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  • 1900 - At Brooklyn's Washington Park, the Superbas tie the score against the Giants in the 5th. With two men on base and the score tied, New York captain George Davis takes out pitcher Ed Doheny and brings in rookie Christy Mathewson, just brought up from Norfolk where he was 20-2. He hits three batters, walks 2, and gives up six runs in a 13-7 loss, charged to Doheny. The New York Times says, "Matty has lots of speed and gives promise of making his way." Doheny also plunked a batter, while Brooklyn's Joe McGinnity hit two for a combined six in the game, a record, since tied.
  • 1902 - Left with only five players available to play, the Orioles forfeit a game to St. Louis and their franchise to the league, which borrows players from other teams and operates the club for the balance of the season.
  • 1903 - Rube Waddell is arrested for assaulting a fan who had criticized his pitching. Connie Mack bails him out of jail.
  • 1903 - Dan McClelland of the Cuban X-Giants spins the first perfect game in black baseball history, blanking the Penn Park Athletic Club of York, 5-0.
  • 1906 - The Cubs beat back the Giants, 6-2, as Three-Finger Brown tops Christy Mathewson. Joe Tinker's 2-run homer in the 6th is the big blow for Chicago. The loss drops the Giants to six games behind the Cubs.
  • 1907 - Battling for 2nd place, the Pirates defeat the Giants, 2-0, pinning the loss on Christy Mathewson. The Giants announce that Tommy Corcoran, the 38-year-old vet whom the Giants picked up before the season started, has been handed his release.
  • 1908 - In another classic match-up, Three-Finger Brown and Christy Mathewson pair off with Brown winning 1-0. The Cubs pitcher allows six hits, with Matty giving up 7. The only run comes on a 5th inning inside-the-park home run by Matty's nemesis, Joe Tinker, who runs through the arms of 3B coach Heinie Zimmerman to score. In the 12 match-ups between the two pitchers, Brown has won eight. A tragic occurrence happens during Tinker's home run dash when a boy, standing on the roof of a nearby building to view the game, falls 50 feet to his death.
  • 1908 - It is Honus Wagner Day in Pittsburgh, as players from both teams line up to pay homage. Wagner's tribute was originally scheduled for the 16th, but Honus asked that it be moved a day so it would not conflict with the annual benefit picnic for orphans. Wagner is presented with a $700 gold watch. Pittsburgh beats Boston, 4-0.
  • 1909 - Brooklyn and Chicago swap shutouts, with George Bell topping Chicago's Orval Overall, 1-0, in the opener. Ed Reulbach comes back in the 2nd game to beat Kaiser Wilhelm, 4-0. Bill Bergen's hitless streak ends. Bergen's hitless streak started after he singled in his first at bat against the Giants on June 29, 1909. It ends in the second game today when, after sitting out the first game, he had a fourth inning infield single against Ed Reulbach. The catcher will hit just .139 this season, not a yearly low.
  • 1909 - Red Sox reliever Smoky Joe Wood fans 10 Cleveland batters in just four innings, as visiting Boston wins, 6 - 4.
  • 1911 - Boston Braves infielder Buck Herzog and OF Doc Miller fail to show up for a game and are suspended by the club. After a conference with the club president, they rejoin the team. John McGraw, anxious to retrieve former Giant Herzog to shore up a weak infield, will swap C Hank Gowdy and SS Al Bridwell to Boston for Herzog on the 21st.
  • 1914 - At Forbes Field, Rube Marquard and Babe Adams each go a marathon 21 innings before Larry Doyle's 2-run home run gives the Giants a 3-1 win over the Pirates. Adams yields no walks and 12 hits, the longest non-walk game in ML history. Marquard walks two (one intentional) and yields 15 hits. In the 6th, Honus Wagner goes from first to 3B on a hit by Jim Viox. When New York CF Bob Bescher throws to 3B Milt Stock, the ball bounces out of his hands and disappears. Wagner scores before it's discovered that the ball bounced up under his arm and stayed there as he ran home. Wagner is called out for interference, and the Bucs protest. Manager Clarke is then ejected by umpire Bill "Lord" Byron. In a fitting ending to this unusual game, Giants OF Red Murray is knocked unconscious by a bolt of lightning after catching a fly ball for the final out. Murray is uninjured. Marquard's win is his last in 1914. He will lose 10 straight on his way to a 12-22 record.
