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Events, births and deaths that occurred on August 4.

Events

• 1884 - Pud Galvin pitches the most lopsided no-hitter in major league history as the Buffalo Bisons stampede over the Detroit Wolverines, 18 - 0. It is the second career no-hitter for future Hall of Famer Galvin.
• 1897 - In the 2nd inning of the second game of a doubleheader between the Pirates and Reds in Cincinnati, OH, fans throw an empty beer bottle in the direction of umpire Tim Hurst. Hurst picks it up and throws it right back in the crowd. He is arrested and fined $100 dollars on a charge of assault and battery when the bottle hits a spectator, causing a gash over his right eye.
• 1900 - The Cardinals blow a 4 - 1 lead to the Giants, but come back against reliever Christy Mathewson, pitching his third straight game in relief, to take another lead, 8 - 7 in the 7th. St. Louis wins, 9 - 8, with John McGraw scoring the winning run in the 8th, handing Matty his first career decision. Matty will go 0-3 as a Giant before returning to Norfolk.
• 1901 - Cincinnati and Pittsburgh players are clocked while running from home plate to first base. The fastest time for the 90-foot sprint is three seconds flat, by Pirates OF Ginger Beaumont.
• 1905:
  • The Highlanders field a unique battery: Doc Newton pitching and Mike "Doc" Powers catching, but only Powers is a physician. The Highlanders beat St. Louis, 7 - 3.
  • At Boston, Harvard Eddie Grant makes his major league debut, collecting three hits for Cleveland. But Boston wins, 7 - 5. Grant will go hitless tomorrow in an 8 - 4 loss to Cy Young, and be sent down to the minors. He'll resurface with the Phillies in 1907.
• 1906 - The Giants slow the Chicago express, stopping the Cubs, 7 - 4, behind Christy Mathewson and Hooks Wiltse. New York is just 4 1/2 games behind Chicago, but the Cubs will go 50-8 from August 1 to outdistance the pack.
• 1908:
  • The Giants take two from Cincinnati, winning 4 - 3 in 12 innings, and 4 - 1. Christy Mathewson wins both, relieving Joe McGinnity in the 9th inning of the opener and tossing nine innings in the nitecap; Andy Coakley loses both. New York moves into second place, five percentage points behind the Pirates. Despite the two losses, it is a relief for the Reds to score runs. Cincy had endured four straight shutout losses: 5 - 0 on July 30; 3 - 0 on the 31st; 6 - 0 on the 1st and 3rd.
  • At Brooklyn, the Superbas and St. Louis Cardinals play an entire game with one ball. Brooklyn wins, 3 - 0.
• 1910 - The Athletics' Jack Coombs and Chicago's Ed Walsh duel 16 innings to a 0 - 0 tie. Coombs gives up just three hits and strikes out 18 in what he calls his best game. Walsh gives up just six hits in 16 innings but the woeful Sox offense provides no support. Working with little rest, Walsh will win 18 of 19 starts in July, August, and September, finishing 30-9 with a 1.30 ERA. His 13 shutouts are the American League record; in 12 other games he gives up just one run.
• 1911 - Lee Tannehill of the White Sox, the only SS to execute two unassisted double plays in one season, makes both of them in the same game versus Washington. Walter Johnson still wins 1 - 0 for the Senators in the first game of a doubleheader. In the second game, Germany Schaefer famously steals first base for the Senators. In the bottom of the 9th, with Clyde Milan on third base, he steals second in an attempt to draw a throw, in order to allow Milan to score. When that fails, he leads off second, and breaks towards first base on the next pitch, making it safely, and then, while Sox manager Hugh Duffy is out arguing the call, he attempts to steal again. This time, Milan breaks for home and the White Sox throw him out to end the inning. The rules will be changed to prevent players from running the bases backwards in order to confuse the defence or make a mockery of the game, although backwards progress will still be allowed in case of genuine baserunning mistakes.
• 1914 - Red Sox owner Joseph Lannin offers the use of Fenway Park to Braves owner James Gaffney. With the Braves making a run for the pennant, Gaffney will take up the offer.
• 1915 - On a cold and damp day in St. Louis, the Giants sweep the Cardinals. In the opener, New York pounds Red Ames and Christy Mathewson coasts to a 10 - 0 lead after six innings, but the Cards come back to make it close, losing 11 - 9. Jeff Tesreau saves Matty's 6th win of the year. New York takes the nitecap, 7 - 0.
• 1916 - The Browns' Eddie Plank allows two hits and tops young Babe Ruth to give the Browns a 6 - 1 win over the first-place Red Sox. For the hot St. Louis Browns, it is their 14th win in a row, but the streak still leaves them in seventh place.
• 1921 - In Chicago, Billy Southworth leads the Braves to a 13 - 5 scalping of the Cubs by belting three doubles and home run. Mule Watson coasts to the win over Percy Jones.
• 1922 - The Cards pass New York and move into first again, as the Cubs score a 3 - 2 win over the Giants.
• 1925 - Every player in each team's lineup has at least one putout in the Indians-Yankees game.
• 1926 - Stanford star fullback Ernie Nevers pitches his first complete game for the Browns, beating the A's, 3 - 1. Nevers will be 6-12 in his brief baseball career, but he will win a place in the Pro Football Hall of Fame playing with the Duluth Eskimos and Chicago Cardinals (1926-1931).
• 1927 - At Baltimore's Maryland Park, Joe Strong of the Baltimore Black Sox beats Hilldale in an Eastern Colored League game, 2 - 1, pitching an 11-inning no-hitter. It is the longest no-hitter in Negro Leagues history.
• 1928 - A visiting team from Stanford University led by Harry Wolter plays the Australian national team in front of 15,000 spectators at the Agricultural Ground in Sydney, New South Wales. This marks the first time the national team has played an opponent from outside the country.
