July 7
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- 1900 - By defeating Chicago, 11 - 4, Beaneaters hurler Kid Nichols takes only nine seasons to win 300 games. The 30-year-old righty will amass 361 victories during his 15-year career and will remain the youngest player ever to accomplish the feat.
- 1903 - In a game with the New York Highlanders, White Sox OF Danny Green is called out at first base by Jack Sheridan, and after returning to the bench continues to yell at the umpire. Sheridan finally rushes the bench and hits Green with his mask. Green then belts the umpire, who is taken from the grounds and locked up on charges of disorderly conduct. An hour later, he is released after bail is posted by Highlander president Joseph Gordon.
- 1904 - Jack Chesbro's winning streak of 14 games comes to an end as Boston beats the Highlanders, 4 - 1. Chesbro will win 41 games this year, to set a 20th-century major league record. Newly-acquired Kip Selbach drives in three runs for New York.
- 1909:
- Inventor George Cahill brings his portable lights to Grand Rapids, Michigan for a night game with the Zanesville Infants (Central League). The host team wins, 11 - 10, in seven innings, with the only complaints coming from the outfielders, who have trouble seeing balls hit above the lights.
- In the Giants' 3 - 1 win over the Phils, New York collects six straight walks in the 6th. This is a major-league record since tied in the National League, but it will be broken in the American League next month.
- 1911 - At St. Louis, Smoky Joe Wood allows only a single to Burt Shotton in pitching a one-hitter. Boston wins, 6 - 1.
- 1912 - To fend off possible future challenges to the legality of the standard contract and its reserve clause, new wording provides for compensation to the player for the right to renew. A player's salary is specified as 75 percent for his services and 25 percent for the privilege of reserving them for the following season.
- 1914:
- Suffering heavy losses from Federal League competition in Baltimore, Orioles owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth (plus Ernie Shore and C Ben Egan) for $10,000 to old friend Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty. Cincinnati, which has a working agreement giving them the choice of two players, ignores Ruth and takes OF George Twombly and SS Claud Derrick. Dunn finally peddles his threesome to new owner Joe Lannin of the Red Sox for a reported $25,000.
- In an exhibition game in Buffalo, the Bisons (International League) humiliate the Boston Braves, 10 - 2.
- 1915:
- After Brooklyn wins the opener, 4 - 3, over Boston, the two teams battle to a scoreless 16-inning tie. Phil Douglas shuffles all the way for the Robins.
- The A's continue to dismantle, shipping front-line P Bob Shawkey to the Yankees for $18,000.
- 1916:
- At Fenway Park, the Indians score in the 1st off Babe Ruth, but manage just one more hit through the 7th. With the bases loaded in the bottom of the 7th, lefty-hitting reserve Olaf Henriksen pinch hits for Ruth and draws a walk, forcing home the tying run. Boston scores another in the 8th to win, 2 - 1.
- At St. Louis, Pete Alexander shuts out the Cards for a 1 - 0 Phillie win, topping Lee Meadows. Dode Paskert makes two leaping catches off the bat of Bob Bescher in CF to save home runs.
- 1918 - Rabbit Maranville gets a ten-day leave from the Navy and hits .316 in 11 games for the Braves before going back to sea.
- 1919 - In the first game of a doubleheader against the Giants, the Phillies steal eight bases in the 9th but lose, 10 - 5. Fred Luderus, Ed Sicking, Hick Cady and Gavvy Cravath each have two thefts.
- 1921 - Major League-leading slugger Babe Ruth brings the Yankees but apparently little else – least of all his A-game – to Forbes Field for an exhibition bout against the National League-leading Bucs. Ralph Davis of the Pittsburgh Press is clearly not at all impressed: "Bambino Didn't Shine. Babe Ruth didn't have a batting average yesterday. His strikeout average was .500. The King of Swatters didn't look good against Hal Carlson's pitching. He struck wide at several pitches and fanned twice. His other efforts were flies to Max Carey and Dave Robertson. Rip Collins, the Yankee pitcher, witnessed the game from the press box. As Robertson captured Ruth's fly, he remarked: 'You can't make me believe that the National League ball is as lively as the American League sphere. If Ruth had cracked one like that in our league, the ball would have gone to kingdom come.' As a fielder, Ruth was a joke yesterday. Luckily for the Yanks, he didn't have many chances, but he surely looked slow and bad on those he had." One of those chances is Charlie Grimm's 2nd-inning triple which bounces over Ruth's head, scoring the Bucs' first run and setting up the second, which ties the contest at two all. One inning later, Robertson unties it with a tape-measure, two-run blast and the Bucs never look back.
- 1922:
- Pirates OF Max Carey is the busiest man on the field in an 18-inning 9 - 8 loss to the Giants. He gets six hits, draws three walks, has three stolen bases, including one of home, and catches seven flies. His 51 stolen bases in 53 attempts is the highest success rate ever achieved by a stolen base leader, remarkable in a season where the league average success rate on steals is 54%. His record of 31 straight steals without being caught will be broken by Davey Lopes' 38 in 1975. Johnny Gooch also has six hits in the losing effort.
