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Events

• 1900 - For the fourth time in his career, St. Louis star Jesse Burkett hits two inside-the-park homers in a game. It is all the scoring St. Louis can muster as Brooklyn wins, 8 - 2.
• 1901:
  • Player-manager George Davis leads the Giants to a 9 - 3 win over Cincinnati with four hits, including two inside-the-park homers, and 4 RBIs. Christy Mathewson beats Dick Scott for the second time this year, though Matty's control is off. He walks four batters and hits two, including Cincy 1B Jake Beckley, who is hit in the head with a Matty pitch and knocked out for five minutes.
  • An 8th-inning decision favoring the Brooklyn Superbas infuriates St. Louis fans. When the 7 - 5 Brooklyn win ends, they rush umpire Hank O'Day, who suffers a split lip before players and police can rescue him.
• 1902:
  • A rough outing as Boston righthander Doc Adkins faces 16 batters and gives up 12 hits and 12 runs in the 6th inning of a Philadelphia A's 22 - 9 win over the Americans. Five players - Topsy Hartsel, Harry Davis, Lave Cross, Socks Seybold and Danny Murphy - collect two hits apiece in the frame. The A's new 2B Murphy does not arrive until the 2nd inning and takes the field with no batting practice: he is 6 for 6, including a grand slam off Cy Young, while handling 12 chances flawlessly in a sensational debut. Teammate Davis adds another grand slam to tie the major-league record for a game. The 45 hits - 27 by the A's - by the two teams sets an American League record. Rube Waddell picks up the win, facing just three batters in relief, while singling in the big inning.
  • John McGraw, accused by Ban Johnson of trying to wreck the Baltimore and Washington clubs, negotiates his release from the Orioles and officially signs to manage the Giants at $11,000 a year, although he has already secretly signed a contract several days earlier brought to Baltimore by Giants secretary Fred M. Knowles. McGraw says, "I wish to state that I shall not tamper with any of the Baltimore club's players." But conspiring with National League owners John Brush and Andrew Freedman, McGraw swings the sale of the Orioles their way, enabling them to release Orioles Dan McGann, Roger Bresnahan, Joe McGinnity and Jack Cronin for signing by the Giants. Joe Kelley and Cy Seymour go to Brush's Cincinnati Reds.
• 1904 - In the fight for first place in the American League, Boston continues to roll, beating New York, 12 - 3, as Kip Selbach has a single and triple.
• 1907 - Bombarded by pop bottles in Brooklyn, irate Cubs manager Frank Chance throws one back into the stands where it cuts a boy's leg. Chance is mobbed and leaves the park in an armored car with a police escort after the Cubs' 5 - 0 victory. Three-Finger Brown emerges with the shutout win.
• 1911 - New York's Rube Marquard hits his only career home run, off Chicago's Harry McIntire, to help himself to a 5 - 2 win at the newly-refurbished Polo Grounds.
• 1912:
  • In Pittsburgh, the Phillies top the Pirates, 5 - 1, ending Howie Camnitz's win streak of 7. Grover Cleveland Alexander is the victor.
  • At Chicago's West Side Grounds, Giants hurler Rube Marquard's consecutive game winning streak is stopped at 19 as the Cubs defeat New York, 7 - 2.
• 1915 - The Pirates make just two assists, both by 2B Jim Viox, in a nine-inning game to tie a record set by the Giants on August 9, 1906. On July 22nd of that same year, the Cincinnati Reds had no assists in a seven-inning game versus the Phils.
• 1918 - Although Babe Ruth's blast over the fence in Fenway Park scores Amos Strunk, as the Red Sox win 1 - 0 over Cleveland, prevailing rules reduce Babe's home run to a triple. He will tie for the American League title with 11 homers, even though he plays just 95 games.
• 1919 - Jack Coombs resigns as manager of the last-place Phils. Slugger Gavvy Cravath replaces him.
• 1921:
  • An order is issued that allows fans to keep balls hit into the stands in Pittsburgh.
  • In Detroit, RF Harry Heilmann hits a home run that is measured at 610 feet.
• 1922 - Reds righthander Pete Donohue beats the Phils, 7 - 1. A three-time 20-game winner in nine years with the Reds, Donohue will beat the Phils 20 straight times.
• 1934:
  • Max Bishop draws eight walks in a doubleheader, tying his own major-league record.
  • Just four days after throwing a no-hitter, Satchel Paige finds himself on the short end of another no-hitter, thrown by Willie "Sug" Cornelius. However, Cornelius' Chicago American Giants are unable to score, and the game is still scoreless after nine innings. Paige's Pittsburgh Crawfords break open the no-hitter in the 10th inning, and Paige beats Cornelius, 3 - 0.
• 1935 - The American League continues its All-Star Game reign, winning the third event, at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, 4 - 1. Jimmie Foxx is the hitting star with a homer and three RBI. The rule that no pitcher can throw more than three innings unless the game goes into extra innings will be instituted after Yankee Lefty Gomez pitches six outstanding innings in the Mid-Summer Classic.
• 1939 - Prior to the first game of a doubleheader with the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium, a wall of Japanese beetles forms in front of the home dugout. Although over 5000 insects will be captured, the problem will return later in the month.
