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Events, births and deaths that occurred on July 5.

Events

• 1898 - Lizzie Arlington, née Stroud, becomes the first woman to play in organized baseball as she pitches for Reading in the Eastern League. Some claim she also pitched in Atlantic League exhibition games after being hired by Ed Barrow, the league's president.
• 1900 - At Cincinnati, Jerry Nops of the Superbas pitches a one-hitter, beating the Reds, 2 - 0. Tomorrow, his teammate Frank Kitson will also pitch a one-hitter, winning 10 - 0, the first instance of back-to-back one-hitters in the 20th century. The last time it happened before that was June 17-18, 1884.
• 1902 - At St. Louis, the Cards win their third straight from the Giants, beating New York, 1 - 0. The lone Cardinal run comes in on a wild pitch by Christy Mathewson.
• 1904 - At Philadelphia's Huntington Park, the Giants' 18-game winning streak ends when the Phillies prevail, 6 - 5 in 10 innings. Rookie Bob Hall's bloop single off reliever Dummy Taylor scores Red Dooin. The Giants' record is now 53-18, effectively ending the National League race. By September 1st, they will lead the Cubs by 15 games.
• 1906:
  • In Boston, the Americans make nine errors to help the Highlanders win, 8 - 3.
  • At the Polo Grounds, Boston's Big Jeff Pfeffer and Christy Mathewson match zeros for eight innings before the Giants finally score in the 9th on a single by Sammy Strang. Matty allows six hits in the 1 - 0 win.
  • Jack Coombs, the A's rookie righthander from Colby College, makes his major league debut, blanking Washington, 3 - 0.
• 1909 - The Giants sweep the Phillies, winning 3 - 0 and 3 - 2 in 15 innings. The nitecap is the longest game in the National League this year. Bugs Raymond wins the marathon, relieving Christy Mathewson with the score 2 - 2 in the 9th.
• 1911 - The Phils pound Christy Mathewson for the second time in three days, beating the Giants' ace, 6 - 4. Dode Paskert is 4 for 4 to lead the Quakers' 14-hit attack.
• 1912 - Christy Mathewson, hammered yesterday, is in control today, whipping Brooklyn, 5 - 1. Cy Barger takes the loss.
• 1913 - With manager John McGraw in the grandstand, the Giants win their 11th straight, beating Brooklyn, 3 - 2. Christy Mathewson is the winner over Pat Ragan, scattering 12 hits but walking none. His walkless streak is at 47 innings.
• 1914 - Big Ed Walsh makes his first start since straining his right arm in spring training in 1913. He lasts seven innings in a White Sox win over Cleveland, 6 - 3.
• 1915:
  • At the Polo Grounds, Phils ace Grover Cleveland Alexander fires a one-hitter to win, 2 - 0. The only baserunner for the Giants is Fred Merkle, who doubles off Pete in the 2nd inning.
  • The Senators are shut out twice today against the Red Sox. Rube Foster wins the opener, 5 - 0, then Babe Ruth follows with a 6 - 0 win. Ruth scores two runs and hits his first triple. The Sox will sweep two more doubleheaders in the next two days with the Nationals to edge ahead of the White Sox for first place.
  • The Reds sweep two from the Cubs, winning 8 - 5 and 12 - 7. Red Ames wins the nitecap with the help of Heinie Groh, who hits for the cycle off Jimmy Lavender. Pete Schneider tops Zip Zabel in the opener.
• 1917 - In the first of two games in New York, Home Run Baker hits a 13th-inning inside-the-park homer off Walter Johnson to give the Yankees a 5 - 4 win. It is Baker's fifth home run off Walter.
• 1921 - The Red Sox establish an American League record losing four consecutive doubleheaders with no other contests between the eight losses. The dubious streak began on June 29th.
• 1922:
  • The first game ever played in Hungary takes place in Budapest.
  • The Cards' Rogers Hornsby hits his 20th home run, tying Ken Williams of the American League for the major league home run leadership; the Cards whip the Reds, 12 - 4.
• 1929:
  • At the Polo Grounds, the New York Giants become the first team to use a public address system.
  • Cards 1B Jim Bottomley hits the first of seven home runs he will knock in a five-game stretch.
• 1930:
  • The Phillies lose a doubleheader to the Braves to drop into the cellar for the rest of the season, despite a team batting average of .315. Two disclaimers should be noted - 1930 is the peak season for offense in the 20th Century, and the Phillies play in the high-octane Baker Bowl.
