This day in Braves History: John Smoltz records his 50th salvation in 2002

This day in Braves History: John Smoltz records his 50th salvation in 2002

1928 – On the Polo Grounds, the Giants take two games from the Braves, 11 – 6 and 7 – 6. Freddie Lindstrom goes 8 for 10 to go to second place, two and a half games behind St. Louis. The Giants will continue to party on Braves -Pitching and win doubleheaders from Boston on the 13th and 14th to bind the National League record for Twinbills on consecutive days.

1935 – The disastrous Cubs defeated the Lage Braves, 15 – 3. Bill Lee Coasts for the victory.

1963 – On Crosley Field, the Reds scored nine in the 4th on their way to a 14 – 3 thrashing from the Braves.

1964 – In a pitching duel between the Denny Lemaster of the Braves and the Reds’ Jim Maloney, Milwaukee scores a point in the 8th to win, 1 – 0. Gene Oliver Doubles, the second hit of the Maloney game, and scores after a double steal and fly. Leo Cardenas has the only hit by Lemaster.

1966 -Braves -Werper Pat Jarvis becomes the first of the 5,714 career -strikeout -victims of Nolan Ryan.

1977 – In Atlanta the Braves draw a triple stem from beating the Padres, 7 – 3. The thieves are Gary Matthews, Biff Pocoroba and Pat Rock.

1998 -With a defeat against the Braves, the Marlins lose their 100th game to become the first team that went from World Series champions to a 100 -game loser. The “fish” have the worst record in the competition, 48-100.

1991 – Atlantas knows Mercker, Mark Wohlers and Alejandro Pena to combine a 1 – 0 no -hitter against San Diego. It is only the second no-hitter in the history of Atlanta, after the masterpiece of Phil Niekro from 1973 about the same Padres.

2002 – The Mets and Braves are splitting a Double Header, where Atlanta won the first game, 8 – 5, and New York take the sleeping cap, 5 – 0. John Smoltz gets the save in the opener, making him the seventh pitcher in history to record 50 Saves in a season. Smoltz will establish the National League seal savings record with 55, at the top of the old brand of 53 shared by Randy Myers and Trevor Hoffman. Bobby Thigpen from Chicago set the Major League record of 57 in 1990.

2010 – A Walk – Off Home Run by Alex Gonzalez from Mitchell Boggs In the 12th inning, De Braves pushes to a 6 – 3 win over St. Louis Cardinals. With the victory, the Braves are again tied up with the Phillies on top of the NL East.

2023 – Julio RodrĂ­guez of the Mariners becomes the second player in the franchise history who becomes a member of the exclusive 30-30 club when he touches his 30th long ball of the season in an 8 – 5 loss for the angels, who have already stolen 36 bases. Only Alex Rodriguez, who had a 40-40 season in 1998, had previously achieved the performance for Seattle, while Julio is the second player to come to the club this season, after Ronald Acuna van de Braves.

1955 – Red SOX -Outfielder Ted Williams collects his 2000th career hit in a 5 – 3 loss for the Yankees.

1956 – Yogi Berra connects the Major League career record for home runs by a catcher in the 9 – 5 victory of the Yankees over Kansas City. His 236th – and the 177th of the Yankees season – connects him with Cub Great Gabby Hartnett.

1974-in Shea Stadium, the Mets lose a 25-after night match on the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-3. Ken Reitz’s Twee-Stike, two-out Thuis Run binds the game in the 9th. Two Mets errors lead to the winning run of the cardinals, starting with a wandering Pickoff -throw from Hank Webb with which Bake McBride can score all the way from the first time. The Mets go to the album 103 times, the only time that the century span has been reached in a Major League match; The cards are not far behind with 99 plate performances. A record of 175 official percussions are recorded, stranded with a Major League record 45 runners. The seven -hour marathon of four minutes is the longest game to be played for a decision in the history of the Major League. Only a thousand fans are present when the game ends at 3:13 am

1985 – Pete Rose becomes the hit leader of baseball of all time, who was singing to the left center of Eric Show in the 1st inning of the 2 – 0 victory of the Reds on San Diego. His 4,192nd career breaks the record of TY Cobb for 47,237 fans in Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium. Rose had bound the record on Wigley Field on 8 September with a single from the Reggie Patterson of the Cubs in a competition that was later suspended because of the darkness, allowing Rose to break the record at home.

2001 – All Major League Baseball matches are canceled because of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Flight #93. Games will only resume on September 17. The Blue Jays take a 12 -hour bus ride from Baltimore back to Toronto, and Yankee Stadium is evacuated as a precautionary measure. Former Minor League players Marty Boryczewski, Mark Hindy, Mike Weinberg and Brent Woodall are killed in the attacks.

2014 – Giancarlo Stanton is hit by a ball thrown by the Mike Fiers of the Brewers in the 5th inning. The best player of the Marlins suffers several facial fractures and broken teeth after immovable lying on the home plate, abundantly bleeding, for a few minutes after the beans and is taken away on a stretcher. Stanton swung on the field, so it is called a strike; Pinch-Hitter Reed Johnson completes the battling and hits a field that touches him on the hand, so that both benches are cleared. Marlins -Manager Mike Redmond and 3B Casey McGehee are both ejected to argue the decision of UMPire DJ Reyburn to name both pitches strikes. In the 6th, Miami world Anthony Desclafani is also conceived because he touches Carlos Gomez on the left elbow in a gesture that is seen as retribution; Bench coach Rob Leary also gets the heavy HO because he is now the acting manager and both banks were warned. For his part, Fiers leaves the game after he had beaten Johnson and he rejected an immediate emotional apology, in which every intention to hit Stanton denies. Incidentally, the Brewers win the game, 4 – 2.

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