<img alt="Atlanta Braves v Houston Astros" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Gfr7c8DhSWWpL3FKj4wpfMBEHbE=/0x15:3600x2415/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/73611976/152865644.0.jpg">
Phil beats his brother Joe and they both end up going down in baseball history. Braves Franchise History
1912: The Giants clinch the National League flag with a sweep of the Braves, winning, 8-3 and 4-0. Christy Mathewson coasts to his 23rd win in the opener and Al Demaree, recently called up from Mobile where he was 25-10, shuts out the Braves on seven hits in the nitecap. Demaree strikes out nine in his first major league start.
1914: At Fenway Park, the Braves roll over the Cubs, 6-2 and 12-2. Lefty Tyler tops Hippo Vaughn in the opener, and Otto Hess beats Larry Cheney in the second game. The red hot Braves will sweep the four-game series with the Cubs.
1917: The Braves’ Jesse Barnes tops the Reds, 1-0, in the first of two games. Art Nehf follows with a 3-0 win to sweep Cincinnati.
1942: Youngsters, admitted free for bringing scrap metal to aid the war effort, get restless and invade the field at the Polo Grounds in the 8th inning of the second game with the Giants leading, 5-2. Umpire Ziggy Sears forfeits the game, 9-0, to the Braves. Boston P Warren Spahn is not charged with a loss, although he was losing at the time of the forfeit. But he is given credit for a complete game, his only one in four appearances for the year.
1950: Phils relief ace Jim Konstanty makes his 71st appearance, a major-league record, in the Phils’ 8-7 win over the Braves in front of 1,987 Boston fans.
1951: The Giants stay one game behind the Dodgers as Jim Hearn tops the Phillies, 10-1, and the Dodgers crush the Braves, 15-5. Roy Campanella drives home three runs in the 1st inning and Don Newcombe coasts to his 19th win. With a 13-3 lead in the 8th inning, Jackie Robinson steals home against rookie P Lew Burdette, infuriating the Braves.
1959: At Milwaukee the Braves beat the Phillies, 3-2, behind Warren Spahn’s 21st win. He passes Eppa Rixey as the winningest lefty in National League history.
1964: At Shibe Park, the Braves and Phillies set a major league record by using 43 players in a nine-inning game. The Braves’ 25 match the nine-inning high mark for National League clubs. Eight of the 25 are pitchers, tying a league mark, but still the stumbling Phils drop their sixth in a row, 6-4. The topper is Rico Carty’s three-run triple in the top of the 9th against reliever Bobby Shantz, in for starter Art Mahaffey. Joe Torre again has three hits for Milwaukee, which shaves the Phils’ lead to a half-game.
1965: The Braves overcome Juan Marichal to beat the Giants, 3-2. Don Drysdale shuts out the Cards, 1-0, topping the 200 mark in strikeouts for a National League-record sixth straight season. The Giants and Dodgers are now deadlocked with seven games to play.
1973: In front of a home crowd of 4,804, Jim Colborn wins his 20th for the Brewers, defeating the Yankees, 5-2. George Scott chips in with two RBIs, giving him 100 for the year. Colborn is the Brewers’ first 20-game winner and the first in Milwaukee since Tony Cloninger did it for the Braves in 1965.
1979: Atlanta’s Phil Niekro notches his 20th win of the season by beating his brother Joe, the National League’s only other 20-game winner this season, 9-4. The Niekro brothers are the second pair (the other was Jim Perry and Gaylord Perry) to win 20 games in the same year, and Phil Niekro, who finishes at 21-20, is the first pitcher since Wilbur Wood in 1973 to win and lose 20 games the same year, and the first NL pitcher to do so since 1905. No one has done it since.
1982: Down 1-0 to the Atlanta Braves in the 3rd, Padres OF Gene Richards hits a long fly ball down the left field line that Terry Harper spears at the last second. But Harper’s momentum carries him out of bounds where he hits the railing, dropping the ball. Meanwhile the speedy Richards circles the bases. The umpire rules Harper did not hold the ball long enough for an out and he is charged with a four-base error (later overruled by the League office to an inside-the-park home run for Richards). The Padres win the game, 3-2.
1997: In the 7th at Shea Stadium, Atlanta SS Rafael Belliard hits his first homer in a decade, off Brian Bohanon, to tie the Mets at 6 apiece. His last came on May 5, 1987, off Eric Show of the Padres. Atlanta wins, 7 - 6, in 11 innings.
