The Cubs trade vet SS Shawon Dunston to the Pirates in exchange for a player to be named.
The Cubs trade vet SS Shawon Dunston to the Pirates in exchange for a player to be named.
The Cubs trade vet SS Shawon Dunston to the Pirates in exchange for a player to be named.
The Indians acquire IF-OF Bip Roberts from the Royals in exchange for P Roland de la Maza.
Andruw Jones’s grand slam is the Braves’ tenth of the season, breaking the National League mark for bases-full home runs for a team in single season. Ironically, the record is broken in an American League park as Atlanta defeats the Red Sox at Fenway.
In front of a crowd of 55,707, Don Mattingly’s uniform number 23 is added to the list of retired numbers on the wall at Monument Park. The former Bronx Bomber first baseman, who served as captain of the team from 1991 to 1995, is the first Yankee to have his uniform number retired without having reached a World Series.
Florida scores five runs in the top of the 1st inning to jump out to a quick lead over Cincinnati, but the Reds bounce back with seven runs in the 2nd, and don’t look back. They score four more in the 5th, two in the 6th, six in the 7th, and three in the 8th to defeat the Marlins, 22 – 8. Kevin Mitchell leads the way with six runs batted in for the Reds.
The Indians obtain IF Kevin Seitzer from the Brewers in exchange for OF Jeromy Burnitz.
The Blue Jays trade OF Candy Maldonado to the Rangers in exchange for a player to be named.
Yankees OF Paul O’Neill homers in his first three at bats and drives home eight runs in leading the New Yorkers to an 11 – 6 win over California.
Minnesota OF-DH Dave Winfield is sold to the Indians. Because of the strike, Winfield won’t play for his new team until 1995.
Three-and-a-half hours of negotiations with federal mediators produces no progress in the strike, and no further talks are scheduled as the strike goes into its 4th week.
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