July 25

Events, births and deaths that occurred on July 25.

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• 1900:
  • The Boston Beaneaters score 13 runs in the 1st inning against the Cardinals on 10 hits, including two triples by Buck Freeman, and four errors. The game is shortened by rain after six innings and Boston wins, 18 - 5.
  • Christy Mathewson makes his second appearance, relieving in the 3rd against the Pirates with the score 3 - 1. The Bucs rattle the rookie for six runs in the inning to lead, 9 - 1. Matty gives up another run in his seven innings, as Pittsburgh coasts to victory.
• 1901 - Brooklyn righty Frank Kitson outpitches Christy Mathewson, allowing just one Giant hit in beating New York, 5 - 0. Four of the Brooklyn runs are unearned. Algie McBride has the only safety, a single, for New York.
• 1902 - At Chicago, the Reds' Cy Seymour sets a major-league record by hitting four sacrifice flies in a 6 - 1 win over the Chicago Orphans. Seymour will be tied but never topped.
• 1903 - At New York, the Americans bang seven doubles and beat the Highlanders, 7 - 5. Buck Freeman and Freddy Parent each have two doubles.
• 1904 - Before 1,522 in New York, veteran Al Orth makes his first start for the Highlanders and matches zeroes with Chicago's Yip Owen. In the bottom of the 9th, Patsy Dougherty leads off with a triple and scores on Willie Keeler's bouncer through the infield.
• 1905 - Christy Mathewson wins his 16th, defeating the Reds, 7 - 2. The game is close until Frank Bowerman belts a 3-run homer in the 8th for the Giants. Cincy fans get a scare in the 1st inning when Reds catcher Ed Phelps is knocked unconscious when he is struck by the back swing of Sam Mertes. Phelps is rushed to a hospital.
• 1907 - Red Sox manager Deacon McGuire belts a pinch-hit solo homer off Detroit's Ed Siever. At age 43, McGuire is the oldest player to ever hit a pinch homer. His first round tripper came back in 1884.
• 1908:
  • Future Red Sox pitcher Hugh Bedient, pitching for a semi-pro Falconer, NY team, strikes out 42 batters in what is heralded as a world's record. He does it in 23 innings against Corry, PA, finally winning, 3 - 1. He is matched all the way by Charles Bickford. When the wire services pick up the story, Bedient will receive 19 pro offers.
  • Before an overflow crowd of 30,000 in New York, the Pirates' Lefty Leifield tops the Giants and Christy Mathewson, 7 - 2. The loss drops New York to 3rd place. Two errors by Larry Doyle in the 7th open the gates for five Pirate runs. Pittsburgh is led by Honus Wagner who goes 5 for 5 to take over the batting lead from a hitless Mike Donlin. After each hit, Wagner holds up a finger to show the number of safeties to the RF Donlin.
  • With the Highlanders leading the Tigers, 3 - 2, in the 8th, Detroit scores two runs on a Ty Cobb triple. With lefty Claude Rossman the next hitter, New York's new manager Kid Elberfeld moves righty pitcher Jack Chesbro to 1B and replaces him with first baseman Hal Chase. Chase allows a fly ball that scores Cobb, then goes back to 1B and Chesbro resumes his spot on the mound. It is Chase's only pitching appearance as the Tigers win, 5 - 3.
• 1910 - Connie Mack trades Joe Jackson to Cleveland for Bris Lord, a former A's outfielder.
• 1913:
  • A 15-inning, 8 - 8, tie game between St. Louis and the Nationals is called for darkness. Reliever Walter Johnson fans a major-league record 15 in the last 11 innings, but he hits rookie catcher Sam Agnew with a pitch, breaking his jaw. Browns P Carl Weilman sets a major-league record by striking out six times. He becomes the first player in history to strike out six consecutive times in a game, as Johnson gets him four times, and Joe Engel and Long Tom Hughes once each. Johnson's strikeout mark for relievers will last this century before another Johnson, Randy, breaks it, in 2001.
  • At Philadelphia, Pirates outfielder Max Carey scores five runs against the Phils without a hit, reaching first on an error and four walks, as the Bucs win, 12 - 2. He also steals four bases and advances twice on wild pitches. A student at St. Louis Theological Seminary, he will lead the National League in runs this season; he'll lead in stolen bases as well, the first of 10 such seasons.
