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Braves Franchise History
2003: Second baseman Marcus Giles hits a home run off Brad Penny’s 3-2 pitch, as the Atlanta Braves tie the National League record by having six players hit at least 20 home runs in a season. Along with Giles, Javy Lopez, Gary Sheffield, Andruw Jones, Chipper Jones and Vinny Castilla equal the mark established by Eddie Mathews (32), Hank Aaron (32), Joe Torre (27), Felipe Alou (23), Mack Jones (31) and Gene Oliver (21) of the 1965 Milwaukee Braves.
MLB History
1931: Lou Gehrig drives in four runs to break his old American League RBI mark of 175, set in 1927. By the season’s end he will have a total of 184.
1998: Cal Ripken, Jr. takes himself out of the starting lineup and does not play in the Baltimore Orioles’ loss to the New York Yankees, ending his consecutive games played streak at 2,632. After nearly 16 years, Ripken says he decided the time was right to end the streak, which began on May 30, 1982.
2008: The Tampa Bay Rays defeat the Twins, 7-2, to clinch a postseason berth for the first time in team history before a rare sell-out crowd at Tropicana Field. Scott Kazmir picks up the win while Fernando Perez and Cliff Floyd homer for the home team.
2021: Jon Lester records the 200th win of his career as the Cardinals beat the Brewers, 5-2, for their ninth straight win, consolidating their spot as the second wild card in the National League.
2022: Aaron Judge becomes just the sixth player in major league history to have a 60-homer season as he belts one in the 9th inning of a 9-8 Yankees win over Pittsburgh, the win coming on a walk-off grand slam by Giancarlo Stanton later that inning. Judge’s next homer will put him in a tie for the American League and Yankees single-season record, both set by Roger Maris when he hit 61 long balls in 1961. He is also a candidate to record the first Triple Crown since Miguel Cabrera in 2012, as he leads the AL comfortably in both homers and RBIs, and his night’s work also puts him on top for batting average in a close three-person race with Luis Arraez and Xander Bogaerts.
Information for this article was found via Baseball Reference, NationalPastime.com and Today in Baseball History.