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    2010 Major League Baseball suspends Cincinnati pitcher Johnny Cueto for seven games for his "violent and aggressive actions" when he kicked at players with his spikes after being pushed against the backstop during a recent brawl with the Cardinals. Other penalities include the suspensions of managers Tony La Russa and Dusty Baker, with fines being handed out to the Reds' second baseman Brandon Phillips and pitcher Russ Springer and Redbird backstop Yadier Molina and right-hander Chris Carpenter.
    2011 It's V-Day for Detroit when the Tigers' 4-3 victory in Cleveland snaps a 13-game losing streak at Progressive Field. The team avoids being swept by the Tribe thanks to starter Justin Verlander's 100th career win and Jose Valverde's 33rd consecutive save, breaking a team record established in 1984 by Guillermo Hernandez.
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    2012 The Rangers retire uniform No. 7 to honor Ivan Rodriguez, considered one of the best catchers in the game who spent his prime years with the club from 1991-2002. The 1999 American League MVP teammates called Pudge appeared in ten All-Star games representing Texas and won 10 of his 13 Gold Gloves and six of his seven Silver Slugger Awards wearing the Rangers cap.
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    2013 Charlie Manuel, the winningest pilot in 130 years of Phillies baseball, became the 58th manager in baseball history to win 1,000 games. During his 12-year managerial career, the 69-year-old skipper, who Ryne Sandberg will replace in six days, has compiled 780 wins with Philadelphia and had another 220 with the Indians to reach the plateau.
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    2014 Tim Pinkard, attending his first game at Minute Maid Park, catches two home runs balls, both off the bat of the Astros' DH Chris Carter, getting his first souvenir of the night when the ball rebounds off a sign in left field in the third inning of Houston's 10-4 victory over the Twins. The Springfield (VA) resident and then in the fifth frame, against astronomical odds, catches the second round-tripper stroked by the same batter, a laser shot hit directly at his seat.
    2014 The Giants honored 63-year-old longtime fan and friend Robin Williams, a cultural icon who died suddenly yesterday. The team pays tribute to the legend of screen and stage by having a moment of silence before the game against the White Sox and playing a clip from the movie Mrs. Doubtfire on the AT&T Park scoreboard.
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    2015 Hisashi Iwakuma no-hits the Orioles, facing 29 batters in the Mariners' 3-0 victory at Safeco Field. The 34-year-old Japanese right-hander's 116-pitch gem is the franchise's fifth no-hitter and the first since Felix Hernandez threw a 1-0 no-no against the Rays in 2015.
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    2017 In a pre-game ceremony, the Mariners retire the number 11 worn by Edgar Martinez, who spent his entire 20-year career with Seattle, making the team’s former designated hitter only the second player in franchise history to be honored with the distinction. The future Hall of Famer's (2019) digits join Ken Griffey Jr.'s No. 24 on Safeco Field’s center-field fence.
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    2018 David Bote hits a pinch-hit, walk-off grand slam, the first Cub player to accomplish the feat since Earl Averill's blast in 1959, delivering a Ryan Madison 2-2 pitch over the center-field wall in a nationally televised Sunday Night ESPN game. The 25-year-old infielder's sayonara slam, a walk-off round-tripper with the bases loaded and the home team down by three runs, gives Chicago a 4-3 victory over the Nationals in front of a frenzied crowd at Wrigley Field.
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    2021 The Romines become the first siblings to be battery mates since Dodgers' Norm and Larry Sherry (1960-62) when Andrew, an infielder by trade, takes the mound in a mop up role, throwing the ball to his younger brother, Austin, in the Cubs' 17-4 loss to the Brewers at Wrigley Field. The sons of Kevin, an outfielder with the Red Sox (1985-1992), join Jim & Ed Bailey (1959 Reds) and Bobby & Billy Shantz (1954-55 A's), who also appeared in the same major league game as pitcher and catcher, playing at the same time in the contest.