• 1914 - At Boston, the Cubs belt Otto Hess for a 5 - 4 win. Boston is now 12 back of the Giants, winners of 6 straight.
• 1915 - In the first of two games, the Browns cuff Red Sox starter Babe Ruth for four unearned runs in the 3rd, and the young lefty is relieved by Carl Mays. Boston ties the score, 4 - 4, in the 4th, but the Browns eventually win, 9 - 8. In the nitecap, a 1 - 1 tie, George Sisler pitches the last two innings for the Browns.
• 1916 - Tris Speaker has three hits against lefty Babe Ruth to finally drive him from the mound in the 8th inning. Reliever Rube Foster wild pitches home a run and Braggo Roth's second double gives Cleveland a 5 - 3 lead. The Tribe wins it, 5 - 4, with Ruth the loser. Ruth is 2 for 4 with a two-run single.
• 1918 - Walter Johnson gives up one hit (a triple by George Sisler) in the first 11 innings of a 15-inning, 4-hit, 1 - 0 win.
• 1921 - Max Carey flags down 11 flies in centerfield in the Pirates' 6 - 3 win over New York, tying three others for the National League record.
• 1926 - Braves coach Art Devlin is riding Reds 3B Babe Pinelli. Coming off the field in the 3rd, Pinelli brushes against him. Devlin swings, starting one of the great baseball fights of the century. Police restore order, but not before Boston outfielder Frank Wilson is arrested and taken to jail for hitting a police inspector. In the 4th, Boston OF Jimmy Welsh crashes into C Val Picinich in a play at the plate. Picinich takes a poke at him, starting round two, and is ejected.
• 1930 - The A's pull off triple steals twice in one game against the Indians. Al Simmons, Bing Miller, and Dib Williams are the base thieves in the 1st inning, and Mickey Cochrane, Simmons, and Jimmie Foxx steal together in the 4th.
• 1931 - Pittsburgh's Larry French pitches a 14-inning game, the longest National League contest of the season, to beat Brooklyn, 3 - 2.
• 1936:
  • In the A's 15 - 12 win over the Indians, Philadelphia catcher Frankie Hayes equals a major-league record with four doubles, the last coming in the 9th with the bases loaded. Reliever Harry Kelley is the winner, despite he and Carl Doyle giving up 18 hits. Veteran pitcher George Uhle, recently added to the Indians' roster, hits a homer, but is replaced by Lloyd Brown.
  • The Red Sox tally 20 hits to crush the Tigers, 18 - 3, scoring all their runs in two big innings. The Sox score six in the 2nd to drive Tommy Bridges from the mound, then tally 12 more in the 5th; it is the second time this month that the Red Sox have scored more than 10 runs in an inning. Doc Cramer has four Boston hits, while three others have three hits. Lefty Grove gives up nine hits in the easy win.
  • The Cubs pound out 19 hits to beat the Phils, 17 - 4, and extend their lead over the Cardinals to three games. Curt Davis is the winner, holding his former teammates to six safeties. Three of the Philly hits come in the 9th when they score three runs on Walt Bashore's single and consecutive homers by Chuck Klein and Dolph Camilli. The Cubs are led by homers from Augie Galan and Ethan Allen as they chase Bucky Walters with four runs in the 3rd, and add another nine off Syl Johnson in three innings.
• 1937 - Washington's Mel Almada ties the major-league record by scoring 5 runs in the first game of a doubleheader. When he adds four in the second game, he sets an 18-inning record, that still stands over 70 years later. The Senators win 16-10 and 15-5, in St. Louis.
• 1938 - Cleveland's Johnny Allen has his 12-game win streak snapped by the Red Sox.
• 1939:
  • Yankee freshman Atley Donald sets the American League rookie record for consecutive wins. "Swampy" beats the Browns for his 12th straight victory, 5 - 1.
  • Salisbury's (Eastern Shore League) Count Henri S. "Hank" Bertrand de la Vigne, known as the only titled pitcher in history, wins his 11th of the year, beating Milford, 8 - 0, and striking out 11. The Count will be 14-9 for the year, but he will never make it to the majors.
  • With the score tied, 3 - 3, Cleveland scores 9 runs and Philadelphia 5 in a record-setting 9th inning.
• 1941 - Forty-one-year-old Lefty Grove wins his 300th game as the Boston Red Sox defeat the Cleveland Indians, 10 - 6, before a Fenway Park Ladies Day crowd of 16,000. Though he will make six more starts, this will be Grove's last career win.
