July 13

January	February
1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31	1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
March	April
1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31	1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
May	June
1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31	1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
July	August
1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31	1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
September	October
1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30	1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
November	December
1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30	1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Stats of players who were born this day
Stats of players who died on this day
Standings on this day
Permanent link to Today's Entry
Sources
Baseball Library Chronology
Today in Baseball History

Events, births and deaths that occurred on July 13.

Events

• 1896 - Ed Delahanty hits four home runs, but it's not enough as the Phillies lose to the Chicago Colts, 9 - 8. "Big Ed" is the second man to hit four homers in one game in the National League, after Bobby Lowe two years earlier. It will be another 90 years until another man hits four long balls in defeat, when Bob Horner does it for the Atlanta Braves on July 6, 1986.
• 1900:
  • Buck Ewing resigns as manager of the last-place Giants and is replaced by SS George Davis. The Giants respond, as it seems they do with each managerial change, with a win over Brooklyn, 14 - 1.
  • Harry Wolverton of the Phillies hits three triples and two singles in an eight-inning 23 - 8 victory at Pittsburgh.
• 1904 - With Napoleon Lajoie lining a major-league record three triples, Cleveland rolls past the Highlanders, 16 - 3.
• 1905 - The Philadelphia A's "sell" catcher Mike "Doc" Powers to the New York Highlanders. Powers will be sold back to the A's on August 7th. Powers is needed to replace back-up C Red Kleinow, injured yesterday in a game with Detroit. Powers will play mainly at 1B, replacing Hal Chase whose nose was broken in the Detroit game.
• 1907 - The Reds manage 11 hits off Christy Mathewson, but no runs, and the Giants win, 4 - 0.
• 1908 - New York sweeps the Pirates, beating Lefty Leifield, 7 - 0, on a three-hitter by Christy Mathewson, then taking the nitecap, 7 - 4. Pittsburgh racks up three homers - by Honus Wagner, Chief Wilson and Alan Storke - but to no avail. Joe McGinnity wins the nitecap with relief help from Hooks Wiltse.
• 1909 - At Nicollet Park in Minneapolis, Irv Young puts on "the greatest single-day mound performance in the history of the Millers". In the first game of a doubleheader with the Milwaukee Brewers, Young holds them to four hits to win, 1 - 0. Young homers in the 5th for the game's only run. So impressive is Young that he pitches the nitecap, holding the Brewers hitless until the 9th and finishing with a one-hit, 5 - 0 victory. The double shutout puts the Millers two games in front of Milwaukee. The two teams will fight for the American Association lead for the next two months, before fading in the final week, allowing Louisville to sneak into first.
• 1911 - In the 9th against the A's, Ty Cobb breaks a 7 - 7 tie by scoring from first on Jim Delahanty's single. Cobb runs through coach Hughie Jennings' frantic signal to hold up and, using a fadeaway slide, eludes the tag of catcher Ira Thomas. Detroit wins, 8 - 7, to stay in first place.
• 1915 - Pete Alexander wins his 9th in a row for the Phils, shutting out the visiting Cardinals, 8 - 0. The Phils move into first place in the National League with the victory, and will remain there for the rest of the season, winning the franchise' first-ever NL pennant.
• 1916 - Detroit's Bill James strikes out seven straight batters in the Tigers' 3 - 1 win over Washington.
• 1919 - Submarine P Carl Mays quits the mound after two innings at Chicago, blaming his teammates for lack of support afield. American League president Ban Johnson suspends Mays indefinitely and orders umpires not to let him pitch. In defiance of Johnson's order that no action be taken until Mays is returned to good standing, Boston owner Harry Frazee will trade Mays to the Yankees for pitchers Bob McGraw and Allen Russell and $40,000 on July 30th. The Yankees then get a court order restraining Johnson from interfering, further eroding Johnson's authority and standing, and the American League directors reinstate Mays. In retaliation, on October 29th the National Commission will refuse to recognize the Yankees' third-place finish and will withhold the players' share of the World Series pool. New York's owners will pay out of their own pockets, and Johnson will never recover his authority.
• 1920 - The fans are flocking to see the mighty Babe Ruth hit home runs (12 in June). A twin bill with the Browns draws a Polo Grounds record of 38,823, the third record-breaker of the year.
• 1922:
  • The smallest crowd in Fenway Park history - just 68 fans - see the Browns' Herman Pillette shut out the Red Sox, 2 - 0. Alex Ferguson takes the loss.
  • Cardinal P Bill Doak misses a no-hitter when he neglects to cover first base on an infield single by Phillies OF Curt Walker in the 7th. Jack Fournier, playing 1B, fields the ball but Doak fails to cover the bag. Doak still wins the game, 1 - 0.
• 1927:
  • Chicago admirers present Eddie Collins, now with the A's, with a new automobile. The A's send out a lineup featuring Collins, Ty Cobb and Zack Wheat, all of whom have at least 2,500 hits entering the game. The next team to do that will be the 2012 Yankees.