    2021 "But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come." - TERRACE MANN, a recluse author assuring farmer Ray Kinsella people will come to the ballpark built in the cornfield.
    The Field of Dreams Game, the most-watched regular-season contest in 16 years, pays homage to the 1989 movie classic where farmer Ray Kinsella turns his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true. In Dyersville (IA), just a few feet away from the site where the filming occurred, the White Sox beat the Yankees, 9-8, thanks to Tim Anderson's two-run walk-off home run into the corn stalks.
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    Today in Baseball History
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    On August 12 in Baseball History...​
    1887 - At the Metropolitans' grounds on Staten Island, Athletic batter Gus Weyhing hits an apparent triple that right fielder Eddie Hogan kicks onto the stage of the play The Fall of Babylon. Since the ground rules at the park call for a double on hits into the theatrical set, the American Association umpire orders Weyhing back to second. After a futile argument, the Athletics leave and forfeit the game.
    1921 - Philadelphia's George Smith gave up 12 hits and still pitched a shutout as the Phillies beat the Boston Braves 4-0.
    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, the place where he began his career as a pitcher twenty years earlier. Ruth leaves the field to standing cheers in the eighth inning of the second game of the doubleheader.
    1936 - The largest crowd ever to watch a baseball game, between 90,000 and 125,000, sees a demonstration game at the Berlin Olympics. The world amateurs beat the U.S. amateurs 6-5.
    1948 - The Cleveland Indians beat the St. Louis Browns 26-3 with a 29-hit barrage. The Indians set a major league record as 14 different players had hits.
    1954 - Eddie Yost of the Senators draws his 100th walk for the fifth year in a row.
    1963 - Stan Musial announces he will retire at the end of the year.
    1964 - Mickey Mantle homers from each side of the plate in the same game for the tenth and final time, a major league record, as New York beats Chicago 7-3 at Yankee Stadium.
    1966 - Art Shamsky of the Cincinnati Reds hit three home runs in a 14-11, 13-inning loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates at Crosley Field. Two of the homers came in the 10th and 11th innings. The game featured 11 homers by both clubs. Shamsky entered the game in the eighth inning for defensive purposes. In the bottom of the eighth, Shamsky hit a two-run homer to put the Reds ahead 8-7. Shamsky hit a solo shot to tie the game 9-9 in the 10th. He came back the in 11th inning with a two-run homer to tie the game again, 11-11. The Pirates scored three runs in the 13th to win.
    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. In fewer than six years, this recommendation would become a reality.
    1974 - Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 and walks only two as the Angels top the Red Sox 4-2.
    1977 - For the second straight day, Oakland's Manny Sanguillen foils a no-hit bid. Today's single is off the Orioles' Jim Palmer, who settles for a two-hit 6-0 victory. Yesterday's hit was off Mike Torrez, who finished with a 3-0 two-hitter for the Yankees.
    1984 - Harmon Killebrew, Rick Ferrell, Don Drysdale, Pee Wee Reese, and Luis Aparicio are inducted into the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York.
    1986 - Don Baylor of the Boston Red Sox set an American League record when he was hit by a pitch for the 25th time for the season, breaking the record he had shared with Bill Freehan (1968) and Kid Elberfeld (1911). Kansas City's Bud Black was the pitcher as the Royals completed a doubleheader sweep with a 6-5 victory.
    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.
    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 24.
    1994 - The players went on strike for the sport's eighth work stoppage since 1972.
    Baseball Birthdays on August 12...

