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Events, births and deaths that occurred on June 20.

Events

• 1894:
  • Denny Lyons scores the winning run in the 9th inning to lead Pittsburgh to a 7 - 6 win over Washington. Lyons gets into scoring position by running from first base to third base - across the pitcher's mound - on a fielder's choice. The umpire does not see Lyons's transgression, a common one in the 1890s.
  • Cleveland's John Clarkson stops the visiting Colts, 7 - 3. Chicago's Bill Dahlen, hitting .257, goes 1 for 4 to start a hitting streak, which will reach a then-record 42 games.
• 1900 - One day after Brooklyn moved into the NL lead for the first time all year, Philadelphia regains first place with a 5 - 4 win over the Superbas.
• 1901 - Pittsburgh's Honus Wagner becomes the first 20th Century player to steal home twice in a single game, as Jack Chesbro blanks the Giants, 7 - 0.
• 1904 - New York coasts to a 12 - 4 win over Brooklyn, pounding out 13 hits to beat Bill Reidy. Christy Mathewson picks up his 11th win. Reidy's cause is not helped by nine Brooklyn errors, including five by ex-Giant SS Charlie Babb.
• 1905 - A young woman sued the Giants for $500 for injury suffered when a foul ball hit her at a game at the Polo Grounds on September 3, 1904. Today, Judge Chester B. McLaughlin dismisses the suit, ruling that patrons attend baseball games at their own risk.
• 1906 - At Exposition Park, Honus Wagner clubs one of the longest hits in park history, but only makes it to third base. Rounding first, the Pirates player is clipped by 1B Kid Gleason, and Wagner limps his way to a triple. A courtesy runner, Harry Smith, scores for the Pirates on a fly and the Phils then generously allow Wagner to return to SS. But the injury will force him to miss three games.
• 1911:
  • In a 3 - 2 New York win against the Senators, Highlander 1B Hal Chase makes a major-league record 21 putouts.
  • Ty Cobb breaks the American League hitting streak record with an infield single against Cleveland's Willie Mitchell. It is Cobb's 30th straight game with a hit. He adds two stolen bases to help Detroit win, 8 - 3.
• 1912:
  • In a doubleheader at Cincinnati, Pittsburgh's Owen Wilson hits two triples in the opener, including one in the 10th with a man on, then hits another in the nitecap. It's his fifth straight game with a three-bagger. Wilson will hit an incredible 36 triples this season, a major league record.
  • With no hint that a record is about to be set, the Giants coast to a 14 - 2 lead through eight innings at Boston, then score seven more in the 9th for a 21 - 2 lead. The Braves rally for ten in the last of the 9th, but lose 21 - 12. The 17 runs are the NL post-1900 record scored by two teams in the 9th. Another 20th century mark set is the 11 stolen bases by the Giants - four by Josh Devore, including two in the 9th - and 14 swipes by both clubs. Thirteen Giants score runs, tying the major league record. The Giants' Ernie Shore makes his debut in this game and surrenders eight hits, a walk, and ten runs (three earned) in one inning, the 9th, of relief work, but is credited with a save for Hooks Wiltse. It is his only appearance in the NL. Buster Brown takes the loss.
• 1913 - After New York wins the opener, 9 - 3, Washington starter Bert Gallia hits three of the first four batters he faces in the 1st inning of the nightcap. Three more New York batters are plunked, by relievers Joe Engel (2) and Tom Hughes (1), for a record six. The outcome is the same as New York wins again, 9 - 3. New York leadoff hitter Bert Daniels puts his name in the record book when he gets hit three times.
• 1914:
  • Cleveland SS Ray Chapman fumbles his way into the record books with four errors in the 5th inning.
  • The Tigers lose the services of Ty Cobb when he breaks his thumb in a fight with a butcher's clerk. Cobb will be out until August 13th.
• 1916 - Tilly Walker's home run over the left field wall is the only home run the Red Sox will hit at Fenway Park this season, but it is the lone Boston score today as the Yankees win, 4 - 1. Inserted as a defensive replacement late in the game, Boston SS Everett Scott starts a string of 1,307 consecutive games, all played at SS. He will complete the streak as a Yankee on May 6, 1925. It will be the longest until Lou Gehrig's 2,130.
• 1925:
  • The Reds infield turns six double plays against the Giants, winning, 4 - 2, for Eppa Rixey's seventh straight win.
  • At Forbes Field, Max Carey becomes the first switch-hitter to hit for the cycle. The Pirate outfielder's performance helps Pittsburgh to bash Brooklyn, 21 - 5.
• 1926 - A delegation of Coffeyville, KS fans comes to St. Louis to see their hometown hero, Walter Johnson, pitch against the Browns. Unfortunately, the Big Train cannot hold a 4 - 0 lead and loses his seventh game in a row, 5 - 4.
• 1932 - Doc Cramer of the A's collects six hits in consecutive times at bat in a nine-inning game. Cramer will do this again in 1935, the only American League player to repeat the feat.
• 1933 - Danny Taylor, centerfielder for Brooklyn makes an unassisted double play but it is little help as the Cardinals win, 15 - 4.