• 1941 - At the All-Star Game at Briggs Stadium, Ted Williams, hitting .405 at the break, homers off Chicago Cubs P Claude Passeau with two out and two on in the 9th inning to give the American League a dramatic 7 - 5 victory. Williams's 4 RBI are matched by National League SS Arky Vaughan, who hits homers in the 7th and 8th.
• 1945:
  • Filling wartime rosters requires going deeper into the bag. The Dodgers bring back Babe Herman from California. He pinch-hits twice against the Cardinals, tripping over first base on a hit. Guy Bush, Clay Touchstone and Hod Lisenbee, contemporaries of Herman in the 1920s, will get their chances on the mound. The Babe will go 9 for 34, mostly as a pinch-hitter, sock one homer, and be a popular gate attraction in Brooklyn.
  • The Cubs take the National League lead by winning two from the Phillies, 12 - 6 and 9 - 2. They never relinquish first place, despite losing 16 of 22 games to the Cards.
• 1946 - A special meeting of clubs deals with Mexican League defections and attempts by players to gain new rights. Some results: $5,000 minimum salary, $25-per-week training-camp expenses, a fixed period for spring training, 25 days for post-season barnstorming, maximum pay cut of 25 percent. A pension fund aimed at providing $100 a month for retired ten-year players will be funded by World Series broadcast rights and net proceeds from All-Star Games. Each league will have a player rep to baseball councils. The first player reps named are Yankees P Johnny Murphy and Dodgers OF Dixie Walker.
• 1947 - Clutch pinch hits by Luke Appling and Stan Spence lead the American League to a 2 - 1 win over the National League in the All-Star Game at Wrigley Field. Schoolboy Rowe pinch-hits for Johnny Sain, becoming the first player to appear for each side. Rowe pitched three innings for the American League in 1936. Spec Shea is the first winning rookie pitcher in All-Star history.
• 1948 - The Reds' Ewell Blackwell strikes out 13 Cubs at Wrigley Field, as Cincinnati wins, 4 - 0.
• 1949 - Monte Irvin and Hank Thompson, brought up from Jersey City three days earlier, are the first blacks to play for the New York Giants. Thompson, who was also the first black to play for the St. Louis Browns in 1947, starts at 2B, and Irvin pinch-hits in the 8th for Clint Hartung. Thompson broke into the majors 12 days after Larry Doby's American League debut with the Indians in 1947.
• 1950 - Red Schoendienst of the Cards goes 5 for 5 against Pittsburgh, but the Cards lose, 7 - 6, to drop the Birds into second place, a game behind the Phillies. The Bucs win in the 9th when they load the bases and pinch-hitter Jack Phillips' long fly ball is seemingly snagged by Stan Musial, but then drops into Greenberg Gardens for a walk-off grand slam. Ralph Kiner and Stan Rojek also homer for the Corsairs.
• 1951:
  • Red Schoendienst hits a home run from each side of the plate in the second game, as the Cards beat Pittsburgh, 9 - 8, after losing, 6 - 2.
  • The feud between Joe DiMaggio and Casey Stengel reaches a head in the 2nd inning against the Red Sox. Because of a misplay in the 1st, Stengel sends reserve Jackie Jensen out to CF to relieve the Yankee Clipper after he has already taken his position. The Red Sox clip the Yankees, 6 - 3, as the red-hot Clyde Vollmer belts a two-run homer.
• 1952 - The National League defeats the American League, 3 - 2, in the 1952 All-Star Game behind the pitching of Philadelphia's Curt Simmons and Cub Bob Rush in Philadelphia. The game is ended after five innings because of rain. Cub Hank Sauer's homer with Stan Musial aboard in the 4th proves to be the deciding run.
• 1953:
  • Cardinals 3B Ray Jablonski goes 5 for 5 against the Reds in a 7 - 2 win.
  • In the second game of a Pacific Coast League doubleheader at Edmonds Field in Sacramento, CA Neill Sheridan hits one of the longest home runs ever measured. The line drive shot by the Sacramento Solons hitter disappears into the night behind the left-field fence and brings little immediate notice. The next day, however, a spectator will show up claiming that the ball landed on the back seat of his car, breaking the back window, while the car was parked on a residential street behind the stadium's parking lot. A surveying firm will officially measure the blast at 613.80 feet, from home plate to the parking spot. However, as there was no witness to the ball's touching down, a doubt will remain as to whether the automobile was really parked where its owner said it was, and whether it did in fact have its back window shattered by the mighty blast.
• 1954 - The Giants complete a three-game sweep of the Dodgers in Ebbets Field to increase their lead in the National League to 6 1/2 games.
• 1956:
  • The Giants connect for a team-record seven home runs in a 11 - 1 home win over the Pirates. Willie Mays, Daryl Spencer and Wes Westrum each connect for 2. Hank Thompson, Westrum, and Spencer hit consecutive homers in the 4th inning.
  • Boston's Ted Williams becomes the 12th player to drive in 1,500 runs when he hits a single in the second game of a doubleheader against the Orioles. The Red Sox sweep, winning 9 - 0 and 8 - 4.
• 1957 - The owners decide to re-elect Commissioner Ford Frick to another seven-year term when his present contract is up in 1958.
• 1958:
  • Senator Carl Mundt proposes legislation to curb franchise shifts.
