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Re: Pale Hose History
« Reply #4925 on: July 31, 2018, 12:28:32 am »

This Date In White Sox History - July 31st

1909 – “Sleepy” Bill Burns fires a one hitter defeating Walter Johnson and the Senators in Washington 1 - 0. If that name sounds familiar it’s because Burns would become one of the ringleaders in the plot to fix the World Series. It was he who had the idea of going to g@mbler Arnold Rothstein to get the financial backing to rig the White Sox - Reds World Series of 1919.

1910 - Lee Tannehill hits the first White Sox home run at Comiskey Park when his ball rolls under the fence. According to the rules at the time it was still considered a home run and a grand slam to boot. The Sox lost to the Tigers though, 6 - 5.

1964 - White Sox star left hander Juan Pizarro strikes out 14 Senators in a 6 - 0 win in Washington. Pizarro allows only four hits. Pizarro would make the All Star team that year and win 19 games with an ERA of 2.56.

1972 - Another baseball rarity. Dick Allen’s magical season continued with two inside the park home runs in a single game. That tied the Major League record. It was set in Minnesota at old Metropolitan Stadium as the Sox beat Bert Blyleven 8 - 1. Bobby Darwin was the Twins center fielder who misplayed both of Allen’s drives. Allen was credited with five RBI’s on the day.

1977- The high point of the 1977 season. The ‘southside hit men’ had won the first two games of this crucial four game series with the Royals by coming from behind each time. In the first game of a double header, Chet Lemon’s two run home run in the last of the 10th tied the game at four, then Ralph Garr’s single drove in the game winner. The Sox were now 6½ games in the lead, the franchise’s largest margin at the top since 1967. Three straight come from behind wins had the crowd of over 45 thousand in a frenzy. The second game also produced fireworks as the Royals routed the Sox 8 - 4. Hal McRae homered, then did a slow trot around the bases, tipping his cap as he touched home plate, mocking Sox fans who had called for ‘curtain calls’ all season long. Sox fans reacted by throwing garbage at McRae and the Royals from the stands.

1991 - The white hot White Sox cap off a sizzling month with one of the most dramatic moments in team history. The Sox trail the Rangers 8 - 6 going into the bottom of the 9th inning. Texas brings in former Sox pitcher Rich "Goose" Gossage to close things out. But the goose gets cooked on this night as with two out, Robin Ventura hammers a grand slam into the right field stands winning the game 10 - 8. A full house, which included noted Cub fan Bill Murray, goes wild as Ventura is bodily lifted up by massive Frank Thomas in a celebration hug at home plate.

1993 - With the Sox looking for any type of reliable starting pitching help in the middle of a pennant race, G.M. Ron Schueler is finally convinced to deal two of his ‘can’t miss kids,’ to Cincinnati for pitcher Tim Belcher. Belcher provides some consistency to help the rotation but comes up big when it’s really needed, in the post season. In game #4 of the ALCS, he relieved a shell shocked Jason Bere and picked up the win which tied the best of seven series at two games each.

1996 - The White Sox infuriate their fans and anger their own players by refusing to make any significant trade moves at the deadline, settling for Tony Castillo later in August, to try to help a bullpen that’s among the worst in baseball. In fact the 1996 White Sox would set the record (since broken) for most ‘blown’ save opportunities. The Sox were in the midst of blowing a substantial lead in the wild card race at the time. The following week, Sox players Roberto Hernandez and Tony Phillips rip the organization in The Sporting News.

1997- Perhaps the lowest point in the history of the Chicago White Sox franchise occurs as owner Jerry Reinsdorf issued his "anybody who thinks this club can catch Cleveland is crazy" comment and gutted the team. Reinsdorf allowed General Manager Ron Schueler to trade Wilson Alvarez, Roberto Hernandez and Danny Darwin to the Giants with the Sox only 3½ games out of first. The Sox got back six minor league prospects. The "White Flag Trade” results in catastrophic consequences for the team from an attendance and public relations standpoint both locally and nationally. No team before had ever traded their top pitchers when they were only a few games off the lead. Joe Morgan went on ESPN’s ‘Baseball Tonight’ and angrily denounced Sox management saying how sorry he felt "for the fans and the season ticket holders." Dave Campbell echoed those remarks. Sports Illustrated had the Sox "surrender" as their feature story and quoted both Alvarez and Hernandez as stating that when manager Terry Bevington told them they were traded he was "laughing." Many Sox fans never forgave Reinsdorf and refused to ever attend games again in person. Sox star 3rd baseman Robin Ventura issued his famous"I didn’t know the season ended in August" quote.

1998 - Albert Belle clocks his 16th home run in the month which sets the MLB record. The old mark was 15, set by Joe DiMaggio, Hank Greenberg, Juan Gonzales and Joe Adc*ck. The Sox would hammer the Rangers in Texas 10 - 2.

2004 - At the trade deadline, G. M. Kenny Williams makes a pitching swap that would dramatically alter the franchise. He sends former All Star Esteban Loazia to the Yankees for disappointing Jose Contreras and cash. In 2005, Contreras would become the best pitcher in baseball after the All Star break and help lead the Sox to the World Championship. He set the club record with 16 straight wins spanning the 2005 and 2006 seasons.

2005 - In a very minor deal the Sox pick up utility man Geoff Blum from the Padres for a minor league pitcher. Blum writes his name into Sox history with his extra inning home run in Game #3 of the 2005 World Series less than three months later.

2007 - Less than two seasons removed from winning a World Series title, the Sox allow the most home runs ever in a single game in franchise history. The Yankees hit eight of them in a 16 - 3 pounding at Yankee Stadium. Jose Contreras gave up three, Charlie Haeger a pair and Gavin Floyd the other three.



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Re: Pale Hose History
« Reply #4926 on: August 01, 2018, 12:01:44 am »

    On August 1 in Baseball History...


    1906 - After pitching 10.2 innings of no-hit ball, Harry McIntire yields a single to Pirates second baseman Claude Ritchey. The Dodgers and McIntire lose the game in the 13th on an unearned run, 1-0.

    1923 - Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sells the team to a syndicate headed by J. A. Robert Quinn, the Browns' business manager. The Broadway producer will always be remembered and cursed in New England for being the person who sold Babe Ruth to Yankees in 1920.

    1924 - Dazzy Vance strikes out seven consecutive batters to establish a major league record when the Brooklyn Robins defeat the Cubs at Ebbets Field, 4-0. The future Hall of Famer, who will compile a 28-6 record for the Brooks this season, will lead the National League in strikeouts with 262.

    1933 - Carl Hubbell breaks Ed Reulbach's 1908 National League record for consecutive scoreless innings with 45 1/3, although the Giants lose to Boston 3-1.

    1941 - On ladies' day at Yankee Stadium, Lefty Gomez breaks the major league mark for walks in a shutout by issuing 11 free passes in the 9-0 victory over St. Louis. The New York southpaw, who extends the team's streak of holding the opponents scoreless to 21 consecutive innings, tosses a five-hitter improving his record to 10-3.

    1945 - At the Polo Grounds, Mel Ott hits his historic 500th career home run off Braves' hurler Johnny Hutchings in the Giants' 9-2 victory over Boston. 'Master Melvin' becomes the third major leaguer to accomplish the feat joining Babe Ruth and Jimmie Foxx in reaching the career milestone.

    1945 - Irwin Hall is credited with a single when his line drive winds up inside Dutch Leonard's pants after it hits the Senators right-hander in the stomach. The Washington starter may have lost the shortstop's batted ball, but gets the win when he goes the distance in the team's 2-1 victory over Philadelphia at Griffith Stadium.

    1952 - Boston starter Max Surkont matches goose eggs with Reds' Ken Raffenberger during the first eight innings in a scoreless duel at Braves Field. The hard-luck right-hander will lose the game when he uncorks two wild pitches in the ninth inning that allows two unearned runs to score.

    1957 - In a 12-3 win over the Cubs, Gil Hodges hits his 13th and last career grand slam in Brooklyn Dodger history. The first baseman's bases-loaded shot off Dick Littlefield establishes a new National League record previously shared by Rogers Hornsby and Ralph Kiner.

    1962 - Bill Monbouquette becomes the second Red Sox hurler this season to throw a no-hitter, a 1-0 victory of the White Sox at Comiskey Park. Five weeks ago, Earl Wilson also threw a no-no beating the Angels at Fenway, 2-0.


    1970 - At Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Pittsburgh left fielder Willie Stargell accumulates 14 total bases with three doubles and two home runs. The outfielder's five extra-base hits power the Pirates past the Braves, 20-10.

    1972 - In the nightcap, the Phillies salvage a split of the twin bill when Steve Carlton, who sees his 30 consecutive scoreless innings streak snapped in the fourth, beats the Mets at Shea Stadium, 4-1. In the opener, New York outlasted Philadelphia scoring a run in the bottom of the 18th inning for a 3-2 victory.

    1972 - Nate Colbert ties one major league record with five home runs, and sets another with 13 RBI, as the Padres take a doubleheader from the Braves, 9-0, and 11-7. At age 8, on May 2, 1954, Colbert had been at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis to witness Stan Musial's five home runs in a doubleheader.

    1973 - Thurman Munson and Carlton Fisk brawl at Fenway. With a 2-2 score in the top of the ninth, Munson, attempting to score from third base on a missed bunt, crashes into Fiskand they both come up swinging. Boston wins 3-2 in the bottom of the inning.

    1975 - Replacing Bill Virdon, who never won a game at Yankee Stadium, Billy Martin is named as the Bronx Bombers skipper, the first of his five hirings to run the team. During the two-year tenure of their former manager, a span that covered the 1974 and 1975 seasons, the club played its home games at Shea Stadium while their Bronx ballpark was being remodeled.

    1977 - Willie McCovey extends his own National League record when he hits his 18th career grand slam in the third inning of the Giants' 9-2 victory over Montreal at Olympic Stadium. The 39 year-old first baseman adds another round-tripper in the seventh bringing his total to 484 major league home runs.

    1978 - Pete Rose, making the last out when he strikes out on a Gene Garber change-up, goes 0-for-4 ending his 44-game hitting streak, one contest shy of breaking the National League record. The Reds third baseman has tied Willie Keeler's 1897 National League record last night with a hit off future Hall of Famer Phil Niekro.


    1982 - Hank Aaron, the holder of the career home run record (755) and RBI record (2,297); Frank Robinson, the first player to win the MVP in both leagues and the first black manager in the majors; Travis Jackson, an outstanding offensive and defensive shortstop for the Giants during 1920's, and former commissioner Happy Chandler, who provided leadership in breaking baseball's color line are inducted in the Hall of Fame.


    1985 - Vince Coleman steals two bases in the first inning of the Cardinals' 9-8 loss to the Cubs to run his season total to 74, breaking the Major League rookie record of seventy-two set in 1984 by Juan Samuel.

    1986 - On the day the Twins are celebrating their 25th anniversary, in a game which also features Kirby Puckett hitting for the cycle, Bert Blyleven becomes the tenth major leaguer to record his 3,000th strikeout. The Minnesota right-hander, who tosses a two-hitter, reaches the historic milestone by whiffing Mike Davis in the fifth inning, his eighth of the game, en route to a career high of 15, in the team's 10-1 victory over Oakland at the Metrodome.

    1993 - Reggie Jackson is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

    1994 - Baltimore's Cal Ripken, Jr. became only the second major leaguer to play 2,000 straight games as the Orioles beat Minnesota, 1-0.

    1998 - The longest hitting streak in Angels history, 28-games, ends as Garret Anderson goes hitless in four at-bats in an 11-3 defeat to the Red Sox.

    1998 - The Braves, donning 1940 Atlanta Black Crackers styled-uniforms, beat the Cardinals, who are wearing throwback uniforms of the 1928 St. Louis Stars, 3-1, at Turner Field. Players wearing replica uniforms to honor the history of clubs that played in the Negro Leagues has become a common occurrence at major league games.


    1998 - By homering from both sides of the plate for the third time this season, Tiger switch-hitter Tony Clark sets an American League record as Detroit defeats the Devil Rays, 8-0.

    1998 - The Royals steal eight bases, including four swipes by infielder Jose Offerman, to tie a team record for swipes during a 9-5 victory over the Orioles.

    2000 - In a 10-0 victory, Orioles' right-hander Mike Mussina strikes out a club-record 15 batters when he keeps the Twins hitless through six innings. 'Moose' finishes the Camden Yards contest with his third career one-hitter.

    2000 - Craig Biggio, 34, tears the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in his knee during a collision with Marlin outfielder Preston Wilson and will miss the rest of the season. This marks the first time the Astros' second baseman has ever been on the disabled list in his 13-year career.

    2001 - For the 33rd time in the team's history, the Tigers turn a triple play as Mariner Mark McLemore lines out to second baseman Damion Easley, who throws to shortstop Deivi Cruz to double up Tom Lampkin. Cruz then relays the ball to first baseman Shane Halter catching Ichiro Suzuki off first to complete Detroit's first triple killing since July 3, 1992, when the victim was also Seattle.


    2002 - The Expos trade recently acquired outfielder Cliff Floyd (.275, 21, 61) to the Red Sox for two minor league right-handed pitchers from South Korea, Seung Song and Sun-Woo Kim. Although denied by all involved, it is reported Yankees owner George Steinbrenner suspects the Expos, who are owned by major league baseball, made the trade to help his club's top rival.

    2003 - The Giants acquires Orioles' righty Sidney Ponson (14-6, 3.77) for hurlers Kurt Ainsworth, Damian Moss and Ryan Hannaman.

    2005 - Rafael Palmeiro becomes the highest profile player to be suspended for violating the MLB steroids policy. The Orioles first baseman, who denies knowingly taking any banned substances, stated this spring to the House Government Reform Committee that published allegations by Jose Canseco of his steroids use were "absolutely false" and had considered suing his former teammate over the accusation.

    2005 - Joe Garagiola Jr., the first and only general manager in Diamondback history, will be leaving Arizona to take a job with the commissioner's office. The son of the former Cardinal catcher and national broadcaster will become the senior vice president of baseball operations of MLB beginning on August 15.

    2005 - During an interview on MLB.com, Barry Bonds admits his injured right knee will most likely keep him from playing this season. The 41-year old Giants slugger needs 12 home runs to pass Babe Ruth (714) and 54 to go ahead of Hank Aaron (755) to become the all time home run leader.

    2006 - At Turner Field in a game against the Braves, Miguel Tejada plays in his 1,000th consecutive game, the seventh longest in major league history. The Oriole shortstop's streak began in June 2, 2000 as a member of the Oakland A’s.

    2006 - Needing a two-bagger to complete the cycle, Carlos Guillen stretches a single into a double much to the delight of the Tampa Bay fans. The Detroit shortstop is the tenth Tiger to accomplish the feat, but it is the first time it has occurred during a Devil Ray game.


    2007 - Buddy Bell announces prior to tonight’s 5-3 extra-inning victory against the Twins that he will leave his post as the Royals' manager at the end of the season. The 54-year old skipper will join the organization's front office next season as a senior adviser to Kansas City’s GM Dayton Moore.

    2007 - Rather than send 25,000 fans back out onto crowded highways, the Twins decide to play tonight's game against the Royals after a moment of silence in memory of victims of the nearby bridge collapse. Tomorrow’s game at the Metrodome has been postponed.

    2010 - The Mets induct four new members, all of whom played an instrumental role in the 1986 World Championship, to the team's Hall of Fame. Former GM Frank Cashen, previous skipper Davey Johnson, and two former All-stars, slugger Darryl Strawberry, and right-hander Dwight 'Doc' Gooden, join 21 other persons to be recognized by the the club since the inception of the honor in 1981.

    2011 - After popping out in a pinch-hitting appearance, Craig Counsell remains without a hit in his last 45 at-bats, tying the longest single-season hitless streak by a position player in history, established by Brooklyn backstop Bill Bergen in 1909. The major league record is 0-for-70 established in 1970 by Bob Buhl, a pitcher who toiled with the Braves and Cubs that season.

    2013 - The Chicago White Sox released Angel Sanchez.