• 1934:
  • At St. Louis, the Dodgers use 15 hits to down the Cards, 9 - 5. Danny Taylor, with three extra-base hits, and Tony Cuccinello, with a three-run homer, pace the fusillade. Van Lingle Mungo wins his 11th of the year, allowing 11 hits. Pepper Martin has two of the hits and a steal of home.
  • The first-place Giants score seven runs in the 3rd to crush the Cubs, 12 - 7. Mel Ott leads the way with two homers - his 16th and 17th - and drives in six runs. Jo-Jo Moore has four hits, including a homer, and Fred Fitzsimmons, who weakens in the 8th, is credited with the win. Charlie Root, who got none out in the 3rd before retiring, is the loser. The Giants now lead the Cards by five games.
  • The American League-leading New York Yankees trip the Indians twice, 3 - 2 and 3 - 0, at Yankee Stadium. New York ties the first game on Frank Crosetti's solo homer in the 8th off Bob Weiland, then wins it on Gehrig's 18th in the 9th. Lefty Gomez, in relief of Johnny Broaca, is the winner. In the second game, Hal Trosky's single is the only hit off Red Ruffing, who also knocks in a run.
  • The Browns rout the A's, 11 - 3, behind five RBIs by Rollie Hemsley. Hemsley is knocked out in a collision in the 4th inning, but stays in to triple with the sacks full in the 7th. Bob Johnson, leading the majors in homers, hits his 20th in the 9th inning.
  • The Tigers score three in the 11th to defeat the Senators, 13 - 10. Heinie Manush, leading the American League in hitting, has four hits and two homers as Washington collects 17 hits. The Tigers get three-hit efforts from Marv Owen, Mickey Cochrane, Charlie Gehringer and Hank Greenberg, who includes a homer. Elden Auker is the winner over Tommy Thomas.
  • New manager Pie Traynor paces the Pirates to a 6 - 5 win over the Braves, stopping a losing skein of five games. Traynor laces three doubles and a single and scores the winning run in the 9th inning. Arky Vaughan is 4 for 4 for the winners to raise his average to .363, two points off the leaders. Wally Berger keeps the Braves in the game with a two-run homer in the 1st and a game-tying homer in the 9th. Leon Chagnon, in relief of Red Lucas, is the winner.
• 1940:
  • The Yankees lose to the White Sox, 1 - 0, in 11 innings, their sixth straight loss, then protest a "catch" by Sox LF Moose Solters, contending he dropped the ball in the 2nd inning when he was reaching for his cap. Umpire John Quinn apparently missed the error and the protest is upheld. The game will be replayed on September 18th, but, for several years, all of today's records, including Monte Pearson's loss and Johnny Rigney's win, will count. It is the first time since 1919 that the Yankees have been shut out in extra innings by one pitcher: they lost on May 19, 1935 in extra innings to two pitchers, Lefty Stewart and Lloyd Brown.
  • Boston loses a pair - and the four-game series - to the Browns, 2 - 1 and 11 - 4, and drops out of first place. The Indians take over first with a 12 - 1 drubbing of the Senators. The new issue of The Sporting News headline reads "'I'll be Nice if I Can,' says Ossie Vitt of Tribe Truce."
• 1946 - A Fortune magazine story gives some rare details of baseball finances, showing the Yankees had a revenue of $1.6 million and profit of $306,000, cut to $201,000 after minor league losses, the previous season. Of the gross income, $896,000 is from home ticket sales.
• 1947 - Yale bests Clemson, 7 - 3, in the first game of the NCAA East Regional. Eli 1B George Bush has a single in four at bats and steals a base. Winning pitcher Frank Quinn will sign a $50,000 bonus with the Boston Red Sox but never win a major-league game.
• 1948:
  • Ralph Kiner hits home runs every Sunday for eight successive weeks in May and June. For the year he will hit 17 round trippers in 38 Sunday games.
  • Cleveland draws 82,781 for a doubleheader, a major-league record for a regular-season game that will be broken by the same club in 1954. The Indians will attract 2.6 million for the season, surpassing the 1947 Yankees attendance.
• 1951:
  • Cleveland IF Bobby Avila hits three home runs going 5 for 6 against the Red Sox. His 15 total bases will stand as a team record until surpassed by Rocky Colavito in 1959. Before today, Avila had hit just one homer against the Bosox. Cleveland outslugs Boston to win, 14 - 8, as Early Wynn earns the complete game win.
  • Billy Southworth's first win as Braves manager is a breeze as Warren Spahn shuts out the Cubs, 9 - 0, and is 3 for 4 at the plate, including a home run.
• 1954 - Bobby Hofman, Wes Westrum and Dusty Rhodes hit consecutive home runs in the 6th inning, as the Giants defeat St. Louis to stay a half-game ahead of the Dodgers.
• 1956 - At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle poles two Billy Hoeft pitches into the right center field bleachers, something no other player had done since the bleachers were built in the late 1930s. New York wins, 7 - 4.
