From BR Bullpen
Events, births and deaths that occurred on July 14.
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- 1900 - Chick Fraser fires a one-hitter for the Philadelphia Phillies in a 1 - 0 win over Boston. It is the only shutout of the year for the righty, who will become part of the first big lawsuit challenging the reserve clause in the 20th century.
- 1905 - With runners on first base and third base and no outs in the 9th, Boston's Ed Abbaticchio lines into a game ending triple play against the Cincinnati Reds' Bob Ewing.
- 1906 - At Robison Field, the New York Giants clip the St. Louis Cardinals 5 - 1 and 4 - 0 with the help of two additions to the lineup. Cy Seymour, last year's near Triple Crown winner, is a new addition from the Cincinnati Reds for $12,000. Seymour was with the Giants from 1896 to 1900 as a pitcher and outfielder, and in 1905 led the National League in batting, RBIs, slugging percentage, and was 2nd in homers (8). Cy has four hits for the Giants today. The other addition is Spike Shannon, who moves over from the Cardinal dugout in exchange for Sam Mertes and Doc Marshall. Spike has three hits and two runs in the opener. Christy Mathewson wins the nitecap, shutting out the Birds on six hits.
- 1911 - The Philadelphia Phillies move back into first place as Pete Alexander tops the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2 - 1.
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- 1915 - Chicago White Sox P Red Faber steals three bases in the 4th inning against the Philadelphia A's. With the White Sox leading 4 - 2 in the 4th and rain threatening, the A's try to delay the game. Joe Bush purposely hits Faber with a pitch, and Faber, trying to speed up the game, tries to get thrown out by stealing. Little effort is made to retire him, and he scores Chicago's 5th run. His "steal" of home turns out to be the winning run, as rain never materializes, and Chicago wins 6 - 4.
- 1916 - St. Louis Browns hurler Ernie Koob pitches a complete game going all 17-innings in 0 - 0 tie. Boston Red Sox Carl Mays pitches the first 15 innings with Dutch Leonard finishing the game.
- 1934 - At Navin Field in Detroit, MI, in an effort to keep the consecutive game streak intact, the Yankees have lumbago-stricken Lou Gehrig bat lead-off and list him as the shortstop in the lineup. After singling in the first inning, the 'Iron Horse' leaves the game without fielding as the Detroit Tigers pound out 11 doubles to edge the Yankees, 12 - 11.
- 1936 - Pitcher Roger Wolff, in his debut with the Oklahoma City Indians of the Texas League holds the Galveston Buccaneers hitless and runless for nine innings but loses on two hits in the 10th.
- 1937 - Boston Red Sox Fabian Gaffke ties the American League record by scoring 5 runs against the St. Louis Browns.
- 1938 - In Toledo, OH the American Association All-Star squad becomes the first team to experiment with uniforms designed to be worn during night games. The red, white and blue shiny satin uniforms are believed to reflect the light during the evening contests.
- 1939 - The New York Yankees tie the American League record with only one assist, as Red Ruffing wins 8 - 3 over the Detroit Tigers.
- 1940:
- 1946 - Player-manager Lou Boudreau of the Cleveland Indians hits four doubles and one home run, but Ted Williams wallops three homers and drives in eight runs, as the Boston Red Sox top the Tribe 11 - 10. In the Sox second-game win, the famous Boudreau Shift is born. Boudreau shifts all his players, except the 3B and LF, to the right side of the diamond in an effort to stop Williams. Ted grounds out and walks twice while ignoring the shift.
- 1950:
- The Boston Red Sox produce a second 11-run inning this year, as they score 11 in the 2nd inning against the Chicago White Sox to win at home, 13 - 1. Vern Stephens hits his 19th homer and now leads the American League in RBI with 84, one ahead of teammates Walt Dropo and Ted Williams.
- The Waterbury Timers of the Colonial League have a franchise but no players when the 12-man squad is fired after refusing to board the team bus for two scheduled games at Kingston, NY. Strike issues are several: the players claim that the team bus is unsafe; the bus is scheduled to bring them home after the first game and return for the second rather than lay over; six players claim that the club reneged on the promise of a pay raise if they were still on the roster on June 2. The league will disband on July 16.
- 1951 - Clyde Vollmer singles in two runs in the ninth inning and the Boston Red Sox tip the Chicago White Sox, 3 - 2.
