This date in baseball
1922 In one of the wildest games ever played, the Chicago Cubs beat the Philadelphia Phillies 26-23. The Cubs led 25-6 in the fourth inning, but held on as the game ended with the Phillies leaving the bases loaded.
1934 Detroit’s Schoolboy Rowe (El Dorado) won his 16th consecutive game with a 4-2 victory over the Washington Senators. Rowe singled in the winning run in the ninth inning.
1967 Dean Chance of Minnesota pitched his second no-hitter of the month, defeating the Cleveland Indians 2-1. Chance pitched an abbreviated five perfect innings against Boston on Aug. 6 for a 2-0 victory.
1972 Philadelphia’s Ken Reynolds tied a National League record with his 12th consecutive loss, 6-1 to Cincinnati, from the beginning of the season.
1979 California’s Don Baylor tied a club record by driving in eight runs during a 24-2 rout of the Toronto Blue Jays. The 24 runs and 26 hits set Angel records.
1985 New York’s Dwight Gooden became the youngest pitcher ever to win 20 games with a 9-3 victory over the San Diego Padres. Gooden — at age 20 years, 9 months, and 9 days — was one month younger that Bob Feller, who won 20 games in 1939.
1998 Toronto’s Roger Clemens struck out 18 and won his 11th consecutive decision as he pitched a 3-0 three-hit victory over the Kansas City Royals.
2004 Jeff DaVanon became the first Angels player in 13 years to hit for the cycle in Anaheim’s 21-6 rout of Kansas City.
2008 Brett Myers, J.C. Romero and Clay Condrey combined on a 13-hit shutout in Philadelphia’s 5-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
2010 The Colorado Rockies overcame a nine-run deficit, matching the biggest rally in team history and stunning the Atlanta Braves 12-10 on Troy Tulowitzki’s go-ahead single in the eighth inning. Down 10-1 in the third inning, the Rockies chipped away against the National League East leader before taking the lead with four runs in the eighth.
2010 The Cincinnati Reds blew a ninerun lead, then regrouped and rallied past the Giants, 12-11, on Joey Votto’s tiebreaking single in the 12th inning. The NL Central-leading Reds took a 101 lead into the bottom of the fifth before San Francisco came back with a six-run eighth inning to take an 11-10 lead.
2011 The New York Yankees became the first team in major league history to hit three grand slams in a game, with Robinson Cano, Russell Martin and Curtis Granderson connecting in a 22-9 victory over the Oakland Athletics.
2017 Rhys Hoskins hit another home run and Cesar Hernandez ripped a threerun triple to help Philadelphia to a 7-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Hoskins has put on a tremendous power display. He has 9 home runs and 21 RBI in 16 games. No player in major league history had reached nine home runs that quickly.