August 5

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1901
- In the first of two in Philly, Giant OF Ike Van Zandt makes an 11th inning error and Philadelphia goes on to score three runs and win, 6-3. Van Zandt came on in the 9th after starting LF Kip Selbach is tossed for protesting strike calls. Christy Mathewson takes the loss for New York.
- Burt Hart punches John Haskell and will be banned for life as a result his assault on the umpire. The Oriole first baseman will play only 58 games in his major league career.
- At Cincinnati, Topsy Hartsel strokes two inside-the-park homers, but they are not enough as Chicago loses to the Reds, 10-7. Whitey Guese takes the decision over Jock Menefee.
1902
- Cleveland rookie Otto Hess, who made his debut two days ago, wobbles to a 7-6 ten-inning win over the Washington Nationals. The Nats test the rookie by laying down 14 bunts, three of which are misplayed by Hess, four are hits, and seven go for sacrifices. Cleveland SS John Gochnauer breaks his finger in the 3rd inning when he tries to flag down a line drive hit by Ed Delahanty. Gochnauer stays in the game and doubles in the tying runs in the 8th inning and doubles home the winner off Case Patten in the 10th.
- The first place Pirates whip New York, 3-0 behind Jesse Tannehill's 2-hitter. Christy Mathewson strikes out 11 Bucs in the loss.
1904 - The Highlanders beat Cleveland, 5 - 0, to send the American League into a virtual three-way tie. New York is first (.614) with Chicago (.613) and Cleveland (.611) close behind.
1905
- Highlanders 1B Hal Chase has a record 38 putouts in a doubleheader sweep versus the visiting Browns. The Highlanders win 3 - 1 and 6 - 5.
- The Reds score eight runs in the 1st en route to a 19 - 6 win over Brooklyn. Miller Huggins score five runs for Cincinnati.
- Umpire George Bausewine is once again in the middle of controversy forfeiting a game to the Pirates with the score tied 5 - 5 in the 9th when the Giants argue too long over his safe call at 3B. New York will appeal the forfeiture, but on August 26 President Pulliam will uphold the ump's decision. By the rules of the day, Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson is charged with the loss.
1908 - The Nationals' Otis Clymer and Jim Delahanty draw indefinite suspensions for abusing umpire Silk O'Loughlin in Cleveland. Delahanty, a Cleveland native, is later fined $50 and barred from the Cleveland ballpark for one year for his unbecoming conduct.
1909 - The Washington Nationals complete a marathon run of eight straight doubleheaders, a major-league record until the National League Braves top it in 1928.
1910 - The Giants salvage the last game in their series against the first-place Cubs, chasing Floyd Kroh for an 10 - 1 win. Christy Mathewson is the victor.
1911 - Cubs manager Frank Chance suspends Joe Tinker and fines him $150 for indifferent play. He is reinstated the next day.
1912
- At St. Louis, the Cards' Ed Konetchy hits two inside-the-park homers in an 8 - 4 win over Brooklyn.
- At Comiskey Park, Walter Johnson relieves Carl Cashion with two outs in the 8th and stops the White Sox. Johnson throws another two innings of hitless ball and drives in the winning run to give Washington an 8 - 7 win. Johnson has now won nine out of 10 decisions with the White Sox this season.
1915 - Against Pittsburgh, the Phillies lose, 1 - 0, when Quaker backstop Bill Killefer throws wildly past 3B in the 9th. Grover Cleveland Alexander is saddled with the loss.
1916
- The Red Sox stop the Browns' win streak, winning 4 - 1, behind Ernie Shore. St. Louis takes the nitecap, 6 - 3.
- Grover Cleveland Alexander strokes two hits, but the Phils and Alex lose to the Cardinals, 2 - 0.
1921 - KDKA radio station provides its listeners with the first ever broadcast of a major league game. Harold Arlin becomes baseball's first play-by-play announcer as he details the action as Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Phillies at Forbes Field, 8-5.