- Commissioner Landis bars major league teams from playing in Montreal. The Boston Braves had played a game there earlier this year that featured African-American Charlie Culver playing for the Eastern Canada League All-Stars.
- 1923 - Cleveland scores in every inning against the Red Sox, but playing at home, the team does not bat in the 9th. In the eight innings, they run up an American League-record 27 runs, including 13 in the 6th, for a 27 - 3 win. In three innings, Lefty O'Doul gives up 16 runs on 11 hits and eight walks. This is his last season as a major league pitcher, but he will return to the major-league in 1928 as an outfielder. The Indians keep it up, scoring three in the 1st inning of the second game en route to an 8 - 5 win.
- 1925 - The seventh-place Cubs install Rabbit Maranville as manager, replacing Bill Killefer.
- 1927:
- The Senators trade righthander General Crowder to the Browns for southpaw Tom Zachary.
- Cubs righthander Charlie Root's one-hitter drops the Pirates into second place, with the Cubs on top. In the second of his 16 years with the Cubs, Root will lead the National League with 26 wins and 309 innings pitched.
- 1931 - The Browns and the White Sox play a 12-inning game in which not a single strikeout is recorded. It is the longest whiffless game in major-league history. Chicago wins, 10 - 9.
- 1933 - Phillies 2B Mickey Finn dies following an abdominal operation.
- 1935:
- Phillies 2B Lou Chiozza ties a National League record with 11 assists in a 9 - 1 win over Boston.
- At a special meeting, the American League owners raise the waiver price to $7,500.
- 1936 - The National League, having lost the first three All-Star Games, wins the 1936 All-Star Game, 4 - 3 at Boston's National League Park with four different Cub players (Augie Galan, Billy Herman, Gabby Hartnett and Frank Demaree) scoring runs. After Dizzy Dean and Carl Hubbell each pitch scoreless three-inning stints, Curt Davis is hammered by the American League, including Lou Gehrig's home run, but Lon Warneke shuts the door. Meanwhile, the NL is helped by Joe DiMaggio's loose fielding and error and Augie Galan's home run. Joe DiMaggio is the first rookie to play in an All-Star Game. The NL plays its starting lineup except for two late-inning pinch hitters. Local favorite and three-time starter Wally Berger doesn't appear. Missing from the NL roster are Dolph Camilli and Buck Jordan, co-leaders in the batting race at .348, as well as the eventual batting champ, Paul Waner.
- 1937 - With President Franklin D. Roosevelt in attendance at Griffith Stadium in Washington, Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig drives in four runs with a home run and a double to lead the American league to an 8 - 3 victory over the National League in All-Star action. Dizzy Dean's toe is fractured by a drive off the bat of Earl Averill. After the injury, Dean is unable to pitch with the same delivery. When he returns to action, he uses an unnatural motion, causing an arm injury from which he never recovers.
- 1939 - The Sacramento Solons (Pacific Coast League) beat San Francisco, 5 - 4, in an exhibition game played inside Folsom Prison.
- 1942 - A military all-star team that includes Bob Feller, Cecil Travis, Sam Chapman, Benny McCoy, Johnny Sturm and Frankie Pytlak loses, 5 - 0, to American League stars in a game at Cleveland in front of more than 60,000 fans. Jim Bagby wins against his Indian teammate Feller. Military relief receives $160,000.
- 1948 - The Indians stun the baseball world by signing Satchel Paige, veteran Negro League pitcher. The move is ridiculed by some as a Bill Veeck publicity stunt, and J.G. Taylor Spink in The Sporting News editorializes, "Veeck has gone too far in his quest for publicity [...] To sign a hurler at Paige's age is to demean the standards of baseball in the big circuits." The 42-year-old Paige will answer the critics in his first game tomorrow, getting a relief decision in a 8 - 6 win over New York in a doubleheader sweep. He will finish at 6 - 1. Paige is the oldest player to debut in the majors, but not the first 40-year-old: Chuck Hostetler in 1944 was 40.
- 1949 - Dave Koslo hits the first two home runs of his career while beating the Phils, 11 - 3, at the Polo Grounds.
- 1950 - The Reds' Connie Ryan steals home in the 11th to give Cincinnati a 5 - 4 win over Chicago.
- 1951:
- OF Hoot Evers of the Tigers goes 5 for 5 and scores five runs against the Indians as the motormen roll, 13 - 3. Bob Cain is the victor with batterymate Joe Ginsberg driving in five runs on four hits.
- At Fenway Park, the Yankees lose to the Red Sox, 10 - 4, with the Sox being led by Clyde Vollmer's grand slam in the 1st inning. Vollmer had a two-run triple in yesterday's 6 - 2 win over the Yankees.
- 1953:
- 1957 - "Robbing a Pirate: Willie Mays of the Giants, with his back to the diamond, takes Dick Rand's long drive on cinder path between bleachers in centerfield." So reads the caption accompanying John Orris's New York Times photo capturing Mays' spectacular grab. "Willie was going toward the Eddie Grant monument between the clubhouse stairways," writes Roscoe McGowen, "when he gloved Rand's long drive - nearly 470 feet from the plate." The actual distance is probably closer to 430 feet, but it is still a prodigious poke and a tremendous run, especially given Mays' shallow positioning against the light-hitting Rand. Frank Thomas hits three home runs on the day for the Pirates, who sweep the doubleheader, 10 - 6 and 8 - 1.