  • Pete Mann, an infielder with the Macon Peaches, is killed by a pitch from Tom Farrell of the Asheville Tourists. Asheville skipper Larry Gardner, in a second sad note, had been a teammate of Ray Chapman when he died from a pitch.
• 1930 - The defending champs, the Philadelphia A's, move into first place by beating the Browns, 12 - 1, and will remain in the lead the rest of the season.
• 1934 - In front of 20,000 fans during the 3rd inning at Navin Field in Detroit, Babe Ruth wallops a Tommy Bridges 3-2 pitch far over the right field wall for his 700th career home run. The 4 - 2 victory over the Tigers puts the Bronx Bombers back into first place, but Lou Gehrig is helped off the field in the 1st inning with a severe bout of lumbago.
• 1935 - The A's Doc Cramer has a 6-for-6 game, tying the American League mark for the second time. He had also done it in 1932.
• 1936 - Bill Lee wins a 1 - 0 duel from Carl Hubbell, as the Cubs move into first place. It is the last game the Giant ace will lose this year; he will win his final 16 decisions.
• 1937 - The Cardinals' Pepper Martin is fined $200 for violation of training rules.
• 1941 - Former major-league player Eddie Mayo, playing for Los Angeles of the Pacific Coast League, spits in the face of umpire Ray Snyder. PCL President W. C. Tuttle suspends Mayo for one year.
• 1943 - The American League edges the National League, 5 - 3, at Shibe Park in the first All-Star Game played under the lights. Bobby Doerr of the Red Sox is the hitting hero with a three-run homer off Mort Cooper in the 2nd inning. Vince DiMaggio of the Pirates has a single, triple and home run in three trips. Doerr also handles six fielding chances. At the All-Star break he had handled 307 errorless chances, dating back to May 20th. His streak will end at 349 chances, a record he will break in 1948. The game is broadcast to GIs via shortwave radio.
• 1944 - A .300 hitter as a rookie for the Tigers in 1943, Dick Wakefield finishes Navy air training and then is released from the service pending assignment. He rejoins the Tigers and will hit .355 the rest of the season, pushing Detroit near the flag despite the loss of 12 of its first 13 home games. In the first week after the All-Star Game, Wakefield homers twice, and goes 9 for 24.
• 1946 - Al Zarilla of the St. Louis Browns gets two triples in the 4th inning against the A's. The Browns win, 11 - 4, at Shibe Park.
• 1947 - Making his 14th major-league uniform switch, Bobo Newsom joins the Yanks. His 7-5 record the rest of the way will help the Yankees to the title. Next season, Newsom will join the Giants.
• 1948 - At Sportsman's Park, the American League defeats the National League for the 11th time in 15 All-Star contests, 5 - 2. Vic Raschi pitches three scoreless innings to pick up the win and hits a two-run single as well. Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, George Kell and Hal Newhouser miss places in the lineup due to injuries.
• 1950 - Doctors remove seven bone fragments from Ted Williams' elbow in a 75-minute operation. He was injured in yesterday's All-Star Game and will be sidelined until mid-September. But he will go on to hit .350 for the rest of 1950 and .336 throughout the rest of his career, including .388 and .328 to lead the American League in 1957 and 1958 respectively.
• 1951:
  • The Red Sox and White Sox play 19 innings under the lights, tying a major league record. Mickey McDermott pitches the first 17 innings for Boston, as Chicago wins this marathon, 5 - 4. Clyde Vollmer has a homer and two singles for the BoSox and 3B Vern Stephens plays the entire game (18 1/3 innings) without a putout. Boston scores twice in the top of the 19th, but the Sox strike back with three runs. For the second night in a row, the two teams set a record for the longest night game. Tomorrow the Sox will set a major league mark when they pull off their 14th double play in four games.
  • Both Wes Westrum and Davey Williams of the Giants hit grand slams, as the Giants beat St. Louis, 14 - 4, at the Polo Grounds. The win moves New York into second place.
• 1952:
  • Vic Raschi gives up only one hit as the Yankees rout the Tigers, 11 - 1, in the first game of a doubleheader.
  • Before 26,770 fans, Mike Garcia of the Indians blanks Washington 1 - 0 on two hits in the first game of a doubleheader.
• 1954 - At Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, Senators hurler Dean Stone does not retire a batter, but gets the win in the American League's 11 - 9 All-Star Game victory as he throws out Red Schoendienst trying to steal home in the 8th inning for the third out before retiring a batter. The AL breaks the National League's four-game winning streak. Larry Doby's pinch home run in the bottom of the 8th, followed by Nellie Fox's two-run single, ends the highest-scoring All-Star Game in history. The two teams combine for 31 hits, with the AL amassing 17. The Indians' Al Rosen has two homers and five RBIs.
• 1955 - The Orioles deal OF Hoot Evers to the Indians in exchange for P Bill Wight.
• 1958 - Orlando Cepeda's third homer in three days and Felipe Alou's run-scoring hit in the 9th, give the Giants a 6 - 5 win over the Braves. San Francisco now leads the Braves by a half game.