• 1929 - The Yankees take the opening game of two from the visiting Cleveland Indians, winning 12 - 0. In the second game, after trailing 6 - 5 with two out in the top of the 9th, Cleveland scores an American League record-tying nine runs, to win 14 - 6.
• 1930:
  • At Philadelphia, Lefty Grove helps himself to his 17th win by belting a three-run homer in the 2nd. Al Simmons adds two triples and a two-run homer as the A's beat Boston, 13 - 4.
  • At Detroit, Charlie Gehringer hits a homer to center field with the bases loaded in the 12th inning to give the Tigers a 7 - 3 win over Chicago. It is Gehringer's fourth hit and second homer as he drives in six runs, and Gehringer's second 12th-inning homer in a month: he hit one against Cleveland on July 4th.
• 1931:
  • The Reds finally score, but lose to the Cubs, 4 - 2, in the first of two. Guy Bush beats Larry Benton. Chicago takes the nitecap, 7 - 3, behind Les Sweetland as Jack Ogden is pinned with the loss. Rookie OF Vince Barton has five hits in the two games, including a pair of homers in the second game.
  • Pittsburgh's Heinie Meine gives up three Cardinal runs in the 6th inning, halting a scoreless streak by Buc hurlers at 45 innings. The Pirates' streak includes shutouts over New York and Cincy in four consecutive games. The Cards win today, 7 - 1.
• 1932 - Bill Dickey returns to the Yankees' lineup after his month's suspension with a grand slam and three singles, as New York beats Chicago, 15 - 3.
• 1934 - Phillies P Reggie Grabowski surrenders 11 hits in the 9th inning of the second game against the Giants for a modern National League record. Eleven runs score in the inning, as New York wins, 21 - 4.
• 1935 - Walter Johnson resigns as Cleveland manager and is replaced by Steve O'Neill.
• 1936 - The Cardinals regain first place, beating the Cubs, 6 - 1, and dropping them to second place.
• 1937 - Joe Medwick again ties the major-league record with four extra-base hits in a game. It is the third time he has performed the feat.
• 1939 - Mike Kreevich of the Chicago White Sox equals the major league record by grounding into four successive double plays against the Washington Senators.
• 1940:
  • In Boston, the two teams dedicate the game in memory of Willard Hershberger, then Frank McCormick drives in six runs to lead the Reds to a 12 - 9 win over the Bees after Bucky Walters loses the opener, his third straight defeat.
  • Jimmie Foxx, who started as a catcher in 1925, is behind the plate for the Red Sox to catch a 7 - 3 win for long-time teammate Lefty Grove. Foxx cracks his 24th home run to start the Sox on an eight-game skein in which they will hit 20 homers.
• 1941 - At Ebbets Field, Dodger backstop Mickey Owen becomes the first catcher to handle three foul pop-ups in one inning.
• 1942:
  • The Giants-Dodgers game ends in a 1 - 1 tie as Pee Wee Reese's grand slam in the top of the 9th is wiped out. As was the case the day before, the game is called because of the government's 9:14 curfew on lights. It is the last twilight game played at the Polo Grounds. The Dodgers have held the National League lead for 144 days. Their margin over the Cardinals is 10 games. From now until the season's end, Brooklyn will win 17, lose 18.
  • Braves pitcher Jim Tobin clubs his sixth homer of the year, tying the National League record for homers by a pitcher, but he loses to the Phils, 4 - 2.
• 1945:
  • Two remarkable debut pitching performances by Senators' rookies make the 15 - 4 loss to Boston a most memorable contest. The game which features Tom McBride tying a major league record by driving in six runs with a bases-loaded double and triple during the Red Sox's 12-run 4th inning, sees Joe Cleary, the last major leaguer born in Ireland to debut in the 20th century, give up seven runs on five hits and three walks in his only big league appearance to finish with a career ERA of 189.00. In mop-up work, World War II veteran Bert Shepard, with an amputated leg as a result of being wounded in combat, hurls 5 1/3 innings, giving up just one run on three hits in his only major league appearance.
  • At Pittsburgh, Pirate catcher Bill Salkeld is 5 for 5, including hitting for the cycle, and drives in all five runs, but his Bucs lose, 6 - 5, to Cardinals reliever Harry Brecheen. Salkeld hits his only triple of the year in the cycle, half his career total. His offensive effort offsets a curious defensive stat: he has no putouts or assists in the game.
• 1948:
  • In St. Louis, the Browns spot the Red Sox six runs in the 1st inning, then come back with seven of their own in the bottom of the frame. St. Louis scores two in the 9th off reliever Ellis Kinder to win, 9 - 8.
  • Ernie Harwell begins as an announcer for the Dodgers calling a 5 - 4 win over the Cubs. The Dodgers had to trade a player, Cliff Dapper, to the Atlanta Crackers to acquire Harwell. Brooklyn scores a pair in the 1st, one on a steal of home by Jackie Robinson.
• 1953 - Yankees hurler Vic Raschi sets the record for RBI by a pitcher with seven, as the Yanks roll over Detroit, 15 - 0. Raschi singles in two in the 2nd, doubles home three in the 3rd, and singles home the last two in the 8th. His teammates fill his locker with bats after the game.
• 1955 - Ernie Banks hits three homers at Wrigley Field against three Pirate pitchers, as the Cubs win, 11 - 10.
• 1957 - Washington defeats Detroit, 4 - 3, as the Senators' Roy Sievers hits his 30th home run, his sixth homer in six games, to tie an American League record held by Ken Williams and Lou Gehrig.
