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Events, births and deaths that occurred on July 2.

Events

• 1901 - With Boston leading 5 - 2 over the Orioles in the 6th inning, the O's score two runs off starter George Cuppy, and he leaves with two runners on base. Reliever Ted Lewis allows the runs to score, and Baltimore goes on to win, 7 - 5. Lewis is charged with the loss under the existing rules.
• 1903:
  • Seeing that George Davis is playing for the Giants, Ed Delahanty decides to jump to New York too. Leaving the Nationals in Detroit, he boards an eastbound train. He is put off the train for rowdy, and possibly drunken, behavior at Niagara Falls. When he tries to walk across the railroad bridge over the Niagara River, he falls to his death. He had a 16-year career with a .346 batting average.
  • Pitcher Jack Doscher, making his debut with the Chicago Cubs, is the first son of a former major league player to also play in the majors. Father Herm Doscher was a third baseman before the turn of the century. Jack loses today at Philadelphia, 7 - 2, and will end the season with the Brooklyn Superbas.
• 1904:
  • The Boston Americans send infielder Bill O'Neill and cash to Washington for 11-year veteran Kip Selbach. Selbach almost went to the Highlanders in early May, but the deal was nixed by then-new Washington manager Patsy Donovan.
  • Highly-touted rookie Walter Clarkson, the top college (Harvard) pitcher and brother of two major leaguers, makes his major league debut. He limits the Senators to eight hits, but the Highlanders manage just four hits and lose, 3 - 2, in the first of two.
• 1909 - The White Sox steal 12 bases in the course of a 15 - 3 win over St. Louis. Three are steals of home, including one by P Ed Walsh in the 6th inning, for a modern major league record.
• 1911 - Detroit pounds out a 14 - 6 victory over Cleveland as Ty Cobb, hitting in his 40th straight game, has three hits and three runs.
• 1912 - At New York, Boston's Larry Gardner legs out two inside-the-park homers but the Red Sox still lose, 9 - 7, to New York.
• 1913 - Christy Mathewson allows 13 hits but the Giants continue to pummel the Phils, winning 8 - 4. Matty gives up no walks to run his streak to 34 innings.
• 1915:
  • For the first time since the 1911 World Series, Jack Coombs pitches against Christy Mathewson. Now with the Robins, Coombs wins the duel, shutting out the Giants, 3 - 0. Two singles and a Zack Wheat triple in the 8th are the difference.
  • The last-place A's continue to dismantle, selling Jack Barry, part of the "$100,000 infield", for $8,000 to Boston.
• 1922:
  • A's OF Tilly Walker hits two home runs, giving him four in two days, as the A's lose to New York, 9 - 3. He will finish with 37 for the year, two ahead of Babe Ruth. The Athletics, with the American League's winningest pitcher in Eddie Rommel (27-13) and losingest in Slim Harriss (9-20) will lead the league with 114 home runs and climb out of the cellar.
  • Cardinals second baseman Rogers Hornsby, speaking with Billy Evans in today's issue of the Pittsburgh Press, all but predicts that he will set a new National League single-season home run record this season: "When the season started, I didn't give the matter of home runs a thought, even though I made 21 last year. However, they started to come my way rather easily and now I have the home run fever. With the season less than half over, I have 18 to my credit. Back in 1884, so the records say, Ed Williamson, playing with Chicago, made 27 home runs. That record has stood the test of all the great hitters of the National League for 38 years. I would like to break that record, and feel that I am well on the way to set a new home-run mark for a season in the National League." In fact, Hornsby is as good as his word; he'll catch Williamson within the month, passing him on August 5th and, in the end, he'll leave the long-dead NL single-season leader far behind with his final total of 42.
• 1927 - The Senators complete a sweep of four games over the A's and climb into second place on a nine-game winning streak.
• 1930 - Carl Reynolds of the White Sox hits three consecutive home runs in the second game of a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium. Two of them are hit inside the park. The feat is second-billed, as headlines tell of Babe Ruth tearing a nail off his finger on the outfield screen.
• 1931 - Babe Ruth homers to drive in a run for the 11th consecutive game as the Yankees drub Detroit, 12 - 1. Ruth has 18 RBI in the string.
• 1933 - Carl Hubbell pitches an entire 18-inning shutout for the Giants over the Cardinals to tie a record for the longest 1 - 0 game. He strikes out 12 and walks none, allowing only six hits in a duel with Tex Carleton, who goes the first 16 innings. In the second game, played in semi-darkness, Roy Parmelee wins 1 - 0, on a Johnny Vergez home run. The notoriously wild Giants pitcher does not issue a walk and strikes out 13.
• 1934 - At Wrigley Field, veteran ump Bill Klem's delayed call of the infield fly rule leads the Cardinals to protest their game with the Cubs. The game is suspended with two out in the bottom of the 7th inning with the Cubs ahead, 5 - 1, and will be completed on the last day of the month with St. Louis losing with the final score of 7 - 4.
• 1936 - Cleveland OF Bruce Campbell, recently returned from a bout with spinal meningitis, goes 6 for 6 in the first game of a doubleheader. He singles in his first at bat in the nightcap. The Indians sweep two, winning 14 - 6 and 4 - 2.
