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Events, births and deaths that occurred on September 4.

Events

• 1902:
  • Chicago Orphans rookie Alex Hardy debuts with a 1 - 0 shutout victory over Brooklyn, and becomes the first 20th century National League pitcher to toss a shutout in his first game. It's happened twice already in the American League.
  • Dave Fultz steals second, third base, and home in the 2nd inning against Detroit, as the A's romp, 13 - 3.
• 1905 - In a rain-delayed doubleheader, the Giants trip the Phillies twice, 7 - 1 and 11 - 6. The opener doesn't start till 3:00 p.m. but Joe McGinnity wins easily. Christy Mathewson wins his 25th in the nitecap, despite spotting the Phils five runs in the 2nd inning. The Phillies match the gift in the 5th and 7th innings.
• 1906 - The Highlanders win their fifth doubleheader in a row - a record - as they tally a double shutout of Boston, 7 - 0 and 1 - 0. Their win streak will go through September 8th and will stretch to 15 victories, propelling New York to a one-and-a-half-game lead in the American League.
• 1907 - For his 32nd birthday tomorrow, Cleveland fans give manager Nap Lajoie a wagon-load of gifts, including a live black sheep. Addie Joss pitches a one-hitter against Detroit.
• 1908:
  • In New York, Walter Johnson opens a series against New York by besting Jack Chesbro, 3 - 0, allowing six hits in the Washington win.
  • The Giants sweep two more from the Doves, beating Boston, 3 - 0 and 8 - 5. Joe McGinnity wins the first game, while three pitchers combine for the second win. Red Ames is the victor.
  • In a game, the significance of which will not be recognized for another three weeks, the Pirates and Cubs are tied 0 - 0 in the last of the 10th at Pittsburgh. With two outs and the bases loaded, Pittsburgh's Owen Wilson singles to CF, scoring Fred Clarke with the winning run. Warren Gill, on first base, does not get to second but stops short, turns, and heads for the dugout, a common practice. The Cubs' Johnny Evers calls for the ball from Jimmy Slagle, touches second, and claims the run does not count as Gill has been forced. The lone umpire, Hank O'Day, has left the field. When queried, he rules that Clarke had already scored, so the run counts. The Cubs protest to league president Harry Pulliam, but are denied. This is the first time the Cubs try this tactic, but not the last, as the Fred Merkle game will demonstrate.
  • In the nitecap of a twinbill in Boston, Frank Arellanes tosses a one-hitter and the Red Sox collect 13 hits to defeat the A's, 10 - 1. Light-hitting Simon Nicholls clubs his fourth homer of the year for the only A's hit.
• 1911 - Against the Boston Rustlers, the Giants' Rube Marquard strikes out 14 batters in the first seven innings, but runs out of gas in the 8th and loses, 8 - 7.
• 1913 - Cleveland lefty Vean Gregg strikes out Ty Cobb three times in a row, but Cobb doubles in the winning run in the 12th.
• 1916:
  • At New York, the Yankees and Red Sox split. Boston wins the opener, 7 - 1, behind Babe Ruth, while New York scores in the 9th to win the nitecap, 4 - 3.
  • Reds player-manager Christy Mathewson, pitching his only game not in a Giant uniform, beats his long-time nemesis Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown and the Cubs, 10 - 8, in the second game of a twinbill, in what is the final career game for both pitching greats. Matty takes a 10 - 5 lead into the 9th, but wanting to match Brown's complete game feat, hangs on to record the final three outs in spite of three runs scoring in the bottom of the 9th. In the 25 contests in which the two legends have faced one another, Matty, by winning the last decision, takes a 13-12 advantage over his rival.
  • In Detroit, the Coveleski brothers appear together in the same game for the only time in their careers. Stan starts for the Indians and gets knocked out in Detroit's five-run 1st inning. Harry relieves later on in the game as Detroit wins, 7 - 5.
  • Pirates Frank Miller and Wilbur Cooper shut out the Cardinals, 7 - 0 and 2 - 0.
• 1917:
  • The Phillies' Joe Oeschger and Brooklyn's Jeff Pfeffer face off to a 14-inning scoreless tie. Pfeffer gives up just three hits, while Oeschger allows just six.
  • The Yankees split a pair with Boston, losing, 4 - 2, to Babe Ruth in the opener, then beating Carl Mays, 7 - 3. Ruth allows no hits until the 6th inning and just five hits overall.
  • The rampaging White Sox use an eight-run 8th inning to beat the Browns, 13 - 6. Red Faber is the winner over reliever Tom Rogers.
• 1918 - Rain cancels today's World Series opener which has been brought forward by a month due to the United States' entry into World War I.
• 1920:
  • In Boston, 33,000 are on hand for a doubleheader and to see Babe Ruth return to the Yankee lineup. The Babe hits his 45th homer in the opener to give New York a 5 - 3 win. In the nitecap, Carl Mays pitches to a mixture of boos and cheers. Mays takes a 5 - 3 lead into the 9th, then he fails to back up home on a play at the plate. A loose ball allows Joe Bush to score the winning run and Boston wins, 6 - 5.
  • Brooklyn's Leon Cadore gives up 12 hits but coasts to a 10 - 0 shutout over the Braves.
  • Eddie Collins has two hits in the nitecap against the Browns, as the White Sox win, 5 - 2. Collins has hit safely in every game since August 21st, and will ring up a 22-game hitting streak through September 13th.
• 1922:
  • At the start of the day, both New York teams are on top, and both Boston teams are on the bottom. But today, the Red Sox take two and knock the leaders off their perch as they sweep the Yankees, 4 - 3 and 6 - 5. Babe Ruth hits his last regular-season home run in the Polo Grounds. He gets it off Herb Pennock, who also gave up Ruth's first Yankee homer, also at the Polo Grounds.
