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Events

• 1900 - At Brooklyn's Washington Park, the Superbas tie the score against the Giants in the 5th. Then, with two men on base, New York captain George Davis takes out pitcher Ed Doheny and brings in rookie Christy Mathewson, just brought up from Norfolk where he was 20-2. He hits three batters, walks two, and gives up six runs in a 13 - 7 loss, charged to Doheny. The New York Times says, "Matty has lots of speed and gives promise of making his way." Doheny also plunks a batter, while Brooklyn's Joe McGinnity hits two for a combined six hit batsmen in the game, a record, since tied.
• 1902 - Left with only five players available to play after mass defections to the National League, the Orioles forfeit a game to St. Louis and their franchise to the American League. The league will borrow players from other teams and operate the club for the balance of the season.
• 1903:
  • Rube Waddell is arrested for assaulting a fan who had criticized his pitching. Connie Mack bails him out of jail.
  • Dan McClellan of the Cuban X-Giants spins the first perfect game in black baseball history, blanking the Penn Park Athletic Club of York, PA, 5 - 0.
• 1906 - The Cubs beat back the Giants, 6 - 2, as Three-Finger Brown tops Christy Mathewson. Joe Tinker's two-run homer in the 6th is the big blow for Chicago. The loss drops the Giants to six games behind the Cubs.
• 1907 - Battling for second place, the Pirates defeat the Giants, 2 - 0, pinning the loss on Christy Mathewson. The Giants announce that Tommy Corcoran, the 38-year-old veteran whom the Giants picked up before the season started, has been handed his release.
• 1908:
  • In another classic match-up, Three-Finger Brown and Christy Mathewson pair off with Brown winning, 1 - 0. The Cubs pitcher allows six hits, with Matty giving up seven. The only run comes on a 5th-inning inside-the-park home run by Matty's nemesis, Joe Tinker, who runs through the arms of third base coach Heinie Zimmerman to score. In the 12 match-ups between the two pitchers, Brown has won eight. A tragic occurrence happens during Tinker's home run dash when a boy, standing on the roof of a nearby building to view the game, falls 50 feet to his death.
  • It is Honus Wagner Day in Pittsburgh, as players from both teams line up to pay homage. Wagner's tribute was originally scheduled for the 16th, but Honus asked that it be moved a day so it does not conflict with the annual benefit picnic for orphans. Wagner is presented with a $700 gold watch. Pittsburgh beats Boston, 4 - 0.
• 1909:
  • Brooklyn and Chicago swap shutouts, with George Bell topping Chicago's Orval Overall, 1 - 0, in the opener. Ed Reulbach comes back in the second game to beat Kaiser Wilhelm, 4 - 0. Bill Bergen's hitless streak ends. It started after he singled in his first at bat against the Giants on June 29th. It ends in the second game today when, after sitting out the first game, he has a 4th-inning infield single against Ed Reulbach. Bergen will hit just .139 this season, not a yearly low for the punchless catcher.
  • Red Sox reliever Smoky Joe Wood fans ten Cleveland batters in just four innings as visiting Boston wins, 6 - 4.
• 1911 - Boston Rustlers infielder Buck Herzog and OF Doc Miller fail to show up for a game and are suspended by the club. After a conference with the club president, they rejoin the team. John McGraw, anxious to retrieve former Giant Herzog to shore up a weak infield, will swap C Hank Gowdy and SS Al Bridwell to Boston for Herzog on the 21st.
• 1914
  • At Forbes Field, Rube Marquard and Babe Adams each go a marathon 21 innings before Larry Doyle's two-run home run gives the Giants a 3 - 1 win over the Pirates. Adams yields no walks and 12 hits, the longest non-walk game in major league history. Marquard walks two (one intentionally) and yields 15 hits. In the 6th, Honus Wagner goes from first to third base on a hit by Jim Viox. When New York CF Bob Bescher throws to 3B Milt Stock, the ball bounces out of his hands and disappears. Wagner scores before it's discovered that the ball bounced up under his arm and stayed there as he ran home. Wagner is called out for interference, and the Bucs protest. Manager Fred Clarke is then ejected by umpire Bill "Lord" Byron. In a fitting ending to this unusual game, Giants OF Red Murray is knocked unconscious by a bolt of lightning after catching a fly ball for the final out. Murray is uninjured. Marquard's win is his last in 1914. He will lose ten straight on his way to a 12-22 record.
  • Any pennant chances the Senators have go out the window when Clyde "Deerfoot" Milan and Danny Moeller collide in the outfield. Milan's jaw is broken in two places and he will miss 40 games.
• 1915
  • The Cubs end Grover Cleveland Alexander's nine-game win streak, 4 - 0. Chicago and Philadelphia are deadlocked for the National League lead.
  • In Chicago, the Red Sox top the White Sox, 6 - 2, to move back into first place. Boston will win four out of five in the series with their rivals. In the American League, the White Sox spend their last day on top. The Tigers will challenge Boston down the stretch.
• 1917 - The Giants waive little-used George Kelly to Pittsburgh. Kelly will return to star for New York.
• 1918 - Chicago's Lefty Tyler goes 21 innings against Milt Watson to beat the Phils, 2 - 1.
• 1922 - At Boston, Ty Cobb gets five hits (and a walk) in a game for the fourth time this year, setting an American League mark. His previous five-hit contests were on May 7th, July 7th, and July 12th. Only Willie Keeler has done it before. The Tigers roar, 16 - 7. overcoming a 5 - 0 deficit after one inning.
• 1924 - On Tuberculosis Day at Sportsman's Park, the Cards' Jesse Haines hurls his only shutout in two years, a 5 - 0 no-hitter over the Braves. "While the majestic northpaw was realizing his lifelong pitching ambitions, the Cardinals were making merry with the right-hand shoots of McNamara" (St. Louis Globe-Democrat). It is the first no-hitter by a St. Louis hurler since 1876, and the first-ever National League no-hitter in St. Louis.
