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  • mjp28M mjp28 wrote on
    #101

    August 1.   "TB".     HOF.   Classic CF catches and fights.

    1903 - The Giants, losers of 11 of 13 games, get a big boost today as Iron Joe McGinnity asks to pitch both ends of a doubleheader. He lives up to his name, winning both from Boston, 4 - 1 and 5 - 2,   

    1905: - Cubs manager Frank Selee resigns and is replaced by Frank Chance, who is elected manager in a narrow vote among the players. Selee, suffering from tuberculosis  had not been making road trips,    

    1905 -  ★  Cleveland "loans" catcher Nig Clarke to Detroit. He'll be returned to Cleveland on August 11th. He's the third catcher this year to be sold, then returned to his original team.   

    1979: - Following the ● Yankees' 9 - 1 win over the White Sox, members of the New York club create a minor scandal by. " autographing the bare behind"  of a young woman who boards the team bus outside Comiskey Park.       

    1985 - The★ Indians trade veteran P ★ Bert Blyleven to the Twins for OF Jim Weaver, P Curt Wardle and SS Jay Bell.   

    • 1993 -  HOF -  Reggie Jackson is inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame.   
    • 1994: - Hostilities between the owners and players heat up. The owners withhold  $7.8 million        they are obligated to pay the  players pension and benefit plans.  

    ■~~--->  to be continued   ~~~~~>    

    • 2011: - ★  CC Sabathia wins his major league-leading 16th game in the Yankees' 3 - 2 defeat of the White Sox. The big lefthander is 9-1 over his last 10 starts. ★ Asdrubal Cabrera hits a pair of two-run homers in Cleveland's 9 - 6 win over Boston. His second long ball, in the 8th inning, is originally ruled a single until the decision is overturned by instant replay. ★ Travis Hafner for the Indians and Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Carl Crawford for the the Red Sox also homer.  
    • 2016 - Remember this ? For Cleveland, P ★ Danny Salazar has the shortest outing of his career and will need to undergo an MRI on his elbow......  
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    • And 2017 remember this Classic Web Gem CF catch in Fenway  ?
    • 2017: -★ It's a wild and crazy game between two teams fighting for the lead in their respective divisions at Fenway Park. ★ Cleveland jumps to an early 5 - 0 lead against Chris Sale, but Boston comes right back, chasing Carlos Carrasco in the 2nd. In the 5th, Indians CF ★★★ Austin Jackson robs Hanley Ramirez of a homer by jumping over the center field fence, 😮 catching the ball, and tumbling into the bullpen while holding on to the ball all the way; the catch is so spectacular that the Fenway faithful can't help but give him a huge ovation. In the 6th, Eduardo Nunez clears the bases with a double off Andrew Miller against the Green Monster, putting Boston ahead, 9 - 7, but Cleveland claws back. Carlos Santana greets newly-acquired reliever Addison Reed with a lead-off homer in the 8th, and in the 9th, ★ Francisco Lindor homers off closer Craig Kimbrel to tie the game. A rattled Kimbrel then loads the bases with two outs before throwing a wild pitch that puts the Indians ahead, 10 - 9 ★. But Cody Allen blows a lead in turn, as rookie Rafael Devers beats out a bouncer to third, Mitch Moreland reaches on a dropped third strike with two outs, and Christian Vazquez ends the game by blasting a pitch into the stands for. a 12-10 Boston win.   🙁   Wild game.   

    ~And finally~    in 2019 a Classic Fight, what else  ?

    2019 - MLB hands out a bevy of suspensions following one of the most violent on-field brawl in recent years which occurred on July 30th in a game between the Reds and Pirates. The longest suspensions go to Pirates pitcher Keone Kela who gets ten games for starting the whole fracas by throwing at the head of Derek Dietrich, and to Reds P Amir Garrett, who distinguished himself by taking wild swings at opponents, who gets eight. ★Cincinnati manager David Bell will be out for six games after returning to the field following a prior ejection to take part in the fisticuffs, and OF ★ Yasiel Puig who else ?    who gets three games after joining in the fight in spite of having been traded shortly beforehand. Others being punished include ★Pirates manager Clint Hurdle and players José Osuna, Kyle Crick and Jared Hughes. A number of other players escape with only fines. There had already been a total of nine ejections during the game.  itself.

