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1995 Despite a Braves' rally in the ninth, right-handed reliever Tom Henke, issuing three walks and a hit, records his 300th career save when the Cardinals edge Atlanta at Busch Stadium, 4-3. The 37-year-old Kansas City native, earning his 25th save of the season, becomes the seventh pitcher in major league history to reach this milestone.

1996 After arriving at the ballpark feeling ill, Padres' third baseman Ken Caminiti, refusing to be taken out of the lineup, goes on to hit two home runs and drives in four runs in the team's 8–0 win over the Mets at Mexico's Estadio de Beisbol Monterrey. The eventual National League MVP, a food poisoning and dehydration victim, recovers when he receives two liters of fluids and eats a Snickers bar before the game starts.
1998 Braves right-hander Greg Maddux wins his 200th career game, beating the Giants at Turner Field, 8-4, in a contest where all of Atlanta's nine hits are doubles. The 33-year-old All-Star hurler will finish his 23-year Hall of Fame career with a 355-227 (.610) won-loss record.

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2000 After beating out a potential double-play ball to prolong a five-run ninth-inning rally, which ties the game, Angel flycatcher Darin Erstad makes a 10th inning game-saving catch and follows it with a game-winning homer in the 11th to beat the Yankees, 9-8.
2000 Tim Salmon becomes the franchise leader in home runs with his fourth-inning solo shot off Roger Clemens in the Angels' eventual 9-8 extra-inning victory over New York at Yankee Stadium. The Anaheim DH's 223rd career round-tripper surpasses the total of Brian Downing, who had established the Halo mark in 1990.

2002 In a pregame ceremony, Tommie Agee is inducted posthumously into the Mets Hall of Fame. The Mets' center fielder, best remembered for his two great catches in Game 3 of the 1969 World Series, played five seasons for the team, beginning in 1968.

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2004 The Spokane Indians (Texas Rangers) edge the Tri-City Dust Devils (Colorado Rockies) 2-1 in 23 innings. The six-hour and 37 minute Northwest League game was scoreless for 19 innings and then suspended in a 1-1 tie in the 21st inning the previous night.
2006 Alfonso Soriano becomes the third player in big-league history to compile four seasons of 30 homers and 30 stolen bases. With his second-inning swipe of second base in a 6-4 victory over the Phillies, the Nationals outfielder joins Barry and Bobby Bonds in accomplishing the feat for the fourth time.

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2006 At Fenway Park, the Yankees beat the Red Sox in the nightcap to complete a day-night doubleheader sweep. The 14-11 slugfest, in which the Al East Division rivals bang out a total of 34 hits, takes 4 hours and 45 minutes to play, making it the longest nine-inning game in big-league history. A team scores in nine of the 18 half-innings.
2006 Mike Lieberthal passes Red Dooin, who caught 1,124 games from 1902-14, to become the Phillies' all-time leader as a catcher. The former backstop, credited as the first major leaguer to wear shinguards (1906), tried but failed in 1914 as the team's player-manager to convince owner William Barker to buy three promising players from Baltimore's International League franchise, which included a pitcher named Babe Ruth.

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2006 Jered Weaver, blanking the Mariners for seven innings at Angel Stadium, joins Whitey Ford (Yankees, 1950) to become only the second American League rookie to begin a career with nine straight victories as a starter. The 23xyear-old Angel hurler will need to win his next four games to match the mark established by Hooks Wiltse, who started his freshman season in 1904 with 13 consecutive wins.

2006 Before the second game of a day-night doubleheader against the Yankees, reality TV show host and future U.S. president Donald Trump throws out the ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park. During his four years in office, the 45th Commander-in-Chief will decline the Nationals' invitation to throw out the Opening Day CFP, a tradition every President has participated in since William Taft's toss in 1910, except for Jimmy Carter, who threw one before Game 7 of the 1979 World Series.
2007 Tulane Legend Micah Owings, with two home runs, a double, and a single, compiles 11 total bases in the Diamondbacks' 12-6 victory over the Braves, the most for a hurler since Braves right-hander Jim Tobin had 12 with his three homers in 1942. In addition to driving in six runs and scoring four times, the Arizona rookie tosses seven innings of three-hit ball to win his sixth game of the season.

