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Events, births and deaths that occurred on July 10.

Events

• 1901:
  • The Boston Nationals rap out 15 hits in 12 innings against Pittsburgh, but fail to score. The Pirates finally push over a run to win, 1 - 0. Boston sets a record for most hits, no runs.
  • At a secret meeting, the National League Board of Directors votes to abrogate the National Agreement that has governed organized baseball, effective September 30th.
• 1908:
  • The Red Sox purchase 1B Jake Stahl from the Highlanders.
  • At Pittsburgh, the Giants (43-30) take a 4 - 0 lead, but the Pirates claw back on back-to-back triples by Honus Wagner and Fred Clarke. Tommy Leach wins it for the Bucs with a 9th-inning home run to deep center.
• 1911 - Sherry Magee, star OF for the Phillies, knocks out umpire Bill Finneran with one punch after being ejected for disputing a called third strike. He is suspended for the season, but upon appeal he will be reinstated after five weeks and 36 games. The Phils win, 4 - 2, behind Grover Cleveland Alexander, who strikes out nine.
• 1913 - Led by Ward Miller's two-run triple, the Cubs stop the Giants, 3 - 2. The victory ends the New Yorkers' win streak at 14 games and stops Christy Mathewson's win streak at nine. Matty's skein of consecutive innings without a free pass continues however, and stands at 52.
• 1914 - Detroit's Billy Purtell and Marty Kavanagh combine to nab Eddie Collins with the hidden ball trick. It comes in the 9th inning and helps preserve an 8 - 8 tie with Philadelphia.
• 1916 - For the second time this season, White Sox pitchers toss shutouts in a doubleheader, this time against the Red Sox. Lefty Williams wins, 4 - 0, then Reb Russell follows with a 3 - 0 victory. With the temperature at Fenway Park in the 90s, this is the first of three consecutive doubleheaders for the two Sox.
• 1917 - Thanks to Ray Caldwell's 9 2/3 innings of no-hit relief, the Yankees beat the Browns in St. Louis, 7 - 5 in a 17-inning game.
• 1919 - After PH Joe Harris triples with three on base to give Cleveland a 7 - 3 lead in the last of the 8th, reliever Elmer Myers gives up a run, then loads the bases on walks. In comes little-used lefty Fritz Coumbe. Up steps Babe Ruth who hits his second homer of the day for an 8 - 7 Red Sox win. Out goes Indians manager Lee Fohl, fired for the move. In comes CF Tris Speaker to manage the Tribe. He will bring them home in second place and stay as skipper for seven years.
• 1920 - After banging out 11 straight hits, Tris Speaker is stopped by Tom Zachary of Washington. It's the American League record until Pinky Higgins of the Red Sox will rack up 12 in a row in 1938. Speaker will hit .388 for the season.
• 1923 - Cardinals rookie P Johnny Stuart hurls two complete game victories over Boston, winning by scores of 11 - 1 and 6 - 3.
• 1925 - Giants OF Hack Wilson is the seventh player to hit two home runs in one inning; he does it against the Pirates.
• 1928 - Washington P Milt Gaston surrenders 14 hits in a 9 - 0 shutout over Cleveland, setting an American League mark and tying the major-league standard.
• 1929 - The Pirates outslug the Phillies, 15 - 9, at the Baker Bowl. Pittsburgh hits five homers; the Phils, four, with one home run coming in each inning, a virtually insurmountable record.
• 1930 - Freddie Lindstrom of the Giants has five hits in a game against the Phillies. This is the third time he has accomplished this feat.
• 1932 - Indians flychaser Johnny Burnett collects a record nine hits in 11 at-bats in an 18-inning game in which the A's outscore the Tribe, 18 - 17. Jimmie Foxx hits three home runs, and has 16 total bases and eight RBI for the A's. After Philadelphia starter Lew Krausse is knocked out in the 1st inning, Eddie Rommel is forced to hurl 17 innings in relief as manager/owner Connie Mack, trying to save train fare, has brought only two pitchers; Rommel gives up a record 29 hits.
• 1934 - The second annual All-Star Game produces Carl Hubbell's amazing feat of striking out five future Hall of Famers in a row. Off to a shaky start with two on base in the 1st inning, Hubbell uses his screwball to fan Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmie Foxx. He adds Al Simmons and Joe Cronin to start the 2nd. After three scoreless innings he leaves with the National League ahead, 4 - 0. The American League rallies, scoring nine runs off Lon Warneke, Van Mungo and Dizzy Dean, while Mel Harder pitches five shutout innings in relief of Red Ruffing to hold the lead. Frankie Frisch and Joe Medwick hit homers. Earl Averill's three RBI are decisive for the AL's 9 - 7 victory.
• 1935:
  • The Tigers' win streak ends, despite a record-tying ten doubles in a 12 - 11 loss in Washington.