- 1958 - National League President Warren Giles appoints a committee to study the possible expansion of the league to ten teams. At the meeting, William Shea outlines plans for a $12 million stadium at Flushing Meadows, the eventual site of Shea Stadium.
- 1959 - At Forbes Field, Hank Aaron's 8th-inning single ties the score and a triple hit by Willie Mays plates Aaron with the winning run in the 5 - 4 All-Star victory in the first of the two Mid-Summer Classics to be played during the season. Don Drysdale pitches perfect ball the first three innings.
- 1963 - 3B Jim Ray Hart debuts with the Giants, singling and doubling during a 15-inning, 4 - 3 squeaker over the Cards at Candlestick Park. In the second game, Hart suffers a broken collarbone when hit by a Bob Gibson pitch.
- 1964 - Johnny Callison's 9th-inning three-run home run off Dick Radatz caps a four-run rally and gives the National League a 7 - 4 win in the All-Star Game at Shea Stadium. This evens the series at 17.
- 1968:
- Phil Regan picks up two wins in relief for the second time this season as the Cubs sweep the Pirates, 5 - 4 and 4 - 3, edging Bob Veale and Elroy Face. Regan won a pair on April 21st for the Dodgers, and no other reliever has ever won a pair twice in a season. The Vulture will the top the National League with 12 relief wins and 25 saves.
- Denny McLain, the major leagues' winningest pitcher with 16, helps Detroit take a 9 1/2 game lead in the American League at the All-Star break, as the Tigers sweep the A's, 5 - 4 and 7 - 6. McLain wins the opener when Willie Horton clubs a three-run homer, and Al Kaline matches that in the nitecap.
- 1970:
- Roberto Clemente's rooftop shot foils Philly, breaking a 2 - 2 tie as Pittsburgh prevails, 4 - 2. "Clemente's homer," reports the Pittsburgh Press, "a long blast to the roof of Connie Mack Stadium's double-decked left field seats, was his fifth in the last five days. Clemente is on a 14 for 23 streak."
- Brooks Robinson cracks a 10th-inning grand slam off New York's Lindy McDaniel to give the Orioles a 6 - 2 win.
- 1971:
- Commissioner Bowie Kuhn announces that players from the Negro Leagues elected to the Hall of Fame will be given full membership in the museum. It had been previously announced that they would be honored in a separate wing.
- At Anaheim, the Red Sox beat the Angels, 5 - 3, in ten innings despite the loss of manager Eddie Kasko. Kasko gets tossed after feigning a faint over a call at home plate.
- 1972:
- In the Pirates' 10 - 2 lid lifter win over Atlanta, Milt May goes 5 for 5 to lead a 20-hit attack. May has two more hits in the nitecap, but the Pirates lose, 3 - 2, to Jim Hardin.
- Back in the Expos lineup for the first time since June 27th, Ken Singleton drives in three runs to support Bill Stoneman's 7 - 2 win over the Giants. Singleton wears a special uniform to prevent a rash from reoccurring because of his allergy to materials in the Expos' regular uniforms.
- 1973 - The Brewers unload on 18-year-old P David Clyde to whip the Rangers, 19 - 5, and hand Eddie Rodriguez his first major league win, a complete game effort. Milwaukee has a five-run 6th and seven-run 7th and is paced by Bob Coluccio's grand slam and Don Money's three-run homer.
- 1974:
- In the opener of a doubleheader, Don Money sets a major-league record for consecutive errorless games at 3B with 78. The Brewers beat the Twins, 8 - 5, then lose 5 - 3. Money will end the season with just five errors, breaking George Kell's record set in 1950. Money also holds the National League record with just ten errors, set with the Phils in 1972.
- In an 11 - 2 win over the Cards, the Reds' Darrel Chaney hits a grand slam home run. Chaney will hit 14 homers in the majors, but the radio call on the slam will end up as his front door bell chime.
- 1975 - In an 8 - 6 loss to the Cardinals, Giants catcher Marc Hill - as well as the Cards - ties a mark last accomplished in 1905 when he tags out three Cards runners at home on throws from the outfield. The three Cards dealt out are: Ken Reitz, in the 1st inning on a throw from LF Gary Thomasson - Reitz tries scoring from second base on a Mike Tyson single; Ron Fairly in the 6th inning, thrown out by RF Bobby Murcer on a Tyson fly ball; and Bake McBride in the 7th, thrown out by LF Chris Arnold when he tries to score on a Willie Davis fly.
- 1976 - The Reds come back from a three-run deficit to beat the Expos, 4 - 3. Cincy scores three in the 9th, with two scoring on Cesar Geronimo's triple.
- 1977:
- New York completes a three-game sweep of Cleveland behind the four-hit pitching of Catfish Hunter. New York wins, 8 - 2.
- Chicago's Rick Reuschel shuts out the Cardinals to run his record to 12-2. Reuschel has not given up an earned run, except a homer, since June 1st.
