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Events

• 1900:
  • Billy Barnie, veteran manager in the American Association and the National League, dies at the age of 47. He last managed the Brooklyn Bridegrooms, in 1898.
  • Noodles Hahn follows up his no-hitter with a nine-hitter, but still shuts out the St. Louis Cardinals, 9 - 0.
  • In the minor league American League, Detroit Tigers manager George Stallings, afraid that his home crowd would injure umpire Joe Cantillon after the previous day's hostilities, refuses to let him work, and is ready to forfeit today's game to the Cleveland Lake Shores. But Lake Shores manager Jimmy McAleer agrees to play using reserve player Sport McAllister as the ump, and Detroit wins, 6 - 1.
• 1901 - Christy Mathewson, 22 years old, of the New York Giants pitches a no-hitter, blanking the St. Louis Cardinals, 5 - 0, at League Park. Matty saves his own no-hitter in the 6th when an Otto Krueger hit caroms off 1B John Ganzel's glove to Mathewson, who throws back to first base for a 3-1-3 putout.
• 1902 - At Cincinnati, Christy Mathewson starts a triple play in the 2nd inning, but then leaves trailing, 6 - 0. The loss leaves the New York Giants pitcher with a 6-8 record.
• 1903:
  • In a showdown game at Pittsburgh, the New York Giants score three runs in the top of the 9th to take a 3 - 2 lead, but the Bucs tie it up against Christy Mathewson. No runs are scored again till the 14th when New York scores three off Ed Doheny to give Matty his sixth win of the year over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Matty strikes out 11 and scatters ten hits.
  • With ground rules limiting hits into the crowds to three bases, Cy Young drives home Lou Criger in the 10th inning for a 4 - 3 win over the visiting Cleveland Naps. Addie Joss takes the loss.
• 1904 - Sam Mertes drives in four runs on four hits, including a home run, to lead the New York Giants to a 5 - 2 win over the Cincinnati Reds' Bob Ewing. Christy Mathewson, with relief help from Joe McGinnity, is the winner.
• 1905 - In New York, the Giants open a four-game series against the second-place Pittsburgh Pirates by staking Joe McGinnity to a 6 - 0 lead. But the Bucs score two in the 6th and five runs in the 7th inning before Iron Joe is lifted. Christy Mathewson shuts out Pittsburgh over the last 2 2/3 inning and the Giants score a deuce in the 9th on a two-run homer by George Browne. Browne is carried off the field by the ecstatic fans after the 8 - 7 win. Pittsburgh takes the nitecap, 3 - 0, behind Deacon Phillippe's four-hitter. Honus Wagner secures the victory with a two-run homer onto the elevated tracks in the 8th inning.
• 1907 - The Chicago White Sox pound the New York Highlanders, 15 - 0, the second time this season they've beaten New York by that score. They'll beat them in 1950 by the same score, which will be the Yanks team record for most runs by an opponent in a shutout until 2004.
• 1908:
  • The Pittsburgh Pirates tie the Boston Doves in the 9th and win in the 10th, 3 - 2, when Fred Clarke is hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. The Bucs take the National League lead by a half-game.
  • In Chicago, the New York Giants pound Three-Finger Brown and two relievers to win, 11 - 0, and move into second place. The Chicago Cubs drop two places to third.
• 1909 - Ty Cobb has two inside-the-park homers to lead the Detroit Tigers to a sweep of the Washington Nationals. Detroit wins, 9 - 5 and 7 - 0.
• 1911:
  • The Cincinnati Reds swap Fred Beck, last year's co-leader in homers in the National League, to the Philadelphia Phillies, and include Bill Burns with him. The Phils send Bert Humphries to the Reds. Beck was acquired from the Boston Rustlers in March, but hit just .184 for Cincy. He was the second Brave in four years to lead the NL in homers and then get shipped to the Reds in the off-season. The other, Dave Brain, lasted just 16 games with the Reds in 1908.
  • Fred Merkle drives in four runs on a single and three-run homer and the New York Giants beat the Cincinnati Reds, 4 - 1. Christy Mathewson tops Harry Gaspar, and has now beaten the Reds 20 straight times.
• 1912 - A U.S. team defeats the Swedish Västerås Baseball Club, 13 - 3, in a one-game Olympic exhibition in Stockholm, Sweden.
• 1913:
  • Veteran Three-Finger Brown, sold to the Cincinnati Reds over the winter after a 5-6 year with the Chicago Cubs, loses his match-up with New York Giants rival Christy Mathewson, 4 - 2. Matty walks none to run his streak to 61 innings.
  • Jake Stahl, hobbled by a foot injury, resigns as Boston Red Sox manager. C Bill Carrigan replaces him.
• 1914 - At Fenway Park, Dutch Leonard shuts out the Cleveland Naps, 4 - 0. Umpire Tom Connolly, tiring of the taunting from the Boston Red Sox bench, ejects eight Boston players.
• 1915 - In the first game of a doubleheader with the Washington Senators, St. Louis Browns rookie George Sisler goes all the way, allowing six hits in winning, 5 - 2.
• 1916 - The Boston Red Sox play their fourth doubleheader in six days, losing the opener, 2 - 1, to the St. Louis Browns. Tilly Walker's RBI double in the 8th gives Boston its first score in 28 innings. Boston breaks out in the second game, pounding four Brownie pitchers for 18 hits to win, 17 - 4. Babe Ruth picks up the win, leaving after six innings.
• 1917 - The New York Yankees send Lee Magee to the St. Louis Browns for Armando Marsans.
• 1920 - Babe Ruth ties his 1919 record of 29 home runs with a game-winner in the 13th to beat the St. Louis Browns, 13 - 10. Two days later, he will break it by hitting two off Chicago White Sox P Dickie Kerr.
• 1925 - The Philadelphia A's go back into the lead with a sweep over the Chicago White Sox, 9 - 7 and 11 - 5.
