The Braves legend reaches a major milestone.
Braves Franchise History
2008: Atlanta Braves 3B Chipper Jones hits his 400th career home run, becoming the third switch-hitter to reach this level, after Eddie Murray and Mickey Mantle. Ricky Nolasco gives up the homer. Jones has a four-hit game to move his average to .418, the top mark in the majors at this point of the season. The Braves top the Marlins, 7-5.
MLB History
1982: Cal Ripken’s span of 8,243 consecutive innings begins with the Orioles’ 3-1 victory over Minnesota at the Metrodome. The infielder’s record streak, which will last for 904 games, will end when he is lifted in the 8th inning for a pinch runner during an 18-3 September loss to the Blue Jays in 1987.
2003: Tony Clark changes his uniform number from 00 to 52. The Mets reserve player wants to give back to the team’s mascot, Mr. Met, his identity, as he and the congenial baseball-headed character shared double-digit ought.
2005: For the first time since 1933, a big league team representing Washington, D.C. finds itself in first place at this point into the season when the Nationals take the top spot in the National League East. With the team playing so well, it takes the recently transplanted Nats only 32 games to attract 1,056,642 fans to RFK Stadium, breaking the District’s attendance mark of 1,027,216 that was set in 1946 by the original Senators at Griffith Stadium.
2013: The White Sox and Mariners engage in a 16-inning contest, which is the longest home game in terms of time in M’s history, at 5 hours, 42 minutes. The game is scoreless through 13 innings, until the ChiSox post five runs in the 14th. With the score 5-1 in the bottom of the inning, Kyle Seager ties the game with his first career grand slam. This is the first game-tying extra-inning grand slam in Major League history. It also marks the first time that both teams have scored five or more runs after being shut out in regulation innings. In addition, it is the first time that any team has come back from five or more runs down in the 14th inning or later. An RBI single by Alejandro De Aza in the 16th inning puts the Pale Hose ahead, and he later scores an insurance run on another single by Alex Rios. Chicago wins, 7-5, snapping an eight-game losing streak the hard way.
2015: Pat Venditte becomes the first ambidextrous pitcher of the 21st century when he makes his debut for the Athletics against the Red Sox. In the 7th inning, he pitches lefthanded to get Brock Holt to ground out for the first out, then switches to the right hand to allow a single to Hanley Ramirez and force Mike Napoli to ground into a double play to end the inning. He then follows with a perfect 8th inning. However, the Sox’s 4-2 win is marred when a female fan is hit by Brett Lawrie’s broken bat in the 2nd inning and has to be wheeled away from Fenway Park on a stretcher with what are described by police as life-threatening injuries
Information for this article was found via Baseball Reference, NationalPastime.com and Today in Baseball History.