• 1948:
  • In the tight 4-team American League race, Joe DiMaggio leads the Yanks to a sweep over the White Sox, 5 - 3 and 7 - 3. Joe D is 3 for 3 in the first game to back Ed Lopat, then adds a triple and two doubles in the nitecap. His three RBIs in game two gives him an AL-high 86.
  • In Boston, the other DiMaggio, Dom, makes two spectacular catches against the Indians as well as homering off Satchel Paige. The Red Sox beat Cleveland, 3 - 0, for their 15th win in 16 games. Joe Dobson tops Steve Gromek to leave the Sox percentage points ahead of the 2nd place A's. Cleveland and New York are each 1 1/2 games back. With the Braves in 1st place, it is the first time since 1916 that both Boston teams are at the top spot.
• 1950:
  • After 10 straight losses at Ebbets Field dating back to 1949, the Cards win, 9 - 5.
  • Phillies pitchers Bubba Church and Robin Roberts shut out the Cubs, 7 - 0 and 1 - 0, in a doubleheader sweep. The wins put the Phils in first place by a half-game over St. Louis.
• 1954:
  • White Sox pitcher Jack Harshman sets a team record by striking out 16 in a 5 - 2 win over Boston.
  • Montreal Royals right fielder Roberto Clemente hits his first North American home run "Hollywood style," in the words of Montreal sportswriter Lloyd McGowan. The 10th-inning, walk-off bomb comes on Clemente's first at-bat after having entered the game as a defensive replacement and deals Havana reliever Charlie Harris, Jr. a 7 - 6, sudden-death defeat in the opener of a twin bill. Writing later in the Montreal Star, McGowan will help put Clemente's "Hollywood ending" into historical perspective: "Not long ago Clemente won an extra-inning contest for the Royals here with a home run over the left field fence. Few players have achieved that feat at Delorimier Stadium." Clemente then helps the Royals secure a sweep with an RBI double in the nitecap. Prior to today's action, Clemente had not played at all in 14 of the last 15 games. From this point forward, he will be back in the starting lineup but strictly on a platoon basis; he will start every remaining game against southpaw starters and none against righties.
• 1956:
  • Brooklyn's right fielder Carl Furillo is the first Dodger player to homer in Jersey City, as the Dodgers lose to the Redlegs, 2 - 1.
  • Pittsburgh's right fielder Roberto Clemente hits Cubs reliever Jim Brosnan's first pitch off the base of Forbes Field's left field light tower, just to the left of the scoreboard, then circles the bases just in time to become the first major league player ever to hit a walk-off, grand slam, inside the park home run, turning a three-run 9th-inning deficit into a dramatic win. It is Clemente's first career grand slam. Jack Hernon of the Post Gazette writes: "Brosnan made one pitch, high and inside. Clemente drove it against the light standard in left field. Jim King had backed up to make the catch but it was over his head. The ball bounced off the slanted side of the fencing and rolled along the cinder path to center field. Here came Hank Foiles, Bill Virdon and then Dick Cole, heading home and making it easily. Then came Clemente into third. Bobby Bragan had his hands upstretched to hold up his outfielder. The relay was coming in from Solly Drake. But around third came Clemente and down the home path. He made it just in front of the relay from Ernie Banks. He slid, missed the plate, then reached back to rest his hand on the rubber with the ninth run in a 9 - 8 victory as the crowd of 12,431 went goofy with excitement."
• 1958 - When is scoring position not scoring position? When Roberto Clemente's in right field, of course – as his tutor, Willie Mays, is reminded, to his great embarrassment. "The Giants only had one shot at Pirates' starter Curt Raydon," writes Bob Stevens in the San Francisco Chronicle. "In the 7th, Willie Mays, after walking in the 1st and 4th innings, led off with a line-drive single to right. Leon Wagner walked and Orlando Cepeda belted one safely to the same field. Even though the Giants were trailing 8 - 0 and had none away, Mays tried to score and was thrown out – Roberto Clemente to Bill Hall. Willie was out by so far he didn’t even try to slide. After the game Herman Franks, the traffic cop at third base, said, 'I sent him in. It wasn't Willie's fault.'"