  • 1914 - Any pennant chances the Senators have go out the window when Clyde "Deerfoot" Milan and Danny Moeller collide in the outfield. Milan's jaw is broken in two places and he will miss 40 games.
  • 1915 - The Cubs end Grover Cleveland Alexander's 9-game win streak 4-0. Chicago and Philadelphia are deadlocked for the National League lead. In Chicago, the Red Sox top the White Sox, 6-2, to move back into 1st place. Boston will win four out of five in the series with their rivals. In the American League, the White Sox spend their last day on top. The Tigers will challenge Boston down the stretch.
  • 1917 - The Giants waive little-used George Kelly to Pittsburgh. Kelly will return to star for New York.
  • 1918 - Chicago's Lefty Tyler goes 21 innings against Milt Watson to beat the Phils 2-1.
  • 1922 - At Boston, Ty Cobb gets five hits (and a walk) in a game for the 4th time this year, setting an American League mark. His previous 5-hit contests were on May 7th, July 7th, and July 12th. Only Willie Keeler has done it before. The Tigers roar, 16-7. overcoming a 5-0 deficit after one inning.
  • 1924 - On Tuberculosis Day at Sportsman's Park, the Cards' Jesse Haines hurls his only shutout in two years, a 5-0 no-hitter over the Braves. "While the majestic northpaw was realizing his lifelong pitching ambitions, the Cardinals were making merry with the right-hand shoots of McNamara" (St. Louis Globe-Democrat). It is the first no-hitter by a St. Louis hurler since 1876, and the first-ever NL no-hitter in St. Louis.
  • 1934 - NL President John Heydler upholds the Cards protest of a loss to the Cubs on July 2. The game will be resumed from the point at which umpire Klem waited too long to call an infield fly and be played prior to a scheduled July 31st game.
  • 1934 - Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland. He will retire with a walk record of 2,062. Rickey Henderson will break the record.
  • 1934 - Although Bob Johnson, Jimmie Foxx and Pinky Higgins hit successive HRs in the fourth inning, St. Louis Browns P Jack Knott perseveres to beat the A's, 7-4.
  • 1934 - Lon Warneke, Cubs mound ace, intentionally walks a batter in the seventh to load the bases and bring up the Giants P Roy Parmelee. He hits a grand slam for a 5-3 win.
  • 1935 - Bill Werber of the Red Sox ties the major-league record with 4 doubles in the opening game of a doubleheader with Cleveland. The Sox win the pair 13-5 and 3-1.
  • 1936 - Yankees Red Rolfe, Lou Gehrig and Bill Dickey hit 3rd-inning home runs against Detroit to tie the American League record, since topped. New York rolls, 9-4, dropping the Bengals to 4th place. Goose Goslin has a pair of homers for Detroit.
  • 1936 - Carl Hubbell starts his 24-game winning streak, beating Pittsburgh 6-0. The Giants hit a National League record tying four triples in the first inning: Jo-Jo Moore, Mel Ott and Hank Leiber hit them in succession, and Eddie Mayo adds one later in the inning to equal the ML record.
  • 1941 - In front of more than 60,000 fans at Cleveland, Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak is ended at 56 games. Indians P Al Smith and Jim Bagby Jr., plus sensational plays by 3B Ken Keltner, stop the Yankee Clipper, but New York edges the Indians 6-5.
  • 1942 - The Browns, under Luke Sewell, achieve an 8-game win streak with doubleheader victories 4-2 and 11-1 over the A's. Chet Laabs blasts HRs in both games. During the eight game streak, Laabs hits eight HRs. He will finish second to Ted Williams in the AL with 27 HRs.
  • 1947 - Less than two weeks after Larry Doby's debut with the Indians, Hank Thompson and Willard Brown become the second and third black players in the American League and first for the Browns. The former Kansas City Monarchs standouts will play in less than 30 games for St. Louis because their presence does not significantly raise attendance.
