Taking a cab to Shea Stadium from nearby LaGuardia Airport, Mets starting pitcher Tom Glavine is injured as the taxi collides with an SUV. The 38-year old two-time Cy Young Award winner loses his front two teeth and needs over 40 stitches to close facial lacerations.

2005 – Arbitrator Shyam Das rules Kenny Rogers, who has missed 13 games, should be reinstated. The decision states the punishment handed down by Bud Selig for shoving two cameramen went too far in suspending the Ranger pitcher for 20 games and in levying an excessive $50,000 fine.

The Rockies and Marlins play a doubleheader‚ necessitated by a snowout on April 27th and 28th. The Rockies start two Kims‚ Sunny and Byung-Hyun and win, 4 – 3 and 5 – 3. Sunny Kim was picked up on waivers August 5th from the Nationals. The opener is won in the 11th on Dustan Mohr’s walk-off homer with two out. In the second game, Byung-Hyun Kim pitches 7 strong innings for the win. Danny Ardoin hits a two-run home run in the bottom of the 6th for the lead. The last time two pitchers with the same name started in a doubleheader was in 1974‚ when the Cleveland Indians started brothers Gaylord and Jim Perry against the Boston Red Sox.

The Tigers defeat the Blue Jays‚ 9 – 8‚ in 12 innings. Alex Rios gets 5 hits for Toronto‚ including a home run, in a losing cause.

In the battle of the Zambranos, the Mets’ Victor is victorious when he defeats Carlos and the Cubs at Shea Stadium, 6-1. In addition to sharing the same last name, the two Venezuelan pitchers, who are not related, also wear the same number (38), enter the game with the same number of career wins (41), play for teams which started the series with the same record (54-54), as well as being both switch hitters and throwing right-handed.

On the main concourse in left field at U.S. Cellular Field, the White Sox unveiled a life-sized bronze statue of Carlton Fisk. The Hall of Fame catcher, who played for the ChiSox from 1981 to the end of his career in 1993, joins team founder Charles A. Comiskey and Cuban legend Minnie Minoso, who have also been honored with statues in the Chicago ballpark.

Albert Pujols becomes the first player to connect for 30 home runs in each of his first five big league seasons. The Cardinals first baseman has hit 190 homers during this five-year span from the start of his career in 2001, equaling Eddie Mathews’ total (1952-56) and with 25 fewer than Ralph Kiner (1946-1950).

After the team goes into a free fall from first place, the Orioles fire manager Lee Mazzilli (129-140) and replace him with bench coach Sam Perlozzo on an interim basis. Currently suffering an eight-game losing streak, the Birds have dropped 16 of their last 18 games.

Joe Garagiola Jr., the first and only general manager in Diamondback history, announces he will be leaving Arizona to take a job with the commissioner’s office. The son of the former Cardinal catcher and national broadcaster Joe Garagiola will become the senior vice president of baseball operations of Major League Baseball, beginning on August 15th.

During an interview on MLB.com, Barry Bonds admits his injured right knee will most likely keep him from playing this season. The 41-year-old Giants slugger needs 12 home runs to pass Babe Ruth (714) and 54 to go ahead of Hank Aaron (755) to become the all-time home run leader. Bonds will return for a few games in September and will break Aaron’s record in 2007.