» September 28, 1920:
At Cincinnati, the Reds take a pair from the Pirates, winning 2–0 and 5–3. Dolf Luque leaves with a sore arm after one inning of the lidlifter and Hod Eller throws eight innings to win. Eller then goes five 1/3 innings of game two but leaves without a decision. » May 28, 1921: The league-leading Pirates protest their 4-3, 10-inning loss to the Reds. When hot-tempered Reds
P Dolf Luque throws the ball into the Cincinnati dugout, Clyde Barnhart tries to take 3B and is thrown out. The Pirates claim the ball was dead when it went into the dugout. NL president Heydler will sustain the protest and order the game continued with the score 3-3 in the last of the 8th. The Pirates win the
replay 4-3 on June 30th.
» September 29, 1923: The Reds Dolf Luque ends his campaign in style beating the visiting Cardinals, 11–1. He leaves after the game for Havana with a ML-leading won-loss record of 27-8, still the best single-season mark ever posted by a Latin American pitcher in ML play.
» September 7, 1924:
Behind Carl Mays and Dolf Luque, the Reds sweep a pair from the visiting Pirates, 4–1 and 4–3. The two teams combine for a major-league record as only one walk is issued in the twinbill.
» September 20, 1926: With the Cardinals idle, the Reds' nosedive continues as the Braves sweep a pair from Cincinnati, 4–3 and 3–0. In game 1, Edd Roush misses a shoestring catch of a Andy High fly ball, which goes for an inside-the-park home run. Roush also misses an easy fly ball in the 6th. Bob Smith applies the calcimine in game 2, with Dolf Luque on the losing end.
» September 3, 1933: At Boston, Dolf Luque comes to the aid of the Giants pitching the last eight innings and knocking in the winning run in the 14th. The Giants shade the Braves, 4–3, then tie 4–4 as curfew ends the duel with two out in the 9th. Ben Cantwell pitches well in game two as all the Giants runs are unearned. The Braves draw 40,000 today and 140,000 for the four games with first-place New York, more than they drew the entire season of 1928.
» May 15, 1935:
The Giants make Dolf Luque a coach, the Browns buy Russ Van Atta from the Yankees, and the Dodgers obtain George Earnshaw on waivers from the White Sox.
» September 25, 1980:
In a 6–4 loss to the White Sox, Oakland's Brian Kingman (7-20) loses his 20th game. Kingman will finish 8–20, the last 20-game loser of the century and the first to pitch for a winning team (Oakland will be 79–82) since Dolf Luque.
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