Teheran tosses a treat against New York
Braves Franchise History
1924: With the Giants playing the Braves in Boston, the home team mixes up its batting order at the start of the game. After the leadoff batter grounds out, Ray Powell comes to the plate one spot early and also grounds out. The Giants point that out to Umpire Hank O’Day and he declares the proper batter, Les Mann, out and the inning over (in fact, Mann was properly out, but Powell should have been called to bat again, as his out was erased). The Giants beat the Braves, 4-1.
1942: Paul Waner reaches the exclusive 3000 hit club with a single off Rip Sewell. Waner, playing for the Boston Braves, collects the milestone hit against his former team, the Pittsburgh Pirates, who win the game, 7-6, in 11 innings.
1973: Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds and Willie Davis of the Los Angeles Dodgers both collect their 2,000th hits. It is a single for Rose against the San Francisco Giants and a home run for Davis against the Atlanta Braves.
2016: In one of the rare highlights for the Braves this season, Julio Teheran pitches a one-hitter for a 6-0 win as the Braves complete a three-game sweep of the Mets at Citi Field. Michael Conforto’s 3rd-inning single is the only baserunner for New York, while the resurgent Freddie Freeman matches a career-high with four hits for Atlanta.
MLB History
1893: Piggy Ward reaches base for the 17th consecutive plate appearance, an all-time major league record. Ward was traded in the middle of the streak.
1941: Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees hits in his 32nd consecutive game, en route to his 56-game hitting streak, going 3 for 3, including a home run, against the Chicago White Sox.
1977: The Cleveland Indians fire Frank Robinson, the first black manager in major league history, and replace him with coach Jeff Torborg. In 2002, the roles will be reversed when Robinson succeeds Torborg as manager of the Montreal Expos.
2012: Joel Peralta of the Rays enters a game against the Nationals in relief of David Price in the 8th inning, but is ejected before throwing a pitch for having pine tar on his glove. It is Nats manager Davey Johnson, Peralta’s former skipper, who advises umpire Tim Tschida to check the pitcher’s glove, giving rise to suspicion that the hurler may have been a habitual offender in this respect. The ejection comes with an automatic ten-game suspension. The Rays still manage to win the game, 5–4.
2015: Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees joins the 3,000 hit club with a 1st-inning homer off Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers. He becomes the 29th member of the club, and the third to do so with a long ball, after Wade Boggs and his former teammate Derek Jeter, who had been the last player to collect the milestone hit in 2011.
Information for this article was found via Baseball Reference, NationalPastime.com and Today in Baseball History.