July 19

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1901 - In Chicago, Jack Taylor allows 10 hits to the Giants, but is unscored on until the 9th. The Orphans paste Christy Mathewson for 12 hits to win, 5 - 2. Chicago has now won three in a row over the visiting New Yorkers, and will take the next two games in the series as well.
1902 - In his New York Giants debut as manager, John McGraw, loses to the Phillies, 5 - 3. His team will finish in last place with a record of 48-88 and 53 1/2 games behind the pennant winning Pirates.
1904 - The Pirates push across two runs in the 9th against Christy Mathewson to edge the first-place Giants, 2 - 1.
1905 - The Pirates pull to within five games of New York by overcoming a 5 - 2 deficit and beating the Giants, 8 - 5. Bill Klem provokes a barrage of garbage from the New York fans by tossing Dan McGann and Mike Donlin out of the game for abusive behavior.
1909 - With two men on base, Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball catches Amby McConnell's line drive, gets Heinie Wagner at second, and then tags Jake Stahl completing the first modern major league unassisted triple play in a 6 - 1 win over the Red Sox. Cleveland wins 6 - 1 behind Cy Young, but Boston wins the nitecap, 3 - 2.
1910 - Cy Young, 43, wins his 500th game 5 - 4, over Washington in 11 innings.
1911 - Former circus acrobat Walter Carlisle completes an unassisted triple play for the Vernon Tigers of the Pacific Coast League. With the score tied at 3 - 3 in the 6th inning, and men on first and second base, he makes a spectacular diving catch of a short fly by batter Roy Akin, touches second, and runs to first to retire both runners. Vernon wins, 5 - 4, with the speedy English-born Carlisle pulling off the only unassisted triple play ever accomplished by an outfielder in organized baseball.
1912 - Ty Cobb strokes seven hits in a doubleheader to give him a major-league record of 14 in two consecutive twin bills against the Athletics. Bill White will tie Cobb in 1961. Cobb also pummels them for seven hits on the 17th on his way to collecting an incredible 68 hits for the month, a record.
1914 - Behind reliever Paul Strand, the Braves get three runs in the 9th off Earl Yingling to beat the Reds 3 - 2 and climb out of last place on their way to the pennant. During that journey, they will pass the Reds going the other way, as today's loss starts the Reds' fall from 2nd place to last.
1915 - The Washington Senators steal eight bases in one inning off of Cleveland catcher Steve O'Neill. The first inning thievery establishes a major league record for stolen bases in one frame. There are three SBs by Danny Moeller including second base, third base and home, two each by Clyde Milan and Eddie Ainsmith, and one by George McBride in the 11 - 4 Washington win. Walter Johnson (15-8) allows just two hits in six innings before taking the afternoon off. Reliever Nick Altrock gives up the Cleveland scores.
1916 - At Chicago, the Giants edge the Cubs, 8 - 6, as New York CF Benny Kauff tags out two runners at second base for a double play. With one out the Cubs load the bases. Giant catcher Bill Rariden throws to second and catches the runner, Les Mann, off. In the rundown, the runner on third breaks for home and scores when the Giants fumble. But the ball is recovered and the throw to Kauff covering second gets the runner sliding back. Kauff then looks up and tags the runner trying to advance from first base to end the inning.
1918 - Washington C Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker rules that baseball is not an essential occupation and all players of draft age are subject to the "work-in-essential-industries-or-fight" rule. The ruling sends many players to work in shipyards and other defense industries, where they can play part-time or semipro. Ban Johnson says the American League will close down July 21st, but the next day both leagues vote to continue. A week later, Baker exempts players from the rule until September 1st. Both leagues vote to cut the season short, and end it on Labor Day, September 2nd.
1924 - Cards rookie right-hander Herman Bell holds the Braves hitless until one out in the eighth of the first of two games. Then he does the same until one out in the fifth inning of game two, winning both 6 - 1 and 2 - 1. He allows only six hits in the twin-bill wins.
1927 - It's John McGraw Day at the Polo Grounds, in honor of his 25 years as Giants manager. The Cubs spoil the day with an 8 - 5 win.
1933 - For the first time, brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox C Rick Ferrell hits his home run off brother Wes of Cleveland. Wes hits his off Hank Johnson in the third inning. He will wind up his career with 38 homers in 548 games. Rick will hit only 28 in 1,884 games.
1936 - Seventeen year-old Iowa farm boy Bob Feller makes his major league debut pitching one inning of relief against the Senators in Washington, D.C. The hard-throwing 'kid' allows no hits and no runs, striking out none and walks two batters.
