– 1906-Jack Taylor of the Cubs was knocked out of the box by the Brooklyn Dodgers in the third inning thus ending a string of 187 complete games and 15 relief games that Taylor had finished without relief help.
– 1910-In a unique statistical game, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates played to an 8-8 tie. Each team had 38 at-bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, two errors, five strikeouts, three walks, one hit batsman and one passed ball. – 1931-Tony Cuccinello of the Cincinnati Reds collected six hits in six at-bats in the first game of a doubleheader at Boston. Cuccinello had a triple, two doubles and three singles to knock in five runs as the Reds won 17-3.
– 1948-Satchel Paige, at the age of 42, pitched his first major-league complete game against the White Sox. Paige gave up only five hits en route to 5-0 Cleveland victory.
– 1969-Jim Palmer of the Orioles, plagued by arm trouble the year before, no- hit the Oakland A`s, 8-0, in Baltimore.
– Today`s Birthdays: Alex Fernandez 23; Mark Lemke 27; Jay Buhner 28.
