June 21
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- 1890 - Silver King pitches the only no-hitter in the history of the Players League in a losing cause. King's Chicago Pirates lose at home on errors to the Brooklyn Wonders, 1 - 0. Because his team chooses to bat first, he does not pitch the 9th inning.
- 1900 - Brooklyn rallies for five runs in the 9th to beat Philadelphia, 8 - 6, and take over first place. They will hold the lead for the rest of the season. Despite the win, Brooklyn is averaging only 1,100 fans per game and a concerned National League president Nick Young floats the idea of the franchise moving to Washington, DC.
- 1901 - Right-hander Harley 'Doc' Parker of the Reds gives up 21 runs and 26 hits to Brooklyn in his first start of the season - and major league farewell appearance. The 26 hits is a post-1900 record, tied by Al Travers in 1912, and by the A's Hod Lisenbee in 1936. The 21 runs allowed is a National League mark. Harley also faces a record 55 batters in the game. Led by Willie Keeler's five hits, including a home run and double, the Superbas win, 21 - 3.
- 1903 - In a Sunday match in Canton, Ohio, Boston outslugs Cleveland to win, 12 - 7. Buck Freeman is 5 for 6, including the cycle, with six RBIs, while Nap Lajoie is 3 for 5 for Cleveland.
- 1906 - At the Polo Grounds, umpire Bob Emslie tosses John McGraw in the 4th inning, but his fellow ump Hank O'Day goes one better, banishing Joe McGinnity and first sacker Dan McGann in the 5th. Down 4 - 2, Christy Mathewson relieves for the Giants and shuts out the Pirates over the last four innings. The Giants load the bases in the 9th and Chappie McFarland relieves a tired Sam Leever. A single scores one and with two outs, Doc Marshall singles to score the winning run. Mathewson wins, 5 - 4.
- 1907 - The Cubs top the Cardinals, 2 - 0, as C Johnny Kling throws out all four would-be St. Louis base stealers. Three-Finger Brown wins his tenth straight game.
- 1911 - Grover Cleveland Alexander wins for the second day in a row, hooking up with Brooklyn's Doc Scanlan for a 15-inning operation, won by the Phils, 2 - 1.
- 1914 - Against Detroit P George Boehler, Walter Johnson connects for a 5th-inning grand slam that is the difference as Washington wins, 7 - 3.
- 1916 - Rube Foster of the Red Sox no-hits the Yankees 2 - 0, for the first no-hitter in Fenway Park, beating Bob Shawkey, 2 - 0. Harry Hooper leads the offense with three hits. Red Sox president Joseph Lannin hands Rube a $100 bonus and each of his Sox teammates receive a gold-handled pocket knife engraved with the date.
- 1917 - In a game against Salt Lake City, Red McKee of the San Francisco Seals (Pacific Coast League), forgets the bases are loaded and attempts to steal third base. His inadvertent ploy works as the startled pitcher is called for a balk.
- 1922 - The Robins pound out 25 hits to Pittsburgh's 19 as Brooklyn wins, 15 - 14.
- 1931 - George Earnshaw notches the 12th consecutive victory for the A's, 6 - 5, at Chicago.
- 1933:
- Behind Earl Whitehill, the Senators beat the Browns, 9 - 0. Joe Cronin has his second of five consecutive multi-hit games.
- In the Texas League, Shreveport pitcher Ralph Erickson no-hits the Houston Buffaloes and beats Dizzy Dean, 2 - 0.
- 1935 - Babe Herman, on waivers from Pittsburgh, returns to Cincinnati.
- 1936:
- 1937 - Johnny Allen, off to a 4-0 start for Cleveland, has an appendectomy in Boston and will miss eight weeks of the season.
- 1938 - Red Sox 3B Pinky Higgins extends his consecutive hit string to 12, with eight hits in a doubleheader split with Detroit. He is 4 for 4 in each game, a Boston win in the opener, 8 - 3. Detroit wins the nitecap, 5 - 4, with Rudy York catching both games. Tomorrow, Pinky will strike out against Vern Kennedy in his first at-bat, ending the streak.
- 1939 - The New York Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement, based on the report that he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The 36-year-old star will remain with the team as captain.
- 1940 - Washington rookie Sid Hudson takes a no-hitter into the 9th inning, but the Browns' Rip Radcliff hits a pop fly double down the right-field line with no outs. A passed ball puts him on third base, but Hudson retires three for a 1 - 0 win. He'll beat the A's on a one-hit shutout in August.
- 1941 - Lefty Grove's Fenway Park consecutive win streak, which started on May 3, 1938, ends at 20 games with a 13 - 9 loss to the St. Louis Browns.
- 1942 - Ted Lyons wins his 250th career game, 6 - 5, over the Red Sox. A week from now, he will beat New York's Red Ruffing to match the Yankees hurler's 251 career wins. The White Sox veteran will finish the season with 20 complete games in 20 starts, lead the AL with a 2.10 ERA, then enter the Marine Corps at age 42.
