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Events

• 1871 - Both the Athletic of Philadelphia and the Troy Haymakers score in each inning, with Athletic winning, 49 - 33, the highest-scoring contest in the history of the National Association. The 42 hits made by Athletic (including a 7-for-7 day by John Radcliff and 6-for-8 performances by Al Reach and Levi Meyerle) is also a league record.
• 1884 - Tom Lee of Chicago gives up a franchise record six homers in a game at Lake Front Park, where the fence is just under 200 feet from home plate. No Cubs pitcher will match that until Matt Swarmer in 2022.
• 1894 - Louisville P George Hemming throws an 11-inning 25-hitter, as the Colonels edge Boston, 11 - 9.
• 1903:
  • At St. Louis, Cy Young shuts out the Browns in the opener, 1 - 0, pinning a tough loss on Red Donahue. Boston righty Long Tom Hughes follows with a 3 - 0 win in the nitecap. Jack Powell takes the loss.
  • Detroit travels out of state for a home game - a Sunday match in Toledo, Ohio against the A's. Albert Bender tops the Tigers' Joe Yeager, 7 - 3, before a crowd of 4,500.
• 1907 - The last-place Washington Senators steal a record 13 bases off C Branch Rickey in a 16 - 5 win over New York. Rickey, acquired last February from the Browns, is pressed into service despite a bad shoulder because of an injury to starter Red Kleinow. Rickey's first throw to second base ends up in right field and the subsequent tosses are not much better. He almost nips Jim Delahanty on a steal of third base. In his eight innings, relief pitcher Lew Brockett helps Washington with a deliberate windup. Only pitcher Tom Hughes and 2B Nig Perrine are steal-less, while Hal Chase swipes one for New York.
• 1909 - Phillies president Israel Durham dies four months after taking over the team.
• 1910 - Cubs shortstop Joe Tinker steals home twice, becoming the first major leaguer to accomplish the feat in Chicago's 11 - 1 home win over the Reds. Mordecai Brown is the winner.
• 1911 - Just two and a half months after a fire destroyed the old Polo Grounds, the new grounds open for business. The old bleachers, seating 10,000, were untouched, but the new double-decker grandstand seats another 16,000. Only 6,000 fans show up for the inauguration as Christy Mathewson shuts out the Rustlers, 3 - 0, on nine hits. On the front end of a double steal, Mathewson swipes home in the 4th inning. While guests at the Highlanders' Hilltop Park, the Giants won 21 of 29 games.
• 1912 - The Giants sweep another two from the Braves, winning 10 - 3 and 12 - 3. Christy Mathewson wins the opener, adding a steal of home in the 4th inning. This is the second time in a month that a Giants pitcher has stolen home: Red Ames did it May 22nd against Brooklyn. The Giants will steal home 17 times this year to tie the National League mark set by Chicago last season.
• 1914 - The Reds' Pete Schneider makes his debut with a nifty 1 - 0 shutout over the Pirates. He will finish the year with a 5-13 mark.
• 1915:
  • Recent University of Michigan graduate George Sisler makes his major league debut as a pinch hitter. Sisler stays on to pitch the last three innings, giving up no runs, in the Browns' 4 - 2 loss to the White Sox.
  • The Giants sweep two from the Braves, winning 3 - 2 and 5 - 3. Christy Mathewson wins the opener, pitching 11 innings to beat Pat Ragan. Art Fletcher scores the winning run in the 11th on an error. Matty allows six hits, including a two-run homer in the 4th by Sherry Magee. Jeff Tesreau is the winner in the nitecap.
• 1916:
  • New York Yankee outfielder Lee Magee collects a record-tying four assists.
  • The Giants' Ferdie Schupp stops the Braves on one hit, a single by Ed Konetchy.
  • Cubs catcher Bill Fischer sets a major league record by catching all 27 innings in a doubleheader loss to the Pirates. The second game goes 18 innings before the Corsairs win it, 3 - 2. Impressed with Fischer's durability, the Pirates will acquire the backstop next month.
  • Rogers Hornsby, playing his first full season for St. Louis, has a five-hit day, with three singles and two doubles.
• 1919 - Red Sox submariner Carl Mays hurls two complete games beating the Yankees, 2 - 0, in the first game and losing the nightcap, 4 - 1.
• 1922:
  • Christy Mathewson, in a sanitarium for treatment of tuberculosis, throws out the first pitch for a game at Saranac Lake, NY.
  • Walter Johnson wins another 1 - 0 battle, this one over the Yankees, for his third straight shutout and 97th in all. Johnson strikes out nine. Waite Hoyt losses a tough one, allowing just two hits in the first eight innings. Earl Smith's double in the 9th drives home the winner.
• 1925:
  • Tris Speaker connects for the 658th double of his career, breaking Nap Lajoie's career record. He will go on to set the all-time record - still standing - with 792.
  • A's OF "Broadway" Bill Lamar hits in his 28th straight game; he'll be stopped tomorrow, but will hit .356 on the year.
• 1927:
  • The Yanks build a 9 - 0 lead against the A's, and withstand an eight-run rally by the Mackmen in the 9th to win, 9 - 8. New York now leads the American League by ten games. Lou Gehrig collects his 100th hit of the year, belting his 23rd homer with one on. Babe Ruth, nursing a sore right knee, sits out his third straight game.
