August 2nd

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2001
» The A's make it easy for Mark Mulder, giving him an 11–0 lead after 14 innings. With Jermaine Dye, Miguel Tejada and Olmedo Saenz homering, they roll to a 17–4 pasting of Cleveland.

The Padres send P Woody Williams to the Cardinals for OF Ray Lankford, who had recently been benched. Williams will prove to be the real deal for the Cards, going 7–1 in 11 starts, with a 2.28 ERA during the regular season.

1999
» Commissioner Bud Selig announces that Darryl Strawberry's reinstatement has been moved up from August 11th to August 4th.

1998
» Welcome to the Bigs. The Phils' Mike Welch makes his first big league start and the Giants greet him with three consecutive homers in the 2nd inning. Newly acquired Ellis Burks starts the fireworks, then Barry Bonds -- who had tripled in the first inning -- goes deep, then Jeff Kent drills his 15th. Welch takes the loss, allowing eight runs in three innings. Bonds is 4–for–4 with a stolen base to pace the Giants.

1997
» Houston C Brad Ausmus becomes the first catcher to wear the Fox Sports Catcher-Cam, a small camera on the top of his mask, in the Astros' 6–0 win over the Mets.

1995
» Despite tossing a one-hitter, Toronto rookie P Paul Menhart loses to Baltimore, 1-0. The Orioles' only hit is a 2nd inning homer by DH Harold Baines.

The Padres score all 11 of their runs in the 8th inning of their 11-3 win over SF. It is the most runs scored in an inning in the National League this year. San Diego also had the highest-scoring inning in the league in 1994 and 1993.

1994
» The Giants lose to the Reds, 9-7, despite three home runs from OF Barry Bonds. Bonds picks up four ribbies as the Giants fall two games behind the Dodgers in the Western Division race.

1993
» The Cubs defeat the Pirates, 12-10, in a game marked by seven home runs.

1992
» Rollie Fingers, Bill McGowan, Hal Newhouser and Tom Seaver are inducted in baseball’s Hall of Fame.

1991
» Mike Jeffcoat of the Rangers gets an RBI double in the 9th inning of a 15-1 win over the Brewers. He becomes the first American League pitcher to drive in a run in a game since the DH rule went into effect in 1973, and the first AL pitcher to get a hit since Ferguson Jenkins did so on October 2, 1974.

Following the Reds' 7–3 loss to the Giants, Cincinnati manager Lou Piniella accuses umpire Gary Darling of being biased against the Reds. The eruption occurs when Darling overrules Dutch Rennert, who had called Bill Doran's ball a home run. The Major League Umpires Association will file a $5 million defamation suit against Piniella on the 4th.

1990
» Yankees rookie Kevin Maas hits his 10th 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.

1987
» Eric Davis becomes the 7th player in ML history to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in one season by drilling his 30th homer in the bottom of the 11th to give the Reds a 5–4 win over the Giants.

Royals rookie 3B Kevin Seitzer goes 6-for-6 with two home runs and seven RBIs in a 13–5 rout of the Red Sox, tying the American League record for hits in a 9-inning game. Seitzer will add two hits tomorrow, and four on the 4th: his total of 12 in three games is the 3rd highest in AL history.

Rangers pitcher Bobby Witt ties the major-league record by striking out four consecutive Orioles in the 2nd inning of a 5–2 win. Witt finishes the game with 11 strikeouts.

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 6th inning. It is the 5th time Milner has collected the only hit in a one-hitter, tying Cesar Tovar's ML record.

1985
» Frank Tanana of the Tigers allows one hit—a home run by Ben Oglivie in the 5th—in beating the Brewers, 4–1. Tanana (6-10) K's eight while walking 1.

Ozzie Guillen scores from 2B on an infield hit in the 11th to give the White Sox a 6–5 victory over the Yankees. Salazar's slow roller down the 1B line is fielded by pitcher Mike Bordi, and with no play at 1B, Guillen keeps running. In the 7th the Yankees have two runners thrown out at home on the same play.

