On This Day: August 11

1951 

Robin Roberts of the Philadelphia Phillies beat the New York Giants, 4-0, dropping the Giants 13 1/2 games behind the first-place Brooklyn Dodgers. This will be the Giants low point before beginning their improbable comeback that results in a one game playoff with the Dodgers. That playoff will be won in walk-off fashion by Bobby Thomson’s “shot heard round the world.”