  • Marking the first time two Negro League teams play at Yankee Stadium, 20,000 watch the New York Lincoln Giants and the Baltimore Black Sox split a pair. Baltimore's Rap Dixon has three home runs and the Giants' Chino Smith has two homers and a triple.
  • Frankie Frisch, Cardinals 2B, ties the league record with 16 chances in a game in which St. Louis defeats Cincinnati, 6 - 4.
• 1934 - Lou Gehrig hits an inside-the-park grand slam, as the Yankees beat the Senators, 8 - 3. It is his fourth slam of the season and 17th overall, passing Babe Ruth's career total. Gehrig will eventually set a career record of 23 grand slams. Gehrig now has 321 career home runs to Ruth's 698.
• 1935 - Tony Cuccinello, with Brooklyn, and brother Al, with New York, both homer in a game at the Polo Grounds. The next time brothers homer in a game against each other will be on June 30, 1950, when Joe and Dom DiMaggio do it. Tony's Dodgers beat Al's Giants, 14 - 4.
• 1936 - In the first of two games with the A's, Boston explodes for 11 runs in the 2nd inning to ease home, 16 - 2. The Sox ease up on the nitecap to win, 8 - 2. The Mackmen have now lost 12 straight.
• 1937:
  • In the first game of a doubleheader, Frank Demaree goes 6 for 7 (three doubles and three singles), helping the Cubs edge the Cardinals, 13 - 12, in 14 innings. The Californian adds two more singles in the second game - a 9 - 7 Chicago victory.
  • Hal Trosky hits three home runs helping the Indians beat the Browns, 14 - 4.
• 1939 - Yankees rookie P Atley Donald wins his tenth game without a loss.
• 1940 - The Brooklyn Dodgers beat Boston, 6 - 2, in 20 innings lasting 5 hours and 19 minutes. The two teams' epic marathon ties record-setters of 1920 and 1939.
• 1942 - Peanuts "Nyassas" Davis pitches and bats the Cincinnati Clowns to a 7 - 4 victory over the Baltimore Grays in the new Negro Major Baseball League. Davis's receiver, Pepper Bassett, catches the last inning in a rocking chair.
• 1947 - Striking out as a pinch hitter in an Indian 6 - 5 loss to the White Sox, 22-year old Larry Doby becomes the first African-American to appear in the American League. The former Newark Eagles standout will play in the major leagues for 13 years, amassing 1,515 hits, just three less than Jackie Robinson. Tomorrow, he will go 1 for 5 in his first full game at 1B.
• 1948:
  • Ralph Kiner hits three home runs for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the visiting Reds, while teammate Stan Rojek hits the first of his two major league homers, connecting off rookie Herm Wehmeier. Kiner teams up with Johnny Hopp and Wally Westlake in the outfield for a record 19 putouts in the 10 - 3 first game win. The Reds score three in the 9th to take the nitecap, 6 - 4.
  • The Cards' Gerry Staley picks up a pair of wins in relief over the Cubs, winning 6 - 3 and 5 - 2 over Ralph Hamner and Johnny Schmitz. Staley pitches two innings in the opener and 2 2/3 innings in the nitecap. It is the second time in three weeks that the Cubs have lost a doubleheader to a single reliever.
  • Despite a hitless day by Ted Williams, the Red Sox sweep the Yankees, winning 6 - 5 and 8 - 7. Denny Galehouse wins the opener, then saves the win in the second game. But his 9th inning sacrifice bunt results in his tripping over 1B and he will be out of action for three weeks.
• 1950 - In a sloppy game that features 18 walks, Cliff Mapes drives in five runs with a homer and single to pace the Yankees to a 12 - 8 win over the Athletics. Tommy Byrne (9-3) is the winner despite giving up six hits and six walks in five innings (he walks two in the 6th). He also hits four batters to tie the major league record. Alex Kellner pitches four innings, giving up six runs in the loss. The A's lose Eddie Joost who tears ligaments in his left knee in a collision with Mapes at second base in the 7th.
• 1951:
  • At Ebbets Field, Gil Hodges hits his 27th homer of the year to lead the Dodgers to a 8 - 4 win over the Giants. Andy Pafko also homers, off Larry Jansen. Don Newcombe notches his 12th win, giving up seven hits. After sweeping the Giants in the three-game series, Dodger manager Chuck Dressen declares, "We knocked 'em out. They won't bother us anymore." The Dodgers now lead the Giants by 7 1/2 games but will be surpassed by season's end.