• 1958 - Roberto Clemente beats Juan Pizarro once again; Clemente's 9th-inning, 400-footer puts Pittsburgh ahead of first-place Milwaukee, 4 - 3. In so doing, he not only brings last year's cellar dwellers to within six games of first place, but also foils his fellow Puerto Rican yet again. Red Thisted of the Milwaukee Sentinel reports: "The sleepy engagement dragged along in the later innings with neither team making a move until Clemente laid into a Pizarro pitch in the final frame and rode the ball over the left centerfield wire."
• 1960 - Believing that Chicago's Jim Brewer is throwing at him, Reds 2B Billy Martin throws his bat toward the mound. Then, he advances to retrieve it from Brewer, who has picked it up. The two exchange words and Martin launches a hard overhand right that fractures the orbital bone of Brewer's right eye. Both benches empty and Martin continues swinging, decking Frank Thomas. Brewer requires surgery and will be out of action for a month. The Cubs win, 5 - 3, on Ernie Banks' homer. Martin will be fined $500 for the punch and Brewer and the Cubs will sue the combative infielder on August 22nd for $1,000,000. Years later, when the courts award Brewer $100,000, Martin's comment will be, "How can they ever collect it? I haven't got that kind of money,"
• 1961:
  • At Candlestick Park, Warren Spahn wins his 299th game, 2 - 1, over the Giants. He gets a bit of help from Hank Aaron who leads off the 7th and 9th with homers off Mike McCormick. The Giants' only score is an Orlando Cepeda homer in the 5th.
  • With a little help from George Altman, the Cubs' Bob Anderson outpitches Sandy Koufax, and beats the Dodgers, 4 - 2. Altman hits two homers off Koufax, the first time anyone has done that off the Dodgers lefty.
• 1962:
  • After a doubleheader loss to the Mets, 9 - 1 and 3 - 2 in 13 innings at the Polo Grounds, Reds manager Fred Hutchinson stays in the dugout instead of joining his players in the clubhouse. He then calls the clubhouse and tells the players to be out of there in 15 minutes. They do. Hutch has tickets for Zero Mostel's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, but doesn't use them.
  • Visalia's William Dawson sets a California League record by striking out 21 Reno batters. Visalia wins, 7 - 4.
• 1963 - In his first at-bat in two months after breaking his left foot, Mickey Mantle slams a pinch-hit home run in the 9th inning to beat the Orioles, 11 - 10.
• 1964:
  • Fred Hutchinson returns to manage the Reds. They respond by sweeping a pair, 5 - 2 and 4 - 2, from the Braves.
  • A's starter John O'Donoghue gives up his third homer to Mickey Mantle this year, but that's all he allows, as Kansas City tops visiting New York, 5 - 1.
• 1966 - Pinch-hit home runs by Mets John Stephenson and Ron Swoboda make the difference in New York's 8 - 6 defeat of the Giants at Shea Stadium.
• 1967 - John Fetzer, president of the major league television committee, announces a $50 million, three-year deal with NBC to televise the World Series, All-Star Game, and 28 weekly telecasts.
• 1968:
  • In pre-game ceremonies at Busch Stadium honoring him, Stan Musial is joined by his 1941 Cardinals teammates. A ten-foot bronze statue of Musial is unveiled at one of the Stadium entrances. The crowd of 47,445 then watch as Bob Gibson battles the Cubs for 12 innings before Chicago's Lee Elia singles home the winning run in the 13th. The Cubs win, 6 - 5.
  • The Red Sox top the Angels, 5 - 1, on the strength of Ken Harrelson's grand slam.
• 1969 - The Reds win another squeaker, this time 1 - 0 over the Mets at Crosley Field. Jim Maloney (5-2) allows two hits and beats Jerry Koosman.
• 1970 - In San Diego, the Reds stomp the Padres, 12 - 1.
• 1971:
  • Bob Gibson wins his 200th game, a 7 - 2 victory over the Giants at St. Louis.
  • Tom Walker of Dallas-Fort Worth (Texas League) pitches a 15-inning no-hit win over Albuquerque.
• 1972:
  • Luis Aparicio returns after a six-week layoff with a broken finger and drives in a run as the Red Sox win, 2 - 0 over Baltimore. Marty Pattin allows two hits in beating Pat Dobson.
  • The Angels beat the Royals, 4 - 3, in 10 innings. Vada Pinson shows the way home with five hits and three RBIs.
  • Bobby Murcer's grand slam in the 7th clinches the Yankees' 9 - 4 win over the Brewers. Murcer also scores twice on walks.
• 1973:
  • John Briggs of the Brewers goes 6 for 6 in a 9 - 4 win over the Indians. Jim Colborn (14-7) is the winner.
  • In an outstanding relief performance, Yankee Lindy McDaniel comes to the rescue of Fritz Peterson, who exits with a muscle pull in the 2nd inning, and allows just one run in 13 innings to earn a 3 - 2 victory over the Tigers. Horace Clarke's home run is the game winner.
• 1975 - At Fenway Park, 35,866 are on hand to watch the Orioles topple the Red Sox, 12 - 8. Despite the offense, Boston's Denny Doyle has his 22-game hitting streak stopped.
• 1978 - Baltimore and Mike Flanagan hand Ron Guidry his second loss of the year, stopping the Yankees, 2 - 1.
• 1979:
  • During a 6 - 2 loss to the Astros, Braves knuckleballer Phil Niekro sets modern major league records with four wild pitches in one inning (the 5th) and six in one game.
  • At the Kingdome, the Mariners' Ruppert Jones hits a foul ball that sticks in the speaker above the first base dugout. But the Athletics amass 11 fair hits to beat the Mariners, 5 - 3. Dwayne Murphy is 3 for 3 with a triple and a homer.
