A win’s a win.
Braves Franchise History
1982: The Atlanta Braves tie the major-league record with seven double plays in a 2-0, 14-inning win over Cincinnati. Mario Soto pitches ten shutout innings for the Reds but gets no decision. The loss starts the Reds on a streak where they’ll lose 20 out of 23 games.
1993: Atlanta OF Ron Gant fans four times against Houston’s Darryl Kile, giving him seven consecutive strikeouts, and a record-tying ten in his last three games. The Astros and Kile defeat the Braves, 3–0
1987: Tony Gwynn goes 3 for 4 in San Diego’s 8-4 win over Atlanta to raise his batting average to .387. Gwynn will finish the season at .370 to win his second National League batting title.
2000: The Atlanta Braves back off from their decision to bar from their chartered flights four team announcers who had raised questions about the catcher’s box at Turner Field. After TBS discussed the width of the catcher’s box in a game against the Brewers three days ago, Skip Caray, Pete Van Wieren, Joe Simpson and Don Sutton were kicked off a flight to Montreal and had to take a commercial flight. TBS aired a video showing the catcher’s box was four to five inches smaller than it was the previous night, when Milwaukee management complained about where Braves catcher Javy Lopez was setting up. Opposing teams have long said that Atlanta pitchers are given the benefit of an extra-wide strike zone, particularly on the outside corners.
2001: The Braves bump the slumping Phillies out of first place in the NL East with a 10-4 win over them. The Phils were 35-18 on June 1st, and led the Braves by eight games before starting their tumble. Chipper Jones drives in three runs and Odalis Perez allows two earned runs.
2009: Tim Wakefield makes his 382nd start for the Boston Red Sox, tying Roger Clemens for most in franchise history. The 42-year-old knuckleballer earns his tenth win of the year with six scoreless innings against the Atlanta Braves. Boston prevails, 1-0, with Mark Kotsay driving in the game’s only run.
MLB History
1939: The Dodgers and Bees play a 23-inning, 2-2 game at Boston, called on account of darkness after 5 hours and 15 minutes. Whit Wyatt pitches 16 innings for the Dodgers.
1990: Brewers DH Dave Parker gets his 2,500th career hit in a 5-4 win over the Yankees.
1993: Anthony Young sets a major league record losing his 24th straight decision as the Cardinals beat the Mets, 5-3.
1999: In front of 56,530 fans, the 1,765th and last major league game is played at the Kingdome with the Mariners beating the Rangers, 5-2. Ken Griffey, Jr. fittingly clouts the last homer. Griffey hit 198 of his 377 homers at the Dome. The Mariners will open their new home – Safeco Field – on July 15th.
2003: In the 50-minute bottom of the 1st inning at Fenway Park against the Marlins, the Red Sox establish a major league record by scoring ten runs before making an out. Lead-off hitter Johnny Damon, with a single, double and triple, ties a major league mark with three hits in an inning as the home team equals an American League record for most runs scored in the 1st inning with 14.
2011: Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt files for bankruptcy protection in a Delaware court, blaming Major League Baseball’s refusal to approve a long-term television deal with Fox Sports that, McCourt claims, would have solved the team’s current cash flow challenge. The Dodgers are rumored to be on the verge of failing to meet salary obligations at the end of the month, and the move seeks to make it harder for MLB to seize control of the team. The bankruptcy does not affect the team on the field, as they pound out 25 hits in a 15-0 rout of Minnesota. The 25 hits tie the club record since its move to Los Angeles in 1958. Every starter in the lineup has at least a hit, a run scored and an RBI, a first for the team. Tony Gwynn, Matt Kemp and Trent Oeltjen all have four hits – as many as the Twins. Chad Billingsley is the beneficiary of the offensive windfall.
Information for this article was found via Baseball Reference, NationalPastime.com and Today in Baseball History.