• 1934
  • National League President John Heydler upholds the Cards' protest of a loss to the Cubs on July 2nd. The game will be resumed from the point at which umpire Bill Klem waited too long to call an infield fly and will be played prior to a scheduled July 31st game.
  • Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland. He will retire with a walk record of 2,062. Rickey Henderson will break the record.
  • Although Bob Johnson, Jimmie Foxx and Pinky Higgins hit successive homers in the 4th inning, St. Louis Browns P Jack Knott perseveres to beat the A's, 7 - 4.
  • Lon Warneke, Cubs mound ace, intentionally walks a batter in the 7th to load the bases and bring up Giants P Roy Parmelee. He hits a grand slam for a 5 - 3 win.
• 1935 - Bill Werber of the Red Sox ties the major-league record with four doubles in the opening game of a doubleheader with Cleveland. The Sox win the pair, 13 - 5 and 3 - 1.
• 1936:
  • Yankees Red Rolfe, Lou Gehrig and Bill Dickey hit 3rd-inning home runs against Detroit to tie the American League record, since topped. New York rolls, 9 - 4, dropping the Bengals to fourth place. Goose Goslin has a pair of homers for Detroit.
  • Carl Hubbell starts his 24-game winning streak, beating Pittsburgh, 6 - 0. The Giants hit a National League record-tying four triples in the 1st inning: Jo-Jo Moore, Mel Ott and Hank Leiber hit them in succession, and Eddie Mayo adds one later in the inning to equal the major league record.
• 1941 - In front of more than 60,000 fans at Cleveland, Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak is ended at 56 games. Indians P Al Smith and Jim Bagby Jr., plus sensational plays by 3B Ken Keltner, stop the Yankee Clipper, but New York edges the Indians, 6 - 5.
• 1942 - The Browns, under Luke Sewell, achieve an eight-game win streak with doubleheader victories, 4 - 2 and 11 - 1, over the A's. Chet Laabs blasts homers in both games. During the eight-game streak, Laabs has hit eight home runs. He will finish second to Ted Williams in the American League with 27 homers.
• 1947:
  • Less than two weeks after Larry Doby's debut with the Indians, Hank Thompson and Willard Brown become the second and third black players in the American League and first for the Browns. The former Kansas City Monarchs standouts will play in less than 30 games for St. Louis because their presence does not significantly raise attendance.
  • The Yankees sweep a doubleheader against Cleveland, 3 - 1 and 7 - 2, to extend their winning streak to an American League-record 19 games. The streak matches that of the 1906 Chicago White Sox.
• 1948:
  • The Dodgers down the Reds, 8 - 4 and 10 - 4, for their 12th win in 14 games. Ralph Branca wins the opener as Jackie Robinson clouts a three-run homer in the 8th. Paul Minner wins his first major league game in the nitecap with six innings of relief. During an argument with Frank Dascoli, Reds catcher Dewey Williams grabs the ump. Williams will be fined $100 and suspended for five games. However, with catcher Ray Mueller on the disabled list with a broken ankle, the Reds appeal the suspension, stating they have only one catcher, Ray Lamanno. Ford Frick, National League president, will rule that Williams will serve the suspension in the Reds' clubhouse, while dressed in full uniform. If anything happens to Lamanno, Williams can substitute, and a game will be added to the suspension.
  • Ed Lopat scatters 11 hits to beat the Browns, 4 - 0. It is the Yankee hurler's second shutout in a row and his third this year.
  • At Pittsburgh, a Bobby Thomson pinch single drives home the winning run in the Giants managerial debut of Leo Durocher. The Giants win, 6 - 5, overcoming a three-run homer by Ralph Kiner.
• 1950 - Yankee rookie Whitey Ford wins his first major league game, beating the visiting White Sox, 4 - 3. Tom Ferrick finishes for New York.
• 1951:
  • LF Joe Adcock is 4 for 4 and throws out a runner at home in the 9th, to lead the Reds to a 9 - 8 win over the host Phillies.
  • After pitching for Bill Veeck in Cleveland in 1948, Satchel Paige rejoins him with the St. Louis Browns.
• 1954 - With Jim Gilliam (2B), Jackie Robinson (3B), Sandy Amoros (LF), Roy Campanella (C) and Don Newcombe (P) in the starting lineup against the Braves, the Dodgers field the first team which consists of a majority of black players. The historic five helps Brooklyn beat Milwaukee at County Stadium, 2 - 1.
• 1955:
  • Earl Torgeson of the Tigers steals home in the 10th to beat the Yanks, 6 - 5.
  • In what will be their most important move of the season, the Brooklyn Dodgers bring up rookie pitchers Roger Craig and Don Bessent from the minor leagues. They immediately pay dividends as they beat the Redlegs in both ends of a doubleheader. Craig wins, 6 - 2, and Bessent matches it, 8 - 5.
• 1956 - Red Sox pitchers Tom Brewer and Bob Porterfield sweep the Athletics, 10 - 0 and 4 - 0.
• 1959:
  • In a dispute with the umpires, Cleveland manager Joe Gordon is ejected. Cleveland OF Minnie Minoso refuses to stand in the batter's box until the argument is over. Umpire Frank Umont calls him out on strikes. The enraged Minoso charges Umont and gets the thumb also. The Indians win, 8 - 7, to stay on the heels of Chicago.
  • Chicago's Early Wynn and the Yankees' Ralph Terry match zeros for eight innings at Yankee Stadium, before Chicago's Jim McAnany collects the first Sox hit in the 9th. Jim Landis adds a second hit to drive home two runs to give the Sox the 2 - 0 win. Wynn matches Terry by also allowing just two hits.
