» August 12, 1966: In Los Angeles, Ken Holtzman and the Cubs edge the Dodgers, Don Sutton, 2–1. The Cubs will hand Sutton another loss in two days, beating him in the nitecap of two, 12–10 in 10 innings.

» September 4, 1967: In the first of two at Wrigley, Chuck Hartenstein and the Cubs top the Dodgers, 2–1, in 11 innings. Don Sutton takes the loss and is now 0–7 against Chicago.

» May 16, 1968: In Los Angeles, the Cubs Rich Nye tops Don Sutton, 1–0.

» July 28, 1968: Ken Holtzman and the Cubs beat the Dodgers Don Sutton, 1–0. It is Sutton's 2nd straight 1–0 loss to Chicago; he is now 0-10 against the Cubs, and Holtzman will top him the next three times they face each other.

» September 4, 1968: The Dodgers Don Sutton allows just three hits and strikes out 12 to beat the Phils, 3–0.

» May 20, 1969: At Los Angeles, the Cubs beat the Dodgers Don Sutton, 7–0. Ken Holtzman is the winner for the second time in two weeks. Chicago hands Sutton his 12th loss in a row against them.

» July 24, 1969: At Wrigley, Ken Holtzman tops Don Sutton for the 4th straight time—three this year—as Chicago beats the Dodgers, 5–3. For a frustrated Sutton, it is a Cubs-record 13th straight loss to Chicago stretching back to his rookie year.

» August 10, 1969: Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to the Cubs with a 4–2 win at Los Angeles, but needs relief help to do it. Sutton tops Ken Holtzman, who handed Sutton his last four losses to Chicago. It was one short of the most consecutive losses by any pitcher to one club in ML history, and is the National League record for straight losses to a team from the start of a career. Sutton will close out his career with a record of 18-20 versus the Cubs.

» August 15, 1969: Don Sutton (15-11) opens a 9-game eastern swing for Los Angeles with a 9–2 win at Montreal. The Dodgers remain two games behind the first-place Reds. Montreal reliever Roy Face makes his final ML appearance, a record 657th consecutive relief effort (excluding his two games with the Tigers).

» August 28, 1970: Jerry Reuss allows two hits and the Cards beat the host Dodgers, 1–0, when Joe Torre belts a 9th inning home run off Don Sutton. It is Reuss' 2nd two hitter this month, having beaten the Expos 4–0 on August 9.

» May 18, 1971: Jose Cardenal singles in the 9th to give the Cards a 6–5 win over the Dodgers. Cardenal, playing RF, also nabs Don Sutton in the 3rd inning on a 9–3 putout.

» September 19, 1971: Dodgers Al Downing and Don Sutton hurl shutouts during a 12–0, 4–0 doubleheader triumph over the Braves. The Dodgers have 19 hits in the opener, including four by Davis. LA now trails the Giants by one 1/2 games.

» September 27, 1972: The Dodgers Don Sutton shuts out San Diego, 2–0, handing Steve Arlin his National League-high 21st loss of the year. Arlin also led the NL in losses last year with 19. It's Sutton's 9th shutout of the year to tie Nolan Ryan for the most in the ML.

» July 1, 1973: The Reds, 11 games behind the Dodgers at the beginning of the day, stage two dramatic comebacks to snatch a doubleheader win from LA. Hal King's clutch 3-run pinch hit home run with two outs wins the first game 4–3 against Don Sutton, while Tony Perez's 10th-inning hit wins the 2nd 3–2. This day will be looked upon as the turning point of the National League's Western Division race.

» September 11, 1973: The Reds whip the visiting Dodgers, 6–3, as Ed Armbrister hits a bases loaded double in the 8th inning to drive in three runs. Ken Griffey's 3-run homer in the 4th off Don Sutton starts the Reds scoring. The Reds push their lead to four games over LA in the National League West.

» August 24, 1974: Davey Lopes steals five bases as the Dodgers top the Cardinals 3–0. He is thrown out on his 6th attempt. Don Sutton is the shutout winner.

» October 1, 1974: The Dodgers clinch the NL West with am 8–5 victory over Houston. Don Sutton earns the win over J.R. Richard.

» October 5, 1974: Don Sutton notches a 4-hit shutout to give the Dodgers a 3–0 win over the Pirates in the National League Championship Series opener.

» October 9, 1974: Los Angeles advances to the World Series with a 12–1 win over the Bucs. Steve Garvey has two singles and two doubles, and scores four runs as Don Sutton wins his 2nd LCS game and 11th in a row.

» October 13, 1974: Los Angeles, behind Don Sutton, evens the Series with a 3–2 win. The Dodgers score in the 2nd off Vida Blue, and a 2-run home run by Joe Ferguson in the 6th provides the margin.

