This date in baseball

1931 Bob Fothergill of Chicago hit a home run and a triple in an 11run eighth inning. The White Sox set an American League record by recording 12 hits in the inning and beat the New York Yankees 14-12.

1940 King Kong Keller hit three homers to give the New York Yankees a 10-9 victory over Chicago in the first game of a doubleheader split.

1951 Clyde Vollmer of Boston hit a grand slam in the 16th inning, the latest hit in a major league game. The Red Sox beat the Cleveland Indians, 8-4, in 16.

1958 For the sixth time in his career, Mickey Mantle hit home runs from both sides of the plate. New York beat the Athletics 14-7.

1971 Sixteen-time Gold Glove winner Brooks Robinson committed three errors in the sixth inning against the Oakland A’s. Frank Robinson’s three-run home run in the ninth won the game for the Orioles.

1976 John Odom (five innings) and Francisco Barrios (four innings) combined on a no-hitter as the Chicago White Sox beat Oakland 2-1.

1983 American League President Lee McPhail ruled that George Brett’s “pine tar” home run against New York on July 24 should count. The umpires had disallowed the homer because the pine tar on Brett’s bat exceeded the 18-inch limit. The rest of the game was played Aug. 18 with the Kansas City Royals beating the Yankees, 5-4.

1989 Atlanta’s Dale Murphy tied two major league records by hitting two home runs and driving in six runs in the sixth inning as the Braves beat the San Francisco Giants 10-1.

1990 Shawon Dunston tied a major league record with three triples and led the Chicago Cubs to a 10-7 victory over the Montreal Expos.

1991 Dennis Martinez pitched a perfect game, sending the Montreal Expos past Los Angeles 2-0 at Dodger Stadium.

1993 Ken Griffey Jr. tied a major league record by homering in his eighth consecutive game, but it wasn’t enough for the Seattle Mariners in a 5-1 loss to the Minnesota Twins.

1994 On the night the baseball players set an Aug. 12 strike date, Kenny Rogers of the Texas Rangers pitched a perfect game for a 4-0 victory over California.

2004 Troy Percival recorded his 300th save after John Lackey allowed three hits over 8 1-3 innings to help Anaheim beat Texas 2-0.

2006 Houston rookie Luke Scott hit for the cycle and drove in five runs, but the Astros lost to Arizona 8-7.