    1866 - Dowse, Tom
    1867 - Lally, Dan
    1868 - Bell, Charlie
    1869 - Harrington, Jerry
    1870 - Scott, Ed
    1871 - Dunning, Andy
    1879 - Lee, Watty
    1880 - Mathewson, Christy
    1887 - Hall, Marc
    1887 - Lange, Erv
    1889 - Goulait, Ted
    1891 - Lathrop, Bill
    1892 - Schalk, Ray
    1893 - Michaelson, John
    1894 - Carpenter, Paul
    1899 - Black, Bill
    1900 - Harris, Spencer
    1905 - Hurst, Don
    1909 - Graham, Skinny
    1912 - Clift, Harlond
    1918 - Gassaway, Charlie
    1919 - Hutchinson, Fred
    1921 - Wallace, Lefty
    1928 - Buhl, Bob
    1928 - White, Charlie
    1935 - McBride, Ken
    1936 - McAvoy, Tom
    1936 - Burton, Ellis
    1956 - Bonner, Bobby
    1958 - McNealy, Rusty
    1962 - Lugo, Urbano
    1962 - Pavlas, Dave
    1963 - Anderson, Kent
    1965 - Manuel, Barry
    1966 - Hartgraves, Dean
    1966 - Millette, Joe
    1968 - Harris, Reggie
    1968 - Longmire, Tony
    1973 - Stechschulte, Gene
    1974 - Clement, Matt
    1974 - Monahan, Shane
    1975 - Ordaz, Luis
    1976 - Villegas, Ismael
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    Earl Weaver to his team in the clubhouse:”Listen guys, you’ve got to fight your tails off—I never made the last out in any game I ever played in”……

    Jim Palmer:”That’s because they always pinch-hit for your a$$!”

    Ear Weaver:”G—dammit Palmer, you’re breaking my rhythm here!”
     
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    1917 Sid Gordon player, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1975)
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    1930 Wilmer 'Vinegar Bend' David Mizell player and politician, born in Vinegar Bend, Alabama (d. 1999)
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    1935 Jim "Mudcat" Grant FAMU pitcher (MLB All-Star 1963, 65; Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins, and 5 other teams), singer, and writer (Black Aces), born in Lacoochee, Florida (d. 2021)
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    1940 Tony Cloninger pitcher and coach (2 Grand Slams in one game), born in Cherryville, North Carolina (d. 2018)
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    1959 Tom Niedenfuer player (Los Angeles Dodgers), born in St. Louis Park, Minnesota
    1964 Jay Buhner, American MLB outfielder (Seattle Mariners, NY Yankees), born in Louisville, Kentucky
    1964 Tom Prince, American MLB catcher (LA Dodgers), born in Kankakee, Illinois
    1965 Mark Lemke, American MLB infielder (Atlanta Braves), born in Utica, New York
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    1969 Alex Fernandez pitcher (Chicago White Sox), born in Miami, Florida
    1974 Jarrod Washburn player (Los Angeles Angels), born in La Crosse, Wisconsin
    1979 Corey Patterson player, born in Atlanta, Georgia
    1984 Boone Logan player, born in San Antonio, Texas
     
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    FROM MLB's This Day in Baseball History+
    1902 In an attempted double steal by the A's at Columbia Park, the Tigers concede second base to Harry Davis, freezing Dave Fultz, the runner on third, prompting Davis to return to first base on the pitcher's next delivery. When Davis takes off for second for the second time, he draws a throw and, in the resulting run-down, Dave Fultz scores from third, getting back to second again, given credit for one stolen base for all of his efforts during the sixth frame of Philadelphia's 9-0 victory over Detroit.
    1906 A reliever replaces John W. Taylor for the first time since June of 1901 when the Brooklyn Superbas knock him out of the game in the third inning. During the five years, the Orphans' right-hander completed a remarkable 1,727 innings of work that included 187 consecutive complete games and finished up 15 games in relief.
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    1910 In a game that features each team having 38 at-bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, two errors, five strikeouts, three walks, one hit batsman, and one passed ball, the Pirates and the Superbas (later to be known as the Dodgers) play to what else - an 8-8 tie.
    1913 Goober southpaw Harry Hedgpeth pitches two complete nine-inning games when he starts both ends of a Virginia League doubleheader against Richmond. The Peterburg pitcher throws a one-hitter in the Colts in the opener, 1-0, and then follows up the gem with a 10-0 no-hitter.