• 1980:
  • The Seattle Mariners fire manager Darrell Johnson and replace him with Maury Wills, who becomes the third black manager in major league history. Seattle has lost nine games in a row and 20 of 24 since the All-Star break.
  • The Reds score eight runs in the 7th en route to an 11 - 2 win over the San Diego Padres.
• 1982 - After driving in the winning run in a Met 7 - 4 victory over the Cubs, Joel Youngblood is traded and later in the day flies to Philadelphia and singles for the Expos, becoming the first player to have a hit for two different teams in the same day in different cities.
• 1983 - While warming up before the 5th inning of the Yankees' 3 - 1 win over the Blue Jays at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, New York OF Dave Winfield accidentally kills a seagull with a thrown ball. After the game, Winfield is brought to the Ontario Provincial Police station on charges of cruelty to animals and is forced to post a $500 bond before being released. The charges will be dropped the following day.
• 1985:
  • In a day of milestones, Tom Seaver becomes the 17th pitcher to win 300 games and Rod Carew becomes the 16th player ever to collect 3,000 career hits. Seaver pitches the Chicago White Sox to a 4 - 1 six-hit victory at Yankee Stadium as 54,032 New Yorkers cheer him on. Carew hits a single to left off Frank Viola in the 3rd inning of the California Angels' 6 - 5 win over the Minnesota Twins at Anaheim Stadium.
  • At Chicago, Dwight Gooden wins his club-record 11th straight game as the New York Mets beat the Chicago Cubs, 4 - 1. Gooden triggers a three-run 3rd inning with a double.
• 1986 - White Sox pitcher Jose DeLeon (2-0) beats Boston's Roger Clemens (17-4) for the second time in five days, 1 - 0 at Fenway Park. DeLeon and the White Sox also won 7 - 2 on July 30th.
• 1988 - Seattle's John Rabb is suspended indefinitely for "failing to comply with the major league drug testing program."
• 1989 - Dave Stieb retires the first 26 batters he faces before giving up two hits in a 2 - 1 win over the Yankees. The previous September, the Toronto Blue Jays' hard-luck hurler lost back-to-back no-hit bids with two outs in the 9th inning.
• 1992 - At an auction, actor Charlie Sheen pays $93,500 for the "Mookie Ball" which went through Bill Buckner's legs, capping the miraculous Met comeback in the sixth game of the Fall Classic in 1986. Arthur Richman, the team's traveling secretary, who was given the ball that night by right field umpire Ed Montague, gives the all the proceeds to charity.
• 1993:
  • OF Tony Gwynn of the Padres gets six hits in San Diego's 11 - 10 win over the Giants. It is the fourth time this season he has five or more hits in a game, tying a major league record set by Willie Keeler in 1897, and equaled by Ty Cobb and Stan Musial.
  • White Sox 3B Robin Ventura charges Nolan Ryan after a pitch hits him in the 3rd inning. Ryan gets Ventura in a headlock and throws six punches. Ventura is suspended two games for his actions, while Ryan is not disciplined.
• 1994 - Seattle defeats California, 4 - 2, as Rich Gossage notches the win in relief. It is Gossage's 1,000th major league appearance on the mound, making him the third pitcher to ever reach that milestone. Only Hoyt Wilhelm (1,070) and Kent Tekulve (1,050) have gotten into more games as pitchers.
• 1996:
  • The Braves end their 17-game 20-day road trip, with a 6 - 4 win over the Dodgers. The extended road stay is caused by the Atlanta-based Olympics.
  • Jim Bunning, Earl Weaver, Bill Foster, and Ned Hanlon are inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame.
• 1997:
  • At Anaheim, Jose Valentin, Dave Nilsson, and Jeromy Burnitz homer in the 4th inning, all off Ken Hill, as Milwaukee beats Anaheim, 5 - 2, for its tenth victory in 12 games. The loss drops Anaheim into a tie for first place in the AL West with the idle Seattle Mariners.
  • Manny Ramirez homers and drives in four runs, and Jim Thome hits his 30th homer as the Indians beat Detroit, 7 - 2. Charles Nagy improves to 12-4 lifetime against the Tigers, his most wins against any club. Thome is the first Cleveland lefthanded hitter to hit 30 homers in successive seasons since Hal Trosky in 1936-1937. Scott Sanders (3-9), making his fourth start since being traded to Detroit from Seattle, is the loser. He has lost all three of his decisions in a Tigers uniform.
  • Kevin Tapani finally makes his Cubs debut, limiting Atlanta to five hits over seven plus innings, as the Cubs win, 3 - 1. Tapani (1-0) signed to a three-year, $11-million deal with the Cubs after winning 13 games for the White Sox last season, had surgery April 4th to remove scar tissue in his right index finger.
  • At Shea Stadium, the Mets top the Cards, 4 - 2, in a rain-interupted game. Rick Reed (10-4) wins his sixth straight, beating Manny Aybar, making his major league debut. Lance Johnson has a pair of RBI triples. Completing an unusual major league-minor league sweep, the Pittsfield Mets top the New Jersey Cardinals (NY-Penn League), 8 - 4, in the earlier nine-inning game.
  • The Twins beat the Blue Jays, 9 - 3, as Brad Radke ties a team record with his 12th straight win. Greg Colbrunn's pinch-hit grand slam off Chris Carpenter is the big blow. Radke is only the third pitcher since 1950 to win 12 consecutive starts. Bob Gibson of St. Louis did it in 1968 and Pat Dobson did it with Baltimore in 1971.
• 1998:
  • Darryl Strawberry's pinch-hit grand slam is the big blow in the Yankees' nine-run 9th inning to come from behind to defeat the A's, 10 - 5 in the second game of a doubleheader. It is Strawberry's second pinch-hit slam of the season, setting a new American League record. It also matches the National League mark held by his former manager Davey Johnson and Mike Ivie, both set in 1978. New York also wins the first game of the twinbill, 10 - 4.