• 1937 - Rollie Hemsley is suspended by the Browns for violation of training rules.
• 1939 - In a doubleheader with the Dodgers before 51,435 at the Polo Grounds, the fireworks start two days early. The Dodgers take a uneventful opener, 3 - 2, but in the 4th inning of the nitecap, Dodger player-manager Leo Durocher ends the inning by grounding into a double play and spikes 1B Zeke Bonura as he crosses the bag. Bonura takes off after Durocher, chases him down the right field line, and throws his mitt at him. He finally wrestles him to the ground. Both players are ejected, and the Giants go on to win, 6 - 4. To Bonura's charge of intentional spiking, the Lip retorts, "If that big clown hadn't got his foot in my way, I wouldn't have been close to him."
• 1941 - On a sweltering day in front of 52,832 fans at Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio breaks Wee Willie Keeler's 1897 major league record hitting streak of 45 with a three-run homer off Red Sox hurler Dick Newsome.
• 1946 - The Yankees nip the Red Sox, 2 - 1, before a Yankee Stadium crowd of 69,107. Spud Chandler walks nine in the first four innings but takes a no-hitter into the 9th before Bobby Doerr hits a one-out single.
• 1948 - The Senators beat the Yankees, 2 - 1, in 12 innings as Walt Masterson allows three hits and goes all the way for the win. Tom McBride makes 12 putouts to set the American League record for a left fielder in extra innings. The Yanks drop two games behind first-place Cleveland and 1 1/2 games behind the A's.
• 1950:
  • Indian great Bob Feller wins his 200th major league game, 5 - 3, over Detroit in the second game of a doubleheader split. Detroit wins the opener, 8 - 5, for their only win in the four-game series.
  • At Crosley Field, Monk Dubiel makes his four-hitter hold up as the Cubs win 16 - 0 over the Reds. Andy Pafko drives in five runs with a double, triple and home run, Bill Serena adds a three-run homer, and Hank Edwards has three RBIs on four hits.
  • The Yankees gain a split of their four-game series in Boston by trouncing the Red Sox, 15 - 9. Big John Mize plays first base and contributes a home run and a single.
• 1951 - Bill Veeck gets the necessary 75 percent of outstanding stock on the last day of his option to buy the St. Louis Browns from Bill and Charlie DeWitt.
• 1954:
  • 3B George Kell of the White Sox wrenches his knee and is out for five weeks.
  • Mac Smith of the Hagerstown Packets collapses shortly after hitting a RBI single. He dies on the way to the hospital; doctors diagnose it as being due to malaria he had contracted while serving in the Korean War.
• 1956 - NBC pays $16.25 million for the television and radio rights to the All-Star Game and the World Series. The players' pension fund will get 60 percent of the revenues.
• 1957 - The Women's Christian Temperance Union charges that baseball has become "beerball," since so many broadcasts are sponsored by breweries.
• 1958:
  • Major League Baseball reinstates 1B Ed Bouchee of the Phils, who was suspended on a morals charge.
  • The Dodgers split a doubleheader with St. Louis, winning, 3 - 2, before dropping the nightcap, 6 - 4. A crowd of 66,485 see the game at the Coliseum. This puts the Dodgers over the one million mark in just 35 home dates.
• 1959 - Gene Freese hits his second grand slam of the season, off the Redlegs' Jim Brosnan, as the Phils win, 7 - 6. Don Newcombe wins the nitecap for the Redlegs, 8 - 4.
• 1961:
  • The Yankees hit five homers - number 28 by Mickey Mantle and numbers 29 and 30 by Roger Maris - to easily beat the Senators, 13 - 4.
  • The Pirates sweep a pair from the Giants, winning 7 - 6 and 9 - 0. Sore-armed Vern Law, making his first start in more than three weeks, is lifted in the 6th and Harvey Haddix wins in relief. Bobby Shantz pitches a five-hitter to win the nitecap as the Bucs score six unearned runs off Juan Marichal. The Giants, 2 1/2 games back yesterday, will be nine out on the evening of July 8th. The Giants' Orlando Cepeda flexes his muscles, as does Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente. The Baby Bull powers a two-run, tape measure blast over the centerfield bricks. Shortly thereafter, the rival stars trade 425-footers. Crashing against Forbes Field's right center exit gate, Cepeda's blast goes for two bases. Clemente's clout comes in the nightcap, good for a bases-clearing triple which puts Pittsburgh's up, 8 - 0.
  • Pitcher Glen Hobbie and Tony Taylor each hit a pair of homers for the Cubs, but it is not enough as the Cardinals win, 10 - 9. Pinch hitter Richie Ashburn's bases-loaded single in the 8th brings home the deciding run .
• 1962:
  • At Cincinnati, Reds 1B Gordy Coleman hits a two-run homer in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Cubs, 4 - 3.
  • In the first game of a doubleheader, P Johnny Podres of the Dodgers ties the modern National League record with eight consecutive strikeouts in a 5 - 1 win. Stan Williams also wins 4 - 0, as the Dodgers sweep Philadelphia and move into first place.
• 1963:
  • In one of baseball's most memorable pitching duels, the Giants' Juan Marichal and the Braves' Warren Spahn both hurl 15 scoreless innings before Willie Mays ends the marathon with a homer off Spahnie in the bottom of the 16th, giving San Francisco a 1- 0 win.