  • Beating the Tulsa Oilers, 1 - 0, Galveston Buccaneers hurler Ed Cole throws the first perfect game in Texas League history. The decisive hit is an inside-the-park home run with two outs in the bottom of the 9th.
  • Hal Schumacher wins his 11th consecutive game as the Giants beat the Pirates, 10 - 3.
• 1936:
  • At Forbes Field, Chuck Klein hits four home runs in one game, including the tie-breaker in the 10th, helping the Phillies defeat the Pirates, 9 - 6. The Indianapolis, Indiana native barely misses hitting an additional homer in the 2nd when right fielder Paul Waner catches his drive against the wall. At 36, Klein is the oldest player ever to accomplish the feat, and the first National Leaguer in the 20th century to do so.
  • Bobo Newsom pitches one-hit ball in blanking the Tigers, 5 - 0. The lone hit off the Washington pitcher is Jack Burns' 3rd-inning grounder that both the first baseman and second baseman go after. 1B Joe Kuhel stops the ball but no one covers the bag.
  • The Yankees roll to an easy victory over the Indians, as Red Ruffing takes the shutout, 18 - 0. Lloyd Brown, the first of three pitchers, is the loser. Lou Gehrig has a pair of homers to take over the American League lead with 23.
• 1943:
  • Brooklyn scores ten runs in the 1st and 4th innings as they whip the visiting Pirates, 23 - 6. This follows a pre-game attempted strike by the players following Leo Durocher's three-game suspension of P Bobo Newsom for insubordination. Minutes before the game, SS Arky Vaughan hands his uniform to Durocher and refuses to play. Durocher calls for volunteers to play, but by game time he has just a battery of Curt Davis and Bobby Bragan. Branch Rickey intervenes, and Vaughan and the others agree to play. Newsom, 9-4, will be traded to the Browns on July 15th.
  • Homestead Grays owner Rufus "Sonnyman" Jackson is jailed after a confrontation with Mexicans trying to sign his players. Jackson will retain his players and win the Negro League World Championship.
• 1945 - The All-Star Game at Fenway Park is canceled because of travel restrictions. During the break in the schedule, seven inter-league exhibition games are played for war charity. Plans for a USO-sponsored all-star game in Europe do not materialize, although the war in Germany is over and fighting in the Pacific will be over in six weeks.
• 1947:
  • In a rain-interrupted game before 47,871, Don Black of the Cleveland Indians pitches a no-hitter, beating the Philadelphia Athletics 3 - 0 in the first game of a doubleheader. It is the first no-hitter at Municipal Stadium.
  • James Davis, 20-year-old OF of Ballinger (Longhorn League), dies as a result of being hit in the head by a pitched ball on July 3rd. He was hitting .333 with 19 HR in 48 games.
• 1948:
  • After yielding a two-run homer to the A's Hank Majeski to tie the score, reliever Satchel Paige gets his first major league win as Larry Doby hits a two-run homer and the Indians tack on another run in the 9th to beat Philadelphia, 8 - 5.
  • For the sixth time this year, Vern Stephens and Bobby Doerr of the Red Sox hit back-to-back homers as Boston beats the second-place A's, 4 - 0. Jack Kramer scatters nine hits in the shutout to win his seventh straight. Ted Williams sits out the game with a damaged ligament, the result of being hit in the ribs while playfully sparring with Sam Mele on the train down from Boston yesterday.
• 1950 - The Giants pick up P Jim Hearn on waivers from St. Louis.
• 1951:
  • The Giants bring up 2B Davey Williams, hitting .280 at Minneapolis, as well as pitcher Al Corwin. Williams is expected to share 2B duties with Eddie Stanky.
  • Using four home runs from Stan Musial, Bob Elliott, Ralph Kiner and Gil Hodges, the National League All-Stars defeat the American League, 8 - 3, at Detroit's Briggs Stadium in the 1951 All-Star Game. Kiner hits a home run for the third year in a row.
• 1954:
  • Bob Rush of the Cubs stops Cardinal 2B Red Schoendienst's hitting streak at 28 games, the longest batting streak of the year.
  • Andre Dawson - "The Hawk" - is born in Miami, FL. A graceful centerfielder with the Montreal Expos who will become a slugging rightfielder and owner of one of the most powerful throwing arms in baseball with the Chicago Cubs, Dawson will win the 1987 National League Most Valuable Player Award with the Cubs and gain election to the Hall of Fame in 2010.
• 1955 - Pittsburgh's three-run 3rd is all Vernon Law needs to salvage a split in today's twin bill with Philadelphia. But his six-hit, complete-game victory is something of an anticlimax to the Forbes Field faithful. The most exciting moment today comes in a losing cause in the opener, courtesy of Roberto Clemente, who produces one of his trademark tape-measure triples. "The only Pirate run in the first game was a gift," maintains Les Biederman of the Pittsburgh Press. "Clemente tripled to the batting cage with none out in the 6th inning and the Phils gave up the run to throw out Dick Cole."
