This date in baseball

TODAY IN BASEBALL

Aug. 16

1920: Shortstop Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head by a pitch in the fifth inning from New York's Carl Mays. Chapman suffered a fractured skull and died the next day. It is the only field fatality in major league history.

1927: Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees became the first player to hit a ball over the roof at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Ruth's home run came off White Sox pitcher Tommy Thomas in the 8-1 win.

1947: Ralph Kiner hit three successive home runs to become the first Pirate to ever accomplish the feat as Pittsburgh beat the St. Louis Cardinals 12-7 at Forbes Field.

1950: Hank Thompson hit two inside-the-park home runs in the Giants' 16-7 rout of the Brooklyn Dodgers at the Polo Grounds.

1964: St. Louis' Curt Flood had eight consecutive hits in a doubleheader against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers won the first game 3-0 and the Cardinals took the second 4-0.

2005: Bobby Bragan became the oldest manager of a pro baseball game when the 87-year-old managed the Fort Worth Cats of the Central League for one game against Coastal Bend. Hall of Famer Connie Mack previously held the record, but Bragan eclipsed Mack by eight days. Bragan was tossed out of the game in the third inning after he went on the field following the ejection of a player.

2006: Bruce Froemming umpired his 5,000th major league game: second most in big league history. Bill Klem worked 5,374 games from 1905-40.

2011: Albert Pujols of St. Louis reached 30 home runs for the 11th consecutive season in a 5-4, 11-inning loss to Pittsburgh. Pujols connected in the sixth inning off Pittsburgh's Jeff Karstens.

The NL home runs leader became the first player in major league history to hit 30 homers in each of his first 11 seasons.

2013: Alfonso Soriano drove in four more runs and Andy Pettitte avoided his first-inning troubles to lead New York to a 10-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Soriano was 3-for-4 with a hit-by-pitch and a three-run homer in the third that made it 6-0. In his last four games, Soriano had 13 hits with five homers and a record-tying 18 RBI, becoming just the sixth player to drive in that many during that span.