1922
- Tommy McCarthy, a top OF in the 1890s, dies at 58. He will enter the Hall of Fame in 1946. On the 14th, an all-star team will beat the Red Sox in a benefit game that raises more than $5,000 for his family.
- Pittsburgh roughs up Boston starter Rube Marquard and beats the last place Braves 9 - 3.
1923
- Against the Browns, Babe Ruth again bats righthanded. After the Babe hits his 26th and 27th HRs off of Ray Kolp, relief P Elam Vangilder takes no chances with Ruth and walks him intentionally in the 11th and again in the 13th inning. Ruth bats righty against Vangilder. Bob Meusel's single wins the game 9-8.
- Kansas City Monarchs Hall of Fame pitchers José Méndez and Bullet Rogan combine for a no-hitter against the Milwaukee Bears at Kansas City's newly-opened Muehlebach Field. Méndez pitches five perfect innings before being relieved by Rogan. Rogan walked the second man he faced, the only base runner allowed in the game.
1925
- Cards RF Jack Smith charges in for a short fly ball and keeps on running, tagging 1B to double up the base runner before he can get back, for a rare unassisted double play.
- Lefty Dickie Kerr, on the injured list since 1921, is reinstated and tries a comeback with the White Sox. He'll start twice, lose once, and after 10 relief chores, quit for good.
1929 - Despite three triples by Charlie Gehringer, the Senators overwhelm the Tigers, 21 - 5, collecting 21 hits. Sam Rice and Buddy Myer each have four hits and four runs as every hitter in the lineup hits a safety. Winning pitcher Lloyd Brown scores three runs.
1931
- For the 2nd time in his career, Jim Bottomley has six hits in six at bats, as the Cards defeat Pittsburgh 16 - 2 on 23 hits. In the opener, Bottomley contributed four hits, but St. Louis loses to the Bucs 5 - 4..
- The Cubs edge the Reds 3 - 2 at Wrigley Field when Leo Durocher boots a ground ball hit by Kiki Cuyler. It ends a string of 251 errorless chances in 53 games for Durocher.
- Detroit P Tommy Bridges has a brush with baseball immortality when he retires the first 26 Washington Senators to face him, before surrendering a hit to pinch hitter Dave Harris. The Tigers win the game 13-0.
1933 - Browns OF Sammy West equals the major-league record with four extra-base hits in a 12-inning, 10-9 win over the White Sox. He hits one double, two triples, and a HR.
1934 - While three teammates stand watching, a fly ball by Jimmie Foxx drops for a double, the only hit given up by Lefty Gomez in the 3-1 win by the Yankees over the A's.
1935 - In a rain-soaked game between the Yankees and the Red Sox, Lou Gehrig leaves in the fourth inning with another lumbago attack. The teams engage in stalling and hurry-up tactics, and AL President John Heydler fines managers Joe Cronin and Joe McCarthy $100 each.
1938 - Forty-year-old Browns P Fred "Cactus" Johnson wins his first major-league game since 1923. He won 252 minor leagues games in his career.
1940 - In a rain-shortened 4-0 victory over the Tigers, Silent John Whitehead of the St. Louis Browns pitches a six inning no-hitter. It will the quiet Texan's only victory this season.
1942 - White Sox 1B Don Kolloway's 2-out steal of home in the 5th inning is the only run of the game against Tiger lefty Hal Newhouser. Sore-armed Thornton Lee is the winner. There are seven games played today, and five end in shutouts.
1945 - The Cubs bang out 22 hits in Game One of a pair to overwhelm the Reds, 12 - 5. Stan Hack has three doubles and a single, and Phil Cavarretta has four hits. The Cubs take the nitecap, 2 - 1, behind Claude Passeau's 6-hitter. Chicago has won 17 of their last 18 games.
1946 - Mickey Owen quits his Mexican League team. He and Luis Olmo ask Commissioner Chandler for reinstatement 3 days later.
1947 - Orlando Moreno of Big Spring (Longhorn League) goes hitless, ending his consecutive game batting streak at 43 games.