    • -♥︎. An amazing day in MLB history. ♥︎
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  • mjp28M mjp28 wrote on
    #102

    August 3.

    ■~~~~~~~ to be continued  ~~~~~~~>    🙂

    I got hung up at my doctor's office when he sent me for blood work and I got hung up there.  I missed just the   SECOND    game of the 2022 season.   

    In my ride home caught the eighth  and ninth highlights of the game.    Guardians 7-2  and won it.

    Oh well.

    ◆~~~~~~~  to be continued again   ~~~~~~~>   why not ?

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  • mjp28M mjp28 wrote on
    #103

    August 4.    Oh those rowdy old-timers. 

    • 1897 - In the 2nd inning of the second game of a doubleheader between the Pirates and Reds in Cincinnati, OH, fans throw an empty beer bottle  in the direction of umpire Tim Hurst. Hurst picks it up and throws it right back in the crowd. He is arrested and fined  $100  dollars on a charge of assault and battery when the bottle hits a spectator, causing a gash over his right eye.    
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  • Browns149B Browns149 wrote on
    #104

    1 game out. And 58 games to go

    "And they don't really know even what they're talkin' about And I can't imagine what empty heads can achieve."
    👍
  • Browns149B Browns149

    1 game out. And 58 games to go

    mjp28M mjp28 wrote on
    #105

    @browns149 said:

    1 game out. And 58 games to go

    Hey, another rowdy old-timers out there  !  

    For the master list go to.  baseball-reference.com   -or-  from your browser  type in thisweekinbaseball   and it should take you right there.  

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  • mjp28M mjp28 wrote on
    #106
    • August 4, continued.   Oh those rowdy old-timers.   WWII baseball. 
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    • ■~~~~~~~~~   continued tonight  !  ~~~~~~~~~~>
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    • 1925 - Every player in each team's lineup has at least one putout in the ★  Indians-Yankees game.
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    • 1926 - Stanford star fullback Ernie Nevers pitches his first complete game for the Browns, beating the A's, 3 - 1. Nevers will be 6-12 in his brief baseball career, but he will win a place in the Pro Football Hall of Fame playing with the Duluth Eskimos and Chicago Cardinals (1926-1931).

    ■~~~~~~~ to be continued again  ~~~~~~~>  

    1942: - The Giants-Dodgers game ends in a 1 - 1 tie as Pee Wee Reese's grand slam in the top of the 9th is wiped out. As was the case the day before, the game is called because of the government's.    9:14 curfew on lights during  WWII    It is the last twilight game played at the Polo Grounds.  

    • 1955 - Ernie Banks hits three homers at Wrigley Field vs three Pirate pitchers, as the Cubs win, 11 - 10.
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    • 1960 - Well.... Believing that Chicago's Jim Brewer is throwing at him, Reds 2B  ★ Billy Martin throws his bat toward the mound. Then, he advances to retrieve it from Brewer, who has picked it up. The two exchange words and Martin launches a hard overhand right that fractures orbital bone  of Brewer's right eye. Both benches empty and Martin continues swinging, decking Frank Thomas. Brewer requires surgery and will be out of action for a month. The Cubs win, 5 - 3, on Ernie Banks' homer. Martin will be fined $500   for the punch and Brewer and the Cubs will sue the combative infielder on August 22nd. for $1,000,000  Years later when the courts award Brewer  $100,000.      Martin's comment will be, "How can they ever collect it? I haven't got that kind of money ".