  • At Chicago, Lena Blackburne, filling in for manager Ray Schalk, ejected earlier in the game by Brick Owens, inserts himself as a pinch hitter in the 9th and singles. He comes around to score the winning run as the White Sox edge the Indians, 8 - 7.
• 1928 - Babe Ruth slugs two home runs to lead the Yankees to a 10 - 4 victory over the Athletics, and Ty Cobb appears in his 3,000th career game.
• 1931 - Records for catching fly balls are set in a doubleheader as the A's beat the Tigers, 9 - 1 and 5 - 1. The Detroit outfielders make 24 putouts, and Philadelphia adds 19 for a two-team total of 43 in the two games.
• 1933:
  • 2B Billy Herman sets National League fielding records with 11 putouts in the first game and 16 for the twin bill, as the Cubs take a pair from the Phillies, 9 - 5 and 8 - 3.
  • Spitballer Jack Quinn, one week short of his 50th birthday, loses his final career decision as the Dodgers edge the Reds, 6 - 5.
• 1935 - Earl Averill's consecutive game streak ends at 673 when he is injured in a pre-July 4th fireworks accident. Cleveland still wins, 6 - 5, over the visiting White Sox.
• 1936 - Larry French and Bill Lee pitch the Cubs to twin shutouts, 3 - 0 and 6 - 0, over the Giants and replace the Cardinals in the league lead.
• 1939 - The Yankees hit eight home runs in the first game of a doubleheader with the A's, and five more in the nightcap. Both are major league records, as are the 53 total bases in a doubleheader. Joe DiMaggio, Babe Dahlgren and Joe Gordon each hit three homers. The Yankees win the opener, 23 - 2, and take the nightcap, 10 - 0.
• 1940 - Johnny Vander Meer, plagued with control problems, is optioned by the Reds to Indianapolis. Vandy was ineffective in the Reds' pennant drive last year and was knocked out in his only two starts this year.
• 1941 - White Sox rookie Don Kolloway does it all. He steals four bases, including second, third, and home in the 9th, and hits two home runs and a single in a 6 - 4 win over the Indians.
• 1947 - Walker Cooper of the Giants hits a home run in his sixth consecutive game to tie a record set by George Kelly in 1924. Cooper had two homers in the first game of the streak, and his shot today helps his brother Mort win, 14 - 6, over the Phils. No player will homer in his brother's win until Jordan Danks does so to help John Danks 66 years later.
• 1949 - After missing the first 69 games of the season because of an ailing heel, Joe DiMaggio wakes to find the pain has disappeared. He returns to the Yankee lineup with a single and a home run that help the Bombers beat the Red Sox, 6 - 4, in a night game at Fenway Park. He will hit four homers in a three-game sweep.
• 1950:
  • Roy Smalley of the Cubs hits for the cycle in a 15 - 3 win over the Cards at Wrigley Field. Doyle Lade is the winner.
  • Hideo Fujimoto throws the first perfect game in Nippon Pro Baseball history.
• 1951:
  • Monte Irvin clubs two homers off Ralph Branca as the Giants edge the Dodgers, 5 - 4. The second homer, a three-run shot in the 8th, gives the win to reliever Sheldon Jones. The Dodgers now lead the Giants by five games.
  • Singer Helen Traubel sells her estimated 5,000 shares in the Browns to Bill Veeck and urges her fellow stockholders to do the same.
  • The Cubs' Frank Hiller faces just 27 batters in pitching a one-hitter over the Cards, winning 8 - 0. Enos Slaughter has a 5th-inning single but is erased on a double play. Randy Jackson poles his seventh homer in the 7th and the Cubs pull off a double steal in the 9th when they add four runs. Jack Cusick swipes home, with Hiller stealing third.
• 1952 - Stan Musial tops the All-Star balloting for the second year in a row.
• 1957:
  • Ray Moore blanks Cleveland, 6 - 0, as the Orioles pitching staff hurls its fourth consecutive shutout, for a new American League mark.
  • Ponca City and Greenville (Sooner State League) turn triple plays in successive half innings. Greenville turns theirs in the bottom of the 1st, while Ponca City follows with one in the top half of the 2nd.
  • By stuffing the ballot box, Cincinnati fans elect eight Redlegs as starters in the All-Star Game. Over protests from Redlegs fans, Commissioner Ford Frick names Stan Musial, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron to replace Cincinnati's Gus Bell, George Crowe and Wally Post in the starting lineup. In the final vote tally, Musial is the only non-Redleg who would have started.
• 1959 - Phillies flychaser Wally Post becomes the first major leaguer to throw out two runners from the outfield in one inning as his team loses to the Giants, 6 - 0.
• 1961:
  • The Phillies and Giants play for 5 hours and 11 minutes, but the 15-inning contest ends in a 7 - 7 tie. Both teams score three in the 15th in the longest night game to date.
  • Ryne Duren goes eight innings and strikes out 12 former teammates to give the Angels a 5 - 3 win over New York. Mickey Mantle drives in all three Yankee runs, two on a home run.
