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1946 - Red Barrett retires the first 22 batters he faces before his bid for a perfect game is broken up with an eighth-inning single by Delmar Ennis. He gains his first victory of the season with his 7-0 whitewashing of Philadelphia at Sportsman's Park
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JUNE 10 BASEBALL BIRTHDAYS
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1910 Frank Demaree outfielder (MLB All Star 1936, 37; Chicago Cubs, NY Giants


1947 Ken Singleton (Orioles)


1973 Pokey Reese (Boston Red Sox)


1976 Freddy García


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This Day in Baseball History
June 10th
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1902 Baseball lifer Horace Fogel, also known for his career as a sportswriter, is fired as the Giants' manager just 44 games into the season. The 51-year-old former skipper, who will go on to an administrative position with the Phillies, will be best remembered for his attempt to turn future Hall of Fame sophomore hurler Christy Mathewson, a 20-game winner last year, into a position player.

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1930 After seven consecutive victories from the start of the season, A's right-hander Lefty Grove loses in eleven innings to the White Sox, 7-6. The future Hall of Famer will finish the season 28-5, along with a 2.54 ERA for the eventual World Champion club.

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1937 The Senators trade Bobo Newsom (3-4, 5.85) and outfielder Ben Chapman (.262, 0, 12) to the Red Sox for the brother battery of Wes (3-6, 7.61) and Rick Ferrell (.308, 1, 4), as well as outfielder Mel Almada (.236, 1, 9). Rick, the catcher, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1984, but his brother Wes, the pitcher, will hit more career home runs.

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1938 With his team trailing Chicago, 13-1, at Fenway Park, Red Sox manager Joe Cronin lets Bill Lefebvre bat for himself in the eighth inning and watches the rookie hurler homer off Monty Stratton. The 22-year-old southpaw from Natick (RI), who will have only one at-bat this season, doesn't fare as well on the mound when he gives up six runs in four innings in his only appearance on the mound this season.

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1944 "I was pitching against seventh, eighth, and ninth graders, kids 13 and 14 years old... All of a sudden, I look up, and there's Stan Musial and the likes. It was a very scary situation." - JOE NUXHALL, speaking of his major league debut as a 15-year-old.

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Six weeks shy of his 16th birthday, Joe Nuxhall becomes the youngest player in a major league contest in this century, beginning a 60-year tenure with the Reds organization, including becoming best known as the voice for the team's radio broadcasts. Being called in the ninth inning into a 13-0 rout by the eventual World Champions Cardinals at Crosley Field, the 15-year and 316-day-old Hamilton High School southpaw retires George Fallon, a batter almost twice his age batter, but is unable to get out of the inning, yielding five walks, two hits, one wild pitch, and five runs.

1953 Against five different pitchers, Jimmy Piersall ties a major league record, going 6-for-6 when Boston bombs the Browns in the first game of a doubleheader, 11-2. The Red Sox right fielder is hitless in the Sportsman's Park nightcap and is sent sprawling to the ground by Satchel Paige, a pitcher he had infuriated during a game in his rookie season by mimicking the right-hander's every move.

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1954 At County Stadium, Bill Taylor's pinch home run in the 10th inning off Gene Conley gives the Giants an eventual 1-0 win over Milwaukee. Taylor's first major league home run accounts for all the scoring, making it the first time a solo pinch-hit round-tripper is the game's only tally.

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1954 Reds' southpaw Fred Baczewski goes the distance, blanking Pittsburgh at Crosley Field, 6-0. 'Lefty,' a former college basketball player at the University of Tennessee, gives up 11 hits and walks a batter, but the Pirates strand 12 players on the bases.

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1959 In Baltimore, Rocky Colavito becomes the sixth player to hit four home runs in one game, helping the Indians defeat the Orioles, 11-8. The New York City native joins Lou Gehrig as the only player to accomplish the feat with four consecutive shots.

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1966 Indian hurler Sonny Siebert throws the season's only no-hitter, defeating the Senators, 2-0. The right-hander strikes out seven batters in his Cleveland Stadium gem, walking only one.

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1966 In his big league debut, Dick Rusteck pitches a four-hit masterpiece, blanking the Reds at Shea Stadium, 4-0. The 24-year-old rookie southpaw will pitch in seven more games, including two more starts, without ever winning another major league contest, finishing his career with a 1-2 record and a 3.00 ERA.

1967 In front of his family and friends, Astros outfielder Jimmy Wynn, a Cincinnati native, hits the longest home run in the history of Crosley Field. The Toy Cannon's monstrous shot off the right-handed Mel Queen in the team's 9-4 loss to the Reds clears the 58-foot scoreboard in left-center and bounces onto Interstate 75 outside the stadium.

1969 The Mets win their 11th consecutive game, a 9-4 victory over the Giants at Candlestick Park, to establish a franchise record. Later in the season, the Amazins will also post a ten-game (Sept. 6-13) and a nine-game winning streak (Sept. 21-Oct. 1).

1972 Hank Aaron passes Willie Mays, moving into second place on the all-time home run list. The Braves outfielder connects for a grand slam, his 14th, to tie Gil Hodges' NL mark against the Phillies for his 649th career homer, 65 shy of Babe Ruth's total.

1973 Ranger reliever Charlie Hudson accidentally shoots himself in the middle finger of his pitching hand while cleaning a .38 revolver at home. The 24-year-old left-handed knuckleballer returns to the team at the end of July and, as a starter, blanks the Twins, 2-0, on September 2 at Arlington Stadium.

1974 Mike Schmidt collects one of the longest singles in big-league history when the umpires rule the ball he hit off Astros hurler Claude Osteen that carom off the public address speaker hanging 117 feet in the air and 329 feet from home plate in play due to the ballpark's ground rules. The Rice University mathematics department calculates the Astrodome blast would have traveled 550 feet if left unimpeded.

1979 Trailing by a run, Orioles right-hander Dennis Martinez induces Ranger third baseman Buddy Bell to line into a 5-4-3 triple play to end the sixth inning. Baltimore's triple killing, their eighth since moving to the Charm City, contributes to the team's 5-4 walk-off victory at Memorial Stadium.

1981 In front of 57,386 hometown fans, Pete Rose ties Stan Musial's National League record, collecting his 3,630th hit when he singles to left-center field off Nolan Ryan in the bottom of the first inning in the Phillies' 5-4 victory over the Astros at Veterans Stadium. The eventual all-time hit leader does break Stan the Man's mark tonight, striking out in his next three at-bats against the future Hall of Fame right-hander.

1992 A's first baseman Mark McGwire hits his 200th career home run when he goes deep in the second inning off Chris Bosio in the team's 5-2 victory over Milwaukee at County Stadium. The 28-year-old slugger will end the season with 42 round-trippers en route to a career total 583.

1995 Jeff Manto hits his fourth consecutive home run over three games, equaling Johnny Blanchard's 1961 accomplishment. The Orioles' third baseman, who hit two homers against the Angels last night and one the previous night off of the Mariners' Rafael Carmona, goes deep in the bottom of the second inning during Baltimore's 6-2 victory over the Halos at Camden Yards.

