Bologna takes the Italian Series in five games over T&A San Marino, with a 16 – 2 romp in the finale. Claudio Liverziani goes 8 for 14 with 8 walks and 6 RBI for a 1.537 OPS, winning MVP honors. Just over a week later, the Italian Baseball Federation will suspend Liverziani for a positive amphetamine test during the playoffs.

Cliff Lee continues to dominate since the Phillies acquired him from Cleveland at the trading deadline. He pitches a two-hitter in an 8 – 1 win over Arizona, after taking a no-hitter into the 6th inning. It is his 4th win and 2nd complete game in four starts since the trade.

Catcher Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez is traded from the Houston Astros to the Texas Rangers for a minor leaguer and a player to be named later, coming back to the team for which he started his superlative career.

Jamie Moyer pitches 6 scoreless innings in relief as Philadelphia defeats Arizona, 5 – 1. After a rain delay, Moyer takes over for the man who has shunted him from the starting rotation, Pedro Martinez. It is the veteran Moyer’s first relief appearance since he was called in to pitch in an 18-inning game for Seattle in 2004.

The Florida Marlins’ Ricky Nolasco pitches his second career complete game against the Houston Astros, allowing 2 earned runs and 3 hits. Nolasco retires 23 consecutive batters after allowing a two-run home run to Carlos Lee. He does not allow another baserunner until Michael Bourn gets an infield hit with one out in the 9th inning.

Stephen Strasburg, the first overall pick in the 2009 amateur draft, signs a record-breaking deal with the Washington Nationals, at “11:58 and 43 seconds”, according to team president Stan Kasten. The deadline for signing was midnight. The four-year deal will pay the right-handed pitcher $15.1 million over four years.

The Tigers obtain slugging 1B Aubrey Huff from the Orioles in a trade for Brett Jacobson. Huff is hitting .253 with 13 homers and 72 RBI.

Derek Jeter, with his 3-for-4 performance in the Yankees’ 10-3 loss in Seattle, passes Luis Aparicio for the most hits ever compiled by a major league shortstop. The New York infielder, collecting career hits #2,673 and #2,674 his first two at-bats, surpasses the Hall of Famer’s total, who spent his 18-year career, ending in 1973, with the White Sox, Orioles, and Red Sox.

The Angels score 9 runs in the 13th inning against Baltimore, in a 17 – 8 victory marking Torii Hunter’s return after more than a month spent on the disabled list. Hunter lines into a bases-loaded double play in the 11th, but redeems himself in the 13th with a dribbler up the middle in the same situation which opens the floodgates. Juan Rivera hits a three-run home to cap the onslaught.

One day after being hit in the head by a pitch, the Rangers’ Ian Kinsler homers and drives in two runs in Texas’s 4 – 3 win over Boston. Dustin Nippert is the winner and Frank Francisco records the save in a game that pushes Texas a half-game ahead of Boston in the American League wild card race.