• 1959:
  • Fidel Castro supporters, enjoying a raucous July 26th Celebration in La Gran Stadium in downtown Havana, bring a halt to the International League contest between the Red Wings and the Sugar Kings with random gunshots from the grandstand. Red Wings 3B coach Frank Verdi and Havana SS Leo Cardenas both suffer minor flesh wounds, which causes manager Cot Deal to pull his players from the field and retreat to their hotel. League officials cancel the remainder of the Havana team's homestand, and, with pressure on Ford Frick from U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter, eventually relocate the franchise to Newark for the 1960 season.
  • Against Detroit, Yankee first baseman Moose Skowron reaching for a wide throw, collides with Tiger runner Coot Veal. Skowron's arm is broken in two places and he is out for the rest of the season. Marv Throneberry will fill in at 1B. The Yanks win, 9 - 8, when Yogi Berra hits a home run in the 9th with Mickey Mantle on. Prior to the Yogi home run, Bobby Richardson and Fritz Brickell hit their first major league homers for New York. Berra's home run erases five Yankee errors, three by 3B Hector Lopez.
• 1960:
  • The Reds spot the Cubs a 5 - 0 lead after six innings, then come back to win, 6 - 5, at Wrigley Field.
  • The Bucs return to first place as Bob Friend defeats the Cardinals, 4 - 2, in St. Louis. As UPI tells it: "Bob Skinner's home run in the 8th inning broke a 2-all tie and Roberto Clemente iced it with a tremendous blast into the bleachers for the Pirates' final run in the 9th." Pittsburgh will remain atop the National League for the rest of the season. Clemente's long home run – actually off the scoreboard behind Busch Stadium's left-centerfield bleachers, according to The Sporting News's Les Biederman – breaks a 73-game home run drought by Clemente.
• 1961 - With his four-home run performance in the doubleheader sweep over the White Sox, Roger Maris moves 25 games ahead of Babe Ruth's 1927 pace. The Yankee slugger now has 40 for the year and will finish the season with a record 61 round trippers. Mickey Mantle also homers off Frank Baumann in the first game. He ends the day with 38 home runs.
• 1962:
  • Stan Musial becomes the National League's all-time leader in runs batted in with 1,862, driving in both of the Cardinal runs in a 5 - 2 loss to the Dodgers.
  • The Reds pound out 21 hits in defeating the Pirates, 13 - 6.
• 1963 - Roberto Clemente's three-run, 3rd-inning blast off Sandy Koufax breaks a scoreless tie between Pittsburgh and Los Angeles, en route to a 6 - 2 Pirate win.
• 1964 - The Twins tie an American League record by using nine pitchers in a 13-inning game they lose, 6 - 5, to the White Sox. Jerry Fosnow is the loser; Don Mossi, the 5th Chicago pitcher, is the winner.
• 1966 - Red Sox great Ted Williams is inducted into the Hall of Fame. In his induction speech the "Spendid Splinter" makes a strong appeal for the inclusion of Negro League stars at Cooperstown.
• 1967:
  • Race riots in Detroit force postponement of a Tigers-Orioles game. The games scheduled for the 26th and 27th are shifted to Baltimore.
  • At Yankee Stadium, American League home run leader Harmon Killebrew gives the Twins a 1 - 0 lead with a 1st-inning homer off Al Downing. Jim Kaat holds New York scoreless until two outs in the 9th inning when Mickey Mantle clocks a ball over the 457-foot mark to tie the score. The game is rained out with the score 1 - 1 and will be replayed on August 18th. New York will win the replay, 1 - 0.
• 1968 - Reds pitchers George Culver and Clay Carroll allow 13 hits between them but still shut out the Pirates, 2 - 0. Culver allows eight hits in six innings and Carroll gives up five hits in three innings.
• 1969 - Tony Conigliaro of the Red Sox suffers a wrenched back while hitting a home run against the Seattle Pilots. The injury forces him to walk slowly around the bases before being replaced. The Red Sox win, 7 - 6.
• 1972:
  • The National League wins the All-Star Game, 4 - 3, at Atlanta behind hometown hero Hank Aaron's 2-run home run and Joe Morgan's 10th-inning RBI single. It is the 7th time the classic has gone into extra innings.
  • Cubs GM John Holland announces that Leo Durocher has stepped down as manager in favor of Whitey Lockman. Leo contends he was not fired, but has "stepped aside." The Astros will hire Durocher in late August to replace Harry Walker.
