2016 MLB thread. THE CUBS HAVE BROKEN THE CURSE! Chicago Cubs are your 2016 World Series champions

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Meaningful baseball in Queens and it's August.

Let the Mets get all this coverage. Yankees are doing their thing and don't need the attention :smokin .
 
Knowing how lame this Nats team is, they'll come home and beat up on the D Backs and Rockies. Act like everything's alright, knowing damn well that when the pressure is on- they have no balls word to Tim Hudson.
 
J RAIN said:
Knowing how lame this Nats team is, they'll come home and beat up on the D Backs and Rockies. Act like everything's alright, knowing damn well that when the pressure is on- they have no balls word to Tim Hudson.
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100% accurate. Though, not sold on them beating anyone right now.
 


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Today in Baseball History
August 3rd​

1914 In the seventh inning of the 4-1 loss to Detroit at the Polo Grounds, Yankees' catcher Les Nunamaker is credited with three assists to become the first catcher to accomplish the feat since 1887. The 25 year-old backstop guns down Sam Crawford and Bobby Veach trying to steal‚ and also in the frame picks off Hugh High leading off second base.

1933 A's southpaw Lefty Grove limits New York to five hits, going the distance in Philadelphia's 7-0 victory at Yankee Stadium. It is the first time since August 2, 1931, a span of 309 games, that the Bronx Bombers have been blanked.

1940 During a road trip in Boston, Reds backup catcher Willard Hershberger is found dead in his room after taking his own life at the Copley Plaza Hotel. Having talked with his fragile player for hours after the game, Cincinnati skipper Bill McKechnie thought he had consoled the worn out backstop, who was distraught about leaving runners on base in every at bat with his 0-for-5 performance at the plate.

1948 Negro League legend Satchel Paige makes his first major league start, hurling seven innings to lead the Indians over the Senators, 5-3. Prior to today's game, the future Hall of Famer made eight appearances in relief, compiling a 1-1 record for the Tribe.

1957 Bobby Bragan hears on the radio he has been fired as the Pirates' manager and replaced by Philadelphia third base coach Danny Murtaugh. Pittsburgh general manager Joe L. Brown leaked news of the hiring before informing his disposed skipper.

1959 For the first time in major league history a second All-Star game is played in the same season. The American League goes on to post a 5-3 victory at the Los Angeles Coliseum when White Sox second baseman Nellie Fox singles in Tony Kubek with the decisive run in the top of the seventh inning.

1959 In the second All-Star game played this summer, Yogi Berra's two-run home run off Dodgers right-hander Don Drysdale in the third inning at the LA Memorial Coliseum proves to be the difference in the American League's 5-3 victory over the Senior Circuit. The home run will be the last one hit by a Bronx Bomber in a Mid-Summer Classic game for 41 years until Derek Jeter goes deep in 2001.

1961 In the largest shutout score in a National League night game, the Pirates beat the Cardinals at Sportsman's Park, 19-0. Harvey Haddix throws a four-hit complete game for the Bucs in a game that takes only two hours and thirty-six minutes to play.

1962 With his sixth home run in three consecutive games, Frank Thomas ties a National League record when he goes deep off Cincinnati's Joey Jay in the bottom of the seventh inning of a Mets 8-6 loss at the Polo Grounds. The right-handed slugger, who equaled the mark with a pair of round trippers in each game, will add another homer to his club leading total in tomorrow's contest.

1967 Charlie Finley fires his manager Alvin Dark after the two have a disagreement over his handling player discipline, after the Oakland owner fines and suspends Lew Krausse, Jr. for the pitcher's reported rowdy behavior on a team flight. First baseman Ken Harrelson is also released when he is quoted as saying the A's owner is a menace to the sport.

1967 The Red Sox obtain catcher Elston Howard from the Yankees for cash and two players to be named later, with pitchers Peter Magrini and Ron Klimkowski being sent to New York to complete the trade. The 38 year-old backstop will hit only .147 for his new team, but his veteran presence will contribute to Boston capturing the American League pennant.

1967 At Wrigley Field, the Braves set a club record by hitting seven home runs in a 10-3 victory over the Cubs. Tito Francona, Joe Torre (2), Clete Boyer (2), Denis Menke, and Hank Aaron all contribute to the record.