- 1978 - The Brewers' Mike Caldwell beats the Yankees' Ron Guidry, 6 - 0. For Guidry (13-1), it is his first loss of the season. Caldwell shut out the Yankees nine days earlier, and will shut them out again on September 19th.
- 1979 - Mike Schmidt homers in his first three times up for the Phillies, to give him a major league record-tying four straight over two games. Schmidt flies to the warning track in his next at bat, and the Phils lose, 8 - 6 to the Giants. Schmidt will hit three more home runs in the next three games to tie the National League record of seven home runs in five games.
- 1982:
- Harold Baines hits three consecutive home runs, including a grand slam, to lead the White Sox over the Tigers, 7 - 0.
- The Reds rally, scoring five runs in the top of the 9th to beat the Pirates, 6 - 3. Wayne Krenchicki's pinch three-run homer off Kent Tekulve is the tie-breaker in the frame.
- Houston's Don Sutton wins his 250th career game, a 5 - 1 four-hitter against the Cubs.
- 1985 - Floyd Youmans, ticketed for the minors after the game to make way for Bill Gullickson coming off the disabled list, pitches the last three innings to get his first major league win as the Expos outlast the Astros, 6 - 3, in 19 innings. A two-out error by Enos Cabell and a two-run single by Mike Fitzgerald do it for the Expos.
- 1986 - The first two Phillie hitters in the game - Gary Redus and Juan Samuel - hit home runs off Atlanta's David Palmer.
- 1991 - Umpire Steve Palermo and former pro football player Terence Mann are shot while coming to the aid of two women during an attempted robbery in a restaurant parking lot in Dallas. Palermo is listed in stable condition after being shot in the stomach.
- 1992 - Pittsburgh's Andy Van Slyke becomes the first outfielder in nearly 18 years to record an unassisted double play, in the Pirates' 5 - 3 win over the Astros. Van Slyke races in from center field to catch a fly ball, then continues in to double up Ken Caminiti, who was running from second base on the play.
- 1993:
- Mets P Bret Saberhagen throws a firecracker under a table near reporters at Shea Stadium, but no one is hurt.
- In Philadelphia, the Phillies defeat the Dodgers, 7 - 6, in a 20-inning marathon when Lenny Dykstra hits a bases-loaded two-run double off Rod Nichols. The game takes 6 hours and 10 minutes, and concludes at 1:47 AM. The Phils' Mitch Williams blows a 5 - 3 lead in the 9th, allowing a hit and walking three before being ejected by umpire Jim Quick. Afterwards, John Kruk says, "I came here and I wanted to kill Mitch, but they told me it was against the law." Phils rookie Kevin Stocker makes his major league debut, playing all 20 innings.
- Montreal P Kirk Rueter makes his major league debut with 8 1/3 innings of shutout ball against the Giants. John Wetteland comes in to get the final two outs in Montreal's 3 - 0 victory.
- Reds P Tom Browning is fined $500 for leaving the Cincinnati dugout during the Reds' 4 - 3 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field, and watching the contest from the roof of a three-story building across Sheffield Avenue.
- 1994 - Pittsburgh C Don Slaught gets five hits, but it's not enough to keep the Pirates from losing to the Reds, 8 - 7. His five safeties include a pair of doubles.
- 1995:
- The Twins trade P Scott Erickson to the Orioles in exchange for P Scott Klingenbeck and a player to be named later.
- For the second consecutive game, Houston defeats San Diego by a score of 5 - 4. Padres SS Andujar Cedeno strikes out three times in three at-bats, giving him ten Ks in three games to tie a major league record.
- 1996 - The Marlins fire manager Rene Lachemann. Florida vice president John Boles replaces Lachemann, although he has not managed at any level in ten years; except for Ted Turner's one-game stint in the 1970s, Boles is the first manager since Emil Fuchs in 1929 with no professional playing experience at any level. He wins his first game today, 7 - 4, in ten innings over the Phillies.
- 1998 - In the highest-scoring game in All-Star history, the American League beats the senior circuit, 13 - 8, in the thin air at Coors Field in Denver in the 69th All-Star Game. The 21-run total surpasses the previous record set in 1954 when the American League beat the Nationals, 11 - 9 in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium. Baltimore's Roberto Alomar is named the game's MVP, going 3 for 4 with a home run, RBI, stolen base and two runs scored.
- 1999 - The Rockies tie a 1903 major league record by scoring in 15 consecutive innings. Phillies ace Curt Schilling ends the streak.
- 2000:
- Drawing one of the largest crowds in team history, the Butte Copper Kings' newest promotion, "John Rocker Awareness Night" is a huge success as the Angel farm club of the Pioneer League offers free admission to anyone belonging to a group insulted by the Atlanta reliever in his Sports Illustrated interview. The 672 fans in attendance include single moms with multiple children, people with purple hair, "foreigners", as well as people with alternative life styles.
- David Wells (15-2) posts his major league-leading 15th win in Toronto's 6 - 3 victory over the Montreal Expos. Wells becomes just the second pitcher since 1988 to win 15 games before the All-Star break. The portly ace wins his 13th consecutive game on the road, stretching back to September 7, 1999. His only mistake is serving up a gopher ball to reliever Felipe Lira, who connects for his first major league homer.