• 1960:
  • Batting just .244 and not hitting for power, Willie McCovey, 1959 National League Rookie of the Year, is sent down to Tacoma (Pacific Coast League).
  • The Senators, losers of ten straight to the Indians, sweep a pair from the Tribe, 3 - 2 and 5 - 3. The opening win is over Mudcat Grant, who had never lost to the Senators and had posted 14 straight victories over them.
• 1961:
  • The Yankees top the O's, 5 - 0, behind Whitey Ford's 13th straight win. Mickey Mantle (#33) and Moose Skowron hit long home runs at Baltimore. The nitecap goes into the 5th when, with two outs and the Yanks up 4 - 1, a thunderstorm strikes. The umps wait 65 minutes before calling the game, thus washing out homers by Roger Maris and Mantle.
  • Bill White goes 8 for 10 in a doubleheader, as the Cards sweep the Cubs, 10 - 6 and 8 - 5, at Busch Stadium.
  • Following a year-long illness, Ty Cobb succumbs to cancer at age 74 at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
  • Commissioner Ford Frick decrees that Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs in a 154-game schedule in 1927 "cannot be broken unless some batter hits 61 or more within his club's first 154 games."
• 1962 - Sandy Koufax leaves after one inning of a 7 - 5 loss at Cincinnati. The 14-game winner has a circulatory problem in the index finger and palm of his pitching hand and will be sidelined until late September.
• 1964:
  • The Phillies regain first place with a 7 - 5 win against the Pirates. They will hold the lead until September 27th.
  • In Los Angeles, the Cub-Dodger contest becomes the first Pay-TV baseball game as Subscription Television offers the cablecast to subscribers for money. The Dodgers beat Chicago, 3 - 2, with Don Drysdale collecting 10 strikeouts.
  • The first-place O's win again as Robin Roberts shuts out Detroit, 5 - 0, despite giving up 11 hits.
• 1965 - Los Angeles returns to first place, as Claude Osteen beats the Cubs, 7 - 2.
• 1966:
  • At Forbes Field, Pittsburgh regains the National League lead by beating San Francisco twice, 7 - 4 and 7 - 1. In each game, the Giants take an early 1 - 0 lead. In the opener, that dream dies quickly: 1st-inning singles by Matty Alou, Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell, plus a sacrifice fly from Jose Pagan, transfer the one-run margin from West to East and the Bucs never look back. In the nightcap, however, Pittsburgh's narrow deficit persists until a 4th-inning RBI triple off the right-field wall from Clemente, who then proceeds to untie the game — in the words of Giants beat writer Bob Stevens — "with an audacious piece of baserunning against a Giant defense that had the infield pulled in". Stevens continues: "Pagan grounded to Jim Ray Hart at third. Jim Ray feinted Roberto back toward the base, then let loose with the cross-diamond throw. In the meantime, Clemente streaked home, scoring standing up as Willie McCovey's frantic throw to catcher Tom Haller crashed against the stands." Pittsburgh's first bit of breathing room is provided the following inning by future New York Yankees GM Gene Michael (in for injured starting SS Gene Alley), who gets an RBI double in his first major league at-bat.
  • The Cubs clip the Cardinals, 7 - 2, behind the pitching of Ken Holtzman and the slugging of Billy Williams, who hits for the cycle.
• 1967 - During a 6 - 2 defeat, concluding a dismal 2-and-4 road trip for the Pirates, the rarely disappointing Roberto Clemente does what he does so well - break the other team's heart in their own house and have their fans thank him for it. As Les Biederman of the Pittsburgh Press reports: "Clemente robbed Joe Torre with a lunging catch of his pop fly in the 3rd inning with two on and the hometown Atlanta fans applauded him en route to the bench. They even applauded him when he went to bat in the 4th inning."
• 1969:
  • Gold Glove pitcher Jim Kaat commits three errors but still beats the Twins, 8 - 5.
  • Sal Bando is 5 for 5 and drives in the first four runs in the A's 8 - 2 win over Seattle. Don Mincher drives in both runs off Catfish Hunter.
  • In a twin bill split with the Braves, Lee May hits two home runs in each contest as well as driving in five runs in both ends of the doubleheader. Despite the All-Star first baseman's performance, the Reds drop the opener, 9 - 8, but come back to win the nightcap, 10 - 4.
• 1970:
  • Roberto Clemente, just a double shy of the cycle, scores the tying run, drives in the go-ahead run and keeps his team ahead with a crucial 9th-inning outfield assist, leading the Pirates to a 4 - 3 win over Cincinnati in a preview of the National League Championship Series. Clemente's 150th career triple leads to the tying run in the 6th and his 400-foot first-pitch bomb over the right-centerfield fence off rookie Wayne Simpson unties it in the 8th. To keep it untied, Clemente puts down his bat and lets his arm do the talking as he guns down Tommy Helms at the plate in the 9th to seal the victory.
  • With the score tied at 5 - 5 and the bases loaded in the 10th inning, and no outs, Brewers manager Dave Bristol inaugurates the "Bristol Shift," bringing OF Tommy Harper in between SS and 3B. Unperturbed, George Scott hits a sacrifice fly to win the game. Earlier in his career, as manager of the Reds, Bristol used a similar shift, called the Bristol Barricade, against Willie McCovey.
• 1971:
  • Juan Marichal allows just one hit through eight innings, but the Reds score three in the bottom of the 9th to win, 3 - 2. Tony Perez hits a two-run single to win it.
  • Dock Ellis wins his 13th straight as Pittsburgh whips the Padres, 9 - 2.