    1980: - The Seattle Mariners fire manager Darrell Johnson and replace him with ★¿Maury Wills, who becomes the third black MLB manager .   

    • 1983 - While warming up before the 5th inning of the Yankees' 3 - 1 win over the Blue Jays at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, New York OF Dave Winfield. accidentally kills a seagull with a thrown ball. After the game, Winfield is brought to the Ontario Provincial Police station on charges of cruelty to animals and is forced to post a $500 bond before being released. The charges will be dropped the following day..      
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    • 1992 - At an auction, actor Charlie Sheen. pays $93,500  for the "Mookie Ball" which went through Bill Buckner's legs, capping the miraculous Met comeback in the sixth game of the Fall Classic in 1986. Arthur Richman, the team's traveling secretary, who was given the ball that night by right field umpire.     

    1997 - ★ Manny Ramirez homers and drives in four runs, and ★ Jim Thome hits his 30th homer as the Indians beat Detroit, 7 - 2. ★ Charles Nagy improves to 12-4 lifetime against the Tigers, his most wins against any club. Thome is the first Cleveland lefthanded hitter to hit 30 homers in successive seasons since ★ Hal Trosky in 1936-1937.   

    ~ And finally  ~

    • 2004 - Continuing a tradition over a half a century old, the Cardinals announce their new ballpark scheduled to open in 2006, will also be known as Busch Stadium. In 1953, a month after Anheuser-Busch purchased the Cardinals, the brewery bought Sportsman's Park renaming it Busch Stadium and then kept the name in its new downtown stadium which opened in 1966, calling the facility Busch Memorial Stadium..

    August 4.   What a day in MLB history. 

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  • mjp28M mjp28 wrote on
    #107

    August 5.

    Taking a break, will conlinue later.  GO CLEVELAND GUARDIANS  !

    GO BUCKEYES, BROWNS, INDIANS, CAVS, YSU, NAVY and yes I like ND!
  • mjp28M mjp28 wrote on
    #108

    August 9..  Oh those rowdy old-timers.    And some Indians news.

    • 1905: - Mistaking her husband for a burglar, the mother of minor league outfielder ★ Ty Cobb shoots and kills him, an incident that will be cited as the reason for Cobb's intense desire to succeed. The "Georgia Peach" will make his major league debut with the Tigers later this month.
      • 1905 - In Pittsburgh, Bill Klem narrowly escapes a beating at the hands of gamblers   The heavily-favored Pirates are down, 5 - 2, in the 9th inning against Boston when a number of Pirates start mocking Klem's flamboyant calls. The rookie umpire chases them down and fines each $10  thereby incurring the wrath of the gamblers, who go looking for Klem. He wisely hides in the  ladies room.   
      • 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. 
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    • 1946 - All games are played at night for the first time in major league history, four in the American League and four in the National League.
    • 1951: - With possible MLB commissioner Douglas MacArthur looking on, the Dodgers top the Giants 6 - 5, (The general...never did become... the commissioner. )
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    1960: - Ted Williams blasts his 19th home run and 511th of his career, off Jim Perry, but the Red Sox  lose to the. ★ Indians, 6 - 3.  

    1971: - The ★ Indians score eight runs in the 5th inning to beat the Cubs, 13 - 5, in the annual   Hall of Fame Game. Earlier, the Hall had inducted  ★ Satchel Paige ★  and the seven others selected in January.   

    2011: -  Remember this ?  The ★ Indians win a key match-up with their AL Central rivals the Tigers, 3 - 2, thanks to a 14th-inning run. The game is further slowed by a two-hour rain delay, with the winning run scoring at 1:52 a.m. Kosuke Fukudome ends the game with a walk-off hit-by-pitch, served by David Pauley.  Seven Indian relievers combine for 12 scoreless innings, with Frank Herrmann getting the win.  