  • At Baltimore's Memorial Stadium, in a contest which features no extra-base hits (13 singles), the American League edges the Senior Circuit, 4 - 3, in the 1958 All-Star Game. The Yankees' Gil McDougald singles to score Boston's Frank Malzone with the deciding run.
• 1960 - The Cuban revolution led by Fidel Castro brings an end to Havana's International League team. The Sugar Kings relocate in Jersey City, marking that city's return to the IL after a ten-year absence. Poor attendance at Roosevelt Stadium will prompt the parent Reds to cease the minor league operation there following the season however.
• 1961 - At Yankee Stadium, Whitey Ford tops the Red Sox, 8 - 5. Mickey Mantle hits a home run in the 4th, off Tracy Stallard, for his tenth roundtripper this year in support of Ford.
• 1962:
  • The Yankees complete a three-game sweep in Minnesota, winning 9 - 8 to regain first place. They will remain there the rest of the way.
  • The Dodgers take first place as Don Drysdale saves Sandy Koufax's 13th win, 2 - 0, against San Francisco. Los Angeles will remain in first until the final day of the season, but will lose a three-game playoff to the Giants.
  • Cincinnati uses nine pitchers to win the 13-inning second game against the Houston Colt .45's, 12 - 11. This sets a National League record and ties the major league mark. Houston scores once in the 13th and Cincy scores twice to win. The Reds also win the first game, 12 - 8, battling back from an 8 - 3 deficit.
  • With home runs in his first three at bats, 41-year-old Stan Musial of the Cardinals not only becomes the oldest player to hit three in a game but also ties the major league record of four straight home runs, as the Cards whip the Mets, 15 - 1. His home run in the second game the day before won the game, 3 - 2.
• 1963 - Reports of Charlie Finley's intention to move the Kansas City A's to Oakland surface during the All-Star break at Cleveland.
• 1965 - Joe Morgan is the first Houston player with six hits in a game, but the Braves beat the Astros, 9 - 8, in 12 innings, thanks to Mike de la Hoz. De la Hoz hits a pinch homer in the 8th inning, ties the game in the 9th with a single when the Braves score three runs, and singles and scores the winning run to end the game.
• 1966 - In New York, the Senators win the opener, 7 - 6, then blow a four-run lead in the nitecap to lose, 7 - 5. Mickey Mantle is 5 for 8 in the doubleheader, including a homer in each game. The second homer, off Jim Hannan, is a 461-foot sky shot over the monuments into the CF bleachers. Mick follows with a sure double in the 5th but tears a hamstring muscle rounding first and will be sidelined for two weeks.
• 1967 - At Shea Stadium, Tom Seaver pitches the Mets to a 3 - 2 win over the Braves. An odd play occurs when Bud Harrelson's looper over third base is touched by a fan before Rico Carty can field it, and Harrelson is awarded a single because of fan interference.
• 1969:
  • Roberto Clemente's final assault on 436. Roberto revisits the scene of the crime, as it were, recalling his overwhelming 1966 assaults on the once-seemingly-impregnable 436-foot Forbes Field barricade. "Clemente's third hit of the game will provide conversation for at least the rest of the week," reports Bill Christine of the Pittsburgh Press. "It went over the gate in right-center field, just to the right of the light standard and the 436-foot mark." Charley Feeney of the Post Gazette elaborates: "Clemente's drive, off Bill (No-Hit) Stoneman, carried well over the wall in centerfield. Few hitters have hit a ball out of the ballpark in this sector, which is to the right of dead center between the exit gate and the light stanchion."
  • With three runs in the 9th inning, the Mets beat the Cubs, 4 - 3, cutting Chicago's lead in the National League East to four games. Ron Santo rips into CF Don Young for two misplays in the outfield. Santo will apologize tomorrow for criticizing Young, who left early and doesn't take the team bus. Santo will get booed in his first game back at Wrigley Field.
  • Mike Cuellar of the Orioles throws a complete game three-hitter against the New York in a 4-1 win. CF Ron Woods has the Yankees only only three hits in the game, with two singles and a home run.
• 1970:
  • Jim Ray Hart ties a modern major-league record with 6 RBIs in one inning (the 5th) with a three-run homer and a three-run triple; Hart is the first player in 59 years to accomplish the feat. The Giants score 11 in the frame. Hart also hits for the cycle as the Giants rout the Braves, 13 - 0. Gaylord Perry is the easy winner, posting San Francisco's first shutout of the year. Perry will throw four more to lead the National League.
  • The Orioles again wait until the late innings to beat New York, this time striking in the 9th inning on a Frank Robinson home run and a two-out single by Don Buford. The O's overcome an 8 - 6 deficit to win, 9 - 8.
• 1972 - The Tigers lose to the White Sox, 5 - 2, as Detroit's John Hiller returns to the mound 18 months after suffering a heart attack.
• 1974:
  • Cleveland's Gaylord Perry loses to Oakland in 10 innings, 4 - 3. Vida Blue is the winner.
  • Yankees SS Jim Mason ties the major-league record with four doubles in a 12 - 5 win over the Rangers. Off the field, the Yankees purchase infielder Sandy Alomar from the Angels.
