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Events

• 1901 - In Chicago, Jack Taylor allows 10 hits to the Giants, but is unscored on until the 9th. The Orphans paste Christy Mathewson for 12 hits to win, 5 - 2. Chicago has now won three in a row over the visiting New Yorkers, and will take the next two games in the series as well.
• 1902 - In his New York Giants debut as manager, John McGraw, loses to the Phillies, 5 - 3. His team will finish in last place with a record of 48-88 and 53 1/2 games behind the pennant-winning Pirates.
• 1904 - The Pirates push across two runs in the 9th against Christy Mathewson to edge the first-place Giants, 2 - 1.
• 1905 - The Pirates pull to within five games of New York by overcoming a 5 - 2 deficit and beating the Giants, 8 - 5. Umpire Bill Klem provokes a barrage of garbage from the New York fans by tossing Dan McGann and Mike Donlin out of the game for abusive behavior.
• 1909 - With two men on base, Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball catches Amby McConnell's line drive, gets Heinie Wagner at second, and then tags Jake Stahl completing the first modern major league unassisted triple play in a 6 - 1 win over the Red Sox. Cleveland wins, 6 - 1, behind Cy Young, but Boston wins the nitecap, 3 - 2.
• 1910 - Cy Young, 43, wins his 500th game 5 - 4, over Washington in 11 innings.
• 1911 - Former circus acrobat Walter Carlisle completes an unassisted triple play for the Vernon Tigers of the Pacific Coast League. With the score tied at 3 - 3 in the 6th inning, and men on first and second base, he makes a spectacular diving catch of a short fly by batter Roy Akin, touches second, and runs to first to retire both runners. Vernon wins, 5 - 4, with the speedy English-born Carlisle pulling off the only unassisted triple play ever accomplished by an outfielder in organized baseball.
• 1912 - Ty Cobb strokes seven hits in a doubleheader to give him a major-league record of 14 in two consecutive twin bills against the Athletics. Bill White will tie Cobb in 1961. Cobb also pummeled the A's for seven hits on the 17th on his way to collecting an incredible 68 hits for the month, a record.
• 1914 - Behind reliever Paul Strand, the Braves get three runs in the 9th off Earl Yingling to beat the Reds, 3 - 2, and climb out of last place on their way to the pennant. During that journey, they will pass the Reds going the other way, as today's loss starts the Reds' fall from second place to last.
• 1915 - The Washington Senators steal eight bases in one inning off Cleveland catcher Steve O'Neill. The 1st-inning thievery establishes a major league record for stolen bases in one frame. There are three thefts by Danny Moeller including second base, third base and home, two each by Clyde Milan and Eddie Ainsmith, and one by George McBride in the 11 - 4 Washington win. Walter Johnson allows just two hits in six innings before taking the afternoon off. Reliever Nick Altrock gives up the Cleveland scores.
• 1916 - At Chicago, the Giants edge the Cubs, 8 - 6, as New York CF Benny Kauff tags out two runners at second base for a double play. With one out the Cubs load the bases. Giant catcher Bill Rariden throws to second and catches the runner, Les Mann, off. In the rundown, the runner on third breaks for home and scores when the Giants fumble. But the ball is recovered and the throw to Kauff covering second gets the runner sliding back. Kauff then looks up and tags the runner trying to advance from first base to end the inning.
• 1918 - Washington C Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker rules that baseball is not an essential occupation and all players of draft age are subject to the "work-in-essential-industries-or-fight" rule. The ruling sends many players to work in shipyards and other defense industries, where they can play part-time or semipro. Ban Johnson says the American League will close down July 21st, but the next day both leagues vote to continue. A week later, Baker exempts players from the rule until September 1st. Both leagues vote to cut the season short, and end it on Labor Day, September 2nd, with the World Series set to start immediately afterwards.
• 1920 - Babe Ruth becomes the first player in MLB history to hit 30 home runs in one season. The shot off Dickey Kerr of the White Sox breaks his record of 29 from the previous year. He added a second home run later in the game, but the Yankees lost at the Polo Grounds, 8-5. Ruth will finish with an astounding 54 homers this season, outhomering every other major league team except the Phillies (64).
• 1924 - Cards rookie right-hander Herman Bell holds the Braves hitless until one out in the 8th of the first of two games. Then he does the same until one out in the 5th inning of the second game, winning both, 6 - 1 and 2 - 1. He allows only six hits in the twin-bill wins.
• 1927 - It's John McGraw Day at the Polo Grounds, in honor of his 25 years as Giants manager. The Cubs spoil the day with an 8 - 5 win.
• 1933 - For the first time, brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox C Rick Ferrell hits his home run off brother Wes of Cleveland. Wes hits his off Hank Johnson in the 3rd inning. He will wind up his career with 38 homers in 548 games. Rick will hit only 28 in 1,884 games.
• 1936 - 17-year-old Iowa farm boy Bob Feller makes his major league debut, pitching one inning of relief against the Senators in Washington, D.C. The hard-throwing kid allows no hits and no runs, striking out none, and walks two batters.
• 1937 - P Johnny Broaca is fined $250 and suspended indefinitely by the Yankees for jumping the club.
• 1940 - Buddy Rosar of the Yanks hits for the cycle; Joe Cronin will do it August 2nd, and Joe Gordon on September 8th.