1995 Legendary Hall of Fame announcer Lindsey Nelson, who for 17 years, along with Bob Murphy and Ralph Kiner, made up the original broadcast team for the expansion Mets in 1962, dies of complications of Parkinson's disease at 76. In addition to doing play-by-play for the San Francisco Giants from 1979 to 1981, the colorfully attired announcer also called football games, including 26 Cotton Bowls, five Sugar Bowls, four Rose Bowls, and announced syndicated Notre Dame gridiron contests for 14 years.
1997 Marlins' hurler Kevin Brown no-hits the Giants at Candlestick Park, 9-0. The right-handed sinkerballer, who faces 28 batters, misses a perfect game when he barely grazes Marvin Benard with a 1-2 pitch with two outs in the eighth inning.

2000 In a pregame ceremony at Kauffman Stadium, the Royals commemorate David Glass's ownership of the team. The former Walmart executive, who became Kansas City's interim CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors in 1993, had his $96 million offer to buy the team approved by the Board in April, despite a competing bid of $120 million by New York-based attorney Miles Prentice.
2000 Darin Erstad's second-inning two-run double off Arizona's Omar Daal is the Angels' leadoff hitter's 100th hit of the season. The two-bagger, coming in the Halos' 61st game, makes the 26-year-old left fielder the fastest major leaguer to reach the milestone since Hall of Famer Heinie Manush accomplished the feat with the Senators in 1934.
2002 Former Japanese Orix Blue Wave teammates Ichiro Suzuki and So Taguchi play against each other when the Mariners blank the Cardinals, 10-0. The Safeco Field contest marks the first time two Japanese position players have played in the same major league game.
2002 In front of 45,698 fans at Yankee Stadium, Marcus Thames becomes the 17th player in history to hit a home run on the first pitch he sees in the major leagues. The New York rookie, who hit his two-run dinger off four-time Cy Young winner Diamondback southpaw Randy Johnson, joins John Miller (1966) as the second Yankee to homer in his first at-bat.
2003 In a game against the Orioles at Camden Yards, Sammy Sosa becomes the target of a man who runs onto the field throwing corks. Last week, the umps discovered the Cubs' slugger used the illegal substance after breaking his bat in a game against the Devil Rays.
2005 The document, believed to be the precursor to the 'Curse of the Bambino,' is acquired for $996,000 when Gotta Have It Collectibles submits the winning bid for the 1919 contract, signed by owners Harry Frazee of the Red Sox and Jacob Ruppert of Yankees, which sold Babe Ruth to New York. The cost of the five typed pages is nearly ten times the value the 'Bronx Bombers' paid to get the emerging 'Sultan of Swat.'
2005 For the first time in nearly 90 years, the Red Sox play the Cubs in Chicago, making their first visit to Wrigley Field. The two teams that had their fates influenced by curses last met at Comiskey Field, the more spacious home of the White Sox, in the 1918 World Series, won by Boston in six games behind the solid pitching of Babe Ruth.
2006 Using a fishing rod with a baseball attached to the hook at the end of a heavy-duty line he designed, Pro Bass Angler Kevin Wirth throws out the ceremonial "First Cast" from the pitcher's mound before the Louisville Bats take on the Indianapolis Indians at Slugger Field. The catcher uses a fishing net to capture the CITGO Bassmaster Elite Series Angler toss at home plate.
2006 In the Royals' 9-5 loss to Tampa Bay at Kauffman Stadium, Reggie Sanders hits his 300th career home run off Chad Harville. The Kansas City outfielder becomes the fifth player in major league history to hit 300 home runs and steal 300 bases, joining Barry and Bobby Bonds, Andre Dawson, and Willie Mays.
2007 Masumi Kuwata becomes the first Japanese player in Pirates' history, making his major league debut in the team's 13-6 loss to the Yankees in the Bronx. The 39-year-old Osaka native, the oldest person to start a big-league career in the post-World War II era except for Satchel Paige and Diomedes Olivo, gives up two runs in two innings when Alex Rodriguez takes him deep.
2007
In addition to the Reds wearing a dark patch with the word "NUXY" printed in white on their uniform, the team honors broadcaster Joe Nuxhall, Marty Brennaman, and Waite Hoyt, with replica microphones to hung on the wall near the radio booth. The recognition commemorates the 63rd anniversary of the 'ol' left-hander' becoming the youngest person to play in the major leagues in the modern era.

2008 Tiger general manager Dave Dombrowski announces the team is optioning Dontrelle Willis, acquired in an off-season blockbuster trade, to their Class A minor league team in Lakeland. The former Marlin southpaw, the 2003 National League Rookie of the Year, compiled a 22-10 record with the Fish just two years later and recently signed a three-year deal worth $29 million with Detroit.
2010 White Sox third baseman Omar Vizquel becomes the fourth player to hit a home run in four different decades when he goes deep off Max Scherzer in the first inning of the team's 3-0 victory over Detroit at U.S. Cellular Field. The 43-year-old Venezuelan infielder, who made his major league debut in 1989, joins Ted Williams (1939-1960), Willie McCovey (1959-1980), and Rickey Henderson (1979-2003) on the shortlist of big leaguers who have accomplished the rare feat.

2011 Tony La Russa manages his 5,000th major league game, a disappointing 8-0 Cardinal loss to Milwaukee at Miller Park. The 66-year-old skipper, whose 33-year managerial career includes stints with the A's and White Sox, is the second manager to reach the milestone but remains far behind Connie Mack's record of 7,755 contests.
2011 Thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Michael Acosta, a longtime Twins fan, gets to manage the team for a day. ESPN SportsCenter's "My Wish" episode features the testicular cancer survivor's big day at Target Field.

2012 The Orioles win their ninth straight extra-inning game when Matt Wieters lines a one-out RBI double in the 10th to give the club a 5-4 walk-off victory over Philadelphia at Camden Yards. The streak of overtime victories, which includes yesterday's 12-inning win, breaks the team's previously twice-accomplished record of eight.
2012 Bobby Abreu, tied with Mickey Mantle for 109th place on the all-time hit list, surpasses the Yankee legend with a second-inning double in L.A.'s 8-2 interleague victory over Seattle at Safeco Field. The 38-year-old outfielder has collected 2,416 hits for the Astros, Phillies, Yankees, Angels, and Dodgers.
2012 The Red Sox pass the NBA's Portland Trailblazers for the most consecutive sellouts for a North American pro franchise with their 745th straight capacity crowd at Fenway Park. The streak, featuring an average paid attendance of 36,544 fans, started on May 15, 2003, a year after the team's new ownership bought the Boston ball club.
2019 The Diamondbacks (8) and Phillies (5) hit the most combined home runs in a single game, collectively going deep 13 times in Arizona's 13-8 victory at Citizens Bank Park. The Tigers and White Sox, accomplishing the feat twice, first on May 28, 1995, and then on July 2, 2002, set the previous mark of 12.

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BASEBALL BIRTHDAYS 6/12/25
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1879 Roger Bresnahan, Hall of Fame catcher, outfielder and manager (World Series 1905 NY Giants; St. Louis Cardinals; first shin guards and batting helmet),


1911 Russ Hodges sportscaster (NY Mets, SF Giants

1929 Frank Thomas outfielder (3 x MLB All-Star; Pittsburgh Pirates

1977 Odalis Pérez pitcher (MLB All Star 2002; Atlanta Braves, LA Dodgers, KC Royals)

1983 José Reyes shortstop (MLB All-Star 2006, 07, 10, 11; NL batting champion 2011 NY Mets),

1988 Brock Holt utility (only player to hit for the cycle in postseason-Boston Red Sox, 2018; MLB All Star 2015

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This Day in All Teams History​

May 11th​

1904 After tossing 23 innings of no-hit baseball, Cy Young's streak ends. The stretch includes six innings today, two innings on April 25, six on April 30, and the perfect game against the A's on May 5.

