August 9, 1949: The Red Sox defeat New York 6-3 at Yankee Stadium behind two-run homers by Ted Williams and catcher Birdie Tebbetts, but the big story of the game is the end of Dom DiMaggio's 34 game hitting streak; in his last at-bat of the day Dom hit a line drive to center that looked like it might fall, but brother Joe made a shoestring catch to end the [...]

August 8, 2004: The Red Sox defeat the Tigers by a score of 11-9 before 40,000 at Comerica Park as Johnny Damon contributes three hits and scores three runs while Kevin Youkilis has three hits, including a home run; Tim Wakefield ties an MLB record giving up six home runs while surrendering seven earned runs in five innings, but still gets credit for his 8th [...]

August 7, 1956: The Red Sox defeat the Yankees 1-0 before a crowd of 36,350 at Fenway Park as New York lefthander Tommy Byrne walks Ted Williams with the bases loaded; but the big story is that the Red Sox fined Williams $5,000 for repeatedly spitting at the crowd after he is booed for mishandling a Mickey Mantle fly ball. [...]

August 6, 2001: Red Sox catcher Scott Hatteberg lines into a triple play to kill a fourth inning rally but redeems himself in his next at-bat with a grand slam home run that provides the margin of victory in a 10-7 win over the Texas Rangers; Nomar Garciaparra and Many Ramirez also homer in a game played before 34,000 fans at Fenway Park. [...]

August 5, 1979: Almost 50,000 Milwaukee Brewer fans crowd County Stadium on a Sunday afternoon to watch the Red Sox drub the home team 7-2 in the first game of the doubleheader and 19-5 in the nightcap; Fred Lynn homered in both games as the Red Sox patched together four relief pitchers in game two with the victory going to Win Remmerswaal. [...]