• 1902 - Before a Sunday crowd of 4,500 in Columbus, Ohio, Cleveland loses to Washington, 5 - 2.
• 1903 - The Giants edge Boston, 4 - 1, in 11 innings with Christy Mathewson outpitching Vic Willis. Each pitcher allows nine hits, but Matty fans 11, including three in the 11th.
• 1904 - Christy Mathewson takes 4 - 0 lead into the 9th against the Cubs, but after an out, he is rattled for four hits and a error to make the margin, 4 - 3. Shad Barry, on first base with two out, then tries to steal and is gunned down by Frank Bowerman to end the match. The Giants are now 63-24.
• 1906 - Tom Hughes of the Washington Nationals and Fred Glade of the St. Louis Browns enter the 10th inning with a scoreless tie. Hughes decides he will have to do it on his own and goes long for a 1 - 0 victory. He is the first pitcher to win a 1 - 0 extra-inning game with his own home run.
• 1909:
  • Umpire Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting in the face of Athletics 2B Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call. Under police guard, Hurst is ushered off the field. This incident will eventually lead to Hurst's banishment from baseball in two weeks.
  • Despite allowing 15 hits and six runs, Christy Mathewson tops the Reds 7 - 6 in 10 innings. The Giants bail Matty out by hammering Bob Spade and Billy Campbell.
• 1910 - St. Louis manager-catcher Roger Bresnahan pitches 3 1/3 innings, giving up six hits and no runs against Brooklyn. He last pitched in 1901, and will end his career with a mark of 4-1 as a hurler.
• 1911 - Against the Cubs, visiting Brooklyn gets three homers in the 5th inning as Eddie Zimmerman, Tex Erwin, and Zack Wheat connect, not consecutively, in the 5 - 3 win. Zim's and Erwin's come against Lurid Lew Richie, while Fred Toney serves up Wheat. The trio will total six homers on the year.
• 1912 - At the Polo Grounds, the Giants score runs on two solo homers by Fred Merkle and one by Beals Becker, off Art Fromme, to beat the Reds, 3 - 2. In a typical game, Christy Mathewson scatters ten hits and walks none for the win. Armando Marsans is 4 for 4 for the Reds.
• 1914:
  • Yankee catcher Les Nunamaker throws out three Tigers trying to steal second base. It will be the only time a backstop has accomplished the feat in a single inning this century.
  • The Giants split with the Reds, winning the opener, 7 - 2 behind Christy Mathewson, then blowing a 4 - 0 lead to drop the nitecap, 5 - 4.
• 1918 - Gene Packard allows 12 runs without losing; it will be 90 years and 9 days until Scott Feldman becomes the next major leaguer to pull that off.
• 1922 - The first-place Browns beat the visiting A's, 9 - 5 behind Rasty Wright. Baby Doll Jacobson homers twice to drive in five runs and Pat Collins adds a three-run homer. 3B Herman Bronkie contributes three errors for St. Louis, and Jimmy Austin will take over the hot corner tomorrow.
• 1923 - No games are played following the death of President Warren G. Harding in San Francisco on August 2nd. The schedule will also be canceled a week later on the day of his funeral.
• 1929 - The Cubs complain about the ragged shirt sleeve on Robin Dazzy Vance's pitching arm, an age-old trick to distract a batter. A rule will be passed enforcing neater dressing habits by pitchers. For the second day in a row, Vance has not much more than a sleeve as the Cubs pound Brooklyn, 12 - 2, behind Hal Carlson.
• 1930:
  • In the first of two in a doubleheader sweep over the Braves, Chuck Klein hits safely in his 26th consecutive game, the second time this season he has run a streak to this length. He will hit safely in 135 of his team's 156 games this season. Klein, who hit .434 in the stretch, is stopped in the second game of the doubleheader. The Phils win, 11 - 5 and 4 - 1.
  • At Washington, the Senators divide a pair with Boston, winning 11 - 2 and losing 7 - 1. Joe Judge manages the Nats with Walter Johnson in mourning, Senator players will act as pall bearers at Mrs. Johnson's funeral tomorrow.
• 1931:
  • The A's Lefty Grove beats the Senators, 3 - 2, giving up 11 hits. Grove has now won 13 straight games.
  • At Wrigley Field, Bob Smith shuts down the Reds, 8 - 0, to hand Cincinnati its fourth straight shutout. The four shutout losses in a row ties the National League mark for the century. The Reds lost on July 30th (0 - 5), August 1st (0 - 1), and August 2nd (0 - 3) to the Pirates. Si Johnson takes the loss today.
