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• • 1883 - In the most decisive shutout in major league history, the Philadelphia Quakers rout the Providence Grays 28-0.
  • 1917 - Now with Philadelphia, Chief Bender, 34, pitches his third straight shutout, winning 6-0 over the Cubs. In his last active season, Bender will turn in four shutouts, finishing 8-2 with a 1.67 ERA.
  • 1926 - Ted Lyons of the Chicago White Sox pitched a no-hitter over the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, winning 6-0 in a quick 1 hour, 7 minutes.
  • 1931 - Babe Ruth hits his 600th home run, off George Blaeholder of the Browns, as the Yankees win 11-7.
  • 1932 - Cleveland's Wes Ferrell becomes the first 20th-century pitcher to win 20 or more games in each of his first four seasons, beating Washington 11-5.
  • 1947 - The first Little League World Series tournament is held in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The Maynard Midgets of Williamsport, with a tourney batting average of .625, win the World Series 16-7.
  • 1948 - Aaron Robinson homers in the ninth inning off Bob Lemon to help the White Sox beat the Indians 3-2. The run breaks the 47-inning scoreless streak by Indians pitchers. Baltimore will extend the record in 1974 to 54 innings.
  • 1949 - A barrage of bottles from the Philadelphia stands as protest of a decision by umpire George Barr over a trapped line drive by Richie Ashburn results in the first forfeiture in the major leagues in seven years. The Giants are leading 4-2 with one out in the ninth when the forfeit occurs.
  • 1972 - Steve Carlton of Philadelphia had his 15-game winning streak snapped when Phil Niekro and the Atlanta Braves beat the Phillies 2-1 in 11 innings.
  • 1975 - Pitching brothers Rick and Paul Reuschel combine to hurl the Cubs to a 7-0 victory over the Dodgers. This is the first time brothers have collaborated on a shutout.
  • 1982 - Milwaukee's Rollie Fingers records his 300th career save in a 3-2 win at Seattle, becoming the first player to reach that milestone.
  • 1986 - Spike Owen had four hits and became the first major leaguer in 40 years to score six runs in a game as the Boston Red Sox routed the Cleveland Indians 24-5 with a 24-hit attack.
  • 1989 - Cubs rookie outfielder Jerome Walton goes 0-for-4 in a 6-5, ten-inning loss to the Reds, ending his hitting streak at 30 consecutive games.
  • 1997 - Oakland hit six home runs, including a team record four in one inning as the Athletics posted a 13-6 win over the Boston Red Sox. Oakland hit homers off Steve Avery in each of the first three innings and three off reliever Kerry Lacy in the third.

Baseball Birthdays on August 21...

• • 1840 - West, Billy
  • 1847 - Gould, Charlie
  • 1866 - Titcomb, Cannonball
  • 1875 - Isbell, Frank
  • 1879 - Johns, Ollie
  • 1882 - Bates, Johnny
  • 1883 - Wilson, Chief
  • 1891 - Eschen, Jim
  • 1891 - Gossett, Dick
  • 1901 - Schulmerich, Wes
  • 1905 - Waddey, Frank
  • 1905 - Mosolf, Jim
  • 1907 - Hebert, Wally
  • 1907 - Jones, Cobe
  • 1911 - Cafego, Tom
  • 1912 - Williams, Woody
  • 1916 - Dickson, Murry
  • 1920 - Staley, Gerry
  • 1920 - Platt, Whitey
  • 1920 - Cardoni, Ben
  • 1921 - Knerr, Lou
  • 1923 - Flitcraft, Hilly
  • 1924 - Fear, Vern
  • 1937 - Damaska, Jack
  • 1939 - Beauchamp, Jim
  • 1943 - Millan, Felix
  • 1945 - Davanon, Jerry
  • 1948 - Robinson, Craig
  • 1948 - Ellis, John
  • 1951 - Stearns, John
  • 1952 - Lang, Chip
  • 1954 - Berenyi, Bruce
  • 1956 - Johnson, John Henry
  • 1957 - Eddy, Steve
  • 1957 - Pastore, Frank
  • 1963 - Jackson, Ken
  • 1964 - Hillegas, Shawn
  • 1965 - Bullinger, Jim
  • 1966 - Wetteland, John
  • 1968 - Rhodes, Karl
  • 1968 - Misuraca, Mike
  • 1969 - Cedeno, Andujar
  • 1970 - Counsell, Craig
  • 1972 - Crow, Dean
  • 1973 - Bovee, Mike
  • 1973 - Collier, Lou
  • 1973 - Valdes, Ismael
  • 1976 - Ebert, Derrin
  • 1976 - Vazquez, Ramon
  • 1978 - Marquis, Jason

