Baseball Guru
08-18-2001, 05:20 AM
This Day in Baseball History - August 18
"There's only two things a manager needs to know; when to change pitchers and how to get along with your players." -BUCKY HARRIS, MLB manager (1924-48, 50-56)
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(1915) Boston Braves open Braves Field defeating the Cardinals, 3-1.
(1940) Jimmy Powers, sport editor ofthe New York Daily News, causes a flap when he suggests the Yankees poor play this season can be attributed to "a mass polio epidemic" contracted from Lou Gehrig. The former Yankee first baseman and his roommate, Bill Dickey, file suit and the newspaper retracts the story (9/26/40) and apologes.
(1956) In their 13-4 victory at Crosley Field, the Reds hit eight HRs (Bob Thurman [3] Ted kluszewski [2] Frank Robinson [2] and Wally Post [1] ) to tie a major league mark; the Braves add two more to set a NL mark for total homers for a nine inning game.
(1965) After hitting a ball on top of the pavillion at Sportman's Park, Braves' Hank Aaron is denied a HR because ump Chris Pelekoudas calls him out for being out of the batter's box.
(1975) Earl Averill, Bucky Harris, Billy Herman, 'Judy' Johnson and Ralph Kiner are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
(1982) Passing Hank Aaron, Pete Rose becomes the all-time leader in plate appearances when he steps up the plate for the 13,941st time.
(1989) The Orioles' Cal Ripken passes Steve Garvey for the third-longest consecutive games streak by playing in his1,208th straight game.
(1995) In spite of Brave rally in the ninth, Tom Henke records his 300th career save as the Cardinals edge Atlanta, 4-3. The Kansas City native becomes the seventh pitcher in major league history to reach this milestone.
(1998) Greg Maddux wins his 200th career game as the Braves beat the Giants, 8-4. All of Atlanta¹s nine hits in the game were doubles.
(2000) After beating out a potential double play ball to prolong a five-run ninth inning rally which ties the game, Angel flycatcher Darin Erstad makes a 10th inning game-saving catch and follows it with a game-winning homer in the 11th to beat Yankees, 9-8.
"There's only two things a manager needs to know; when to change pitchers and how to get along with your players." -BUCKY HARRIS, MLB manager (1924-48, 50-56)
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(1915) Boston Braves open Braves Field defeating the Cardinals, 3-1.
(1940) Jimmy Powers, sport editor ofthe New York Daily News, causes a flap when he suggests the Yankees poor play this season can be attributed to "a mass polio epidemic" contracted from Lou Gehrig. The former Yankee first baseman and his roommate, Bill Dickey, file suit and the newspaper retracts the story (9/26/40) and apologes.
(1956) In their 13-4 victory at Crosley Field, the Reds hit eight HRs (Bob Thurman [3] Ted kluszewski [2] Frank Robinson [2] and Wally Post [1] ) to tie a major league mark; the Braves add two more to set a NL mark for total homers for a nine inning game.
(1965) After hitting a ball on top of the pavillion at Sportman's Park, Braves' Hank Aaron is denied a HR because ump Chris Pelekoudas calls him out for being out of the batter's box.
(1975) Earl Averill, Bucky Harris, Billy Herman, 'Judy' Johnson and Ralph Kiner are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
(1982) Passing Hank Aaron, Pete Rose becomes the all-time leader in plate appearances when he steps up the plate for the 13,941st time.
(1989) The Orioles' Cal Ripken passes Steve Garvey for the third-longest consecutive games streak by playing in his1,208th straight game.
(1995) In spite of Brave rally in the ninth, Tom Henke records his 300th career save as the Cardinals edge Atlanta, 4-3. The Kansas City native becomes the seventh pitcher in major league history to reach this milestone.
(1998) Greg Maddux wins his 200th career game as the Braves beat the Giants, 8-4. All of Atlanta¹s nine hits in the game were doubles.
(2000) After beating out a potential double play ball to prolong a five-run ninth inning rally which ties the game, Angel flycatcher Darin Erstad makes a 10th inning game-saving catch and follows it with a game-winning homer in the 11th to beat Yankees, 9-8.