  • Nipping Curt Simmons and St. Louis 1 - 0, Don Drysdale puts the Dodgers into first place for good.
• 1966 - Frank Howard, Don Lock and Ken McMullen hit consecutive home runs with two outs in the 6th inning, and Mike McCormick pitches a complete game, as Washington defeats a winless Whitey Ford and the Yankees, 10 - 4. McCormick gives up five hits including a Mickey Mantle homer, his 14th, in the 9th.
• 1967 - In front of a crowd of 40,000, Ferguson Jenkins (11-5) pitches the Cubs into a first-place tie with St. Louis by defeating Cincinnati, 4 - 1. The Cubs have won 17 of 19 games.
• 1969 - Reds hurler Gerry Arrigo ties a National League record by hitting three Braves in the 2nd inning of a 9 - 4 Atlanta win. Reds hurlers plunk two more and the Braves set a post-19th century major-league record of five hit batters in one game. It won't be matched till April 19, 2000.
• 1970:
  • Cleveland edges the Orioles, 10 - 9, helped by Tony Horton, who hits for the cycle. Dennis Higgins is the winning pitcher.
  • Montreal's John Bateman drives in a team-record seven runs to pace the Expos to a 13 - 10 win over the Cards. Bateman's first hit is a grand slam in the Expos' six-run 1st inning.
  • The Reds hand the Braves their ninth loss in ten games, as Cincy wins, 2 - 1. Jim Merritt becomes the National League's first 13-game winner and his batterymate Johnny Bench drives in both runs.
  • Detroit's Joe Niekro no-hits the Yankees until Horace Clarke singles in the 9th inning. The Tigers win, 5 - 0. This is the third time in a month in which Clarke has broken up a no-hitter, having spoiled bids by Kansas City's Jim Rooker (June 4th) and Boston's Sonny Siebert (June 19th).
  • At Connie Mack Stadium, the Phils break their scoreless streak of 53 innings and sweep two from the Mets, 6 - 1 and 3 - 2. With successive pinch hits by Tony Taylor, Ron Stone and Byron Browne, the Phils score six in the 8th inning to win the opener for Jim Bunning, then again come from behind to win the nitecap for Chris Short. The opener is the 6,000th game played at the ancient stadium.
• 1972:
  • At Montreal, rookie P Bob Rauch walks four batters in the 9th to enable the Expos to defeat the Mets, 4 - 3. For Rauch, it's his only major league decision. Mike Marshall wins for the Expos.
  • Reggie Smith homers from both sides of the plate as Boston beats Milwaukee, 15 - 4.
  • Willie McCovey hits his 14th career grand slam to pace the Giants' 9 - 3 win over the Dodgers. Randy Moffitt wins his first major league game and receives a congratulatory telegram from his sister, tennis star Billie Jean King, who is playing at Wimbledon.
  • The Reds score eight runs in the 8th to defeat the Dodgers, 12 - 2, at Riverfront Stadium. Tony Perez's three-run homer is the big blow.
  • Minnesota's Jim Kaat, sporting a 10-2 record and a 2.07 ERA, breaks his pitching hand while sliding. He will miss the remainder of the season. Kaat is relieved in the 8th by Wayne Granger, but gets credit for the 6 - 4 win over the White Sox. Tom Bradley wins his tenth in the nitecap, 2 - 1, for Chicago.
• 1973 - The Reds continue to roll as Tony Perez hits a two-run homer in the 9th to beat the Dodgers, 4 - 2.
• 1975:
  • In a 13 - 5 win over Detroit, Baltimore's Don Baylor homers his first three times up, giving him four consecutive home runs over two games to tie the major league record.
  • Jim Rice, installed today as the Red Sox regular LF, belts two homers in the first game, including one that is the longest ever hit at County Stadium. In the second game, Fred Lynn is kept off the bases, ending his streak of 38 straight games. Boston's Rick Wise wins the opener, 6 - 3, not giving up a hit until two are out in the 9th. George Scott then clouts a two-run homer, and Bobby Darwin follows with another dinger for the Brewers.
• 1976 - The Astros outslug the Reds, 10 - 9, in 14 innings, collecting 25 hits for the second time in five weeks. Pete Rose has five hits for the Reds.
• 1977 - For the second time this season, Jim Spencer has an eight-RBI day. The White Sox first baseman's two home runs helps to beat the Twins.
• 1978 - Ron Guidry wins his 13th consecutive game, the best start in Yankee history, in beating Detroit, 3 - 2. With the Yankees down 2 - 0, Mickey Rivers' long drive to right is caught by a fan reaching down to take it away from Detroit's Mickey Stanley. The fan drops the ball and Stanley, waiting for an interference call, fails to retrieve it. Rivers motors for an inside-the-park homer and New York ties the game, 2 - 2, eventually winning it.
• 1979 - Indians manager Jeff Torborg announces his resignation effective at the end of the season. In three weeks he will be fired and replaced by Dave Garcia.
• 1980 - Chicago's Ross Baumgarten allows only a 7th-inning single to Rod Carew en route to a one-hit 1 - 0 shutout of the Angels. Baumgarten will finish the season 2-12.