• 1962:
  • At Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles brings reliever Larry Sherry in to pitch in the 8th inning with brother Norm Sherry behind the plate. Larry goes two-thirds of an inning and is lifted, and the Dodgers top the Mets, 5 - 4, in 13 innings. The Sherrys are the first brother battery since the Baileys started for the Redlegs in 1959.
  • Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle break a scoreless tie in the 4th with back-to-back home runs to lead the Yanks to a 4 - 2 win over the Twins.
• 1963 - At Los Angeles, the Braves' Warren Spahn beats Don Drysdale, three-hitting the Dodgers, 1 - 0. It is the first time Spahn has beaten the Dodgers on their home grounds since August 21, 1948 (15 years). He had lost 14 straight: nine at Ebbets Field; four at Memorial Coliseum and one at Dodger Stadium.
• 1966 - At Fenway Park, the last-place Red Sox cash in five Yankee errors to top the visitors, 5 - 3. All of New York's scoring comes from Mickey Mantle, who blasts a two-run homer in the 1st and an opposite field homer on the left field screen in the 8th.
• 1967 - Relief ace Hoyt Wilhelm of the White Sox extends his major-league record for consecutive errorless games to 247. The White Sox win, 3 - 2, at Baltimore.
• 1969 - After ending its 11-game losing streak yesterday, San Diego suffers its second 19 - 0 shutout of the season, as the Dodgers, behind Don Drysdale, match the National League-record shutout margin. The Dodgers score ten runs in the 3rd to make it easy. Steve Arlin is the loser. Seven batters have two ribbies for the Dodgers.
• 1970:
  • For the third time in their careers, Pete Rose and Bobby Tolan combine to belt lead-off homers for the Reds. This time Houston's Don Wilson is the victim. Tony Perez hits his 27th homer, off Wilson, in the top of the 9th for a 3 - 2 Reds win.
  • In the final games played at Forbes Field, the Pirates sweep a doubleheader from the Cubs, 3 - 2 and 4 - 1 in front of 40,198 fans, to gain a first-place tie with the Mets.
• 1973 - During a 2 - 0 win over the Angels, White Sox star Dick Allen breaks his leg in a collision with Mike Epstein at first base. Allen will come to bat only five more times all season.
• 1974 - At Cleveland, Indians OF Leron Lee crashes into Boston C Carlton Fisk, knocking him out of the game. Fisk's left knee injury is so serious he will not return to action this year, and, with a broken arm sustained in next year's spring training, will not play until June 1975.
• 1975 - At Riverfront Stadium, George Foster hits a two-out two-run homer in the 10th inning to give the Reds a 6 - 4 win over the Padres.
• 1976:
  • Boston's Butch Hobson debuts at Fenway Park with a double off the center field wall and a rare inside-the-park homer, both off the Orioles' Rudy May. Boston wins, 12 - 8.
  • Tigers rookie Mark "the Bird" Fidrych amuses a national television audience by talking to the baseball and pitching a complete game seven-hitter in a 5 - 1 win over the Yankees.
• 1977:
  • Ken Reitz knocks in eight runs - half on a grand slam - in a 13 - 3 St. Louis win over Pittsburgh.
  • Billy Hunter becomes the Rangers' fourth manager in six days. Connie Ryan had filled in after Eddie Stanky's abrupt departure.
• 1979:
  • It should've been five. At Honolulu, Hawaii (Pacific Coast League) tops Phoenix, 6 - 5, in 17 innings. Steve Brye of Hawaii is given a PCL-record four consecutive intentional walks before he drives in the winning run in the 17th inning.
  • The Pirates trade pitchers Ed Whitson, Al Holland and Fred Breining to the Giants for P Dave Roberts and infielders Bill Madlock and Lenny Randle. Madlock, whose average dropped after the Giants moved him to 2B, will rebound with the Bucs, hitting .328 the rest of the way and leading them to a pennant.
  • The Reds sell OF Ken Henderson to the Cubs and swap P Pedro Borbon to the Giants for OF Hector Cruz.
• 1980 - J.R. Richard again leaves after just 3 1/3 innings against Cincinnati in an 8 - 5 loss. In 16 starts, the Houston star has now left early three times with a sore back, three times with a sore shoulder, and three times with a weak forearm.
• 1984 - Dwight Evans hits a three-run home run in the bottom of the 11th inning to complete the cycle and give Boston a 9 - 6 win over Seattle.
• 1987:
  • In a seven-game day, American League batters combined to hit a record 28 home runs.
  • Pinch hitter Greg Gross breaks up Ron Darling's no-hitter with a leadoff triple in the 8th inning and two Phillie rallies beat the Mets, 5 - 4.
  • Don Baylor moves ahead of Ron Hunt on the all-time hit-by-pitch list when the Yankees' Rick Rhoden plunks him during a 6 - 2 loss to the Red Sox. It is the 244th time that Baylor has been hit by a pitch. He'll end with 267, putting him third on the list behind turn-of-the-century star Hughie Jennings.
  • One day after hitting three home runs in Oakland's 13 - 3 rout of the Indians, A's rookie 1B Mark McGwire hits two more in a 10 - 0 Oakland romp to tie the major-league record of five homers in two games. McGwire's nine runs in two games ties an American League record set in 1937.