• 1961:
  • Al Kaline plays third base for the first time in his career. His two hits and two RBIs lead the Tigers to a 5 - 4 win over the Senators. Kaline will return to the outfield and play third base just once more, in 1965.
  • Yoshimi Moritaki of the Kokutetsu Swallows throws the seventh perfect game in NPB history, shutting down the Chunichi Dragons.
• 1962 - Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves has the team's only two hits in a 3 - 2 win against Willard Hunter of the New York Mets in a six-inning rain-shortened game. Aaron homers in the 3rd and 6th innings and drives in all three of the Braves' runs, becoming the first player in major league history to have two homers as his team's only two hits in a game.
• 1965:
  • Jay Dahl, who pitched three innings in Houston's all-rookie lineup in September 1963, is fatally injured in a car crash. Dahl had won a game the previous day for the Salisbury Astros to up his record to 5-0. At 19, he is the youngest ex-major leaguer to die.
  • The Atlanta-bound Braves ban sportswriter Lou Chapman from the clubhouse for his "stories of a negative nature" and their "disquieting" effect on players and management. The ban is rescinded a day later upon protest by Milwaukee BBWAA members.
  • In the opener of two in Kansas City, the Tigers rally from an eight-run deficit in the 2nd inning to win, 12 - 8. Al Kaline collects his 1,000th RBI with a two-run single. Detroit loses the second game to snap their eight-game win streak.
• 1967 - The Phillies' Larry Jackson gives up just one hit, a 2nd-inning double to Tommy Davis, in topping the Mets, 4 - 0.
• 1968:
  • The Cubs lose to the Cardinals, 1 - 0, for their fifth shutout in a row. During the streak, Fergie Jenkins allows one run in 18 innings, and comes away with a loss and a no-decision, possibly making him rue the low offensive levels of the Year of the Pitcher.
  • Dodger rookie Jim Fairey makes his first major league homer a good one, a blast off Pittsburgh's Elroy Face to give Los Angeles a 3 - 2 win. The loss snaps Pittsburgh's nine-game win streak.
• 1970 - Brooks Robinson's 2,000th major league hit is a big one - a three-run homer off Washington's Joe Coleman in the 5th inning. The drive snaps a 2 - 2 tie, and the Orioles hang on for a 5 - 4 victory.
• 1971 - Four grand slams are hit in the majors, by the Braves' Earl Williams, the Phillies' Deron Johnson, the White Sox's Rick Reichardt, and the Pirates' Willie Stargell. Williams' slam comes in a 5 - 4 loss, and the Braves drop a second game, 2 - 0 to the Reds. The Pirates whip Montreal, 7 - 1, and the Sox pummel the Twins, 18 - 8. Johnson's slam, in the 11th, gives the Phils a split with the Mets.
• 1972 - Randy Hundley caps the scoring in the 1st inning with a grand slam as the Cubs score seven, all off Don Carrithers, en route to a 15 - 8 pasting of the Giants. The first three runs come on three walks, two wild pitches and three singles. Hundley singles in another run in the five-run 4th as the Cubs win their seventh straight.
• 1973:
  • Chicago's Cy Acosta becomes the first American League pitcher to bat since the designated hitter rule went into effect. Acosta strikes out in the 8th inning, but is credited with an 8 - 3 victory over California.
  • Bobby Bonds leads off with a home run, but the Giants lose, 7 - 5, to the Reds. It is Bonds's 22nd leadoff home run, breaking Lou Brock's National League record.
  • Red Sox leadoff and #2 batters, Rick Miller and Reggie Smith, belt homers off Milwaukee's Bill Parsons. In 1971, Smith also followed a leadoff homer with one of his own. Bill Lee makes the lead stand up in beating the Brewers, 3 - 2.
• 1974 - In a Pacific Coast League game at Honolulu, Hawaii tops Spokane, 7 - 4, behind Ralph Garcia who ties a league record by striking out 19 Indian batters.
• 1977 - Rick Wise shuts out the O's, striking out ten batters and allowing two hits, to win, 4 - 0. Butch Hobson homers for Boston, their 22nd home run in six games.
• 1978 - Toronto is defeated for the third consecutive game by a Canadian-born pitcher. The Blue Jays lose to John Hiller of Detroit, after having previously tasted defeat at the hands of Ferguson Jenkins and Reggie Cleveland of the Texas Rangers.
• 1980:
  • Leonard Smith, the man who killed Angels outfielder Lyman Bostock with a shotgun blast on September 23, 1978, but was later acquitted of the crime by reason of insanity, is released from Logansport State Hospital and allowed to return to his home in Gary, IN, because psychiatrists say he is no longer mentally ill.
  • White Sox reliever Ed Farmer swears he will take criminal action against Detroit's Al Cowens following an on-field brawl in Chicago. Cowens hits a grounder to SS, and then charges the mound instead of running to first base. The action stems from an incident a year earlier when a Farmer pitch shattered Cowens's jaw. American League President Lee MacPhail will suspend Cowens for seven games. The Tigers win, 5 - 3, in 11 innings.
  • 5-foot, 4-inch Freddie Patek, one of the smallest players of his era, hits three home runs and a double in California's 20 - 2 rout of the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Patek will end the year with five homers.