  • The Orioles' Mike Mussina carries a no-hitter into the 8th before allowing a double to Frank Catalanotto. Broadcasting the game is the long-time voice of the Detroit Tigers, Ernie Harwell. Ernie is celebrating his golden anniversary, starting as an announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers on this date in 1948.
  • Pittsburgh 1B Kevin Young goes 4 for 4, with four runs scored and four RBIs, to lead the Pirates to a 13 - 5 mauling of the Rockies. Three of Young's hits are doubles.
• 1999:
  • The Mariners send veteran Butch Huskey to the Boston Red Sox for AAA pitcher Robert Ramsay.
  • Prior to a game with the Royals, with his team in the midst of a slump, Angels' batting coach Rod Carew suggests the club use a single bat through the starting lineup as a way of loosening up the players. When leadoff hitter Orlando Palmeiro strikes out in bottom half of the 1st inning, he drops the bat for the next hitter to use. Umpire Tim Tschida sees this as an act of defiance and ejects Palmeiro from the game. Anaheim manager Terry Collins eventually convinces Tschida that Palmeiro wasn't trying to show him up, and the umpire changes his decision and allows him to stay in the game. The Angels go on to defeat the Royals, 4 - 3.
• 2000:
  • The Blue Jays obtain OF Dave Martinez from the Rangers for a player to be named later. Martinez becomes the ninth major leaguer to play for four teams in a season. The last to do so was Dave Kingman, in 1977: before him, the four-in-one players were Frank Huelsman, 1904; Willis Hudlin, 1940; Paul Lehner, 1951; Ted Gray, 1955; Wes Covington, 1961; and Mike Kilkenny, 1972.
  • With 32 home games remaining, the Astros, who moved from the pitcher-friendly Astrodome to homer-haven Enron Field this season, set a franchise record by hitting 83 homers at home for the year.
  • The Padres obtain SS Desi Relaford from the Phillies in exchange for a player to be named.
• 2001:
  • In a 4 - 2 Mets win at Arizona, Mark Grace ends the game with a ground ball single, which hits pinch runner David Dellucci for the last out as Dellucci is charged with interference. It's the D-backs seventh loss in nine games.
  • Braves' 1B Wes Helms drives home a career-high seven runs with a triple and a pair of home runs as Atlanta defeats Milwaukee, 14 - 2. Helms had been hitless in his previous 18 at bats coming in to the game.
• 2002:
  • The Athletics defeat Detroit, 4 - 0, as Cory Lidle, Ricardo Rincon, Chad Bradford, and Billy Koch combine on the one-hit shutout. Tiger OF Wendell Magee's single is the only Detroit safety.
  • The Braves edge the Cardinals, 2 - 1, as Damian Moss and John Smoltz combine on a one-hitter. Mike Matheny's single is the only St. Louis hit.
  • Cincinnati defeats San Diego, 15 - 10, as LF Russell Branyan slugs three home runs and drives home five runs for the Reds.
• 2003 - Major League Baseball announces a five-year deal, which will generate more than $500 million in revenue, for global licensing rights for apparel and headgear. The seven companies involved in the deal include Majestic Athletic, New Era Cap, Twins Enterprises, Nike USA, Dynasty Apparel Industries, Drew Pearson International and VF Imagewear.
• 2004 - Continuing a tradition over a half a century old, the Cardinals announce their new ballpark scheduled to open in 2006, will also be known as Busch Stadium. In 1953, a month after Anheuser-Busch purchased the Cardinals, the brewery bought Sportsman's Park renaming it Busch Stadium and then kept the name in its new downtown stadium which opened in 1966, calling the facility Busch Memorial Stadium.
• 2005 - After the team goes into a free fall from first place, the Orioles fire manager Lee Mazzilli (129-140) and replace him with bench coach Sam Perlozzo on an interim basis. Currently suffering an eight-game losing streak, the Birds have dropped 16 of their last 18 games.
• 2007:
  • In the 2nd inning of a 3 - 2 loss to the Padres, Barry Bonds hits his 755th career home run to tie Hank Aaron for the all-time record. Bonds's blast comes off Clay Hensley, who had been suspended for steroid use in 2005.
  • 32-year-old Alex Rodriguez surpasses Jimmie Foxx as the youngest player to hit 500 home runs. Rodriguez hits a 1st-inning shot off the Royals' Kyle Davies and the Yanks go on to a 16 - 8 win.
• 2008 - The Chunichi Dragons beat the Yomiuri Giants, 5 - 1. Going the distance is Masahiro Yamamoto, a week shy of his 43rd birthday. Yamamoto wins his 200th game in Nippon Pro Baseball, the 24th pitcher to do so. He joins the meikyukai. Yamamoto surpasses Kimiyasu Kudoh as the oldest hurler to 200 victories.
• 2009:
  • Yusmeiro Petit takes a no-hitter into the 8th inning, before combining with Leonel Rosales on a one-hitter for a 6 - 0 Diamondbacks win over Pittsburgh. The win snaps a personal seven-game losing streak for Petit and is the longest outing of his career so far.
  • Albert Pujols ends a brief slump with two home runs, including a 10th-inning grand slam, as the Cardinals beat the Mets, 12 - 7. The extra-inning blast comes after Mark DeRosa is plunked by Sean Green with the bases loaded to drive in the go-ahead run; it ties Ernie Banks's National League record of 5 slams in a season, set in 1955, and is his League-leading 36th homer of the year.