• 1991 - Reds SS Barry Larkin hits three consecutive home runs in an 8 - 5 win over the Astros, giving him a major league record-tying five over a two-game span. Ernie Banks and Freddie Patek are the only other shortstops to homer three times in a game.
• 1992 - Minnesota rumbles by Oakland for the third straight game, 10 - 2, to leave the two teams tied in the American League West at 43-31. Scott Erickson wins over Kevin Campbell. Kirby Puckett and Greg Gagne homer for the Twins.
• 1993 - Rangers OF Jose Canseco faces ligament transplant surgery in his arm, which he injured during his brief one-inning stint on the mound in relief on May 29th.
• 1994:
  • Oakland P Bobby Witt follows up his one-hit shutout over the Royals with a two-hit whitewashing of the Angels, winning by a score of 3 - 0.
  • Mets P Dwight Gooden receives a 60-day suspension for violating terms of his drug aftercare program.
  • Before a crowd of 55,021, the Rockies split a pair with the visiting Padres. The Rocks outslug the Pads to win the opener, 10 - 9, as the two teams combine for six homers. No balls leave the park in the second game, an 11 - 3 Padre win. San Diego scores a National League-record nine runs in the 11th, and the ten runs in the inning by two teams is one short of the NL mark.
  • The Phils' injury-plagued C Darren Daulton suffers another season-ending injury when he uses his left collarbone to catch a foul tip off the bat of Jeff Conine. Daulton will be out the rest of the season. Florida beats the Phils, 2 - 1, as Jeff Mutis wins his first and only game in the National League.
• 1995:
  • Colorado pulls off the hidden ball trick in a 2 - 1, 11-inning loss to the host San Francisco Giants. In the first inning, Darren Lewis is tagged out at third base by Vinny Castilla, with Barry Bonds at bat.
  • The Cubs trade C Rick Wilkins to the Astros for OF Luis Gonzalez and C Scott Servais.
• 1996:
  • Darryl Strawberry's 300th career round-tripper is a dramatic 9th-inning, two-run dinger which gives the Yankees a come-from-behind 3 - 2 win over the Royals.
  • Seattle scores seven runs in the 1st inning, and eight in the 5th, on the way to a 19 - 8 pasting of the Rangers. 3B Luis Sojo gets five hits for the winners.
• 1997:
  • Yankees P David Wells starts the game against Cleveland wearing Babe Ruth's autographed cap from the 1934 season. Manager Joe Torre makes him take it off after the 1st inning since it doesn't conform to the team's current uniform. Without the cap, Wells blows a 3 - 0 lead as the Indians go on to a 12 - 8 victory. The Indians mount a 19-hit attack, as CF Marquis Grissom accounts for five of the hits, while 3B Matt Williams gets four hits, including a pair of homers, and drives home six runs.
  • For the second time in three days, a Tiger steals four bases with Boston C Scott Hatteberg behind the plate. This time it is Damion Easley doing the stealing in Detroit's 9 - 2 victory. Tomorrow, Hatteberg will start on the bench, but will come in when Bill Haselman breaks his finger.
• 1998:
  • Sammy Sosa has two singles and an RBI - but no homers - as the Cubs snap a seven-game losing streak with a 6 - 3 win over the Royals.
  • Milwaukee 3B Jeff Cirillo gets five hits and drives in two runs, but it's not enough to keep the Brewers from losing a 10 - 8 decision to the White Sox.
  • The Twins' Bob Tewksbury slows down Mark McGwire, twice retiring him with a 44-MPH lob. McGwire grounds out in the 1st inning swinging at a lob, and then with a 0 - 2 count in the 4th, pops out to first on another. Tewksbury also retires Ray Lankford in the 6th on a lob and ends with a 3 - 2 win.
• 1999 - Hack Wilson ups his RBI total for the 1930 season to 191. 69 years after the season, an RBI is added to his batting record by the commissioner's office, which also gives Babe Ruth six additional walks, raising his career-record total to 2,062. "There is no doubt that Hack Wilson's RBI total should be 191," commissioner Bud Selig says. "I am sensitive to the historical significance that accompanies the correction of such a prestigious record, especially after so many years have passed, but it is important to get it right." The missing RBI comes from the second game of a doubleheader between Wilson's Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Reds on July 28, 1930 in which Charlie Grimm was wrongly credited with two RBIs and Wilson with none. Ruth's walk total is now 2,062. Ted Williams is second, trailing by 43, and Rickey Henderson of the New York Mets is third, 134 behind Ruth.
• 2000:
  • The Orioles nip the Red Sox, 8 - 7 in 11 innings, as B.J. Surhoff goes 5 for 6 for Baltimore, stretching his hitting streak to 21 games.
  • The Rockies overcome a seven-run deficit to defeat the visiting Giants, 17 - 13, as 3B Jeff Cirillo slugs a double and three home runs, drives home six runs, and scores five himself. Cirillo's third homer, a two-run shot off John Johnstone, breaks a 12 - 12 tie. The Rockies draw their 20 millionth fan to one ballpark faster than any other team in major league history. Taking less than six years, Colorado eclipses the Dodgers' mark of taking nine years in two stadiums to reach the milestone.
• 2001:
  • The Reds defeat the Cubs, 5 - 2, as OF Alex Ochoa gets five hits, including a home run, for Cincinnati. OF Dmitri Young adds four hits.
