2002
» Anaheim OF Tim Salmon strokes five hits in the Angels 15–3 win over the Mariners. He drives home five runs in the contest, including three on his 15th home run of the year. The Angels score eight runs in the 6th inning to break open the game.

Oakland defeats Texas, 10–0, behind Cory Lidle's 1–hitter. The Rangers' only hit is Juan Gonzalez's leadoff 2B in the 8th inning.

The Cardinals acquire veteran P Chuck Finley from the Indians for minor league 1B Luis Garcia and outfielder Covelli "Coco" Crisp, the Cards' minor league player of the year in 2001.

2001
» Arizona defeats San Diego, 3–0, in the completion of a game that was suspended after two innings on July 18. Randy Johnson strikes out 16 batters in his seven innings of relief of Schilling to break the ML mark set by Walter Johnson on July 25, 1913. He allows just one hit—C Wiki Gonzalez' 8th–inning single—for the Padres only hit in the contest. In addition to setting the record for Ks in a game by a reliever, Johnson also sets the NL reliever record with seven consecutive strikeouts. Johnson was one shy of the major league mark, set by Ron Davis, on May 4, 1981.

The Rockies obtain IF Alex Ochoa from the Reds for 2B Todd Walker and minor league OF Robin Jennings. The Reds also call up top OF prospect Adam Dunn, who hit 32 homers in the minors this year. Dunn will clout 19 homers for the Reds including 12 in August, setting the NL rookie record for most home run in any month, with 12. The old mark of 11 was set by Frank Robinson, in August 1956. The only other rookies to hit more home run in a month were Rudy York (18--August 1937), Mark McGwire (May 1987) and Jimmie Hall (13--August 1963).

Moises Alou's 23–game hitting streak is ended in St. Louis' 4–1 victory over Houston.

2000
» The Reds defeat the Astros, 4-0, as Pete Harnisch hurls the first complete-game shutout ever at Enron Field.

The Dodgers beat the Rockies, 9-1, as Kevin Brown and Mike Fetters combine on a 1-hitter. Larry Walker's single off Brown is Colorado's only safety.

Chicago Cubs general manager Ed Lynch resigns. His job will be taken over by team president Andy MacPhail.

The Blue Jays get P Esteban Loaiza from the Rangers in exchange for two minor leaguers.

1999
» The White Sox defeat the Brewers, 10-8 in 12 innings. The 18-hit Chicago attack is led by rookie OF Chris Singleton's five safeties, including a 12th inning home run. It is the rookie's 2nd 5-hit game in less than two weeks.

1997
» The Cubs sweep two from the visiting Rockies, 7–0 and 6–5, to hand Colorado its 15th loss in 16 games. Steve Trachsel tosses seven shut out innings in the opener for the win, and the Cubs score the winning run in the nitecap on Mark Grace's sac fly. The Rocks have 13 hits in the nitecap, but strand 14 runners. Larry Walker is 0-for-9 for the afternoon, dropping his average 10 points to .392.

1994
» Cardinals' P Vicente Palacios hurls a 1-hit shutout against Houston, defeating the Astros, 10-0. Palacios allows only a 3rd-inning single to Andujar Cedeno and a walk, while striking out eight batters.

Two hours before the Mariners are scheduled to play the Orioles in the Kingdome, four 15-pound wood-fiber tiles fall from the ceiling of the stadium, landing in the empty seats. The game is postponed indefinitely as an inspection finds that many water-damaged tiles will have to be replaced before baseball can be played there again this season.

1991
» Detroit pounds Kansas City, 17–0 to give Bill Gullickson an easy win over Tom Gordon. It is the worst loss in franchise history for KC, and a reversal of the matchup on July 14th between the same two starters. The Royals routed the Bengals, 18–4.

Cal Ripken Jr. strokes his 20th home run of the season in Baltimore's 4-1 victory over Seattle. He becomes just the 8th player in history to reach that number in each of his first 10 big league seasons and it comes in Ripken's 1,500th consecutive game played. Roy Smith is the winner over Rich DeLucia.