1948 - Dodger Gene Hermanski hits three successive home runs to offset six Brooklyn errors as the Dodgers beat the Cubs, 6 - 4. The win moves the Dodgers into 2nd place. Carl Erskine starts his first game and earns his 3rd win.
1950 - Jim Hearn gives up a leadoff single to Bob Dillinger, then throttles the Pirates the rest of the way for a 5 - 0 win at the Polo Grounds. It is his second win since joining the Giants on July 10.
1952 - Danny Menendez, the owner of the Toledo Mud Hens, is indicted and charged with cheating three fans out of $1,700 worth of tickets after he failed to keep his promise of keeping the team in Ohio until the end of the season. Menendez moved them to Charleston, WV, midway through the season, where they became the Charleston Senators, and kept the proceeds from 38,000 extra seat sales.
1953
- St. Louis Browns' pitcher Don Larsen goes 3-for-3 and establishes a record for consecutive hits by a pitcher with 7. The rookie hurler will hit .284 in 81 at bats this season.
- Ben Flowers of the Red Sox shuts out the Browns 5-0 in his first major-league start.
1955 - After playing 274 straight games at 2B, Nellie Fox is given a day off by White Sox manager Marty Marion. Fox will come back the next day and play in 798 consecutive games.
1957 - The Brooklyn Sports Authority gets an engineering report on a 50,000-seat stadium in the downtown area. It will cost an estimated $20.7 million, including the land site. Indications are that there will be trouble finding a market for the bond issue.
1959
- The Senators lose 7 - 3, their 18th loss in a row, before Tex Clevenger shuts out the Indians in the nitecap 9 - 0.
- Mickey Mantle breaks up a scoreless pitching duel between Detroit's Don Mossi and Bobby Shantz by belting an 8th inning homer with one on. New York wins at home, 3 - 0.
- Willie McCovey hits two home runs and Willie Mays another as the Giants whip the Braves' Bob Buhl 4 - 1 to move into first place.
1964 - After weeks of negotiating, Ford Frick tells the league presidents and club owners he will not run for another term as commissioner.
1969
- Willie Stargell becomes the first player to hit a home run completely out of Dodger Stadium. The 512-foot blast helps the Pirates defeat Los Angeles, 11-3.
- Consecutive home runs in the 5th by Dave Marshall, Ron Hunt, and Bobby Bonds highlight the first of two San Francisco wins at Philadelphia. SF wins, 6 - 2, then win the second game, 5 - 3, to regain first place in the National League West by one-half game.
1971 - The Pirates power to a 7 - 2 win at Montreal, but lose 3B Jose Pagan when his arm is fractured by a pitch in the 5th by John Strohmayer. He will return to be a World Series hero. Pagan, Willie Stargell and Al Oliver homer for the Bucs and Gene Alley adds two triples.
1972 - Tiger shortstop Ed Brinkman commits an error ending his major league record of 72 games and 331 total chances without making a misplay.
1973 - Braves knuckleballer Phil Niekro no-hits the Padres 9 - 0 and improves his record to 11-4. He walks three and strikes out four in recording the 1st no-hitter by the franchise in Atlanta. Ralph Garr has three hits, three runs, and a steal, and Paul Casanova records an inside-the-park homer on a long fly ball missed by LF Gene Locklear.
1974 - In the top of the 9th inning at Dodger Stadium, during an ABC Monday Night telecast of the Reds-Dodger game, Alex Stein, 19, and his tiny Whippet, Ashley, dash onto the field and begin lofting spectacular Frisbee tosses. The crowd roars and the two are caught on NBC cameras, initiating a Frisbee craze. Stein, who snuck his dog into the stadium, is arrested when he leaves the field.