  • At home, the Browns win decisively, beating the Indians, 10 - 3 and 13 - 2. Urban Shocker wins his 23rd in the morning and Ken Williams hits his 33rd. George Sisler is 4 for 4 in the opener and 3 for 5 in the second game to run his hitting streak to 34 games. Elam Vangilder is the winner in the nitecap.
• 1923 - Yankee Sam Jones no-hits the Athletics, 2 - 0, beating Bob Hasty. Babe Ruth makes the only strikeout of the game as he slips a point behind Detroit's Harry Heilmann in the batting race. Not till Ken Holtzman's no-hitter in 1969 will another pitcher record a no-hitter with no strikeouts. In a twilight charity game, Babe Ruth plays 1B for Philadelphia's Ascension Catholic Club. Ruth scores the only run in a 2 - 1 loss to the Lit Brothers.
• 1924 - The Brooklyn Robins take a twinbill from the Braves, sweeping their fourth doubleheader in four consecutive days. Between September 1-3, the Brooks beat the Phillies six times. Dazzy Vance chalks up his 12th straight win, and 24th on the year. Dutch Ruether then wins the nitecap, 9 - 1.
• 1926 - The Reds take first place by beating the Cards, 5 - 0. Pete Donohue beats Wee Willie Sherdel. Tomorrow the teams will reverse positions again when the Cards win, 7 - 3.
• 1927 - The Pirates beat the Reds and open a two-game lead in the National League.
• 1928 - The Boston Braves start a streak of playing nine consecutive doubleheaders, establishing a major league record.
• 1930 - Rogers Hornsby returns to the Chicago lineup as the Cubs beat the Pirates. Hornsby had been absent since Memorial Day because of a broken ankle.
• 1933 - In a Labor Day twin bill, Joe Hauser, of the American Association Minneapolis Millers, hits three home runs to reach 65, a new professional record.
• 1935:
  • The Cards score four in the 8th, then Dizzy Dean picks up a save in the 9th to beat the Braves, 5 - 3. Jesse Haines, who fails for the 11th time to win his 200th game, is lifted after seven for Bill Walker who promptly tees up Wally Berger's 30th homer of the year. Walker gives up two hits but is the winning pitcher.
  • Babe Ruth receives a lifetime pass for all National League games from NL President Ford Frick.
  • The third-place Cubs get two home runs, including a grand slam from Augie Galan, to beat the Phillies at Wrigley Field. Larry French is the winner, 8 - 2, for his 13th victory.
  • Carl Hubbell subdues the Reds, 6 - 4, for his 20th win of the season. King Carl scatters 12 hits including three apiece by Kiki Cuyler and Lew Riggs. Dick Bartell gets three hits for the Terrymen, who remain two in back of the Cards.
• 1937 - Mike Kreevich of the White Sox ties a major league record with four doubles.
• 1939 - After Labor Day games, the Reds lead the Cards by four games. In the American League, the Yankees are 14 ½ ahead.
• 1945 - Long-time Yankee batting practice pitcher Paul Schreiber, who last pitched in the majors in 1923 and the minors in 1931, relieves for the Yankees against Detroit in a Tiger rout. Schreiber gives up no hits in 3 1/3 innings, but the Tigers' Dizzy Trout wins, 10 - 0.
• 1950:
  • Don Bessent of LaGrange (Georgia-Alabama League) pitches a 14 - 0 playoff no-hitter over Carrollton.
  • Giant hurlers Jim Hearn and Sal Maglie hurl twin shutouts over the Phils, winning 2 - 0 and 9 - 0. Coupled with a shutout loss to the Giants yesterday, the Phils have not scored in three games at home.
  • Reds OF Johnny Wyrostek drives in eight runs in a doubleheader sweep of the visiting Cardinals, 5 - 4 and 8 - 4.
• 1953 - Despite consecutive home runs by Wes Westrum, Al Corwin, and Whitey Lockman in the 3rd, the Giants lose to the Dodgers, 8 - 6, in a game marred by beanballs and disagreements on calls. Following a Clem Labine brushback on Giants IF Bobby Hofman, Larry Jansen throws at Duke Snider and Roy Campanella in the 8th.
• 1955 - Mickey Mantle's 1st-inning three-run home run allows Bob Turley to coast to an 8 - 3 win over Washington. This is Mantle's last home run of the year.
• 1958 - At the Coliseum, the Giants score eight in the 1st inning off Johnny Podres and Stu Miller then coast to a 13 - 3 win. The Giants take the season series from the Dodgers, 16-6.
• 1960:
  • After 30 straight scoreless innings, the Yankees finally score but the Orioles extend their win streak to seven by topping New York again, 6 - 2. With two outs in the 7th, Yankee 1B Moose Skowron singles to break up Chuck Estrada's no-hitter, but Hoyt Wilhelm, in relief, preserves the win.
  • Woodie Held hits two homers and a double and drives in six runs to pace the Indians to a 10 - 2 win over the A's. Jimmy Piersall also homers.
  • After a major-league record 798 consecutive games at 2B, the White Sox's Nellie Fox is hospitalized with a virus. Fox would have gone 1,072 straight games had manager Marty Marion not rested him on August 5, 1955. Billy Goodman replaces Fox as the Sox split a doubleheader with the Tigers, losing, 6 - 4, before winning, 5 - 4.
• 1961:
  • Roberto Clemente leads the Pirates to a 9 - 4 win over the Cardinals. After doubling and scoring the first of three 1st-inning Pirate runs, Clemente greets newly-inserted reliever Al Cicotte with a line-drive home run worth three more runs.
  • In Minnesota, the White Sox and Twins split a pair of 9 - 5 decisions in a day-night doubleheader. Harmon Killebrew hits his 39th homer in the opener to back Al Schroll's six innings of spotty pitching. Al Smith has four hits and four ribbies in the nitecap. Numberless rookie Joe Horlen makes his major league debut in relief and picks up the win. The only road uniform available has no number on it.
