2002
» The Cubs defeat Colorado, 12–9, as Sammy Sosa hits a grand slam and drives home five runs. The RBIs give him an National League–record 14 in two consecutive games.

The Phillies beat the Dodgers, 5–3, as Philadelphia SS Jimmy Rollins strokes five hits and steals two bases.

Chipper Jones strokes five hits, including a pair of doubles, as the Braves rout the Astros, 13–3.

2001
» Joe Borowski serves up home run No. 50 to Barry Bonds and the Giants roll to a 9–4 win over the Cubs. Winning pitcher Livan Hernandez is 4–for-4, including his first ML homer. He now has eight straight hits and is 12-for-13.

Led by the two Giambi brothers, Oakland beats the visiting New York Yankees, 8–6, for their 10th straight win. Jason Giambi and Jeremy Giambi each club 2-run homers, the 2nd time they've both gone deep in the same game. They did it twice last year as well.

In the Twins 4–3 loss to Tampa Bay, Minnesota 1B Doug Mientkiewicz makes all three outs in the bottom of the 2nd without touching first base. The Devil Rays have Toby Hall on 3B and Randy Winn on 1B with no outs in the inning when Aubrey Huff hits a weak grounder to Mientkiewicz. The first sacker crosses the diamond to chase Hall back to third then tags out Winn who had run all the way around from first. Mientkiewicz then catches Huff wandering off the base to complete an unassisted double play. The next Rays' batter, Jared Sandberg, hits a towering foul pop-up that Mientkiewicz caught for the third out.

1998
» The Yanks David Wells stops the Twins on a four hitter to win, 7–0. In his last start the Yankee lefty pitched a perfect game against the Twins:.

1996
» Clemson University P Kris Benson becomes the highest paid draft choice ever. He logs on with the Pirates for a $2 million signing bonus.

1995
» Kirk Gibson and Steve Bedrosian announce their retirements.

The Yankees trade OF Luis Polonia to the Braves for minor league OF Troy Hughes.

The Royals trade C Pat Borders to the Astros in exchange for a player to be named.

1994
» Seattle defeats Oakland, 8-1, in the final game that will be played this season. Randy Johnson goes the distance for his 13th -- and last -— win of the year.

1993
» Tigers OF Dan Gladden hits a grand slam in Detroit's 15-5 win over the Orioles. Gladden also hit a grand slam in yesterday's game against Baltimore, making him the 14th player in history to do so in consecutive games. Earlier this year, Mike Blowers became the 13th player to match the mark.

1991
» White Sox hurler Wilson Alvarez becomes the first rookie to throw a no-hitter since 1983 when he defeats the Orioles, 7-0, in his 2nd big league start. In his first start, on July 24, 1989, he did not retire any of the five batters he faced, giving up two hits and three walks.

1988
» After going 225 at bats, Gary Carter finally hits his 300th career home run as the Mets beat the Cubs 9–6.

1986
» The Cubs parade a record 10 pitchers in a 17-inning 10–8 loss to the Pirates. Pittsburgh uses seven hurlers. The game is a continuation of a contest started on April 20, but was postponed because of darkness. Barry Jones, the winning pitcher who strikes out the side, and Barry Bonds, who hit the game winning RBI, were in the minors when the game started. Loser Frank DiPino started the season with Houston.

1982
» Houston's Nolan Ryan pitches his 8th career one-hitter 3–0 at San Diego. Terry Kennedy's 5th-inning single is the only Padres hit.

Twins Terry Felton (0-11) is the losing pitcher in 6–3 loss to California, dropping his career record to 0-14, the worst individual start in ML history. Felton will never win a ML game, finishing his career with an 0-16 record.

The Brewers purchase veteran P Doc Medich from the Rangers. With the addition of Medich, the Brewers will sell Randy Lerch to Montreal on August 14. Doc will win five games for the Brewers.

1980
» Reggie Jackson hits his 400th career home run, off Chicago's Britt Burns, in the 3rd inning of a 3–1 Yankees victory. It's Reggie's 31st homer of the year.

1979
» The Pirates Ed Ott hits a grand slam off Phillie reliever Tug McGraw in the 8th inning as the Bucs win 14–11. It is the 4th grand slam that McGraw has yielded this year, setting a new NL mark and tying him for this questionable honor with Detroit's Ray Narleski (1959).

Against the Brewers at Fenway, Jim Rice belts his 30th homer, giving him three straight seasons with 30 or more homers. Only three Red Sox, Jimmy Foxx (5 straight years) and Williams (4 straight), have done it. But Milwaukee wins, 9–6.