1919 Reds' right-hander Hod Eller throws a no-hitter, defeating the Cardinals, 6-0. The ace of the eventual world champs strikes out eight while walking three batters on a cold day at Cincinnati's Redland Field.

1923 Establishing several Pacific Coast League marks, Pete Schneider hits five home runs and a double, driving in 14 runs as Vernon routs Salt Lake City, 35-11.

1946 The Red Sox's early-season winning streak ends at 15 consecutive victories when right-hander Tiny Bonham, giving up just two hits in the Yankee Stadium contest, blanks the team, 2-0. Boston, which will easily capture the AL pennant, started the season 21-3 before today's loss against New York.

1946 Boston loses to the Giants, 5-1, in the first night game played at Braves Field. The 37,407 fans, the largest crowd in thirteen years, are surprised when their hometown heroes take the field wearing shiny satin uniforms designed to reflect the light generated by the electricity used for the evening contest.



1949 The White Sox beat the Red Sox, 12-8, scoring in every inning of the Comiskey Park contest. A team tallying in every frame has occurred only five times in American League history.



1950 Connecticut Senator Abe Ribicoff introduces legislation designating June 26 as National Baseball Day, honoring the birthday of Major General Abner Doubleday, once promoted as the inventor of the national pastime. The bill, which did not pass, would authorize the President to issue an annual proclamation urging citizens to celebrate the day with special events and ceremonies.

1950 Although traveling by air is still a rarity in the major leagues, a train strike forces many clubs to fly to their next scheduled games. By the mid to late 50s, teams will begin flying regularly, coinciding with franchises moving further west and an increasing number of night games.

1950 Ted Williams makes inappropriate gestures directed at the Red Sox fans sitting in the outfield stands, first toward left field, then center field, and finishing with right field after the fans boo him for misplaying a ball. As the jeering continues, the Splendid Splinter becomes the Splendid Spitter during his next at-bat, when he steps out of the box and expectorates to show his displeasure.

1955 At Wrigley Field, with the help of an Ernie Banks first-inning grand slam off Russ Meyer, Chicago snaps Brooklyn's 11-game winning streak, 10-8. The bases-filled homer will be Mr. Cub's first of five this season.

1956 In the bottom of the ninth inning at Forbes Field, 25-year-old rookie Danny Kravitz's walk-off grand slam off Jack Meyer erases a three-run deficit, giving the Pirates a dramatic 6-5 victory over the Phillies. The backup backstop's round-tripper is the first of his career.

1956 The Cardinals and Phillies swap hurlers, with St. Louis sending Harvey Haddix, Stu Miller, and Ben Flowers to Philadelphia in exchange for Herman Wehmeier, Murry Dickson, and a player to be named. The trade is completed and expanded a few days later when infielder Solly Hemus is sent to the 'City of Brotherly of Love' for Redbird utility player Bobby Morgan.

1962 Minnie Minoso suffers a fractured skull and breaks his wrist when he runs into the left-field wall chasing Duke Snider's triple in the Cardinals' 8-5 loss to L.A. at Busch Stadium. In mid-July, the St. Louis outfielder will return to the lineup, only to have a bone in his forearm broken with a pitch thrown by Craig Anderson of the Mets a month later.

1963 Sandy Koufax takes a perfect game into the eighth inning before walking Ed Bailey on a 3-and-2 pitch but will finish the Dodger Stadium contest with the second of four career no-hitters, blanking the Giants, 8-0. The Los Angeles southpaw beats San Francisco ace Juan Marichal, who will also author a no-hitter next month.

1971 In front of a sparse crowd of 2,992 at Cleveland Stadium, Indians starter Steve Dunning hits a second-inning grand slam off A's right-hander Diego Segui in Cleveland's 7-5 victory over Oakland. It will take another 37 years before another American League hurler goes deep with the bases loaded when Felix Hernandez of the Mariners accomplishes the feat against the Mets in 2008.

1972 After promising the club would never trade him, the cash-strapped Giants send Willie Mays, the only remaining player who moved to the West Coast with the team, to New York, the city where he began his Hall of Fame career in 1951, for right-hander Charlie Williams and $50,000 cash. Horace Stoneham, unable to guarantee his aging superstar an income when the outfielder retired, extracts a promise from the Mets that they will pay the 'Say Hey Kid' $50,000 annually for ten years after the future Hall of Famer stops playing.

1977 Trying to snap the Braves' 16-game losing streak, Ted Turner, the team's owner, takes over as field manager. The skid continues as the Pirates defeat Atlanta, 2-1, and National League president Chub Feeney informs the new skipper he cannot manage again because a rule prohibits a manager from owning a financial stake in the club.

1980 In the top of the seventh inning, Phillies' leadoff batter Pete Rose steals home after swiping second and third base to become the first National League player in 52 years to complete the stolen base cycle in one frame. In 1928, Brooklyn's Harvey Hendrick accomplished the feat in the eighth inning of an Ebbets Field contest against Chicago.

1991 After a heckler calls him 'Joey,' a name he dislikes, and references his problems with alcohol, Albert Belle responds by picking up a foul ball and nailing the offensive offender in the chest from 15 feet away. Although the fans supported his action, the Indian outfielder was fined and suspended for one week.

1993 In the top of the seventh of a tied game at Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, Jay Bell leads off the inning by grounding out to Phillies' shortstop Juan Bell. Of course, umpire Wally Bell rings up the Pirate infielder at first base.

1994 At Shea Stadium, en route to a two-inning save in Montreal's 4-3 victory over the Mets, Expo right-hander Mel Rojas strikes out the side in the top of the ninth, needing just nine pitches to end the game. The 28-year-old reliever fans David Segui, Todd Hundley, and Jeff McKnight to complete his immaculate inning, each swinging at strike three.

1996 On 'John Franco Day,' the New York veteran reliever and eight other players are ejected from the game due to participating in a fifth-inning bench-clearing brawl at Shea Stadium. After the team celebrated his 300th career save, the closer's unavailability in the ninth resulted in three hurlers combining to give up the tying runs in the team's eventual 7-6 walk-off win over Chicago.

1996 Al Leiter pitches the first no-hitter in the Marlins' brief existence, beating the Rockies, 11-0. The news earlier of the ValuJet crash in the Everglades tempers the celebration at Miami's Joe Robbie Stadium.

1998 Striking out 13 Diamondbacks, Cubs' Kerry Wood sets a major league record for strikeouts in
consecutive games with 33 in two games. Luis Tiant (1968 - Indians), Nolan Ryan (1974 - Angels), Dwight Gooden (1984 - Mets), and Randy Johnson (1997 - Mariners) shared the previous record for strikeouts (32) in two starts.

1999 For the first time this century, two opposing starting major league pitchers with the same name face one another. The Rockies' southpaw Bobby M. Jones bests right-hander Bobby J. Jones and the Mets in the Coors Field contest, 8-5.

