This Weekend in Baseball History
August 21st, 2013: Ichiro Suzuki singles off Toronto's RA Dickey in the bottom of the 1st inning and becomes just the 3rd player to reach 4000 career hits. Combining his totals between the Japanese and American major leagues, he achieves the milestone previously reached by Ty Cobb and Pete Rose. Ichiro shares the spotlight with Alfonso Soriano, whose two-run home run off Dickey in the bottom of the 8th inning pushes the Yankees to a 4 - 2 victory.
August 21st, 2007: Garret Anderson drives in 10 runs -- with a grand slam, a three-run homer and a pair of run-scoring doubles -- to set an Angels club record in their 18-9 pounding of the Yankees.
August 21st, 2006: The Yankees wrap up a five-game series sweep at Fenway Park, holding off the Red Sox 2-1. Nick Green scores what turns out to be the deciding run, coming home on an 8th inning wild pitch by Boston's Keith Foulke. It's the Yanks' first five game sweep at Fenway since 1943.
August 21st, 2005: Mike Jacobs becomes the ninth Met to homer in his first at-bat with the team, and the fourth to do so to kick off his Major League career. Appearing as a pinch hitter, his three-run , fifth inning shot off Washington's Esteban Loaiza comes in the Mets 7-4 loss to the Nationals.
August 21st, 2001: Mike Piazza belts the 300th home run of his career as a catcher in the Mets 5-2 win over the Colorado Rockies at Shea Stadium.
August 21st, 1999: Brady Anderson becomes the third player in major league history to lead off both games of a doubleheader with a home run. It doesn't help as his Orioles drop both games to the White Sox.
August 21st, 1990: The Phillies erase an eight-run deficit, scoring nine in the top of the ninth inning to beat the Dodgers, 12-11. John Kruk's pinch-hit three-run homer ties the game. Two batters later, Carmelo Martinez's RBI double brings Rod Booker for the go-ahead score.
August 21st, 1987: Dale Murphy's 300th career homer is a highlight of the Braves 5-4 victory over the Pirates.
August 21st, 1980: The Phillies outlast the Padres 9-8 in 17 innings as Bake McBride triples in Mike Schmidt for the winning run.
August 21, 1980: Charles Finley announces the sale of the Athletics to Levi Strauss chairman Walter A. Haas, Jr., his son Walter J., and son-in-law Roy Eisenhardt. The price to keep the club in Oakland: $12.7 million.
August 21st, 1977: Tom Seaver makes his return to Shea Stadium, two months after the Mets traded him to the Reds. He holds his old team to six hits, and adds a pair of hits in leading Cincinnati to a 5-1 victory.
August 21st, 1977: Over 40,000 fans are at Veterans Stadium, to watch the Phillies first Sunday night game. Behind Steve Carlton, the Phils beat the Astros 7-3.
August 21st, 1930: Babe Ruth's 600th career homer comes off George Blaeholder of the Browns in an 11-7 Yankee victory at Sportsmens Park in St. Louis. Teammate Lou Gehrig followed Ruth's blast with one of his own -- one of 19 times the duo combined for back-to-back home runs! (Teammates for 10 years, they homered in the same game 72 times.)
August 22nd, 2007: The Rangers are the first big league team of the 20th or 21st century to score 30 runs in a game, when they put up a football score on the Orioles, 30-3, in the opener of a doubleheader (while setting a club single-game record 29 hits). Texas then takes the nightcap, 9-7, to set another AL mark with 36 runs on one day established by the 1937 Tigers.
August 22nd, 2007: Jose Reyes sets a new Mets club record with his 67th stole base of the season. Still, it wasn't enough to overcome the Padres, who win it 7-5.
August 22nd, 1992: A dual no-hitter in minor league ball. The Clearwater Phillies Andy Carter and Winter Haven Red Sox Scott Bakkum hold the opposing teams without hits. The game turned in the 7th inning when Clearwater put together two walks and two sac bunts for the game's only run. Yet neither pitcher made their mark in the majors, Carter was winless in 24 appearances for the 1994 and '96 Phils, while Bakkum never advanced past Triple-A.
