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1917 - At Fenway,
Babe Ruth wins his 20th, beating the A's, .
1990 - Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey Jr. become the
first father and son to play in the same major league lineup.
1990 - Dennis Eckersley saves
his 40th game of the season in Oakland's 4 - 2 win over Texas to
join Dan Quisenberry and Jeff Reardon as the only pitchers to save
40 games twice.
1991 - The
Twins' Chuck Knoblach hits his first ML homer, off the Orioles Mike
Mussina, and it puts the Twins ahead in the 6th.
It is Knoblach's only homer this year.
The Twins win, 5 - 2, with the W going to Kevin Tapani.
1992 - The Padres trade P
Craig Lefferts to the Orioles in exchange for minor league P Erik
Schullstrom and a player to be named.
1992 - Minnesota sends pitcher Bill Krueger to Montreal
for Darren Reid.
It is the third season that Krueger has split between the AL
and the NL: only Sal Maglie has done it more often.
1992 - The A's trade Jose
Canseco to the Rangers for Ruben Sierra, Bobby Witt and Jeff
Russell and an undisclosed amount of money.
1992 - The A's trade OF Jose Canseco to the
Rangers in exchange for OF Ruben Sierra and P Jeff Russell and
Bobby Witt.
1993 - 3B Gary
Gaetti of the Royals hits the 239th home run of his career in KC's
6-5 win over Milwaukee.
By doing so, he becomes the all-time home run leader for
players who homered in their 1st big league at bat, moving past
Hall of Famer Earl Averill.
1993 - In a flurry of deadline trades, the Reds sent
pitchers Johnny Ruffin and Jim Pierce to the White Sox in exchange
for P Tim Belcher; The Dodgers trade OF Eric Davis to the Tigers in
exchange for P John DeSilva.
The Cardinals trade P Lee Smith to the Yankees in exchange for
P Rich Batchelor.
1993 -
The Minnesota Twins defeat the Indians in 22 innings by a score of
5-4.
1994 - Minnesota OF-DH
Dave Winfield is sold to the Indians.
1994 - Three-and-a-half hours of negotiations with
federal mediators produces no progress in the strike, and no
further talks are scheduled as the strike goes into its 4th
week.
1995 - The Blue Jays
trade OF Candy Maldonado to the Rangers in exchange for a player to
be named.
1995 - Yankees'
OF Paul O'Neill homers in his first three at bats and drives home
eight runs in leading the New Yorkers to an 11-6 win over
California.
1996 - Florida
scores five runs in the top of the 1st inning to jump out to a
quick lead over Cincinnati, but the Reds bounce back with seven
runs in the 2nd, and don't look back.
They score four more in the 5th, two in the 6th, six in the
7th, and three in the 8th to defeat the Marlins, 22-8.
Kevin Mitchell leads the way with six runs batted in for the
Reds.
1996 - The Indians
obtain IF Kevin Seitzer from the Brewers in exchange for OF Jeremy
Burnitz.
1997 - Andruw
Jones's grand slam is the Braves' tenth of the season breaking the
National League mark for bases-full home runs for a team in single
season.
Ironically the record is broken in an American League park as
Atlanta defeats the Red Sox at Fenway.
1997 - The Brewers obtain P Pete Harnisch from the Mets
in exchange for OF Donny Moore.
1997 - The Cubs trade vet SS Shawon Dunston to the
Pirates in exchange for a player to be named.
Dunston will debut with the Bucs on September two and hit two
homers.
He will also finish the year with a .312 OBP, the lowest this
century for a .300 hitter.
1997 - In front of a crowd of 55,707, Don Mattingly's
uniform number 23 is added to the list of retired numbers on the
wall at Yankee Stadium's Monument Park.
1997 - The Indians acquire IF-OF Bip Roberts from
the Royals in exchange for P Roland de la Maza.
1998 - Seattle trades 2B Joey Cora to the
Indians for INF David Bell.
1998 - Texas defeats Detroit, 13 - 2, as OF Juan
Gonzalez gets four long hits, including two doubles, a triple and a
homer, and drives home seven runs.
Gonzalez now has 143 ribbies on the year.