• 1956 - In the 1956 All-Star Game, Ken Boyer of the Cardinals makes three sparkling plays at 3B and gets three hits as the National League defeats the American League, 7 - 3. Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams and Stan Musial all homer. Mays's pinch-hit two-run home run off Whitey Ford is his seventh straight hit against the Yankee lefty.
• 1958 - P Lew Burdette of Milwaukee hits two homers and beats the Dodgers, 8 - 4.
• 1962 - At newly-opened D.C. Stadium, John F. Kennedy becomes the first president ever to throw the ceremonial first pitch at an All-Star Game. Thanks to the game's MVP Maury Wills scoring two of the team's three runs and Willie Mays's amazing game-ending catch, the National League beats the Junior circuit, 3 - 1, in the first of two Mid-Summer Classics to be held this summer. Roberto Clemente has three hits.
• 1964 - Jesus Alou becomes the first Giant with six hits in a game in almost 40 years, as San Francisco beats the Cubs, 10 - 3. All six hits are against different pitchers.
• 1965 - San Francisco's Juan Marichal's 14th win of the year is his seventh shutout, as he two-hits the Phils, 7 - 0.
• 1966 - George Smith clouts a 10th-inning grand slam to give the Red Sox a 10 - 6 victory over the White Sox.
• 1968:
  • Hank Bauer is fired as manager of the Orioles. He is replaced by Earl Weaver.
  • The American League and National League reach an agreement on next year's expansion format. The twelve teams in each league will be split into two divisions playing a best-of-five games League Championship Series to determine the pennant winner.
• 1969 - The Cubs score five runs in the 5th inning to beat the Mets, 6 - 2, behind Bill Hands. The win halts the Mets' seven-game win streak and leaves the New Yorkers in second place by four games.
• 1970:
  • The Padres launch four home runs in the 9th inning against Los Angeles, but the power display comes too late and the Dodgers win, 9 - 7. Wes Parker has two doubles and a triple for L.A. For the Padres, Ivan Murrell, Ed Spiezio and Dave Campbell hit solo homers off Bill Singer, and Cito Gaston connects for a two-run homer off Jose Pena. The barrage is one short of the record.
  • Reds SS Woody Woodward goes deep for his first and only major league homer, off Ron Reed in Atlanta. It comes in his 684th game. It is too little as the Braves top the Reds, 11 - 9. The Reds take the nitecap, 3 - 1, scoring two runs when Pat Corrales hits a long drive that glances off the glove of Hank Aaron and over the fence for a home run. Pete Rose is 5 for 5, all singles.
• 1971 - The Pirates again top the Braves, 5 - 4, behind Willie Stargell's 30th home run of the season and his tenth off Braves' pitching.
• 1972 - Phillies GM Paul Owens takes over as field manager after firing Frank Lucchesi.
• 1977 - In the first game of a twinbill with the Brewers, the Red Sox strand a major league-record tying 20 runners, but still win, 8 - 5.
• 1979:
  • Scoring four runs in the 13th after two are out, the Giants beat the Expos, 11 - 7. Losing pitcher Woodie Fryman balks in the last run. In the 4th inning, Expo RF Ellis Valentine picks up a line drive and his throw beats Darrell Evans at first base for a 9 - 3 putout.
  • Philadelphia's Del Unser homers in his third consecutive pinch-hitting appearance (the prior ones were on June 30th and July 5th) to tie the major-league record set by Lee Lacy in 1978. The Phillies beat the Padres, 6 - 5.
• 1982 - The Rangers' Larry Parrish hits his third grand slam of the week in a 6 - 5 win over the Tigers, tying the major-league record set by Detroit's Jim Northrup in 1968. Parrish also hit grand slams on July 4th against Oakland and July 7th against Boston.
• 1983:
  • The Giants sweep a pair from the Cubs, winning 10 - 8 and 4 - 2. In the nitecap, Giants RF Jack Clark throws out Junior Kennedy at first base. It is the third time in two years Clark has done it: he did on July 30th to Reds P Charlie Puleo and on September 20, 1981 to Nolan Ryan.
  • It takes Milwaukee 4 hours and 11 minutes to beat Chicago, 12 - 9, the slowest nine-inning game in American League history.
• 1984 - On the 50th anniversary of Carl Hubbell's legendary five consecutive strikeouts in the 1934 All-Star Game, National League pitchers Fernando Valenzuela and Dwight Gooden combine to fan six batters in a row for a new All-Star Game record in the NL's 3 - 1 triumph. After Valenzuela whiffs Dave Winfield, Reggie Jackson and George Brett in the 4th inning, Gooden, the youngest All-Star ever at age 19, fans Lance Parrish, Chet Lemon and Alvin Davis in the 5th.
