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Events, births and deaths that occurred on June 22.

Events

• 1894:
  • The Colts beat the Pirates, 10 - 7, with Bill Dahlen collecting two hits and an RBI.
  • Washington scores in every inning to whip Boston, 26 - 12. In the course of the rout, George "White Wings" Tebeau scores four runs without the benefit of a hit.
• 1902 - Cleveland plays its third straight Sunday game in a minor league park, this time in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Cleveland beats Washington, 6 - 4, behind Addie Joss.
• 1903 - At the Polo Grounds, a crowd of 19,000 is on hand for the twin bill with Chicago; Iron Joe McGinnity wins the opener, 5 - 4, in 10 innings, over Jack Taylor. But Chicago takes the nightcap, scoring six runs against Christy Mathewson in the 9th inning to enable Jock Menefee to pick up a win, 10 - 6. Matty gives up 13 hits and ten runs in losing his fourth game of the year.
• 1907 - At New York, the Boston Doves blow Christy Mathewson out of the game after four innings with ten runs on eight hits. But the Giants claw back to win, 11 - 10, in 12 innings.
• 1908 - Honus Wagner gets hit No. 2,000 in the 8th against Jake Weimer of the Reds, who wins 4 - 0 over the Pirates. Wagner makes an error when he is struck on the finger in the 1st inning.
• 1909:
  • The Detroit club buys the rest of the vacant Bennett Field grounds as the site for a new park.
  • The National League postpones its games for today because of the funeral of George Dovey, co-owner of the Boston Doves with his brother John Dovey. Pittsburgh owner Barney Dreyfuss is one of the honorary pall bearers for the funeral in Philadelphia.
  • Christy Mathewson pitches four innings for the Bucknell alumni against the varsity, as the undergrads win, 13 - 12. Matty also plays 3B and chips in with three hits.
• 1910 - Congressman John K. Tener, former Chicago White Stockings and Pittsburgh Alleghenies pitcher, wins the Republican nomination for governor of Pennsylvania. He will be elected and will serve as president of the National League while governor.
• 1912:
  • The Red Sox beat the Highlanders, 10 - 3, to complete a five-game sweep. Boston scores 55 runs in the sweep.
  • Chicago drubs the Cardinals, 10 - 2, behind Heinie Zimmerman's five RBIs. The Great Zim has a single, two doubles and a triple.
  • They might be the Braves this year, but they're still the doormats of the National League. The Giants fatten their averages today, beating Boston, 17 - 5 and 14 - 12. New York puts the opener away for Christy Mathewson with ten runs in the 7th inning, with Walt Dickson taking the loss.
  • Ty Cobb gets pinch hit for in an unusual scenario. With two outs in the 9th, and the Tigers down 11 - 3, Cobb is nowhere to be found, and George Mullin substitutes and flies out to end the game. It turns out Cobb is in the clubhouse showering.
• 1913 - George Pearce of the Cubs stops the Cards on one hit, a single by Ed Konetchy. Pearce wins, 6 - 0, over Pol Perritt.
• 1914 - The Giants shade the Reds, 3 - 2, scoring the winning run in the bottom of the 9th off Red Ames. Christy Mathewson gives up seven hits and no walks as the Giants increase their lead over the National League to four games. For the second year in a row, Matty will end the season with fewer walks than victories, the only pitcher ever to accomplish that.
• 1915 - Grover Cleveland Alexander allows two hits in the 1st inning and none in the next eight innings, but the match-up with the Giants' Rube Marquard ends in a 1 - 1 tie.
• 1916:
  • Brownie 1B George Sisler makes his final mound appearance of the year, a complete game 2 - 0 loss to White Sox starter Reb Russell, himself a future position player.
  • Against the Giants, the Braves pull off a triple steal in the 11th inning, with Johnny Evers on the front end. It is the National League's only extra-inning triple steal; the American League's only triple swipe in extra time will come in 1941.
  • Babe Ruth almost duplicates teammate Rube Foster's no-hitter, allowing just three singles, two by Frank Gilhooley, in beating the Yankees, 1 - 0. The game takes one hour, 18 minutes.
• 1917 - Honus Wagner is given a day in Pittsburgh in honor of his unretirement for one more year.
• 1918 - It's a hot day in New York, and umpires George Hildebrand and Billy Evans don't show up, so Giants coach Mike Donlin and Browns trainer Bits Bierhalter take their places. The game takes 15 innings to reach an inconclusive 4 - 4 tie.
• 1925 - Pittsburgh defeats St. Louis, 24 - 6. Max Carey collects two hits in an inning twice, in both the 1st and 8th frames.