  • Mickey Mantle misses the Labor Day doubleheader with a painful and swollen forearm, but the Yanks don't need him as they sweep a pair from the Senators, 5 - 3 and 3 - 2. The sweep moves the Yanks six games up on the slumping Tigers, who lose, 6 - 3, to the Orioles and trail, 4 - 1, in a game that is suspended. Mantle's replacement, Johnny Blanchard, breaks a 3 - 3 tie in the opener with an 8th-inning homer.
  • At Los Angeles, Don Drysdale stops the Giants, 4 - 0, allowing just two hits. The Dodgers are now two games in back of the first-place Reds.
  • After losing, 4 - 3, the A's outkick the Angels, 13 - 7, in the second game of a doubleheader, using an 11-run 6th inning. Kansas City collects seven hits, four walks, three errors and a stolen base for their big inning. Norm Siebern and winning pitcher Joe Nuxhall homer in the frame.
• 1962 - Houston finally defeats Philadelphia, 4 - 1, in their final meeting of the season. The Phillies had won all 17 previous contests.
• 1964 - The Yankees overcome two homers by Ken Harrelson to beat the host A's, 9 - 7, in ten innings. Mickey Mantle and Elston Howard hit back-to-back homers in the 4th inning for New York. With the Orioles losing today, Baltimore (81-54) and Chicago (82-55) are virtually tied for first, with New York (77-56) three games back.
• 1965:
  • At Yankee Stadium, the Red Sox sweep two from the Yankees, winning 1 - 0 and 7 - 2. Mickey Mantle's homer in the second game, off Dennis Bennett, is the only bright spot for New York.
  • The Reds score three runs in the 9th to edge the Phillies, 5 - 4. Deron Johnson drives in the last two runs with a single.
• 1966:
  • When 18,670 patrons show up in Cincinnati to watch the Reds lose to Los Angeles, 8 - 6, the Dodgers become the first team in major league history to attract more than two million fans at home and two million on the road.
  • Chris Short shuts out the Mets, 5 - 0, the fifth complete game win in a row for the Phillies' pitchers.
• 1967 - In the first of two at Wrigley Field, Chuck Hartenstein and the Cubs top the Dodgers, 2 - 1, in 11 innings. Don Sutton takes the loss and is now 0-7 against Chicago.
• 1968:
  • The Dodgers' Don Sutton allows just three hits and strikes out 12 to beat the Phils, 3 - 0.
  • Future Hall of Fame catcher Mike Piazza is born in Norristown, PA. A 62nd round draft choice in 1988, he will be the lowest-drafted player to be enshrined in Cooperstown after being elected in 2016.
• 1969:
  • After hitting in 31 straight games, the third-best streak (since 1900) in National League history, the Dodgers' Willie Davis is stopped in a 3 - 0 loss to San Diego. Al Ferrara drives in all three runs.
  • Down 4 - 1 in the 9th against the Tigers in Detroit, Baltimore gets consecutive home runs from Frank Robinson, Boog Powell, and Brooks Robinson off Earl Wilson to tie. Tom Timmermann then gives up the winning run on a double, sacrifice fly, and Baltimore chop as the O's win, 5 - 4.
• 1972:
  • Luis Tiant (10-4) pitches his fourth straight shutout, beating the Brewers, 2 - 0, in the opener. Carl Yastrzemski's two-run home run accounts for the scoring. The Red Sox lose the nitecap, 6 - 2, as four former Hubmen do the damage. Syd O'Brien and Joe Lahoud homer, Boomer Scott has three hits and Ken Brett is the winner.
  • The Yankees split with the Orioles, losing, 4 - 3, before winning, 5 - 2. The split leaves the Yankees (69-61) in fourth place, just one-half game out of first place. The Orioles (69-60) are tied with Detroit for the lead. Andy Etchebarren's three-run homer in the first game, off Fritz Peterson, is the big blow while the Yankees take the nitecap behind the three hits, including a homer, by Bobby Murcer.
  • The Cubs top the Mets, 2 - 0, as Fergie Jenkins posts his 19th win. The Cubs then drop the second game, 7 - 2, to Gary Gentry, who strikes out eight.
• 1974 - After pitching eight no-hit innings against the Reds, Don Wilson is pulled from the game by Astros' manager Preston Gomez in favor of a pinch hitter. Mike Cosgrove gives up a hit to Tony Perez in the 9th and Houston loses, 2 - 1. It's the second time Gomez has pinch-hit for his pitcher late in a game while he is throwing a no-no; Clay Kirby was the victim on July 21, 1970.
• 1976 - The Reds' Pat Zachry gives up a pair of singles in the 2nd in pitching a 5 - 1 two-hitter against the Braves.
• 1978:
  • Behind Ron Guidry's 20th win, the Yankees take the first game against Detroit, 9 - 1. New York scores eight in the 7th. Detroit wins the second, 5 - 4, to keep New York five games behind Boston.
  • In his first major league at-bat, Dorian Boyland strikes out sitting on the bench. The Pirate rookie is removed with a 1-2 count when the Mets make a pitching change and pinch hitter Rennie Stennett takes the third strike.
  • At Baltimore, the Orioles top the Red Sox, 4 - 1, behind Jim Palmer. Rookie Bob Sprowl pitches credibly in his major league debut, but takes the loss.
• 1981 - In the conclusion of the longest game in Fenway Park history, the Mariners beat the Red Sox, 8 - 7, in 20 innings, on Joe Simpson's run-scoring triple. The game began on September 3rd, but was suspended after 19 innings.
• 1982 - At Baltimore, Jim Palmer one-hits the Twins, 3 - 0, for Baltimore to get his 11th consecutive victory. The only hit is Gary Gaetti's two-out single in the 5th inning. It is Palmer's second career one-hitter against the Twins.
