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| 1944 | Jim Tobin, using his newly discovered knuckleball, tosses the first of his two no-hitters of the season, defeating Brooklyn, 2-0. The Boston right-hander, who will also throw a shortened five-frame unofficial no-no in June, helps his cause with a solo home run in the eighth inning of the Braves Field contest. |
| 1963 |
Red Sox right-hander Gene Conley and White Sox hurler Dave DeBusschere, who both played in the NBA in the offseason, make a relief appearance during the fourth inning of the Red Sox's 9-5 victory over the White Sox at Fenway Park. Conley, now with the Knicks as a power guard, is the only person to have played on World Championship teams in baseball (1957 Braves) and basketball (1959–61, Celtics), and DeBusschere, currently employed by the Pistons, will be inducted as a player into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1983.
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| 1971 |
Braves outfielder Hank Aaron joins Babe Ruth and Willie Mays as the only major league player to hit 600 career home runs. Hammerin' Hank's historic homer, a 350-foot drive over the left-field wall, comes off Gaylord Perry in the third inning of a 6-5 ten-inning loss to the Giants at Atlanta's Fulton County Stadium.
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| 1973 | Braves hurler Pat Dobson three-hits the Mets to beat Tom Seaver, who also gives up only three hits, 2-0. The Atlanta Fulton County Stadium contest takes one hour and 37 minutes to complete, making it the quickest game ever played in Mets history. |
| 1993 | Tim Wakefield throws 172 pitches in ten innings of work in the Pirates' 6-2 victory over the Braves. The Pittsburgh knuckleballer has compiled the highest single-game pitch count since the official tabulation of the statistics, beginning in 1988. |
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