  • In 1971 NPB All-Star Game 1, Central League starter Yutaka Enatsu fans all nine Pacific League batters he faces and adds a three-run homer. Hidetake Watanabe, Kazumi Takahashi, Hisanobu Mizutani and Tadakatsu Kotani follow him and complete a historic no-hitter, the only one in NPB All-Star Game history.
• 1974:
  • Milwaukee 3B Don Money commits a 1st-inning error in a 10 - 5 loss to Minnesota, ending his perfect defensive season after 86 games and 257 chances. At this point, Money holds both the National League and American League records for most consecutive chances without an error in a season.
  • Cardinals pitching great Bob Gibson fans the Reds' Cesar Geronimo to become the second hurler after Walter Johnson to strike out 3,000 batters. Geronimo will become Nolan Ryan's 3,000th strikeout victim six years later. The Reds shrug it off, scoring six runs in the 1st inning and three in the 2nd on their way to a 12 - 7 win.
• 1975 - For the second consecutive White Sox game, Wilbur Wood is the starter, and he tosses his second straight shutout, beating Detroit, 5 - 0. The two starts were broken up by the All-Star Game.
• 1976 - Walter Alston wins his 2,000th game as Dodger manager.
• 1977 - The Yankees lose, 8 - 4, for their third straight loss to the Royals. New York has now lost seven of their last nine games and are three games back of the leading Orioles.
• 1978 - In the latest incident in his feud with manager Billy Martin, the Yankees' Reggie Jackson ignores instructions and attempts to bunt in the 10th inning of a tie game with the Royals. Jackson pops up, the Yanks lose, 9 - 7, in the 11th, and Martin serves Jackson with a five-day suspension without pay. The Royals' three-game sweep at Yankee Stadium leaves New York in fourth place, 14 games behind the Red Sox.
• 1979 - The National League wins its eighth straight All-Star Game, 7 - 6, at Seattle. Lee Mazzilli homers to tie the game in the 8th, and walks in the 9th to bring in the winning run. Dave Parker, with two outstanding throws, is named the game's MVP, and Pete Rose plays a record fifth All-Star position. The Red Sox provide the starting OF for the American League in Jim Rice, Carl Yastrzemski, and Fred Lynn, though Yaz has played 1B most of the season.
• 1986 - Jack Pierce of the Leon Braves hits his 46th and 47th home runs, breaking Hector Espino's 22-year-old Mexican League record. He will finish with 54, aided by the lively Commando ball the league has been using.
• 1987 - Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly becomes the first American League player to hit a home run in seven consecutive games.
• 1988:
  • The Giants beat the Pirates, 5 - 4, with Robby Thompson hitting the 10,000th home run in Giants franchise history.
  • Philadelphia's Ricky Jordan homers in his first major league at bat and the Phillies go on to beat Houston, 10 - 4.
• 1989:
  • Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires, just 20 appearances shy of Hoyt Wilhelm's all-time games pitched record of 1,070. Tekulve had posted a 5.02 ERA in 37 games this season.
  • In the first doubleheader ever played at the Skydome, the Blue Jays sweep a pair from California, 6 - 4 and 5 - 4. Both wins go to David Wells, pitching in relief, with Tom Henke notching two saves. Wells becomes the first pitcher in five years to win both games of a doubleheader. The next doubleheader in Toronto won't come until October 2001.
  • White Sox C Carlton Fisk gets his 2,000th career hit in a 7 - 3 win over the Yankees.
• 1990:
  • Minnesota becomes the first team in history to turn two triple plays in the same game. Both are started on grounders to 3B Gary Gaetti, who has started five of the Twins' last six triple killings. The Twins' triple killings aren't enough as the team loses to the Red Sox at Fenway Park, 1 - 0.
  • At New York, Bo Jackson slugs three straight home runs, the third his career 100th, then separates his shoulder in the 6th inning diving for a line drive off the bat of the Yankees' Deion Sanders. Sanders ends up with an inside-the-park home run but the Kansas City Royals take home a 10 - 7 win. Jackson will be out for six weeks.
• 1991:
  • Cleveland defeats Oakland, 2 - 1, as Indians hurler Rod Nichols gets the victory and breaks a personal 13-game losing streak dating back to September 1989.
  • Randy Johnson takes just four innings to rack up ten walks. He fans four, tosses a wild pitch and allows one hit and four runs in his stint, a 6 - 1 loss to the Brewers. Bill Wegman takes the complete game win.
  • Two naked fans run onto the field at Fulton County Stadium then slide into home plate. The duo are apprehended by security guards. Not distracted, the Braves defeat the Cubs, 12 - 2.
  • In a 15-inning, 9 - 8 loss to the Royals, Sam Horn of the Orioles becomes the first non-pitcher to fan six consecutive times in a single game. Pitcher Carl Weilman of the Browns was the only other player to have the dubious distinction, performing the feat on August 25, 1913.
• 1992:
  • Baltimore P Mike Mussina tosses a one-hitter against the Texas Rangers, striking out ten as the Orioles win by a score of 8 - 0. Kevin Reimer has the lone hit, a double. Kevin Brown (14-5) takes the loss.
• 1993:
  • The Rangers trade pitchers Robb Nen and Kurt Miller to the Marlins in exchange for P Cris Carpenter.
  • Spokane (Northwest League) pitcher Glenn Dishman retires the first 26 Yakima batters. The 27th batter hits an easy roller to the second baseman who tosses to 1B Jason Thompson. Thompson starts celebrating early, pulling his foot off the bag for an error before he records the out. Dishman gets the next batter for his no-hitter.
  • Jesús Sommers gets the 2,753th hit of his Mexican League career, breaking the record long held by Hector Espino.