» October 17, 1974: Vida Blue and Don Sutton are tied 2–2 going into the bottom of the 6th when Mike Marshall relieves and retires the side. In the 7th, a shower of debris halts the game for 15 minutes. When play is resumed, Joe Rudi hits Marshall's first pitch for a homer to give the A's a 3rd 3–2 win, clinching a 3rd straight World Championship for the team.

» May 31, 1975: Andy Messersmith gets a loss and a save for the Dodgers in Chicago. In a game continued from the previous day, he saves a 3–1 win for Don Sutton, then loses 2–1 to the Cubs on two solo home runs.

» March 28, 1976: A nearly completed Mets-Dodgers trade, involving ace pitchers Tom Seaver and Don Sutton, is leaked by the New York press. The subsequent public furor causes the Mets to abandon the deal.

» September 22, 1976: Don Sutton wins his 20th game of the year for the Dodgers, beating the Giants 3–1 on a 6-hitter. Sutton will win 324 in his career, but this is the only year he will be a 20-game winner.

» July 19, 1977: At Yankee Stadium, the National League scores four times in the opening inning off Jim Palmer, en route to a 7–5 All-Star Game victory. Don Sutton, hurling three scoreless innings, is named the game's MVP.

» August 18, 1977: Dodger P Don Sutton throws his 5th one-hitter, tying the National League record, as he blanks the Giants, 7–0. The lone hit is Marc Hill's two-out single in the 8th.

» October 5, 1977: In game two of the NLCS, Dusty Baker's grand slam, off Jim Lonborg, leads the Dodgers to a 7–1 win over the Phillies as Don Sutton goes the distance for LA. Bake McBride's homer in the 3rd is the only score for Philley.

» October 16, 1977: LA stays alive with a 10–4 victory in game 5. Steve Yeager and Reggie Smith homer as Don Sutton pitches a complete game.

» July 14, 1978: Umpire Doug Harvey ejects a shocked Dodger P Don Sutton in the 7th after discovering three scuffed balls. Sutton takes the loss, 4–1, against the Cardinals with Pete Vuckovich getting the win.

» August 20, 1978: Los Angeles beats New York 5–4 at Shea Stadium, but the real hitting occurs before the game when Dodgers Don Sutton and Steve Garvey engage in a clubhouse wrestling match. The two had been feuding for a long time, but newspaper remarks by Sutton about Garvey's All-American image sparked the brawl.

» April 12, 1980: In his first game in the National League since 1971, Astros pitcher Nolan Ryan hits his first career home run, a 3-run shot off the Dodgers Don Sutton. Ryan leaves the game with a 5–4 lead, but Los Angeles wins 6–5 in 17 innings.

» May 27, 1980: In the 3rd inning at Riverfront Stadium, Don Sutton serves up consecutive homers to Ken Griffey, George Foster, and Dan Driessen. The homer outage is good for five runs in the Reds 6–1 win over the Dodgers.

» December 3, 1980: Don Sutton, 35, the winningest pitcher in Los Angeles Dodgers' history, signs a 4-year contract with the Houston Astros. Sutton was 13-5 in 1980 with a league-leading 2.21 ERA.

» April 11, 1981: After 15 seasons as a Dodger, Don Sutton makes his debut with the Astros and is pounded by his former club for six runs in four innings. Los Angeles wins 7–4.

» July 7, 1982: Houston's Don Sutton wins his 250th career game, a 5–1 four-hitter against the Cubs.

» August 30, 1982: In an effort to bolster its pitching staff for the pennant race, Milwaukee trades minor leaguers Kevin Bass, Frank DiPino, and Mike Madden to the Astros for veteran starter Don Sutton. Sutton has won 13 games for Houston this year. The Brewers are four 1/2 games ahead of the Red Sox.

» September 19, 1982: Milwaukee scores nine runs in the 8th to roll over the Yankees, 14–1. Don Sutton is the victor. Gorman Thomas has a double—his 2nd—and home run in the big inning and Paul Molitor adds a home run then as well.

» October 3, 1982: Robin Yount smacks two home runs and a triple as Milwaukee whips Baltimore 10–2 to win the American League East championship. Don Sutton, 4-1 since being acquired by the Brewers in late August, is the winning pitcher. Milwaukee had lost three in a row to Baltimore before today's pivotal victory. Despite Yount's stellar game, he loses the AL batting title .332 to .331 to Kansas City's Willie Wilson, who sat out the Royals' final game. Yount ends the year with 114 RBI and joins teammates Cecil Cooper (121), Gorman Thomas (112), and Ben Oglivie (102) as only the 2nd foursome since 1940 to top the 100 RBI mark: The 1977 Bosox of Fisk, Rice, Hobson and Lynn were the others. Ted Simmons is just three short of 100 RBI or the Brewers would have joined the 1936 Yankees as the only squad with five 100-RBI hitters.

