Braves History
1920 – Brooklyn’s Leon Cadore gives up 12 hits but coasts to a 10 – 0 shutout over the Braves.
1924 – The Brooklyn Robins take a twinbill from the Braves, sweeping their fourth doubleheader in four consecutive days. Between September 1-3, the Brooks beat the Phillies six times. Dazzy Vance chalks up his 12th straight win, and 24th on the year. Dutch Ruether then wins the nitecap, 9 – 1.
1928 – The Boston Braves start a streak of playing nine consecutive doubleheaders, establishing a major league record.
1935 – The Cards score four in the 8th, then Dizzy Dean picks up a save in the 9th to beat the Braves, 5 – 3. Jesse Haines, who fails for the 11th time to win his 200th game, is lifted after seven for Bill Walker who promptly tees up Wally Berger’s 30th homer of the year. Walker gives up two hits but is the winning pitcher.
1976 – The Reds’ Pat Zachry gives up a pair of singles in the 2nd in pitching a 5 – 1 two-hitter against the Braves.
1962 – Baseball re-defines a no-hit game as one which ends after nine or more innings with one team failing to get a hit, thereby removing 50 games from the list that had previously been considered hitless, including the 1959 performance of Harvey Haddix’s 12 perfect innings against the Braves and Jim Maloney’s 1965 1 – 0 loss to the Mets in 11 innings.
2001 – The first-place Braves draw just 3,613 fans in Montreal as they beat the Expos, 3 – 2. Andruw Jones hits a leadoff homer in the 9th for the difference. The crowd is the smallest at Olympic Stadium in 17 years.
MLB History
1966 – When 18,670 patrons show up in Cincinnati to watch the Reds lose to Los Angeles, 8 – 6, the Dodgers become the first team in major league history to attract more than two million fans at home and two million on the road.
1991 – Lou Gehrig’s 1938 Yankees road uniform brings $220,000 at a memorabilia auction in San Francisco, CA, becoming the most expensive non-card sports memorabilia item ever sold. A Honus Wagner card goes for $125,500 while an autographed Gehrig bat sells for $47,500.
2002 – The Athletics set an American League record by defeating the Royals, 12 – 11, for their 20th straight win. Oakland blows an 11 – 0 lead, but scores in the bottom of the 9th for the victory
2002 – Randy Johnson pitches a complete game in defeating the Dodgers, 7 – 1. The Diamondbacks’ ace improves to 20-5 on the year and punches out eight opponents to give him 300 or more strikeouts for the fourth straight season, the first ever pitcher to do so.
2017 – J.D. Martinez of the Diamondbacks becomes the 18th player in major league history – and second this season after Scooter Gennett – to hit four homers in one game. He connects for a two-run shot off Rich Hill in the 4th, solo homers off Pedro Baez and Josh Fields in the 7th and 8th, respectively, and a two-run blast off Wilmer Font in the 9th to tie the record. Arizona defeats Los Angeles, 13 – 0 for its 11th straight win, while the Dodgers have lost nine of their last ten.
2021 – By pitching a complete game shutout over the Cardinals, 4 – 0, Adrian Houser ends a drought of 1,011 regular season games in which a Brewers pitcher had not accomplished such a feat, dating back to Kyle Lohse in 2014. It was the longest such streak in major league history. In fact, no Brewers pitcher had managed a nine-inning complete game since Jimmy Nelson in 2017.
Information for this article was found via Baseball Reference, NationalPastime.com and Today in Baseball History.