  • After 20 seasons in San Diego, Padre outfielder Tony Gwynn announces he'll retire at the end of the season. The future Hall of Famer has the highest lifetime batting average (.338) among all active players.
• 2002 - Tampa Bay whips their cross-state rival Marlins, 4 - 0, behind Wilson Alvarez and two relievers. In the 7th, Kevin Millar of the Marlins hits a towering fly that lands on one of the catwalks that hang from the stadium's dome. It never comes down and is ruled a double. It's the second time a ball has gotten stuck in a catwalk at Tropicana Field. In 1999, Jose Canseco hit a home run drive that lodged there. Millar joins Ruppert Jones, Ricky Nelson, Dave Kingman, Alvaro Espinoza and Canseco as the only players to hit a fair ball that got stuck in a stadium obstruction. Jones and Nelson both had hits get caught in the overhead speakers at the old Kingdome. The balls hit by Kingman and Espinoza were at the Minneapolis Metrodome with Kingman's getting stuck in a drainage valve and Espinoza's lodging in an overhead speaker.
• 2004 - In a 14 - 6 win over the Expos at Citizens Bank Park, David Bell becomes the seventh player in Phillies history to hit for the cycle. The Philadelphia third baseman joins his grandfather Gus Bell (1951) as the only grandson and grandfather combination to accomplish the feat.
• 2007:
  • Frank Thomas hit his 500th home run. He is the 21st player to reach the mark. He connects with a three-run shot in the 1st against Carlos Silva, going 396 feet to left field. The hit is the difference in a 5 - 4 victory by the Jays.
  • Craig Biggio ties his career high with five hits to reach 3,000 for his career. He is the 27th player to have accumulated that many. It is one day shy of the 19th anniversary of his first major league hit, a June 29th single against Orel Hershiser. Biggio becomes the first player to reach 3,000 hits in a five-hit game. On his third hit, the hustling veteran is thrown out trying to stretch it into a double. Biggio is 5 for 6 overall in Houston's 8 - 5 win in 11 innings.
• 2008:
  • The Los Angeles Dodgers win a game without the benefit of a hit when they are thwarted by Angels pitchers Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo over eight innings. In the 6th inning, Matt Kemp reaches first base on an error by Weaver, steals second and advances to third on a throwing error by catcher Jeff Mathis, then scores the game's only run on a sacrifice fly by Blake DeWitt. The last team to win a game without registering a base hit were the Cleveland Indians who beat Boston's Matt Young under similar circumstances on April 12, 1992. It is the fifth time since 1900 that a major league team has won a game without a hit.
  • Danny Rios of the Yakult Swallows is served with a one-year suspension for positive steroid tests in May and June. He is the third player to be suspended under Nippon Pro Baseball's steroid policy (following Rick Guttormson and Luis A. Gonzalez) and the second to be suspended for a year. Rios was only 2-7 a year after having won the Korea Baseball Organization MVP award. The KBO never tested Rios for steroids when he pitched in that league. Rios, like Gonzalez, played in the majors before going to Japan.
• 2009:
  • Mariano Rivera earns his 500th career save as the Yankees complete a three-game sweep of the Mets with a 4 - 2 win at Citi Field. Rivera, who is the second pitcher to reach the milestone after Trevor Hoffman, also draws a bases-loaded walk in the 9th for his first career RBI.
  • The red-hot Colorado Rockies complete a sweep of the A's with a 3 - 1 win, their 20th in their last 23 games. Aaron Cook takes a shutout into the 9th to earn the win.
  • The Lake Elsinore Storm rout the High Desert Mavericks, 33 - 18, in the California League; the two teams set a new league record for runs in a game. The Storm set a record with 32 hits. Six Storm players score at least four times, led by Matt Clark's seven runs. Kuo-Hui Lo scores four, drives in four and homers twice in a losing cause. Nine pitchers allow three or more runs, with only Travis Mortimore having a good day (1 2/3 IP, 0 R).
• 2010:
  • Ubaldo Jimenez gives up no hits over the first five innings but then runs into trouble, giving up four runs to the Padres in the 6th. The Rockies' offense bails him out, however, with four home runs and ten runs and he registers his major league-leading 14th win; his ERA has risen from 1.16 to 1.83 after his last two mediocre starts, though.
  • The Tigers lose pitcher Joel Zumaya to an elbow injury suffered while throwing a pitch in the 8th inning against the Twins, but they hold on for a 7 - 5 win to take over first place in the AL Central. The Bengals jump to an early 4 - 0 lead on 1st-inning doubles by Miguel Cabrera and Brennan Boesch. Jeremy Bonderman is the winner over Francisco Liriano, but Zumaya's dramatic injury casts a pall over the Tigers' dugout; x-rays will confirm that he has a fractured elbow and will not pitch again this year.
  • Edwin Rodriguez, who became the first Puerto Rican manager in major league history last week, wins a game in front of his countrymen as the Marlins defeat the Mets, 10 - 3, at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is the first major league game played in the stadium since the MLB-owned Montreal Expos were forced to move a number of home games there in 2003 and 2004. A crown of more than 18,000 is on hand for the historic game. With Bobby Valentine turning down an offer to manage the Marlins, Rodriguez will be confirmed as Florida's skipper for the remainder of the season.