• 1933 - The Yankees are shut out by the A's and Lefty Grove, 7 - 0, for their first scoreless game since August 2, 1931. They had tallied in 308 games in a row, during which they scored 1,986 runs (6.5 per game) to 1,434 for the opposition, which New York hurlers blanked 22 times. This record is still standing.
• 1936 - The White Sox overcome deficits of 9 - 1 in the 5th and 11 - 3 in the 7th inning to defeat the Red Sox in twelve innings, 12 - 11.
• 1937:
  • A Tuesday crowd of 66,767 watches at Yankee Stadium as Lou Gehrig plays his 1,900th consecutive game.
  • Cardinals C Mickey Owen becomes the third National League backstop ever to make an unassisted double play, as the Cards beat the Bees, 5 - 2.
• 1939 - Veteran C Joe Sprinz of the San Francisco Seals (Pacific Coast League) tries to break the altitude record for a catch as a stunt at the Treasure Island Exhibition. A ball is dropped 800 feet from a blimp and hits him in the face. He suffers a compound fracture of the jaw and loses several teeth.
• 1940 - With Ernie Lombardi hurt, Reds C Willard Hershberger is hitting .309 after taking over. However, depressed in recent weeks, Hershberger commits suicide by slashing his throat in Boston's Copley Plaza Hotel. Hershberger blamed himself for calling wrong pitches in the July 31, 5 - 4, 10-inning loss to New York. Hershberger's father also committed suicide, in 1928.
• 1942 - A military relief game with the Dodgers attracts a Polo Grounds record crowd of 57,303. The Giants, losing 7 - 4, have two on and no out in the 9th when the game is called. A government order mandates that lights must be turned out at 9:14.
• 1944 - Tommy Brown, just 16 years and 8 months old, plays SS for Brooklyn in both games of a twin bill loss, 6 - 2 and 7 - 1, to the Cubs. He hits a double and scores a run.
• 1948:
  • Before 72,434 in Cleveland, ancient Satchel Paige makes his first start, pitching seven innings against the Senators before being relieved. Paige picks up the win, 5 - 3, which moves Cleveland (56-38) into a four-way tie for first.
  • Jack Kramer leaves in the 3rd inning with a sore shoulder but still is credited with his 11th straight win as the Red Sox (58-40) pound the Browns, 15 - 8. Ted Williams hits his 19th home run and Vern Stephens drives in three runs.
• 1950 - The Pirates sell Hank Borowy to the Tigers, and the Indians waive Gene Bearden to the Senators.
• 1953 - Chicago White Sox 1B Ferris Fain brawls in a Maryland cafe. The team fines him $600.
• 1954 - The Dodgers bench Roy Campanella again for his ailing left hand. He will play only sparingly for the rest of the season.
• 1955:
  • Frank Lary of the Tigers beats Washington, 3 - 0 on a two-hitter.
  • With his record at 18-1, the Dodgers' Don Newcombe loses a 1 - 0 game to the Cubs' Sam Jones.
• 1957 - Listening to the radio, Pirates manager Bobby Bragan hears he has been fired and replaced by Danny Murtaugh.
• 1959 - For the first time in major league history a second All-Star Game is played in the same season. The American League posts a 5 - 3 victory at the Los Angeles Coliseum as the White Sox's Nellie Fox singles in the decisive run.
• 1960 - Frank Lane trades managers with Detroit GM Bill DeWitt. The Indians' Joe Gordon (49-46) is dealt to the Tigers for Jimmy Dykes (44-52).
• 1961 - A 19 - 0 rout of St. Louis by Pittsburgh matches the most lopsided shutout in modern National League history.
• 1962:
  • At Los Angeles, the Dodgers top the Cubs, 8 - 3, behind Don Drysdale. Cal Koonce takes the loss. Maury Wills helps with a 4th-inning triple and then steals home.
  • With a pair of home runs for the third straight game, the Mets' Frank Thomas becomes the second player in National League history with six home runs in three consecutive games.
• 1965 - Judge Roy Hofheinz purchases 53 percent of Bob Smith's holdings in the Astros, giving Hofheinz a controlling 86 percent of the club's stock.
• 1967:
  • Manager Alvin Dark is fired and outfielder Ken Harrelson is released by A's owner Charlie Finley due to reports of rowdy behavior on a team flight.
  • The Red Sox obtain catcher Elston Howard from the Yankees for cash and two players to be named later. Pete Magrini and Ron Klimkowski, both pitchers, will be sent to New York as part of the trade.
• 1969:
  • The Reds tally ten runs in the 5th inning and smack 25 hits in the game to just beat the Phillies, 19 - 17 at Connie Mack Stadium.