• 1985 - Following a three-homer game last night, Gary Carter of the Mets ties a major league record by hitting two solo homers to become the 11th player in major league history to hit five home runs in two games.
• 1988 - Cincinnati's Danny Jackson becomes the National League's first 20-game winner this season by shutting out the Cubs on six hits as the Reds romp, 17 - 0. Calvin Schiraldi is the loser.
• 1989 - Fred Lynn hits his 300th career home run to help the Tigers to a 5 - 1 win over Kansas City.
• 1991:
  • Infielders Shane Turner and Tommy Shields both play all nine positions for the Rochester Red Wings in their season finale, an 8 - 0 win against Syracuse of the International League.
  • Lou Gehrig's 1938 Yankees road uniform brings $220,000 at a memorabilia auction in San Francisco, CA, becoming the most expensive non-card sports memorabilia item ever sold. A Honus Wagner card goes for $125,500 while an autographed Gehrig bat sells for $47,500.
  • Removing an asterisk which really never existed, the Statistical Accuracy Committee decides to put Roger Maris' 1961 home run season ahead of Babe Ruth's 60 mark instead of listing it separately as it was from 1962 until this year. The eight-man panel also re-defines a no-hit game as one which ends after nine or more innings with one team failing to get a hit, thereby removing 50 games from the list that had previously been considered hitless, including the 1959 performance of Harvey Haddix's 12 perfect innings against the Braves and Jim Maloney's 1965 1 - 0 loss to the Mets in 11 innings.
• 1992 - Yankees OF Roberto Kelly ties a major league record by reaching base on catcher's interference for the seventh time this year. Pittsburgh's Dale Berra set the mark in 1983. Texas C Ivan Rodriguez is the latest victim of Kelly in New York's 6 - 3 victory.
• 1993:
  • Yankees P Jim Abbott tosses a no-hitter against the Indians, defeating them by a score of 4 - 0.
  • The Phillies lose to the Reds by a score of 6 - 5. In doing so, they set a new National League record by not being shut out in 151 consecutive games. The major league mark of 308 is held by the New York Yankees.
• 1995:
  • Robin Ventura becomes the eighth player to hit two grand slams in one game, helping the White Sox to beat the Rangers, 14 - 3.
  • Ron Maurer of the Triple-A Albuquerque Dukes plays all nine positions in his team's 4 - 2 loss to Las Vegas.
  • Toronto DH Paul Molitor strokes five hits and brings home three runs to lead the Blue Jays to a 6 - 1 win over the Royals. His hits include three singles, a double and a home run.
• 1996:
  • Babe Dahlgren, the man who replaced Lou Gehrig at first base to end the streak, dies in Arcadia, CA.
  • Andy Pettitte wins his 20th as the Yankees prevail over the A's, 10 - 3. Paul O'Neill and Tino Martinez hit solo homers in the 4th inning. The Yanks' last 20-game winner was Ron Guidry in 1985.
  • In pursuit of his seventh batting title, Tony Gwynn is 4 for 4 in the Padres' 2 - 1 win over the Phils. Gwynn, hitting .352, needs to average nearly five at bats in the final 22 games to qualify for the batting crown.
• 1997 - Rookie C Bobby Estalella cracks three home runs and drives home four as he leads the Phillies to a 6 - 4 win over Montreal. It is just his tenth major league game, the fewest for a player with a three-homer game.
• 1998:
  • Defeating the White Sox, 11 - 6, the Yankees win their 100th game on the earliest date in major league history, besting the 1906 Chicago Cubs and 1954 Cleveland Indians by five days. The 1906 Cubs set the major league record for fewest contests to reach 100 victories accomplishing the milestone in 132 games.
  • With his Giants down 6 - 0, Barry Bonds, with 23 stolen bases so far, attempts to steal second base but is thrown out. Ellis Burks then hits a home run and the Giants end up losing, 8 - 5. Bonds ends the game with a National League record of 15 straight times reaching base.
  • Sammy Sosa's 57th home run leads the Cubs to a 5 - 2 win over Pittsburgh. Sosa surpasses Hack Wilson's club record set 68 years ago.
• 1999:
  • The Reds set a National League record with nine homers as they rout the Phillies, 22 - 3. Eddie Taubensee (2), Greg Vaughn, Jeffrey Hammonds, Aaron Boone, Dmitri Young, Pokey Reese, Brian Johnson and Mark Lewis all go yard for Cincinnati.
  • The Red Sox defeat the Mariners, 4 - 0, as Pedro Martinez wins his 20th game, striking out 15 batters in eight innings of work.
• 2000:
  • In the Red Sox's win over the Mariners, 5 - 1, Carl Everett of the Sox becomes only the sixth major-league switch-hitter to drive in 100 runs in both leagues when he knocks in his 100th ribbie of the year. Everett drove in 108 runs for the Houston Astros last season. The other five 100-100 switches are Ted Simmons, Ken Singleton, Eddie Murray, Bobby Bonilla and J.T. Snow. Pedro Martinez is the big star, striking out 11 in eight innings to go 7-0 over the M's. Jamie Moyer loses his sixth in a row, though not through his fault as a routine fly ball by Jose Offerman to Mike Cameron becomes a three-run triple when the center fielder stumbles. Prior to the game, Boston retires Hall of Fame C Carlton Fisk's uniform number 27.
  • The Rockies trim the Cubs, 6 - 2, as rookie OF Juan Pierre gets five hits.
  • The A's defeat the Blue Jays, 10 - 0. Mike Stanley goes 5 for 5 for Oakland, including a double and home run, and drives home five runs.
• 2001:
  • The first-place Braves draw just 3,613 fans in Montreal as they beat the Expos, 3 - 2. Andruw Jones hits a leadoff homer in the 9th for the difference. The crowd is the smallest at Olympic Stadium in 17 years.