1967 A meeting, that was foreseen as a formality, turns into four-hour fierce debate when American League and National League owners deeply disagree on implementing divisional play for next season. The AL owners had unanimously agreed to the plan, but Senior Circuit brass makes it perfectly clear they believe "the pennant should be decided in the traditional manner."

1967 At the Winter Meetings, the stunned National League owners vehemently oppose the Junior Circuit’s plan, which is endorsed unanimously by its owners and GMs, of splitting the into an eastern and western division. National League president Warren Giles makes it clear his league will oppose any effort by the American League to implement the plan by itself, citing the possibility that an AL division winner could be fourth-place club (under the present standings) that would play a first-place team in the World Series.

1969 Rich Reese's pinch-hit grand slam in the seventh-inning helps the Twins to beat the Orioles and Dave McNally at Metropolitan Stadium, 5-2. The defeat is southpaw's first loss of the season, ending his fifteen-game winning streak.

1975 Denny Doyle, acquired from California in June for a player to be named (Chuck Ross) later and cash, extends his hitting streak to 22 games with a first inning home run in the Red Sox's 6-4 victory over Detroit at Fenway Park. The usually light-hitting infielder will bat .310 for Boston and will play a pivotal role in Boston's successful pennant drive.

1979 At Yankee Stadium, over 51,000 mourners attend a memorial service for Thurman Munson. The Bronx Bombers' captain was killed yesterday piloting a plane that crashed 1,000 feet short of the runway at Akron-Canton Airport.


1982 Frank White hits for the cycle for the second time in his career. The second baseman completes the feat with a two-out triple in the ninth inning, giving Kansas City a 6-5 walk-off victory over Detroit at Royals Stadium.

1986 First ballot inductee Giant first baseman Willie McCovey, the BBWAA’s only choice, is enshrined in the Hall of Fame, along with Veterans Committee selections Red Sox second baseman Bobby Doerr and the late Ernie Lombardi, a catcher best known for his playing days with the Reds and Giants. Pirates announcer Bob Prince and Cincinnati beat writer Earl Lawson, respectively, accept the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcast excellence and the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for meritorious contributions to baseball writing.

1987 Home plate umpire Tim Tschida throws out Joe Niekro after discovering an emery board in the possession of the Twins' starting pitcher. The 42 year-old knuckleballer will receive an automatic ten-day suspension from the American League for defacing the ball.


1987 After Butch Hobson is ejected in the bottom of the 12th inning for arguing a close call at first base, the Columbia Mets manager yanks the bag out of the ground and brings it into the clubhouse in protest. The bounced skipper is convinced to return the base to the field because the team has only one set of bases, but not before he sprays it bright orange to make the bag easier to see for the umpire.

1989 The Reds set a major league record for the most hits in the first inning of a game with 16 as they score 14 runs at Riverfront Stadium off woeful Astro pitching. The half of an inning lasts 38 minutes with the Reds eventually winning the game, 18-1.

1995 Making his first start for the Rockies since being acquired from the Mets, Brett Saberhagen gives up 13 hits and walks three batters, but gets the win in the team's 9-4 win over the Dodgers. The sellout crowd gives their new hurler an enthusiastic standing ovation when he departs the game with one out in the seventh inning.

1997 Jeromy Burnitz, coming off the bench in the Brewers' 6-5 loss to Seattle at County Stadium, homers as a pinch hitter for the second consecutive time, tying an American League record. The major league mark for consecutive pinch-hit appearances with a home run is three, shared by Lee Lacy (Dodgers - May 2, 6, and 17, 1978) and Del Unser (Phillies - June 30, July 5 and 10, 1979).

1998 In the eighth inning of the Astros' 11-3 loss to Florida, C.J. Nitkowski hits three consecutive batters, making it only the third time since 1900 the deed has been accomplished in major league history. The Houston southpaw shares the dubious distinction with two other hurlers who also spent time in Columbus, Ohio as minor leaguers, Dock Ellis (1974 Pirates) and Wilbur Wood (1977 White Sox).

1998 Mike Oquist gives up fourteen earned runs, becoming the first pitcher in 22 years to give up that many runs in an appearance as the Yankees crush the A's, 14-1. Oquist sets a franchise record for runs allowed as he is sacrificed to save the bullpen for tomorrow's doubleheader against the Bronx Bombers.

2000 Kevin Mitchell of the Sonoma County Crushers is expelled for the rest of the season from the independent Western Baseball League for punching the owner of an opposing team. The former National League MVP allegedly hit Solano Steelheads owner Bruce Portner, who had come on the field after a brawl, which was caused by a pitch thrown behind Mitchell, had ended.