1998 - Oakland OF Rickey Henderson scores
the 2,000th run of his career in the Athletics' 15 - 6 loss to
Cleveland.
He joins Ty Cobb, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Pete Rose, and Willie
Mays as the only players to reach the milestone.
1998 - Richie Sexson hit a 2 - run single
in Cleveland's 10 - run first inning, as the Tribe scalps Oakland,
15 - 6.
Sexton hits his 4th homer in three days, and Manny Ramirez hits
his 34th homer and knocks in five runs for starter Dave Burba.
Joey Cora, acquired hours before the game from Seattle for
David Bell, scores two runs and drives in 2.
1998 - Cubs' OF Sammy Sosa ties Mark McGwire by
hitting his 55th home run in Chicago's 5 - 4 win over
Cincinnati.
Sosa has hit 30 of his homers at Wrigley, three short of Hack
Wilson's Cub record and tying him with Ernie Banks.
1999 - In three pennant
insurance moves, the Astros obtain vet Stan Javier from the Giants
for P Joe Messman; the Diamondbacks get IF-OF Lenny Harris from the
Rockies in exchange for IF Belvani Martinez; and the Indians pick
up the once highly touted Tyler Houston from the Cubs for P Richard
Negrette.
Houston will prove valuable at 3B.
1999 - Down 12-4, the Indians rally for 10 runs in the
bottom of the 8th inning to defeat the Angels, 14-12.
1B Richie Sexson gets four hits and drives home five runs for
the Tribe.
This is the 3rd time this season that the Indians have rallied
from an 8-run deficit to win, a ML record.
1999 - The Tigers break a 6-6 tie by scoring eight
runs in the 7th inning to defeat the Rangers, 14-6.
1999 - The Red Sox obtain
beefy closer Rod Beck from the Cubs for P Mark Guthrie and a player
to be named.
2000 - The
Rangers defeat the Indians, 14-7, as OF Rusty Greer gets five hits
and drives home four runs.
2B Luis Alicea scores five runs for Texas.
2000 - The Red Sox trade two minor league
pitchers to the Reds for Dante Bichette.
The 36-year-old veteran outfielder will be the designated
hitter for his new team.
2000 - The Red Sox obtain OF Dante Bichette from the
Reds for pitchers Chris Reitsma and John Curtice.
2001 - The Braves acquire vet Julio Franco
from the Mexico City Tigers.
Franco, 40, who led the Mexican League with a .437 average, has
been out of the majors since 1997.
In a separate deal, the Braves pick up P Rudy Seanez from the
Padres for a player to be named later.
2001 - Former minor league catcher Lawrence 'Crash'
Davis dies after a year long bout with cancer player.
The 82-year old was made famous by the 1982 movie Bull
Durham.
2001 - Due to the
fact Little League World Series star pitcher Danny Almonte is 14
years old, not 12 as required by the organization's rules, the
Raulindo Paulino All-Stars are stripped of all its wins.
The team, which had captured the heart of the community,
finished third in Williamsport and were given a parade in New York
and honored before a game at Yankee Stadium.
2001 - The Reds rout the Pirates , 11 - 3, behind
the slugging of rookie Robin Jennings.
Jennings hits his 1st ML homer, a grand slam, in the 7-run 4th
and adds a bases-loaded triple for seven RBIs.
2002 - Losing their 13th consecutive game
at Shea Stadium to Randy Wolf and the Phillies, 1-0, the Mets
complete the worst month at home in National League history.
The Amazins' join the Seattle Pilots (August-1969 ) and the
Tigers (September-1996) as teams that have not won a home game in a
calendar month with at least ten games.
2002 - The Astros acquire free - agent - to - be
Mark Loretta from the Brewers for cash and a player to be
named.
In two days, the player turns out to be Keith Ginter, hitting
.264 at New Orleans.
2002 -
The Mets are shut out by the Phillies, 1 - 0, to mark their 13th
consecutive home defeat.
In doing so, they become the first National League team to lose
all their home games over the course of a month.
2005 - On the third pitch he sees in the
bigs, Jeremy Hermida becomes only the second player to hit a grand
slam in his first major-league at-bat.
The Marlin rookie pinch hitter joins Phillies hurler Bill
Duggleby who accomplished the same feat in1898.
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