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• • 1916 - The Philadelphia A's ended their 20-game losing streak as Joe Bush beat the Detroit Tigers 7-1.
  • 1918 - Reds manager Christy Mathewson suspects Hal Chase of taking bribes to fix games, and suspends him for indifferent play. Chase will be reinstated and play for the Giants in 1919.
  • 1939 - Red Rolfe of the New York Yankees started a streak of 18 consecutive games in which he scored at least one run. During those games, he scored a total of 30 runs.
  • 1946 - All Major League baseball games (four in the American League and four in the National League) are played at night for the first time in Major League history.
  • 1960 - Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox hit home run No. 511 to tie Mel Ott for fourth place on the all-time list.
  • 1963 - Roger Craig's National League record-tying 18-game losing streak ends thanks to Jim Hickman's ninth-inning grand slam off Lindy McDaniel. New York beats the Cubs, 7-3.
  • 1975 - Davey Lopes of the Los Angeles Dodgers stole his 32nd consecutive base without being caught in a 2-0 victory over the New York Mets, breaking Max Carey's 1922 record. Lopes tacked on six more steals before being caught on Aug. 24.
  • 1976 - John Candelaria became the first Pirate pitcher in 69 years to throw a no-hitter in Pittsburgh by blanking the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-0. Nick Maddox pitched the first Pirate no-hitter at Pittsburgh in 1907. Candelaria's no-hitter came at Three Rivers Stadium. No Pirate ever threw a no-hitter at Forbes Field.
  • 1979 - Longtime Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley dies at age 75.
  • 1981 - Baseball returned following the strike with the All-Star game in Cleveland before a crowd of 72,086. Gary Carter of the Montreal Expos hit two home runs to give the National League a 5-4 triumph over the American League. Vida Blue became the first pitcher to win an All-Star game in both leagues. His American League victory came in 1971 at Detroit.
  • 1988 - The Chicago Cubs won the first official night game at Wrigley Field by beating the New York Mets 6-4.
  • 1997 - Twins pitcher Brad Radke's winning streak ends at 12 consecutive starts when Luis Sojo doubles home the go-ahead run in the eighth inning to send the Yankees to a 4-1 win before a crowd of 42,151, the second-largest gathering of the season at the Metrodome. Radke (16-6) remains tied with Scott Erickson (1991) for most consecutive wins by a Twin.
  • 1998 - Dennis Martinez of the Braves records his 244th career victory, surpassing Juan Marichal as the winningest Latin American pitcher. Ironically, Martinez's 7-5 win comes against the Giants, Marichal's former team. Martinez had retired in 1997 two wins shy of Marichal's mark, but he returned in 1998 as a spot starter and occasional stopper in the Atlanta bullpen.

Baseball Birthdays on August 9...

• • 1863 - Wells, Jake
  • 1867 - Grim, John
  • 1872 - Dammann, Bill
  • 1878 - Wilson, Highball
  • 1880 - Varney, Dike
  • 1886 - Clemens, Bob
  • 1887 - Butler, Kid
  • 1890 - Callahan, Leo
  • 1894 - Kavanagh, Leo
  • 1894 - Mitchell, Johnny
  • 1901 - Todt, Phil
  • 1911 - Stein, Justin
  • 1912 - Sunkel, Tom
  • 1915 - Moser, Arnie
  • 1919 - Houk, Ralph
  • 1919 - Sanford, Fred
  • 1923 - Vico, George
  • 1930 - Mejias, Roman
  • 1930 - Bolling, Milt
  • 1931 - Essegian, Chuck
  • 1934 - Grba, Eli
  • 1936 - Javier, Julian
  • 1937 - Blemker, Ray
  • 1939 - Osteen, Claude
  • 1941 - Lindblad, Paul
  • 1942 - Agee, Tommie
  • 1946 - Moses, Jerry
  • 1947 - Hunter, Buddy
  • 1948 - Campbell, Bill
  • 1949 - Simmons, Ted
  • 1950 - Kennedy, Junior
  • 1951 - Swisher, Steve
  • 1956 - Saucier, Kevin
  • 1957 - Moses, John
  • 1958 - Young, Matt
  • 1959 - Adduci, Jim
  • 1960 - Clarke, Stan
  • 1963 - Lovelace, Vance
  • 1965 - Polley, Dale
  • 1966 - Scanlan, Bob
  • 1967 - Sanders, Deion
  • 1969 - Percival, Troy
  • 1970 - Mahomes, Pat
  • 1971 - Karl, Scott
  • 1971 - Van Ryn, Ben
  • 1971 - Radmanovich, Ryan
  • 1972 - Zimmerman, Jeff
  • 1972 - Allen, Dusty
  • 1973 - Alvarez, Juan
  • 1974 - Morris, Matt
  • 1975 - Lamb, Mike
  • 1975 - Fuentes, Brian