  • Rich "Goose" Gossage is born in Colorado Springs, CO. Making his debut with the Chicago White Sox in 1972, the flame-throwing reliever will save 310 games over his career, make the All-Star team nine times and win a World Series title with the New York Yankees in 1978. He will gain election to the Hall of Fame in 2008.
• 1952 - The Tigers fire their manager, Red Rolfe, replacing him with the popular pitcher Freddie Hutchinson.
• 1953 - Blanking the Pirates at Forbes Field, 2 - 0, Robin Roberts hurls his 28th consecutive complete game. The Phillies right-hander has finished every game he started since beating the Cardinals on August 28, 1952.
• 1954:
  • RF Stan Musial outpolls all other National League players in the All-Star balloting.
  • Indians reserve 1B Billy Glynn hits three home runs in a row and drives in eight runs in a 13 - 6 win over Detroit.
• 1961:
  • Cardinals first baseman Bill White hits three home runs and a double in a 9 - 1 rout over the Dodgers.
  • At Yankee Stadium, Roger Maris cracks a 7th-inning solo home run against the Indians, and also is credited - erroneously, as it turns out - with a 3rd-inning RBI on a single. The two RBIs are officially recorded, though just one appears in the game's box score, and the error will not be noted until 1995. With the correction, Maris and Jim Gentile will be recognized as co-leaders in RBIs for the season.
• 1963 - With 2 outs and 2 strikes, Pirates right fielder Roberto Clemente lines a tie-breaking two-run homer into the right field upper deck at the Polo Grounds, putting Pittsburgh ahead to stay, 3 - 1, against the New York Mets. While the shot is not a tape-measure one, it is remarkable that the pitch almost hit Clemente in the head. Maury Allen reports it thus: "'I was trying to waste a pitch', Tracy Stallard said. 'I figured if maybe I could get him to swing again at a pitch around his head.' So Stallard threw a real pitch to Clemente, the kind any human being hitter would duck away from and scream for the umpire. Naturally, Clemente hit it upstairs."
• 1964 - Dennis Bennett beats Juan Marichal, 2 - 1, to give the Phillies a three-game sweep of the Giants at Candlestick Park. The Phils hold a 1 1/2 game lead at the All-Star break.
• 1965:
  • Minnesota takes an American League lead it will not give up, as Dave Boswell and Jim Perry pitch the Twins to a 6 - 2 and 2 - 0 sweep of the Red Sox. The Sox will win just one of 18 games with the Twins this year.
  • Jim Maloney pitches the Reds to a 7 - 5 win against the Dodgers, as Cincinnati takes the National League lead.
• 1966 - The Cubs give up on Ernie Broglio releasing him outright to Tacoma (Pacific Coast League).
• 1967 - Red Sox P Jose Santiago loses to California, 4 - 3, and will not lose again this year. He will win his next eight straight.
• 1969:
  • AL East leader Baltimore breaks a three-game losing streak as Dave McNally (12-0) wins his 14th straight game, 9 - 3 at Detroit. Detroit OF Mickey Stanley plays his 220th straight errorless game and C Bill Freehan picks Paul Blair off third base unassisted. Blair, on third with a triple, strolls too slowly back to the bag after the bat flies out of the hands of Frank Robinson.
  • Minnesota regains the American League West lead behind the pitching of Jim Perry and a 13 - 1 rout of Oakland at Metropolitan Stadium.
• 1970:
  • Reds rookie Wayne Simpson (13-1) win his 10th straight, beating the visiting Astros, 3 - 1.
  • At Fenway Park, Boston's John Kennedy makes his first at bat for the BoSox a memorable one when he pinch hits an inside-the-park homer. Kennedy bats for P Mike Nagy in the 5th inning of the 8 - 4 Boston win over the Indians.
• 1971 - The Yankees and Red Sox each collect 16 hits, but for the second day in a row the Red Sox hit four homers to win, 12 - 7. The Sox score six in the 6th when Rico Petrocelli hits a bases-loaded triple and George Scott and Joe Lahoud follow with homers.
• 1972 - Nolan Ryan (10-5) strikes out eight in topping the Brewers, 2 - 1. Winston Llenas, batting for Ryan in the 9th, singles off starter Earl Stephenson for the winning run.
• 1973 - Dave Concepcion collects a triple, double and three singles to lead the Reds to a 4 - 3 win over the Giants. His third single drives in the winning run in the 9th.
• 1979 - University of Hawaii lefty Derek Tatsuno, selected in the 2nd round of the June draft by the Padres, signs with a subsidiary of the Seibu Lions for $750,000. Tatsuno, of Japanese-American descent, set an NCAA record of 20 wins (in 22 starts). He will finally sign with the Milwaukee Brewers, who select him in January of 1982 but he will be ineffective in the minors.