2000 At 37, Joe Strong becomes the oldest player to make his big-league debut since pitcher Diomedes Olivo played for the Pirates in 1960 as a 41-year-old. The 'seasoned' rookie throws 1⅓ hitless innings.

2000 Manny Ramirez tags a first-inning grand slam and adds a two-run homer in the sixth, leading the Indians to a 16-0 rout of the Royals. The victory, stopping Kansas City's winning streak at five games, is Cleveland's most lopsided shutout in 45 years when the Tribe beat the Red Sox 19-0.

2000 The Brewers beat the Cubs, 14-8, at Wrigley Field in four hours and twenty-two minutes. The length of the contest breaks the National League record and ties the mark set by the Orioles and Yankees on September 5, 1997, for the longest non-extra-inning game ever played.

2000 Aaron and Bret Boone, sons of former major league catcher Bob and the grandsons of Ray, also a former big leaguer, hit home runs in the same game for the second time in their careers. Bret's pair of two-run homers, a shot in the top of the first and an inside-the-parker in the sixth, is offset by his younger sibling's walk-off round-tripper in the bottom of the ninth, giving the Reds an 11-9 victory over the Padres at Cinergy Field.

2001 The Cardinals send Rick Ankiel (1-2, 7.13), who threw five wild pitches to the backstop yesterday, to their Triple-A club in Memphis to work on overcoming his unexplainable lack of control. The young left-handed fireballer has walked 25 batters in 24 innings this season.

2001 In the sixth inning of a 7-2 loss to the Mariners, Carlos Delgado surpasses Joe Carter as the Blue Jays' all-time home run leader as he hits his 204th homer with the team. The Toronto first baseman, the current American League leader with 14 round-trippers, acknowledges the standing ovation from the SkyDome crowd with a curtain call.

2002 The Devil Rays snap their 15-game losing streak, a franchise record, thanks to Randy Winn's three-run walk-off homer. The right fielder's ninth-inning two-out blast comes off Jorge Julio, giving Tampa Bay a 6-4 victory over Baltimore at Tropicana Field.

2002 At Citizens Bank Park in the bottom of the eighth, Arizona reliever Byung-Hyun Kim strikes out the side on nine pitches, whiffing Scott Rolen and Mike Lieberthal swinging, and then fans Pat Burrell, taking a third strike to complete his immaculate inning. The Diamondback right-hander blows a save in the next frame but picks up a win when the team scores a run in the tenth for an eventual 6-5 victory over the Phillies.

2003 Six games under .500, the Marlins dismiss Jeff Torborg after he was criticized for his pitching staff's poor performance due to a rash of recent injuries to the team's young arms. Veteran 72-year-old skipper Jack McKeon becomes the franchise's sixth manager, posting a 75-49 record for the remainder of the season en route to winning the National League pennant and beating the Yankees in six games to become World Champions.

2003 In his last at-bat on the current homestand, 38-year-old first baseman Rafael Palmeiro drives a 3-2 fastball thrown by Indian hurler David Elder to become the second player this season and 19th overall to hit his 500th career home run. The 370-foot shot over the right-field wall at The Ballpark in Arlington makes Raffy the first native of Cuba to reach the coveted milestone.

2004 Playing for the St. Paul Saints, Marc Turndorf pops up a $5,601 pitch in an auctioned at-bat. The Los Angeles man had the winning eBay bid for the opportunity to hit for the Northern League team.

2004 Pittsfield city officials and historians release a 1791 document they believe is the earliest written reference to baseball. The 213-year-old bylaw, used to protect the windows of the town's new meeting house by prohibiting anyone from playing baseball within 80 yards of the building, was uncovered by baseball historian John Thorn while researching the origins of baseball.

2004 After missing yesterday's game to become an American citizen, Red Sox left fielder Manny Ramirez, much to the delight of the Fenway faithful, leads his teammates out of the dugout, waving an American flag to celebrate his first day as a citizen of the United States. As the 31-year-old native of the Dominican Republic comes to bat, the PA system plays Neil Diamond's song America


2005 The Red Sox end a game for the second consecutive day by hitting a walk-off home run off the same pitcher, a feat accomplished only five previous times in major league history. A's closer Octavio Dotel, who also gave up Kevin Millar's decisive blast yesterday, is victimized today by Boston backstop Jason Varitek, who goes deep in the ninth to beat Oakland, 6-5.

2006 After he breaks his left wrist while attempting to make a diving catch, Hideki Matsui's streak of playing in every game since starting his MLB career in 2003 ends at 518 games. The 31-year-old Yankees' left fielder established the big-league record for consecutive games to start a career, surpassing Hall of Fame infielder Ernie Banks, who played in 424 contests at the start of his playing days with the Cubs from 1953 to 1956.

2008 At Shea Stadium, a 13-minute delay occurs at the beginning of the ninth inning of the Mets' 8-3 victory over the Reds when David Ross bats out of order, making an out in Corey Patterson's place in the lineup. The confused umpires eventually make the correct call, telling Ross to bat again, now with one out, without his teammate having an opportunity to come to the plate.

2009 At AT&T Park, Randy Johnson records his 298th career victory when the Giants beat the Nationals, 11-7, in a game that featured pitchers with a combined height of 163 inches, making the matchup the tallest in baseball history. The 6-foot-10' Unit' and 6'9" Daniel Cabrera reached new heights by an inch, surpassing the previous mark established in 2004 by Cabrera and Mark Hendrickson, a southpaw who is 81 inches tall.

2009 In a 13-5 loss to the Reds at Chase Field, Josh Wilson keeps his career ERA at 0.00 by hurling a scoreless ninth inning to become the fifth Diamondbacks position player to pitch for the team. The Diamondbacks' infielder also threw one inning for the Devil Rays in 2007.

2012 The Mets play their 8,000th game in franchise history, dropping a 6-5 decision in Miami when closer Frank Francisco allows the tying and winning runs to score in the bottom of the ninth inning. The Amazins have compiled a 515-485 record during the thousand-game span, with third baseman David Wright being the team's top home run hitter and run producer with 143 round-trippers and 595 RBIs.

2014 In his first appearance of the season, Aroldis Chapman strikes out three consecutive batters after issuing a leadoff walk and records a save in the Reds’ 4-1 victory over Colorado. During a spring training game in March against Kansas City, the Cincinnati All-Star closer was struck in the head by a line drive, which resulted in surgery to repair fractures near his nose and left eye.

2016 Max Scherzer ties a major league mark when he strikes out 20 batters in a nine-inning game, joining Roger Clemens (1986, 1996 Red Sox), Kerry Wood (1998 Cubs), and Randy Johnson (2001 Diamondbacks). The 31-year-old right-hander, who goes the distance in Washington's 3-2 victory over the Tigers at Nationals Park, has an opportunity to establish a new record with two out in the ninth, but James McCann grounds into a force out at second base, ending the contest.



2022 With his triple in the ninth inning, Christian Yelich completes his third career cycle, hitting a ground-rule double in the first inning, a two-run homer in the third, and a single in the fifth in the Brewers' 14-11 loss to the Reds at Great American Ball Park. The Milwaukee outfielder becomes the sixth major leaguer to accomplish the feat, joining Trea Turner, Adrián Beltré, Babe Herman, Bob Meusel, and John Reilly.
Note: Each of Christian Yelich's cycles occurred while playing against the Reds. In 2018, he cycled twice against the team in a span of twenty days. - LP)

2024 The Cubs score six of their seven runs in the fifth inning thanks to six bases-loaded walks in the team's eventual 10-9 loss to the Pirates at PNC Park. The number of free passes in one frame is the most in 65 years, when the White Sox drew eight in a 1959 contest against the A's.