    ~ AND Finally ~

    2019 - The ★ Indians defeat the Twins, 6 - 2, to pull even atop the AL Central standings after trailing them all season  their deficit even reaching 11 1/2 games on June 3rd. Emerging ace Shane Bieber pitches into the 8th inning while José Ramírez has 3 hits.

    ■~~~~~  to be continued ~~~~~>   done.

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  • mjp28M mjp28 wrote on
    #109

    August 10.

    I have a 1 pm doctor appointment, he's a surgeon and wound specialist  only in on Wednesdays, not always convenient. 

    1934 Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player.

    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.

    1981 — Major league baseball resumed play after a two-month strike. In the St. Louis Cards-Phillies game at Philadelphia, attended by 60,561 fans, Pete Rose broke Stan Musial’s NL hit record when he singled for his 3,631st hit. It came off Mark Littell in the eighth inning.

    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.    

    ■~~~~~  to be continued ~~~~~>   I have to go back to my other MLB history site.

    Got rather busy this afternoon,  see you Thursday.   🙂

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  • mjp28M mjp28 wrote on
    #110

    August  11.

    On August 11, 1912 — Shoeless Joe Jackson completes the stolen base cycle when he swipes home in the seventh inning of the ★ Indians’ 8-3 victory over New York at Cleveland’s ★ League Park. The 25 year-old outfielder had made his way around the bases by stealing second and third base before his thievery of the plate to complete the deed.  Jackson becomes the second American League player to steal home twice in a game stealing home in the 1st inning‚ and then in the 7th.

    Joe20Jackson20sliding20into20third2.jpg

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  • mjp28M mjp28 wrote on
    #111

    August 12.   Not as good as my old site that from April 2022 to August .....just disappeared.  Hmmm.

    • 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.   
    • 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.   
    • 1963 - Stan Musial announces he will retire at the end of the year
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    • 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.
    • 1994 - The players went on strike for the sport's eighth work stoppage since 1972.

      That's the last one ?  The other site was really long and detailed.  Oh well.......

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  • mjp28M mjp28 wrote on
    #112

    August 14.      

    On August 14 In Baseball History...  still not the best history site.

    • 1888 - Tim Keefe winning streak is stopped at nineteen games when Gus Krock and the Chicago White Stockings beat the Giants before a crowd of 10,240 in New York.
    • 1932 - John Quinn, at 49, becomes the oldest pitcher to win a major league game. Quinn earns the decision for Brooklyn in relief against the Giants.
    • 1933 - Jimmie Foxx hits for the cycle and drives in nine runs to break the American League record, as the A's beat the ★ Indians 11-5. A record eight players will hit for the cycle in 1933.
    • 1937 - The Detroit Tigers scored 36 runs against the St. Louis Browns in a doubleheader to set a major league record. Pete Fox of the Tigers scored eight of the runs.
    • 1958 - ★ Vic Power of the ★ Cleveland Indians stole home twice in the same game. He had only three steals all year.  ( I remember Vic Power as a kid back then. )
    • 1988 - Detroit pounds the Red Sox 18-6 at Fenway Park to end Boston's American League record home winning streak at 24 games. Boston was just two wins shy of the major league record held by the 1916 Giants.
    • 1997 - Lights out! The Orioles and Mariners wait out a power outage of nearly two-and-a-half hours in varying degrees of light and darkness before the game is finally postponed. It results in the Mariners having to play back-to-back doubleheaders in different cities.    

    That's it ?   Not a great selection to pick from on The Baseball-Almanac  Fast/Facts.

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  • mjp28M mjp28 wrote on
    #113

    August 15.      Again from baseball-almanac   Fast/Facts.