• 1959 - The Red Sox sweep their five-game series with New York with a 13 - 3 rout featuring a big 6th inning. Gene Stephens pinch-runs for Ted Williams and, when the Sox bat around, then hits a grand slam.
• 1960 - Vern Law becomes the second Pirate to win a 1960 All-Star Game, working two scoreless innings. Stan Musial comes off the National League bench and hits his record sixth and last All-Star Game home run. Willie Mays, Ken Boyer and Eddie Mathews also homer in the 6 - 0 NL win, the third shutout in All-Star Game history.
• 1961 - Chicago's Early Wynn gets an early departure as he retires just two Yankees in the 1st inning. Then Mickey Mantle (30th) and Roger Maris (34th) belt back-to-back homers to send the vet to the showers. For Mantle, it is the 13th homer in his career off Wynn, his favorite target. New York wins, 6 - 2
• 1962:
  • In Kansas City, the Red Sox outlast the A's, 11 - 10, in 15 innings. Boston collects 21 hits to Kansas City's 20. Lou Clinton wins the marathon with an RBI single and adds the cycle as he goes 5 for 7. Dick Radatz is the winner over Ed Rakow. K.C. catcher Haywood Sullivan is 4 for 4 before leaving for a pinch runner in the 10th.
  • Cubs rookie Cal Koonce (8-2) stops the Reds on one hit, a single by Don Blasingame, to win, 1 - 0. It is the first of four times that the Dixie Blazer will collect the only hit in a game. The Cubs' only run is unearned off Bob Purkey (14-3).
  • Orioles C Charlie Lau hits four doubles in a 10 - 3 victory over Cleveland to tie a major league record. Charlie's average jumps to .294.
• 1963 - At Kansas City in the second game of a doubleheader, Cleveland's 43-year-old Early Wynn leaves with a lead after struggling through five innings. Four scoreless relief innings by Jerry Walker enable Wynn to score his 300th career victory, 7 - 4. It has taken Wynn eight tries to cop his 300th (and last) career win.
• 1964 - The Yankees clout four homers in Cleveland to top the Tribe, 10 - 4.
• 1965 - For the first time in All-Star history, the National League takes the lead in games won over the American League as the Senior Circuit edges the junior loop, 6 - 5, at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota. Willie Mays homers, walks twice and scores twice. Game MVP Juan Marichal throws three scoreless innings.
• 1966 - Manager Don Heffner (37-46) is fired by the Reds and replaced by coach Dave Bristol.
• 1968 - At Pittsburgh, the Phils take their fourth straight from the Bucs, winning, 3 - 2, in 16 innings.
• 1969:
  • Undefeated O's ace Dave McNally wins his 13th but needs relief help in subduing the Red Sox, 6 - 3. Jim Lonborg, making his first start since breaking his toe on June 21st, takes the loss. Tony Conigliaro has a pair of homers and Reggie Smith stretches his hitting streak to 20 games.
  • In the third meeting between the two brothers, San Diego's Joe Niekro defeats his brother Phil of the Braves, 1 - 0. Joe is 2-1 over his older sibling.
• 1971 - In a game which features six home runs, including Reggie Jackson crushing a Dock Ellis 4th-inning pitch off the power generator located on the Tiger Stadium right-field roof 520 feet from home plate, the American League beats the National League, 6 - 4, in All-Star action. All the players who homer - Johnny Bench, Hank Aaron, Roberto Clemente, Frank Robinson, Harmon Killebrew as well as Reggie - will become members of the Hall of Fame. It is the only AL All-Star victory between 1962 and 1983.
• 1972 - In a contest which lasts only 93 minutes, the Cardinals play the quickest nine-inning game in their history. They defeat the Braves, 2 - 0, as Reggie Cleveland pitches a two-hit shutout.
• 1973:
  • Bobby Murcer hits three home runs, all off starter Gene Garber, and knocks in all the runs in the Yankees' 5 - 0 win over the Royals. Mel Stottlemyre scatters six hits in racking up his 39th shutout. Murcer will not hit another homer until August 19th.
  • At Atlanta Stadium, Hal Breeden of the Expos becomes only the second major leaguer to pinch-hit home runs in both ends of a doubleheader. On June 17, 1943, Red Sox player-manager Joe Cronin accomplished the feat against the Philadelphia A's. Expo pinch-hitter Jim Lyttle also adds a homer. Montreal outslugs Atlanta, 11 - 7 in the first game, and the Braves return the favor, 15 - 6, in the second.
• 1975 - The Reds score four runs in the 8th inning to defeat Tom Seaver and the Mets, 5 - 3. The Reds have won 41 of their last 50 games.
• 1976 - The National League emerges victorious in the annual All-Star Game at Veterans Stadium, 7 - 1. George Foster, one of seven Reds position players on the squad, homers, drives in three runs, and is named the game's MVP. Rookie Mark Fidrych gives up two runs and takes the loss. It is the NL's 13th win in the last 14 games.