1977
» Two losses at Fenway today. The Red Sox lose to the Angels, 7–3, snapping their 11-game win streak, and the Bristol Red Sox lose, 5–3, to the Eastern League All-Stars.

1976
» At Wrigley, the Cubs take a 10–1 lead after three innings, only to lose to the Reds, 13–10. Cincy scores two runs in the 6th, four in the 7th helped by a Johnny Bench 3-run homer, one in the 8th and two runs in the 9th. Ken Griffey's 2-run homer in the 9th ties the game. The Reds continue scoring with three in the 10th off Bill Bonham to hand the win to Pat Zachry.

1975
» George Foster has five hits to lead the Reds to a 9–3 win over the visiting Cubs.

1973
» White Sox rookie Brian Downing cracks his first major league hit, a home run off Detroit's Mickey Lolich. Downing's debut dinger is a first in the majors since at least 1945—an inside the park homer. It'll be matched in two years by the Giants Johnnie LeMaster, who will do it in his first at bat.

1972
» The A's defeat the White Sox 5–3 on Joe Rudi's 2-run home run in the 19th inning. The game had been renewed after a 3–3 tie in 17 frames the night before.

1970
» Jim Bunning notches his 100th National League victory, a 6–5 Phillies win over the Astros. Bunning is the first pitcher since Cy Young to win 100 games in each league.

1969
» Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder. Drysdale is the last Brooklyn Dodger active with the Dodgers. Bob Aspromonte (1 AB), who retires in 1971, will be the last active Brooklyn Dodger member.

1968
» Satchel Paige, 62 years or so old, and needing 158 days on a ML payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by the Braves. He will not pitch a regular-season game for Atlanta and will become a coach on September 30th and stay for another year.

Gates Brown wins the opener for the Tigers by poling a pinch homer—one of two pinch homers the Tigers hit—in the 14th to beat the Red Sox, 5–4. In the nightcap, he singles home the winning run as the Tigers score four in the 9th to win, 6–5.

1967
» In the 2nd inning of the first game of a doubleheader, Al Downing of the Yankees strikes out the side on just nine pitches. The Yanks beat the Indians 5–3.

The Mets Danny Frisella picks up his first ML win, but he's long gone when the W is posted. Frisella pitches six 2/3 innings before being lifted, then races the airport to catch a plane to take him to an Air National Guard meeting in California. Don Shaw picks up the save in the 3–2 win over the Pirates.

1966
» At Wrigley, the Cubs down Houston, 9–8, in 11 innings. The Cubs are led by C Randy Hundley who hits for the cycle and drives in three runs. Houston is ahead 8–5 at the end of seven innings in the nitecap when the game is suspended on account of darkness. It'll be completed on August 26, with Houston winning, 9–8.

It is deja vu all over again, as Frank Robinson makes another game-saving catch against the Yankees. Robby dives into the stands to rob Clete Boyer of an 11th-inning homer, preserving a 6-5 Orioles' win. Robby did it two months earlier.

1964
» At Crosley Field, Joey Jay strikes out 13 Dodgers as the Reds win, 4–2.

1963
» In a New York-Penn League game at Batavia Auburn edges Batavia, 1-0. Paul Alspach of Auburn strikes out 24 Pirate batters.

1962
» The Dodgers protest the wetting down of the field at Candlestick, a tactic they claim is to stop Maury Wills. Billy Pierce then hands 21-game winner Don Drysdale his 5th loss, and the first after 11 straight wins, as the Giants win 5–4 to take the 2nd game in their series. Willie McCovey's pinch-homer with two on is the big blow off Drysdale. The watering ploy earns Giants manager Alvin Dark the sobriquet "The Swamp Fox."

At Fenway, the Red Sox sweep a day-night pair from Baltimore, winning 3–0 and 7–3. Ike Delock shuts out the Orioles, giving the Red Sox their 3rd shutout in a row. Gene Conley and Bill Monbouquette had previously whitewashed the Indians. Whitey Herzog's home run in the 6th of game two ends the Sox sting of 32 2/3 scoreless innings.

1961
» Warren Spahn's 2–1 victory against the Cubs makes him the 13th 300-game winner.

In a classic pitching duel, White Sox lefty Billy Pierce and KC's Jim Archer walk none and neither go to 3–2 in the count. Luis Aparicio's home run is the only score as the Sox win 1–0 in one hour, 32 minutes.

Mickey Mantle (44) and Roger Maris (42) belt homers off reliever Pete Burnside to lead New York to a 12–5 pasting of the Senators.