    2013 - The Pittsburgh Pirates released Brandon Inge.

    2013 - The Red Sox score six times in the ninth inning, overcoming a 7-2 deficit en route to their 11th walk-off victory of the season. Daniel Nava's one-out walk-off single seals the deal in Boston’s 8-7 amazing comeback victory over the Mariners at Fenway Park.

    2015 - Clayton Kershaw strikes out Mike Trout looking with a wicked curveball, marking the first time that reigning MVPs have faced one another in a major league game. The interleague contest between the two LA teams ends with Dodger southpaw keeping the Angel outfielder 0-for-3 while hurling eight innings in the team's 3-1 victory over the Halos at Chavez Ravine. 

    2015 - The Chicago White Sox signed Dayán Viciedo as a free agent.


    2016 - Royals starter Danny Duffy sets a franchise record when he strikes out 16 in batters in the team's 3-0 victory over the Rays at Tropicana Field. The 27 year-old southpaw surpasses the mark established by Zack Greinke, who struck out 15 in 2009 contest against the Indians.



    Baseball Birthdays on August 1...


    1865 - Gastfield, Ed
    1872 - Fauver, Clay
    1875 - Davis, Wiley
    1875 - Croft, Harry
    1881 - Walker, Tom
    1890 - Love, Slim
    1892 - Sanders, Roy
    1895 - Llewellyn, Clem
    1897 - Emmerich, Bob
    1899 - Shaute, Joe
    1902 - Freigau, Howard
    1906 - Bushey, Frank
    1916 - Stromme, Floyd
    1916 - Rambert, Pep
    1917 - Johnson, Chet
    1921 - Hamrick, Ray
    1925 - Balcena, Bobby
    1925 - Bamberger, George
    1943 - Warner, Jackie
    1947 - Muser, Tony

    1948 - Smith, Tommy
    1950 - Tyrone, Wayne
    1950 - May, Milt

    1951 - Mackanin, Pete
    1952 - Gross, Greg
    1954 - Miller, Roger
    1957 - White, Myron
    1960 - Anderson, Dave
    1962 - Anderson, Scott
    1967 - Jefferies, Gregg
    1968 - Hasegawa, Shigetoshi
    1968 - Bohanon, Brian
    1969 - Jarvis, Kevin
    1969 - Knackert, Brent
    1972 - Garcia, Freddy

    1974 - Baughman, Justin
    1976 - Joseph, Kevin
    1978 - Olson, Tim
    1984 - Kintzler, Brandon
    1985 - Jones, Adam
    1985 - Kimball, Cole
    1988 - Elias, Roenis
    1989 - Bumgarner, Madison
    1990 - Diaz, Aledmys
    1990 - Vargas, Kennys
    1992 - Valera, Breyvic



    Baseball Deaths on August 1...


    1897 - Seymour, Jake
    1903 - Bohn, Charlie
    1914 - Murphy, Con
    1914 - Gardner, Gid
    1932 - Gill, Haddie
    1938 - Thompson, Tug
    1946 - Sinc0ck, Bert
    1951 - Curtis, Harry
    1952 - Douglas, Phil
    1958 - Boone, Ike

    1966 - Gowdy, Hank
    1974 - Kirk, Tom
    1989 - Heffner, Don
    1991 - Short, Chris
    1994 - James, Bernie
    2005 - Nielsen, Milt
    2007 - Naktenis, Pete
    2008 - Simmons, John
    2011 - Caffie, Joe
    2011 - Pitko, Alex
    2012 - Erickson, Don
    2013 - Martin, Babe
    2015 - Izquierdo, Hank


       










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Re: Pale Hose History
« Reply #4927 on: August 01, 2018, 12:03:25 am »
This Date In White Sox History - August 1st


       

August 1, 1983 - On a nationally televised ABC Monday Night Baseball game, Greg Luzinski drives a Ray Fontenot pitch over the left field roof at Comiskey Park. It’s ‘the Bull’s’ second roof shot in 1983 and the first home run ever allowed by Fontenot. The White Sox would win the game 4 - 1 over the Yankees.

Boxscore & P-B-P:  http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1983/B08010CHA1983.htm



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« Reply #4928 on: August 01, 2018, 12:04:18 am »
Today In White Sox History - August 1st





August 1, 2005 - White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle’s streak of 49 straight starts with six or more innings ends when he is thrown out of a game in Baltimore by umpire Brian Gorman. “Hawk” Harrelson is extremely upset in the TV booth (you’ve GOT to be kidding me!) Buehrle gets tossed without warning for hitting B.J. Surhoff after White Sox hitters are struck earlier in the game. The Sox would get the last laugh however winning the game and sweeping the four game series.

Boxscore & P-B-P:  http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2005/B08010BAL2005.htm



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« Reply #4929 on: August 02, 2018, 12:24:53 am »

    On August 2 in Baseball History...


    1906 - Doc White launches the White Sox on a 19-game winning streak (longest in AL history) with a 3-0 win over Boston. The streak, interrupted only by a tie with New York, catapults Chicago from fourth place to first in ten days.


    1907 - Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington and loses 3-2 to Detroit. The first hit off him is a bunt single by Ty Cobb.

    1919 - Playing in his 479th straight contest since June 2, 1916, Fred Luderus breaks Eddie Collins's consecutive-game record. The Phillies first baseman will extend his major league mark to 533 before the streak ends in the 1920 season opener.

    1921 - A Chicago jury brings in a verdict of not guilty against the Black Sox. That night, jurors and defendants celebrate with a party in an Italian restaurant. Ignoring the verdict, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis bans all eight defendants from baseball for life.


    1922 - Ken Williams homers in his sixth straight game setting an American League record. The Browns left fielder's home run helps beat the Red Sox, 9-4.

    1931 - In a game played at a National League ballpark, the Yankees are shut out by the Red Sox at Braves Field, 1–0. It will be another two years and a day, a major league record spanning three hundred and eight games, before the Bronx Bombers are blanked again.

    1933 - In a 16-3 win over the Yankees in New York, A’s catcher Mickey Cochrane hits for the cycle for the second time in his career. The Philadelphia backstop also accomplished the rare feat last season.

    1936 - At Comiskey Park, the White Sox overcome deficits of 9-1 in the fifth and 11-3 in the seventh inning to defeat the Red Sox in extra innings, 12-11. With two outs in the 12th inning Jack Hayes's single plates Larry Rosenthal, who had doubled earlier in the frame, to give the Pale Hose an incredible come-from-behind victory in the second game of their twin bill sweep over Boston.


    1938 - Larry MacPhail has official baseballs dyed dandelion yellow, and they are used in the first game of a doubleheader between the Dodgers and Cardinals at Ebbets Field. The Dodgers win 6-2. The Dodgers will use up their yellow balls in three more games in 1939.

    1939 - In the ninth inning of the New York's 7-2 loss to Detroit, Joe DiMaggio makes one of the most memorable catches in Yankee Stadium history when he grabs Hank Greenberg drive 455 feet from home plate. The 24-year center fielder, who seldom displays emotion, is so thrilled with the amazing catch he enthusiastically heads toward the dugout forgetting there is a still man on base with only two outs, a rare mental error for the 'Yankee Clipper'.

    1959 - In the second game of a twin bill at County Stadium, Bill Bruton hits three triples leading Milwaukee to an 11-5 victory over the Cardinals. Two of the three Braves' center fielder's three-baggers come with the bases loaded.

    1959 - In the ninth inning of a 5–4 loss to the Boston Red Sox, Jim Bunning, tossing a frame in relief, strikes out three batters on nine pitches sending Sammy White, Jim Mahoney, and Ike Delock back to the dugout with bats in their hands. The Tiger right-hander becomes only the tenth pitcher in major league history to accomplish the feat.

    1970 - Trailing by three runs entering the bottom of the ninth inning, the Phillies score four times in the bottom of the frame without recording an out in the unlikely 7-6 victory over the Giants. Tony Taylor ends the Connie Mack Stadium contest with a walk-off grand slam off of Mike Davison.

    1970 - At Memorial Stadium, the Orioles score five times in the first inning and hold on to beat the Royals, 10-8. It is Baltimore's 23rd consecutive victory against Kansas City over a two-year span, setting a major league mark.

    1970 - After attending a tryout camp, Frank White is signed by the Royals as an amateur free agent. The 19 year-old infielder, one of the few successful graduates from the Baseball Academy the team operated in the early 1970s, will play his entire 18-year career in Kansas City, having his number retired by the franchise 1995.

    1979 - At the age of 32, Thurman Munson is killed when the Cessna Citation I/SP jet he is learning to fly clips a tree and crashes 1,000 feet short of the runway at Canton-Akron Airport. The Yankee catcher had been taking lessons for over two years so he could get home more easily on off-days to be with his family in Ohio.  A crowd of 51,151 will attend the memorial tribute at Yankee Stadium the following day.

    1981 - As a recipient of the Ford C. Frick award for his "major contributions to baseball" as a broadcaster, Ernie Harwell becomes the fifth honoree to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. The Tigers' broadcaster who describes himself as a 'tongue-tied kid from Georgia', is overcome with joy as he shares his heart-felt appreciation for the game with the Cooperstown crowd.


    1981 - Cardinal ace right-hander Bob Gibson slugging first baseman Johnny Mize, who played with the Cardinals, Giants, and Yankees, and Negro League pioneer Rube Foster are inducted in to the Hall of Fame. Gibson was elected in the first year of his eligibility by the BBWAA, with Mize and Foster getting the the nod from the Veterans Committee.

    1982 - Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals his 100th base of the season in a 6-5 win over Seattle, tying the American League record he set last season. Henderson is the first player ever to steal 100 bases twice.

    1982 - During a ceremony held in Cooperstown, NY, the United States Postal Service unveils a 20-cent stamp commemorating baseball great Jackie Robinson as part of its annual Black Heritage series. The Dodger infielder becomes the first individual baseball player to be depicted on a U.S postage stamp.


    1985 - With the score knotted at 3-3 at Yankee Stadium, White Sox backstop Carlton Fisk tags two New York runners out at home plate during the same play. The unusual 8-6-2-2 double play results when the base runners on first and second base attempt to score on Rickey Henderson's 400-foot double in the gap, but when outfielder Luis Salazar's makes a perfect throw to shortstop Ozzie Guillen, who in turn throws a strike to plate, the Chicago catcher tags out Bobby Meacham, and then spins around to tag out a sliding Larry Berra.


    1986 - Dodgers Alejandro Pena and Tom Niedenfuer combine to one-hit the Reds, 7-1, allowing only Eddie Milner's leadoff home run off Pena in the sixth inning. It is the fifth time Milner has collected the only hit in a one-hitter, tying Cesar Tovar's Major League record.

    1987 - Eric Davis led off the bottom of the 11th inning with his 30th home run of the season, giving the Cincinnati Reds a 5-4 victory over the San Francisco Giants. Davis' homer made him the seventh player with 30 homers and 30 steals in the same season.

    1987 - Kevin Seitzer went 6-for-6 with two homers and drove in seven runs to pace a 20-hit Kansas City attack as the Royals beat the Boston Red Sox 13-5 in 102-degree heat.

    1990 - Yankees rookie Kevin Maas hits his tenth home run in just 77 at bats, the fastest any player has ever reached that mark. But the Yanks lose to Detroit 6-5 in 11 innings.

    1991 - Mike Jeffcoat becomes the first American League pitcher to get an RBI since 1972 in a 15-1 Rangers rout of Milwaukee.

    1992 - Tom Seaver, Rollie Fingers, Hal Newhouser and Bill McGowan are enshrined in the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

    1993 - An investor team of Baltimore lawyer Peter Angelos and Cincinnati businessman William DeWitt submit a winning bid for the Orioles during a bankruptcy court auction in New York City. Also on the winning team are popular author Tom Clancy and ABC broadcaster Jim McKay.

    1993 - A crowd, with many fans chanting, "U.S.A., U.S.A.", during the team's batting practice, becomes obnoxious and unruly at the Yankees' 4-0 loss to the Blue Jays in New York. After rudely booing the Canadian national anthem at the beginning of the game, the bad behavior continues as some fans throw bottles from the right field bleachers onto the field in the direction of Toronto outfielder Joe Carter.

    1995 - Long time coach Jimmie Reese, whose 23 years in an Angels uniform equal the longest in club history is inducted into the Angels' Hall of Fame. The former roommate of Babe Ruth began his career as a batboy for the Pacific Coast League's Los Angeles Angels in 1917.

    1998 - The Cuban national team extends its winning streak at the World Baseball Championships, which began in 1986, to 41 games. The team's latest victory, a 7-1 defeat of South Korea in the final round, brings the island nation its twenty-second gold medal.

    2002 - Reds general manager Jim Bowden is fined by commissioner Bud Selig for the comments he made to reporters prior to yesterday's game against the Dodgers comparing a baseball strike with the terrorist attacks of September 11th. Quickly realizing the use of such analogy was inappropriate and insensitive, the Cincinnati GM issues an immediate apology after the game.

    2007 - After giving up eight in runs in the top of the second inning, the Yankees storm back in the bottom of the frame to tie the score with eight tallies of their own in an eventual 13-9 loss to the White Sox in New York. It is only the second time in major league history that eight or more runs are scored in the same inning by each team.


    2008 - In the first game after the Manny Ramirez trade to the Dodgers, the Fenway Faithful enthusiastically welcome Jason Bay, the player replacing the Boston icon. The former Pirates outfielder doesn't disappoint tripling and scoring the winning run in the 12th inning of the Red Sox 2-1 victory over the A's.

    2009 - Melky Cabrera completes a cycle with a ninth-inning triple during an 8-5 victory in Chicago to become the first Yankee in 14 years to accomplish the feat. Tony Fernandez had been the last Bronx Bomber to collect a single, double, triple and home run in the same game with his four hits against Oakland on September 3, 1995.

    2009 - The Chicago White Sox signed Dylan Axelrod as a free agent.


    2010 - The Brewers and Corey Hart agree to a $26.5 million, three-year contract extension keeping the All-Star outfielder in Milwaukee through the 2013 season. The 28-year-old fly chaser, who had an unproductive 2009 season and a very poor spring training, had been subject of recent trade rumors.

    2010 - Washington backstop Ivan Rodriguez becomes the fifth player to collect 300 home runs while catching when he goes deep off Rodrigo Lopez leading off the second inning of the Nationals' 3-1 victory in Arizona. Pudge joins Hall of Famers Mike Piazza, Carlton Fisk, Johnny Bench, and Yogi Berra as the only catchers in baseball history to reach the plateau while playing behind the dish.

    2011 - After intentionally throwing a pitch at Alex Avila two days ago, Jered Weaver, who will appeal the ruling, is suspended for six games and fined an undisclosed amount of money. The Angels right-hander threw the seventh-inning pitch over the Tigers catcher's head after being annoyed by Carlos Guillen, the previous Detroit batter, who stayed at home plate to admire his home run before starting to trot around the bases.


    2011 -     In the Yankees' rain-shortened 6-0 victory in Chicago, Mark Teixeira homers from both sides of the plate for the 12th time to set a new major league record. The New York slugging first-baseman surpasses switch-hitters Eddie Murray and Chili Davis, who went yard from both sides of the dish 11 times during their careers.


    2012 - Chicago White Sox released Dallas McPherson.


    2012 - Arizona Diamondbacks released Scott Podsednik.

    2013 - Two days after his 21st birthday, Jose Fernandez establishes a franchise rookie record, striking out 14 batters in the Miami 10-0 victory over Cleveland in Marlins Park. The Miami right-hander becomes the first pitcher with at least 13 strikeouts in consecutive games since Randy Johnson accomplished the feat in 2004.

    2014 - The Indians unveil a statue near Heritage Park at Progressive Field honoring Jim Thome, the team's all-time career home run leader (337) who spent spent 13 seasons with Cleveland. The eight-foot bronze sculpture is located at the spot where the longest homer ever hit in Progressive Field landed, a 511-foot blast launched in 1999 by the Tribe's first baseman/DH.


