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1906 After pitching 10.2 innings of no-hit ball, Harry McIntire yields a single to Pirates second baseman Claude Ritchey. The Dodgers and McIntire loses the game in the 13th on an unearned run, 1-0.

1924 Dazzy Vance strikes out seven consecutive batters to establish a major league record as the Brooklyn Robins defeat the Cubs, 4-0.

1933 Giants' hurler Carl Hubbell sets a National League record for consecutive scoreless innings with 45 1/3 breaking the 1908 mark of Ed Ruelbach.

1941 Yankees' southpaw Lefty Gomez breaks the major league mark for walks in a shutout by issuing 11 walks in a 9-0 victory over the Browns.

1945 At the Polo Grounds, Mel Ott hits his historic 500th career home run off Braves' hurler Johnny Hutchings as the Giants beat Boston, 9-2. Master Melvin is the third major leaguer to accomplish this career milestone.

1945 Irwin Hall is credited with a single as his line drive winds up inside Dutch Leonard's pants after it hits the Senators righthander in the stomach. The Washington starter may have lost the Philadelphia A's shortstop batted ball, but gets the wins the as Washington beats Philadelphia in the Griffith Stadium contest, 2-1.

1957 In a 12-3 win over the Cubs, Gil Hodges hits his 13th career grand slam and the last grand slam in Brooklyn Dodger history. The first baseman's bases-loaded shot off Dick Littlefield establishes a new National League record previously held by Rogers Hornsby and Ralph Kiner.

1962 At Chicago's Comiskey Park, Red Sox hurler Bill Monbouquette no-hits the White Sox, 1-0.

1970 Willie Stargell's three doubles and two home runs power the Pirates over the Braves, 20-10.

1972 Nate Colbert breaks Stan Musial's National League record, which he witnessed on May 2, 1954, as an eight-year old fan at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, for RBIs in twin bill as he drives in 13 runs and ties the home run record with 5, including a grand slam. The Padres first baseman's 22 total bases also is a major league record.

1975 Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager replacing Bill Virdon.

1977 Giants' first baseman Willie McCovey establishes a new National League record by hitting his 18th career grand slam.

1978 Against Atlanta pitchers Larry McWilliams and Gene Garber, Pete Rose goes 0-for-4 ending his 44-game hitting streak as the Braves beat the Reds, 16-4.

1982 Hank Aaron, the holder of the career home run record (755) and RBI record (2,297); Frank Robinson, the first player to win the MVP in both leagues and the first black manager in the majors; Travis Jackson, an outstanding offensive and defensive shortstop for the Giants during 1920's, and former commissioner Happy Chandler, who provided leadership in breaking baseball's color line are inducted in the Hall of Fame.

1986 Twins' hurler Bert Blyleven becomes the tenth major leaguer to record 3,000 strikeouts as he two-hits the A's, 10-1.

1994 In Minnesota, Cal Ripken reaches another milestone during his streak by playing in his 2,000th straight game in the Orioles 1-0 victory over the Twins.

1998 The longest hitting streak in Angels history, 28-games, ends as Garret Anderson goes hitless in four at-bats in a 11-3 defeat to the Red Sox.

1998 By homering from both sides of the plate for the third time this season, Tiger switch-hitter Tony Clark sets an American League record as Detroit defeats the Devil Rays, 8-0 .

1998 Using the old Negro League teams represented in their respective cities, the Cardinal-Brave game Saturday featured throwback uniforms of the 1928 St. Louis Stars and the 1940 Atlanta Black Crackers.

1998 The Royals steal eight bases, including four swipes by infielder Jose Offerman, to tie a team record for swipes during a 9-5 victory over the Orioles.

2000 In a 10-0 victory, Mike Mussina strikes out a club-record 15 batters as he keeps the Twins hitless through six innings and finishes the game with his third career one-hitter.

