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Events

• 1880 - Cleveland beats Boston, 6 - 5, with Gid Gardner pitching his first game of the season. Jim McCormick had pitched complete games in all of Cleveland's 31 previous National League games.
• 1897 - The Chicago Colts of the National League establish the record for most runs scored in a game by one team as they maul Louisville, 36 - 7.
• 1905 - At Brooklyn, the Giants tally seven runs in the first three innings off Mal Eason to coast to an 11 - 1 victory. Christy Mathewson leaves after five innings of shutout ball. Dan McGann paces the offense with a triple and homer, while Moonlight Graham, in his only game in the majors, takes over in right field as a late-inning replacement. Graham will have no at-bats but will be made famous in the movie Field of Dreams.
• 1907 - The Pirates top the Cubs, 2 - 1, as CF Tommy Leach cuts down Harry Steinfeldt at the plate in the 9th inning. Deacon Phillippe is the winner.
• 1909:
  • Playing their last game in Exposition Park, the Pirates score four runs in the 1st inning off Mordecai Brown and sail to an 8 - 1 win over Chicago. Lefty Leifield is the winner. Tomorrow, the Pirates will move to Forbes Field, named after British General John Forbes, who captured Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War.
  • Pitching against the Highlanders, Walter Johnson gives up a solo homer to Ray Demmitt in the 7th, the first home run he's allowed since his debut in 1907. Demmitt's shot is the only score for New York, as Johnson beats them for the second time in ten days.
• 1910 - At the Polo Grounds, Christy Mathewson relieves in the 9th with the Giants ahead of the Phils, 2 - 0. The Quakers rattle Matty for four hits and two runs to tie, but in the bottom of the 10th, Mathewson lines a single to score Fred Merkle with the game winner.
• 1912:
  • Rube Marquard's record goes to an amazing 18-0 as he tops Boston for New York's 12th straight win over the hapless Braves.
  • At Fenway Park, the Red Sox sweep two from the Highlanders, winning 13 - 6 and 6 - 0. Smoky Joe Wood wins the nitecap, his second shutout in a row, allowing just one hit, in winning 6 - 0 in seven innings. Dutch Sterrett's single is the lone hit. In the nitecap, Hick Cady makes two hits in one at bat. His single scores Jake Stahl from third base, but umpire Silk O'Loughlin rules that Stahl was balked home. In Cady's second chance, he doubles.
• 1914:
  • With attendance down in the Federal League, Robert Ward, president of the Brooklyn Tip Tops, announces that ticket prices at Washington Park will be reduced from 50 cents to 25 cents. The Pittsburgh Filipinos will soon follow suit.
  • At the Polo Grounds, the Giants and Robins battle to a split. Brooklyn lurches to an 8 - 7 win in the opener. In the second game, Giants starter Jeff Tesreau is tossed in the 3rd inning for disputing a call, and Christy Mathewson rushes in to relieve with the score 1 - 1. New York scores four in the 3rd off Frank Allen and goes on to win, 8 - 6.
  • The Cardinals trade OF Ted Cather and INF Possum Whitted to the Braves for righty Hub Perdue.
• 1915:
  • In the 7th inning of the first game of a doubleheader, Cards LF Cozy Dolan's single hits his own glove in the grass behind third base. Buc LF Max Carey hustles in and throws Dolan out trying for a double. Pittsburgh wins that game, 8 - 6, but the Cards rebound in the nitecap, 6 - 4.
  • Led by Tris Speaker's 5-for-5 day, the Red Sox trip the Yankees, 4 - 3, in ten innings. Babe Ruth gets the win, going all the way before Sheriff Gainer hits for him in the 10th.
• 1925 - The Senators beat the A's, 4 - 2, to move within a half-game of the top.
• 1929 - Alfred "Army" Cooper, pitching for the Kansas City Monarchs, carries a no-hitter into the 8th inning against the Chicago American Giants. After walking the bases full with one out, Cooper is removed, and Chet Brewer comes in to hold the Giants, finishing the no-hitter and the 4 - 0 victory.
• 1933 - In the top of the 2nd, Ethan Allen of the Cards races around the bases for an inside-the-park home run at the Polo Grounds, but is out for batting out of turn. Joe Medwick was the correct batter. Allen then bats for himself and grounds out. But St. Louis prevails, 7 - 3.
• 1934 - Lou Gehrig is beaned in an exhibition game played in Norfolk, Virginia, and suffers a concussion.
• 1935:
  • Despite Cardinal outfielder Joe "Ducky" Medwick hitting for the cycle, the Reds beat the "Gas House Gang" and Daffy Dean, 8 - 6.
  • Gabby Hartnett goes 4 for 4 and drives home the game winner in the Cubs' 2 - 1 victory over the Pirates. Chuck Klein's homer accounts for the other score to back Lon Warneke's win over Red Lucas. Chicago moves into second place with the victory.