• 1977 - At Shea Stadium, the Mets' game against the Cubs' is suspended due to a major black-out which darkens New York City. The Mets players amuse the crowd by performing antics in front of the headlights of cars which they drive onto the field.
• 1979 - California's Nolan Ryan and Boston's Steve Renko (with one-out help from Bill Campbell) each lose no-hitters in the 9th inning, and each settle for one-hit victories: 6 - 1 over New York, and 2 - 0 over Oakland, respectively. Rickey Henderson has the one-out hit off Renko.
• 1982 - In the first All-Star game played outside the United States, the National League cruises to its 11th straight win, beating the American League at Montreal's Olympic Stadium, 4 - 1. Dave Concepcion's 2nd-inning two-run homer off Red Sox starter Dennis Eckersley is the turning point of the game. The NL has now won 19 of the last 20 contests.
• 1984:
  • The Yankees retire the uniform numbers of Roger Maris (# 9) and Elston Howard (# 32). The team also erects plaques in their honor to pay tribute to their achievements as Bronx Bombers.
  • At Minnesota, Detroit tops the Twins, 5 - 3, when Lou Whitaker bloops an inside-the-park homer to win it. Detroit sends it to extra innings when RF Kirk Gibson throws out Tim Teufel at home with two out in the 9th. Willie Hernandez (5-0) is the winner.
• 1985:
  • The White Sox take a 9 - 0 lead over the Orioles and hang on for a 10 - 8 win. Gary Roenicke drives in six runs for the O's on a two-run home run and a grand slam off Britt Burns, who goes all the way. Dennis Martinez takes the loss.
  • The Angels get three pinch hits in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Blue Jays, 4 - 3. Darrell Miller, Mike Brown and Bob Boone all deliver singles to give Mike Witt the complete game win.
• 1988 - After replacing John McNamara as the Red Sox manager, Joe Morgan makes a good first impression as the team wins the first nineteen out of twenty with him at the helm.
• 1991 - The Orioles defeat the A's, 2 - 0, on a combined no-hitter by pitchers Bob Milacki, Mike Flanagan, Mark Williamson and Gregg Olson. It is only the second time in history that four pitchers have combined to throw a no-hitter. On September 28, 1975, Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Lindblad and Rollie Fingers turned the trick for Oakland against the California Angels. Milacki is lifted in the 6th after Willie Wilson smashes a ball off the pitcher's index finger.
• 1993 - Players Association chief Donald Fehr says that if serious negotiations between the players and the owners don't begin soon, the players could go out on strike in September, threatening the postseason.
• 1995 - Greg Maddux of the Braves defeats the Padres, 4 - 1. His streak of 51 innings without issuing a walk is ended when he gives up a free pass to opposing pitcher Joey Hamilton, a career .041 hitter.
• 1996:
  • The Giants' top prospect, Shawn Estes, throws his first game of the season, pitching seven scoreless innings and striking out 11 Dodgers for his first win, 7 - 0.
  • The Indians score four runs in the 4th, five runs in the 5th, and six runs in the 6th as they defeat the Twins, 19 - 11. The Tribe counts 12 doubles and three home runs among its 22 hits. The 12 doubles tie an American League record set in 1990, and the two teams combine for 18 doubles, a new AL record (the National League mark is 23). OF Rich Becker gets four hits, including a double and two homers, and drives home six runs for Minnesota.
• 1997:
  • With the temperature at 100 degrees, Pedro Martinez fires a one-hit shutout to beat the Reds, 2 - 0. The Expos' ace gives up a single to Bret Boone in the 5th for the only hit. Mike Lansing triples twice for the Expos before leaving in the 5th inning with exhaustion.
  • Dennys Reyes, the first lefty in nearly five years to start a game for the Dodgers, throws six strong innings in beating the Giants, 9 - 3. The last lefty starter for Los Angeles was Bob Ojeda, on September 24, 1992, in a no-decision at Cincinnati.
  • The Marlins use an eight-run 4th inning to wallop the Phillies, 9 - 3. Gary Sheffield is the main man with two homers in the inning, hitting a solo shot and a three-run homer, before leaving with a pulled hamstring.
  • Seattle and Texas combine for a record 31 strikeouts in the Rangers' 4 - 2 victory. Randy Johnson racks up 14 K's in seven innings, and reliever Bobby Ayala adds four, but gives up two runs in the 9th. The previous mark was 30 set by the Mariners and Athletics on April 30, 1986.
• 1999 - At Fenway Park, hometown favorite Pedro Martinez strikes out five of the six batters he faces to win MVP honors in the 70th Mid-Summer Classic. The two All-Star pitching squads combine for a record 22 strikeouts as the American League tops the National League, 4 - 1. The game begins 15 minutes late as Hall of Fame OF Ted Williams rides out in a cart for the first-pitch ceremony. Players from both teams surround the former Red Sox star in a spontaneous display of homage.
