May 18
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Events, births and deaths that occurred on May 18.
Events[edit]
- 1892 - Sadie McMahon loses a no-hitter, and the game, when Denny Lyons of the New York Giants singles in the only run in the Baltimore Orioles' 1 - 0 loss.
- 1897 - Bill Joyce hits four triples to lead the New York Giants to an 11 - 5 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates at Exposition Park. This is the last time this feat has been accomplished in major league history. Previously, George Strief of the American Association Philadelphia Athletics hit four triples in a game on June 25, 1885.
- 1907 - Hooks Wiltse pitches the New York Giants to a 6 - 2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. For New York, it is their 17th straight victory to run their season record to 24-3. Despite the run, the Giants stand in first place by just one game over the Chicago Cubs.
- 1912 - The Detroit Tigers use a team of replacement players against the Philadelphia Athletics. With 19 players on strike in protest of the recent suspension of Ty Cobb, manager Hughie Jennings recruits college players and a number of local semipro players to avoid a forfeit and fine. Detroit loses to the Athletics, 24 - 2, as pitcher Al Travers gives up all 24 runs on 26 hits.
- 1926 - In Kansas City, Monarchs shortstop Dobie Moore's six-and-a-half year Negro League career is ended when he is shot in the lower leg and suffers a compound fracture to his left tibia.
- 1929 - At the Baker Bowl, the Brooklyn Robins outslug the Philadelphia Phillies for a 20 - 16 victory in the first game of a doubleheader. Babe Herman and Johnny Frederick each have five hits for Brooklyn. The Phillies win the second game, 8 - 6. Frederick scores eight runs in the doubleheader to set a major league record for most runs scored in two games. The teams combine for a record 50 runs in a doubleheader.
- 1930 - George Pipgras tosses his third shutout of the season as the New York Yankees again support his pitching by bombing the host Boston Red Sox, 11 - 0. Babe Ruth hits an Ed Morris pitch over the right field bleachers, for one of the longest home runs ever at Fenway Park.
- 1931 - Babe Herman of the Brooklyn Robins hits for the cycle for the first of three times in his career, which will become a major league record. Brooklyn beats the Cincinnati Reds, 14 - 4.
- 1933 - The first All-Star Game is announced for July 6th at Comiskey Park. It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair celebration and is sponsored by the Chicago Tribune. Fans will pick the players.
- 1935 - Bucky Walters of the Philadelphia Phillies shuts out the Chicago Cubs for ten innings and bats a RBI single to win the game, 1 - 0.
- 1937 - Brooks Robinson is born in Little Rock, Arkansas. The perennial Gold Glove third baseman will make his debut with the Baltimore Orioles in 1955. In 1964, Robinson will win the American League MVP Award. Six years later, his defensive brilliance will lead the Orioles to victory in the 1970 World Series.
- 1938 - Wes Ferrell of the Washington Senators pitches and bats to defeat Detroit, 5 - 1, at Tiger Stadium. Ferrell belts a mammoth home run, while his batterymate, brother Rick Ferrell, goes hitless.
- 1945 - Luis Olmo of the Brooklyn Dodgers hits a triple and home run, each with the bases loaded, in the Dodgers' 15 - 12 victory over the Chicago Cubs. No major league player has done that since. Olmo adds a double for good measure.
- 1946 - Reggie Jackson is born in Abington, Pennsylvania. Jackson will make his debut in 1967 with the Kansas City Athletics. He will finish his career with 563 home runs and earn election to the Hall of Fame in 1993.
- 1950 - At the Polo Grounds, Rube Walker hits a grand slam in the 6th inning for the Chicago Cubs. In the bottom of the inning, Monte Irvin also hits a grand slam for the New York Giants. It is the first time in major league history that each team hit a grand slam in the same inning. The game is called on account of rain after six innings, and the Giants win, 10 - 4.
- 1951 - Boston Braves catcher Walker Cooper goes 5 for 5 in a 12 - 3 rout of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Max Surkont wins his fifth game, scattering ten hits and giving up home runs to Ralph Kiner and Wally Westlake in the late innings.