Robin Ventura drives in six runs on two homers and two doubles to lead Chicago to a 14–3 win over Milwaukee. Jack McDowell (12-4) is the winner.

1989
» Cleveland's Joe Carter hits three home runs in a game for the 2nd time this season in a 10–1 win over Minnesota. It is his 4th career 3-HR game, tying Lou Gehrig's American League record, and also gives him a ML-record-tying five homers in two games. Carter knocks home six runs in the game.

1988
» In the top of the 9th at Wrigley Field, Cubs pitcher Rick Sutcliffe picks Brett Butler off 1B unassisted. With Jose Uribe at 2B, Butler wanders too far off the bag and the Cubs pitcher nabs him for the out. But Sutcliffe loses, 3–1, to Rick Reuschel.

1987
» Texas wins a 20–3 laugher over the Yankees. Steve Buechele has two homers to pace the offense. In the 9th inning, catcher Rick Cerone takes the mound and walks one but allows no runs.

1986
» Mets players Ron Darling, Tim Teufel, Bob Ojeda, and Rick Aguilera are arrested following an early-morning fight with off-duty police officers working as security guards outside a Houston bar, but are all released in time for their Astros game that evening. On January 26th Darling and Teufel will be fined $200 while charges against Ojeda and Aguilera will be dropped.

1984
» Orel Hershiser pitches his 3rd straight shutout for the Dodgers, striking out nine in a 10–0 two-hitter at St. Louis.

1982
» The Twins overcome two homers by Robin Yount to beat the Brewers, 6–4. Tom Brunansky hits his 2nd inside-the-park homer of the year (May 28 was the other), but this one is a grand slam off Jerry Augustine. The IP slam is a first in Twins history.

In the first annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic at Washington's Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot homer off Warren Spahn to help the AL to a 7–2 win over the NL in a 5-inning battle of retired baseball stars.

1979
» Ray Knight drives in six runs to lead the Reds to a 16–4 clipping of the Cardinals in St. Louis.

1978
» The Red Sox beat the Brewers 8–2, scoring four in the 7th and four in the 8th, to increase their lead in the American League Eastern Division to nine games over Milwaukee, 12 1/2 over Baltimore, and 14 games over the 4th-place Yankees. In the 7th, the Sox have George Scott on 2B and Butch Hobson, playing his first game in weeks because of muscle spasms, on 1B. On a Frank Duffy single, Scott scores on a close play, prompting an argument by Brews' catcher Charlie Moore. No time is called, however, and Hobson strolls around the bases to score from first, while Duffy is finally thrown out trying for 3B. Fisk accounts for the other three runs in the inning with his 13th homer of the year.

Against the Phils, Pete Rose beats out a 9th inning bunt to keep his hit streak alive. It looked dead when Pete was retired in the 8th inning, but the Reds scored four runs to give Rose the chance to hit again. Mike Schmidt can't handle Rose's bunt. The Reds win, 7–2.

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.

While pursuing Hank Aaron's home run record, Sadaharu Oh breaks one held by Babe Ruth when he draws his 2,057th base on balls.

1976
» The Mets Dave Kingman tears ligaments in his thumb diving for a ball in a 4–2 loss to the Braves. Kingman, who already has 32 home runs for the season, will hit only five more after being sidelined for six weeks.

1975
» Yankee C Thurman Munson's first-inning single and RBI against the Twins are nullified because the tar on his bat handle exceeds the 18-inch limit. Catcher Glenn Borgmann gets the putout. The Yankees lose, 2–1.

The Red Sox win their 10th straight, defeating the Rangers, 8–0.

1974
» Cleveland's Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland 4–0. He has no one but himself to blame for not picking up a rare perfect game. His throwing error in the 4th puts the only A's runner on base. The two clubs combine to set an American League record with two runners left on base.

1969
» Phillie Dick Allen's suspension ends, but he incurs a $12,000 fine.

The Twins and Pilots suspend an 16-inning game at 7–7.

At War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo, a knife-wielding gang takes over the club house during batting practice. The International League game is postponed due to "threatening weather."