1975
- The first seven Phillies hit safely, good for 15 bases, against Bill Bonham (10 - 8)and the Cubs, in setting a ML record. No pitcher has ever started a game by allowing seven straight hits. Dave Cash leads off with a single, and Larry Bowa matches it. Garry Maddox homers over the LF fence. Greg Luzinski singles, and Jay Johnstone and Tommy Hutton follow with doubles to make it 5 - 0. Mike Schmidt then hits his 22nd homer to finally drive Bonham out of the game. His replacement, Ken Crosby (making his ML debut) gives up a single to Johnny Oates for the 8th straight hit. Dick Ruthven lays down a sac bunt for the first out, but three walks, two hits and a balk make it 10 - 0. As historian Lyle Spatz notes, the Phils last scored 10 runs in a frame on August 13, 1948. Schmidt adds a 2nd homer to help push the final to 13-5.
- Red Sox pitcher Roger Moret, scheduled to pitch today, crashes his car in Connecticut at 4:30 a.m. He's okay and starts, but his Red Sox lose to the Orioles and Jim Palmer, 3 - 0.
1979
- The Red Sox demolish the Brewers in a doubleheader 7 - 2 and 19 - 5. The Sox amass 27 hits in the 2nd game, and are the first team in 30 years to score in eight innings. The only inning in which they fail to score is the 4th, when the first two batters reach base. The scoring deluge makes it easy for manager Don Zimmer, who uses three relief pitchers, each tossing three innings. Dutch-born Win Remmerswaal, the middle pitcher, picks up his first ML win.
- Willie Mays, Warren Giles, and Hack Wilson are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
- The Phillies beat the Pirates 12 - 8 in the first game of a doubleheader. Philadelphia's Greg Luzinski and Pittsburgh's John Milner each hit a grand slam, and Pete Rose collects his 2,427th career single to break Honus Wagner's NL record.
- In an 8-1 win over the Giants, Dodger right-hander Don Sutton becomes the team's all-time strikeout leader with his 2,487th career strikeout.
- In pre-game ceremonies at Wrigley Field, announcer Jack Brickhouse is honored. Today's broadcast is his 5,000th television broadcast of a game.
1980 - Expos manager Dick Williams wins his 1,000th career game 11 - 5 over the Mets, at Olympic Stadium. He is 3rd in wins among active managers behind Gene Mauch and Earl Weaver. The Expos overcome the offense of Doug Flynn, who ties the modern major-league record with three triples. It was last done in the National League by Ernie Banks, in 1966.
1983 - American League president Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees manager Billy Martin for the 2nd time this season because of continuing abuse of umpires. Martin is suspended for two games for calling umpire Dale Ford "a stone liar" after a July 31 game with the White Sox. He earned a 3-game suspension earlier this year for kicking dirt on umpire Drew Coble.
1984
- Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits his 19th career pinch-hit home run breaking a major league record shared with Jerry Lynch. His round-tripper gives Toronto 4-3 victory over the Orioles.
- The Royals sweep two from the first-place Tigers, winning 5 - 4 and 5 - 0, in the first of three straight doubleheaders for Detroit. KC takes the opener when Dane Iorg bloops a double over Ruppert Jones's head in left. Charlie Leibrandt wins the nitecap with relief help from Dan Quisenberry in the 9th.
- Frank Robinson, who had led his club to a 42-64 record, is fired as manager of the Giants and will be replaced Danny Ozark.
1985 - Darryl Strawberry belts three home runs helping to beat the Cubs, 7-2, and puts the Mets into first place in the National League East.
1986
- At Candlestick Park, Reds' center fielder Eric Davis becomes the 4000th strike out victim of Giants' southpaw Steve Carlton. The historic whiff occurs in the third inning with two runners on base and no outs in the eventual Reds' 11-6 victory.
- After Detroit wins the opener, 6 - 5, game two starts off with Detroit's first two hitters -- Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell -- belting homers off Cleveland's Jose Roman. It is the 3rd time in a month this has occurred. Whitaker hits another as Detroit wins the shootout, 11 - 9.
1990 - Hall of Fame induction ceremonies for Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan are rained out in Cooperstown, NY. The ceremony will be conducted the following day at a local high school.
1992 - Oakland A's outfielder Jose Canseco is walked for the seventh consecutive time in the span of two games to tie a major league record.