• 1982:
  • The Phillies' Pete Rose plays in his 3,000th major league game (a 3 - 1 loss to the Pirates), joining Ty Cobb, Stan Musial, Hank Aaron and Carl Yastrzemski as the only players to reach that plateau. It is also "Charlie Hustle"'s 523rd consecutive game played.
  • Milwaukee's Ben Oglivie smacks three home runs in a 7 - 5 win over Detroit. It is the second three-homer game of his career.
• 1983 - Yankee outfielder Bobby Murcer retires as an active player.
• 1984:
  • At Detroit, Yankee reliever Jose Rijo falls to 1-7 when he serves up a two-out three-run homer to Howard Johnson in the 13th inning. Detroit wins, 9 - 6. Alan Trammell, Lance Parrish and Chet Lemon also hit homers for the Tigers, who draw their third straight 40,000+ crowd.
  • Dave Kingman hits his third grand slam of the season in the 1st inning of the A's 8 - 1 win over Kansas City. Kingman's 14 grand slams are the most among active players.
• 1985 - Reggie Jackson's 513th home run sparks the Angels to a 4 - 0 win over the Indians and moves him past Ernie Banks and Eddie Mathews into tenth place on the all-time list.
• 1986 - After leading the club to a 26-38 record, Tony LaRussa is fired as manager of the White Sox and replaced by Jim Fregosi. LaRussa will be hired to manage the A's early next month and will have a second stint as the White Sox manager - beginning in 2021.
• 1988 - In a 5 - 4 triumph over Milwaukee, Oakland's Mark McGwire hits a triple. His next and last major league triple will come in 1999 with the Cards.
• 1989 - The Yankees trade OF Rickey Henderson back to the A's for journeymen pitchers Eric Plunk and Greg Cadaret and OF Luis Polonia.
• 1992 - Kelly Saunders fills in for Baltimore's Rex Barney becoming only the second woman to be a public address announcer at a major league game.
• 1993 - In a 3 - 2 loss to Chattanooga, Knoxville Smokies manager Garth Iorg and P Travis Baptist are ejected for breaking a rule banning the use of tobacco in the dugout or clubhouse. Baptist is tossed for chewing it and Iorg for not stopping him. The rule has been in effect for all the minor leagues since June 15th.
• 1994:
  • In a 7 - 1 defeat to the Indians, the Tigers' string of 25 straight games of hitting a home run ends. The streak tied the major league record set by the 1941 New York Yankees.
  • Umpires Dana DeMuth, Tom Hallion, Paul Runge and Angel Hernandez work the Atlanta-NY game wearing shorts and Braves T-shirts and caps. The umps' regular equipment was lost in transit. The Braves win the game, 7 - 3.
• 1995:
  • In Florida's 7 - 2 victory over Colorado, Marlins' relief pitcher Terry Mathews gets the win, and goes 3 for 3 at the plate, with two doubles, two ribbies, and a run scored.
  • P Lee Smith saves the Angels' 3 - 2 win over the Royals to set a major league record with his 18th save in 18 opportunities. His streak will end on June 28th.
• 1996 - The Indians win their 13th straight over the Red Sox, 5 - 4, on Kenny Lofton's bloop single in the 9th off Mike Stanton. Jim Thome hits a game-tying home run in the 8th, off Roger Clemens, the 17th straight game in which the Indians have gone deep, a team record. Clemens leaves after 157 pitches with a no-decision.
• 1997 - For their game against the Cards, the Reds bring up Aaron Boone from Indianapolis. That's the good news for the Boone clan. The bad news is they send brother Bret Boone (.205) down to make room for Aaron. Aaron has an RBI and a stolen base in his major league debut as the Reds win, 4 - 2. He also has his first ejection for throwing a helmet. Deion Sanders has a double and home run and his 31st stolen base, high in the majors.
• 1998:
  • The Indians retire Bob Lemon's uniform number 21 prior to the team's 5 - 3 loss to the Yankees.
  • The Cubs' Sammy Sosa cranks out his 21st homer in the last 30 days, something no other slugger has ever done. The previous high was 20, set by Ralph Kiner in 1947 and tied by Roger Maris in 1961. Sosa's 30 days go from May 22nd through June 22nd.
  • Former Dodger general manager Al Campanis dies of a heart attack at age 81. Campanis is credited with helping to build the Dodger clubs of the 1970s and 1980s.
• 1999 - The Mariners trade OF Matt Mieske to the Astros for P Kevin Hodges.
• 2001 - Hitting his 38th homer of the season, Barry Bonds breaks the major league mark established by Reggie Jackson (1969) and Mark McGwire (1998) for home runs hit before the All-Star Game. The Giants' left fielder still has 17 games to add to the record.
• 2001 - Using the long ball, the Cubs record their first win at Busch Stadium in 13 tries over the last two seasons, beating the Cards, 9 - 4. Sammy Sosa belts a two-run homer and a grand slam, and makes a diving catch to save a run. Gary Matthews adds a three-run homer.