1966
» At Chicago, Cubs Byron Browne strikes out five times against Reds starter Jim Maloney. The Reds finally win, 3–2, in 18 innings, with Joe Nuxhall victorious over Fergie Jenkins. Don Pavletich belts a homer in the 18th inning off Jenkins. In tomorrow's Reds win over the Cubs, Browne will K another three times to set a National League record for two games on his way to leading the NL in strikeouts with 143.

The Cards edge the Braves, 10–9, with the win going to reliever Nellie Briles. Redbird starter Tracy Stallard gets no decision in his last ML appearance. Stallard sets a major-league record for his 7-year career by receiving no walks in 247 plate appearances.

1964
» Luis Tiant debuts with a 4-hit, 11 strikeout, 3–0 win for Cleveland at Yankee Stadium. The losing pitcher is Whitey Ford. Tiant was brought up yesterday after a 15–1 record at Portland (AAA).

Chicago edges the A's, 3–2, in 13th innings when pitcher Gary Peter socks a pinch homer.

1963
» With one out and a man on in the 9th, Roy Sievers hits his 300th career home run to give the Phils a 2–1 win over the Mets. Roger Craig is the victim, his 13th straight loss.

Tommy Harper drives in all the runs in the Reds 5–2 win over the Giants. Harper has two home runs and a single for Cincinnati.

1962
» John W. Cox, owner of Yankee Stadium, donates the facility to Rice University.

1961
» The Yanks and Senators split, with Washington winning the nitecap 12–2. Dick Donovan is the winner. Mickey Mantle belts a 500 foot homer in the 4th over the RF wall.

Ford Frick, an old friend of Babe Ruth's, announces that should Ruth's record be beaten after 154 games, the record will carry an asterisk. When asked about the ruling, Roger Maris replies, "A season is a season."

1960
» In a spectacular ML debut, Giant Juan Marichal pitches no-hit ball until Clay Dalrymple pinch-hit singles with two out in the 7th. Marichal winds up with 12 strikeouts and a one-hit 2–0 win against the Phillies. Marichal is the first National League hurler since 1900 to debut with a one-hitter.

Roy Sievers' 21-game hit streak, the longest for any player in 1960, ends, but White Sox teammate Luis Aparicio's inside-the-park home run and Billy Pierce's shutout beat Boston, 6–0.

Senators ace Pedro Ramos pitches a one-hitter, bating Detroit, 5–0. Colavito's leadoff single in the 8th, a grounder that eludes SS Jose Valdivielso, is the lone safety.

The Yankees outslug the Indians, 13–11, behind the slugging of Bill Skowron. Skowron's follows a Berra blast with his 2nd homer in the 8th but Cleveland answers with two in the bottom of the 8th for an 11–8 lead. Moose then hits a bases-loaded double in the 9th to win it. Roger Maris hits his 30th home run and Piersall homers for the Tribe.

1959
» Before 57,000 at the Stadium, the Yankees sweep a pair from the visiting White Sox, winning the nitecap 6–4 on Mickey Mantle's homer off Turk Lown. In game 1, Yankee veteran Enos Slaughter belts a pair of homers: at age 43, he is the oldest player this century to accomplish the feat. Carlton Fisk, a few months older, will top Slaughter in 1991.

1958
» The Yanks Norm Siebern has his second 5-hit game of the month, against the Athletics, as New York loses 6-4.

The Red Sox beat the Tigers 7-6 in 12 innings at Fenway Park on a Ted Williams HR.

1957
» Testifying before the Celler committee, PCL President Leslie O'Connor holds that 90 percent of all good ballplayers are monopolized through the farm teams. He adds that the major leagues may control as many as 1,098 players.

1955
» Playing like Babe Ruth, Detroit relief P Babe Birrer pitches four innings and hits two 3-run HRs.

Chattanooga (SA) OF Jim Lemon clouts four home runs in the league's all-star contest, as the all-stars defeat the first-place Birmingham club 10-5.

Pirate hurler Vern Law pitches 18 innings in beating Milwaukee 4-3, giving up just nine hits and fanning 12.