    2014 - The Tigers scored in each of the eight innings the come to bat in their 11-5 victory over Colorado at Comerica Park. Detroit, who also accomplished the feat in 1912, becomes the first team not to have a zero in their line score since the Yankees tallied a run in ever frame against Toronto in 2006.


    2016 - Astros rookie Joe Musgrove makes his first major league appearance, coming in relief of injured starter Lance McCullers. The 23 year-old right-hander has an impressive debut when he completes the game, striking out 8 and yielding just a single in his 4.1 innings of work in Houston’s 2-1 loss to the Blue Jays at Minute Maid Park.



    Baseball Birthdays on August 2...


    1874 - Hill, Bill
    1876 - Nance, Doc
    1877 - Sanders, War
    1881 - Veil, Bucky
    1882 - Holmes, Jim
    1882 - Ames, Red
    1886 - Stone, Dwight
    1890 - Aragon, Angel
    1898 - Bowles, Emmett
    1899 - Riviere, Tink

    1901 - Caldwell, Charlie
    1902 - Klinger, Joe

    1906 - Posedel, Bill
    1909 - Phebus, Bill
    1924 - Merriman, Lloyd

    1935 - Pregenzer, John
    1943 - Burgmeier, Tom
    1944 - Coletta, Chris
    1952 - James, Art
    1952 - Rivera, Bombo
    1954 - LaFrancois, Roger
    1955 - Dorsey, Jim
    1956 - Botelho, Derek
    1961 - Sheaffer, Danny
    1964 - Young, Cliff
    1965 - Marak, Paul
    1966 - Wakefield, Tim
    1967 - Taylor, Scott
    1968 - Cimorelli, Frank
    1971 - Sinclair, Steve
    1973 - Venafro, Mike
    1974 - Miller, Matt
    1975 - Dillon, Joe
    1976 - Vazquez, Ramon
    1978 - Guerrier, Matt
    1979 - Lewis, Colby
    1979 - Quintero, Humberto
    1979 - Riley, Matt
    1982 - Sizemore, Grady
    1983 - Street, Huston
    1984 - Hughes, Luke
    1984 - Schmidt, Konrad
    1987 - Jaime, Juan
    1988 - Jackson, Brett
    1989 - Garcia, Onelki
    1991 - Bridwell, Park
    1993 - DeJong, Paul
    1993 - Mella, Keury



    Baseball Deaths on August 2...


    1903 - Sweeney, Bill
    1905 - Snyder, George
    1932 - Brouthers, Dan
    1934 - Richter, Reggie
    1938 - Curry, Jim
    1944 - Hauger, Arthur
    1951 - Cooper, Guy
    1955 - O'Neill, Peaches
    1961 - Gardner, Harry
    1961 - Morris, Walter
    1963 - Standridge, Pete
    1970 - Cvengros, Mike

    1974 - Pickup, Ty
    1975 - Buckles, Jess
    1979 - Munson, Thurman
    1988 - Berman, Bob
    1993 - Gantenbein, Joe
    1994 - Jones, Dick
    2004 - Schultz, Mike
    2005 - Graff, Milt
    2011 - Federoff, Al
    2015 - Spring, Jack



               



   



       



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This Date In White Sox History - August 2nd





August 2, 1968 -
The White Sox and Senators complete a trade as infielders Tim Cullen and Ron Hansen are exchanged for each other. Why the notoriety? Because the same two players were traded for each other by the same two clubs on February 13th!



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August 2, 1979 - Tony LaRussa replaces Don Kessinger as White Sox manager. The Tampa native, who had passed the bar exam in Florida, is only 35 years old.



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August 2, 1985 - An incredible weekend in New York starts with perhaps the most unusual play in White Sox history. In the bottom of the 7th inning with Britt Burns on the mound, Rickey Henderson slams a double to left center over the head of outfielder Luis Salazar. Yankee base runners Bobby Meacham and Dale Berra get confused because it looked like Salazar might have been able to make the catch. Meacham stumbles running the bases and is nearly passed by Berra. Both runners attempt to score as Salazar’s relay throw is caught by shortstop Ozzie Guillen and fired to Carlton Fisk at the plate. Fisk then tags out and knocks down BOTH Meacham and Berra one / two as they attempt to score. That’s two for the price of one at home plate! To cap things off the Sox win the game 6 - 5 in 11 innings.

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August 2, 1990 - In a twilight doubleheader at County Stadium in Milwaukee, two recent White Sox 1st round draft picks (and future White Sox stars) make their major league debuts. Pitcher Alex Fernandez, making his ML debut, starts game one and pitches 5 innings of 5-hit ball allowing two runs.  He ends up with a no-decision as the White Sox win game one 4 -3.  Reliever Barry Jones allows the tying run in the 8th but picks up his 11th win when the White Sox score a run in the top of the 9th and Bobby Thigpen shuts down the Brewers for his 33rd save of the season.  White Sox first baseman Frank Thomas makes his ML debut going 0-4 with one RBI in game one.  In game two, the White Sox win 4 - 2 with Thigpen picking up his 34th save.

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August 2, 2007 - Chicago right fielder Jermaine Dye homered twice and doubled twice, including a go-ahead drive that led the White Sox to a 13-9 victory over the New York Yankees. The White Sox and Yankees each score eight runs in the second inning. It was the second time in MLB history both teams scored eight or more in an inning.

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    On August 3 in Baseball History...


    1888 - Kansas City Cowboys rookie Billy Hamilton, recently purchased from Worcester, steals his first base in the major leagues. Before returning to the minors in 1902, Sliding Billy will amass 912 stolen bases, a record broken by Lou Brock in 1979.

    1906 - Tom Hughes of the Washington Nationals becomes the first pitcher to win a 1-0 extra-inning game with his own home run when he homers in the tenth for a 1-0 win over the St. Louis Browns.

    1914 - In the seventh inning of the 4-1 loss to Detroit at the Polo Grounds, Yankees' catcher Les Nunamaker is credited with three assists to become the first catcher to accomplish the feat since 1887. The 25-year old backstop guns down Sam Crawford and Bobby Veach trying to steal‚ and also in the frame picks off Hugh High leading off second base.

    1933 - The Yankees are shut out by the A's and Lefty Grove 7-0. It is 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.

    1940 - With Ernie Lombardi hurt, Reds catcher 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 5-4 loss to New York July 31. Hershberger's father had also committed suicide, in 1928. Although the team is devastated by the mid-season tragedy, the Reds will go on to capture the National league pennant.

    1941 - The Browns Johnny Niggeling gets Joe DiMaggio in four at bats to stop DiMaggio's streak of 74 games in reaching base.

    1948 - Cleveland's Satchel Paige made his first major league start and went seven innings to lead the Indians to a 5-3 victory over the Washington Senators.

    1948 - Negro League legend Satchel Paige makes his first major league start hurling seven innings to lead the Indians over the Senators, 5-3. Prior to today's game, the future Hall of Famer made eight appearances in relief compiling a 1-1 record for the Tribe.

    1957 - Bobby Bragan hears on the radio he has been fired as the Pirates' manager and replaced by Philadelphia third base coach Danny Murtaugh. Pittsburgh general manager Joe L. Brown leaked news of the hiring before informing his disposed skipper.

    1959 - For the first time in major league history a second All-Star game is played in the same season. The American League goes on to post a 5-3 victory at the Los Angeles Coliseum when White Sox second baseman Nellie Fox singles in Tony Kubek with the decisive run in the top of the seventh inning.


    1959 - In second All-Star game played this summer, Yogi Berra's two-run home run off Dodgers right-hander Don Drysdale in the third inning at the LA Memorial Coliseum proves to be the difference in the American League's 5-3 victory over the Senior Circuit. The home run will be the last one hit by a Bronx Bomber in a Mid-Summer Classic game for 41 years until Derek Jeter goes deep in 2001.

    1961 - In the largest shutout score in a National League night game, the Pirates beat the Cardinals at Sportman's Park, 19-0. Harvey Haddix throws a four-hit complete game for the Bucs in a game that takes only two hours and thirty-six minutes to play.

    1962 - With his sixth home run in three consecutive games, Frank Thomas ties a National League record when he goes deep off Cincinnati's Joey Jay in the bottom of the seventh inning of a Mets 8-6 loss at the Polo Grounds. The right-handed slugger, who equaled the mark with a pair of round trippers in each game, will add another homer to his club leading total in tomorrow's contest.

    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.

    1967 - The Red Sox obtain catcher Elston Howard from the Yankees for cash and two players to be named later. Peter Magrini and Ron Klimkowski, both pitchers, will be sent to New York as part of the trade.

    1967 - At Wrigley Field, the Braves set a club record by hitting six home runs in a 10-3 victory over the Cubs. Tito Francona, Joe Torre, (2), Clete Boyer (2), Denis Menke, and Hank Aaron all contribute to the record.

    1969 - Pinch-hitter Rich Reese hit a grand slam to power the Minnesota Twins to a 5-2 victory over the visiting Baltimore Orioles and end Dave McNally's 15-game winning streak. McNally's two victories at the end of 1968 had given him 17 straight wins.

    1975 - Denny Doyle, acquired from California in June for a player to be named (Chuck Ross) later and cash, extends his hitting streak to 22-games with a first inning home run in the Red Sox's 6-4 victory over Detroit at Fenway Park. The usually light-hitting infielder will bat .310 for Boston and will play a pivotal role in Boston's successful pennant drive.

    1979 - At Yankee Stadium, over 51,000 mourners attend a memorial service for Thurman Munson. The Bronx Bombers' captain was killed yesterday piloting a plane that crashed 1,000 feet short of the runway at Canton-Akron Airport.


    1980 - Al Kaline, Duke Snider, Chuck Klein, and Tom Yawkey are inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

    1982 - Frank White hits for the cycle for the second time in his career. The second baseman completes the feat with a two-out triple in the ninth inning giving Kansas City a 6-5 walk-off victory over Detroit at Royals Stadium.

    1982 - 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.


    1986 - Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr, and Ernie Lombardi are inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

    1987 - Twins pitcher Joe Niekro is caught with a file on the mound and is ejected during Minnesota's 11-3 win over the Angels. 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 score fourteen runs in the first inning of an 18-2 demolition of the Astros. Major league records set during the onslaught include most hits in an inning (16), most players with two hits in an inning (7), and most singles in an inning (12).


    1995 - Making his first start for the Rockies since being acquired from the Mets, Brett Saberhagen gives up 13 hits and walks 3 batters, but gets the win in the team's 9-4 win over the Dodgers. The sellout crowd gives their new hurler a enthusiastic standing ovation when he departs the game with one out in the seventh inning.

    1997 - Knuckleball pitcher Phil Niekro, former Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda, second baseman Nellie Fox, and Negro League shortstop Willie Wells are inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

    1997 - Coming off the Brewers' bench, Jeromy Burnitz ties an American League record homering in consecutive pinch-hit at-bats August 2-3.

    1998 - In the eighth inning of Florida's 11-3 win, C.J. Nitkowski hits three consecutive batters. It is only the third time since 1900 in major league history -- Pirate Dock Ellis (1974) and White Sox Wilbur Wood (1977) -- the dubious deed has been accomplished.


    1998 - Mike Oquist gives up fourteen earned runs becoming the first pitcher in 22 years to give up that many runs in an appearance as the Yankees crush the A's, 14-1. Oquist sets a franchise record for runs allowed as he is sacrificed to save the bullpen for tomorrow's doubleheader against the Bronx Bombers.

    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.

    2000 - After looking at the artists' renderings of the new proposed enlarged Fenway Park that includes a monstrous 3,000-car garage, Diane White suggests the Red Sox, New England's team, relocate to Hartford, Connecticut. The Boston Globe columnist believes the gigantic ballpark complex will dominate the quaint neighborhood, and she riles against the "bunch of rich and powerful guys" who will ask for taxpayer assistance to fund their "multi- multimillion-dollar playground".

    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.

    2002 - 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 ninth and winning the game in the 12th. The Expos third baseman’s 199th and 200th career blasts help Montreal beat St. Louis in extra innings, 10-6.

    2006 - The home run ball hit by Barry Barry Bonds to pass Babe Ruth for second place on the all-time career list fetches $220,100 during a ten-day eBay auction. The money, which will go to Andrew Morbitzer, the fan who caught #715, is much less than the $800,000 dished out in 2004 for the ball the Giants' left fielder hit for his 700th career homer.

    2008 - Francisco Liriano, sent down to the minors after an 0-3 start in April attempting to come back from Tommy John surgery, blanks the Indians for six innings in his return to the Twins' rotation. The right-hander's performance propels Minnesota into first place in the American League Central with the eventual 6-2 victory over the Tribe along with a White Sox loss.

    2011 - After driving in the winning run yesterday, Jacoby Ellsbury, who never had a walk-off hit, does it in consecutive contests when he blasts a two-out ninth inning homer giving the Red Sox another dramatic victory over Cleveland. The center fielder becomes the first Red Sox player with game-ending hits on consecutive days in the regular season since Butch Hobson accomplished the feat in 1978.

    2011 - The Jamestown (New York) Jammers wear special game jerseys during their NY-Penn League game against Tri-City to commemorate Lucy Ball's 100th birthday and in conjunction with the Festival of Comedy being held in her honor in Jamestown this week. The uniform tops, which feature Lucy and Desi on the front and Lucy's 100th birthday celebration logo on the back, will be auctioned off later to benefit the Lucy-Desi Center and winners can have the jersey autographed by the player who wore it, if so desired.


    2012 - In the span of about an hour, the Upton brothers go deep to both record their 100th career home run on the same night in different ball parks when Diamondback outfielder Justin goes yard off Kyle Kendrick at Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park, and older sibling B.J., playing center field, hits a Tropicana Field round-tripper for the Rays off Baltimore's Tommy Hunter. On July 20th, the boys from Norfolk, Virginia also hit their 99th homers on same day.


    2013 - The Chicago White Sox released Dewayne Wise.


    2013 - Max Scherzer becomes only the third pitcher in the last 44 years to begin the season with a 16-1 record, when he gets the win in the Tigers’ 3-0 victory over Chicago at Comerica Park. The Detroit right-hander joins Roger Clemens (2001 Yankees) and Dave McNally (1966 Orioles) in getting off to a historically fast start.

    2013 - The first-place Dodgers set a franchise record, winning their 13th consecutive game on the road with their 3-0 victory over the Cubs in Chicago. The Giants established the National League mark in 1916 when the team won 17 straight games away from the Polo Grounds.

    2014 - The Chicago White Sox sold Blake Tekotte to the Arizona Diamondbacks.


    2015 - Adrian Beltre becomes only the fourth player in baseball history to hit for the cycle three times, and the first to accomplish the feat since 1933 when Babe Herman collected four different hits for the Cubs. The Rangers third baseman, who also joins Bob Meusel (1928) and John Reilly (1890), completed the task with a fifth-inning home run in the team's 12-9 victory over Houston.

    2015 - The Boston Red Sox released Ronald Belisario.

    2015 - The Chicago White Sox released George Kottaras.


    2015 - Mike Hessman breaks the minor league baseball home run record with the 433rd round-tripper of his nearly 19-year career, a grand slam against the Lehigh Valley Ironpigs in the Mudhens’ 10-8 extra-inning International League (AAA) loss at Toledo’s Fifth Third Field. The 37 year-old first baseman, who played parts of five seasons with the Braves, Tigers, and Mets, surpasses Buzz Arlett, who established the mark in 1936 while playing for the Minneapolis Millers.




    Baseball Birthdays on August 3...