- 1946 - A federal judge rules that the Seattle club does not have to play returning serviceman Al Niemiec but it does have to pay him his $720 a month contract through the season. At midseason, 143 players who had major league contracts when they went to war have been released or sent to the minors. Former major league players Van Mungo, Lou Finney, Chubby Dean, Nate Andrews and Max Butcher are all playing in Class D leagues.
- 1950:
- Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit, a 7th-inning single off the Indians' Marino Pieretti, as the Yanks win, 8 - 2. DiMaggio joins Luke Appling and Wally Moses as the only active players with 2,000 or more hits. Eddie Lopat is the winning pitcher, running his record against Cleveland to 25-6.
- Phils rookie Bob Miller (6-0) continues his unbeaten streak, turning back the Pirates, 7 - 4. Willie Jones, Del Ennis, Andy Seminick and Bill Nicholson lead a home run attack, and Miller helps by starting a triple play in the 7th. Hank Borowy, obtained on waivers from the Phils, takes the loss.
- Renegade ballplayer Danny Gardella admits accepting a pay-off to drop his suit against baseball. After a month-long tryout with the Cardinals, Gardella had been sent to their Houston farm club where, shortly afterward, he was released. Gardella argues that he should be paid for the entire year, and he blames his release on his suit against the major leagues.
- 1951:
- Bill Veeck gets an option to buy the St. Louis Browns from Bill and Charles DeWitt.
- At Chattanooga, Mobile outscores the hosts, 28 - 7. Bears 1B Wayne Belardi goes 4 for 7 with two home runs - including a grand slam - a double and ten RBIs. Every Bear hitter scores at least two runs. Belardi's outburst will earn him another call-up to the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- 1952 - As a publicity stunt, Harrisburg of the Inter-State League signs a woman player, Eleanor Engle, but she does not get into a game. Female ballplayers are officially banned by minor league President George Trautman shortly after.
- 1956:
- Chicago and Baltimore one-hit one another as White Sox pitcher Jack Harshman beats Oriole hurlers Connie Johnson and George Zuverink, 1 - 0.
- Kansas City Star reporter Dick Wade says that his stopwatch proves that there were only 9:55 minutes of actual "action" in a game the Athletics won from the Senators, 15 - 6 (in just 8 1/2 innings). Wade calculated the time the ball was in play, allowing a second for each pitch that was taken or fouled off.
- 1957 - One month after graduating from high school, Cardinals P Von McDaniel, 18, two-hits the Dodgers in his first major league start, 2 - 0. He holds the Dodgers hitless until the 6th inning.
- 1958:
- Frank Lary pitches his third straight shutout, beating the Yankees' Duke Maas, 1 - 0. Al Kaline throws out Maas at the plate and hits his seventh home run to extend his hitting streak to 18 games.
- White Sox lefty Billy Pierce hurls a two-hitter against the Orioles, winning 1 - 0 over Billy Loes. It's the Sox's fifth shutout in their last six games.
- 1959:
- At Los Angeles, the Redlegs' Don Newcombe subdues the Dodgers, 17 - 3. Newk pitches a complete game and collects four hits and four RBIs.
- Milwaukee's Hank Aaron hits three two-run home runs at Seals Stadium to power the Braves to a 13 - 3 win over the Giants. It's the only three-homer game of Aaron's career.
- 1960:
- Roberto Clemente takes his first stab at 436 – Floyd Patterson style. His batting practice blast, one hop off the bricks of Forbes Field's rarely-surmounted right centerfield barrier, comes one day after Roberto attended the Patterson-Ingemar Johansson heavyweight title rematch which ended in a 5th-round KO of the previously victorious Swede. Clemente "calls" his shot, claiming he'll emulate Patterson's bout-ending blow. As recounted by Larry Klein in Sport Magazine: "Clemente picked up a bat and walked toward the batting cage for his practice swings [and] said, 'Watch me. I hit one like Floyd Patterson.' He sat himself deep in the batter's box, uncoiled and lined the first pitch to deep center field. The ball hit the 436-foot mark on one bounce."
- Reno (California League) beats visiting Stockton, 8 - 3, as legendary fireballer Steve Dalkowski strikes out 19 Silver Sox batters.
- Despite two home runs and a single by Ted Williams, driving in four runs, the Red Sox lose to Kansas City, 11 - 7. Jerry Casale puts the Sox in the hole by giving up hits to the first six batters.
- Whitey Ford outduels Yankee Killer Frank Lary to give New York a 6 - 0 win in Detroit. Mickey Mantle is 3 for 5 with two homers off Lary.
- 1963 - The Mets beat the Phillies, 3 - 1; only pitchers Al Jackson and Cal McLish get multiple hits. The next game where the only multi-hit players are the opposing starters will be 50 years later, August 4, 2013.
