Baseball Guru
08-15-2001, 12:56 PM
This Day in Baseball History - August 3
"My pitching philosophy is simple. You gotta keep the ball off the fat bat of the bat." -SATCHEL PAIGE, Negro League HOF Legend
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(1914) Yankee catcher Les Nunamaker throws out three Tigers trying to steal second base, it is the only time a backstop has accomplished the feat in a single inning this century.
(1933) The Yankees are shut out for the first time in 309 games, dating back to August 2, 1931, as A's Lefty Grove blanks the Bronx Bombers, 7-0.
(1948) Negro League legend Satchel Paige makes his major league debut going seven innings leading Indians over the Senators, 5-3.
(1957) Listening to the radio, Pirate manager Bobby Bragan hears he has been fired and replaced by Danny Murtaugh.
(1959) For the first time in major league history a second All-Star game is played in the same season; AL wins 5-3 at the Los Angeles Coliseum as White Sox Nellie Fox singles in the decisive run.
(1961) In the largest shutout score in a NL night game, the Pirates beat the Cards, 19-0.
(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.
(1969) Rich Reese pinch-hits a grand slam helping the Twins to beat the Orioles and Dave McNally, 5-2; the defeat ends McNally's fifteen game winning streak this season.
(1982) Royals' second baseman Frank White hits for the cycle in a 6-5 victory over the Tigers.
(1989) Reds set a major league record for the most hits in the first inning of a game with 16 as they score 14 runs at Riverfront Stadium off of woeful Astro pitching; the half of an inning lasts 38 minutes with Reds eventually winning the game, 18-1.
(1997) Jeromy Burnitz ties an AL 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 since1900 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 was sacraficed to save the bullpen for tomorrow's doubleheader against the Bronx Bombers.
(2000) Sonoma County Crushers Kevin Mitchell is expelled for the rest of the season from the independent Western Baseball League for punching the owner of an opposing team; the former NL MVP allegedly hit Solano Steelheads owner Bruce Portner, who had come on the field after a brawl caused by a pitch thrown a pitch behind Mitchell had ended. The penalty will be reduced at a later date.
"My pitching philosophy is simple. You gotta keep the ball off the fat bat of the bat." -SATCHEL PAIGE, Negro League HOF Legend
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(1914) Yankee catcher Les Nunamaker throws out three Tigers trying to steal second base, it is the only time a backstop has accomplished the feat in a single inning this century.
(1933) The Yankees are shut out for the first time in 309 games, dating back to August 2, 1931, as A's Lefty Grove blanks the Bronx Bombers, 7-0.
(1948) Negro League legend Satchel Paige makes his major league debut going seven innings leading Indians over the Senators, 5-3.
(1957) Listening to the radio, Pirate manager Bobby Bragan hears he has been fired and replaced by Danny Murtaugh.
(1959) For the first time in major league history a second All-Star game is played in the same season; AL wins 5-3 at the Los Angeles Coliseum as White Sox Nellie Fox singles in the decisive run.
(1961) In the largest shutout score in a NL night game, the Pirates beat the Cards, 19-0.
(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.
(1969) Rich Reese pinch-hits a grand slam helping the Twins to beat the Orioles and Dave McNally, 5-2; the defeat ends McNally's fifteen game winning streak this season.
(1982) Royals' second baseman Frank White hits for the cycle in a 6-5 victory over the Tigers.
(1989) Reds set a major league record for the most hits in the first inning of a game with 16 as they score 14 runs at Riverfront Stadium off of woeful Astro pitching; the half of an inning lasts 38 minutes with Reds eventually winning the game, 18-1.
(1997) Jeromy Burnitz ties an AL 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 since1900 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 was sacraficed to save the bullpen for tomorrow's doubleheader against the Bronx Bombers.
(2000) Sonoma County Crushers Kevin Mitchell is expelled for the rest of the season from the independent Western Baseball League for punching the owner of an opposing team; the former NL MVP allegedly hit Solano Steelheads owner Bruce Portner, who had come on the field after a brawl caused by a pitch thrown a pitch behind Mitchell had ended. The penalty will be reduced at a later date.