Today in sports history, August 4

Aug. 4

Today in sports history

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1910: Philadelphia’s Jack Coombs and Chicago’s Ed Walsh each threw 16 scoreless innings as the Athletics and White Sox played to a rare 0-0 tie.

1934: New York Giants star Mel Ott tied the Major League Baseball record by scoring six runs in a game during a 21-4 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies.

1936: Jesse Owens won the Olympic long jump in Berlin, capturing the second of his four gold medals at the games.

1945: Byron Nelson won the Canadian Open for his 11th consecutive PGA Tour victory, extending a streak that remained unmatched in Tour history.

1947: Ike Williams knocked out Bob Montgomery in six rounds in Philadelphia to unify the world lightweight boxing championship.

1982: Joel Youngblood became the first major league player to collect hits for two teams in two cities on the same day, singling for the New York Mets in Chicago before being traded and singling for the Montreal Expos in Philadelphia.

1984: Carl Lewis won the Olympic 100-meter title in 9.99 seconds at the Los Angeles Games, beginning his sweep of four gold medals in the same events Jesse Owens won in 1936.

1985: California Angels star Rod Carew singled off Minnesota Twins pitcher Frank Viola for his 3,000th career hit, becoming the 16th major league player to reach the milestone.

1985: Tom Seaver earned his 300th career victory as the Chicago White Sox defeated the New York Yankees.

1985: Amateur Scott Verplank won the Western Open, becoming the first amateur golfer to win a PGA Tour event since Doug Sanders in 1956.

1993: Nolan Ryan, 46, famously put Robin Ventura in a headlock and pummeled him with blows after Ventura charged the mound during a Rangers-White Sox game.

1993: San Diego Padres star Tony Gwynn went 6-for-7 with two doubles in an 11-10, 12-inning victory over the San Francisco Giants, recording the only six-hit game of his career.

1996: The United States defeated Brazil 111-87 in the Olympic women’s basketball final in Atlanta, completing an 8-0 tournament and beginning a run of consecutive Olympic championships for the Americans that reached eight in 2024.

1996: Laura Davies won the du Maurier Classic, then recognized as an LPGA major championship, for the fourth and final major title of her career.

2007: New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez hit his 500th career home run at 32 years, 8 days old, becoming the youngest major league player to reach the milestone.

2007: San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds hit his 755th career home run, tying Hank Aaron’s major league record.

2010: Alex Rodriguez hit his 600th career home run for the Yankees, again becoming the youngest player to reach the milestone.

2012: Serena Williams routed Maria Sharapova 6-0, 6-1 in the Olympic women’s singles final at Wimbledon, completing a career Golden Slam (Olympic gold plus all four tennis majors).

2012: Michael Phelps helped the United States win the Olympic 4×100-meter medley relay, giving him his 18th gold medal and 22nd overall medal as he completed his fourth Olympic Games.

2021: Sydney McLaughlin won the Olympic women’s 400-meter hurdles in a world-record 51.46 seconds, edging defending champion Dalilah Muhammad in Tokyo.

2024: Scottie Scheffler closed with a 9-under-par 62 to win the Olympic men’s golf championship in Paris, overcoming a four-stroke deficit in the final round.

2024: Novak Djokovic defeated Carlos Alcaraz 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2) in the Olympic men’s singles final at Roland Garros, winning his first Olympic gold medal and completing a career Golden Slam.

2024: Kaylia Nemour won the Olympic uneven-bars championship, becoming Algeria’s first Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics.

2024: Carlos Yulo won the Olympic men’s vault championship one day after capturing the floor-exercise title, becoming the first Filipino athlete to win two Olympic gold medals.

2024: Noah Lyles won the Olympic men’s 100 meters in a photo finish, running 9.784 seconds to edge Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson by five-thousandths of a second.

— USA TODAY Network

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