2010 The front-running Braves acquire slugger Derrek Lee from the Cubs for three minor league pitchers. As a ten-year veteran, who had played at least five years with the same team, the 34-year-old first baseman rejected a trade to the Angels last month because he thought LA had too much of a deficit to make up in the AL West race.
2011 Mike Jacobs becomes the first professional baseball player suspended for testing positive for human growth hormone. The 30-year-old Rockies minor league first baseman, a former player for the Mets, Marlins, and Royals, receives a 50-game suspension for using HGH.
2012 Adam Dunn becomes the 50th major leaguer to hit 400 career runs when he goes deep in the eighth inning with a two-run blast off Tim Collins in a White Sox loss to Kansas City at Kauffman Stadium. The 32-year-old Chicago first baseman joins Paul Konerko in reaching the milestone this season, making them the first teammates in baseball history to hit their 400th round-tripper in the same year playing for the same team.
2015 The Red Sox hire Dave Dombrowski, who was replaced as the president and general manager of the Tigers earlier this month, to run the organization's baseball operations. After leading Boston to the World Series two seasons ago, Ben Cherington declines to continue as the GM of the last-place team but will assist during the club's transition.
2017 Orioles third baseman Manny Machado goes deep three times, including a walk-off grand slam off Keynan Middleton in the team's 9 -7 victory over the Angels. The 25-year-old infielder's trio of round-trippers accounts for seven RBIs and three runs in the Camden Yards contest.

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2021 First baseman Freddie Freeman becomes the seventh player in franchise history to hit for the cycle and the first to do so more than once in a Braves' uniform when he connects for a two-run home run in the top of the sixth at Miami's loanDepot Park. The 2020 National League Most Valuable Player also doubled in the first inning, tripled in the fourth, and singled in the fifth in the team's 11-9 win over the Marlins.

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• • 1886 - St. Louis Maroons owner Henry Lucas quits baseball, announcing that the club has cost him $27,000 in three years.
  • 1892 - In the course of a 13-4 win over Baltimore, Browns left fielder Cliff Carroll attempts to field a ground ball. He misjudges it, and the ball becomes lodged in his shirt pocket. Before he can extricate it, the Oriole batter makes it to third base. St. Louis owner Chris Von der Ahe is so incensed that he fines Carroll $50 and suspends him without pay for the rest of the season. The league rejects Carroll's appeal.
  • 1906 - Willie Keeler is struck out for only the second time this season, both times by spitballer Ed [04-17] Walsh of the White Sox.
  • 1909 - Giants player-coach Arlie Latham steals second base in New York's 14-1 win over the Phillies. At 49, he's the oldest major leaguer ever to steal a base.
  • 1915 - The new Braves Field opens in Boston. An estimated 46,500 jam the park to see the Braves beat the Cards 3-1.
  • 1931 - Lou Gehrig is hitless in Detroit, as he plays his 1,000th consecutive game. He is 307 short of Everett Scott's record streak.
  • 1943 - Carl Hubbell wins his 253rd and final game, all with the Giants, as he beats the Pirates, 3-2. He will retire at the end of the year and take over the farm system for the Giants, which is down to two teams due to the war.
  • 1956 - The Cincinnati Reds hit eight home runs and the Milwaukee Braves added two to set a National League record for two clubs in a nine-inning night game. Bob Thurman's three homers and double led the Reds in the 13-4 rout.
  • 1959 - Branch Rickey resigns as chairman of the Pirates to become president of the Continental League, which never plays a game.
  • 1960 - Facing just 27 batters, Lew Burdette pitches a 1-0 no-hitter against the Phillies. Tony Gonzalez, the only Phil to reach base, is hit by a Burdette pitch in the fifth inning but a double play erases him. The Milwaukee pitcher also scores the only run of the game.
  • 1965 - Hank Aaron of Milwaukee hit Curt Simmons' pitch on top of the pavilion roof at Sportman's Park in St. Louis for an apparent home run. However, umpire Chris Pelekoudas called him out for being out of the batter's box when he connected. Nevertheless, the Braves won the game 6-2.
  • 1965 - In a 3-2 win over the Red Sox, Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson hits into his third triple play against Boston, tying the record of George Sisler.
  • 1967 - A baseball tragedy occurs when Tony Conigliaro of the Red Sox is beaned by the Angels' Jack Hamilton. Hit on the left cheekbone, just below the eye socket, Conigliaro will miss the rest of 1967 and all of 1968. He was hitting .267 with 20 home runs and 67 RBI in 95 games.
  • 1977 - Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton throws his fifth one-hitter, tying the National League record, as he blanks the Giants 7-0. The lone hit is Marc Hill's two-out single in the eighth.
  • 1982 - Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies made his 13,941st plate appearance in a 5-3 victory over the Houston Astros to move into first place on the career list ahead of Hank Aaron.
  • 1982 - The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 in a 21-inning game. It was the second longest game in Cubs' history and took two days to complete.
  • 1983 - In the continuation of the Pine Tar Game, Hal McRae strikes out and Dan Quisenberry retires the Yankees in order in the bottom of the ninth to preserve Kansas City's 5-4 victory. The conclusion takes just 12 minutes (and 16 pitches) and, as the only game scheduled at the Stadium, is witnessed by a crowd of 1,245.
  • 1989 - Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. plays in his 1,208th consecutive game to move past Steve Garvey into third place on the all-time list.
  • 1995 - Cardinals reliever Tom Henke earns his 300th career save in a 4-3 win over the Braves.
  • 1998 - The Braves collect nine hits, all doubles, as Greg Maddux earns his 200th career win, 8-4 over the Giants.