 

A 1987 graphic that is still hard to believe. How many SS were better than Cal Ripken Jr?

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The Los Angeles Dodgers have now used FOURTEEN different starting pitchers this season. That's more than any other team because of course it is.
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Aaron Judge is on pace to put up the second-highest WAR in a single season in MLB history. He has 5.5 WAR in 65 games so far.
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On June 12, 1939, the Baseball Hall of Fame was dedicated in Cooperstown, New York.​

Lou Gehrig with his replacement Babe Dahlgren on the day the Iron Horse ended his streak of 2,130 consecutive games played.​

 

"When I was growing up, I wanted to be a #baseball player for the New York #Yankees. Mickey Mantle was my hero." ~ The great Brian Wilson #Music #Legend #Icon #BeachBoys

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Lou Gehrig with the Marx Brothers.
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Today in Baseball History​

June 12th​

1839 Due to an erroneous eyewitness account, Abner Doubleday gets credit for establishing the first baseball game played in America. Although it is doubtful the West Point cadet was ever there or ever watched a contest, the Hall of Fame, which opened a century later in Cooperstown, celebrates the origin of our national pastime in this small upstate New York town.
1880 At the Worcester Agriculture Fairgrounds, Lee Richmond pitches the first perfect game, beating Cleveland, 4-0. The 23-year-old rookie southpaw threw a no-hitter in a collegiate exhibition against the White Stockings last season.
1886 St. Louis Maroons right-hander Charlie Sweeney, who will give up only nine round-trippers in 93 innings of work this season, sets a major league record when he gives up seven home runs in the team’s 14-7 loss to the Wolverines at Detroit’s Recreation Park. Allowing six gopher balls is the post-1900 mark, a dubious distinction shared by six hurlers, including Ranger right-hander R.A. Dickey, who accomplished the feat in his only appearance in 2006.
1907 Eight different Highlanders commit eleven errors en route to a 16-4 loss to Detroit. Shortstop Kid Elberfeld contributes four fielding miscues in New York's American League Park contest.
1928 Lou Gehrig collects fourteen total bases when he blasts two triples and two homers. The Yankee first baseman's offensive output leads the Bronx Bombers to a 15-7 win over Chicago at Comiskey Park.
1939 The Baseball Hall of Fame, with much of its funding provided by the Singer Sewing Machine Company, is dedicated in Cooperstown, a site selected due to an erroneous report that claimed Abner Doubleday had invented the game in the small town. The players chosen from the first four Hall of Fame induction elections become the first members enshrined.




1939 In front of a record crowd of 23,864 fans at Ruppert Stadium, Lou Gehrig plays his last game in a Yankee uniform when he participates in an exhibition contest against the Kansas City Blues (AA), the team's American Association farm club. The 'Iron Horse,' playing only three innings and batting eighth, grounds out weakly to second base in his only at-bat.
1940 In a trade that stuns the baseball world, the Dodgers obtain Ducky Medwick and pitcher Curt Davis from the Cardinals for outfielder Ernie Koy, pitcher Carl Doyle, two minor leaguers, and $125,000. The deal acquiring the 1937 Triple Crown winner, which GM Larry MacPhail engineers, signals the emergence of Brooklyn as a serious contender.
1941 The Braves break up the Waners' brother act, sending Lloyd, known as 'Little Poison,' to the Reds for pitcher Johnny Hutchings. 'Big Poison' Paul, the older sibling, was signed as a free agent with the team after being released by the Dodgers last month.
1949 After piloting the team for 13 seasons, Charlie Grimm ends his tenure as the Cubs manager by splitting a doubleheader with the Braves. The 19,802 fans in Braves Field give the skipper, who will stay in the organization as Boston's vice-president, a long-standing ovation when he takes his position in the third-base coaching box for the last time.
1954 Braves' right-hander Jim Wilson beats future Hall of Famer Robin Roberts when he no-hits the Phillies, 2-0. The one-hour and forty-three-minute contest at County Stadium, the major league's only no-no this season, is the first for the franchise since the team relocated from Boston following the 1952 season.
1954 The Indians (35-17) move into first place when Bob Feller gets his 2,500th career strikeout in the Tribe's 4-3 victory over Boston at Fenway Park. 'Rapid Robert' will finish his 18-year major league career by striking out 2,581 hitters, an average of more than six batters a game.
1957 Eddie Mathews hits his 200th career home run in the Braves' 11-9 loss to Brooklyn at Ebbets Field. The Milwaukee third baseman is the second-youngest player to reach the plateau, 98 days older than Mel Ott, who accomplished the feat at 25 years and 144 days.
1957 At Connie Mack Stadium, Stan Musial breaks the National League record for endurance when he plays in his 823rd consecutive game, surpassing the previous mark established in 1937 by Pirates infielder Gus Suhr. The Cardinal first baseman, who started the streak on the last day of the 1951 season, celebrates the historic contest, enjoying a 2-for-4 day at the plate in the team's 4-0 victory over the Phillies.
(Ed. Note: Stan the Man's streak ends later in the season after playing 895 consecutive games -LP).

1959 Despite giving up a single to Phillies outfielder Richie Ashburn in the bottom of the sixth in the Giants' five-inning 3-0 victory at Connie Mack Stadium, Mike McCormick receives credit for a no-hitter with the contest rained out before the frame ends, statistically erasing the hit. Due to a rule change in 1991 that mandates a game must last for at least nine innings for the hitless effort to be called an official no-hitter, the right-hander's five-inning rain-shortened outing no longer appears in the record book as a no-no.
1962 In the Braves' 15-2 rout of the Dodgers at County Stadium, the Aaron brothers both homer in the same game, with Tommie connecting in the bottom of the eighth after his older sibling Hank had hit one out in the second. The Milwaukee teammates will also accomplish the feat on July 12 and August 14.
1967 After catching the entire game and going 0-for-8, All-Star backstop Paul Casanova, in his ninth at-bat, ends the 22-inning contest when he singles to left field, scoring Hank Allen with the winning run in the Senators' 6-5 victory over the White Sox at D.C. Stadium. The six-hour, 38-minute marathon, which ends at 2:43 in the morning, results in the American League adopting a curfew stating that no inning may begin an hour after midnight.
1970 Dock Ellis throws a 2-0 no-hitter against the Padres in San Diego during the first game of a twin bill. The former Pirates' right-hander, who became an advocate of anti-drug programs, claims he was under the influence of LSD while tossing the most memorable game in his career.