- 1952 - Detroit Tigers slugger Walt Dropo goes 5-for-5 against the New York Yankees in an 8 - 2 win. All five hits are singles.
- 1953 - The National League wins its fourth All-Star Game in a row, 5 - 1 in Cincinnati's Crosley Field behind the stellar pitching of Robin Roberts and Warren Spahn. St. Louis Cardinals OF Enos Slaughter gets two hits, scores twice, and robs Harvey Kuenn of an extra-base blow.
- 1955 - The Cleveland Indians sign 2-time batting champ Ferris Fain as a free agent.
- 1956 - Boston Red Sox lefty Mel Parnell pitches a no-hitter against the Chicago White Sox at Fenway Park, winning 4 -0. It is only Parnell's third win against two losses and is the sixth straight loss for second-place Chicago. The no-hitter is the first for the Red Sox since 1923. Parnell will go 4-4 before a torn muscle in his pitching arm ends his career as the Red Sox' winningest southpaw.
- 1957:
- 1958 - Superior Court Judge Praeger voids the Chavez Ravine pact, stating the city cannot sell its land to private concerns. The city of Los Angeles will appeal Judge Praeger's ruling.
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- 1966 - Interim Detroit Tigers skipper Bob Swift is hospitalized, and 3B coach Frank Skaff takes over.
- 1967 - Against Juan Marichal at Candlestick Park, Eddie Mathews hits home run #500 while playing for the Houston Astros. The former Milwaukee Braves third baseman, who hit 493 homers playing for the franchise in Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta, becomes the seventh major leaguer to reach this plateau.
- 1968:
- Hank Aaron hits home run #500 off Mike McCormick, becoming the eighth major leaguer to reach this milestone. 'Hammerin' Hank's three-run homer over the left center field fence proves to be thee difference as the Atlanta Braves beat the San Francisco Giants at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, 4 - 2.
- In front of 57,011 on bat day at Shea Stadium, the Philadelphia Phillies take two to stretch their win streak to 6. Rick Wise wins, 5 - 3, and then Grant Jackson fans 13 to win, 9 - 2, in his first complete game ever. Richie Allen knocks in three runs in each game with a pair of homers. John Briggs belts a pair in the nitecap.
- Houston Astros Don Wilson fans 18 batters in a 6 - 1 win at Cincinnati, tying the major-league record set by Bob Feller. Wilson (6-11) fans Johnny Bench to end the game. He also ties the major-league record with eight strikeouts in a row, striking out the side in the first three innings. A one-out walk to Alex Johnson in the 1st is the only interruption. Wilson also fans the side in the 5th. The Astros win the opener, 5 - 4.
- 1969:
- At Wrigley Field, the Chicago Cubs top the New York Mets 1 - 0 to give Bill Hands (11-7) the win over Tom Seaver (14-4). Billy Williams singles home the winner, boosting the Cubs lead to 5 1/2 games. After the last out, Ron Santo jumps up and clicks his heels, igniting a roar from the crowd. The Mets think it's bush.
- Joe Coleman posts his second straight shutout and drives in two runs to defeat the Detroit Tigers, 3 - 0, in Washington. A crowd of 23,831 pushes the Washington Senators' attendance to 553,506, exceeding the club's 1968 attendance of 542,042.
- 1970 - In the twelfth inning of the 1970 All-Star Game, Pete Rose bowls over Ray Fosse at the plate to score the deciding run on Jim Hickman's single in an exciting 5 - 4 National League victory at Riverfront Stadium. Fosse, who never had the ball, hurts his right shoulder and is taken to the hospital. The game is scoreless until the 6th, with the National League limited to three hits in the first eight innings. In the 9th, the NL tees off on Catfish Hunter, driving in three runs to tie. Dick Dietz hits a leadoff home run in the inning. Claude Osteen pitches the 10th for the win. The Cleveland Indians catcher entertained 'Charlie Hustle' as a dinner guest the previous night
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- 1979 - The Chicago White Sox' Claudell Washington has three home runs and five RBI in a 12 - 4 defeat of the Detroit Tigers.
- 1980 - After fanning the side in the 2nd inning, J.R. Richard leaves after retiring the first batter in the 4th. The Houston Astros pitcher complains of nausea, and the next day, Houston will place him on the 21-day disabled list. The Astros lose today, 2 - 0, to the Atlanta Braves' Phil Niekro.