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1964 Andy Stankiewicz, infielder (NY Yankees, Montreal Expos), born in Inglewood, California

1966 Gerald Williams, American baseball outfielder (NY Yankees), born in New Orleans, Louisiana

1973 Mark Doubleday, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics 1996)

 

FROM MLB's This Day in Baseball History+​

1889 At the Seventh Street Park in Indianapolis, future 300 game-winner Mickey Welch becomes the first pinch-hitter in major league history. Although the Giants right-handed pitcher strikes out in his historic plate appearance, New York prevails, beating the Hoosiers, 9-6.
1901 At Cleveland's League Park, the Blues (Indians) beat Chicago, 11-7. White Sox right-hander Frank Isbell strands eleven runners on the basepaths to set an American League record.
1929 At the Baker Bowl, 42-year-old right-hander Grover Cleveland Alexander earns his final career win, pitching the final four innings of the Cardinals' 9-7 victory over the Phillies. 'Old Pete' will retire next season tied with fellow Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson for the most wins in the National League history with 373, including a league-leading ninety shutouts.

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1944 At Crosley Field, Braves' hurler Charles 'Red' Barrett throws only 58 pitches, beating the Reds, 2-0. The nine-inning night game takes only seventy-five minutes to play.

1946 Although Tiny Bonham gives up two hits in the first frame, he retires the side on four pitches in the Yankees' 7-5 victory over the Red Sox. On the first pitch of the game, Wally Moses singles and is out stealing on the first ball thrown to Johnny Pesky, who singles on the next offering, with Dom DiMaggio hitting into a double play on the right-hander's fourth pitch ending the inning.
1957 Mickey Mantle becomes the first player to clear the center field-hedge at Memorial Stadium with his 460-foot homer in the Yankees' 6-3 victory over the Orioles. Baltimore's Boog Powell (1962) and Twins' slugger Harmon Killebrew (1964) will also accomplish the feat.

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1961 With his twenty-first pinch hit of the season, Dave Philley breaks an American League record established by Ed Coleman of the Browns in 1936. The 41-year-old Texan, coming off the bench to hit for Dick Williams in the eighth inning, sets the new pinch-hitting mark when he doubles to right field in the Orioles' 8-0 win over Kansas City at Memorial Stadium.

1963 Boog Powell becomes the first Oriole to hit three home runs in the same game. The Baltimore first baseman's offensive output accounts for half of the runs in the Birds' 6-5 victory over Washington at D.C. Stadium.

1969 For the second time this season, Cesar Tovar breaks up a no-hit bid by an Oriole pitcher when his ninth-inning single stops Mike Cuellar's streak of 35 consecutive retired batters, spoiling the southpaw's attempt for the no-no. In May, the Twins utility player broke up Dave McNally's hitless game with a one-out single in the final frame.
1971 At Metropolitan Stadium in Minneapolis, Harmon Killebrew becomes the tenth player to join the 500 home run club when he hits the historic homer in the first inning off Mike Cuellar. Later in the game, the 36-year-old first baseman connects for #501, but Killer's two round-trippers are to no avail when the Twins lose to the Orioles in 10 innings, 4-3.

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1971 Juan Marichal records his 50th career shutout when the Giants blank the Expos at Candlestick Park, 1-0. The Dominican hurler's ninth-inning double helps to build the winning run.

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1974 At Falcon Park in front of an overflow crowd, Jorge Lebron, an infielder from Pattillas, becomes the youngest professional player ever, debuting for the Auburn Phillies, Philadelphia's short season-A affiliate. The 5-foot-10, 132 pounds 14-year-old shortstop plays three games before returning to Puerto Rico to finish junior high school.
1979 Dodger hurler Don Sutton sets a franchise record with his 50th shutout, blanking the Giants at Candlestick Park, 9-0. The 34-year-old right-hander has previously shared the mark with Don Drysdale.