• 1994:
  • The Richmond Braves defeat the Norfolk Tides, 3 - 2, in 12 innings, in a Class AAA International League game. The contest is marked by a brawl in the 8th inning in which both dugouts empty and one player is ejected. A new anti-fighting policy in the minors mandates fines and suspensions for any player who leaves his position, the dugout, or the bullpen during a fight. The IL president suspends and fines 35 players for their actions.
  • Colorado draws 61,972 fans to its 10 - 6 win over St. Louis, establishing a major league record for attendance for a four-game set with 259,113.
• 1996:
  • The Red Sox take a 9 - 2 lead over the Yankees into the 7th inning in Boston. New York scores three in the 7th, two in the 8th, and four in the 9th to move ahead, 11 - 9. The Red Sox bounce back with three of their own in their last at bat to defeat New York by a score of 12 - 11 and end John Wetteland's record save streak.
  • Lead-off hitter Kurt Abbott pounds a single, triple, and home run and drives in six runs to lead the Marlins to an 11 - 2 victory over the Astros.
  • Five Padre relievers help the Rockies set a club record of 11 runs in the 7th inning en route to a 13 - 12 Rocks win. Colorado overcomes a seven-run deficit.
  • Cards pitcher Andy Benes, who started the year going 1-7, evens his record at 8-8, beating the Reds 6 - 4.
• 1998:
  • The Mariners sink the Royals, 18 - 5, for their fifth straight win. Bill Swift gives up five runs in 5+ innings, but it is good enough to win. Dan Wilson is 3 for 4 and drives in six runs for the M's. Wilson, Alex Rodriguez and Jay Buhner clout homers.
  • The Rangers trade P Todd Van Poppel and promising minor leaguer Warren Morris to the Pirates in exchange for P Esteban Loaiza.
  • Both Rafael Palmeiro and Albert Belle hit their 300th homers tonight. Palmeiro is 3 for 4 as his Orioles win, 4 - 1, over the Angels, and improve their record since the All-Star break to 9-0. Belle's homer - his tenth in ten games since the break - and Robin Ventura's 9th-inning homer give the White Sox a 4 - 3 victory over the visiting Indians.
• 1999 - The Brewers defeat the Royals, 11 - 3, as 1B Mark Loretta strokes five hits, including a double and home run, brings home four runs, and scores three himself.
• 2000 - The Cardinals defeat the Twins, 8 - 3. St. Louis OF Chris Richard becomes the second Cardinal in two weeks to hit a home run in his first major league at bat.
• 2001:
  • Indians P Bartolo Colon is ejected from Cleveland's 10 - 4 win over Houston after throwing a pitch near the head of Astros C Scott Servais, which actually hits his bat. Colon will be suspended six games for his actions.
  • Expos coach Ozzie Guillen is tossed before the first pitch is thrown, continuing an argument from last night with umpire Greg Gibson. The Expos then pound Boston's Tim Wakefield to beat the visiting Red Sox, 11 - 7. Five homers are hit in the game, including a 457-foot shot by Vladimir Guerrero.
  • Braves 1B Rico Brogna announces his retirement, effective immediately, opening a spot for Bernard Gilkey. The injury-plagued Brogna will coach high school football. Without him, the Braves win, 4 - 0, behind Greg Maddux's 34th career shutout. Maddux strikes out nine and walks none.
• 2002 - Minnesota's Torii Hunter, angered after he is hit by a pitch, picks up the ball and fires it at Indians pitcher Danys Baez in the 5th inning of an 8 - 5 Twins win. Hunter's throw hits the pitcher in the leg but he stays in the game. After the game, Baez goes into the Twins clubhouse to apologize. Jim Thome, Bill Selby and Ben Broussard homer for the Tribe, while David Ortiz and Dustan Mohr hit two-run homers. Rick Reed wins but has to shoo away a seagull, which walks out to the mound: it's the gull's third straight appearance.
• 2004 - Richard Orman wins his 100th game in Hoofdklasse. He is the tenth player to reach that milestone, but only the second left-handed pitcher and only the second pitcher to have won all the games with one team. In Orman's case, all the wins have come with the Pioniers. He will spend another three years in the league, winning another 23 games, before hanging up his spikes.
• 2007 - For the fifth time in Nippon Pro Baseball history, three people are ejected from a game. After a close pitch to Tuffy Rhodes, Rhodes punches catcher Tomoya Satozaki. In the ensuing fight, Rhodes and coaches Yoshihiko Takahashi and Jon Debus are all ejected. All will be fined at least $50,000 and Rhodes will be suspended for a game.
• 2008:
  • The Oakland A's trade struggling Joe Blanton (5-12, 4.96) to the Phillies for prospects Adrian Cardenas and Josh Outman as well as minor leaguer Matt Spencer. Outman is having a productive year in AA and Cardenas is hitting .309 with 16 steals in 16 tries in high A ball.
  • The Korea Baseball Organization hands its toughest disciplinary penalty ever, indefinitely suspending Lotte Giants speedster Soo-keun Jung. A drunken Jung allegedly beat up a policeman and the janitor in his apartment building the morning before.
• 2009:
  • Jim Thome drives in a career-high seven runs with a grand slam and a three-run home run as Chicago defeats the Orioles, 12 - 8.
  • SS Julio Lugo is designated for assignment by the Red Sox as Jed Lowrie is about to come off the disabled list. It's a costly move, since Lugo has a year and a half left on a four-year, $36-million dollar contract.
• 2010 - The Dutch national team wins the 2010 Haarlem Baseball Week, improving to 7-0; they will lose their final game tomorrow to the Cuban national team. Danny Rombley is named tournament MVP. Today, Rombley's two-run double in the bottom of the 10th gives the Netherlands a 10 - 9 win over Japan.