- 1964:
- On Father's Day at Shea Stadium, Jim Bunning fans ten, drives in two runs, and pitches the first perfect game (excluding Don Larsen's 1956 World Series effort and Harvey Haddix's 1959 extra-inning loss) since Charlie Robertson's on April 30, 1922. Philadelphia beats the Mets, 6 - 0. Bunning also becomes the first pitcher to win no-hitters in both leagues, and Gus Triandos becomes the first catcher to catch a no-hitter in each league. Bunning throws just 90 pitches in winning his second no-hitter. The next time Bunning faces the Mets he will shut them out. The Mets don't fare much better in the nitecap as 18-year-old rookie Rick Wise wins his first game and gives up just three hits for an 8 - 2 win. The Phils increase their National League lead to two games over the Giants.
- The Yankees move into first place by eight percentage points over Baltimore, as they outpitch the White Sox to win, 2 - 0 and 2 - 1. Home runs by Mickey Mantle and Elston Howard win it for Jim Bouton in the opener against Juan Pizarro, and an error wins the nightcap in the 17th. The Yankees sweep four, giving up just one run in 41 innings, and take nine games from Chicago in 11 days.
- 1966:
- Satchel Paige makes his final professional pitching appearance, going the first two innings for the Peninsula Grays (Carolina League) against the Greensboro Yankees. Satch gives up two runs. Peninsula's regular catcher, Johnny Bench, takes the night off.
- In the first game of a twinbill, there are two on and two outs in the 9th inning when Frank Robinson makes a spectacular catch against New York's Roy White, diving into the stands over the short right field fence and disappearing from view. He emerges with the ball and it is ruled a catch, preserving a 7 - 5 Baltimore victory, rather than 8 - 7 defeat.
- 1967 - Bob Uecker of the Atlanta Braves hits a grand slam for the only time in his career. It comes in the 3rd inning off Ron Herbel of the San Francisco Giants in a 9 - 2 Braves win at Candlestick Park.
- 1968 - It's been a bad week for the Cubs, but they end their scoreless streak at 48 innings, tying a major league mark set in 1906, beating the Reds, 3 - 2, behind Joe Niekro. George Culver is the losing pitcher, allowing the Cubs' first score in the 3rd inning when he gives up a walk with the sacks full. The five straight shutout losses also tie a league mark. The streak started on June 15th, the final eight innings of a loss to Atlanta and continued with the following games: a 1 - 0 loss to Phil Niekro in 11 innings; a 1 - 0 loss to the Cards' Nellie Briles; a 4 - 0 one-hitter tossed by Steve Carlton and a 1 - 0 loss to Bob Gibson. During the drought, Fergie Jenkins allows one run in 18 innings but is charged with a loss and a no-decision.
- 1969:
- Minnesota scores a club-record 11 runs in an inning, the 10th inning at Oakland, and sets a major-league record for runs in the 10th, in winning 14 - 4. The Twins send 16 batters to the plate in the frame, garnering eight hits, four walks, and three errors. Harmon Killebrew's three-run homer is the big blow. Minnesota's 11 runs match the New York Yankees' 12th inning of July 26, 1928, for most runs for one club in extra innings, and shatters the previous high for the 10th inning of eight runs. The A's add a run of their own in the 10th to set a record (12) for runs in the 10th by two clubs.
- Willie Horton powers two homers, one a grand slam, and drives in six runs to lead the Tigers to a 9 - 5 win over the visiting Senators. Mickey Lolich (8-1) is the winner, allowing just four hits.
- 1970 - Cleveland wins the first game against Detroit, 2 - 1, but Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez then goes 7 for 7 with six singles and a double to tie a record set in 1892, in a 12-inning, 9 - 8 nitecap win. Mickey Stanley's home run wins it for the Tigers. Gutierrez, wearing #7, starts the game hitting .218, and was 0 for 18 before today. Gutierrez will collect just seven hits in all of 1971, and 128 hits for his career.
- 1971 - Indians slugger Ken Harrelson announces his retirement from baseball to join the pro golf tour.
- 1972:
- Rico Petrocelli and Carl Yastrzemski lead the Red Sox to an 11-inning, 10 - 9 win over Texas. Yaz collects five hits and scores four times, while Rico drives in six runs, four with a grand slam. Frank Howard is 4 for 4 for Texas. Luis Tiant wins with an inning of shutout relief.
- Bob Gibson wins his 211th game, passing Jesse Haines as the Cards' biggest winner, in St. Louis's 14 - 3 win over the Padres. Gibson cracks a three-run homer in the 7th before exiting.
- 1973:
- White Sox pitcher Stan Bahnsen shuts out the Indians, 2 - 0, but gives up 12 hits while doing it, two shy of the record in a shutout.
- Houston's Lee May collects three home runs and a single in a 12 - 2 win over San Diego. The bright side for the Pads is Dave Winfield's first major league homer, off Ken Forsch.
- 1974 - The Braves fire manager Eddie Mathews, the only man to play for the Braves in Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta. Clyde King is hired to replace him.