2000 Craig Biggio, 34, tears the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in his knee during a collision with Marlin outfielder Preston Wilson and will miss the rest of the season. This marks the first time the Astros' second baseman has ever been on the disabled list in his 13-year career.

2001 For the 33rd time in the team's history, the Tigers turn a triple play as Mariner Mark McLemore lines out to second baseman Damion Easley, who throws to shortstop Deivi Cruz to double up Tom Lampkin. Cruz then relays the ball to first baseman Shane Halter catching Ichiro Suzuki off first to complete Detroit's first triple killing since July 3, 1992, when the victim was also Seattle.

2002 The Expos trade recently acquired outfielder Cliff Floyd (.275, 21, 61) to the Red Sox for two minor league right-handed pitchers from South Korea, Seung Song and Sun-Woo Kim. Although denied by all involved, it is reported Yankees owner George Steinbrenner suspects the Expos, who are owned by major league baseball, made the trade to help his club's top rival.

2003 The Giants acquires Orioles' righty Sidney Ponson (14-6, 3.77) for hurlers Kurt Ainsworth, Damian Moss and Ryan Hannaman.

2005 Rafael Palmeiro becomes the highest profile player to be suspended for violating the MLB steroids policy. The Orioles first baseman, who denies knowingly taking any banned substances, stated this spring to the House Government Reform Committee that published allegations by Jose Canseco of his steroids use were "absolutely false" and had considered suing his former teammate over the accusation.

2005 During an interview on MLB.com, Barry Bonds admits his injured right knee will most likely keep him from playing this season. The 41-year old Giants slugger needs 12 home runs to pass Babe Ruth (714) and 54 to go ahead of Hank Aaron (755) to become the all time home run leader.

2005 Joe Garagiola Jr., the first and only general manager in Diamondback history will be leaving Arizona to take a job with the commissioner's office. The son of former Cardinal catcher and national broadcaster will become the senior vice president of baseball operations of MLB beginning on August 15.

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1906 Defeating the Red Sox, 3-0, the White Sox begin an American League record 19-game winning streak. In this century, the 'Hitless Wonders' streak will only be equaled by the 1947 New York Yankees.

1907 Senators' rookie Walter Johnson makes his major league debut losing to the Tigers, 3-2. Ty Cobb gets the first hit off of the future Hall of Famer with a bunt single.

1921 With the jurors lifting the men onto their shoulders, the eight White Sox players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series are acquitted by the jury. The next day, Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis will say the overwhelming evidence clearly shows the Black Sox fixed the games with gamblers and all involved will be banned from playing professional baseball again.

1922 Ken Williams homers in his sixth straight game setting an American League record. The Browns left fielder's home run helps beat the Red Sox, 9-4.

1938 As an experiment, bright yellow baseballs are used in the first game of a doubleheader. The teams go back to the traditional white ball in the nightcap as the Dodgers swept the twin bill from the Cardinals, 6-2 and 9-3.

1979 At the age of 32, Yankee catcher Thurman Munson is killed when the plane he is learning to fly crashes 1,000 feet short of the runway at Canton-Akron Airport.

1985 White Sox backstop Carlton Fisk tags out two Yankee runners at home plate during the same play. The unusual 8-6-2-2 double play results as both Bobby Meacham and Dale Berra try to score on Rickey Henderson's double in the gap.

1987 Royals' rookie third baseman Kevin Seitzer goes 6-for-6, including 2 home runs and 7 RBIs, in a 13-5 victory over the Red Sox.

1987 Reds' outfielder Eric Davis becomes the seventh player to join the 30-30 club as he homers in the 5-4 victory over the Giants. No one had ever accomplished the feat with still nearly two months left to play in the season.

1995 Long time coach Jimmie Reese, whose 23 years in an Angels uniform equals longest in club history is inducted into the Angels' Hall of Fame. The former roommate of Babe Ruth began his career as a bat boy for the Pacific Coast League's Los Angeles Angels in 1917.