• 1980 - Reds pitcher Bruce Berenyi makes his major league debut and the Astros welcome him with a six-run 1st inning. Mario Soto relieves and pitches 8 2/3 inning of shutout ball, allowing just three hits. The Reds rally to win, 8 - 6.
• 1982 - Pittsburgh's first two hitters, Omar Moreno and Johnny Ray, hit homers off Houston's Joe Niekro. Niekro settles down and wins, 6 - 4.
• 1984 - Down 4 - 1 with two outs in the 9th, the visiting Tigers score six runs to beat the Rangers, 7 - 4. Lou Whitaker's bases-loaded single scores two, Alan Trammell's single scores another, and Kirk Gibson seals it with a three-run shot down the right field line. Charlie Hough is the loser, while reliever Aurelio Lopez's record goes up to 7-0.
• 1985 - At Wrigley Field, the first three hitters in the Cubs' announced batting order are Billy Hatcher, Davey Lopes and Ryne Sandberg. After Hatcher walks, Lopes takes a strike before someone in the Cubs' dugout sees that the lineup card submitted to the umpire has Sandberg listed second and Lopes third. Sandberg then finishes the at-bat (during which Hatcher is picked off) and singles. Lopes, hitting in his proper turn, doubles Sandberg home. All for naught as the Giants beat them, 12 - 6.
• 1987:
  • The knuck is not knuckling and Chicago hands Cleveland's Phil Niekro a 17 - 0 pasting. Scott Nielsen is the winner.
  • A's first baseman Mark McGwire becomes the first rookie to hit 30 homers before the All-Star Game as Oakland defeats the Red Sox, 6 - 2.
  • In a seven-player swap, the Padres trade pitchers Dave Dravecky and Craig Lefferts and OF Kevin Mitchell to the Giants for 3B Chris Brown and pitchers Keith Comstock, Mark Davis and Mark Grant. The trade will help the Giants win a division title this year and in 1989, Mitchell will win the MVP Award for the Giants, and Davis will win the Cy Young Award for the Padres.
• 1989:
  • Barry Bonds homers in Pittsburgh's 6 - 4 loss to the Giants, giving Barry and father Bobby Bonds the major league father-and-son home run record with 408. The Bells (Gus Bell and Buddy Bell) and the Berras (Yogi Berra and Dale Berra) had shared the record of 407.
  • Mark McGwire hits his 100th career home run off Royals hurler Charlie Leibrandt.
• 1991 - In a unanimous vote, final approval is given by baseball owners for the Rockies and the Marlins to join the National League in 1993.
• 1992 - Umpire Bill Hohn ejects an Atlanta Braves fan from the Braves-Cubs game for making obscene gestures. The gestures might have been meant for the Braves, who are shut out, 8 - 0. Greg Maddux goes seven innings for the win over John Smoltz, giving up three runs. The other five come off Juan Berenguer, who lasts a third of an inning. Chicago gets homers from Kal Daniels, Andre Dawson, Ryne Sandberg and Mark Grace.
• 1993 - Oakland OF Rickey Henderson leads off both games of the A's doubleheader against the Indians with home runs. It is the first time this has happened since 1913, when Harry Hooper performed the feat for the Boston Red Sox. The Athletics win the first game, 6 - 5, but the Indians come back to take the nightcap, 6 - 2.
• 1994:
  • California C Chris Turner leads the Angels to a 10 - 3 win over Boston. Entering the game batting only .138, Turner strokes five hits, including a pair of doubles, and gets two RBIs. He also becomes the first Angel C ever to steal home with a 2nd-inning theft.
  • Toronto 3B Darnell Coles leads the Blue Jays to a 14 - 3 win over Minnesota by stroking three homers and driving home four runs.
• 1995 - Mariners 1B Tino Martinez strokes five hits, but Seattle still loses to Detroit by a score of 8 - 6. Martinez's hits include a double and a pair of home runs, as he notches five ribbies.
• 1996:
  • After the California Angels score three runs in the top of the 1st inning, the Oakland Athletics respond with 13 of their own in the bottom half to mark the highest-scoring 1st inning by two teams in major league history. The 13 runs is one short of the record. DH Matt Stairs ties a major league mark with six RBIs in the frame. The Athletics go on to post a 16 - 8 victory.
  • Behind Wilson Alvarez, the White Sox hand the Indians their first shutout of the year, beating them, 7 - 0. The Sox now trail the Tribe by just two games.