August 22nd, 1989: At Arlington Stadium, 42 year old Nolan Ryan gets the A's Rickey Henderson swinging on a 3-2 fastball to become the first pitcher ever to reach 5000 strikeouts. It was one of 13 k's for the Rangers' ace -- who was outpitched by Oakland's Bob Welch and Dennis Eckersley, who teamed up for a 2-0 shutout of the Rangers.
August 22nd, 1984: Dwight Gooden strikes out Garry Templeton in the 8th inning of the Mets' 5-2 victory at San Diego to become the 11th rookie pitcher to reach 200k's -- joining Bob Feller (1938 Indians) and Gary Nolan (1967 Reds) in that select circle.
August 22nd, 1982: Ernie Banks becomes the first Cubs player have his number (14) retired.
August 22nd, 1971: The A's beat the Red Sox 2-1 at the Oakland Coliseum on bookend home runs: Bert Campaneris leads off the game with a solo shot and, with two out in the 9th inning, Reggie Jackson ends the game with another.
August 22nd, 1961: All that stands between Art Mahaffey and a no-hitter is Ron Santo's 1st inning single, as the Phillies blank the Cubs 6-0 at Connie Mack Stadium.
August 22nd, 1961: Roger Maris homers off Angels righthander Ken McBride for his 50th home run -- the earliest date any player reached that total. But, before a season-high home crowd of 19,930 at Wrigley Field in L.A., the Halos get home runs from Leon Wagner, Lee Thomas and Earl Averill Junior for a 4-3 victory.
August 22nd, 1949: The Yankees pick up Johnny Mize from the Giants, who becomes a valuable left platoon hitter for Casey Stengel, playing on five consecutive World Series champs.
August 23rd, 2019: Gary Sanchez’s homer in the second inning against the Dodgers is his 100th in the big leagues. The Yankee catcher becomes the second-fastest player in major league history to reach the milestone. Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard did it in 325 games, while Sanchez took 355.
August 23rd, 2009: Second baseman Eric Bruntlett turns an unassisted triple play to end the Phillies 9-7 victory over the Mets at Citi Field. The 14th unassisted triple play in major league history was just the second that ended a game. The first came more than 80 years earlier, by Detroit first baseman Johnny Neun in 1927.
August 23rd, 2007: A milestone victory for Joe Torre, as the Yankees beat the Angels 8-2 in Anaheim. Melky Cabrera delivered RBI singles in the 6th inning to grab the lead, and back the strong pitching of Andy Pettitte and Joba Chamberlain. It's Torre's 1150th win as manager, passing Casey Stengel and moving him into second place (behind Joe McCarthy) on the club's alltime list.
August 23rd, 1989: After a lenghty investigation and months of speculation, commissioner Bart Giamatti imposes a lifetime suspension on Pete Rose for gambling activities.
August 23rd, 1977: Mickey Rivers goes 5-for-5 as the Yankees jump over the Red Sox into 1st place in the AL East, with an 8-3 win over the White Sox.
August 23rd, 1970: Roberto Clemente posts his second straight 5-hit game as the Pirates blank the Dodgers 11-0. He is the first major leaguer of the 20th century to collect 10 hits in two consecutive games.
August 23rd, 1964: Mets reliever Willard Hunter is the winning pitcher in both ends of a doubleheader as the Mets sweep thr Cubs 2-1 and 5-4.
August 23rd, 1958: Don Drysdale homers twice and Gil Hodges adds his NL record-setting 14th career grand slam as the Dodgers hammer the Cardinals 10-1 at the L.A. Coliseum.
August 23rd, 1936: Bob Feller strikes out 15 in his first major league start, as his Indians roll past the St. Louis Browns 15-4.
August 23rd, 1928: Tom Zachary, the pitcher who gave up Babe Ruth's record setting 60th home run the year before, becomes the Bambino's teammate when the Yankees pick him up on waivers from Washington.
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