July 12
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- 1896 - In a 9 - 8 defeat to the hometown Chicago Colts, Phillies outfielder Ed Delahanty hits four home runs in one game. All of the round trippers are the inside-the-park variety.
- 1900 - Frank "Noodles" Hahn of Cincinnati twirls a 4 - 0 no-hitter over Philadelphia. The Reds lefty gives up five walks to the visiting Quakers who are playing without Nap Lajoie. Hahn strikes out 7, including the first two batters in the 9th. The last batter, Roy Thomas, is thrown out on his two-strike bunt. Philadelphia's Bill Bernhard allows seven hits, including a homer by Sam Crawford in the 7th.
- 1901 - At Boston's Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds, Cy Young of the Americans seven-hits the A's, 5 - 3, to win his 300th game. The 34-year old will win an additional 211 games to establish an amazing major league record of 511 career victories.
- 1902 - Overcoming poor Buc baserunning, Pirates star Jack Chesbro pitches a 5-hit shutout and strikes out 11 Giants to beat Christy Mathewson, 4 - 0. The Buccos lose five straight runners via baserunning errors. With two outs in the third, Ginger Beaumont is on secon base, with first base empty, and he is put out trying to advance to third on a grounder. In the 4th, Hans Wagner leads off with a triple, but is out at the plate on Kitty Bransfield's grounder to first. Bransfield is then thrown out trying to steal second. Claude Ritchey draws a walk, but is picked off first. Jimmy Burke leads off the fifth with a double, but tries to stretch it into a triple, and is tagged out by Matty, covering the bag.
- 1905:
- The Detroit Tigers beat New York, 6 - 3, with the help of two errors by Highlander 1B Jack Doyle. The vet Doyle was signed yesterday and this will be his only appearance for New York.
- Chicago's Three-Finger Brown scores the first of nine straight wins over Christy Mathewson, 8 - 1, as he allows just two New York hits. New York's lone run scores on an error by Billy Maloney. Matty gives up 12 hits while his teammates commit five errors. Of 28 matches over their careers, Brown will win 14.
- 1907 - After an absence of 24 days, Roger Bresnahan returns to the lineup and collects two hits in a 3 - 2 win for the Giants against Andy Coakley, the same hurler who hit him with a pitch on June 18th. Bresnahan does not wear the headgear he developed. When a fan keeps a foul ball during the game rather than tossing it back, Giants team secretary Frank Knowles warns that "in the future he will not be so lenient about anyone stealing a ball."
- 1911:
- In the first inning of a 9 - 0 win over the Athletics at Detroit, Ty Cobb walks, then on consecutive pitches steals second base, third base, and home off lefty Harry Krause. Twice he beats perfect throws by C Ira Thomas. After Cobb reaches on a fielder's choice in the 3rd, Sam Crawford homers. In the 7th, Cobb walks, is bunted to second, and scores on a sacrifice fly, knocking the ball out of the hands of the new catcher Paddy Livingston.
- At Pittsburgh, the Giants win 4 - 3 behind Rube Marquard's pitching. Rube strikes out the side in the 2nd and 3rd innings, setting down Dots Miller, Newt Hunter and Owen Wilson, then blowing by pitcher Elmer Steele, Bobby Byrne and Tommy Leach in the 3rd frame.
- Highlander third baseman Roy Hartzell, acquired from the Browns in January for Jimmy Austin and Frank LaPorte, has a career day as the cleanup hitter. He hits a 3-run double and another double in one inning, then piles on a sacrifice fly and grand slam, to drive in eight runs. It is an American League record until Jimmie Foxx's nine RBI in a game in 1933. New York defeats the Browns, 12 - 2.
- 1912:
- In the Highlanders' 4 - 1 win over the Browns, New York pitcher Jack Warhop swipes home in the 3rd. It is Warhops's second steal of home in three years.
- In Boston, the Red Sox edge the Tigers 1 - 0 in 11 innings. Smoky Joe Wood goes all the way in the win allowing five hits and striking out 10.
- 1913 - Philadelphia's Boardwalk Brown walks 15 Tigers in 7 2/3 innings, but staggers to a 16 - 9 win. Brown has only one walkless inning - the first. Ty Cobb, out for a week with an injured knee, plays 2B for the only time in his career, and makes three errors in his five fielding chances.
- 1916 - With the temperature at Fenway Park near 100 degrees, Boston sweeps the White Sox behind complete game wins by Ernie Shore, 2 - 1, and Dutch Leonard, 3 - 1.
- 1921 - Babe Ruth hits his 137th career home run, passing 19th century star Roger Connor's record of 136.