• 1997 - The Expos retire Andre Dawson's uniform number 10 prior to the game with Atlanta. Once the festivities are over, the Braves defeat Montreal, 5 - 3, with Chipper Jones' 3rd-inning grand slam the big blow.
• 1998:
  • The White Sox plate 14 runs - including 8 in the 6th inning - on 12 hits against Red Sox pitching, but it's not enough for a win. Boston strokes 20 hits and pushes 15 runners across for a 15 - 14 victory.
  • In a game that is halted for 3 1/2 hours by rain and takes 6 hours, 9 minutes to complete, the Rangers beat the Mariners, 9 - 2.
  • Toronto defeats Tampa Bay, 2 - 1, with the help of 7 1/3 strong innings by Roger Clemens. In the game, Clemens fans Devil Ray LF Randy Winn for his 3,000th career strikeout. Only ten other pitchers have reached that mark in major league annals.
  • Hot-hitting Manny Ramirez hits two more homers, one a grand slam, in the Indians' 12 - 3 win over Kansas City. Manny had two homers on July 3rd.
  • Defeating the Orioles 1 - 0, the Yankees improve their record to 61-20, equaling the best 81-game start in major league history. The mark matches the record of the 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates and the 1907 Chicago Cubs.
  • Juan Gonzalez becomes the second player in major league history to go over the 100 RBI mark before the All-Star Game. His major league-leading total 101 RBIs is second only to Tiger slugger Hank Greenberg who had 103 in 1935 and finished the season with 170.
• 1999 - The Cardinals defeat the Diamondbacks, 1 - 0, as Jose Jimenez hurls a two-hitter to defeat Randy Johnson. Jimenez no-hit the Diamondbacks in his last appearance against them. Johnson loses his third game in a row, during which Arizona has not scored a run and only made three hits. He strikes out 12 Cardinals to tie Dwight Gooden's National League mark of 43 strikeouts over three starts. He also reaches 200 strikeouts for the year and ends St. Louis rookie Joe McEwing's 25-game hitting streak, the fifth longest ever for a rookie.
• 2000 - The Diamondbacks trip the Astros, 12 - 9. Arizona OF Luis Gonzalez becomes the first Diamondback to hit for the cycle. It is the first time the feat is accomplished in new Enron Field. Gonzalez is just the ninth player to both hit for the cycle and have a 30+ game hitting streak during his career.
• 2001:
  • Atlanta's Greg Maddux notches the 250th win of his career with a 9 - 5 decision over Philadelphia.
  • The Rangers score nine runs in the 4th inning and go on to defeat the Mariners, 14 - 2.
  • The Expos beat the Marlins, 9 - 6. Montreal 3B Geoff Blum homers from both sides of the plate in the contest.
  • Pirates skipper Lloyd McClendon is fined $1,000 for walking off the field with the first base bag in the June 26th game against the Brewers. It's the first time a manager has been fined for "stealing" a base.
• 2002:
  • Baseball legend Ted Williams, considered by many the greatest hitter in the history of the game, dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 83. The first-ballot Hall of Famer, who was a lifetime .344 hitter, won the Most Valuable Player Award and the Triple Crown twice, led the American League in batting six times, and hit .406 in 1941 during his 19-year career with the Boston Red Sox.
  • The Yankees obtain P Jeff Weaver from the Tigers in a three-team deal. New York sends P Ted Lilly to the Oakland A's while the Athletics send 1B Carlos Pena to Detroit. The Tigers also acquire P Franklyn German and a player to be named later from Oakland, while the A's get OF John-Ford Griffin and P Jason Arnold from New York.
  • The Twins score 8 runs in the 7th inning to down the Mariners, 8 - 4.
  • The Cubs fire manager Don Baylor and hire Bruce Kimm in his place.
• 2004:
  • At Dodger Stadium, Diamondback third baseman Chad Tracy's 9th-inning run-scoring single on an 0-2 change-up ends Eric Gagné's record streak of 84 consecutive saves. The new mark established by the Los Angeles closer is 30 more than the prior record set by Tom Gordon in 1999.
  • In an effort to honor local military personnel, the Twins give away a G.I. Joe action figure to the first 5,000 children attending a game against the Royals. The team, in an effort to appease protesting peace groups, who see the promotion as glorifying war, asks Hasbro, the toy's maker, to remove the customary gun from G.I. Joe's side, but the hand grenades remain visible.