- 1985 - Walt Terrell and Willie Hernandez combine on a one-hitter as the Detroit Tigers blank the Minnesota Twins, 8 - 0. Tom Brunansky's double in the 7th is the only hit. Larry Herndon and Darrell Evans hit back-to-back homers in the 4th.
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- 1989 - The New York Mets' Sid Fernandez strikes out 16 Atlanta Braves, but the portly Polynesian portsider still loses 3 - 2 on Lonnie Smith's leadoff home run in the bottom of the ninth.
- 1990 - Dante Bichette, Dave Winfield and Brian Downing each homer twice in the California Angels' 8 - 7 win over the Toronto Blue Jays. This is the 8th time three teammates have done this in the ML.
- 1991 - Pitcher Kip Gross loses two games, in two different leagues, 1,100 miles apart. The Cincinnati Reds' hurler takes the loss in the Reds' 10 - 6 defeat by the Pittsburgh Pirates, and also becomes the loser of a game played by the Triple-A Nashville Sounds. It is the completion of a game in Denver which had been suspended by rain back on May 15.
- 1992 - Seattle Mariners outfielder Ken Griffey, Jr. homers off Chicago Cubs hurler Greg Maddux making it the first time in history a father and a son have hit All-Star home runs. His dad hit one off the New York Yankees' Tommy John in the 1980 All-Star Game. The American League pounds out a record 19 hits in defeating the National League by a score of 13 - 6 in the 1992 All-Star Game. It's the AL's 5th straight win. Griffey Jr., who strokes a single, double, and home run is named the game's MVP, 12 years after his dad wons the same honor.
- 1993 - The American League defeats the National League, 9 - 3, in the 1993 All-Star Game. Kirby Puckett, Roberto Alomar, and Gary Sheffield hit home runs, while the win goes to Jack McDowell. Craig Biggio is at 2B for the NL: last year, he was on the team as a catcher, the first player ever to make it at those two positions. A highlight of the game is Randy Johnson firing a 95-MPH fastball over John Kruk's head. Kruk bails out on the next two pitches, saying afterwards: "he's going to kill somebody."
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- 1997:
- Atlanta hits two grand slams in a game for the first time since May 2, 1987, using homers by Tim Spehr and Ryan Klesko to rally from a 6 - 0 deficit for its eighth straight victory over the Philadelphia Phillies this season. The Braves win 10 - 6.
- In the longest night game at Wrigley Field, 5 hours, 19 minutes, Ricky Gutierrez singles home the go-ahead run in the 15th to give the Houston Astros a 9 - 7 win over the Chicago Cubs.
- In the San Diego Padres' 5 - 3 win over the San Francisco Giants, Tony Gwynn raises his average to .402 with a single, double and triple, driving in three runs, and extending his hitting streak to 19 games. Rickey Henderson, baseball's career steals leader, swipes his 1,200th base in the sixth.
- At Fenway Park, Wil Cordero, homers as the Boston Red Sox collect a season-high 21 hits to rout the Detroit Tigers, 18 - 4. Cordero is cheered after hitting a two-run homer in the seventh. Cordero, accused of assaulting his wife on June 11, has been booed on each of his previous 14 at-bats since he ended 11 games on the sidelines with a pinch-hit appearance last Thursday.
- Eric Karros' two-run homer off Steve Reed in the 10th gives the Los Angeles Dodgers a 14 - 12 slugfest win over the Colorado Rockies. Los Angeles has a season-high 22 hits, in winning its 10th of 11, while the Rockies lose for the 10th time in 11 games.
- Cuba withdraws at the last minute from a series of baseball games against the United States, citing fears for the safety of players. One reason stated for the cancellation was the weekend bombing of two Havana hotels. The eight-game series was to start tomorrow.
- 1999:
- In Milwaukee, three people die when a 480-foot crane, nicknamed Big Blue, collapses while lifting a section of Miller Park's retractable roof. The roof of the Brewers' new home was expected to be completed in November. Milwaukee will cancel tomorrow's game against the Kansas City Royals.
- In an ill-conceived move, umpires union-chief Richie Phillips announces that 57 umpires will resign on September 2. Among other things, the umps reportedly are upset at the 3-day suspension Tom Hallion received for bumping Rockies C Jeff Reed on July 2.