• 1932 - In the second game of a doubleheader, Satchel Paige pitches the first no-hitter in Greenlee Field as the Pittsburgh Crawfords defeat the New York Black Yankees, 6 - 0. Three Hall of Famers support Paige: Oscar Charleston at first base, Judy Johnson at third, and Josh Gibson in left field. Ted Radcliffe, who pitched in the first game, is behind the plate for Paige's gem.
• 1934:
  • Waite Hoyt, now with the Pittsburgh Pirates, has a one-hitter against the Boston Braves, winning, 5 - 0.
  • Lou Gehrig returns to 1B and goes 4 for 4, including three doubles, off Schoolboy Rowe, but the New York Yankees lose to the Detroit Tigers, 8 - 3.
• 1936:
  • After an absence of several weeks, manager Mickey Cochrane rejoins the Detroit Tigers in New York, as they split a doubleheader with the Yankees. The Tigers take the opener, 5 - 1, then lose, 7 - 4, as New York maintains its nine-game lead. Cochrane will suffer a relapse and coach Del Baker will take over on the 21st.
  • Cincinnati plays the first Ladies Night game, beating the Brooklyn Dodgers, 5 - 3.
  • At Pittsburgh, the New York Giants lose the opener, 5 - 4, when reliever Carl Hubbell walks in the winning run. With the loss, the Giants are 11 games in back of the leading Chicago Cubs. New York rebounds in the second game, winning, 14 - 4, behind Bill Terry. Terry, playing on an injured knee, collects a single, double and triple. The Giants will win 39 of their next 47 games.
• 1937 - The Philadelphia Athletics snap a 15-game losing streak, beating the Chicago White Sox, 3 - 1.
• 1938 - Terry Moore returns to the St. Louis Cardinals lineup following his June 11th concussion. He gets three hits to help St. Louis snap an eight-game losing streak.
• 1939 - A disputed call on a fly ball down the left field foul line at the Polo Grounds touches off a melee in which New York Giants Billy Jurges and umpire George Magerkurth spit at each other. Both will be fined $150 and suspended for ten days. National League President Ford Frick announces that two-foot screens are to be installed inside all foul poles to prevent future arguments. The American League will eventually also adopt the rule. The Giants lose, 8 - 4, to the Cincinnati Reds, and will add another eight in a row to take them out of contention.
• 1942 - "There is no rule, formal or informal, against the hiring of Negro players," says Judge Landis in response to an editorial in the New York Daily Worker newspaper.
• 1948 - The Boston Braves stop the host Chicago Cubs, 2 - 1, behind Johnny Sain, then battle to a 1 - 1 tie in 13 innings in the nitecap. Alvin Dark's hitting streak of 23 games is stopped in the opener, but he has two hits and scores the run in the second game. Bob Rush pitches all 13 innings for the Bruins.
• 1950 - The Colonial League ceases operation, citing the competition of television and radio as the cause of its failure.
• 1951:
  • Philadelphia Athletics lefty Sam Zoldak pitches a one-hitter against the Chicago White Sox, winning, 5 - 0, in the second game of a doubleheader. Chico Carrasquel has the lone safety, a dribbler between SS and 3B. Zoldak also drives in two runs. Bob Hooper is the winner for the A's in the first game, helping the cause with a three-run homer. The A's lose Ferris Fain when he grounds out in the opener and, in disgust, kicks first base, breaking his foot. Fain is leading the American League with a .337 average. He'll return on August 21st.
  • Happy Chandler completes his contract as baseball commissioner, but fails to win the owners' support for a renewal.
• 1952:
  • Johnny Vander Meer, 38, of the Beaumont Roughnecks in the Texas League pitches a no-hitter. In 1938 he pitched two consecutive major league no-hitters, still a record.
  • The Cleveland Indians' power hitters dazzle the New York Yankees with a triple steal in the 1st inning as Al Rosen scores, Larry Doby goes to third, and Luke Easter, in his only major-league theft, goes to second.
  • Walt Dropo continues his streak in the opening game of a doubleheader, going 4 for 4 against the Washington Senators' Walt Masterson. In the second game, he gets three hits in his first three at bats to run his streak to 12 straight hits. He goes 4 for 5 with five RBI, but Washington wins both games, 8 - 2 and 9 - 8.
• 1954 - Philadelphia Phillies CF Richie Ashburn walks five times in a 2 - 1 loss to the Cincinnati Redlegs.
• 1956:
  • Wally Burnette of the Kansas City A's shuts out the Washington Senators, 8 - 0, in his first start.
  • Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hits in the second game of a doubleheader sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Braves winning, 3 - 2 and 4 - 1. This is the start of a 25-game hitting streak for Aaron, the longest of the season.
• 1957 - Masaichi Kaneda reaches 2,000 career strikeouts, the first player in Nippon Pro Baseball to have whiffed that many.
• 1959 - Gus Bell collects two doubles and three singles in the Cincinnati Redlegs' 11 - 5 win over the St. Louis Cardinals in St. Louis.
• 1960:
  • At Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle cracks a three-run homer off Don Mossi, but the Detroit Tigers rally to win, 8 - 4.
  • San Francisco Giants first baseman Willie McCovey's "invisible triple" causes umpire Frank Dascoli to call a twenty-four minute fog delay at Candlestick Park, but the Los Angeles Dodgers go on to win, 5 - 3.
  • Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5, hitting for the cycle, to lead the Baltimore Orioles to a 5 - 2 win over the Chicago White Sox. With three hits yesterday, Robinson has eight straight hits. His 9th-inning triple off reliever Turk Lown seals the win for Milt Pappas over starter Billy Pierce.
• 1964:
  • Whitey Ford's 2 - 0 win over the Baltimore Orioles raises the New York Yankees to first place.
  • The Minnesota Twins' Mudcat Grant tosses a 6 - 0 shutout against the Washington Senators, despite allowing 13 Nat hits. The record for most hits allowed in a nine-inning shutout is 14, done twice before.
  • In the first of two with the Cleveland Indians, Wes Stock wins his 12th straight game, all in relief, 5 - 3. The Kansas City A's take the nightcap, 3 - 2.
