July 5

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1898 - Lizzie (Stroud) Arlington becomes the first woman to play organized baseball as she pitches for Reading in the Eastern League. Some believe she also pitched in Atlantic League exhibition games after being hired by Ed Barrow, the league's president.
1900 - At Cincinnati, Jerry Nops of the Superbas pitches a one-hitter, beating the Reds 2 - 0. Tomorrow his teammate Frank Kitson also pitches a one-hitter, winning 10 - 0, the first instance of back-to-back one-hitters in the 20th century. The last time it happened was June 17-18, 1884.
1902 - At St. Louis, the Cards win their 3rd straight from the Giants, beating New York, 1 - 0. The lone Cardinal run comes in on a wild pitch by Christy Mathewson.
1904 - At Philadelphia's Huntington Park, the Giants' 18-game winning streak ends when the Phillies prevail 6 - 5 in 10 innings. Rookie Bob Hall's bloop single off reliever Dummy Taylor scores Red Dooin. The Giants' record is now 53 - 18, effectively ending the National League race. By September 1, they will lead the Cubs by 15 games.
1906 - In Boston, the Red Sox make nine errors to help the Highlanders win, 8-3.
1906 - At the Polo Grounds, Boston's Big Jeff Pfeffer and Christy Mathewson match zeros for eight innings before the Giants finally score in the 9th on a single by Sammy Strang. Matty allows six hits in the 1-0 win.
1906 - Jack Coombs, the A's rookie righthander from Colby College, makes his ML debut, blanking Washington 3-0 for the Athletics.
1909 - The Giants sweep the Phillies, winning 3 - 0 and 3 - 2 in 15 innings. The nitecap is the longest game in the National League this year. Bugs Raymond wins the marathon, relieving Christy Mathewson with the score 2 - 2 in the 9th.
1911 - The Phils pound Christy Mathewson for the 2nd time in three days, beat the Giants ace, 6 - 4. Dode Paskert is 4-for-4 to lead the Quakers' 14-hit attack.
1912 - Christy Mathewson, hammered yesterday, is in control today, whipping Brooklyn, 5 - 1. Cy Barger takes the loss.
1913 - With manager John McGraw in the grandstands, the Giants win their 11th straight, beating Brooklyn, 3 - 2. Christy Mathewson is the winner over Pat Ragan, scattering 12 hits but walking none. His walkless streak is at 47 innings.
1914 - Big Ed Walsh makes his first start since straining his right arm in spring training in 1913. He lasts seven innings in a White Sox win over Cleveland, 6 - 3.
1915 - At the Polo Grounds, Phils ace Grover Cleveland Alexander fires a one-hitter to win, 2 - 0. The only baserunner for the Giants is Fred Merkle, who doubles off Pete in the second inning.
1915 - The Senators are shut out twice today against the Red Sox. Rube Foster wins the opener, 5 - 0, then Babe Ruth follows with a 6 - 0 win. Ruth scores two runs and hits his first triple. The Sox will sweep two more doubleheaders in the next two days with the Nationals to edge ahead of the White Sox for 1st place.
1915 - The Reds sweep two from the Cubs, winning 8 - 5 and 12 - 7. Red Ames wins the nitecap with the help of Heinie Groh, who hits for the cycle, off Jimmy Lavender. Pete Schneider tops Zip Zabel in the opener.
1917 - In the first of two games in New York, Home Run Baker hits a 13th inning inside the park homer off Walter Johnson to give the Yankees a 5 - 4 win. It is Baker's 5th home run off Walter.
1921 - The Red Sox establish an American League record losing four consecutive doubleheaders with no other contests between the eight losses. The dubious streak began on June 29th.
1922 - The first game ever played in Hungary takes place in Budapest.
1922 - The Cards' Rogers Hornsby hits his 20th home run, tying Ken Williams of the American League for home run leadership; the Cards whip the Reds, 12 - 4.
1929 - At the Polo Grounds, the New York Giants become the first team to use a public address system.
1929 - Cards 1B Jim Bottomley hits the first of seven HRs he will knock in a five game stretch.
1930 - The Phillies lose a doubleheader to the Braves to drop into the cellar for the rest of the season, despite a team batting average of .315. Two disclaimers should be noted - 1930 is the peak season for offense in the 20th Century and the Phillies play in the high-octane Baker Bowl.
1930 - Marking the first time two Negro League teams play at Yankee Stadium, 20,000 watch the New York Lincoln Giants and the Baltimore Black Sox split a pair. Baltimore's Rap Dixon has three HRs and the Giants' Chino Smith has two HRs and a triple.