• 1986 - Oil Can Boyd (11-6) flies into a rage after learning that he has been left off the American League All-Star team and storms out of Fenway Park prior to Boston's game against the Angels. He will be suspended indefinitely by the Red Sox and eventually scuffle with local police before checking into a hospital for psychiatric testing. The weirdness continues into the game as the Angels score three in the 12th to take a 7 - 4 lead. Boston then scores three to tie and when Todd Fischer replaces Mike Cook, he balks in Dwight Evans with the winning run.
• 1990:
  • At the half-way mark in the season, the Reds are leading the NL West by eight games, while Pittsburgh is a half game ahead in the East. In the American League, Boston leads by half a game and Oakland by one game.
  • Six American League pitchers combine for a two-hitter and a 2 - 0 victory over the National League in a rain-delayed All-Star Game at Wrigley Field. Rangers 2B Julio Franco drives in both runs in the 7th inning and is named MVP.
• 1992 - The Pirates trade 3B Steve Buechele to the Cubs in exchange for P Danny Jackson. The swap opens up the Bucs' 3B spot for Jeff King.
• 1997 - Hideki Irabu strikes out nine batters and gets the win in his major league debut as the Yankees defeat the Tigers, 10 - 3.
• 1998 - The Mets trade P Brian Bohanon to the Dodgers in exchange for P Greg McMichael. In the team's game today, Benny Agbayani makes his major league debut, pinch-running in the 9th inning of an 8 - 8 game. He slips trying to steal and gets run down. Another Met runner is doubled off second base in the 10th and the Expos win, 9 - 8.
• 1999:
  • For his fourth loss in a row, the Diamondbacks fail to score for Randy Johnson, this time falling, 2 - 0, to Tim Hudson and the Oakland A's.
  • The Tigers defeat the Brewers, 9 - 3, before 25,374 fans in Detroit. This enables the club to top the one million mark in attendance for the 35th consecutive season for the longest streak in American League history. The Dodgers hold the record of 55 consecutive years.
  • Matt Franco's two-out pinch-hit single off Mariano Rivera in the bottom of the 9th drives home two runs and gives the Mets a 9 - 8 win over the Yankees in a thrilling interleague battle. By doing so, the Mets end the Yankees' streak of 124 consecutive victories when leading after eight innings.
  • At Leland's "Hero's Auction' of sports memorabilia held in New York, the ball batted by Carlton Fisk in the 12th inning of Game 6 of the 1975 World Series which hit the Fenway Park foul pole, ending one of the most dramatic games in World Series history, is sold for $113,273. George Foster, the Reds' left fielder who retrieved and kept the historic home run ball, decided to sell the souvenir after realizing its potential value after Mark McGwire's 70th home run ball sold for almost $3 million.
• 2000 - Sammy Sosa wins the All-Star Game Home Run Derby by defeating defending champ Ken Griffey Jr. in the finals.
• 2001:
  • The American League defeats the National League, 4 - 1, in the All-Star Game. Baltimore's Cal Ripken Jr. thrills the crowd by hitting a home run and winning the MVP award at the affair. Derek Jeter and Magglio Ordonez also homer for the Junior Circuit.
  • Hideki Matsui reaches base for the 51st straight game, a Central League record.
• 2002:
  • Clemson SS Khalil Greene is named winner of the 2002 Golden Spikes Award as the nation's top amateur baseball player.
  • In an open letter, Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell, Ted Williams' oldest daughter, urges former Senator John Glenn and President Bush to help in preventing her half-brother, John Henry, from freezing the body of their dad at a cryonics lab in Arizona. She believes it her father's wish to be cremated and not frozen.
• 2007:
  • In the 2007 All-Star Game, Ichiro Suzuki goes 3 for 3 with the first inside-the-park homer in All-Star Game history to win the MVP award. The American League wins for the tenth straight decision, the second-longest run in Midsummer Classic history. Josh Beckett gets the win and Chris Young the loss. The National League makes it 5 - 4 in the 9th and loads the bases with two away but Francisco Rodriguez retires Aaron Rowand to end the contest.
  • Norichika Aoki is the fastest in Nippon Pro Baseball history to reach 500 career hits, taking 373 games. It beats the old record pace by 13 games and is 30 fewer than Ichiro Suzuki took.
• 2008:
  • Wei-Lun Pan of the President Lions comes closer than anyone else in Chinese Professional Baseball League history until then to a perfect game. Pan throws the sixth no-hitter in league annals and walks none but a Kuo-Ching Kao error at first base costs him the perfecto. He beats the Chinatrust Whales, 7 - 0. No one in the CPBL had ever gone a game without allowing a hit or walk.
  • Justin Morneau goes 5 for 5 and ends his day with a game-winning homer in the 11th inning as the Twins beat the Tigers. Denard Span chips in a 4 for 4 performance.