1978 The Cubs sent 22-year-old rookie relief pitcher Ron Davis to the Yankees to complete a trade made two days ago, bringing Ken Holtzman to Chicago. The deal turns out better for New York when the reliever posts a 27-10 (.730) record during his four years in the Bronx, and the 33-year-old southpaw starter Holtzman, in his second stint in Windy City, compiles a 6-12 mark before retiring after two seasons of rejoining the team on the Northside.
1979 Tiger skipper Les Moss, hired early in the offseason to replace Ralph Houk, is terminated 53 games into his first season as a major league manager, having compiled a 27-26 record with the team. Detroit makes the unusual managerial move to hire an unexpectedly available Sparky Anderson, the fired Reds skipper who will spend 17 seasons in Detroit, compiling a 1331-1248 (.516) record and capturing a World Championship in 1984.
1979 The Mets enjoy their most productive inning in franchise history when ten runners cross the plate in the sixth fame of their 12-6 victory over the Reds at Shea Stadium. The highlight of the double-digit deluge is Doug Flynn's three-run inside-the-park home run.
1981 With the owners and players unable to agree to free-agent player compensation, Major League Baseball experiences its first in-season work stoppage. The 50-day strike, which will end on July 31, results in 713 games (38% of the MLB schedule) not being played and the implementation of divisional playoffs to determine league championships.
1983
"I didn't know what to say, so I just sort of mumbled, 'Well, O.K.,' " - DALE MURPHY, responding to a fan’s request to hit a home run.

When Dale Murphy visits Elizabeth Smith in the stands to give her a cap and a T-shirt, her nurse asks the Braves outfielder to hit a home run for the six-year-old girl, who lost both her hands and a leg when she stepped on a live power line. The reigning National League MVP obliges, hitting two homers and driving in all the runs in the team's 3–2 victory over the Giants at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.

1983 In a pregame ceremony, recently-elected Hall of Famers Charlie Gehringer and Hank Greenberg have their uniform numbers retired by the Tigers. The digits #2 and #5 will join Al Kaline's #6 (1980) as the only numbers retired in franchise history.





1988 Mike Scott's attempt for his second career no-hitter is spoiled with two outs in the ninth inning by Braves infielder Ken Oberkfell's line-drive single down the right-field line. The right-hander, who settles for a 5-0 one-hitter, tossed a no-no in 1986, which clinched the National League West Division for the Astros.
1990 Cal Ripken plays in his 1,308th consecutive game, placing him second on the all-time list ahead of former Yankee and Red Sox shortstop Everett Scott (1918-1925). In 1995, the Oriole infielder will break Lou Gehrig's consecutive game record, playing 2,131 straight games.
1996 Major League Baseball forces Marge Schott to relinquish her role as managing general partner of the Reds for two years due to her controversial comments about Hitler. In an interview last month with ESPN, the Cincinnati owner stated, "Everybody knows [Hitler] was good at the beginning, but he just went too far."
1997 At the Ballpark in Texas, the Giants defeat the Rangers, 4-3, in the first interleague game in history played in the 126-year history of the sport. San Francisco outfielder Darryl Hamilton picks up the first-ever Interleague hit, and his teammate Glenallen Hill becomes the National League's first regular season designated hitter.




2001 The pitching-poor Rangers trade backup backstop Doug Mirabelli to the Red Sox for Double-A Trenton right-handed pitcher Justin Duchscherer (6-3, 2.44). Mirabelli will help fill the void created last week when Boston's starting catcher, Jason Varitek, broke his right elbow.
2002 In the third inning of the Padres' 2-0 victory over Baltimore at Camden Yards, Brian Lawrence strikes out the side on nine pitches, with only one being a called strike. The 26-year-old right-hander becomes the 36th pitcher in baseball history to accomplish the feat when he whiffs Brook Fordyce, Jerry Hairston, and Melvin Mora, who all go down swinging.
2004 In interleague action, Barry Bonds (675) of the Giants and Orioles first baseman Rafael Palmeiro (536 and 537 to pass Mickey Mantle) both homer in a 9-6 San Francisco victory at Camden Yards. The sluggers join Willie Mays and Ernie Banks (1970) and Mays and Hank Aaron (1971) as only the third pair in baseball history to have 500 career home runs and connect in the same game.
2005 Hee-Seop Choi homers in his first three at-bats in the Dodgers' 4-3 victory over Minnesota. The southpaw-swinging first baseman's solo shot in the sixth off Brad Radke, who gave up the infielder's first two home runs, proves to be the difference in the Chavez Ravine contest.
2006 After hitting .625 (15-for-24), Joe Mauer is named the American League player of the week. The 23-year-old Twins catcher becomes one of the few big-league players to reach base four times in five consecutive games.
2007 Using a 102-mph fastball and an untouchable curveball, 24-year-old right-hander Justin Verlander strikes out a career-high 12 batters en route to throwing a no-hitter against Milwaukee. The 4-0 hitless gem, which features several outstanding defensive plays from his Tiger teammates, is the first no-no thrown at Detroit's Comerica Park.

2010 During a 10-2 rout of Philadelphia at Fenway Park, Daniel Nava hits a grand slam on the first pitch he sees as a major leaguer. The 27-year-old Red Sox left fielder, recently called up from Triple-A Pawtucket, hits his bases-loaded round-tripper in the second inning off Joe Blanton, joining Kevin Kouzmanoff as the second player in big-league history to accomplish the feat.


2012 Alex Rodriguez ties Lou Gehrig's 74-year-old major league record when he hits his 23rd career grand slam in a 6-4 victory over Atlanta at Turner Field. The Yankee third baseman's historic homer over the left-field fence comes off an eighth-inning 3-2 pitch thrown by Jonny Venters, tying the game at 4-4.

2014 Max Scherzer hurls his first career complete game, throwing a three-hit shutout to beat Chicago at U.S. Cellular Field, 4-0. The Tiger right-hander's stretch of 178 games is the longest any major league starter had gone without finishing a game since 1900.

2017 En route to a 20-7 rout of the Mariners at Target Field, the Twins set a franchise record, batting around in two different innings, banging out 28 hits, including five by Eduardo Escobar and Jason Castro and Kennys Vargas having four each. Minnesota's total is one shy of the most in a game since 2007, when the Rangers had 29 in a 30-3 victory against the Orioles.

2023 J.T. Realmuto, breaking out of an 0-for-13 slump, becomes the first Phillies player to hit for the cycle since David Bell accomplished the feat in 2004 and the first catcher, 16th overall, since the Brewer's George Kottaras in 2011. The Philadelphia backstop's ninth-inning double completes the rare accomplishment, but his four hits aren't enough to overcome a 9-8 loss to the Diamondbacks at Chase Field

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BASEBALL BIRTHDAYS 6/13/25
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1922 Mel Parnell pitcher (Boston Red Sox, 1947-56), coach, and broadcaster