- 1928 - Baseball's biggest battery is recorded, appropriately, with the New York Giants, as Garland "Gob" Buckeye, a 260-pound pro football lineman in the off-season, makes his National League pitching debut with 250-pound Shanty Hogan behind the plate. The Giants lose to the Cardinals.
- 1931 - The largest crowd in the history of Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, 45,715 (in a ballpark with 35,000 seats), creates a travesty and permanently distorts the record for doubles hit in a game. Easy fly balls drop for ground rule doubles among the fans encroaching on the field. There are 32 doubles hit in two games, 11 in the first and 21 in the 2nd, for records both for the most doubles in one game and for a doubleheader.
- 1934:
- Chuck Klein is out of the Cubs lineup because of injuries as they beat the Braves, 7 - 4. He is batting .331 with 19 homers and 65 RBI, but will miss much of the second half and never again will return to the high level of performance previously shown.
- Schoolboy Rowe fans 11 Yankees in a 4 - 2 win that puts the Tigers back in first place.
- 1936 - At Cincinnati, Phillies starter Joe Bowman gives up his first hit of the game, a lead off triple in the 9th inning to Kiki Cuyler, and then is relieved by Claude Passeau, who retires the next three batters. The Phils win 4 - 0.
- 1937 - The Phillies score six runs in the seventh inning to beat Hal Schumacher and the Giants 6 - 3. With the bases loaded in the first, Giants OF Mel Ott starts an unusual 9-2-5 triple play. But the highlight of the game comes when umpire Bill Klem ejects Giants manager Bill Terry for the first time in Terry's 15-year career.
- 1938 - The Pirates take the National League lead for the first time, beating the Cubs for their 12th straight win.
- 1943 - An Armed Forces All-Star team managed by Babe Ruth and featuring Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams play a fund-raising game against the Braves in Boston. Ruth pinch-hits in the eighth and flies out to right. The All-Stars win on a Splendid Splinter home run, 9 - 8.
- 1945 - The Chicago Cubs stop Tommy Holmes's modern-day NL hitting streak at 37 games, beating the Boston Braves 6 - 1 behind Hank Wyse for their 11th victory in a row. The Braves take game two 3 - 1, as Claude Passeau loses his first after nine straight wins. Holmes hit .433 during the streak and will finish at .352, second in the National League. His nine strikeouts coupled with 28 homers and 47 doubles is unparalleled for making contact and hitting for average and power.
- 1946 - Johnny Sain just misses a perfect no-hitter when Grady Hatton's pop fly drops among three Braves behind 3B. No one else gets on as the Braves win 1 - 0 in Cincinnati.
- 1949:
- The major league owners agree to install warning tracks made of cinder in front of outfield fences prior to the start of next season.
- The National League commits five errors, allowing the American League to record an 11 - 7 triumph in the All-Star Game at Ebbets Field. The contest marks the first appearance of black players in an All-Star Game: Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe in the NL lineup and Larry Doby among the AL stars.
- 1951:
- At Cleveland, Allie Reynolds of the NY Yankees blanks Cleveland 1 - 0 for the first of his two no-hitters this season. Gene Woodling's seventh inning homer off loser Bob Feller is the difference in the 1 - 0 game. The Chief's no-hitter is the first by a Yankee since Monte Pearson in 1928. New York takes the nitecap behind Vic Raschi as Joe DiMaggio cinches it with a three-run homer off Chuck Stobbs.
- The Red Sox and White Sox draw a record crowd of 52,592 for a twi-night doubleheader at Comiskey Park. Boston wins the opener, 3 - 2. In the second game, Saul Rogovin of the White Sox goes the route in a 17-inning contest, only to lose 5 - 4, on Clyde Vollmer's sac fly. Ellis Kinder of Boston pitches 10 scoreless innings in relief for the win.
- 1953:
- The Yomiuri and Mainichi newspaper chains inaugurate the Nichi-Bei Series, a program of regular visits by American major-league clubs to Japan. The program will be sponsored by the Yomiuri chain alone from 1966.
- Braves slugger Eddie Mathews hits the first grand slam in the history of the Milwaukee franchise, as the Braves sweep two from the Cardinals 10 - 1 and 4 - 3 in St. Louis.
- 1955 - At Milwaukee's County Stadium, Stan Musial comes to bat in the bottom of 12th inning of a 5 - 5 All-Star deadlock. American League catcher Yogi Berra complains about his feet hurting and Musial tells him "Don't worry, I'll have you home in a minute"... then 'the Man' hits a game-winning home run on the next pitch. The American League had taken a 5-run lead on a 3-run homer by Mickey Mantle off Robin Roberts, only to see the NL tie it. Braves P Gene Conley strikes out the side in the 12th.
