It happened on this day in:
1911: Catcher/manager Red Dooin suffers a broken leg on a play at the plate. In the fourth inning of a game in St. Louis, the Cardinals tried a double steal, when the runner from third slid home, he collided with Dooin, breaking his leg. Dooin, though, held on to the ball to record the out, but he did not play again that year.1948: The Phillies hire Eddie Sawyer as manager, replacing interim skipper Dusty Cooke. Cooke stayed on as a coach after amassing a 6-6-1 record in his brief stint as manager. Sawyer had been managing Toronto of the International League.
1960: The Phils score in the 6th inning in Chicago, ending a streak of 38 scoreless innings. Tony Gonzalez doubled, and Johnny Callison drove him in.
1987: Milt Thompson, Von Hayes, and Mike Schmidt hit back to back to back home runs against Atlanta for a 7-3 Phillies victory.
1988: Mike Schmidt appears in his 2,155th game at third base, setting a new National League record.
2007: Washington's John Lannan, in his major-league debut, hit Chase Utley with a pitch in the fifth inning, breaking his hand. He also hit Ryan Howard, the next batter he faced, leading to an ejection. He was only the fifth player to be ejected in his debut.
2011: The Phillies collect 4 home runs in a 7-2 win over San Francisco, including contributions from Ryan Howard and Chase Utley. It was the 40th time they both hit one out in the same game, breaking the record previously held by Mike Schmidt and Greg Luzinski.
2018: In a 9-4 win at Cincinnati, the Philes tied a team record with 7 home runs. Rhys Hoskins, Maikel Franco, and Nick Williams each hit two out of the park. Carlos Sanatana had one HR, but just missed a second when it bounced off the top of the outfield fence.
Phillies Transactions on this Day
2000: Traded Curt Schilling to Arizona for Travis Lee, Omar Daal, Vincente Padilla, and Nelson Figueroa.2000: Traded Rob Ducey to Toronto for a player to be named.
2006: Traded Sal Fasano to new York (AL) for Hector Made
2017: Traded Pat Neshek to Colorado for Alejandro Requena, J.D. Hammer and Jose Gomez