- 2001:
- Houston 1B Jeff Bagwell drives home seven runs to tie a team record in the Astros' 10 - 8 win over Kansas City.
- Lefty John Halama pitches the first nine-inning perfect game in Pacific Coast League history as Tacoma tops Calgary, 6 - 0. Halama, who won 14 games for Seattle last year, was demoted on June 28th, but the perfecto will earn him a recall.
- 2002 - Cardinals 2B Placido Polanco gets five hits in leading St. Louis to a 12 - 6 win over the Dodgers.
- 2003 - Shea Hillenbrand goes 5 for 5 with three home runs, seven runs batted in and 15 total bases to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 14 - 6 win over the Colorado Rockies at Bank One Ballpark.
- 2004 - Blanking the Royals, 12 - 0, Twins hurler Kyle Lohse helps to establish a club record throwing the team's third consecutive shutout. Johan Santana and Brad Radke started the streak of 27 scoreless innings, also a franchise record.
- 2005 - The sports of baseball and softball are dropped from the for the 2012 Olympic Games scheduled to take place in London. It is the first time in 69 years that events have been cut from the games. There is criticism that these events are American-dominated, though the Cuban national team won Gold in 2004 and Australia won Silver. Japan and South Korea have appeared in the Silver Medal game in the past as well. Another reason given is that top professional players do not always appear, though Nippon Pro Baseball and the Korea Baseball Organization have routinely sent their top stars, as does the Cuban National League.
- 2008:
- The Indians deal the 2007 American League Cy Young Award winner, C.C. Sabathia, to the Brewers. Sabathia, leading the American League in strikeouts at the time, is exchanged for prospect slugger Matt LaPorta, hard-throwing reliever Rob Bryson, struggling Zach Jackson and a player to be named later.
- Hiroki Kuroda of the Dodgers throws a perfect game for seven innings against the Braves before Mark Teixeira doubles. Kuroda then wraps up with two more perfect innings for a one-hit, no-walk shutout and a 3 - 0 victory. Despite a 3.39 ERA, Kuroda is just 5-6 after today's game; the losing hurler is Jorge Campillo, who is 3-4 despite a 3.06 ERA.
- 2009 - Alan Embree earns a win without throwing a pitch. Entering the game with two outs and the score tied at 4 in the top of the 8th inning, he immediately proceeds to pick-off the Nationals' Austin Kearns at first base. He is then lifted for a pinch hitter as the Rockies score a run in the bottom of the frame, and receives credit for the 5 - 4 win. The last pitcher to win a game under similar circumstances was B.J. Ryan, playing for the Orioles on May 1, 2003.
- 2010:
- Adam Dunn hits three home runs in the Nationals' 7 - 6 win over San Diego, driving in five runs. He is the second player to accomplish the feat since the team moved to Washington, DC, after Alfonso Soriano in 2006. In the 9th, pinch hitter Matt Stairs of the Padres hits a solo homer off Matt Capps, the 20th of his career, tying the record held by Cliff Johnson. However, Capps holds on for his 23rd save. San Diego's Adrian Gonzalez and Washington's Ian Desmond also go deep on a night when the long ball is king.
- The Rays complete a three-game sweep of the injury-riddled Red Sox with a 6 - 4 win at Tropicana Field. David Price earns his American League-leading 12th win, over Tim Wakefield. Evan Longoria homers for the winners, while Matt Garza earns the first save of his career in his first relief appearance in three years. The Rays have now won seven of eight after a difficult month of June.
- Rookie Buster Posey hits two homers including his first career grand slam in San Francisco' 15 - 2 romp over Milwaukee. The Giants hit three homers to go up 4 - 0 in the 1st inning and never look back. Tim Lincecum strikes out 10 over seven innings for the win.
- 2011:
- At Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, a fan named Shannon Stone tumbles over an outfield wall trying to catch a ball tossed to him by Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton during the 2nd inning of a game between the Rangers and the Oakland Athletics. Stone, a 39-year-old Brownwood, TX firefighter who attends the game with his young son, falls twenty feet from his seat in left field, landing near the A's bullpen and passes away en route to the hospital. Incidentally, the Rangers win, 6 - 0.
- Hall of Fame manager Dick Williams, who brought three different teams to the World Series, dies of an apparent heart attack in Henderson, NV at age 82. After a 14-year playing career, he led the "Impossible Dream" 1967 Boston Red Sox to the seventh game of the 1967 World Series in his first season as a major league manager, then won titles with the Oakland Athletics in 1972 and 1973, before quitting in disgust over owner Charlie Finley's antics. A decade later, he returned to the Fall Classic with the San Diego Padres in 1984, which made him the first person - along with his opponent that year, Sparky Anderson - to manage a team from both leagues in the Series.