• 1982 - Boston's Tony Perez singles off Milwaukee's Bob McClure (7-2) for his 2,500th career hit, but that's a lone bright spot as the Brewers clobber the Red Sox, 14 - 5. Gorman Thomas has a pair of homers as six are hit.
• 1983 - For the second game in a row, the Reds' Gary Redus hits a leadoff home run. And for the second game in a row the Reds lose to the Braves. Today it is 4 - 2; yesterday, it was 5 - 2.
• 1985 - Astros hurler Joe Niekro notches his 200th career victory. The Niekro brothers (Joe & Phil) will join the Perrys (Jim & Gaylord) as the only brothers to win at least 200 games per pitcher.
• 1986 - The Blue Jays scores three runs in the 8th inning to beat the Red Sox and Roger Clemens, 4 - 2. Clemens was one game short of the American League record for consecutive wins at the start of a season.
• 1987:
  • Jim Eisenreich, making a comeback after being forced out of the major leagues by a nervous disorder in 1984, hits his first major league home run since 1982 to lead the Royals to a 10 - 3 win over his former club, the Twins.
  • Houston's Glenn Davis ends Steve Bedrosian's record-setting streak of 13 consecutive saves by belting a three-run home run in the top of the 9th inning to give the Astros a 7 - 6 win over the Phillies.
• 1989
  • Brewers OF Robin Yount, 33, collects his 2,500th hit in a 10 - 2 win over the Yankees. Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Hank Aaron and Mel Ott were the only players to reach that milestone at a younger age.
  • The Braves send OF Dion James to the Indians for OF Oddibe McDowell, and P Zane Smith to Montreal for three minor leaguers. The Braves will move Dale Murphy back to RF.
• 1990 - Nolan Ryan strikes out seven batters in a 3 - 2 loss to the Red Sox. This gives him a record 22 seasons with at least 100 strikeouts. He had shared the record of 21 with Don Sutton.
• 1991 - After grounding out in a 4 - 1 loss to the Dodgers, Padres C Benito Santiago throws his batting helmet in disgust. The helmet bounces into the dugout, where it strikes pitching coach Mike Roarke in the head before ricocheting over to bean coach Greg Riddoch, giving him a concussion. Santiago is fined $300.
• 1993:
  • In honor of the team's owner, Royals Stadium is renamed Kauffman Stadium.
  • At Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, the latest game in major league history ends at 4:40 am as relief pitcher Mitch Williams, in his first at-bat of the season, singles home the winning run in the 10th inning, giving the Phillies a 6 - 5 victory over the Padres. The game, which started at 1:26 am due to three rain delays in the first game of the twin bill, eclipses the 3:35 mark established in Atlanta on July 4, 1985 in a game which ended with fireworks after the Mets beat the Braves in 19 innings, 16 - 13.
  • Chicago OF Sammy Sosa gets six hits, one short of the National League record, in the Cubs' 11 - 8 win over the Rockies.
• 1994 - Seattle OF Ken Griffey Jr. leads the Mariners to a 12 - 6 win over the Yankees by getting five singles.
• 1995 - Dodger righthander Hideo Nomo, who is leading the National League in strikeouts, becomes the first player from Japan to be selected for the major league All-Star Game.
• 1996:
  • The Marlins sign Ricardo Aramboles, 16-year-old Dominican pitcher, to a contract, giving him a $5,500 signing bonus. Aramboles produces a birth certificate showing he's 16, but later on it is discovered that he is only 14, and the Commissioner's office will nullify the contract. His 1.71 minor league ERA will earn him a big bonus when he signs again in 1998. Josephang Bernhardt, another Latin ballplayer who will produce a phony birth certificate, will be taken away from Tampa Bay and sign with Toronto for $750,000.
  • An MRI on Tony Gwynn shows fraying of the tendon in his right heel. The Padres star will be out for at least four weeks and miss the All-Star Game.
  • The Reds put P Pete Schourek on the 15-day disabled list, but he'll undergo elbow surgery on July 17th and miss the rest of the season. The Reds' other ace, Jose Rijo, recovering from surgery last August, has yet to pitch off the mound for Birmingham.
  • Oakland breaks a 6 - 6 tie by scoring five runs in the 9th inning to defeat Seattle, 11 - 6. 1B Jason Giambi leads the way with five hits.
• 1998 - The Red Sox and Pedro Martinez pile on the Expos, defeating them 15 - 0 at Fenway Park. The Sox collect 20 hits for Pedro.
• 1999:
  • Houston defeats Cincinnati, 7 - 5, ending the Reds' ten-game winning streak. Cincinnati's streak consisted of an unprecedented ten straight victories over division-leading clubs.
  • Umpire Tom Hallion is suspended for three games for his actions during an argument with Colorado catcher Jeff Reed and coach Milt May on June 26th. The dispute began when Rockies pitcher Mike DeJean complained to third base umpire Terry Tata about a check swing call while walking to his dugout, and home plate ump Hallion told him to get in the dugout. Hallion bumped Reed and May during the ensuing dispute. Officials cannot recall another suspension of an umpire for an on-field dispute. In 1990, National League president Bill White was prepared to suspend umpire Joe West for slamming Philadelphia pitcher Dennis Cook to the field, but commissioner Fay Vincent intervened and no discipline was imposed.