  • Twin Rich Reese's pinch-hit grand slam off the Orioles' Dave McNally in the 7th ends his 17-game winning streak. McNally, now 15-1 for the year, loses 5 - 2 to Jim Kaat.
• 1970 - In their last meeting of the year, Baltimore defeats Kansas City, 10 - 8. It is the Orioles' 23rd straight win over the Royals over a two-year span, a major league mark.
• 1972 - Cubs pitcher Bill Hands allows one hit, by Ken Singleton, in beating the Expos, 3 - 0, in the nitecap. The Cubs lose the opener, 2 - 1, as Jack Aker absorbs his third loss in his last five save opportunities.
• 1973 - The Braves edge the Padres, 5 - 4, despite a pinch home run by Dave Winfield. Big Dave's next pinch homer will come on September 29, 1990.
• 1976 - At Candlestick Park, Jack Billingham's three-hitter gives the Reds a 9 - 0 win over the Giants.
• 1977:
  • Dennis Leonard pitches the Royals to a 12 - 2 win over the White Sox. John Mayberry leads the offense by hitting for the cycle.
  • Baltimore rookie 1B Eddie Murray homers from both sides of the plate in a ten-inning, 8 - 6 win over Oakland.
  • The Cubs place P Bruce Sutter and his injured arm on the 21-day disabled list.
• 1978 - The Red Sox score two runs in the 17th to win, 7 - 5, on RBIs by Rick Burleson and Jim Rice. Ex-Yankee Mike Torrez then stops New York, 8 - 1, in a rain-shortened game.
• 1979:
  • At Seattle, the Mariners edge the A's, 1 - 0 behind Floyd Bannister. During the game a foul ball hits a speaker and is caught by the A's pitcher for an out.
  • In the wake of C Thurman Munson's tragic death, the Yankees purchase Lenny Randle from the Pirates and bring up C Brad Gulden and OF Bobby Brown from Columbus.
  • Tony LaRussa takes over as manager of the White Sox, a day after the resignation of Don Kessinger.
• 1980:
  • Al Kaline, Duke Snider, Chuck Klein, and Tom Yawkey are inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
  • In a 6 - 4 win over Texas, Boston's Tom Burgmeier finishes the last inning in RF. He's the first Red Sox pitcher to play a position since Mike Ryba caught in three games in 1942.
• 1982:
  • At California, Doug DeCinces cracks homers in his first three at bats, but the Angels still lose to the Twins, 5 - 4.
  • The White Sox sweep a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium, 1 - 0 and 14 - 2, prompting Yankees owner George Steinbrenner to fire manager Gene Michael and replace him with pitching coach Clyde King. King is the Yankees' third manager this season.
  • Royals second baseman Frank White hits for the cycle in a 6 - 5 victory over the Tigers.
• 1983 - Nolan Ryan pitches his ninth career one-hitter, striking out ten Padres on the way to a 1 - 0 victory.
• 1984 - Brewers reliever Rollie Fingers (23 saves, 1.96 ERA) undergoes back surgery to alleviate a herniated disk and will miss the remainder of the season.
• 1986:
  • Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr, and Ernie Lombardi are inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
  • At Cleveland, the Yankees set a major-league record by scoring ten runs in the 5th inning. They have five walks, a hit batsman, and six hits including two homers to score. New York wins, 10 - 6.
  • At Comiskey Park, Russ Morman homers and singles in the 4th inning in his first major league game as the Sox beat the Tigers, 10 - 1. He ties Billy Martin's debut with his two hits in one inning.
• 1987:
  • Tom Candiotti tosses a one-hitter as the Indians beat the Yankees, 2 - 0. Mike Easler's leadoff single in the 8th is the only hit.
  • Jack Morris ties the American League record with five wild pitches in a 4 - 2, ten-inning loss to the Royals.
  • The Twins' Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound and is ejected during the 4th inning of Minnesota's 11 - 3 win over California. He will be suspended for ten games by American League president Bobby Brown, who doesn't buy Niekro's story that he had been filing his nails on the bench and stuck the file in his back pocket when the inning started.
• 1989 - The Reds set a major league record for the most hits in the 1st inning of a game with 16 as they score 14 runs at Riverfront Stadium off woeful Astro pitching. The half-inning lasts 38 minutes with the Reds eventually winning the game, 18 - 1.
• 1990:
  • The Braves trade two-time MVP OF Dale Murphy to the Phillies for reliever Jeff Parrett and a pair of players to be named later.