• 1942:
  • P Mike Ryba of the Red Sox catches both games of a doubleheader against the Indians at Fenway Park.
  • Brooklyn's lead of eight games has now been cut as the Cards win 3 of 4. The larger blow, however, is a concussion suffered by Pete Reiser after crashing into an outfield wall at Sportsman's Park chasing Enos Slaughter's 11th-inning fly. Reiser drops the ball upon impact, and Slaughter scores an inside-the-park homer for a 7 - 6 Cards win. Hitting .379 at the time, Reiser will see his average fall to .310 after the injury. His 20 stolen bases will still lead the National League.
• 1946 - In a Boston-Chicago game, 14 White Sox are banished for jeering umpire Red Jones.
• 1950:
  • The Pirates purchase 3B Bob Dillinger from the Athletics for $35,000.
  • The Yankees sign their first Black players, OF Elston Howard and P Frank Barnes. They acquire them from the Kansas City Monarchs and assign them to the Muskegon Clippers (Central League).
  • At Fenway Park, Vern Stephens crashes a three-run home run, his 200th career homer, in the 1st off Fred Hutchinson. Detroit wins, 9 - 5, with a little help in the 9th from umpire Jim Boyer. Boyer calls time just before pinch-hitter Tom Wright triples to CF. In his do-over, Wright grounds out. Stephens joins five other active players with more than 200 homers: Joe DiMaggio, Johnny Mize, Ted Williams, Joe Gordon, and Bill Nicholson.
  • Frank E. McKinney resigns as president of the Pirates. He sells interests in the club to John Galbreath and Tom Johnson, with Galbreath assuming the presidency. Vice President Bing Crosby retains his minority interest.
  • Southpaw Ed Lopat of the Yanks wins, 16 - 1, over the Browns, throwing a two-hitter in the first game of a doubleheader.
• 1951 - Despite a pair of homers by Clyde Vollmer, the Indians edge the Red Sox, 5 - 4, in 11 innings.
• 1952 - The visiting Fitzgerald club (Georgia State League) sends up 12-year-old batboy Joe Reliford to bat as a pinch-hitter in the 8th inning of a game with Statesboro. The black batboy, who thereby breaks the league's color barrier, grounds out, but makes a fine catch in the outfield when he stays in the game. Umpire Ed Kubick, who approved the move, will be fired by the league the next day.
• 1953:
  • The Giants' Whitey Lockman leads off the game with a home run for the second day in a row, as the Giants whip the Braves, 7 - 5.
  • Boston lefty Mickey McDermott and relief P Ellis Kinder combine for a one-hitter against Cleveland. OF Al Smith's 4th-inning single is the only Tribe safety.
• 1955:
  • Pirate hurler Vern Law pitches 18 innings in beating Milwaukee, 4 - 3, giving up just nine hits and fanning 12.
  • Playing like Babe Ruth, Detroit relief P Babe Birrer pitches four innings and hits two three-run homers.
  • Chattanooga (Southern Association) OF Jim Lemon clouts four home runs in the league's All-Star contest, as the All-Stars defeat the first-place Birmingham club, 10 - 5.
• 1957 - Testifying before the Celler committee, Pacific Coast League President Leslie O'Connor holds that 90 percent of all good ballplayers are monopolized through the farm teams. He adds that the major leagues may control as many as 1,098 players.
• 1958 - The Yanks' Norm Siebern has his second five-hit game of the month, against the Athletics, as New York loses, 6 - 4.
• 1959 - Before 57,000 at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees sweep a pair from the visiting White Sox, winning the nitecap, 6 - 4, on Mickey Mantle's homer off Turk Lown. In the first game, Yankee veteran Enos Slaughter belts a pair of homers; at age 43, he is the oldest player this century to accomplish the feat. Carlton Fisk, a few months older, will top Slaughter in 1991.
• 1960:
  • Roy Sievers' 21-game hitting streak, the longest for any player this year, ends, but White Sox teammate Luis Aparicio's inside-the-park home run and Billy Pierce's shutout beat Boston, 6 - 0.
  • The Yankees outslug the Indians, 13 - 11, behind the slugging of Bill Skowron. Skowron follows a Yogi Berra blast with his second homer in the 8th, but Cleveland answers with two in the bottom of the 8th for an 11 - 8 lead. Moose then hits a bases-loaded double in the 9th to win it. Roger Maris hits his 30th home run and Jimmy Piersall homers for the Tribe.
  • In his major league debut, Giants rookie righty Juan Marichal one-hits the Phillies at Candlestick Park, 2 - 0. Philadelphia's lone hit is a two-out, 8th-inning single by pinch hitter Clay Dalrymple. Marichal winds up with 12 strikeouts and is the first National League hurler since 1900 to debut with a one-hitter.
  • Senators ace Pedro Ramos pitches a one-hitter, beating Detroit, 5 - 0. Rocky Colavito's leadoff single in the 8th, a grounder that eludes SS Jose Valdivielso, is the lone safety.
• 1961:
  • Ford Frick, an old friend of Babe Ruth's, announces that should Ruth's single-season home run record be beaten after 154 games are played, the record will carry a "distinctive mark". When asked about the ruling, Roger Maris replies, "A season is a season." Sportswriter Dick Young suggests an asterisk, which is later claimed to be Frick's idea. No such designation is ever used in the record books, though, but the incident leads to a myth that an "official record book" lists Maris's record with an asterisk. The myth is still popularly believed over 50 years later.
