2002
» The Astros down the Cubs, 9–6, despite Sammy Sosa's 5th home run in the last three games. Sosa's blast makes him only the 3rd player in National League history with five straight 40–HR seasons.

2001
» The Braves fall to the Diamondbacks, 9–1, as Greg Maddux's NL record streak for innings without allowing a walk is ended at 72–and–one–third. Maddux intentionally walks Steve Finley in the 3rd inning to end the streak. Arizona 2B Junior Spivey gets five singles in the contest, becoming the 5th rookie in 50 years to have a pair of 5–hit games in his first season. His other 5–hit contest was on June 21.

2000
» The Mets defeat the Giants, 3-2, despite a mental mistake by OF Benny Agbayani which costs the team a run. After catching a fly ball for the 2nd out in the 4th inning, the Mets OF hands the ball to a 7-year-old boy in the stands, mistakenly thinking the ball was the 3rd out of the inning, while two Giant runners score.

The Rockies defeat the Expos, 4-2. 3B Jeff Cirillo drives in seven of Colorado's runs.

1999
» Rockies P Pedro Astacio is arrested on assault and domestic violence charges after allegedly punching his estranged wife in the face.

Manager Phil Garner is fired by the Brewers and replaced by batting coach Jim Lefebvre.

1998
» Seattle loses to Toronto, 11–5, despite a home run by SS Alex Rodriguez. It is the 100th homer of Rodriguez's career, making his the 4th–youngest player to reach the plateau. The only players to do so at a younger age were Mel Ott, Tony Conigliaro, and Eddie Mathews.

The Royals defeat the Red Sox, 8–4, as 1B Hal Morris records five hits for KC.

1997
» Scott Erickson pitches a three-hitter and Rafael Palmeiro has three hits, including a three-run homer, as the Baltimore Orioles defeat Oakland, 8-0. The game is played without a public address announcer. The Orioles shut off the microphone to pay tribute to Rex Barney, who had served as the Orioles' PA announcer since 1974. Barney, 72, was found dead in his home earlier in the day.

The Texas Rangers showed off for former president George Bush by routing the Boston Red Sox for the second consecutive game, 12-2, scoring 10 runs in the first four innings. Bush—whose son, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, owns the Rangers—sits next to the team's dugout with acting Massachusetts Gov. Paul Cellucci and a group of Secret Service agents.

Dean Palmer homers and drives in four runs as the Kansas City Royals end the New York Yankees' three-game winning streak with a 6-4 victory. Palmer, who is 10-for-21 with runners in scoring position and has 16 RBIs in 18 games since coming over in a trade with Texas, singles home a run in the fourth, opens the 6th with his 17th homer, and hits a go-ahead, two-run double in the 7th. Mike Perez (2-0), the second of five Royals' pitchers, is the winner. Jeff Montgomery pitches the 9th for his eighth save, the 250th of his career. He retires 32 consecutive batters, one shy of the club record, before Bernie Williams singles with two outs in the ninth.

Rickey Henderson leads off the 7th with his 250th career homer and Greg Vaughn adds a two-run double in the inning as the San Diego Padres rally to beat the Montreal Expos, 6-4.

Matt Beech ends his string of 22 straight starts without a victory, pitching the Philadelphia Phillies past the Colorado Rockies, 5-0. Beech (1-7) had not won since beating Atlanta in his first major league start on Aug. 8, 1996. He was winless in his first 15 starts this season.

The Blue Jays trade OF Otis Nixon to the Dodgers in exchange for C Bobby Cripps.

1996
» Geronimo Berroa hits three home runs in the Athletics' 11-1 win over Minnesota. He becomes the 10th player in history to have a pair of 3-homer games in the same season. Berroa accounts for five of Oakland's runs and Mark McGwire accounts for four with a pair of homers himself.

The Expos defeat the Astros, 8-1, in a game marked by a 3rd-inning 10-minute brawl which will result in 4-game suspensions being handed down to Henry Rodriguez, Moises Alou, David Segui, Jeff Juden, and John Cangelosi. Danny Darwin gets six games. Houston manager Terry Collins receives a gash that will require four stitches to close when he's hit by a thrown batting helmet. The fight starts when Rodriguez is plunked by a pitch, the apparent result of his stopping and admiring a homer he hit his last time up. Al Leiter pitches a 3-hitter to win, although he gives up a leadoff homer to Brian Hunter.