• 1975 - The Royals jump on Milwaukee starter Bill Travers for five runs in a third of an inning and flatten the Brewers, 9 - 1. The Brewers' lone run is George Scott's 16th homer of the year. Mike Hegan pinch hits for Hank Aaron, the 6th time in his career that's occurred. All the pinch hitters have been lefties.
• 1976:
  • At Fenway Park, the Red Sox beat the Twins, 8 - 4, as their attendance reaches 1,007,491. It's the earliest date in club history they've topped the million mark.
  • At Wrigley Field, Randy Jones wins his 16th game of the year for the Padres, a National League record for wins at the All-Star break. He beats the Cubs, 6 - 3. In the second half of the season, the Padres lefty will lose seven games by one run, two of them by 1 - 0 scores.
• 1977 - The Yankees, led by home runs off the bats of Thurman Munson and Graig Nettles, beat the Orioles, 7 - 5. Don Gullett wins his seventh of the year.
• 1978 - Omar Moreno's 1st-inning single is the Pirates' only hit as the Cardinals' Silvio Martinez hurls a 4 - 0 shutout.
• 1979 - Ben Oglivie has three home runs in three at bats as the Brewers beat the Tigers, 5 - 4 in the first game of a doubleheader. Oglivie drives in the winning run in the second game as the Brewers take it, 3 - 1.
• 1980 - At Dodger Stadium, the 51st All-Star Game features J.R. Richard (10-4) and Steve Stone (12-3) as the starters, with Richard going two innings in spite of various back and shoulder problems he's been having. The National League battles back to win its ninth consecutive Midsummer Classic, 4 - 2, pinning the loss on Dodger defector Tommy John. Reds outfielder Ken Griffey goes 2 for 3 with a solo home run to win the game's MVP Award.
• 1982:
  • Billy Martin records his 1,000th career win as a manager as the A's beat the Yankees, 6 - 3.
  • For the second day in a row, the Reds enter the 9th trailing the Pirates. Today, they turn a 4 - 2 deficit into an 8 - 4 lead, scoring 6 in the top of the 9th. The Pirates answer with a two-run homer by Willie Stargell and a three-run double by Jason Thompson off Joe Price, and win, 9 - 8.
  • Bruce Bochte of the Seattle Mariners successfully pulls off the hidden ball trick against Rich Dauer in the 7th inning of 4 - 3 win against the Baltimore Orioles.
• 1985:
  • Joaquin Andujar scatters 12 singles to register his 15th win as the Cards down the Giants, 6 - 1.
  • Marge Schott becomes president and CEO of the Cincinnati Reds.
• 1987 - Floyd Youmans of the Expos pitches a one-hitter to beat the Astros and Nolan Ryan, 1 - 0. Houston's lone hit is an 8th-inning single by Kevin Bass.
• 1988 - In a game with the Angels, Cleveland's Bud Black hits Jack Howell, Devon White and Johnny Ray with pitches in the 4th inning of a 10 - 6 loss, tying the major league record. Bert Blyleven will match him in September.
• 1990 - Losing 7 - 0 to California in the 3rd, the Brewers score 20 unanswered runs, including 13 in the 5th, to win. This is the biggest swing of runs since 1980 and will not be topped in the 1990s. Looking for his 279th win, Bert Blyleven starts for the Angels but never makes it out of the 4th. He'll win only once more the rest of the year.
• 1994 - In Seattle's 7 - 4 win over Boston, Red Sox SS John Valentin turns the tenth unassisted triple play in major league history. In the 2nd inning, he catches a line drive off the bat of Marc Newfield, steps on second base to retire Mike Blowers, then tags runner Keith Mitchell who is heading for second. Valentin then homers in the bottom of the inning. Blue chipper Alex Rodriguez, 18, is 0 for 3 in his major league debut, but makes a long throw to start a double play.
• 1995 - After each team scores a run in the 1st inning, the Astros and Padres play scoreless ball for the next 14 frames. Each team scores its second run in the 16th stanza, and the Astros pull it out with a run in the last half of the 17th inning for a 3 - 2 win.
• 1997:
  • Baseball's realignment committee discusses a variety of plans including one that would have as many as 14 teams changing divisions and leagues next year. Kansas City would switch to the National League, and baseball's eight Pacific and Mountain time zone teams could be grouped together if the sport switches back from six divisions to four in 1998. With the addition of Arizona to the National League next season and Tampa Bay to the American League, baseball's current plan calls for two 15-team leagues in 1998 with three divisions in each. The Major Leagues have till August 1st to present next year's schedule to the players' association.
  • The American League defeats the National by a score of 3 - 1 in the annual All-Star Game, played in Cleveland. Indians C Sandy Alomar Jr. hits a two-run home run and is named the game's Most Valuable Player. Alomar is the first hometown player to homer since Hank Aaron in Atlanta in 1972.
• 2000:
  • After Jose Cruz Jr. hits his 20th homer in a 6 - 3 win over the Expos, the Blue Jays become the first team in major league history to have four batters hit 20 or more homers before the All-Star break.
  • The Reds defeat the Indians, 14 - 5, as Ken Griffey Jr. hits two home runs and drives in eight runs for Cincinnati. Chris Stynes strokes five hits for the Reds.
  • The Tigers defeat the Brewers, 4 - 2, in 15 innings. Twenty Milwaukee batters strike out in the contest to set a new franchise mark.