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    1926 Lou Gehrig hits two home runs off Walter Johnson in the Yankees' 7-5 victory over the Senators at Griffith Stadium. The Iron Horse's accomplishment marks only the second time in the Big Train's 20-year career that the right-hander has allowed two homers in the same game to the same player.
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    1932 After blanking Washington for nine innings in a scoreless tie, Red Ruffing hits a solo home run in the top of the tenth. The right-hander then closes out the Senators in the bottom of the frame to preserve the Yankees' 1-0 victory.
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    1947 At Sportsman's Park, pinch-hitter Willard Brown of the Browns becomes the first black player to hit a home run in the American League. The historic homer, an inside-the-parker off future Hall of Fame hurler Hal Newhouser, helps the Browns beat the Tigers, 6-5.
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    1948 The Phillies set a major league record by tallying nine runs before making an out when they beat the Giants at Shibe Park, 12-7. Philadelphia sends 14 batters to the plate in the fateful first frame and scores a total of ten times to easily erase an early three-run deficit.
     
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    1950 In the bottom of the twenty-second inning, with both starting pitchers still in the game, Don Richmond lines a single down the right-field line, plating Dick Cole to give Rochester a 3-2 victory over Jersey City at Red Wing Stadium. After yielding two unearned runs in the top of the second, Tom Poholsky hurls 20 consecutive scoreless innings for a complete-game victory, being matched zero-for-zero until the last inning by Andy Tomasic, who also goes the distance, giving up single runs in the first two frames.
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    1951 Any fan who shows up with a musical instrument during the Dodgers' Musical Depreciation Night is admitted free to the Ebbets Field contest against Boston. With an assortment of trumpets, trombones, zithers, tubas, accordions, bugles, flutes, various types of drums, violins, mandolins, assorted horns, a glockenspiel, a washboard, and a piano, 2,426 fans, which is about ten percent of the entire crowd, take advantage of the team's unusual promotion.
    1954 White Sox left-hander Jack Harshman hurls a 16-inning shutout, beating the Tigers at Comiskey Park, 1-0. Detroit's starter, Al Aber, also goes the distance, giving up the game's lone run when Minnie Minoso's one-out triple to right field scores Nellie Fox, who had singled leading off in the final frame.
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    1963 Warren Spahn breaks Rube Waddell's record for career strikeouts by a left-hander when he whiffs pinch-hitter Al Ferrara for the final out in the Braves' 4-3 victory over LA. The crafty southpaw strikes out five batters during the County Stadium contest, giving him a total of 2,382.
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    1965 Dean Chance establishes an American League record when he fans to extend his streak to 11 consecutive plate appearances with a strikeout. The Angels' right-hander falls one shy of the major league mark set by Sandy Koufax, who whiffed in 12 consecutive plate appearances in 1955.
    1969 Oriole right-hander Jim Palmer, coming off the disabled list just four days earlier, throws a no-hitter against Oakland. Baltimore's 8-0 victory gives the team a comfortable 14.5 game lead in the first-ever American League East Division race.
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    1969 After serving as the interim replacement for William Eckert, Bowie Kuhn is unanimously elected to a seven-year term by the major league owners to be baseball's fifth commissioner. Before his selection to his new post, the 42-year-old lawyer, who once worked as the scoreboard boy for a dollar a day at Washington's Griffith Stadium, served as legal counsel for the sport for nearly 20 years.
    1969 After being swept in a three-game series by Houston at the Astrodome, the eventual World Champion Mets fall ten games behind the front-running Cubs in the first-ever NL East race. The third-place New York team will finish the season at a torrid 39-11 pace, finishing eight games in front of Chicago.
     
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    1972 To stop a four-game losing streak, Detroit skipper Billy Martin picks his starting lineup out of a hat for the first game of a doubleheader, resulting in light-hitting shortstop Ed Brinkman batting cleanup. The idea works when Detroit edges the Indians in the opener, 3-2, but the team loses, 9-2, using a regular lineup in the Tiger Stadium nightcap.