  • Phil Nevin and Carlos Baerga hit back-to-back pinch home runs in the 9th inning, as San Diego defeats Colorado, 15 - 3.
  • In the Cards' 9 - 5 loss to the Diamondbacks, Mark McGwire belts a pair of homers, his 56th multi-homer game, which moves him into fourth place on this list ahead of Jimmie Foxx.
  • Hey Mom! Texas righty pitcher Jeff Zimmerman defeats his brother Jordan Zimmerman, a lefty for Seattle, 7 - 6.
• 2000:
  • At Shea Stadium, Mets fan Gregory Sweeney is arrested and charged with reckless endangerment after he throws a ball back onto the field which John Rocker had tossed into the stands. A few day later, the 26-year-old Brooklyn man will be exonerated as Queens District Attorney Richard Brown concludes he had no criminal intent and was doing nothing more than following a baseball tradition of returning an unsolicited and unwanted souvenir.
  • After hitting two home runs in a 2 - 1 victory over the Expos, Marlins outfielder Mark Smith becomes a hero for the second time this day when he pulls a man from a smoke-filled car minutes before the car explodes.
• 2001 - At the SkyDome, Manny Ramirez belts a three-run homer in the 1st and the Red Sox roll to a 16 - 4 clipping of the Blue Jays. Manny's blast travels 491 feet, the longest homer in Dome history; it is his seventh of the year against the Jays, the most an opponent has hit in a season, and his fifth at the Dome, which also ties an opponents record. Chris Stynes has three hits, three runs, and three errors in the hitfest. Hideo Nomo is the winner.
• 2002:
  • The Yankees obtain OF Raul Mondesi from the Blue Jays in exchange for minor league P Scott Wiggins.
  • 53 major league players hit a record 62 home runs, breaking the mark of 57 established on April 7, 2000. A record nine players have multiple home run games, breaking the previous mark of eight. The barrage includes a record-tying dozen hit at Chicago's New Comiskey Park by the White Sox and the Tigers, the same two teams that set the major league record for homers in a game with 12 at Tiger Stadium in May 1995.
  • At Cincinnati, the Astros and Reds play the 1st inning with non-regulation baseballs, the result of a mix-up by an attendant in the umpires' locker room. The attendant did not notice the word "practice" stenciled on the 144 balls he rubbed up for the game; the practice balls generally have defects such as irregular stitching or weight deviations. Astros pitcher Wade Miller notices the practice ball when warming up and informs ump Mark Hirschbeck, who rules that the practice balls must be used in the bottom of the 1st before switching. The Astros win in the 10th, 6 - 5. Austin Kearns has four hits, and Adam Dunn a homer for the Reds. Lance Berkman drives in five for Houston.
  • The Giants score eight runs in the 1st inning on their way to an 18 - 5 rout of the Rockies. OF Tsuyoshi Shinjo gets five hits for San Francisco, including a double and two home runs. Damon Minor, Shinjo, and Reggie Sanders each homer twice to tie a major league record. The Giants become the 16th team to have three players with multiple home runs in the same game.
• 2004 - Suffering through their worst season since their inception in 1998, the Diamondbacks replace manager Bob Brenly with third-base coach Al Pedrique. The former skipper of Arizona's Triple-A Tucson Sidewinders becomes the second Venezuelan to manage in the big leagues.
• 2005 - In one of the most severe penalties ever imposed by the commissioner's office for on-field behavior, Kenny Rogers is suspended for 20 games and fined $50,000 for actions which sent a cameraman to the hospital and launched a police investigation. The veteran southpaw, who will appeal the decision, is selected by his peers to be a member of the American League All-Star squad scheduled to play next week in Detroit.
• 2007 - Roger Clemens allows two hits in eight innings against the Twins en route to his 350th win in the major leagues. The last pitcher to reach 350 victories was Warren Spahn in 1963.
• 2008 - The Oakland Athletics sign Dominican amateur Michael Ynoa for a $4.25 million bonus, nearly $2 million than Wily Mo Pena's nine-year-old record for an international amateur free agent. Ynoa will only win one game over the next four minor league seasons due to injuries and wildness.
• 2009:
  • In the competition for most unusual reason for a delay, today's game between Houston and San Diego stakes a bold claim for first place. In the top of the 9th, a swarm of bees invades part of the left field area of Petco Park, forcing an emergency call to a beekeeper and evacuation of part of the stands. After a 52-minute delay, the game resumes and the Astros prevail, 7 - 2.
  • Derrek Lee collects a career-high seven RBI, thanks to a grand slam and a three-run homer, leading Chicago to a 9 - 5 win over Milwaukee.
  • A source reveals that Major League Baseball has loaned around $15 million to Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicks to help him meet payroll. The multi-millionaire's financial position has been shaken by the recent economic meltdown and he is reportedly seeking to sell the franchise.
• 2010:
  • Bidding for his American League-leading 12th win of the season, David Price of the Rays pitches no-hit ball into the 5th inning against the Twins, before being done in by rookie Danny Valencia, who gets the game's first hit in the 5th, then drives the go-ahead run in the 7th. The Twins prevail, 2 - 1, behind Scott Baker, to stay atop the AL Central.