2000: The Braves defeat the Mets, 7 - 1, to clinch first place in the NL East for their record ninth straight division title (not counting 1994 when they were in second place when the strike ended the season early).
2009: The Dodgers also clinch a spot in the postseason with an 8 - 4 victory over Pittsburgh, highlighted by a two-run pinch single by Jim Thome. Manager Joe Torre leads a team to the playoffs for the 14th straight year, tying a record held by Bobby Cox of the Atlanta Braves.
2023: RF Seiya Suzuki of the Cubs commits a crucial error, dropping a routine fly ball that would have ended the 8th inning, instead opening the doors for Atlanta to score twice and win, 7-6. The loss clinches the NL Central title for the Brewers, in spite of a 4-1 loss to St. Louis. The Cubs led 6-0 in the middle of the 6th and can’t really blame Suzuki, as he had been red hot that month, slugging .731 in 24 games.
MLB history
1896: Cleveland’s Jesse Burkett gets three hits to finish the season at .410. The “Crab” becomes the first player to hit .400 in consecutive seasons.
1906: After setting a major league record of being shut out for 48 consecutive innings, the A’s finally score a run thanks to Harry Davis’ two-run double. The Mackmen, however, still lose to the Cleveland Naps, 5-3.
1971: Ernie Banks gets his 2,583rd hit, a 1st-inning single off the Phils’ Ken Reynolds, but the Cubs lose, 5-1. It is the last hit of Banks’s 19-year major league career.
1973: Yutaka Fukumoto steals his 105th base of the season, breaking Maury Wills’ modern world record.
1998: The Yankees defeat the Devil Rays, 3-1, for David Cone’s 20th win of the year. Cone sets a record for the most years (ten) between 20-win seasons, having won 20 for the Mets in 1988. Jim Kaat held the previous record at nine. Shane Spencer homers, his sixth in nine days and his seventh in the month, a Yankee rookie record.
2007: Michael Young collects 200 hits for the fifth year in a row, matching the record held by Charlie Gehringer for a middle infielder.
2013: Bud Selig announces that he will step down as Commissioner at the end of 2014, having been in the job in an acting capacity since 1992 and formally since 1998.
Information for this article was found via Baseball Reference, NationalPastime.com and Today in Baseball History.
<img alt="Atlanta Braves v Houston Astros" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Gfr7c8DhSWWpL3FKj4wpfMBEHbE=/0x15:3600x2415/1310x873/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/73611976/152865644.0.jpg">
Phil beats his brother Joe and they both end up going down in baseball history. Braves Franchise History
1912: The Giants clinch the National League flag with a sweep of the Braves, winning, 8-3 and 4-0. Christy Mathewson coasts to his 23rd win in the opener and Al Demaree, recently called up from Mobile where he was 25-10, shuts out the Braves on seven hits in the nitecap. Demaree strikes out nine in his first major league start.
1914: At Fenway Park, the Braves roll over the Cubs, 6-2 and 12-2. Lefty Tyler tops Hippo Vaughn in the opener, and Otto Hess beats Larry Cheney in the second game. The red hot Braves will sweep the four-game series with the Cubs.
1917: The Braves’ Jesse Barnes tops the Reds, 1-0, in the first of two games. Art Nehf follows with a 3-0 win to sweep Cincinnati.
1942: Youngsters, admitted free for bringing scrap metal to aid the war effort, get restless and invade the field at the Polo Grounds in the 8th inning of the second game with the Giants leading, 5-2. Umpire Ziggy Sears forfeits the game, 9-0, to the Braves. Boston P Warren Spahn is not charged with a loss, although he was losing at the time of the forfeit. But he is given credit for a complete game, his only one in four appearances for the year.
1950: Phils relief ace Jim Konstanty makes his 71st appearance, a major-league record, in the Phils’ 8-7 win over the Braves in front of 1,987 Boston fans.
1951: The Giants stay one game behind the Dodgers as Jim Hearn tops the Phillies, 10-1, and the Dodgers crush the Braves, 15-5. Roy Campanella drives home three runs in the 1st inning and Don Newcombe coasts to his 19th win. With a 13-3 lead in the 8th inning, Jackie Robinson steals home against rookie P Lew Burdette, infuriating the Braves.
1959: At Milwaukee the Braves beat the Phillies, 3-2, behind Warren Spahn’s 21st win. He passes Eppa Rixey as the winningest lefty in National League history.