2002 Reds general manager Jim Bowden is fined by commissioner Bud Selig for the comments he made to reporters prior to yesterday's game against the Dodgers comparing a baseball strike with the terrorist attacks of September 11th. Quickly realizing the use of such analogy was inappropriate and insensitive, the Cincinnati GM issues an immediate apology after the game.
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1914 Yankee catcher Les Nunamaker throws out three Tigers trying to steal second base. It will be the only time a backstop has accomplished the feat in a single inning this century.

1933 The Yankees are shut out for the first time in 309 games, dating back to August 2, 1931, as the A's southpaw Lefty Grove blanks the Bronx Bombers, 7-0.

1936 The White Sox overcome deficits of 9-1 in the fifth and 11-3 in the seventh inning to defeat the Red Sox in twelve innings, 12-11.

1939 Back-up catcher Williard Hershberger commits suicide. Although the team is devastated by the mid-season tragedy, the Reds will go on to win the World Series.

1948 Negro League legend Satchel Paige makes his major league debut hurling seven innings to lead the Indians over the Senators, 5-3.

1957 Listening to the radio, Pirates' manager Bobby Bragan hears he has been fired and replaced by Danny Murtaugh.

1959 For the first time in major league history a second All-Star game is played in the same season. The American League posts a 5-3 victory at the Los Angeles Coliseum as White Sox Nellie Fox singles in the decisive run.

1961 In the largest shutout score in a National League night game, the Pirates beat the Cardinals, 19-0.

1967 Manager Alvin Dark is fired and outfielder Ken Harrelson is released by A's owner Charlie Finley due to reports of rowdy behavior on a team flight.

1967 The Red Sox obtain catcher Elston Howard from the Yankees for cash and two players to be named later. Peter Magrini and Ron Klimkowski, both pitchers, will be sent to New York as part of the trade.

1967 At Wrigley Field, the Braves set a club record by hitting six home runs in 10-3 victory over the Cubs. Tito Francona, Joe Torre, (2), Clete Boyer (2), Denis Menke, and Hank Aaron all contribute to the record.

1969 Rich Reese pinch-hits a grand slam helping the Twins to beat the Orioles and Dave McNally, 5-2. The defeat ends southpaw's fifteen game winning streak this season.

1982 Royals' second baseman Frank White hits for the cycle in a 6-5 victory over the Tigers.

1989 The Reds set a major league record for the most hits in the first inning of a game with 16 as they score 14 runs at Riverfront Stadium off woeful Astro pitching. The half of an inning lasts 38 minutes with Reds eventually winning the game, 18-1.

1997 Coming off the Brewers' bench, Jeromy Burnitz ties an American League record homering in consecutive pinch-hit at-bats August 2-3.

1998 In the eighth inning of Florida's 11-3 win, C.J. Nitkowski hits three consecutive batters. It is only the third time since 1900 in major league history -- Pirate Dock Ellis (1974) and White Sox Wilbur Wood (1977) -- the dubious deed has been accomplished.

1998 Mike Oquist gives up fourteen earned runs becoming the first pitcher in 22 years to give up that many runs in an appearance as the Yankees crush the A's, 14-1. Oquist sets a franchise record for runs allowed as he is sacrificed to save the bullpen for tomorrow's doubleheader against the Bronx Bombers.

2000 Kevin Mitchell of the Sonoma County Crushers is expelled for the rest of the season from the independent Western Baseball League for punching the owner of an opposing team. The former National League MVP allegedly hit Solano Steelheads owner Bruce Portner, who had come on the field after a brawl had ended which was caused by a pitch thrown behind Mitchell.

2002 Darin Erstad agrees to a four-year contract extension worth $32 million to stay in Anaheim through 2006. The Angels' center fielder joins Troy Glaus, Garret Anderson and Tim Salmon as one of the key players the organization has signed at least through the 2004 season.