  • The Yanks and Senators split, with Washington winning the nitecap, 12 - 2. Dick Donovan is the winner. Mickey Mantle belts a 500-foot homer in the 4th over the RF wall.
• 1962 - John W. Cox, owner of Yankee Stadium, donates the facility to Rice University.
• 1963 - Tommy Harper drives in all the runs in the Reds' 5 - 2 win over the Giants. Harper has two home runs and a single for Cincinnati.
• 1963 - With one out and a man on in the 9th, Roy Sievers hits his 300th career home run to give the Phils a 2 - 1 win over the Mets. Roger Craig is the victim, his 13th straight loss.
• 1964:
  • Luis Tiant debuts with a 4-hit, 11-strikeout, 3 - 0 win for Cleveland at Yankee Stadium. The losing pitcher is Whitey Ford. Tiant was brought up yesterday after posting a 15-1 record at Portland (AAA).
  • Chicago edges the A's, 3 - 2, in 13 innings when pitcher Gary Peters socks a pinch homer.
• 1966:
  • At Chicago, Cub Byron Browne strikes out five times against Reds starter Jim Maloney. The Reds finally win, 3 - 2, in 18 innings, with Joe Nuxhall victorious over Fergie Jenkins. Don Pavletich belts a homer in the 18th inning off Jenkins. In tomorrow's Reds win over the Cubs, Browne will strike out another three times to set a National League record for two games on his way to leading the NL in strikeouts with 143.
  • The Cards edge the Braves, 10 - 9, with the win going to reliever Nellie Briles. Redbird starter Tracy Stallard gets no decision in his last major league appearance. Stallard sets a major league record for his seven-year career by receiving no walks in 247 plate appearances.
• 1969:
  • Phillie Dick Allen's suspension ends, but he incurs a $12,000 fine.
  • The Twins and Pilots suspend an 16-inning game at 7 - 7.
  • At War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo, a knife-wielding gang takes over the clubhouse during batting practice. The International League game is postponed due to "threatening weather."
• 1974 - Cleveland's Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland, 4 - 0. He has no one but himself to blame for not picking up a rare perfect game. His throwing error in the 4th puts the A's only runner on base. The two clubs combine to set an American League record with only two runners left on base.
• 1975 - Yankee C Thurman Munson's 1st-inning single and RBI against the Twins are nullified because the tar on his bat handle exceeds the 18-inch limit. Catcher Glenn Borgmann gets the putout. The Yankees lose, 2 - 1.
• 1976 - The Mets' Dave Kingman tears ligaments in his thumb diving for a ball in a 4 - 2 loss to the Braves. Kingman, who already has 32 home runs for the season, will hit only five more after being sidelined for six weeks.
• 1977:
  • While pursuing Hank Aaron's home run record, Sadaharu Oh of the Yomiuri Giants breaks a record held by Babe Ruth when he draws his 2,057th base on balls.
  • At Yankee Stadium, the National League scores four times in the opening inning off Jim Palmer, en route to a 7 - 5 All-Star Game victory. Don Sutton, hurling three scoreless innings, is named the game's MVP.
• 1978:
  • The Red Sox beat the Brewers, 8 - 2, scoring four in the 7th and four in the 8th, to increase their lead in the AL East to nine games over Milwaukee, 12 1/2 over Baltimore, and 14 games over the fourth-place Yankees. In the 7th, the Sox have George Scott on second base and Butch Hobson, playing his first game in weeks because of muscle spasms, on first base. On a Frank Duffy single, Scott scores on a close play, prompting an argument by Brewers catcher Charlie Moore. No time is called, however, and Hobson strolls around the bases to score from first, while Duffy is finally thrown out trying for third base. Carlton Fisk accounts for the other three runs in the inning with his 13th homer of the year.
  • Against the Phils, Pete Rose beats out a 9th-inning bunt to keep his hitting streak alive. It looks dead when Pete is retired in the 8th inning while still hitless, but the Reds score four runs to give Rose the chance to hit again. Mike Schmidt can't handle Rose's bunt. The Reds win, 7 - 2.
• 1979 - Ray Knight drives in six runs to lead the Reds to a 16 - 4 clipping of the Cardinals in St. Louis.
• 1982:
  • The Twins overcome two homers by Robin Yount to beat the Brewers, 6 - 4. Tom Brunansky hits his second inside-the-park homer of the year (the other came on May 28th), but this one is a grand slam off Jerry Augustine. The inside-the-park slam is a first in Twins history.
  • In the first annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic at Washington's Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot homer off Warren Spahn to help the American League to a 7 - 2 win over the National League in a five-inning battle of retired baseball stars.
  • In his major league debut, Tony Gwynn doubles off Phillies southpaw Sid Monge for his first major league hit.
• 1984 - Orel Hershiser pitches his third straight shutout for the Dodgers, striking out nine in a 10 - 0 two-hitter at St. Louis.
• 1986 - Mets players Ron Darling, Tim Teufel, Bob Ojeda and Rick Aguilera are arrested following an early-morning fight with off-duty police officers working as security guards outside a Houston bar, but are all released in time for their game against the Astros that evening. On January 26, 1987, Darling and Teufel will be fined $200 while charges against Ojeda and Aguilera will be dropped.
