2002
» The Phillies slug three home runs in an 8–run 9th inning to come from behind and overtake the Expos, 11–8.

Reds P Chris Reitsma hurls a 5–hitter, shutting out the Brewers, 2–0. The win ends a streak of 151 starts by Cincinnati pitchers without a complete game.

2001
» The battle of two first place teams draws 59,470 at Philadelphia as the Yanks lose a sloppy game to the Phils, 9–3. In the 5th, Jimmy Rollins takes 2B on a PB, then swipes 3rd for his 26th straight successful steal. Jorge Posada has three passed balls and should have been charged with a 4th, while Derek Jeter makes a critical error. Posada will lead the majors in PBs this year with 18.

Behind Mike Piazza's three hits and three RBIs, the Mets win, 5–2, over Toronto as both teams celebrate Negro League Tribute Day by wearing old NL uniforms. The Mets wear the NY Cubans, 1947 NL champs, while the Blue Jays are in the uniforms of the Chatham All Stars. In Pittsburgh, the Pirates wear the Homestead Grays and the Royals wear Monarchs uniforms.

Brian Lawrence pitches a complete game 5–1 win over the Angels, and the Padres reward him after the game by sending him down to Portland (PCL). The move is to make room for Brian Tollberg, out since May 6th when he broke a finger on a comebacker from Sean Casey.

Umpires file a grievance against ML baseball, saying the commissioner's office is pressuring them to call more strikes by keeping track of total pitch counts. As part of the ML's efforts, cameras were installed over the weekend, July 13 and 14, at Shea to track each pitch. Fenway and Shea are the only parks with the tracking system, which is similar to that used on Fox's broadcasts, but ML officials hope to have four more by September.

2000
» The White Sox defeat the Cardinals, 15-7, scoring nine runs in the 7th inning. OF Eric Davis goes 5-for-5 for St. Louis.

A 1909 Honus Wagner baseball club is auctioned for a record $1.1 million on eBay. Other high priced items in the auction include a baseball autographed by the entire 1919 Chicago "Black Sox" team, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, as well as the umpires who worked the final game of the 1919 World Series sells for $93,666, including a 15 percent buyer's premium. A ball signed by the 1919 Reds goes for $11,208, while a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth sells for $76,020. A contract from Shoeless Joe Jackson's sale of his Chicago pool hall to teammate Lefty Williams, sells for $36,098. The contract, dated Oct. 6, 1921, is for just $1.

1999
» The Athletics defeat the Giants, 11-9, in a game in which San Francisco OF Barry Bonds sets an all-time major league record by receiving his 294th intentional walk. Henry Aaron held the previous mark.

The Rangers tie the major league record with walks by three consecutive pinch hitters (Rusty Greer, Rafael Palmeiro, Lee Stevens) in the bottom of the 9th against the Diamondbacks. The Rangers win, 3–2.

The opener at Seattle's Safeco Field is spoiled by the Padres, who score two in the 9th to win, 3–2. A crowd of 44,607 is on hand.

1997
» Despite a sluggish performance, Hideki Irabu wins his second major league start, leading the Yankees over Cleveland, 12-6. Irabu gives up five runs and nine hits in five innings, allowing homers to Tony Fernandez, Marquis Grissom, and Matt Williams. Cecil Fielder, the Yank's 270-pound DH, tries to score from first on a double and his head first slide results in a broken right thumb. Fielder will miss eight weeks.

In Cincinnati, Ray Lankford hits two upper-deck homers—a first for Cinergy Field—to lead the Cards to a 7–4 win over the Reds.

Visiting San Francisco scores 13 runs in the 7th inning—the most in the National League since the Dodgers scored 15 in the 1st inning against the Reds in 1952—to coast to a 16–2 win over the Padres. The Giants send 19 men to the plate in the 7th and face 80 pitches in the 52-minute inning. They score seven runs before J.T. Snow grounds out for the first out. Five Giants score two runs each, including starting pitcher Kirk Rueter (6-4). The only player not to score is Snow, who Ks with the bases loaded for the second out.

The Royals trade OF Jon Nunnally and IF-OF Chris Stynes to the Reds for pitchers Hector Carrasco and Scott Service.