• 2005 - Passing Eddie Murray, Red Sox left fielder Manny Ramirez hits his 20th career grand slam, now the second-most in major league history. The Dominican Republic native trails only Yankee legend Lou Gehrig, who holds the major league record with 23.
• 2009
  • Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals is the top vote-getter as the squads for the 80th All-Star Game, to be held July 14th in St. Louis, are announced. Among American League players is knuckleballer Tim Wakefield of Boston, who will be making his first All-Star appearance at age 42.
  • Vladimir Guerrero plays his first game of the year in the outfield and belts his second homer in two days as the Angels defeat the Orioles, 9 - 6. Vlad has been in a power drought to start the year, but now has 4 homers. Los Angeles stays tied atop the AL West as its main rival, Texas, completes a sweep of Tampa Bay with a 5 - 2 win at home. The Rangers now expect their own injured slugger, Josh Hamilton, to return to the line-up tomorrow. Starting 1B Chris Davis, who is hitting for power but has already piled up 114 strikeouts, is sent down AAA to make room for Hamilton.
• 2010:
  • The outgoing Texas Rangers ownership group decides to put the team up for auction, as it appears that they will be unable to satisfy creditors under the current plan to sell the team to a group headed by Chuck Greenberg and Nolan Ryan. The lenders, who stand to receive $75 million under the plan, have expressed their preference for a competitive bidding process as part of bankruptcy procedures for current owner Tom Hicks's sports properties company, in the hope of receiving a larger settlement. The auction could take place as early as next week.
  • Joey Votto, in competition for the last spot on the National League All-Star team, hits two solo home runs in the Reds' 8 - 6 win over the Mets. The game features the ejection of Mets manager Jerry Manuel, who complains over a ruling that Scott Rolen is hit by a Mike Pelfrey pitch with the bases loaded in the 5th, scoring the go-ahead run. Manuel argues that the ball tipped Rolen's bat, but is tossed when he tries to press his case. Drew Stubbs and Corky Miller follow with two-run hits each, then pitcher Travis Wood hits a triple to make it 7 - 1. The Mets counter with 5 runs of their own in the bottom of the frame, but never manage to catch up.
• 2011:
  • It took a while, but Jason Bay is finally giving the Mets the production they have been waiting for since they signed him to a large contract before the 2010 season. Today, he hits two homers and drives in 4 runs as New York shuts out the Dodgers, 6 - 0, giving him a .347 average and 17 RBI in his last 18 games. Mike Pelfrey is the winner over Ted Lilly, with the help of three relievers.
  • Justin Verlander may be headed to the All-Star Game, but it is Dan Haren who pitches a two-hitter, outduelling the Tigers' ace in a 1 - 0 Angels victory. Verlander and manager Jim Leyland are both ejected by umpire Joe West after Verlander exits the game in the 8th inning.
• 2013 - Juan Uribe doubles, triples and homers to drive in 7 runs in leading the Dodgers to a 10 - 2 win over the Giants. The Dodgers have won 11 of their last 13, but lose OF Matt Kemp who re-injures his left shoulder in the 2nd inning. The Giants are heading the opposite direction however, with their 10th loss in 11 games.
• 2015 - Starters for the 2015 All-Star Game, which will be played in Cincinnati, OH, are announced. Early fears of a complete sweep of American League starting berths as a result of ballot stuffing by Royals fans are allayed, but they still manage to get four players elected. The leading vote-getter is Toronto 3B Josh Donaldson, who gathers over 14 million votes, thanks to a late patriotic surge coming from north of the border. In the National League, Nationals OF Bryce Harper leads all players with 13,8 million votes, almost double the highest total ever recorded by a member of the senior circuit.
• 2016 - The rosters for the 2016 All-Star Game are announced. The Cubs provide the entire starting infield for the National League and have seven players selected, while the Boston Red Sox have six, including four starters. Royals catcher Salvador Perez is the leading vote-getter.
• 2018 - Trailing 9 - 0 to the Marlins in the 4th, the Nationals stage a great comeback, eventually winning, 14 - 12, to get back to .500. Trea Turner hits a pair of homers, including his first career grand slam, and drives in 8 runs while Matt Adams adds 4 hits in his first game since coming off the disabled list.
• 2019 - In defeating the Rangers, 15 - 6, the Twins set a record with 165 homers before the All-Star Game, hitting four in the game, to surpass the previous mark of 161 set only a year ago by the Yankees. In fact, the Twins are only one short of the total number of long balls they hit the entire 2018 season. They also tie club records with 9 doubles and 13 extra-base hits in the game, and 6 extra-base hits in one inning, the 2nd.
