1952 – De Braves brought the Dodgers 5-5 in their last competition that represents Boston. The team will move to Milwaukee before the start of the following season.
1959 – Eddie Mathews hits his competition with a 46th home run in a 3-2 loss for the Dodgers. Ernie Banks finishes second with 45 homers.
2009 -Jair Jurrjens throws seven Shutout -innings to help the Braves to a 4-0 win over the Marlins. Atlanta has won 15 of 17.
2017 – Giancarlo Stanton Homers twice in a 7-1 win over the Braves to give him 59 for the season with three more games to play.
2019 – Pete Alonso Homers from Mike Foltynewicz in Atlanta to break the Rookie record of Aaron Judge for Homers with his 53rd of the season.
1919 – De Giants defeated the Phillies 6-1 in the shortest nine inning match in the history of the Major League, which lasted only 51 minutes.
1920 – A large jury accuses eight members of the Chicago White Sox on accusation of repairing the World Series from 1919.
1941-Ted Williams hits 6-out-8 in a double header against athletics to end the season with a stroke average of .406. Since then, no player has hit .400.
1974-Nolan Ryan throws the third of his seven career no-hitters in a 4-0 win over the twins. Ryan switches 15 and runs eight and brings his seasonal total to 202. In 1938 he joined Bob Feller as the only pitcher who runs more than 200 in a season.
1988 – Orel Hershiser throws ten Shutout -innings against De Padres and expands his series of scoreless innings to 59, so that the record of Don Drysdale was set up in 1968.
1997 – Tony Gwynn connects the record of Honus Wagner by winning his eighth Batting title of the National League. Gwynn ends up .372 and is the first player to win four since Rogers Hornby won six directly from 1920 to 1925.
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