July 31, 1930 - Lou Gehrig drove in eight runs with a grand slam and two doubles as the New York Yankees outlasted the Boston Red Sox 14-13.
July 31, 1932 - Cleveland's Municipal Stadium opened and Lefty Grove and the Philadelphia A's beat the Indians 1-0 before 76,979 fans.
July 31, 1934 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Cincinnati Reds 8-6 in 18 innings at Cincinnati as Dizzy Dean and Tony Freitas both went the distance.
July 31, 1935 - The Reds oversell their night game, and 30,000 jam in for the match against the Cards. Kitty Burke, a female fan, slips under the ropes around the infield and grabs a bat. Paul Dean lobs a pitch and she grounds out. St. Louis manager Frankie Frisch demands it count as an at bat.
July 31, 1935 - Two American League pitchers, Wes Ferrell and Mel Harder, each hit two home runs in a game.
July 31, 1954 - Joe Adcock hit four home runs and a double to lead the Milwaukee Braves to a 15-7 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers. Adcock's eighteen total bases is a new Major League record.
July 31, 1961 - The All-Star Game ended in a 1-1 tie at Fenway Park as heavy rain halted play. It is the only tie in All-Star history.
July 31, 1962 - The National League rejects Commissioner Ford Frick's proposal for interleague play in 1963.
July 31, 1972 - Dick Allen becomes the first player since 1950, and the seventh in history, to hit two inside-the-park homers in a game. Chicago beats the Twins 8-1.
July 31, 1978 - Pete Rose singles off Phil Niekro to extend his streak to forty-four games, as the Reds edge the Braves 3-2. Rose ties Willie Keeler's 81-year-old National League record, achieved when foul balls didn't count as strikes.
July 31, 1981 - The second baseball strike ended after forty-two days.
July 31, 1983 - Brooks Robinson, Juan Marichal, George Kell, and Walter Alston are inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York, bringing the total number of inductees to 184.
July 31, 1988 - Jose Canseco belts two home runs in the A's 6-2 win over Seattle to become the first player to hit thirty or more home runs in each of his first three Major League seasons.
July 31, 2002- The Rangers, in a 17-6 victory over the Yankees, hit six doubles in the second inning, all off Mike Mussina. New York's starting pitcher joins Hall of Famer Lefty Grove as only the second pitcher in major league history to allowed that many two-baggers in one frame.
July 31, 2003- Breaking his own record set a week later during last season, John Smoltz becomes the fastest pitcher to record 40 saves. The Braves' closer throws a scoreless ninth in the team's 7-4 victory over the Astros to establish the new mark.
July 31, 2004- With homers in his first two at-bats off Jorge Sosa, Carlos Delgado hits his fifth home run in five consecutive at-bats off the Devil Rays' right-hander. The Blue Jays' slugger streak started with a homer last September 10, was extended to streak to three on September 25 as the Tampa Bay hurler gives up the first two dingers in Delgado's four homer day on September 25.
July 31, 2005- The almost traded Manny Ramirez comes off the bench and has the game-winning hit in the eighth against the Twins in the Red Sox victory. The embattled Boston outfielder, has caused much consternation in the Red Sox nation this week due to his refusal to play and hustle for his short-handed team.
July 31, 2005- Among thousands high-spirited Red Sox and Cubs fans and the 48 Hall of Famers sitting on the dais, Wade Boggs and Ryne Sandberg are enshrined into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Also inducted are Padres announcer Jerry Coleman, winner of the Ford C. Frick Award, and sportswriter and broadcast analyst Peter Gammon, recipient of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award.
July 31, 2005- At Yankee Stadium, the Molina brothers, Bengie and Jose, both homer off Randy Johnson. The Angel teammates join Hank and Tommie Aaron, Matty and Jesus Alou, Aaron and Bret Boone , Billy and Tony Conigliaro, Al and Tony Cuccinello, Rick and Wes Farrell, Vladimir and Wilton Guerrero, Graig and Jim Nettles, Cal and Billy Ripken and Paul and Lloyd Waner as siblings who have gone deep in the same game.
July 31, 2006- Hitting his third grand slam within a calendar month, Carlos Beltran becomes the ninth player to equal the big league record. The Mets center fielder bases-filled homer is the Mets sixth tying the 1996 Expos and 1999 Indians for most by a team in a calendar month.
July 31, 2007- Hitting eight home runs in a 16-3 rout of the White Sox, the Yankees tie a franchise record for round trippers. The Bronx Bombers' barrage, which includes two long balls by left fielder Hideki Matsui, equals the power surge of the game played in 1939 against the A's in Philadelphia's Shibe Park.
July 31, 2008- At Yankee Stadium, a trio of Angels hit three-run home runs as the team blast the Bronx Bombers, 12-6. The homers, all hit by LA's outfielders, Torii Hunter, Vladimir Guerrero and Juan Rivera, account for nine of the dozen runs scored as the club improves its record to 68-40, the best in baseball.
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