  • Cleveland's Tom Candiotti has his no-hitter spoiled in the 8th inning when New York's Oscar Azocar singles. Candy leaves the game and takes the loss as the Tribe drops a 6 - 4 decision. In just his second week in the majors, Cleveland's Alex Cole ties a major-league record by stealing seven bases in two games. He set the club record by swiping five bases against the Royals on August 1st.
  • Pittsburgh's Doug Drabek is one out away from a no-hitter when he gives up a single to the Phillies' Sil Campusano, who is hitting .188. Drabek finishes with an 11 - 0 one-hitter.
• 1991 - Oakland OF Dave Henderson blasts three home runs in his first three at bats in an 8 - 6 loss to Minnesota.
• 1992 - Tigers president Bo Schembechler and team chairman Jim Campbell are both fired.
• 1994 - The Reds defeat the Giants, 17 - 4, as former Giant Kevin Mitchell gets five hits and five RBIs against his former teammates. Mitchell strokes two singles, two doubles, and a home run.
• 1995 - The Senate Judiciary Committee sends a bill calling for the partial repeal of baseball's antitrust exemption to the full Senate. The vote is just 9-8.
• 1996 - The Braves defeat the Dodgers, 5 - 3, in 18 innings. Rookie P Brad Woodall picks up his first victory with 2 2/3 innings of hitless relief.
• 1997:
  • Phil Niekro, Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox, and Willie Wells are inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
  • Coming off the Brewers' bench, Jeromy Burnitz ties an American League record homering in consecutive pinch at-bats.
• 1998:
  • Houston pitcher C.J. Nitkowski hits three consecutive Marlin batters with pitches in the 8th inning: Dock Ellis (1974) and Wilbur Wood (1977) are the only other pitchers since 1900 to hit three batters in a row.
  • Leading off for the Yankees, Chuck Knoblauch lines a hit off Mike Oquist's ribs, and the Yankees continue to connect off the Oakland pitcher for 15 more hits, including four homers, in five innings. New York wins, 14 - 1, scoring all 14 earned runs off Oquist, the most runs allowed since Bill Travers in August 1977. Orlando Hernandez picks up the win.
• 1999 - The Major League Umpires Association files unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board to block the American League and National League from using minor league replacements in the wake of the union's mass resignation strategy.
• 2000 - Kevin Mitchell of the Sonoma County Crushers is expelled for the rest of the season from the independent Western Baseball League for punching the owner of an opposing team. The former National League MVP allegedly hit Solano Steelheads owner Bruce Portner, who had come on the field after a brawl had ended which was caused by a pitch thrown behind Mitchell.
• 2001:
  • The Blue Jays release P Joey Hamilton, ending a three-year struggling relationship between the club and the pitcher. The Jays had originally signed Hamilton to a three-year $16.5 million contract. The Jays then defeat the Orioles, 10 - 1, despite an infestation of aphids in the 3rd inning. Although the game is not delayed, home plate umpire Tim Welke asks that the roof of the SkyDome be closed. Toronto's Jeff Frye wears a dust mask in the dugout.
  • White Sox P Mark Buehrle tosses a one-hitter in defeating Tampa Bay, 4 - 0. Damian Rolls' leadoff single in the 7th is the Devil Rays' only hit. Buehrle walks one and faces just 28 batters.
  • The Brewers edge the visiting Atlanta Braves, 3 - 2, winning on a wild pitch by Jose Cabrera in the 11th. The Brewers break the two-million mark in attendance for just the second time in franchise history, the first being in 1983; however, the Brewers' predecessors in Milwaukee, the Braves, broke two million each season from 1954 to 1957.
  • A jury orders Anheuser-Busch to pay the family of the late Roger Maris $50 million for improperly taking away a beer distributorship. Both sides plan to appeal the ruling, as attorneys for the Maris family said the panel meant to award the family $139 million, but were confused by the judge's instructions to the jury.
• 2002:
  • Darin Erstad agrees to a four-year contract extension worth $32 million to stay in Anaheim through 2006. The Angels' center fielder joins Troy Glaus, Garret Anderson and Tim Salmon as one of the key players the organization has signed at least through the 2004 season.
  • In just the first four innings, Edgar Martinez ties the major league record for sacrifice flies in a game with three. The Mariners' designated hitter becomes the 11th player in history to accomplish the feat doing it in his first three at-bats in Seattle's 12 - 4 victory over the Indians.
• 2004 - In a game in which Cardinal first baseman Albert Pujols becomes the first player in history to hit at least 30 homers in each of his first four big league seasons, Tony Batista goes deep twice, knotting the score in the 9th and winning the game in the 12th. The Expos third baseman's 199th and 200th career blasts helps Montreal beat the Cardinals in extra innings, 10 - 6.
