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Braves Franchise History
1926: Braves coach Art Devlin is riding Reds 3B Babe Pinelli. Coming off the field in the 3rd, Pinelli brushes against him. Devlin swings, starting one of the great baseball fights of the century. Police restore order, but not before Boston outfielder Frank Wilson is arrested and taken to jail for hitting a police inspector. In the 4th, Boston OF Jimmy Welsh crashes into C Val Picinich in a play at the plate. Picinich takes a poke at him, starting round two, and is ejected.
1948: In Boston, the other DiMaggio, Dom, makes two spectacular catches against the Indians as well as homering off Satchel Paige. The Red Sox beat Cleveland, 3-0, for their 15th win in 16 games. Joe Dobson tops Steve Gromek to leave the Sox percentage points ahead of the 2nd-place A’s. Cleveland and New York are each 1 1/2 games back. With the Braves in first place, it is the first time since 1916 that both Boston teams are at the top spot.
1972: The National League wins the All-Star Game, 4-3, at Atlanta behind hometown hero Hank Aaron’s two-run home run and Joe Morgan’s 10th-inning RBI single. It is the seventh time the classic has gone into extra innings.
1980: In the first game of a doubleheader split with the Atlanta Braves, Mike Schmidt hits his 25th and 26th home runs of the season to pass Del Ennis as the Phillies’ all-time home run leader with 261. The Phils win, 5-4, then fall, 3-0, to Tommy Boggs.
1992: The Braves defeat the Pirates, 1-0, despite getting only one hit. The one safety is a 2nd-inning homer by OF David Justice off Danny Jackson. Charlie Leibrandt goes eight innings for the win.
2006: Marlins rookie P Anibal Sanchez ends the Braves’ streak of 23 consecutive games with a home run in the Marlins’ 2-1 victory. The Braves streak was two shy of the National League record that they themselves set in 1997.
2010: For the second time this year, a star player is injured in a celebration after a game-winning hit. Following the Angels’ Kendry Morales’s broken leg in May, Florida’s Chris Coghlan tears a meniscus in his left knee while attempting to throw a cream pie in the face of teammate Wes Helms, who hit a walk-off single in the 11th inning for a 5-4 win over the Braves.
2011: The Pirates get another good performance from James McDonald to stay in the middle of the tight NL Central division race. McDonald strikes out nine in 5 2/3 innings, a career high and the most by a Bucs pitcher in almost two years, as the Pirates defeat the Braves, 3-1. Pittsburgh is tied with St. Louis atop the division, half a game ahead of Milwaukee.
2023: The Braves turn the first triple play of the MLB season and it comes in highly unusual fashion. The play goes 8-3-5, a combination of outs not seen since 1884, as with runners on first and second in the 3rd, CF Michael Harris II catches a fly ball hit by Triston Casas of the Red Sox and fires to 1B Matt Olson to retire Adam Duvall, who had misjudged the force with which the ball was hit. Olson then fires to 3B Austin Riley to nab Masataka Yoshida, who had tagged up and was trying to advance while the Braves were busy attending to the other runner. In spite of the triple killing, Boston wins the game handily, 7-1.
MLB History
1962: Stan Musial becomes the National League’s all-time leader in runs batted in with 1,862, driving in both of the Cardinal runs in a 5-2 loss to the Dodgers.
1977: Pete Rose singles in the 4th inning of the Reds’ 9-8 loss to the Cardinals. It is Rose’s 2,881st career hit, enabling him to surpass Frankie Frisch as the all-time leader among switch-hitters. His hit comes off Pete Falcone.
1991: A jersey once worn by Yankees Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle is sold for $71,500 at an auction in Manhattan. A Ty Cobb tobacco card brings in $62,700.
2008: Brad Ziegler throws his 25th consecutive scoreless inning, tying the record for the start of a major league career. George McQuillan set the record in 1907. Ziegler’s A’s still lose, 14-6, to the Rangers.
2012: The Phillies sign P Cole Hamels to a six-year extension worth $144 million, taking him off the market, while the Rays release veteran DH Hideki Matsui, who is hitting only .147, to ma 2016:
2008: In a rare development, the Yankees are sellers at the trading deadline as they send P Aroldis Chapman to the Cubs in return for a very rich package of prospects that includes OFs Rashad Crawford and Billy McKinney, IF Gleyber Torres and P Adam Warren. The Yankees were dealing from a position of strength, with two other top-class relievers on hand in Andrew Miller and Dellin Betances, while Chapman is headed for free agency after the season. He will re-sign with the Yankees, allowing them to have their cake and eat it too. They make room for Ryan Roberts, who was acquired in a trade yesterday.
Information for this article was found via Baseball Reference, NationalPastime.com and Today in Baseball History.