• 2000 - The Dodgers edge the Angels, 4 - 3, in ten innings but not before California executes an unusual play. After the Dodgers' Adrian Beltre triples off the newly-renovated RF fence in the bottom of the 10th, the Angels move LF Darin Erstad to the infield to prevent the run scoring. Erstad, playing at about second base, throws out Kevin Elster for an OF assist. Jim Leyritz then singles in the run.
• 2001:
  • Pittsburgh P Todd Ritchie hurls a one-hitter against the Royals. Kansas City's Luis Alicea hits a single for the Royals' only hit in the Pirates' 1 - 0 win.
  • Ichiro Suzuki and Kazuhiro Sasaki announce a boycott of members of the Japanese press who have been hounding them all season.
  • Mets C Mike Piazza hits his 300th career home run in New York's 3 - 1 loss to Boston.
• 2002 - The Tigers defeat the White Sox twice, 5 - 3 and 3 - 1, to mark their first sweep of a doubleheader in almost nine years.
• 2004 - Having earned the All-Star MVP award as a 23-year-old for pitching three perfect innings at the Astrodome in 1986, the 41-year-old Roger Clemens gives up six runs in the 1st inning in the 75th Midsummer Classic played at Houston's Minute Maid Park. The eventual 9 - 4 American League victory is halted in the top of the 5th inning as the much chagrined "Rocket" receives the Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award from Bud Selig in recognition of his outstanding 21-year career.
• 2008:
  • The World team shuts out the USA in the 2008 Futures Game, as nine hurlers combine on a three-hitter. It is a poor showing for what is billed as the Olympic trials for the US. Carlos Carrasco gets the win and Shairon Martis the save while Che-Hsuan Lin wins the Larry Doby Award as MVP thanks to his two-run homer in the 3 - 0 victory.
  • C.C. Sabathia homers and goes the distance in a 3 - 2 Brewers win over the Reds. Sabathia had homered for the Indians earlier in the season, making him the first pitcher to go deep for a team in each league since Earl Wilson in 1970.
  • The Cubs tie the National League record with eight All-Star selections, tying the 1943 Cardinals, 1956 Redlegs and 1960 Pirates. Carlos Marmol is picked to replace injured teammate Kerry Wood, joining Cubbies Ryan Dempster, Kosuke Fukudome, Aramis Ramirez, Alfonso Soriano, Geovany Soto and Carlos Zambrano.
  • The La New Bears beat the Brother Elephants, 12 - 5. Chin-Feng Chen goes 4 for 4 with five RBI and three home runs. In the process, he sets a CPBL record with 13 total bases.
• 2009 - The Washington Nationals, owners of the worst record in the major leagues, fire manager Manny Acta. Bench coach Jim Riggleman takes over on an interim basis.
• 2010:
  • George Steinbrenner, owner of the New York Yankees since 1973, passes away from a heart attack at his home in Tampa, FL. Steinbrenner restored the Yankees to greatness during his ownership, spent lavishly on free agents, fired managers and front office personnel at a sometimes dizzying pace, but saw the team win seven World Series titles. He had relinquished the team's operations to his son Hal Steinbrenner as his health deteriorated badly in 2008.
  • The National League wins the 2010 All-Star Game, played at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, 3 - 1, for its first win since 1996. MVP Brian McCann drives in all three runs with a bases-loaded double off Matt Thornton in the 7th. In a year in which pitchers have grabbed most of the headlines, the game is true to form, as pitchers dominate. The American League's only score comes on a sacrifice fly by Robinson Cano.
  • C Bryce Harper of the College of Southern Nevada, the top pick in the 2010 amateur draft, wins this year's Golden Spikes Award as the best collegiate baseball player in the United States. He is only the second player from a junior college to win the award since its creation in 1978, after Alex Fernandez in 1990.
• 2011:
  • With jury selection complete, both sides make their opening arguments in the trial of Roger Clemens for perjury. It is clear that the central issue will be the credibility of Clemens' former trainer, Brian McNamee, who has supplied much of the prosecution's key evidence and will be its star witness. For its part, the defense argues that "Clemens' only crime was having the poor judgment of staying connected with McNamee", claiming that none of the allegations are founded and that the physical evidence is the result of tampering.
  • The AAA All-Star Game is played in Salt Lake City, UT, with the International League defeating the Pacific Coast League, 3 - 0. Russ Canzler hits a three-run homer to account for all the scoring.
• 2012:
  • Chipper Jones ties Mike Schmidt for second place on the all-time list for RBI by a third baseman, knocking in his 1,595th run with a homer in Atlanta's 7 - 5 win over the Mets. Jones is now one RBI behind George Brett among players who played the majority of their careers at the hot corner. C David Ross filling in for Brian McCann, who is on paternity leave, drives in four runs for the Braves, who also benefit from 11 walks issued by New York pitchers.
  • C Russell Martin guns down Howie Kendrick on a steal attempt at second base to preserve the Yankees' 6 - 5 win over the Angels to begin the season's second half. It is the third runner that Martin catches in a steal attempt tonight, and he also drives in the winning run in the 8th. Mark Teixeira drives in the other five runs for the Yankees with a pair of homers.