• 1987 - Texas wins a 20 - 3 laugher over the Yankees. Steve Buechele has two homers to pace the offense. In the 9th inning, catcher Rick Cerone takes the mound and walks one but allows no runs.
• 1988:
  • In the top of the 9th at Wrigley Field, Cubs pitcher Rick Sutcliffe picks Brett Butler off first base unassisted. With Jose Uribe at second, Butler wanders too far off the bag and the Cubs pitcher nabs him for the out. But Sutcliffe loses, 3 - 1, to Rick Reuschel.
  • Hanshin Tigers General Manager Shingo Furuya commits suicide, jumping from the 8th floor of a hotel. He was only in his sixth week on the job, but had drawn much criticism for the retirement of fading great Masayuki Kakefu and a dispute between Randy Bass and Hanshin over Bass's taking a leave of absence to be with his cancer-ridden son.
• 1989 - Cleveland's Joe Carter hits three home runs in a game for the second time this season in a 10 - 1 win over Minnesota. It is his fourth career three-homer game, tying Lou Gehrig's American League record, and also gives him a major league record-tying five homers in two games. Carter knocks home six runs in the game.
• 1991:
  • Detroit pounds Kansas City, 17 - 0, to give Bill Gullickson an easy win over Tom Gordon. It is the worst loss in franchise history for K.C., and a reversal of the match-up of July 14th between the same two starters. That day, the Royals routed the Bengals, 18 - 4.
  • Chieh-Jen Yang throws the first no-hitter in the history of the Chinese Professional Baseball League. The Wei Chuan Dragons blanks the Mercuries Tigers, 4 - 0.
  • Cal Ripken Jr. strokes his 20th home run of the season in Baltimore's 4 - 1 victory over Seattle. He becomes just the eighth player in history to reach that number in each of his first ten big league seasons and it comes in Ripken's 1,500th consecutive game played. Roy Smith is the winner over Rich DeLucia.
  • Robin Ventura drives in six runs on two homers and two doubles to lead Chicago to a 14 - 3 win over Milwaukee. Jack McDowell (12-4) is the winner.
• 1992 - Atsuya Furuta hits for the cycle, the first player to do so in a NPB All-Star Game. He wins his second All-Star Game MVP award.
• 1994:
  • Cardinals P Vicente Palacios hurls a one-hit shutout against Houston, defeating the Astros, 10 - 0. Palacios allows only a 3rd-inning single to Andujar Cedeno and a walk, while striking out eight batters. It is Palacios's 31st birthday.
  • Two hours before the Mariners are scheduled to play the Orioles in the Kingdome, four 15-pound wood-fiber tiles fall from the ceiling of the stadium, landing in the empty seats. The game is postponed indefinitely as an inspection finds that many water-damaged tiles will have to be replaced before baseball can be played there again this season.
• 1996 - The 1996 Summer Olympics' Opening Ceremonies are held at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, GA. Following the Olympics, the stadium will be partially reconstructed into Turner Field, home of the Atlanta Braves from 1997 to 2016.
• 1997 - The Cubs sweep two from the visiting Rockies, 7 - 0 and 6 - 5, to hand Colorado its 15th loss in 16 games. Steve Trachsel tosses seven shutout innings in the opener for the win, and the Cubs score the winning run in the nitecap on Mark Grace's sacrifice fly. The Rocks have 13 hits in the nitecap, but strand 14 runners. Larry Walker is 0 for 9 for the afternoon, dropping his average 10 points to .392.
• 1998 - Blue Jays first baseman Carlos Delgado becomes the first player to reach the SkyDome's fifth deck with his ruthian home run to right field.
• 1999 - The White Sox defeat the Brewers, 10 - 8, in 12 innings. The 18-hit Chicago attack is led by rookie OF Chris Singleton's five safeties, including a 12th-inning home run. It is the rookie's second five-hit game in less than two weeks.
• 2000:
  • The Dodgers beat the Rockies, 9 - 1, as Kevin Brown and Mike Fetters combine on a one-hitter. Larry Walker's single off Brown is Colorado's only safety.
  • The Reds defeat the Astros, 4 - 0, as Pete Harnisch hurls the first complete-game shutout ever at Enron Field.
  • Chicago Cubs general manager Ed Lynch resigns. His job will be taken over by team president Andy MacPhail.
  • The Blue Jays acquire P Esteban Loaiza from the Rangers in exchange for two minor leaguers, Michael Young and Darwin Cubillan. Young will be a perennial All-Star for Texas, the clear winner in the deal.
• 2001:
  • The Rockies obtain OF Alex Ochoa from the Reds for 2B Todd Walker and minor league OF Robin Jennings. The Reds also call up top OF prospect Adam Dunn, who has hit 32 homers in the minors this year. Dunn will clout 19 homers for the Reds including 12 in August, setting the National League rookie record for most home run in any month. The old mark of 11 was set by Frank Robinson, in August 1956. The only other rookies to hit more home runs in a month were Rudy York (18 in August 1937), Mark McGwire (in May 1987) and Jimmie Hall (13 in August 1963).
  • Moises Alou's 23-game hitting streak is ended in St. Louis's 4 - 1 victory over Houston.