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1857 Ned Hanlon player and manager, born in Montville, Connecticut (d. 1937)

1939 Carl Yastrzemski Hall of Fame left fielder, 1st baseman (18-time MLB All Star), born in Southampton, New York

1949 Doug Bair born in Defiance, Ohio

1950 Ray Burris player, born in Idabel, Oklahoma

1956 Paul Molitor infielder (7 x MLB All-Star Milwaukee Brewers; World Series MVP 1993 Toronto Blue Jays), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota

1969 Hipolito Pichardo pitcher (KC Royals), born in Jicomé, Dominican Republic

1976 Jim Weaver pitcher (Olympic bronze 1996)

 

FROM MLB's This Day in Baseball History+​

1886 Louisville's Chicken Wolf hits a game-winning inside-the-park home run, thanks to a stray dog impeding Abner Powell from fielding the ball. The canine, who had been sleeping by the fence, refuses to let go of the Reds center fielder's pant leg, who watches in dismay as the Colonel batter races around the bases in the team's 5-4 loss at Eclipse Park.

1917 In a 22-inning contest against the Dodgers, Pirates' outfielder Carson Bigbee sets a major-league record with 11 at-bats. The game was also the fourth straight extra-inning game played by Pittsburgh (total of 59 innings), which sets a National League record.
1933 Bill Veeck suggests a mid-summer series of interleague games and proposes a split-season schedule format. Although the Cub president's concept of games between the two circuits receives some support, Senator owner Clark Griffith opposes the proposal, calling the American League a major league, not in need of grandiose schemes he deemed as "Hippodrome stuff."
1934 Wes Ferrell hits two home runs to give the Red Sox an extra-inning 3-2 victory over the White Sox. With his team trailing 2-1, the Boston hurler hits a home run in the eighth inning to tie the score, and, with two out in the 10th, he goes deep again for the game-winner.

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1939 In front of 50,000 fans at Comiskey Park, the Yankees win their first night game in franchise history, defeating the hometown White Sox, 14-5. The Bronx Bombers collect 14 hits in the evening tilt, nine of which are for extra bases.
1947 After trailing by six runs in the ninth inning with one out and the bases empty, the Tigers come back to beat the Senators, 7-6. In their incredible walk-off victory in the first game of a twin bill at Briggs Stadium, Detroit collects nine hits, eight singles and a home run, in the final frame.
1949 After the Giants had offered him to every team in the National League, Johnny Mize, who had expressed his displeasure about his playing time, is bought by Yankee general manager George Weiss for $40,000. The 36-year-old slugging first baseman doesn't disappoint the Bronx fans, finishing his career playing solidly in a part-time role during the five years spent with the Bombers, who go on to win the World Series every season the future Hall of Fame first baseman is with the team.

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1957 Stan Musial tears a muscle and chips a bone swinging at a pitch in the fourth inning against the Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium. The injury apparently ends 'Stan the Man's' consecutive game streak at 894, but he establishes a new NL mark, officially playing in 895 consecutive contests by pinch-running in a game suspended on July 21st and completed on August 27th.

1961 In his record-setting season, Roger Maris becomes the first player to hit his 50th home run before September. The 26-year-old All-Star outfielder connects off Ken McBride as the Yankees lose to the Angels, 4-3.

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1961 At L.A.'s Wrigley Field, the Angels edge the Yankees, 4-3, in front of 19,930 fans, the largest home crowd of the season. The expansion team will have an average attendance of 6,620 patrons per game in its first season, but that total almost triples when the Bronx Bombers are the opponents.
1965 Juan Marichal thinks Johnny Roseboro throws too close to his head while returning the ball to Sandy Koufax and attacks the Dodger catcher with his bat. The Los Angeles backstop suffers cuts on the head during the 14-minute brawl.