2002 In just the first four innings, Edgar Martinez ties a the major league record for sacrifice flies in a game with three. The Mariners' designated hitter becomes the 11th player in history to accomplish the feat doing it in his first three at-bats in Seattle's 12-4 victory over the Indians.

2004 In a game in which Cardinal first baseman Albert Pujols becomes the first player in history to hit at least 30 homers in each of his first four big league seasons, Tony Batista goes deep twice, knotting the score in the ninth and winning the game in the 12th. The Expos third baseman’s 199th and 200th career blasts helps Montreal beat the St. Louis in extra innings, 10-6.

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1908 Playing the entire game with one ball, the St. Louis Cardinals blank the Brooklyn Superbas, 3-0.

1910 Jack Coombs of the Philadelphia A's and White Sox hurler Ed Walsh duel one another in a 16-inning scoreless tie.

1929 Down to their last out, the Indians tally nine runs in the ninth inning for an amazing come-from-behind victory over the Yankees, 14-6.

1941 At Ebbets Field, Dodger backstop Mickey Owens becomes the first catcher to handle three foul pop ups in one inning.

1942 In a military relief game at the Polo Grounds which will be the last war-time twilight game played, Pee Wee Reese's grand slam in the top of ninth, which puts the Dodgers up 5-1, doesn't count because of the 9:10 pm government curfew. The game ends up as a 1-1 tie with the Giants.

1945 Two remarkable debut pitching performances by Senators' rookies makes the 15-4 loss to Boston a most memorable contest. The game which features Tom McBride tying a major league by driving in six runs with a bases-loaded double and triple during the Red Sox 12-run fourth inning, sees Joe Cleary, last major leaguer to be born in Ireland, giving up seven runs on five hits and three walks in his only big league appearance to finish with a career ERA of 189.0, and in mop-up work, WW II veteran Bert Shepard, with an amputated leg as a result of being wounded in WW ll, hurls five 1/3 innings giving up just one run on just three hits in his only major league appearance.

1948 Ernie Harwell, filling in for Red Barber who is recovering from a bleeding ulcer, calls his first major league game as the Dodgers beat the Cubs at Ebbets Field, 5-4. To obtain the future Hall of Fame broadcaster, Brooklyn general manager Branch Rickey trades minor league catcher Cliff Daper to the Atlanta Crackers.

1963 In his first at-bat in two months after breaking his left foot, Mickey Mantle slams a pinch-hit home run in the ninth inning to beat the Orioles, 11-10.

1982 After driving in the winning run in a Met 7-4 victory over the Cubs, Joel Youngblood is traded and later in the day flies to Philadelphia and singles for the Expos becoming the first player to have a hit for two different teams in the same day in different cities.

1985 At the Yankee Stadium, White Sox Tom Seaver becomes the 17th player in major league history to win 300 games as he six-hits the Bronx Bombers, 4-1. All of the Yankees' hits are singles.

1985 Rod Carew of the Angels singles off of Twin Frank Viola in the third inning to become the 16th major leaguer to amass 3000 hits.

1989 Dave Stieb retires the first 26 batters he faces before giving up two-hits in a 2-1 win over the Yankees. Last September, the Blue Jays' hard luck hurler lost back-to-back no-hit bids with two outs in the ninth inning.

1990 The Braves trade Dale Murphy to the Phillies for Jeff Parrett, Jim Vatcher and Victor Rosario. The move enables the youngster David Justice to return to right field and win the Rookie-of-the-Year Award.

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, Ed Montague, gives the all the proceeds to charity.

1996 Baltimore managers Earl Weaver and Ned Hanlon, Kentucky congressman Jim Bunning and Negro League star Bill Foster are inducted into the Hall of Fame.

1998 Yankees' slugger Darryl Strawberry hits a game-tying pinch-hit grand slam in the ninth inning of New York's 10-5 win becoming the second major leaguer to hit two pinch-hit grand slams in one season.