    1849 - Snow, Charlie
    1855 - Flint, Silver
    1869 - Wheeler, George
    1870 - Brown, Stub
    1874 - McFarland, Ed

    1884 - Reilly, Tom
    1885 - Ralston, Doc
    1886 - Kaiser, Al
    1888 - Rogers, Jay
    1889 - Getz, Gus
    1894 - Heilmann, Harry
    1894 - Hale, George
    1902 - Taitt, Doug

    1902 - Sprinz, Joe
    1909 - Meyer, George
    1911 - Evans, Art

    1912 - Wilshere, Whitey
    1917 - Candini, Milo
    1920 - Johnson, Vic
    1920 - Hegan, Jim
    1921 - Lafata, Joe
    1925 - Hoskins, Dave
    1927 - Welteroth, Dick
    1928 - Ross, Cliff
    1928 - Hyde, Dick
    1940 - Repoz, Roger
    1952 - Meyer, Dan
    1959 - Gott, Jim
    1959 - Jeffcoat, Mike
    1960 - Bream, Sid
    1962 - Sasser, Mackey
    1964 - Elster, Kevin
    1968 - Beck, Rod
    1968 - Morton, Kevin
    1969 - Dixon, Steve
    1971 - Sexton, Chris
    1972 - Magee, Wendell
    1973 - Stein, Blake
    1975 - Brown, Roosevelt
    1976 - Glaus, Troy
    1977 - Lehr, Justin
    1981 - Bowyer, Travis
    1982 - Sanchez, Felix
    1983 - Reynolds, Mark
    1984 - Duran, German
    1984 - Escalona, Sergio
    1984 - Joyce, Matt
    1988 - McCoy, Patrick
    1989 - Gomez, Roberto



    Baseball Deaths on August 3...


    1893 - Nusz, Emory
    1918 - Lawlor, Mike
    1934 - Hastings, Charlie
    1940 - Hershberger, Willard
    1942 - Hayden, Jack
    1942 - Sutthoff, Jack
    1947 - Willis, Vic
    1947 - Tesch, Al
    1954 - Hoelskoetter, Art
    1955 - Shirley, Mule
    1961 - Downey, Tom
    1962 - Sanders, War
    1966 - Blackburn, Earl
    1968 - Jenkins, John

    1976 - Ezzell, Homer
    1980 - Hubbell, Bill
    1981 - McLeod, Jim
    1984 - Smith, Elmer
    1985 - Mattox, Cloy
    1990 - Brown, Bob
    1995 - Craft, Harry
    2007 - Griffeth, Lee









                                       




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This Date In White Sox History - August 3rd





August 3, 1956 - The White Sox set the franchise record by scoring 11 runs in the 1st inning of a game in Chicago against the Orioles. Billy Pierce gets the win as the White Sox cruise 13-3.

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August 3, 1986 - White Sox rookie Russ Morman collects three hits in his first three at bats in the big leagues. Morman also ties the record set by Billy Martin by getting two of them in the same inning in his debut game. That happens in the 6th inning of a 10-1 win at Comiskey Park against Detroit.

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August 3, 1989 - White Sox G.M. Larry Himes is best remembered for his drafting of future stars like Robin Ventura, Frank Thomas, Jack McDowell and Alex Fernandez but he’d pull off a good trade or two as well. Case in point, on this day. Himes shipped outfielder Mark Davis to the Angels for pitcher Roberto Hernandez. Hernandez would go on to save 134 games for the Sox with three seasons of 30 or more.



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August 3, 1997 - White Sox All Star second baseman, Nellie Fox finally enters the Baseball Hall of Fame. Fox, the 1959 American League M.V.P. was voted in by the veterans committee after missing regular election to the hall by the fewest votes in the history of the shrine. Technically he received the 75% per cent needed by rounding out his original vote total but the hall had no provisos for that, so his total of 74.6% per cent stood and was deemed 'short' of the 75% per cent needed. Fortunately he was finally admitted in. Nellie was an 11 time All Star who hit .368 in those games.



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August 3, 2001 - White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle has thrown a lot of big games both in the regular season and in the playoffs. This was one of his best as he beat Tampa Bay 4-0 at U.S. Cellular Field. Buehrle allowed only one hit, to Damian Rolls leading off the 7th inning.

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    On August 4 in Baseball History...


    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 outfielder Ginger Beaumont.

    1903 - Nap Lajoie is so furious that umpire Tommy Connolly has put an old black ball into play that he hurls the ball over the grandstand. His act results in Cleveland forfeiting the game to Detroit.

    1908 - In Brooklyn, the last-place Cardinals blank the Brooklyn Superbas (Dodgers), 3-0. The entire Washington Park contest is played with just one ball.

    1909 - Umpire Tim Hurst instigates a riot by spitting at Athletics second baseman Eddie Collins, who had questioned a call. This incident eventually leads to Hurst's banishment from baseball two weeks later.

    1910 - Jack Coombs of the Philadelphia A's and Ed Walsh of the Chicago White Sox hooked up in a 16-inning scoreless tie. Coombs struck out 18 and allowed three hits.


    1929 - The Cleveland Indians, down to their last out, scored nine runs in the ninth inning for a 14-6 comeback victory over the New York Yankees.

    1932 - After being fined $1,000 and suspended until Carl Reynolds, the player whose jaw he broke in two places a month ago was ready to play again for the Senators, Bill Dickey returns to the Yankees line-up. The future Hall of Fame catcher bangs out four hits, including a grand slam, despite missing 31 games.

    1935 - Walter Johnson (46-48) resigns as manager of the Indians and will be replaced by Steve O'Neill (36-23). The Tribe has dropped 23 of its last 32 decisions.

    1941 - In the third inning, catcher Mickey Owen catches three foul flies, the first time in the major leagues that feat has been recorded. His Dodgers whip the Giants 11-6.

    1942 - n a military relief game at the Polo Grounds which will be the last war-time twilight game played, Pee Wee Reese's grand slam in the top of the ninth, which puts the Dodgers up 5-1, doesn't count because of the 9:10 pm government curfew. The game ends up as a 1-1 tie with the Giants.

    1945 - Two remarkable debut pitching performances by Senators' rookies makes 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 12-run fourth inning, sees Joe Cleary, the last major leaguer to be born in Ireland, giving up seven runs on five hits and three walks in his only big league appearance to finish with a career ERA of 189.0, and in mop-up work, WW II veteran Bert Shepard, with an amputated leg as a result of being wounded in WW ll, hurls five 1/3 innings giving up just one run on just three hits in his only major league appearance.

    1948 - Ernie Harwell, filling in for Red Barber who is recovering from a bleeding ulcer, calls his first major league game as the Dodgers beat the Cubs at Ebbets Field, 5-4. To obtain the future Hall of Fame broadcaster, Brooklyn general manager Branch Rickey trades minor league catcher Cliff Daper to the Atlanta Crackers.

    1955 - At Chicago’s Wrigley Field, Ernie Banks hits three home runs as the Cubs out slug the Pirates, 11-10. The Windy City's first baseman goes deep off three different Buc hurlers.

    1963 - At County Stadium, Roger Craig suffers his 20th loss of the season when the Mets lose to Milwaukee, 2-1. The defeat is the right-hander's 18th consecutive setback, tying Cliff Curtis' National League mark set in 1910 with the Braves, and one loss shy of A's Jack Nabors' 1916 major league record.

    1963 - With Yankees trailing Baltimore, 10-9, in the night cap of twin bill, Mickey Mantle, after missing two months of the season with a broken foot, makes a dramatic return to the lineup as a pinch hitter when he homers to deep left field in the bottom of the seventh inning off George Brunet to tie score. The crowd of nearly 40,000 fans goes wild as the 'Mick' hobbles around the bases in the Bronx Bombers' eventual 11-10 walk-off win, a victory made possible by Yogi Berra's two-out walk-off round-tripper in the bottom of the 10th inning.

    1965 - Roy Hofheinz buys R.E. "Bob" Smith's remaining shares of the Houston Sports Association to take control of the Astros. Due to a rift between them, the former co-owner had made the offer thinking the 'Judge' couldn't put the funds together.

    1968 - The Yankees, once again, honor their aging superstar when the team hosts the second of three Mickey Mantle Days at the ballpark in the Bronx. Prior to the game, over 2000 young fans paid tribute to the future Hall of Fame outfielder by parading across the field with homemade banners expressing their admiration for the living legend.

    1971 - In a Texas League contest, Tommy Walker hurls a 15-inning no-hitter beating the Albuquerque Dukes, 1-0. The Dallas-Fort Worth Spur right-hander faces only 47 batters during the minor league game, two over the minimum.

    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 had lost nine games in a row and 20 of 24 since the All-Star break.

    1982 - Joel Youngblood became the first in Major League history to get a base hit for two different teams in two different cities in the same day. In the afternoon, his hit drove in the winning run for the New York Mets in a 7-4 victory in Chicago. After the game, he was traded to the Montreal Expos and played that night in Philadelphia. He entered the game in right field in the fourth inning and later got a single.

    1983 - While warming up before the fifth inning of the Yankees 3-1 win over the Blue Jays game at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, New York outfielder 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.

    1984 - In a 9-2 Giants rout of the Astros, Jeffrey Leonard collects five hits. The cleanup slugger gets all singles and, therefore, is unable to demonstrate his one-flap-down home run trot in front of the Houston fans at the Astrodome.

    1985 - The 40-year-old Tom Seaver became the 17th 300-game winner in major league history with a six-hitter — all singles — as the Chicago White Sox defeated the New York Yankees 4-1 on Phil Rizzuto Day. Seaver walked one and struck out seven, giving him 3,499 in his 19-year career.



    1985 - Rod Carew of the Angels singles off of Twin Frank Viola in the third inning to become the 16th major leaguer to amass 3000 hits.


    1985 - Prior to the loss that results in Tom Seaver's 300th career victory, the Yankees honor Phil Rizzuto by retiring their former player and current broadcaster's uniform #10. The 'Scooter', known for the expression 'Holy Cow', is knocked over in a pre-game ceremony by a fitting gift from the team, a cow wearing a halo.

    1987 - In the fourth match up of 300-game winners since 1900, Angels’ hurler Don Sutton (317) allows four hits in six innings to beat Steve Carlton (328) and the Twins, 12-3. The 645 combined victories is the largest number of wins ever accumulated by pitchers starting the same major league game.

    1989 - Dave Stieb of the Toronto Blue Jays, who lost consecutive no-hit bids with two outs in the ninth inning in September, came within one out of a perfect game before settling for a two-hit 2-1 victory over the New York Yankees.

    1990 - The Braves trade Dale Murphy to the Phillies for Jeff Parrett, Jim Vatcher and Victor Rosario. The move enables the youngster David Justice to return to right field and win the Rookie-of-the-Year Award.

    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 - Tony Gwynn has six hits against the Giants. It is the Padres outfielder's fourth game of 1993 with five or more hits. He becomes only the third person to get five hits or better that many times in a season.

    1993 - After being hit by a Ryan Express fastball, Robin Ventura charges the mound to get at the 46-year old pitcher. Nolan Ryan responds by putting the White Sox third baseman in a headlock and punches him six times, much to the pleasure of the Rangers fans at Arlington Stadium.


    1994 - Fan favorite Kent Hrbek announces his retirement effective at the end of the season. The Twins first baseman, who played his entire 14-year career in Minnesota, ranks near the top in virtually every team offensive category.

    1994 - In Anaheim, Goose Gossage, makes his 1000th major league appearance retiring Tim Salmon on a pop-up in the seventh inning of an eventual 4-2 Angels loss to the Mariners. The future Hall of Fame reliever will end his 22-year career playing in 1002 games with seven different teams.

    1996 - Baltimore managers Earl Weaver and Ned Hanlon, Kentucky congressman Jim Bunning and Negro League star Bill Foster are inducted into the Hall of Fame.

    1997 - Brad Radke of Minnesota got his 12th straight win, pitching seven strong innings in the Twins' 9-3 victory over Toronto. Radke became only the third pitcher since 1950 to win 12 consecutive starts.

    1998 - Darryl Strawberry hits a game-tying pinch-hit grand slam highlighting a nine-run ninth inning in the Yankees' 10-5 come-from-behind victory over Oakland. The 'Straw' is the first player in the American League to hit two pinch-hit grand slams in one season

    1999 - In an effort to break out of a team slump which has resulted 15 losses in 19 decisions, all nine Angel batters use Jim Edmonds' bat the first time through the order. The center fielder's lumber yields dramatic results when the Halos go 4-for-8 with one walk in the first inning, including Bengie Molina's first career hit, an RBI double, in LA's 4-3 win over Kansas City at Edison Field.

    2000 - Joining Dave Kingman, Frank Huelsman, Willis Hudlin, Paul Lehner, Wes Covington, Ted Gray and Mike Kilkenny, Dave Martinez ties a major league record as he appears for his fourth team in a season. In the past four months the veteran outfielder/first baseman has played for the Devil Rays, Cubs, Rangers and now the Blue Jays.

    2000 - 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 already hitting 83 homers at home this season.

    2003 - Major League Baseball announces a five-year deal, which will generate more than $500 million in revenue, for apparel and headwear global licensing rights. 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.

    2004 - Mike Matheny's major league errorless streak behind the plate ends when his errant throw allows the runners to advance to second and third base on an infield single. The Cardinals' catcher hadn't committed an error since August 2, 2002, a span of 252 games.

    2005 - After the team goes into a free fall from first place, the Orioles fire manager Lee Mazzilli (129-140) and replaces 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.

    2006 - At age 95, Elden Auker, the last living pitcher to face Babe Ruth, dies of congestive heart failure. The author of Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms, which he wrote when he was ninety, started his major league career in 1931 by striking out Babe Ruth and getting Lou Gehrig to pop out.

    2006 - In the Phillies' 5-3 victory over the Mets, Chase Utley' s hitting streak ends at 35 consecutive games. Philadelphia’s second baseman, who goes 0-for-5, has the fourth longest stretch in National League history.

    2007 - Needing only 14 seasons to accomplish the feat, Alex Rodriguez becomes the 22nd and youngest player (32 years and 8 days) to hit 500 career home runs. The historic three-run homer, off Royals’ starter Kyle Davies who was recently acquired from the Braves, is hit into the left-field seats at Yankee Stadium making A-Rod and Mickey Mantle the only two players to reach the milestone in the Bronx.

    2007 - In the second inning at Petco Park in of a front sellout crowd of 42,497 fans, Barry Bonds drives a Clay Hensley fastball over the left-field wall for his 755th home run tying Hank Aaron’s 33-year-old career home run record. The opposite-field drive, ironically off a pitcher who failed a steroid test as a minor leaguer in 2005, is met with mixed reactions as a few patrons hold up asterisk signs and the crowd responds to the feat with a mixture of cheers and jeers.

    2008 - At the start of the rain delay during the Astros and Cubs game at Wrigley Field, fans are advised to take cover in the concourse due to a tornado warning being issued by the National Weather Service for downtown Chicago. The game resumes in 2 hours, 45 minutes, but approximately an hour later more thunder and lightning and another 39-minute stoppage cause the contest to be called in the bottom of the eighth with Houston credited with a 2-0 rain-shortened victory.


    2008 - During a Brewers' 6-3 loss to the Reds at Great American Ball Park, first baseman Prince Fielder confronts starting pitcher Manny Parra in the dugout shoving the hurler twice in the dugout after an angry exchange of words. The Milwaukee hurler had taken a no-hitter into the fifth, but gave up six runs on four hits and four walks before leaving the game for a pinch hitter in the seventh inning.

    2008 - The Mariners stun the Twins with a 10-run seventh inning coming back from a 6-0 deficit in an eventual 11-6 victory at Safeco Field. With six runs driven in, Raul Ibanez, who hits a grand slam and a two-run single in the frame, establishes a club record for RBIs in one inning, one more than Ken Griffey Jr. mark set in 1999.

    2010 - Exactly three years to day he hit his 500th round-tripper, Alex Rodriguez eclipses Babe Ruth in becoming the youngest major leaguer to hit 600 career home runs when he blasts a two-run first-inning shot into Monument Park at Yankee Stadium. The 35-year old Bronx Bomber third baseman is the seventh player in baseball history to reach the milestone.


    2010 - The Phillies obtain Mike Sweeney from the Mariners for a player to be named later or cash considerations. The deal is necessitated for Philadelphia when their All-Star first baseman Ryan Howard is put on the disabled list with a severe sprained ankle.