  • Arizona defeats San Diego, 3 - 0, in the completion of a game that was suspended after two innings on July 18th. Randy Johnson strikes out 16 batters in his seven innings in relief of Curt Schilling to break the major league mark for relievers set by Walter Johnson on July 25, 1913. He allows just one hit - C Wiki Gonzalez's 8th-inning single - for the Padres' only hit in the contest. In addition to setting the record for Ks in a game by a reliever, Johnson also sets the National League reliever record with seven consecutive strikeouts. Johnson is one shy of the major league mark, set by Ron Davis, on May 4, 1981.
• 2002:
  • The Cardinals acquire veteran P Chuck Finley from the Indians for minor league 1B Luis Garcia and outfielder Covelli "Coco" Crisp, the Cards' minor league player of the year in 2001.
  • Anaheim OF Tim Salmon strokes five hits in the Angels' 15 - 3 win over the Mariners. He drives home five runs in the contest, including three on his 15th home run of the year. The Angels score eight runs in the 6th inning to break open the game.
  • Oakland defeats Texas, 10 - 0, behind Cory Lidle's one-hitter. The Rangers' only hit is Juan Gonzalez's lead-off double in the 8th inning.
• 2004 - In Pacific Coast League action at Portland's PGE Park, Tagg Bozied hits a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Tacoma Rainiers, 8 - 5. Upon his arrival at home plate, the Beavers' first baseman, jumping for joy, ruptures the patella tendon to his left knee and needs to be taken to Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital by ambulance. The injury will cost him a chance at a major league call-up and he will retire without having played in The Show.
• 2007:
  • Shelley Duncan hits his 25th homer for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees to break Wendell Magee's franchise record for home runs. Duncan will be called up to the majors and hit three homers in his first three days in big leagues.
  • Veteran umpire Huh Un is fired by the Korea Baseball Organization as part of a long-running feud. 25 other KBO umpires protest the move and the KBO is forced to hire amateur umpires to fill the gap.
• 2008 - Confusion erupts in a New York-Penn League game between the Staten Island Yankees and Brooklyn Cyclones. Switch-hitting Brooklyn DH Ralph Henriquez Jr. steps to the plate from the right side against Pat Venditte, the minor leagues' first ambidextrous pitcher of the century. Henriquez then decides he will hit left-handed and Venditte promptly switches his glove to the right hand. Henriquez again calls time and switches sides. The shuffle continues several times before the umpires and managers decide that the batter must declare first from which side he will bat and that players can only switch once per at-bat. Venditte, throwing from the right side, winds up whiffing Henriquez on four pitches.
• 2009:
  • With trade rumors continuing to swirl around his name, All-Star Game starter Roy Halladay wins for the first time in over a month as Toronto defeats Boston, 3 - 1. Doc is now 11-3 for the year.
  • John Lackey and rookie Brett Anderson are locked in a scoreless pitching duel for 9 innings before a solo homer by Bobby Abreu in the 10th inning wins the game for the Angels, 1 - 0, over the A's. Abreu had earlier broken Anderson's bid for a perfect game in the 7th.
  • The Brewers, absent injured 2B Rickie Weeks, acquire Felipe López from the Diamondbacks to strengthen their lineup. Arizona gets Cole Gillespie and Roque Mercedes in return.
• 2011:
  • The Pirates are in first place on merit in the NL Central, as their 1 - 0 shutout of one of their chief rivals, the Cincinnati Reds, attests. James McDonald pitches 6 1/3 scoreless innings, then Joe Beimel bails him out of a bases-loaded jam by striking out Jay Bruce to end the 7th inning; two other relievers finish the game. The Pirates manage just four hits, but make Josh Harrison's 1st-inning run stand up.
  • The Giants get some veteran help, acquiring 2B Jeff Keppinger from the Astros for minor league pitchers Henry Sosa and Jason Stoffel. Freddy Sanchez and his replacement Bill Hall are both on the disabled list for the Giants, with Sanchez out for the season.
  • Corendon Kinheim beats the Vaessen Pioniers, 7 - 5. Corendon outfielder Dirk van 't Klooster gets his 1,000th career hit in the Hoofdklasse, becoming the second player to reach that many. Jan Řeháček is the pitcher who yields number one thousand.
• 2012 - Edinson Volquez throws a one-hitter as San Diego defeats Houston, 1 - 0. Matt Downs gets the only Astro hit with a squibbler off Volquez's glove in the 4th. It is only the third complete game shutout thrown by a Padres pitcher since the otherwise pitcher-friendly PETCO Park opened in 2004.
• 2013:
  • OF Brandon Barnes hits for the cycle for the Astros and goes 5 for 5, but it's not enough as the Mariners come out on top, 10 - 7. Brad Miller hits his first two career homers for the M's, racking up 5 RBIs.
  • The Dodgers defeat the Nationals, 3 - 2, to move to a game above .500 as Andre Ethier homers off Rafael Soriano in the top of the 9th.
• 2014 - The Tenerife Marlins clinch their 7th Division de Honor title and second in a row. In the second game of a doubleheader, they rout the Astros Valencia, 10 - 2, to guarantee no team can catch them in the two remaining weeks. Yancarlo Franco homers twice and Leslie Nacar goes the distance for the win.