- 1955 - At Fenway Park, the Cleveland Indians score 11 runs in the 5th inning to beat the Boston Red Sox, 19 - 0, and give Herb Score an easy win over Willard Nixon. The big blow in the inning is a grand slam by Vic Wertz. It is the worst shutout pasting ever by Boston and the most runs ever in a shutout for the Indians.
- 1956 - Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees hits home runs from both sides of the plate for the third time in his career, setting a major league record. Mantle includes a perfect 4-for-4 day, helping New York to an 8 - 7 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
- 1957 - Dick Williams of the Baltimore Orioles hits a 9th-inning, game-tying solo home run off Paul LaPalme of the Chicago White Sox seconds before 10:20 p.m., the curfew set so Chicago can catch a train out of Baltimore. If Williams had done anything else, the White Sox would have won. The game is later replayed from the beginning and Baltimore wins.
- 1958 - Cleveland Indians outfielder Carroll Hardy pinch-hits for Roger Maris and responds with his first major league home run, a three-run shot off Billy Pierce, to give Cleveland a 7 - 4 victory over the Chicago White Sox. With the Boston Red Sox, Hardy will pinch-hit for Ted Williams on September 20, 1960, and will also pinch-hit for rookie Carl Yastrzemski on May 31, 1961, making him the only player to go in for both future Hall of Famers.
- 1961 - Los Angeles Angels pitcher Ryne Duren posts four strikeouts in the 7th inning against the Chicago White Sox. He strikes out Minnie Miñoso, Roy Sievers, J.C. Martin, and Sammy Esposito to tie a major league record, in the 6 - 4 loss to the White Sox.
- 1968:
- Frank Howard of the Washington Senators ties an American League record by hitting a home run in his sixth consecutive game. With a pair of home runs against Detroit Tigers ace Mickey Lolich, Howard now has ten homers in his last six games, also an AL record.
- Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates plays his 392nd straight game, setting a record for National League second basemen, in an 8 - 3 loss to the Cincinnati Reds.
- 1969 - Rod Carew of the Minnesota Twins steals second base, third, and home plate during the 3rd inning of an 8 - 2 loss to the Detroit Tigers. Carew pulls off the trifecta against the battery of Mickey Lolich and Bill Freehan. Carew becomes the first player in 28 years to steal three bases in sequence in the same inning. Cesar Tovar also steals two bases in the game.
- 1979 - Dale Murphy hits three home runs with five RBI in three at bats, to pace the Atlanta Braves to a 6 - 4 victory over the San Francisco Giants.
- 1981 - Los Angeles Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela finally loses a game, 4 - 0, to the Philadelphia Phillies. He is now 8-1 and his earned run average increases to 0.90.
- 1982:
- Larry Herndon of the Detroit Tigers hits three home runs in an 11 - 9 win over Oakland, and in the process becomes the 14th player in major league history to hit home runs in four consecutive plate appearances. On May 16th, he homered in his final at-bat to give the Tigers a 7 - 6 victory over Minnesota.
- The Chicago White Sox beat the visiting Texas Rangers, 10 - 2, behind LaMarr Hoyt's 13th consecutive win stretching back to 1981. Hoyt's record at Comiskey Park is now 15-0.
- 1983 - At Memorial Stadium, Rich Dotson of the Chicago White Sox pitches a one-hitter against the Baltimore Orioles, but loses, 1 - 0. Baltimore's lone hit is Dan Ford's 8th-inning home run. Storm Davis (7 1/3 innings) and Tippy Martinez (1 1/3 innings) combine in the four-hit shutout, with Martinez taking the win.
- 1988 - In the Oakland Athletics' 39th game of the season, pitcher Dave Stewart breaks a major league record committing his 12th balk of the season in a 4 - 1 loss to the Red Sox. Stewart will extend the record with 16 balks during the year.
- 1990:
- Chicago Cubs Ryne Sandberg's errorless game streak at second base comes to an end after 123 games and 584 chances. Joe Morgan of the Cincinnati Reds had held the previous record of 91 games.
