1906: On their way to the AL pennant, the White Sox beat Washington 4-1 for their 19th straight victory.
1931: Lefty Grove of the Philadelphia Athletics was beaten 1-0 by Dick Coffman of the St. Louis Browns, snapping a personal 16-game winning streak.
1936: In his first major league start, 17-year-old Bob Feller struck out 15 Browns as Cleveland beat St. Louis 4-1.
1989: Rick Dempsey’s leadoff homer in the 22nd inning gave Los Angeles a 1-0 victory over Montreal in the second-longest shutout in major league history.
1992: There were no hits in Clearwater’s 1-0 victory over Winter Haven in the Class A Florida State League. In what appeared to be the first professional game in 40 years without a hit, the Phillies beat the Red Sox. The only run scored in the seventh inning on a pair of walks and a pair of sacrifice bunts.
1998: Sammy Sosa of the Cubs hit his 50th and 51st homers against the Houston Astros. Mark McGwire hit his 53rd at Pittsburgh, marking the second time two NL hitters hit 50 HRs in the same season. In 1947, Ralph Kiner of Pittsburgh and the New York Giants’ Johnny Mize tied for the league lead with 51 each.
1998: San Francisco’s Barry Bonds became the first player in major league history to hit 400 home runs and steal 400 bases when he homered off Florida’s Kirt Ojala.