- 1975 - In the opener of a doubleheader, the Angels' Frank Tanana strikes out 17 Rangers without a walk during a 4 - 2 win. Texas cops the nitecap, 6 - 5.
- 1976 - Bert Blyleven hurls a one-hit shutout as the Rangers edge the A's, 1 - 0. On the 26th, Blyleven will pitch another 1 - 0, one-hit victory, beating the White Sox in ten innings.
- 1977:
- Behind Luis Tiant's two-hitter, the Boston Red Sox pummel the Baltimore Orioles, 7 - 0. Jim Rice and George Scott bang homers. The Sox also sign Tommy Helms, released by the Pittsburgh Pirates, and waive Doug Griffin.
- Cincinnati Reds pitcher Paul Moskau homers in his second major league at-bat, but gives up four runs in 4+ innings. The Reds prevail over the Philadelphia Phillies, 10 - 5, at Veterans Stadium.
- 1978 - The California Angels' Dave Machemer homers in his first major league at-bat during a 5 - 2 win over the Minnesota Twins. Machemer will never hit another long ball.
- 1983 - The Reds edge the Giants, 6 - 5, in 16 innings on Ron Oester's single. Both teams score a run in the 14th.
- 1985 - Twins manager Billy Gardner is fired and replaced by Baltimore pitching coach Ray Miller.
- 1986:
- Bo Jackson, college football's Heisman Trophy winner in 1985 and the first pick (by Tampa Bay) in the NFL draft, stuns observers nationwide by signing with the Kansas City Royals instead.
- The season ends for Philadelphia Phillies C Darren Daulton when he tears the ACL in his left knee in a home plate collision with the St. Louis Cardinals' Mike Heath. St. Louis wins, 8 - 6.
- 1988 - With two outs in the 9th inning, Detroit Tigers SS Alan Trammell blasts a grand slam to give the Bengals a 7 - 6 win over the New York Yankees.
- 1989 - Chicago White Sox Carlton Fisk surpasses Yogi Berra as the American League leader for career home runs by a catcher as his 307th home run helps to beat the New York Yankees, 7 - 3.
- 1994 - The Red Sox score ten times in the top of the 1st inning as they go on to defeat the Blue Jays, 13 - 1.
- 1996 - The New York Yankees acquire Billy Brewer and give Steve Howe his release.
- 1997:
- The Seattle Mariners ride a nine-run 7th inning to a 15 - 8 slugfest win over the Texas Rangers. Dan Wilson has a three-run double and Jay Buhner has two RBIs - five overall - in the big inning to pace the M's 13-hit barrage.
- Manny Ramirez has six RBIs, four on a grand slam, to lead the host Cleveland Indians to a 13 - 4 win over the New York Yankees and Andy Pettitte.
- Six inches of rain fall in a few hours in Milwaukee, WI, flooding Milwaukee County Stadium to the third row. The dugouts are filled with water to the roof.
- The host Detroit Tigers blast the Boston Red Sox, 15 - 4. The Sox, trailing by 12 runs, try OF Darren Bragg at 3B, and put IF Mike Benjamin on the mound for the 9th. Benjamin retires all three batters he faces, the only one of five Sox hurlers to do so.
- 1998:
- The Dodgers fire general manager Fred Claire and manager Bill Russell. Former manager Tommy Lasorda is hired as GM on an interim basis. Glenn Hoffman, who manages the team's AAA Albuquerque Dukes farm club, takes over as interim manager.
- The Boston Red Sox trade C Jim Leyritz and OF Ethan Faggett to the San Diego Padres for P Carlos Reyes and Dario Veras, and C Mandy Romero.
- The Cincinnati Reds start an outfield against the Houston Astros consisting of Dmitri Young, Mike Frank and Chris Stynes. Yup, for you movie buffs, that would be Young, Frank and Stynes. It is still a horror for the Reds as they lose their eighth straight, 4 - 2. Pete Schourek is the complete game winner. The losing streak will reach ten as the Kansas City Royals will also win the next two.
- Cleveland Indians lefty Bartolo Colon coasts to a 11 - 0 shutout over the New York Yankees.
- 1999 - Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Tony Fernandez becomes the Dominican-born career hits leader with his 2,178th hit to move ahead of Julio Franco. Fernandez's hit plates the winning run with two outs in the 9th in Toronto's 2 - 1 victory over the Kansas City Royals. Franco, deemed washed-up by the baseball world and out of the majors at this time, will reclaim the record several years from now.
- 2000:
- The New York Mets announce that SS Rey Ordonez will be out for the season because his broken left forearm is not healing properly.
- The Oakland A's defeat the Baltimore Orioles, 10 - 3, as Eric Chavez becomes the first Oakland player to hit for the cycle at home since the team moved to Oakland in 1968.