  • Zack Greinke of the Brewers becomes the first pitcher since Red Faber in 1917 to start three consecutive games for his team, when he faces the Pirates today. Greinke had been ejected after only four pitches on July 7th for spiking the ball into the ground, then started the next day's game, lasting three innings. The All-Star break then intervened, allowing him to start the Brewers' first game of the second half, but he pitches only five innings with a no-decision. Faber had done so under more demanding circumstances, starting both ends of a doubleheader before pitching a complete game the next day.
• 2013:
  • Tim Lincecum of the Giants no-hits the Padres, 9 - 0, striking out 13 batters in the process.
  • Max Scherzer loses his first game of the year after 13 straight wins when the Tigers bow to the Rangers, 7 - 1.
• 2014:
  • P Madison Bumgarner and C Buster Posey both hit grand slams, accounting for all their team's runs, as the Giants defeat the Diamondbacks, 8 - 4. It is the first time that both members of a battery have hit slams in the same game, and for Bumgarner, it is his second of the year, making him only the second pitcher in history to do so - Tony Cloninger had hit two in the same game in 1966.
  • The U.S. team wins the 2014 Futures Game, 3 - 2, over the World team at Target Field. Although pitchers dominate the game, combining for 18 strikeouts and only two walks, the winner of the Larry Doby Award as the game's MVP is DH Joey Gallo, the minor leagues' home run leader this season, who hits a two-run homer in the 6th. Javier Baez also hits a two-run homer, for the losing side.
• 2015 - Todd Frazier wins the annual Home Run Derby in front of a home crowd at Great American Ball Park, edging out rookie Joc Pederson, 15-14, in the final round. For the first time, the competition is staged with a time limit for batters, and Frazier hits the homer that ties him with Pederson with seconds to go before launching the clincher.
• 2017 - As play is about to resume following the All-Star break, the two Chicago teams pull off a rare trade, with the White Sox sending P José Quintana to the Cubs in return for four prospects: P Dylan Cease, OF Eloy Jimenez and IFs Matt Rose and Bryant Flete. In another trade, this one between contenders, the Yankees sent P Tyler Webb to the Brewers in return for 1B Garrett Cooper, in a deal designed to provide some depth at a position where the Yankees have become very thin.
• 2018 - The Pacific League wins the first 2018 NPB All-Star Game, scoring five in the 1st off comeback kid Daisuke Matsuzaka but blow their 5 - 0 lead thanks to three Central League homers, before the PL scores twice more for a 7 - 6 win. Tomoya Mori hits a three-run homer off Matsuzaka and also doubles to win game MVP honors. Naoki Miyanishi gets the win, Hirotoshi Masui the save and Onelki García the loss.
• 2019:
  • In the first trade of what is expected to be a busy trading deadline, the Red Sox obtain P Andrew Cashner from the Orioles for two prospects, both of whom are still 17 years old. Cashner has a record of 9-3 in spite of pitching for the team with the worst record in the majors.
  • The Central League bangs out 20 hits in a 11 - 3 win in the second 2019 NPB All-Star Game, breaking a five-game losing streak. Rookie Koji Chikamoto has the second cycle in NPB All-Star Game annals (Atsuya Furuta had one 27 years prior) and becomes the first rookie to hit a leadoff homer in an All-Star Game. Tomoyuki Sugano gets the win.
  • The Marlins Puerto Cruz win their third straight Liga Nacional División de Honor, with Julio Torrealba improving to 7-0 as they move to 21-3 with two games left.
• 2021 - The American League wins the 91st edition of the All-Star Game, 5 - 2, over the National League at Denver's Coors Field, for its eighth straight win. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is the winner of the Ted Williams Award as the game's MVP after blasting a monstrous homer in the 3rd and driving in another run, while two-way star Shohei Ohtani starts at DH and pitches a perfect 1st inning to receive credit for the win.
• 2022:
  • The Blue Jays, who had entered the season with sky-high expectations, fire manager Charlie Montoyo after the team has lost eight of its last ten games and is now barely ahead of the fifth-place Orioles. Bench coach John Schneider takes over as manager on an interim basis, and Casey Candaele is promoted from AAA Buffalo to step into the breach left by Schneider on the coaching staff.
  • Two teams that were not really seen as contenders when the season began are having historic winning streaks. Both the Mariners and Orioles have won ten games in row, with Seattle sweeping Washington in a doubleheader, 6 - 4 and 2 - 1 and Baltimore defeating the Cubs, 7 - 1. For the Mariners, it is only the fourth winning streak of ten or more games in franchise history, and the first since 2002, while for the O's it is their first double-digit streak since 1999.
• 2024:
  • The National League defeats the American League, 6 - 1, in the 2024 Futures Game played at Globe Life Field as part of the All-Star Game festivities. Cam Collier is named the winner of the Larry Doby Award as the game's top player after hitting a 409-foot homer off Caden Dana in the 3rd inning.