1964: At Shibe Park, the Braves and Phillies set a major league record by using 43 players in a nine-inning game. The Braves’ 25 match the nine-inning high mark for National League clubs. Eight of the 25 are pitchers, tying a league mark, but still the stumbling Phils drop their sixth in a row, 6-4. The topper is Rico Carty’s three-run triple in the top of the 9th against reliever Bobby Shantz, in for starter Art Mahaffey. Joe Torre again has three hits for Milwaukee, which shaves the Phils’ lead to a half-game.
1965: The Braves overcome Juan Marichal to beat the Giants, 3-2. Don Drysdale shuts out the Cards, 1-0, topping the 200 mark in strikeouts for a National League-record sixth straight season. The Giants and Dodgers are now deadlocked with seven games to play.
1973: In front of a home crowd of 4,804, Jim Colborn wins his 20th for the Brewers, defeating the Yankees, 5-2. George Scott chips in with two RBIs, giving him 100 for the year. Colborn is the Brewers’ first 20-game winner and the first in Milwaukee since Tony Cloninger did it for the Braves in 1965.
1979: Atlanta’s Phil Niekro notches his 20th win of the season by beating his brother Joe, the National League’s only other 20-game winner this season, 9-4. The Niekro brothers are the second pair (the other was Jim Perry and Gaylord Perry) to win 20 games in the same year, and Phil Niekro, who finishes at 21-20, is the first pitcher since Wilbur Wood in 1973 to win and lose 20 games the same year, and the first NL pitcher to do so since 1905. No one has done it since.
1982: Down 1-0 to the Atlanta Braves in the 3rd, Padres OF Gene Richards hits a long fly ball down the left field line that Terry Harper spears at the last second. But Harper’s momentum carries him out of bounds where he hits the railing, dropping the ball. Meanwhile the speedy Richards circles the bases. The umpire rules Harper did not hold the ball long enough for an out and he is charged with a four-base error (later overruled by the League office to an inside-the-park home run for Richards). The Padres win the game, 3-2.
1997: In the 7th at Shea Stadium, Atlanta SS Rafael Belliard hits his first homer in a decade, off Brian Bohanon, to tie the Mets at 6 apiece. His last came on May 5, 1987, off Eric Show of the Padres. Atlanta wins, 7 - 6, in 11 innings.
2000: The Braves defeat the Mets, 7 - 1, to clinch first place in the NL East for their record ninth straight division title (not counting 1994 when they were in second place when the strike ended the season early).
2009: The Dodgers also clinch a spot in the postseason with an 8 - 4 victory over Pittsburgh, highlighted by a two-run pinch single by Jim Thome. Manager Joe Torre leads a team to the playoffs for the 14th straight year, tying a record held by Bobby Cox of the Atlanta Braves.
2023: RF Seiya Suzuki of the Cubs commits a crucial error, dropping a routine fly ball that would have ended the 8th inning, instead opening the doors for Atlanta to score twice and win, 7-6. The loss clinches the NL Central title for the Brewers, in spite of a 4-1 loss to St. Louis. The Cubs led 6-0 in the middle of the 6th and can’t really blame Suzuki, as he had been red hot that month, slugging .731 in 24 games.
MLB history
1896: Cleveland’s Jesse Burkett gets three hits to finish the season at .410. The “Crab” becomes the first player to hit .400 in consecutive seasons.
1906: After setting a major league record of being shut out for 48 consecutive innings, the A’s finally score a run thanks to Harry Davis’ two-run double. The Mackmen, however, still lose to the Cleveland Naps, 5-3.
1971: Ernie Banks gets his 2,583rd hit, a 1st-inning single off the Phils’ Ken Reynolds, but the Cubs lose, 5-1. It is the last hit of Banks’s 19-year major league career.
1973: Yutaka Fukumoto steals his 105th base of the season, breaking Maury Wills’ modern world record.
1998: The Yankees defeat the Devil Rays, 3-1, for David Cone’s 20th win of the year. Cone sets a record for the most years (ten) between 20-win seasons, having won 20 for the Mets in 1988. Jim Kaat held the previous record at nine. Shane Spencer homers, his sixth in nine days and his seventh in the month, a Yankee rookie record.
2007: Michael Young collects 200 hits for the fifth year in a row, matching the record held by Charlie Gehringer for a middle infielder.
2013: Bud Selig announces that he will step down as Commissioner at the end of 2014, having been in the job in an acting capacity since 1992 and formally since 1998.
Information for this article was found via Baseball Reference, NationalPastime.com and Today in Baseball History.
Link to original article