  • The Marlins' Josh Beckett debuts with a six-inning one-hit effort as the Fish beat the Cubs, 8 - 2. Beckett, who was 14-1 in the minors, also adds a double. Kevin Millar has a grand slam and Preston Wilson a three-run homer.
  • The Mariners clinch a tie for the playoffs with a 3 - 2, 11-inning win over Tampa Bay. The win gives the M's a 99-39 record.
  • The Blue Jays roll over the sleep-walking Yankees, 14 - 0. Andy Pettitte lasts just three innings in losing to Chris Carpenter, who goes the distance, allowing six hits while striking out 11.
• 2002:
  • The Athletics set an American League record by defeating the Royals, 12 - 11, for their 20th straight win. Oakland blows an 11 - 0 lead, but scores in the bottom of the 9th for the victory.
  • Aaron Myette, ejected yesterday for two pitches thrown behind Melvin Mora, starts today's game, allowing six of the 11 walks in an 8 - 3 loss to Baltimore. According to the New York Times, it is the first back-to-back starts by a pitcher since Steve McCatty in 1980 (though five pitchers - Dennis Martinez (Baltimore), Bert Blyleven (Cleveland), Pete Vuckovich (Milwaukee), Rick Langford (Oakland), and Juan Eichelberger (San Diego) - made the last start before the 1981 strike and the first start after.
  • Randy Johnson pitches a complete game in defeating the Dodgers, 7 - 1. The Diamondbacks' ace improves to 20-5 on the year and punches out eight opponents to give him 300 or more strikeouts for the fourth straight season, the first ever pitcher to do so.
• 2003 - In his first at-bat after his arrest for felony counts of sexual assault and related charges, Ramon Castro receives a supportive ovation from the Florida fans as he approaches the batter's box as a pinch-hitter. The Marlin catcher connects for a home run in the 5 - 1 victory against the Pirates.
• 2007 - Francisco Cordero saves his 40th game. This sets a new Milwaukee Brewers record for a season, topping the mark shared by Danny Kolb and Derrick Turnbow.
• 2008 - The scoreboard at Jamsil Stadium is insufficient to cover the game between the Doosan Bears and Hanwha Eagles, which began on September 3rd. The scoreboard can only track 14 innings, yet the teams play 18 before Young-myung An walks four batters in a row with two outs to lose. Hyun-soo Kim draws the final walk for Doosan. The KBO had previously called ties after 12 innings in the regular season. The clubs combine for a record 38 strikeouts. Jong-wook Lee, Young-min Ko and Hyun-soo Kim each set a record with nine plate appearances.
• 2009:
  • Roy Halladay pitches a one-hitter to beat the Yankees, 6 - 0. Toronto ends New York's winning streak at six.
  • Trailing 5 - 0 to St. Louis in the 5th, Pittsburgh scores six runs in the bottom of the inning, but is unable to hold on as they then give up nine runs over the next three frames. The Cardinals win, 14 - 7, with Ryan Ludwick homering twice and Albert Pujols and Matt Holliday once to allow Adam Wainwright to notch his 17th win of the year. For their part, the Pirates lose their eighth straight.
• 2010:
  • Jim Thome hits two homers to pass Mark McGwire and take over ninth place on the all-time list in the Twins' 12 - 4 drubbing of Texas. Thome drives in four runs, and 3B Matt Tolbert adds two triples and five RBI to pace Minnesota's attack. Carl Pavano wins his 16th of the year.
  • The Rangers sign former All-Star P Mark Prior and assign him to AAA Oklahoma City. A month ago, Prior began a comeback with the Orange County Flyers of the independent Golden Baseball League, during which he did not allow an earned run in 11 innings and struck out half the batters he faced. He will fail to make it back to the majors, however.
  • The Giants move within two games of the NL West-leading Padres with a 5 - 4 win over the Dodgers. Trailing 4 - 0 entering the 7th, the Giants hit four homers, the last a two-run blast by Juan Uribe off closer Jonathan Broxton in the top of the 9th, to secure the win. Meanwhile, the Padres continue their free fall, losing their ninth straight game, 6 - 2 at home to Colorado.
• 2011:
  • The Tigers crush the White Sox, 18 - 2, behind Max Scherzer. Miguel Cabrera homers and drives in four runs, while Alex Avila has four hits. Over the last two days, the Tigers have scored 26 unanswered runs against Chicago, coming back from 8 - 1 down yesterday to win, 9 - 8, then taking an 18 - 0 lead today before surrendering two 9th-inning runs.
  • In a game that doesn't want to end, the Marlins eventually dispose of the Phillies, 5 - 4 on a "walk-off walk" in the 14th. The Marlins place runners in scoring position with less than two outs in the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th innings against David Herndon, but he always manages to wiggle out of the jams, issuing five intentional walks over that span. The last one, to Logan Morrison to load the bases with two outs in the 14th, is too much, though, as Herndon then walks Mike Cameron, unintentionally, to end the game, his fourth walk of the frame. Both teams have run out of available players by then, which explains why Herndon keeps returning to the mound one painful inning after another, one day after giving up three homers to the Fish in another difficult outing. The game takes close to five hours to play, and the Marlins strand a team record 23 baserunners. The Phillies play the game under protest, the result of a 6th-inning call, when the umpires use a video review to determine whether Hunter Pence's double to deep right field left the ballpark; they decide instead that fans - clad in Phillies gear at the Marlins' home park - reached over the fence and interfered with RF Bryan Petersen's attempt to make a leaping catch, and declare Pence out. The game is delayed ten more minutes as a livid Charlie Manuel argues the decision until he is ejected, and bench coach Pete Mackanin continues the argument some more before deciding to file a protest. Major League Baseball Vice-President for baseball operations Joe Torre will announce on September 7th that the protest is denied as the umpires applied the rules correctly.