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1980 Steve McCatty goes the distance in the A's extra-inning loss to Seattle. The Oakland right-hander joins Matt Keough, Mike Norris, and Rick Langford becomes the fourth hurler on the team this season to throw a 14-inning complete game, fueling the criticism that manager Billy Martin overworks his pitching staff.

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1981 Attempting to break Stan Musial's National League record for hits, Pete Rose hits a wicked infield grounder to Garry Templeton that the official scorer rules an error, rather than giving the Phillies first baseman his historic hit. Amidst the loud booing by the sizeable vocal crowd at Veterans' Stadium, fireworks begin as an anxious stadium engineer ignites the planned celebration prematurely, thinking he heard Bill Giles said 'go' into the walkie-talkie when the Phillies president had said 'no.'
1981 After tying the mark in June in the last game played before the two-month baseball strike, Pete Rose finally becomes the all-time National League hit leader when he singles off Cardinal hurler Mark Littell for his 3,631st hit. The Phillies' first baseman is congratulated on the field by Stan Musial, who previously held the mark, in front of 60,561 enthusiastic fans at Veterans Stadium.

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1986 "I may not have been the greatest Yankee to put on the uniform, but I am the proudest." - Billy Martin, on his day at Yankee Stadium. During Billy Martin Day at Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Bombers retire uniform #1 and dedicate a plaque in Monument Park which reads, 'There has never been a greater competitor than Billy.'

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1989 After fifteen months of recovery from cancer surgery to his arm, Dave Dravecky pitches one-hit baseball for seven innings, blanking the Reds to get the victory. The Giant bullpen holds on for a 4-3 win at Candlestick Park.

 

1994 In his last appearance of the year, two-time Cy Young Award recipient Brett Saberhagen picks up his 14th and final victory of the campaign when the Mets beat the Phillies at Veterans Stadium, 6-2. The 30-year-old right-hander, in his 24 starts, will finish the strike-shortened season with more wins than walks (13) and home runs allowed (13).

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1994 The Expos win for the 20th time in their last 22 games when they blank Pittsburgh at Three Rivers Stadium, 4-0. The victory puts the team 35 games over .500, a franchise record, it will be the last game Montreal will win due to the impending players' strike that will eventually end the season.
1995 For the third time during the night, the fans throw promotional souvenir baseballs onto the Dodger Stadium field, resulting in the first forfeit of a major game in sixteen years. The umps' decision to end the game comes with the home team trailing the Cardinals, 2-1, with one out in the bottom of the ninth.
1998 Joining Jimmie Foxx, Lou Gehrig, and Babe Ruth, Albert Belle becomes only the fourth player to drive in 100 runs and hit 30 homers for seven consecutive seasons. The White Sox left fielder, who played in every game for the White Sox this season, will continue the streak next year with the Orioles.

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1998 At Qualcomm Stadium, Harry Wendelstedt and his son, Hunter, become the first father-son combination to umpire a major league baseball game together. Dad is behind the plate calling balls and strikes, and his son, who will remain on the same crew for the remainder of the season, makes the calls at third base when the last-place Marlins beat the first-place Padres, 3-2.

 

2000 Winning for the first time in 16 starts, David Cone ends the worst slump of his career as the Yankees beat the A's, 12-6. Newly acquired Jose Canseco hits a three-run homer into the upper deck to help Cone stop the skid.
2001 In Kotno, Poland, Khovrio of Moscow becomes the first Russian team to qualify for the Little League World Series. The squad, the first to be made of all native European youngsters, defeats the Tbilisi YMCA of Georgia, 12-2.
2002 Sammy Sosa hits three home runs in consecutive at-bats in the third, fourth, and fifth innings, tying a Cubs' record with nine RBIs, established by Heinie Zimmerman in 1911. With his sixth career three-homer game performance, the Chicago right fielder also ties the major league record set by Johnny Mize and becomes only the fifth player in big league history to homer in three straight innings.

2002 Barry Bonds breaks another Giant slugger's major league record when he receives his 46th intentional walk of the season, surpassing the mark established in 1969 by Willie McCovey. The third of the three free passes issued by the Pirates to the San Francisco left fielder proves to be costly when Benito Santiago follows with a grand slam, putting the home team ahead, 8-3.
2003 Rafael Furcal becomes the 12th player to turn an unassisted triple play in big league history. With Cardinals runners on first and second in the fifth inning, the Braves shortstop makes a leaping catch of pitcher Woody Williams' liner and steps on second base to double up Matheny before tagging out Palmeiro attempting to get back to first base.
2004 Adam Dunn crushes a ball to dead center field that clears the wall by over 100 feet before bouncing into the Ohio River. The Reds' first baseman's Ruthian blast off LA's Jose Lima, believed to have traveled 535 feet, is the longest home run ever hit in the Cincinnati ballyard.