Vancouver (PCL) steals nine bases in one inning of a 10–2 win against Salt Lake City.

1959
» At Crosley Field, Joe Nuxhall fans four Braves in the 6th inning,—Mathews, Adcock, Crandall, and Logan—and 10 overall as the Reds win 4–3 to move into 2nd place. The 3rd strike to Crandall gets by catcher Dutch Dotterer, giving Nuxhall the chance for the four K's. Jim Davis, in 1956, was the last pitcher to K four in a frame.

1957
» P Dick Hyde intentionally walks Ted Williams, the 27th time this year the slugger has been handed a free base. Williams will be intentionally walked 33 times this year, the highest AL total since the league started compiling this statistic in 1955.

1955
» Ted Williams gets his 2,000th hit in a 5-3 Red Sox loss to the Yanks.

1953
» Brooklyn slugger Duke Snider hits his second slam in 3 days, accounting for all the runs in the Dodgers 4-0 win over the Giants. Carl Erskine allows New York just two hits.

1951
» In Philadelphia, the Giants lose to the Phils, as Robin Roberts shuts them out, 4–0, for his 16th win. Putsy Cabellero hits his 1st major league homer, off George Spencer for the 3rd place Phils (57-52), now just one 1/2 games behind New York.

The Dodgers take the 1st of two games against the Braves, winning 8–1 behind Ralph Branca. Brooklyn now leads the National League by 13 1/2 games with 49 games to play. The Braves take the nitecap, 8–4, behind Max Surkont and a home run by Sid Gordon. With Red Barber and Connie Desmond making the calls, the doubleheader is the first ML game to be telecast in color.

Behind the four-hit pitching of Early Wynn, the Indians defeat the White Sox 2–1 in front of a Ladies Night crowd of 70,119. Wynn's homer in the 7th gives the Tribe (68-39) and negates 2nd-inning homers by Eddie Robinson and Al Rosen. It's the Tribes 9th straight win to stay deadlocked with the Yankees for first place. Loser Joe Dobson, who has beaten Wynn twice this year, gives up just six hits.

Eddie Joost homers in the 9th for the A's, who tie the Yanks 4–4, but the Yanks win in 11, 7–4. Sloppy fielding and a two-run single by Berra account for the scoring. The win goes to reliever Bob Kuzava, late of the Senators, while Alex Kellner takes the loss.

1950
» Boston P Vern Bickford no-hits the Dodgers in Boston before 29,008 fans. Bickford has lost only once to Brooklyn since joining Boston 1948. The win puts Boston just five games behind the first-place Phillies.

Hitting just .279, Yankee great Joe DiMaggio is benched for the first time in his career. He is currently languishing in a 4-for-38 slump. His sub, Cliff Mapes, wallops a seventh-inning HR to give the Yankees a 7–6 win over the A's.

RF Ken Wood of the Browns nails two Tiger runners in the eighth inning of the second game of a DH, tying a major-league mark. The Browns prevail 2–1, after winning game one, 4–3, in 10 innings. The split keeps the Tigers three games ahead of Cleveland and three 1/2 ahead of New York.

1948
» At Brooklyn, Chicago's Johnny Schmitz goes 11 innings to beat the Dodgers, 4–2. Schmitz scores the winning run, coming home on an Eddie Waitkus double.

1947
» Cardinal farmhand Harvey Haddix, pitching for Winston-Salem (Carolina) no-hits Danville, 8–0, in seven innings. The young Kitten strikes out 14.

1946
» Stan Musial gets eight hits in nine at bats, as the St. Louis Cardinals sweep the Cincinnati Reds 15-4, 7-3.

The Phillies sweep Brooklyn 7-6 and 6­4 to end the string of 18 consecutive Brooklyn wins in Philadelphia, a major-league mark. The last Phillie victory at home against the Bums was May 5, 1945.

1945
» Chicago's Claude Passeau limits the Braves to two hits—both coming with two out in the 8th—as the Cubs win, 8–0. The Cubs score six in the 9th after starter Logan is lifted.

1942
» At Cleveland, in the first game of a twi-nighter, Indian P Al Milnar has a no-hitter until Doc Cramer singles with two out in the 9th. But the duel with Detroit's Tommy Bridges ends in a 14-inning scoreless tie because the rules state the game cannot be continued under the lights. Milnar allows just two hits and his catcher Gene Desautels catches the entire game without a putout (no strikeouts) or assist.

1935
» Wally Berger hits a HR, two doubles, and a triple, to tie the modern record for extra-base hits in a game.