• 2011:
  • The Rangers extend their winning streak to 11 games with a 3 - 1 win over Seattle, which has now lost nine straight to fall out of contention. Matt Harrison allows just one run in 7 2/3 innings. Mitch Moreland hits a three-run home run in the 2nd inning off Blake Beavan to account for all of the Rangers' runs.
  • It takes 16 innings in a nationally televised Sunday night game, but the Red Sox finally defeat the Rays, 1 - 0, when Dustin Pedroia drives in Josh Reddick from third base with a single for the game's only run. Reddick had reached base on the 12th walk given up by Rays pitchers, as their moundsmen's unwitting generosity finally costs them. Adam Russell, Tampa Bay's ninth pitcher, is the loser, while Alfredo Aceves is the winner with three scoreless innings and Jonathan Papelbon picks up his 21st save. Both Rays manager Joe Maddon and bench coach Dave Martinez are long gone by the time the game is decided, having been ejected in separate incidents in the 11th inning for having words with home plate umpire Chad Fairchild.
• 2012:
  • The Angels crush the Tigers, 13 - 0, behind the pitching of Garrett Richards and five homers, by Mark Trumbo, Mike Trout, Albert Pujols, Alberto Callaspo and Kendrys Morales. The Halos jump to an early 7 - 0 lead, chasing Jacob Turner after two innings. It is the first time Detroit has been shut out in 159 games.
  • Kevin Youkilis hits his first Fenway Park homer as a visiting player to lead the White Sox to a 7 - 5 win over the Red Sox. His shot off Jon Lester in the 4th puts Chicago up, 6 - 2, as Philip Humber wins in his return from the disabled list.
• 2013:
  • The International League wins the AAA All-Star Game, 4 - 3, over the Pacific Coast League. The key blow is a three-run homer by Tony Sanchez off Jarred Cosart in the 2nd inning.
  • Pitcher Misael Siverio defects from the Cuban national team in Des Moines, IA before an exhibition game with Team USA.
  • 60-year-old Paul Risso makes his professional baseball debut 40 years after being drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates. A shoulder injury had ended his college career shortly after being drafted. Today, Risso tosses one shutout inning for the Raton Osos of the minor independent Pecos League, giving up one hit to the Santa Fe Fuego. He is not the oldest pitcher to appear in a minor league game: Hub Kittle (63 years old for Springfield in 1980) and Ramón Arano (62 years old for Veracruz in 2001) are among those older.
• 2014 - A.J. Reed of the University of Kentucky is named the winner of the Golden Spikes Award as the top college player in the nation. As a hitter, he led all NCAA Division I players with 23 homers and a .735 winning percentage; as a pitcher, he went 12-2, 2.09 in a dominating two-way performance.
• 2015:
  • The lights go out in Washington as the Nats' first home game after the All-Star break is interrupted with the Dodgers leading, 2 - 1, in the 4th inning when a bank of lights on the third base side of the field at Nationals Park go out. Stadium personnel manage to turn them back on after a one hour, 22 minute delay, play resumes for nine minutes, and the lights go out again. This time, 40 minutes are needed to restore power, but it lasts just 12 minutes. The game is finally suspended at 10:42 pm in the 5th inning, the Nationals having in the meantime taken the lead on a two-run homer by Danny Espinosa during the second brief resumption of play.
  • The Central League wins 2015 NPB All-Star Game 1, 8 - 6, as Jose Lopez gets three hits, Shinnosuke Abe homers and Shintaro Fujinami tosses three perfect innings of relief for the win. The 21-year-old Fujinami is the youngest All-Star Game MVP in NPB history. For the Pacific League, Ikuhiro Kiyota hits a three-run homer off Tomoyuki Sugano for half their offense.
• 2016:
  • Starling Marte homers off Oliver Perez in the 18th inning to give Pittsburgh a 2 - 1 win over Washington. Pittsburgh thinks it has wrapped up a 1 - 0 win in regulation time, but Daniel Murphy homers off closer Mark Melancon with two outs and two strikes to send the game into extra innings. The Bucs almost win it again in the 16th when Josh Harrison doubles with Erik Kratz on base, but a perfect relay from Michael Taylor to Danny Espinosa to C Wilson Ramos nabs Kratz and prolongs the game some more.
  • In another excellent pitching performance, Jacob deGrom tosses a one-hitter as the Mets defeat the Phillies, 5 - 0. Only a 3rd-inning single by P Zach Eflin keeps deGrom from making history.
• 2017 - Hosting the Cleveland Indians for a make-up game, the Giants fail to sell out AT&T Park for the first time since 2010, ending the longest streak of sell-outs in National League history at 530 games. They still draw over 39,000 fans, just short of the ballpark's capacity of 41,500. The Indians add to the Giants' miserable season with a 5 - 3 win as Matt Moore loses his fifth straight home start.
• 2018 - The American League defeats the National League, 8 - 6, in the 89th edition of the All-Star Game, played at Nationals Park in Washington, DC. A record ten home runs are hit, including a pair in the 10th inning, by teammates Alex Bregman and George Springer of the Astros off Ross Stripling, as the AL wins its sixth straight and 18 of the last 21 (with one tie) to edge ahead of the NL overall. Bregman is named the winner of the Ted Williams Award as the game's MVP.
• 2019 - For the second time this season, the Diamondbacks tie a team record with 21 hits in a nine-inning game. They had already done so on May 24th in an 18 - 2 win over the Giants, and today's outburst comes in a 19-4 beatdown of the Rangers. They score seven runs in the 1st against Jesse Chavez to run away with the game, as Eduardo Escobar homers twice and drives in five runs.
• 2021:
  • The game between the Padres and Nationals at Nationals Park is suspended in the middle of the 6th inning with San Diego leading, 8 - 4, after gunshots are heard outside the third base gate. Four persons standing outside the ballpark are hit in what police describe as a drive-by shooting as panicked fans are evacuated via the centerfield gates.