• 1967:
  • St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson's right fibula is fractured by a Roberto Clemente line drive during a 6 - 3 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Gibson will be sidelined until Labor Day.
  • Kansas City A's pinch-running specialist Allan Lewis ties the major-league record with two steals as a pinch runner in one inning. Lewis does his double in the 7th inning of a 3 - 2 loss at the Minnesota Twins.
• 1969:
  • The New York Mets rough up Fergie Jenkins for three home runs, including Al Weis's second in two days, to beat the Chicago Cubs, 9 - 5. The Cubs now lead New York by 3 1/2 games. At the end of the game Tom Seaver jumps out of the dugout and clicks his heels several times, mocking Ron Santo's gesture of the day before. The Mets will win tomorrow as well.
  • With President Richard Nixon attending his fifth game of the season, the Washington Senators beat the Detroit Tigers again, 7 - 3. The Tigers pull off the first triple play of the year when Ed Brinkman grounds to 3B Don Wert. Tim Cullen, hitting .206, drives in four runs with a single, double and home run.
  • Cincinnati Reds 1B Lee May hits four homers against the Atlanta Braves in a doubleheader split. May hits a pair in each game, driving in five runs in each. The Reds lose the lidlifter, 9 - 8, then take the second game, 10 - 4.
  • Reggie Smith collects five straight hits in the opener, stretching his hitting streak to 21, and leading the Boston Red Sox to a 7 - 6 win over the New York Yankees. He gets another hit in the nitecap, a 4 - 1 win by New York's Stan Bahnsen (5-10), but his hit streak will stop tomorrow.
• 1971 - The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the San Diego Padres, 4 - 3, in a marathon thriller. Pittsburgh ties the game in the bottom of the 9th, 13th, and 16th innings before winning it on a Roberto Clemente home run in the 17th.
• 1973:
  • The Minnesota Twins connect for three consecutive home runs in the 8th against the Cleveland Indians, and all are needed in the 7 - 6 win. George Mitterwald, Joe Lis and Jim Holt homer, all off Gaylord Perry.
  • Before 41,411 in Detroit, California Angels ace Nolan Ryan hurls his second no-hitter of the season in taming the Detroit Tigers, 6 - 0. Ryan fans 17 batters, the most ever in a nine-inning no-hitter, including eight straight, but only one over the last two innings. Nolan's arm stiffens while watching his team rally for five runs in the top of the 8th. With two outs in the 9th, Norm Cash, who struck out his three other times at bat, comes to bat wielding a piano leg. Umpire Ron Luciano points out the illegality and Cash then pops out using a regulation bat. Ryan's eight strikeouts in a row ties the American League record he set last year. Jim Perry of the Tigers becomes the only starting pitcher to be on the losing end of three no-hitters with today's loss to Ryan. Perry was the losing pitcher in no-hitters thrown by Vida Blue on September 21, 1970 and by Steve Busby on April 27th of this year.
• 1975 - The National League rallies for three runs in the 9th inning to win the All-Star Game at Milwaukee, 6 - 3. The Chicago Cubs' Bill Madlock and the New York Mets' Jon Matlack share the game's MVP award.
• 1978:
  • Seattle's Larry Milbourne homers from both sides of the plate in a 7 - 6 win over the Cleveland Indians. These will be Milbourne's only home runs all season, spanning 93 games and 234 at bats.
  • Pete Rose collects a hit in his 28th straight game, setting a Cincinnati Reds club record (post-1900) as the Reds beat the New York Mets, 7 - 5. His hit comes off Craig Swan. On the 18th, he'll hit in his 31st straight game to top the all-time Reds record set by Elmer Smith in 1898.
• 1979 - The Geneva Cubs score 15 runs in the 9th inning to cap a 29 - 4 romp over the Utica Blue Jays in a New York-Pennsylvania League game. Scott Fletcher paces the attack with two singles, four doubles, a home run, and eight RBI.
• 1980 - In an 11 - 7 Cincinnati Reds win over the Montreal Expos, Johnny Bench belts homer #314, establishing a new mark for home runs by a catcher, and #347 overall. The round tripper comes off David Palmer. Bench breaks Yogi Berra's record and will hold the mark until surpassed by Mike Piazza.
• 1982 - The Detroit Tigers collect nine hits and drop 11 runs on the Minnesota Twins in the 1st inning, en route to an 18 - 2 smackdown of the Twins. Dan Petry is the winning pitcher. Tom Brookens and Alan Trammell hit back-to-back home runs off reliever John Pacella.
• 1985 - During the first day of the All-Star break before the Mid-summer Classic to be played in Minneapolis, the Players' Association sets an August 6th strike date. The union will keep its word, but the season will resume two days later.
• 1986 - At the Houston Astrodome, the American League wins the 1986 All-Star Game, 3 - 2, for its second triumph in the last 15 years. AL starter Roger Clemens pitches three perfect innings to win the game's MVP Award. Fernando Valenzuela pitches two innings for the National League striking out his first five batters, including his fellow countryman, Teddy Higuera; it will be Higuera's only at-bat in the major leagues.
• 1987 - The Cleveland Indians fire manager Pat Corrales, replacing him with bullpen coach Doc Edwards. Cleveland is in last place in the American League East, 23 games behind the leaders, after finishing 84-78 in 1986.
• 1988:
  • For the second time this season, Red Sox fireballer Roger Clemens strikes out sixteen Kansas City Royals. The doubleheader sweep over Kansas City marks Joe Morgan's Boston managerial debut.
  • California's Bob Boone catches his 2,000th major league game as the Angels beat the Detroit Tigers, 6 - 4.
• 1989 - Jeff Reardon saves his 250th game as the Minnesota Twins beat the Boston Red Sox, 3 - 2.
• 1991:
  • The New York Mets trade pitcher Ron Darling and minor league P Mike Thomas to the Montreal Expos in exchange for pitcher Tim Burke.
  • Seattle's Edgar Martinez just misses hitting for the cycle for the second game in a row. He strokes a single, double, and triple in a 5 - 1 win over the New York Yankees. On the 14th, he had two singles, a triple and a home run against the Cleveland Indians.