Baseball Birthdays on August 18...

• • 1857 - Wise, Sam
  • 1872 - Hickey, Eddie
  • 1874 - Harley, Dick
  • 1876 - Dorner, Gus
  • 1889 - Brady, Bill
  • 1890 - Weaver, Buck
  • 1891 - Gerber, Wally
  • 1892 - Knowlton, Bill
  • 1893 - Grimes, Burleigh
  • 1893 - Duffy, Bernie
  • 1897 - Brooks, Mandy
  • 1898 - Goldsmith, Hal
  • 1899 - Friberg, Bernie
  • 1908 - Peterson, Jim
  • 1913 - Heath, Tommy
  • 1915 - Lanier, Max
  • 1920 - Kennedy, Bob
  • 1927 - Bowman, Roger
  • 1934 - Consolo, Billy
  • 1934 - Clemente, Roberto
  • 1935 - Humphreys, Bob
  • 1939 - Azcue, Joe
  • 1940 - Popovich, Paul
  • 1944 - Ferraro, Mike
  • 1946 - Magnuson, Jim
  • 1947 - Guth, Bucky
  • 1947 - Palmer, Lowell
  • 1949 - Hudson, Charlie
  • 1955 - Benedict, Bruce
  • 1958 - Crow, Don
  • 1959 - Blocker, Terry
  • 1960 - LaValliere, Mike
  • 1961 - Howell, Jack
  • 1962 - Arnold, Scott
  • 1965 - Lawton, Marcus
  • 1966 - Zupcic, Bob
  • 1970 - Higginson, Bobby
  • 1971 - Lopez, Albie
  • 1974 - Stowers, Chris
  • 1976 - Bowles, Brian

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1859 Charles Comiskey, American Baseball HOF infielder (St. Louis Brown Stockings/Browns), team owner (Chicago White Sox) and manager (St. Louis Browns), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1931)

1935 Bobby Richardson MLB 2nd baseman (NY Yankees), born in Sumter, South Carolina

1955 (Edgar) "Ned" Yost catcher, 1980-85 and manager, 2003-2019 (Minnesota Twins; Kansas City Royals - World Series win, 2015), born in Eureka, California

1958 Gary Gaetti infielder (MLB All-Star 1988, 89; World Series 1987; Gold Glove Award 1986–89; Minnesota Twins), born in Centralia Illinois

1960 Ron Darling pitcher (NY Mets), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
1969 Kazuyoshi Tatsunami born in Settsu, Japan
1972 Colleen Thornburn softball catcher (Olympics 1996), born in Toronto, Ontario

1978 Chris Capuano, (Pitcher), born in West Springfield, Massachusetts
1982 J. J. Hardy player, born in Tuscon, Arizona

 

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1900 Rube Waddell throws two complete games in Western League action as Milwaukee sweeps a doubleheader from the White Sox, 2-1 and 1-0. Skipper Connie Mack coaxes the colorful southpaw, who threw 17 innings in the first game, promising him a few days off to go fishing, to pitch the nightcap, and he hurls a five-inning one-hitter.