    2012 - Mike Baxter sets a team record and ties a National League mark when he walks five times in a nine-inning game in the Mets' 6-4 victory over San Diego at Petco Park. Only five of the 25 pitches thrown to the New York right fielder were strikes, with thirteen of the final 14 being out of the strike zone.

    2016 - Bartolo Colon becomes the first pitcher in the history of the Subway Series to record a victory as a member of both New York clubs when the visiting Mets beats the Bronx Bombers, 4-1. In 2011, Big Bart, in his only season with the Yankees, pitched six strong innings of shutout ball to earn a 5-2 victory over the Big Apple rivals at Citi Field.

    2017 - Jaime Garcia becomes the first pitcher to make three straight appearances as a starter for three different teams since 1895 when Gus Weyhing started consecutive games for the Phillies, Pirates, and Louisville Colonels. The 31 year-old southpaw has been traded twice July 24, taking the mound for the Braves, Twins, and Yankees in a span of 15 days.

    2017 - The Chicago White Sox signed Al Alburquerque as a free agent.





    Baseball Birthdays on August 4...


    1845 - Martin, Phonney
    1867 - Beckley, Jake
    1869 - Gaule, Mike
    1875 - Nelson, Ray
    1876 - Jackson, Charlie
    1878 - Hinchman, Harry
    1879 - O'Connor, Paddy
    1883 - Moren, Lew
    1885 - Jones, Tex
    1890 - Luque, Dolf
    1891 - Haislip, Jim
    1894 - Grant, Jim
    1895 - Benton, Sid
    1896 - Lee, Cliff
    1896 - Galloway, Chick
    1899 - Melillo, Ski
    1902 - Moore, Al
    1902 - Blankenship, Homer

    1902 - Hallahan, Bill
    1907 - Caster, George
    1911 - Stainback, Tuck
    1912 - Schuster, Bill
    1912 - Coppola, Henry
    1915 - Easter, Luke
    1918 - McElyea, Frank
    1918 - Kolloway, Don
    1920 - Keegan, Bob

    1929 - Pignatano, Joe
    1930 - Gabler, Gabe
    1932 - Coates, Jim
    1934 - Green, Dallas
    1937 - Kostro, Frank
    1938 - Oyler, Ray
    1939 - Meyer, Bob
    1939 - Higgins, Dennis
    1942 - Bravo, Angel
    1942 - Jones, Cleon

    1944 - Nye, Rich
    1945 - Davison, Mike
    1946 - Collins, Kevin
    1947 - Poulsen, Ken
    1948 - Grubb, Johnny
    1949 - Humphrey, Terry
    1951 - McIntosh, Joe
    1957 - Hayes, Ben
    1960 - Davis, Steve
    1961 - Wasinger, Mark
    1962 - Farrell, John
    1962 - Clemens, Roger
    1964 - Surhoff, B.J.
    1964 - Rodriguez, Ruben
    1965 - Merullo, Matt

    1966 - Johnson, Jeff
    1967 - Bieser, Steve
    1967 - Martinez, Domingo
    1968 - Hook, Chris
    1969 - O'Leary, Troy
    1970 - Jones, Dax
    1972 - Bourgeois, Steve
    1973 - Howry, Bobby

    1973 - Weaver, Eric
    1975 - Milton, Eric
    1976 - Fukumori, Kazuo
    1976 - Linebrink, Scott

    1977 - Crawford, Paxton
    1978 - Allen, Luke
    1978 - Knott, Jon
    1982 - Roenicke, Josh
    1986 - Castellanos, Alex
    1987 - Burgos, Hiram
    1987 - Freeman, Mike
    1987 - Martinez, David
    1990 - Ellington, Brian
    1991 - Adam, Jason
    1992 - German, Domingo
    1994 - Arcia, Orlando
    1994 - Kennedy, Brett
    1997 - Soroka, Mike



    Baseball Deaths on August 4...


    1897 - Gilroy, John
    1920 - Fennelly, Frank
    1924 - Nicol, George
    1944 - Skinner, Camp
    1946 - Lind, Carl
    1950 - Coveleski, Harry
    1950 - Burke, John
    1951 - Tonneman, Tony
    1955 - Balenti, Mike
    1959 - Charles, Chappy
    1959 - Williams, Pop
    1961 - Rose, Chuck
    1963 - Fisher, Bob
    1964 - Standaert, Jerry
    1966 - Cavet, Pug
    1971 - Lamanske, Frank
    1972 - Batten, George
    1980 - Jamerson, Lefty
    1983 - Wheeler, Ed
    1989 - LaMaster, Wayne
    1991 - White, Sammy
    1993 - Maier, Bob
    1995 - Bartell, Dick
    1996 - Brown, Willard
    2002 - Payne, Mike
    2006 - Auker, Elden
    2007 - Mancuso, Frank
    2016 - Ramsay, Robert
    2018 - White, Myron


   


     


     


     







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August 4, 1985 - On the same day Rod Carew got his 3,000th hit in Anaheim, Chicago White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver wins his 300th career game. Seaver beats the Yankees 4 - 1 at Yankee Stadium. He gets late inning defensive help when Harold Baines climbs the right field wall to rob Dave Winfield of an extra base hit with men on base. Seaver retired Don Baylor, on a fly to left for the final out of the game. The ball was caught by Reid Nichols.

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August 4, 1993 - After years of getting brush back pitches thrown at White Sox hitters from Nolan Ryan, White Sox third baseman Robin Ventura snaps in the 3rd inning of a game in Texas and charges the mound. Ryan gets the better of the fight but Ventura and his teammates find strength from the brawl and use it during the stretch run which would lead to a divisional title.  In one of the worst examples of incompetent umpiring fearing a negative reaction from the hometown crowd, HP umpire Dale Ford ejects Ventura for charging the mound but refuses to also eject Ryan who threw and connected on ALL the punches. After a heated debate, third base umpire Rich Garcia ends up ejecting White Sox manager Gene Lamont for arguing for Ryan's ejection.

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    On August 5 in Baseball History...


    1879 - After Providence pitcher Bobby Mathews gives up six runs in the first two innings, he switches positions with third baseman John Ward, who pitches shutout ball the rest of the way to rally the Grays to a 7-6 win. Captain George Wright will successfully employ this pitching scheme several more times during the season.

    1901 - Burt Hart punches John Haskell and will be banned for life as a result of his assault on the umpire. The Orioles' first baseman will play only a total of 58 games in his major league career.

    1921 - Pittsburgh's radio station KDKA provides its listeners with the first-ever broadcast of a major league game. Harold Arlin, detailing the action in the Pirates 8-5 victory over the Phillies at Forbes Field, becomes baseball's first play-by-play announcer.

    1931 - On a bloop single by pinch-hitter Dave Harris, the 27th batter he faces, Tommy Bridges loses his bid for a perfect game in the Tigers' 13-0 rout over Washington. The 24 year-old right-handed Tennessean will toss two more one-hitters for Detroit next season.

    1935 - On a very rainy Monday afternoon at Fenway Park, the Yankees and Red Sox engage in stalling and hurry-up tactics trying to take advantage of the inclement weather. American League president John Heydler will fine both managers Joe Cronin (Boston) and Joe McCarthy (New York) $100 for their antics during the Bronx Bombers' eventual 10-2 victory.

    1940 - In a rain-shortened 4-0 victory over the Tigers, Silent John Whitehead of the St. Louis Browns pitches a six inning no-hitter. It will be the quiet Texan's only victory this season.

    1942 - In front of a crowd of less than three thousand patrons at Chicago’s Comiskey Park, the White Sox beat the Tigers, 1-0. The game’s only run scores when Don Kolloway steals home with two outs in the fifth inning.


    1953 - St. Louis Browns' pitcher Don Larsen goes 3-for-3 and establishes a record for consecutive hits by a pitcher with 7. The rookie hurler will hit .284 in 81 at bats this season.

    1954 - In a 13-4 rout of the Dodgers in Brooklyn, Stan Musial paces the Cardinals attack hitting two homers and driving in seven runs. It is Preacher Roe's first loss to St. Louis at Ebbets Field in four years.

    1955 - After playing 274 straight games at second base, Nellie Fox is given a day off by White Sox manager Marty Marion. Fox will come back the next day and start a streak of 798 consecutive games.


    1957 - The Brooklyn Sports Authority gets an engineering report on a 50,000-seat stadium in the downtown area. It will cost an estimated $20.7 million, including the land site. Indications are that there will be trouble finding a market for the bond issue.

    1960 - The Tigers and Indians become the first teams to swap skippers. The Tribe's new manger, Jimmy Dykes, will compile a 103-115 record for Cleveland, while Joe Gordon posts a 26-31 mark in his two-months stay in Detroit.

    1964 - After weeks of negotiating, Ford Frick tells the league presidents and club owners he will not run for another term as commissioner.

    1969 - Willie Stargell is the first to hit a home run out of Dodger Stadium. The shot off Alan Foster over the right field pavilion roof travels 506 feet.

    1972 - Tiger shortstop Ed Brinkman commits an error ending his major league record of 72 games and 331 total chances without making a misplay.

    1973 - Phil Niekro goes the distance holding the Padres hitless in a 9-0 rout at home. It's the first no-hitter thrown by a Braves hurler since the team shifted to Atlanta in 1966.

    1975 - At Veterans Stadium, Cubs starter Bill Bonham gives up a major league record of 7 hits to the first seven Phillies he faces. Without retiring a batter, the former UCLA hurler is replaced by Ken Crosby, who promptly gives up a single to Johnny Oates.

    1979 - In an 8-1 win over the Giants, Dodger right-hander Don Sutton becomes the team's all-time strikeout leader with his 2,487th career strikeout.

    1979 - Willie Mays, Warren Giles and Hack Wilson are inducted into the Hall of Fame.

    1980 - Expos manager Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game, an 11-5 victory over the Mets at Olympic Stadium.

    1983 - Billy Martin is suspended for two games for calling umpire Dale Ford "a stone liar" after the July 31st extra-inning 12-6 victory against the White Sox in Chicago. It is second time this season the Yankee manager has been disciplined by the league due to his continued abuse of umpires.


    1984 - Toronto's Cliff Johnson hits his 19th career pinch home run, breaking the major league record of 18 he had shared with Jerry Lynch. Johnson's eighth-inning blast gives the Blue Jays a 4-3 win over the Orioles.

    1986 - The Reds pound the Giants' new pitcher Steve Carlton for seven runs in 3 1/3 innings to win 11-6. Carlton records his 4,000th strikeout to join Nolan Ryan as the only pitchers to reach that plateau. The Giants release Carlton after this start and he joins the White Sox.


    1990 - Hall of Fame induction ceremonies for Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan are rained out in Cooperstown, New York. The ceremony was conducted the following day at a local high school.

    1992 - Oakland A's flychaser Jose Canseco is walked for the seventh consecutive time in the span of two games to tie a major league record.

    1993 - In the Padres' 11-10 victory over the Giants, Tony Gwynn goes 6-for-7 in the 12-inning contest played at Qualcomm Stadium. It is the fourth time this season the San Diego right fielder has collected five or more hits which ties the major league record shared by Hall of Famers Ty Cobb and Stan Musial.

    1994 - At the Astrodome, Jeff Bagwell establishes a new club record for home runs. The Houston first baseman hits number 38, a fifth inning two-out, two-run homer, off reliever Pat Gomez as the Astros blast the Giants, 12-4.

    1999 - Mark McGwire hits his 500th career home run off Padres' hurler Andy Ashby becoming the 16th major leaguer and the fastest to reach this milestone. The St. Louis slugger is the first to accomplish the feat a year after reaching the 400 home run plateau.

    2000 - Sammy Sosa becomes the first Cubs' player to reach 100 RBIs six consecutive times. Hack Wilson did it for five straight seasons from 1926-30.

    2001 - Kirby Puckett and Dave Winfield, who were both elected to by the BBWAA in his first their year of eligibility, are enshrined in the Hall of Fame. The former Twin teammates are joined 1960 World Series hero Bill Mazeroski and the late Negro Leagues pitcher Hilton Smith, players selected by the Veterans Committee.


    2001 - At Jacobs Field, the Indians, who trailed in the game 14-2 after six innings, tally twelve runs to tie score and will beat the Mariners, 15-14, thanks to Jolbert Cabrera's 11th inning broken bat single scoring Kenny Lofton to complete the unbelievable comeback. The Tribe joins the 1911 Tigers and 1925 A's to become the third team to team in major league history to have won after being down by a dozen runs.


    2002 - In a make-up game against the Angels, the Tigers host 'Silent Night'. The fans hear no electronic, video and commercial enhancements during Detroit's 6-3 loss to Anaheim at Comerica Park.

    2005 - Albert Pujols becomes the first player to connect for 30 home runs in each of his first five big league seasons. The Cardinals first baseman has hit 190 homers during this five-year span from the start of his career in 2001, equaling Eddie Mathews' total (1952-56) and with 25 fewer than Ralph Kiner (1946-1950).

    2006 - It takes four bases on balls, three of which are intentional, for the Rangers to finally prevent Vladimir Guerrero from getting a hit. The Angel All-star outfielder, who started playing in the American League after leaving Montreal as an free agent in 2003, had hit safely in all of his previous 44 games played against Texas.

    2006 - Trevor Hoffman throws a scoreless ninth inning in San Diego’s 6-3 victory over the Nationals at Petco Park to becoms the first major league reliever to record 30 saves for eleven seasons. The Padres closer's milestone establishes a major league record surpassing the mark set by Lee Smith, baseball's all-time saves leader.

    2007 - At Wrigley Field, Tom Glavine, a two-time Cy Young Award winner, becomes the 23rd player in major league history to win his 300th victory. The crafty southpaw, the fifth lefty to reach the milestone, limits the Cubs to six hits and a walk in 6.1 innings as the Mets bang out 16 hits and beat Chicago in a nationally televised ESPN Sunday night game, 8-3.


    2007 - With his 246th career victory, an 8-5 win over Kansas City, Yankees right-hander Mike Mussina becomes the winningest pitcher in baseball history without a 20-win season. ‘Moose’ will reach the elusive milestone with a 20-9 record next season, his last in the majors.

    2010 - The bankrupt Rangers are sold at an auction for $385 million to a group led by Hall of Famer and club president Nolan Ryan. The new ownership group outbid the recently formed partnership of Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and Houston investor Jim Crane, who tried to buy the team in 2008.

    2010 - In the top of the ninth, the Twins recover from blowing a 6-0 lead, when Jason Kubel’s two-out pop up lands behind the pitcher's mound untouched by the Rays' middle infielders for the go-ahead single in the team's eventual 8-6 victory. The odd play, a result of the ball ricocheting off a catwalk and changing direction 190 feet above Tropicana Field, will prompt a change of the ground rules for postseason games played in Tampa Bay.

    2011 - Darla Harlow, a big fan of the Mississippi Braves, is given the honor of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at Trustmark Park in Pearl. After tossing the ball to home plate, the military wife is totally surprised when the catcher takes off his mask revealing the 'player' is really her husband, Michael, an Army major serving in Afghanistan who has been away from home for the past nine months.


    2012 - Darwin Barney becomes the Cubs' all-time leader for second basemen when he plays in his 91st consecutive game in a single season without committing an error. The 26 year-old Chicago infielder, en route to setting the National League mark with a 127 straight errorless-game streak, surpasses Ryne Sandberg's team record that the Hall of Famer established in 1989.

    2013 - Major League Baseball releases the names of 13 players that have been suspended for their involvement with performance-enhancing substances supplied by the Biogenesis anti-aging clinic. Thirty-eight year-old Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriguez receives the harshest of the punishments when he is told that he will be sidelined without pay for 211 regular-season games, much more than the 50-game suspensions given to most players implicated in the announcement.

    2013 - Minnie Forbes, the 81 year-old former owner of the Negro League Detroit Stars from 1956 to 1958, and about a dozen former baseball players meet with Barack Obama at the White House. The country’s first black president honors the group for their contributions to athletics and civil rights.

    2014 - The Washington Nationals claimed Matt Thornton from the New York Yankees on waivers.

    2016 - The Cleveland Indians released Juan Uribe.