- 2001:
- In the annual Congressional baseball game, the Republicans defeat the Democrats, 9 - 1. Republican Congressman Steve Largent of Oklahoma, a former NFL great, strikes out eight while allowing just six hits and no walks. The Dems can breathe easier next year since Largent will be resigning his seat to run for governor. The elephants have compiled a 26-14 record since the Congressional newspaper, Roll Call, began sponsoring the game in 1962. Before 1962, the game was played intermittently beginning when former major leaguer John Tener, then a Republican Congressman from Pennsylvania, organized the first contest in 1909.
- The Arizona Diamondbacks roll past the Astros, 14 - 5, as rookie 2B Junior Spivey goes 5 for 6 with three RBIs and three runs scored.
- The San Francisco Giants beat the San Diego Padres, 8 - 6, as OF Barry Bonds hits his 38th home run to set a new mark for homers hit before the All-Star break.
- Returning to the major leagues after a stint with the Newark Bears of the independent Atlantic League, Jose Canseco starts as the designated hitter for the Chicago White Sox. The former All-Star, who has 446 career home runs (23rd all time), didn't get any offers after being released by the Anaheim Angels in the spring.
- 2002:
- The Florida Marlins defeat the Detroit Tigers, 4 - 1, as Luis Castillo hits safely in his 35th consecutive game, tying Fred Clarke (1895), Ty Cobb (1917), and George Sisler (1924-1925) for the tenth-longest hitting streak in major league history. The Florida Marlins infielder's 3rd-inning infield hit off knuckleballer Steve Sparks' glove also surpasses Benito Santiago's 1987 streak for longest established by a Latin player.
- During the New York-Penn League game between the New Jersey Cardinals and Staten Island Yankees, a fan hops a fence and goes onto the field to argue an umpire's call at first base. The 38-year-old woman is at the game with her 8-year-old daughter's Brownie troop.
- 2003 - In the 13th inning at Veterans Stadium, pinch-hitter Todd Pratt hits a two-run home run giving the Philadelphia Phillies a walk-off 6 - 5 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Boston shortstop Nomar Garciaparra's club-tying record 6 for 6 performance (all singles) cannot prevent the bullpen from blowing three late leads: 2 - 1 in the 8th (Jim Thome's home run ties it), 3 - 2 in 12th (Thome's second home run ties it).
- 2005:
- General Manager Dan O'Brien meets face to face with Cincinnati Reds skipper Dave Miley (125-164) to inform the third-year manager of his decision to fire him. Former Texas Rangers manager Jerry Narron will becomes the 58th manager in Reds history.
- After building a 10 - 2 lead at Yankee Stadium, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays lose to the Bronx Bombers, 20 - 11, making it the second time in franchise history the team is ahead by eight or more runs and loses by nine or more tallies. No other club in history has ever achieved this dubious distinction as the D-Rays, with their 1999 defeat to the Indians, now have accomplished the feat twice.
- 2008:
- The first of two 2008 European Cups ends in Grosseto with a nail-biter. For six innings, Patrick Beljaards and Linc Mikkelsen trade goose eggs. Montepaschi Grosseto scores in the 7th on a Davide Dallospedale triple and a sacrifice fly and Kinheim (the defending champs) ties it in the 9th, also on a triple (by Roel Koolen) and a sac fly. In the 10th, Grosseto uses three singles to score a run on Kinheim closer Michiel van Kampen. Kinheim rallies against Mikkelsen, the starter working into extra innings, with two singles and a game-winning two-run double by Tjerk Smeets.
- In a 7 - 2 Cleveland win over the Dodgers, C.C. Sabathia homers off Chan-ho Park. It is Sabathia's second home run, the first time an American League pitcher has hit that many since the DH had been instituted. After the game, Sabathia's career batting line in 42 plate appearances is an impressive .300/.317/.475 for a 107 OPS+.
- In a match-up of two first-place Chicago teams, the Cubs top the Sox in interleague play. In a nine-run 4th, the Cubs hit four homers - a three-run shot by Aramis Ramirez, one blast by Mike Fontenot and two by Jim Edmonds.
- Daisuke Matsuzaka, 8-1 before going on the disabled list, comes off it on a rocky note in his first game in almost a month. He allows seven runs in one inning of work, including a Troy Glaus grand slam, in a 9 - 3 Boston loss to the Redbirds.
- 2009:
- Danesi Nettuno outduels Fortitudo Bologna, 1 - 0, in the finale of the 2009 European Cup. Jeff Farnsworth tosses eight shutout innings and fans 14 to take MVP honors.
- Albert Pujols, who is leading the major leagues in almost all hitting categories, has another great day at the plate, banging out two homers, one a grand slam, and driving in six runs as St. Louis beats Kansas City, 12 - 5. It is win number 2,500 for Tony LaRussa, who becomes the third manager to reach that milestone, after Connie Mack and John McGraw.
- Brian Roberts hits a tie-breaking single in the 8th to lead Baltimore to a 2 - 1 win over Philadelphia, completing a three-game sweep. The Phillies have now lost six straight at home, for an overall record of 13-22 at Citizens Bank Park. The defending World Series champs are being kept alive by their outstanding play on the road, where they are a major league best 23-9.