1995
» Thanks to an odd play, the Dodgers defeat the Pirates, 11-10, in 11 innings. With the potential winning run at 3rd base, Mitch Webster of the Dodgers swings at a pitch in the dirt. When Pittsburgh rookie C Angelo Encarnacion casually fields the ball with his mask, Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda appeals, citing the rule which awards a runner two bases if a fielder uses his mask to touch a thrown ball. The umpires agree and allow the winning run to score.

1994
» Major league players go out on strike in the 3rd work stoppage in the last 23 years. The dispute with owners centers on a salary cap, salary arbitration, free agency, and minimum salaries.

1993
» The Tigers defeat the Orioles, 17-11, as C Chad Kreuter hits a grand slam. It marks the 3rd consecutive game in which a Tiger hit a grand slam, tying a major league record set by the Milwaukee Brewers in 1978. The two teams combine for 37 hits. Travis Fryman is the only one with four hits, including three doubles. Twelve players score for the Tigers, one short of the American League record, and seven for the O's.

An all-night owners meeting in Kohler, Wisconsin fails to produce an agreement on revenue sharing among clubs.

1990
» After a 7 1/2 hour rain delay, the White Sox-Rangers game is finally postponed.

1988
» The Red Sox beat the Tigers 9–4 for their 23rd consecutive win at home, breaking the American League record held by the 1931 A's. Boston has not lost at Fenway Park since June 24th.

1987
» The Braves send veteran pitcher Doyle Alexander to the Tigers in exchange for minor leaguer John Smoltz. Alexander will help lead the Tigers to the American League East title by posting a perfect 9-0 record, while Smoltz will anchor the Braves for the 1990s.

1986
» Boston's Don Baylor sets an American League record when he is hit by a pitch for the 25th time, breaking the season record he held with Bill Freehan (1968) and Kid Elberfeld (1911). The Royals Bud Black does the plunking in a 5–1 win. Baylor will end the season being hit 35 times: the major-league record is 50 by Ron Hunt.

1985
» Baltimore's Wayne Gross and Larry Sheets connect for back-to-back solo pinch homers in the 9th inning, off Cleveland's Jerry Reed, but it is not enough to overcome the Indians 5-run 1st inning. The Tribe wins, 8–5. It's the 2nd time that a pair of Orioles have pinch hit back to back homers, and just the 2nd time in American League history.

At Chicago, Phil Niekro goes the route to pick up his 295th win as the Yankees beat the White Sox, 10–4. New York has a 7-run 7th to break the game open with Ron Hassey belting a 2-run homer and RBI single to lead the scoring in the frame.

1984
» Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, and Luis Aparicio are inducted into the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York.

In one of the ugliest brawl-filled games in ML history, the Braves beat the Padres 5–3 in Atlanta. The trouble begins when Atlanta's Pascual Perez hits Alan Wiggins in the back with the first pitch of the game, and escalates as the Padres pitchers retaliate by throwing at Perez all four times he comes to the plate. All in all, the game features two bench-clearing brawls, the 2nd of which includes several fans, and 19 ejections, including both managers and both replacement managers. Padres manager Dick Williams will be suspended for 10 days and fined $10,000, while Braves manager Joe Torre and five players will each receive 3-game suspensions. But the brawl in Atlanta, as Dave Campbell observed, "woke the Padres up out of their doldrums."

1980
» Tiger Stadium is packed with 48,361 fans to see Mark Fidrych's return to the big leagues, a 5–4 loss to the Red Sox. The 1976 American League Rookie of the Year will go 2-3 with a 5.73 ERA in what will be his final attempt to come back from injury, and his last ML season.

1978
» Peninsula's Marty Bystrom hurls a perfect game over Winston-Salem 3–0 in a Carolina League contest.

1977
» For the 2nd straight day, Oakland's Manny Sanguillen foils a no-hit bid. Today's single is off the Orioles Jim Palmer, who settles for a 2-hit 6–0 victory. Yesterday's hit was off the Yankees Mike Torrez, who finished with a 3–0 two-hitter.