- 1958 - Orlando Cepeda's 3-run home run off Warren Spahn gives the Giants a 5 - 3 win and pulls San Francisco to within a half game of the Braves.
- 1959:
- NBC uses outfield TV cameras with 80-inch lenses to show the catchers' signals during a Yankee-Red Sox game. Commissioner Ford Frick requests that they halt its use. It doesn't help New York, which drops their last four games to the Red Sox. Boston wins today, 7 - 3.
- Larry Sherry loses his second start for the Dodgers, as the Reds nip him 4 - 3. Sherry will not lose again, winning his next seven starts.
- 1966 - St. Louis hosts a hot midsummer All-Star classic. Maury Wills' 10th-inning single scores Tim McCarver, as the National League wins 2 - 1 in 105-degree heat. Brooks Robinson's stellar game (3 hits, eight chances) earns him the game MVP. Asked about the new ballpark, Casey Stengel remarks, "it holds the heat well." On-field temperature is 113 degrees.
- 1968:
- Eddie Stanky is fired as manager of the White Sox and replaced by Al Lopez.
- The Cardinals beat the Astros, 8 - 1, but Houston scores a run on Bob Gibson. Denis Menke's bloop double, fair by inches, drives home the lone run. Houston reliever Tom Dukes ties the major-league record with his 9th straight relief appearance for the Astros.
- The Giants trade P Lindy McDaniel to the Yankees for P Bill Monbouquette.
- 1970 - In the second inning of an eventual 7 - 3 win over the Orioles, the Tigers lay down a record-tying three sacrifice bunts.
- 1972 - The A's Dave Duncan is 5-for-5 but the Red Sox win, 7 - 6.
- 1975 - In a 10 - 4 loss to Texas, Luis Tiant hits and flies out. He is the first Boston pitcher to hit since the designated hitter was put into effect in 1973.
- 1976 - A tentative agreement between the players and owners on labor contracts is reached. The formal agreement will be announced August 9th.
- 1977:
- Willie Randolph hits the game-winning homer and Don Gullett pitches the Yankees to a 5 - 2 win over the Brewers. The win stops the Yanks loss streak at three games.
- Steve Henderson hits a game-winning home run off Bruce Sutter to give the Mets a 4 - 2 victory over the Cubs. After the game the Cubs relief ace admits his arm is bothering him, and asks to be excused from the All-Star Game. Bleeding will be found in Sutter's arm and he will get the week off after the All-Star break to rest it.
- 1979 - After a delay of an hour and 16 minutes, the White Sox are forced to forfeit the second game of twi-night doubleheader against the Tigers when over 5,000 fans refuse to leave the field during Disco Demolition Night. Mike Veeck's promotion involves admitting fans for 98 cents with a disco record, collecting the vinyl and then literally blowing up the LPs and .45s in center field.
- 1987 - The Yankees trade P Bob Tewksbury and two minor league pitchers to the Cubs for Steve Trout, who has just pitched back-to-back shutouts.
- 1988 - After being maligned by the press as an unworthy All-Star starter, A's catcher Terry Steinbach hits a solo home run and a sacrifice fly to lead the American League to a 2 - 1 victory at Riverfront Stadium and is named the 1988 All-Star Game's MVP. The A's catcher becomes the first major leaguer to have homered in his first major league at-bat (on September 12, 1986) and also in the mid-summer classic.
- 1989 - Ron Guidry retires from baseball. During his 14-year career with the New York Yankees, 'Louisiana Lightning' compiled a 170-91 record with a 3.29 ERA.
- 1990 - In a 6-inning rain-shortened contest, White Sox starter Melido Perez no-hits the host Yankees, 8 - 0. His brother Pascual, who is watching from the New York bench, also hurled an abbreviated no-no in 1988 holding the Phillies hitless for five innings at Veterans Stadium. This is the 7th no-hitter this season, the most since 1917. Lance Johnson makes a diving over-the-shoulder catch in the 5th to save a hit and also bangs a 3-run home run.
- 1992 - Atlanta SS-2B Jeff Blauser hits three home runs in a 7 - 4 win over the Cubs. Blauser had hit only 39 round-trippers in the previous six seasons. He becomes only the 4th SS ever to hit three homers in a game, joining Ernie Banks, Barry Larkin and Freddie Patek.