The last-place Pirates unload three of their veteran players, trading pitchers John Candelaria and Al Holland and OF George Hendrick to the Angels for OF Mike Brown and pitchers Pat Clements and Bob Kipper.

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 and leaving him with 56 games to break Lou Brock's single-season record of 118. Henderson is the first player ever to steal 100 bases twice.

1979
» Yankees C Thurman Munson, 32, perishes at Canton, Ohio, in a crash of the plane he was piloting. A crowd of 51,151 will attend the memorial tribute at Yankee Stadium tomorrow.

1978
» The Yankees take a 5–0 lead over the Red Sox, but Boston ties it in the 8th on three wild pitches, two bases-loaded walks, and a collection of bloop hits. The game ends in a 14-inning tie at five apiece.

A day after his streak ends, Pete Rose collects two singles, a double and home run in the Reds 6–2 win over Atlanta.

1975
» Billy Martin becomes the new Yankee manager, replacing Bill Virdon, named by TSN as last year's Manager of the Year. He won't be out of a job for long.

In Los Angeles, George Foster's home run off Andy Messersmith is the only score as the Reds win, 1–0. The unrelated Carrolls -- Tom Carroll and Clay Carroll -— combine for the Reds.

At game time at Fenway, the temperature is 103 degrees. The Red Sox then cook the Tigers, 7–2, behind Rick Wise.

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1973
» The Reds score nine in the 4th and roll by the Braves, 17–2, in Atlanta.

1972
» The Tigers purchase P Woodie Fryman from the Phillies. Two days later the Bengals will purchase C Duke Sims from the Dodgers. Fryman, just 4-10 for Philadelphia, will go 10-3 for Detroit, while Sims will hit .316 for Detroit in 38 games. The two veterans will spark Detroit to the American League Eastern Division title.

Houston's Cesar Cedeno hits for the cycle in a 10–1 win over the Reds.

1971
» Houston's Don Wilson allows just two hits in beat the Cubs and Fergie Jenkins, 2–1.

Bill Lee pitches tremendous relief, allowing just two hits in eight 1/3 innings, and the 2nd-place Red Sox come back to beat the American League East first place Orioles, 7–4. The Birds get all their runs off Luis Tiant in the 1st.

1970
» Bobby Tolan celebrates his new son, born just before today's game, by driving in the winning run in the 11th inning to beat the visiting Cubs, 4–3.

1969
» At St. Louis, the Cards take a 7–1 lead over the Dodgers, and stagger to a 7–6 win. It's the Redbirds' 6th straight win and 13th in the last 15 games. Vada Pinson has a sac fly but no hits for the Cards, ending his 22-game hitting streak.

1968
» A day after he hit a grand slam against the Tigers, the Senators trade SS Ron Hansen to the White Sox for IF Tim Cullen.

1967
» With homers from both sides of the plate, Pete Rose leads the Reds to a 7–3 win over the Braves. It's a 2nd time for Rose.

1966
» Ozzie Virgil drives in three runs and Juan Marichal, making his first relief appearance of the year, picks up his 17th win, as the Giants edge the Mets, 5–4. The win moves the Giants (63-44) back ahead of the Dodgers and Pirates by a game.

1965
» Harmon Killebrew suffers a dislocated left elbow in a collision with Baltimore's Russ Snyder. The Twins slugger will miss 48 games. Killebrew is leading American League in homers with 22 and RBIs at 70.

1964
» Detroit P Larry Sherry suffers a fractured left foot when struck by a liner off the bat of Leon Wagner in Cleveland's doubleheader sweep, 6–1 and 2–1. Sherry is out for rest of the year.

In Baltimore's 8–7 win over Kansas City, Brooks Robinson hits a ball that strikes the LF pole at KC and it is ruled in play by John Rice. Brooks is thrown out at 3B. Later Rice admits he made a mistake.

1962
» Phils P Art Mahaffey gives up two home runs to Frank Thomas and two more to Marv Throneberry, but negates those with a grand slam of his own in the 3rd inning. Mahaffey tops the Mets 9–4 at New York.