- 2010:
- At a press conference, Tampa Bay Rays owner Stuart Sternberg says the team cannot succeed if it continues to play in Tropicana Field or anywhere in downtown St. Petersburg, FL. The team's poor attendance in spite of an excellent record and a bevy of exciting young players has not gone unnoticed. While the team's lease on its current ballpark expires in 2027, the owner is looking at sites for a new park in Tampa, FL, even though it is likely that the city of St. Petersburg will take legal action if a move is made while the lease is still valid.
- The Cincinnati Reds blast three home runs in the 10th - by Ramon Hernandez, Joey Votto and Scott Rolen - to beat Oakland, 6 - 4. The outburst comes after the Reds scored only one run in suffering a three-game sweep at the hands of the Mariners. Francisco Cordero is the winner in spite of blowing a 2 - 1 lead by coughing up a long ball to Kevin Kouzmanoff in the bottom of the 9th.
- The Blue Jays designate 3B Edwin Encarnacion for assignment, hoping to send him to AAA Las Vegas, although they risk losing the talented player on waivers. Encarnacion has shown bursts of great power, hitting five home runs in three games at one point this year, but has struggled overall, batting .200 in 37 games and showing inconsistency in the field. The move makes room on the roster for P Scott Richmond, coming off the 60-day disabled list.
- 2011:
- The Twins start their game against the Giants on the right foot, as their first eight batters get hits against Madison Bumgarner, tying a major league record, on their way to a 9 - 2 win. Ben Revere has two hits and two RBI in the frame. The Twins alternate four singles and four doubles and Bumgarner departs after one third of an inning, having given up eight runs on nine hits; his only reprieve comes when his opponent, Carl Pavano, comes to bat as the number nine hitter and strikes out.
- The Phillies also have a big inning, scoring nine runs in the 8th to defeat the Cardinals, 10 - 2, in their first game without the injured Albert Pujols. The Phils score all those runs in spite of not getting an extra-base hit all night, taking advantage of nine walks issued by Cards pitchers. Reliever Michael Stutes is the beneficiary of the late scoring outburst, while Trever Miller is the loser in a rare decision for the lefty specialist.
- The University of South Carolina beats top seed Virginia in the 2011 College World Series. It is their 13th straight win in a College World Series game, tying a record held by the University of Southern California (1972-1974) and Louisiana State University (1997-1998).
- 33,533 fans wear sunglasses after dark as a stunt at the Rangers-Astros game, a Guinness World Record.
- 2012:
- The University of Arizona reaches the finals of the 2012 College World Series with a 10 - 3 win over Florida State University. They will play the winner of tomorrow's game between the University of South Carolina and the University of Arkansas. It is the seventh time Arizona will play in the finals, but the first since 1986, as they are the only unbeaten team remaining in the tournament.
- The Cleveland Indians give up on former top prospect Beau Mills, a first-round pick in the 2007 amateur draft, when they send him to the Cincinnati Reds for cash considerations. Mills is hitting only .197 as the first baseman for AAA Columbus, and is being demoted to AA Pensacola by the Reds.
- 2013 - The Blue Jays win their ninth straight game to reach the .500 mark for the first time this season, defeating the Orioles, 7 - 6, on Rajai Davis's game-ending single with two outs in the bottom of the 9th. Munenori Kawasaki hits his first career homer, a game-tying two-run shot in the 7th and Adam Lind and Edwin Encarnacion also connect for the Jays. The O's also hit three long balls, including Chris Davis's major league-leading 27th of the season.
- 2014 - The Brewers score three runs on a wild pitch in the 3rd inning of their 9 - 4 win over the Rockies. With the bases loaded, Christian Friedrich throws a pitch to the backstop; Rockies C Michael McKenry overthrows Friedrich in trying to cut off Khris Davis at home, allowing Mark Reynolds to score a second run. Then, after Friedrich has picked up the ball in foul territory, Jean Segura realizes the pitcher is not paying attention to him and dashes home as well, sliding ahead of the pitcher to complete the clearing of the bases.
- 2015:
- J.D. Martinez hits three homers and drives in six runs in Detroit's 12 - 4 win over the Yankees. Martinez victimizes Masahiro Tanaka twice and adds the third off Danny Burawa, making his big league debut for New York.
- Former OF Darryl Hamilton, 50, who was employed as an analyst with the MLB Network, is found dead in his home in Pearland, TX, victim of multiple gunshot wounds. His companion is also found dead with a single wound, apparently self-inflicted, in what police describe as a murder-suicide. The couple's 14-month-old child is unharmed.
- 2019 - Athletics pitcher Frankie Montas, who is having a breakout season by going 9-2, 2.70 over his first 15 starts, is handed an 80-game suspension for testing positive for a banned PED.