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1917 In the first major league game in New York on a Sunday, the Reds beat the Giants at the Polo Grounds, 5-0. After the contest, managers John McGraw and Christy Mathewson are arrested for violating the blue laws prohibiting playing the national pastime on the Sabbath.
1921 At the age of 34, Ty Cobb becomes the youngest player to collect 3000 hits when he singles off Red Sox hurler Elmer Myers. The 'Georgia Peach' will end his career with 4,191 hits, the most ever in the major leagues, until Pete Rose surpasses the mark in 1985.

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1941 "All my players are going to get pneumonia because of you Jocko – you haven’t got the guts to call this game!" - FRANKIE FRISCH, manager of the Pirates shouting his displeasure from the dugout.
During the second game of a doubleheader at Ebbets Field, Jocko Conlan ejects Frankie Frisch when the Pirates manager appears on the field with an umbrella, protesting the playing conditions at the Brooklyn ballpark. Ebbets Field. The rainy-day incident inspires Norman Rockwell's famous oil painting, Bottom of the Sixth.
1945 Better known for his home run prowess, Hall of Fame slugger Jimmie Foxx starts and throws 7.2 innings, giving up just four hits in the Phillies' 4-2 nightcap victory over Cincinnati at Shibe Park. The 37-year-old corner infielder, playing in his final season, will take the mound a total of 9 times, posting a remarkable 1.59 ERA during 22.2 innings of work for the last-place team.

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1949 The Phillies host 'Eddie Waitkus Night' at Shibe Park and shower their injured first baseman with gifts. In uniform for the first time since June, the All-Star infielder had been shot in the chest at Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel by Ruth Ann Steinhagen, an obsessed fan upset with his trade from the Cubs to Philadelphia.

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1951 Emerging from a papier-mache cake between games of a Sportsman's Park's doubleheader, three-foot-seven-inch Eddie Gaedel appears as a surprise leadoff pinch-hitter, walking on four pitches in his only major league appearance. American League president Will Harridge voids the small person's contract the next day, with Browns' owner Bill Veeck threatening to request an official ruling on whether 5 feet 6 inches Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto is a short ballplayer or a tall dwarf.

1955 For the sixth consecutive season, Robin Roberts is a 20-game winner when he beats Don Newcombe and the first-place Dodgers at Connie Mack Stadium, 3-2. The 28-year-old Phillies' right-hander, who will compile a 138-78 (.639) record along with a 2.93 ERA during the span), finishes the season with a 23-14 record.

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1957 Citing poor attendance as the reason, Giants' president Horace Stoneham, ignoring baseball's edict of banning announcements about the relocation of franchises until after the World Series, informs the press the club has signed a lease to play in San Francisco next season. The club's Board of Directors voted 8-1 approving the shift to the West Coast, with the only dissenting vote cast by M. Donald Grant, future chairman of the expansion Mets, a team created to fill the National League void in New York caused by the departure of the Giants and Dodgers to California.
1963 At Fenway Park, Dick Stuart's towering fly ball becomes an adventure for Indians' outfielder Vic Davalillo when it strikes the ladder attached to the wall above the scoreboard. After the ball ricochets off the fence and bounces off the center fielder's head, the slow-footed Red Sox first baseman crosses the plate for a very improbable inside-the-park home run in Boston's 8-3 loss to Cleveland.

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1965 At Wrigley Field, Reds' hurler Jim Maloney no-hits the Cubs, 1-0, with the only run scoring on a Leo Cardenas homer in the tenth inning. The Fresno native had also no-hit the Mets for ten innings earlier in the season but lost the game in the eleventh when Johnny Lewis homered.