The Expos announce the retirement of all-time saves leader Lee Smith.

1996
» Cal Ripken is shifted to 3B after playing 2,216 consecutive games at SS for the Orioles but his consecutive game streak remains intact at 2,243 games. Baltimore defeats the Blue Jays, 8–6. Ripken's replacement at short, Manny Alexander, will manage just a broken bat single in 18 at bats and after six games at 3B, Cal will return to shortstop.

1994
» In game two against the Padres, the Mets Bret Saberhagen goes 10 innings, striking out 11, giving up five hits and allowing no runs. Consistent with his record-setting season, he walks none.

In the first inning at Comiskey Park, Sox manager Gene Lamont accuses Indian slugger Albert Belle of using a corked bat, and umpire Dave Phillips confiscates the bat and stores it in the ump's dressing room. In a Mission Impossible caper revealed in 1999, the Indians Jason Grimsley crawls 100 feet along a ceiling, drops down into the dressing room, and exchanges Belle's bat for one of Paul Sorrento's. After the 3–2 Indian's win, the switch is discovered to the consternation of the umps and the White Sox. The Indians subsequently turn over one of Belle's bats and Belle is given a 10-day suspension, later reduced to seven games.

1993
» The Orioles defeat the Twins, 5–3, as Cal Ripken hits the 278th home run of his career as a SS for a new major league mark. Ernie Banks held the old standard.

1991
» Seattle's Edgar Martinez just misses hitting for the cycle for the second game in a row. He stokes a single, double, and triple in a 5-1 win over the Yankees. On the 14th, he had two singles, a triple, and a home run against the Indians.

Mets trade P Ron Darling and minor league P Mike Thomas to the Expos in exchange for P Tim Burke.

1990
» At New York, Bo Jackson slugs three straight home runs, the 3rd his career 100th, then separates his shoulder in the 6th inning diving for a line drive off the bat of Yankee Deion Sanders. Sanders ends up with an inside-the-park home run but Kansas City takes home a 10–7 win. Jackson will be out for six weeks.

1989
» Jeff Reardon saves his 250th game as the Twins beat the Red Sox 3–2.

1988
» Roger Clemens strikes out 16 Royals for the 2nd time this season, sparking the Red Sox to a doubleheader sweep, 3–1 and 7–4, in Joe Morgan's managerial debut.

California's Bob Boone catches his 2,000th ML game as the Angels beat Detroit 6–4.

1987
» The Indians fire manager Pat Corrales, replacing him with bullpen coach Doc Edwards. Cleveland is in last place in the American League East, 23 games behind, after finishing 84-78 in 1986.

1986
» At the Houston Astrodome, the American League wins the All-Star Game 3–2 for its 2nd triumph in the last 15 years. AL starter Roger Clemens pitches three perfect innings to win the game's MVP Award.

1982
» Detroit collects nine hits and drops 11 runs on the Twins in the first inning enroute to an 18–2 smackdown of the Twins. Dan Petry is the winning pitcher. Brookens and Trammell hit back-to-back home runs off reliever John Pacella.

1980
» In an 11–7 Reds win over Montreal, Johnny Bench belts homer #314 as a catcher, and #347 overall. The round tripper comes off David Palmer.

1979
» The Geneva Cubs score 15 runs in the 9th inning to cap a 29–4 romp over the Utica Blue Jays in a New York-Pennsylvania League game. Scott Fletcher paces the attack with two singles, four doubles, a home run, and eight RBI.

1978
» Pete Rose collects a hit in his 28th straight game, setting a Reds club record (post-1900) as the Reds beat the Mets, 7–5. His hit comes off Craig Swan. On the 18th, he'll hit in his 31st straight game to top the Reds record set by Elmer Smith in 1898.

Seattle's Larry Milbourne homers from both sides of the plate in a 7–6 win over Cleveland. These will be Milbourne's only home runs all season, spanning 93 games and 234 at bats.

1975
» The National League rallies for three runs in the 9th inning to win the All-Star Game at Milwaukee 6–3. The Cubs Bill Madlock and the Mets Jon Matlack share the game's MVP award.

