August 2, 1907 - Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington and loses 3-2 to Detroit. The first hit off him is a bunt single by Ty Cobb.
August 2, 1921 - A Chicago jury brings in a verdict of not guilty against the Black Sox. That night, jurors and defendants celebrate with a party in an Italian restaurant. Ignoring the verdict, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis bans all eight defendants from baseball for life.
August 2, 1938 - Larry MacPhail has official baseballs dyed dandelion yellow, and they are used in the first game of a doubleheader between the Dodgers and Cardinals at Ebbets Field. The Dodgers win 6-2. The Dodgers will use up their yellow balls in three more games in 1939.
August 2, 1959 - Bill Bruton of Milwaukee hit two bases-loaded triples to lead the Braves to an 11-5 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in the nightcap of a doubleheader.
August 2, 1959 - Giants first baseman Willie McCovey hits the first of his 521 major league home runs, off Ron Kline, as San Francisco downs the Pirates 5-3. Johnny Antonelli wins his 15th game.
August 2, 1970 - In their last meeting of the year, Baltimore defeats Kansas City 10-8. It is the Orioles' 23rd straight win over the Royals over a two-year span, a major league mark.
August 2, 1979 - Yankees catcher Thurman Munson, 32, perishes at Canton, Ohio, in a crash of the plane he was piloting. A crowd of 51,151 will attend the memorial tribute at Yankee Stadium the following day.
August 2, 1982 - Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals his 100th base of the season in a 6-5 win over Seattle, tying the American League record he set last season. Henderson is the first player ever to steal 100 bases twice.
August 2, 1986 - Dodgers Alejandro Pena and Tom Niedenfuer combine to one-hit the Reds, 7-1, allowing only Eddie Milner's leadoff home run off Pena in the sixth inning. It is the fifth time Milner has collected the only hit in a one-hitter, tying Cesar Tovar's Major League record.
August 2, 1987 - Eric Davis led off the bottom of the 11th inning with his 30th home run of the season, giving the Cincinnati Reds a 5-4 victory over the San Francisco Giants. Davis' homer made him the seventh player with 30 homers and 30 steals in the same season.
August 2, 1987 - Kevin Seitzer went 6-for-6 with two homers and drove in seven runs to pace a 20-hit Kansas City attack as the Royals beat the Boston Red Sox 13-5 in 102-degree heat.
August 2, 1990 - Yankees rookie Kevin Maas hits his tenth home run in just 77 at bats, the fastest any player has ever reached that mark. But the Yanks lose to Detroit 6-5 in 11 innings.
August 2, 1991 - Mike Jeffcoat becomes the first American League pitcher to get an RBI since 1972 in a 15-1 Rangers rout of Milwaukee.
August 2, 1992 - Tom Seaver, Rollie Fingers, Hal Newhouser and Bill McGowan are enshrined in the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
August 2, 1993 - An investor team of Baltimore lawyer Peter Angelos and Cincinnati businessman William DeWitt submit a winning bid for the Orioles during a bankruptcy court auction in New York City. Also on the winning team are popular author Tom Clancy and ABC broadcaster Jim McKay.
August 2, 1995- Long time coach Jimmie Reese, whose 23 years in an Angels uniform equals longest in club history is inducted into the Angels' Hall of Fame. The former roommate of Babe Ruth began his career as a batboy for the Pacific Coast League's Los Angeles Angels in 1917.
August 2, 2002- Reds general manager Jim Bowden is fined by commissioner Bud Selig for the comments he made to reporters prior to yesterday's game against the Dodgers comparing a baseball strike with the terrorist attacks of September 11th. Quickly realizing the use of such analogy was inappropriate and insensitive, the Cincinnati GM issues an immediate apology after the game.
August 2, 2007- After giving up eight in runs in the top of the second inning, the Yankees storm back in the bottom of the frame to tie the score with eight tallies of their own in an eventual 13-9 loss to the White Sox in New york. It is only the second time in major league history eight or more runs are scored in the same inning by each team.
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