1961
» New York beats Kansas City 12–5 with Mickey Mantle walloping a first inning homer off Art Ditmar. Mantle and Roger Maris are both at 40 homers.

Juan Marichal fires a one-hitter—a Tommy Davis single—at the Dodgers, winning 6–0. Felipe Alou has three hits, including two home runs, to pace the Giants win over the league leaders.

1960
» In an agreement with the major leagues, the Continental League abandons plans to join the American League and National League. Walter O'Malley, chairman of the NL Expansion Committee, says, "We immediately will recommend expansion and that we would like to do it in 1961." Braves owner Lou Perini proposes a compromise that four of the CL territories be admitted to the current majors in orderly expansion. Branch Rickey's group quickly accepts. The Continental League ends without playing a game.

1959
» Jim Bunning of the Tigers pitches the only "perfect" inning of the last four decades striking out three Red Sox on nine pitches. Bunning wins 3–0. The last American League hurler to K the side on nine pitches was Lefty Grove, in 1928.

Billy Bruton of the Braves hits three triples in an 11–5 win over the Cardinals. Two of the triples are with the bases loaded, the only time it has happened in the National League in the 20th C.

Giants 1B Willie McCovey hits the first of his 521 ML home runs, off Ron Kline, as San Francisco downs the Pirates 5–3. Johnny Antonelli wins his 15th game.

1956
» Boston's Jackie Jensen knocks in nine RBIs as the Red Sox bag the Tigers 18-3.

1955
» Johnny Klippstein and Joe Nuxhall of the Redlegs shut out the Phils 2-0 and 4*0 in both ends of a doubleheader.

"Mr. Cub" Ernie Banks hits his 4th grand slam of the season, tying the major-league record, as Bob Rush bests the Pirates 12-4.

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1950
» Andy Pafko of the Cubs hits three HRs in the second game of a doubleheader, but the Cubs lose both to the Giants, 11–1 and 8–6.

Larry Doby hits three HRs in a game as Cleveland beats Washington 11–0. Besides tossing the shutout, Indians hurler Bob Lemon hits a HR. Lemon has now won nine in a row.

Elmer Valo hits for the cycle as the A’s thrash the White Sox 10–3.

1947
» At Wrigley, the Cubs pummel seven Dodgers hurlers to win a second straight from the Dodgers, 12–7. Peanuts Lowrey and Eddie Waitkus, the 1st 10 hitters for Chicago, have five hits apiece.

The Giants hit five homers and set a club record of 144 in a split with the Pirates. The Ottmen take the lidlifter, 10–2, then lose, 5–4. Bobby Thomson has a pair of homers. The Pirates also tie a club record for homers with 86 as Hank Greenberg and Frankie Gustine go deep.

1942
» Carl Hubbell wins his 5th straight, topping the Cardinals 7–1. Mel Ott's two homers, one a grand slam eases the way for the vet. In the nightcap, Dick Bartell's 9th inning error paved the way for Billy Southworth's squeeze bunt, and the Cards win, 3–2. Mort Cooper allows four hits in winning his 13th.

At Detroit, the Tigers sweep a pair from the Red Sox, 8–4 and 6–2, to knock Boston out of 2nd place. Dizzy Trout wins the opener, helping himself with a 3-run home run. Virgil Trucks wins the nitecap, giving up a 9th inning home run to Ted Williams. Along with Jim Tabor, CF Dom DiMaggio has a homer in the opener, then adds an unassisted DP in the nitecap.

At Yankee Stadium, Satchel Paige and Hilton Smith combine to pitch a one-hit shutout over the New York Cubans (Negro League). The Monarchs win, 9–0. In the first game of the twinbill, the Philadelphia Stars conquer the Baltimore Elite Giants, 7–4. Henry Spearman's grand slam sparks the Philley attack.