1973
» Before 41,411 in Detroit, Angel ace Nolan Ryan hurls his 2nd no-hitter of the season in taming the Tigers 6–0. Ryan fans 17 batters—the most ever in a 9-inning no-hitter—including eight straight, but only one over the last two innings. Nolan's arm stiffens while watching his team rally for five runs in the top of the 8th. With two outs in the 9th, Norm Cash, who had struck out his three other times at bat, comes to bat wielding a piano leg. Umpire Ron Luciano points out the illegality and Cash then pops out using a regulation bat. Ryan's eight in a row ties the American League record he set last year.

The Twins connect for three consecutive home runs in the 8th against Cleveland, and all are needed in the 7–6 win. George Mitterwald, Joe Lis, and Jim Holt homer, all off Gaylord Perry.

1971
» The Pirates beat the Padres 4–3 in a marathon thriller. Pittsburgh ties the game in the bottom of the 9th, 13th, and 16th innings before winning it on a Roberto Clemente home run in the 17th.

1969
» The Mets rough up Fergie Jenkins for three home runs, including Al Weis's 2nd in two days, to beat the Cubs 9–5. The Cubs now lead New York by three 1/2 games. At the end of the game Tom Seaver jumps out of the dugout and clicks his heels several times. The Mets will win tomorrow as well.

Reds OF Lee May hits four homers against the Braves in a doubleheader split. May hits a pair in each game driving in five runs in each. The Reds lose the lidlifter, 9–8, then take game two, 10–4.

With President Nixon attending his 5th game of the season, the Senators beat the Tigers again, 7–3. The Tigers pull off the first triple play of the year when Eddie Brinkman grounds to 3B Don Wert. Tim Cullen, hitting .206, drives in four runs with a single, double and home run.

Reggie Smith collects five straight hits in the opener, stretching his hit streak to 21, and leading the Red Sox to 7–6 win over New York. He'll gets another hit in the nitecap, a 41 win by New York's Stan Bahnsen (5–10), but his hit streak will stop tomorrow.

1967
» Cardinals P Bob Gibson suffers a fractured right fibula when hit by a Roberto Clemente line drive. Gibson will be sidelined until Labor Day. St. Louis also loses the game to Pittsburgh, 6–4.

Kansas City pinch-running specialist Allan Lewis ties the major-league record with two steals as a pinch runner in one inning. Lewis does his double in the 7th inning of a 3–2 loss at Minnesota.

1965
» Mickey Mantle's 5th inning homer, off Phil Ortega, ties the game 1–1, and host New York goes on to top the Senators, 2–1.

1964
» Whitey Ford's 2–0 win over the Orioles raises the Yankees to first place.

In the first of two with Cleveland, Wes Stock wins his 12th straight game, all in relief, winning 5–3. The A's take the nightcap 3–2 in KC.

Minnesota's Mudcat Grant tosses a 6–0 shutout against the Senators, despite allowing 13 Nat hits. The record for most hits allowed in a 9–inning shutout is 14, done twice before.

1960
» San Francisco fog plays havoc with a Giants-Dodgers game. Willie McCovey's invisible triple prompts umpire Frank Dascoli to halt play for 24 minutes. Los Angeles wins 5–3.

At Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle cracks a three-run homer of Don Mossi, but Detroit rallies to win 8–4.

Brooks Robinson goes 5-for-5, hitting for the cycle, to lead the Orioles to a 5–2 win over the White Sox. With three hits yesterday, Robinson has eight straight hits. His 9th inning triple off reliever Turk Lown, seals the win for Milt Pappas over starter Billy Pierce.

1959
» Gus Bell collects two doubles and three singles in the Reds' 11–5 win over the Cardinals in St. Louis.

1956
» Wally Burnette of Kansas City shuts out Washington 8-0 in his first start.

Hank Aaron of the Braves hits in the second game of a doubleheader sweep of the Pirates, the Braves winning 3-2 and 4­1. This is the start of a 25-game hit streak for Aaron, the longest of the season.

1954
» Phillie CF Richie Ashburn walks five times in a 2-1 loss to the Redlegs.

1952
» Walt Dropo continues his streak in game one going 4-for-4 against the Senators' Walt Masterson. In game 2 he gets 3 hits in his first 3 at bats to run his streak to 12 straight hits. He goes 4-for-5 with 5 RBI, but Washington wins both games 8-2 and 9-8.