  • Chris Young drives in five runs to give newly-appointed manager Kirk Gibson his first victory with the Diamondbacks, 12 - 5 over Los Angeles. Edwin Jackson is the winner in his first start since pitching a no-hitter, while Hiroki Kuroda takes the loss.
  • More injury woes for the Red Sox: after Dustin Pedroia, Victor Martinez and Jason Varitek landed on the disabled list earlier this week, joining four other regulars already in the infirmary, reliever Manny Delcarmen is now out of action with a strained right forearm. The Sox call up Robert Manuel from AAA Pawtucket to take his place, but they would probably be better advised to call a witch doctor to end the curse that's been stinging them.
• 2011:
  • The Mets' Jose Reyes, leading the major leagues with a .354 batting average, injures his hamstring in the 2nd inning of today's game with the Yankees and is headed for the disabled list at a time when trade rumors are swirling around the soon-to-be free agent. The Mets also lose the game, 5 - 2, as Bartolo Colon wins in his first start since returning from a hamstring injury of his own. Curtis Granderson homers for the Yanks.
  • Entering the 9th inning with a 7 - 4 lead, Twins closer Matt Capps collapses completely, giving up four runs to the Brewers to lose, 8 - 7. Capps starts off the inning by giving up a run on three straight singles, then after two outs Nyjer Morgan belts a two-run double off the right-field wall to tie the game at 7. Pinch-hitter George Kottaras follows with an RBI single. The Twins build an early 7 - 0 lead in the first four innings against Chris Narveson before the Brewers get their bats going. John Axford shows Capps how it's done in the bottom of the 9th, setting down the Twins in order to earn his 21st save.
  • FC Barcelona wins its fourth Spanish baseball title, but the first in 55 years. They rout the Sevilla Red Sox, 15 - 0, with four home runs while their pitchers fan 12. FC Barcelona improves to 28-3 to clinch the pennant. It is a bittersweet event, as in June the club announced it was dropping baseball and many other sports as a cost-cutting move.
• 2012 - SS Billy Hamilton of the Bakersfield Blaze of the California League steals his 100th base of the season in his team's 78th game, setting his sights on Vince Coleman's all-time minor league record of 135 stolen bases set in 1983. The speedster in batting .327 with an OBP of .412 while scoring just a little under a run per game.
• 2013:
  • Homer Bailey of the Reds throws the first no-hitter of the season, defeating the Giants, 3 - 0; Bailey also pitched the last no-hitter of 2012. He strikes out nine while only a 7th-inning walk to Gregor Blanco keeps him from a perfect game. 1B Joey Votto makes a heads-up play to save the bid, however: one batter after Blanco's walk, he fields a soft liner off the bat of Buster Posey, but realizes he has no play at first base, as Bailey is late in coming to cover; instead he throws to third base, where Todd Frazier tags out Blanco, turning Posey's potential hit into a fielder's choice.
  • The Orioles acquire P Scott Feldman from the Cubs in return for Ps Pedro Strop and Jake Arrieta in the first significant trade since the start of the season.
  • 16-year-old Italian shortstop Marten Gasparini signs with the Kansas City Royals, with a $1.3 million bonus. It marks a new record for a European amateur player, topping the $800,000 German outfielder Max Kepler got from the Minnesota Twins.
• 2016 - The Angels crush the Red Sox, 21 - 2, behind the combined hitting of C.J. Cron and Carlos Perez. Cron goes 6 for 6 with two homers and five RBIs while Perez has five hits in six at-bats, with six RBIs, making them the first pair of teammates to amass five hits and RBIs in a game since Gene Moore and Buck Jordan did so for the 1936 Boston Bees. Most of the damage comes during an 11-run 7th inning.
• 2017:
  • Mookie Betts homers twice and drives in eight runs to lead the Red Sox to a 15 - 1 win over the Blue Jays, completing a three-game sweep at the Rogers Centre. It's only the fourth time in history that a lead-off hitter drives in that many runs.
  • The rosters for the 2017 All-Star Game, which will take place at Marlins Park in Miami, FL, are announced. Not surprisingly, the teams who are leading in the standings dominate these rosters, with the Nationals and Astros providing three starters each for their respective teams. Bryce Harper of the Nats is the top vote-getter.
• 2018 - In an interleague meeting between top postseason contenders and former Cy Young Award winners, Rick Porcello of the Red Sox gets the better of former teammate Max Scherzer of the Nationals when he surprises him with a bases-clearing double in the 2nd, the first extra-base hit of his career. Those three runs are the only ones Scherzer allows in six innings, but they are enough to saddle him with a 4 - 3 loss.
• 2019 - The Yankees' record streak of consecutive games with at least one home run ends at 31 in a 4 - 2 loss to the Mets that coincides with 1B Luke Voit, one of the major contributors to the streak, going on the injured list with an abdominal strain. Michael Conforto is the hero for the Mets, with a go-ahead two-run double off Zack Britton in the 8th.
• 2022 - The Cardinals become the first team to hit four consecutive homers in the 1st inning when Nolan Arenado, Nolan Gorman, Juan Yepez and Dylan Carlson all go deep against Kyle Gibson of the Phillies. Gibson retires the first two batters before giving up a single to Paul Goldschmidt, followed by the homer barrage. Lars Nootbaar then hits a ball that is caught at the warning track to end the inning. It is the 11th time time this has been done in any inning, but the Cards need another homer by Arenado, this one in the 9th, to end up as 7 - 6 winners.