1933
» The Senators score six times in the final inning to top the Red Sox as both teams use a record-tying 11 pitchers in the game.

1932
» Rookie SS Arky Vaughan makes a crucial error in the 10th inning, and the Cubs top the Pirates 3-2 to take first place.

1931
» Lefty Grove reaches 14 straight wins, beating the Browns, 8–1.

1930
» The Cubs displace Brooklyn for the league lead, completing a 4-game sweep with the Braves. Cubs P Bud Teachout wins the final game, 4–3, in 10 innings.

1929
» Babe Ruth hits home run No. 500, in the 2nd inning off Willis Hudlin of Cleveland, but the Yankees lose, 6–5. Ruth has gone deep six times in his last seven games.

A 3-run homer by Bubbles Hargrave and another run on a throwing error by Joe Cronin allows the Tigers to tie the A's, 8–8 in the 9th. Bengal OF Roy Johnson wins it in the 11th by stroking a 2-out inside the park homer, off Orwell.

1928
» Carl Hubbell's first major-league victory is a 4-0 shutout of the Phils. He'll be 10-6 down the stretch and will pitch 16 years with the Giants.

1926
» Dodgers rookie Babe Herman collects his ninth hit in a row, but flies out to Kiki Cuyler in the 6th to fall short of the record of 10 straight, held by Cuyler and Ed Konetchy.

Tris Speaker hits the 700th double of his career, as the Indians lose to the White Sox 7-2.

1921
» The Yankees move one percentage point ahead of the Indians with a 7–3 win over the A's. The two teams will run even through September.

1919
» Cleveland's Tris Speaker ties an AL record, scoring 5 runs in a 15-9 win at New York.

1914
» Boston Braves P Lefty Tyler begins a string of 23 shutout innings, but Red Ames of the Reds matches him today in a 13-inning 0–0 tie. Four days later, Tyler will beat Christy Mathewson 2–0 in 10.

In St. Louis, the Giants are trailing the Cardinals, 3–2, after five innings when the light rain turns heavy. The umps call the game, a loss to New York's Christy Mathewson.

After missing six weeks, first with broken ribs, then a broken thumb, Ty Cobb signs a new 3-year contract and returns to the lineup. He and Sam Crawford had been offered double their salaries to jump to the Feds. Cobb will get into just 97 games, but he will win another batting crown at .368. Under existing rules his 345 at bats are enough to qualify.

White Sox pitchers Mellie Wolfgang and Ed Cicotte both toss 2–0 shutouts against Cleveland.

1912
» Cleveland's Joe Jackson becomes the 2nd AL player to steal home twice in a game. He steals home in the first inning, and then in the 7th, he steals 2B, 3B, and home.

1911
» The Phillies reach Christy Mathewson for 11 hits, but fail to score as New York triumphs, 6–0. The Giants toast Bill Burns for four runs in the 1st two innings.

1910
» The White Sox trade P Frank Smith, whose best days are behind him, and 3B Billy Purtell to the Red Sox in exchange for 2B Amby McConnell and 3B Harry Lord. On July 10th, a Walter Johnson fast ball broke Lord's finger, and the stellar play of his substitute Clyde Engle has made Lord expendable. Lord becoming the one threat in the weak White Sox lineup, hitting .297 through the end of the year, but the Sox will still finish last in hitting, slugging, and homers.

At New York, the Giants take two from Cincinnati, 5–4 and 3–2. Christy Mathewson wins the opener, despite allowing 11 hits and four walks. Matty is tough in the pinch, however, as the Reds load the bases in the 9th with no outs but fail to score.

1909
» John McGraw puts 50-year-old coach Arlie Latham at 2B in a 19-3 romp over St. Louis. Latham goes hitless but handles two assists.

1908
» The Cards fall to Boston, 2-0, as Boston pitcher Tom Tuckey gets his only shutout in his first major league game.

1907
» In the 2nd game of a doubleheader, shortened to seven innings by prior agreement, St. Louis Cardinals' Ed Karger pitches a perfect game 4-0 against the Boston Doves.

1904
» At the Polo Grounds, the Giants paint the Reds, 5–2, with Christy Mathewson striking out 11. Bob Ewing is the loser.

The Cardinals player-manager Kid Nichols strikes out 15 Brooklyn hitters in a 17-inning, 4–3, victory.

1903
» A crowd of 10,600 cheer as the Pilgrims Tom Hughes defeats the A's ace Rube Waddell, 5-1.

1900
» The Giants tally four singles, a double, and triple in the first two innings against the Reds, but get only a run out of it. It's enough as they win, 1–0.