TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY courtesy of National Pastime
1921 – Warren Spahn is born in Buffalo, New York. The future Hall of Fame southpaw, a mainstay with the Braves in the 1950’s, is named after Warren Harding, a right-hander who was just recently sworn in as the president of the United States.
1954 – At Busch Stadium, Hank Aaron hits the first of his 755 career home runs in his seventh major league game. The Milwaukee outfielder’s sixth-inning solo round-tripper is hit on a pitch thrown by Cardinal right-hander Vic Raschi in the Braves 7-6 extra-inning victory in St. Louis.
2008 – Joining the Giants, the Cubs become the second franchise in major league history to win 10,000 games, beating the Rockies in a ten-inning contest at Coors Field, 7-6. Chicago, which has won six in a row and is off to a 15-6 start for only the fourth time in the last century, has a 10,000-9,465 all-time won-loss record during their 122 years of existence in the Windy City.
And finally…in 2013, Atlanta teammates Justin and B.J. Upton both hit home runs in the Braves’ 10-2 rout of Colorado at Coors Field. It marks the 27th occurrence in major league history that brothers have homered in the same game, but is only the second time it has been accomplished in consecutive at-bats since 1938 when Lloyd and Paul Waner went back-to back for the Pirates.
STAT OF THE DAY provided by @HighHeatStats
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axhd7TZsm9w]If you don’t know what Fernando Tatis did today in 1999, I’m not telling you. OK–fine. He became the only player to date to hit two grand slams in the same inning, both inexplicably coming off Chan Ho Park.
PLAYERS BORN TODAY
Jim Bottomley (1900), Warren Spahn (1921), Andruw Jones (1977), Carlos Silva (1979) and Emilio Bonifacio (1985)
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