• 1974 - At Riverfront Stadium, Tony Perez caps a five-run Reds rally in the 9th by hitting a two out, two-strike home run. The Reds rally to top the Giants, 14 - 13.
• 1975 - The Cards trade OF Jim Dwyer to Montreal for INF Larry Lintz.
• 1977 - Pete Rose singles in the 4th inning of the Reds' 9 - 8 loss to the Cardinals. It is Rose's 2,881st career hit, enabling him to surpass Frankie Frisch as the all-time leader among switch-hitters. His hit comes off Pete Falcone.
• 1978:
  • The Lodi Dodgers (California League) pull off two triple plays during an 11 - 6 win over Fresno. Bob Brenly is a victimized baserunner each time. It is the first time a pro team has had two triple plays in one game since 1904.
  • The Reds lose to the Mets, 9 - 2, but Pete Rose collects three hits to break Tommy Holmes' record for the longest hitting streak in National League annals. Holmes is in attendance at Shea Stadium and shakes Rose's hand after his 3rd-inning single off Craig Swan.
• 1980:
  • In the first game of a doubleheader split with the Braves, Mike Schmidt hits his 25th and 26th home runs of the season to pass Del Ennis as the Phillies' all-time home run leader with 261. The Phils win, 5 - 4, then fall, 3 - 0, to Tommy Boggs.
  • The Cubs fire manager Preston Gomez and replace him with Joey Amalfitano. Chicago is 38-52, last in the National League East.
• 1982 - Steve Carlton pitches his 50th career shutout, a 1 - 0 five-hitter against the Dodgers and Jerry Reuss.
• 1990:
  • For the second time in his career, George Brett hits for the cycle, as Kansas City beats Toronto, 6 - 1.
  • Twenty-five-year veteran umpire Bob Engel resigns after pleading no contest to charges of shoplifting baseball cards in California.
  • After having a commanding 9 - 0 lead and still ahead, 10 - 3, entering the bottom of the 9th, the Mets barely hold on to beat the Phillies at Veterans Stadium, 10 - 9. The nail biter causes the usually even-mannered Bob Murphy to use a mild obscenity in his call of the final out, "they win the damn thing by a score of 10 to 9!".
  • Before the start of the Padres-Reds game in San Diego, comedienne Roseanne Barr screeches out a rendition of the National Anthem, finishing with a crotch grab that causes a crescendo of boos. Ed Whitson then wins, 2 - 1, for the Pads.
• 1991 - A jersey once worn by Yankees Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle is sold for $71,500 at an auction in Manhattan. A Ty Cobb tobacco card brings in $62,700.
• 1992:
  • The Braves defeat the Pirates, 1 - 0, despite getting only one hit. The one safety is a 2nd-inning homer by OF David Justice off Danny Jackson. Charlie Leibrandt goes eight innings for the win.
  • Angels rookie P Tim Fortugno defeats the Tigers, 3 - 0, becoming, at age 30, the oldest pitcher to win his first major league game since Tony Fossas of the Brewers did so at age 31 in 1989.
• 1993 - Detroit P Mike Moore hurls a one-hit, 3 - 0 shutout over the Royals. Wally Joyner's 2nd-inning single is the only Kansas City safety.
• 1995 - Yankees 2B Randy Velarde strokes five hits in New York's 8 - 1 win over the Royals. Velarde's hits include four singles and a home run.
• 1996:
  • Royals rookie Jose Rosado wins his first major league game, 7 - 0, shutting down the Yankees on four hits at Yankee Stadium.
  • Mark McGwire clouts his 37th homer into the 5th deck at Toronto's Skydome, just the second player to reach there. The 488-foot drive off Huck Flener lands four rows up from where Jose Canseco hit one in the 1989 ALCS. The A's still lose the game to the Jays, 4 - 3, when Joe Carter hits a dramatic 2-run 2-out homer in the bottom of the 9th. McGwire will hit his 38th tomorrow in an A's win.
• 1997:
  • Jesse Ibarra of the Jacksonville Suns hits grand slams from both sides of the plate in a 12 - 9 win over the Memphis Chicks. It is later concluded to be the first Organized Baseball game in which such a feat has occurred. The balls are flying out that day as Memphis's Shane Monahan sets the Southern League record with his fourth grand slam of the season.
  • The Reds name Jack McKeon as their manager, replacing Ray Knight.
  • The Royals acquire 3B Dean Palmer, a free agent at the end of the season, from the Rangers in exchange for OF Tom Goodwin.
