The Crime Dog comes to Atlanta
Braves Franchise History
1961: Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock and Joe Torre of the Braves startle the Reds with a triple steal in the 6th inning. For Aaron, it is his first steal of home.
1993: The Atlanta Braves obtain 1B Fred McGriff from the Padres in exchange for minor leaguers Melvin Nieves and Donnie Elliott.
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1993: Atlanta’s Steve Avery and two relievers shut out the Pirates, 2-0, despite surrendering 13 hits, just one shy of the record for most hits allowed in a shutout.
2012: The Giants and Braves score only one run each in the first nine innings of their game, but explode in extra innings. The Giants score twice in the top of the 10th, but Santiago Casilla allows a two-out, two-run homer to Brian McCann to keep the game going. Undaunted, San Francisco puts 6 more runs on the scoreboard in the 11th, thanks to three-run homers by Brandon Crawford and Gregor Blanco. Atlanta then scores one other run in the bottom of the 11th to make the final score 9 – 4.
MLB History
1882: The Louisville Eclipse’s Tony Mullane becomes the first major leaguer to pitch both left- and right-handed in the same game; the ambidextrous ace, however, loses to the Baltimore Orioles, 9–8
1962: Minnesota is the first 20th-century club to hit two grand slams in one inning when Bob Allison and Harmon Killebrew connect in a team-record 11-run 1st inning against Cleveland. Barry Latman and Jim Perry serve the grand gophers. The Twins coast home, 14-3.
1970: San Francisco’s Willie Mays, at the age of 39, strokes a single off Montreal’s Mike Wegener for his 3,000th hit. Mays’ safety comes in his 2,639th game and he joins Hank Aaron, who stroked his 3,000th a month earlier. Aaron’s was hit in his 2,460th game. The Giants coast to a 10-1 victory.
1994: The Major League Baseball Players Association rejects the owners’ salary cap proposal as baseball moves a step closer to a strike.
1994: The Houston Astros spot the visiting St. Louis Cardinals an 11-run lead after three innings, but rally to win, 15 – 12. The Astros score 11 runs in the 6th on the way to matching the largest comeback in National League history.
2016: The last-place Minnesota Twins fire General Manager Terry Ryan. His second stint as GM of the club had begun in 2011.
2017: The trading deadline frenzy heats up two weeks early this year as the Yankees pull off a big trade, acquiring 3B Todd Frazier and RP David Robertson, two former All-Stars, as well as P Tommy Kahnle from the White Sox for P Tyler Clippard and prospects Blake Rutherford, Ian Clarkin and Tito Polo. The Diamondbacks also make a move, getting OF J.D. Martinez from Detroit for three prospects. Both trades will prove very profitable for the acquiring teams.
2023: Twelve teams score double-digit runs in today’s MLB games, something unseen since July 4, 1884, when there were 13 such instances, spread across three leagues and 24 games as a result of multiple doubleheaders. There are only 15 games played today, but these include four in which both teams score ten or more runs, setting a new record. All five teams in the AL Central score ten or more runs, only the second time this has happened in any division since 1969.
Information for this article was found via Baseball Reference, NationalPastime.com and Today in Baseball History.