This Weekend in Baseball History
Aug. 14th, 2019: Gary Sanchez's three run homer and Mike Ford's two-RBI single are the big hits in the Yankees 6-5 win over the Orioles.
Aug. 14th, 2006: Matt Diaz ties a National League record and sets a Braves mark by getting a hit in 10 consecutive at-bats. He goes 4-for-5 a 10-4 victory over the Nationals at RFK Stadium.
Aug. 14th, 2003: The Mets - Giants game at Shea Stadium is postponed due to a power blackout across the northeast.
Aug. 14th, 1999: Ivan Rodriguez becomes the first catcher ever to reach 20 home runs and 20 stolen bases in a season. After a leadoff single in the 3rd inning, he steals 2nd base and later comes around to score, in the Rangers-White Sox game at Comiskey Park.
Aug. 14th, 1993: The Yankees retire Reggie Jackson's number 44.
Aug. 14th, 1991: Dave Winfield hits his 400th career home run off David West in the Angels 7 -4 win over the Twins at the Metrodome.
Aug. 14th, 1987: Mark McGwire's 39th home run snaps the rookie record shared by Wally Berger (1930 Red Sox) and Frank Robinson (1956 Reds). The A's 1st baseman, who will finish the season with an AL-leading 49.
Aug. 14th, 1986: Pete Rose singles off the Giants' Greg Minton is the 4256th and final hit of his career. It caps a three for four day for the Reds player- manager in a 2 - 0 win over the Giants in Cincinnati.
Aug. 14th, 1981: Mike Schmidt belts the 300th home run of his career off Mike Scott at Shea Stadium. The Phillies roll to an 8-4 victory over the Mets, which also features what's considered the longest home run in Shea's 45 year history -- as Dave Kingman drove a Larry Christenson pitch well past the left field fence, an estimated 515 feet.
Aug. 14th, 1971: Just ten days after notching the 200th win of his career, Bob Gibson throws a no-hitter for the Cardinals. Fellow Hall of Famer Willie Stargell takes a called strike three for the final out at Three Rivers Stadium... an 11-0 St. Louis victory. Gibson gets support on key defensive plays by 3rd Baseman Joe Torre and center fielder Jose Cruz.
Aug. 14th, 1964: Was this Teen Idol Day at Shea Stadium? In the nightcap of a twi-night doubleheader, 19 year old Ed Kranepool homers twice off 18 year old Phillies pitcher Rick Wise. But the rest of the Mets didn't hold up their end of the deal, as the Phils and Wise (who works the first 7-2/3 innings) came away with a 6-4 victory.
Aug. 14th, 1962: Hank and Tommie Aaron each hit home runs in the Milwaukee Braves 5-4 win over the Reds at Crosley Field. It was the third time that season both brothers homered in the same game.
Aug. 14th, 1958: Vic Power is the first player in 70 years to steal home twice in the same game. His 10th-inning theft gives the Indians a 10-9 "slide off" win over the Tigers.
Aug. 14th, 1954: On Old-Timers Day in the Bronx, the Yankees beat the Red Sox‚ 3-1. The win goes to Ralph Branca‚ his first and only decision in a Yankee uniform. The Old-Timers exhibition features 18 Hall of Famers‚ and is won by the AL on Joe DiMaggio's 3-run homer off Carl Hubbell.
Aug. 14th, 1932: Dizzy Dean strikes out six straight batters -- one shy of the existing record -- during the Cardinals 2-1 10-inning win over the Cubs.
Aug. 15th, 2015: Ichiro slaps a ball into shallow right field for the 4,192nd hit of his professional career — 1,278 in Japan and 2,914 in Major League Baseball — to tie the all time mark set by Pete Rose. It happens in the Marlins-Cardinals game at Busch Stadium.
Aug. 15th, 2001: Shawn Green becomes the first Dodger to hit three home runs in a game at Dodger Stadium. The blasts help LA defeat Montreal 13-1. Up till then, four opposing players had three homer games at Dodger Stadium.
Aug. 15th, 1995: Bob Costas delivers the eulogy at Mickey Mantle's funeral in Dallas. His remarks are highlighted by the passage: "For reasons that no statistics, no dry recitation of facts can possibly capture, he was the most compelling baseball hero of our lifetime. And he was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does."
Aug. 15th, 1993: Nolan Ryan's 324th and last victory comes in the Rangers 6-4 win over the Indians.
Aug. 15th, 1990: Terry Mulholland of the Phillies fires a no-hitter against the Giants. It's the first no-no thrown at Veterans Stadium.
Aug. 15th, 1965: The Indians get the most from a pair of pinch hit homers. Max Alvis ties their game with the Twins in the 9th inning and Leon Wagner belts a walk-off shot in the 11th for a 6-4 victory over Minnesota.
Aug. 15th, 1951: Willie Mays turns a long fly ball into a remarable double play. With one out in the top of the 8th inning at the Polo Grounds, the rookie sensation pulls in Cari Furillo's rocket to center field. Mays then spins around and fires home to nail Billy Cox attempting to score, in a game the Giants go on to win 3-1 over the arch rival Dodgers.
Aug. 15th, 1916: Babe Ruth outpitches Walter Johnson in the Red Sox 1-0, 13 inning victory over the Senators at Fenway.
Aug. 16th, 1981: Cal Ripken singles off the White Sox Dennis Lamp for his first major league hit -- the Orioles iron man would eventually total 3184.
Aug. 16th, 1950: Hank Thompson belts a pair of inside the park homers as the Giants crush the Dodgers 16-7 at the Polo Grounds. While he'd total 128 home runs, he'd have only one other inside the parker over his career.
Aug. 16th, 1950: Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American mystery guest on the prime time TV game show What's My Line.
Aug. 16th, 1948: Babe Ruth dies of cancer in New York. Baseball's greatest star was just 53.
Aug. 16th, 1947: Ralph Kiner belts three home runs in the Pirates 12-7 Forbes Field victory ovet the Cardinals. That gave him seven over his last four games.
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