1937 - P Johnny Broaca is fined $250 and suspended indefinitely by the Yankees for jumping the club.
1940 - Buddy Rosar of the Yanks hits for the cycle; Joe Cronin will do it August 2, and Joe Gordon, September 8th.
1942:
- P Mike Ryba of the Red Sox catches both games of a doubleheader against the Indians at Fenway Park.
- The Brooklyn lead of eight games has now been cut as the Cards win 3 of 4. The larger blow, however, is a concussion suffered by Pete Reiser after crashing into an OF wall at Sportsman's Park chasing an Enos Slaughter 11th-inning fly. Reiser drops the ball upon impact, and Slaughter scores an inside-the-park homer for a 7 - 6 Cards' win. Hitting .379 at the time, Reiser will see his average fall to .310 after the injury. His 20 stolen bases will still lead the National League.
1946 - In a Boston-Chicago game, 14 White Sox are banished for jeering umpire Red Jones.
1950:
- The Pirates purchase 3B Bob Dillinger from the Athletics for $35,000.
- The Yankees obtain their first black players, OF Elston Howard and P Frank Barnes. They purchase them from the Kansas City Monarchs and assign them to the Muskegon Clippers (Central League).
- At Fenway Park, Vern Stephens crashes a 3-run home run, his 200th career homer, in the first off Fred Hutchinson. Detroit wins 9 - 5 with a little help in the 9th from ump Jim Boyer. Boyer calls time just before pinch-hitter Tom Wright triples to CF. In his do-over, Wright grounds out. Stephens joins five other active players with more than 200 homers: Joe DiMaggio, Johnny Mize, Ted Williams, Joe Gordon, and Bill Nicholson.
- Frank E. McKinney resigns as president of the Pirates. He sells interests in the club to John Galbreath and T. Johnson, with Galbreath assuming the presidency. Vice President Bing Crosby retains his minority interest.
- Southpaw Ed Lopat of the Yanks wins 16 - 1 over the Browns, throwing a two-hitter in the first game of a doubleheader.
1951 - Despite a pair of homers by Clyde Vollmer, the Indians edge the Red Sox, 5 - 4 in 11 innings.
1952 - The visiting Fitzgerald club (Georgia State League) sends up 12-year-old batboy Joe Reliford to bat as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning of a game with Statesboro. The black batboy, who theerby breaks the league's color barrier, grounds out, but makes a fine catch in the outfield when he stays in the game. Umpire Ed Kubick, who approved the move, will be fired by the league the next day.
1953:
- The Giants' Whitey Lockman leads off the game with a home run for the second day in a row, as the Giants whip the Braves 7 - 5.
- Boston lefty Mickey McDermott and relief P Ellis Kinder combine for a one-hitter against Cleveland. OF Al Smith's fourth-inning single is the only Tribe safety.
1955:
- Pirate hurler Vern Law pitches 18 innings in beating Milwaukee 4 - 3, giving up just nine hits and fanning 12.
- Playing like Babe Ruth, Detroit relief P Babe Birrer pitches four innings and hits two 3-run homers.
- Chattanooga (Southern Association) OF Jim Lemon clouts four home runs in the league's All-Star contest, as the All-Stars defeat the first-place Birmingham club 10 - 5.
1957 - Testifying before the Celler committee, Pacific Coast League President Leslie O'Connor holds that 90 percent of all good ballplayers are monopolized through the farm teams. He adds that the major leagues may control as many as 1,098 players.
1958 - The Yanks' Norm Siebern has his second 5-hit game of the month, against the Athletics, as New York loses 6 - 4.
1959 - Before 57,000 at Yankee Stadium, the Yankees sweep a pair from the visiting White Sox, winning the nitecap 6 - 4 on Mickey Mantle's homer off Turk Lown. In game 1, Yankee veteran Enos Slaughter belts a pair of homers: at age 43, he is the oldest player this century to accomplish the feat. Carlton Fisk, a few months older, will top Slaughter in 1991.
1960:
- Roy Sievers' 21-game hitting streak, the longest for any player this year, ends, but White Sox teammate Luis Aparicio's inside-the-park home run and Billy Pierce's shutout beat Boston, 6 - 0.
- The Yankees outslug the Indians, 13 - 11, behind the slugging of Bill Skowron. Skowron's follows a Yogi Berra blast with his second homer in the 8th but Cleveland answers with two in the bottom of the 8th for an 11 - 8 lead. Moose then hits a bases-loaded double in the 9th to win it. Roger Maris hits his 30th home run and Jimmy Piersall homers for the Tribe.