• 2008 - South Korea wins the 2008 World Junior Championship, its second straight World Junior Championship title and fifth overall. Yung-hoon Sung shuts out the USA in a 7 - 0 rout in the Gold Medal game. Cuba claims Bronze. Brett Lawrie of the host Canadians leads in homers and RBI and is second in average.
• 2009:
  • Japan wins its fourth straight Asian Championship, going 6-0 in the 2009 Asian Championship. OF Ikuhiro Kiyota is named MVP of the final round.
  • Justin Verlander of the Tigers gives up five runs to the Orioles in the 1st inning, before settling down. Brian Roberts leads off the game with a home run, and four more runs score before the second out is recorded. Detroit scores three in the bottom of the inning, on doubles by Placido Polanco and Miguel Cabrera, who then homers to tie the game in the 5th. With two outs in the bottom of the 9th, Clete Thomas homers to deepest center field off Danys Baez to give Detroit the comeback 6 - 5 win, which extends its lead over the idle White Sox to two games in the AL Central.
• 2010:
  • Toronto keeps banging out homers by the bushel, hitting four more in today's 8 - 2 win over the Yankees at New Yankee Stadium. Aaron Hill, Vernon Wells, Travis Snider and José Bautista connect for the Jays. Starter Ricky Romero gives up a two-run shot to Mark Teixeira in the 1st, then limits the Bronx Bombers to an infield single the rest of the way to take the win with a complete game two-hitter. The Jays have now hit a major league-leading 167 home runs.
  • Meanwhile, the Rays take sole possession of first place in the AL East with a 6 - 4 win over Minnesota. Sean Rodriguez and B.J. Upton both hit three-run homers, while Jeff Niemann notches his tenth win, the fourth Rays starter to reach the mark already this year.
  • Two of the top first basemen in the majors go on the disabled list today: the Phillies' Ryan Howard is the victim of a sprained ankle, while Boston's Kevin Youkilis has a thumb injury. Also going on the DL are Cleveland C Carlos Santana and DH Travis Hafner, who have respectively a sprained knee suffered in a collision at home plate, and inflammation in the shoulder.
  • The Royals and Athletics are involved in a strange play tonight. With the Royals' Mitch Maier on third and Yunieski Betancourt on first base with none out in the 7th, Gregor Blanco lays a bunt down the third base line. C Kurt Suzuki fields it and catches Maier in a rundown between third and home. When P Jerry Blevins runs Maier back to the third sack, Betancourt is already standing there. Blevins tags both runners and umpire Bill Hohn calls Betancourt out for being on an occupied base, while Blanco advances to second. However, the umpires then confer, and crew chief Gary Darling rules Maier out for stepping off the bag after being tagged, thus abandoning his effort, making Betancourt's presence on the bag legal. A's manager Bob Geren comes out to argue that both runners should then be out and when he insists too much, he is ejected. In the end, the unusual play doesn't figure in the final score as the Royals win, 3 - 2.
  • For the second consecutive game, the Brewers score 18 runs against the Cards, winning, 18 - 4. IF Aaron Miles makes the fourth pitching appearance of his career, tossing a scoreless 9th inning for St. Louis; he is their only pitcher not to allow any runs over the past two days.
• 2011:
  • Dan Uggla extends his hitting streak to 25 games with a single and three-run homer in Atlanta's 6 - 4 win over Washington. Batting just .173 on July 4th, Uggla has been scorching during the streak, raising his batting average 42 points while hitting 11 homers and driving in 23 runs.
  • With tempers running high in Milwaukee, Casey McGehee has a three-homer day for the Brewers as they beat the Cardinals, 10 - 5. The Cards let newly-acquired Edwin Jackson take a beating, as he gives up ten runs and 14 hits in seven innings in order to give his team's bullpen a breather.
  • The Yankees jump to a 13 - 1 lead over Chicago in the first three innings, chasing Gavin Floyd early, but A.J. Burnett can't make it through five innings, departing after one out in the 5th, having allowed his team's lead to narrow to 13 - 7. Cory Wade steps in to shut down the Sox and pick up the win, with the Yankees running the final score to 18 - 7 with some late scoring. Robinson Cano hits a three-run homer in the 1st to set the tone, and Eric Chavez has a two-run shot in the 3rd, his first as a Yankee.
• 2012:
  • Both Upton brothers hit their 100th career homers today. Justin Upton hits his in the 2nd inning of Arizona's 4 - 2 win over Philadelphia, while B.J. Upton joins him an hour later when he connects against Baltimore in the 4th inning, leading the Rays to a 2 - 0 win.
