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Andruw’s promising start continues. Braves Franchise History
1924: In a major effort, Urban Shocker of the St. Louis Browns pitches two complete games against the Chicago White Sox and wins both with same score, 6-2. Spitball hurler Bill Doak pitches the Robins into first place with a 1-0 win over Boston. It is Brooklyn’s 15th win in a row. The streak ends in a 5-4‚ 10-inning Braves win.
1930: After losing three straight to the Braves‚ the Giants manage a sweep of Boston‚ winning 13-1 and 7-2. In the opener‚ Bill Terry hits a home run‚ Mel Ott adds three hits‚ and starter Fred Fitzsimmons chips in with two hits. Third sacker Fred Lindstrom is knocked cold by a grounder off the bat of Boston’s Buster Chatham. The Giants are now tied for second place with the Cards.
1935: St. Louis Cardinals Terry Moore has a perfect day, going 6-for-6 against the Boston Braves
1948: The Boston Braves increase their lead to four games as Warren Spahn lasts 14 innings to beat the Dodgers‚ 2-1. Spahn twice picks off Jackie Robinson in his five-hitter. In the seven-inning nitecap‚ Johnny Sain wins‚ 4-0. Bill Salkeld and Mike McCormick bat out of turn three times in the second game and not till the latter’s single in the 5th is the irregularity noticed. The umps then rule he’s out of turn and he loses his hit; Salkeld’s two earlier hits stand. The crowd of 40‚000 pushes the Braves attendance over the 1.3 million mark‚ a new high. Spahn and Sain will start 11 of the next 16 games.
1952: Sid Gordon of the Braves goes 5-for-8 in the first game of a doubleheader that goes 17 innings‚ as Boston loses, 7-6, at Philadelphia. Phils starter Robin Roberts trails 6-2 after eight innings but stays the distance, pitching 17 innings for the win. Del Ennis ends the game with a leadoff homer in the 17th. This is the third 17-inning effort in two years.
1957: In Milwaukee‚ the Cubs edge the Braves‚ 5-4‚ handing the league leaders their third straight defeat. The Braves still lead by 6 1/2 games.
1986: After hitting a record 210 homers without a grand slam‚ Atlanta’s Bob Horner finally connects with the sacks full to give the Atlanta Braves a 4-2 win over Pittsburgh. It will be his only career grand slam. Horner’s record will be broken by Sammy Sosa.
1998: Atlanta OF Andruw Jones hits his 50th career homer in a 4-0 win over the Mets. He becomes the third-youngest player in history to reach that level. Only Mel Ott and Tony Conigliaro did so at a younger age. Atlanta P John Smoltz limits the Mets to just three hits‚ while fanning an even dozen batters en route to his 14th win.
2022: With a 10-9 win over the Athletics, the Braves move into a tie with the Mets for first place in the NL East for the first time this season, after trailing them by ten and a half games on June 1st. The Braves score nine runs in the first five innings, but Kyle Wright has his worst start of the year, giving up four runs in the 3rd and another three in the 5th, when the A’s tie the score against reliever Dylan Lee. Austin Riley hits a sacrifice fly in the top of the 6th for the go-ahead run and Jesse Chavez, Raisel Iglesias, A.J. Minter and Kenley Jansen keep Oakland off the scoreboard over the last four innings to nail the win
MLB history
1948: The Pirates sweep two from the Cardinals‚ winning 2-1 and 4-1‚ and the two teams combine for just two strikeouts in the doubleheader‚ a major league record. The two also turn 13 double plays‚ eight by Pittsburgh‚ to tie a major league mark for a twinbill. Pittsburgh turns a record tying six DPs in the lidlifter to back Bob Chesnes’ 12th win as Ralph Kiner belts a two-run homer‚ his 38th‚ for all the scoring. 2B Danny Murtaugh is involved in five of the twin killings in the first game, equaling the mark first set by Detroit’s Charley O’Leary on July 23‚ 1905. Murtaugh’s hitting streak is stopped at 23 games.
1995: Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive Major League game to surpass Lou Gehrig’s 56-year-old record that had often been cited as one that would never be broken. When the game becomes official in the middle of the 5th inning, Ripken takes a victory lap around Camden Yards during the 22-minute standing ovation from the sell-out crowd, including President Bill Clinton. In the game, Ripken goes 2-for-4, including a home run, in a 4-2 win over California.
2000: After reaching an agreement with the law firm Morgan, Lewis and Bockis LLP, Major League Baseball can now use the URL www.mlb.com. The law firm registered the mlb.com in 1994 and refused to release the domain name, making it necessary for the sport to use www.majorleaguebaseball.com.
2006: The Marlins shut out the Diamondbacks, 2-0, as rookie Anibal Sanchez hurls a no-hitter. It is the first no-hitter in the majors since Randy Johnson’s perfect game on May 18, 2004. The stretch of 6,364 games between no-hitters was the longest in major league history.