  • The Yankees sweep their cross-town rivals in the first double-ballpark doubleheader since 1903 with identical scores, 4 - 2 in an afternoon tilt at Shea Stadium and 4 - 2 in an evening contest at Yankee Stadium. It proves to be quite an interesting day in New York as Mike Piazza is hospitalized with a concussion after being beaned by Roger Clemens, Dwight Gooden gets his first Shea win since 1994 and a bizarre obstruction call on Mets first baseman Todd Zeile causes the first game to be played under protest.
• 2001:
  • Lance Berkman has three hits to extend his hitting streak to 21 games. It'll end here, but Moises Alou reaches 16 straight games today on his way to a 23-game streak. Jeff Bagwell and Mendy Lopez collect three RBIs for Houston as they outslug the Royals, 10 - 8. Scott Elarton is tossed in the 1st after plunking leadoff hitter Rey Sanchez in retaliation for Craig Biggio being hit.
  • In Toronto's 9 - 3 win over Montreal, Jays rookie Cesar Izturis hits his first major league homer inside the park, thanks to Expos LF Mark Smith losing the ball in the lights. Smith gets a glove on it, but Izturis beats the relay throw from Orlando Cabrera, who also hit his first homer inside-the-park. The win goes to 30-year-old rookie Chris Michalak (6-6), who will be waived next month and picked up by Texas.
  • A librarian finds an 1823 reference to "base ball" marking the earliest known reference to the game.
• 2002:
  • The Class A Charleston Riverdogs defeat the Columbus RedStixx, 4 - 2, on "Nobody Night" in Charleston. Fans were barred from Joe Riley Stadium in the team's attempt to set an all-time record low attendance for a single game. The previous mark is believed to have been 12 set in 1881. Fans are let into the park after the 5th inning, at which time the attendance is officially recorded as 0.
  • Jason Giambi outhomers Sammy Sosa, 7 - 1, in the final round to take the 2002 Home Run Derby.
• 2005 - Toronto Blue Jays ace Roy Halladay is struck on the shin by a line drive and placed on the disabled list with a fractured leg. The injury costs Halladay the rest of the season, including his chance to be the American League starter in the All-Star Game.
• 2007:
  • The World beats the US, 7 - 2, in the 2007 Futures Game. World SS Chin-Lung Hu wins the Larry Doby Award by going 2 for 2 with two RBI, a run, a double and a stolen base. Rick Vanden Hurk gets the win while Jeff Niemann takes the loss. Two players crack homers for each side.
  • Fausto Álvarez, the Amsterdam Pirates DH and batting coach, hits his ninth home run of the season. That represents a new Hoofdklasse record in the wooden bat era (since 2000), breaking Ivanon Coffie's old mark. Álvarez is 46 years and 7 months old and already collecting a pension after retiring from Cuban play earlier in the decade.
• 2008:
  • In his 200th major league game, Ryan Braun hits his 56th career home run. Only Mark McGwire and Rudy York (both 59) hit more in their first 200 games in The Show.
  • Ryan Dempster improves to 10-0 at home, the best start by a Cubs hurler at Wrigley Field since Rick Reuschel in 1977. Chicago beats the Reds, 7 - 3.
  • The Cubs also try to add some depth for the stretch run by acquiring A's pitchers Rich Harden and Chad Gaudin in exchange for Sean Gallagher, Matt Murton, Eric Patterson and Josh Donaldson.
• 2009:
  • Andruw Jones hits three home runs to lead Texas to an 8 - 1 win over Los Angeles, breaking a tie between the two teams in the AL West race. Jones is now hitting .250 with 14 homers, putting his career back on track after a disastrous last season with the Dodgers almost forced him into retirement.
  • In a battle of promising young pitchers, Chris Volstad pitches his first career complete game in leading Florida to a 7 - 0 shutout of San Francisco. His opponent, Ryan Sadowski, enters the game without having allowed an earned run in his first 13 major league innings; he runs his streak to 16 before giving up his first runs in the 4th, but still leaves the game with an ERA of 1.00.
• 2010:
  • Astros P Roy Oswalt, rumored to be on the trading block, increases his value with a brilliant one-hitter over the Pirates at Minute Maid Park. Neil Walker's 1st-inning single is the only hit he allows in the 2 - 0 complete game win, his first shutout since September, 2008. Lance Berkman provides all the offense with a pair of homers.
  • Ubaldo Jimenez wins his 15th game in his last start before the All-Star Game - which he is expected to start - as the Rockies win, 4 - 2, to complete a three-game sweep of the Cardinals at home. Jimenez is the first pitcher to have 15 wins at the All-Star break since David Wells in 2000; he is only two wins away from the Rockies franchise record of 17 in a season.
• 2011:
  • The Red Sox score 8 times in the 1st inning, including three runs on a homer by David Ortiz, chasing starter Zach Britton on their way to a 10 - 3 win over the Orioles. In the 8th, Big Papi charges the mound against Baltimore reliever Kevin Gregg, missing with a couple of punches after being brushed back on two consecutive pitches and then being berated by Gregg for failing to run out the ensuing pop-up. Both benches empty and when order is restored, Ortiz, Gregg, Boston C Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Oriole reliever Jim Johnson have all been ejected.