    2017 - The Indians unveil a bronze statue honoring Lou Boudreau, who managed the team to their last World Series title in 1948 while also being the Tribe's starting shortstop. The seven-time All-Star is placed outside the main entrance of Progressive Field near two fellow Hall of Famers and former teammates, Bob Feller and Larry Doby.



    Baseball Birthdays on August 5...


    1861 - Coughlin, Ed
    1865 - Langsford, Bob
    1872 - Adkins, Doc
    1889 - McConnaughey, Ralph
    1890 - Ostendorf, Fred
    1890 - Irelan, Hal
    1893 - Harper, Jack
    1899 - McGrew, Slim
    1899 - Gibson, Sam
    1904 - Frasier, Vic
    1905 - Pepper, Ray
    1913 - Gaffke, Fabian
    1914 - Daughters, Bob
    1915 - Suche, Charley
    1919 - Gremp, Buddy
    1920 - Lukon, Eddie
    1921 - St.Claire, Ebba
    1924 - Novotney, Rube
    1924 - Yuhas, Eddie
    1925 - Jacobs, Tony
    1927 - Krsnich, Rocky

    1937 - Siebler, Dwight
    1937 - Pleis, Bill
    1939 - Aaron, Tommie
    1940 - Chavarria, Ossie
    1943 - Briles, Nelson
    1947 - Carbo, Bernie
    1951 - Cornejo, Mardie
    1953 - Mahler, Rick
    1953 - Hale, John
    1953 - Bosetti, Rick
    1953 - de la Rosa, Jesus
    1956 - Edler, Dave
    1956 - Rozema, Dave
    1958 - Nichols, Reid

    1966 - Nielsen, Jerry
    1968 - Olerud, John
    1969 - Armas, Marcos
    1971 - Pulido, Carlos
    1972 - Wasdin, John
    1976 - Kielty, Bobby
    1977 - Hinske, Eric
    1977 - Mulder, Mark
    1978 - Strong, Jamal
    1981 - Crawford, Carl
    1984 - Kazmar, Sean
    1985 - Denker, Travis
    1987 - Federowicz, Tim
    1989 - Bradford, Chasen
    1989 - Knudson, Guido
    1990 - Martinez, Nick
    1991 - Bellatti, Andrew
    1991 - Heller, Ben
    1992 - Santana, Domingo



    Baseball Deaths on August 5...


    1896 - Stephens, Ben
    1911 - Caruthers, Bob
    1922 - McCarthy, Tommy
    1929 - Brottem, Tony
    1940 - Bruyette, Ed
    1942 - Bigbee, Lyle
    1955 - Glockson, Norm
    1956 - Siglin, Paddy
    1960 - Chalmers, George
    1963 - Crompton, Herb
    1964 - Coleman, Ed
    1969 - Caldwell, Ralph
    1969 - Elmore, Verdo
    1972 - McKee, Red
    1975 - Morrell, Bill
    1978 - Haines, Jesse
    1987 - Conlon, Jocko
    1988 - Michaels, Ralph
    1989 - Macon, Max
    1992 - Wilkie, Lefty
    1992 - Marquis, Jim
    2002 - Porter, Darrell
    2002 - Hudlin, Willis
    2005 - Hogue, Cal
    2006 - Dempsey, Con
    2007 - Salerno, Al



 



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This Date In White Sox History - August 5th




 



August 5, 1942 - In front of a crowd of less than three thousand patrons at Chicago’s Comiskey Park, the White Sox beat the Tigers 1-0. The game’s only run scores when White Sox second baseman Don Kolloway steals home with two outs in the fifth inning.

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    On August 6 in Baseball History...


    1877 - The National League rule calls for the home team to submit three names of approved local men for each game, with the visiting team choosing one at random to be umpire. Today in Louisville, Chicago's Cal McVey reaches into the hat and picks out a slip bearing the name of Dan Devinney, who accused St. Louis of trying to bribe him five days earlier. Disgusted, McVey then grabs the hat and finds that all three slips have Devinney's name on them. The incensed White Stockings demand a new umpire and then snap the Grays' six-game winning streak 7-2.

    1890 - "Long John" Reilly becomes the first major leaguer to hit for the cycle in different leagues when the Reds, who moved to the National League this season, beat Pittsburgh at League Park, 16-3. The Cincinnati first baseman hit for two cycles last season, also a first, when the team played in the American Association and were known as the Red Stockings.

    1890 - Cy Young, making his major league debut, is credited with the win when the Cleveland Spiders beat the Colts in Chicago's West Side Park, 8-1. During his 22-year career, the 23 year-old right-hander will average more than 23 victories per season en route to a major league record of 511 victories, a mark believed by many to be unbreakable.

    1894 - Sparks from a plumber's torch start a blaze that destroys the grandstand at Philadelphia's Huntingdon Grounds, better known as Baker Bowl. The grandstand will be rebuilt with concrete and steel.

    1901 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues is formed to help the minor leagues protect their interests.

    1904 - Lefthander Nick Altrock of the White Sox (their new nickname) handles thirteen fielding chances, the modern major league record for pitchers. He will finish the year with 49 putouts, an American League record for pitchers.


    1906 - At Cleveland's League Park, the Boston Americans are shut out for the fourth consecutive time bowing to the Indians, 4-0. Combined with a scoreless three-game sweep by the White Sox, the team establishes a new American League record.

    1908 - Johnny Lush pitched a six-inning no-hitter as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0. It was Lush's second no-hitter against the Dodgers.

    1930 - During the Waco Cubs’ 18-run eighth inning eruption at Katy Park, Gene Rye hits three home runs in one inning. The Texas League outfielder’s round trippers in the minor league game include a solo shot, a two-run homer and a grand slam.

    1936 - For the first time in the 20th century, the first two batters in a game — Roy Johnson and Rabbit Warstler of the Boston Bees — lead off with home runs. They do it off Cubs pitcher Tex Carleton.

    1937 - The Braves become the first National League team to lead off a game with back-to-back homers. At Wrigley Field, Roy Johnson and Rabbit Warstler both go deep to start the first inning off Tex Carleton, but Boston's quick start isn't enough when Chicago wins the contest 12-6.

    1941 - Al Benton becomes the first major leaguer to have two sacrifice bunts in one inning. The Tiger right-hander accomplishes the feat in the top of third inning, a frame that features 17 batters coming to bat, in an 11-2 rout of the Indians at Cleveland's League Park.

    1947 - Skeeter Webb is inserted into the game to run for Fred Hutchinson, and scores a run in the Tigers' nine-run eighth inning in Detroit's 13-6 victory over Cleveland. Later in the frame, he comes to the plate and delivers an RBI sac fly, an unusual accomplishment for a pinch-runner.

    1949 - Luke Appling appears as shortstop in his 2,154th game, surpassing Rabbit Maranville's major league mark. Appling will play in 2,218 games at shortstop.


    1952 - At the approximate age of 46, Satchel Paige becomes the oldest pitcher in major league history to hurl a complete-game shutout beating Virgil 'Fire' Trucks and the Tigers, 1-0, when Bobby Young scores the game’s only run in the 12th inning. The Browns' hurler will extend his own record at the age of 46 years and 75 days by throwing another scoreless complete game against the White Sox next month.

    1953 - Ted Williams is back in a Red Sox uniform after military duty in Korea. He will finish with 13 home runs and a .407 mark.

    1962 - For the fifth time, a team record, Willie Mays collects five hits in a game. In the 9-2 Giants victory over Philadelphia at Candlestick Park, the 'Say Hey Kid' hits two two-run homers in the first and second innings, and follows up with singles in the fourth, fifth, and eighth.

    1967 - Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson hits into his fourth career triple play setting a major league record. The fifth inning around-the-horn triple killing (5-4-3) doesn't hurt the club as the Birds beat the White Sox at Memorial Stadium, 4-0, to complete a sweep of a twin bill.


    1969 - Twins' manager Billy Martin punches Dave Boswell sending his pitcher to the hospital to get twenty stitches. The incident happens after a scuffle between Boswell and teammate Bob Allison.

    1972 - Hitting his 660th and 661st career homers, Hank Aaron breaks Yankee legend Babe Ruth's record for most home runs with one team. "Hammerin' Hank's" second homer of the day is a 10th inning blast which enables the Braves to beat the Reds, 4-3.

    1973 - Roberto Clemente becomes the first Latin-born player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. The late Pirates outfielder, who died tragically on New Year's Eve in a crash that was carrying relief supplies to the victims of the earthquake in Nicaragua, was elected posthumously when the mandatory five-year waiting period was waived.

    1979 - After delivering the eulogy at Thurman Munson's funeral in Ohio, Bobby Murcer, a teammate and close friend of the deceased Yankee catcher, drives in all the runs in the Yankee 5-4 comeback victory over the Orioles at Yankee Stadium. The New York outfielder, with a bat he will never use again, hits a three-run home run and wins the game with two-run single in 9th inning.


    1981 - After a seven-week strike, major league baseball players approved a split-season format. The New York Yankees, Oakland A's, Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers were declared the first-half champions and automatically qualified for the divisional series.

    1982 - Just five days after hitting three home runs in a 5-4 loss to the Twins, Doug DeCinces hits three more home runs in a 9-5 win at Seattle. DeCinces is the first player other than Ted Williams to hit three home runs in a game twice in the same season.

    1982 - The Yankees trade 1978 play-off hero Bucky Dent to the Rangers for outfielder/first baseman Lee Mazzilli. In spite of hitting just .169, the popular Yankee infielder nearly was elected to the All-Star game by the fans.

    1983 - Eric Rasmussen throws a 4-0 shutout against the Red Sox in his first American League outing. The Royals starter, who also blanked the Padres as a Cardinal in his first-ever major league game in 1975, becomes the first pitcher to toss a shutout in both his National League and American League debuts.

    1985 - For the second time in five years the Players' Association stages a midseason strike. But unlike the 50-day strike that interrupted the 1981 season, this one will be settled by the following day and all 25 canceled games will be made up.

    1986 - In the game that establishes a new record for bases-full homers in one game Texas beats Baltimore, 13-11. Rangers' infielder Toby Harrah hits a second inning grand slam and Larry Sheets and Jim Dwyer both go deep for grand slams in the Orioles' nine-run fourth.

    1988 - Jim Gott balks three times in the eighth inning, two of which allow a runner to score from third base. The Pirates relief pitcher's poor form on the mound proves to be the difference in the Mets' 5-3 victory over the Bucs at Three Rivers Stadium.

    1988 - Goose Gossage becomes the second player in major league history to record 300 career saves when he faces one batter and gets the final out in the Cubs' 7-4 victory over Philadelphia at Wrigley Field. The future Hall of Fame right-handed reliever joins Rollie Fingers, who reached the milestone in 1982.

    1988 - Jose Canseco became the 11th player in major league history to hit 30 homers and steal 30 bases in a season. The A's outfielder, with 31 homers, joins the 30-30 club stealing second base with one out in the ninth inning for his 30th as Oakland beat the Mariners, 5-4.

    1988 - In remembrance of the fond memories of its departed ball club and the many historical events which took place place in the ballpark they called home, a plaque is dedicated behind home plate of the former Braves Field. Done on behalf of the fans of New England by Boston University, the Society For American Baseball Research, and the New England Sports Museum, the tablet includes references to the three World Series and one All-Star game played there as well as the longest game ever to take place in major league history.

    1989 - In a pre-game ceremony at Fenway Park, the Red Sox retire Carl Yastrzemski's #8. 'Yaz', recently inducted into the Hall of Fame, becomes only the fourth player in franchise history, joining Joe Cronin (4), Bobby Doerr (1), and Ted Williams (9), to be honored by having his uniform number retired by the club.

    1992 - Following a brief shouting match with Willie Wilson in the previous frame after the Oakland outfielder had tripled off him, Rangers right-hander Nolan Ryan hits him the leg with a pitch with two outs in the eighth inning. The incident, that causes a ten-minute delay with both benches emptying and fans littering the field with paper, will result the future Hall of Famer being ejected from a game for the first and only time during his 27-year major league career.

    1993 - Raising his average to .348, Padre outfielder Tony Gwynn singles off Rockies' hurler Bruce Ruffin for his 2000th career base hit. (our thanks to Tom Lane for sharing this event for the web site)

    1998 - Kevin McClatchy's vision of a baseball-only stadium in Pittsburgh starts to become more of a reality when PNC Bank strikes a deal with the Pirates calling the Bucs' new home PNC Park. The new ballpark, which will be highly praised, will host its first game in 2001.

    1999 - After San Diego outfielder Tony Gwynn singles off of Expo rookie right-hander Dan Smith in the first inning to get his 3000th hit, first base ump Kerwin Danley, Gwynn's college teammate, Vendella Gwynn, his mother celebrating her 64th birthday, and 13,540 Olympic Stadium fans help to celebrate the right fielder's milestone. 'Mr. Padre' finishes the night 4-for-5 passing Roberto Clemente into 21st place on the all-time career hit list.

    2001 - The Hall of Fame Veterans Committee comprised of five former players, five media members and five former executives, which was established in 1953, is to be replaced by a 90-member group made up of the members of the Hall of Fame (61), the recipients of the J.G. Taylor Spink award for writers (13), the Ford C. Frick award for broadcasters (13) and current Veterans Committee members (3). The new committee will be able to elect players only once every two years and executives, umpires and managers only once every four years.

    2001 - Boston's backstop Scott Hatteberg hits into a triple play, but the catcher redeems himself in his next at-bat by hitting a grand slam putting the Red Sox ahead in a 10-7 win over the Rangers. The triple killing, the third in Texas history, occurs when Hatteberg lines to shortstop Alex Rodriguez who flips to second base doubling up the runner on second with second baseman Randy Velarde tagging the runner arriving from first.

    2002 - Protecting the Giants' 11-10 lead over the Cubs, 32-year old reliever Robb Nen becomes the 16th and youngest closer to record the 300th save of his career.

    2003 - Three weeks after trading for Armando Benitez with the crosstown Mets, the Yankees trade the much maligned reliever to the Mariners. In return, the Bronx Bombers get back 36-year-old Jeff Nelson for his second tour with the team.

    2006 - The Mets continue to make a commitment to their young players signing 23-year old David Wright to a $55 million, six-year contract extension. The third baseman joins shortstop Jose Reyes, also 23, who inked a long term deal with the club three days ago worth $23.25 million over the four years of the extension of the Dominican's contract.

    2006 - The Diamondbacks trade a pair of pitching prospects to the Nationals for veteran right-hander Livan Hernandez (9-8, 5.34). Washington had put the 31-year old Cuban on waivers with the hopes of making a deal with any team, but Arizona blocked that option as it tries to stay in the hunt in the NL West.

    2007 - Batting eighth in Tony La Russa's batting order, Cardinals’ starting pitcher Braden Looper collects two hits in the fifth inning when St. Louis ties a big league record with 10 straight hits. The Redbirds use the consecutive safeties to score all their runs when they beat the visiting Padres, 10-5.

    2010 - In a 15-minute pre-game ceremony delayed by rain at Turner Field, the Braves retire Tom Glavine's uniform number 47. The southpaw, who won 244 of his 305 career victories with the organization, including five seasons with 20 or more wins, was inducted into the team's Hall of Fame earlier in the day at a luncheon.


    2010 - Twenty-one year old LHP Chris Sale makes his MLB debut for the White Sox in a ten inning 2-1 loss at Baltimore.  Sale, who was the 13th overall pick in the draft two months, faces two batters in the eighth inning in relief of starter John Danks.  Sale walked Bip Roberts then Nick Markakis singled to center.  Sale then was replaced on the mound by Tony Pena who retired the side without a run scoring.


    2016 - The San Diego Padres signed Clayton Richard as a free agent.



    Baseball Birthdays on August 6...


