This date in baseball

1945 Tommy Brown, 17 years, 8 months, 14 days, of the Brooklyn Dodgers became the youngest major league player to hit a home run when he connected in Ebbets Field against Preacher Roe of the Pittsburgh Pirates.

1961 The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Milwaukee Braves 7-4 in the second game of a doubleheader to snap a 23-game losing streak, a modern record.

1974 Nolan Ryan of the California Angels struck out 19 Tigers in a 1-0, 11-inning loss to Detroit. It was the third time this season that Ryan struck out 19 batters in a game.

1985 Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets struck out 16 batters in a 3-0 victory over San Francisco. Gooden became the first National League pitcher to strike out 200 or more batters in each of his first two seasons.

1995 Jose Mesa of the Cleveland Indians picked up his 37th save in 37 opportunities, setting a major league record as the Indians beat the Milwaukee Brewers 8-5.

2004 Adrian Beltre of the Los Angeles Dodgers hit two home runs, a game-tying home run in the ninth and

a game-winner in the 11th, in a 3-2 victory over Atlanta.

2005 The Kansas City Royals ended baseball’s longest losing streak in 17 years, beating the Oakland Athletics 2-1 to snap a club-record 19-game skid.

2008 The A’s 3-1 loss to Minnesota gave them an Oakland-record 11 consecutive series defeats. The last time the A’s lost 11 series in a row was 1960, when they played in Kansas City.

2014 The San Francisco Giants became the first team since 1986 to win a protest filed with Major League Baseball. A short rainstorm caused the delay during the Aug. 19 game after the grounds crew couldn’t put the tarp down quickly. The umpires said the field was unplayable and called it after 4½ innings at 1:16 a.m. local time. The Chicago Cubs were declared the winners by a 2-0 score. MLB Executive Joe Torre ruled to resume the rain-shortened game with Chicago batting in the bottom of the fifth. The playoff-contending Giants and Cubs had a regularly scheduled game set to begin three hours later.