August 23rd, 1931
On this day in 1931, in his attempt to break Walter Johnson's consecutive game winning streak of 17 games, Philadelphia's Lefty Grove loses when Browns' hurler Dick Coffman throws a three-hit shutout, his only whitewash this season, against the A's. Reserve outfielder Jimmy Moore, playing in place of the absent Al Simmons, misjudges a fly ball, which leads to the decisive run and subsequently to Lefty's meltdown in the locker room.