• 2023 - Reserves and pitchers for the 2023 All-Star Game are announced. Clayton Kershaw and Salvador Perez are among those who are habitués of the mid-summer classic, with their tenth and eighth appearances respectively. The Braves will have their entire starting infield represented, while the Blue Jays, who went 0 for 5 in the run-off voting earlier this week, get four players nominated. There are 26 first-time All-Stars, not counting anyone who may be named as an injury replacement in the coming days. Eight different birth countries are represented, including a record eight players born in Cuba.

Births

• 1859 - Ed Beecher, outfielder (d. 1935)
• 1864 - Fred Carroll, catcher (d. 1904)
• 1864 - Bob Gilks, outfielder (d. 1944)
• 1869 - Walter Plock, outfielder (d. 1900)
• 1888 - Grover Hartley, catcher (d. 1964)
• 1888 - Pat McGehee, pitcher (d. 1946)
• 1890 - Len Madden, pitcher (d. 1949)
• 1891 - Gus Dorais, college coach (d. 1954)
• 1895 - Frank Thompson, infielder (d. 1940)
• 1896 - Cliff Bell, pitcher (d. 1952)
• 1896 - Gacho Torres, infielder/outfielder (d. 1963)
• 1900 - Joe Bennett, infielder (d. 1987)
• 1900 - Ernie Vick, catcher (d. 1980)
• 1904 - Pete Susko, infielder (d. 1978)
• 1909 - Gil English, infielder (d. 1996)
• 1910 - Albert Clark, outfielder (d. 1988)
• 1912 - John Rudisill, minor league player (d. 1974)
• 1913 - Herb Barnhill, catcher (d. 2004)
• 1914 - Earl Allen, pitcher (d. 2005)
• 1915 - Hal Wagner, catcher; All-Star (d. 1979)
• 1916 - Ben Hill, pitcher/infielder (d. ????)
• 1920 - Sam Woods, pitcher (d. 1983)
• 1921 - Pro Boim, minor league pitcher (d. 2013)
• 1925 - Dick Greco, minor league outfielder and manager (d. 2012)
• 1925 - Isiah Harris, Negro League pitcher
• 1927 - Red Rush, announcer (d. 2009)
• 1929 - Chuck Stobbs, pitcher (d. 2008)
• 1930 - Pete Burnside, pitcher (d. 2022)
• 1937 - Dick Berardino, coach
• 1937 - Ron Debus, minor league infielder (d. 2018)
• 1938 - Don Choate, pitcher (d. 2018)
• 1938 - Hal Reniff, pitcher (d. 2004)
• 1940 - James Westervelt, USA national team player (d. 2017)
• 1945 - Larry Abbott, minor league pitcher
• 1945 - Ron Slocum, infielder (d. 1988)
• 1949 - Mike Reilly, umpire
• 1951 - Jim Hughes, pitcher
• 1951 - Enrique Licon, Mexican national team pitcher
• 1951 - Keith Marshall, outfielder
• 1953 - Tony Armas, outfielder; All-Star
• 1954 - Dom Scala, scout
• 1955 - Dick Thompson, author (d. 2008)
• 1955 - Tom Tornincasa, minor league infielder
• 1962 - Tom Gilles, pitcher
• 1963 - Shih-Hsih Wu, CPBL infielder and manager
• 1964 - Jose Canseco, outfielder; All-Star
• 1964 - Ozzie Canseco, outfielder
• 1964 - Joe Magrane, pitcher
• 1965 - Steve Sparks, pitcher
• 1966 - Larry Lamphere, minor league infielder
• 1966 - Tim Spehr, catcher
• 1968 - Geno Spriggs, minor league infielder (d. 1988)
• 1969 - Tsutomu Kameyama, NPB outfielder
• 1969 - So Taguchi, outfielder
• 1971 - Joel Adamson, pitcher
• 1971 - Manuel Martinez, Spanish national team infielder
• 1971 - Takayuki Onishi, NPB outfielder
• 1973 - Makoto Kosaka, NPB infielder
• 1974 - Sean Casey, infielder; All-Star
• 1975 - Gabriel Luckert, minor league pitcher and manager
• 1976 - Danel Castro, Cuban league infielder
• 1977 - Clint Johnston, minor league pitcher
• 1977 - Chenhao Li, Chinese national team pitcher
• 1978 - Greg Dobbs, infielder
• 1978 - Kosuke Kato, NPB pitcher
• 1978 - Frank Moore, minor league infielder
• 1979 - Ramon Flores, minor league infielder
• 1979 - Felipe Valle, Ecuadorian national team infielder
• 1980 - Angelo Burrows, minor league pitcher
• 1980 - Nyjer Morgan, outfielder
• 1980 - Jermaine Van Buren, pitcher
• 1981 - Angel Pagan, outfielder
• 1982 - Fumitoshi Murakami, Japanese national team coach
• 1982 - Ivan Ramirez, minor league pitcher
• 1982 - San Song, KBO catcher