• 2002:
  • A 4 1/2 hour closed-casket public viewing is held at Busch Stadium for Jack Buck, the 77-year-old Hall of Fame broadcaster, who died from complications following lung surgery. The bronze statue depicting him at the microphone outside the stadium is adorned with cards, stuffed animals, photographs and other memorabilia in memory of the KMOX legend.
  • Luis Castillo extends his hitting streak to 34 games breaking the 1922 record established by Rogers Hornsby for the longest hitting streak by a second baseman. The Dominican infielder's streak, the 14th longest in major league history, also ties Benito Santiago's record set in 1987 for longest accomplished by a Latin player.
• 2004 - On Father's Day with his dad present, Ken Griffey, Jr. nails a 6th-inning fastball off Cardinal hurler Matt Morris over the right field wall at Busch Stadium for his 500th career home run. The Reds center fielder becomes the 20th major leaguer and the sixth-youngest (34) to reach the milestone.
• 2007 - Sammy Sosa cracks his 600th career home run, joining Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Babe Ruth and Willie Mays at that level. Jason Marquis allows the shot for the Cubs. In a weird circumstance, Marquis is wearing uniform number 21, which Sosa had worn in his years with the Cubs.
• 2008 - In last place in the AL East, the Toronto Blue Jays fire manager John Gibbons and three of his coaches; he is replaced by former Jay manager Cito Gaston, who led the team to its two World Series titles in 1992 and 1993. Gibbons is the third manager fired in less than a week, following Willie Randolph of the Mets and John McLaren of the Mariners.
• 2009:
  • Josh Beckett pitches his first regular-season shutout in a Boston Red Sox uniform as the Sox defeat the Braves, 3 - 0. He did throw a shutout in Game 1 of the 2007 ALDS.
  • Todd Helton hits a two-run homer in the 9th to lead Colorado to a 9 - 7 win over Pittsburgh. It is Colorado's 15th win in its last 16 games, as the club has caught fire after naming Jim Tracy as its manager on May 29th. Before Helton's blow off Jesse Chavez, Chris Iannetta hits a game-tying three-run blast in the 8th while Ian Stewart drives in three runs.
  • Chris Davis of the Rangers fans for the 100th time in 219 at-bats this year, becoming the fastest player to reach 100 strikeouts in a year. He is on pace to shatter Mark Reynolds' single-season strikeout record, but will be demoted to AAA on July 5th.
• 2010:
  • The Yankees are back in first place in the AL East, one game ahead of the surging Red Sox and slumping Rays, after CC Sabathia pitches eight scoreless innings as the Bronx Bombers shut out the Mets and Johan Santana, 4 - 0. All the runs come on Mark Teixeira's grand slam.
  • The Red Sox are inching closer after completing a three-game sweep of the Dodgers at Fenway Park, spoiling Manny Ramirez's return to Boston after his exit under a cloud of controversy in mid-2008. Clay Buchholz has another strong pitching performance, improving his record to 10-4, in the 2 - 0 win in the finale. The Sox are now tied with the Rays, who have gone 3-7 over their last ten games while Boston has won six straight.
  • 1B Casey Kotchman of the Mariners plays his 231st successive game without an error, beating the record held by Kevin Youkilis. The Mariners win, 1 - 0, over the Reds. Ryan Rowland-Smith is the winner as the M's complete a three-game sweep.
• 2011:
  • Jack McKeon, who first managed in the major leagues with the Kansas City Royals in 1973, is back at the helm at age 80, taking over the Florida Marlins after the resignation of Edwin Rodriguez. This makes him the second-oldest manager in major league history, after Connie Mack. "I'll probably manage until I'm 95," quips McKeon. His first move is to bench star SS Hanley Ramirez, who has infuriated previous managers with his sometimes lackadaisical play, because "(I) didn't like the way he was running yesterday." In the game, the Marlins lose to the Angels, 2 - 1, as Jered Weaver improves to 9-4 and lowers his ERA to 2.01; Torii Hunter drives in both Angel runs. It's the Marlins' 11th consecutive loss - a franchise record - and 19th in their last 20 games.
  • Tim Hudson pitches eight scoreless innings and launches a rocket home run into the left field stands off Ricky Romero in the 7th inning to drive in both of his team's runs as the Braves beat the Blue Jays, 2 - 0. Hudson retires 20 straight batters before Mike McCoy draws a walk to lead off the 9th and Yunel Escobar follows with an infield single. Craig Kimbrel then steps in to strike out the next three batters to end the game and earn his 20th save.
  • Commissioner Bud Selig rejects a proposed television deal between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Fox Sports for "not being in the interests of the Los Angeles Dodgers franchise, the game of baseball and the millions of loyal fans of this historic club." He adds that the deal "would have the effect of mortgaging the future of the franchise to the long-term detriment of the club and its fans." The rejection also invalidates the terms of the divorce settlement between owner Frank McCourt and his wife Jamie announced on June 17th. As McCourt is relying on the deal's approval to meet immediate payroll demands and operating expenses, he risks falling into insolvency, which may prompt Major League Baseball to take over operation of the club in order to put it up for sale.