  • Parma wins its 14th European Cup but first in the 21st Century. In the finale of the 2021 European Champions Cup, they beat the Bonn Capitals, 6 - 4, with Danny Rondón getting the win and Vicente Campos the save while Leomartires Rodríguez drives in three and Cup MVP Alex Sambucci has two runs and two RBI.
  • The Pacific League gets a split in the 2021 NPB All-Star Games by taking Game 2, 4 - 3. Hiroaki Shimauchi doubles off Ryoji Kuribayashi in the 8th to score Hiroto Kobukata with the winner; he is 3 for 4 on the day with three of his team's four RBI.
• 2022 - Second-generation players take the first two spots in the 2022 amateur draft as SS Jackson Holliday, son of Matt Holliday, goes first overall to the Orioles, while OF Druw Jones, son of Andruw Jones, is selected second by the Diamondbacks. P Kumar Rocker, who had been the #10 pick in 2021 but had failed to come to an agreement with the Mets following a disagreement over the health of his pitching arm, goes #3 to the Rangers, who sign him mere hours after his selection. Rocker is coming off a brilliant stint of pitching in the independent Frontier League.

Births

• 1847 - Hugh Daily, pitcher
• 1852 - Len Lovett, outfielder (d. 1922)
• 1856 - Eddie Fusselback, catcher (d. 1926)
• 1857 - Zach Phelps, owner (d. 1901)
• 1863 - Lew Graulich, minor league catcher (d. 1934)
• 1863 - Phil Tomney, infielder (d. 1892)
• 1863 - Thomas Zachariah, umpire (d. 1892)
• 1866 - Jack Darragh, infielder (d. 1939)
• 1866 - Jim Handiboe, pitcher (d. 1942)
• 1870 - George Kelb, pitcher (d. 1936)
• 1873 - Chummy Gray, pitcher (d. 1913)
• 1874 - Ernest Barnard, executive (d. 1931)
• 1878 - Bock Baker, pitcher (d. ????)
• 1878 - Judge Fuchs, manager (d. 1961)
• 1881 - Spider Diehl, minor league outfielder and manager (d. 1975)
• 1885 - Les Tullos, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1952)
• 1885 - Les Wilson, outfielder (d. 1969)
• 1888 - Hyotaro Kondo, college coach; Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1966)
• 1889 - Guy Tutwiler, infielder (d. 1930)
• 1891 - Eddie Brown, outfielder (d. 1956)
• 1892 - Charley Lightner, pitcher (d. 1967)
• 1895 - Bill Force, pitcher (d. 1969)
• 1897 - Ed Sherling, pinch hitter (d. 1965)
• 1899 - Eddie Holtz, infielder (d. 1924)
• 1900 - Red Smith, infielder (d. 1961)
• 1905 - John Shackelford, infielder (d. 1964)
• 1907 - Hank Patterson, catcher (d. 1970)
• 1908 - Ed Connolly, catcher (d. 1963)
• 1909 - Emilio García, Cuban national team player (d. ????)
• 1909 - Jesse Houston, pitcher (d. 1968)
• 1910 - Leland Foster, pitcher (d. ????)
• 1910 - Sammy Holbrook, catcher (d. 1991)
• 1913 - Charlie Frye, pitcher (d. 1945)
• 1913 - Papa Williams, infielder (d. 1993)
• 1916 - Fred Chapman, infielder (d. 1997)
• 1917 - Lou Boudreau, infielder, manager; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 2001)
• 1917 - Henry Miller, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1972)
• 1919 - Hal Erickson, pitcher (d. 2008)
• 1921 - Tex Hoyle, pitcher (d. 1994)
• 1921 - Toni Stone, Negro League infielder (d. 1996)
• 1923 - Horace Garner, outfielder (d. 1995)
• 1928 - Carl Giuranna, college coach (d. 2018)
• 1929 - Percy Hough, minor league catcher (d. 2014)
• 1929 - Roy McMillan, infielder, manager; All-Star (d. 1997)
• 1930 - Jerry Lynch, outfielder (d. 2012)
• 1938 - Deron Johnson, infielder (d. 1992)
• 1941 - Morimichi Takagi, NPB infielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 2020)
• 1942 - Don Kessinger, infielder, manager; All-Star
• 1945 - Greg Riddoch, manager
• 1949 - Doug Clark, college coach
• 1949 - Herb Hutson, pitcher
• 1949 - Charley Steiner, announcer
• 1953 - Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Japanese national team pitcher
• 1956 - Pete Ladd, pitcher (d. 2023)
• 1956 - Dan Logan, minor league infielder
• 1961 - Dan Marino, drafted pitcher
• 1961 - Seok-hwan Yoon, KBO pitcher
• 1962 - Kevin Price, minor league pitcher
• 1963 - Bobby Thigpen, pitcher; All-Star
• 1964 - Ulises Jardínes, Cuban league manager (d. 2007)
• 1965 - Harry Koster, Hoofdklasse pitcher
• 1965 - Martin Miller, CEB President
• 1966 - Ken MacDonald, Australian national team designated hitter
• 1967 - Ho-seong Lee, KBO outfielder (d. 2008)
• 1968 - Kinnis Pledger, minor league infielder
• 1973 - Damon Newman, minor league pitcher
• 1973 - Scott Steinmann, minor league catcher and manager