• 2012 - The Orioles withstand an unexpected rain delay in the indoor Rogers Centre as they crush Toronto, 12 - 0. The delay happens in the 5th inning when the roof fails to close properly during a passing rain shower. The win, combined with the Yankees' 5 - 2 loss to Tampa Bay, completes the Orioles' unlikely climb to first place in the AL East for the first time since 1997. The O's pound out a season-high 18 hits in registering their second straight shutout of the Jays, behind Zach Britton. Mark Reynolds has three hits including a homer and drives in four runs to lead the attack.
• 2013:
  • The Red Sox crush the Tigers, 20 - 4, in a battle of first-place teams as DH David Ortiz collects the 2,000th hit of his career. The Sox tie a team record with eight homers at home, with Big Papi hitting two of the long balls. Will Middlebrooks hits a grand slam in the Sox's eight-run 6th inning and Daniel Nava adds a two-run shot, while Jacoby Ellsbury, Stephen Drew, Mike Napoli and Ryan Lavarnway account for the other long balls.
  • Matt Adams of the Cardinals becomes the second player this year to hit a pair of homers in extra innings, breaking out of an 0-for-17 slump in a 5 - 4 win over the Reds. He goes deep off Alfredo Simon in the 14th, but rookie pinch-runner Billy Hamilton steals a base and scores a key run for the second straight game to tie the score back at 4-all. Shin-Soo Choo then gets thrown out at the plate in the bottom of the 15th when Chris Heisey whiffs on a bunt attempt and Adams goes deep again, against Logan Ondrusek, in the 16th for the winning margin. John Mayberry of the Phillies had hit two extra-inning homers on June 4th, a feat which had previously not been accomplished since 1987.
• 2014 - Battling to stay alive in the AL Central, the Indians suffer a demoralizing loss after they rally from a 4 - 0 1st-inning deficit against defending Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer of the Tigers. They manage to force extra innings, but everything goes wrong in the 11th, when they allow seven runs to lose, 11 - 4. It's their second straight crushing loss to the Bengals, after closer Cody Allen gave up a three-run, 9th-inning homer to J.D. Martinez in a 4 - 2 loss yesterday.
• 2015 - Tony Zych pitches two innings and allows two runs for the Mariners in an 11 - 8, 15-pitcher slugfest. Zych breaks Dutch Zwilling's 105-year-old record for the last name alphabetically in major league history.
• 2017:
  • J.D. Martinez of the Diamondbacks becomes the 18th player in major league history - and second this season after Scooter Gennett - to hit four homers in one game. He connects for a two-run shot off Rich Hill in the 4th, solo homers off Pedro Baez and Josh Fields in the 7th and 8th, respectively, and a two-run blast off Wilmer Font in the 9th to tie the record. Arizona defeats Los Angeles, 13 - 0 for its 11th straight win, while the Dodgers have lost nine of their last ten.
  • ASD Rimini completes a sweep of the 2017 Italian Series, beating T&A San Marino in Game 3 by a 2 - 1 margin. Lino Zappone drives in both runs and Ricardo Hernandez and Jose Rosario combine to allow one run, a solo homer by Mattia Reginato. Federico Celli is named Series MVP after hitting .556 with four runs in three games.
• 2018:
  • On a rare play, Trea Turner of the Nationals is thrown out on a walk. He takes off for second with a full count on Bryce Harper and while the pitch is called Ball Four, C Yadier Molina of the Cardinals still throws to second. Turner is called out after a video review for overrunning the bag ever so slightly, negating the immunity he had until he reached it. Observers say that the unusual play epitomizes the Nationals' frustrating season, which has seen them fall out of contention early after being prohibitive favorites to win a division title before the year began.
  • Several sources report that a severe fight breaks out between the two main members of the Tigers' television broadcast team, Mario Impemba and Rod Allen, at the end of tonight's game. The two have been working together for 17 years and it is not clear what caused the altercation. Both will be let go as the result of this incident.
• 2019:
  • Michael Lorenzen of the Reds does something not seen since the days of Babe Ruth on June 13, 1921: he hits a homer, wins the game on the mound, and plays center field - all in the same game. Lorenzen enters the game against the Phillies in the 7th inning trying to protect a 5 - 4 lead but gives a up a game-tying homer to Jay Bruce. However, in the bottom of the inning, José Iglesias puts the Reds back in front with a pinch-homer off José Alvarez. Lorenzen then pitches a scoreless 8th, and when his turn to bat comes up in the bottom of the inning, he adds to his team's lead with a two-run blast off Blake Parker. He then stays in the game to play centerfield in the 9th while Raisel Iglesias comes in to collect the save.
  • In a year when home run records are falling left and right, the Dodgers grab another one as Joc Pederson goes deep twice in a 7 - 3 win over the Rockies. This gives the Dodgers 250 homers on the season, for a new National League record, surpassing the 249 hit by the 2000 Houston Astros. Already this year, the Twins have set a new major league and American League record for most homers in one season, and the Yankees for most in a month.
• 2020:
  • Yu Darvish continues his dominant season as he allows just one hit - a solo homer by Matt Carpenter to lead off the 6th inning - and no walks while striking out 11 in seven innings in defeating the Cardinals, 4 - 1. The Cubs ace is now 7-1, 1.44 on the season.
  • Rob Cordemans, eight years after setting the new Hoofdklasse win record (the old mark was 150), reaches 200 wins. The 45-year-old allows three hits and no walks in five shutout innings in a 11 - 0 win over the Silicon Storks; Nick Veltkamp and Matz Schutte close out the day for the Amsterdam Pirates veteran, while Twan Naessems takes the loss.