• 1940 - Bob Feller fans 11 White Sox in gaining his 12th win of the year, 7 - 3. The Tribe now lead the American League by 2 1/2 games.
• 1941 - In a doubleheader with the Senators, Joe DiMaggio ties and then breaks the American League consecutive game hitting streak of 41 established by George Sisler. In the opener, he knots the record with a double off Dutch Leonard, and in the nightcap the "Yankee Clipper" tops the record with a 7th-inning single against Walt Masterson.
• 1945 - Ben Chapman replaces Fred Fitzsimmons as manager of the Philadelphia Phillies.
• 1949 - Mickey Owen and Luis Olmo rejoin the Dodgers from Mexican League exile.
• 1950:
  • At Milwaukee (AA), Minneapolis OF Bama Rowell lofts a 4th-inning fly ball to right. As RF Bob Jaderlund awaits, two nighthawks dart in and peck the ball, altering its flight. CF Bob Addis also misses the ball, and Rowell ends up with a double, then scores what will be in the winning run as the Millers win, 5 - 4.
  • In what looks like a football score, the Red Sox overpower the A's, 22 - 14 in Philadelphia, the third time this month they've scored 20 or more runs. The 36 runs establish an American League mark for runs scored by two teams. Both teams match a major league record they set in 1901 for most players scoring two or more runs (Boston, 9: Philadelphia, 4). Overall, pitchers give up 21 walks in the debacle. Despite the high score, only one home run is hit - by Ted Williams in a game one newspaper calls "a two hour and 50 minute marathon." The previous record of 35 runs was set by the same two clubs in 1901: Boston 23, A's 12. The major league mark is 49 by the Cubs and Phillies on August 25, 1922.
  • Whitey Ford is called up by the Yankees from Kansas City (American Association).
  • In an effort to thwart the major leagues' signing of black players, Dr. J.B. Martin, the president of the Chicago American Giants of the Negro American League, instructs manager, Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe to sign white players. Radcliffe inks three white players and later in the year he will sign at least two others. However, their Negro League careers will be brief.
• 1951 - Twin Falls Cowboys catcher Dick Conway dies on the way to the hospital; he was injured after a ball from Don Trower hits his chest in practice before the game. Conway had been slugging .505 in his young career; he dies at age 19.
• 1952:
  • The Kansas City Blues slam ten home runs against St. Paul to set an American Association record for most homers by one team and tie the record for most by two teams. St. Paul hits none.
  • The National League suspends manager Leo Durocher for four days for misconduct.
• 1957 - In the wake of the Redlegs ballot stuffing brouhaha, National League President Warren Giles proposes that fan All-Star voting be limited to those actually attending a game.
• 1958:
  • Former Yankee Ralph Terry gets 12 runs from his Kansas City teammates to top New York, 12 - 6. Mickey Mantle gets his first hit in his last 17 at bats against the A's, a 3rd-inning homer.
  • Left fielder Del Ennis of the Cards throws out two Phillie runners in the 3rd inning, tying a major league record. But the Phils win in the 13th, 5 - 4, on a double by Harry Anderson. The nitecap is suspended in the 8th with the Phils leading, 4 - 2.
• 1961 - With three round-trippers at Philadelphia - one a 10th-inning shot to win 8 - 7 - Willie Mays becomes the fourth major league player with three or more home runs twice in one season. Manager Gene Mauch's efforts to conceal his starting pitcher and force Al Dark's hand has a Phillie lineup including hurlers Don Ferrarese (batting leadoff, playing CF), Jim Owens (3rd, RF), Chris Short (7th, C), and Ken Lehman (9th, P) against San Francisco. When Dark sends a lefty to the mound, Mauch replaces Ferrarese. Dark then replaces Billy O'Dell with Sam Jones. Mauch replaces Lehman with Dallas Green after two batters. All the manoeuvering takes three hours and 20 minutes. The Giants then take the nitecap, 4 - 1, as Mays triples and doubles home two runs and completes a double play with a throw home.
• 1965:
  • The Yankees lose Roger Maris for 49 games with bone chips in the heel of his right hand.
  • Indian P Ralph Terry's 8 - 5 win at Boston gives Cleveland the American League lead.
• 1966 - At Fenway Park, Mickey Mantle opens the scoring in the 1st inning with a three-run shot, then sandwiches a homer between round trippers by Bobby Richardson and Joe Pepitone in the 3rd inning in New York's 6 - 5 win. The consecutive trifecta was last done for the Yankees in 1947, when Charlie Keller, Joe DiMaggio and Johnny Lindell connected. Richardson is 5 for 5 in the game. Mantle's two homers today, his 37th and 38th at Fenway, will be his last in Boston, and tie him with Babe Ruth for most homers by a Sox opponent.
• 1967 - The Reds jump on Don Drysdale on their way to a 14 - 0 pasting of the Dodgers.
