This Date in Baseball (August 2)

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This Date in Baseball - Aug. 2
Compiled by PAUL MONTELLA, By The Associated Press

1906 — The "Hitless Wonder" Chicago White Sox began their AL record 19-game winning streak with a 3-0 win over Boston. The record would be tied only by the 1947 New York Yankees.


1907 — Walter Johnson made his major league debut with the Washington Senators and lost 3-2 to the Detroit Tigers. The first hit he yielded was a bunt single by Ty Cobb. The Tigers beat "The Big Train" 7-6 exactly 20 years later on Walter Johnson Day in the nation's capital.


1933 — Mickey Cochrane of the Philadelphia A's hit for the cycle in a 16-3 win over the New York Yankees.


1938 — The Brooklyn Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals used a yellow baseball in the first game of a doubleheader as an experiment. The two teams went back to the white ball in the second game as the Dodgers swept the doubleheader 6-2 and 9-3.


1959 — Bill Bruton of Milwaukee hit three triples, including two with the bases loaded, to lead the Braves to an 11-5 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in the nightcap of a doubleheader.


1979 — New York Yankees captain Thurman Munson died in the crash of his private plane while practicing takeoffs and landings at the Canton, Ohio, airport.


1987 — Kevin Seitzer went 6-for-6, hit two homers and drove in seven runs, to pace a 20-hit Kansas City attack as the Royals beat the Boston Red Sox 13-5 in 102-degree heat.


1987 — Eric Davis led off the bottom of the 11th inning with his 30th home run of the season, to give the Cincinnati Reds a 5-4 victory over the San Francisco Giants. Davis's homer made him the seventh — and earliest player in major league history — with 30 homers and 30 steals in the same season.


1998 — The Cuban national team claimed its 22nd gold medal at the world baseball championships, beating South Korea 7-1 and extending its winning streak at the event to 41 games since 1986.


Today's birthdays: Huston Street 22; Grady Sizemore 23; Colby Lewis 26; Matt Riley 26; Matt Guerrier 27; Julio Mateo 28; Dae-sung Koo 36; Tim Wakefield 37.


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Sean Mota said:
This Date in Baseball - Aug. 2
Compiled by PAUL MONTELLA, By The Associated Press

1906 — The "Hitless Wonder" Chicago White Sox began their AL record 19-game winning streak with a 3-0 win over Boston. The record would be tied only by the 1947 New York Yankees.

Is this a modern day record? meaning after 1900, the reason I ask is because the MLB record for most wins without a loss is held by the Cincinnati Red Stockings at 130. It was 81 official games and 49 exhibition games, so if you take off the exhibition games the streak is still 81.
 
Enough with the Reds already. Hahahahaha!!!

If you have to go back to the Civil War, the record shouldn't count. :)
 
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I can't help it. I Bleed Cincinnati red.
 
ramy said:
Is this a modern day record? meaning after 1900, the reason I ask is because the MLB record for most wins without a loss is held by the Cincinnati Red Stockings at 130. It was 81 official games and 49 exhibition games, so if you take off the exhibition games the streak is still 81.


It is an AMERICAN LEAGUE record. The Reds don't count.
 

Manny Ramirez is an IDIOT!!!

JEFF FRANCOEUR, has anybody noticed this guy?

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