  • The trading deadline may be past, but a few more deals get done today. The Nationals acquire C Kurt Suzuki from Oakland for David Freitas, the Dodgers claim P Joe Blanton off waivers from Philadelphia, and the A's purchase P Pat Neshek from Baltimore.
• 2013 - The Dodgers win their 13th straight road game, breaking a franchise record with a 3 - 0 win over the Cubs. Chris Capuano pitches 6 1/3 innings for the win.
• 2015:
  • Adrian Beltre hits for the cycle for the third time in his career when he gets all four hits by the end of the 5th inning in the Rangers' 12 - 9 win over the Astros. The last player to hit three cycles was Babe Herman, who hit his third in 1933; Bob Meusel and John Reilly are the only other members of this exclusive club.
  • Mike Hessman of the Toledo Mud Hens hits his 433rd home run in the minor leagues, passing Buzz Arlett for most all-time in the U.S.-based minors; four players whose careers were largely in Mexico have hit more. Among these, Hector Espino remains the all-time leader with 484.
• 2016 - At a press conference on the eve of the Rio de Janeiro games, the International Olympic Committee announces that men's baseball and women's softball will return to the Olympics at the 2020 games to be held in Tokyo, ending a 12-year run since the sports' last appearance, at the 2008 Olympics. A new provision that allows host cities to include additional sports in the official medals program paves the way for baseball's return, alongside newer events such as skateboarding, sports climbing and surfing.
• 2017 - A pair of 9th-inning homers off closer Wade Davis lead the Diamondbacks to a 10 - 8 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Paul Goldschmidt connects for his third long ball of the game with one out, and J.D. Martinez follows with another dinger. Goldschmidt has six RBIs on the day, and his performance is almost matched by Cubs C Willson Contreras, who also drives in six, but with only two home runs. The back-and-forth game starts 90 minutes late because of rain and is interrupted twice, for 35 minutes in the 2nd and another 30 minutes in the 9th.
• 2019:
  • The French women's national team wins its first tournament, the 2019 European Women's Baseball Championship, to qualify for the 2020 Women's Baseball World Cup. They go unbeaten in the event and top the Netherlands, 5 - 2 in the finale as Camille Foucher shuts down the Dutch bats while Marjorie Brunel has two hits and two RBI. Mélissa Mayeux scores a run, drives in a run and gets the save. Foucher wins the tournament's Best Pitcher award, Raina Hunter of France is named Best Hitter and Brunel gets the MVP.
  • In his first start after being traded to the Astros, Aaron Sanchez holds the Mariners hitless for six innings; relievers Will Harris, Joe Biagini (who came to Houston in the same trade as Sanchez) and Chris Devenski then combine to complete the no-hitter, a 9 - 0 win. It is the second combined no-hitter thrown this season, both against Seattle, and the ninth no-no in Astros history. Sanchez came into the game with an ERA of 6.07.
  • For the second time in ten days, 39-year-old Nelson Cruz of the Twins has a three-homer game, doing so in an 11 - 3 win over the Royals.
  • Heidenheim Heideköpfe wins its third Bundesliga-1 title in the past five years, defeating the defending champion Bonn Capitals two games to none in the finals. Today, Mike Bolsenbroek and Enorbel Marquez shut out Bonn in a 7 - 2 win while Simon Gühring, Gary Owens and Shawn Larry all homer; Christian Tomsich takes the loss.
• 2020 - The Braves suffer a big blow as they lose their ace pitcher, Mike Soroka, for the season when he tears his Achilles tendon while delivering a pitch in the 3rd inning of a 7 - 2 loss to the New York Mets.
• 2021:
  • The comebacks and drama continue at the 2020 Olympics (held in 2021 due to COVID-19-related delays). In the second elimination game, the Dominican national team rallies from a 6 - 5 deficit in the bottom of the 9th, ending when Jose Bautista (0 for 9 so far in the Olympics) singles off Israel's D.J. Sharabi to score pinch-runner Yefri Pérez with the winner. Danny Valencia's two-run homer (his third of the Games) off Jumbo Díaz puts Israel ahead in the 8th but Johan Mieses ties it with a shot against Zack Weiss to open the bottom of the 9th.
  • 19-year-old SS Noelvi Marte has a great game for the Modesto Nuts against the Stockton Ports in the Low-A West. He goes 4-for-5 with three homers, including his first grand slam as a professional, and drives in nine runs in the game, but his heroics are not enough as Stockton comes out ahead, 16 - 15, in a wild game at Banner Island Ballpark.