  • 1947 - The Yankees sweep a doubleheader against Cleveland 3-1 and 7-2 to extend their winning streak to an AL record 19 games. The streak matches that of the 1906 White Sox.
  • 1948 - The Dodgers down the Reds, 8-4 and 10-4 for their 12th win in 14 games. Ralph Branca wins the opener as Jackie Robinson clouts a 3-run homer in the 8th. Paul Minner wins his first ML game in the nitecap with six innings of relief. During an argument with Frank Dascoli, Reds catcher Dewey Williams grabs the ump. Willliams will be fined $100 and suspended for five games. However, with catcher Ray Mueller on the disabled list with a broken ankle, the Reds appeal the suspension, stating they have only one catcher, Ray Lamanno. Ford Frick, National League president, will rule that Williams will serve the suspension in the Reds clubhouse, while dressed in full uniform. If anything happens to Lamanno, Williams can substitute, and a game will added to the suspension.
  • 1948 - Ed Lopat scatters 11 hits to beat the Browns, 4-0. It is the Yankee hurler's 2nd shutout in a row and his 3rd this year.
  • 1948 - At Pittsburgh, a Bobby Thomson pinch single drives home the winning run in the Giants managerial debut of Leo Durocher. The Giants win, 6-5, overcoming a three-run homer by Ralph Kiner.
  • 1950 - Yankee rookie Whitey Ford wins his first ML game, beating the visiting White Sox, 4-3. Tom Ferrick finished for New York.
  • 1951 - LF Joe Adcock is 4-for-4 and throws out a runner at home in the ninth to lead the Reds to a 9-8 win over the host Phillies.
  • 1951 - After pitching for Bill Veeck in Cleveland in 1948, Satchel Paige rejoins him with the St. Louis Browns.
  • 1954 - With Jim Gilliam (2B), Jackie Robinson (3B), Sandy Amoros (LF), Roy Campanella (C) and Don Newcombe (P) in the starting lineup against the Braves, the Dodgers field the first team which consists of a majority of black players. The historic five helps Brooklyn beat Milwaukee at County Stadium, 2-1.
  • 1955 - Earl Torgeson of the Tigers steals home in the 10th to beat the Yanks 6-5.
  • 1955 - In what would be their most important move of the season, the Brooklyn Dodgers bring up rookie pitchers Roger Craig and Don Bessent from the minor leagues. They immediately pay dividends as they beat the Reds in both ends of a doubleheader. Craig wins 6-2 and Bessent matches it 8-5.
  • 1956 - Red Sox pitchers Tom Brewer and Bob Porterfield sweep the Athletics 10-0 and 4-0.
  • 1959 - In a dispute with the umpires, Cleveland manager Joe Gordon is ejected. Cleveland OF Minnie Minoso refuses to stand in the batter's box until the argument is over. Umpire Frank Umont calls him out on strikes. The enraged Minoso charges Umont and gets the thumb also. The Indians win 8-7 to stay on the heels of Chicago.
  • 1959 - Chicago's Early Wynn and the Yankees' Ralph Terry match zeros for eight innings at Yankee Stadium, before Chicago's Jim McAnany collects the first Sox hit in the 9th. Jim Landis adds a 2nd hit to drive home two runs to give the Sox the 2-0 win. Wynn matched Terry by also allowing just two hits.
  • 1960 - Batting just .244 and not hitting for power, Willie McCovey, 1959 National League Rookie of the Year, is sent down to Tacoma (Pacific Coast League).
  • 1960 - The Senators, losers of 10 straight to the Indians, sweep a pair from the Tribe, 3 - 2 and 5 - 3. The opening win is over Mudcat Grant, who had never lost to the Senators in 14 straight victories.
  • 1961 - The Yankees top the O's, 5-0, behind Whitey Ford's 13th straight win. Mickey Mantle (#33) and Skowron hit long home runs at Baltimore. The nitecap goes into the 5th when, with two outs and the Yanks up 4-1, a thunderstorm strikes. The umps wait 65 minutes before calling the game, thus washing out homers by Roger Maris and Mantle.