    1976 "Blue Jays, Lump it or like it … that’s the name for Toronto’s American League ball club." - TORONTO STAR HEADLINE, newspaper sport section's announcement of the selection of city's expansion team's name. The new franchise in Toronto will be known as the Blue Jays, a name submitted by 154 people in a contest that featured 30,000 submissions, including more than 4,000 unique names. A panel of 14 judges narrowed the list to ten finalists for consideration of the Metro Baseball Limited Board of Directors, who made the final decision.
    1978 Although the Yankees score five runs in the top of the seventh before the rain ends the game, the Bronx Bombers lose to the Orioles, 3-0, when the score reverts to the last completed inning. In 1980, the rules committee decides to have contests suspended, not canceled, starting from the point of the delay.
    1979 Against the team that traded him, Lou Brock reaches the 3000 hits milestone when his line drive caroms off Dennis Lamp's pitching hand in the 3-2 Cardinal victory over the Cubs at Busch Stadium. The 40-year-old Redbird outfielder, who will retire at the end of the season with a lifetime .293 batting average, is the fourteenth major leaguer to reach the coveted plateau.
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    1982 At Chavez Ravine, Dodger second baseman Steve Sax steals his 41st base to set a franchise record for rookies when he swipes second base in LA's 6-1 victory over San Francisco. The eventual National League Rookie of the Year, the fourth consecutive Dodger to win the award, will extend the record to 49.
    1983 Royals right-hander Gaylord Perry becomes the third of three major leaguers this season to surpass Walter Johnson's career strikeout mark of 3,508 K's, a record that had survived since 1927. Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton reached the milestone, respectively, in April and May. (Ed. note - some websites, including the Baseball Hall of Fame, ESPN, and Baseball-Reference, differ with the official MLB stats, crediting the Washington Senator legend with 3,509 career strikeouts, with an extra strikeout recorded in his rookie season accounting for the difference.
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    1986 Future Hall of Famer Barry Larkin, pinch-hitting for southpaw Rob Murphy, makes his major league debut off Terry Mulholland at Riverfront Stadium. The 22-year-old Reds’ rookie fifth-inning groundout to short plates the first run in the team’s eventual 8-6 comeback victory over the Giants.
    1987 Billy Williams joins Ernie Banks as the second Cubs player to be honored by having his uniform number (26) retired by the team. Sweet Swingin' Billy from Whistler (AL) played 16 of his 18 major league seasons in the Windy City, hitting .296 and 392 home runs for the team that plays on the Northside of Chicago.
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    1995 At Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, baseball legend Mickey Mantle, 63, succumbs to liver cancer with his estranged wife Merlyn at his side. Ironically, before a moving tribute in the Bronx ballpark for the fallen hero, the Yankee Stadium scoreboard displays "At Bat: 7" until the start of the game because the leadoff batter for the Indians, Kenny Lofton, wears number 7.
    1998 Orlando Hernandez breaks a 30-year-old Yankee rookie record when he retires Mark McLemore on a called third strike to end the eighth inning of the team's 2-0 victory over Texas in New York. El Duque's 13 strikeouts, a total he will reach only once more in his career, surpasses the freshman mark established by Stan Bahnsen, the 1968 American League Rookie of the Year.
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    2000 Royals' first baseman Mike Sweeney becomes the fastest player in franchise history to reach the 100 RBI plateau when he homers off B.J. Ryan, contributing to the team's 10-5 victory over Baltimore at Kauffman Stadium. The 27-year-old All-Star infielder, reaching the century mark for the second straight season, will finish the year with 144 runs batted in, breaking the club record of 133 established in 1982 by Hal McRae.
    2000 Jeff Bagwell goes 4-for-5, homering twice, in the Astros' 14-7 rout of the Phillies at Veterans Stadium. The Houston 32-year old first baseman's ten total bases drive in a club-record seven runs.