• 2015:
  • In the men's baseball portion of the 2015 Pan American Games, Team Canada edges Team USA, 7 - 6, in an exciting Gold Medal game. The game is tied 4 - 4 entering the 10th before Tyler Pastornicky hits a two-run double off Chris Leroux to put the US ahead. In the bottom of the 10th, though, Pete Orr singles off David Huff to score Tyson Gillies to close it to 6 - 5. Huff's pick-off attempt sails into right field, scoring Skyler Stromsmoe. RF Brian Bogusevic's throw also gets away and Orr races home with the winning run. Canada becomes only the second team to win multiple Pan American Games titles in baseball - let alone two in a row; Cuba had won 12 and three other countries (the US, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic) had won one. For the US, it is a fifth straight Silver Medal, their 11th in 17 Pan Am appearances.
  • The Bronze Medal game at the 2015 Pan American Games also goes down to the last at-bat. Cuba trails Puerto Rico, 6 - 3, going into the bottom of the 9th, thanks in large part to a grand slam by Edgardo Báez. In the 9th, though, #9 hitter Yorbis Borroto hits a three-run homer off Raúl Rivera to tie it, then leadoff man José Adolis García drills a solo shot. Cuba's last time without a Medal had been 1959, before the Castro era; for Puerto Rico, it is still their best finish in the tournament in 20 years.
  • Zack Greinke of the Dodgers extends his streak of shutout innings to 43 2/3 by tossing 8 innings without allowing a run in defeating the Nationals, 5 - 0. It is the longest such streak in the majors since Orel Hershiser pitched 59 straight innings without allowing a run in 1988 to set the major league record.
  • With five strikeouts in his first appearance of more than one inning this year, Aroldis Chapman of the Reds becomes the fastest pitcher to reach 500 for his career, doing so in 292 innings. Craig Kimbrel had set the record earlier this year by recording number 500 in his 305th inning. But the Reds lose the game to the Indians, 5 - 3, in 11 innings as their pitchers walk in a run four times, including Yan Gomes to drive in the go-ahead run.
  • The Mets strand 25 baserunners but manage to defeat the Cardinals, 3 - 1, in 18 innings. Ruben Tejada drives in the winning run with a sacrifice fly and Eric Campbell follows with a successful squeeze bunt as the Mets go 1-for-26 with runners in scoring position. Starter Carlos Martinez is pressed into service for the Cards and takes the loss, pitching 4 innings. The game is scoreless for 12 innings, until Kevin Plawecki drives in a run for the Mets in the 13th, but Kolten Wong replies with a solo homer.
• 2017:
  • Nolan Arenado leads the charge by going 5-for-6 with 3 homers and 7 RBIs in an 18 - 4 Rockies win over the Padres. Coming to bat in the 8th with a chance at a four-homer game, he flies out to left against Kirby Yates. His three homers tie the club record, last set in 2004, while he is one shy of the team mark for RBIs.
  • Alex Meyer allows only one hit and one walk in 7 scoreless innings, and David Hernandez and Jose Alvarez both pitch a hitless inning as the Angels defeat Washington, 7 - 0, on a one-hitter. Meyer is a former first-round draft choice of the Nationals whose struggles with control have kept him from harnessing his raw talent until now. Mike Trout and C.J. Cron both hit two-run homers for Los Angeles.
• 2018:
  • For the second straight day, a player who appeared in the 2018 All-Star Game is traded as San Diego deals Brad Hand and fellow reliever Adam Cimber to Cleveland in return for top prospect C Francisco Mejia.
  • The only game played today features the Cubs hosting the Cardinals at Wrigley Field. The Cubs win, 9 - 6, handing interim Cards manager Mike Shildt his first loss as a skipper. Jason Heyward, who ended the first half very hot, has 3 hits and 2 RBIs, Victor Caratini scores three times and Ian Happ adds a two-run homer. Pedro Strop picks up the save after the Cubs place closer Brandon Morrow on the disabled list before the game.
  • The German Baseball and Softball Hall of Fame inducts four players, all from baseball, their biggest class in 12 years. Inducted are Klaus Knüttel (the first Bundesliga-1 player to 100 career homers and also a star pitcher; he joins his wife, a softball inductee in 2008), Michael Wäller (four-time Best Pitcher), Frank Stattler (three-time Best Pitcher) and Matthias Winterrath (1992 MVP).
• 2019 - Mike Leake of the Mariners takes a perfect game into the 9th inning before giving up a single to Luis Rengifo of the Angels. He settles for a one-hitter in a 10 - 0 win.
• 2022 - The American League wins its 9th straight All-Star Game, 3 - 2 over the National League. The NL scores twice against Shane McClanahan in the bottom of the 1st, but is then limited to a single hit over the final 8 innings. In the 4th inning, the AL gets all its runs against Tony Gonsolin on a two-run homer by Giancarlo Stanton and a solo shot by Byron Buxton. Stanton is named the game's MVP.
• 2023 - The Pacific League wins its fourth consecutive NPB All-Star Game, taking 2023 NPB All-Star Game 1 with a 8-1 rout; it was 2-0 before one out was recorded and 4-0 after seven batters. Kensuke Kondoh went 3-for-3 while Yuki Yanagita and Chusei Mannami both go deep; Yanagita wins his third NPB All-Star Game MVP award. Roki Sasaki and five relievers shut out the Central League before Toshiro Miyazaki homers off Masahiro Tanaka in the 8th to avoid a whitewash.