- 2000:
- John Olerud has a game-tying double disallowed because first base umpire Jim Wolf calls time, but then the Mariners first baseman hits a three-run homer, helping Seattle to beat the Padres, 7 - 5.
- A report presented to owners, "The Commissioner's Initiative: Women and Baseball", finds women make up 46 percent of the average crowd at a big league game and urges major league franchises to make more of an effort to market to women patrons. According to the same report, forty-three percent of women could not name a player on their home team's roster.
- Atlanta 2B Quilvio Veras tears the ACL in his right knee. He will miss the remainder of the season.
- Major League owners decide to return to playing an unbalanced schedule (teams play more games against teams in their own division) rather than the presently-used balanced schedule (in which they play approximately the same number of games against all teams within the league). The American League has used to a balanced schedule since 1977 and the National League started in 1993.
- 2001:
- 2002:
- Nelson Barrera, the Mexican League's career home run and RBI leader, is electrocuted trying to free metal roofing from high-tension wires. The 44-year old 'Admiral', who hit 455 home runs during his 26-year Mexican Baseball League tenure, had hoped to continue playing so that he could hold the career Triple Crown by also reaching the career hit record.
- The Royals defeat the Angels, 12 - 3, as Raul Ibanez hits a grand slam in the 1st inning and a 3-run home run in the 2nd inning to tie a club record with seven RBIs.
- The Twins beat the Rangers, 5 - 4, despite a pair of home runs by Alex Rodriguez. The round - trippers give Rodriguez his 6th 30-home run season, breaking Ernie Banks' record for shortstops.
- 2004 - Houston fires Jimy Williams and names Phil Garner, a former Astro, as the interim manager through the rest of the season. The 60-year old former skipper, who had a .515 (215-197) winning percentage in his two years at the helm, including this season's 44-44 record, was roundly booed by hometown Minute Maid Park fans at yesterday's All-Star Game.
- 2005:
- Defeating their historical arch rivals, the Giants become the first team to win 10,000 games as a franchise by edging the Dodgers in Los Angeles, 4 - 3. The Giants, who started as the New York Gothams in 1883, have posted a 10,000-8,511 record during the club's 123 seasons in the National League.
- The first-known baseball card, which is part of a children's educational game, illustrates several boys playing together in a field as one pitches a ball to another holding a bat, makes its public debut at the Smithsonian Institution. The historic card, which was discovered in an attic in Maine, dates to the early 19th century and predates other known cards by several decades.
- 2008:
- Josh Hamilton hits 28 home runs in the first round of the Home Run Derby, a record for a single round. Hamilton fades after that and Justin Morneau goes on to win the event.
- A rarity in any professional game occurs when both teams have to use position players on the mound. In the second game of a doubleheader, the Tulsa Drillers bring in catcher Brian Esposito (who has pitched briefly in the minors) in the 10th inning, their 6th hurler of the game. The Springfield Cardinals counter with Matt Pagnozzi, another backstop, an inning later. After 3 scoreless innings, Pagnozzi allows 4 runs in the 13th, while Esposito goes 2 1/3 scoreless innings for the 7 - 3 win.
- 2009 - The American League runs its unbeaten streak to 13 games (12 wins and a tie) by defeating the National League 4 - 3 in the 80th All-Star Game at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. The win enables the AL to finish the 2000s without losing any All-Star Games (9-0-1) in the decade, the first time either league has ever accomplished this feat. Carl Crawford of the Rays earns MVP honors by climbing over the left field fence to deprive Brad Hawpe of a home run in the 7th inning.
