The Middletown Press (Middletown, CT)

ON THIS DATE

AUG. 14

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1919 — Chicago’s Happy Felsch tied the majorleagu­e record with four outfield assists in a game. The White Sox still lost to the Boston Red Sox 15-6.

1932 — Brooklyn’s John Quinn, at 49, became the oldest pitcher to win a major league game. Quinn pitched the last two innings of a 2-1, 10-inning win over New York.

1933 — Jimmie Foxx of the Philadelph­ia Athletics hit for the cycle and drove in nine runs in an 11-5 win over the Cleveland Indians.

1937 — The Detroit Tigers scored 36 runs (16-1 and 20-7) against the St. Louis Browns in a doublehead­er sweep to set major league record. Pete Fox of the Tigers scored eight of the runs in the doublehead­er.

1958 — Vic Power of the Cleveland Indians stole home twice, the 8th and 10th innings, in a 10-9 win over Detroit. He had only three steals all year.

1960 — Bill White of the St. Louis Cardinals hit for the cycle in a 9-4 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates in the opening game of a doublehead­er.

1971 — St. Louis Cardinal Bob Gibson pitched a no-hitter, blanking the Pittsburgh Pirates 11-0.

1987 — Oakland’s Mark McGwire set a major league rookie record with his 39th homer of the season to help the A’s to a 7-6, 12-inning victory over the California Angels.

1998 — Baltimore’s Chris Hoiles became the ninth major leaguer and first catcher to hit two grand slams in one game. Hoiles homered in the third inning off Charles Nagy and in the eighth against Ron Villone to lead the Orioles to a 15-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians.

2002 — Trevor Hoffman became the first reliever in major league history to have 30 or more saves in eight straight seasons in San Diego’s 6-2 win over the New York Mets.

2007 — Atlanta manager Bobby Cox set a dubious record in the Braves’ 5-4 victory over San Francisco. Cox was tossed after the fifth for arguing a called third strike — the 132nd ejection of his career to break the mark originally set by Hall of Famer John McGraw.

2008 — Chicago’s Jim Thome, Paul Konerko, Alexei Ramirez and Juan Uribe hit consecutiv­e homers in the sixth inning to tie a major league record and the White Sox beat Kansas City 9-2.

2009 — Baltimore’s Felix Pie became the fourth player in Orioles history to hit for the cycle in a 16-6 rout of the Los Angeles Angels.

2013 — Alfonso Soriano homered twice for the second straight night and drove in a career-high seven runs, giving him a staggering 13 RBIs in two games while powering the New York Yankees to an 11-3 victory over the Los Angeles Angels.

2015 — Matt Kemp hit a triple in the ninth for the first cycle in San Diego Padres history and they went on to win 9-5 over the Colorado Rockies.

2016 — Mookie Betts hit three home runs and drove in a career-best eight runs, joining Hall of Famer Ted Williams as the only Red Sox players in over 100 years with a pair of three-homer games in a season and powering Boston over the Arizona Diamondbac­ks 16-2.

Today’s birthdays: Josh E. Bell, 26

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