• 2021 - By pitching a complete game shutout over the Cardinals, 4 - 0, Adrian Houser ends a drought of 1,011 regular season games in which a Brewers pitcher had not accomplished such a feat, dating back to Kyle Lohse in 2014. It was the longest such streak in major league history. In fact, no Brewers pitcher had managed a nine-inning complete game since Jimmy Nelson in 2017.
• 2022:
  • Fresh off being named the NL Pitcher of the Month for August, Zac Gallen of the Diamondbacks pitches seven scoreless innings in a 5 - 1 win over Milwaukee. He is helped by a tremendous catch by RF Daulton Varsho to end the 2nd inning with a runner on base, depriving Tyrone Taylor of extra bases, and has now pitched 41 1/3 innings since giving up his last run. His streak of six straight starts of six or more innings without allowing a run is only the fourth such since 1920, following those of Dodgers pitchers Don Drysdale (1968), Orel Hershiser (1988) and Zack Greinke (2015).
  • The Bonn Capitals win their second German Bundesliga-1 title, defeating the Paderborn Untouchables, three games to one, in the finals. In Game 4, a 5 - 2 win, Vincent Ahrens drives in Daniel Lamb-Hunt with the winner in the 6th while the potent bullpen does its job once again. Nick Miceli, Sascha Koch and Dovydas Neverauskas pitch shutout ball over the final five frames. Eric Brenk is named finals MVP.
• 2023 - Lucas Giolito makes a disastrous first start for the Guardians after being picked up off waivers from the Angels, as he gives up nine runs in three innings against the Twins. He coughs up three homers, including the third grand slam by Royce Lewis in a span of eight games. After reliever Enyel De Los Santos gives up another four runs in one inning, the Guardians turn to utility player David Fry to pitch the final four innings, during which he gives up another three homers and seven runs. Minnesota wins the game, 20 - 6. Fry's is the longest outing on the mound by a position player since Jose Oquendo also pitched four innings in an extra-inning game in 1988, while Giolito matches Bill Magee's dubious feat of 1899 of allowing at least eight runs in a game for three different teams during the same season, having also done so with the Angels and the White Sox earlier this year.

Births

• 1857 - Jerry Sweeney, infielder (d. 1891)
• 1866 - Elmer Horton, pitcher (d. 1920)
• 1875 - Jack Gilbert, outfielder (d. 1941)
• 1875 - Lefty Houtz, outfielder (d. 1959)
• 1877 - John Terry, pitcher (d. 1958)
• 1881 - Carl Druhot, pitcher (d. 1918)
• 1887 - Red Corriden, infielder, manager (d. 1959)
• 1887 - Tilly Walker, outfielder (d. 1959)
• 1888 - Harry Hedgpeth, pitcher (d. 1966)
• 1889 - Bill Meehan, pitcher (d. 1982)
• 1894 - Leo Dixon, catcher (d. 1984)
• 1894 - Fred Worden, pitcher (d. 1941)
• 1901 - Al Grabowski, pitcher (d. 1966)
• 1904 - Bud Morse, infielder (d. 1987)
• 1906 - Jim Mooney, pitcher (d. 1979)
• 1911 - Roy Vaughn, pitcher (d. 1937)
• 1912 - Gordon Maltzberger, pitcher (d. 1974)
• 1912 - Fred Walters, catcher (d. 1980)
• 1913 - Clarence Fieber, pitcher (d. 1985)
• 1916 - Spencer Alexander, outfielder (d. 1987)
• 1918 - Bill Endicott, outfielder (d. 2016)
• 1918 - George Pfister, catcher (d. 1997)
• 1918 - William Schuhart, minor league pitcher (d. 1995)
• 1919 - Eddie Waitkus, infielder; All-Star (d. 1972)
• 1920 - Lew Morton, minor league outfielder and manager (d. 1996)
• 1923 - Saburo Hirai, NPB infielder (d. 1969)
• 1927 - Clint Weaver, minor league infielder
• 1928 - Luís Fiuza, Cuban national team pitcher (d. 2002)
• 1928 - Jose Santiago, pitcher (d. 2018)
• 1930 - Mike Sgobba, college coach (d. 2011)
• 1932 - Joe Caputo, minor league pitcher (d. 2009)
• 1932 - Paul Nix, minor league player, college coach (d. 2009)
• 1933 - Nobushige Morishita, NPB infielder
• 1936 - Ray Hamil, umpire (d. 2015)
• 1936 - Jim McAnany, outfielder (d. 2015)
• 1939 - Gary Adams, college coach
• 1941 - Ken Harrelson, infielder; All-Star
• 1941 - Bernie Smith, outfielder
• 1941 - Kenny Washington Jr., minor league and NPB outfielder
• 1942 - Jim Scott, umpire (d. 2019)
• 1943 - Bobby Guindon, infielder/outfielder (d. 2023)
• 1946 - Ken Wright, pitcher (d. 2017)
• 1949 - Paul Jata, infielder
• 1950 - Doyle Alexander, pitcher; All-Star
• 1950 - Frank White, infielder; All-Star
• 1955 - Jim Reeves, scout
• 1956 - Karl Steffen, college coach
• 1957 - Kirk Champion, minor league coach
• 1957 - Kelly Heath, infielder
• 1958 - Rod Booker, infielder
• 1958 - Paul Householder, outfielder
• 1961 - Sal Agostinelli, minor league catcher and coach; scout
• 1961 - Mike Spiers, scout (d. 2013)
• 1962 - Marcel Kruyt, Hoofdklasse outfielder