1940
» In Detroit, the Red Sox pound 14 hits in beating the Tigers, 12–9. Shortstop Joe Cronin is 4-for-5 and hits for the cycle, the 5th cycle in Sox history. Cronin cycled in 1929, not the first player to cycle twice, but the first to do it a decade apart. His 8th inning homer, off Archie McKain, follows a Doc Cramer triple and ices it for the Sox. Boston also gets homers from Dom DiMaggio and catcher Jimmie Foxx, his 23rd. Ted Williams, pinch hitting in the 4th, draws a walk. Jack Wilson beats Tom Seats, with both pitching in relief.

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, but Johnny Mize hits one of Freddie Fitzsimmons's knuckleballs for the first "yellow" HR.

1935
» Phillies 1B Dolph Camilli makes three errors in the first inning, a major-league record. He will lead the NL in fielding, however, in 1937.

1934
» Walter Johnson is hospitalized with pleurisy, and Willie Kamm takes over as interim Cleveland manager.

1933
» The A's Mickey Cochrane hits for the cycle for the second time in his career, against the Yankees in a 16-3 drubbing.

1932
» Rogers Hornsby is fired as manager of the Chicago Cubs, and 1B Charlie Grimm is put in charge.

1931
» The Red Sox and the third-place Yankees split a Sunday doubleheader before a record 40,000, played at Braves Field because of religious restrictions involving Fenway. Former Boston P Red Ruffing wins the first game 4–1, and ex-New Yorker Wilcy Moore blanks his former mates 1–0 in the nightcap. Moore allows just three singles in topping George Pipgras. The Yanks will go 308 games before being shut out again.

Washington beats the A's, 10–6, to knock Philadelphia's lead in the American League down to 14 games.

1930
» Playing under Kansas City's portable light system, the Pittsburgh (later Homestead) Grays 44-year-old hurler Smokey Joe Williams (27 strikeouts) spins a one-hitter to defeat the Monarchs' Chet Brewer (19 strikeouts, including 10 in a row starting in the 7th) 1–0 in a fiercely contested 12-inning matchup. Oscar Charleston scores the only run.

1929
» In the 9th inning at Philadelphia, 1B Don Hurst cracks his 6th home run in as many games, a major-league record up to this time. In the six games, Hurst had no other hits. The Phils win 2–0 over Pittsburgh, with Les Sweetland allowing 11 hits in the shutout to beat Larry French.

At St. Louis, the Cards bomb Dazzy Vance for 18 hits and 13 runs in his six inning stint, before Uncle Robby mercifully removes him. As the Dazzler leaves, the band plays, "the old grey mare ain't what she used to be." Six of the blows are for extra bases, including Jim Bottomley's 24th homer, as Sunny Jim knocks in five runs. Mitchell coasts home with the win for the Cards.

The A's spot the Tigers six runs in the first inning, then rally to win, 11–10. Harry Heilmann had four hits, including two homers, for the losers, as did McManus and Alexander. The Tigers outhit the A's 13–10. The A's victory increases their American League lead to 11 1/2 games over the Yankees, losers today to the Indians, 9–8.

After being shut out four straight times by Giants hurler Fred Fitzsimmons, the Reds score off him in the first inning, add two unearned runs in the 3rd to win, 3–2. Freddie allows just four hits in losing to Pete Donohue. Before the game, John McGraw issues a vehement denial that he has hurt morale by browbeating his players and issuing fines for errors. He says he has only fined Hubbell $25 for failing to touch second base in a game, and Frank Hogan $50 for failing to show up at the team hotel in Boston one night. "These, plus a fine of $100 assessed against Jack Cummings for being absent without leave for ten days—during which I had no idea where he was and could not even notify him of his transfer to the Braves—constitutes the total fines I have ordered." He also states that he hasn't even been in the clubhouse since July 18th.

1927
» Washington celebrates Walter Johnson Day on the 20th anniversary of his joining the team. He receives $14,764.05, a silver service, and a Distinguished Service Cross made of gold with 20 diamonds. But the Tigers kayo him in a 3-run ninth to win 7-6.