1994
- Atlanta 1B Fred McGriff hits a home run in the Braves' 16-6 win over Cincinnati, making him only the 9th major leaguer in history to hit 30 or more homers in seven consecutive seasons.
- At the Astrodome, Jeff Bagwell establishes a new club record for home runs. The Houston first baseman hits number 38, a 5th inning 2 out, 2-run homer, off reliever Pat Gomez as the Astros blast the Giants, 12-4.
1994 - Baltimore P Ben McDonald 1-hits Milwaukee, winning by a score of 4-0. McDonald fans nine and walks four in his masterpiece, allowing only a 4th-inning single to Dave Nilsson.
1995
- The Dodgers beat the Giants, 3-0, behind the 1-hit pitching of Hideo Nomo. Royce Clayton's single is the only SF hit, as LA keeps pace with division-leading Colorado, three 1/2 games behind the Rockies in the National League West.
- Atlanta's newly acquired OF Marquis Grissom gets five singles to lead the Braves to a 9-6 triumph over the Expos, increasing their lead over 2nd-place Philadelphia to one 1/2 games in the NL East.
1996 - The Orioles score six runs in the 8th inning to take a 13-3 lead over the Indians. After scoring one run in their half of the inning, Cleveland comes back with six of their own in the 9th, but falls three short and loses, 13-10. Chris Hoiles drives home four runs for the Orioles.
1997
- The Red Sox pound out 24 hits, including four home runs, in defeating the Rangers, 17-1. Nomar Garciaparra is 4-for-7 with a homer and two doubles and Troy O'Leary homers twice into the upper deck.
- In New York, Houston's Darryl Kile cops his ninth straight decision despite allowing two home runs to John Olerud. Houston hangs on to win, 11 - 8. Kile (16-3) allows eight runs and 10 hits in seven innings.
1998 - In Houston's 5 - 3 loss to Florida, Craig Biggio sits out ending his streak of 494 consecutive games played.
1999 - Mark McGwire hits his 500th career home run off Padres' hurler Andy Ashby becoming the 16th major leaguer and the fastest to reach this milestone. The St. Louis slugger is first to accomplish the feat a year after reaching the 400 home run plateau.
2000 - Sammy Sosa becomes the first Cubs' player to reach 100 RBIs six consecutive times. Hack Wilson did it for five straight seasons from 1926-30.
2001
- Dave Winfield, Kirby Puckett, Bill Mazeroski, and Negro League star Hilton Smith are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
- Trailing the Mariners 14-2, the Indians, beginning in the seventh inning, score 12 times to tie score. Cleveland will win the game in the 11th inning, 15-14 making it the third time (1911 Tigers, 1925 A's) a team has won after being behind by 12 runs.
- Detroit falls to Oakland by a score of 5 - 1. In doing so, the Tigers tie a major league record by scoring only one run in their 5th consecutive game. The last of the seven teams who did so was the 1968 Dodgers.
2002 - In a make-up game against the Angels, the Tigers host 'Silent Night'. The fans hear no electronic, video and commercial enhancements during Detroit's 6-3 loss to Anaheim at Comerica Park.
2005 - Albert Pujols becomes the first player to connect for 30 home runs in each of his first five big league seasons. The St. Louis Cardinals first baseman has hit 190 homers during this 5-year span from the start of career, equaling Eddie Mathews' total (1952-56) and with 25 fewer than Ralph Kiner (1946-1950).
2007:
- Tom Glavine becomes the 23rd pitcher and fifth left-hander to win 300 games in the major leagues with a 8-3 victory over the Cubs. Glavine allows two runs in 6 1/3 IP for his 10th win of the year against 6 losses and helps his cause with a single, walk and RBI. Kerry Wood appears for the Cubs, his first appearance in The Show in over a year.
- Ryan Braun hits his 20th home run in the majors; it comes in his 64th game. This makes him the quickest Milwaukee Brewers player to 20 career homers. Bill Schroeder, with 94 games, held the old record.