- In his major league debut, Giants rookie righty Juan Marichal one-hits the Phillies at Candlestick Park, 2 - 0. Philadelphia's lone hit is two-out eighth-inning single by pinch hitter Clay Dalrymple. Marichal winds up with 12 strikeouts and is the first National League hurler since 1900 to debut with a one-hitter.
- Senators ace Pedro Ramos pitches a one-hitter, beating Detroit, 5 - 0. Rocky Colavito's leadoff single in the 8th, a grounder that eludes SS Jose Valdivielso, is the lone safety.
1961:
- Ford Frick, an old friend of Babe Ruth's, announces that should Ruth's record be beaten after 154 games, the record will carry a "distinctive mark". When asked about the "ruling", Roger Maris replies, "A season is a season." Sportswriter Dick Young suggests an asterisk, which is later claimed to be Frick's idea. No such designation is ever used in the record books, though, but the incident leads to a myth that an "official record book" lists Maris's record with an asterisk. The myth is still popularly believed over 45 years later.
- The Yanks and Senators split, with Washington winning the nitecap 12 - 2. Dick Donovan is the winner. Mickey Mantle belts a 500 foot homer in the 4th over the RF wall.
1962 - John W. Cox, owner of Yankee Stadium, donates the facility to Rice University.
1963 - Tommy Harper drives in all the runs in the Reds' 5 - 2 win over the Giants. Harper has two home runs and a single for Cincinnati.
1963 - With one out and a man on in the 9th, Roy Sievers hits his 300th career home run to give the Phils a 2 - 1 win over the Mets. Roger Craig is the victim, his 13th straight loss.
1964:
- Luis Tiant debuts with a 4-hit, 11-strikeout, 3 - 0 win for Cleveland at Yankee Stadium. The losing pitcher is Whitey Ford. Tiant was brought up yesterday after a 15-1 record at Portland (AAA).
- Chicago edges the A's, 3 - 2, in 13 innings when pitcher Gary Peters socks a pinch homer.
1966:
- At Chicago, Cub Byron Browne strikes out five times against Reds starter Jim Maloney. The Reds finally win, 3 - 2, in 18 innings, with Joe Nuxhall victorious over Fergie Jenkins. Don Pavletich belts a homer in the 18th inning off Jenkins. In tomorrow's Reds win over the Cubs, Browne will strike out another three times to set a National League record for two games on his way to leading the NL in strikeouts with 143.
- The Cards edge the Braves, 10 - 9, with the win going to reliever Nellie Briles. Redbird starter Tracy Stallard gets no decision in his last ML appearance. Stallard sets a major league record for his 7-year career by receiving no walks in 247 plate appearances.
1969:
- Phillie Dick Allen's suspension ends, but he incurs a $12,000 fine.
- The Twins and Pilots suspend an 16-inning game at 7 - 7.
- At War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo, a knife-wielding gang takes over the club house during batting practice. The International League game is postponed due to "threatening weather."
1974 - Cleveland's Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland 4 - 0. He has no one but himself to blame for not picking up a rare perfect game. His throwing error in the 4th puts the only A's runner on base. The two clubs combine to set an American League record with only two runners left on base.
1975 - Yankee C Thurman Munson's first-inning single and RBI against the Twins are nullified because the tar on his bat handle exceeds the 18-inch limit. Catcher Glenn Borgmann gets the putout. The Yankees lose, 2 - 1.
1976 - The Mets' Dave Kingman tears ligaments in his thumb diving for a ball in a 4 - 2 loss to the Braves. Kingman, who already has 32 home runs for the season, will hit only five more after being sidelined for six weeks.
1977:
- While pursuing Hank Aaron's home run record, Sadaharu Oh of the Yomiuri Giants breaks one held by Babe Ruth when he draws his 2,057th base on balls.
- At Yankee Stadium, the National League scores four times in the opening inning off Jim Palmer, en route to a 7 - 5 All-Star Game victory. Don Sutton, hurling three scoreless innings, is named the game's MVP.
1978:
- The Red Sox beat the Brewers 8 - 2, scoring four in the 7th and four in the 8th, to increase their lead in the American League Eastern Division to nine games over Milwaukee, 12 1/2 over Baltimore, and 14 games over the 4th-place Yankees. In the 7th, the Sox have George Scott on second base and Butch Hobson, playing his first game in weeks because of muscle spasms, on first base. On a Frank Duffy single, Scott scores on a close play, prompting an argument by Brewers catcher Charlie Moore. No time is called, however, and Hobson strolls around the bases to score from first, while Duffy is finally thrown out trying for third base. Carlton Fisk accounts for the other three runs in the inning with his 13th homer of the year.