2000 Joining Dave Kingman Frank Huelsman, Willis Hudlin, Paul Lehner, Wes Covington, Ted Gray and Mike Kilkenny, Dave Martinez ties a major league record as he appears for his fourth team in a season. In the past four months the veteran outfielder/first baseman has played for the Devil Rays, Cubs, Rangers and now the Blue Jays.

2000 With 32 home games remaining, the Astros, who moved from the pitcher-friendly Astrodome to homer-haven Enron Field this season, set a franchise-record by already hitting 83 homers at home this season.

2003 Major League Baseball announces a five-year deal, which will generate more than $500 million in revenue, for apparel and head wear global licensing rights. The seven companies involved in the deal include Majestic Athletic, New Era Cap, Twins Enterprises, Nike USA, Dynasty Apparel Industries, Drew Pearson International and VF Imagewear.

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 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.

2005 After the teams goes into a free fall from first place, the Orioles fire manager Lee Mazzilli (129-140) and replaces him with bench coach Sam Perlozzo on an interim basis. Currently suffering an eight-game losing streak, the Birds have dropped 16 of their 18 games.

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Every day, i will add to my list:

September 7, 1911 > 44-year-old Cy Young of the Boston Braves and rookie sensation Grover Cleveland Alexander of the Philadelphia Phillies butt heads in an unforgettable pitching matchup. Youth is served as Alexander, an eventual 373-game winner, outduels Young, who will soon retire with 511 wins, by tossing a one hitter to win, 1-0.

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GO ANGELS

Well he's kind of had it in me ever since i accidentally ran over his dog. Actually, replace "accidentally" with "repeatedly" and replace "dog" with "son".

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September 9, 1965 > Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches a perfect game against the Chicago Cubs. Koufax fans 14 Cubs in a 1-0 victory, becoming the first pitcher to record four no-hitters. Lou Johnson scores the game's only run in the fifth when he walks and later comes around on an error.

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GO ANGELS

Well he's kind of had it in me ever since i accidentally ran over his dog. Actually, replace "accidentally" with "repeatedly" and replace "dog" with "son".

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September 13, 1971 > Frank Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles slugs home runs in both ends of a doubleheader against the Detroit Tigers to become the 11th man to enter the 500-home run club. Robinson will finish with a total of 28 dingers while leading the Orioles to the American League pennant.

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GO ANGELS

Well he's kind of had it in me ever since i accidentally ran over his dog. Actually, replace "accidentally" with "repeatedly" and replace "dog" with "son".

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September 14, 1968 > Denny McLain of the Detroit Tigers defeats the Oakland A's, 5-4, to become the Majors' first 30-game winner since Dizzy Dean in 1934. McLain will finish at 31-6 with a 1.96 ERA, and unanimously win the AL MVP and Cy Young Awards. He remains the last pitcher to win 30 games in one season.

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GO ANGELS

Well he's kind of had it in me ever since i accidentally ran over his dog. Actually, replace "accidentally" with "repeatedly" and replace "dog" with "son".

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September 15, 1963 > The three Alou brothers -- Felipe, Jesus, and Matty -- play in the San Francisco Giants' outfield together for the first time. After manager Alvin Dark removes starting outfielders Willie Mays and Willie McCovey from the game, he inserts Jesus and Matty for one inning of the Giants' 13-5 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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GO ANGELS

Well he's kind of had it in me ever since i accidentally ran over his dog. Actually, replace "accidentally" with "repeatedly" and replace "dog" with "son".

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September 16, 1975 > Rennie Stennett of the Pittsburgh Pirates goes 7-for-7 and scores five runs in a 22-0 shellacking of the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. The Pirates' second baseman joins Wilbert Robinson of the 1892 Baltimore Orioles as the only players in Major League history to go 7-for-7 in a nine-inning game.

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GO ANGELS

Well he's kind of had it in me ever since i accidentally ran over his dog. Actually, replace "accidentally" with "repeatedly" and replace "dog" with "son".