2000 After looking at the artists' renderings of the new proposed enlarged Fenway Park that includes a monstrous 3,000-car garage, Diane White suggests the Red Sox, New England's team, relocate to Hartford, Connecticut. The Boston Globe columnist believes the gigantic ballpark complex will dominate the quaint neighborhood, and she riles against the "bunch of rich and powerful guys" who will ask for taxpayer assistance to fund their "multi- multimillion-dollar playground".

2002 Darin Erstad agrees to a four-year contract extension worth $32 million to stay in Anaheim through 2006. The Angels' center fielder joins Troy Glaus, Garret Anderson and Tim Salmon as one of the key players the organization has signed at least through the 2004 season.

2002 In just the first four innings, Edgar Martinez ties the major league record for sacrifice flies in a game with three. The Mariners' designated hitter becomes the 11th player in history to accomplish the feat, doing it in his first three at-bats in Seattle's 12-4 victory over the Indians.

2004 In a game in which Cardinal first baseman Albert Pujols becomes the first player in history to hit at least 30 homers in each of his first four big league seasons, Tony Batista goes deep twice, knotting the score in the ninth and winning the game in the 12th. The Expos third baseman’s 199th and 200th career blasts help Montreal beat St. Louis in extra innings, 10-6.

2006 The home run ball hit by Barry Bonds to pass Babe Ruth for second place on the all-time career list fetches $220,100 during a ten-day eBay auction. The money, which will go to Andrew Morbitzer, the fan who caught #715, is much less than the $800,000 dished out in 2004 for the ball the Giants' left fielder hit for his 700th career homer.

2008 Francisco Liriano, sent down to the minors after an 0-3 start in April attempting to come back from Tommy John surgery, blanks the Indians for six innings in his return to the Twins' rotation. The right-hander's performance propels Minnesota into first place in the American League Central with the eventual 6-2 victory over the Tribe along with a White Sox loss.

2011 After driving in the winning run yesterday, Jacoby Ellsbury, who never had a walk-off hit, does it in consecutive contests when he blasts a two-out ninth inning homer, giving the Red Sox another dramatic victory over Cleveland. The center fielder becomes the first Red Sox player with game-ending hits on consecutive days in the regular season since Butch Hobson accomplished the feat in 1978.

2011 The Jammers wear special game jerseys during their NY-Penn League game against Tri-City to commemorate Lucy Ball's 100th birthday and in conjunction with the Festival of Comedy being held in her honor in Jamestown this week. The uniform tops, which feature Lucy and Desi on the front and Lucy's 100th birthday celebration logo on the back, will be auctioned off later to benefit the Lucy-Desi Center and winners can have the jersey autographed by the player who wore it, if so desired.

2012 In the span of about an hour, the Upton brothers go deep to both record their 100th career home run on the same night in different ball parks when Diamondback outfielder Justin goes yard off Kyle Kendrick at Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park, and older sibling B.J., playing center field, hits a Tropicana Field round-tripper for the Rays off Baltimore's Tommy Hunter. On July 20th, the boys from Norfolk, Virginia also hit their 99th homers on same day.


2013 Max Scherzer becomes only the third pitcher in the last 44 years to begin the season with a 16-1 record, when he gets the win in the Tigers’ 3-0 victory over Chicago at Comerica Park. The Detroit right-hander joins Roger Clemens (2001 Yankees) and Dave McNally (1966 Orioles) in getting off to a historically fast start.

2013 The first-place Dodgers set a franchise record, winning their 13th consecutive game on the road with their 3-0 victory over the Cubs in Chicago. The Giants established the National League mark in 1916 when the team won 17 straight games away from the Polo Grounds.
 
I smell another Subway WORLD SERIES this year

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mets :smokin

on another note, when will the thread title be updated OP ?
 
the thread title will never be updated. P proshares left us :lol: :smh:

Mets-Yankees World Series would be so lit, i'd watch every second. Yanks would win in 6 tho
 
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the thread title will never be updated. P proshares left us :lol: :smh:

Mets-Yankees World Series would be so lit, i'd watch every second. Yanks would win in 6 tho
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I'm genuinely worried and hope he doesn't abandon the NT Keeper league. We're like 4 years deep and he's the commissioner. Lot of us have a ton invested in this from a pride and fan standpoint.
 
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