• 2010:
  • On the third anniversary of his 500th home run, Alex Rodriguez hits the 600th homer of his career off Toronto's Shaun Marcum, becoming the youngest player - and only the seventh all time - to reach the milestone. The Yankees win, 5 - 1, and with Tampa Bay's 2 - 1 loss to Minnesota, regain a share of first place in the AL East.
  • Vicente Padilla throws a two-hit shutout as the Dodgers beat the Padres, 9 - 0. Padilla uses mainly slow breaking balls, including his version of the eephus pitch, to mystify San Diego's batters, keeping them hitless until one out in the 7th. But it's not all good news for the Dodgers: before the game, C Russell Martin is placed on the disabled list because of a torn muscle in his right hip and will be out for the remainder of the year.
  • Cuba's Dalier Hinojosa throws a seven-inning perfect game, fanning 16 of 21 batters in a 14 - 0 win over Sri Lanka at the 2010 World University Championship.
  • The Phillies acquire veteran 1B Mike Sweeney from the Mariners, one day after placing Ryan Howard on the disabled list.
• 2011:
  • The Cubs complete a four-game sweep of the Pirates with a 7 - 6 win in Pittsburgh, as Carlos Pena, Geovany Soto and Blake DeWitt homer to send the Bucs to their seventh straight defeat. Pirates starter James McDonald gives up 4 runs in 7 innings and drives in 3 himself, exiting the game with a 6 - 4 lead, but the Cubs rally for three runs in the 8th off four relievers, three of whom fail to record an out.
  • Cliff Lee pitches his fifth shutout of the year in a 3 - 0 Phillies defeat of San Francisco that may well be a preview of the postseason. The Phillies have now won 7 in a row and have pulled to an 8 1/2 game lead in the NL East.
• 2013 - The Braves win their tenth straight, 4 - 1 over Philadelphia behind rookie Alex Wood, to extend their lead in the NL East to 12 1/2 games. It is the Braves' second ten-game winning streak this season.
• 2015:
  • With the Tigers having a very disappointing season, owner Mike Ilitch fires General Manager Dave Dombrowski after 14 seasons, replacing him with Al Avila, the father of catcher Alex Avila.
  • The Salón de la Fama del Béisbol Venezolano announces its first class in almost two years and it is a large one to make up for the time lag. It includes major league infielder Ossie Blanco, Leonel Carrión (a star for the Águilas del Zulia and in the minor leagues, who only made the majors as a coach), journalist Carlos “Carlitos” González, major league infielder Remy Hermoso, executive Antonio Herrera Gutiérrez, 1930s pitcher Balbino Inojosa, 1960s pitcher Julián Ladera, executive Luis Rodolfo Machado, executive Pablo Morales, Venezuelan League founders Carlos Lavaud, Juan Reggeti and Martín Tovar Lange and the 1959 Venezuelan Pan American Games Team (which was the only Venezuelan national team to win a Pan American Games Gold).
• 2019 - The Puerto Rican national team wins their first baseball Gold ever in the Pan American Games. In the finale of the 2019 Pan American Games, they beat two-time defending champion Canada, 6 - 1, behind the strong pitching of Giovanni Soto and five relievers while employing a balanced offense; Kevin Luciano scores twice and Edwin Gómez drives in two. In the Bronze Medal Game, Nicaragua blanks Colombia, 6 - 0, behind the pitching of Jorge Bucardo, Wilton López and Wilber Bucardo while Norlando Valle goes 4 for 4. It is the first time neither Team USA nor Cuba gets a medal in baseball; in the past, both were frequent medalists.
• 2020 - After sitting down for a week following a COVID-19 outbreak among their players, the Marlins return to the field and shut out the Orioles, 4 - 0. It is even more remarkable as they have had to replace 18 of the players on their 30-man roster, digging deep into their reserves, and picking up a number of others off waivers.
• 2021:
  • Japan moves into the Gold Medal Game at the Tokyo Olympics (the baseball portion being held in Yokohama rather than Tokyo, though). Yoshinobu Yamamoto and three relievers combine to fan 15 South Koreans. Tetsuto Yamada breaks a 2 - 2 tie in the bottom of the 8th with a three-run double off the left field wall; it is his second big hit against South Korea in recent years, following his homer in the 2019 Premier 12 finale.
  • Team USA keeps its hopes of Gold alive by beating the Dominican Republic, 3 - 1, sending the Dominicans to the Bronze Medal Game (to face the loser of tomorrow's US-South Korea game, the winner going to the Gold Medal Game against Japan). Triston Casas hits a two-run homer in the 1st, his third of the Games, while Tyler Austin also goes deep to back strong pitching from Scott Kazmir, who throws five shutout innings for the win. Charlie Valerio takes David Robertson deep with two outs in the 9th for the only Dominican tally.
• 2022 - The Angels tie a record by hitting seven homers but still losing the game, 8 - 7 to the A's, also setting a record for most runs scored in a game, all on solo homers. Shohei Ohtani hits a pair, followed by Kurt Suzuki, Taylor Ward, Jo Adell, Jared Walsh and Mickey Moniak. However, Oakland scores six times in the 3rd and adds a two-run blast by Ramon Laureano in the 4th to negate the Angels' long balls.