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1966 All-Star slugger Frank Robinson, a non-swimmer who accidentally jumps into the deep end of the pool to avoid being thrown in by his Oriole teammates, is saved from drowning by rookie backstop Andy Etchebarren. The private evening swim party for the team took place at the home of Leonard Ruck, a funeral director.
1968 After walking on a 3-2 count, which included pitches sailing over his head to the backstop and a ball thrown behind him, Dick McAuliffe charges the mound, driving his knee into White Sox hurler Tommy John that causes the pitcher's shoulder to separate. The Tigers' shortstop is suspended for five games and fined $250 by AL president Joe Cronin due to the bench-clearing incident that ends Tommy John's (10-5, 1.98) season.

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1973 Trailing by a run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth and a man on second, Felix Millan, Rusty Staub, and John Milner hit consecutive singles to give the Mets an improbable 3-2 decision at Shea Stadium. The victory, the first win for the 0-6 Tug McGraw, appears to ignite the "Ya Gotta Believe" reliever, who once again will become one of the best closers in the league.

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1982 The Cubs pay tribute to Ernie Banks when the team retires the outfielder's uniform number (14) that he wore for 19 seasons. The Hall of Famer, who retired in 1971, is the first player in the 106-year history of the franchise to be honored in this manner.

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1982 With two outs and two strikes in the 12th inning, Glenn Brummer steals home, giving the Cardinals an overtime walk-off 5-4 victory over the Giants at Busch Stadium. The reserve catcher will finish his major league career with just four stolen bases.
1984 Dwight Gooden strikes out Garry Templeton in the eighth inning of the Mets' 5-2 victory at Jack Murphy Stadium to become the 11th pitcher to strike out 200 batters in his rookie season. The 19-year-old freshman becomes only the third teenager to accomplish the feat, joining Bob Feller (1938 Indians) and Gary Nolan (1967 Reds). Graig Nettles' fourth-inning two-run homer off Dwight Gooden is his seventh round-tripper in his last six games, tying a National League record shared by Walker Cooper, George Kelly, and Willie Mays. The Padres third baseman's blast, one of only three hits given up by the New York 19-year-old rookie in the Mets' 5-2 victory, accounts for all of San Diego's runs in the Jack Murphy Stadium contest.

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1987 Gino Petralli ties a major league record when he commits four passed balls in one inning during the seventh frame of the Rangers' 6-4 victory over the White Sox at Arlington Stadium. The Texas batterymate of Charlie Hough equals the 1954 mark established by Giants backstop Ray Katt, trying to catch knuckleballs thrown by Hoyt Wilhelm.
1989 On a 96 mph fastball, A's Rickey Henderson swings and misses, making Nolan Ryan the first and only major league pitcher to strike out 5000 batters. The 'Ryan Express' strikes out 13 and gives up only five hits, but loses the game to Oakland, 2-0.

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1992 In the seventh inning of a Class A Florida State League contest, the Clearwater Phillies string together two walks and two sac bunts to score the game's only run, beating the Winter Haven Red Sox, 1-0. Opposing minor league hurlers Andy Carter and Scott Bakkum do not give up any hits, making it the first professional game to be hitless in 40 years.
1998 In the Orioles' 6-3 win over the Indians, Cal Ripken scores his 1,500th career run. The 'Iron Man' will cross the plate 1,647 times for Baltimore during his 21-year career in the big leagues.

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1998 With his 52nd home run, Mark McGwire breaks Babe Ruth's record for round-trippers in three consecutive seasons. 'Big Red' has 162 homers in three seasons (1996-52, 1997-58), compared to the Bambino's 161 dingers hit in 1926-28. Although there are no penalties or testing for the use of performance-enhancing substances in Major League Baseball, the discovery of a jar of androstenedione in Mark McGwire's locker garners much attention. The Cardinal slugger, who will finish the season with a record 70 home runs, will admit he uses the steroid precursor.

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1999 Cardinal first baseman Mark McGwire becomes the first player to reach the 50 home run plateau in four consecutive seasons. 'Big Red' goes deep twice (#'s 49 and 50) in an 8-7 loss to the Mets at Shea Stadium.

 

2000 Dodger first baseman Eric Karros, hitting a solo blast and a three-run round-tripper during a nine-run sixth inning of a 14-6 victory over the Expos, becomes the first player in the 111-year franchise history to hit two homers in an inning.
2000 Rockies' catcher Brent Mayne, working a scoreless 12th in a 7-6 victory over the Braves, becomes the first position player to be a winning pitcher in 32 years. In 1968, outfielder Rocky Colavito, as a Yankee, homered and threw 2.2 shutout innings against his former teammates, helping the Bronx Bombers to beat the Tigers.
2000 Reds' outfielder Alex Ochoa helps set a major league record by hitting the 142nd grand slam of the season. The Cincinnati outfielder's first career bases-loaded homer eclipses the previous mark of 141 grand slams, established in 1996.
2003 For the fourth consecutive season, Garret Anderson reaches 100 RBIs mark to become the first player in team history to do so. The Angels' outfielder was also the first to have three straight 100-RBI seasons.