  • 1961 - Bill White goes 8-for-10 in a doubleheader, as the Cards sweep the Cubs 10-6 and 8-5 at Busch Stadium.
  • 1961 - Following a year-long illness, Ty Cobb succumbs to cancer at age 74 at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
  • 1961 - Commissioner Ford Frick decrees that Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs in a 154-game schedule in 1927 "cannot be broken unless some batter hits 61 or more within his club's first 154 games."
  • 1962 - Sandy Koufax leaves after one inning of a 7-5 loss at Cincinnati. The 14-game winner has a circulatory problem in the index finger and palm of his pitching hand and will be sidelined until late September.
  • 1964 - The Phillies regain first place with a 7-5 win against the Pirates. They will hold the lead until September 27th.
  • 1964 - In Los Angeles, the Cub-Dodger contest becomes the first Pay-TV baseball game as Subscription Television offers the cablecast to subscribers for money. The Dodgers beat Chicago, 3-2, with Don Drysdale collecting 10 strikeouts.
  • 1964 - The first-place O's win again as Robin Roberts shuts out Detroit 5-0, despite giving up 11 hits.
  • 1965 - Los Angeles returns to first place, as Claude Osteen beats the Cubs 7-2.
  • 1966 - Pittsburgh regains the National League lead by sweeping a doubleheader 7-4 and 7-1 from the Giants.
  • 1966 - The Cubs clip the Cardinals, 7-2, behind the pitching of Ken Holtzman and the slugging of Billy Williams, who hits for the cycle.
  • 1969 - Gold Glove pitcher Jim Kaat commits three errors but still beats the Twins, 8-5.
  • 1969 - Sal Bando is 5-for-5 and drives in the first four runs in the A's 8-2 win over Seattle. Don Mincher drives in both runs off Catfish Hunter (8-7).
  • 1969 - In a twin bill split with the Braves, Lee May hits two home runs in each contest as well as driving in five runs in both ends of the doubleheader. Despite the All-Star first baseman performance, the Reds drop the opener 9-8, but come back to win the night cap, 10-4.
  • 1970 - With the score tied at 5-5 and bases loaded in the 10th inning, and no outs, Brewers manager Dave Bristol inaugurates the "Bristol Shift," bringing OF Tommy Harper in between SS and 3B. Unperturbed, George Scott hits a sac fly to win the game.
  • 1971 - Juan Marichal allows just one hit through eight innings, but the Reds score three in the bottom of the 9th to win, 3-2. Tony Perez hits a 2-run single to win it.
  • 1971 - Dock Ellis wins his 13th straight as Pittsburgh whips the Padres 9-2.
  • 1974 - Milwaukee 3B Don Money commits a first-inning error in a 10-5 loss to Minnesota, ending his perfect defensive season after 86 games and 257 chances. At this point, Money holds both the National League and American League records for most consecutive chances without an error in a season.
  • 1974 - Cardinals pitching great Bob Gibson fans the Reds' Cesar Geronimo to become the 2nd hurler to strike out 3,000 batters. Geronimo will become Nolan Ryan's 3,000th K victim six years later. The Reds shrug it off, scoring six runs in the first inning and three in the 2nd on their way to a 12-7 win.
  • 1975 - For the second consecutive White Sox game, Wilbur Wood is the starter, and he tosses his 2nd straight shutout, beating Detroit, 5-0. The two starts were broken up by the All-Star game.
  • 1976 - Walter Alston wins his 2,000th game as Dodger manager.
  • 1977 - The Yankees lose, 8-4, for their 3rd straight loss to the Royals. New York has now lost seven of their last nine games and are three games in back of the leading Orioles.
  • 1978 - In the latest incident in his feud with manager Billy Martin, the Yankees' Reggie Jackson ignores instructions and attempts to bunt in the 10th inning of a tie game with the Royals. Jackson pops up, the Yanks lose, 9-7, in the 11th, and Martin serves Jackson with a 5-day suspension without pay. The Royals' 3-game sweep at Yankee Stadium leaves New York in 4th place, 14 games behind the Red Sox.
