The Brewers purchase veteran P Doc Medich from the Rangers. With the addition of Medich‚ the Brewers will sell Randy Lerch to Montreal on August 14th. Doc will win 5 games for the Brewers.
1982 – Bob Lillis replaces Bill Virdon as manager of the Houston Astros. Virdon was the senior manager in the National League, having managed the Astros since 1975.
1982 – Alan Ashby cracks two solo shots off John Montefusco to lift the Astros to a 4-3 victory in San Diego. Dickie Thon figures in both of the other tallies. Don Sutton wins his 11th of the season.
1982 – Just five days after hitting three home runs in a 5 – 4 loss to the Twins, California’s Doug DeCinces hits three more home runs in a 9 – 5 win at Seattle, joining Ted Williams as the only American League players ever to hit three home runs in a game twice in the same season.
The Yankees trade 1978 play-off hero Bucky Dent to the Rangers for OF/1B Lee Mazzilli. In spite of hitting just .169, the popular Yankee infielder nearly was elected to the All-Star Game by the fans appreciative of his late-season heroics that year.
Jim Rice climbs into the Fenway Park stands from the dugout to assist a young boy who had just been hit in the head by a savage line drive foul off the bat of Dave Stapleton. The Red Sox slugger’s quick response of picking up the four year-old boy and running through the dugout to a waiting ambulance is credited with possibly saving the child’s life.
Jack Clark and Reggie Smith both homer twice in San Francisco’s 7 – 6 win over Houston. The Giants trail, 6 – 4, in the 9th inning before Clark and Smith hit back-to-back home runs to send the game into extra innings.
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After driving in the winning run in the Mets’ 7-4 victory over the Cubs, Joel Youngblood, who is traded to the Expos during the game, flies to Philadelphia and singles for Montreal to become the first player to have a hit for two different teams on the same day in different cities. The 30 year-old All-Star collects his two historic hits off two future Hall of Famers, a single off Ferguson Jenkins in Chicago, and gets his other knock off Steve Carlton in the City of Brotherly Love.
At California, Doug DeCinces cracks homers in his first three at bats, but the Angels still lose to the Twins, 5 – 4.
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