Births

• 1840 - George Rogers, umpire (d. 1918)
• 1845 - Phonney Martin, outfielder (d. 1933)
• 1853 - Pacer Smith, minor league pitcher (d. 1895)
• 1858 - A.J. Quinn, umpire (d. 1923)
• 1864 - Joe Stabell, outfielder (d. 1923)
• 1867 - Jake Beckley, infielder; Hall of Famer (d. 1918)
• 1869 - Mike Gaule, outfielder (d. 1918)
• 1875 - Henry Clarke, pitcher (d. 1950)
• 1875 - Ray Nelson, infielder (d. 1961)
• 1878 - Harry Hinchman, infielder (d. 1933)
• 1879 - Paddy O'Connor, catcher (d. 1950)
• 1883 - Lew Moren, pitcher (d. 1966)
• 1885 - Tex Jones, infielder (d. 1938)
• 1886 - Bill Guthrie, umpire (d. 1950)
• 1890 - Dolf Luque, pitcher (d. 1957)
• 1891 - Jim Haislip, pitcher (d. 1970)
• 1894 - Jim Grant, pitcher (d. 1985)
• 1895 - Sid Benton, pitcher (d. 1977)
• 1895 - Sylvester Foreman, catcher (d. 1940)
• 1896 - Chick Galloway, infielder (d. 1969)
• 1896 - Cliff Lee, outfielder (d. 1980)
• 1899 - Ski Melillo, infielder, manager (d. 1963)
• 1901 - Pat Wright, minor league infielder (d. ????)
• 1902 - Homer Blankenship, pitcher (d. 1974)
• 1902 - Bill Hallahan, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1981)
• 1902 - Al Moore, outfielder (d. 1974)
• 1902 - Joe Strong, pitcher (d. 1986)
• 1902 - Babe Thomas, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1991)
• 1903 - Gaston Lewis, pitcher (d. 1989)
• 1907 - George Caster, pitcher (d. 1955)
• 1911 - Tuck Stainback, outfielder (d. 1992)
• 1912 - Henry Coppola, pitcher (d. 1990)
• 1912 - Allen McElreath, minor league outfielder (d. 1996)
• 1912 - Bill Schuster, infielder (d. 1987)
• 1915 - Luke Easter, infielder; All-Star (d. 1979)
• 1918 - Don Kolloway, infielder (d. 1994)
• 1918 - Frank McElyea, outfielder (d. 1987)
• 1919 - Ted Keck, college coach (d. 2010)
• 1919 - Joe Spencer, infielder (d. 2003)
• 1920 - Bob Keegan, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2001)
• 1921 - Maurice Richard, minor league infielder (d. 2000)
• 1921 - Harold Younker, trainer (d. 2016)
• 1923 - Alfonso Sarmiento, Salvadoran national team pitcher
• 1923 - Joe Simenic, researcher (d. 2015)
• 1929 - Joe Pignatano, catcher (d. 2022)
• 1930 - Gabe Gabler, pinch hitter (d. 2014)
• 1932 - Jim Coates, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2019)
• 1932 - Vince Costello, minor league infielder (d. 2019)
• 1934 - Charles Brockell, college coach (d. 2013)
• 1934 - Dallas Green, pitcher, manager (d. 2017)
• 1936 - Antonio Detrell, Division Honor player
• 1937 - Frank Kostro, infielder
• 1937 - Ray Oyler, infielder (d. 1981)
• 1938 - Tom Kelly, college coach
• 1939 - Dennis Higgins, pitcher (d. 2023)
• 1939 - Bob Meyer, pitcher
• 1941 - Domingo Rivera, minor league infielder and manager
• 1942 - Angel Bravo, outfielder
• 1942 - Cleon Jones, outfielder; All-Star
• 1944 - Joe DiFabio, minor league pitcher (d. 2014)
• 1944 - Rich Nye, pitcher
• 1945 - Mike Davison, pitcher (d. 2013)
• 1946 - Sal Artiaga, minor league executive (d. 2019)
• 1946 - Kevin Collins, infielder (d. 2016)
• 1947 - Ken Poulsen, infielder (d. 2017)
• 1948 - Johnny Grubb, outfielder; All-Star
• 1949 - Terry Humphrey, catcher
• 1949 - Yutaro Imai, NPB pitcher
• 1949 - Tadanori Murakami, Japanese national team catcher and manager
• 1950 - Shaun Howitt, minor league outfielder
• 1951 - Joe McIntosh, pitcher
• 1956 - Johnny Rodriguez, minor league manager
• 1957 - Ben Hayes, pitcher
• 1957 - Dave Stockstill, minor league outfielder and manager
• 1957 - Chia-Cheng Wu, Chinese Taipei national team outfielder
• 1959 - Mark Linger, Australian national team infielder
• 1960 - Steve Davis, pitcher (d. 2021)
• 1960 - Rick Rembielak, college coach
• 1961 - Barack Obama, President
• 1961 - Mark Wasinger, infielder
• 1962 - Roger Clemens, pitcher; All-Star
• 1962 - John Farrell, pitcher
• 1964 - Ruben Rodriguez, catcher
• 1964 - B.J. Surhoff, outfielder; All-Star
• 1965 - Domingo Martinez, infielder
• 1965 - Matt Merullo, catcher
• 1965 - Scott Sellner, minor league infielder
• 1966 - Jeff Johnson, pitcher
• 1967 - Steve Bieser, outfielder
• 1967 - Yu-Kuan Lin, Taiwan national team outfielder
• 1967 - Ira Smith, minor league outfielder and manager
• 1968 - Chris Hook, pitcher
• 1969 - Laurent Cazanobes, Division Elite pitcher
• 1969 - Troy O'Leary, outfielder
• 1970 - Dax Jones, outfielder
• 1972 - Steve Bourgeois, pitcher
• 1973 - Dennis Colon, minor league infielder
• 1973 - Bobby Howry, pitcher
• 1973 - Eric Weaver, pitcher
• 1974 - Ted Silva, minor league pitcher
