1981 – Red Sox rookie Bob Ojeda no-hits the Yankees for eight innings at Yankee Stadium before Rick Cerone and Dave Winfield lead off the 9th with back-to-back doubles. Reliever Mark Clear preserves a 2 – 1 win.
1981 – Ron Oester clips a 10th inning homer to give the Reds a 3 – 2 win over the visiting Dodgers.
1981 – The Reds send P Doug Bair to the Cards for P Joe Edelen and 2B Neil Fiala.
1981 – Dave Magadan is named MVP as West Tampa, FL, defeats Richmond, VA, 6 – 4, to win the American Legion World Series. Magadan was 11 for 24 at the plate and also pitched a complete-game win over Omaha, NE.
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela beats the St. Louis Cardinals, 5 – 0, to tie a National League record of seven shutouts by a rookie pitcher.
1981 – Milwaukee’s Jim Slaton pitches a no-hitter for eight innings, then is knocked out of the box in the 9th without retiring a batter. Two singles and a home run cut the Brewers’ lead to 5 – 3, but Rollie Fingers retires the final three batters for his 22nd save.
The Red Sox and the Mariners play nineteen innings to a 7-7 tie. The game ends with the Mariners winning 8-7, thanks to a Joe Simpson RBI triple, in twenty innings when the suspended game is resumed the following day, making it the longest game played in Fenway Park history.
1981 – The Indians’ John Denny stops Oakland, 2 – 0, for his second straight shutout.
1981 – Royals manager Jim Frey is fired and replaced by Dick Howser, whose Yankees lost to Frey’s Royals in last season’s American League Championship Series. Kansas City is 10-10 in the 2nd half of the season, 30-40 overall.
1981 – Phillies farmhand Jeff Stone steals his 121st base of the season for Spartanburg (South Atlantic League), breaking the all-time professional record set last season by Alan Wiggins. Stone will finish the season with 122 stolen bases, a record that will not last through 1982.
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