  • Meanwhile, Reds outfielder Rece Hinds continues his incredible first week in the majors as he hits two more homers in a 10 - 6 win over the Marlins. He now has five homers in his first six major league games, matching a feat by Trevor Story in 2016, but that does not count his other four extra-base hits - three doubles and a triple. He is batting .500 and slugging 1.409.

Births

• 1851 - Tom York, outfielder, manager, umpire (d. 1936)
• 1852 - George Bradley, pitcher (d. 1931)
• 1866 - John O'Brien, infielder (d. 1913)
• 1866 - Taylor Shafer, infielder (d. 1945)
• 1874 - Wiley Piatt, pitcher (d. 1946)
• 1879 - Jiggs Donahue, infielder (d. 1913)
• 1880 - Tom O'Hara, outfielder (d. 1954)
• 1887 - Gene Packard, pitcher (d. 1959)
• 1889 - Stan Coveleski, pitcher; Hall of Famer (d. 1984)
• 1892 - Eusebio Gonzalez, infielder (d. 1976)
• 1894 - George Cunningham, pitcher (d. 1972)
• 1896 - Luther Farrell, pitcher (d. 1956)
• 1899 - Ed Corey, pitcher (d. 1970)
• 1900 - Footsie Blair, infielder (d. 1982)
• 1902 - Bill Lasley, pitcher (d. 1990)
• 1903 - Chester Blanchard, infielder (d. 1996)
• 1905 - Tiny Chaplin, pitcher (d. 1939)
• 1916 - Hubert Glenn, pitcher (d. 2007)
• 1917 - Masayoshi Nakayama, NPB pitcher (d. 1994)
• 1917 - Robert Playfair, minor league pitcher (d. 1993)
• 1919 - Eliot Asinof, writer; minor league player (d. 2008)
• 1919 - Vernon Harrison, pitcher (d. 1978)
• 1920 - Frank Hiller, pitcher (d. 1987)
• 1921 - Harry Dorish, pitcher (d. 2000)
• 1921 - Don Stokes, minor league outfielder (d. 1996)
• 1923 - Alvaro Lebrija, minor league executive; Salón de la Fama (d. 2016)
• 1927 - Ruben Gomez, pitcher (d. 2004)
• 1928 - Daryl Spencer, infielder (d. 2017)
• 1929 - Wayne Boyer, minor league pitcher (d. 2017)
• 1929 - Olmedo Suárez, minor league infielder (d. 2004)
• 1930 - Juan Bregio, Cuban league manager (d. 2015)
• 1934 - Ken Hunt, outfielder (d. 1997)
• 1938 - Danny Bishop, minor league catcher (d. 2020)
• 1938 - Don Pavletich, catcher (d. 2020)
• 1940 - Jack Aker, pitcher
• 1940 - Frank Bork, pitcher
• 1941 - Don Bryant, catcher (d. 2015)
• 1942 - Taisuke Watanabe, NPB pitcher (d. 2023)
• 1943 - Toshizo Sakamoto, NPB infielder (d. 2022)
• 1944 - Buzz Stephen, pitcher (d. 2024)
• 1944 - Stephen Thornton, minor league catcher and manager
• 1945 - Jethro McIntyre, scout; minor league manager
• 1946 - Jerry Terrell, infielder
• 1947 - Donald Fox, minor league pitcher (d. 2007)
• 1948 - Rob Belloir, infielder (d. 2023)
• 1952 - Dale Soderholm, minor league infielder
• 1953 - Joe Cannon, outfielder
• 1954 - Jeff Scott, scout
• 1955 - Kevin Bell, infielder
• 1955 - Mitsuo Tatsukawa, NPB catcher and manager
• 1956 - Bill Caudill, pitcher; All-Star
• 1957 - Chris Jones, outfielder
• 1959 - Mark Brown, pitcher
• 1960 - Mike Fitzgerald, catcher
• 1961 - Osamu Fukuma, NPB pitcher
• 1962 - Robbie Wine, catcher
• 1964 - Greg Litton, infielder
• 1964 - Mike Twardoski, minor league outfielder
• 1966 - Luis Clemente, minor league infielder
• 1966 - Rinat Makhmoutov, Russian national team pitcher
• 1967 - Pat Rapp, pitcher
• 1970 - Mariano De Los Santos, minor league pitcher
• 1970 - Hiroshi Ishige, NPB pitcher
• 1970 - Rod Koller, minor league pitcher
• 1971 - Rich Aude, infielder
• 1971 - Hidekazu Watanabe, NPB pitcher
• 1972 - Clint Sodowsky, pitcher
• 1972 - Tom Vaeth, minor league manager
• 1977 - Ruben Francisco, minor league outfielder
• 1978 - Ryan Ludwick, outfielder; All-Star
• 1979 - John Carrion, college coach
• 1979 - Kei Igawa, pitcher
• 1979 - Yuji Iiyama, NPB infielder
• 1981 - Jose E. Cruz, minor league infielder
