August 20

From SoSH

• 1960 Ted Williams draws the 2,000th walk of his career in the Red Sox' split of a twi-night doubleheader with Baltimore. Williams joins Ruth as the only batters to collect 2,000 walks. The Splendid Splinter also clouts home runs 514 and 515 in game 1, an 8–6 Boston win. The O's win the nitecap, 6–0, behind Brown, but drop into 3rd place, two games behind the 1st-place Yankees.
• 1967 At Fenway, Red Sox Reggie Smith joins the ranks of Mickey Mantle, Pete Rose, and others by hitting home runs left- and righthanded in a game with California. Yaz adds two three-run homers, one in each game of the doubleheader. The Sox win the nitecap, 9–8 after trailing 8–0.
• 1997 The Red Sox sweep two from the A's, winning 7–5 and 5–4 in 13 innings. In the nitecap the A's collect one hit in the last 10 innings against five Sox pitchers. Nomar Garciaparra has hits in both games to set a ML rookie record of 22 straight games.