- Against the Phils, Pete Rose beats out a 9th inning bunt to keep his hitting streak alive. It looks dead when Pete is retired in the 8th inning while still hitless, but the Reds score four runs to give Rose the chance to hit again. Mike Schmidt can't handle Rose's bunt. The Reds win, 7 - 2.
1979 - Ray Knight drives in six runs to lead the Reds to a 16 - 4 clipping of the Cardinals in St. Louis.
1982:
- The Twins overcome two homers by Robin Yount to beat the Brewers, 6 - 4. Tom Brunansky hits his second inside-the-park homer of the year (May 28 was the other), but this one is a grand slam off Jerry Augustine. The inside-the-park slam is a first in Twins history.
- In the first annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic at Washington's Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot homer off Warren Spahn to help the American League to a 7 - 2 win over the National League in a 5-inning battle of retired baseball stars.
- In his major league debut, Tony Gwynn doubles of Phillies southpaw Sid Monge for his first major league hit.
1984 - Orel Hershiser pitches his 3rd straight shutout for the Dodgers, striking out nine in a 10 - 0 two-hitter at St. Louis.
1986 - Mets players Ron Darling, Tim Teufel, Bob Ojeda and Rick Aguilera are arrested following an early-morning fight with off-duty police officers working as security guards outside a Houston bar, but are all released in time for their Astros game that evening. On January 26th, 1987, Darling and Teufel will be fined $200 while charges against Ojeda and Aguilera will be dropped.
1987 - Texas wins a 20 - 3 laugher over the Yankees. Steve Buechele has two homers to pace the offense. In the 9th inning, catcher Rick Cerone takes the mound and walks one but allows no runs.
1988 - In the top of the 9th at Wrigley Field, Cubs pitcher Rick Sutcliffe picks Brett Butler off first base unassisted. With Jose Uribe at second, Butler wanders too far off the bag and the Cubs pitcher nabs him for the out. But Sutcliffe loses, 3 - 1, to Rick Reuschel.
1989 - Cleveland's Joe Carter hits three home runs in a game for the second time this season in a 10 - 1 win over Minnesota. It is his 4th career 3-homer game, tying Lou Gehrig's American League record, and also gives him a ML-record-tying five homers in two games. Carter knocks home six runs in the game.
1991:
- Detroit pounds Kansas City, 17 - 0 to give Bill Gullickson an easy win over Tom Gordon. It is the worst loss in franchise history for KC, and a reversal of the match-up off July 14th between the same two starters. That day, te Royals routed the Bengals, 18 - 4.
- Cal Ripken Jr. strokes his 20th home run of the season in Baltimore's 4 - 1 victory over Seattle. He becomes just the 8th player in history to reach that number in each of his first 10 big league seasons and it comes in Ripken's 1,500th consecutive game played. Roy Smith is the winner over Rich DeLucia.
- Robin Ventura drives in six runs on two homers and two doubles to lead Chicago to a 14 - 3 win over Milwaukee. Jack McDowell (12-4) is the winner.
1994:
- Cardinals P Vicente Palacios hurls a one-hit shutout against Houston, defeating the Astros, 10 - 0. Palacios allows only a 3rd-inning single to Andujar Cedeno and a walk, while striking out eight batters. It is Palacios's 31st birthday.
- Two hours before the Mariners are scheduled to play the Orioles in the Kingdome, four 15-pound wood-fiber tiles fall from the ceiling of the stadium, landing in the empty seats. The game is postponed indefinitely as an inspection finds that many water-damaged tiles will have to be replaced before baseball can be played there again this season.
1997 - The Cubs sweep two from the visiting Rockies, 7 - 0 and 6 - 5, to hand Colorado its 15th loss in 16 games. Steve Trachsel tosses seven shutout innings in the opener for the win, and the Cubs score the winning run in the nitecap on Mark Grace's sacrifice fly. The Rocks have 13 hits in the nitecap, but strand 14 runners. Larry Walker is 0-for-9 for the afternoon, dropping his average 10 points to .392.
1998 - Blue Jays first baseman Carlos Delgado becomes the first player to reach the SkyDome's fifth deck with his ruthian home run to right field.
1999 - The White Sox defeat the Brewers, 10 - 8 in 12 innings. The 18-hit Chicago attack is led by rookie OF Chris Singleton's five safeties, including a 12th inning home run. It is the rookie's second 5-hit game in less than two weeks.