• 1992 - The Seibu Lions reach base with 14 consecutive hitters in the 5th inning following a double play lined into by Koji Akiyama. Overall, they set a NPB record with 13 hits that inning against the Daiei Hawks.
• 1993 - Breaking Chicago Cubs Hall of Famer Ernie Banks' previous record of 277, Cal Ripken hits his 278th homer as a shortstop, the most ever hit by a major leaguer playing that position.
• 1994:
  • In the second game of a doubleheader against the San Diego Padres, the New York Mets' Bret Saberhagen goes ten innings, striking out 11, giving up five hits and allowing no runs. Consistent with his record-setting season, he walks none.
  • In the 1st inning at Comiskey Park, Chicago White Sox manager Gene Lamont accuses Cleveland Indians slugger Albert Belle of using a corked bat, and umpire Dave Phillips confiscates the bat and stores it in the umps' dressing room. In a Mission Impossible caper revealed in 1999, the Indians' Jason Grimsley crawls 100 feet along a ceiling, drops down into the dressing room, and exchanges Belle's bat for one of Paul Sorrento's. After the 3 - 2 Indians win, the switch is discovered to the consternation of the umps and the White Sox. The Indians subsequently turn over one of Belle's bats and Belle is given a ten-day suspension, later reduced to seven games.
• 1995 - The Ukrainian national team wins its first European Championship game. They had begun the 1995 European Championship 0-6, as had fellow newcomer Slovenia. Slovenia goes up, 6 - 4, after three innings against Vladimir Kadiev but Oleg Venger relieves and Ukraine rallies off Tine Zaletel to win, 11 - 10, scoring the winning run in the bottom of the 9th. Igor Kovalenko has four runs and four RBI while falling a triple shy of the cycle, while Jani Malovic drives in four in a losing cause.
• 1996 - Cal Ripken is shifted to 3B after playing 2,216 consecutive games at SS for the Baltimore Orioles, but his consecutive game streak remains intact at 2,243 games. Baltimore defeats the Toronto Blue Jays, 8 - 6. Ripken's replacement at short, Manny Alexander, will manage just a broken-bat single in 18 at bats and after six games at 3B, Cal will return to shortstop.
• 1997:
  • In Cincinnati, Ray Lankford hits two upper-deck homers, a first for Cinergy Field, to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 7 - 4 win over the Cincinnati Reds.
  • The Montreal Expos announce the retirement of all-time saves leader Lee Smith.
  • The Kansas City Royals trade OF Jon Nunnally and IF-OF Chris Stynes to the Cincinnati Reds for pitchers Hector Carrasco and Scott Service.
  • Despite a sluggish performance, Hideki Irabu wins his second major league start, leading the New York Yankees over the Cleveland Indians, 12 - 6. Irabu gives up five runs and nine hits in five innings, allowing homers to Tony Fernandez, Marquis Grissom, and Matt Williams. Cecil Fielder, the Yank's 270-pound DH, tries to score from first on a double and his head-first slide results in a broken right thumb. Fielder will miss eight weeks.
  • Visiting San Francisco scores 13 runs in the 7th inning - the most in the National League since the Dodgers scored 15 in the 1st inning against the Reds in 1952 - to coast to a 16 - 2 win over the Padres. The Giants send 19 men to the plate in the 7th and face 80 pitches in the 52-minute inning. They score seven runs before J.T. Snow grounds out for the first out. Five Giants score two runs each, including starting pitcher Kirk Rueter (6-4). The only player not to score is Snow, who Ks with the bases loaded for the second out.
• 1999:
  • The Rangers tie the major league record with walks by three consecutive pinch hitters (Rusty Greer, Rafael Palmeiro and Lee Stevens) in the bottom of the 9th against the Diamondbacks. The Rangers win, 3 - 2.
  • The Athletics defeat the Giants, 11 - 9, in a game in which San Francisco OF Barry Bonds sets an all-time major league record by receiving his 294th intentional walk. Henry Aaron held the previous mark. It is possible someone such as Babe Ruth drew more intentional walks in the years before the statistic was tracked.
  • For the first time in franchise history, the Mariners play a home game outdoors. Under an open retractable roof, Seattle's debut at the $517.6 million Safeco Field becomes forgettable as closer Jose Mesa squanders a 9th-inning lead by walking four batters, resulting in a 3 - 2 defeat to the Padres. A crowd of 44,607 is on hand.
  • The Brewers postpone their game as a gesture of respect for the three workers who died when a huge crane collapsed lifting a portion of the roof for the team's new stadium, Miller Park, yesterday. The crane broke in half as it lifted the 400-ton load, damaging the partially-completed stadium.
• 2000:
  • The American Tobacco Company's near-mint condition 1909 Honus Wagner card goes for $1.1 million in an eBay online auction. The high bidder will pay $1.265 million including a 15 percent buyer's premium for the 91-year-old card of the Hall of Fame Pirate shortstop. Other high-priced items in the auction include a baseball autographed by the entire 1919 Chicago "Black Sox" team, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, as well as the umpires who worked the final game of the 1919 World Series, which sells for $93,666, including a 15 percent buyer's premium. The ball's value, believed to be the most for such an item, is unusually high because the autographs include that of Jackson, who was considered illiterate and usually only signed legal documents. A ball signed by the 1919 Reds goes for $11,208, while a baseball autographed by Babe Ruth sells for $76,020. A contract from Jackson's sale of his Chicago pool hall to teammate Lefty Williams, sells for $36,098; the contract, dated October 6, 1921, is for just $1.
  • The White Sox defeat the Cardinals, 15 - 7, scoring nine runs in the 7th inning. OF Eric Davis goes 5 for 5 for St. Louis.
• 2001:
  • Behind Mike Piazza's three hits and three RBIs, the Mets win, 5 - 2, over Toronto as both teams celebrate Negro League Tribute Day by wearing old Negro League uniforms. The Mets wear that of the NY Cubans, 1947 Negro National League champs, while the Blue Jays are in the uniforms of the Chatham All-Stars. In Pittsburgh, the Pirates wear the Homestead Grays' treads and the Royals wear Monarchs uniforms.