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Andruw’s promising start continues. Braves Franchise History
1924: In a major effort, Urban Shocker of the St. Louis Browns pitches two complete games against the Chicago White Sox and wins both with same score, 6-2. Spitball hurler Bill Doak pitches the Robins into first place with a 1-0 win over Boston. It is Brooklyn’s 15th win in a row. The streak ends in a 5-4‚ 10-inning Braves win.
1930: After losing three straight to the Braves‚ the Giants manage a sweep of Boston‚ winning 13-1 and 7-2. In the opener‚ Bill Terry hits a home run‚ Mel Ott adds three hits‚ and starter Fred Fitzsimmons chips in with two hits. Third sacker Fred Lindstrom is knocked cold by a grounder off the bat of Boston’s Buster Chatham. The Giants are now tied for second place with the Cards.
1935: St. Louis Cardinals Terry Moore has a perfect day, going 6-for-6 against the Boston Braves
1948: The Boston Braves increase their lead to four games as Warren Spahn lasts 14 innings to beat the Dodgers‚ 2-1. Spahn twice picks off Jackie Robinson in his five-hitter. In the seven-inning nitecap‚ Johnny Sain wins‚ 4-0. Bill Salkeld and Mike McCormick bat out of turn three times in the second game and not till the latter’s single in the 5th is the irregularity noticed. The umps then rule he’s out of turn and he loses his hit; Salkeld’s two earlier hits stand. The crowd of 40‚000 pushes the Braves attendance over the 1.3 million mark‚ a new high. Spahn and Sain will start 11 of the next 16 games.
1952: Sid Gordon of the Braves goes 5-for-8 in the first game of a doubleheader that goes 17 innings‚ as Boston loses, 7-6, at Philadelphia. Phils starter Robin Roberts trails 6-2 after eight innings but stays the distance, pitching 17 innings for the win. Del Ennis ends the game with a leadoff homer in the 17th. This is the third 17-inning effort in two years.
1957: In Milwaukee‚ the Cubs edge the Braves‚ 5-4‚ handing the league leaders their third straight defeat. The Braves still lead by 6 1/2 games.
1986: After hitting a record 210 homers without a grand slam‚ Atlanta’s Bob Horner finally connects with the sacks full to give the Atlanta Braves a 4-2 win over Pittsburgh. It will be his only career grand slam. Horner’s record will be broken by Sammy Sosa.
1998: Atlanta OF Andruw Jones hits his 50th career homer in a 4-0 win over the Mets. He becomes the third-youngest player in history to reach that level. Only Mel Ott and Tony Conigliaro did so at a younger age. Atlanta P John Smoltz limits the Mets to just three hits‚ while fanning an even dozen batters en route to his 14th win.
2022: With a 10-9 win over the Athletics, the Braves move into a tie with the Mets for first place in the NL East for the first time this season, after trailing them by ten and a half games on June 1st. The Braves score nine runs in the first five innings, but Kyle Wright has his worst start of the year, giving up four runs in the 3rd and another three in the 5th, when the A’s tie the score against reliever Dylan Lee. Austin Riley hits a sacrifice fly in the top of the 6th for the go-ahead run and Jesse Chavez, Raisel Iglesias, A.J. Minter and Kenley Jansen keep Oakland off the scoreboard over the last four innings to nail the win
MLB history
1948: The Pirates sweep two from the Cardinals‚ winning 2-1 and 4-1‚ and the two teams combine for just two strikeouts in the doubleheader‚ a major league record. The two also turn 13 double plays‚ eight by Pittsburgh‚ to tie a major league mark for a twinbill. Pittsburgh turns a record tying six DPs in the lidlifter to back Bob Chesnes’ 12th win as Ralph Kiner belts a two-run homer‚ his 38th‚ for all the scoring. 2B Danny Murtaugh is involved in five of the twin killings in the first game, equaling the mark first set by Detroit’s Charley O’Leary on July 23‚ 1905. Murtaugh’s hitting streak is stopped at 23 games.
1995: Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive Major League game to surpass Lou Gehrig’s 56-year-old record that had often been cited as one that would never be broken. When the game becomes official in the middle of the 5th inning, Ripken takes a victory lap around Camden Yards during the 22-minute standing ovation from the sell-out crowd, including President Bill Clinton. In the game, Ripken goes 2-for-4, including a home run, in a 4-2 win over California.
2000: After reaching an agreement with the law firm Morgan, Lewis and Bockis LLP, Major League Baseball can now use the URL www.mlb.com. The law firm registered the mlb.com in 1994 and refused to release the domain name, making it necessary for the sport to use www.majorleaguebaseball.com.
2006: The Marlins shut out the Diamondbacks, 2-0, as rookie Anibal Sanchez hurls a no-hitter. It is the first no-hitter in the majors since Randy Johnson’s perfect game on May 18, 2004. The stretch of 6,364 games between no-hitters was the longest in major league history.
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