- The Cubs fall into an 8 - 0 hole against the Nationals before rallying for a 10 - 9 win. Darwin Barney drives in Tony Campana with a 9th-inning double off Henry Rodriguez, his third hit and RBI of the day, to seal the win. The comeback starts when manager Davey Johnson leaves a tiring Livan Hernandez on the mound in the 6th inning, trying to save his bullpen; by the time he removes his ace from the game, the Cubs have scored six runs off the Cuban hurler. It is the largest blown lead in Nats franchise history, including its years in Montreal before moving to the nation's capital.
- 2013:
- Michael Brantley hits a pair of homers as the Indians defeat the Tigers, 9 - 6, ending a string of seven straight losses to their divisional rivals. Brantley's second homer, off Al Alburquerque in the 8th, gives the Indians the lead and he has five RBI on the night. Carlos Santana and Lonnie Chisenhall also go deep for the Tribe.
- The Cubs trade OF Scott Hairston to the Nationals; he is hitting only .163, but has 7 homers and 18 RBIs in spite of only recording 16 hits.
- 2014 - The Angels defeat the Blue Jays, 5 - 2, to even their all-time record to 4,272-4.272 with 3 ties, the first time they have been at .500 as a franchise since starting off their inaugural 1961 season 1-1. It is the Angels' fifth straight win and 11th straight at home.
- 2015 - The Cubs sweep a doubleheader at home for the first time since 2003 as they dispose of the Cardinals, 7 - 4 and 5 - 3. They score thrice in the 7th inning of the nitecap to ensure the double win, a frame which features Cards P Seth Maness being ejected for arguing that Addison Russell's single down the first base line is foul, and his successor Kevin Siegrist throwing a potential double play grounder by Dexter Fowler into the outfield.
- 2018 - It's a high-scoring day in the majors as a number of marks are set or matched: Mark Reynolds ties the Nationals club record with ten RBIs in an 18 - 4 win over the Marlins; the Diamondbacks set a franchise record by scoring 20 run in beating the Padres, 20 - 5; and the Red Sox score the most runs they have all season as they dispose of the Royals, 15 - 4. Wil Myers has a three-homer game for the Padres, but, obviously, it has little bearing on the final score.
- 2019 - The Futures Game is played under a new format, with top prospects from American League teams facing their counterparts from the National League in a game shortened to seven innings. The two sides can't determine a winner, however, in the game played at Progressive Field, as it ends in a 2 - 2 tie after eight innings. A two-run homer by Sam Huff of the AL ties the game in the 7th, and neither team can score in the extra frame, in spite of the tiebreaker rule, placing a runner on second base to start the frame, being in effect. Huff is named the winner of the Larry Doby Award as the game's MVP.
- 2021 - In what has clearly been the "Year of the No-Hitter", five Rays pitchers combine to pitch one against the Indians in the second game of a doubleheader that goes seven innings. After Collin McHugh works two perfect innings as the opener in what is planned as a bullpen game, Oscar Mercado leads off the 3rd against Josh Fleming with a bouncer to the left side of the infield on which 3B Wander Franco crashes into SS Taylor Walls. The play is initially ruled a hit, but by the 4th inning, the official scorer has reversed himself, ruling an error on Franco. The Indians fail to get another safety as the Rays' defense shines, with both players involved in the controversial play redeeming themselves. On the mound, Diego Castillo, Matt Wisler and Pete Fairbanks complete the work, with Fleming receiving credit for the 4 - 0 win. There have already been seven official no-hitters this year, and today's game is the second unofficial seven-inning one, with the Indians on the wrong end of three of the nine games.
- 2023:
- For the first time in their history, the Chicago Cubs win a game at New Yankee Stadium. They had been 0-12 all time, including both interleague games and an 0-4 record in World Series games, and also counting games at the ballpark's previous incarnation, Yankee Stadium. Jameson Taillon leads the way with just one hit allowed against his former team in eight innings as the Cubs shut out the Yankees, 3 - 0. For New York, starting pitcher, Carlos Rodon, finally makes his debut in pinstripes after being signed to a large contract as a free agent the previous off-season.
- Isaiah Campbell becomes only the second Major Leaguer born in Portugal - and the first in nearly a century-and-a-half - when he makes his big league debut for the Seattle Mariners. He pitches a perfect 8th inning, including a strikeout, in the M's 10 - 1 rout of the Astros in Minute Maid Park. The only other player Portuguese-born big leaguer had been Frank Thompson, who played 12 games in the National Association in 1875.
- 2024 - The names of pitchers and reserves for the 2024 All-Star Game are revealed, a few days after the completion of the popular vote for starters. Among the most interesting selection are P Paul Skenes, who makes it barely a year after having been the first overall pick in the 2023 amateur draft and OF Jackson Merrill, who at 21 is younger than many players eligible for this year's draft. The Phillies lead all teams with seven selections, including four pitchers, while the Dodgers have six.
Births[edit]
- 1868 - Harry Gilbert, infielder (d. 1909)
- 1868 - Willard Mains, pitcher (d. 1923)
- 1873 - Oscar Streit, pitcher (d. 1935)
- 1876 - Happy Iott, outfielder (d. 1941)
- 1882 - George Suggs, pitcher (d. 1949)
- 1886 - Bert James, outfielder (d. 1959)
- 1893 - Dutch Wetzel, outfielder (d. 1942)
- 1895 - Ralph Jefferson, outfielder (d. ????)
