Adam Wainwright tosses a two-hit shutout for the Cardinals for his 16th win of the year, as St. Louis defeats Florida, 7 – 0. Albert Pujols hits a three-run homer off Ricky Nolasco in the top of the 1st, and the Cards never look back.

The Atlanta Braves honor pitcher Tom Glavine by retiring his uniform number 47 before today’s game with the Giants. San Francisco wins the game, 3 – 2, in 11 innings. They manage to tie the score in the 9th and score the winning run in the 11th without the benefit of any hits, taking advantage of two Braves errors in the 9th, and using a trio of walks and a sacrifice fly to score the game winner. Brian Wilson records the final out for his 32nd save at 12:32 a.m. after rain showers delay the start of the game by 90 minutes.

In a 15-minute pregame ceremony delayed by rain at Turner Field, the Braves retire Tom Glavine’s uniform number 47. The southpaw, who won 244 of his 305 career victories with the organization, including five seasons with 20 or more wins, was inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame earlier in the day at a luncheon.

In the top of the ninth, the Twins recover from blowing a 6-0 lead, when Jason Kubel’s two-out pop up lands behind the pitcher’s mound untouched by the Rays’ middle infielders for the go-ahead single in the team’s eventual 8-6 victory. The odd play, a result of the ball ricocheting off a catwalk and changing direction 190 feet above Tropicana Field, will prompt a change of the ground rules for postseason games played in Tampa Bay.

A routine pop-up by Jason Kubel with two outs in the 9th hits a catwalk high above Tropicana Field and lands safely behind the pitcher’s mound to give Minnesota the lead on its way to an 8 – 6 win. The freak hit negates a six-run comeback by the Rays in the 8th, capped by Jason Bartlett’s pinch grand slam. After the loss, manager Joe Maddon lets out his frustration with his home ballpark: “There’s a crying need for a real baseball field to be built”, he tells the St. Petersburg Times.

In the early hours of the morning, the group led by Nolan Ryan and Chuck Greenberg is confirmed as the winning bidder in the court-ordered auction of the Texas Rangers, part of the bankruptcy proceedings for owner Tom Hicks’s sports properties group. The winning bid, valued at $385 million in cash, beats one from Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association; its total value reaches $593 million when the portion of Hicks’s debts assumed by the new owners is taken into account.

The Phillies obtain Mike Sweeney from the Mariners for a player to be named later or cash considerations. The deal is necessitated for Philadelphia when their All-Star first baseman Ryan Howard is put on the disabled list with a severely sprained ankle.

Vicente Padilla throws a two-hit shutout as the Dodgers beat the Padres, 9 – 0. Padilla uses mainly slow breaking balls, including his version of the eephus pitch, to mystify San Diego’s batters, keeping them hitless until one out in the 7th. But it’s not all good news for the Dodgers: before the game, C Russell Martin is placed on the disabled list because of a torn musle in his right hip and will be out for the remainder of the year.