• 1926 - The Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Cleveland Alexander on waivers from the Cubs to help in the pennant chase. He'll be 9-7 down the stretch.
• 1927 - The Cards strengthen their hold on second place by defeating the Cubs, 11 - 5, to sweep the series. Grover Cleveland Alexander, pitching out of turn at his own request, stops the Cubs on six hits. Alexander wanted to face the team that had shipped him down the river last season. Frankie Frisch has three hits to put him at .331, a point ahead of Rogers Hornsby, for whom he was traded.
• 1928 - Journeyman hurler Hank Johnson of the Yankees blanks the star-studded Athletics, 4 - 0. In the game for Connie Mack's team are Ty Cobb, Mickey Cochrane, Al Simmons, Jimmie Foxx, Eddie Collins, Tris Speaker and Lefty Grove.
• 1930 - Babe Ruth ties a major league record by hitting five homers in two games and six homers in three games. The Yankee outfielder hit three homers in the second game of the doubleheader yesterday, two homers in today's opener and one more in the nightcap.
• 1932 - The National League, at a meeting of club presidents, finally approves players wearing numbers. The American League had started the practice in 1929.
• 1934 - Detroit takes over first place, beating Washington, 11 - 3, dislodging the Yankees who lose, 4 - 1, to Cleveland.
• 1934 - Bill Terry and Joe Cronin, managers of the 1933 pennant winners, are named to head the All-Star teams, establishing a precedent that is still followed.
• 1938 - Chicago's Hank Steinbacher gets five singles and a double in six at bats as the White Sox pound Washington, 16 - 3.
• 1944 - Ron Northey homers in the top of the 15th for a 1 - 0 Phillies win over the Braves. Jim Tobin throws his second no-hitter, winning 7 - 0 in the second game of the doubleheader against Philadelphia. The game is called in the 5th inning because of darkness.
• 1946 - Bill Veeck heads a syndicate which purchases the Cleveland Indians. This launches Veeck on a long career as a lively promoter at the major league level, having already achieved success in the minors.
• 1947 - Ewell Blackwell just misses pitching back-to-back no-hitters when Eddie Stanky of the Brooklyn Dodgers singles with one out in the 9th inning. Blackwell then gets Al Gionfriddo before Jackie Robinson bangs out a second single. Blackwell wins, 4 - 0, his ninth straight win, to improve to 11-2. Stanky's hit ends Blackwell's hitless-inning streak at 19.
• 1950 - Larry Jansen of the Giants wins the first game of a doubleheader with a 3 - 0 shutout of the Cards, and Dave Koslo follows suit with a 5 - 0 two-hitter in the second game, giving New York a sweep of the twin bill. Jansen has not allowed a run in 29 innings, while for Koslo it is the start of a 13-game win streak over the Cards. The Cards were last shut out in a twin bill on July 2, 1933, by the Giants.
• 1951:
  • A power failure at Forbes Field delays the start of the game with the Dodgers by two hours. Rain holds up play in the 6th inning by another 36 minutes, pushing the ending to 1:56 a.m., the latest game played to date. Brooklyn has no power problems as Jackie Robinson's homer helps Da Bums to an 8 - 4 win over Pittsburgh. Of the 24,966 on hand at the start, 10,000 are still present at the end.
  • Willie Mays, 20, hits a 10th-inning home run, the first of his 22 extra-inning home runs, off 42-year-old Dutch Leonard of the Cubs. It is a three-run shot that gives the Giants a 9 - 6 win.
• 1953 - Senators C Ed Fitz Gerald pulls off an unassisted double play against Cleveland in a 7 - 5 win in the first game of a doubleheader.
• 1958 - A game between the Olean Oilers (New York-Penn League) and the Erie Sailors is rescheduled from 7:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M. But the Sailors don't get the word and arrive at the Olean ball park 50 minutes after the 4:00 P.M. starting time, and the umpires forfeit the game to Olean.
• 1958 - Willie Kirkland unloads a 14th-inning home run to give San Francisco a 5 - 4 win over the Phils. Johnny Antonelli, in relief, tosses six shutout innings for the victory. The nitecap is called after six innings with the Giants ahead, 1 - 0. When play is resumed July 23rd, the Phils will win, 3 - 2.
• 1959:
  • At Kansas City, Mickey Mantle drives in six runs with a triple and two homers to lead New York to a 13 - 6 win. Bill Skowron adds his fourth homer in four days to move New York to three games out of first place.
  • Dodger southpaw Sandy Koufax fans 16 Phillies, to set a new record for a night game, and wins, 6 - 2.
• 1961 - Roger Maris leads the Yankees on an 8 - 3 thrashing of the A's by belting his 27th homer of the year. He adds two doubles and a single. Maris has now hit 20 homers in the past 30 days (May 24th to today), to tie the mark set by Ralph Kiner in 1947.