  • Umpires file a grievance against Major League Baseball, saying the commissioner's office is pressuring them to call more strikes by keeping track of total pitch counts. As part of these efforts, cameras were installed over the weekend, July 13th and 14th, at Shea Stadium to track each pitch. Fenway Park and Shea are the only parks with the tracking system, which is similar to that used on FOX's broadcasts, but major league officials hope to have four more by September.
  • The battle of two first-place teams draws 59,470 at Philadelphia as the Yanks lose a sloppy game to the Phils, 9 - 3. In the 5th, Jimmy Rollins takes second base on a passed ball, then swipes third for his 26th straight successful steal. Jorge Posada has three passed balls and should have been charged with a fourth, while Derek Jeter makes a critical error. Posada will lead the majors in PBs this year with 18.
  • Brian Lawrence pitches a complete game 5 - 1 win over the Angels, and the Padres reward him after the game by sending him down to Portland (Pacific Coast League). The move is to make room for Brian Tollberg, out since May 6th when he broke a finger on a comebacker from Sean Casey.
• 2002:
  • The Phillies slug three home runs in a eight-run 9th inning to come from behind and overtake the Expos, 11 - 8.
  • Reds P Chris Reitsma hurls a five-hitter, shutting out the Brewers, 2 - 0. The win ends a streak of 151 starts by Cincinnati pitchers without a complete game.
• 2005:
  • At Miller Park, Mike Stanton's first appearance in a Washington Nationals uniform is a memorable one as the southpaw balks home the winning run. Chris Magruder scores from third base in the bottom of the 10th, giving the Brewers a 4 - 3 victory thanks to the call made by first base umpire Paul Schreiber.
  • The Royals establish the longest losing streak by any big league franchise to play in Kansas City. Their 16th consecutive loss, an 11 - 3 decision to the Mariners, is one more than the 1884 Unions, the first team to play professionally in the "City of Fountains."
  • With an RBI double off Joel Pineiro at Safeco Field, Rafael Palmeiro becomes the 26th player to collect 3,000 career hits. The Orioles first baseman joins Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Eddie Murray as one of only four major leaguers to record 3,000 hits and 500 home runs during their career. Within the next couple of weeks, Palmeiro will test positive for steroid use, greatly tarnishing his accomplishments.
• 2007:
  • The Philadelphia Phillies lose the 10,000th game in franchise history, against 8,810 wins. They are the first professional sports club to reach that level, 319 games ahead of the Braves. Adam Eaton takes this defeat, in which the Cardinals smack six homers, two by Albert Pujols. Adam Wainwright gets the win.
  • Guillermo Moscoso of the Oneonta Tigers throws a perfect game against the Batavia Muckdogs. It is the first perfect game in the New York-Penn League in over 30 years and the first nine-inning perfect game in the circuit in 51 years.
• 2008 - The American League defeats the National League, 4 - 3, in 15 innings at the All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium. It is the first extra-inning win ever for the AL after seven losses and one tie. The two teams combine for a record seven steals, six of them by the American League. The game goes 4 hours and 50 minutes, also a record.
• 2009 - Three-time Cy Young Award winner Pedro Martinez, who last pitched in the 2009 World Baseball Classic, signs a one-year contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. The right-hander, who has been slowed by injuries the past three seasons, will first head to the disabled list and is not expected to play for another three weeks.
• 2010:
  • Unused in the All-Star Game, Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum starts his team's first game after the break and pitches a shutout over the Mets for his 50th career win, 2 - 0. R.A. Dickey is the loser in spite of a solid effort of his own.
  • The White Sox's hot streak has not been affected by the three-day layoff, as they beat one of their chief rivals in the AL Central, the Minnesota Twins, 8 - 7. John Danks gives up six runs with two outs in the 2nd inning, but the Sox grind back into the lead. J.J. Putz makes his 23rd straight scoreless appearance in relief in the Pale Hose's ninth straight win.
  • Mat Latos's excellent season is in jeopardy as he goes on the disabled list for an unusual reason. The Padres righthander, who has ten wins this year, strained a muscle in his left side while attempting to hold back a sneeze last week.
• 2011:
  • UCLA pitcher Trevor Bauer is named recipient of the 2011 Golden Spikes Award. The third overall pick of last June's amateur draft went 13-2 with a 1.25 ERA and 203 strikeouts in his last season as a collegiate player.
  • Jeff Karstens needs only 83 pitches to throw a shutout as Pittsburgh defeats Houston, 4 - 0. The win moves the Pirates into first place in the NL Central as the Cardinals and Brewers both lose; they have not been in first this late in a season since 1997.
  • The Braves defeat Washington, 11 - 1, behind the pitching of Tim Hudson, to claim the 10,000th win in franchise history, dating back to the 1876 Boston Red Caps. They are the third team to reach the milestone, following the San Francisco Giants and Chicago Cubs. Martin Prado hits a three-run homer in his first game since June 9th.
  • The Texas Rangers and Seattle Mariners are two teams going in opposite directions. The Rangers' 4 - 0 win, behind Colby Lewis, is their ninth in a row, while Seattle drops its seventh straight, putting them 9 1/2 games back of the AL West-leading Rangers.
• 2012:
  • Ben Sheets makes a successful return to the big leagues, a few days short of two years since his last game before undergoing Tommy John surgery. He keeps the Mets scoreless over six innings as the Braves win, 6 - 1. The game features the ejection of Mets pitching coach Dan Warthen, who starts arguing with home plate umpire C.B. Bucknor during a 6th-inning mound visit; the Braves score all their runs in that inning, highlighted by Freddie Freeman's three-run homer off Johan Santana.