• 1975 - Kaipo Spenser, minor league pitcher
• 1975 - Eric Milton, pitcher; All-Star
• 1975 - Roy Padilla, minor league player
• 1976 - Kazuo Fukumori, pitcher
• 1976 - Scott Linebrink, pitcher
• 1977 - Paxton Crawford, pitcher
• 1978 - Luke Allen, outfielder (d. 2022)
• 1978 - Jon Knott, outfielder
• 1978 - Oswaldo Morejón, minor league infielder
• 1979 - Steve Rowell, drafted infielder
• 1981 - Federico Baez, minor league pitcher
• 1981 - Andy Dillard, minor league infielder
• 1982 - Nolan Cherniwchan, minor league manager
• 1982 - Giuseppe Norrito, minor league pitcher
• 1982 - Josh Roenicke, pitcher
• 1982 - Seiichi Uchikawa, NPB infielder-outfielder
• 1984 - Will Startup, minor league pitcher
• 1985 - Ryo Sakakibara, NPB pitcher
• 1986 - Alex Castellanos, outfielder
• 1986 - Andrés Meza, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Phil Ortez, minor league outfielder
• 1987 - Hiram Burgos, pitcher
• 1987 - Mike Freeman, infielder
• 1987 - David Martinez, pitcher
• 1987 - Marty Popham, minor league player
• 1988 - Edilson Alvarez, minor league pitcher and manager
• 1989 - Mike Bazuin, Hoofdklasse infielder
• 1989 - Logan Thompson, minor league infielder
• 1989 - Tyler Thompson, drafted outfielder
• 1990 - Lukas Croton, Swiss national team pitcher
• 1990 - Chunhua Dong, Chinese national team catcher
• 1990 - Brian Ellington, pitcher
• 1991 - Jason Adam, pitcher
• 1991 - Corey Black, minor league pitcher
• 1991 - Domingo Tapia, pitcher
• 1992 - Domingo Germán, pitcher
• 1992 - Jordan Serena, minor league infielder
• 1993 - Ronnie Gajownik, minor league manager
• 1993 - Kevin Newman, infielder
• 1994 - Orlando Arcia, infielder; All-Star
• 1994 - Michael Green, minor league catcher and manager
• 1994 - Brett Kennedy, pitcher
• 1994 - Michelle Martínez, Puerto Rican women's national team outfielder
• 1996 - Brock Burke, pitcher
• 1996 - Stanley Javier, Dominican national team outfielder
• 1996 - Brady Singer, pitcher
• 1997 - Jahmai Jones, outfielder
• 1997 - Jesús Ortiz, minor league pitcher
• 1997 - Michael Soroka, pitcher; All-Star
• 1998 - William De Leon, Salvadoran national team player
• 1998 - Seiya Hosokawa, NPB outfielder
• 1998 - Kevin Yamamoto, Peruvian national team pitcher
• 2000 - Alex Ogg, Hungarian national team pitcher
• 2000 - Long Vue, Sri Lankan national team infielder

Deaths

• 1879 - Charlie Bierman, infielder (b. 1845)
• 1897 - John Gilroy, pitcher (b. 1875)
• 1901 - Fred Jevne, umpire (b. 1864)
• 1920 - Frank Fennelly, infielder (b. 1860)
• 1924 - George Nicol, outfielder (b. 1870)
• 1929 - Forrest A. ("Wing") Maddox, Negro League pitcher/outfielder (b. 1897)
• 1930 - Sam Jackson, infielder (b. 1849)
• 1939 - Hub Dawson, minor league catcher (b. 1880)
• 1940 - George Dixon, catcher (b. 1896)
• 1944 - Camp Skinner, outfielder (b. 1897)
• 1950 - John Burke, pitcher/outfielder (b. 1877)
• 1950 - Harry Coveleski, pitcher (b. 1886)
• 1951 - Tony Tonneman, catcher (b. 1881)
• 1955 - Mike Balenti, infielder (b. 1886)
• 1955 - Mule Shirley, infielder (b. 1901)
• 1958 - Bob Gamble, pitcher (b. 1866)
• 1959 - Chappy Charles, infielder (b. 1881)
• 1959 - Pop Williams, pitcher (b. 1874)
• 1961 - Chuck Rose, pitcher (b. 1885)
• 1963 - Bob Fisher, infielder (b. 1886)
• 1964 - Jerry Standaert, infielder (b. 1901)
• 1966 - Pug Cavet, pitcher (b. 1889)
• 1971 - Frank Lamanske, pitcher (b. 1906)
• 1972 - George Batten, infielder (b. 1891)
• 1980 - Lefty Jamerson, pitcher (b. 1900)
• 1983 - Ed Wheeler, infielder (b. 1915)
• 1986 - Stanley Cayasso, Nicaraguan national team player (b. 1906)
• 1989 - Wayne LaMaster, pitcher (b. 1907)
• 1993 - Bob Maier, infielder (b. 1915)
• 1994 - Ponciano Lombillo, Nicaraguan national team manager (b. 1911)
• 1995 - Dick Bartell, infielder; All-Star (b. 1907)
• 1996 - Willard Brown, outfielder, All-Star; Hall of Fame (b. 1915)
• 1999 - Leo Sanders, infielder (b. 1914)
• 2002 - Mike Payne, pitcher (b. 1961)
• 2006 - Elden Auker, pitcher (b. 1910)
• 2007 - Mark Howie, minor league infielder (b. 1962)
• 2007 - Frank Mancuso, catcher (b. 1918)
• 2013 - Mike Coppola, minor league outfielder (b. 1932)
• 2014 - Carlos Dore, minor league outfielder (b. 1932)
• 2016 - Rob Ramsay, pitcher (b. 1973)
• 2018 - Joe Borowy, minor league pitcher (b. 1947)
• 2018 - Myron White, outfielder (b. 1957)
• 2019 - Ernie Bowman, infielder (b. 1935)
• 2021 - J.R. Richard, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1950)