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2007 Jose Reyes sets a Mets record, swiping his 67th stolen base of the season, surpassing Roger Cedeno, who had established the previous mark in 1999. The New York shortstop swipes three bases in the team's 7-5 loss to the Padres at Shea Stadium.
2007 Brandon Webb's scoreless streak ends at 42 innings in the first frame of the Diamondbacks' 3-2 victory at Chase Field. The 2006 NL Cy Young Award winner, who had thrown three straight shutouts, falls 17 innings short of Orel Hershiser's 1988 major league record of 59 straight shutout innings.

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2007 After feeling a near game-removing pain close to the top of his right hamstring, Albert Pujols hits a first-inning two-run homer off Scott Olsen of the Marlins at Busch Stadium to become the first player to hit 30 or more homers in his first seven seasons. It is the fifth consecutive game the Cardinal first baseman has gone deep.

2007 The Rangers become the first post-1900 big league team to score 30 runs in a game. After beating the Orioles, 30-3, setting a club single-game record 29 hits in the first game of the twin bill, Texas wins the nightcap, 9-7, to break the AL mark of 36 tallies established by the 1937 Tigers during an August 14 doubleheader against the Browns.
2007 Appearing as the skipper in his 4,409th game, Tony La Russa passes Bucky Harris for third place on the all-time list for the total number of contests managed in the major leagues. Only Connie Mack (7,755 games) and John McGraw (4,769) have spent more time in the dugout as a manager than the current Cardinal field boss.

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2007 Mets shortstop Jose Reyes surpasses Roger Cedeno’s franchise mark set in 1999 with 67th stolen base, his third in the team’s 7-5 loss to the Padres at Shea Stadium. New York’s five steals in the contest brings their season’s total to 159, equaling the club record established in 1987.

2007 Rangers' relief pitcher Wes Littleton earns his second career save, pitching the last three innings of the record 30-3 rout of the Orioles. The 24-year-old reliever from Hayward, California establishes a new major league mark for recording a save with the largest winning margin.
2008 Joining Lou Gehrig (2,721) and Babe Ruth (2,518), Derek Jeter becomes the third player to collect 2,500 hits in a Yankee uniform. The milestone safety is a first-inning bloop single off Radhames Liz in New York's 9-4 comeback victory over the Orioles in Baltimore.

2008 In an 18-3 rout of the Braves, the Cardinals collect 26 hits, tying a franchise record established in 1930. All but five of the hits were singles, two shy of the major league record set by the Astros in 1976.
2009 In the 14th inning of the 1-0 Mariners' victory over Chicago, Adrian Beltre, who scores the winning run, is hit below the belt by a ninth-inning ground ball scorched by Alexei Ramirez. The Seattle third baseman, who doesn't wear a protective cup because it makes him feel uncomfortable, will be placed on the disabled list with a torn right testicle, much to his manager's chagrin.

 

2011 With two outs in the eighth inning in a game against the Dodgers at Busch Stadium, Matt Holliday exits the game when a moth gets stuck in his right ear. Using tweezers, the team trainers remove the deeply embedded insect from the Cardinal left fielder's auditory canal, which comes out alive.
2012 Oakland right-hander Bartolo Colon is suspended for 50 games after testing positive for testosterone. The infraction will end the 2005 Cy Young Award winner's season with a 10-9 record (.526) and an ERA of 3.43 for the playoff-bound A's.
2014 Statues designed by Matt Glenn and a team of artists as a tribute to the youth sports organization are unveiled in Williamsport to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Little League. The 'Bases Loaded' project consists of ten life-sized bronze sculptures on Market Street that appear to be on a baseball diamond.

2020 An unnamed bidder purchases Mike Trout's 2009 Bowman Chrome Draft Prospects Superfractor rookie card during an online auction for $3.936 million. The one-of-a-kind item's selling price surpasses the previous record amount of $3.12 million, paid in 2016 for a 1909 Honus Wagner T-206 card.
2021 Miguel Cabrera becomes the 28th major leaguer to collect 500 career home runs when he connects off Steven Matz in the sixth inning in the Tigers' 5-3 win over the Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre. Detroit's 38-year-old DH is 46 hits shy of the 3,000 hit plateau, a milestone that will make him the seventh player to have 500 homers and 3,000 hits.