• 1962:
  • Playing four hours and two minutes, the Braves outscore the Giants, 11 - 9, in the National League's longest nine-inning night game.
  • Stan Musial becomes the all-time total bases leader, raising his total to 5,864, in the first game against the Phillies. St. Louis wins the opener, 7 - 3, but loses the nightcap, 11 - 3.
  • Orioles' first baseman Boog Powell becomes the first player to homer over the center field hedge at Memorial Stadium as he goes deep off the Red Sox's Don Schwall, who gives up the 469-foot shot.
• 1963 - Philadelphia CF Tony Gonzalez plays his 200th straight errorless game to help rookie Ray Culp beat Roger Craig and the Mets, 2 - 0.
• 1965 - Ray Barker's major league record-tying second consecutive pinch-hit home run is wasted in a first-game, 6 - 2 Yankees loss to the A's. Mickey Mantle adds a home run in the opener, but in the 4 - 2 nightcap win, he tries to score from second base on a wild pitch and snaps an upper-thigh hamstring. He will be out for three weeks. Ironically, the June 21st Sports Illustrated cover features Mantle with the prescient title "New York Yankees: End of an Era?"
• 1969 - An American League record-tying, three straight, two-out home runs by Ted Kubiak, Reggie Jackson and Sal Bando in the 3rd inning power a 7 - 3 Oakland victory over Minnesota in the first of two games. Bando also homers in the 1st to back Chuck Dobson's win over Jim Kaat. Kaat gets a save in the nitecap as Jim Perry squeezes home Tony Oliva with the winning run in the 13th. The Twins win, 4 - 3.
• 1970 - Rod Carew, batting .376 for the Twins, injures his right knee during an attempted double play when Milwaukee's Mike Hegan slides into him. The injury will require surgery and sideline him until September. Harmon Killebrew's 5th-inning homer with two on enables the Twins to beat the Brewers, 4 - 3, behind Jim Kaat.
• 1976:
  • Randy Jones pitches the Padres to a 4 - 2 win over the Giants, and ties Christy Mathewson's 63-year-old National League record by going 68 innings without a base on balls. He receives a standing ovation from the home crowd after striking out Darrell Evans to end the 7th. His streak ends when he walks C Marc Hill leading off the 8th. It is Jones's 13th win of the year.
  • Fred Norman pitches a four-hitter as the Reds beat the visiting Dodgers, 6 - 0.
• 1977:
  • The Phillies outslug the Reds, 15 - 9, at Veterans Stadium. Joe Hoerner makes his debut with the Reds, handing out an intentional walk and then a grand slam to Larry Bowa.
  • The Red Sox bang five homers (George Scott, Jim Rice, Carlton Fisk with two, and Butch Hobson), all off Jim Palmer, to beat Baltimore, 5 - 4. The Sox have now won 12 of their last 13 games and set homer records for eight games (29), seven games (26), and six games (24). The Sox reach 100 homers, the earliest they ever have.
  • It's not easy but the Yankees stop their five-game losing streak with a 12 - 11 win over Detroit. The Yankees are led by Graig Nettles, with a three-run homer, and Reggie Jackson, who belts a two-run triple.
  • It's not a good year for Texas manager Frank Lucchesi, as Eddie Stanky takes over, leading the club to a 10 - 8 triumph over the Twins. In spring training, he had been assaulted by 2B Lenny Randle, who broke his jaw with a punch. Tomorrow, the "homesick" Stanky will resign.
• 1978 - Mookie Wilson, of the Jackson Generals, and his wife Rosa are married at home plate in Jackson, Mississippi.
• 1980 - Claudell Washington hits his first three National League home runs to lead the Mets to a 9 - 6 win at Los Angeles and snap a seven-game losing streak.
• 1982:
  • The Phillies' Pete Rose moves into second place for career hits, passing Hank Aaron with his 3,772nd hit. The historic hit is a 3rd-inning double off Cardinal hurler John Stuper.
  • Ranger Rick Honeycutt shuts out California, 4 - 0, snapping Rod Carew's 25-game hitting streak in the process. The streak was the longest of Carew's career and the longest in Angels history.
  • Red Sox rookie Wade Boggs hits his first major league home run in the bottom of the 11th inning to give Boston a 5 - 4 win over Detroit. Boggs will finally crack the starting lineup for good after tomorrow's game, in which regular 3B Carney Lansford severely sprains his ankle while unsuccessfully trying to stretch a triple into an inside-the-park home run. Boggs will hit .390 in Lansford's absence and .349 for the season.
