It happened on this day in:
1893: Phillie Frank O'Connor hits a home run in his last major-league at bat off of Baltimore's Bill Hawke. It's also only the second at bat in the career of O'Connor, who was a pitcher.1943: Utility player Glen Stewart hits two home runs in a 9-6 win over New York -- the only home runs in his 742 at-bat career.
1969: Bob Skinner quits as Phillies manager, citing a lack of support from the front office in his discipline of Dick Allen. George Myatt finishes the season as manager. Skinner had a 92-123 record as manager. Myatt, the team's third base coach, also managed the team for 2 games between Gene Mauch and Skinner.
1986: Juan Samuel scores for the Phillies on a 4-base error. Playing St. Louis, Samuel hit a ball to Curt Ford, who juggled the ball and dropped it in foul territory. Meanwhile Samuel motored home before the ball could be retrieved. The Cards came back and Todd Worrell faced the last batter to pick up his 23rd save of the year, breaking a record for NL rookies set by Rawley Eastwick in 1975.
1996: Playing first base, Todd Ziele ties a major-league record by making 4 errors in a single game against the Braves, including two on one play. The Braves win, 14-1.
2000: Rob Ducey returns to the Phillies, after having played 5 games in Toronto. He was traded from Philadelphia to Toronto on July 31 for a player to be named. On Aug 7 the Blue Jays sent him back when he was the player to be named in a trade for Mickey Morandini.
2001: Bobby Abreu's 5th inning home run off of San Diego's Bobby Jones helps the Phillies to a 7-3 win. It's also the 10,000th home run in franchise history.
2009: Harry Kalas in posthumously inducted into the Phillies Wall of Fame.
Phillies Transactions on this Day
1942: Signed free agent Chuck Klein1964: Traded Wayne Graham, Gary Kroll and cash to New York (NL) for Frank Thomas
1989: Lost Greg Harris on waivers to Boston (AL)
1989: Sent Rick Parker to San Francisco to complete the 6/18/1989 trade for Steve Bedrosian
2000: Acquired David Newhan from San Diego to complete the 8/4/2000 deal for Desi Relaford and Rob Ducey from Toronto to complete the 8/5/2000 deal for Mickey Morandini
2006: Traded Ryan Franklin to Cincinnati for a player to be named later.
2008: Traded Brian Schlitter to the Cubs for Scott Eyre.
2014: Traded Roberto Hernandez to Los Angeles for two players to be named later.
2018: Lost Zac Curtis off waivers to Texas