- 2021 - Jacob deGrom's other-worldly season continues as he pitches five scoreless innings to lead the Mets to a 4 - 2 win over the Braves in the first game of a doubleheader. This extends his scoreless streak to 30 innings, and lowers his season's ERA to 0.50, as he becomes the first pitcher in history to go 12 straight starts of giving up one or no earned runs, besting the record set by Bob Gibson in 1968.
- 2022 - In one of the wildest games of the year, the Royals defeat the Angels, 12 - 11, in 11 innings. Rookie Bobby Witt Jr. has two homers and five RBIs for KC, while Shohei Ohtani replies with two homers and eight RBIs, and Jared Walsh has a double, triple and homer for L.A. The two teams combine for five runs in the 9th, and three in the 11th. Walsh comes up in the bottom of the 11th with the tying run on base and a chance to hit for the cycle for the second time this season, but he pops up to second base to end the game.
- 2023 - In a rare occurrence, two National League teams concurrently have winning streaks of ten or more games. The Reds come back from being down, 3 - 0, to defeat the Rockies, 5 - 3, for their 11th straight victory, their longest such streak since 1957. Simultaneously, the Giants defeat the Orioles, 4 - 2, for their tenth straight win.
Births[edit]
- 1860 - Charlie Levis, infielder (d. 1926)
- 1865 - Victor Jose, umpire (d. 1928)
- 1866 - Matt Kilroy, pitcher (d. 1940)
- 1874 - Tom Jones, infielder (d. 1923)
- 1876 - Billy Gilbert, infielder (d. 1927)
- 1877 - James McGeehan, minor league manager (d. 1951)
- 1877 - Ed Watkins, outfielder (d. 1933)
- 1879 - Hunter Hill, infielder (d. 1959)
- 1884 - Ray Tift, pitcher (d. 1945)
- 1891 - Bert Adams, catcher (d. 1940)
- 1894 - Oliver Marcelle, infielder (d. 1949)
- 1894 - Roy Roberts, pitcher (d. 1964)
- 1898 - Spencer Adams, infielder (d. 1970)
- 1898 - Valentín Dreke, outfielder (d. 1929)
- 1898 - Shang Johnson, pitcher (d. ????)
- 1900 - Red Barron, outfielder (d. 1982)
- 1905 - Don McShane, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1985)
- 1906 - Randy Moore, outfielder (d. 1992)
- 1906 - Art Smith, pitcher (d. 1995)
- 1906 - Russ Van Atta, pitcher (d. 1986)
- 1908 - Hidenosuke Shima, NPB outfielder and umpire; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1995)
- 1910 - Harold Seymour, author (d. 1992)
- 1917 - Luís Saint-Claire, Dominican national team catcher (d. ????)
- 1918 - Ed Lopat, pitcher, manager; All-Star (d. 1992)
- 1920 - Juan Hernández, minor league pitcher (d. 2008)
- 1920 - Yasuo Kusunoki, NPB catcher (d. 2000)
- 1926 - Merle Harmon, announcer (d. 2009)
- 1926 - Tom Kruta, minor league pitcher (d. 1997)
- 1927 - Jackie Collum, pitcher (d. 2009)
- 1928 - Carroll Berryman, minor league outfielder (d. 2016)
- 1937 - Art Simmons, Negro League pitcher
- 1947 - Moe Hill, minor league outfielder
- 1948 - José Amador, minor league outfielder (d. 2020)
- 1949 - Paul Sullivan, minor league pitcher
- 1950 - Mike Beard, pitcher (d. 2022)
- 1951 - Bob Polinsky, minor league pitcher (d. 2020)
- 1952 - Dave Downs, pitcher
- 1953 - Neil Buszard, Australian national team player
- 1953 - Charlie Moore, catcher
- 1953 - Gene Pentz, pitcher
- 1956 - Paul Kirsch, minor league infielder and manager (d. 2021)
- 1956 - Rick Sutcliffe, pitcher; All-Star
- 1957 - Jay Pettibone, pitcher
- 1960 - César Chavarría, Nicaraguan national team catcher
- 1962 - Damon Farmar, minor league outfielder
- 1962 - Yong-kook Kim, KBO infielder
- 1962 - Jay North, scout (d. 2009)
- 1963 - Don Lovell, minor league infielder
- 1963 - Jeff Musselman, pitcher
- 1964 - Hiroo Ishii, NPB infielder
- 1964 - Brad Moore, pitcher
- 1965 - Toshiya Adachi, NPB infielder
- 1965 - Virgilio Kaa, Panamanian national team infielder
- 1966 - Ed Walsh, minor league infielder (d. 2014)
- 1968 - Chien-Nan Lai, CPBL infielder