» October 8, 1982: The pitching of veteran Don Sutton, and a 2-run home run by Paul Molitor, stave off elimination in the Brewers' game against California.

» June 24, 1983: Milwaukee's Don Sutton strikes out Alan Bannister in the 8th inning of a 3–2 win over Cleveland to become the 8th pitcher in ML history with 3,000 career strikeouts. County Stadium is packed with 46,037 fans for the game, mostly to welcome back popular OF Gorman Thomas, who was traded to Cleveland earlier this month.

» May 3, 1984: Kansas City's first two hitters -- Darryl Motley and Pat Sheridan -- reach Milwaukee's Don Sutton for home runs, but the Brewers come back to win, 6–5, in 10 innings. Reliever Tom Tellmann wins when Mark Brouhard strokes a bases-loaded single.

» August 8, 1984: Veteran P Don Sutton ends Milwaukee's 10-game losing streak with a 3–2 win over the Royals. Sutton also passed the 100 strikeout mark for the 19th straight season, a ML record.

» September 10, 1985: To bolster their pitching staff for the pennant race, the Angels acquire veteran Don Sutton from the A's for two players to be named later.

» June 18, 1986: California's Don Sutton becomes the 19th pitcher in ML history to win 300 games, beating the Rangers 3–1 on a 3-hitter.

» August 14, 1987: Oakland's Mark McGwire slugs his 39th home run of the season, off Don Sutton in the 6th inning, in a 12-inning 7–6 win over California, breaking the major-league record for rookies shared by Wally Berger and Frank Robinson. McGwire will finish the season with a whopping 49 homers.

» April 27, 1988: At Los Angeles, veteran Don Sutton shuts out the Cubs, 4–0, beating Jamie Moyer. It is his last decision versus the Cubs and he closes out his career against Chicago at 18–20. Not bad, considering that his first 13 decisions against the Cubs were losses.

» August 10, 1988: The Dodgers release Don Sutton, the 12th-winningest pitcher in ML history and the club's all-time victory leader.

» June 3, 1989: Nolan Ryan pitches his 2nd one-hitter this season and 11th overall, allowing only a first-inning lead-off single to Harold Reynolds, in a 6–1 win over Seattle. Ryan also strikes out 11 to tie Don Sutton's major-league record of 21 seasons with at least 100 strikeouts.

» July 2, 1990: Nolan Ryan strikes out seven batters in a 3–2 loss to the Red Sox. This gives him a record 22 seasons with at least 100 strikeouts. He had shared the record of 21 with Don Sutton.

» September 12, 1991: Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan wins his 10th game, beating the Twins, 4–3, and becoming just the second pitcher ever to reach double figures in wins in 20 different seasons. Don Sutton did it 21 seasons. The win, Ryan's 312th of his career moves him past Tom Seaver into 14th place on the career list. Jack Morris is the CG loser.

» May 30, 1992: By beating the Milwaukee Brewers, 8–1, Scott Sanderson of the Yankees becomes the 9th pitcher to beat all 26 major league teams in his career. He joins Nolan Ryan, Tommy John, Don Sutton, Mike Torrez, Rick Wise, Gaylord Perry, Doyle Alexander and Rich Gossage as the only pitchers to accomplish the feat.

» January 6, 1997: Former Atlanta knuckleballer Phil Niekro is elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Niekro receives 80.34% of the vote. Former Dodger hurler Don Sutton falls nine votes short of election.

» January 5, 1998: 324–game winner Don Sutton is elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on his 5th try. Sutton, who missed election by nine votes in 1990, was named on 81.6% of the ballots.

» June 27, 2000: The Atlanta Braves back off from their decision to bar from their chartered flights four team announcers who had raised questions about the catcher's box at Turner Field. After TBS discussed the width of the catcher's box in a game against the Brewers three days ago, Skip Caray, Pete Van Wieren, Joe Simpson and Don Sutton were kicked off a flight to Montreal and had to take a commercial flight. TBS aired a video showing the catcher's box was four to five inches smaller than it was the previous night, when Milwaukee management complained about where Braves catcher Javy Lopez was setting up. Opposing teams have long said that Atlanta pitchers are given the benefit of an extra-wide strike zone, particularly on the outside corners. Catchers who set up wide of the plate can increase the chances of an outside pitch being called a strike. The video was shown after a rare balk call against Fernando Lunar, the Braves catcher. Home-plate umpire John Shulock ruled that Lunar set up with his right foot outside the 43-inch-wide box. The balk led to Milwaukee's first run and a heated argument between Shulock and Braves manager Bobby Cox, who was ejected. Atlanta lost the game 2-1.