• 1998:
  • Former Yankees P Jim Bouton makes his first appearance at Yankee Stadium since 1970 at Oldtimers Day and is greeted with cheers all around. Bouton had been persona non grata in New York since writing Ball Four,which broke a long-standing taboo in sports by taking readers into the locker room and revealing players' extracurricular escapades. The Yanks invited the Bulldog back after his son wrote a Father's Day article in the New York Times suggesting it.
  • The Padres top Houston, 6 - 5, as Mark Langston gets the win with 5+ innings of work. Trevor Hoffman picks up his 41st consecutive save and 33rd this year, tying a major league record. He'll blow his next save opportunity tomorrow in San Diego's 5 - 4 win, ending his streak.
• 1999:
  • The Orioles defeat the Angels, 8 - 7, behind three home runs and six RBI from slugger Albert Belle.
  • The Tigers defeat the Red Sox, 9 - 1, as 1B Tony Clark homers from both sides of the plate for the second time this season.
  • Nolan Ryan, Robin Yount, George Brett, Nestor Chylak, Orlando Cepeda, Frank Selee and 'Smokey' Joe Williams are enshrined in the Hall of Fame.
• 2001:
  • The Diamondbacks get P Albie Lopez from the Devil Rays in exchange for P Nick Bierbrodt and OF Jason Conti.
  • The Mets leave a club-record 16 runners on base, but still beat the Marlins, 5 - 2, pinning the loss on Ryan Dempster. Glendon Rusch is the winner. Lenny Harris ties Smoky Burgess for 2nd place on the all-time pinch hit list when he doubles.
• 2002:
  • The Dodgers send OF Hiram Bocachica to the Tigers for minor league P Tom Farmer and a player to be named later.
  • The Athletics obtain 2B Ray Durham from the White Sox in exchange for AAA pitcher Jon Adkins.
• 2004:
  • Carlos Delgado's three-run homer in the Blue Jays' 5 - 3 victory over the Devil Rays makes the slugger the first Toronto player to drive in 1,000 runs in franchise history.
  • Paul Molitor, a member of the 3000 hit club, and Dennis Eckersley, who appeared in the most games of any Hall of Fame pitcher (1,071 games), are inducted into the Hall of Fame. Long-time Bay Area (A's and Giants) broadcaster Lon Simmons wins the Ford C. Frick Award and the J.G. Taylor Spink Award is won by the New York Times' Murray Chass, enabling both to be honored by the Hall for their outstanding reporting of the national pastime.
• 2006:
  • Marlins rookie P Anibal Sanchez ends the Braves' streak of 23 consecutive games with a home run in the Marlins' 2 - 1 victory. The Braves streak was 2 shy of the National League record that they themselves set in 1997.
  • The Royals trade P Elmer Dessens to the Dodgers in exchange for P Odalis Perez and two minor league pitchers.
• 2008:
  • Brad Ziegler throws his 25th consecutive scoreless inning, tying the record for the start of a major league career. George McQuillan set the record in 1907. Ziegler's A's still lose, 14 - 6, to the Rangers.
  • The IBAF announces it will change baseball's long-standing rules in order to try to get it back into the Olympics. From now on, in international competitions, contests will only be played by baseball rules for 10 innings. Starting in the 11th, each team will begin with runners on first and second base and a hitter of its choice leading off. The rule, copied on a similar one in women's softball, will begin in the 2008 World Junior Championship and be used in the 2008 Olympics; it will become known as the "Schiller Rule", after the IBAF's President.
• 2009:
  • The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 14 - 6, at Citizens Bank Park for the 9,000th regular season win in team history. Jimmy Rollins, with a grand slam, and Shane Victorino hit back-to-back home runs in the 6th inning to propel the Phils to the milestone victory.
  • Down 9 - 1 coming into the 7th, the Rays tie the game on 9th-inning solo homers by Carlos Pena and Willy Aybar off Blue Jays closer Scott Downs, then add a run in the 12th on a double by Jason Bartlett for a 10 - 9 win. The Jays load the bases with one out in the bottom of the 12th, but Joe Nelson wiggles out of the jam to save J.P. Howell's victory. It is the biggest comeback win in Rays history.