  • Travis Snider and Rajai Davis both have big nights as the Blue Jays defeat the Indians, 11 - 7. Snider drives in 5 runs and Davis 4 as Jo-Jo Reyes is the winner against Mitch Talbot.
• 2012 - The United States team defeats the World team, 17 - 5, in the 2012 Futures Game played at Kauffman Stadium. The World takes an early 4 - 0 lead on homers by Jurickson Profar and Jae-Hoon Ha, but a great catch in the outfield by Anthony Gose turns the tide in the top of the 3rd. The U.S. evens the score in the bottom of the inning, scores two in the 4th, then puts the game away with a nine-run barrage in the 6th, largely against Ariel Pena. But the crowning blow in that inning is Nick Castellanos' three-run homer off Julio Rodriguez, that earns him the Larry Doby Award as the game's MVP.
• 2013:
  • CF Carlos Gomez of the Brewers ends today's game against the Reds by robbing fellow All-Star Joey Votto of a potential two-run homer by grabbing the ball over the fence for the last out. The great catch saves Milwaukee's 4 - 3 win.
  • The Mets play their fourth game of 15 or more innings this season. After losing the first three marathons, they come out on top this time, defeating the San Francisco Giants, 4 - 3, when Eric Young Jr. scores on a 16th-inning error by SS Brandon Crawford. Buster Posey goes 5 for 8 with two doubles and a homer in a losing cause.
• 2014:
  • The Mets record the 4,000th win in franchise history, dating back to 1962, by defeating the Braves, 8 - 3.
  • R.A. Dickey of the Blue Jays snaps an 11-game home winning streak by the Angels, pitching 7 scoreless innings in a 4 - 0 win. The winning streak ends one short of the Angels' franchise record, set in 1967. For their part, the Blue Jays had lost their last 7 games on the road.
• 2015 - Two inside-the-park homers are hit in one game for the first time since 1997 in Kansas City's 9 - 7 win over Tampa Bay at home. The win is costly for the Royals, however, as All-Star LF Alex Gordon is injured in trying to prevent Logan Forsythe's inside-the-parker in the 4th. Jarrod Dyson replies with a similar hit in the 6th.
• 2018:
  • Starters and reserves for the 2018 All-Star Game that will be played at Nationals Park in Washington, DC on July 17th are announced. Beyond the expected participants like Mike Trout and Bryce Harper, the game will feature more unexpected actors, such as 2B Gleyber Torres, who began the year in the minors, voted as the starter for the AL at his position; Matt Kemp back for the first time since 2012 as a starter in the NL outfield; Nick Markakis, who is voted to start in the outfield for the NL and in the process establishes a new record with 1,928 games played before a first selection; and former journeyman pitcher Miles Mikolas, who has been outstanding after being signed out of Japan, on the NL roster.
  • In a move certain to cause tension with Nippon Pro Baseball, the Royals sign 16-year-old P Kaito Yuki as an international amateur free agent. Yuki is the first Japanese middle schooler to skip high school in order to sign with a major league organization, although a few high schoolers have done so as well in the past. He is expected to move to Arizona in August and begin a professional career in 2019.
• 2019 - Youth dominates at the Home Run Derby held at Progressive Field in Cleveland, OH, as two rookies face each other in the final round. Pete Alonso, the major league rookie leader with 30 homers prevails over Vladimir Guerrero Jr., 23 to 22, but the 20-year-old from the Blue Jays has a veritable coming out party, even if he comes into the event with just 8 major league homers: he slugs an incredible total of 91 over the three rounds, including the longest of the night at 488 feet. For his part, the Mets' Alonso more than doubles his annual salary with the prize of $1 million awarded to the winner.
• 2021 - The Padres mount the biggest comeback of their history to defeat the Nationals, 9 - 8. The Nats tee off against Yu Darvish, who gives up 6 runs in 3 innings, and Trea Turner hits his second homer of the game off Dan Camarena in the 4th to make it 8 - 0. But the Padres storm back against Max Scherzer, scoring 7 runs in the bottom of the inning, including a grand slam by Camarena. It is the pitcher's first major league hit, and the first grand slam by a reliever since Don Robinson hit one in 1985. Fernando Tatis Jr. ties the game with another long ball off Scherzer in the 6th, and the Friars win in in the 9th on a single by Trent Grisham that drives in Tommy Pham with the winning run.
• 2022 - The winners of the popular vote for starters at the 2022 All-Star Game are announced, with plenty of familiar faces being selected - along with two newcomers: C Alejandro Kirk and 2B Jazz Chisholm. Also announced as All-Stars are two accomplished veterans, Miguel Cabrera and Albert Pujols, under the Commissioner's prerogative to select one player from each league based on career accomplishments.
• 2023:
  • Three Tigers pitchers combine to pitch a no-hitter against the Blue Jays. Matt Manning goes 6 1/3 innings before being replaced by Jason Foley, who records the final out in the 7th and also pitches the 8th, after which Alex Lange completes the feat with a perfect 9th inning. The Tigers win, 2 - 0, with both runs scoring in the bottom of the 1st inning.
  • The National League defeats the American League, 5 - 0, in the 2023 Futures Game played at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, WA. Nasim Nuñez earns the Larry Doby Award as the game's MVP as his three-run double off Yosver Zulueta in the 6th inning ices the NL's win.