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1966 After guiding the club to fourteen victories in their first fifteen games, Birdie Tebbetts, who will remain in the organization, resigns as the manager of the Indians. George Strickland will take over the third-place Cleveland team with a 66-57 record.
1968 In the top of the seventeenth inning at Shea Stadium, Ron Hunt's two-out single scores Hal Lanier for the game's only run as the Giants beat New York, 1-0. Bobby Bolin throws the first 11 shutout innings, with reliever Frank Linzy getting the victory and Mike McCormick picking up a save.
1969 At Shea Stadium, the Mets beat the Giants, 1-0, in the bottom of the 14th inning, with Tug McGraw tossing four scoreless frames for the win after Gary Gentry pitched the first ten, keeping San Francisco off the board on just four hits. Going the distance, Juan Marichal takes the loss, giving up only six hits and striking out 13 batters, thanks to Tommie Agee's one-out walk-off homer.
1969 At Wrigley Field, Ken Holtzman no-hits the Braves, 3-0, with Ron Santo's first-inning homer off Phil Niekro providing all of the Cubs' runs. The 23-year-old southpaw's second career no-hitter is the fifth of the season and the first since 1923 in which no batters strike out when Sad Sam Jones accomplished the feat with the Yankees.

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1982 Pascual Perez misses his start for the Braves when he gets lost on Interstate 285, trying to find Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. The 25-year-old right-hander, who will be called I-285 by his Atlanta teammates, finally gets to the ballpark ten minutes after the game starts.
1986 The Mariners trade their captain, Spike Owen, along with center fielder Dave Henderson, to the Red Sox for infielder Rey Quinones, three players to be named later, and cash. In his third game with Boston, the former Seattle shortstop ties a major league record when he scores six runs in a game.

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1989 Cubs' center fielder Jerome Walton extends his hitting streak to 29 games in an 8-4 loss to Houston at the Astrodome. With his seventh-inning single, the 24-year-old rookie establishes the longest consecutive-game hit streak in modern franchise history, surpassing the mark set by Ron Santo in 1966.

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1990 Bobby Thigpen records his 40th save when he pitches a perfect ninth inning in the White Sox's 4-2 victory over Texas at Arlington Stadium. The right-handed reliever becomes only the eighth closer in major league history to reach the milestone.

1991 The Twins' southpaw swinging DH/OF Randy Bush ties an American League record set in 1981 by the Rangers' Bill Stein when he strokes his seventh consecutive pinch-hit, dating back to July 5. The Dover (DE) native doubles off Dennis Eckersley in the ninth inning of the team's 8-7 loss to the visiting A's at the Metrodome.
1992 When Bret Boone takes the field at Camden Yards against Baltimore, the Mariner second baseman becomes part of the first three-generation family to play in the major leagues. The 23-year-old Seattle rookie is the grandson of Ray Boone (1948-60) and son of Bob Boone (1972-90).
1997 Wade Boggs makes his pitching debut, throwing 16 knuckleballs and one fastball in a 12-4 loss to the Angels at Anaheim Stadium. The Yankee third baseman, a future Hall of Famer, hurls a scoreless eighth inning, giving up no hits, walking one batter, and striking out Todd Greene swinging to end the frame.

 

2000 For only the third time in major league history and second this season by the Yankees, a team records three sacrifice flies in one inning. Bronx Bombers Jorge Posada, Scott Brosius, and Clay Bellinger join teammates Jose Vizcaino, Tino Martinez, and Bernie Williams (June 29, 2000) and the White sox trio of Juan Pizarro, Nellie Fox, and Al Smith, who accomplished the feat against the Indians (July 1, 1962).
2004 Pitching a perfect bottom of the ninth inning, John Smoltz establishes the franchise record with his 142nd save in a Braves uniform. The right-handed reliever surpasses Gene Garber as Atlanta beat the Dodgers in Los Angeles, 6-5.

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2005 Losing to the A's at Oakland's McAfee Coliseum, 4-0, the Royals establish a franchise record by losing their 19th consecutive game and tie the club's mark by dropping its 12th straight road game. The 38-82 squad needs two more defeats to match the American League record of 21 losses accomplished by the 1988 Orioles, and four more will tie the major league mark of 23 endured by the 1961 Phillies.
2005 An apprenticeship, announced by the independent minor league team, the Brockton Rox, will be dedicated in the memory of the Emerson journalism student accidentally killed in 2004 by the Boston police during a near-riot around Fenway Park after the Red Sox beat the Yankees to win the pennant. "The Victoria Snelgrove Media Internship," awarded to an aspiring journalist hosting pregame and postgame radio shows, will hopefully focus on the senseless violence that sometimes follows sporting contests.
2006 John Hattig becomes the first person born in Guam to appear in a major league game. The 26-year-old Toronto third baseman from Tamuning replaces Troy Glaus in the bottom of the fourth, bats clean-up, striking out looking in both his at-bats in the Orioles' 15-0 rout of the Blue Jays.
2006 As the team makes a run for the NL wild card, the Phillies bolster their starting rotation, acquiring Jamie Moyer and cash from the Mariners for two minor league righties named Andrew, Baldwin and Barb. The 43-year-old veteran southpaw compiled a 6-12 record with a 4.39 ERA for the struggling Mariners this season.
2007 At the Metrodome, Johan Santana two-hits the Rangers over eight innings, striking out 17 batters to establish a Twins team record for strikeouts in a game. Designated hitter Sammy Sosa collects both hits for Texas.