• 2013:
  • Things look bleak for the Angels as they stake the Mariners a 7 - 0 lead in the middle of the 3rd, with ace Felix Hernandez on the mound. But they manage to score in four consecutive innings, including five runs in the 5th, and even though the Mariners add a couple of insurance runs, they finally take the lead with two more runs in the bottom of the 8th to win, 10 - 9. The Halos manage seven consecutive hits, including a pair of homers by Peter Bourjos and Mark Trumbo, against "King Felix" in the 5th inning. The winning run scores when Yoervis Medina walks Alberto Callaspo with the bases loaded.
  • Pedro Alvarez drives in all of the Pirates' runs with a single, a double and a homer to lead the Bucs to a 5 - 3 win over the Reds, as the team continues to keep pace with St. Louis and Cincinnati in the highly competitive NL Central. The three division rivals have the three best records in the major leagues at this point of the season.
  • Seung-yeop Lee becomes the Korea Baseball Organization's career home run leader with his 352nd dinger, surpassing former teammate Joon-hyuk Yang. Lee goes deep off Hee-sang Yoon as the Samsung Lions beat the SK Wyverns, 5 - 3. The amazing part of this is that Lee missed eight seasons while playing in Nippon Pro Baseball.
• 2014 - The Blue Jays erase an eight-run deficit to defeat the Reds, 14 - 9. The Reds score eight runs in the 2nd inning to knock out Liam Hendriks. Edwin Encarnacion starts the comeback with a three-run homer off Mat Latos in the 3rd, but the Jays are still down, 9 - 3, in the 6th inning, when they begin scoring in earnest. The score is tied at 9 in the 9th when they jump on closer Aroldis Chapman to take their first lead, capped by another three-run homer by Encarnacion, off Sam LeCure, for the final score.
• 2015:
  • Max Scherzer of the Nationals comes agonizingly close to pitching a perfect game but has to settle for a 6 - 0 no-hitter over the Pirates. With two outs in the 9th, he hits pinch-hitter Jose Tabata with a pitch after retiring the first 26 batters in order as Tabata appears to lean into the pitch. Scherzer then retires Josh Harrison on a fly ball to end the game.
  • The Diamondbacks trade P Bronson Arroyo and 2014 top draft pick Touki Toussaint to the Braves in return for IF Philip Gosselin. As both Arroyo, recovering from Tommy John surgery, and Gosselin are currently on the disabled list, the deal is largely a salary dump, allowing the D-Backs to get Arroyo's $9.5 million salary off the books.
• 2016 - The Rockies and Marlins set a record by scoring eight runs, all on solo homers, in a 5 - 3 win by Colorado. The previous record was five runs. Matt Reynolds goes deep twice for the Rockies while Marcell Ozuna does so for Miami.
• 2017:
  • Corey Seager hits three homers in the Dodgers' 12 - 0 win over the Mets. He drives in six runs as the Dodgers have hit nine homers in two games against the struggling Mets, while rookie Cody Bellinger continues his red hot hitting with his NL-leading 22nd homer. Brandon McCarthy pitches six innings for the win and Brock Stewart works the final three for his first career save.
  • Joe West becomes the third umpire in major league history to work 5,000 regular season games when he is behind the plate in a game between the Diamondbacks and Rockies. Neither team existed when he began his career in the National League back in 1976. His 40 seasons as an umpire are a record, and he trails only Bill Klem and Bruce Froemming for the total number of games; he will eventually pass them both.
• 2018 - The Rangers bring out the first hyphenated battery in major league history in their game against the Royals as Austin Bibens-Dirkx is the starting pitcher and throws to Isiah Kiner-Falefa, who his making his first start as a catcher. While their names may pose a spelling challenge, the pair work well together, as Bibens-Dirkx picks up his first win of the year, 3 - 2.
• 2019 - Commissioner Rob Manfred authorizes Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg to open discussions towards playing some of the team's games in Montréal, QC in future years. This comes in response to the lack of progress in plans for a new ballpark to replace the reviled Tropicana Field, but many observers see this as the beginning of the end for the franchise. The Commissioner will reverse himself two years later, stating that sharing a franchise between two cities is not an avenue that deserves further thought.
• 2021 - Kyle Schwarber has a three-homer game, the first of his career, to lead Washington to a 5 - 2 win over the Mets, driving in four of his team's five runs from the leadoff spot. This comes on the heel of his hitting a pair of long balls in the second game of a doubleheader against these same Mets yesterday, tying the major league record of five homers in two games.
• 2022 - The Yankees are the first team to reach 50 wins this season with a 4 - 2 defeat of the Rays. Gerrit Cole pitches seven no-hit innings before Isaac Paredes leads off the 8th with a single. The Rays tie the score at 2 later that inning as Clay Holmes allows his first run since his initial outing of the year, but the Yanks win it in the 9th on a single by Josh Donaldson, a triple by Aaron Hicks, and a sacrifice fly by Jose Trevino.