Births

• 1855 - Lester Dole, outfielder (d. 1918)
• 1857 - John Morris (d. 1921)
• 1859 - Hank O'Day, pitcher, manager, umpire; Hall of Fame (d. 1935)
• 1867 - Ed Pabst, outfielder (d. 1940)
• 1870 - Ira Davis, infielder (d. 1942)
• 1872 - Frank Sexton, pitcher (d. 1938)
• 1874 - Jay Parker, pitcher (d. 1935)
• 1874 - Johnny Siegle, outfielder (d. 1968)
• 1875 - Buttons Briggs, pitcher (d. 1911)
• 1882 - Norman Wann, college coach (d. 1957)
• 1882 - Oscar Westerberg, infielder (d. 1909)
• 1883 - Ducky Holmes, catcher; umpire (d. 1945)
• 1887 - Jim Bluejacket, pitcher (d. 1947)
• 1887 - Bill Hunter, outfielder (d. 1934)
• 1887 - George Hunter, outfielder (d. 1968)
• 1889 - Joe Crisp, catcher (d. 1939)
• 1889 - Joe Martina, pitcher (d. 1962)
• 1890 - Rowdy Elliott, catcher (d. 1934)
• 1890 - Wally Mayer, catcher (d. 1951)
• 1890 - Lefty Russell, pitcher (d. 1962)
• 1890 - Ivey Wingo, catcher, manager (d. 1941)
• 1891 - Clyde Barfoot, pitcher (d. 1971)
• 1893 - Bill Brown, outfielder (d. 1965)
• 1893 - Dan Woodman, pitcher (d. 1962)
• 1894 - Bill Haeffner, catcher (d. 1982)
• 1896 - Roy Crumpler, pitcher (d. 1969)
• 1901 - Tex Wilson, pitcher (d. 1946)
• 1903 - Clint Brown, pitcher (d. 1955)
• 1912 - Salty Parker, infielder, manager (d. 1992)
• 1912 - Lefty Turner, infielder (d. 2000)
• 1914 - George Fallon, infielder (d. 1994)
• 1914 - Boyd SoRelle, minor league pitcher and manager (d. 1957)
• 1916 - Ed Jucker, college coach (d. 2002)
• 1919 - Charlie Gilbert, outfielder (d. 1983)
• 1926 - Ken Fustin, minor league pitcher (d. 1985)
• 1926 - Gene Patton, pinch runner (d. 2009)
• 1927 - Antonio Ramírez Muro, minor league executive
• 1929 - Hector Lopez, outfielder (d. 2022)
• 1929 - John Powers, outfielder (d. 2001)
• 1930 - Glen Gorbous, outfielder (d. 1990)
• 1930 - Eddie Phillips, pinch runner (d. 2010)
• 1931 - Zach Monroe, pitcher
• 1933 - Al Spangler, outfielder
• 1938 - Bill Spanswick, pitcher (d. 2020)
• 1939 - Ed Keegan, pitcher (d. 2014)
• 1940 - Bucky Brandon, pitcher
• 1941 - Gary Kroll, pitcher
• 1941 - Ken Sanders, pitcher
• 1943 - George Culver, pitcher
• 1945 - Jim Ollom, pitcher
• 1947 - Kenjiro Maki, NPB pitcher
• 1948 - Lerrin LaGrow, pitcher
• 1951 - Alan Ashby, catcher
• 1952 - Jeff Brookens, scout (d. 2022)
• 1956 - Terry Puhl, outfielder; All-Star
• 1959 - Kazuhisa Kawaguchi, NPB pitcher
• 1960 - Dae-hwa Han, KBO infielder and manager
• 1960 - Mike Ramsey, outfielder
• 1964 - Mark Baker, minor league pitcher
• 1964 - Bob Kipper, pitcher
• 1964 - Ken Patterson, pitcher
• 1965 - Chuck Malone, pitcher
• 1965 - Jerome Walton, outfielder
• 1968 - Garland Kiser, pitcher
• 1969 - Bobby Ayala, pitcher
• 1969 - Rosario Rodriguez, pitcher
• 1969 - Ernie Young, outfielder
• 1971 - Pavel Chadim, Extraliga outfielder
• 1971 - Juan Parra, CPBL infielder
• 1972 - José Becerra, Division Honor pitcher
• 1972 - Dan Ricabal, minor league pitcher
• 1974 - Danny Ardoin, catcher
• 1974 - Alexei Bakoutkine, Russian national team infielder
• 1974 - Dominic Cruz, Guam national team infielder
• 1974 - Carlos Tabares, Cuban league outfielder
• 1975 - Jason Cook, South African national team outfielder
• 1975 - David Moraga, pitcher
• 1977 - Dan Heefner, college coach
• 1977 - Craig House, pitcher
• 1977 - Wanyun Zhu, China Baseball League pitcher
• 1978 - Soichiro Kaneda, minor league outfielder
• 1979 - Jae-yoon Hyun, KBO catcher
• 1979 - Toshiyuki Nimura, Japanese national team infielder
• 1980 - José González, Dominican national team pitcher
• 1981 - Ryan Leahy, scout
• 1981 - Michael Sandoval, minor league infielder
• 1982 - Renyel Pinto, pitcher
• 1982 - Min-kyu Sung, scout
• 1983 - John Bowker, outfielder
• 1983 - Kazuki Kondo, NPB pitcher
• 1983 - Shunichi Nemoto, NPB infielder
• 1984 - Kevin Russo, infielder