• 1968:
  • Jim Northrup's third grand slam ties the major-league record for slams in a month (Rudy York, May 1938), and sets a major-league record for slams in a week. The Tigers win, 5 - 2 over Chicago, as Denny McLain tallies his 14th victory.
  • In San Francisco, Reds pitcher Gary Nolan hurls a four-hit shutout and hits a three-run homer as the Reds win, 4 - 0. Nolan's homer, off Ray Sadecki, is the only one of his big league career.
  • The Red Sox finally score on Luis Tiant, but Cleveland tops Boston, 8 - 1. Tiant strikes out 13 in the win.
  • In the first game of a doubleheader, Mickey Mantle ties the score with a two-run homer in the 6th, but rookie Reggie Jackson breaks the tie in the 8th with his ninth homer of the year. The A's win, 5 - 2.
• 1969:
  • Tony Oliva collects eight straight hits in the Twins' twinbill split with the Royals. Kansas City takes the opener, 7 - 2, behind homers by Mike Fiore and Bob Oliver. Oliva flies out his first time up, then strokes three singles. In the Twins' 12 - 2 win in the second game, Oliva hits two homers, a double and two singles, driving in five runs.
  • On Billy Williams Day in Chicago, the Cubs outfielder passes Stan Musial's National League record for consecutive games played (896). The Cubs sweep the Cardinals, 3 - 1 and 12 - 1, before 41,060.
  • The Reds score three runs in the bottom of the 9th to tie the Giants at six apiece, then win in the 10th, 7 - 6, when Chico Ruiz hits a bases-loaded single.
• 1971:
  • Tom Seaver strikes out 13 batters in a 3 - 0 Mets win over the Phillies.
  • At Montreal, the Reds roll over the Expos, 14 - 0, and Tony Cloninger pitches his first complete game since 1969. The Reds collect 23 hits, led by Tommy Helms' four.
• 1972:
  • In a swap of former MVPs, the Braves send 1B Orlando Cepeda to the A's for P Denny McLain.
  • Jim Palmer's eight-game win streak ends as the Yanks chase the ace in the 2nd inning of a 4 - 3 win. Mel Stottlemyre, with relief from Sparky Lyle, gains his seventh win.
• 1976:
  • At Fenway Park, Rick Wise tosses his second one-hitter this month as the Red Sox top the Orioles, 2 - 0. Paul Blair's 6th-inning single is the only hit.
  • In San Diego, the Reds drop seven runs on the Padres in the top of the 14th to win, 12 - 5. Mike Lum starts the scoring with a pinch homer. The seven runs in the 14th is one shy of the National League mark, and has never been topped in the American League.
• 1977 - In a 9 - 1 win, Willie Stargell hits his 400th career home run, this one coming off Eric Rasmussen of the Cardinals. Bruce Kison is the winning pitcher.
• 1983 - Mark Fidrych, in the second year of an extended comeback attempt with the Pawtucket Red Sox (International League), retires. The 1976 American League Rookie of the Year was 2-5 with a 9.68 ERA.
• 1984:
  • Pete Rose plays in his 3,309th major league game, surpassing Carl Yastrzemski as the all-time leader. Rose goes 0 for 5, but Montreal still beats Cincinnati, 7 - 3.
  • Twins rookie Andre David hits a two-run home run off Jack Morris in his first major league at bat to spark Minnesota to a 5 - 3 win over Detroit before 44,619. It is the only home run David will hit in the big leagues and it stops Morris's 11-game win streak over the Twins. Detroit wins the nitecap, 7 - 5, as Kirk Gibson starts the scoring with a two-run homer in the 1st and ends it with a two-run homer in the 9th. The Tigers also score in the 2nd on back-to-back homers by Chet Lemon and Ruppert Jones.
  • In Los Angeles, Steve Sax hits a 1st-inning triple, then swipes home, and Orel Hershiser scatters nine hits to lead the Dodgers past the Cubs and Rick Sutcliffe, 7 - 1. Hershiser will not miss another start until he injures his shoulder in 1990, and Sutcliffe will not lose again in the regular season.
• 1986 - Detroit beats Milwaukee, 9 - 5, in the first game of a doubleheader split, making Tigers manager Sparky Anderson the first manager ever to win 600 games in each league. The Brewers win the second game, 3 - 1.
• 1987:
  • In the first game of Philadelphia's doubleheader sweep of Pittsburgh - a 6 - 5 win, Steve Bedrosian records his 12th consecutive save (in 12 appearances) to break the major-league record set by Sparky Lyle in 1975. The Quakers take the nitecap, 11 - 3.
  • Eight homers are hit in Toronto as the Yankees outlast the Blue Jays, 15 - 14. Don Mattingly leads the power surge with a pair and Dave Righetti gets the win.
• 1989:
  • The Padres' general manager Jack McKeon trades his son-in-law, pitcher Greg Booker, to the Twins for P Freddie Toliver. Booker has been booed in every appearance, but will make just six outings for the Twins before being sold to the Giants at the end of the season. Toliver will get in nine games with no decisions.