• 2023 - The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Court upholds an earlier decision by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York that three former minor league teams that were eliminated under the 2021 Minor League Reorganization cannot bring an antitrust suit against Major League Baseball. This is due to the exemption from the Sherman Antitrust Act from which MLB has benefited since the Supreme Court's decision in the case Federal Baseball Club v. National League, back in 1922. The plaintiffs are now expected to appeal to the Supreme Court, in order to attempt to have its century-old ruling reversed.
• 2024:
  • The Rickwood Field Game is staged at historic Rickwood Field in Birmingham, AL, which opened in 1910, to pay tribute to players and teams from the Negro Leagues. The game is also an occasion to honor all-time great Willie Mays, who passed away only two days ago. The St. Louis Cardinals, playing as the St. Louis Stars, defeat the San Francisco Giants, as the San Francisco Sea Lions, 6 - 5.
  • The Padres defeat Milwaukee, 7 - 6, thanks to a walk-off homer by Jake Cronenworth in the bottom of the 9th. It is the third straight home game which the Padres end in such dramatic fashion, after Kyle Higashioka and Jackson Merrill had done the same thing against the Athletics the previous two nights, for a first in major league history (the 2019 Dodgers had also walked off three straight games with a homer, but one of them had required in extra innings).

Births

• 1845 - Ned Cuthbert, outfielder, manager (d. 1905)
• 1847 - Henry Pennypacker, owner (d. 1922)
• 1849 - George Heubel, outfielder (d. 1896)
• 1874 - Win Mercer, pitcher (d. 1903)
• 1879 - Jim Delahanty, infielder (d. 1953)
• 1885 - Ed Hendricks, pitcher (d. 1930)
• 1886 - Rip Hagerman, pitcher (d. 1930)
• 1889 - Ed Warner, pitcher (d. 1954)
• 1890 - Charlie Grover, pitcher (d. 1971)
• 1890 - Cum Posey, manager; Hall of Fame (d. 1946)
• 1890 - Ed Wilkinson, outfielder (d. 1918)
• 1894 - Tom Fiall, outfielder (d. 1978)
• 1894 - Namon Washington, outfielder (d. 1971)
• 1898 - Duke Shirey, pitcher (d. 1962)
• 1900 - Tony Plansky, minor league outfielder (d. 1979)
• 1901 - Pryor McBee, pitcher (d. 1963)
• 1902 - Wayland Dean, pitcher (d. 1930)
• 1905 - Fred McBride, infielder (d. 1974)
• 1908 - Billy Werber, infielder (d. 2009)
• 1918 - Kozo Matsuo, NPB pitcher (d. ????)
• 1919 - Dick Bouknight, minor league catcher (d. 1995)
• 1919 - Bill Clemensen, pitcher (d. 1994)
• 1920 - Red Barbary, pinch hitter (d. 2003)
• 1920 - Carlos Galina, minor league infielder; Salon de la Fama (d. 1986)
• 1923 - Joe Fortin, minor league outfielder (d. 2000)
• 1925 - Clem Koshorek, infielder (d. 1991)
• 1928 - Bob Mahoney, pitcher (d. 2000)
• 1928 - Art Schult, infielder (d. 2014)
• 1929 - Wally Burnette, pitcher (d. 2003)
• 1929 - Dick McCleney, minor league pitcher (d. 2008)
• 1930 - Rod Graber, outfielder (d. 2014)
• 1931 - Isao Okada, NPB outfielder and umpire
• 1932 - Cuno Barragan, catcher (d. 2024)
• 1938 - Joe Etzel, college coach
• 1941 - Luis Alcaraz, infielder
• 1943 - Andy Etchebarren, catcher; All-Star (d. 2019)
• 1944 - Dave Nelson, infielder; All-Star (d. 2018)
• 1945 - Paul Beeston, executive
• 1945 - Ray Newman, pitcher (d. 2023)
• 1949 - Dave Elmendorf, drafted outfielder
• 1953 - Tony Chevez, pitcher
• 1953 - Lyle Yates, minor league manager
• 1954 - Minoru Aoki, NPB outfielder
• 1955 - Ken Hirano, NPB outfielder
• 1956 - Larry Monroe, pitcher
• 1958 - Phil Huffman, pitcher
• 1958 - Dickie Thon, infielder; All-Star
• 1959 - Jung-Tai Sung, CPBL infielder
• 1960 - Doug Gwosdz, catcher
• 1960 - Larry See, infielder

• Year unknown - Rick Miner, Guam national team infielder

• 1961 - Gary Varsho, outfielder, manager
• 1963 - Kun-Wei Lin, CPBL pitcher
• 1967 - Dave Ryan, announcer
• 1968 - Scott Morgan, minor league pitcher
• 1968 - Jose Olmeda, minor league infielder
• 1970 - Mike Grace, pitcher
• 1972 - Paul Bako, catcher
• 1972 - Juan Castro, infielder