Births

• 1841 - J.H. Haynie, umpire (d. 1912)
• 1861 - Bob Pettit, outfielder (d. 1910)
• 1865 - Jim Donnelly, infielder (d. 1915)
• 1865 - Bill Hart, pitcher (d. 1936)
• 1878 - Erve Beck, infielder (d. 1916)
• 1880 - Cal Vasbinder, pitcher (d. 1950)
• 1886 - Butch Schmidt, infielder (d. 1952)
• 1888 - George Dunlop, infielder (d. 1971)
• 1888 - Ed Sweeney, catcher (d. 1947)
• 1889 - Clint Rogge, pitcher (d. 1969)
• 1890 - Bob Smith, pitcher (d. 1965)
• 1891 - Earl Hamilton, pitcher (d. 1968)
• 1891 - Jim Scoggins, pitcher (d. 1923)
• 1894 - George Brickley, outfielder (d. 1947)
• 1895 - Snake Henry, infielder (d. 1987)
• 1896 - Joe Boley, infielder (d. 1962)
• 1896 - Bob Meusel, outfielder (d. 1977)
• 1897 - George Barr, umpire (d. 1974)
• 1899 - Joe Kiefer, pitcher (d. 1975)
• 1904 - Mark Koenig, infielder (d. 1993)
• 1906 - Jackie Hayes, infielder (d. 1983)
• 1907 - Slim Norris, infielder (d. 1931)
• 1910 - Harry Kinzy, pitcher (d. 2003)
• 1912 - Ben Geraghty, infielder (d. 1963)
• 1914 - Marius Russo, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2005)
• 1916 - Phil Cavarretta, infielder, manager; All-Star (d. 2010)
• 1918 - Casey Jones, catcher (d. 1998)
• 1918 - Walter Mueller, minor league pitcher (d. 2006)
• 1919 - Denio Canton, pitcher (d. 2005)
• 1919 - Curly Clement, umpire (d. 2006)
• 1922 - Jiro Kanayama, NPB infielder (d. 1984)
• 1922 - Rachel Robinson, civil rights activist
• 1922 - Ray Yochim, pitcher (d. 2002)]
• 1923 - Lon Simmons, minor league pitcher; broadcaster (d. 2015)
• 1927 - Billy Gardner, infielder, manager (d. 2024)
• 1929 - Alice Pollitt, AAGPBL infielder (d. 2016)
• 1930 - Marcelino Solis, pitcher (d. 2001)
• 1932 - Dick Lawlor, scout (d. 2021)
• 1934 - Bill Kirk, pitcher (d. 2009)
• 1935 - Nick Koback, catcher (d. 2015)
• 1936 - Willie Broughton, minor league infielder (d. 2018)
• 1937 - Jaime Corella, minor league catcher; Salon de la Fama
• 1938 - Russell Buhite, minor league infielder (d. 2018)
• 1938 - Gordie Richardson, pitcher
• 1940 - Efraín Ibarra, minor league umpire; Salon de la Fama (d. 2010)
• 1941 - Johnny Fairley, Negro League outfielder
• 1946 - Peter Golenbock, writer
• 1949 - Gene Locklear, outfielder
• 1951 - Jayson Stark, writer
• 1954 - Dan Graham, catcher
• 1956 - Bob Hamilton, minor league outfielder
• 1957 - Curt Kaufman, pitcher
• 1962 - Hee-min Han, KBO pitcher
• 1962 - Dick Scott, infielder
• 1963 - Mark Carreon, outfielder
• 1963 - Vicente Palacios, pitcher
• 1963 - Doyle Wilson, minor league catcher
• 1965 - Shinichi Kato, NPB pitcher
• 1966 - Tim Leiper, minor league outfielder and manager
• 1966 - David Segui, infielder
• 1966 - Marc Tepper, minor league infielder
• 1966 - Ben Thijssen, Hoofdklasse outfielder and coach
• 1967 - Roque Román, minor league pitcher
• 1971 - Gus Gandarillas, pitcher
• 1971 - Keith Johns, infielder/designated hitter
• 1972 - Marlon Colon, minor league infielder
• 1972 - Tamara Ivie, Women's Baseball World Cup player
• 1972 - Seok-jin Park, KBO pitcher
• 1972 - Greg Thomas, minor league outfielder
• 1973 - Dave Feuerstein, minor league outfielder
• 1973 - Scott Morgan, minor league outfielder
• 1973 - Alex Pacheco, pitcher
• 1974 - Preston Wilson, outfielder; All-Star
• 1975 - Thiago Ojima, Brazilian national team outfielder
• 1976 - Rich Gomez, minor league outfielder
• 1978 - Ryan Ellis, minor league infielder and manager
• 1978 - Yorvit Torrealba, catcher
• 1978 - Steve Watkins, pitcher
• 1979 - Rick Ankiel, pitcher/outfielder
• 1979 - Atsushi Kizuka, NPB pitcher
• 1980 - Jordi Vallés, Division Honor pitcher
• 1981 - Pat Evers, college coach
• 1981 - Jimmy Gobble, pitcher
• 1982 - Phil Coke, pitcher
• 1983 - Tim Dillard, pitcher
• 1983 - Othoniel Higuera, minor league catcher (d. 2013)
• 1983 - Dae-hyung Lee, KBO outfielder
• 1983 - Wilton Lopez, pitcher