• 2022 - One of the less-heralded acquisitions in yesterday's trading deadline frenzy is the first to make a splash. Brandon Drury, starting at DH for the Padres against the Rockies after being acquired from the Reds in exchange for a minor leaguer, takes Chad Kuhl deep for a grand slam on the first pitch he sees in the 1st inning as San Diego prevails easily, 9 - 1.
• 2023 - The 2023 complete a four-game series at the Rogers Centre with a 6 - 1 win over the Blue Jays, having won three of the four games. Ryan Mountcastle goes 11 for 13 (.846) over the four games, including going 4 for 4 today with four RBIs.

Births

• 1849 - Charlie Snow, catcher (d. 1929)
• 1855 - Silver Flint, catcher, manager (d. 1892)
• 1866 - Charles Dooley, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1945)
• 1869 - George Wheeler, pitcher (d. 1946)
• 1870 - Stub Brown, pitcher (d. 1948)
• 1872 - Will Dithridge, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1940)
• 1873 - Ed McFarland, catcher (d. 1959)
• 1884 - Tom Reilly, infielder (d. 1918)
• 1885 - Doc Ralston, outfielder (d. 1950)
• 1886 - Al Kaiser, outfielder (d. 1969)
• 1888 - Jay Rogers, catcher (d. 1964)
• 1889 - Gus Getz, infielder (d. 1969)
• 1894 - George Hale, catcher (d. 1945)
• 1894 - Harry Heilmann, outfielder; Hall of Famer (d. 1951)
• 1902 - Pat Olsen, minor league pitcher (d. 2000)
• 1902 - Joe Sprinz, catcher (d. 1994)
• 1902 - Doug Taitt, outfielder (d. 1970)
• 1905 - Joe Cates, infielder (d. 1967)
• 1905 - Clyde Perry, minor league pitcher (d. 1971)
• 1909 - George Meyer, infielder (d. 1992)
• 1911 - Art Evans, pitcher (d. 1952)
• 1912 - Whitey Wilshere, pitcher (d. 1985)
• 1914 - Elbert Eatmon, pitcher (d. 1998)
• 1917 - Milo Candini, pitcher (d. 1998)
• 1917 - Dave Hoskins, pitcher/outfielder (d. 1970)
• 1920 - Jim Hegan, catcher; All-Star (d. 1984)
• 1920 - Vic Johnson, pitcher (d. 2005)
• 1920 - A.J. Matulis, minor league pitcher/first baseman and manager (d. 2002)
• 1921 - Joe Lafata, infielder (d. 2004)
• 1922 - Frank Kristie, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1994)
• 1927 - Vern Campbell, minor league outfielder and manager (d. 2013)
• 1927 - Dick Welteroth, pitcher (d. 2014)
• 1928 - Dick Hyde, pitcher (d. 2020)
• 1928 - Cliff Ross, pitcher (d. 1999)
• 1930 - Don Herman, minor league pitcher (d. 1999)
• 1933 - Hugo Walker, Hoofdklasse infielder (d. 2015)
• 1940 - Roger Repoz, outfielder
• 1952 - Dan Meyer, infielder
• 1952 - Bob Davidson, umpire
• 1956 - Mike Karabin, college coach
• 1957 - Mark Miller, minor league catcher
• 1958 - Bob Helsom, minor league outfielder
• 1959 - Jim Gott, pitcher
• 1959 - Mike Jeffcoat, pitcher
• 1960 - Sid Bream, infielder
• 1961 - Dave Griffin, college coach
• 1962 - Mike Grouse, scout
• 1962 - Mackey Sasser, catcher
• 1962 - Kazuaki Ueda, NPB infielder
• 1963 - Dave Osteen, minor league pitcher
• 1964 - Kevin Elster, infielder
• 1967 - Greg Perschke, college coach
• 1968 - Rod Beck, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2007)
• 1968 - Kevin Morton, pitcher
• 1969 - Steve Dixon, pitcher
• 1970 - Paul Ganvik, Elitserien pitcher
• 1971 - Chris Sexton, infielder
• 1972 - Wendell Magee, outfielder
• 1973 - Blake Stein, pitcher
• 1974 - Ken Wagner, minor league player
• 1975 - Roosevelt Brown, outfielder
• 1976 - Scott Barry, umpire
• 1976 - Troy Glaus, infielder; All-Star
• 1977 - Tom Brady, drafted catcher
• 1977 - Justin Lehr, pitcher
• 1979 - Brian Kirby, minor league player
• 1980 - Ricardo Imamura, Brazilian national team player
