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Set Number: X164428 TK1
Ah, the good old days of just last year! Braves Franchise History
1922: Pittsburgh sweeps a pair from the visiting Braves, winning 8-1 and 6-1. Wilbur Cooper and Johnny Morrison are the winners. Joe Genewich makes his major league debut in relief for the Braves. Genewich jumped from the sandlots, where he was making $5 a game pitching, directly to the Braves, bypassing the minors.
1931: At Wrigley Field, the Cubs win 11-7 over the Braves when player-manager Rogers Hornsby cracks an 11th-inning pinch grand slam. This is the first extra-inning pinch grand slam in major league history. The Cubs take the second game, 8-1, behind Guy Bush’s one-hitter, his second of the year. His first was against the Cards on August 9th.
1942: Chicago Cub SS Lennie Merullo makes a major league record four errors in the 2nd inning of the nightcap against the Boston Braves. Merullo’s son is born today and is named Boots. The Cubs win, 12 - 8, after losing the first game, 10 - 6.
1951: The Cards play a rare doubleheader — the first in the 20th century — with two different teams, defeating the Giants, 6-4, in the first game in the afternoon when they score six runs against Sal Maglie in the 2nd inning. In the nightcap, against the Braves, the Cards manage just one hit — by pitcher Al Brazle — in losing to Warren Spahn, 2-0. The Cards’ total attendance is 8,865 — 4,160 for the Giants and 4,705 for the Braves. It is the first time since 1883 that a three-team twin bill has been played.
1958: The Braves’ Warren Spahn becomes the first lefty to win 20 or more games nine times, as he beats St. Louis, 8=2. Eddie Plank and Lefty Grove each won 20 games eight times.
1959: The Braves’ Red Schoendienst returns to the line-up for the first time since being diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis last November.
1972: The Reds’ Johnny Bench hits a two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th to beat the Braves, 8-6. He hit a grand slam yesterday in a 7-5 win over the Atlanta Braves, and he’ll have 11 homers and 33 ribbies for September.
2015: The Mets win their seventh straight in dramatic fashion as Daniel Murphy hits a game-tying three-run homer off Ryan Kelly of the Braves with two out in the 9th. They then score three runs in the 10th, benefiting from an ill-timed throwing error by 3B Hector Olivera, to win, 10-7. It is their first four-game sweep of the Braves since 1989, while the Braves have lost 12 straight at home for the first time since 1931.
2023: By defeating the Phillies, 4-1, the Braves clinch their sixth straight NL East division title, the first major league team to clinch this year. Austin Riley drives in three of the runs with a two-run homer and a sacrifice fly.
MLB History
1845: Alexander Cartwright presents the first set of baseball rules, 20 in total.
1962: In Kansas City’s 5-4 win over the Angels, 17-year-old Ed Kirkpatrick pinch hits in the 9th for Los Angeles. He is the youngest player in the American League since Jim Derrington, in 1956, and no one younger will debut this century in the AL.
1971: Frank Robinson of the Orioles homers in each game of a doubleheader split with Detroit, becoming the 11th member of the 500 home run club with his second shot. Amazingly, six years prior to the day, Willie Mays became the fifth member. The O’s win the opener, 9-1, behind Dave McNally’s 13th consecutive win. The Tigers use 17 hits to win the nitecap, 10-5, for Fred Scherman, who pitches 8 2/3 innings in relief of Joe Niekro.
1991: Toronto OF Joe Carter drives in a run in the Blue Jays’ 7-6 victory over the A’s, becoming the first player in history to reach the 100 plateau in three consecutive seasons with three different teams. Nine players had collected 100 RBI with three teams, but none consecutively.
2008: Francisco Rodriguez records his 58th save in the Angels’ 5-2 win over the Mariners. This breaks the record of 57 saves in a season held since 1990 by Bobby Thigpen. He will end the season with 62.
2011: Mariano Rivera becomes the second pitcher to record 600 saves, one year after Trevor Hoffman, in preserving New York’s 3-2 win over Seattle with a scoreless 9th inning. “Mo” is only one save behind Hoffman’s all-time record, as Hoffman retired after last season.
2011: It took him eight tries since he recorded his last win on July 24th, but 45-year-old Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield, the major leagues’ active win leader, finally records victory number 200. He pitches six innings and leaves with a 6 - 5 lead over the Blue Jays, then his teammates get to work padding that cushion, as the game ends 18 - 6. In the 9th inning, P Junichi Tazawa makes his return to the majors two years after an injury interrupted a promising major league debut.
2017: The Indians set a new American League record with their 21st consecutive win when they defeat the Tigers, 5-3. Detroit manages to take a 1-0 lead against Mike Clevinger in the 1st, but in the bottom of the inning, Jay Bruce hits a three-run homer off Buck Farmer and Cleveland nurses that lead until the end of the game. The win also ties the major league record of 21 consecutive wins, set by the 1935 Chicago Cubs.
