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Saturday August 31,1957This date in baseball
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Tom Candiotti celebrated a birthday on this date.

Events that happened in baseball on this date. The page was designed to be like a newspaper sports page with baseball-only. All of the basbeall events for this date have been consolidated into this page. Though historically relevant, it is also a great place to review the prior day's events.

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Month	Day	Year

Games on 1957-08-31

Vis Team	R	Home Team	R	Box	Winning Pitcher	Losing Pitcher	Save Pitcher
Boston Red Sox	1	Baltimore Orioles	4	Box	Hal Brown	Willard Nixon	(none)
Detroit Tigers	8	Cleveland Indians	7	Box	Jim Stump	Vito Valentinetti	Duke Maas
Chicago White Sox	8	Kansas City Athletics	3	Box	Dixie Howell	Tom Gorman	(none)
Washington Senators I	6	New York Yankees	5	Box	Pedro Ramos	Bob Grim	Chuck Stobbs
New York Giants	5	Brooklyn Dodgers	7	Box	Ed Roebuck	Marv Grissom	(none)
St. Louis Cardinals	3	Chicago Cubs	2	Box	Herm Wehmeier	Turk Lown	Billy Muffett
Milwaukee Braves	14	Cincinnati Reds	4	Box	Juan Pizarro	Joe Nuxhall	(none)
Pittsburgh Pirates	1	Philadelphia Phillies	7	Box	Don Cardwell	Bob Friend	(none)

Standings as of 1957-08-31

Record in remaining games at far right

Rk	Lg	MLB	AL -	GP	W	L	Pct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Home	Away	StrK	1957 Links	Manager	General Manager	Ballpark	GP	W	L	Pct
1	1	1	New York Yankees	129	82	47	.636	--	618	462	156	45-23	37-24	L2	T S R Log Off Def SP		George Weiss	Yankee Stadium I	25	16	9	.640
2	2	3	Chicago White Sox	129	76	53	.589	6.0	593	470	123	34-26	42-27	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Charlie Comiskey	Comiskey Park	25	14	11	.560
3	3	6	Boston Red Sox	119	61	58	.513	16.0	560	515	45	29-33	32-25	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Joe Cronin	Fenway Park	35	21	14	.600
4	4	9	Detroit Tigers	129	64	65	.496	18.0	507	526	-19	24-37	40-28	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		John McHale	Briggs Stadium	25	14	11	.560
5	5	10	Baltimore Orioles	129	63	66	.488	19.0	502	504	-2	30-39	31-29	W1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Paul Richards	Memorial Stadium	23	13	10	.565
6	6	11	Cleveland Indians	130	63	67	.485	19.5	567	628	-61	27-33	36-34	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		Hank Greenberg	Cleveland Municipal Stadium	23	13	10	.565
7	7	14	Kansas City Athletics	119	47	72	.395	30.0	442	534	-92	17-41	30-31	L1	T S R Log Off Def SP		George Selkirk	Municipal Stadium	34	12	22	.353
8	8	15	Washington Senators I	126	49	77	.389	31.5	517	667	-150	24-43	25-34	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Calvin Griffith	Griffith Stadium	28	6	22	.214
Rk	Lg	MLB	NL -	GP	W	L	Pct	GBL	RF	RA	Diff	Home	Away	StrK	1957 Links	Manager	General Manager	Ballpark	GP	W	L	Pct
1	1	2	Milwaukee Braves	128	79	49	.617	--	650	516	134	44-24	35-25	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP	Fred Haney	John Quinn	County Stadium	26	16	10	.615
2	2	4	Brooklyn Dodgers	129	73	56	.566	6.5	583	494	89	32-28	41-28	W3	T S R Log Off Def SP		Buzzie Bavasi	Ebbets Field	25	11	14	.440
3	3	5	St. Louis Cardinals	128	72	56	.563	7.0	586	546	40	40-27	32-29	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Frank Lane	Sportsman's Park	26	15	11	.577
4	4	7	Philadelphia Phillies	130	66	64	.508	14.0	518	535	-17	31-29	34-36	W2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Roy Hamey	Connie Mack Stadium	24	11	13	.458
5	5	8	Cincinnati Reds	128	64	64	.500	15.0	615	668	-53	31-37	33-27	L2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Gabe Paul	Crosley Field	26	16	10	.615
6	6	12	New York Giants	117	52	65	.444	21.5	509	535	-26	27-33	25-32	L2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Chub Feeney	Polo Grounds	37	17	20	.459
7	7	13	Chicago Cubs	110	44	66	.400	26.0	424	480	-56	20-36	23-31	L3	T S R Log Off Def SP		John Holland	Wrigley Field	44	18	26	.409
8	8	16	Pittsburgh Pirates	114	42	72	.368	30.0	404	515	-111	15-38	27-34	L2	T S R Log Off Def SP		Joe Brown	Forbes Field	40	20	20	.500

Transactions

Player Name	Pos	Age	Transaction Description	Roster for Current Team
Irv Noren	OF	32.275	Claimed on waivers by Cardinals from Athletics.