  • An incident over pine tar marks Washington's 4 - 0 win over Miami at Marlins Park. Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen objects to the amount of the black substance on rookie Bryce Harper's bat in the 1st inning, complaining to umpire Marty Foster, who asks Harper to use another weapon next time. When Harper comes back to the plate in the 4th, he mockingly points his bat at Guillen, who explodes with a string of shouts in his direction. After the game, the fiery skipper explains that he found Harper's gesture disrespectful and unprofessional.
• 2013 - Yoenis Cespedes, although not named to the American League All-Star team, wins the Home Run Derby by defeating Bryce Harper in the final round. The Cuban slugger blasts 17 homers in the opening round, and bests the young Harper in the final round, 9-8, while using up only four of his nine outs.
• 2014 - The American League wins the 2014 All-Star Game, 5 - 3, over the National League. In his last appearance in the Mid-Summer Classic, Derek Jeter leads off the game with a double and scores on a triple by Mike Trout. Jeter goes 2 for 2, while Trout adds an RBI double in the 5th to win the game's MVP Award.
• 2015 - The International League wins the AAA All-Star Game, 4 - 3, over the Pacific Coast League. Peter O'Brien hits a two-run homer to put the PCL ahead, 3 - 1, in the bottom of the 8th, but in the ninth PCL pitcher Jon Edwards loads the bases with none out. Kyle Roller hits a two-run single and Tyler Henson singles in the winning run. O'Brien and Roller are named their respective league's player of the game.
• 2016 - The Central League wins the 2016 NPB All-Star Game 1, 5 - 4, thanks to homers from Yoshitomo Tsutsugo (game MVP), Wladimir Balentien and Hayato Sakamoto. Shintaro Fujinami gets the win and Shota Nakazaki the save. Two CL rookies get hits, the first time two rookies have hits in the same NPB All-Star Game; Shun Takayama and Yasutaka Tobashira are the impressive freshmen.
• 2017:
  • Cody Bellinger continues his outstanding season by becoming the first rookie in Dodgers history to hit for the cycle in a 7 - 1 win over the Marlins. Alex Wood is the winner, improving to 11-0 on the year.
  • It takes 16 innings for the Yankees to defeat Boston, 4 - 1, at Fenway Park. The Yankees are trailing 1 - 0 in the top of the 9th after an excellent start by Chris Sale, but Matt Holliday ties the game with a homer against Craig Kimbrel. A line drive single by Didi Gregorius against Doug Fister in the 16th finally puts New York ahead in a game that takes just short of six hours to complete.
  • The Pacific League takes the second 2017 NPB All-Star Game, 3 - 1, to complete a sweep. Seiji Kobayashi is the first player in 47 years to homer on the first pitch he ever sees in a NPB All-Star Game, going deep off Chihiro Kaneko, but the rest of the fireworks go to the PL, including homers by Alfredo Despaigne and Daichi Suzuki and a triple by Suzuki. Despaigne is named MVP after a 3-for-4 day. The Softbank Hawks become the first PL team to have the MVP in both NPB All-Star Games in one year as Seiichi Uchikawa won the honor yesterday.
• 2018 - The 2018 Futures Game is played at Nationals Park ahead of the 2018 All-Star Game and it features a barrage of homers, with eight long balls being hit as the United States team prevails, 10 - 6, over the World team. Yusniel Diaz hits two homers for the World team, and he is almost matched by Taylor Trammell of the U.S., who hits one out and has a second ball bounce off the centerfield fence for a stand-up triple. Trammell is named the recipient of the Larry Doby Award as the game's MVP.
• 2019:
  • Brandon Crawford has a great day for the Giants as he hits three homers and drives in nine runs to lead his team to a doubleheader sweep of the Rockies. Crawford goes 5-for-6 in the first game, a 19 - 2 Giants win, and ties the team record with eight RBIs, then adds a solo homer in a 2 - 1 win in the second game. He goes back-to-back in both games, preceding Mike Yastrzemski's long ball in the 1st inning of the opener, and following Stephen Vogt in the 4th inning of the nitecap.
  • Travis d'Arnaud also hits three homers, but they all come in one game as he leads Tampa Bay to a 5 - 4 win over the Yankees at New Yankee Stadium. His three-run shot with two outs in the 9th off closer Aroldis Chapman pulls victory from the jaws of defeat as he accounts for all of the Rays' runs.
• 2021:
  • The first game of the second half of the MLB season, a make-up contest between the Yankees and Red Sox, is postponed when three pitchers on the Yankees test positive for COVID-19 as health and safety protocols are put in place. All three players have been vaccinated, and the Yankees as a team are above the 85% vaccination threshold. It is the eighth postponement of a game because of the coronavirus this season, but the first since April 19th.
  • In what many observers describe as the start of a fire sale following a big tumble since the beginning of June, the Cubs trade OF Joc Pederson to the Braves in return for a minor league prospect, 1B Bryce Ball.
• 2022:
  • Major League Baseball agrees to settle a long-standing lawsuit, originally filed in 2014 on behalf of Aaron Senne, and now covering some 23,000 retired minor league players, alleging violations of minimum wage laws. MLB will pay a settlement of $185 million to keep the suit from reaching trial, after initial rulings from the judge in charge had gone against it. While this sounds like a lot, it is little in comparison to the $450 million it pays annually in bonuses for newly-signed players, and represents an amount of barely $5,000 per plaintiff. All players who appeared in the California League or in instructional leagues in Florida or Arizona between 2011 and 2017 (with some variations in dates) are eligible. But a law passed by Congress in 2018 has since made MLB exempt from federal minimum wage laws, meaning the settlement won't serve as a precedent going forward. One former minor leaguer who will benefit a lot from the settlement is lead attorney Garrett Broshuis, who will take in a significant chunk of the $55 million part of the settlement directed to the lawyers who pushed the case.
  • In his last start before the All-Star break, veteran Clayton Kershaw is better than ever, taking a perfect game into the 8th inning against the Angels before Luis Rengifo breaks up the bid with a lead-off double. It is already the second time this season that the Dodgers' ace has been perfect through seven innings, the other coming in his first start on April 13th. Kershaw completes the 8th inning without allowing another hit to earn his seventh win, 9 - 1, after Reyes Moronta allows a meaningless run in the 9th.