    • 1889 - The ★ Cleveland Spiders win 19-8 over the Boston Beaneaters, and become the first team in National League history to score in all nine innings of a single game.  
    • 1916 - In a classic pitching duel, Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox beat Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators, 1-0, in 13 innings at Fenway Park. 
    • 1939 - The White Sox beat the Browns 5-2 in the first night game at Comiskey Park. Johnny Rigney is the winner.
    • 1945 - Commissioner Happy Chandler sells World Series radio rights for  $150,000 to Gillette. Ford had been the World Series sponsor since 1934 paying $100,000 annually.   
    • 1955 - Pitcher Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves hit a home run off Mel Wright of the St. Louis Cardinals to give Spahn a home run in every National League park.
    • 1964 - Mayor Daley declares "Ernie Banks Day" in Chicago and 26,000 fans cheer the Cubs' slugger. Banks then goes hitless as Pittsburgh wins 5-4.  
    • 1975 - Baltimore manager Earl Weaver was ejected twice by umpire Ron Luciano. Weaver was thrown out in the first game and was again before the second game of a doubleheader.
    • 1983 - Braves slugger Bob Horner, who was hitting .303 with 20 home runs and 68 RBI, breaks his right wrist sliding into second base during a 4-0 loss to the Padres and will be sidelined for the rest of the season. In Atlanta, the injury is widely attributed to the ♠︎ "Chief Noc-A-Homa Jinx," ♠︎.  In which seems to strike whenever the Braves remove their mascot's outfield teepee in order to sell more tickets.nd
    • 1987 - At the Pan American games in Indianapolis, the U.S.A. and Cuba are tied with two outs in the ninth when Ty Griffin hits a two-run home run to win it. For Cuba it is their first loss in twenty years of Pan Am competition.
    • 1989 - In his second start since returning to the major leagues after cancer treatment, Giants southpaw Dave Dravecky   who played college ball at YSU  breaks his pitching arm while throwing to Tim Raines in the sixth inning of a 3-2 San Francisco win. Dravecky will not pitch again in the major leagues.  Sad story getting his arm amputated at the shoulder but still trying to play.  

    ~And finally. ~

      • 1990 - Philadelphia's Terry Mulholland pitched the record eighth no-hitter of the season as the Phillies beat the San Francisco Giants, 6-0. The season's eighth no-hitter surpassed the modern record of seven set in 1908 and 1917.
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  • mjp28M mjp28 wrote on
    #114

    August 16.

    • 1920 - At the Polo Grounds ★ Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman, 29, is beaned by a Carl Mays pitch. A right-handed batter who crowds the plate, Chapman freezes and fails to get out of the way of the submarine delivery. He is carried from the field .and he dies the next day from a fractured skull.
    • 1927 - Babe Ruth inaugurates the newly-constructed Comiskey Park grandstand roof by cranking a Tommy Thomas pitch over the addition
    • 1954 - In a throwing contest between Jim Piersall and Willie Mays before a Red Sox-Giants charity game in Boston, Piersall hurts his arm. He starts the game but leaves midway. He wakes up the following morning with a sore arm that stays with him a year, and he will never throw quite as well again.
    • 1964 - Curt Flood of the St. Louis Cardinals eight straight hits in a doubleheader against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers won the first game 3-0 and the Cardinals took the second, 4-0.
    • 1964 - Sandy Koufax (19-5) hurts his elbow sliding into second base in a 3-0 win against St. Louis. He will miss the rest of the season. In the nightcap, 

    ■~~~~~to be continued ~~~~~>

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  • mjp28M mjp28 wrote on
    #115

    August 17.

    1920 — ★ Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman died from a beaning by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees on Aug. 16. This was the only on-field fatality in major league history.

    1933 — Earl Averill of the ★ Cleveland Indians hit for the cycle in a 15-4 rout of the Philadelphia Athletics.

    1933 — New York’s Lou Gehrig played in his 1,308th straight game to break Everett Scott’s record of 1,307. Gehrig’s single and triple didn’t prevent the last-place St. Louis Browns from beating the Yankees 7-6 in 10 innings at Sportsman’s Park.

    1944 — Johnny Lindell of the New York Yankees hit four consecutive doubles in a 10-3 victory over the ★ Cleveland Indians.  