    1860 - McDonald, Jim
    1864 - Wheelock, Bobby
    1872 - Mertes, Sam
    1875 - Foreman, Brownie
    1881 - Sharpe, Bud
    1884 - Birmingham, Joe
    1884 - Boultes, Jake
    1884 - Magee, Sherry
    1888 - Gunning, Hy
    1889 - Thrasher, Buck
    1890 - Wallace, Jack
    1890 - Barron, Frank
    1896 - Blades, Ray
    1903 - Turner, Jim
    1903 - Wiltse, Hal
    1904 - Cobb, Herb
    1905 - Roetz, Ed
    1906 - Kimsey, Chad

    1907 - Hughes, Tom
    1909 - Veach, Al
    1912 - Hafey, Bud

    1914 - Reis, Tommy
    1914 - Loane, Bob
    1917 - McGillen, John
    1919 - Sturgeon, Bobby
    1919 - Culberson, Leon
    1924 - Fletcher, Van
    1926 - Labine, Clem
    1926 - Schwamb, Blackie
    1928 - Moford, Herb
    1936 - Gerard, Dave
    1937 - Carreon, Camilo

    1937 - Schaffernoth, Joe
    1937 - Schurr, Wayne
    1941 - Culp, Ray
    1943 - Hardin, Jim
    1945 - Messersmith, Andy
    1947 - Dunegan, Jim
    1949 - Reinbach, Mike
    1954 - Phelps, Ken
    1955 - Davis, Ron
    1955 - Pankovits, Jim
    1955 - Nicosia, Steve
    1957 - Horner, Bob
    1965 - Ramos, John
    1966 - Belinda, Stan
    1968 - Scott, Darryl
    1969 - Mitchell, Keith
    1972 - Singleton, Duane
    1975 - Zambrano, Victor
    1976 - Wilson, Kris
    1982 - Germano, Justin
    1986 - McGee, Jake
    1991 - Flores, Wilmer
    1992 - Gant, John



    Baseball Deaths on August 6...


    1912 - Van Zant, Dick
    1927 - Pedro, Chick
    1929 - Cusick, Tony
    1932 - Holmes, Ducky

    1936 - Girard, Charlie
    1937 - Block, Bruno

    1942 - McNaughton, Gordon
    1946 - Quinn, Tad
    1946 - Lazzeri, Tony
    1947 - Good, Gene
    1953 - Phyle, Bill
    1955 - Cotter, Hooks
    1962 - Williams, Bob
    1964 - Ogden, Curly
    1983 - Tobin, Johnny
    1983 - Wasdell, Jimmy
    1993 - Miller, Bob

    1993 - Hughson, Tex
    2000 - Felderman, Marv
    2001 - Mallory, Jim
    2008 - Kuehl, Karl
    2017 - Daulton, Darren


   











     




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    On August 7 in Baseball History...


    1888 - At a stormy meeting in Philadelphia, American Association owners finally vote to allow 25 cent admission again. They drop the percentage system of paying visitors and replace it with a $130-per-game guarantee.

    1893 - Facing a left-handed Brooklyn pitcher, New York first baseman Roger Connor bats right-handed for the first time in his career and slugs out two homers and a single in a 10-3 win.

    1907 - Senators' hurler Walter Johnson wins his first major league game beating the Indians, 7-2. The 'Big Train' will tally 417 victories during his 21-year career.

    1915 - As Brooklyn's rookie pitcher Ed Appleton steps to the mound, St. Louis manager Miller Huggins, coaching at third base, calls for the ball. The rookie tosses the ball to him, Huggins steps aside, and the Cardinal runner scores. A change in the rules will prevent such trickery in the future.

    1922 - Ken Williams of the St. Louis Browns hit two home runs in the sixth inning of 16-1 victory over the Washington Senators.

    1923 - Hitting a double and five singles, Indian first baseman Frank Brower goes 6-for-6. The 30-year old infielder's offensive output helps Cleveland to rout the Senators at Griffith Stadium, 22-2.

    1943 - The Giants tie a National League record when they leave eighteen runners on base. The team strands two base runners in each inning in their 9-6 loss to the Phillies at the Polo Grounds.

    1950 - White players Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, and Frank Dyle of the Chicago American Giants are barred by police from playing in the Negro American League against the Birmingham Black Barons.

    1956 - The largest crowd in minor league history, 57,000, saw 51-year-old Satchel Paige of Miami beat Columbus in an International League game played in the Orange Bowl.

    1962 - The 29-81 Mets are mathematically eliminated from in finishing first place with their 7-5 loss to Los Angeles in Chavez Ravine. After the game, New York manager Casey Stengel calls a meeting and jokes with his players that they can loosen up and relax now that they are out of the pennant race, which they promptly do, winning just eleven more games during the last two months of the season.

    1963 - At the Polo Grounds, Jim Hickman becomes the first Met in franchise history to hit for the cycle, accomplishing the feat in the very rare natural order. The New York leadoff batter's single in the first inning, double in the second, fourth-frame triple, and a sixth-inning solo shot all contribute to the Amazins' 7-3 victory over St. Louis.

    1968 - In his major league debut, A's Joe Keough hits a home run in his first at-bat. The rookie goes deep off Lindy McDaniel as a pinch-hitter in the eighth tying the score at 3-to-3 in Oakland's eventual 4-3 extra inning victory at Yankee Stadium.

    1969 - At a hastily called news conference, Phillies' manager Bob Skinner resigns citing a lack of support from the front office in his efforts to discipline Dick Allen, the team's temperamental superstar. The 37 year-old skipper will be replaced by his third-base coach, George Myatt, who inherits the fifth-place club with a 44-64 record.

    1971 - The New York Mets bombarded the Braves at Atlanta Stadium, 20-6. Ken Boswell led the Mets with four hits and five RBIs including a grand slam off Mike McQueen.

    1971 - A’s southpaw Vida Blue, en route to a 24-8 record in his first full year in the major leagues, becomes a 20-game winner when he goes the distance blanking the White Sox, 1-0. The only run of the game scores on a balk committed by Joe Horlen in the sixth inning of the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum contest.


    1976 - One strike away from throwing a no-hitter, Steve Luebber gives up a single to Roy Howell, who advances to third base on an error in center field by Lyman Bostock. The 27 year-old right-hander will yield another hit and a run before being replaced on the mound by reliever Bill Campbell in the Twins' 3-1 victory over Texas at Arlington Stadium.

    1978 - Eddie Mathews, Addie Joss, and Larry MacPhail are inducted at Cooperstown.

    1978 - Mel Allen and Red Barber become the first recipients of the Ford C. Frick Broadcasting Award. Unable to choose between the two legendary voices, both Yankee announcers are selected by the Hall of Fame voters to receive the honor which recognizes excellence among baseball broadcasters.

    1982 - Jim Rice climbs into the Fenway Park stands from the dugout to assist a young boy who had just been hit in the head by a savage line drive foul off the bat of Dave Stapleton. The Red Sox slugger's quick response of picking up the four-year old boy and running through the dugout to a waiting ambulance is credited with possibly saving the child's life.

    1983 - The team honors Bobby Murcer by giving him a day at Yankee Stadium. The popular Oklahoman, who will become a long-time broadcaster for the team, played 13 seasons for the Bronx Bombers compiling a .278 batting average while in pinstripes.

    1985 - Commissioner Peter Ueberroth announced a tentative agreement ending a two-day strike. The season resumed Aug. 8.

    1987 - Bill Mazeroski's uniform jersey #9 is officially retired from active service by the Pirates. The 1960 World Series hero joins Billy Meyer [1], Willie Stargell [8], Pie Traynor [20], Roberto Clemente [21], Honus Wagner [33], and Danny Murtaugh [40] to be honored by Pittsburgh in this manner.

    1988 - The Mariners establish a major league record with five sacrifice flies in their 12-7 victory over Oakland. Alvin Davis, Rey Quinones, Jay Buhner, Darnell Coles, and Jim Presley all drive in a run with a long fly ball out in the Oakland Coliseum contest.

    1992 - The Giants announce that the team has been sold to Tampa Bay investors for a reported $110 million and will move to St. Petersburg for the 1993 season. Other owners will block the move in November, but one benefit is that the 1992 season finale becomes the first sellout at Candlestick since the 1989 World Series.

    1993 - In his first major league appearance since being involved in a tragic accident during spring training, Indian pitcher Bobby Ojeda receives a very warm reception from the Orioles fans attending the Camden Yards contest. In March, the veteran southpaw was severely injured at Little Lake Nellie in Clermont, Florida in a motor boat accident that claimed the lives of two teammates, relievers Tim Crews and Steve Olin.

    1999 - For the second consecutive day, a major leaguer gets his 3000th hit as Wade Boggs homers in the sixth off Indian Chris Haney. The Devil Rays' third baseman, who is the first player to reach the milestone with a home run, rounds the bases pointing skyward blowing a kiss in memory of his mom and gets down on his knees to kiss home plate.


    1999 - The Royals honor George Brett's induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame with an on-field ceremony prior to the game against Minnesota. The former third baseman played his entire 21-year career in Kansas City compiling a .305 lifetime batting average.

    2000 - The Yankees claim Jose Canseco off waivers from the Devil Rays. The 35-year old slugger will appear in just 37 games for the Bronx Bombers, primarily as a designated hitter, hitting .247 in 111 at bats.

    2001 - Home plate umpire Angel Hernandez ejects Steve 'Mongo' McMichael from Wrigley Field as the former Chicago Bear football player is about to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh inning stretch. McMichael, presently a pro wrestler, tells the crowd over the P.A. system "he'll have a talk with the ump" concerning a close call made by Hernandez earlier in the game and then boos and blows a kiss toward the ump.

    2001 - Black Betsy, Shoeless Joe Jackson's 40-ounce warped hickory bat, is won by 30-year-old businessman Rob Mitchell in a 10-day eBay auction. The $577,610 price tag is believed to be the largest amount ever paid for a baseball bat.

    2001 - Passing the mark of 68 established Christy Mathewson (Giants - 1913) and Randy Jones (Padres -1976), Braves right-hander Greg Maddux sets the National League record for consecutive innings without allowing a walk as he pitches six innings without a giving up a base on balls to extend the new record to 70 1-3 innings. The major league record is 84 1-3 innings without a free pass was established in 1962 by A's sinker-slider hurler Bill Fischer.

    2002 - Major leaguers agree to be checked randomly for illegal steroids starting next year. The proposal, which addresses a major issue in the current contract talks, ends the players' decades-old opposition to mandatory drug testing.

    2002 - After piloting the club to a 45-45 record as the interim skipper, Clint Hurdle is given a two-year contract extension by the Rockies. The club's former hitting coach replaced Buddy Bell, who was fired April 26.

    2003 - Albert Pujols joins Jose Canseco as the only other player in major league history to hit 30 home runs and drive in 100 runs during his first three seasons.

    2003 - Fireballer Eric Gagne ties the single-season record for consecutive saves to start a season established in 1995 by Jose Mesa of the Indians. The Dodger closer strikes out the Reds' side in the ninth inning for his 38th save this season and 46th consecutive regular-season save overall.

    2004 - In less than a masterful performance, Greg Maddux pitches five innings to register his 300th victory when the Cubs beat the Giants, 8-4. The 38-year-old is the 22nd pitcher to reach the plateau and many believe may the last to reach this coveted milestone.

    2005 - In the battle of the Zambranos, the Mets' Victor is victorious when he defeats Carlos and the Cubs at Shea Stadium, 6-1. In addition to sharing the same last name, the two Venezuelan pitchers, who are not related, also wear the same number (38), enter the game with same number of career wins (41), play for teams which started the series with the same record (54-54), as well being both switch hitters and throwing right-handed.

    2005 - On the main concourse in left field at U.S. Cellular Field, the White Sox unveiled a life-sized bronze statue of Carlton Fisk. The Hall of Fame catcher, who played for the ChiSox from 1981 to the end of his career in 1993, joins team founder Charles A. Comiskey and Cuban legend Minnie Minoso, who have also been honored with statues in the Chicago ballpark.

    2007 - In front of a very supportive home crowd at AT&T Park, Barry Bonds surpasses Hank Aaron as the all-time home run leader when he connects on a 3-2 pitch for #756 off southpaw Mike Bacsik of the Nationals. During the 10-minute celebration following the historic homer, a surprise video message is played on the scoreboard in which Hammerin’ Hank congratulates the Giants' left fielder for breaking the 33-year old record.

    2007 - The Toronto Blue Jays released Royce Clayton.

    2008 - The Baltimore Orioles sold Chad Bradford to the Tampa Bay Rays.

    2009 - The first Yankees-Red Sox game to go beyond 14 innings without a run being scored in the fabled rivalry between the American League clubs ends dramatically when Alex Rodriguez blasts a two-run walk-off homer in the 15th. A-Rod's home run, the first the third baseman has hit since July 19th, ends the five-hour and 33 minute marathon.

    2010 - James Shields ties a major league record for home runs allowed in one game when he gives up six round-trippers in the Rays' 17-11 loss to Toronto at the Rogers Centre. 'Big Fly James', in his four innings of work, yields homers to Aaron Hill (2), Edwin Encarnacion, Adam Lind, Jose Bautista, and J.P. Arencibia.

    2010 - In a 17-11 slugfest against Tampa Bay at the Rogers Centre, J.P. Arencibia becomes the 28th player to hit a home run on the first pitch he sees as a major leaguer. The Blue Jays' rookie catcher will also hit a double, a single and another home run finishing the contest just a triple shy of completing the cycle.


    2013 - The Detroit Tigers released Jose Valverde.

    2014 - The Mets freshman Jacob deGrom establishes a franchise mark for rookies when he throws 67.1 innings, a span of 10 games, without allowing a home run. The 26 year-old right-hander's streak ends when Ian Desmond takes him deep in the second inning of the team's 5-3 loss to Washington at Nationals Park.

    2015 - The Cleveland Indians traded Nick Swisher, Michael Bourn and cash to the Atlanta Braves in exchange for Chris Johnson.

    2016 - Marlins outfielder Ichiro Suzuki became the 30th player in Major League history to reach 3,000 hits when he triples off of Rockies left-handed reliever Chris Rusin in the seventh inning of Sunday's 10-7 Miami win at Coors Field.


    2016 - In the Orioles 10-2 win over the White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field, Manny Machado becomes just the second player in Major League history to hit a home run in the first, second and third inning of the game. The other was Carl Reynolds of the White Sox who accomplished the feat on July 2, 1930, at the Yankees.


    2016 - Ichrio Suzuki becomes the 30th major leaguer to collect 3,000 hits when he legs out a seventh inning triple in the Marlins' 10-7 victory over the Rockies at Coors Field. The 42 year-old center fielder joins Paul Molitor as the only other player to reach the milestone with a three-bagger.


    2017 - On his 26th birthday, Mike Trout collects his 1,000th career hit, a line drive double into the left-field corner off Dylan Bundy in the Halos’ 6-2 loss to the Orioles at Stadium Angel Stadium of Anaheim. The Millville Meteor becomes the tenth American Leaguer to reach the milestone prior to his age-26 season.




    Baseball Birthdays on August 7...


    1862 - Gray, Jim
    1862 - Gray, Reddy
    1864 - Terry, Adonis
    1871 - Stocksdale, Otis
    1876 - Carney, Pat
    1876 - Nordyke, Lou
    1883 - Richardson, Tom
    1886 - McKechnie, Bill
    1887 - Nourse, Chet
    1895 - Gill, Ed
    1899 - Sturdy, Guy
    1899 - Wingfield, Ted
    1905 - Cronin, Jim
    1907 - Heise, Clarence
    1908 - Hatter, Clyde
    1912 - Drake, Tom
    1915 - Fleming, Les
    1922 - Alexander, Bob
    1927 - Bridges, Rocky
    1927 - Houtteman, Art
    1929 - Larsen, Don
    1931 - Crone, Ray
    1936 - Henry, Ron
    1936 - Nelson, Tex
    1936 - McNertney, Jerry

    1942 - Dotter, Gary
    1950 - Poepping, Mike
    1951 - Chant, Charlie
    1951 - Sadowski, Jim
    1954 - Kemp, Steve

    1955 - Senteney, Steve
    1962 - Trautwein, John
    1967 - Grimsley, Jason
    1968 - Spencer, Stan
    1969 - Kowitz, Brian
    1970 - Pisciotta, Marc
    1970 - Croushore, Rich
    1970 - Pirkl, Greg
    1972 - Lacy, Kerry
    1973 - Graves, Danny
    1975 - Gil, Geronimo
    1975 - Renteria, Edgar
    1977 - Yates, Tyler
    1984 - LeBlanc, Wade
    1986 - Danks, Jordan

    1987 - Lavarnway, Ryan
    1987 - Niewenhuis, Kirk
    1987 - Smith, Josh
    1987 - Ynoa, Rafael
    1989 - Kahnle, Tom

    1989 - Strassi, Brock
    1990 - Burns, Andy
    1990 - Capps, Carter
    1990 - Dominguez. Jose
    1990 - Zych, Tony
    1991 - Trout, Mike
    1992 - De Leon, Jose



    Baseball Deaths on August 7...