- The Baltimore Orioles tie an American League record with eight consecutive singles in a seven-run 1st inning against Bobby Witt to beat the Texas Rangers, 13 - 1. The eight straight singles equal a record set by the Washington Senators against the Cleveland Indians in 1951 and matched by the Oakland Athletics against the Chicago White Sox in 1981.
- 1992 - Bruce Hurst of the San Diego Padres pitches a one-hit, 3 - 0 shutout against the New York Mets and Dwight Gooden. The only hit is a single by the recently-acquired Chico Walker.
- 1994 - Hiromi Makihara of the Yomiuri Giants pitches a perfect game in the 6 - 0 win over the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. It is the 15th perfect game in Nippon Pro Baseball history.
- 1996 - Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, GA opens, though the 1996 Summer Olympics are still two months away. Following the Olympics, the stadium will be partially reconstructed as Turner Field.
- 1998:
- Due to a fire sale that has gutted the World Champions' roster, two class-action lawsuits are filed against the Florida Marlins by season ticket holders - one for breach of contract and the other accusing the team of false advertising.
- With a 6 - 3 victory over Baltimore, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays become only the second expansion team in major league history to sweep a four-game series on the road. The 1993 Colorado Rockies, who did it against the Los Angeles Dodgers, are the other team to accomplish this feat.
- Mike Blowers of the Oakland Athletics hits for the cycle and has four RBI in the Athletics' 14 - 0 win over the Chicago White Sox. Blowers becomes only the second Oakland A's player to accomplish the feat.
- 1999:
- Edgar Martinez hits three home runs, tying a major league record with five homers in two games, to give the Seattle Mariners a 10 - 1 victory over the Minnesota Twins. Martinez homered twice in the opener of the series.
- Luis Gonzalez of the Arizona Diamondbacks extends his hitting streak to 30 games with a two-run, 1st-inning home run in a 7 - 3 victory over the San Francisco Giants. Gonzalez, whose streak matches the longest this decade, becomes the 37th player in major league history to reach the 30 mark.
- The Boston Red Sox defeat the New York Yankees, 6 - 3, in the return of Yankees manager Joe Torre after being treated for prostate cancer. Don Zimmer had managed the team in the interim.
- Mark Grace hits a three-run home run in the 11th inning to give the Chicago Cubs a 4 - 1 victory over the Florida Marlins. Alex Gonzalez has all three of Florida's hits.
- 2000:
- Mark McGwire hits three home runs and had a career-high seven RBI, leading the St. Louis Cardinals over the Philadelphia Phillies, 7 - 2, at Veterans Stadium. Curt Schilling (two) and Wayne Gomes (one) are his victims. The home runs move McGwire past Mickey Mantle into eighth place on the all-time career list with 539.
- The San Diego Padres defeat the Florida Marlins, 6 - 2. Florida steals ten bases in ten attempts in the game, falling one shy of the modern National League record. Luis Castillo and Cliff Floyd steal three apiece, while Mark Kotsay and Preston Wilson each steal a pair.
- The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles, 8 - 7. Frank Catalanotto has three hits for the Rangers, and extends his consecutive hit streak to a team-record ten before making an out.
- 2001 - The Arizona Diamondbacks defeat the Chicago Cubs, 4 - 0, as Randy Johnson (five innings), Byung-Hyun Kim (three innings), and Bret Prinz (one inning) combine on a one-hitter.
- 2002 - After sitting through a two-hour rain delay, the Boston Red Sox defeat the Seattle Mariners, 4 - 1, behind the pitching of Pedro Martinez. Martinez strikes out the side in the 1st inning on nine pitches, the 17th immaculate inning since 1970. Martinez is now 10-0 with a 0.93 ERA against the Mariners.
- 2003 - The Texas Rangers sweep three games at Yankee Stadium for the first time in the franchise's 43-year existence.