- 1969 - Donovan Osborne, pitcher
- 1969 - Corey Paul, NPB outfielder
- 1971 - Dennys Gomez, minor league pitcher
- 1972 - Jose Correa, minor league pitcher
- 1973 - Duke Castiglione, announcer
- 1974 - Sean Runyan, pitcher
- 1977 - Roger Deago, pitcher
- 1978 - Luis Rivera, pitcher
- 1978 - Brian Rose, minor league coach (d. 2013)
- 1978 - Frédéric Simon, Division Elite outfielder
- 1980 - Yosvany Almario-Cabrera, minor league outfielder
- 1980 - Sendy Rleal, pitcher
- 1980 - Kieran Mattison, minor league pitcher and manager
- 1981 - Chun-Ren Wang, CPBL catcher
- 1981 - Jeff Baker, infielder
- 1981 - Jimmy Bermúdez, Nicaraguan national team pitcher
- 1981 - Garrett Jones, outfielder
- 1982 - Dae-ho Lee, infielder
- 1982 - Arnie Munoz, pitcher
- 1984 - Gabe Morales, umpire
- 1985 - Nat Anglin, Irish national team pitcher
- 1985 - Juan Diaz, Puerto Rican national team infielder
- 1985 - Ryne Lawson, minor league pitcher
- 1986 - Justin Friend, minor league pitcher
- 1986 - Hideaki Wakui, NPB pitcher
- 1987 - Thibault Conduzorgues, division elite player
- 1987 - Danny Rondón, minor league pitcher
- 1988 - Yueh-Teng Hsu, CPBL catcher
- 1988 - Ihor Litvinchuk, Croatian national team pitcher-infielder
- 1990 - Kevin Fontanez, minor league player
- 1990 - Ariel Frigo, Brazilian national team outfielder
- 1990 - Trey Haley, minor league pitcher
- 1990 - Marcus Knecht, minor league outfielder
- 1990 - Willy Paulino, minor league pitcher
- 1990 - Philip Smith, Croatian national team catcher
- 1991 - Jefry Marte, infielder
- 1991 - Jim Ploeger, Hoofdklasse pitcher
- 1992 - Christefer Obispo, minor league infielder
- 1993 - Chia-Ming Cheng, CPBL pitcher
- 1993 - Sam Clay, pitcher
- 1994 - Seung-taek Han, KBO catcher
- 1994 - Keita Hirao, Japanese national team pitcher
- 1997 - Dino Altomonte, Philippines national team catcher
- 1997 - Grant Anderson, pitcher
- 1997 - Chris Roycroft, pitcher
- 1997 - Lucas Sakay, Brazilian national team infielder
- 1998 - Pablo Guillén, minor league pitcher
- 1998 - Dylan Spain, minor league pitcher
- 1999 - Luis Arrieta, minor league pitcher
- 1999 - Garrett Crochet, pitcher; All-Star
- 2001 - Eugene Gay, New Zealand national team pitcher
- 2003 - Phon Netra, Cambodian national team pitcher
- 2004 - Chieh-Hsi Huang, CPBL infielder
Deaths[edit]
- 1889 - Ed Duffy, infielder (b. 1844)
- 1895 - Rex Smith, pitcher (b. 1861)
- 1915 - Roy Parker, minor league player (b. 1882)
- 1918 - Davy Force, infielder (b. 1849)
- 1923 - Claude Elliott, pitcher (b. 1876)
- 1923 - Bill Grevell, pitcher (b. 1898)
- 1923 - Tom Jones, infielder (b. 1874)
- 1934 - Monte Cross, infielder (b. 1869)
- 1936 - Ambrose Puttmann, pitcher (b. 1880)
- 1943 - Chet Chadbourne, outfielder (b. 1884)
- 1944 - Harry Swacina, infielder (b. 1881)
- 1952 - Andy Dunning, pitcher (b. 1871)
- 1961 - Al Bergman, infielder (b. 1889)
- 1962 - Robert Brown, minor league executive (b. 1876)
- 1965 - Jay Dahl, pitcher (b. 1945)
- 1965 - Sandy Thompson, outfielder (b. 1895)
- 1968 - Dell Chambers, minor league infielder (b. 1948)
- 1968 - Apolinar Pulido, minor league infielder (b. 1903)
- 1974 - Homer Blankenship, pitcher (b. 1902)
- 1974 - Joe Jenkins, catcher (b. 1890)
- 1978 - Tom Fiall, outfielder (b. 1894)
- 1981 - Larry Claflin, writer (b. 1928)
- 1981 - Edwin Schweda, minor league outfielder (b. 1916)
- 1983 - Kit Carson, outfielder (b. 1912)
- 1983 - Maurice Gorham, minor league outfielder (b. 1914)
- 1986 - Arnie Portocarrero, pitcher (b. 1931)
- 1987 - Phil Weintraub, infielder (b. 1907)
- 1988 - Ed Linke, pitcher (b. 1911)
- 1991 - Harry Wilke, infielder (b. 1900)
- 1991 - Anthony Gubicza, minor league pitcher (b. 1928)
- 1998 - Al Campanis, infielder (b. 1916)
- 2000 - Bud Stewart, outfielder (b. 1916)
- 2015 - Darryl Hamilton, outfielder (b. 1964)
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