• 1963 - David Blakley, minor league pitcher
• 1964 - Eduardo Jimenez, minor league outfielder; Salon de la Fama
• 1965 - Bobby Dickerson, coach
• 1966 - Greg Roth, minor league infielder
• 1966 - Jeff Zona, scout
• 1967 - Don Brown, minor league outfielder
• 1967 - Tim Langdon, minor league pitcher
• 1968 - Mike Piazza, catcher; All-Star; Hall of Fame
• 1970 - Luis Lopez, infielder
• 1971 - Peter Nyari, minor league pitcher
• 1972 - Jorge Cortez, minor league pitcher
• 1972 - Darrell Einertson, pitcher
• 1972 - Toby Rumfield, minor league infielder and manager
• 1973 - Jacob Viano, minor league player
• 1973 - Joe DePastino, catcher
• 1973 - Aaron Fultz, pitcher
• 1973 - Brian Simmons, outfielder
• 1973 - Eddie Lantigua, minor league infielder
• 1976 - Ron Calloway, outfielder
• 1976 - Brian Myrow, infielder
• 1977 - Matt DeWitt, pitcher
• 1977 - Sun-Woo Kim, pitcher
• 1978 - Nick Regilio, pitcher
• 1979 - John Birtwell, minor league pitcher
• 1980 - Pat Neshek, pitcher; All-Star
• 1983 - Diego Tawata, Peruvian national team player
• 1984 - Jason Donald, infielder
• 1985 - Dallas Cawiezell, minor league pitcher
• 1985 - David Herndon, pitcher
• 1985 - Garrett Rieck, minor league player
• 1985 - Eric Niesen, minor league pitcher
• 1985 - Tetsuya Yamamoto, NPB pitcher
• 1986 - Andrew Carraway, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Jose Gil, minor league catcher
• 1986 - Joseph Guerra, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Takumi Hamaoka, minor league outfielder
• 1986 - Jordan Schafer, outfielder
• 1986 - Michael Stutes, pitcher
• 1987 - Lowin Sacramento, minor league pitcher
• 1987 - Kana Sakamoto, Japanese women's national team pitcher
• 1988 - Adam Beck, umpire
• 1988 - Adam Duvall, infielder; All-Star
• 1989 - Cody Martin, pitcher
• 1989 - Andrelton Simmons, infielder
• 1990 - Chris Beck, pitcher
• 1991 - Christian Decher, Bundesliga pitcher
• 1991 - Kyle Finnegan, pitcher
• 1991 - Dylan Lindsay, minor league pitcher
• 1991 - Tetsuro Nishida, NPB infielder
• 1992 - Willy García, outfielder
• 1992 - Aaron Slegers, pitcher
• 1993 - Chuck Rocker, minor league outfielder and manager
• 1993 - Erik Swanson, pitcher
• 1994 - Sang-woo Cho, KBO pitcher
• 1995 - Rizwan Ali, Pakistani national team pitcher
• 1995 - Mark Kolozsvary, catcher
• 1995 - Sam McWilliams, minor league pitcher
• 1998 - Andrés Giménez, infielder; All-Star
• 1998 - Seuly Matias, minor league outfielder
• 1998 - Garrett Mitchell, outfielder
• 2003 - Mung Chuevakham, Laotian national team pitcher

Deaths

• 1882 - Joe McDermott, pitcher (b. 1846)
• 1898 - Bill Cammeyer, manager (b. 1821)
• 1910 - Candy Nelson, infielder (b. 1849)
• 1935 - Dan Cotter, pitcher (b. 1867)
• 1936 - Marsh Corgan, minor league infielder (b. 1895)
• 1943 - Harry Hardy, pitcher (b. 1875)
• 1944 - Jack Gleason, infielder (b. 1854)
• 1945 - William Fischer, catcher (b. 1891)
• 1951 - Carl Doyle, pitcher (b. 1912)
• 1952 - Butch Schmidt, infielder (b. 1886)
• 1953 - Buck Herzog, infielder, manager (b. 1885)
• 1953 - Roy Van Graflan, umpire (b. 1894)
• 1955 - Gus Weyhing, pitcher (b. 1866)
• 1956 - Pat Ragan, pitcher (b. 1883)
• 1958 - Red Killefer, outfielder (b. 1885)
• 1958 - Ward Miller, outfielder (b. 1884)
• 1962 - Pete Washington, outfielder (b. 1903)
• 1967 - Hugh Canavan, pitcher (b. 1897)
• 1967 - George Loepp, outfielder (b. 1901)
• 1967 - Clyde Manion, catcher (b. 1896)
• 1968 - Ernie Orsatti, outfielder (b. 1902)
• 1970 - Willie Gay, outfielder (b. 1909)
• 1971 - Joe Hassler, infielder (b. 1905)
• 1972 - Bob Bowman, pitcher (b. 1910)
• 1974 - Franco Imbastaro, writer, Italian Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1921)
• 1974 - Levi McCormack, minor league player (b. 1913)
• 1976 - Monroe Mitchell, pitcher (b. 1901)
• 1979 - Turkey Stearnes, outfielder, manager; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1901)
• 1982 - Buster Bray, outfielder (b. 1913)
• 1982 - Ramon Lopez, pitcher (b. 1933)
• 1985 - Art Bramhall, infielder (b. 1909)
• 1986 - Hank Greenberg, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1911)
• 1989 - Hal Lee, outfielder (b. 1905)
• 1991 - Sammy White, catcher; All-Star (b. 1928)
• 1996 - Babe Dahlgren, infielder; All-Star (b. 1912)
• 2000 - Pinky May, infielder; All-Star (b. 1911)
• 2002 - Jim Constable, pitcher (b. 1933)
• 2003 - Kermit Aase, minor league pitcher (b. 1914)
• 2009 - Buddy Blattner, infielder (b. 1920)
• 2013 - Bill Lutes, minor league outfielder (b. 1926)
• 2016 - Roberto Bissonnette, minor league owner (b. 1981)
• 2016 - Tomás Moreno, Colombian national team outfielder (b. ~1936)
• 2023 - Wilma Briggs, AAGPBL outfielder (b. 1930)
• 2023 - Doug Shanks, college coach (b. 1946)