• 1984 - Vedran Krnjaić, Croatian national team outfielder
• 1984 - John Slusarz, minor league pitcher
• 1984 - Ralph Tropiano, minor league infielder
• 1985 - Ernesto Frieri, pitcher
• 1985 - Aaron Levin, minor league player
• 1985 - Maiko Loyola, minor league outfielder
• 1985 - Evan Scribner, pitcher
• 1986 - Luis Segovia, scout
• 1987 - Oren Gal, Israeli national team infielder
• 1987 - Yan Gomes, catcher; All-Star
• 1987 - Richard Martinez, minor league catcher
• 1987 - Ajay Meyer, minor league pitcher
• 1987 - Ginjiro Sumitani, NPB catcher
• 1988 - Dennis Burgersdijk, Hoofdklasse pitcher
• 1988 - Kirk Clark, minor league pitcher
• 1988 - Brian Garman, minor league pitcher
• 1989 - Luis Avilan, pitcher
• 1989 - Delvi Cid, minor league player
• 1989 - Patrick Corbin, pitcher; All-Star
• 1989 - Christian Frias, minor league infielder
• 1989 - Luís Yendis, minor league pitcher
• 1990 - Jason Esposito, minor league infielder
• 1990 - Jonathan Pettibone, pitcher
• 1990 - Jose Vargas, minor league pitcher
• 1991 - Federico Gómez, minor league infielder
• 1991 - Garrett Gould, minor league pitcher
• 1991 - David Holmberg, pitcher
• 1991 - Fidel Pena, minor league infielder and manager
• 1991 - Drew Vettleson, minor league outfielder
• 1991 - Joshua Wong, minor league infielder
• 1993 - Armando Ruiz, minor league pitcher
• 1994 - Mauricio Dubón, infielder
• 1994 - Seigi Tanaka, NPB pitcher
• 1994 - Alex Webb, minor league pitcher
• 1995 - Dalbert Sirí, minor league pitcher
• 1996 - Matteo Bocchi, minor league pitcher
• 1996 - Jermaine Palacios, infielder
• 1997 - Leonardo Castro, minor league pitcher
• 1999 - Leonard Bäckström, Elitserien catcher
• 2000 - Jonathan Cannon, minor league pitcher
• 2001 - Marquis Grissom Jr., minor league pitcher
• 2002 - Heon-min Shin, KBO pitcher
• 2005 - Raine Padgham, Canadian women's national team pitcher

Deaths

• 1913 - Jiggs Donahue, infielder (b. 1879)
• 1920 - John Hinton, infielder (b. 1876)
• 1923 - Nate Kellogg, infielder (b. 1858)
• 1925 - Dick Wallace, infielder, manager (b. 1882)
• 1929 - Tom O'Rourke, catcher (b. 1865)
• 1930 - Will Holland, infielder (b. ????)
• 1934 - Ed Hutchinson, infielder (b. 1867)
• 1940 - Jimmie Heffernan, minor league pitcher and manager (b. 1881)
• 1940 - John Heileman, infielder (b. 1872)
• 1944 - Clarence Lindsay, infielder, manager (b. 1898)
• 1948 - Charlie See, outfielder (b. 1896)
• 1951 - Sam Agnew, catcher (b. 1887)
• 1960 - Charlie Whitehouse, pitcher (b. 1894)
• 1963 - Charlie Hanford, outfielder (b. 1881)
• 1964 - Len Swormstedt, pitcher (b. 1878)
• 1969 - Otto Vogel, outfielder (b. 1899)
• 1969 - Al Williams, pitcher (b. 1914)
• 1983 - Joe Beggs, pitcher (b. 1910)
• 1983 - George Sweatt, infielder/outfielder (b. 1893)
• 1987 - Bob Smith, pitcher (b. 1895)
• 1988 - Shingo Furuya, NPB GM (b. ~1932)
• 1989 - Joe Greene, catcher, All-Star (b. 1911)
• 1991 - Joe Jachym, minor league pitcher (b. 1906)
• 1996 - Dan Lewandowski, pitcher (b. 1928)
• 1998 - Elmer Valo, outfielder (b. 1921)
• 2002 - Spec Shea, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1920)
• 2003 - Red Norwood, minor league pitcher and manager (b. 1929)
• 2003 - Dottie Stolze, AAGPBL utility player (b. 1923)
• 2004 - Roger Marquis, outfielder (b. 1937)
• 2007 - Jim Mangan, catcher (b. 1929)
• 2008 - Ramiro Caballero, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1930)
• 2008 - Jerome Holtzman, writer (b. 1926)
• 2009 - Sue Burns, owner (b. 1950)
• 2014 - Percy Hough, minor league catcher (b. 1929)
• 2014 - John Winkin, college coach (b. 1919)
• 2015 - Fred Calaicone, minor league player and college coach (b. 1933)
• 2015 - Rugger Ardizoia, pitcher (b. 1919)
• 2016 - Lefty Bowe, pitcher (b. 1918)
• 2019 - Don Mossi, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1929)