• 2023 - The Brewers pitch their third consecutive shutout to regain first place in the NL Central for the first time in 3 1/2 weeks. Freddy Peralta leads the way, allowing just a broken bat single to Jake Fraley in six innings of work, and three relievers complete the one-hitter for a 3 - 0 win over the Reds.
• 2024 - Teoscar Hernandez is the winner of the Home Run Derby, defeating Bobby Witt Jr. in the final round when Witt's last swing bangs near the top of the left-centerfield wall at Globe Life Field, leaving Witt one homer short of forcing a swing-off between the two finalists.

Births

• 1833 - Alfred T. Goshorn, executive (d. 1902)
• 1851 - John Clapp, catcher, manager (d. 1904)
• 1857 - George Derby, pitcher (d. 1925)
• 1858 - Bill Geiss, infielder (d. 1924)
• 1858 - Jack Kerins, infielder, manager; umpire (d. 1919)
• 1864 - Art McCoy, infielder (d. 1904)
• 1865 - Joe Dowie, outfielder (d. 1917)
• 1871 - Dan McGann, infielder (d. 1910)
• 1874 - Mike Heydon, catcher (d. 1913)
• 1876 - Pete Dowling, pitcher (d. 1905)
• 1878 - Guy Sample, minor league pitcher and manager (d. ????)
• 1880 - Jack Robinson, catcher (d. 1921)
• 1891 - Jim Breton, infielder (d. 1973)
• 1892 - Bubbles Hargrave, catcher (d. 1969)
• 1893 - Red Oldham, pitcher (d. 1961)
• 1904 - Ray Wolf, infielder (d. 1979)
• 1905 - Shirley Povich, writer (d. 1998)
• 1907 - Bill Byrd, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1991)
• 1908 - Jake Powell, outfielder (d. 1948)
• 1909 - John Jackson, pitcher (d. 1956)
• 1909 - Red Kellett, infielder (d. 1970)
• 1915 - John Antonelli, infielder (d. 1990)
• 1915 - John Davis, infielder (d. 2002)
• 1915 - Yonekichi Naya, NPB outfielder (d. 1944)
• 1915 - Lefty Scott, pitcher (d. 1964)
• 1916 - Doyt Morris, outfielder (d. 1984)
• 1917 - Heishichi Sato, NPB pitcher (d. 2007)
• 1918 - Bernell Longest, infielder (d. 1984)
• 1919 - Pete Jones, catcher (d. 1992)
• 1923 - Bruce Edwards, catcher; All-Star (d. 1975)
• 1923 - Curtis Brown, infielder (d. 1999)
• 1923 - Marion Fricano, pitcher (d. 1976)
• 1924 - Bob Barthelson, pitcher (d. 2000)
• 1924 - Perry Roberts, minor league infielder-pitcher (d. 1970)
• 1925 - Bob Wellman, outfielder (d. 1994)
• 1926 - Jesse Levan, infielder (d. 1998)
• 1928 - Julián Ladera, minor league pitcher (d. 1973)
• 1930 - Makizo Itoh, NPB pitcher
• 1930 - Betty Wagoner, AAGPBL outfielder
• 1931 - Bob Will, outfielder (d. 2011)
• 1933 - Takeo Yoshizawa, NPB catcher (d. 1971)
• 1934 - Alan Bower, minor league pitcher (d. 2012)
• 1934 - Fred Hill, college coach (d. 2019)
• 1935 - Donn Clendenon, infielder (d. 2005)
• 1935 - Bob Miller, pitcher (d. 2022)
• 1936 - Gene Leek, infielder
• 1938 - Al Frioni, minor league pitcher (d. 2011)
• 1939 - Mike Shannon, infielder (d. 2023)
• 1940 - Yasuhiko Kawamura, NPB pitcher (d. 2012)
• 1942 - Don Bosch, outfielder
• 1943 - Dave Adlesh, catcher (d. 2016)
• 1946 - Ron Diorio, pitcher
• 1947 - Enrique Romo, pitcher
• 1950 - Tomoyasu Hagino, Japanese national team pitcher
• 1951 - Enrique Cruz, Dominican national team infielder
• 1954 - Greg Jemison, minor league outfielder
• 1954 - Yong-seok Ku, South Korean national team infielder
• 1957 - Joe Hicks, minor league infielder
• 1964 - Steve Cummings, pitcher
• 1964 - Jong-suk Kim, KBO pitcher
• 1965 - Scott Livingstone, infielder
• 1965 - Kirt Manwaring, catcher
• 1965 - Yukio Matsunaga, NPB pitcher
• 1966 - Benny Castillo, minor league outfielder and manager
• 1966 - Brett Merriman, pitcher
• 1966 - Ron Mullins, minor league pitcher
• 1968 - Tim Garland, minor league outfielder
• 1968 - Ken Juarbe, minor league pitcher
• 1968 - Rudolf Razhigaev, minor league pitcher
• 1970 - Joey Long, pitcher
• 1971 - James Baldwin, pitcher; All-Star
• 1971 - Tim Harikkala, pitcher
• 1972 - Wilson Delgado, infielder
• 1972 - Omar Luis, Cuban league pitcher
• 1974 - Toshiyuki Hesaka, NPB pitcher
• 1978 - Miguel Olivo, catcher
• 1978 - Alvaro Paz, Guatemalan national team outfielder
• 1979 - Kazuyuki Hoashi, NPB pitcher
• 1980 - Reggie Abercrombie, outfielder
• 1980 - Jung Bong, pitcher
• 1980 - Chris Denorfia, outfielder
• 1980 - Leoš Kubát, Hoofdklasse pitcher
• 1980 - Nick Neugebauer, pitcher
• 1981 - Ryan Basner, minor league pitcher
• 1982 - Fernando Nieve, pitcher
• 1982 - Seung-hwan Oh, pitcher
• 1982 - Ryan Wagner, pitcher
• 1983 - Nusit Phiromya, Thai national team catcher
• 1984 - Anthony Claggett, pitcher