  • Boise Hawks manager Mal Fichman is ejected during an 8 - 4 loss to Salem, but returns to the field disguised as Humphrey the Hawk, the club's mascot. He will be suspended one game for the stunt.
• 1990 - Oakland's Dave Stewart and the Dodgers' Fernando Valenzuela both throw no-hitters today, the first time this has happened since Hippo Vaughn and Fred Toney's double no-hitter in 1917. Stewart blanks the Blue Jays, 5 - 0, and a few hours later Valenzuela beats the Cardinals, 6 - 0. The only threat to Stewart is a fly ball by Fred McGriff that Dave Henderson catches with his back pinned to the wall. Fernando almost loses his no-hitter with one out in the 9th when Pedro Guerrero hits a grounder up the middle with a runner on. Valenzuela, a former Gold Glover deflects the ball towards second base where SS Alfredo Griffin starts a game-ending double play.
• 1991:
  • In an 8 - 4 loss to the White Sox, the Twins' Kirby Puckett collects his 1,500th career hit, off winner Greg Hibbard. Scott Erickson is the loser, ending his 12-game win streak.
  • The visiting Yankees score three in the 9th off Dan Plesac to beat Milwaukee, 9 - 8. Kevin Maas and Jesse Barfield homer for the Bronx Bombers. Teddy Higuera (3-2), in the first year of a $13 million, four-year contract pitches seven innings, allowing three runs. Higuera, who started the year on the disabled list, will go on the DL again when a significant tear to his rotary cuff is discovered.
• 1992 - Pittsfield Mets P James Popoff fans 19 Batavia Clippers in a 5 - 3 victory in the New York-Penn League. It is Popoff's first professional victory.
• 1993 - The Expos defeat the Pirates, 9 - 2, as Moises Alou, Marquis Grissom and Larry Walker hit consecutive home runs in the 7th inning.
• 1994 - The Dodgers defeat the Giants, 6 - 2, as San Francisco 3B Matt Williams homers off Ramon Martinez in the 4th inning. It is Williams' 29th home run of the season, breaking Willie Stargell's National League mark for homers before July.
• 1995:
  • The White Sox pound out 22 hits in a 17 - 13 win over the Brewers. 3B Robin Ventura gets five of those hits, including a home run, and scores four runs while driving home three.
  • The Angels stroke 21 hits in their 20 - 4 victory over the Rangers. OF Jim Edmonds and SS Gary DiSarcina lead the way with four hits apiece.
• 1996:
  • The Dodgers defeat the Rockies, 13 - 10, after leading 13 - 0 going into the bottom of the 8th inning. Colorado scores eight runs in the 8th, then adds two more in the 9th to fall three short. C Mike Piazza leads the way for Los Angeles with three home runs and six RBIs.
  • The Athletics hit three home runs in an 11 - 9 win over the Red Sox, giving them a major league record-tying 18 in four games. They hit four four days earlier, eight two days ago, and three yesterday in addition to today's three.
• 1997:
  • John Olerud hits two homers and Butch Huskey, Matt Franco and Todd Hundley also homer during a nine-run Mets comeback over the last three innings as they edge the Pirates, 10 - 8. For Franco, his home run is his sixth straight successful pinch-hit. Kevin Young is 4 for 5, including a homer, for the Bucs. John Franco picks up his 19th save, and the 342nd of his career, putting him in fourth place on the all-time save list.
  • In New York, the Indians score seven runs off the usually stingy David Cone, but the Yankees outlast the Indians, 11 - 10. With his 9th-inning single, Sandy Alomar Jr. extends his hitting streak to 26 games, sixth longest in Tribe history.
  • In Atlanta, Keith Lockhart bangs a pinch grand slam as the Braves overcome a five-run deficit to beat the Phillies, 6 - 5. Phils starter Scott Ruffcorn does not give up a hit in 5 1/3 innings, but exits after walking four batters, hitting two, and tossing two wild pitches. Ron Blazier relieves with two on and a 5 - 0 lead, but gives up an RBI single and Lockhart's slam. Fred McGriff's tie-breaking triple in the 7th pins the loss on Billy Brewer.
  • Dodger pitcher Pedro Astacio wins for the first time in 11 starts and Eric Karros knocks in four runs as Los Angeles beats the San Diego Padres, 10 - 4. It is LA's first win in 11 games with the Pads. Danny Jackson loses and is now 0-4 since the Padres acquired him for Fernando Valenzuela.
• 1998 - Not a single major league game is scheduled to be played. With the exception of All-Star breaks and labor shortages, it is the first time this has happened during the regular season in 25 years, since April 30, 1973.
• 1999:
  • The Giants defeat the Rockies, 10 - 1, as OF Ellis Burks drives home seven runs against his old teammates on a double and two home runs.