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On August 22 in Baseball History...
1886 - Just as he reaches the ball on a long hit by Jimmy Wolf, Reds center fielder Abner Powell's pants are grabbed by a stray dog. Wolf circles the bases with the homer that wins the game for Louisville 5-3 in eleven innings.
1917 - Pittsburgh's Carson Bigbee set a major-league record � since tied � with 11 at-bats in a 22-inning game against Brooklyn. Pirate Elmer Jacobs pitched 16 2/3 innings in relief. The game was also the fourth consecutive extra-inning game by the Pirates for a total of 59 innings, a National League record.
1926 - After three games with the Tigers are rained out at home, Connie Mack and Tom Shibe get a court injunction and play the first Sunday game ever seen in Philadelphia. A light rain holds the crowd to 10,000 while Lefty Grove defeats the White Sox 3-2. A court later rules that Sunday baseball is still illegal; it will be 1934 before the law changes in Philadelphia.
1933 - William Veeck, president of the Chicago Cubs, urges a midsummer series of interleague games. He also proposes a split season. While some owners are in agreement on interleague play, Washington owner Clark Griffith opposes it.
1934 - Pitcher Wes Ferrell hit two home runs to give the Boston Red Sox a 3-2 win over the Chicago White Sox in 12 innings. Trailing 2-1, Ferrell hit a home run in the eighth inning to tie the score and with two out in the 12th, Ferrell connected again for the game-winner.
1946 - Clubs approve a change to a 168-game schedule, but they will rescind the decision at another meeting September 16. Television is first recognized, with clubs given rights to their own games. Players jumping to outlaw leagues will not be allowed to apply for reinstatement for five years.
1961 - Roger Maris becomes the first player to hit his 50th home run in the month of August, as the Yankees lose to the Angels 4-3.
1965 - San Francisco's Juan Marichal, batting against Los Angeles' Sandy Koufax, complains that catcher Johnny Roseboro's return throws are too close. He then turns and attacks Roseboro with his bat. A 14-minute brawl ensues before Koufax, Willie Mays, and other peacemakers can restore order. Roseboro suffers a considerable cut on the head. Juan Marichal is suspended eight playing days and levied a National League-record $1,750 fine.
1984 - New York Mets right-hander Dwight Gooden, at 19, fanned nine San Diego Padres to become the 11th rookie to strike out 200 batters in one season.
1989 - Nolan Ryan strikes out Rickey Henderson in the fifth inning of a 2-0 loss to Oakland to become the first pitcher in major league history to strike out 5,000 batters.
Baseball Birthdays on August 22...

1857 - Hanlon, Ned
1858 - Cudworth, Jim
1859 - Becannon, Buck
1862 - Yewell, Ed
1873 - Butler, Ike
1880 - Hartley, Chick
1881 - Camnitz, Howie
1881 - Swacina, Harry
1882 - Carson, Al
1883 - Downs, Red
1888 - Bashang, Al
1889 - Schang, Wally
1891 - Felsch, Happy
1892 - Shocker, Urban
1893 - Fuhr, Oscar
1893 - Bigbee, Lyle
1897 - Clark, Bob
1899 - Lee, Dud
1909 - Keely, Bob
1911 - Fink, Herman
1916 - Kelleher, Frankie
1919 - LaManna, Frank
1919 - Freed, Ed
1930 - Ernaga, Frank
1930 - Speake, Bob
1931 - Barclay, Curt
1934 - Dagres, Angelo
1939 - Yastrzemski, Carl
1943 - Arcia, Jose
1946 - Boyd, Gary
1947 - Burbach, Bill
1949 - Bair, Doug
1950 - Burris, Ray
1951 - Hampton, Ike
1951 - Doherty, John
1952 - Beare, Gary
1956 - Gilbert, Mark
1956 - Molitor, Paul
1962 - Jackson, Darrin
1965 - Hill, Milt
1966 - Chiamparino, Scott
1968 - Scott, Gary
1969 - Pichardo, Hipolito
1971 - Schutz, Carl
1972 - Kline, Steve
1976 - Wolf, Randy
1976 - Weaver, Jeff

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