• 1984 - Brandon Gomes, pitcher
• 1984 - Kris Watts, minor league catcher
• 1985 - David Carpenter, pitcher
• 1985 - Robbie Tolan, minor league outfielder
• 1986 - Jorge Balboa, Italian Baseball League pitcher
• 1986 - Cesar Rojas, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Juan Apodaca, minor league catcher
• 1987 - Han-yong Lim, KBO outfielder
• 1988 - Takumi Horikoshi, Japanese national team outfielder
• 1989 - Blake Hassebrock, minor league pitcher
• 1989 - Jin-hyuk No, KBO infielder
• 1989 - Lennart Weller, Bundesliga infielder
• 1990 - Joan Abreu, minor league infielder
• 1990 - Sherman Johnson, infielder
• 1990 - Kyle Kubitza, infielder
• 1990 - Javier Liere, Guatemalan national team pitcher
• 1990 - T.J. Oakes, minor league pitcher
• 1990 - Peter O'Brien, outfielder
• 1990 - Mac Williamson, outfielder
• 1991 - Mark Appel, pitcher
• 1991 - Elvis Araujo, pitcher
• 1991 - Kenta Imamiya, NPB infielder
• 1991 - Hiromi Oka, NPB outfielder
• 1992 - Ayaka Deguchi, Japanese women's national team infielder
• 1992 - Phil Ervin, outfielder
• 1992 - Wen-Ching Hsieh, Taiwan women's national team pitcher
• 1992 - José Murillo IV, minor league infielder/pitcher
• 1993 - Kevin Luciano, Puerto Rican national team infielder
• 1993 - Brian O'Keefe, catcher
• 1993 - Masataka Yoshida, outfielder
• 1994 - Dominick Golubiewski, Bundesliga infielder
• 1994 - Ramon Laureano, outfielder
• 1994 - Emmanuel Ramírez, pitcher
• 1995 - Jordan Edmonds, Great Britain national team outfielder
• 1995 - Matt Hardy, minor league pitcher
• 1996 - Kevin Padlo, infielder
• 1997 - Landon Knack, pitcher
• 1998 - Oliver Dunn, Thai national team infielder
• 1999 - Kohei Wong, Singaporean national team infielder
• 2000 - Paolo Brossier, French Division I outfielder
• 2000 - Mason Pelio, minor league pitcher
• 2003 - Hugo Charavet, French Division I catcher
• 2004 - Dong-heon Kim, KBO catcher
• 2004 - Chih-Hao Shu, CPBL pitcher
• 2004 - Samuel Zavala, minor league outfielder

Deaths

• 1893 - John Grady, minor league catcher (b. 1860)
• 1897 - Emilio Sabourín, winter league manager (b. ~1854)
• 1899 - H.D. Stanwood, umpire (b. 1845)
• 1900 - Billy Barnie, catcher, manager (b. 1851)
• 1902 - Pat Whitaker, pitcher (b. 1865)
• 1916 - Ira Belden, outfielder (b. 1874)
• 1922 - Charlie Kuhns, infielder (b. 1876)
• 1928 - Al Sauters, infielder (b. 1868)
• 1936 - Ted Goulait, pitcher (b. 1889)
• 1937 - Tully Sparks, pitcher (b. 1874)
• 1939 - Ed Biecher, outfielder (b. 1875)
• 1941 - Clarence Currie, pitcher (b. 1878)
• 1941 - Frank Isbell, infielder (b. 1875)
• 1950 - Biddy Dolan, infielder (b. 1881)
• 1954 - Chris Mahoney, pitcher (b. 1885)
• 1957 - Rip Wade, outfielder (b. 1898)
• 1965 - Harry Fanwell, pitcher (b. 1886)
• 1966 - Tommy McMillan, infielder (b. 1888)
• 1968 - Eddie Kearse, catcher (b. 1916)
• 1969 - Burt Ingwersen, college coach (b. 1898)
• 1970 - Emilio Palmero, pitcher (b. 1895)
• 1971 - Takeo Yoshizawa, NPB catcher (b. 1933)
• 1972 - Howie Jones, outfielder (b. 1897)
• 1973 - Jim Murray, pitcher (b. 1894)
• 1974 - Claud Derrick, infielder (b. 1886)
• 1976 - Paul Gallico, writer (b. 1897)
• 1978 - Deacon Meyers, pitcher (b. 1899)
• 1979 - Joe Grugan, college coach (b. 1917)
• 1979 - Garrell Hartman, outfielder (b. 1913)
• 1979 - John Holland, general manager (b. 1910)
• 1987 - Lee Ballanfant, umpire (b. 1895)
• 1987 - Bill Ricks, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1919)
• 1988 - Clyde Beck, infielder (b. 1900)
• 1991 - Bert Convy, minor league outfielder (b. 1933)
• 1991 - Johnny Vergez, infielder (b. 1906)
• 1996 - Floyd Stahl, college coach (b. 1899)
• 1997 - Loel Passe, announcer (b. 1917)
• 2001 - Bruce Swango, minor league pitcher (b. 1937)
• 2005 - Nobuo Osawa, NPB infielder (b. 1916)
• 2006 - Howdy Groskloss, infielder (b. 1906)
• 2006 - Dick Phillips, Negro League pitcher (b. 1930)
• 2008 - Dave Morrow, minor league catcher (b. 1960)
• 2010 - Billy Loes, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1929)
• 2013 - Akira Ishii, NPB outfielder (b. 1939)
• 2014 - Oscar Brito, minor league pitcher (b. 1959)
• 2014 - Bill Dumpson, pitcher (b. 1930)
• 2017 - Bob Wolff, broadcaster (b. 1920)
• 2019 - Don Koonce, minor league pitcher (b. 1948)
• 2019 - Dany Valdespino, Cuban league manager (b. ????)
• 2023 - Yoandy Garlobo, Cuban league infielder (b. 1977)
• 2024 - Nelson Chittum, pitcher (b. 1933)