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    2003 After missing nearly three months with a groin injury, Mike Piazza makes a dramatic return to the New York lineup when he homers and drives in five runs on Italian Night at Shea Stadium. The backstop's 3-for-5 performance, including a home run in the third inning, RBI single in the fourth, and a two-run single in the seventh, contributes to the Mets' 9-2 victory over the Giants.
    2003 Just as the Expos' starting right-hander Javier Vazquez is about to throw a full-count pitch to Rockies outfielder Jay Payton, a second-inning hour-long blackout at the enclosed Olympic Stadium leaves the fans and players in total darkness. Tomorrow, Montreal arrives in New York on their off-day just in time to experience a massive blackout which leaves more than 50 million Americans in the dark.
    2004 At Seattle's Boeing Field, Edgar Martinez is on hand to greet George W. Bush. The President, who had requested to meet the retiring designated hitter, exchanges autographed baseballs with the man who routinely helped the Mariners beat his Rangers when the chief executive was the managing partner of Texas.
    2004 JT Snow, slams twenty-five percent of his homers this season, in the Giants' 16-6 rout of Philadelphia at Citizens Bank Park. The light-hitting first baseman goes deep in the first inning with a two-run dinger off starter Brett Myers and then delivers solo shots off relievers in the fifth and seventh frames.
    2005 The A's retire uniform #43 as a tribute to Hall of Fame right-hander Dennis Eckersley, who saved 320 games during his nine seasons with the team. The 1992 recipient of the Cy Young and AL Most Valuable Player awards anchored the bullpen for Oakland's three straight American League championships, starting in 1988.
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    2006 At Jacobs Field, right-hander Luke Hudson gives up 11 runs in one-third of an inning in the Royals' 13-0 loss against the Indians. Eight hits, two walks, and one error fuel the Tribe's top of the first frame barrage.
    2006 During Cleveland's 11-run first inning at Jacobs Field, Travis Hafner ties the single-season mark for grand slams, established in 1987 by Don Mattingly. The Indians' designated hitter's 35th homer of the season is his sixth one with the bases loaded.
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    2006 LA's Greg Maddux and SF's Jason Schmidt hook up in a classic West Coast pitcher's duel, reminiscent of match-ups of Koufax and Marichal, as the Dodgers beat the Giants, 1-0, thanks to Russell Martin's 10th inning walk-off home run. When Giants slugger Barry Bonds lines into a double play in the first inning, it marks the only time in baseball history a 300 game winner pitches to a batter with over 700 homers.
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    2007 Placido Polanco establishes a big-league record for second basemen when he plays his 144th straight game without committing an error. The Detroit infielder, who hasn't made a misplay since July 2 of last season, surpasses the previous mark set by Luis Castillo, who accomplished the feat playing for the Twins.
    2007 Home plate umpire Tom Hallion ejects Dodger Nomar Garciaparra, marking the first time in 1,303 games the easy-going infielder gets tossed. The 12-year veteran infielder gets booted for arguing a called third strike in the fourth inning, needing to be restrained when he continues to shout and begins pointing his bat toward the umpire.
    2010 A day after major league baseball formally approves the sale of the team, the new owners of the Rangers, which includes Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, announce lower prices for concessions, parking, and merchandise. According to sports attorney Chuck Greenberg, another new owner of the club, lowering prices is one way of showing appreciation to the Texas fans for their loyalty and support.
    2010 The Giants obtain Jose Guillen from Kansas City, hoping the well-traveled veteran can help the club down the stretch run. The departure of the 34-year-old, who has played with ten teams in the past 14 years and was designated for assignment by the Royals last week, gives highly touted prospect Kila Ka'aihue an opportunity to play every day.