  • 1979 - The National League wins its 8th straight All-Star Game, 7-6, at Seattle. Lee Mazzilli homers to tie the game in the 8th, and walks in the 9th to bring in the winning run. Dave Parker, with two outstanding throws, is named the game's MVP, and Pete Rose plays a record 5th All-Star position. The Red Sox provide the starting OF for the American League in Rice, Yaz, and Lynn, though Yaz has played 1B most of the season.
  • 1987 - Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly becomes the first American League player to hit a home run in seven consecutive games.
  • 1988 - The Giants beat the Pirates, 5-4 with Robby Thompson hitting the 10,000th home run in Giants franchise history.
  • 1988 - Philadelphia's Ricky Jordan homers in his first ML at bat and the Phillies go on to beat Houston 10-4.
  • 1989 - Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires, just 20 appearances shy of Hoyt Wilhelm's all-time games-pitched record of 1,070. Tekulve had posted a 5.02 ERA in 37 games this season.
  • 1989 - In the first doubleheader ever played at the Skydome, the Blue Jays sweep a pair from California, 6-4 and 5-4. Both wins go to David Wells pitching in relief, with Henke notching two saves. Wells becomes the first pitcher in five years to win both games of a doubleheader. The next doubleheader in Toronto won't come until October 2001.
  • 1989 - White Sox C Carlton Fisk gets his 2,000th career hit in a 7-3 win over the Yankees.
  • 1990 - Minnesota becomes the first team history to turn two triple plays in the same game. Both are started on grounders to 3B Gary Gaetti, who has started five of the Twins' last six triple killings. The Twins' triple killings aren't enough as the team loses to the Red Sox at Fenway Park, 1-0.
  • 1991 - Cleveland defeats Oakland, 2-1, as Indians hurler Rod Nichols gets the victory and breaks a personal 13-game losing streak dating back to September 1989.
  • 1991 - Randy Johnson takes just four innings to rack up 10 walks. He fans 4, tosses a wild pitch and allows one hit and four runs in his stint, a 6-1 loss to the Brewers. Bill Wegman takes the complete game win.
  • 1991 - Two naked Braves fans run onto the field at Fulton County Stadium then slide into home plate. The duo are apprehended by security guards. Not distracted, the Braves defeat the Cubs, 12-2.
  • 1991 - In a 15-inning, 9-8 loss to the Royals, Sam Horn of the Orioles becomes the first non-pitcher to fan six consecutive times in a single game. Pitcher Carl Weilman of the Browns was the only other player to have the dubious distinction, performing the feat on August 25, 1913.
  • 1992 - Baltimore P Mike Mussina tosses a one-hitter against the Texas Rangers, striking out 10 as the Orioles win by a score of 8-0. Reimer has the lone hit, a double. Kevin Brown (14-5) takes the loss.
  • 1992 - Behind Greg Maddux, the Cubs beat first-place Pittsburgh, 2-1. Buc CF Andy Van Slyke has two hits and makes an unassisted DP.
  • 1993 - The Rangers trade pitchers Robb Nen and Kurt Miller to the Marlins in exchange for P Cris Carpenter.
  • 1993 - Spokane (NWL) pitcher Glenn Dishman retires the first 26 Yakima batters. The 27th batter hits an easy roller to the second baseman who tosses to 1B Jason Thompson. Thompson starts celebrating early, pulling his foot off the bag for an error before he records the out. Dishman gets the next batter for his no-hitter.
  • 1994 - The Richmond Braves defeat the Norfolk Tides, 3-2, in 12 innings, in a Class AAA International League game. The contest is marked by a brawl in the 8th inning in which both dugouts empty and one player is ejected. A new anti-fighting policy in the minors mandates fines and suspensions for any player who leaves his position, the dugout, or the bullpen during a fight. The IL president suspends and fines 35 players for their actions.
  • 1994 - Colorado draws 61,972 fans to its 10-6 win over St. Louis, establishing a major league record for attendance for a 4-game set with 259,113.