• 1980 - Anthony Piquet, Division Elite pitcher
• 1981 - Travis Bowyer, pitcher
• 1981 - Felix Sanchez, pitcher
• 1982 - Yunir Garcia, minor league catcher and manager
• 1983 - Derrick Arnold, minor league player
• 1983 - Mark Reynolds, infielder
• 1984 - German Duran, infielder
• 1984 - Sergio Escalona, pitcher
• 1984 - Matt Joyce, outfielder; All-Star
• 1984 - Jared Keel, minor league outfielder
• 1984 - Greg Paiml, minor league infielder
• 1984 - Shawn Roof, minor league infielder and manager
• 1985 - Luis Martinez, catcher
• 1986 - Avery Amos, Palauan national team infielder
• 1986 - Willie Cabrera, minor league player
• 1987 - Peter Fatse, minor league infielder/outfielder
• 1987 - Hans Heyrman, First Division infielder
• 1988 - Brandon Lodge, minor league pitcher
• 1988 - Pat McCoy, pitcher
• 1988 - David Narodowski, minor league infielder/outfielder
• 1988 - Leonel Reina, First Division outfielder
• 1989 - Roberto Gómez, pitcher
• 1989 - Chad Rogers, minor league pitcher
• 1990 - Octavio Acosta, minor league pitcher
• 1990 - Matt Hobgood, minor league pitcher
• 1990 - Mathieu Lapinski, Division Elite outfielder
• 1991 - Alexander Bolgov, Russian national team outfielder-pitcher
• 1991 - Ka'iana Eldredge, drafted infielder
• 1992 - Alexander Capriata, minor league catcher
• 1992 - Martin Červenka, minor league catcher
• 1992 - Bubba Starling, outfielder
• 1993 - Seung-kyu Lee, KBO infielder
• 1995 - Zac Gallen, pitcher; All-Star
• 1995 - Riley Unroe, minor league infielder
• 1995 - Chia-Wei Yang, CPBL infielder
• 1996 - Travis Blankenhorn, infielder
• 1996 - Alec Bohm, infielder
• 1996 - Daiki Tajima, NPB pitcher
• 1997 - Luis Robert, outfielder; All-Star
• 1998 - Jonathan Arauz, infielder
• 1998 - Jared Shuster, pitcher
• 1999 - David Dinski, Bundesliga outfielder
• 1999 - Chun-Pui Mok, Hong Kong national team pitcher
• 2003 - Tariq Khan, Pakistani national team player

Deaths

• 1918 - Mike Lawlor, catcher (b. 1854)
• 1933 - P.C. Cray, umpire (b. 1862)
• 1934 - Charlie Hastings, pitcher (b. 1870)
• 1940 - Willard Hershberger, catcher (b. 1910)
• 1942 - Lyle Bigbee, pitcher (b. 1893)
• 1942 - Jack Hayden, outfielder (b. 1880)
• 1942 - Jack Sutthoff, pitcher (b. 1873)
• 1947 - Curtis Harris, infielder; All-Star (b. 1905)
• 1947 - Al Tesch, infielder (b. 1891)
• 1947 - Vic Willis, pitcher; Hall of Famer (b. 1876)
• 1954 - Art Hoelskoetter, infielder (b. 1882)
• 1961 - Tom Downey, infielder (b. 1884)
• 1962 - War Sanders, pitcher (b. 1877)
• 1964 - Red Herriott, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1886)
• 1966 - Earl Blackburn, catcher (b. 1892)
• 1967 - Ed Young, infielder (b. 1913)
• 1968 - John Jenkins, infielder (b. 1896)
• 1974 - Pudge Powers, minor league catcher and manager (b. 1909)
• 1976 - Homer Ezzell, infielder (b. 1896)
• 1980 - Bill Hubbell, pitcher (b. 1897)
• 1981 - Jim McLeod, infielder (b. 1908)
• 1984 - Elmer Smith, outfielder (b. 1892)
• 1985 - Cloy Mattox, catcher (b. 1902)
• 1990 - Bob Brown, pitcher (b. 1911)
• 1995 - Harry Craft, outfielder, manager (b. 1915)
• 1996 - Wild Bill Wright, outfielder; All-Star, Salón de la Fama (b. 1914)
• 2001 - Hisanori Karita, NPB infielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1910)
• 2004 - Bob Murphy, announcer (b. 1924)
• 2007 - Lee Griffeth, pitcher (b. 1925)
• 2012 - Frank Evans, Negro Leagues player (b. 1921)
• 2015 - Sadao Nishimura, NPB pitcher (b. 1934)
• 2016 - Andres Reiner, scout (b. 1935)
• 2018 - Don Boenker, minor league pitcher (b. 1931)
• 2021 - Duke Carmel, outfielder (b. 1937)