This Date in Baseball – Jim Thome sets major league record for career walks with 12

August 17

1904 – Jesse Tannehill of the Boston Red Sox pitches a no-hitter, defeating the Chicago White Sox 6-0.

1920 — Cleveland shortstop Ray Chapman died after being hit by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees on August 16. It was the only on-field death in major league history.

1933 – Earl Averill of the Cleveland Indians hit for the cycle in a 15-4 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics.

1933 – New York’s Lou Gehrig played in his 1,308th consecutive game to break Everett Scott’s record of 1,307. Gehrig’s single and triple didn’t stop last-place St. Louis Browns to defeat the Yankees 7-6 in 10 innings at Sportsman’s Park.

1944 – Johnny Lindell of the New York Yankees hit four straight doubles in a 10-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians.

1963 – Jim Hickman became the first New York Met to hit for the cycle in a 7-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. Hickman got the cycle the first four times – in order of single, double, triple, homer.

1980 — George Brett went 4-4, raising his batting average to .401, in an 8-3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays. Brett drove in five runs and extended his hitting streak to 29 games.

1980 – Texas’ Al Oliver hit four home runs – one in the opener and three in the nightcap – as the Rangers swept a doubleheader from the Detroit Tigers, 9-3, 12-6. Oliver also had a double and a triple in the opener, giving him 21 total bases, which tied the American League record for a double.

1992 – Kevin Gross pitches a no-hitter as Los Angeles defeats San Francisco 2-0 at Dodgers Stadium.

1999 – Jesse Orosco set a major league record by pitching in his 1,072nd game, tying Dennis Eckersley for the career hit list. Orosco, 42, took the mound with two outs in the seventh inning of Baltimore’s win over Minnesota.

2001 — Jeff Frye became the second Toronto player to hit for the cycle as the Blue Jays beat Texas 11-3.

2002 – Alex Rodriguez became the sixth player in major league history to have five consecutive 40-hit seasons.

2004 — Tampa Bay’s BJ Upton, 19, becomes the first teenager in more than six years to hit a home run in a major league game, helping Tampa Bay snap a six-game losing streak 8-3 win over Anaheim.

2004 – Mark Teixeira of the Texas Rangers hit for the cycle and drove in a career-high seven runs in a 16-4 rout of the Cleveland Indians.

2008 — Melvin Mora had two homers and two doubles among his five hits and drove in a game-high six runs to pace Baltimore’s 22-hit attack in a 16-8 win over Detroit.

2008 — Alex Rios went 5-for-6 and tied a club-record four doubles, and Toronto shutout Boston ace Josh Beckett after 2 1-3 innings in a 15-4 win over the Red Sox.

2010 – Jim Thome tied the major league record for career home runs with his 12th as the Twins beat the White Sox, 7-6.

2014 — Michael Cuddyer hit for the cycle, including a two-run double in Colorado’s five-run eighth inning, and the Rockies beat the Cincinnati Reds 10-5 to complete a doubleheader.

2018 — Chicago Cubs tie major league record seven doubles, including rookie third baseman David Bote’s game-ending effort on David Freese’s grounder to cap a 1-run victory -0 to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

2020 — For the first time in their careers, brothers Kyle and Corey Seager meet in a regular season game and, fittingly, both hit homers as Corey’s Dodgers defeat Kyle’s Mariners, 11-9.

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