• 2009:
  • Jonathan Sanchez of the San Francisco Giants pitches the first major league no-hitter this season, blanking the San Diego Padres, 8 - 0. The Padres muster only one baserunner, on an error by 3B Juan Uribe.
  • There are six shutouts pitched today, including Sanchez's gem. Dan Haren of the D-Backs, Jeff Niemann of the Rays and Bronson Arroyo of the Reds all pitch complete game shutouts, while Jon Lester pitches eight scoreless innings in Boston's 1 - 0 win over Kansas City and Brett Cecil of Toronto goes six in a blanking of the Orioles.
  • The New York Mets deal Ryan Church to Atlanta for Jeff Francoeur in a trade of starting right fielders whose recent struggles have landed them on the bench.
  • The Seattle Mariners deal shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt and cash to the Kansas City Royals for pitchers Daniel Cortes and Derrick Saito.
• 2010:
  • A day before Spain wins the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the Spanish Division Honor baseball season ends. CB Sant Boi beats FC Barcelona, 5 - 1, for their second title. Junior Guerra fans 13 and goes the distance to improve to 11-1, while Daniel Sanchez doubles twice, scores and drives in a run.
  • Cliff Lee makes his first start for the Texas Rangers, hours after being acquired in a trade with Seattle for a bevy of prospects, but he is rocked for three homers and six runs in a 6 - 1 loss to the Orioles. He still manages to pitch a complete game, but loses to Chris Tillman.
  • In his third big league start and matched up against the Phillies' Roy Halladay, rookie Travis Wood of the Reds takes a perfect game into the 9th inning but fails to get even a win. The Phillies win the game, 1 - 0, in the 11th, on Carlos Ruiz's double and Jimmy Rollins' single. Ruiz breaks up the perfect game bid with a single in the 9th, and Wood is lifted for a pinch-hitter in the 10th after pitching nine scoreless innings. The Reds fail to score in spite of loading the bases that inning to set up the Phillies' winning drive an inning later.
• 2011:
  • The United States team beats the World team, 6 - 4, in the 2011 Futures Game held in Phoenix, AZ. Jason Kipnis leads off the bottom of the 1st inning with a homer off Julio Teheran, but the game is decided in the 8th when Grant Green opens the inning with a double, then scores the tying run on Tim Beckham's single. Austin Romine follows with another hit to put the U.S. ahead and Nolan Arenado adds an insurance run with a double. Green is the recipient of the Larry Doby Award as the game's MVP.
  • The Phillies put a cap on a great first half by crushing the Braves, 14 - 1, managing 20 hits in the process. Cole Hamels is the beneficiary of the offensive outburst, led by Raul Ibanez who has a homer and six RBI; John Mayberry Jr. pitches in with three doubles and four RBI. The Phillies are 57-34 at the All-Star break, the best mark in the majors, which also ties the team record for wins in the first half, established in 1993.
  • CC Sabathia wins his 13th game of the year for the Yankees, as they eke out a 1 - 0 win over the Tampa Bay Rays. The only run scores on a couple of miscues, after Robinson Cano starts the 7th inning with a single off James Shields. B.J. Upton makes a nice catch on Jorge Posada's fly ball to center, but his throw to first to double Cano sails into the first base dugout. Cano moves to third on the play, then scores when Shields' pick-off attempt is above 3B Sean Rodriguez's head. The game takes only 2:11, tied for quickest this year.
• 2012 - The National League romps past the American League, 8 - 0, in the 2012 All-Star Game, for its third straight All-Star Game win. Eleven pitchers combine on a six-hitter, with starter Matt Cain getting the win. Melky Cabrera hits a two-run homer and is named the game's MVP, while a third member of the Giants, Pablo Sandoval, cracks a three-run triple in the 1st. AL starter Justin Verlander is shellacked for five runs in that opening frame.
• 2013 - David Ortiz of the Red Sox becomes the all-time hit leader as a designated hitter when his 2nd-inning double gives him 1,689 safeties, breaking the mark held by Harold Baines. Big Papi then adds a two-run homer in the 3rd, his eighth hit in nine at-bats, giving further evidence that he will add plenty more hits to the record before he's done. Boston defeats Seattle, 11 - 4.
• 2014:
  • Chicago wins the All-Star Game's Final Man Vote as P Chris Sale of the White Sox is the top vote-getter in the American League, and 1B Anthony Rizzo of the Cubs does the same in the National League.
  • The Cardinals record a very rare putout in the 6th inning of their game against the Pirates. With two men on and P Edinson Volquez attempting a bunt, the Cardinals defend the play by having their two corner infielders rush towards the batter, while the SS covers third base and the 2B goes to first base. However, when Volquez pops up the ball towards the third base line and does not immediately run, 3B Matt Carpenter sees an opening for a potential double play and lets the ball drop, then throws to second base, forgetting that it is uncovered. But a heads-up play by CF Jon Jay results in a 5-8 putout at second, as he picks up the throw, then runs to the second base bag ahead of the runner for the out. However, the Pirates still manage to score five runs in the inning, on their way to a 9 - 1 win.