- 1994 - Moises Alou's double in the 10th inning gives the National League an 8 - 7 victory over the American League in the All-Star Game. The NL is now a perfect 9 - 0 in extra-inning contests. Houston P John Hudek becomes the first pitcher in history to appear in an All-Star Game before recording a major league victory. Fred McGriff, whose 2-run homer in the 9th inning tied the score, takes MVP honors.
- 1996:
- Montreal defeats the Cubs by a score of 3 - 2. Throughout the game, Expo 1B David Segui shares his mitt with Chicago's Mark Grace as Grace's glove did not arrive at the ballpark due to a shipping mix-up. The players leave the mitt in the field between innings, as players did at the turn of the century.
- Minnesota star Kirby Puckett announces he is retiring, effective immediately, because of glaucoma in his right eye.
- Down 9 - 2 as they bat in the last half of the 7th inning in Colorado, the Rockies score 11 times and hold on for a 13 - 12 win over the Padres. 3B Vinny Castilla's grand slam - his second homer of the game - is the big blow of the inning.
- 1997:
- In Pittsburgh's first non-Opening Day sellout since 1977, a crowd of 44,119 sees Francisco Cordova and Ricardo Rincon combine on a 10-inning no-hitter as the Pirates down the Astros, 3 - 0, on a 10th-inning pinch home run by Mark Smith. Cordova hurls the first nine innings while Rincon hurls the 10th and gets the win. The victory keeps the Pirates in a tie for 1st place with the Astros in the National League Central.
- Pitching for the first time in Fenway Park not wearing a Red Sox uniform, Roger Clemens strikes out sixteen as the Blue Jays defeat Boston, 3 - 1. During the game, it appears the 'Rocket' is continually glaring up at Dan Duquette in the general manager's suite.
- 2000:
- The Phillies trade hurler Andy Ashby, 33, to the Braves for pitchers Bruce Chen and Jimmy Osting. Chen, who made 22 appearances for the Braves this year, all in relief, will make 15 appearances for the Phils - all starts.
- In a six-player deal, the Reds trade Denny Neagle (8-2, 3.52) and outfielder Mike Frank to the Yankees for minor league third baseman Drew Henson, outfielder Jackson Melian and pitchers Brian Reith and Ed Yarnall. None of the four top prospects acquired by the Reds will pan out.
- 2001 - Three Minnesota players homer twice in the Twins' 13 - 5 defeat of Milwaukee. Jacque Jones, Torii Hunter and Corey Koskie each hit a pair of four-baggers to tie a ML record.
- 2005:
- During the All-Star Game Town Hall discussion, Bud Selig, believing the designated hitter is a big part of the game, states the rule will remain in use for the foreseeable future. The commissioner however makes it clear the National League will not adopt the 1973 addition to the American League rule book.
- At the Home Run Derby in Detroit, Bobby Abreu shatters the records for a single round, the championship round and the grand total for all three rounds of the derby by hitting 41 dingers into every part of Comerica Park. The Phillies outfielder, who is representing Venezuela in the event's new international format, goes deep 24 times in the first round, tacks on six more in the second round and finishes with 11 more in the championship round.
- 2009:
- The Cuban national team wins the 2009 World Port Tournament despite the defection of Aroldis Chapman on day one of the event. In the finale, Cuba beats the Dutch national team 8 - 3, scoring 5 unanswered runs in the last 3 innings. Maikel Folch tosses four shutout relief innings for the win. Both Sidney de Jong and Eriel Sánchez hit 2-run homers.
- Rene Tosoni and Dayan Viciedo hit consecutive doubles to lead the World team to a 7 - 5 comeback win over the United States in the 2009 Futures Game in St. Louis. The game is shortened to 7 innings because of rain.
- The Cubs and Cardinals split a day/night doubleheader at Wrigley Field. Chicago wins the opener 7 - 3 on home runs by Micah Hoffpauir and P Carlos Zambrano, and the Cards take the nitecap 4 - 2. Ryan Ludwick hits two two-run home runs to account for all of St. Louis' runs; Adam Wainwright picks up his 10th win and Ryan Franklin strikes out the side in the 9th for his 21st save. As a result, the first four teams in the NL Central are within 3 ½ games of eachother heading into the All-Star break.