  • 1996 - The Red Sox take a 9 - 2 lead over the Yankees into the 7th inning in Boston. New York scores three in the 7th, two in the 8th, and four in the 9th to move ahead, 11-9. The Red Sox bounce back with three of their own in their last at bat to defeat New York by a score of 12-11 and end John Wetteland's record save streak.
  • 1996 - Lead-off hitter Kurt Abbott pounds a single, triple, and home run and drives in six runs to lead the Marlins to an 11-2 victory over the Astros.
  • 1996 - Five Padre relievers help the Rockies set a club record of 11 runs in the 7th inning en route to a 13-12 Rock win. Colorado overcomes a 7-run deficit.
  • 1996 - Cards pitcher Andy Benes, who started the year going 1-7, evens his record at 8-8, beating the Reds 6-4.
  • 1998 - The Mariners sink the Royals, 18-5, for their 5th straight win. Bill Swift gives up five runs in 5+ innings, but it is good enough to win. Dan Wilson is 3 for 4 and drives in six runs for the M's. Wilson, Alex Rodriguez and Jay Buhner clout homers.
  • 1998 - The Rangers trade P Todd Van Poppel and promising minor leaguer Warren Morris to the Pirates in exchange for P Esteban Loaiza.
  • 1998 - Both Rafael Palmeiro and Albert Belle hit their 300th homers tonight. Palmeiro is 3 for 4 as his Orioles win, 4-1 over the Angels, and improve their record since the All-Star break to 9-0. Belle's homer - his 10th in 10 games since the break - and Robin Ventura's 9th-inning homer give the White Sox a 4-3 victory over the visiting Indians.
  • 1999 - The Brewers defeat the Royals, 11-3, as 1B Mark Loretta strokes five hits, including a double and home run, brings home four runs, and scores three himself.
  • 2000 - The Cardinals defeat the Twins, 8-3. St. Louis OF Chris Richard becomes the 2nd Cardinal in two weeks to hit a home run in his 1st major league at bat.
  • 2001 - Indians P Bartolo Colon is ejected from Cleveland's 10-4 win over Houston after throwing a pitch near the head of Astros C Scott Servais, which actually hits his bat. Colon will be suspended six games for his actions.
  • 2001 - Expos coach Ozzie Guillen is thrown out before 1st pitch is thrown out, continuing an argument from last night with ump Greg Gibson. The Expos then pound Boston's Tim Wakefield to beat the visiting Red Sox, 11-7. Five homers are hit in the game, including a 457-foot shot by Vladimir Guerrero.
  • 2001 - Braves 1B Rico Brogna announces his retirement, effective immediately, opening a spot for Bernard Gilkey. The injury-plagued Brogna will coach high school football. Without him, the Braves win, 4-0, behind Greg Maddux's 34th career shutout. Maddux K's nine and walks none.
  • 2002 - Minnesota's Torii Hunter, angered after he is hit by a pitch, picks up the ball and fires it at Indians pitcher Danys Baez in the fifth inning of an 8-5 Twins win. Hunter's throw hits the pitcher in the leg but he stays in the game. After the game Baez goes into the Twins clubhouse to apologize. Thome, Selby and Broussard homer for the Tribe, while David Ortiz and Dustan Mohr hit 2-run homers. Rick Reed (7 - 5) wins but has to shoo away a seagull, which walks out to the mound: it's the gull's 3rd straight appearance.
  • 2004 - Richard Orman wins his 100th game in Hoofdklasse. He is the 10th player to reach that milestone, but only the second left-handed pitcher and only the second pitcher to have won all the games with one team. In Orman's case, all the wins came with the Pioniers. He will spend another three years in the league, winning another 23 games, before hanging up his spikes.
  • 2007 - For the fifth time in Nippon Pro Baseball history, three people are ejected from a game. After a close pitch to Tuffy Rhodes, Rhodes punches catcher Tomoya Satozaki. In the ensuing fight, Rhodes and coaches Yoshihiko Takahashi and Jon Debus are all ejected. All will be fined at least $50,000 and Rhodes will be suspended for a game.
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