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2007 John Smoltz becomes the Braves' all-time strikeout leader when Diamondbacks' third baseman Mark Reynolds becomes the 40-year-old right-hander's 2,913th victim. Phil Niekro previously established the franchise record pitching for the club in Milwaukee and Atlanta for twenty seasons (1964 to 1983).
2008 B.J. Upton, not wanting to be a distraction to the team, apologizes to the Rays for a "mental lapse" on the bases after being thrown out at second on what many believed should have been an easy double. The 23-year-old center fielder has been benched three times in the past two weeks for not hustling for his first-place club.

 

2008 The Nationals lose their 11th consecutive game, dropping a 5-4 decision to the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. The streak is the team's longest skid since they moved to Washington from Montreal before the 2005 season.
2008 The Dodgers reacquired Greg Maddux (6-9, 3.99) from the Padres for cash and two minor leaguers to be named or an additional monetary sum. The 42-year-old future Hall of Fame right-hander, obtained to help the club down the stretch run, played in LA for part of the 2006 season, winning six of nine decisions.

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2008 Kevin Gracie, an Ellicott City, Maryland native, becomes the 50 millionth fan to attend a game at Oriole Park. As a result, the 24-year-old second-year University of Baltimore law student wins five years' worth of season tickets and a cash prize of $50,000.
2010 The Cardinals obtain third baseman Pedro Feliz from the Astros in exchange for minor league pitcher David Carpenter. The Redbirds replace a slumping Felipe Lopez, a fill-in for the injured David Freese at the hot corner, with the 35-year-old veteran, good-fielding infielder.
2012 Gio Gonzalez, with his 16th victory, sets a team record when Washington beats the Mets at Nationals Park, 5-2. The 26-year-old southpaw, obtained in an offseason trade with Oakland, surpasses Livan Hernandez, who in 2005 posted a 15-10 record in the Nats' inaugural season in the nation's capital.

2012 Play stops in the bottom of the sixth inning of Washington's game against the Mets with the discovery of a praying mantis in the outfield of Nationals Park. The contest continues after New York outfielder Andres Torres carefully picks up the beneficial insect and gently hands it over to a member of the ballpark's ground crew.
2015 Ryan Braun becomes the all-time franchise home run leader when he hits his 252nd career homer for the Brewers in the team's 8-7 victory over the Marlins at Miller Park. The 31-year-old Milwaukee outfielder surpasses Hall of Famer Robin Yount, needing about 6,300 fewer at-bats to take the lead from the former record holder.

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2016 Tyler Paquin, who, as a pinch-hitter, ended last night's game with a sac fly, plays the hero in the second consecutive Indians walk-off when he hits an inside-the-park home run to beat the Blue Jays, 3-2, at Progressive Field. The 25-year-old rookie outfielder's round-tripper marks the second time in franchise history a game ends when a batter hits a homer without the ball going out of the field of play, a feat first accomplished by Braggo Roth in 1916 against the St. Louis Browns.