- 2004 - At the age of 40, Randy Johnson becomes the oldest pitcher in major league history to throw a perfect game, retiring all 27 hitters to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Atlanta Braves, 2 - 0. It is the 17th perfect game in major league history and the first since David Cone of the Yankees did it against Montreal on July 18, 1999. Johnson also joins Cy Young, Jim Bunning, Hideo Nomo and Nolan Ryan as the only pitchers to throw no-hitters in both leagues, and creates the longest time span between no-no's, having first accomplished the feat against the Detroit Tigers in June of 1990.
- 2008 - Matt Harrison throws the first complete game no-hitter in Frisco RoughRiders history, blanking the San Antonio Missions, 2 - 0, despite six walks in seven innings in the first half of a doubleheader.
- 2009:
- Returning from a strained forearm that has kept him out of action all year, the Angels' John Lackey picks up his first win of the year in a 10 - 6 victory over Seattle. Lackey actually made his season debut three days earlier but was ejected after only two pitches for throwing at Texas lead-off hitter Ian Kinsler.
- Jason Kendall goes 2 for 5 to help the Brewers beat the Cardinals, 8 - 4. He becomes the eighth player to collect 2,000 hits in the majors while playing primarily catcher.
- 2010:
- Another day, another epic Yankees-Red Sox battle. Today, the Yankees play the game under protest, claiming the Sox did not properly signal an injury before removing pitcher Josh Beckett trailing 5 - 0 in the 5th inning, thus giving reliever Manny Delcarmen more time to warm up than warranted. For the second night in a row, the Sox come back from a five-run hole, taking a 7 - 5 lead in the 9th thanks to an error by RF Marcus Thames on Marco Scutaro's fly ball. Jonathan Papelbon, who blew a save the previous night, allows a run in the bottom of the 9th, but strikes out Randy Winn with runners on second and third to end the game. The contest starts almost an hour late because of rain, is played in a constant drizzle, and lasts a marathon 4 hours and 9 minutes, making it the longest nine-inning game played so far this season.
- Carlos Silva improves his record to 5-0 as the Cubs beat the Rockies, 6 - 2. A huge disappointment for the Seattle Mariners the last two seasons, Silva has found his old form with Chicago, forcing manager Lou Piniella to make a difficult decision: who will be bumped from the starting rotation to make room for Carlos Zambrano, set to return after an unconvincing stint in the bullpen.
- Tyler Clippard falls to 7-3 as the Nationals drop a 3 - 2 game to the Cards. He becomes the second reliever to get ten decisions in his team's first 40 games, following Mike Marshall by 31 years.
- 2011:
- Five different games end in shutouts today. The most remarkable performance is a three-hitter thrown by Jake Peavy of the White Sox, making only his second appearance since undergoing shoulder surgery ten months earlier. He wins 1 - 0 over Cleveland, with Justin Masterson being saddled with the loss in spite a solid performance of his own. Boston also wins 1 - 0, over Detroit, with Clay Buchholz getting the win, and, in another whitewash, Charlie Morton of Pittsburgh notches his second career shutout. The Mets and Mariners also win with combined shutouts.
- On a wild night for baseball, four other games go into extra innings, with one game ending in a wild 15th inning. The Orioles and Yankees are tied, 1 - 1, when the Yanks score two runs off Mike Gonzalez, who is then ejected for beaning Chris Dickerson, shattering his batting helmet and sending him to the hospital. Out of relief pitchers, the O's have to bring in the next day's scheduled starter, Jeremy Guthrie, to complete the inning. Trailing 4 - 1 in the bottom of the 15th, The Orioles then put two runners on base, but Matt Wieters' ground ball headed for right field just nips the foot of baserunner Brandon Snyder, and he is called out for interference, snuffing the O's best chance to tie the game. Hector Noesi throws four scoreless innings to earn the win in his major league debut; called up by the Yanks 16 days earlier, he had yet to pitch before the marathon game forces manager Joe Girardi's hand.
- 2012:
- Kevin Millwood throws his first shutout in nine years in beating the Rockies, 4 - 0, on a two-hitter. Mike Carp homers for the Mariners.