• 1972 - Roberto Garza, minor league pitcher
• 1973 - Rickey Cradle, outfielder
• 1973 - Luis Ramirez, coach
• 1973 - Mike Rossiter, minor league pitcher
• 1974 - Kanya Suzuki, Japanese national team infielder
• 1976 - Carlos Lee, outfielder; All-Star
• 1976 - Rob Mackowiak, outfielder
• 1976 - Edwin Minaya, minor league pitcher
• 1976 - Kevin Paxson, college coach
• 1976 - Albert van Vuure, Hoofdklasse pitcher
• 1978 - Steve Fischer, minor league pitcher
• 1978 - Kevin Gregg, pitcher
• 1978 - Bobby Seay, pitcher
• 1979 - Billy Horn, minor league pitcher
• 1979 - Scott Patterson, pitcher
• 1979 - Cory Vance, pitcher
• 1980 - Adam Boeve, minor league outfielder
• 1980 - Yulieski González, Cuban league pitcher
• 1980 - Lázaro Santana Jr., Cuban league pitcher
• 1981 - Nicolas Launay, Division Elite outfielder
• 1981 - Anwar Samudio, Panamanian national team pitcher
• 1982 - Alexander Lauterbach, Bundesliga infielder
• 1982 - Ovandy Suero, minor league outfielder
• 1983 - Kendrys Morales, infielder
• 1984 - Cole Gillespie, outfielder
• 1984 - Orlando Ximello, minor league pitcher
• 1985 - Brooks Brown, pitcher
• 1985 - Chi-Hung Cheng, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Frank van Heijst, Hoofdklasse pitcher
• 1987 - Andrew Romo, minor league pitcher
• 1990 - Andrés Ávila, minor league pitcher
• 1990 - Nao Higashihama, NPB pitcher
• 1990 - Jordan Keur, college coach
• 1990 - Jean Rossil, Guatemalan national team pitcher
• 1991 - Rymer Liriano, outfielder
• 1991 - Jaime Schultz, pitcher
• 1991 - Jordan Tarsovich, minor league infielder
• 1992 - Tarik El-Abour, minor league outfielder
• 1993 - Adalberto Mejia, pitcher
• 1993 - Jorge Ortega, minor league pitcher
• 1994 - Thomas Eshelman, pitcher
• 1995 - Félix Bautista, pitcher; All-Star
• 1996 - Enting Cui, minor league pitcher
• 1996 - Touki Toussaint, pitcher
• 1997 - Yoshiki Fuchigami, Japanese national team pitcher
• 1998 - Luis Guzmán, minor league infielder
• 1998 - Moritz Scheicher, Extraliga infielder
• 1999 - Takuma Kirishiki, NPB pitcher
• 1999 - Ernesto Martínez Jr., minor league infielder
• 1999 - Anthony Seigler, minor league catcher
• 2000 - Ronny Henriquez, pitcher
• 2000 - Abner Uribe, pitcher
• 2002 - Maddux Bruns, minor league pitcher
• 2003 - Natpakone Phialouanglath, Laotian national team pitcher-designated hitter

Deaths

• 1889 - Pat McGee, outfielder
• 1890 - John Weyhing, pitcher (b. 1869)
• 1893 - Clarence Bayne, minor league pitcher (b. ~1873)
• 1907 - Ezra Sutton, infielder (b. 1849)
• 1909 - Rudy Kemmler, catcher (b. 1860)
• 1919 - Bill Devery, owner (b. 1854)
• 1926 - Tuffy Stewart, outfielder (b. 1890)
• 1930 - Harry Bauchman, infielder (b. 1890)
• 1938 - Patrick Newnam, infielder (b. 1880)
• 1944 - Chotaro Muramatsu, NPB pitcher and outfielder (b. 1921)
• 1947 - Bob Ewing, pitcher (b. 1873)
• 1952 - John Kalahan, catcher (b. 1878)
• 1957 - Cy Warmoth, pitcher (b. 1893)
• 1958 - Dick Byrd, USA national team pitcher (b. 1892)
• 1966 - Denney Wilie, outfielder (b. 1890)
• 1971 - Doc Newton, college coach (b. 1893)
• 1971 - Clyde Perry, minor league pitcher (b. 1905)
• 1974 - Bob Way, infielder (b. 1906)
• 1976 - Blix Donnelly, pitcher (b. 1914)
• 1976 - Lou Klein, infielder, manager (b. 1918)
• 1978 - Bill Dietrich, pitcher (b. 1910)
• 1978 - Stack Martin, utility player (b. 1899)
• 1983 - Gil Britton, infielder (b. 1891)
• 1991 - Frank Umont, umpire (b. 1927)
• 1992 - Pat Colgan, minor league catcher/manager (b. 1914)
• 1994 - Norm Wallen, infielder (b. 1918)
• 1997 - Mike Briscese, umpire (b. 1916)
• 2001 - Bob Keegan, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1920)
• 2002 - Cecil Cole, pitcher (b. 1919)
• 2006 - Billy Johnson, infielder; All-Star (b. 1918)
• 2010 - Félix Guilbe, outfielder (b. 1924)
• 2015 - Victor Liriano, minor league outfielder (b. 1993)
• 2018 - Jack Stallings, college coach (b. 1931)
• 2019 - Hal Dedmon, minor league outfielder and manager (b. 1922)
• 2022 - Hal Gilson, pitcher (b. 1942)
• 2022 - Joe Staton, infielder (b. 1948)