• 1984:
  • In a teary home plate ceremony before the Twins-White Sox game at the Metrodome, Calvin Griffith and his sister, Thelma Haynes, sign a letter of intent to sell their 52 percent ownership of the Twins to Minneapolis banker Carl Pohlad for $32 million. Griffith and his sister had been involved with the franchise since 1922, when they were adopted by owner Clark Griffith when the team was the Washington Senators.
  • Rick Monday, baseball's first-ever first pick in the June free-agent draft (by the Kansas City A's in 1965) is released by the Dodgers, ending a 19-year major league career.
• 1985 - In his first major league at-bat, Curt Ford delivers a pinch single off Lee Smith to give St. Louis a 2 - 1 win over the Cubs and sole possession of first place in the National League East. Chicago, which had been clinging to first place, has now lost 11 in a row.
• 1986 - San Francisco sweeps a doubleheader from Houston, 4 - 2 and 3 - 2, and leapfrogs past the Astros into first place in the National League West.
• 1987 - Tom Seaver abandons his comeback attempt with the injury-riddled Mets and retires with a career Win-Loss record of 311-205, an ERA of 2.86, 3,640 strikeouts (3rd on the all-time list behind Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton), and 61 shutouts (7th).
• 1990 - The last-place Braves fire manager Russ Nixon and replace him with GM Bobby Cox, who last managed Toronto in 1985. Cox will turn the franchise's fortunes completely around, starting with a surprise pennant in 1991.
• 1991 - Mickey Tettleton of the Tigers becomes the 17th player to ever hit a ball out of Tiger Stadium in Detroit as the Tigers drop a 10 - 3 decision to the Angels.
• 1992 - Mariners OF Dave Cochrane ties a club record for most assists by an outfielder in a game with two, and sets a club mark for most errors in a game with three. The Athletics defeat the Mariners, 7 - 2.
• 1993 - White Sox backstop Carlton Fisk surpasses Bob Boone catching his 2,226th game to become the all-time leader.
• 1994 - OF Ken Griffey Jr. leads the Mariners to a 12 - 3 win over the Angels by stroking his 31st home run of the season. In doing so, Griffey breaks Babe Ruth's record for most home runs before the end of June. Although the Yankee slugger needed only 63 games to reach 30 homers in 1928 and 68 games in 1930, Junior accomplishes the feat in the Mariners' 70th game of the season.
• 1995:
  • The Reds defeat the Braves, 9 - 8, as Cincinnati's Eric Anthony and Eddie Taubensee both hit home runs as pinch-hitters in the 8th inning. It is only the second time that a club has hit two pinch homers in the same frame in the National League since 1975.
  • Two acoustic panels fall from the roof of the Toronto SkyDome, injuring seven fans during the 7th inning of the Brewers' 7 - 0 win over the Blue Jays.
• 1996:
  • In Cleveland, Ruben Sierra homers from both sides of the plate as the Yankees beat the Indians, 11 - 9. One of Sierra's home runs comes in the nine-run 6th inning. Albert Belle, back from a two-game suspension, is 3 for 5 with a homer, and Eddie Murray adds his 488th home run for the Tribe. The game takes 4:10.
  • The Cubs beat the Padres, 9 - 6, in 16 innings. 1B Brant Brown is the hero for Chicago with five hits on the day, including a double and a two-run homer in the 16th.
• 1997 - The Braves power four homers in a nine-run 3rd inning to sink the Phils, 12 - 5, handing Philadelphia its eighth loss in a row. Chipper Jones, Fred McGriff, Michael Tucker and Jeff Blauser all homer in Atlanta's biggest inning since 1989.
• 1998:
  • Florida OF Mark Kotsay gets five hits in the Marlins' 12-inning, 3 - 2 win over Tampa Bay.
  • The Rangers send P Bobby Witt to the Cardinals in exchange for a player to be named and cash.
• 1999:
  • In Atlanta's 2 - 1 loss to Montreal, Brian Jordan is hit on the right wrist by a pitch from Mike Thurman, and his batting will be hampered for the remainder of the season.
  • At Denver, the Cubs overcome an eight-run deficit to trip the Rockies, 13 - 12.
  • Cincinnati defeats Arizona, 8 - 7, as 2B Pokey Reese goes 5 for 6, including a double and triple.
• 2000 - The Cardinals defeat the Giants, 11 - 10. San Francisco scores eight runs in the 5th inning in a losing cause.
• 2001:
  • At Wrigley Field, Milwaukee beats the Cubs and Kerry Wood, 2 - 1, snapping Chicago's home win streak at 12 games, their longest win streak since 1936. It's their first loss since May 18th. James Mouton's infield single in the 9th drives home the winner.