• 2015 - Brian Dozier hits a three-run homer to cap a seven-run 9th inning and lead the Twins to an 8 - 6 win over the Tigers. The Twins are held to one run over the first eight innings by Justin Verlander, who is still winless on the year, but explode against relievers Joakim Soria and Bruce Rondon.
• 2016:
  • The World Team wins the 2016 Futures Game, 11 - 3, snapping a streak of six straight wins by the US Team. Yoan Moncada hits a two-run homer off Anthony Banda in the 8th to put the World Team ahead and win the Larry Doby Award as the game's MVP. Eloy Jimenez adds a three-run shot in a seven-run 9th inning.
  • Madison Bumgarner pitches a one-hitter while striking out 14 on the last day of games before the All-Star break to lead the Giants to a 4 - 0 win over Arizona. Jake Lamb's 8th-inning single is the only safety for the Diamondbacks.
• 2017 - Aaron Judge adds another flourish to his outstanding rookie season as he wins the Home Run Derby, staged at Marlins Park on the eve of the 2017 All-Star Game, with a total of 47 homers, including four measured at over 500 feet. He defeats Miguel Sano for the title as local favorite and defending champion Giancarlo Stanton is eliminated in the first round.
• 2018:
  • The Astros get a walk-off win on a ball that barely travels two feet. With runners on first and second and one out in the 11th after the Astros have just tied the score at 5-all against the Athletics, Alex Bregman taps a ball that bounces off home plate, briefly rolls foul, before returning to fair territory. C Jonathan Lucroy picks it up and attempts to tag Bregman, who has not moved yet, but he somehow drops the ball. He then throws to 1B but his relay glances off Bregman's helmet and past 1B Mark Canha, allowing Kyle Tucker to score the winning run from second base. "I think it was the softest ball anyone's ever hit," Bregman reflects after the bizarre play.
  • Not to be outdone, the Indians lose a game on a strange 9th-inning managerial gaffe. They lead the Reds, 4 - 0, coming into the top of the 9th, after a brilliant start by Trevor Bauer, but closer Cody Allen gives up four runs and loads the bases with two outs, prompting manager Terry Francona to call in lefty Oliver Perez to face Joey Votto. Trouble is, its not Perez who's been warming up, but righty Dan Otero, the result of a miscommunication with pitching coach Carl Willis: Francona asked to get "OP" warmed up, whereas Willis understood "OT" (Otero's nickname). Given a favorable match-up, Votto lines a 3-2 pitch into right-center field to clear the bases and send Cincinnati on its way to a 7 - 4 win.
• 2019:
  • Jim Bouton, an excellent pitcher as a young man turned knuckleballer after arm injuries cost him his fastball, but better known as the author of Ball Four, one of the best books ever written about baseball, dies at 80. Blackballed by baseball's establishment after his book was published in 1970, he dabbled in acting and sports journalism before making a comeback in 1978 and writing a number of other books, including one on his quixotic fight to preserve a historic ballpark in Pittsfield, MA. He had been suffering from dementia for the past few years.
  • The independent Atlantic League introduces a "robot umpire" to call balls and strikes at its annual All-Star Game played in York, PA. The Automated Ball System is being introduced as part of an agreement with Major League Baseball to test some potential rule changes that may be used in Organized Baseball in future years, and will also be featured in the circuit's regular season games during the second half of the season.
• 2020 - C Buster Posey of the Giants is the latest player to announce he will opt out of the upcoming abbreviated season. He and his wife having just adopted two twin daughters, born prematurely, he prefers not to play in order to minimize the risk of exposing them to COVID-19 at a time when their health is very fragile.
• 2021:
  • In the penultimate day of games before the All-Star break, the Braves suffer a devastating injury as OF Ronald Acuña tears his ACL vainly trying to corral a fly ball off the bat of Jazz Chisholm of the Marlins, which turns into an inside-the-park homer. Acuña, who is leading the NL with 74 runs scored and was voted a starter in the All-Star Game, will need to undergo season-ending surgery.
  • The Dodgers bang two grand slams, by Justin Turner and Mookie Betts, on a night when they collect eight homers and 21 hits in defeating the hapless Diamondbacks, 22 - 1. They are the first team to have two games with two slams in the same season, having previously accomplished the rare feat on May 2nd, when A.J. Pollock and Matt Beaty connected in a 16 - 4 win against the Brewers.
• 2022 - In the 8th inning of their game against the White Sox, Tigers outfielder Robbie Grossman drops a routine fly ball hit by Luis Robert and is charged with his first error since June 13, 2018, ending the longest errorless streak by any player at any position in major league history after 440 games. Worse, the error proves costly as Robert later comes around to score the winning run in a 4 - 2 ChiSox win.