• 1983 - Brandon Camardese, minor league pitcher
• 1983 - Samuel Deduno, pitcher
• 1983 - Jonny Tucker, minor league outfielder
• 1984 - Wladimir Balentien, outfielder
• 1984 - Kyron Bibis, South African national team outfielder
• 1984 - Anukul Sudsawad, Thai national team infielder
• 1984 - Brett Willemburg, minor league infielder
• 1986 - Brett Cecil, pitcher; All-Star
• 1986 - Dimitrios Gazis, Greek national team catcher
• 1986 - Oliver Marmol, coach
• 1986 - Reynaldo Rodríguez, minor league infielder
• 1986 - James Selefen, French Division I outfielder
• 1986 - Rigoberto Silverio, minor league infielder and manager
• 1986 - Rene Tosoni, outfielder
• 1987 - A. J. Pinera, minor league pitcher
• 1988 - Chris Marrero, infielder
• 1989 - Kosuke Tanaka, NPB infielder
• 1990 - Chi-hong An, KBO infielder
• 1990 - Jerad Eickhoff, pitcher
• 1991 - Parker Morin, minor league catcher
• 1991 - Troy Scribner, pitcher
• 1992 - Shih-Ying Peng, CPBL pitcher
• 1993 - Pedro Araujo, pitcher
• 1994 - Brock Dykxhoorn, minor league pitcher
• 1996 - Caleb Ferguson, pitcher
• 1996 - Daulton Varsho, catcher
• 1997 - Lucius Fox, infielder
• 1998 - Luis Montealto, Nicaraguan national team outfielder
• 1999 - Yuji Akahoshi, NPB pitcher
• 1999 - Edilberto Mendoza, minor league catcher
• 2000 - Daniel Padyšák, Extraliga pitcher

Deaths

• 1891 - John Cassidy, outfielder (b. 1857)
• 1901 - Al Johnson, owner (b. 1860)
• 1903 - Ed Delahanty, outfielder; Hall of Famer (b. 1867)
• 1908 - Frank Monroe, outfielder (b. 1855)
• 1912 - Tom McGinty, umpire (b. 1874)
• 1917 - Harry McLean, umpire (b. 1850)
• 1921 - Shang Sherman, umpire (b. 1867)
• 1928 - Pete Hotaling, outfielder (b. 1856)
• 1929 - Buck Hooker, pitcher (b. 1880)
• 1933 - Tommy Dowd, outfielder, manager (b. 1869)
• 1934 - Eugene McGreevy, minor league pitcher; umpire (b. 1872)
• 1935 - Hank O'Day, pitcher, manager, umpire; Hall of Fame (b. 1859)
• 1937 - Joe Yeager, infielder (b. 1875)
• 1945 - Frank Grube, catcher (b. 1905)
• 1950 - Joe Gormley, pitcher (b. 1866)
• 1954 - Mac Smith, minor league catcher (b. ~1931)
• 1956 - Roy Wilkinson, pitcher (b. 1893)
• 1958 - Carlos Moore, pitcher (b. 1906)
• 1958 - Frank Owens, catcher (b. 1886)
• 1962 - Tom Baird, Negro Leagues owner (b. 1885)
• 1962 - Josh Clarke, outfielder (b. 1879)
• 1966 - Ormond Sampson, infielder (b. 1910)
• 1969 - Art Scharein, infielder (b. 1905)
• 1969 - Clarence Woods, pitcher (b. 1892)
• 1971 - Chester Emerson, outfielder (b. 1889)
• 1971 - Frank Mack, pitcher (b. 1900)
• 1972 - Rankin Johnson, pitcher (b. 1888)
• 1973 - Chick Hafey, outfielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1903)
• 1973 - George McBride, infielder, manager (b. 1880)
• 1974 - Paul Strand, outfielder (b. 1893)
• 1978 - Ash Hillin, minor league player (b. 1904)
• 1978 - Luis Rodolfo Machado, Venezuelan League owner (b. 1918)
• 1979 - Ed Stauffer, pitcher (b. 1898)
• 1985 - Guy Bush, pitcher (b. 1901)
• 1986 - Peanuts Lowrey, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1917)
• 1988 - Tom Drake, pitcher (b. 1912)
• 1991 - Al Glossop, infielder (b. 1914)
• 1993 - Joe Muich, pitcher (b. 1903)
• 1997 - Dee Moore, catcher (b. 1914)
• 1998 - Leon Brinkopf, infielder (b. 1926)
• 2002 - Bob Boston, infielder (b. 1918)
• 2008 - Bruce McKelvey, minor league catcher (b. 1924)
• 2009 - Lázaro Rivero, minor league pitcher (b. 1936)
• 2011 - Mason Bowes, minor league pitcher (b. 1927)
• 2011 - Ray Petrzelka, minor league pitcher (b. 1927)
• 2011 - Francis Seastrand, minor league infielder (b. ~1929)
• 2012 - Ed Stroud, outfielder (b. 1939)
• 2017 - Bob Perry, outfielder (b. 1934)
• 2017 - David W. Vincent, author (b. 1949)
• 2021 - Tony Gonzalez, outfielder (b. 1936)
• 2021 - Oscar Zamora, pitcher (b. 1943)
• 2023 - Mario Guerrero, infielder (b. 1949)