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Before a crowd of 13,634 fans at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, the Milwaukee Brewers crushed the Pirates for the most lopsided loss in Pirates history. When the dust cleared, the Brewers had plated 20 runs on 25 hits while blanking the Pirates for the second day in a row. (The Brewers had won 8-0 the […]

Both teams managed 10 base hits, but the Bostons scored twice as many runs. Neither team scored for the first two innings. Boston sent only six batters to the plate in those innings. Pirates Fred Clarke and Jimmy Sebring singled in the first and second innings, respectively. The pitchers presented a rematch of Game Two […]

The 1946 Boston Red Sox spent only one day all season long out of first place—April 25. By the time this game got underway on July 14, nearly three months after that point, they had a nine-game lead. By the time the doubleheader was over, their lead was 11 games. The first game was close […]

The Oakland Athletics were riding high entering the final game of their three-game series against the visiting Boston Red Sox. After losing 7-2 to the Texas Rangers on June 30, the Athletics won three games in a row to move two games under .500 at 40-42 on Independence Day. The A’s were led by their […]

In the course of his career, Ted Williams hit 521 major-league home runs. More than 20 percent of them were game-winners.1 His first homer to win a game was in the ninth game of his rookie season of 1939, on May 4 at Briggs Stadium in Detroit. His three-run homer in the top of the […]

The St. Louis Cardinals were operating at a deficit as the 1946 World Series unfolded, having won Game Two with a 4-0 shutout but losing Games One and Three to the Boston Red Sox. They scored only a total of five runs over the first three games. The Cardinals batters faced Tex Hughson in a […]

Some fans go to a lifetime of baseball games and never see a no-hitter. Others are lucky enough to experience the drama and tension of a single no-no. And then there were the 1,250 fans who went to McDonough Park in Geneva, New York, on July 25, 1983 — the night when two young pitchers […]

For all of his tremendous success in the batter’s box, Babe Ruth felt just as at home on the pitcher’s mound. “As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher’s mound,” Ruth said. “It was as if I’d been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural […]

On a normal day an 11-10 baseball game would dominate the back pages. However, so many noteworthy events took place the day before this game that it’s understandable if a barnburner like this got overlooked. Sports fans living in New York might have felt that June 17 couldn’t have begun any better, with a ticker-tape […]

Billy Evans referred to Youngstown, Ohio, as his first love.1 And on a summer day in 1931, his Northeast Ohio hometown repaid his love in kind. Evans was born in Chicago, but his family moved to the steel-producing city when he was a boy. His father, James, worked as a supervisor for the Carnegie Steel […]

The last game of 2019 appeared to be an uneventful contest at Kauffman Stadium for both the Minnesota Twins and the Kansas City Royals. The Twins going into the game had wrapped up the American League Central Division title, and with a 101-60 record going into the last day of the regular season, they were […]

In the first game of the season played in Philadelphia between two cross-state rivals, the Athletics trounced the Pittsburgh Alleghenys, 14-1. A crowd of approximately 2,000 witnessed the home team’s 20 base hits and saw Philadelphia’s center fielder Henry Larkin become the first player in major-league history to hit for a reverse natural cycle. With […]

In baseball, as in every team sport, the team with the better players has an obvious advantage over its opponent; however, sometimes the line between winning and losing is a thin one, and it may also hinge to some degree on pure, dumb luck. Such was the case on May 10, 1972, when the Texas […]

The San Diego Padres hosted the Cincinnati Reds in a National League West Division game two weeks before the 1993 All-Star Break. Geoff Hobson of the Cincinnati Enquirer characterized the contest with, “Jose Rijo can’t catch a break, Barry Larkin can’t catch a ball out of his time zone, and the Reds still can’t catch […]

Walter O. Briggs was definitely old school. As the owner of the Detroit Tigers, he had long believed that the national pastime was meant to be played in the daytime. “Baseball belongs to the sun and the sun to baseball,” he argued.1 But the national pastime was entering a new era. Ever since May 24, […]

Switch-hitter Mickey Mantle banged out a single, double, triple, and home run, accomplishing the 12th cycle in New York Yankees history. His home run almost escaped Yankee Stadium and caused a tremendous roar by the crowd, but his triple with the bases loaded in the seventh inning was the decisive blow, leading the Yankees to […]

Mike Trout became the youngest player in American League history to hit for the cycle and drove in a season-high five runs as host Los Angeles handed Seattle its fifth straight loss. A crowd of 34,095 was on hand at Angel Stadium of Anaheim to see Trout add to his incredible résumé. The Angels started the season […]

On a pleasant summer Sunday at Fenway Park, before a packed crowd of 32,358, Ted Williams “enjoyed one of his more spectacular days, contributed seven hits, scored two runs, batted in three and generally demoralized the Brownie pitching.”1 The first-place Red Sox swept a doubleheader from the sixth-place Browns, and Williams was the main reason […]

For nearly 30 years Minnesota baseball fans had a conflicted relationship with the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis. Though the multi-functional stadium had less charm and character than toilet paper, and even though it kept fans indoors when they’d rather watch their baseball while experiencing pleasant summer days and evenings, it produced fond memories […]

Neither the Giants nor the Dodgers were in contention for the pennant as the teams took to the field on September 19, 1945. The Dodgers were in third place with no chance of going higher, and the Giants, in sixth place, had only the slightest of chances of escaping the second division and catching the […]

The Boston Red Sox opened their 1916 season at home. They were world champions after winning 101 games in 1915 and taking the World Series in five games over the Philadelphia Phillies. The team was largely unchanged from the prior year, though they were without two of their biggest stars: center fielder Tris Speaker and […]

It was the “first opening game since our energies have been actively hurled against the heartless Hun on the blood-stained and shell-bitten fields of France,” wrote the Cincinnati Enquirer somberly as the Pittsburgh Pirates took on the Reds at Redland Field to inaugurate the 1918 major-league baseball season.1 Given the news of the unimaginable destruction […]

High and Inside The Newsletter of the BioProject Committee Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) April 2021 Past newsletters Editor: Andrea Long   From the Directors (1) In Memoriam: Chris Rainey Welcome, Alan Cohen From the Directors (2) The BioProject on Social Media Update on BioProject Submissions From the Editor Project Team From Co-Directors, Rory […]

“You Called That a What . . . ?”The Newsletter of the Official Scoring Committee Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) November 2019, Volume 5, Number 1 Past newsletters   Editor: Stew Thornley From the Chair Conundrum of the Month (or Quarter or Whatever) Profile: Mike Dean Bloops and Bobbles Honchos   From the Chair […]