  • Texas defeats Anaheim, 5 - 0, as John Burkett, Jeff Zimmerman and John Wetteland combine on a one-hitter. A double by Matt Walbeck off Burkett is the Angels' only hit.
• 2000:
  • After trying to get Juan Gonzalez and Sammy Sosa to bolster their failing offense, the Yankees acquire David Justice from the Indians for Ricky Ledee and two players to be named later. When Shane Spencer goes down in ten days, Justice will take over LF. The trade occurs minutes before the start of the game against Detroit, an 8 - 0 Yankee win, and Ledee is scratched from the lineup. The Yanks tie a major-league record with three sacrifice flies in one inning. Incredibly, the Yankees will do it again on August 19th against the Angels.
  • On his much-awaited return to Shea Stadium, John Rocker pitches a perfect 8th inning in front of 46,998 booing fans, helping the Braves to stop the Mets' winning streak at seven, 6 - 4. Prior to the game the Atlanta reliever read a statement apologizing for his inappropriate comments about New Yorkers which appeared in the off-season in Sports Illustrated.
  • The Royals defeat the Indians, 6 - 1. Bartolo Colon takes the loss for Cleveland, in the process becoming just the fourth pitcher in major league history to start a game by walking the first four batters he faces.
• 2001:
  • The Cubs defeat the Reds, 7 - 1, behind Jose Acevedo's first major league win. Cincinnati OF Dmitri Young gets four hits for the second straight game, giving him nine consecutive safeties.
  • The Royals slug the Indians, 5 - 3, scoring all their runs on four 4th-inning home runs.
• 2002 - The Orioles pound the Phillies, 11 - 1, as Baltimore OF Gary Matthews Jr. gets five hits, including a double and home run.
• 2004 - At Bank One Ballpark, the Diamondbacks' 40-year-old fireballer Randy Johnson records his 4,000th career strikeout whiffing Padres third baseman Jeff Cirillo, a fellow USC Trojan, to become the fourth player in major league history to reach the plateau. The "Big Unit" needs fewer innings (3,237 1/3) than Nolan Ryan (3,844 2/3), Roger Clemens (4,151) or Steve Carlton (4,991 1/3) to accomplish the feat.
• 2005 - Craig Biggio breaks Don Baylor's modern record for being hit by a pitch as he is plunked for the 268th time in his career. At Coors Field, Rockies starter Byung-Hyun Kim hits the Astros second baseman on the left elbow in the 4th inning to establish a new mark, both literally and figuratively.
• 2009:
  • In Milwaukee, 3B Casey McGehee plays both the goat and the hero. In the top of the 6th, his drop of a routine pop fly leads to two New York runs; in the bottom of the inning, he hits his first career grand slam; in the 7th, he takes his time fielding a ground ball off the bat of Gary Sheffield, leading to an infield hit and another run; he is then removed in a double switch. Still, the Brewers bang out 19 hits, including four by J.J. Hardy and three by Jason Kendall, for a 10 - 6 win. With the loss, the Mets fall below .500.
  • Jamie Moyer beats the Blue Jays, 5 - 4, but allows three home runs to give him 483 for his career. He surpasses Phil Niekro for third all-time and trails Ferguson Jenkins by one. The veteran is still 22 back of all-time leader Robin Roberts, but will pass him next season.
• 2010:
  • The University of South Carolina wins the 2010 College World Series with a 2 - 1, 11-inning victory over UCLA. Whit Merrifield hits the game-winning single. It is the Gamecocks' first national title. Jackie Bradley Jr. is named Most Outstanding Player.
  • The Phillies suffer a tough blow as they place half of their starting infield - 2B Chase Utley and 3B Placido Polanco - on the disabled list. Utley suffers from a thumb injury sustained while sliding into second base, while Polanco feels discomfort in his right elbow and undergoes a cortisone injection. Both players are leading the All-Star balloting at their positions but are unlikely to play in the contest. In addition, SS Jimmy Rollins has been limited to 18 games this year because of a right calf strain.
  • Denard Span ties a modern major league record with three triples in the Twins' 11 - 4 win over Detroit. The last player to do so was Rafael Furcal in 2002; Ken Landreaux is the only member of the Twins to have done it, in 1980. The all-time record was set by Bill Joyce with four triples in 1897. Span drives in five runs as the Twins retake first place from the Tigers, one day after losing it.
• 2011:
  • Boston manager Terry Francona tries an unusual defensive alignment in today's game against the Phillies, but it doesn't help as the Sox lose, 2 - 1. In the middle of a nine-game stretch of interleague games played in National League ballparks where the designated hitter cannot be used, Francona puts David Ortiz at 1B for the first time this year, in order to give him a few at-bats, and to do this, he moves the American League's leading hitter, 1B Adrian Gonzalez, to RF for only the second time of his career. However, their two bats stay mute, and Boston scores its only run when P John Lackey's double to center field drives in rookie LF Josh Reddick; they fall to the NL leaders, led by rookie starting pitcher Vance Worley. Raul Ibanez drives in both Philly runs with a single and a homer.
