Braves Franchise History
1970: Reds SS Woody Woodward goes deep for his first and only major league homer, off Ron Reed in Atlanta. It comes in his 684th game. It is too little as the Atlanta Braves top the Reds, 11-9. The Reds take the nitecap, 3 – 1, scoring two runs when Pat Corrales hits a long drive that glances off the glove of Hank Aaron and over the fence for a home run. Pete Rose is 5 for 5, all singles.
1971: The Pirates again top the Braves, 5-4, behind Willie Stargell’s 30th home run of the season and his tenth off Braves’ pitching.
2009: The New York Mets deal Ryan Church to Atlanta for Jeff Francoeur in a trade of starting right fielders whose recent struggles have landed them on the bench.
2011: The Phillies put a cap on a great first half by crushing the Braves, 14-1, managing 20 hits in the process. Cole Hamels is the beneficiary of the offensive outburst, led by Raul Ibanez who has a homer and six RBI; John Mayberry Jr. pitches in with three doubles and four RBI. The Phillies are 57-34 at the All-Star break, the best mark in the majors, which also ties the team record for wins in the first half, established in 1993.
2021: In the penultimate day of games before the All-Star break, the Braves suffer a devastating injury as OF Ronald Acuña tears his ACL vainly trying to corral a fly ball off the bat of Jazz Chisholm of the Marlins, which turns into an inside-the-park homer. Acuña, who is leading the NL with 74 runs scored and was voted a starter in the All-Star Game, will need to undergo season-ending surgery.
MLB History
1936: At Forbes Field, Chuck Klein hits four home runs in one game, including the tie-breaker in the 10th, helping the Phillies defeat the Pirates, 9-6. The Indianapolis, Indiana native barely misses hitting an additional homer in the 2nd when right fielder Paul Waner catches his drive against the wall. At 36, Klein is the oldest player ever to accomplish the feat, and the first National Leaguer in the 20th century to do so.
1968: Hank Bauer is fired as manager of the Orioles. He is replaced by Earl Weaver.
1968: The American League and National League reach an agreement on next year’s expansion format. The twelve teams in each league will be split into two divisions playing a best-of-five games League Championship Series to determine the pennant winner.
1999: The Tigers defeat the Brewers, 9-3, before 25,374 fans in Detroit. This enables the club to top the one million mark in attendance for the 35th consecutive season for the longest streak in American League history. The Dodgers hold the record of 55 consecutive years.
1999: Mark McGwire’s 70th home run ball sold for almost $3 million.
2009: Jonathan Sanchez of the San Francisco Giants pitches the first major league no-hitter this season, blanking the San Diego Padres, 8-0. The Padres muster only one baserunner, on an error by 3B Juan Uribe.
2022: In the 8th inning of their game against the White Sox, Tigers outfielder Robbie Grossman drops a routine fly ball hit by Luis Robert and is charged with his first error since June 13, 2018, ending the longest errorless streak by any player at any position in major league history after 440 games. Worse, the error proves costly as Robert later comes around to score the winning run in a 4-2 ChiSox win.
Information for this article was found via Baseball Reference, NationalPastime.com and Today in Baseball History.