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This day in Atlanta Braves History: Cox gets his 1,600th victory in comeback against Reds

Braves Franchise History

1921: The Cubs and Braves each pull a triple play, but they do not help. The Cubs lose to the Giants, 5-3, and Boston falls to the Reds, 6-4.

1953: Led by OF Jim Pendleton’s three home runs, the Braves tie the Yankees’ 1939 major-league record for the most homers in a game with eight in their 19-4 win over Pittsburgh in the first game of a doubleheader. Pendleton is only the second rookie in history to hit three home runs in one game. In the second game, the Braves hit four more long balls to win 11-5. The 12 homers in a doubleheader shatter the previous mark of nine. Eddie Mathews’s four dingers for the day give him a National League-leading 43; he will end the season with 47 home runs, 30 of them on the road, to set a major-league record.

1962: San Francisco’s 3-2 win over the Braves ties a major league record, as all five runs score on home runs.

1975: The Atlanta Braves fire skipper Clyde King, naming Connie Ryan as interim manager.

1982: The Phillies split a pair with the Braves, winning 6-1 on Dick Ruthven’s three-hitter, before losing the second game, 11-9. Dale Murphy’s home run is Atlanta’s only score in the opener. Mike Schmidt has an inside-the-park home run in the second game, the second of three he’ll hit.

1992: The Red Sox send P Jeff Reardon to the Braves in exchange for minor leaguers Nate Minchey and Sean Ross.

1997: Boston SS Nomar Garciaparra goes hitless as the Red Sox fall to the Braves, 15 – 2. The collar brings to an end his 30-game hitting streak (July 26-August 29: .383 : 54/141), the longest streak ever for an American League rookie.

2000: Earning his 1,600th victory, manager Bobby Cox passes former Los Angeles Dodgers skipper, Tommy Lasorda, on the career list for most managerial victories and puts him 14th on the all-time list.

MLB history

1906: Righthander Slow Joe Doyle of the Highlanders becomes the first 20th century player to start out with two shutouts when he beats the Washington Nationals, 5-0. Of his 23 lifetime victories, seven will be shutouts. He is nicknamed “Slow” because of his time-consuming pace on the mound. The Yanks take the nightcap as well, 9-8, to begin a sweep of five doubleheaders in six days. They’ll outscore their opponents 76-31.

1939: Yankee rookie Atley Donald pitches a baseball at 94.7 miles per hour to establish a new record for a fastball.

1982: To bolster its pitching staff for the pennant race, Milwaukee trades minor leaguers Kevin Bass, Frank DiPino, and Mike Madden to the Astros for veteran starter Don Sutton. Sutton has won 13 games for Houston this year. The Brewers are 4 1/2 games ahead of the Red Sox.

1999: In an article in the New York Times, former major league OF Billy Bean reveals his fears as a gay man in the world of major league baseball. Former Dodger Glenn Burke, who died of AIDS in 1995, is the only other ex-player to have acknowledged his homosexuality.

2001: 3B Bill Mueller’s walk-off home run gives the Cubs a 5-4 victory over the Marlins. 1B Fred McGriff hits a three-run home run as he reaches 80 RBIs for the 14th straight season, becoming only the second player in major league history to do so. Hank Aaron holds the record with 17 straight years.

2010: Carlos Zambrano becomes the first major league pitcher to homer in eight straight seasons since Gary Peters (1963-1971), launching one in a 14-2 Cubs rout of Pittsburgh.

2020: For the first time in major league history, all three of a team’s starting outfielders homer twice as the Cubs defeat the Reds, 10-1. Ian Happ, Kyle Schwarber and Jason Heyward are the record-setting flychasers.