[edit] Births
- 1854 - Dan Collins, outfielder (d. 1883)
- 1859 - Frank McIntyre, pitcher (d. 1887)
- 1872 - Joe Regan, outfielder (d. 1948)
- 1878 - Bill Coughlin, infielder (d. 1943)
- 1881 - Jim Pastorius, pitcher (d. 1941)
- 1886 - Hank Butcher, outfielder (d. 1979)
- 1887 - Harry Krause, pitcher (d. 1940)
- 1888 - Roy Golden, pitcher (d. 1961)
- 1888 - Lep Long, pitcher (d. 1958)
- 1889 - Ray Mowe, infielder (d. 1968)
- 1889 - Harry Pearce, infielder (d. 1942)
- 1891 - Hank Schreiber, infielder (d. 1968)
- 1894 - Lee Meadows, pitcher (d. 1963)
- 1895 - Artie Dede, catcher (d. 1971)
- 1897 - Hod Fenner, pitcher (d. 1954)
- 1899 - Walter French, outfielder (d. 1984)
- 1900 - Rudy Miller, infielder (d. 1994)
- 1903 - George Darrow, pitcher (d. 1983)
- 1907 - Bob Cooney, pitcher (d. 1976)
- 1913 - Tom Hafey, infielder (d. 1996)
- 1914 - Al Glossop, infielder (d. 1991)
- 1919 - Johnny Wyrostek, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1986)
- 1926 - José Guerrero, minor league infielder and manager
- 1927 - Jack Harshman, pitcher
- 1931 - Paul Penson, pitcher (d. 2006)
- 1935 - Dave Ricketts, catcher (d. 2008)
- 1938 - Ron Fairly, infielder; All-Star
- 1940 - Mike Page, outfielder
- 1940 - Denny Sommers, coach
- 1940 - Jack Warner, pitcher
- 1941 - Dick Rusteck, pitcher
- 1943 - Ron Willis, pitcher (d. 1977)
- 1944 - Tom Tischinski, catcher
- 1947 - Scipio Spinks, pitcher
- 1953 - Roy Branch, pitcher
- 1953 - Akinobu Mayumi, NPB infielder
- 1956 - Bryan Clark, pitcher
- 1956 - Mario Soto, pitcher; All-Star
- 1957 - Manabu Kitabeppu, NPB pitcher
- 1962 - Efraín García, Puerto Rican national team infielder
- 1962 - Milton Harper, minor league infielder
- 1964 - Mike Schwabe, pitcher
- 1965 - Mike Munoz, pitcher
- 1965 - Wally Ritchie, pitcher
- 1971 - Maximo De La Rosa, minor league pitcher
- 1972 - Kelly Wunsch, pitcher
- 1974 - Alexander Nizov, minor league infielder
- 1976 - Dan Reichert, pitcher
- 1978 - Yoshihito Ishii, NPB infielder
- 1979 - Ryan Anderson, minor league pitcher
- 1979 - Adam Johnson, pitcher
- 1980 - Brad Eldred, infielder
- 1981 - Phil Dumatrait, pitcher
- 1981 - Eugen Heilmann, Bundesliga pitcher
- 1981 - Sam Narron, pitcher
- 1981 - Nathan Panther, minor league outfielder
- 1982 - Tom Gorzelanny, pitcher
- 1983 - Howie Kendrick, infielder
- 1983 - Tony Sipp, pitcher
- 1985 - Dan Leatherman, minor league pitcher
- 1988 - Jeremy Barfield, minor league outfielder
[edit] Deaths
- 1892 - Alexander Cartwright Hall of Famer (b. 1820)
- 1929 - Jack Cronin, pitcher (b. 1874)
- 1933 - Ed Herr, infielder (b. 1865)
- 1944 - Miyoshi Nakagawa, NPB pitcher and infielder; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1920)
- 1955 - Dan McGeehan, infielder (b. 1885)
- 1955 - Jesse Stovall, pitcher (b. 1875)
- 1955 - Harry Taylor, infielder (b. 1866)
- 1963 - Jack Cameron, outfielder (b. 1884)
- 1968 - Kettle Wirts, catcher (b. 1897)
- 1971 - Wally Judnich, outfielder (b. 1917)
- 1971 - Ed Weiland, pitcher (b. 1914)
- 1973 - Billy Urbanski, infielder (b. 1903)
- 1979 - Tom Lovelace, pinch hitter (b. 1897)
- 1987 - Joe Burns, outfielder (b. 1889)
- 1996 - Earl Halstead, scout (b. 1912)
- 2003 - Patricia Courtney, AAGPBL infielder (b. 1931)
- 2007 - Shag Crawford, umpire (b. 1916)
- 2008 - Bobby Murcer, outfielder (b. 1946)
- 2008 - Harry Schaeffer, pitcher (b. 1924)
- 2009 - Doris Barr, AAGPBL pitcher (b. 1921)