• 2011:
  • The University of South Carolina becomes the first team to go 10-0 in a NCAA Tournament, winning the 2011 College World Series for their second straight title. They win, 5 - 2, over Florida in Game 2 of the finals, behind Michael Roth's 14th win of the year. Karsten Whitson takes the loss, his only one this season. Gamecocks 2B Scott Wingo is named the Tournament MVP.
  • Cliff Lee hurls his third consecutive shutout in blanking the Red Sox, 5 - 0. The Phillies pitcher now has a 32-inning scoreless streak and improves to 9-5, going 5-0, 0.21 in June. The last Philly pitcher to throw three consecutive shutouts was Robin Roberts in 1950.
  • The Mets hit their first grand slam since August 1, 2009, when Jason Bay connects in the 4th inning of their game against the Tigers. They don't have to wait as long for the next one, as one inning later, Carlos Beltran imitates him to cap a 14 - 3 win. The Mets had been outslammed 18-0 in the interim.
• 2012:
  • Madison Bumgarner pitches a one-hitter for a 5 - 0 win over the Reds. It is the fourth straight shutout by Giants pitchers, setting a franchise record.
  • OF Yasiel Puig becomes the third Cuban defector this year to sign a contract worth tens of millions with a major league team, when he agrees to a seven-year deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers for $42 million. Puig's signing follows that of Yoenis Cespedes, who is having a fine rookie season with Oakland, and of Jorge Soler who inked a deal with the Cubs earlier this month. The 21-year-old centerfielder will need to remain in Mexico City for a few more weeks, until a work visa can be obtained. However, the Dodgers are anxious to complete the deal before a cap on international signings comes into effect on July 2nd as part of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
• 2013:
  • Having already matched Roger Clemens' 1997 feat of winning his first 11 decisions of the season, the Tigers' Max Scherzer becomes the first pitcher since "Rocket Roger" in 1986 to roll off 12 straight wins at the start of the year. Scherzer defeats the Rays, 6 - 3, although he is still two wins shy of Roger, who began his breakout season with 14 straight W's. In support of Scherzer's pitching, Miguel Cabrera has a four-hit game, including a pair of homers against Alex Colome.
  • The Phillies end a six-game winning streak by the Dodgers with a 16 - 1 shellacking. Delmon Young has a career-high six RBI and John Lannan wins his first game for the team. For the Dodgers, it's their biggest losing margin since moving to Los Angeles in 1958.
• 2015 - Pitcher Steven Matz has a great debut as he goes 3 for 3 at the plate and pitches into the 8th inning to lead the Mets to a 7 - 2 win over the Reds, completing a doubleheader sweep. He becomes the first pitcher to drive in four runs in his debut, settling down after allowing a home run to the first batter he faces, Brandon Phillips.
• 2016:
  • The Indians defeat the Braves, 5 - 3, behind Corey Kluber, for their 11th straight win. It is the team's longest winning streak since 1982 and they now lead the AL Central by 5 1/2 games.
  • In defeating the Reds, 7 - 2, in 15 innings, the Cubs have to use three different pitchers in left field after they run out of position players. Relievers Travis Wood and Spencer Patton alternate between the mound and the outfield in the 14th, then another reliever, Pedro Strop, plays in left in the 15th as Wood closes out the win. Kris Bryant snaps the tie with an RBI single in the top of the 15th and Javier Baez follows with a grand slam to put the game away.
• 2017:
  • Walking on the Roberto Clemente Bridge near PNC Park in Pittsburgh, PA, umpire John Tumpane sees a woman climb over the railing. Realizing she is suicidal and about to jump into the Allegheny River below, Tumpane reaches and grabs her, and then gets assistance from other passers-by to prevent her from making the fatal leap until emergency workers can arrive on the scene.
  • One day after he ranted to reporters about pitcher Jake Arrieta's failure to hold on baserunners when the Nationals stole a team-record seven bases, C Miguel Montero is designated for assignment by the Cubs, who call his tirade unprofessional and detrimental to the team's cohesion.
• 2018:
  • University of California sophomore 1B Andrew Vaughn is the winner of the Golden Spikes Award, honoring the best college baseball player in the country. Vaughn hit .402 with 23 homers and 63 RBIs this season and beats out three top picks in the 2018 amateur draft: Casey Mize, Brady Singer and Kody Clemens.
  • Oregon State University wins the 2018 College World Series, defeating the University of Arkansas, 5 - 0, in Game 3 of the finals. Kevin Abel throws a complete game shutout to seal the win, retiring the last 20 batters of the game. C Adley Rutschman is named the tournament MVP with a record 17 hits in the tourney. It is Oregon's third championship, after those in 2006 and 2007.
• 2019 - Police in the Dominican Republic announce that they have arrested the prime suspect in the shooting of David Ortiz on June 9th. They believe the affair was a case of mistaken identity and that the shots were intended for a cousin of the crime's sponsor, who was sitting next to Ortiz at the bar, but that the henchmen hired to do the job got confused. The suspect has links to the Mexican Gulf Cartel. That theory will not convince many people and will be torn apart by a private investigation that will confirm that Big Papi was indeed the intended target.