    2013 For only the second time in big-league history, beginning in 1916, both leadoff batters homer in their first at-bat and add another when Seattle's Brad Miller and Tampa Bay's Ben Zobrist each hit a pair of homers. Before the Mariners' 5-4 win at Tropicana Field, Chuck Knoblauch of the Twins and Detroit's Tony Phillips last accomplished the feat in 1994 at Tiger Stadium.
    2015 The Blue Jays join the 1954 Indians as the only other team to have two 11-game win streaks in the same season when they beat the A's at the Rogers Centre, 4-2. At the beginning of June, Toronto also accomplished the feat en route to finishing in first place in the AL East, posting a 93-69 record.
    2018 Ronald Acuña Jr. becomes the fourth player in history to lead off both games of a doubleheader with a home run when he smacks Merandy Gonzalez's first pitch of the nightcap over the SunTrust Park's centerfield wall. The 20-year-old phenom joins Harry Hooper (Red Sox, May 30, 1913), Rickey Henderson (A,s, July 6, 1993), and Brady Anderson (Orioles, Aug. 21, 1999) as the only players to accomplish the feat.
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    2020 The Phillies, changing their policy of only considering players inducted into the Hall of Fame, announces the team will retire Dick Allen's #15 on September, the anniversary of his major-league debut. The Wampum Walloper, played nine seasons of his stormy 15-year career with Philadelphia, including his freshman year when he garnered the Rookie of the Year Award in 1964.
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      • 1906 - The Cubs' Jack Taylor is knocked out by Brooklyn in the third inning, ending a string of 187 complete games and 15 relief appearances in which he finished each game. The record run began June 20, 1901. In ten years he will fail to finish only eight of 286 starts.
      • 1908 - Cy Young Day is celebrated by 20,000 at Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston. He pitches briefly against an All-Star team that includes Jack Chesbro, Hal Chase, Willie Keeler, Harry Davis, and George Mullin. The game is interrupted several times for presentations to the great hurler.
      • 1910 - In the most evenly matched game ever played, Pittsburgh and Brooklyn each have eight runs, thirteen hits, 38 at bats, five strikeouts, three walks, one hit batter, one passed ball, thirteen assists, 27 putouts, two errors, and use two pitchers.
      • 1922 - New York Yankee Everett Scott nears 1,000 consecutive games played, but it takes an extra effort to keep the streak alive. He spends $40 to hire a car to get to Chicago in time for the game after a train he is on is wrecked.
      • 1931 - Tony Cuccinello of the Cincinnati Reds had six hits in six at-bats against the Braves in Boston. Cuccinello had a triple, two doubles and three singles to knock in five runs as the Reds won 17-3.
      • 1945 - Branch Rickey becomes the principal stockholder of the Dodgers. He and associates Walter O'Malley and John Smith acquire the 50 percent interest of the Ebbets estate for a reported price of $750,000.
      • 1948 - The promise of Satchel Paige on the mound brings 51,013 to Comiskey Park. Paige pitches his first major league shutout as Cleveland wins 5-0.
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      • 1962 - Infielder Bert Campaneris of Daytona Beach (Florida State League) pitches ambidextrously in a relief appearance. upload_2022-8-13_9-52-14.jpeg
      • 1969 - Jim Palmer of the Orioles, plagued by arm trouble the year before, pitched an 8-0 no-hitter against the Oakland A's in Baltimore.
      • 1978 - The Baltimore Orioles benefited from the rain-out rule. The Orioles were leading New York 3-0 after six innings but the Yankees scored five runs in the top half of the seventh. Heavy rains ended the game in the bottom half of the inning and the score reverted to the end of the last completed frame, giving the Orioles the triumph. This rule was changed in 1980.
      • 1979 - Lou Brock collects his 3,000th career hit, a single off Dennis Lamp, as the Cardinals top the Cubs 3-2.
      • 1987 - The Cardinals outfield sets a major league record by failing to record a single putout in a 4-2, 13-inning win over the Phillies. The 1905 St. Louis Browns, who played an 11-inning game with no outfield putouts, held the previous mark
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