    1980 — George Brett went 4-for-4, raising his batting average to .401, in an 8-3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays. Brett drove in five runs and extended his hitting streak to 29 consecutive games.

    1980 — Al Oliver of Texas hit four home runs — one in the opener and three in the nightcap — as the Rangers swept a doubleheader from the Detroit Tigers, 9-3 and 12-6. Oliver also had a double and triple in the opener, giving him 21 total bases which tied the American League record for a doubleheader.  

    And a bunch of players hit for the cycle.....not much more from this service. 

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  • mjp28M mjp28 wrote on
    #116

    August 18.     Lodged in pocket ?  What ?   NO Indians highlights today.  

    • 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.
    • 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.   
    • 1959 - Branch Rickey resigns as chairman of the Pirates to become president of the Continental League, which never plays a 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.  
    • 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.   I remember that, his picture was in the local paper, awful.   Kind of ruined his career.  
    • 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.

    And finally......

    • 1989 - Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. plays in his number 1,208 consecutive game to move past Steve Garvey into third place on the all-time list.
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  • mjp28M mjp28 wrote on
    #117

    August 19.    And my old site is finally back,   woo-hoo.

    1911 - Thirty-five thousand gather at the not-yet-completed Polo Grounds to watch the Reds finally get to Christy Mathewson after 22 straight losses, beating him for the first time since May 1908.   

    1962 - ★ Cleveland Indians President Mike Wilson dies at age 74.  

    1969: - John Hollison dies in Chicago at age 99. He was the last surviving major league pitcher to throw from a mound  50 feet from home plate. He pitched in one game in 1892.    

    1983 - The Dodgers trade pitchers Dave Stewart and Ricky Wright to Texas for star pitcher Rick Honeycutt, who is 14-8 with an American League-best 2.42 ERA for the Rangers. Honeycutt will go 2-3 down the stretch for the Dodgers, but still wins the AL ERA title because his 174 2/3 innings pitched were already enough to qualify. 

    ~And finally. ~

    2009 - ★ Cliff Lee continues to dominate since the Phillies acquired him from Cleveland at the trading deadline. He pitches a two-hitter in an 8   - 1 win over Arizona, after taking a no-hitter into the 6th inning. It is his 4th win and 2nd complete game in four starts since the trade.  

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  • mjp28M mjp28 wrote on
    #118

    August 20.    Fighting, court stuff and a lot of unusual things in baseball  today.

    • 1966: - Birdie Tebbetts (66-57) resigns as manager of the ★ Indians. George Strickland is named interim boss.
      • 1966 -    Gaylord Perry is the first 20-game winner of the year, pitching the Giants into first place with a 6 - 1 win against the Braves.  
      • 1971 - Ferguson Jenkins wins his 20th, beating Houston, 3 - 2. The win pulls the Cubs to 4 1/2 behind Pittsburgh. But following two losses to Houston, Leo Durocher and the players will square off in a clubhouse meeting on the 23rd. Durocher accuses Ron Santo of demanding that the team give him a day, and the third sacker has to be restrained from going after Leo. Leo will finally lip an. "I quit",   but stay on through the season in a frosty relationship with the team.
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      • 1974 -  Nolan Ryan of the California Angels whiffs 19 Tigers in a 1 - 0, 11-inning loss to the Tigers. It is the third time the "Ryan Express" has struck out 19 batters in one game this season. Ryan throws a ball clocked at 100.9 mph.  making it the fastest pitch ever thrown in major league baseball.   
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    • 1978 - At Shea Stadium, Dodger Blue becomes black and blue as pitcher Don Sutton and first baseman Steve Garvey begin fighting in the clubhouse prior to their 5 - 4 victory over the Mets.
    • 1980: - George Brett pushes his average to .406 with a 3 for 3 outing in a 5 - 3 win over Texas. 
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    • 2000 -  ★ The Indians defeat the Mariners, 12 - 4, in a game delayed by a rogue squirrel. The loss is the 7th in a row in which Seattle has surrendered at least nine runs, tying a 99 year old MLB record  set by the New York Giants on September 3-6, 1901. The Giants lost seven in a row allowing 10+ runs in each.  
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    August 24.   Oh those rowdy old-timers at it again. 