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• • 1903 - The Philadelphia Phillies were rained out for the 10th consecutive day, a major league record.
  • 1911 - The Reds finally get to Christy Mathewson after 22 straight losses, beating him for the first time since May, 1908. Matty, after saving the 5-4 opener, starts the nightcap, goes five innings, and loses 7-4.
  • 1913 - The Chicago Cubs tagged Grover Alexander for nine straight hits and six runs in a 10-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.
  • 1917 - Coaching third in a 1-1 game against Washington, Detroit's Ty Cobb gives Tiger base runner George Burns a shove when Burns stops at third on a long hit. Burns keeps going and scores the winning run for the Tigers. Clark Griffith protests, and Ban Johnson upholds him; the rules now ban coaches from touching a runner. The game is replayed, and Washington wins 2-0.
  • 1921 - Ty Cobb gets hit number 3,000 off Boston pitcher Elmer Myers. At 34, he's the youngest ever to do so.
  • 1931 - Lefty Grove wins his 16th consecutive game, tying the American League record set by Walter Johnson and Joe Wood in 1912.
  • 1941 - Umpire Jocko Conlan ejects Pittsburgh Pirates manager Frankie Frisch from the second game of a doubleheader when he appears on the field with an umbrella to protest the playing conditions at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. The rainy argument is later portrayed in a famous oil painting by artist Norman Rockwell.
  • 1945 - In the second game of a doubleheader against the Reds, 37-year-old slugger Jimmie Foxx pitches the first seven innings for Philadelphia. He leaves with a 4-1 lead, and Andy Karl saves Foxx's only major league decision. His ERA in 10 major league appearances is 1.52.
  • 1951 - In his most interesting promotional stunt, Bill Veeck signs a three-foot, seven-inch midget, Eddie Gaedel, who goes to bat wearing the number 1/8 in the first inning of the nightcap with the Tigers. Lefty Bob Cain laughingly walks him on four pitches. Jim Delsing then pinch runs. Two days later, American League president Will Harridge bars Eddie Gaedel from appearing in any more games.
  • 1957 - New York Giants owner Horace Stoneham announced that the team's board of directors had voted 9-1 in favor of moving to San Francisco.
  • 1965 - Reds pitcher Jim Maloney's second no-hit effort of 1965 is another 0-0 duel through nine innings, until Reds shortstop Leo Cardenas homers off the left field foul pole in the tenth at Wrigley Field. Jim Maloney's sets a no-hit record by allowing ten walks. He also fans twelve in Cincinnati's 1-0 win.
  • 1969 - Ken Holtzman of the Cubs blanked the Atlanta Braves with a 3-0 no-hitter at Wrigley Field. Ron Santo's three-run homer in the first inning provided the Cubs' offense.
  • 1990 - Bobby Thigpen recorded his 40th save as the Chicago White Sox beat the Texas Rangers, 4-2. Thigpen became the eighth � and fastest � to accomplish this feat.
  • 1992 - Bret Boone made history when he became part of the first three-generation family to play in major league baseball. Boone is the grandson of Ray Boone, who played from 1948-60, and son of Bob Boone, from 1972-90. Bret, 23, started at second base for the Seattle Mariners against Baltimore.

Baseball Birthdays on August 19...

• • 1863 - Stephens, Clarence
  • 1870 - Williams, Tom
  • 1878 - Milligan, Billy
  • 1884 - Kelly, Speed
  • 1886 - Ferguson, George
  • 1888 - Murphy, Mike
  • 1891 - Hill, Herbert
  • 1891 - DeVormer, Al
  • 1891 - McAuley, Ike
  • 1892 - Faircloth, Rags
  • 1893 - Shaw, Jim
  • 1903 - Crabtree, Estel
  • 1906 - Carleton, Tex
  • 1910 - Donald, Atley
  • 1912 - Rock, Les
  • 1915 - Nagel, Bill
  • 1928 - Finigan, Jim
  • 1935 - Richardson, Bobby
  • 1937 - Lehew, Jim
  • 1941 - Lasher, Fred
  • 1949 - Mitchell, Paul
  • 1950 - Phillips, Mike
  • 1951 - Gomez, Luis
  • 1952 - Blackwell, Tim
  • 1954 - Baldwin, Reggie
  • 1955 - Yost, Ned
  • 1955 - Harper, Terry
  • 1955 - Martinez, Silvio
  • 1956 - Roenicke, Ron
  • 1957 - Meyer, Scott
  • 1958 - Gaetti, Gary
  • 1958 - DeLeon, Luis
  • 1960 - Randall, Sap
  • 1960 - Darling, Ron
  • 1961 - Ciardi, Mark
  • 1966 - Williams, Woody
  • 1967 - Fredrickson, Scott
  • 1969 - Franco, Matt
  • 1969 - Jimenez, Miguel
  • 1970 - Tam, Jeff
  • 1972 - Hansen, Jed
  • 1973 - Reames, Britt
  • 1974 - Cooper, Brian
  • 1975 - Sosa, Juan

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