1993 – Boston P Danny Darwin hurls a one-hit, 5 – 0 shutout over the visiting White Sox. Dan Pasqua’s triple with one out in the 8th inning is Chicago’s only safety.
1991 – Toronto’s first two hitters – Devon White and Roberto Alomar – hit home runs off Detroit’s Bill Gullickson in the Blue Jays’ 4 – 2 win. Gullickson teed up twin leadoff homers once before, in the National League.
1990 – Franklin Stubbs is the offense as Houston trips the Cardinals in 11 innings, 3-2. Stubbs doubles home Eric Yelding in the first inning, smashes a solo shot off Lee Smith in the ninth, then singles off Frank DiPino in the 11th. He steals second then scores on a base hit by Mark Davidson. Stubbs’ four hits account for half of the Astros’ output.
Andre Dawson gets his 2,000th career hit in the Cubs’ 6 – 5 loss to Houston. Houston scores twice in the 9th against four Cub relievers. After the game, the Astros trade Billy Hatcher, who has a pinch single in the 9th today, to the Pirates for Glenn Wilson.
With his third-inning single off Jim Clancy, Jerome Walton extends his consecutive-game hitting streak to 28 games in a 6-5 loss to Houston at the Astrodome. The 24 year-old freshman outfielder ties a modern Cubs’ record established by Ron Santo in 1966.
The Orioles’ Cal Ripken passes Steve Garvey for the third-longest consecutive games streak by playing in his 1,208th straight game.
Dallas Green is fired as manager of the Yankees and replaced by former SS Bucky Dent. It is the 17th time the Yankees have changed managers since George Steinbrenner took over the club in 1973. The 1978 play-off hero loses his managerial debut to the Tigers in Detroit, 7 – 3.
In a 9 – 2 Toronto win, Baltimore SS Cal Ripken plays in his 1,208th consecutive game, passing Steve Garvey for the 3rd longest streak in major league history; George Bell leads Toronto with two singles, a double and a home run.
1984 – Detroit’s Juan Berenguer goes 8 1/3 innings and strikes out 12 to give the Tigers a 4 – 3 victory over the Mariners. Kirk Gibson drives in three runs with his 20th homer of the year, and becomes the first Tiger ever to reach 20 in both homers and steals. Gibson’s homer is his 15th game-winning RBI this year.
On August 18, 1983, In the continuation of the “Pine Tar Game”, Hal McRae strikes out for the last Kansas City Royals out and Dan Quisenberry retires the New York Yankees in order in the bottom of the 9th to preserve the Royals’ 5 – 4 victory. The conclusion takes just 12 minutes (and 16…
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