1939 Tom Cheek sportscaster (Voice of the Toronto Blue Jays)

1941 Marcel Lachemann MLB manager and pitching coach (Oakland Athletics)

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Today in All Teams History​

June 13th​

1905 Giants hurler Christy Mathewson, who, in 1901, became the first rookie in the modern era to throw a no-no, pitches his second career no-hitter, beating the Orphans at Chicago's West Side Grounds, 1-0. Matty and Mordecai Brown match hitless innings until the top of the ninth when New York reaches the future Hall of Famer for two hits.
1912 In the top of the ninth inning with no outs at New York's Polo Grounds, Christy Mathewson strands a runner on third base to record his 300th victory when the Giants edge the Cubs, 3-2. During his 17-year major league career, 'Big Six' will compile a 373-188 record.
1921 Babe Ruth pitches the first five innings and hits two home runs in the Yankees' 11-8 victory over the Tigers at the Polo Grounds. The 'Bambino' will break his major league record this year, going deep 59 times, but this is the only time he will be the starting pitcher for the Bronx Bombers this season.
1930 For the first time in baseball history, former batting champions are exchanged for one another when the Senators trade Goose Goslin to the Browns for Heinie Manush. Each Hall of Fame outfielder won his titles in the American League, with Manush hitting .387 for the Tigers in 1926 and Goslin leading the circuit two years later with a .378 batting average for Washington.
1938 The Reds acquire Bucky Walters from the Phillies in exchange for catcher Spud Davis, southpaw Al Hollingsworth, and $50,000. Cincinnati's new right-hander will play a major role in the team's two consecutive National League pennants, winning 27 games in 1939 and another 22 victories the following season.
1940 In the inaugural Hall of Fame game, the Red Sox beat the Cubs at Doubleday Field, 10-9. Future Hall of Famer Ted Williams hits two home runs during the six-inning rain-shortened exhibition.
1947 The Red Sox score all their runs in the fifth inning to beat the White Sox, 5-3, in the first night game played at Fenway Park. The contest is not the first major league game played under the lights in Boston, with the crosstown NL rivals having played an evening tilt last season against the Giants at Braves Field.
1948 With a crowd of 49,641 singing 'Auld Lang Syne' to the Babe, the Yankees celebrate the silver anniversary of Yankee Stadium by holding 'Babe Ruth Day.' With members of the 1923 team (the first club to play in the Bronx ballpark) looking on, the dying superstar's uniform number 3 is retired and sent to Cooperstown.
1957 At Comiskey Park, an ugly brawl, precipitated by an Art Ditmar pitch behind Larry Doby's head, breaks out when the White Sox infielder takes exception of being the target of the beanball and punches the Yankee hurler. Billy Martin, Walt Dropo, Bill Skowron, and Enos Slaughter actively participate in the melee.
1957 Having accomplished the feat against the White Sox on May 8, Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams becomes the first American Leaguer to have two three-homer games in one season. The 'Splendid Splinter,' hitting his trio of round-trippers off Early Wynn and Bob Lemon, two future Hall of Famers, drives in five runs, helping Boston defeat the Indians at Cleveland Stadium, 9-3.
1957 In a game that features the ejection of Johnny Logan and Don Drysdale, Clem Labine loses for the first time in ten months and 38 relief appearances when the Braves beat Brooklyn, 8-5. The Milwaukee shortstop charged the mound after getting drilled in the ribs by the Dodger right-hander, resulting in banishment for both players.
1957 The Indians, to get more power from their outfielders, send Jim Busby to the Orioles in exchange for 28-year-old Dick Williams, who plays only 67 games with the Tribe before being dealt back to Baltimore. As a result of the trade, Roger Maris will move from left to become Cleveland's full-time center fielder.
1962 Warren Spahn's record drops to 6-7 when the Braves southpaw suffers his fifth one-run decision of the young season, losing a 2-1 decision to the Dodgers at Milwaukee's County Stadium. Sandy Koufax's fifth-inning home run, the first of only two round-trippers he collects during his 12-year career, proves to be the difference.
1965 Ron Swoboda, who finishes the season with 19, breaks the franchise record for homers hit by a rookie when he goes deep off Dick Ellsworth in the first-inning three-run homer, providing all the runs the Mets need in their 3-2 victory over Chicago at Shea Stadium. Jim Hickman had established the mark with 13 round-trippers in 1962, the club's inaugural season.
1966 After he demands more playing time, the Orioles trade Jerry Adair and minor leaguer John Riddle to the White Sox for right-hander Eddie Fisher. The former Baltimore infielder will miss an opportunity to play in the World Series this season with the Birds but will participate in the Fall Classic with Boston in 1967.
1971 Alex Johnson accuses his Angel teammate Chico Ruiz of waving a gun at him in the clubhouse during the game, an eventual 5-2 loss to Washington at Anaheim Stadium. Although Ruiz denies the incident and the club finds no evidence of a gun, Johnson, not known for his diplomacy, adamantly claims he was threatened with a firearm by the infielder during an argument they had after being used as pinch-hitters in the contest.
1973 The Dodgers infield, a quartet that will be together for eight and a half years, setting a major league record for longevity, plays together for the first time. First baseman Steve Garvey, second baseman Davey Lopes, third baseman Ron Cey, and shortstop Bill Russell are in the lineup in the 16-3 defeat to the Phillies.
1973 Dock Ellis walks a batter without ever throwing a pitch to him. After he goes 2-0 on the Atlanta left fielder Sonny Jackson, Ramon Hernandez replaces the Pirates right-hander, who throws two more balls to Dick Dietz, a pinch-hitter for Jackson, to complete the base-on-balls.
1975 The Indians deal right-hander Gaylord Perry to the Rangers for three pitchers, Jim Bibby, Jackie Brown, and Rick Waits, and approximately $100,000. In his three-plus years with Texas, the future Hall of Famer compiles a 48-43 record, posting an ERA of 3.26.
1976 The Mets sweep the Giants in a twin bill at Candlestick Park, 4-2 and 4-1. The victories mark the first time in 17 tries that the team has won two games on the same day, losing nine and splitting seven of the previous 16 twin bills.
1980 Pete Rose passes Pirate legend Honus Wagner, going 4-for-5 to move into fifth place on the all-time hit list with 3,431. The Phillies first baseman’s offensive performance, which includes four singles, helps propel Philadelphia to a 9-6 victory over the Padres at Veterans Stadium.
1984 The Indians trade Rick Sutcliffe, George Frazier, and Ron Hassey to the Cubs for Joe Carter, Mel Hall, Don Schulze, and minor league hurler Darryl Banks. After the midseason trade, the 28-year-old right-hander, who will go on to win the NL Cy Young award, posts a 16-1 record for Chicago, leading the team to the NL East flag.
1994

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During a pregame ceremony at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, the Braves retire Dale Murphy jersey #3. The two-time National League MVP (1982-83) played 15 seasons with the team, batting .268 and driving in 1,143 runs while playing on teams mostly with losing records.
1994 At age 34, Cubs' second baseman Ryne Sandberg suddenly retires, walking away from $16 million. 'Ryno' will return to the Chicago lineup in 1996 to play for two more seasons before completing his 16-year Hall of Fame career.
1994 Don Mattingly surpasses fellow first baseman Wally Pipp for consecutive games played in a Yankees uniform. Donnie Baseball's 1,469th game is second to only another Bronx Bomber first-sacker named Lou Gehrig, who played in 2,130 straight contests.
1998 Darren Dreifort (p), Eric Young (2b), Jose Vizcaino (ss), and Bobby Bonilla (3b) turn the triple play ever completed at Dodger Stadium. With Colorado runners on first and second base, the 1-6-4 double play becomes a triple killing when Jamey Wright is thrown out at third base by the LA second baseman, who covered first base for the second out.