  • Suddenly, the Mets are scoring at a record pace, even with a topsy turvy line-up that features C Ronny Paulino batting clean-up. They pound the Tigers, 16 - 9, to set a team record with 52 runs over their last four games. Paulino and Angel Pagan have four hits apiece, and Scott Hairston hits a bases-loaded triple. Utility player Don Kelly gets the final out of the game, the only Tiger hurler not to give up a run in the game. The Bengals hit five homers - two by Miguel Cabrera - to no avail.
• 2012:
  • Aaron Hill hits for the cycle for the second time in two weeks as the Diamondbacks beat the Brewers, 9 - 3. The last player to collect two cycles in a season was Babe Herman in 1931.
  • R.A. Dickey continues his dominance, pitching eight shutout innings and striking out ten in beating the Dodgers, 9 - 0. The Mets' ace is now 12-1.
• 2013 - Chris Davis hits a pair of homers, including his major league-leading 30th, to lead the Orioles to an 11 - 3 win over the Yankees. Davis's five RBI give him 79, just six shy of his career high for a season.
• 2017 - In an episode bringing back memories of Moonlight Graham, whose abbreviated major league career took place on this day 112 years ago, the Yankees' Dustin Fowler makes his big league debut as the starting right fielder in a game against the White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field. The top of the 1st inning ends with him in the on-deck circle, and in the bottom of the frame, he vainly tries to track down a foul ball hit by Jose Abreu down the right field foul line and crashes into a wall, badly injuring hs knee. He has to be carted off the field, his season over.
• 2018:
  • The Nationals put on a power display, homering seven times in a 17 - 7 victory over the Phillies. Both Bryce Harper and 19-year-old rookie Juan Soto homer twice, the latter adding two other hits. Erick Fedde gets credit for his first career win.
  • The Leones de Yucatan win the spring Mexican League season, topping the Sultanes de Monterrey in seven games. Game 7 is a close affair as Yucatan wins, 4 - 3, behind a two-run homer from finals MVP Luis Juárez and a solo shot by Sebastián Valle. Chad Gaudin saves the win for Yoanner Negrin.
• 2019:
  • The first major league game to ever be played in Europe results in some major offensive fireworks as the Yankees defeat the Red Sox, 17 - 13, in front of just shy of 60,000 spectators at London Olympic Stadium. The tone is set quickly as for the first time since 1989, both starting pitchers do not make it through the 1st inning: Rick Porcello is replaced by Colten Brewer after giving up six runs in just one third of an inning, and Masahiro Tanaka lasts exactly twice as long, but also gives up six runs before Chad Green takes over. The two teams combine for 30 runs on 37 hits and six homers. Among the main contributors are, for the Yankees, D.J. LeMahieu and Luke Voit, who both get four hits, and Jackie Bradley who has four for Boston, while teammate Michael Chavis drives in six runs. The game lasts 4 hours and 42 minutes and between-innings entertainment includes a mascot race among four random figures from British culture: King Henry VIII; Winston Churchill; singer Freddie Mercury; and the Loch Ness Monster.
  • For the second day in a row, the lowly Orioles shut out the Indians by a score of 13 - 0. The Orioles had not won back-to-back games since May 4-6th.
• 2020 - With training camps for MLB teams set to re-open in a couple of days, a number of players announce that they will sit out the abridged season over health and safety concerns. They include Ryan Zimmerman and Joe Ross of the Nationals, Mike Leake of the Diamondbacks and Ian Desmond of the Rockies.
• 2021 - The Blue Jays trade IF Joe Panik and minor league P Andrew McInvale to the Marlins in return for P Adam Cimber and OF Corey Dickerson.
• 2022 - The Pirates score a gift run in the 5th inning when the Nationals fail to properly execute the little-known fourth out rule. With one out and runners on second and third base, Ke'Bryan Hayes hits a line drive that is caught by 1B Josh Bell. Both runners are going on the pitch, and Bell throws to 3B Ehire Adrianza who tags out Hoy Park, the runner from second base, apparently ending the inning. However, Jack Suwinski, running from third base, has already crossed the plate at that point, and while Adrianza steps on the bag, he fails to request an appeal that Suwinski left too soon, so his run is allowed to count. The run would also have been nuliified had Adrianza stepped on the bag first, before tagging Park, but alas, the rarely invoked and often misunderstood rule benefits the Bucs, who take a 4 - 3 lead, on their way to winning the game, 8 - 7. The strange play overshadows a three-homer performance by Pittsburgh's Bryan Reynolds.
• 2023 - Starters for the 2023 All-Star Game are named at the conclusion of the popular vote. In the AL, the resurgent Texas Rangers manage to get no less than five starters elected, with 2B Marcus Semien, SS Corey Seager, rookie 3B Josh Jung and C Jonah Heim. In the NL, the Braves and Dodgers both do well, with three starters each. OF Corbin Carroll of Arizona is another rookie to be selected by the fans.