The Pirates win twice over the Mets 3–2 and 6–5. In the 2nd game, Mets 2B Felix Millan suffers a broken collarbone in a brawl with catcher Ed Ott, ending Millan's 12-year ML career.

1976
» At Philadelphia, the Braves edge the Phils, 4–3, pinning the loss on Jim Lonborg. Atlanta pitcher Frank LaCorte wins his first ML game after nine losses.

1975
» Red Sox pitcher Rick Wise beats California, 8–2, for his 9th straight win.

1974
» Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford head a group of six inductees at Cooperstown.

Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 and walks only two as the Angels top the Red Sox 4–2.

1973
» The A's, six runs behind in the 7th inning, rally to beat the Yankees 13–12 and move to within one game of the first-place Royals in the American League West.

1972
» The White Sox top the A's 3–1 in 11 innings. The Sox, who were eight 1/2 games behind Oakland on July 18th, take over first place in the American League West.

1970
» Curt Flood loses his $4.1 million antitrust suit against baseball, as Federal Judge Irving Ben Cooper upholds the legality of the sport's reserve clause. Cooper does recommend changes in the reserve system, to be achieved through negotiation between players and owners. Less than six years later, this recommendation would become a reality.

1969
» Citing "personal problems," Yankees 1B Joe Pepitone goes AWOL.

Pirate Jose Pagan's 2nd pinch-hit home run in consecutive appearances ties the ML record, but the Giants win 6–3 at Candlestick.

1966
» At Crosley Field, long-ball lovers enjoy 11 home runs in one game, tying the most in any contest and setting a major-league record for an extra-inning contest. Art Shamsky hits three for Cincinnati, including two in extra innings. But Pittsburgh prevails 13–11, scoring three in the 13th inning. Shamsky, who did not enter the game until the 8th, when he hits a 2-run homer to put the Reds up 8–7. His solo homer in the 9th ties the score at 9-9, as does his 2-run homer in the 11th. Shamsky's pair of extra-inning homers is a first in the National League, and just the 3rd time ever in the Majors (Vern Stephens, 1943: Willie Kirkland, 1963). Also going deep are Rose, Deron Johnson, Bob Bailey (2), Clemente, Jesse Gonder, and Jerry Lynch. For Lynch, it is his 18th pinch-hit home run, a ML record.

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.

1965
» The Giants split a pair with Pittsburgh, losing game two by a 5–2 score after winning the opener, 4–3. In the win, Matty and Jesus Alou hit homers, the first time two Alous have homerd in the same game since Matty Alou and Felipe Alou did it on May 15, 1961.

Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc. applies for a National League franchise. The nonprofit group has been formed to find a replacement team for the soon-to-be-departing Braves.

1964
» Mickey Mantle homers from each side of the plate in the same game for the 10th and final time, a ML record, and New York beats Chicago 7–3 at Yankee Stadium. Mel Stottlemyre, in his major league debut, is the winner, scattering seven hits.

1963
» Stan Musial announces he will retire at the end of the year.

Back in action for the first time since being beaned by Bob Gibson, the Giants' Jim Ray Hart returns to the hospital after Curt Simmons plunks him in the head. Simmons had an 0–2 count in the 9th on Hart during an easy 13–0 Cardinal win at San Francisco.

1962
» Juan Marichal completes a 3-game Giant sweep of the Dodgers by beating Stan Williams 5–1. The Dodgers lead over the Giants is now down to two games.

1961
» At Griffith Stadium, Roger Maris belts his 43rd homer, off Dick Donovan, but its New York's only score as they lose, 5–1, the Yanks first loss in 10 games. For Washington it is their first win in eight games. Gene Green's pinch grand slam off Luis Arroyo is the big blow for the Nats.

1956
» Shreveport's Ken Guettler sets the Texas League mark with his 56th HR. He will finish the season with 62.

1954
» Eddie Yost of the Senators draws his 100th walk for the fifth year in a row.

1953
» The Yankees explode for 28 hits off Washington pitching.

The Braves and Cards draw 36,241, a record crowd for a twi-night doubleheader in Milwaukee's County Stadium.