The Indian power hitters dazzle the Yankees with a triple steal in the first inning as Al Rosen scores, Larry Doby goes to third, and Luke Easter, in his only major-league theft, goes to second.

Johnny Vander Meer, 38, of Beaumont (Texas League) pitches a no-hitter. In 1938 he pitched two consecutive ML no-hitters, still a record.

1951
» Athletics lefty Sam Zoldak pitches a one-hitter against the White Sox, winning 5–0 in the second game of a doubleheader. Carrasquel has the lone safety, a dribbler between SS and 3B. Zoldak also drives in 2 runs. Bob Hooper is the winner for the A's in game 1, helping the cause with a 3-run HR. The A's lose Ferris Fain when he grounds out in game 1 and, in disgust, kicks 1B breaking his foot. Fain is leading the AL with a .337 average. He'll return on August 21.

Happy Chandler completes his contract as baseball commissioner, but fails to win the owners' support for a contract renewal.

1950
» The Colonial League ceases its operation, citing the competition of TV and radio as the cause of their failure.

1948
» The Braves stop the host Cubs, 2–1, behind Johnny Sain, then battle to a 1–1 tie in 13 innings in the nitecap. Dark's hitting streak of 23 games is stopped in the opener, but he has two hits and scores the run in game 2. Bob Rush pitches all 13 innings for the Bruins.

1942
» "There is no rule, formal or informal, against the hiring of Negro players," says Judge Landis in response to an editorial in the New York Daily Worker newspaper.

1939
» A disputed call on a fly ball down the LF foul line at the Polo Grounds touches off a melee in which the Giants Billy Jurges and umpire George Magerkurth spit at each other. Both will be fined $150 and suspended for 10 days. NL President Ford Frick announces that 2-foot screens are to be installed inside all foul poles to prevent future arguments. The Al eventually also adopts the rule. The Giants lose 8-4 to the Reds and will add another eight in a row to take them out of contention.

1938
» Terry Moore returns to the Cardinal lineup following his June 11th concussion. He gets 3 hits to help St. Louis snap an 8-game losing streak.

1937
» The Athletics snap a 15-game losing streak, beating the White Sox 3-1.

1936
» At Pittsburgh, the Giants lose the opener, 5–4, when reliever Carl Hubbell walks in the winning run. With the loss the Giants are 11 games in back of the leading Cubs. New York rebounds in game 2, winning 14–4 behind Bill Terry. Terry, playing on an injured knee, collects a single, double and triple. The Giants will win 39 of their next 47 games.

Cincinnati plays the first Ladies Night game, beating Brooklyn 5–3.

After an absence of several weeks, manager Mickey Cochrane rejoins the Tigers in New York, as they split a doubleheader with the Yankees. The Tigers take the opener, 5–1, then lose 7–4, as New York maintains its 9-game lead. Cochrane will suffer a relapse and coach Del Baker will take over on the 21st.

1934
» Gehrig returns to 1B and goes 4-for-4, including 3 doubles, off Schoolboy Rowe, but the Yankees lose to Detroit 8-3.

Waite Hoyt, now with the Pirates, has a one-hitter against the Braves, winning 5-0.

1925
» The A's go back into the lead with a sweep over the White Sox 9-7 and 11­5.

1920
» Babe Ruth ties his 1919 record of 29 HRs with a game-winner in the 13th to beat the Browns 13-10. Two days later, he will break it by hitting two off Chicago White Sox P Dickie Kerr.

1917
» The Yankees send Lee Magee to the Browns for Armando Marsans.

1916
» The Red Sox play their 4th doubleheader in six days, losing the opener, 2–1 to the Browns. Tilly Walker's RBI double in the 8th gives Boston its first score in 28 innings. Boston breaks out in game two, pounding four Brownie pitchers for 18 hits to win, 17–4. Babe Ruth picks up the win, leaving after six innings.

1915
» In the first game of a doubleheader with Washington, Brownie rookie George Sisler goes all the way allowing six hits in winning 5–2.

1914
» At Fenway, Dutch Leonard shuts out the Cleveland Naps, 4–0. Ump Tommy Connolly, tiring of the taunting from the Sox bench, ejects eight Boston players.