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[edit] Births
- 1850 - Jim Holdsworth, infielder/outfielder (d. 1918)
- 1851 - Steve Brady, outfielder (d. 1917)
- 1854 - Jack Gleason, infielder (d. 1944)
- 1862 - Law Daniels, catcher (d. 1929)
- 1866 - Alex Ferson, pitcher (d. 1957)
- 1871 - Art Nichols, catcher (d. 1945)
- 1871 - Jiggs Parrott, infielder (d. 1898)
- 1874 - Jesse Tannehill, pitcher (d. 1956)
- 1879 - Fred Burchell, pitcher (d. 1951)
- 1880 - Red Booles, pitcher (d. 1955)
- 1880 - Ed Hug, catcher (d. 1953)
- 1881 - Rabbit Nill, infielder (d. 1962)
- 1883 - Happy Smith, outfielder (d. 1961)
- 1885 - Warren Miller, outfielder (d. 1956)
- 1888 - Ken Nash, infielder (d. 1977)
- 1889 - Joe Conzelman, pitcher (d. 1979)
- 1892 - Jack Farmer, infielder (d. 1970)
- 1893 - John Peters, catcher (d. 1932)
- 1898 - Happy Chandler Hall of Famer (d. 1991)
- 1900 - Dave Harris, outfielder (d. 1973)
- 1904 - Max West, outfielder (d. 1971)
- 1908 - Johnny Murphy, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1970)
- 1911 - Julio Bonetti, pitcher (d. 1952)
- 1912 - Ed Lagger, pitcher (d. 1981)
- 1913 - Don Hendrickson, pitcher (d. 1977)
- 1913 - Gene Schott, pitcher (d. 1992)
- 1919 - Crash Davis, infielder (d. 2001)
- 1920 - Bryan Stephens, pitcher (d. 1991)
- 1924 - Ralph Rowe, coach (d. 1996)
- 1929 - Bob Purkey, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2008)
- 1935 - Earl Francis, pitcher (d. 2002)
- 1944 - Billy McCool, pitcher; All-Star
- 1947 - Steve Stone, pitcher; All-Star
- 1947 - Danny Walton, outfielder
- 1948 - Pepe Frias, infielder
- 1948 - Earl Williams, catcher
- 1951 - Rick Wolff, minor league infielder, author
- 1953 - Billy Smith, infielder
- 1954 - Chuck Rainey, pitcher
- 1958 - Kirk Aadland, minor league infielder
- 1961 - Vic Rodriguez, infielder
- 1963 - John Dopson, pitcher
- 1963 - Rob Thomson, minor league catcher
- 1964 - Darren Hall, pitcher
- 1966 - Brian Cofer, minor league pitcher
- 1967 - Robin Ventura, infielder; All-Star
- 1968 - Derrick May, outfielder
- 1969 - Jose Hernandez, infielder; All-Star
- 1970 - Mark Brandenburg, pitcher
- 1970 - Tim Davis, pitcher
- 1975 - Tim Hudson, pitcher; All-Star
- 1978 - Mike Burns, pitcher
- 1979 - Bernie Castro, infielder
- 1982 - Enrique Gonzalez, pitcher
- 1982 - Martijn Meeuwis, Hoofdklasse catcher
- 1983 - Simon Gühring, minor league catcher
- 1983 - Juan Gutierrez, pitcher
- 1983 - Eddy Martinez-Esteve, minor league outfielder
- 1987 - Ashley Scott, South African national team infielder
[edit] Deaths
- 1891 - Bill Crowley, outfielder (b. 1857)
- 1910 - Jack Horner, pitcher (b. 1863)
- 1931 - Babe Danzig, infielder (b. 1887)
- 1943 - George Pechiney, pitcher (b. 1861)
- 1947 - Orval Overall, pitcher (b. 1881)
- 1951 - Dee Cousineau, catcher (b. 1898)
- 1951 - Vance Page, pitcher (b. 1905)
- 1960 - Al Kellett, pitcher (b. 1901)
- 1960 - Walter Thornton, outfielder (b. 1875)
- 1962 - Howard Craghead, pitcher (b. 1908)
- 1963 - Bill Lindsay, infielder (b. 1881)
- 1965 - Ike Eichrodt, outfielder (b. 1903)
- 1967 - Bill Dalrymple, infielder (b. 1891)
- 1967 - Ray Winder, minor league executive (b. ????)
- 1971 - Dee Walsh, outfielder (b. 1890)
- 1982 - Jackie Jensen, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1927)
- 1984 - Al Schacht, pitcher (b. 1892)
- 1984 - Ed Short, general manager (b. ????)
- 1985 - Larry Drake, outfielder (b. 1921)
- 1986 - Wally Holborow, pitcher (b. 1913)
- 1988 - Whitey Witt, outfielder (b. 1895)
- 1994 - Cesar Tovar, outfielder (b. 1940)
- 1996 - Hank Camelli, catcher (b. 1914)
- 1997 - Loel Passe, announcer (b. 1917)
- 2000 - Georges Maranda, pitcher (b. 1932)
- 2002 - Nelson Barrera, minor league infielder (b. 1957)
- 2002 - Alfonso Gerard, minor league and Negro League outfielder (b. 1916)
