1975 – Cliff Johnson pounds four hits while Cesar Cedeno and Jerry DaVanon collect three each in a 7-2 victory over St. Louis. Larry Dierker tosses a complete game for his tenth win of the year.
George Foster has 5 hits to lead the Reds to a 9 – 3 win over the visiting Cubs.
New York Yankee greats Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford are inducted into the Hall of Fame
White Sox rookie Brian Downing cracks his first major league hit‚ a home run off Detroit’s Mickey Lolich. Downing’s debut dinger is a first in the majors since at least 1945 – an inside-the-park homer. It will be matched in two years by the Giants’ Johnnie LeMaster‚ who will do it in his first at bat.
During the Old Timers’ Game played at Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle homers off his old teammate and best buddy, Whitey Ford. After launching a shot that lands foul in the upper deck, the slugger sends the southpaw’s next pitch over the fence, much to the delight of the large crowd gathered for the festivities.
The A’s defeat the White Sox, 5 – 3, on Joe Rudi’s two-run homer in the 19th inning off Stan Bahnsen. The game had been suspended after a 3 – 3 tie in 17 frames yesterday.
Skip Lockwood accounts for the only Brewer tally when he homers off Detroit’s Joe Niekro. Each starter goes 7 innings in Detroit’s 2 – 1 victory. The next homer by a Brewer pitcher will come when Milwaukee is in the National League.
Dave Roberts for the Padres and Tom Seaver for the Mets lock up in a classic pitchers duel, both pitching shutout ball for 10 innings, at which point Seaver is replaced by a pinch-hitter, having compiled 14 strikeouts. Roberts stays in the game, though, and wins a 12-inning 1 – 0 shutout when Larry Stahl hits a lead-off double in the bottom of the 12th and scores when Mets C Jerry Grote throws the ball into the outfield when he attempts to steal third base.
August 11, 1970 Hit BY FLYING LUMBER–Players from Senators and Minnesota Twins gather as plate Umpire John Odom .after he was accidentally struck in the head by. a bat that but of the hands, of Twins’ Tony Oliva during the first inning of Tuesday night’s Washington. Vintage Baseball HOT ON EBAYCard Collections ENDING SOON ON…
August 11, 1970 AFTER THE SUPER WALLOP Cincinnati’s Tony Perez his second-inning grand slam off the New York Mets Jim McAndrews is greeted at the plate following McAndrews which carried more than 500 feet into the top deck of the new Riverfront Stadium at Cincinnati. The Reds drub-bed the Mets, 8-1. Perez had hit a…
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