1913
» Veteran Three Finger Brown, sold to the Reds over the winter after a 5–6 year with the Cubs, loses his matchup with Giants rival Christy Mathewson, 4–2. Matty walks none to run his streak to 61 innings.

Jake Stahl, hobbled by a foot injury, resigns as Red Sox manager. C Bill Carrigan replaces him.

1912
» A U.S. team defeats the Swedish Vesteras Club 13–3 in a one-game Olympic exhibition in Stockholm, Sweden.

1911
» Fred Merkle drives in four runs on a single and 3-run homer and the Giants beat the Reds, 4–1. Christy Mathewson tops Harry Gaspar, and has now beaten the Reds 20 straight times.

The Reds swap Fred Beck, last year's co-leader in homers in the NL, to the Phils, and include Bill Burns with him. The Phils send Bert Humphries to the Reds. Beck was acquired from the Braves in March, but hit just .184 for Cincy. He was the second Brave in four years to lead the NL in homers and then get shipped to the Reds in the off-season. The other, Dave Brain, last just 16 games with the Reds in 1908.

1909
» Ty Cobb has two inside-the-park homers to lead the Tigers to a sweep of the Nationals. Detroit wins, 9–5 and 7–0.

1908
» In Chicago, the Giants pound Three Finger Brown and two relievers to win, 11–0, and move into 2nd place. The Cubs drop two places to 3rd.

The Pirates tie the Braves in the 9th and win in the 10th, 3–2, when Fred Clarke is hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. The Bucs take the National League lead by a half-game.

1907
» The White Sox pound the Highlanders, 15-0, the second time this season they've beaten New York by that score. They'll beat them in 1950 by the same score, the Yanks' team record for most runs by an opponent in a shutout.

1905
» In New York, the Giants open a four-game series the 2nd place Pirates by staking Joe McGinnity to a 6-0 lead. But the Bucs score two in the 6th and five runs in the 7th inning before Iron Joe is lifted. Christy Mathewson shuts out Pittsburgh over the last two 2/3 inning and New York scores a deuce in the 9th on a 2-run homer by George Browne. Browne is carried off the field by the ecstatic fans after the 8-7 win. Pittsburgh takes the nitecap, 3-0, behind Deacon Phillippe's four-hitter. Honus Wagner secures the victory with a 2-run homer onto the elevated tracks in the 8th inning.

1904
» Sam Mertes drives in four runs on four hits, including a home run, to lead the Giants to a 5–2 win over the Reds' Bob Ewing. Christy Mathewson, with relief help from Joe McGinnity, is the winner.

1903
» In a showdown game at Pittsburgh, the Giants score three runs in the top of the 9th to take a 3-2 lead, but the Bucs tie it up against Christy Mathewson. No runs are scored again till the 14th when New York scores three off Ed Doheny to give Matty his 6th win of the year over Pittsburgh. Matty strikes out 11 and scatters 10 hits.

With ground rules limiting hits into the crowds to three bases, Cy Young drives home Lou Criger in the 10th inning for a 4-3 win over visiting Cleveland. Addie Joss takes the loss.

1902
» At Cincinnati, Christy Mathewson starts a triple play in the 2nd inning, but Matty then leaves trailing, 6–0. The loss leaves the Giants pitcher with a 6–8 record.

1901
» Christy Mathewson, 22-years-old, of the Giants pitches a no-hitter, blanking St. Louis 5-0 at League Park. Matty saves his own no-hitter in the 6th when an Otto Krueger hit caroms off 1B Chick Ganzel's glove to Mathewson, who throws back to 1B for a 3-1-3 putout.

1900
» At Detroit, Tigers manager Tommy Burns, afraid the crowd would injure umpire Joe Cantillon after the previous day's hostilities, refuses to let him work, and the game is forfeited to Cleveland. But Indians manager Jim McAleer agrees to play using reserve player Sport McAllister as the ump, and Detroit wins, 6–1.

Noodles Hahn follows up his no-hitter with a 9-hitter, but still shuts out St. Louis, 9–0.

Billie Barnie, veteran manager in the AA and the National League, dies at the age of 47. He last managed Brooklyn, in 1898.