- Justin Verlander makes a bid for the third no-hitter of his career, but falls two outs short, in beating Pittsburgh, 6 - 0. Josh Harrison singles with one out in the 9th against the Tigers' ace for the Bucs' lone hit. Verlander, who strikes out 12, is now 16-2 for his career in interleague play.
- 2013:
- Brandon McCarthy wins his first game since having been hit in the head by a line drive on September 5th last year. He pitches eight scoreless innings against the Marlins to lead Arizona to a 1 - 0 win. Gerardo Parra leads off the game with a home run off Tom Koehler for the only run.
- Elvis Andrus has five hits for the Rangers as they win, 7 - 2, over the Tigers. Andrus scores three runs, has two RBI and steals a base, while Mitch Moreland homers off Anibal Sanchez.
- HCAW plays its 1,630th game in the Hoofdklasse, breaking the record held by Sparta/Feyenoord. They lose, 5 - 0, to the Amsterdam Pirates, as Kevin Heijstek and three relievers team up on a four-hitter. Ivan Granados takes the loss.
- 2014 - The Pirates win for the first time in the Bronx in 54 years - since the 1960 World Series - when they beat the Yankees, 5 - 3, in the second game of a doubleheader, after losing the opener, 4 - 3. Starling Marte and Josh Harrison homer for the Bucs in the nitecap, after Mark Teixeira gets a couple of early RBIs in the opener as the Yankees hand Charlie Morton his sixth loss against no wins despite a 101 ERA+.
- 2015 - The Marlins go outside the box in picking a replacement for fired manager Mike Redmond, as General Manager Dan Jennings takes over as skipper. While Jennings has 31 years of professional baseball experience, it is largely as a scout and in front office roles: he has never been a coach or manager at any professional level. In his first game at the helm, the Marlins lose, 3 - 2, to the Diamondbacks in 13 innings as David Peralta drives in the winning run against demoted closer Steve Cishek.
- 2016 - In a marathon of a game, the Tabasco Olmecas top the Veracruz Rojo Aguilas in a 23-inning, 7-hour, 34-minute game that starts at 8:01 PM the previous night and ends at 3:35 this morning. The score is 5 - 5 after seven innings, neither team scoring again until the 23rd in a game that begins at 96 degrees and only cools off to 80 by the time of its early-morning ending. Tabasco outfielder Christian Quintero throws out Jonathan Herrera at home in the 22nd. In the 23rd, Uriak Marquez singles off Manuel Nunez (making his Mexican League debut) to score Adrian Gutierrez with the winner. Angel Araiza gets the victory with six shutout frames of relief. The game ties two others (from 1977 and 2001) as the longest in the league's history in terms of innings.
- 2019 - The Astros win their tenth straight game when they defeat the Red Sox, 7 - 3, at Fenway Park in a rematch of last year's ALCS. Houston chases Boston starter Hector Velazquez after just a third of an inning, as George Springer hits his first pitch of the game to deep center for a triple to open the floodgates. The Astros score five runs before the inning is out, with Tyler White's two-run double the crucial blow, and roll from there. Josh Reddick adds a solo homer as the Astros match the best start in team history at 31-15.
- 2021 - Spencer Turnbull of the Tigers throws what is already the fifth no-hitter of the young season, shutting out the Mariners, 5 - 0, while striking out nine batters. It is quite a turnaround for Turnbull, who in 2019 had led the American League in losses while going 3-17.
- 2022 - Four pitchers for the San Antonio Missions of the Texas League combine on a no-hitter against the Midland RockHounds at Nelson Wolff Stadium. The pitchers are Ryan Lillie, Michel Báez, Osvaldo Hernandez and Mason Fox. The remarkable thing is that this is the second time in three games that San Antonio's pitchers record a no-hitter as on May 15th, four different hurlers had banded together to achieve the feat.