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2004 Taking a cab to Shea Stadium from nearby LaGuardia Airport, Mets starting pitcher Tom Glavine is injured as the taxi collides with an SUV. The 38-year-old two-time Cy Young Award winner loses his front two teeth and needs over 40 stitches to close facial lacerations.
2004 After signing the American League Rookie of the Year to a five-year, possible $16 million deal on May 6, the Royals send Angel Berroa to the Wichita Wranglers, their Double-A affiliate in the Texas League. Compared to last season's award-winning performance, when the 26-year-old Dominican batted .287 with 17 homers and 73 RBIs in his first full season in the major leagues, the struggling shortstop is hitting only .249 with five homers and 30 ribbies.
2005 For the second consecutive season, Mike Lowell employs the hidden ball trick on an unsuspecting baserunner. Representing the tying run in the eighth inning, Diamondbacks outfielder Luis Terrero is the Marlins' third baseman's latest victim.

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The Gators were playing the College of Charleston Cougars on Friday when Florida pitcher Logan Shore stepped off the mound in the first inning to "tie his shoe" aka wait for the runner on second to step off the bag so that shortstop Richie Martin could tag him out.
2005 Jackie Robinson's former Negro League roommate, 103-year-old Ted Radcliffe, dies after a long battle with cancer. The 1943 Negro American League MVP was dubbed 'Double Duty' by Damon Runyon after catching a shutout in the opener of a 1931 Negro League World Series doubleheader at Yankee Stadium and then hurling one of his own in the nightcap.

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2005 After being released from the hospital, an 18-year-old fan appears in court to face criminal charges of trespassing, reckless endangerment, and criminal mischief stemming from his 40-foot plunge last night from the upper deck of Yankee Stadium into the netting behind home plate. Team owner George Steinbrenner called the incident "... the only exciting thing that happened today,'' after his struggling club loses to the first-place White Sox, 2-1.
2005 KNBR fires radio talk-show host Larry Krueger for making inappropriate racial remarks that caused an uproar in the team's clubhouse. During a postgame rant on the Giants' flagship station, the controversial on-air personality said the club had too many "brain-dead Caribbean hitters" and tells his listeners that manager Felipe Alou's mind "has turned to Cream of Wheat."
2006 In the finale of the three-game sweep by the Royals, Red Sox ace Curt Schilling surrenders ten extra-base hits, tying an American League record. The nine doubles and homer equal the dubious mark shared by Dale Gear (1901 Senators) and Luis Tiant (1969 Indians).
2007 The Indians pay tribute to Larry Doby on his day at Jacobs Field by collectively wearing his number 14 on their uniforms. In 1947, the future Hall of Fame outfielder became the first black to play in the American League, making his debut in Detroit with Cleveland as a pinch-hitter.

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2008 The first-place Rays, with their 11-3 rout over the Mariners at Safeco Field, improve their record to 71-46. The victory establishes a record for wins in the 11-year history of the franchise.
2009 The White Sox claimed former Blue Jay right fielder Alex Ríos off waivers. In June, the 28-year-old outfielder, on the day he struck out in all five of his plate appearances, walked past a young fan seeking an autograph while leaving a fundraising gala for the Jays Care Foundation, cursing a heckler who called him out for his behavior.
2009 Troy Tulowitzki collects five hits, completing the cycle with a three-bagger in the seventh inning of the Rockies' 11-5 victory over the Cubs at Coors Field. The Colorado shortstop is the fifth player in franchise history to accomplish the feat and the sixth major leaguer this season to have a single, double, triple, and a homer in the same game.

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2010 In an ugly first-inning brawl at Great American Ball Park, Cardinals' backstop Jason LaRue suffers a mild concussion and bruised ribs, with Chris Carpenter, his batterymate, also receiving bruises on his back during the seven-minute scrum. Baseball suspends Reds' starting pitcher Johnny Cueto for seven games for kicking the Redbirds' catcher and pitcher, drawing his opponents' wrath for lashing out with his spikes during the altercation.
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On August 10 in Baseball History...