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Set Number: X164428 TK1
Ah, the good old days of just last year! Braves Franchise History
1922: Pittsburgh sweeps a pair from the visiting Braves, winning 8-1 and 6-1. Wilbur Cooper and Johnny Morrison are the winners. Joe Genewich makes his major league debut in relief for the Braves. Genewich jumped from the sandlots, where he was making $5 a game pitching, directly to the Braves, bypassing the minors.
1931: At Wrigley Field, the Cubs win 11-7 over the Braves when player-manager Rogers Hornsby cracks an 11th-inning pinch grand slam. This is the first extra-inning pinch grand slam in major league history. The Cubs take the second game, 8-1, behind Guy Bush’s one-hitter, his second of the year. His first was against the Cards on August 9th.
1942: Chicago Cub SS Lennie Merullo makes a major league record four errors in the 2nd inning of the nightcap against the Boston Braves. Merullo’s son is born today and is named Boots. The Cubs win, 12 - 8, after losing the first game, 10 - 6.
1951: The Cards play a rare doubleheader — the first in the 20th century — with two different teams, defeating the Giants, 6-4, in the first game in the afternoon when they score six runs against Sal Maglie in the 2nd inning. In the nightcap, against the Braves, the Cards manage just one hit — by pitcher Al Brazle — in losing to Warren Spahn, 2-0. The Cards’ total attendance is 8,865 — 4,160 for the Giants and 4,705 for the Braves. It is the first time since 1883 that a three-team twin bill has been played.
1958: The Braves’ Warren Spahn becomes the first lefty to win 20 or more games nine times, as he beats St. Louis, 8=2. Eddie Plank and Lefty Grove each won 20 games eight times.
1959: The Braves’ Red Schoendienst returns to the line-up for the first time since being diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis last November.
1972: The Reds’ Johnny Bench hits a two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th to beat the Braves, 8-6. He hit a grand slam yesterday in a 7-5 win over the Atlanta Braves, and he’ll have 11 homers and 33 ribbies for September.
2015: The Mets win their seventh straight in dramatic fashion as Daniel Murphy hits a game-tying three-run homer off Ryan Kelly of the Braves with two out in the 9th. They then score three runs in the 10th, benefiting from an ill-timed throwing error by 3B Hector Olivera, to win, 10-7. It is their first four-game sweep of the Braves since 1989, while the Braves have lost 12 straight at home for the first time since 1931.
2023: By defeating the Phillies, 4-1, the Braves clinch their sixth straight NL East division title, the first major league team to clinch this year. Austin Riley drives in three of the runs with a two-run homer and a sacrifice fly.
MLB History
1845: Alexander Cartwright presents the first set of baseball rules, 20 in total.
1962: In Kansas City’s 5-4 win over the Angels, 17-year-old Ed Kirkpatrick pinch hits in the 9th for Los Angeles. He is the youngest player in the American League since Jim Derrington, in 1956, and no one younger will debut this century in the AL.
1971: Frank Robinson of the Orioles homers in each game of a doubleheader split with Detroit, becoming the 11th member of the 500 home run club with his second shot. Amazingly, six years prior to the day, Willie Mays became the fifth member. The O’s win the opener, 9-1, behind Dave McNally’s 13th consecutive win. The Tigers use 17 hits to win the nitecap, 10-5, for Fred Scherman, who pitches 8 2/3 innings in relief of Joe Niekro.
1991: Toronto OF Joe Carter drives in a run in the Blue Jays’ 7-6 victory over the A’s, becoming the first player in history to reach the 100 plateau in three consecutive seasons with three different teams. Nine players had collected 100 RBI with three teams, but none consecutively.
2008: Francisco Rodriguez records his 58th save in the Angels’ 5-2 win over the Mariners. This breaks the record of 57 saves in a season held since 1990 by Bobby Thigpen. He will end the season with 62.
2011: Mariano Rivera becomes the second pitcher to record 600 saves, one year after Trevor Hoffman, in preserving New York’s 3-2 win over Seattle with a scoreless 9th inning. “Mo” is only one save behind Hoffman’s all-time record, as Hoffman retired after last season.
2011: It took him eight tries since he recorded his last win on July 24th, but 45-year-old Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield, the major leagues’ active win leader, finally records victory number 200. He pitches six innings and leaves with a 6 - 5 lead over the Blue Jays, then his teammates get to work padding that cushion, as the game ends 18 - 6. In the 9th inning, P Junichi Tazawa makes his return to the majors two years after an injury interrupted a promising major league debut.
2017: The Indians set a new American League record with their 21st consecutive win when they defeat the Tigers, 5-3. Detroit manages to take a 1-0 lead against Mike Clevinger in the 1st, but in the bottom of the inning, Jay Bruce hits a three-run homer off Buck Farmer and Cleveland nurses that lead until the end of the game. The win also ties the major league record of 21 consecutive wins, set by the 1935 Chicago Cubs.
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