- 2023 - Highlights have been rare for the struggling Cardinals this season, but not in tonight's 16 - 8 win over the Dodgers. They hit seven home runs in a home game for the first time since 1940, including consecutive blasts by Juan Yepez, Nolan Gorman and Paul DeJong off Julio Urías in the 3rd. Willson Contreras also homers against Urías in that inning, as he and Gorman both go deep twice. After trailing 8 - 1, the Dodgers manage to mount a comeback thanks to Freddie Freeman's 300th career homer - a grand slam - followed by a solo blast by Max Muncy in the 6th, but they never get closer than one run before the Cards run away with the win.
Births[edit]
- 1862 - Tom Gillen, catcher (d. 1889)
- 1864 - Tim O'Rourke, infielder (d. 1938)
- 1882 - Babe Adams, pitcher (d. 1968)
- 1885 - Cy Barger, pitcher (d. 1964)
- 1892 - Bill Batsch, pinch hitter (d. 1963)
- 1893 - Jim Jeffries, pitcher (d. 1938)
- 1896 - George Edmondson, pitcher (d. 1973)
- 1898 - Harvey MacDonald, outfielder (d. 1965)
- 1898 - Arthur Murphy, minor league infielder (d. 1977)
- 1901 - John Happenny, infielder (d. 1988)
- 1904 - Red Smith, catcher (d. 1978)
- 1905 - Art Jorgens, catcher (d. 1980)
- 1911 - Al Niemiec, infielder (d. 1995)
- 1913 - Keith Frazier, minor league pitcher/outfielder and manager (d. 1992)
- 1918 - Rufe Gentry, pitcher (d. 1997)
- 1921 - John Fick, pitcher (d. 1958)
- 1921 - Will Hafey, minor league pitcher/outfielder (d. 2009)
- 1922 - Gil Coan, outfielder (d. 2020)
- 1922 - Larry File, infielder (d. 2008)
- 1922 - Mike Modak, pitcher (d. 1995)
- 1923 - Don Lund, outfielder (d. 2013)
- 1923 - Art Pennington, outfielder; All-Star (d. 2017)
- 1923 - Fern Shollenberger, AAGPBL player (d. 1977)
- 1924 - Alfredo Sisi, Italian executive
- 1927 - Esther Lyman, AAGPBL catcher (d. 1991)
- 1929 - Jack Sanford, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2000)
- 1933 - Carroll Hardy, outfielder (d. 2020)
- 1935 - Ken Hamlin, infielder
- 1937 - Brooks Robinson, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 2023)
- 1939 - Jim Hicks, outfielder (d. 2020)
- 1946 - Reggie Jackson, outfielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer
- 1949 - Chris Ward, outfielder
- 1950 - Osamu Higashio, NPB pitcher and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
- 1951 - Eric Gregg, umpire (d. 2006)
- 1951 - Jim Sundberg, catcher; All-Star
- 1956 - Jim Farr, pitcher
- 1956 - Chiu-Lung Liu, Taiwan national team pitcher
- 1958 - Andre David, outfielder
- 1958 - Sung-han Kim, KBO infielder and manager
- 1961 - Jim Bowden, general manager
- 1962 - Jon Deeble, minor league pitcher and manager
- 1963 - Brian Finley, minor league outfielder
- 1965 - Erik Hanson, pitcher; All-Star
- 1965 - Jimmy Williams, minor league pitcher
- 1967 - Eric Young, infielder; All-Star
- 1968 - Clemente Alvarez, catcher
- 1968 - Tetsuya Iida, NPB outfielder
- 1969 - Kerry Woodson, pitcher
- 1970 - Scott Baker, pitcher
- 1971 - Rich Garces, pitcher
- 1971 - Steve Lyons, minor league pitcher and coach
- 1971 - B.J. Wallace, minor league pitcher
- 1972 - Jaime Bluma, pitcher
- 1972 - Mike Jerzembeck, pitcher
- 1974 - Nelson Figueroa, pitcher