- 1896 - John Jenkins, infielder (d. 1968)
- 1902 - Art Merewether, pinch hitter (d. 1997)
- 1902 - Ted Radcliffe, catcher/pitcher, manager; All-Star (d. 2005)
- 1905 - Thomas Kain, minor league pitcher/manager and scout (d. 1971)
- 1906 - Dick Bass, pitcher (d. 1989)
- 1906 - Satchel Paige, pitcher; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 1982)
- 1907 - Thomas Kain, minor league pitcher (d. 1971)
- 1909 - Billy Herman, infielder, manager; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 1992)
- 1909 - Dutch Prather, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1967)
- 1910 - Red Nonnenkamp, outfielder (d. 2000)
- 1910 - Ernie Sulik, outfielder (d. 1963)
- 1913 - Bob Rich, minor league owner (d. 2006)
- 1919 - Hugh East, pitcher (d. 1981)
- 1919 - Willis Enos, minor league outfielder (d. 2007)
- 1920 - Hal Dixon, umpire (d. 1966)
- 1920 - Bill Enos, scout (d. 2007)
- 1921 - Johnny Van Cuyk, pitcher (d. 2010)
- 1923 - Ed Sanicki, outfielder (d. 1998)
- 1923 - Joe Smaza, outfielder (d. 1979)
- 1924 - Mel Clark, outfielder (d. 2014)
- 1924 - John Simmons, outfielder (d. 2008)
- 1926 - George Spencer, pitcher (d. 2014)
- 1927 - Hal Keller, catcher, General Manager (d. 2012)
- 1928 - Al Forman, umpire (d. 2013)
- 1928 - Clarence Lawrence, minor league pitcher (d. 2014)
- 1928 - Sammy White, catcher; All-Star (d. 1991)
- 1929 - Bill Herron, college coach (d. 2017)
- 1929 - John Romonosky, pitcher (d. 2011)
- 1930 - Shui-Chuan Fang, Taiwan national team pitcher and manager; Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 2000)
- 1931 - Betty Francis, AAGPBL outfielder (d. 2016)
- 1932 - Jim Cuneo, umpire (d. 2020)
- 1933 - Richard Ravitch, labor negotiator
- 1936 - Bill Kunkel, pitcher (d. 1985)
- 1937 - Bruce Fine, owner (d. 2011)
- 1937 - George Smith, infielder (d. 1987)
- 1938 - Bob Lipski, catcher
- 1940 - John Gordon, broadcaster
- 1941 - John Bramlett, minor league outfielder (d. 2014)
- 1944 - Tatsuhiko Kimata, NPB catcher
- 1945 - Chuck Goggin, infielder
- 1945 - Bill Melton, infielder; All-Star
- 1945 - Yasushi Yamamoto, scout (d. 2020)
- 1946 - Rick Kester, pitcher
- 1947 - Bob Gallagher, outfielder
- 1948 - Alejo Ahumada, minor league pitcher
- 1948 - Tommy Moore, pitcher (d. 2017)
- 1949 - Tim Nordbrook, infielder
- 1951 - Alfredo García, Cuban league pitcher
- 1951 - Ta-Lung Huang, Chinese Taipei national team outfielder
- 1951 - Tetsuo Nishii, NPB pitcher
- 1953 - Mike Bucci, minor league player and manager
- 1955 - Len Barker, pitcher; All-Star
- 1955 - Jerry Dybzinski, infielder
- 1955 - Hiroyuki Hayashi, Japanese national team infielder and coach
- 1956 - Terry Bevington, , manager
- 1957 - Dan Gladden, outfielder
- 1958 - Glenn Hoffman, infielder, manager
- 1958 - Tim Teufel, infielder
- 1960 - Frank Mathys, Belgian national team pitcher
- 1961 - Alessandro Cappuccini, Serie A1 pitcher
- 1962 - Davide Bassi, Serie A1 infielder
- 1962 - Yasuo Fujii, NPB infielder-outfielder
- 1963 - Paul Nauert, umpire
- 1964 - Greg Maysonet, minor league pitcher (d. 2013)
- 1964 - Masaji Shimizu, NPB infielder
- 1965 - Sam Holbrook, umpire
- 1965 - Chien-Cheng Kuo, NPB pitcher
- 1966 - Dave Burba, pitcher
- 1966 - Jeff Shaw, pitcher; All-Star
- 1966 - Chang-Shin Yang, CPBL outfielder (d. 20150
- 1967 - Kasey McKeon, minor league catcher
- 1967 - Shuji Nishiyama, NPB catcher
- 1968 - Mike Busch, infielder
- 1968 - Chuck Knoblauch, infielder; All-Star
- 1971 - Ilo Bartolucci, Italian Baseball League pitcher
- 1972 - Yuki Ito, Japanese national team infielder
- 1973 - Jose Jimenez, pitcher
- 1973 - Matt Mantei, pitcher
- 1976 - Brad Weber, minor league outfielder
- 1977 - Andy Green, infielder; manager
- 1978 - Tony Cappola, minor league infielder
- 1979 - Chase Lambin, minor league infielder