• 2022 - The 2022 Bolivarian Games come to an end. The Dominican national team had already locked up Gold, having finished play yesterday with a 5-1 record. Today, Venezuela beats Colombia; the teams tie for second but Colombia wins the tie-breaker (run differential) for the Silver Medal while Venezuela matches their worst finish in a Bolivarian Games baseball (they also had Bronze in 2017 as their decades-long run of dominance had slipped).

Births

• 1857 - Jack Farrell, infielder, manager (d. 1914)
• 1863 - Charlie Krehmeyer, outfielder (d. 1926)
• 1865 - Pat Wright, infielder (d. 1943)
• 1866 - Lee Viau, pitcher (d. 1947)
• 1875 - Frank Freund, catcher (d. 1933)
• 1876 - Robert Brown, minor league executive (d. 1962)
• 1876 - Charles Stoneham, owner (d. 1936)
• 1877 - Harvey Cushman, pitcher (d. 1920)
• 1881 - Harry Aubrey, infielder (d. 1953)
• 1883 - Josh Swindell, pitcher (d. 1969)
• 1884 - Jimmy Dygert, pitcher (d. 1936)
• 1884 - Ward Miller, outfielder (d. 1958)
• 1886 - Beals Becker, outfielder (d. 1943)
• 1890 - Joe Cambria, scout (d. 1962)
• 1893 - Buck Freeman, pitcher (d. 1953)
• 1894 - Hod Eller, pitcher (d. 1961)
• 1896 - Hank Thormahlen, pitcher (d. 1955)
• 1897 - Tom Miller, pinch hitter (d. 1980)
• 1902 - Frank Naleway, infielder (d. 1949)
• 1904 - Bump Hadley, pitcher (d. 1963)
• 1909 - Willie Duke, minor league outfielder and manager (d. 1993)
• 1916 - Bill Shewey, minor league outfielder and manager (d. 2014)
• 1917 - Tommy Warren, pitcher (d. 1968)
• 1917 - Carp Wood, college coach (d. 2005)
• 1919 - Frank Fleming, pitcher (d. 1989)
• 1919 - Don Wollett, arbitrator (d. 2014)
• 1920 - Ramón Fernández, minor league pitcher-outfielder (d. 1979)
• 1921 - Al Kozar, infielder (d. 2007)
• 1921 - Guillermo Vento, minor league catcher (d. 2006)
• 1922 - Oscar Givens, infielder (d. 1967)
• 1926 - Roy Hawes, infielder (d. 2017)
• 1926 - Mario Picone, pitcher (d. 2013)
• 1927 - Eugene Gartland, minor league pitcher (d. 2009)
• 1928 - Jim Baxes, infielder (d. 1996)
• 1928 - Ed Moeller, minor league pitcher (d. 2017)
• 1929 - Joe McDonald, general manager
• 1931 - Arnie Portocarrero, pitcher (d. 1986)
• 1934 - Gordy Coleman, infielder (d. 1994)
• 1936 - Jack Krol, manager (d. 1994)
• 1943 - Curt Blefary, outfielder (d. 2001)
• 1944 - Joe Russo, college coach (d. 2019)
• 1947 - Luis Mercado, Puerto Rican national team outfielder
• 1948 - Dave Lemonds, pitcher
• 1950 - Gary Matthews, outfielder; All-Star
• 1951 - Rich Gossage, pitcher; All-Star
• 1952 - Don Demola, pitcher
• 1955 - Robbie Henderson, minor league infielder-pitcher
• 1956 - Rick Lancellotti, infielder
• 1956 - Paul Elliott, minor league manager
• 1962 - Jeff Innis, pitcher (d. 2022)
• 1966 - Dave Eiland, pitcher
• 1966 - Koichi Emoto, NPB pitcher
• 1967 - Tim Worrell, pitcher
• 1969 - Stanton Cameron, minor league outfielder
• 1969 - Darrel Deak, minor league infielder
• 1970 - Doug Bochtler, pitcher
• 1971 - Gardner O'Flynn, minor league pitcher
• 1971 - Dong-il Son, KBO outfielder
• 1972 - Shigeki Abe, NPB pinch-hitter
• 1972 - Won-hyung Kim, KBO pitcher
• 1972 - Bo Porter, outfielder; manager
• 1975 - Alberto Castillo, pitcher
• 1976 - Jay Spurgeon, pitcher
• 1977 - Brian Harrell, South African national team pitcher
• 1978 - Jose Amancio, minor league pitcher
• 1979 - Ming-Chin Lee, CPBL pitcher
• 1980 - Ronny Frid, Elitserien player