  • After dropping five straight All-Star Games, the West beats the East, 7 - 3, in the Korea Baseball Organization midsummer Classic. Jae-kyun Hwang hits a 2-run homer for the West, as does Chi-hong An. An, at age 19, becomes the youngest rookie ever to be named All-Star Game MVP.
• 2010:
  • In a ceremony held in Cooperstown, NY, outfielder Andre Dawson, manager Whitey Herzog and umpire Doug Harvey are inducted into the Hall of Fame. During his acceptance speech, Dawson urges the election of former teammates Tim Raines and Lee Smith.
  • The Angels acquire pitcher Dan Haren in a trade with the Diamondbacks, giving up Joe Saunders and three prospects.
  • For the second time this year, a star player is injured in a celebration after a game-winning hit. Following the Angels' Kendry Morales's broken leg in May, Florida's Chris Coghlan tears a meniscus in his left knee while attempting to throw a cream pie in the face of teammate Wes Helms, who hit a walk-off single in the 11th inning for a 5 - 4 win over the Braves.
• 2011:
  • One day after being shut out at home on four singles by Brett Cecil, the Rangers explode for 27 hits in a 20 - 6 drubbing of the Minnesota Twins. They score at least three runs in each of the first five innings, a scoring feat only accomplished two other times since 1900, to cruise to the highest run total in the American League this year. Lead-off hitter Ian Kinsler drives in 5 runs for Texas, while All-Star RF Michael Cuddyer of the Twins moves to the mound in the 8th inning and escapes without allowing a run after loading the bases.
  • The Yankees extend the Mariners' franchise-worst losing streak to 16 games with a 10 - 3 win in New York. Derek Jeter and Mark Teixeira homer and have three RBI each.
  • The Pirates get another good performance from James McDonald to stay in the middle of the tight NL Central division race. McDonald strikes out 9 in 5 2/3 innings, a career high and the most by a Bucs pitcher in almost two years, as the Pirates defeat the Braves, 3 - 1. Pittsburgh is tied with St. Louis atop the division, half a game ahead of Milwaukee.
• 2012:
  • Deals continue to be announced ahead of the trading deadline, with Los Angeles acquiring 3B Hanley Ramirez and P Randy Choate from Miami in return for Ps Nathan Eovaldi and Scott McGough. In other moves, the Phillies sign P Cole Hamels to a 6-year extension worth $144 million, taking him off the market, while the Rays release veteran DH Hideki Matsui, who is hitting only .147, to make room for Ryan Roberts, who was acquired in a trade yesterday.
  • In his first game for the Dodgers, Hanley Ramirez goes 2 for 4 with a walk, a run and a RBI, but the Cardinals win, 3 - 2, as Rafael Furcal singles home the winning run in the 12th inning.
  • The Athletics crush the Blue Jays, 16 - 0, for their 7th straight win, handing the Jays the most lopsided loss in team history. Coco Crisp homers twice in support of A.J. Griffin as the A's erupt for 8 runs in the 2nd inning off Ricky Romero. If that isn't enough, Brandon Inge fouls a ball off C J.P. Arencibia's bare right hand, breaking a bone, then RF Josh Reddick rubs some salt in the wound by making a Spiderman catch in the bottom of the frame, climbing the fence and holding on with his right hand for a pair of seconds before catching the ball, robbing Travis Snider of extra bases.