1953
» The Giants Whitey Lockman leads off the game with a HR for the second day in a row, as the Giants whip the Braves 7-5.

Boston lefty Mickey McDermott and relief P Ellis Kinder combine for a one-hitter against Cleveland. OF Al Smith's fourth-inning single is the only Tribe safety.

1952
» The visiting Fitzgerald club (Georgia State League) sends up 12-year-old batboy Joe Relford to bat as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning of a game with Statesboro. The black batboy, who broke the league's color barrier, grounds out, but makes a fine catch in the outfield when he stays in the game. Umpire Ed Kubick, who approved the move, will be fired by the league the next day.

1951
» Despite a pair of homers by Clyde Vollmer, the Indians edge the Red Sox, 5–4 in 11 innings.

1950
» The Yankees obtain their first black players, OF Elston Howard and P Frank Barnes. They purchase them from the Kansas City Monarchs and assign them to Muskegon (Central League).

Southpaw Ed Lopat of the Yanks wins 16–1 over the Browns, throwing a 2-hitter in the first game of a doubleheader.

At Fenway, Vern Stephens crashes a 3-run home run, his 200th career homer, in the first off Fred Hutchinson. Detroit wins 9–5 with a little help in the 9th from ump Boyer. Boyer calls time just before pinch-hitter Tom Wright triples to CF. In his do-over, Wright grounds out. Stephens joins five other active players with more than 200 homers: DiMaggio, Mize, Williams, Gordon, and Nicholson.

Frank E. McKinney resigns as president of the Pirates. He sells interests in the club to John Galbreath and T. Johnson, with Galbreath assuming the presidency. Vice President Bing Crosby retains his minority interest.

The Pirates purchase 3B Bob Dillinger from the Athletics for $35,000.

1948
» At Boston, Mel Parnell wins stopping the Browns, 4–1 as his infielders tally 11 assists. The Sox score all their runs in the 1st on Bobby Doerr's grand slam.

1946
» In a Boston-Chicago game, 14 White Sox are banished for jeering umpire Red Jones.

1942
» The Brooklyn lead of eight games is cut as the Cards win three of 4. The larger blow, however, is a concussion suffered by Pete Reiser after crashing into an OF wall at Sportsman's Park chasing an Enos Slaughter 11th-inning fly. Reiser drops the ball upon impact, and Slaughter scores an inside-the-park HR for a 7-6 Cards' win. Hitting .379 at the time, Reiser will see his average fall to .310 after the injury. His 20 stolen bases will still lead the NL.

P Mike Ryba of the Red Sox catches both games of a doubleheader against the Indians at Fenway Park.

1940
» Buddy Rosar of the Yanks hits for the cycle; Joe Cronin will do it August 2, and Joe Gordon, September 8th.

1937
» P Johnny Broaca is fined $250 and suspended indefinitely by the Yankees for jumping the club.

1936
» After winning their 9th straight, 11–2, the Indians lose to the Senators in the nitecap, 9–6. Young Bob Feller makes his ML debut in relief pitching the 8th inning of game 2, giving up no hits, walking two, and fanning one.

The White Sox continue to pound the A's pitching, winning their second straight doubleheader, 11–5 and 8–2.

1933
» For the first time, brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox C Rick Ferrell hits his HR off brother Wes of Cleveland. Wes hits his off Hank Johnson in the third inning. He will wind up his career with 38 HRs in 548 games. Rick will hit only 28 in 1,884 games.

1927
» It's John McGraw Day at the Polo Grounds, in honor of his 25 years as Giants manager. The Cubs spoil the day with an 8-5 win.

Joe Bush is released by the Giants.

1924
» Cards rookie righthander Herman Bell holds the Braves hitless until one out in the eighth of the first of 2. Then he does the same until one out in the fifth of game two, winning both 6-1 and 2­1. He allows only six hits in the twin-bill wins.