1952
» Stu Miller of the Cardinals blanks the Cubs 1-0 in his major-league debut. In his next start Miller will lead 2-0 with 2 outs in the 9th only to have a Solly Hemus error allow a run. He will win 2-1.

1951
» The Giants (59-51) start the day 13 games behind first place Brooklyn (70-36). On Wes Westrum Day at the Polo Grounds, Sal Maglie wins the first game against the Phillies 3–2, and rookie Al Corwin takes the 2nd game 2–1. Eddie Stanky returns to the lineup after a week's absence and has five walks in the two games while leading off. The sweep launches a 16-game win streak and a spurt of 39 wins in 47 games.

Campanella breaks up a pitching duel between Newcombe and Boston's Johnny Sain with a 3-run homer, his 2nd of the game, and the 3rd time in nine games he's collected a pair of homers. Campy's five ribbies give the Dodgers a 7–2 win. Don Newcombe wins his 16th, while Sain goes 4–13.

The Yankees, tied for first place with Cleveland, lose a pair to the A's. The A's use 17 hits to win the opener, 9–5. then use Pennsylvania's Sunday Blue Law at 6:59 (American League Rule is 7:00 with no inning starting after 6:44) to win the nitecap, 7–4. The Yanks start an 8th inning 5-run rally at 6:37 and take a 9–7 lead, but the curfew wipes it out before Pete Suder can hit. Beginning next year, the AL will adopt the 40-year-old suspended game policy of the National League.

1950
» The Giants Eddie Stanky is banished by umpire Lon Warneke for refusing to stop waving his arms in an attempt to distract Phillies batter Andy Seminick. In the fourth, Stanky moves over behind 2B and goes into a windup the same time as the pitcher. Giants manager Leo Durocher had agreed to await a league ruling on the tactic, but after Seminick knocks Hank Thompson unconscious in a collision at 3B, Durocher turns Stanky loose. In the fourth, Seminick reaches base on an error, then on a force at 2B he puts a linebacker block on Bill Rigney, Stanky’s replacement, and both dugouts empty for a brawl. The Phils go on to win 5–4 in 11 innings, on Stan Lopata's triple and a sac fly by Waitkus. The Giants protest Stanky’s ouster to no avail.

Allie Reynolds hits a bases loaded single and hurls the Yanks to a 7–2 win over the A's. The loss goes to Schieb, but Bobby Shantz pitches the last 6.2 innings and clouts his only career homer, off the Chief.

1948
» In the 2nd game of a twin bill, after losing 8–4, the Indians wallop the Browns 26–3, coming within one run of the American League record for the most runs scored in a game. A record fourteen players have hits for the Indians in the game. Hal Peck leads with four hits and four runs. Pitcher Gene Bearden, who also has four hits and four runs, is staked to 9-run lead before taking the mound. All 14 Indians who have an at bat get a hit. Bob Feller pitches the last two innings.

1947
» After losing the first game to Detroit, 7–1, the Browns take the nitecap 6–5, beating Hal Newhouser in relief. For Newhouser, it is his first loss to the Browns after 15 consecutive wins.

1945
» Mel Ott leads the Giants to a pair of wins over the Reds, 3–2 and 6–5. Ott hits a pinch 3-run homer in the 8th of the nitecap after his homer and another by Danny Gardella leads the way in opener. The Reds Bill McKechnie, desperate for hitting, selects P Joe Bowman to pinch-hit for Vern Kennedy in game 1. Bowman is 0-for-42. He will hit .088 for the season.

Phils baserunner Fred Daniels collides with Cubs 1B Phil Cavarretta, sidelining the Cubs star for 25 of the next 27 games. The Cubs manage to win two from the Phils, 4–3 and 12–6.

In the lid lifter at Briggs Stadium, pitcher Jim Tobin, acquired on waivers, pitches three scoreless innings against New York and clubs a 3-run homer in the bottom of the 11th to win, 9–6. Another former Brave, Jim Turner, serves up the homer. The Tigers win the nitecap, 8–2, behind Hal Newhouser's 18th win.

1940
» Cleveland and Detroit, deadlocked for 1st place (64–44), square off. In the initial pitching duel between the two aces, Bob Feller tops Hal Newhouser, 8–5, to become the majors' first 20-game winner.