• 2023 - Vladimir Guerrero Jr. wins the annual Home Run Derby, held this year at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, WA, by defeating Randy Arozarena in the final round. His father, Hall of Famer Vladimir Guerrero, had won the event in 2007, and Vladito had finished runner-up in his first participation as a rookie in 2019.

Births

• 1855 - Jim Hart, manager (d. 1919)
• 1859 - Ed Dundon, pitcher (d. 1893)
• 1864 - Ed Conley, pitcher (d. 1894)
• 1864 - Jimmy McAleer, outfielder, manager (d. 1931)
• 1865 - Bobby Lowe, infielder, manager (d. 1951)
• 1867 - Bob Allen, infielder, manager (d. 1943)
• 1869 - Harry Colgan, umpire (d. 1924)
• 1869 - John Heydler, executive (d. 1956)
• 1874 - Gus Dundon, infielder (d. 1940)
• 1882 - Dutch Rudolph, outfielder (d. 1967)
• 1887 - Harry Spratt, infielder (d. 1969)
• 1888 - Harry Geisel, umpire (b. 1966)
• 1888 - Graham McNamee, broadcaster (d. 1942)
• 1893 - Frank Tobin, minor league catcher and manager (d. 1976)
• 1894 - Tokuro Konishi, NPB manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1977)
• 1894 - Jim Walsh, pitcher (d. 1967)
• 1896 - Bill Schindler, catcher (d. 1979)
• 1897 - Bull Connor, announcer (d. 1973)
• 1898 - Dick Lundy, infielder, manager; All-Star (d. 1962)
• 1898 - Katsuo Tanaka, college coach; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1995)
• 1899 - Wally Kopf, infielder (d. 1979)
• 1903 - Johnny Niggeling, pitcher (d. 1963)
• 1903 - Francisco Torrijos, minor league outfielder (d. ????)
• 1906 - Ad Liska, pitcher (d. 1998)
• 1906 - Hal McKain, pitcher (d. 1970)
• 1907 - John Michaels, pitcher (d. 1996)
• 1910 - Jelly Taylor, infielder, manager; All-Star (d. 1976)
• 1914 - Wayne Blackburn, scout (d. 2000)
• 1915 - George Dickey, catcher (d. 1976)
• 1917 - Hugh Alexander, outfielder (d. 2000)
• 1917 - Henry Meyer, minor league outfielder (d. 2015)
• 1918 - Bonnie Baker, AAGPBL catcher and manager (d. 2003)
• 1918 - Chuck Stevens, infielder (d. 2018)
• 1919 - Dain Clay, outfielder (d. 1994)
• 1919 - Daisy Junor, AAGPBL outfielder (d. 2012)
• 1923 - Bob Dant, minor league catcher and manager (d. 1988)
• 1926 - Harry Macpherson, pitcher (d. 2017)
• 1927 - Leroy Williams, infielder (d. 1994)
• 1927 - Paul Pryor, umpire (d. 1995)
• 1928 - John Glenn, outfielder (d. 2023)
• 1928 - Matt Pliszka, minor league catcher (d. 2014)
• 1931 - Frank Calacurcio, minor league infielder (d. 2004)
• 1932 - Willie Honicutt, Negro League player (d. 2015)
• 1937 - Larry Burright, infielder
• 1938 - Mike Brumley, catcher (d. 2016)
• 1940 - Gene Alley, infielder; All-Star
• 1940 - Pete Craig, pitcher
• 1945 - Hal McRae, designated hitter, manager; All-Star
• 1947 - Braudilio Vinent, Cuban league pitcher
• 1948 - Rich Hand, pitcher
• 1949 - Phil Alexander, Australian national team outfielder; Baseball Australia Hall of Fame
• 1949 - Ke-Wu Kao, Taiwan national team catcher
• 1951 - Bob Bailor, infielder
• 1954 - Andre Dawson, outfielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer
• 1956 - Vance McHenry, infielder
• 1960 - Frank Castro, minor league catcher
• 1961 - Takeshi Ishii, NPB pitcher
• 1964 - Ryujiro Matsutani, NPB pitcher
• 1964 - Urban Meyer, minor league infielder
• 1965 - Buddy Groom, pitcher
• 1966 - Willie Magallanes, minor league outfielder
• 1967 - Lee Stevens, infielder
• 1969 - Marty Cordova, outfielder
• 1969 - Jay Kirkpatrick, minor league infielder
• 1973 - Julio Manon, pitcher
• 1975 - Rich Gregory, college coach
• 1977 - Nate Frese, minor league infielder
• 1977 - Travis Wilson, minor league infielder