• 2023 - Domingo Germán of the Yankees throws the 24th perfect game in major league history, and the first since 2012, in defeating the Athletics, 11 - 0. He strikes out nine batters in pitching his gem.
• 2024 - Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda, one of the few men to win both a Rookie of the Year Award and an MVP Award, passes away at 86, only a few days after the death of long-time teammate Willie Mays.

Births

• 1846 - George McManus, manager (d. 1918)
• 1861 - Mart McQuaid, infielder (d. 1928)
• 1861 - Mox McQuery, infielder (d. 1900)
• 1865 - Frank Scheibeck, infielder (d. 1956)
• 1866 - Charlie Petty, pitcher (d. 1928)
• 1868 - John Taber, pitcher (d. 1940)
• 1871 - Ike Fisher, catcher (d. 1947)
• 1877 - Bob Blewett, pitcher (d. 1958)
• 1880 - Mike Lynch, pitcher (d. 1927)
• 1881 - George Cockill, umpire (d. 1937)
• 1882 - Spider Baum, minor league pitcher (d. 1955)
• 1886 - Fred Miller, pitcher (d. 1953)
• 1889 - Bill Mundy, infielder (d. 1958)
• 1890 - Howard Drew, USA national team outfielder (d. 1957)
• 1890 - Ken Williams, outfielder (d. 1959)
• 1907 - Joe Cascarella, pitcher (d. 2002)
• 1910 - Lee Gamble, outfielder (d. 1994)
• 1910 - Haruyasu Nakajima, first Triple Crown winner in Japan (d. 1987)
• 1911 - Jim Hitchcock, infielder (d. 1959)
• 1915 - A. Ray Smith, minor league executive (d. 1999)
• 1919 - Leniel Hooker, pitcher (d. 1977)
• 1920 - Bert Shepard, pitcher (d. 2008)
• 1921 - Steve Filipowicz, outfielder (d. 1975)
• 1921 - John Hooper, minor league outfielder (d. 2014)
• 1924 - Bill Andress, umpire (d. 2008)
• 1924 - Ray Cash, minor league catcher and manager (d. 1985)
• 1927 - Tunney Brooks, minor league player (d. 2012)
• 1927 - Paul Eames, minor league catcher and manager; scout (d. 2011)
• 1927 - Dick Lane, outfielder (d. 2018)
• 1930 - Charlie Moore Sr., minor league pitcher
• 1931 - Oscar Rodriguez, minor league infielder; Salon de la Fama
• 1935 - Junzo Ando, NPB catcher
• 1935 - Don Bacon, minor league infielder and manager
• 1935 - Bob Blaylock, pitcher (d. 2024)
• 1935 - Orlando McFarlane, catcher (d. 2007)
• 1936 - Fred Gladding, pitcher (d. 2015)
• 1937 - Cal Emery, infielder (d.2010)
• 1937 - Ron Luciano, umpire; author (d. 1995)
• 1940 - Gary Wagner, pitcher
• 1941 - Len Boehmer, infielder
• 1941 - Al Downing, pitcher; All-Star
• 1941 - Fred Talbot, pitcher (d. 2013)
• 1942 - Shozo Doi, NPB infielder and manager
• 1942 - Tom Fletcher, pitcher (d. 2018)
• 1942 - George Woodson, minor league pitcher
• 1943 - Susumu Sakudo, NPB catcher
• 1943 - Keisuke Senda, NPB infielder
• 1944 - Hal Breeden, infielder (d. 2021)
• 1946 - Greg Sims, outfielder
• 1949 - Don Baylor, designated hitter, manager; All-Star (d. 2017)
• 1950 - Chris Speier, infielder; All-Star
• 1952 - Kojiro Ikegaya, NPB pitcher
• 1952 - Joe Sambito, pitcher; All-Star
• 1953 - Isao Fukuda, NPB coach
• 1954 - Pablo Juárez, Nicaraguan national team outfielder
• 1954 - Kwang-kwon Lee, KBO pitcher
• 1955 - Kwang-eun Lee, KBO outfielder and manager
• 1956 - Brad Fischer, coach
• 1956 - Lai-Fa Lee, NPB outfielder; CPBL manager (d. 2024)
• 1958 - Clay Christiansen, pitcher
• 1958 - Rafael Vasquez, pitcher
• 1958 - Keijiro Yumioka, NPB infielder
• 1960 - John Elway, minor league outfielder
• 1961 - Martin Helmig, German national team pitcher
• 1961 - Yoshihiro Nishioka, NPB outfielder
• 1961 - Jay Schroeder, minor league catcher
• 1961 - Joe Szekely, minor league catcher and manager
• 1964 - Mark Grace, infielder; All-Star
• 1964 - Kevin Reimer, outfielder
• 1964 - Dave Serrano, college coach
• 1966 - Frank Bolick, infielder
• 1966 - Shawn Jeter, outfielder
• 1967 - Eduardo Cárdenas, Cuban league infielder
• 1967 - Matt Karchner, pitcher
• 1967 - Ron Witmeyer, infielder
• 1969 - Aaron Jersild, minor league pitcher
• 1969 - Todd Revenig, pitcher
• 1970 - Kevin Polcovich, infielder
• 1971 - Greg Keagle, pitcher
• 1971 - Ron Mahay, pitcher