• • 1889 - New York Giants pitcher Mickey Welch strikes out as the first pinch hitter in Major League history.
  • 1901 - Frank Isbell of the Chicago White Sox set an American League record by stranding 11 teammates on the basepaths.
  • 1904 - Jack Chesbro is knocked out by the White Sox after pitching 30 complete games in a row. For the year he will win 41 games, pitching 48 complete games out of 51 starts for the New York Highlanders. All are post-1900 records.
  • 1929 - Grover Alexander beats the Phils 7-1 for his 373rd and last National League victory. He pitches four scoreless relief innings for the Cardinals to win 11-9 in the 11th inning.
  • 1934 - Babe Ruth announces 1934 is definitely his final season as a regular player. He says he will seek a managerial role and will pinch-hit.
  • 1944 - Red Barrett of the Boston Braves threw only 58 pitches to beat the Cincinnati Reds, 2-0, in a nine-inning game.
  • 1957 - Mickey Mantle became the first player to clear the center-field hedge at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium when his 460-foot homer hit the base of the scoreboard. The Yankees beat the Orioles, 6-3.
  • 1969 - Cesar Tovar of Minnesota broke up the second no-hit bid against the Twins by a Baltimore pitcher. Tovar singled with none out in the ninth off Mike Cuellar. Earlier in the year, Tovar singled with one out in the ninth to spoil Dave McNally's bid.
  • 1971 - Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins hit his 500th home run in the first inning off Baltimore's Mike Cuellar to become the 10th player to hit 500 or more in a career. Killebrew also hit No. 501 off Cuellar, but the Orioles won, 4-3.
  • 1971 - Sixteen baseball researchers at Cooperstown form the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
  • 1981 - Major Lgue Baseball resumed play after a two-month strike. In the Cardinals-Phillies game at Philadelphia, attended by 60,561 fans, Pete Rose broke Stan Musial's National League hit record when he singled for his 3,631st hit. It came off Mark Littell in the eighth inning.
  • 1987 - Phillies pitcher Kevin Gross becomes the second pitcher in eight days to be ejected for scuffing the baseball when umpires discover sandpaper in his glove during the fifth inning of a 4-2 win over the Cubs. Like Joe Niekro, Gross will be suspended for 10 games.
  • 1995 - Ball Night at Dodger Stadium turned into the first forfeit in the majors in 16 years. Los Angeles forfeited a game to the St. Louis Cardinals after fans threw souvenir baseballs onto the field three times. The game was called with one out in the bottom of the ninth.

Baseball Birthdays on August 10...

• • 1847 - Hastings, Scott
  • 1848 - Ressler, Larry
  • 1850 - Clinton, Jim
  • 1859 - Corcoran, Larry
  • 1859 - Farrar, Sid
  • 1863 - Henry, George
  • 1866 - Beatin, Ed
  • 1872 - Heileman, Chink
  • 1877 - Eagan, Truck
  • 1888 - Hartman, Charlie
  • 1890 - Kilhullen, Pat
  • 1892 - Jacobs, Elmer
  • 1895 - Schepner, Joe
  • 1897 - Welch, Frank
  • 1905 - Wineapple, Ed
  • 1905 - Oglesby, Jim
  • 1908 - Hale, Odell
  • 1908 - Trotter, Bill
  • 1911 - Wright, Taffy
  • 1916 - Mertz, Jim
  • 1916 - Lewis, Buddy
  • 1922 - Hartung, Clint
  • 1923 - Porterfield, Bob
  • 1923 - Gebrian, Pete
  • 1923 - Gearhart, Gary
  • 1927 - Chakales, Bob
  • 1933 - Colavito, Rocky
  • 1939 - Lewis, Johnny
  • 1939 - Shoemaker, Charlie
  • 1949 - McMath, Jimmy
  • 1949 - Brown, Tom
  • 1953 - Brookens, Tom
  • 1962 - Schooler, Mike
  • 1963 - Clark, Jerald
  • 1964 - Stankiewicz, Andy
  • 1964 - Wilkinson, Bill
  • 1965 - Osuna, Al
  • 1966 - Williams, Gerald
  • 1967 - Carr, Chuck
  • 1971 - Fasano, Sal
  • 1977 - Barcelo, Lorenzo
  • 1977 - Ramirez, Julio
  • 1979 - Lyon, Brandon

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