    1901 - Irate Boston fans jump on umpire Joe Cantillon after a call goes against the Americans. Chick Stahl and Ted Lewis rescue the umpire.   

    • 1904 - In Chicago, Christy Mathewson blanks the Cubs on three hits and the Giants defeat Buttons Briggs, 3 - 0. The second game is called after 10 innings with the score 2 - 2. Chicago fans show their feelings towards the Giants by tossing bottles onto  the field. RF George Browne is hit on the leg and is almost hit in the head while chasing a fly ball. John McGraw tells ump Bob Emslie that he will not allow his team to continue play until all the broken glass  is cleared, and by the time that occurs it is too dark to continue play.  

    1910 - Atop the Washington Monument, White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh throws 23 balls before C Billy Sullivan snares one, then catches two more, 555 feet below. It duplicates Gabby Street's catch of August 21, 1908. The estimated speed of the ball is 161 feet per second   oh those crazy old-timers. 

    ■~~~~~> to be continued again later ~~~~~>

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    August 27.  -   Happy Birthday  Big  Jim!   

     I901 - At Boston, Cy Young goes 15 innings to defeat Detroit, 2 - 1, for his 25th win of the year. 

    1938 - Joe DiMaggio has three triples in the first game of a doubleheader with ★ Cleveland, an 8 - 7 win in New York. Monte Pearson has a no-hitter in the second game, winning his tenth straight game, 13

    1950: - The z★ Indians' Ray Boone and Clyde Vollmer of the Red Sox match grand slams today. Boone's comes in the seven-run 3rd to give ★ Bob Feller a 7 - 0 cushion. Vollmer's pinch slam against Al Benton in the Sox's six-run 7th helps Boston to an 11 - 9 win. It is the Red Sox's ninth slam of the season.

    1957 - Stan Musial, swinging at a 4th-inning pitch,  tears a muscle and chips a bone ending his consecutive game streak. Four days later he will pinch-run in a game suspended on July 21st, officially giving him 895  consecutive games played.

    1961: - Detroit's ★ Rocky Colavito ties an American League record with four home runs - three in the second game, in a doubleheader pummeling of the Senators, 7 - 4 and 10 - 1 at Washington. 

    1965: - The amazing Roberto Clemente -   When one hears of a runner being "cut down going from first to third", what immediately springs to mind is probably not the following scenario, enacted in Houston's Astrodome by Pirate right fielder Roberto Clemente and recounted by The Sporting News' Les Biederman: "Clemente made an almost unheard-of assist in this game. With runners on first and second and Pirates charging for the plate, Bob Lillis pushed a bunt into the vacated shortstop position for one run. Walter Bond tried to go from first to third but Clemente, sizing up the situation quickly, came in from right field..." Second baseman Bill Mazeroski recalls: "Roberto raced in from right field, dove for the ball, and with his face in the dirt threw out the runner going to third base!" The dumbfounded Bond becomes the 8th frame's first out while Rusty Staub scores from second, building Houston's lead to two. Two more will score before the inning ends and yet another two in the top of the 9th. The Bucs then mount a furious 9th-inning comeback.  

    1997 - In honor of first baseman ★ Jim Thome's birthday, the ★ Indians begin pulling up their socks to just below the knees. The Tribe will win 17 of 27 games en route to clinching the American League Central flag while sporting this new look.   

    1999 - The ★ Indians take out some insurance, picking up DH Harold Baines from the Orioles for P Juan Aracena and a player to be named.   

    ~ And finally. ~

    Birthdays today - 1970 - Jim Thome, infielder; All-Star.    🙂

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