Births

• 1848 - John Radcliffe, infielder (d. 1911)
• 1852 - Columbus Tyler, umpire (d. 1905)
• 1855 - John Gaffney, manager (d. 1913)
• 1855 - Thomas Reynolds, pitcher (d. 1913)
• 1857 - Harry Chipman, umpire (d. 1916)
• 1861 - Len Sowders, outfielder (d. 1888)
• 1863 - Ed Greer, outfielder (d. 1887)
• 1864 - Wilbert Robinson, catcher, manager; Hall of Famer (d. 1934)
• 1867 - Heinie Reitz, infielder (d. 1914)
• 1867 - Ed Seward, pitcher (d. 1947)
• 1873 - Jack Sutthoff, pitcher (d. 1942])
• 1875 - Farmer Steelman, catcher (d. 1944)
• 1876 - Patsy Flaherty, pitcher (d. 1968)
• 1877 - She Donahue, infielder (d. 1947)
• 1880 - Harry Frazee, owner (d. 1929)
• 1880 - Bill McGill, pitcher (d. 1959)
• 1883 - Doc Martel, catcher (d. 1947)
• 1884 - Harry Patton, pitcher (d. 1930)
• 1887 - Dicta Johnson, pitcher, manager (d. ????)
• 1887 - Lou Nagelsen, catcher (d. 1965)
• 1888 - Homobono Márquez, minor league executive; Salon de la Fama (d. 1960)
• 1888 - Skeeter Shelton, outfielder (d. 1954)
• 1888 - Bobby Veach, outfielder (d. 1945)
• 1890 - Harry Hartsell, college coach (d. 1955)
• 1895 - Phil Cockrell, pitcher, manager (d. 1951)
• 1897 - Grady Adkins, pitcher (d. 1966)
• 1897 - Clarence Miles, executive (d. 1977)
• 1898 - Jimmie Long, catcher (d. 1970)
• 1899 - Ollie Carnegie, minor league outfielder (d. 1976)
• 1901 - John Reeves, minor league executive (d. 1979)
• 1910 - Francis Healy, catcher (d. 1997)
• 1910 - Burgess Whitehead, infielder; All-Star (d. 1993)
• 1911 - Ken Blackman, minor league executive (d. 2005)
• 1915 - Pedrito Alvarez, Dominican national team outfielder (d. ????)
• 1915 - Dizzy Trout, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1972)
• 1917 - Cal Drummond, umpire (d. 1970)
• 1921 - Pedro Ramírez, minor league outfielder; Salon de la Fama
• 1923 - Pablo García, minor league infielder (d. 2007)
• 1925 - Bill Connelly, pitcher (d. 1980)
• 1925 - Nippy Jones, infielder (d. 1995)
• 1925 - Franco Tavoni, Serie A1 outfielder; Italian Hall of Fame
• 1925 - Bill Theunissen, college coach (d. 2015)
• 1926 - Bobby Morgan, infielder (d. 2023)
• 1926 - Nat Peeples, catcher (d. 2012)
• 1928 - Nick Testa, catcher (d. 2018)
• 1928 - Gene Verble, infielder (d. 2017)
• 1932 - Mike Coppola, minor league outfielder (d. 2013)
• 1933 - Bob Shaw, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2010)
• 1934 - Duane Wilson, pitcher (d. 2021)
• 1935 - Katsuya Nomura, NPB catcher and manager; Japanese Hall of Famer (d. 2020)
• 1935 - Bill van Buren, Negro League player (d. 2007)
• 1936 - Harmon Killebrew, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 2011)
• 1937 - Perry McGriff, minor league infielder (d. 2017)
• 1941 - John Boccabella, catcher
• 1941 - Larry Stahl, outfielder
• 1945 - Masayuki Nakatsuka, NPB outfielder
• 1949 - Chun-Te Chen, Taiwan national team infielder
• 1950 - Lawrence Jackson, minor league outfielder
• 1951 - Jimmy Freeman, pitcher
• 1951 - Pablo Gutiérrez, minor league pitcher
• 1951 - Bruce Kimm, catcher, manager
• 1951 - Craig Sager, broadcaster (d. 2016)
• 1952 - Haruhisa Ijiri, Japanese national team coach
• 1952 - Mike Labossiere, scout
• 1952 - Vicente Troudart, international umpire (d. 2016)
• 1954 - Rick Honeycutt, pitcher; All-Star
• 1956 - Pedro Guerrero, infielder; All-Star
• 1957 - Eddie Miller, outfielder
• 1958 - Tony Hudson, minor league pitcher
• 1964 - Susumu Mikoshiba, NPB pitcher
• 1966 - Peter Hoy, pitcher
• 1967 - John Wehner, infielder
• 1968 - Franklin López, Nicaraguan national team infielder
• 1968 - Óscar Rebolleda, Spanish national team outfielder
• 1969 - Jose Alberro, pitcher
