VINTAGE BASEBALL MEMORABILIA Vintage Baseball Memorabilia Aug 10, 1989 – At Wrigley Field‚ Jeff Parrett throws 3 scoreless innings for the win as the Philadelphia Phillies outslug the Chicago Cubs‚ 16-11. The Phillies hit 4 homers‚ including one by John Kruk‚ who scores 5 runs. The Cubs get 4 RBIs each from Ryne Sandberg…
Nolan Ryan falls short in yet another no-hit bid, giving up a one-out single to Dave Bergman in the 9th inning and eventually needing relief in a 4 – 1 win over the Tigers.
After fifteen months of recovery from cancer surgery to his arm, Dave Dravecky pitches one-hit baseball for seven innings, blanking the Reds to get the victory. The Giant bullpen holds on for a 4-3 win at Candlestick Park.
In his major league debut, former Met farmhand Mauro Gozzo blanks the Rangers for eight innings, helping the Blue Jays go over .500 for the first time since Opening Day. Toronto will eventually win the American League East.
Mauro Gozzo pitches 8 shutout innings in his major league debut as Toronto beats Texas, 7 – 0, to go over .500 for the first time since Opening Day. The Blue Jays will eventually overtake the surprising Orioles and win the AL East.
The Royals’ Flash Gordon stops the visiting Red Sox‚ 8 – 1. Sox C Rick Cerone starts the game behind the plate‚ then moves to RF for the first time in his career.
In a pregame ceremony at Fenway Park, the Red Sox retire Carl Yastrzemski’s #8. ‘Yaz’, recently inducted into the Hall of Fame, becomes only the fourth player in franchise history, joining Joe Cronin (4), Bobby Doerr (1), and Ted Williams (9), to be honored by having his uniform number retired by the club.
After 5 hours and 49 minutes of play in Pittsburgh, the Pirates’ Jeff King mercifully ends the game with an 18th-inning leadoff home run off the Cubs’ Scott Sanderson. Sanderson had pitched eight innings of shutout relief. The Pirates win, 5 – 4.
Dave Stieb retires the first 26 batters he faces before giving up two hits in a 2 – 1 win over the Yankees. The previous September, the Toronto Blue Jays’ hard luck hurler lost back-to-back no-hit bids with two outs in the ninth inning.
1989 – Cincinnati explodes for 14 runs in the first inning en route to an 18-2 massacre of the Astros. The Reds set three major league records and tie two more. Jim Clancy and Bob Forsch each allow seven tallies in the opening frame. Forsch surrenders a club-record 18 hits in his seven innings, including nine consecutive hits in the first inning. Houston hurlers surrender a team-record 26 hits.
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