2000:
- The Dodgers beat the Rockies, 9 - 1, as Kevin Brown and Mike Fetters combine on a one-hitter. Larry Walker's single off Brown is Colorado's only safety.
- The Reds defeat the Astros, 4 - 0, as Pete Harnisch hurls the first complete-game shutout ever at Enron Field.
- Chicago Cubs general manager Ed Lynch resigns. His job will be taken over by team president Andy MacPhail.
- The Blue Jays acquire P Esteban Loaiza from the Rangers in exchange for two minor leaguers, Michael Young and Darwin Cubillan. Young will be a perennial All-Star for Texas, the clear winner in the deal.
2001:
- The Rockies obtain OF Alex Ochoa from the Reds for 2B Todd Walker and minor league OF Robin Jennings. The Reds also call up top OF prospect Adam Dunn, who has hit 32 homers in the minors this year. Dunn will clout 19 homers for the Reds including 12 in August, setting the National League rookie record for most home run in any month, with 12. The old mark of 11 was set by Frank Robinson, in August 1956. The only other rookies to hit more home run in a month were Rudy York (18 in August 1937), Mark McGwire (in May 1987) and Jimmie Hall (13 in August 1963).
- Moises Alou's 23-game hitting streak is ended in St. Louis's 4 - 1 victory over Houston.
- Arizona defeats San Diego, 3 - 0, in the completion of a game that was suspended after two innings on July 18. Randy Johnson strikes out 16 batters in his seven innings of relief of Curt Schilling to break the ML mark for relievers set by Walter Johnson on July 25, 1913. He allows just one hit - C Wiki Gonzalez's 8th-inning single - for the Padres' only hit in the contest. In addition to setting the record for Ks in a game by a reliever, Johnson also sets the NL reliever record with seven consecutive strikeouts. Johnson is one shy of the major league mark, set by Ron Davis, on May 4, 1981.
2002:
- The Cardinals acquire veteran P Chuck Finley from the Indians for minor league 1B Luis Garcia and outfielder Covelli "Coco" Crisp, the Cards' minor league player of the year in 2001.
- Anaheim OF Tim Salmon strokes five hits in the Angels' 15 - 3 win over the Mariners. He drives home five runs in the contest, including three on his 15th home run of the year. The Angels score eight runs in the 6th inning to break open the game.
- Oakland defeats Texas, 10 - 0, behind Cory Lidle's one-hitter. The Rangers' only hit is Juan Gonzalez's leadoff double in the 8th inning.
2004 - In Pacific Coast League action at Portland's PGE Park, Tagg Bozied hits a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the ninth to beat the Tacoma Rainiers, 8 - 5. Upon his arrival at home plate, the Beavers' first baseman, jumping for joy, ruptures the patella tendon to his left knee and needs to be taken to Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital by ambulance. The injury will cost him a chance at a major league call-up and he will retire without having played in The Show.
2007:
- Shelley Duncan hits his 25th homer for the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees to break Wendell Magee's franchise record for home runs. Duncan will be called up to the majors and hit three homers in his first three days in big leagues.
- Veteran umpire Huh Un is fired by the Korea Baseball Organization as part of a long-running feud. 25 other KBO umpires protest the move and the KBO is forced to hire amateur umpires to fill the gap.
2008 - Confusion erupts in a New York-Penn League game between the Staten Island Yankees and Brooklyn Cyclones. Switch-hitting Brooklyn DH Ralph Henriquez Jr. steps to the plate from the right side against Pat Venditte, the minor leagues' first ambidextrous pitcher of the century. Henriquez then decides he will hit left-handed and Venditte promptly switches his glove to the right hand. Henriquez again calls time and switches sides. The shuffle continues several times before the umpires and managers decide that the batter must declare first from which side he will bat and that players can only switch once per at-bat. Venditte, throwing from the right side, winds up whiffing Henriquez on four pitches.
2009:
- With trade rumors continuing to swirl around his name, All-Star Game starter Roy Halladay wins for the first time in over a month as Toronto defeats Boston, 3 - 1. Doc is now 11-3 for the year.
- John Lackey and rookie Brett Anderson are locked in a scoreless pitching duel for 9 innings before a solo homer from Bobby Abreu in the 10th inning wins the game for the Angels, 1 - 0 over the A's. Abreu had earlier broken Anderson's bid for a perfect game in the 7th.
- The Brewers, absent injured 2B Rickie Weeks, acquire Felipe López from the Diamondbacks to strengthen their lineup. Arizona gets Cole Gillespie and Roque Mercedes in return.