1936
» The largest crowd ever to watch a baseball game, between 90,000 and 125,000, sees a "demonstration game" as an event of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. The world amateurs beat the U.S. amateurs 6-5. Carson Thompson pitches four hitless innings in relief.

1934
» Making a farewell appearance in Boston, Babe Ruth draws a record 46,766 fans, with an estimated 20,000 turned away at Fenway Park where he began his career as a pitcher 20 years ago. Ruth singles and doubles in the first game, but the Yankees lose to Wes Ferrell 6-4. Walks hold him to one official at bat in the second game, which the Yankees win, and he leaves the field to standing cheers in the 8th inning.

1933
» Brooklyn's longtime manager, Wilbert Robinson, is appointed president of the Atlanta Crackers (SA) and will also manage the club. He is 69.

1932
» AL president Will Harridge upholds Detroit's protest of its August first game against NY and orders it replayed on September 8. Detroit had protested because Tony Lazzeri's and Ben Chapman's batting order was orally reversed after the lineup cards were handed in before the game.

1931
» The Giants land highly regarded Len Koenecke from Indianapolis for OF Harry Rosenberg, and pitchers Joe Heving and Jack Berly. Koenecke will have a decent season in 1932 before going to Brooklyn. He will die tragically in 1935.

1930
» With 40,000 fans on hand at Wrigley Field, Dazzy Vance gives up 14 hits and walks four but strands 16 Cubs runners. With the game tied, 2–2, in the 11th Riggs Stephenson bounces a single to drive in the winning run. Brooklyn loads the bases in both the 9th and 10th but comes up dry; in the 8th Brooklyn adds up a triple by Babe Herman, a walk to Dale Bissonette, and an Al Lopez single for zero runs.

1929
» At Boston, Guy Bush, the National League's leading pitcher, loses his 2nd game, bowing as a reliever, 4–2, in 10 innings. Bush has won 16. The Cubs maintain their 8-game lead as the Pirates lose to Brooklyn.

OF George Quellich of the Reading Keys (IL) hits a grand slam against Montreal for his 15th consecutive hit over a 4-day period.

1921
» The Phillies George Smith allows 12 hits but still manages to shut out the Braves, 4–0.

1916
» At Fenway, Babe Ruth squares off against Washington lefty Harry Harper and both pitchers leave after seven innings, with Boston trailing 1–0. Ruth, with two strikeouts at the plate, is lifted for pinch hitter Hal Janvrin. Washington reliever Walter Johnson makes two errors in the 8th and gives up two runs in the 9th as Boston wins, 2–1.

1915
» At Forbes Field, young Al Mamaux yields just three hits in beating Giants starter Jeff Tesreau, 3–0.

1913
» Art Fromme, with relief help from Christy Mathewson, beats Brooklyn, 6–5. Matty comes on in the 11th and gives up a lead off triple to Zack Wheat, but the Giants pitcher cuts down the chaff that follows, and New York wins, 6–5.

1912
» The Cards paste Red Ames for six runs in three innings, then add two more against reliever Christy Mathewson to win, 8–6. Matty takes the loss; his record is now 17–8.

Cubs owner Charles Murphy hints that the Cards and other clubs go easy against John McGraw's Giants. Later Phils' owner Horace Fogel, a former Giants manager whose ownership of the Phils is seen as a front for Murphy and financial backer Charles Raft of Cincinnati, echoes the accusation and charges NL umpires with favoring the Giants. It will lead to Fogel's being expelled from the NL.

1909
» In Chicago, the Giants sweep a doubleheader with the Cubs to inch loser to 2nd place. New York wins the opener, 5-2, then Mathewson sets down the Cubs, 3-0, for his 18th win.

1907
» Christy Mathewson wins his 17th, topping the Pirates 5-3 on eight hits.

1903
» Giant outfielder Sam Mertes walks five times and New York eases to a 14-4 win over St. Louis.

In the 2nd game at Boston, Boston Nationals Joe Stanley clouts his first major league homer, a grand slam off Chicago's Jock Menefee. Stanley will hit his second career homer in 1905, again a grand slam. Boston wins, 11-10, with Pop Williams beating Menefee. Chicago wins the opener, 7-4, with slow Bob Wicker outpitching Togie Pittinger.