• 1973 - Brian Stephenson, minor league pitcher
• 1974 - Marcos Berenguer, Spanish national team outfielder
• 1974 - Dong-wook Lee, KBO infielder and manager
• 1975 - Jay Sirianni, minor league pitcher
• 1976 - Ki-jung Lee, KBO umpire
• 1976 - Gary Rodriquez, minor league outfielder
• 1977 - Joon Lee, KBO pitcher
• 1977 - René Pinto Sr., minor league catcher
• 1978 - Jason Jennings, pitcher
• 1978 - Shawn Rakos, umpire
• 1978 - Brant Ust, minor league infielder
• 1980 - Cody Cillo, minor league pitcher
• 1980 - Daisuke Ikenaga, minor league infielder
• 1980 - Justin Knoedler, catcher
• 1981 - Casey Abrams, minor league pitcher
• 1981 - Danny Core, minor league pitcher
• 1981 - Yoandry Urgellés, Cuban league outfielder
• 1982 - Rikiya Chikugawa, Japanese national team pitcher
• 1982 - Yaqing Liu, Chinese national team outfielder
• 1982 - Brian Rogers, pitcher
• 1983 - Steve Delabar, pitcher; All-Star
• 1983 - Gaspard Fessy, Division Honor outfielder
• 1983 - Aaron Kalb, college coach
• 1983 - Adam Lind, outfielder
• 1983 - Chung-Hsiao Pan, CPBL pitcher
• 1983 - José Ventura, Hoofdklasse pitcher
• 1984 - Eric Suttle, minor league outfielder
• 1985 - Hyoun-taek Oh, KBO pitcher
• 1986 - Jeremy Berg, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Yuan-Chin Chu, CPBL outfielder
• 1986 - Benji Johnson, minor league catcher
• 1986 - Joshua Roberts, minor league utility man
• 1987 - Dwight Britton, minor league outfielder
• 1987 - Leonel Campos, pitcher
• 1987 - Nick Christiani, pitcher
• 1987 - Bob Stumpo, coach
• 1989 - Takahiro Fujioka, NPB pitcher
• 1990 - Natsumi Nakano, Japanese women's national team infielder
• 1990 - Matt Purke, pitcher
• 1991 - José Carlos Burgos, Puerto Rican national team pitcher
• 1991 - Wigberto Nevarez, minor league infielder-catcher
• 1991 - Marc Ramirez, minor league outfielder
• 1992 - Silvino Bracho, pitcher
• 1993 - Jose Zapata, minor league pitcher
• 1994 - Woo-sung Lee, South Korean national team outfielder
• 1994 - Josh Lester, infielder
• 1995 - Rollie Lacy, minor league pitcher
• 1996 - CJ Alexander, infielder
• 1996 - Gertrudis Tello, Panamanian national team infielder
• 1997 - Hasruddin Hasruddin, Indonesian national team pitcher
• 1997 - Yu-Chieh Kao, CPBL catcher
• 1997 - Tamaki Muramatsu, Japan women's national team catcher
• 1997 - Cole Sands, pitcher
• 1999 - Atsuki Yuasa, NPB pitcher
• 2000 - Yang Sang, minor league pitcher
• 2002 - Jordan Lawlar, infielder

Deaths

• 1909 - John Scofield, umpire (b. 1845)
• 1913 - Patrick Scanlan, outfielder (b. 1861)
• 1936 - Joe Wall, catcher (b. 1873)
• 1941 - Ira Davenport, USA national team catcher (b. 1887)
• 1941 - Rube Kisinger, pitcher (b. 1876)
• 1942 - Lefty Johnson, outfielder (b. 1861)
• 1944 - Roy Williams, pitcher (b. 1907)
• 1946 - John Fluhrer, outfielder (b. 1894)
• 1946 - Tom Forster, infielder (b. 1859)
• 1949 - Jack Slattery, catcher, manager (b. 1878)
• 1950 - Fred Blanding, pitcher (b. 1886)
• 1958 - Shoji Kato, NPB outfielder (b. 1914)
• 1960 - Pat Duncan, outfielder (b. 1893)
• 1961 - Ty Cobb, outfielder, manager; Hall of Famer (b. 1886)
• 1961 - Ed Reulbach, pitcher (b. 1882)
• 1962 - Sport McAllister, infielder (b. 1874)
• 1963 - Frank Sanger, minor league player, college coach (b. 1882)
• 1968 - Norm Lehr, pitcher (b. 1901)
• 1968 - Ken Sears, catcher (b. 1917)
• 1970 - Peahead Walker, minor league infielder (b. 1899)
• 1972 - Al Spohrer, catcher (b. 1902)
• 1973 - Evar Swanson, outfielder (b. 1902)
• 1974 - Dizzy Dean, pitcher; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1910)
• 1976 - Bob Palm, catcher (b. 1915)
• 1987 - James Lytle, college coach (b. 1901)
• 1995 - Herb Hippauf, pitcher (b. 1939)
• 2001 - Elon Hogsett, pitcher (b. 1903)
• 2002 - Lee Maye, outfielder (b. 1934)
• 2003 - Rigoberto Betancourt, Cuban league pitcher (b. ~1943)
• 2004 - Bud Beasley, minor league pitcher (b. 1910)
• 2004 - Don Slattery, umpire (b. 1932)
• 2005 - Jim Pearce, pitcher (b. 1925)
• 2005 - Dick Sipek, outfielder (b. 1923)
• 2006 - Keith LeClair, minor league outfielder (b. 1966)
• 2006 - Bobbie Liebrich, AAGPBL infielder (b. 1922)
• 2009 - Jim Kirby, pinch hitter (b. 1923)
• 2011 - Jeff Seale, drafted pitcher (b. 1970)
• 2014 - Masatoshi Matsuoka, NPB infielder (b. 1932)
• 2019 - Pumpsie Green, infielder (b. 1933)
• 2024 - Bob Chlupsa, pitcher (b. 1945)
• 2024 - Pat Daugherty, scout (b. 1934)