    1917 - Loughran, Bill
    1926 - Baxter, Moose
    1930 - Seery, Emmett
    1933 - Irwin, Bill
    1945 - Veach, Bobby
    1948 - Wacker, Charlie
    1951 - Wysong, Biff
    1951 - Wynne, Bill
    1953 - Powell, Abner
    1956 - Tate, Hughie
    1959 - McGill, Bill
    1959 - Dyer, Ben
    1965 - Whittaker, Walt
    1972 - Anderson, Red
    1973 - Cooper, Wilbur
    1979 - Wagner, Hal
    1985 - Rucker, Johnny
    1991 - Cooney, Jimmy
    2003 - McDermott, Mickey
    2007 - Morgenweck, Hank
    2010 - Drumright, Keith
    2017 - Baylor, Don



     


     




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August 7, 2005 - On the main concourse in left field at U.S. Cellular Field, the White Sox unveiled a life-sized bronze statue of Carlton Fisk. The Hall of Fame catcher, who played for the ChiSox from 1981 to the end of his career in 1993, joins team founder Charles A. Comiskey and Cuban legend Minnie Minoso, who also been honored with statues in the Chicago ballpark. Since then the White Sox have also added statues of Nellie Fox, Luis Aparicio, Harold Baines and Frank Thomas to the outfield concourse.



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    On August 8 in Baseball History...


    1877 - After St. Louis catcher John Clapp has his cheek smashed by a foul tip, replacement Mike Dorgan goes behind the plate wearing a mask. This is perhaps the first use of a catcher's mask in an official National League game.

    1903 - A week after pitching his first doubleheader victory, Joe McGinnity of the New York Giants did it again, beating the Brooklyn Dodgers 6-1 and 4-3. In the second game, he stole home.

    1903 - In the third inning of the 4-3 nightcap loss to New York at the Polo Grounds, Dodger starter Henry Schmidt is thrown out of the game after he throws the baseball out of the park. The Brookyn starter became very angry when opposing pitcher Joe McGinnity dashed home from the third base while his infielders were arguing the close call at the bag.

    1905 - Pittsburgh second baseman Dave Brain, who hit three triples in a game for St. Louis against Pittsburgh on May 29, repeats the performance for Pittsburgh against Boston. He is the only player to perform the feat twice in one season.

    1913 - On April 25, the American Association minor league contest was stopped with the score tied 1-1 due to rain, and replayed on June 15, resulting in a 6-6 tie after nine innings when the game is stopped because of darkness. The game is started again on August 7 and after 13th the 2-2 contest is halted once more due to darkness, but after four attempts, Minneapolis finally beats Indianapolis today, 11-2.

    1915 - Gavvy Cravath ties a major league mark when he hits four doubles in the Phillies' 14-7 victory over Cincinnati. The Philadelphia outfielder also establishes a franchise record when he drives in eight runs in the Redland Field's contest.

    1916 - The Athletics set an AL record with their 19th loss in a row on the road. The streak began on July 25, making it a record for losses in two weeks.

    1920 - Howard Ehmke of the Detroit Tigers pitched the fastest game in American League history, one hour and 13 minutes, for a 1-0 victory against the New York Yankees.

    1921 - Appearing as a pinch-hitter in the top of the ninth inning, Browns' second baseman Luke Stuart hits a home run in his first major league at-bat. The 29-year old rookie infielder, who is the first American Leaguer to accomplish the feat, strokes his only career round-tripper in a 16-5 loss to Washington at Griffith Stadium off future Hall of Famer Walter Johnson.

    1922 - The Pirates establish a major league record by collecting 46 hits in a doubleheader sweep of the Phillies at Shibe Park. In their 7-3 win in the opener, Pittsburgh bangs out 19 hits, and the team adds another 29 safeties in their 19-8 rout in the nightcap.

    1931 - Bobby Burke of the Washington Senators pitched a 5-0 no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox.

    1933 - A series of Midsummer Classic games is proposed by William Veeck, president of the Cubs. Although the idea receives some support, it will be 64 years before a team from the American League plays a club from the National League during the regular season.

    1941 - In New York, Les Brown and his Orchestra record “Joltin’ Joe” for Columbia Records. The song about Yankee outfielder Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak will be played incessantly on radio stations across the country eventually reaching number 12 on the charts.

    1947 - Schoolboy Rowe of the Phillies pinch hits for Johnny Sain to become the first major leaguer to appear in different All-Star games representing teams from the National League and American League. In the 1936 Mid-summer classic, the former Philadelphia A's ace threw three innings of relief against the NL stars.

    1953 - Southpaws Whitey Ford and Bob Kuzava both blank the White Sox, 1-0 and 3-0 respectively, for a Yankee doubleheader sweep. Kuzava gives up his only hit in the ninth inning, a one-out double to Bob Boyd.


    1954 - Gil Hodges comes to bat three times in the eighth inning when the Dodgers score 13 runs en route to a 20-7 rout of the Reds at Ebbets Field. The first baseman will go 1-for 3 in the frame with a leadoff triple, but will be responsible for all three outs when he hits into a double play and flies out to centerfield to end the Brooklyn barrage.

    1956 - Robin Roberts gets his fourth victory in the past ten days when the Phillies beat New York at the Polo Grounds, 8-3. Philadelphia's shortstop Ted Kazanski becomes just the fourth player in franchise history to hit an inside-the-park grand slam.

    1957 - Club President Walter O'Malley makes it official announcing the Dodgers will play in Los Angeles next season. The club’s departure from Brooklyn corresponds with the massive social shift taking place in the borough that finds many of its former residents leaving for the suburbs of Long Island.

    1970 - On Old Timers Day at the Stadium, the Yankees retire Casey Stengel’s uniform #37. The ‘Old Perfessor’s’ Bronx Bombers won seven World Series during his 12-year tenure with the team from 1949 to 1960.


    1972 - After much speculation about the future of the team, the Yankees sign a thirty-year lease to play in the 'new' Yankee Stadium beginning in 1976. After completing the Stadium's 50th-Anniversary next season, the Bronx Bombers will play their home games for the next two years at Shea Stadium while the 'House that Ruth Built' is completely remodeled.

    1973 - At Kauffman Stadium, Red Sox DH Orlando Cepeda collects four doubles in the team’s 9-4 win over the Royals. 'Cha Cha', who signed with Boston in January, was the first player since the inception of the new position to be added to a roster specifically as its designated hitter.

    1976 - In the first game of a doubleheader against Kansas City at Comiskey Park, the White Sox take the field wearing shorts. Chicago, after a 5-2 comfortable win in the opener, don long pants for the nightcap and come out on the short end to the Royals, 7-1.


    1982 - California's Doug DeCinces hit three home runs in a game for the second time in less than a week. DeCinces hit solo homers in the first and third innings and connected for a two-run shot in the eighth of a 9-5 victory over the Seattle Mariners. DeCinces hit three against Minnesota on Aug. 3.

    1985 - Baseball, after a two-day strike, resumed with an 18-game schedule, including five doubleheaders.

    1988 - The first night game in Wrigley Field's 74-year history was postponed with the Chicago Cubs leading the Philadelphia Phillies 3-1 after heavy rains started in the bottom of the fourth inning. Philadelphia's Phil Bradley led off the game with a home run, but all numbers were wiped out by the rain.

    1989 - In his major league debut, former Met farmhand Mauro Gozzo blanks the Rangers for eight innings helping the Blue Jays go over .500 for the first time since Opening Day. Toronto will eventually win the American League East.

    1992 - Oakland's Dennis Eckersley had his consecutive saves record snapped at 40. His two records - 36 straight to start a season, and 40 straight over two seasons - ended trying to protect a 2-1 lead in the ninth inning against the Kansas City Royals. Eckersley gave up a two-out, two-run single to Gregg Jefferies which gave the Royals a 3-2 lead. But the Athletics came back to win the game in the ninth, 5-3.

    1997 - Randy Johnson struck out 19, matching the major league record for left-handers he had tied earlier this season, as the Seattle Mariners defeated the Chicago White Sox 5-0.


    1997 - At Busch Stadium, recently acquired Mark McGwire hits his 364th career home run on a pitch thrown by Phillies' right-hander Mark Leiter for his first National League round-tripper. The Cardinals slugging first baseman will hit a total of 220 homers in the Senior Circuit, all for the Redbirds.

    1998 - At the age of 41, Twins' Paul Molitor becomes the fifth player in major league history to have at least 3,000 hits and 500 steals. His 5-for-5 performance and the theft of his 500th base allows him to join Ty Cobb (4,191 hits, 892 steals), Honus Wagner (3,415, 722), Eddie Collins (3,315, 744) and Lou Brock (3,023, 938) as the only players to accomplish this milestone.

    2000 - In the bottom of the ninth, A's closer Jason Isringhausen throws just two pitches, and the Yankees go from losing 3-2 to winning 4-3. Bernie Williams and David Justice both hit home runs on the first pitch they see from the Oakland reliever.

    2000 - Cubs' hurler Phil Norton becomes the 18th pitcher in major league history to give up four homers in one inning in the Dodgers' 7-5 victory at Chavez Ravine. Kevin Elster, Darren Dreifort, Gary Sheffield and Shawn Green all take the 24 year-old southpaw deep in the bottom of the fourth inning.

    2000 - Darren Dreifort hits two home runs and gets the win in the Dodgers’ 7-5 victory over the Cubs. The starting pitcher, who hurls 6.2 innings, goes deep in the bottom of the fourth anf fifth frames.

    2000 - After kissing one another in the seventh inning, a female couple is abruptly asked to leave Dodger Stadium immediately and are told never to "set foot back on the premises" for "lewd behavior". The pair had planned to sue the organization, but ended up not doing so after the team apologized promising to contribute 5,000 tickets to GLBT organizations and continue sensitivity training for all its employees.

    2002 - Closer John Smoltz records his 40th save in the 114th game of the Braves' schedule making it the earliest point in a season a relief pitcher has reached that mark. Lee Smith of the Cardinals accomplished the feat in his 117th game in 1993, and White Sox Bobby Thigpen turned the trick in 118 games en route to setting the major league record with 57 saves in 1990.

    2004 - At Yankee Stadium, less than an hour after the Blue Jays lose to New York for their fifth consecutive defeat, Toronto fires their manager Carlos Tosca. First base coach John Gibbons will be the interim skipper for the remainder of the season.

    2006 - Mark DeRosa makes two outs in one at-bat ending the McAfee Coliseum contest in a most unlikely manner. On a 3-2 pitch, the Texas right fielder swings and misses making the second out of the inning, but when his momentum causes him to make contact with Oakland catcher Jason Kendall, who is throwing to second trying to prevent pinch-runner Jerry Hairston Jr. from stealing a base, plate umpire Jim Joyce calls interference on the batter for the third and final out of the Rangers' 7-6 loss to the A's.

    2009 - Albert Pujols, in the Cardinals' 5-3 victory over Pittsburgh at PNC Park, drives in three runs, surpassing the 100 RBI mark for the ninth straight season to start his career. The only major league with a longer streak was Hall of Fame outfielder Al Simmons, who accomplish the feat for 11 consecutive seasons starting with his rookie year with the A's in 1924.

    2009 - The Philadelphia Phillies released Pablo Ozuna.

    2013 - The Philadelphia Phillies claimed Casper Wells from the Chicago White Sox on waivers.


    2014 - Bartolo Colon joins Juan Marichal and Pedro Martinez in becoming the third hurler from the Dominican Republic to win 200 major league games. The 40 year-old portly right-hander accomplishes the feat when he goes eight innings, giving up six hits and one run, in the Mets’ 5-4 victory over Philadelphia at Citizens Bank Park, 5-4.

    2014 - In the Braves' 7-6 victory over Washington at Turner Field, Justin and B.J. Upton both homer in the same game for the fifth time, setting the major-league record for brothers. The Atlanta teammates, who each go deep off Stephen Strasburg, surpass the mark they previously shared with Jeremy and Jason Giambi and Vladimir and Wilton Guerrero.

    2015 - At Safeco Field, Jamie Moyer, the winningest pitcher in Mariners' history, becomes the ninth member of the team's Hall of Fame. During his 11 seasons with Seattle, the left-hander compiled a record of 145-87 (.625), leading the franchise in wins, innings pitched (2,093), and starts (323).




    Baseball Birthdays on August 8...


    1859 - McClure, Hal
    1861 - Milligan, Jocko
    1864 - Ramsey, Toad
    1865 - Fournier, Henry
    1865 - Gumbert, Billy
    1870 - Leahy, Dan
    1875 - Baker, Ernie
    1884 - West, Hi
    1889 - Cypert, Al
    1891 - Keating, Chick
    1893 - Smith, Jack
    1897 - Eckert, Charlie
    1897 - Holloway, Ken
    1898 - Slappey, John
    1903 - Dudley, Clise
    1906 - Pressnell, Tot
    1913 - Travis, Cecil
    1917 - Raffensberger, Ken
    1918 - Roberts, Red
    1918 - Stuart, Marlin
    1927 - Temple, Johnny
    1928 - Morgan, Vern
    1932 - Amor, Vicente
    1936 - Howard, Frank
    1943 - Miles, Jim
    1947 - Cruz, Jose
    1948 - Timberlake, Gary
    1952 - Mahlberg, Greg
    1952 - Ivie, Mike
    1953 - Woods, Al
    1956 - Speck, Cliff
    1957 - Fontenot, Ray
    1957 - Ross, Mark
    1958 - Fowlkes, Alan
    1959 - Meier, Dave
    1963 - Karkovice, Ron

    1963 - Gideon, Brett
    1966 - Hudek, John
    1967 - Belcher, Kevin
    1967 - Whiteside, Matt
    1969 - Montgomery, Ray
    1975 - Meyers, Chad
    1975 - Thompson, Andy
    1977 - Hill, Jeremy
    1978 - Sanches, Brian
    1978 - Gomez, Alexis
    1980 - Breslow, Craig
    1980 - Cassel, Jack
    1981 - Rodriguez, Eddy
    1982 - Brown, Matt
    1982 - Lucy, Donny

    1982 - Ohlendorf, Ross
    1985 - Rzepczynski , Marc
    1985 - Wood, Blake
    1989 - Garcia, Greg
    1989 - Rizzo, Anthony
    1991 - Diaz, Yandy



    Baseball Deaths on August 8...


    1889 - McCormick, Harry
    1895 - Colgan, Ed
    1911 - Walsh, Joe
    1927 - Gilbert, Billy
    1929 - Minnehan, Dan
    1934 - Robinson, Wilbert
    1941 - Works, Ralph
    1952 - Neighbors, Bob
    1958 - Winchell, Fred
    1959 - Lewis, Phil
    1974 - Pollet, Howie

    1977 - Dennehey, Tod
    1980 - Collamore, Allan
    1982 - Gould, Al
    1984 - Hamric, Bert
    1989 - Harris, Bob
    1997 - Swigart, Oad
    1999 - Walker, Harry
    2004 - Center, Pete
    2005 - Mauch, Gene
    2006 - Restelli, Dino
    2009 - Ermer, Cal
    2014 - Wilson, Bob "Red"

    2016 - Brumley, Mike
    2017 - Daulton, Darren
    2017 - Kaiser, Ken


           



   



 

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