• 1971 - Neil Szeryk, Canadian national team infielder
• 1972 - Chad Kopitzke, minor league pitcher
• 1973 - Jose Flores, infielder
• 1973 - Corey Koskie, infielder
• 1974 - Toine Jager, Hoofdklasse outfielder
• 1975 - Chad Green, minor league outfielder
• 1975 - Richard Hidalgo, outfielder
• 1975 - Adam Robinson, minor league infielder
• 1976 - Kenshi Kawaguchi, NPB outfielder
• 1976 - Osmani Urrutia, Cuban League outfielder
• 1977 - Kevin McGlinchy, pitcher
• 1977 - Chris Spurling, pitcher
• 1977 - Hua-Wei Tseng, CPBL outfielder
• 1978 - Ryan McDermott, minor league pitcher (d. 2015)
• 1979 - Dirk Fries, Bundesliga pitcher
• 1980 - Victor Mendez, minor league outfielder
• 1981 - Brandon Phillips, infielder; All-Star
• 1983 - T.J. Franco, minor league pitcher
• 1983 - Andriy Kubalskyy, Ukrainian national team outfielder
• 1984 - Tyron Bartorillo, New Zealand national team infielder
• 1984 - Clay Zavada, pitcher
• 1985 - Colt Hynes, pitcher
• 1986 - Takuya Hashimoto, Japanese national team infielder
• 1987 - Andrea Girasole, Bundesliga pitcher
• 1988 - Jose Felix, minor league player
• 1988 - Wang-Wei Lin, minor league outfielder
• 1988 - Wang-Yi Lin, minor league pitcher
• 1988 - Kevan Smith, catcher
• 1989 - Min-sik Kim, KBO catcher
• 1989 - Jason Krizan, outfielder
• 1990 - Steeven Vesque, Division Elite pitcher-infielder
• 1992 - Jui-Lin Chang, CPBL pitcher
• 1993 - Michael Feliz, pitcher
• 1993 - Juan Herrera, minor league infielder
• 1993 - Marek Minarik, minor league pitcher
• 1993 - Erick Salcedo, minor league infielder
• 1994 - Spencer Bivens, pitcher
• 1994 - José Cuas, pitcher
• 1995 - Taiki Sekine, NPB outfielder
• 1996 - Daniel Álvarez, minor league pitcher
• 1996 - Evan Mendoza, minor league infielder
• 1996 - Takumu Nakano, NPB infielder
• 1997 - Marielbys Ferro, Cuban women's national team infielder
• 1998 - Fernando Villegas Jr., minor league outfielder
• 1998 - Josh Winckowski, pitcher
• 2000 - Kevin Solórzano, Ecuadorian national team pitcher
• 2001 - Jakob Marsee, minor league outfielder
• 2001 - Luis Rodríguez, Puerto Rican national team pitcher
• 2001 - Blake Walston, pitcher

Deaths

• 1888 - Joe Brown, pitcher (b. 1859)
• 1909 - Israel Durham, owner (b. 1855)
• 1922 - Dick Lowe, catcher (b. 1854)
• 1937 - Pop Joy, infielder (b. 1860)
• 1941 - Jack Herbert, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1877)
• 1941 - Bruce Petway, catcher, manager (b. 1885)
• 1944 - Ecky Stearns, infielder (b. 1861)
• 1950 - Mutz Ens, infielder (b. 1887)
• 1955 - Spider Baum, minor league pitcher (b. 1882)
• 1957 - Johnny Ray, outfielder (b. 1911)
• 1960 - Bull Durham, pitcher (b. 1877)
• 1962 - Mickey Cochrane, catcher, manager; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1903)
• 1962 - Cy Morgan, pitcher (b. 1878)
• 1963 - Frank Baker, infielder; Hall of Famer (b. 1886)
• 1968 - Paddy Driscoll, infielder (b. 1895)
• 1969 - Sammy Gee, infielder (b. 1928)
• 1977 - Otto Bluege, infielder (b. 1909)
• 1978 - Johnny Schulte, catcher (b. 1896)
• 1987 - Bill Schuster, infielder (b. 1912)
• 1999 - A. Ray Smith, minor league owner (b. 1915)
• 2004 - Hal Toenes, pitcher (b. 1917)
• 2005 - Steve Reich, minor league pitcher (b. 1971)
• 2008 - Sam Carrigan, umpire (b. 1921)
• 2008 - George Heller, minor league pitcher (b. 1927)
• 2009 - Ralph Nelles, minor league executive (b. 1918)
• 2009 - Tony Patch, umpire (b. 1940)
• 2011 - Billy Baldwin, outfielder (b. 1948)
• 2011 - John Bargas, minor league catcher (b. 1923)
• 2012 - Joe Richardson, minor league player and manager (b. 1921)
• 2012 - Doris Sams, AAGPBL outfielder and pitcher (b. 1927)
• 2014 - Jim Brosnan, pitcher (b. 1929)
• 2014 - Jim Duffus, minor league pitcher; author (b. 1927)
• 2016 - Takuji Kochi, NPB infielder (b. 1920)
• 2017 - Pepper Martin, college coach (b. 1920)
• 2018 - Mike Kilkenny, pitcher (b. 1945)
• 2024 - Orlando Cepeda, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1937)