- 1980 - John Buck, catcher; All-Star
- 1980 - Tony Etnier, college coach
- 1981 - Ruben Cabrera, minor league catcher
- 1981 - Jon Huber, pitcher
- 1981 - Anthony Pannone, minor league pitcher
- 1982 - Jasha Balcom, minor league outfielder
- 1983 - Dumas Garcia, minor league pitcher
- 1983 - Brandon McCarthy, pitcher
- 1983 - Luke Montz, catcher
- 1983 - R.J. Swindle, minor league pitcher
- 1984 - Angel Carmona, Division Honor infielder
- 1984 - Alfredo Figaro, pitcher
- 1984 - Geoffrey Moschetti, Division Elite infielder
- 1984 - Kei Nomoto, NPB outfielder
- 1984 - Jose Ovalles, minor league infielder
- 1984 - Tomotaka Sakaguchi, NPB outfielder
- 1985 - Leyson Septimo, pitcher
- 1986 - Cameron Johnson, college coach
- 1987 - Ken Togame, NPB pitcher
- 1989 - Sun-jin Oh, KBO infielder
- 1990 - Pavao Karin, Croatian national team outfielder
- 1993 - Jhonatan Escudero, minor league pitcher
- 1993 - Desmond Henry, minor league outfielder
- 1994 - Daniel McGrath, minor league pitcher
- 1995 - Richard Lovelady, pitcher
- 1995 - Nathaniel Lowe, infielder
- 1995 - Franmil Reyes, outfielder
- 1996 - Vinny Capra, outfielder
- 1996 - Kazuya Ojima, NPB pitcher
- 1997 - Edilson Batista, minor league pitcher
- 1997 - Chavez Fernander, minor league pitcher
- 1998 - Evan Justice, pitcher
- 1999 - Adriana Palma, Mexican women's national team pitcher
- 2001 - Kimberly Caicedo, Venezuelan women's national team infielder
- 2002 - Weiyi Wang, China Baseball League pitcher
- 2004 - Emilio Germann-Cisterna, Chilean national team pitcher
- 2004 - Luca Hörger, Bundesliga pitcher
Deaths[edit]
- 1915 - Mike DePangher, catcher (b. 1858)
- 1933 - Neal Finn, infielder (b. 1904)
- 1936 - Bill Pounds, pitcher (b. 1878)
- 1939 - Deacon White, infielder, manager; Hall of Fame (b. 1847)
- 1941 - Jack Gilbert, outfielder (b. 1875)
- 1942 - Harry Spies, infielder (b. 1866)
- 1945 - Ollie Anderson, umpire (b. 1879)
- 1947 - Dick Egan, infielder (b. 1884)
- 1952 - Mike Malloy, minor league outfielder and manager (b. 1882)
- 1954 - Doc Barrett, scout (b. 1877)
- 1958 - John Sullivan, pitcher (b. 1894)
- 1959 - Norwood Gibson, pitcher (b. 1877)
- 1959 - Wray Query, minor league catcher and manager (b. 1893)
- 1964 - Glenn Gardner, pitcher (b. 1916)
- 1965 - Pat Burke, infielder (b. 1901)
- 1967 - Joe Weiss, infielder (b. 1894)
- 1970 - Harry Wolter, outfielder (b. 1884)
- 1971 - Ray Phelps, pitcher (b. 1903)
- 1973 - Paul Musser, pitcher (b. 1889)
- 1976 - Bill Swiacki Sr., minor league catcher (b. 1922)
- 1980 - C. L. Taylor, outfielder (b. 1898)
- 1982 - Joe Dugan, infielder (b. 1897)
- 1983 - Vic Wertz, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1925)
- 1990 - Don Bessent, pitcher (b. 1931)
- 1993 - Ben Chapman, outfielder, manager; All-Star (b. 1908)
- 1993 - Larry Napp, umpire (b. 1919)
- 1994 - Shayne Rea, minor league pitcher (b. 1971)
- 1995 - Al Unser, catcher (b. 1912)
- 1997 - Jerry Doggett, broadcaster (b. 1916)
- 1997 - Jeep McClain, infielder (b. 1922)
- 2000 - Harold Olt, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1919)
- 2003 - Ribs Raney, pitcher (b. 1923)
- 2007 - Miguel Sotelo, minor league pitcher; Salon de la Fama (b. 1933)
- 2008 - Billy Cotton, minor league catcher (b. 1947)
- 2011 - Dick Williams, infielder, manager; Hall of Famer, (b. 1929)
- 2012 - Alan Bower, minor league pitcher (b. 1934)
- 2012 - Doris Neal, AAGPBL infielder (b. 1928)
- 2015 - Joe Johnson, minor league pitcher (b. 1984)
- 2015 - Bob MacKinnon, college coach (b. 1927)
- 2016 - Rubén López, Puerto Rican national player (b. 1941)
- 2020 - Mike Ryan, catcher (b. 1941)
- 2020 - Wally Wolf, pitcher (b. 1942)
- 2021 - Pablo Peguero, scout (b. 1955)
- 2021 - Ted Wieand, pitcher (b. 1933)
- 2022 - George Elder, outfielder (b. 1921)
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