• 1981 - Kendy Batista, minor league pitcher
• 1981 - Jesse Crain, pitcher; All-Star
• 1981 - Jakub Jonák, Extraliga pitcher
• 1982 - Yasuhiro Ichiba, NPB pitcher
• 1983 - Marco Estrada, pitcher; All-Star
• 1983 - Carlos Guzman, minor league infielder/outfielder
• 1984 - Shohei Otani, pitcher
• 1984 - R.J. Rodriguez, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Brian McCullough, college coach
• 1987 - Rachel Balkovec, minor league manager
• 1987 - Johannes Schäffler, Bundesliga outfielder
• 1988 - Yusuke Uemura, NPB pitcher
• 1988 - Travis Whitmore, minor league infielder
• 1989 - Tony Cingrani, pitcher
• 1989 - Yuki Karakawa, NPB pitcher
• 1989 - Daniel Renken, minor league pitcher
• 1990 - Nick Anderson, pitcher
• 1990 - Hitoshi Kondo, Japanese national team pitcher
• 1990 - Jordan Smith, minor league outfielder and manager
• 1991 - Kwok-Wui Lee, Hong Kong national team outfielder
• 1991 - Felipe Vazquez, pitcher; All-Star
• 1991 - Josh Sale, minor league outfielder
• 1992 - Roman Mayfat, Ukrainian national team pitcher
• 1992 - Peter Tago, minor league pitcher
• 1993 - Jorge Polanco, infielder; All-Star
• 1994 - Shohei Otani, pitcher/outfielder; All-Star
• 1995 - Austin Hays, outfielder; All-Star
• 1996 - Joel Condreay, minor league pitcher
• 1996 - Motoki Mukoyama, Japanese national team outfielder
• 1996 - Renner Rivero, Cuban league pitcher
• 1996 - Chris Singleton, minor league outfielder
• 1998 - Kelsie Whitmore, minor league outfielder
• 1998 - Andy Yerzy, minor league catcher
• 1999 - Niklas Rimmel, minor league pitcher
• 2002 - Jin-uk Kim, KBO pitcher
• 2003 - Junior Caminero, infielder
• 2005 - Kashon Conliffe, minor league outfielder

Deaths

• 1883 - Charlie Guth, pitcher (b. 1856)
• 1909 - Frank Selee, manager; Hall of Famer (b. 1859)
• 1929 - Ted Sullivan, outfielder, manager (b. 1851)
• 1930 - Frederick Fass, pitcher (b. 1859)
• 1940 - George Yeager, catcher (b. 1874)
• 1944 - Claude Rothgeb, outfielder (b. 1880)
• 1948 - Ed Smith, pitcher (b. 1863)
• 1950 - Joe Sargent, infielder (b. 1893)
• 1953 - Frank McCue, infielder (b. 1898)
• 1963 - Ben Demott, pitcher (b. 1889)
• 1964 - Dick Attreau, infielder (b. 1897)
• 1966 - Pete Fox, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1909)
• 1969 - Ed Hemingway, infielder (b. 1893)
• 1974 - Duster Mails, pitcher (b. 1894)
• 1975 - Joe Kiefer, pitcher (b. 1899)
• 1980 - Ben Tincup, pitcher (b. 1890)
• 1981 - Horace Allen, outfielder (b. 1899)
• 1988 - Joe Rose, Hawai'ian national team infielder (b. ~1912)
• 1992 - Red Dugan, college coach (b. 1913)
• 1993 - Charlie Bishop, pitcher (b. 1924)
• 1993 - Deedum Krynzel, minor league player {b. 1915)
• 1994 - Bernie DeViveiros, infielder (b. 1901)
• 1994 - Ron Law, pitcher (b. 1946)
• 2000 - Tibor Brown, minor league pitcher (b. 1969)
• 2000 - Ray Gamache, minor league pitcher (b. 1923)
• 2002 - Ted Williams, outfielder, manager; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1918)
• 2006 - Chet Hajduk, pinch hitter (b. 1918)
• 2008 - Luz Portobanco, minor league pitcher (b. 1979)
• 2012 - Mike Amrhein, minor league catcher/infielder (b. 1975)
• 2012 - Dick Greco, minor league outfielder and manager (b. 1925)
• 2012 - Dave Parham, minor league player (b. 1939)
• 2015 - Murray Janoff, writer (b. 1915)
• 2016 - George Luffey, college coach (b. 1929)
• 2017 - Tommy Smith, minor league infielder (b. 1942)