  • The Giants double the Cardinals, 10 - 5, despite a home run by Mark McGwire. It is the first meeting between teams sporting 500-homer hitters (Barry Bonds and McGwire) since 1976.
  • Four years after becoming the first Taiwanese native to hit for the cycle in the CPBL, Kai-Fa Chen hits for a cycle in the Taiwan Major League. It is the first cycle in TML history and he becomes the first Taiwanese native to hit for two cycles in the country's pro circuits.
  • The Braves trade John Rocker along with minor league third baseman Troy Cameron to the Indians in a four-player deal in return for relievers Steve Karsay and Steve Reed as well as cash. The Atlanta fireballer became a national figure after his negative comments about New Yorkers, homosexuals, unwed mothers and immigrants appeared in Sports Illustrated.
• 2002:
  • The scheduled game between St. Louis and the Cubs is postponed after 33-year-old pitcher Darryl Kile is found dead in his Chicago hotel room of an apparent heart attack.
  • The Marlins score four runs in the bottom of the 9th inning to defeat the Tigers, 5 - 4. Luis Castillo goes hitless in four at bats to end his 35-game hitting streak.
  • The Texas Longhorns win their fifth College World Series, beating South Carolina, 12 - 6, in the finale of the 2002 College World Series. Chris Carmichael hits a three-run home run and closer Huston Street picks up his fourth save and is selected the Outstanding Player. Augie Garrido is the first coach to win CWS championships at two schools. Texas last won a CWS in 1983, when Roger Clemens pitched for the Longhorns.
• 2007:
  • Miguel Tejada goes on the disabled list with a wrist injury, ending a run of 1,152 consecutive games played, the fifth-longest run in major league history.
  • Ryan Rowland-Smith makes his historic major league debut. The former Australian Olympic star and Silver Medalist becomes the first player in history to have a hyphenated surname.
• 2008 - The second 2008 European Cup ends in Regensburg. FC Barcelona becomes the first Spanish team to win a European Cup since the 1960s, with a 12 - 11 win over Nettuno. Jesus Golindano hits a grand slam for FC Barcelona and Remigio Leal closes it out for the save.
• 2009:
  • Donald Fehr announces his retirement as head of the Major League Baseball Players Association after 25 years. He was in charge during the 1994 strike and the relative labor peace that followed. His resignation will be effective in March 2010, when the union's general counsel, Michael Weiner, will take over.
  • All-Star centerfielder Carlos Beltran of the New York Mets is placed on the disabled list with a bruised right knee. The ailing Mets still defeat St. Louis, 6 - 4, as Omir Santos goes 4 for 4 to hand Tim Redding his first win for New York.
• 2010:
  • DOOR Neptunus breaks a 21-year-old record for consecutive wins in a Hoofdklasse season by taking their 19th in a row (with struggles in the 2010 European Cup in between the wins back home). Leon Boyd fans eight in a 6 - 1 win over the Almere Magpies. The record, set back in 1989, also belonged to Neptunus though two other teams had tied it. In 1989-1990, Neptunus had won 32 games over two seasons. Also, in 1988, Haarlem Nicols went unbeaten in 25 straight games, but that included a tie. In the same game, Almere brings in 46-year-old René Rijst in a comeback. Rijst tosses a scoreless 9th, retiring the two former minor leaguers he faces in Dwayne Kemp and Danny Rombley. René extends his record with 28 Hoofdklasse seasons played and becomes the fourth four-decade player in league history after Han Urbanus, Marcel Kruyt and Marcel Joost.
  • Arizona State University, the #1 seed, gets bumped from the 2010 College World Series by losing their first two games. ASU had not lost consecutive games all season until this point.
  • The sale of the Texas Rangers by Tom Hicks to a group headed by Chuck Greenberg is not proceeding smoothly. Although announced in January, it is now before a Federal Bankruptcy Court. Judge Michael Lynn issues a ruling today that creditors are adversely affected by a plan to pay them $75 million and are entitled to vote on it. The sale could fall through if the creditors veto the deal, valued at $575 million overall; at issue is the treatment of $525 million in loans on which Hicks's ownership group defaulted last year. Meanwhile, on the field, the Rangers beat Pittsburgh, 6 - 3, thanks to Josh Hamilton's 17th homer of the year, extending his hitting streak to 17 games.
  • The White Sox extend their unlikely winning streak to seven games with a 9 - 6 victory over Atlanta to move one game above .500. They are helped by a freakish play with two outs in the 4th, when Alex Rios hits a ground ball that jumps inside 3B Brooks Conrad's shirt for an infield single. Paul Konerko follows with a single and Carlos Quentin with a three-run homer for a 9 - 3 lead. Before the streak, both manager Ozzie Guillen and general manager Kenny Williams were rumored to be on the verge of losing their job.