• 1978 - Sam Marsonek, pitcher
• 1978 - Masaru Takeda, NPB pitcher
• 1979 - Tyrell Godwin, pinch hitter
• 1980 - Luis Borges, minor league infielder
• 1980 - Jesse Foppert, pitcher
• 1980 - Taek-keun Lee, KBO outfielder
• 1981 - Radek Němec, Extraliga infielder
• 1982 - Jackson Paz, minor league pitcher
• 1983 - Justin Fuller, minor league infielder
• 1984 - Erik Stiller, minor league player
• 1985 - Henry Mabee, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Byung-ho Park, infielder
• 1986 - Tony Thomas, minor league infielder
• 1987 - Jermaine Curtis, infielder
• 1987 - Johnny Giavotella, infielder
• 1987 - Gregory Infante, pitcher
• 1987 - Angel Rodriguez, minor league outfielder
• 1988 - Elisaul Pimentel, minor league pitcher
• 1988 - Ryan Wheeler, infielder
• 1989 - Scott Alexander, pitcher
• 1989 - Kyle Putnam, minor league pitcher
• 1989 - Will Smith, pitcher; All-Star
• 1990 - John Lamb, pitcher
• 1991 - Benjamin Salzmann, Extraliga infielder
• 1992 - Natanael Mejia, minor league catcher and manager
• 1993 - Jalen Beeks, pitcher
• 1993 - David Hess, pitcher
• 1993 - Andrey Shevchenko, Russian national team outfielder
• 1993 - Chad Sobotka, pitcher
• 1994 - Shane Muna, Guam national team infielder
• 1994 - Josh Rogers, pitcher
• 1995 - Phil Bickford, pitcher
• 1995 - Daniel Linder, Elitserien pitcher-infielder
• 1995 - Eric Páez, Serie A1 pitcher
• 1996 - Sergio Alcántara, infielder
• 1996 - Rubén Castro, minor league catcher
• 1996 - Taylor Walls, infielder
• 1998 - Jonny Deluca, outfielder
• 1999 - Wei-Cheng Lu, CPBL pitcher
• 2000 - Lawrence Butler, outfielder
• 2002 - Tripp Haddad, Palestinian national team infielder

Deaths

• 1897 - Kid Baldwin, catcher (b. 1864)
• 1922 - Harvey Bailey, pitcher (b. 1876)
• 1923 - Joe Stabell, outfielder (b. 1864)
• 1925 - James Morris, pitcher/outfielder (b. 1860)
• 1935 - Paul Hines, outfielder (b. 1852)
• 1944 - Tom Walker, pitcher (b. 1881)
• 1945 - Bill Barnes, outfielder (b. 1858)
• 1945 - Frank Butler, outfielder (b. 1866)
• 1945 - Bill Farnsworth, writer (b. 1885)
• 1947 - James Davis, minor league outfielder (b. 1927)
• 1949 - Red Downey, outfielder (b. 1889)
• 1950 - John L. Smith, owner (b. 1889)
• 1951 - Bobby Messenger, outfielder (b. 1884)
• 1952 - Gus Greenlee, Negro League owner (b. 1895)
• 1956 - Joe Giard, pitcher (b. 1898)
• 1960 - Harry Redmond, infielder (b. 1887)
• 1967 - Skinny Graham, outfielder (b. 1909)
• 1968 - Allie Moulton, infielder (b. 1886)
• 1974 - Claude Miller, pitcher (b. 1914)
• 1981 - Henry Richardson, pitcher (b. 1917)
• 1986 - Harl Maggert, outfielder (b. 1914)
• 1988 - Ernie Nevel, pitcher (b. 1918)
• 1990 - Henry Coppola, pitcher (b. 1912)
• 1992 - Walt Masters, pitcher (b. 1907)
• 1997 - Dwight Lowry, catcher (b. 1957)
• 1998 - Ray Neil, infielder; All-Star (b. 1920)
• 2001 - Tony Criscola, outfielder (b. 1915)
• 2001 - Al Lary, pitcher (b. 1928)
• 2002 - Kohei Matsuda, owner; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1922)
• 2006 - Angel Fleitas, infielder (b. 1914)
• 2008 - Steve Mingori, pitcher (b. 1944)
• 2008 - Wayne Weinheimer, minor league infielder (b. 1969)
• 2008 - Bob Zuber, college coach (b. 1928)
• 2010 - Tom D'Armi, college coach (b. 1935)
• 2010 - Red Gaskill, scout (b. ~1921)
• 2010 - Ed Palmquist, pitcher (b. 1933)
• 2010 - Johnny Van Cuyk, pitcher (b. 1921)
• 2010 - Janet Wiley, AAGPBL infielder (b. 1933)
• 2014 - Gloria Schweigerdt, AAGPBL pitcher (b. 1934)
• 2019 - Jim Bouton, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1939)
• 2021 - Dick Tidrow, pitcher (b. 1947)