1918
» Washington C Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker rules that baseball is not an essential occupation and all players of draft age are subject to the "work-in-essential-industries-or-fight" rule. The ruling sends many players to work in shipyards and other defense industries, where they can play part-time or semipro. Ban Johnson says the AL will close down July 21st, but the next day both leagues vote to continue. A week later, Baker exempts players from the rule until September first. Both leagues vote to cut the season short, and end on Labor Day, September 2nd.

1917
» The Browns Allen Sothoron defeats the Senators and Walter Johnson, 4–2.

In Chicago, Babe Ruth opens a 5-game series with the front-running Chisox, by pitching 2nd-place Boston to a 3–2 win.

1916
» At Chicago, the Giants edge the Cubs, 8–6, as New York CF Benny Kauff tags out two runners at 2B for a double play. With one out the Cubs load the bases. Giant catcher Bill Rariden throws to 2B and catches the runner, Les Mann, off. In the rundown, the runner on 3rd breaks for home and scores when the Giants fumble. But the ball is recovered and the throw to Kauff covering 2nd gets the runner sliding back. Kauff then looks up and tags the runner trying to advance from 1B to end the inning.

1915
» The Nationals come out running, stealing a major-league record eight bases (tied in the National League in 1919) against the Cleveland Indians in the first inning. Sore-armed catcher Steve O'Neill is the victim of three SBs by Danny Moeller including 2B, 3B and home, two each by Clyde Milan and Ed Ainsmith, and one by George McBride in the 11–4 Washington win. Walter Johnson (15-8) allows just two hits in six innings before taking the afternoon off. Reliever Nick Altrock gives up the Cleveland scores.

1914
» Behind reliever Paul Strand, the Braves get three runs in the 9th off Earl Yingling to beat the Reds 3–2 and climb out of last place on their way to the pennant. During that journey, they will pass the Reds going the other way, as today's loss starts the Reds' fall from 2nd place to last.

1912
» Ty Cobb strokes seven hits in a doubleheader to give him a major-league record of 14 in two consecutive twin bills against the Athletics. Bill White will tie Cobb in 1961. Cobb also pummeled them for seven hits on the 17th on his way to collecting an incredible 68 hits for the month, a record.

1911
» With the score tied at 3-3 in the 6th inning, Vernon CF (Pacific Coast League), Walter Carlisle executes an unassisted triple play against Los Angeles. With men on 1B and 2B, he makes a spectacular diving catch of a short fly by batter Roy Akin, touches 2B, and runs to 1B to retire both runners. Vernon wins, 5–4, with the speedy English-born Carlisle pulling off the only unassisted triple play ever accomplished by an outfielder in O.B.

1910
» Cy Young, 43, wins his 500th game 5-4, over Washington in 11 innings.

1909
» Cleveland SS Neal Ball executes the 20th century's first unassisted triple play in the top of the 2nd against the Red Sox. With Heinie Wagner on 2B and Jake Stahl on 1B, Amby McConnell hits a line drive to Ball, who steps on 2B and tags Stahl coming down from 1B. In the last of the 2nd, Ball hits his first American League homer, an inside-the-park shot, adds a double. Cleveland wins 6–1 behind Cy Young, but Boston wins the nitecap, 3–2.

1907
» At the Polo Grounds, the visiting Cubs beat up on the Giants, winning 12-3.

1905
» The Pirates pull to within five games of New York by overcoming a 5-2 deficit and beating the Giants, 8-5. Bill Klem provokes a barrage of garbage from the New York fans by tossing Dan McGann and Mike Donlin out of the game for abusive behavior.

1904
» The Pirates push across two runs in the 9th against Christy Mathewson to edge the first-place Giants, 2–1.

1902
» The last-place Giants lose their first game under new manager John McGraw 4–3 to the Phillies. They will end the season in last place. In part to make room for the four new Orioles who have landed in New York, McGraw releases nine Giants.

1901
» In Chicago, Jack Taylor allows 10 hits to the Giants, but is unscored on until the 9th. The Colts paste Christy Mathewson for 12 hits to win, 5-2. Chicago has now won three in a row over the visiting New Yorkers, and will take the next two games in the series as well.