  • Jamie Moyer serves up the 505th home run of his major league career, to Russell Branyan, in a 2 - 1 win over the Indians. Moyer ties Robin Roberts for the most homers surrendered in the majors.
  • The GCL Yankees rip the GCL Pirates, 11 - 4. In the 5th, the Bucs turn to Dovydas Neverauskas, who allows two runs in 2 1/3 IP. He becomes the first Lithuanian to play in the minor leagues.
• 2011:
  • Two teams who have not been used to playing .500 ball in recent years reach the mark today. The Nationals even their record with a 2 - 1 win over Seattle as John Lannan outduels Erik Bedard thanks to a pair of unearned runs. It is the latest the Nats have been at .500 since their inaugural season in Washington in 2005; they have reached the mark by going 10-1 over their last 11 games. Meanwhile, in Pittsburgh, the Pirates also reach the magic number as Kevin Correia picks up his ninth win, 5 - 4, over the Orioles, thanks to a costly error by the O's Blake Davis in his major league debut. Brandon Wood and Michael McKenry both score when Josh Harrison's 5th-inning ground ball with two outs passes between the second baseman's legs. Closer Joel Hanrahan remains perfect for the season, registering his 20th save in as many opportunities. Pittsburgh has hovered around the .500 mark all year so far, in a bid to end an 18-year streak of losing seasons.
  • The Reds split a doubleheader with the Yankees as Chris Heisey hits three homers in the nitecap for a 10 - 2 win. Johnny Cueto is the winner against journeyman starter Brian Gordon. The Yanks win the opener, 4 - 2, when Jorge Posada, making a rare start at first base, hits a two-run homer, his first long ball since April 23rd.
• 2012 - Roy Oswalt is successful in his return to the major leagues with the Texas Rangers, pitching into the 7th inning in a 4 - 1 win over Colorado. For their part, the Rockies suffer their 13th loss over their last 15 games.
• 2013 - Max Scherzer improves his record to 11-0 with a 10 - 3 Tigers win over the Red Sox. Roger Clemens, in 1997, was the last pitcher to reach that mark.
• 2014 - The Padres fire General Manager Josh Byrnes.
• 2015 - ESPN reveals it has obtained a copy of a notebook belonging to Pete Rose which contains evidence of regular betting on baseball games during the 1986 season. The notebook was seized during a police raid on one of Rose's associates in 1989, after Rose was banned from baseball by Commissioner Bart Giamatti, and had been under court-ordered seal since. Its content corroborate the contents of the Dowd Report, which led to Rose's suspension, and make it even less likely that current Commissioner Rob Manfred will reverse it, as Rose has pleaded for him to do.
• 2016 - Nationals outfielder Michael Taylor has a nightmarish game, as he gets to wear the platinum sombrero, striking out five times, then lets Yasiel Puig's 9th-inning single roll under his glove for a three-base error. The mistake turns a 3 - 2 Nats lead to a 4 - 3 loss to the Dodgers, as Howie Kendrick also scores on the "Little League homer".
• 2017:
  • The Dodgers complete a four-game sweep of the Mets with a 6 - 3 win. Joc Pederson hits a go-ahead home run in the 7th and teammates Enrique Hernandez and Justin Turner also go deep in the win. Over the four games, Los Angeles outscored New York 36-11 and banged 15 homers to move into first place in the NL West.
  • Today's game between the White Sox and Twins at Target Field starts after a Twins record rain delay of four hours and fifty minutes. First pitch is finally thrown at 5 pm, as the two teams badly want to get the game in the books, since the alternative would be to lose a rare off-day on August 28th were it postponed. Chicago ends up with a 9 - 0 win.
• 2018 - MLB suspends Blue Jays closer Roberto Osuna for 75 games, retroactive to May 8th, the day he was arrested on charges of domestic violence and placed on administrative leave. It is the second-longest such punishment handed out, only less than the 82 games given to Hector Olivera in 2016.
• 2020 - MLB owners agree unanimously on a plan for a 60-game season beginning around July 24th - if everyone signs off on health and safety protocols.
• 2021:
  • Baseball's number one prospect, IF Wander Franco makes his debut with the Rays, going 2 for 4 with a double, a three-run homer and a walk. While everyone is impressed, his efforts are not enough as the Red Sox defeat the Rays, 9 - 5.
  • Meanwhile, one of the other top five prospects is on the winning side in a big game, as Julio Rodríguez scores a pair in the Dominican national team's 10 - 7 win over Venezuela in the Final Olympic Qualifier opener. The game features ten homers, two apiece by the Dominicans' Diego Goris and Venezuela's Alexi Amarista, while Juan Francisco drives in five for the victors.