1924
» A's 1B Joe Hauser sets an AL record when he hits 3 HRs and a double for 14 total bases. It'll be broken by Ty Cobb's 16 total bases on May 5, 1925.

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 Landis bans all eight defendants from baseball for life.

1916
» Phils star Grover Alexander wins his 20th of the season, pitching a 12-inning 10 shutout over the Cubs. In the 12th, Alex intentionally walks two and then fans pitcher Iron Mike Prendergast with the bases. Bill Killefer strolls then home with the winning run while the Cubs are arguing a call at third base. Alexander has now won more games than the cross-town A's (19).

1915
» On the 8th anniversary of Walter Johnson's debut, the Big Train tops the Browns, 5–1. The losing pitcher is George Sisler, who has a single off Johnson.

1913
» It's Walter Johnson Day in Washington. President Wilson is on hand to help mark the Big Train's 6th anniversary in a Nationals uniform. Johnson is presented with a silver cup filled with 10-dollar bills ($674) and returns the favor with a 3–2 win over Detroit, his 24th win of the year.

The Federal League takes a big step toward another baseball war, voting to expand into the East.

1911
» Christy Mathewson allows 15 singles, but his teammates help with four double plays and the Giants top the Pirates, 8–4. Babe Adams takes the loss.

1910
» At the Polo Grounds, the Giants score four runs in the 1st off Orval Overall, but Overall tightens his belt and allows no more scoring. The Cubs come back with five runs off Christy Mathewson to win, 5–4.

1909
» Harry Pulliam is buried in Louisville. For the first time in history, both NL and AL games are postponed in tribute. After the funeral, a special meeting of the Board of Directors appoints John Heydler to succeed Pulliam.

1907
» Hugh Jennings, known for his gyrations on the coaching lines and "Eeyah" war cry, is suspended for 10 days for using a tin whistle while coaching at 3B for the Tigers.

Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington and loses to Detroit. The first hit off him is a bunt single by Ty Cobb, who also helps Detroit's cause by throwing out three runners from RF, two of them at home plate. Sam Crawford's inside-the-park home run is the margin in Detroit's 3-2 win. Johnson exits in the 8th, trailing, 2-1. Detroit also wins the 2nd game of the doubleheader and moves into first place.

Three Finger Brown tops Christy Mathewson for the 3rd time this season, allowing just four hits in shutting out the Giants, 5-0. The first-place Cubs paste Matty for nine hits, and will take four out of five games in the series with New York.

1906
» While the Athletics, crippled by injuries, falter, 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 0-0 tie with New York, catapults Chicago from 4th place to first in 10 days. Doc White wins six of the 19; Ed Walsh, 7. Boston, too, starts a more dubious streak of four straight shutout losses. They lose tomorrow, 4-0, 1-0 on the 4th, and 4-0 on the 6th. This ties the mark set earlier in the year by the Boston Nationals, and no team will top them.

1905
» The Athletics go into first place as Rube Waddell beats the White Sox, 4–3, fanning 14. He will lead the American League with 287 strikeouts, the 4th of six straight seasons when he tops the league.

At Pittsburgh, the Giants win their 13th game in a row, beating the Pirates, 3–1, to take a 10 1/2 lead over the Pirates. Christy Mathewson is the winner over Deacon Phillippe. Bucs star Honus Wagner is thrown out at first in the 4th inning on a close play, then shows his displeasure by firing a ball near umpire George Bausewine during warmups the next inning. Bausewine responds by thumbing Honus out of the game. Wagner will be suspended for three games and fined $40.

1904
» Pitcher Frank Owen of the Chicago White Sox steals home against the Nats in the 3rd inn of a 5–1 win.

1901
» The Pilgrims coast to a 16-0 win over the A's behind the pitching of Cy Young. It is Cy's 20th win of the year versus five losses.

1900
» Following a disputed call in a 7–6 loss to Chicago, New York manager George Davis leads the crowd in an assault on umpire William Terry. Clark Griffith emerges with the win for Chicago.