1998 For the fourth time in major league history, teammates hit back-to-back homers in consecutive innings. Javy Lopez and Andruw Jones accomplish the feat in the second and third frames of the Braves' 9-7 victory over Montreal at Turner Field.
1998 The Angels stroke a franchise-record eight doubles in their 18-6 victory in Texas. Jim Edmonds leads the Halos' attack with three two-baggers, with Gary Disarcina (2), Darin Erstad, Matt Walbeck, and Garret Anderson contributing to the club's new mark.
1999 In a 22-1 interleague rout of the Braves, Cal Ripken becomes the first Oriole to go 6-for-6 as Baltimore scores the most runs in their franchise history. As the St. Louis Browns, the team had set the previous mark on Aug. 18, 1951, tallying twenty times.
1999 When Houston manager Larry Dierker, unable to speak, falls and begins shaking violently due to a grand mal seizure, the umpires suspend the Astros game against the visiting Padres. After four weeks of recovery, the skipper will return, leading the team to a third consecutive National League Central Division title.
1999 Omar Olivares ties a major league record by hitting four Diamondbacks. The Angels' hurler becomes the 19th pitcher to hit four batters in a game but the second Anaheim moundsman in three weeks to tie the dubious mark, matching teammate Steve Sparks, who also plunked four hitters on May 22.
2001 After losing to the Expos in 12 innings on Mark Smith's home run, which is foul when viewed with video replays, the Yankees restore the missing screen on the bottom three feet to the fair side of the left-field foul pole. The team removed the section so fans sitting there would have an unobstructed view of the game.
2001 The Pirates exchange infielder Enrique Wilson (.186, 8, 1 in 46 games) to the Yankees for Double-A Norwich relief pitcher Damaso Marte (3-1, 3.50 in 23 appearances).
2001 Van Meter, Iowa, best known for being the home of Bob Feller, and St. Marys (Martensdale) tie a national high school record established in 1928 by hitting 16 home runs in one game. Twelve individual players go deep in the 17-15 contest, which Van Meter won, thanks to the wind blowing out in a small ballpark.
2003 On his fourth attempt, 40-year-old Roger Clemens becomes the 21st pitcher, the first since 1990, to record his 300th victory, tossing 6.2 innings in the Yankees' 5-2 interleague victory over the Cardinals. In the second inning, when Edgar Renteria swings through a full-count fastball, the 'Rocket' also joins Nolan Ryan (5,714) and Steve Carlton (4,136) as just the third hurler to record his 4000th career strikeout.
2005 Before the interleague series begins against the Reds, who have not played at Fenway Park since the 1975 World Series, the Red Sox pay tribute to Carlton Fisk and his Game 6 walk-off homer by naming the bright yellow stanchion in left field, where the ball landed, the Fisk Foul Pole. Sitting in Monster Seats, the hometown hero enjoys the festivities as the crowd cheers when the team replays the home run on the scoreboard to Handel's Hallelujah Chorus.



Fisk Foul Pole by Jim Harper on Flickr
licensed under CC BY NC-ND 2.0




2006 For the first time in major league history, a wireless bullpen communication system places a call to the bullpen. In the third inning from the Wrigley Field dugout, Cubs pitching coach Larry Rothschild uses a cell phone, destined for the Hall of Fame, to call the pen to start warming up reliever Angel Guzman.

2008 Omar Vizquel becomes the first Giant to steal home in a quarter-century. The infrequent swipe of the plate, last accomplished by Max Venable in 1983, comes in the second inning of a 5-1 interleague loss to the A's.


2010 Against their crosstown rivals at Wrigley Field, the Cubs get out of a bases-loaded jam in the final frame for a 1-0 victory over the White Sox. Juan Pierre's leadoff single in the top of the ninth spoils Ted Lilly's bid for a no-hitter, a feat that hasn't been accomplished at the 'Friendly Confines' since Milt Pappas threw a no-no in 1972.

2010 The Angels, with their first sweep at Dodger Stadium, complete their 14-game road journey with 11 victories, the most for the team on a single trip since 1962. In the 6-5 decision over their crosstown rivals, Halo hurler Jered Weaver strikes out his older brother, Jeff, who came into the game as a long reliever in the third inning, for the first time since they were kids.

2010 Jorge Posada's fifth-inning grand slam, his second in the past two games, proves to be the difference in the Yankees' 9-5 victory over Houston at the Stadium. The Bronx Bomber backstop joins Bill Dickey (1937) and Babe Ruth (1927, 1929) as the only players in franchise history to hit home runs with the bases loaded in consecutive contests.

2012 Matt Cain tosses the fifth no-hitter and second perfect game of the season when he retires 27 consecutive batters in the Giants' 10-0 rout of the Astros at AT&T Park. The San Francisco right-hander, with the help of two great defensive plays from outfielders Melky Cabrera and Gregor Blanco, becomes the first pitcher in the 129-year history of the franchise and the 22nd in major league history to accomplish the feat.
(Ed. Note: Matt Cain whiffs 14 batters, including at least one in every inning except the ninth, to match Sandy Koufax record for strikeouts in a perfect game.- LP)

2012 Ted Barrett becomes the first major league home plate ump for two perfect games. In addition to calling balls and strikes for today's gem thrown by the Giants' Matt Cain, the 18-year veteran arbitrator was also the home-plate umpire when David Cone threw his perfecto against the Expos at Yankee Stadium in 1999.

2012 R.A. Dickey, who gives up only a first-inning infield single for his second career one-hitter in the Mets' 9-1 victory over the Rays, breaks the franchise record for consecutive scoreless innings. The 37-year-old knuckleballer, surpassing the previous club mark of 31.2 scoreless innings in a row set by Jerry Koosman in 1973, extends it to 32.2 frames before an unearned run in the ninth inning snaps his string.

2013 After going deep 445 times as a Cardinal, Angels' first baseman Albert Pulos becomes the sixth player to hit at least 200 round-trippers with two different teams when he homers off Rays starter Ryan Yarbrough at Tropicana Field. The 33-year-old slugger joins:

• Jimmie Foxx: Philadelphia Athletics (302), Red Sox (222)
• Mark McGwire: Oakland Athletics (363), Cardinals (220)
• Rafael Palmeiro: Rangers (321), Orioles (223)
• Ken Griffey Jr.: Mariners (417), Reds (210)
• Manny Ramírez: Red Sox (274), Indians (236)

2014 The Northwest League's Spokane Indians, the short-season single-A affiliate of the Rangers, introduce a new home alternate uniform that features the name "S'q'n'i" in lettering across the front of the jersey, along with a character not in the English language. The word, which translates to Spokane in the Salish's native language, will be in addition to a logo created in 2006 that uses local native imagery.

2015 With his sixth-inning two-run home run off Bud Norris in the Yankees' 9-4 loss to the Orioles at Camden Yards, Alex Rodriguez becomes the third major leaguer in the modern era to surpass the 2,000 RBI mark. The New York designated hitter trails only Hank Aaron (2,297) and Babe Ruth (2,213) on the all-time RBI list.

2019 In his sophomore season, Angel sensation Shohei Otani becomes the first Japanese player to hit for the cycle in the major leagues, the eighth in franchise history, with a seventh-inning single off Rays reliever Hunter Wood in the team's 5-3 win over at Tropicana Field. The 24-year-old DH, who collected four of the club's six hits, also had a three-run homer in the first frame, a third-inning double, and a triple in the fifth inning.

2019 A day before the College World Series opening ceremonies, the Royals beat the Tigers, 7-3, at TD Ameritrade Park in Nebraska's first-ever major league game. The nationally televised contest, resulting from an agreement between MLB, the NCAA, Minor League Baseball, the Omaha Storm Chasers, and the Metropolitan Entertainment and Convention Authority, continues the sport's effort to showcase the solidarity that links each level of the national pastime.




Today In 1912: New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson collects his 300th career win with a 3-2 victory vs. the Chicago Cubs!
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