• 2022:
  • The Orioles' 7 - 0 win over Washington is called after only six innings due to rain, having already been interrupted for almost an hour by an earlier rain storm, but it's enough time for Austin Hays to hit for the cycle. He gets one of the needed hits in each of his four at-bats, including a double as rain has begun falling again in the bottom of the 6th.
  • One day after setting a personal best as a hitter with eight RBIs, Shohei Ohtani sets another one on the mound as he racks up 13 strikeouts in eight scoreless innings in a 5 - 0 win over Kansas City.
• 2023:
  • Shohei Ohtani and Ronald Acuña are the first two players to the 2023 All-Star Game, after finishing first in their respective leagues in the first round of fan voting. Acuña leads all players with over three million votes received.
  • Joe Ryan pitches a complete game three-hitter in shutting out the Red Sox, 6 - 0. He is the first Twins pitcher to throw a shutout since 2018, when José Berríos accomplished the feat. Byron Buxton homers twice, with both hits travelling over 465 feet.

Births

• 1860 - Tom O'Brien, infielder (d. 1921)
• 1877 - Gus Thompson, pitcher (d. 1958)
• 1879 - Jack Zalusky, catcher (d. 1935)
• 1883 - Ed Donalds, pitcher (d. 1950)
• 1884 - Roy Hitt, pitcher (d. 1956)
• 1884 - Charlie Roy, pitcher (d. 1950)
• 1887 - Red Fisher, outfielder (d. 1940)
• 1888 - Dick Kauffman, infielder (d. 1948)
• 1888 - Bert Whaling, catcher (d. 1965)
• 1892 - John Mercer, infielder (d. 1982)
• 1893 - Larry Pezold, infielder (d. 1957)
• 1896 - Steel Arm Davis, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1941)
• 1897 - Bill Mizeur, pinch hitter (d. 1976)
• 1899 - Leo Moon, pitcher (d. 1970)
• 1900 - Joe Poetz, pitcher (d. 1942)
• 1903 - Carl Hubbell, pitcher; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 1988)
• 1907 - George Puccinelli, outfielder (d. 1956)
• 1907 - Norris Ward, AAGPBL umpire (d. 1981)
• 1909 - Harry Rosenberg, outfielder (d. 1997)
• 1913 - Bill Williams, infielder; All-Star (d. 1990)
• 1914 - Jim Asbell, outfielder (d. 1967)
• 1914 - Maury Newlin, pitcher (d. 1978)
• 1915 - Tom Turner, infielder (d. 2013)
• 1920 - Walt Masterson, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2008)
• 1921 - Riichi Matsumoto, NPB infielder (d. WWII)
• 1922 - William Makell, catcher (d. 1967)
• 1922 - Orvis Sigler, college coach (d. 2016)
• 1923 - Felo Ramírez, broadcaster (d. 2017)
• 1927 - Han Urbanus, Hoofdklasse pitcher (d. 2021)
• 1928 - Garcia Massingale, player (d. 1990)
• 1929 - Dean Ehlers, minor league catcher and college coach (d. 2017)
• 1931 - Faye Throneberry, outfielder (d. 1999)
• 1933 - Miguel Sotelo, minor league pitcher; Salon de la Fama (d. 2007)
• 1933 - Bob Bennett, college coach (d. 2020)
• 1934 - Russ Snyder, outfielder
• 1936 - Jim Bronstad, pitcher (d. 2022)
• 1936 - Hank Burbridge, college coach (d. 2005)
• 1937 - Jim O'Rourke, pinch-hitter (d. 2021)
• 1937 - Bob Scott, Negro League pitcher
• 1937 - Bob Sloan, scout (d. 2019)
• 1937 - Jake Wood, infielder
• 1942 - Roy Heiser, pitcher
• 1947 - Bobby Douglass, minor league pitcher
• 1949 - Ron Hodges, catcher (d. 2023)
• 1949 - Dave Tomlin, pitcher
• 1951 - Mike Anderson, outfielder
• 1952 - Randy Scarbery, pitcher
• 1953 - Roy Thomas, pitcher
• 1960 - Greg Booker, pitcher (d. 2019)
• 1962 - Bryan Price, manager
• 1964 - Jim Hunter, pitcher
• 1964 - Seiji Tomashino, NPB infielder
• 1965 - Kazuhiro Takeda, NPB pitcher
• 1966 - Jorge Brito, catcher
• 1966 - Rob Neyer, writer