• 1969 - George Glinatsis, pitcher
• 1969 - Pablo Martínez, infielder
• 1970 - Hiroyuki Watanabe, NPB infielder
• 1973 - Jason Rakers, pitcher
• 1973 - Makoto Shiozaki, NPB infielder
• 1973 - Pedro Valdes, outfielder
• 1974 - Jose Pena, minor league player
• 1975 - Matt LaChappa, minor league pitcher
• 1977 - Daniele Frignani, Italian Baseball League outfielder
• 1977 - Tony McKnight, pitcher
• 1977 - Shawn Sedlacek, pitcher
• 1978 - Trey Hodges, pitcher
• 1978 - Joe Inglett, infielder
• 1979 - Naobumi Mitsuhashi, Japanese national team pitcher
• 1979 - Miguel Quintana, minor league player
• 1980 - Richard Lewis, minor league infielder
• 1980 - Seung Song, minor league pitcher
• 1982 - Dusty Hughes, pitcher
• 1982 - Yusuke Ishida, Japanese national team pitcher
• 1983 - Mike Wilson, outfielder
• 1984 - Hernán Iribarren, outfielder
• 1984 - Keiji Obiki, NPB infielder
• 1984 - Matthew Torra, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Tom Koehler, pitcher
• 1986 - Mike McGuire, minor league pitcher
• 1987 - Jeremy Moore, outfielder
• 1988 - Kentrail Davis, minor league outfielder
• 1988 - Herbert Lara, minor league outfielder
• 1988 - Brooks Raley, pitcher
• 1989 - Cutter Dykstra, minor league outfielder
• 1989 - Julia Fellows, Australian women's national team catcher
• 1990 - Darryn Chalmers, South African national team pitcher
• 1990 - Angemir Martinus, Netherlands Antilles national team pitcher
• 1991 - Nantachot Engchuan, Thai national team outfielder
• 1992 - Leydis Arzuaga, Cuban women's national team catcher
• 1992 - Ryan Battaglia, minor league catcher
• 1992 - Bubby Rossman, pitcher
• 1992 - Yolmer Sanchez, infielder
• 1992 - Frank Schwindel, infielder
• 1993 - Nirawit Bunnam, Thai national team catcher
• 1994 - Daniel Johnson, Elitserien infielder
• 1994 - Travis Lakins, pitcher
• 1994 - Tsung-Hsien Lee, CPBL infielder
• 1995 - Bobby Dalbec, infielder
• 1995 - Kotaro Otake, NPB pitcher
• 1995 - Travis Ott, minor league pitcher
• 1995 - Nick Senzel, outfielder
• 1996 - Tanner Houck, pitcher
• 1996 - José Mujica, pitcher
• 1996 - Emmanuel Rivera, infielder
• 1996 - Petar Rumora, Croatian national team infielder
• 1998 - José Miranda, infielder
• 1999 - Kasey Caras, Serie A1 outfielder
• 1999 - Taisei Ota, NPB pitcher
• 2001 - Gunnar Henderson, infielder

Deaths

• 1909 - Charlie Cushman, manager; umpire (b. 1850)
• 1933 - Fatty Arbuckle, minor league owner (b. 1887)
• 1934 - Charles Somers, owner (b. 1868)
• 1935 - Jack O'Neill, catcher (b. 1873)
• 1942 - Manuel Cueto, outfielder (b. 1892)
• 1945 - Clarence Winters, pitcher (b. 1899)
• 1951 - Dick Conway, minor league catcher (b. 1932)
• 1955 - Horace Milan, outfielder (b. 1894)
• 1957 - Deacon Van Buren, outfielder (b. 1870)
• 1969 - Ted McGrew, umpire (b. 1880)
• 1979 - Johnny Bassler, catcher (b. 1895)
• 1979 - Steamboat Williams, pitcher (b. 1892)
• 1984 - Bill Hornsby, minor league outfielder (b. 1925)
• 1985 - Enrique Lantigua, catcher and Dominican national team manager (b. 1910)
• 1985 - Orville Singer, outfielder (b. 1898)
• 1986 - Thomas Albright, pitcher (b. 1909)
• 1990 - Boyd Perry, infielder (b. 1914)
• 1994 - Ray Mueller, catcher; All-Star (b. 1912)
• 2000 - Ollie Vanek, scout (b. 1908)
• 2006 - Curly Clement, umpire (b. 1919)
• 2012 - Floyd Temple, college coach (b. 1926)
• 2014 - John Hooper, minor league outfielder (b. 1921)
• 2017 - Andrew Lefave, minor league infielder (b. 1984)
• 2017 - Luis Romero Petit, Venezuelan national team infielder (b. 1917)
• 2017 - John Schumann, minor league player (b. 1927)
• 2021 - Scott Reid, outfielder (b. 1947)