- 1974 - Felix Martinez, infielder
- 1974 - Chris Miyake, minor league infielder and manager
- 1974 - Julio Perez, minor league pitcher
- 1975 - Chi-Fung Hung, CPBL outfielder
- 1975 - Luca Martignoni, Serie A1 pitcher
- 1976 - David Forst, General Manager
- 1976 - Hiroshi Fujimoto, minor league catcher
- 1976 - Todd Incantalupo, minor league pitcher
- 1976 - Roy Smith, pitcher
- 1978 - Marcus Giles, infielder; All-Star
- 1979 - Adam Peterson, pitcher
- 1979 - Jon Williams, minor league catcher
- 1980 - Juan Dominguez, pitcher
- 1980 - Luis Terrero, outfielder
- 1981 - Fermin Neme, Division Elite outfielder
- 1981 - Shuo Yang, Chinese national team outfielder
- 1983 - Alcides Meléndez, minor league infielder and manager
- 1984 - Prince Fielder, infielder; All-Star
- 1984 - David Patton, pitcher
- 1984 - Joakim Soria, pitcher; All-Star
- 1985 - Drew Carpenter, pitcher
- 1985 - Gabriel Tatis, minor league pitcher
- 1986 - Rizki Ramadhan, Indonesian national team infielder
- 1988 - Ryan Chaffee, minor league pitcher
- 1988 - Jon Del Campo, minor league utility player
- 1988 - Iván Hernández, Nicaraguan national team infielder
- 1989 - Randy Fontanez, minor league pitcher
- 1989 - Jared Hoying, outfielder
- 1990 - Pablo Ossandón, French Division I pitcher
- 1991 - Giovanni Soto, pitcher
- 1991 - Rodrigo Torres, Panamanian national team catcher
- 1993 - Christian Correa, minor league catcher
- 1994 - Randy Rosario, pitcher
- 1994 - Kit Scheetz, minor league pitcher
- 1996 - Josh Fleming, pitcher
- 1997 - Calvin Estrada, minor league outfielder
- 1997 - Nash Walters, pitcher
- 2000 - Chase Silseth, pitcher
- 2003 - Alejandro Lubo, Venezuelan national team outfielder
- 2004 - Jibran Aman Murtaza, Pakistani national team pitcher-infielder
Deaths[edit]
- 1904 - Gene Moriarty, outfielder (b. 1863)
- 1913 - The Only Nolan, pitcher (b. 1855)
- 1913 - Charlie Robinson, catcher (b. 1856)
- 1927 - Patrick O'Loughlin, catcher (b. 1860)
- 1931 - Charlie Hamburg, outfielder (b. 1866)
- 1934 - Jumbo McGinnis, pitcher (b. 1854)
- 1937 - Doc Leitner, pitcher (b. 1865)
- 1944 - Bob Clark, pitcher (b. 1897)
- 1944 - Tim Shinnick, infielder (b. 1867)
- 1945 - Pete Cregan, outfielder (b. 1875)
- 1947 - Hal Chase, infielder, manager (b. 1883)
- 1948 - Frank Schneiberg, pitcher (b. 1880)
- 1955 - Harry Wood, outfielder (b. 1885)
- 1959 - John Hummel, infielder (b. 1883)
- 1959 - Gene Packard, pitcher (b. 1887)
- 1966 - Lee Gooch, outfielder (b. 1890)
- 1972 - Babe Barna, outfielder (b. 1915)
- 1973 - Herb Kelly, pitcher (b. 1892)
- 1974 - Dan Topping, owner (b. 1912)
- 1976 - Marion Fricano, pitcher (b. 1923)
- 1979 - Ray Blades, outfielder, manager (b. 1896)
- 1986 - Spades Wood, pitcher (b. 1909)
- 1995 - Jack Kramer, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1918)
- 1995 - Enzo Masci, Serie A1 outfielder (b. 1930)
- 2000 - Doyle Lade, pitcher (b. 1921)
- 2005 - Vernon Shetler, minor league outfielder/first baseman (b. 1919)
- 2006 - Susumu Aizawa, NPB pitcher (b. 1930)
- 2013 - Neil Chrisley, outfielder (b. 1931)
- 2021 - Rennie Stennett, infielder (b. 1951)
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