• 1967 - Trey McCall, college coach
• 1968 - Basilio Petkidis, Greek national team outfielder
• 1969 - Edward Rogers, owner
• 1971 - Brant Brown, outfielder
• 1971 - Sean Drinkwater, minor league infielder
• 1971 - Brian Sackinsky, pitcher
• 1971 - Hunter Wendelstedt, umpire
• 1972 - Miguel del Toro, pitcher (d. 2001)
• 1974 - Kokichi Akune, NPB infielder
• 1974 - Kris Detmers, minor league pitcher
• 1975 - Kenshin Kawakami, pitcher
• 1975 - Esteban Yan, pitcher
• 1976 - Alexander Koutun, Russian national team outfielder
• 1978 - Jamie Detillion, college coach
• 1978 - Anthony Ferrari, pitcher
• 1978 - Willie Harris, infielder
• 1978 - Jonder Martínez, Cuban National League pitcher
• 1979 - Brad Hawpe, outfielder; All-Star
• 1980 - Luis Maza, infielder
• 1982 - Ian Kinsler, infielder; All-Star
• 1982 - Jason Motte, pitcher
• 1982 - Steve Ziroli, college coach
• 1984 - Daniel Cox, minor league infielder
• 1984 - Cesar Ramos, pitcher
• 1984 - Shingo Takeyama, NPB catcher
• 1985 - Seok-min Park, KBO infielder
• 1985 - Luke Sommer, minor league pitcher
• 1985 - Juan Valdes, minor league outfielder
• 1986 - Douglas Morales, minor league outfielder
• 1987 - Mark-Jan Moorman, Hoofdklasse outfielder
• 1987 - Michele Quattrini, Italian Baseball League pitcher
• 1988 - Haijun Deng, China Baseball League outfielder
• 1989 - Koshiro Imamura, Japanese national team pitcher
• 1989 - Ryan Searle, minor league pitcher
• 1990 - Darrell Ceciliani, outfielder
• 1990 - Ali Knowles, minor league pitcher
• 1992 - Miller Diaz, minor league pitcher
• 1992 - Chi-Hung Hsu, CPBL infielder
• 1992 - Michele Meschini, Italian Baseball League pitcher
• 1994 - Engelb Vielma, infielder
• 1994 - Rhett Wiseman, minor league outfielder
• 1995 - Matthew Batten, infielder
• 1995 - Chung-Hei Leung, Hong Kong national team pitcher
• 1995 - Tyler O'Neill, outfielder
• 1997 - Josh Naylor, outfielder
• 2000 - Christoph Hoscher, Austrian national team catcher
• 2000 - Liván Soto, infielder
• 2001 - Akira Itokazu, Peruvian national team pitcher

Deaths

• 1903 - Fatty Briody, catcher (b. 1858)
• 1907 - Parry Wright, umpire (b. 1859)
• 1908 - Everett Mills, infielder, manager (b. 1845)
• 1910 - Tom Doran, catcher (b. 1880)
• 1926 - Joe Crotty, catcher (b. 1859)
• 1930 - Bill Dam, outfielder (b. 1885)
• 1940 - Montague Alfred Noble, Australian executive (b. 1873)
• 1944 - Larry Sutton, scout (b. 1858)
• 1953 - Charlie Hemphill, outfielder (b. 1876)
• 1955 - Frankie Hayes, catcher; All-Star (b. 1914)
• 1956 - Ed Forsythe, infielder (b. 1887)
• 1959 - Hal Bubser, pinch hitter (b. 1895)
• 1959 - Arthur DeBaker, minor league outfielder and manager (b. 1874)
• 1980 - Eddie McLane, college coach (b. 1899)
• 1981 - Kisaku Kato, NPB infielder and manager (b. 1908)
• 1986 - Alpheus Deane, pitcher (b. 1916)
• 1988 - Hank Edwards, outfielder (b. 1919)
• 1988 - Russell Trabue, pitcher (b. 1900)
• 1991 - Marv Owen, infielder (b. 1906)
• 1992 - Rufus Baker, infielder (b. 1918)
• 1993 - Bubba Phillips, infielder (b. 1928)
• 2002 - Darryl Kile, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1968)
• 2002 - Ron Kline, pitcher (b. 1932)
• 2003 - Harry Kinzy, pitcher (b. 1910)
• 2003 - Leonard Koppett, writer (b. 1923)
• 2005 - Roberto Olivo, Venezuelan League umpire (b. 1914)
• 2006 - Paul Campbell, infielder (b. 1917)
• 2009 - Hiromi Wada, NPB catcher (b. 1936)
• 2014 - Steve Anson, college coach (b. 1954)
• 2018 - Tony Bartirome, infielder (b. 1932)
• 2022 - Allan Rajanen, minor league catcher (b. 1950)