• 1985 - Wan-Yu Teng, Taiwan womens' national team pitcher
• 1985 - Marcel Venema, Hoofdklasse infielder
• 1986 - Tim Cox, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Jaime García, pitcher
• 1986 - Ulrich Snijders, minor league catcher
• 1987 - Po-Cheng Chen, CPBL infielder
• 1987 - Christian Friedrich, pitcher
• 1987 - Josh Harrison, infielder; All-Star
• 1987 - Shintaro Masuda, NPB infielder
• 1987 - Mason Tobin, pitcher
• 1988 - Carlos Beroiza, Chilean national team infielder
• 1989 - Nick Vickerson, minor league infielder
• 1990 - Paul Hoenecke, minor league infielder
• 1990 - Kevin Vance, minor league pitcher
• 1992 - Luis Caballero, minor league infielder and manager
• 1992 - Mike Gerber, outfielder
• 1992 - Kostyantyn Korolev, Ukrainian national team pitcher
• 1992 - Kyeong-chan Moon, KBO pitcher
• 1992 - Shohei Tsukahara, NPB pitcher
• 1993 - Kody Eaves, minor league infielder
• 1993 - Caleb Frare, pitcher
• 1993 - Eduardo Miliani, minor league pitcher
• 1994 - Ping-Hsueh Chen, minor league pitcher
• 1994 - Stephen Gonsalves, pitcher
• 1994 - Patrick Weigel, pitcher
• 1995 - Sam Long, pitcher
• 1996 - Kyle Nelson, pitcher
• 1997 - Jacob Curry, New Zealand national team pitcher
• 1997 - Tommy Romero, pitcher
• 1998 - Bryce Ball, minor league infielder
• 1998 - Jade Gortarez, US women's national team pitcher-infielder
• 1998 - Nikita Laykov, Russian national team infielder-pitcher
• 1998 - Maksim Makarkin, Russian national team catcher
• 1998 - Claudio Scotti, minor league pitcher
• 1999 - Reid Detmers, pitcher
• 1999 - Dustin Harris, minor league outfielder
• 2000 - Gilberto Jiménez, minor league outfielder
• 2002 - Owen Caissie, minor league outfielder

Deaths

• 1887 - Frank McIntyre, pitcher (b. 1859)
• 1895 - Steve King, outfielder (b. 1844)
• 1924 - Eddie Holtz, infielder (b. 1899)
• 1929 - Joe Kappel, infielder (b. 1857)
• 1941 - Jack Wadsworth, pitcher (b. 1867)
• 1941 - Lucky Wright, pitcher (b. 1880)
• 1954 - Wiley Taylor, pitcher (b. 1888)
• 1958 - Bill McAfee, pitcher (b. 1907)
• 1960 - Joe Krakauskas, pitcher (b. 1915)
• 1963 - Roy Sanders, pitcher (b. 1894)
• 1965 - Jim Blakesley, minor league outfielder (b. 1896)
• 1966 - George Branigan, pitcher (b. 1905)
• 1968 - Nap Shea, catcher (b. 1874)
• 1969 - Bill Carrigan, catcher, manager (b. 1883)
• 1969 - Red Rolfe, infielder, manager; All-Star (b. 1908)
• 1970 - Jimmy Grant, infielder (b. 1918)
• 1980 - Wenty Ford, pitcher (b. 1946)
• 1981 - Bradford Bennett, outfielder (b. 1916)
• 1981 - Merrill Combs, infielder (b. 1919)
• 1981 - Bill Hallahan, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1902)
• 1984 - Ralph Coles, outfielder (b. 1913)
• 1986 - Johnny Cooney, outfielder, manager (b. 1901)
• 1986 - Skeeter Webb, infielder (b. 1909)
• 1988 - Frank Ellerbe, infielder (b. 1895)
• 1990 - Ralph Coleman, minor league pitcher (b. 1895)
• 1993 - Eddie Dixon, pitcher (b. 1916)
• 1996 - Jim Baumer, infielder (b. 1931)
• 1996 - Jim Busby, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1927)
• 1999 - José Casanova, winter league manager (b. 1918)
• 2008 - Tony Stathos, minor league pitcher (b. 1932)
• 2010 - Father Ronald Cullen, Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1915)
• 2010 - Clint Hartung, pitcher/outfielder (b. 1922)
• 2010 - Maje McDonnell, coach (b. 1920)
• 2011 - Rodolfo Alvarado, minor league pitcher; Salon de la Fama (b. 1928)
• 2013 - Dick Gray, infielder (b. 1931)
• 2014 - John Hoover, pitcher (b. 1962)
• 2014 - Tom Veryzer, infielder (b. 1953)
• 2015 - Ken Stabler, drafted pitcher (b. 1945)
• 2016 - Hal Hudson, pitcher (b. 1927)
• 2016 - Turk Lown, pitcher (b. 1924)
• 2019 - Paul Schramka, outfielder (b. 1928)
• 2020 - Pompeyo Llamas, Colombian national team outfielder (b. 1941)
• 2022 - Barry Holtgrewe, college coach (b. 1934)