[edit] Births

• 1848 - Louis Kramer, owner (d. 1922)
• 1863 - John Tener, pitcher (d. 1946)
• 1866 - Louis Graff, catcher (d. 1955)
• 1874 - Doc Reisling, pitcher (d. 1955)
• 1877 - Bill Eagle, outfielder (d. 1951)
• 1888 - Frank Gregory, pitcher (d. 1955)
• 1894 - Red Holt, infielder (d. 1961)
• 1907 - Bill Andrus, infielder (d. 1982)
• 1907 - Joe Zapustas, outfielder (d. 2001)
• 1909 - Sherman Edwards, pitcher (d. 1992)
• 1910 - Le Grant Scott, outfielder (d. 1993)
• 1911 - Otis Douglas, coach (d. 1989)
• 1913 - Cy Williams, scout (d. 2006)
• 1914 - Kermit Aase, minor league pitcher (d. 2003)
• 1921 - Marv Rackley, outfielder
• 1921 - Sandy Ullrich, pitcher (d. 2001)
• 1926 - Whitey Lockman, infielder, manager; All-Star (d. 2009)
• 1935 - Larry Sherry, pitcher (d. 2006)
• 1939 - Lance Nichols, minor league catcher and manager
• 1939 - Santiago Rosario, infielder
• 1941 - Rolando Macías, Cuban league pitcher
• 1944 - Buddy Bradford, outfielder
• 1944 - Fred Scherman, pitcher
• 1947 - Mick Kelleher, infielder
• 1947 - Mickey Scott, pitcher (d. 2011)
• 1948 - Jesús Guerra, Cuban league pitcher
• 1949 - Santiago Guzman, pitcher
• 1952 - Ace Adams, coach
• 1953 - Biff Pocoroba, catcher; All-Star
• 1956 - Dave Patterson, pitcher
• 1958 - Marc Sullivan, catcher
• 1959 - Matt Williams, pitcher
• 1962 - Doug Drabek, pitcher; All-Star
• 1964 - Jose Bautista, pitcher
• 1965 - Torey Lovullo, infielder
• 1965 - Andy Skeels, minor league catcher and manager
• 1967 - Ed Sprague, infielder; All-Star
• 1968 - Katsumi Manabe, minor league pitcher and NPB umpire
• 1970 - Garey Ingram, infielder
• 1971 - Fabrizio Chirici, Serie A1 umpire
• 1971 - Takumi Shiigi, NPB catcher
• 1971 - Billy Wagner, pitcher; All-Star
• 1972 - Kevin Hooker, scout
• 1973 - Guillermo Mota, pitcher
• 1974 - John Crane, college coach
• 1974 - Chris Schwab, minor league outfielder
• 1975 - Anton French, minor league outfielder
• 1975 - Alex Slattery, scout
• 1976 - Nikoloz Bezhuashvili, minor league pitcher
• 1976 - Eric Maleski, minor league pitcher
• 1976 - Javier Vazquez, pitcher; All-Star
• 1977 - Travis Phelps, pitcher
• 1979 - Zsolt Zalabai, Hungarian national team player
• 1980 - Santiago Casilla, pitcher
• 1980 - Shawn Riggans, catcher
• 1981 - Kevin Kouzmanoff, infielder
• 1982 - Nino Tator, Philippines national team outfielder
• 1983 - Santiago Gonzalez, minor league outfielder
• 1984 - Mathieu Beauchamp, Division Elite player and coach
• 1984 - Lenin Gazo, minor league pitcher
• 1985 - Alex Presley, outfielder
• 1986 - Ciro Rosero, minor league outfielder
• 1987 - Alex Sogard, minor league pitcher
• 1988 - Dawei Zhu, China Baseball League pitcher
• 1989 - Shi Dong, China Baseball League pitcher
• 1989 - Daisuke Fujimura, NPB infielder
• 1993 - Hannah Martensen, Canada women's national team player

[edit] Deaths

• 1939 - Peaches Graham, catcher (b. 1877)
• 1944 - Yukio Muramatsu, NPB pitcher (b. 1920)
• 1949 - Clyde Nelson, Negro League infielder (b. 1921)
• 1953 - Pat Hilly, outfielder (b. 1887)
• 1956 - John Kane, infielder (b. 1900)
• 1957 - Frank Welch, outfielder (b. 1897)
• 1958 - Dizzy Nutter, outfielder (b. 1893)
• 1959 - Jim Boyer, umpire (b. 1909)
• 1959 - Buck O'Brien, pitcher (b. 1882)
• 1959 - Joe Schepner, infielder (b. 1895)
• 1961 - Carlton Molesworth, pitcher (b. 1876)
• 1967 - Mike Chartak, outfielder (b. 1916)
• 1970 - Herb Hunter, infielder (b. 1896)
• 1971 - Chief Meyers, catcher (b. 1880)
• 1986 - Ted Lyons, pitcher, manager; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1900)
• 1988 - Glenn Killinger, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1898)
• 1999 - Harry Pletersek, minor league outfielder (b. 1915)
• 2002 - Bob Barr, pitcher (b. 1908)
• 2002 - Izzy Leon, pitcher (b. 1911)
• 2002 - Ed Runge, umpire (b. 1918)
• 2003 - Norm McRae, pitcher (b. 1947)
• 2005 - Joe Justice, college coach (b. 1916)
• 2006 - Aldo Notari, IBAF president (b. 1932)
• 2011 - Len Tucker, minor league outfielder (b. 1929)