• 1982 - Shin-Soo Choo, outfielder; All-Star
• 1982 - Yadier Molina, catcher; All-Star
• 1982 - Chris Segal, umpire
• 1983 - Ozzie Chavez, minor league infielder and manager
• 1983 - Yung-Chi Chen, minor league infielder
• 1983 - Hee-soo Park, KBO pitcher
• 1983 - Virgen Vargas, Cuban women's national team infielder
• 1985 - Brandon Sisk, minor league pitcher
• 1985 - Tatsuya Uchi, NPB pitcher
• 1986 - Juan Bustamante, minor league pitcher
• 1987 - Jose Trinidad, minor league pitcher
• 1988 - D.J. LeMahieu, infielder; All-Star
• 1988 - Kraig Sitton, minor league pitcher
• 1988 - Jingchao Wang, Chinese national team infielder
• 1988 - Kangan Xia, Chinese national team pitcher
• 1989 - Tyler Cravy, pitcher
• 1989 - Tanner Leighton, minor league outfielder
• 1989 - Hayato Takagi, NPB pitcher
• 1990 - Sedley Karel, Hoofdklasse pitcher
• 1990 - Rafael Rodríguez, minor league pitcher
• 1990 - Casey Sadler, pitcher
• 1991 - Tyler Skaggs, pitcher (d. 2019)
• 1992 - Seth Brown, infielder
• 1992 - Alfredo Gonzalez, catcher
• 1992 - Yuhei Takanashi, NPB pitcher
• 1993 - Josh Bunselmeyer, minor league infielder
• 1994 - Ty France, infielder; All-Star
• 1994 - Jake Krupar, college coach
• 1995 - Cody Bellinger, outfielder; All-Star
• 1995 - Alec Bettinger, pitcher
• 1995 - Kyle Lewis, outfielder
• 1995 - Johan Mieses, minor league outfielder
• 1995 - J.D. Osborne, minor league catcher
• 1997 - Michael Brettell, minor league pitcher
• 1997 - Shao-Hung Chiang, CPBL catcher
• 1997 - Kody Hoese, minor league infielder
• 1998 - Rafael Fortunato, minor league pitcher
• 1998 - Yoshinobu Mizukami, NPB pitcher
• 1998 - Kento Onodera, CPBL pitcher

Deaths

• 1899 - Lewis Smith, outfielder (b. 1858)
• 1908 - Chick Carroll, outfielder (b. 1868)
• 1913 - Dan Sweeney, outfielder (b. 1868)
• 1927 - Pete Mann, minor league infielder (b. 1902)
• 1940 - Ollie Tucker, outfielder (b. 1902)
• 1954 - Ed Porray, pitcher (b. 1888)
• 1954 - Grantland Rice, writer (b. 1880)
• 1956 - Glenn Liebhardt, pitcher (b. 1883)
• 1958 - Johnie Watson, outfielder (b. 1896)
• 1959 - Nick Kahl, infielder (b. 1879)
• 1959 - Chick Keating, infielder (b. 1891)
• 1960 - Dan Kerwin, outfielder (b. 1879)
• 1960 - Mark Scott, broadcaster (b. 1915)
• 1966 - Rip Vowinkel, pitcher (b. 1884)
• 1967 - Art Shires, infielder (b. 1906)
• 1969 - Pat French, outfielder (b. 1893)
• 1969 - Saburo Hirai, NPB infielder (b. 1923)
• 1972 - Pepper Peploski, infielder (b. 1891)
• 1976 - Daniel Monzon, minor league infielder (b. ~1958)
• 1983 - Mitsuru Enjouji, NPB umpire (b. 1908)
• 1989 - Vern Olsen, pitcher (b. 1918)
• 1994 - Jimmie Reese, infielder (b. 1901)
• 1995 - Alex Gamez, minor league outfielder (b. 1971)
• 1998 - Red Badgro, outfielder (b. 1902)
• 1999 - Paddy Cottrell, scout (b. 1912)
• 1999 - Irene Ruhnke, AAGPBL player (b. 1920)
• 2000 - Harry Coe, minor league pitcher (b. 1933)
• 2003 - Henry Santos, minor league pitcher (b. 1973)
• 2005 - Mickey Owen, catcher; All-Star (b. 1916)
• 2006 - Yukinori Miyata, NPB pitcher (b. 1939)
• 2008 - Dwight Aden, minor league outfielder (b. 1915)
• 2008 - Dave Ricketts, catcher (b. 1935)
• 2009 - Sidney Bunch, minor league outfielder (b. 1931)
• 2009 - Alec Distaso, pitcher (b. 1948)
• 2010 - George Steinbrenner, owner (b. 1930)
• 2013 - Si Lambert, minor league pitcher (b. 1926)
• 2014 - James Heller, minor league pitcher (b. 1922)
• 2014 - Antonio Hervás, Spanish Hall of Fame player (b. 1948)
• 2014 - Norm Kampschror, minor league catcher (b. 1937)
• 2022 - Denney Crabaugh, college coach (b. ~1958)
• 2023 - Eddie Bressoud, infielder; All-Star (b. 1932)