1930 - Frankie Frisch, Cardinals 2B, ties the league record with 16 chances in a game in which St. Louis defeats Cincinnati, 6-4.
1934 - Lou Gehrig hits an inside-the-park grand slam, as the Yankees beat the Senators, 8-3. It is his 4th of the season and 17th overall, passing Babe Ruth's career total. Gehrig will eventually set a career record of 23 grand slams. Gehrig now has 321 career HRs to Ruth's 698.
1935 - Tony Cuccinello, with Brooklyn, and brother Al, with New York, both homer in a game at the Polo Grounds. The next time brothers homer in a game against each other will be on June 30, 1950, when Joe and Dom DiMaggio do it. Tony's Dodgers beat Al's Giants, 14-4.
1936 - In the first of two games with the A's, Boston explodes for 11 runs in the 2nd inning to ease home 16 - 2. The Sox ease up on the nitecap to win, 8 - 2. The Mackmen have now lost 12 straight.
1937 - In the first game of a doubleheader, Frank Demaree goes 6-for-7 (three doubles and three singles) helping the Cubs edge the Cardinals, 13-12, in 14 innings. The Californian adds two more singles in the second game - a 9-7 Chicago victory.
1937 - Hal Trosky hits three home runs helping the Indians beat the Browns, 14-4.
1939 - Yankees rookie P Atley Donald wins his 10th game without a loss.
1940 - The Brooklyn Dodgers beat Boston 6-2 in 20 innings lasting 5 hours and 19 minutes. The 2 teams' epic marathon ties record-setters of 1920 and 1939.
1942 - Peanuts "Nyassas" Davis pitches and bats the Cincinnati Clowns to a 7-4 victory over the Baltimore Grays in the new Negro Major League. Davis's receiver Pepper Bassett catches the last inning in a rocking chair.
1947 - Striking out as a pinch hitter in an Indian 6-5 loss to the White Sox, 22-year old Larry Doby becomes the first black to appear in the American League. The former Newark Eagles standout will play in the major leagues for 13 years amassing 1,515 hits, just three less than Jackie Robinson. Tomorrow, he will go 1-for-5 in his first full game at 1B.
1948 - Ralph Kiner hits three home runs for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the visiting Reds, while teammate Stan Rojek hits the first of his two ML homers, connecting off rookie Herm Wehmeier. Kiner teams up with Johnny Hopp and Wally Westlake in the outfield for a record 19 putouts in the 10 - 3 first game win. The Reds score three in the 9th to take the nitecap, 6 - 4.
1948 - The Cards' Gerry Staley picks up a pair of wins in relief over the Cubs, winning 6 - 3 and 5 - 2 over Ralph Hamner and Johnny Schmitz. Staley pitches two innings in the opener and two 2/3 innings in the nitecap. It is the 2nd time in three weeks that the Cubs have lost a doubleheader to a single reliever.
1948 - Despite a hitless day by Ted Williams, the Red Sox sweep the Yankees, winning 6 - 5 and 8 - 7. Denny Galehouse wins the opener, then saves the win in game 2. But his 9th inning sac bunt results in his tripping over 1B and he will be out of action for three weeks.
1950 - In a sloppy game that features 18 walks, Cliff Mapes drives in five runs with a homer and single to pace the Yankees to a 12 - 8 win over the Athletics. Tommy Byrne (9-3) is the winner despite giving up six hits and six walks in five innings (he walks two in the 6th). He also hits four batters to tie the ML record. Alex Kellner pitches four innings, giving up six runs in the loss. The A's lose Eddie Joost who tears ligaments in his left knee in a collision with Mapes at 2B in the 7th.
1951 - At Ebbets Field, Gil Hodges hits his 27th HR of the year to lead the Dodgers to a 8 - 4 win over the Giants. Andy Pafko also homers, off Larry Jansen. Don Newcombe notches his 12th win, giving up seven hits. After sweeping the Giants in the 3-game series, Dodger manager Chuck Dressen declares, "We knocked 'em out. They won't bother us anymore." The Dodgers now lead the Giants by seven 1/2 games but will be surpassed by season's end.
1952 - The Tigers fire their manager, Red Rolfe, replacing him with the popular pitcher Freddie Hutchinson.
1953 - Blanking the Pirates at Forbes Field, 2-0, Robin Roberts hurls his 28th consecutive complete game. The Phillies right-hander has finished every game he started since beating the Cardinals on August 28, 1952.
1954 - RF Stan Musial outpolls all other NL players in the All-Star balloting.
1954 - Indians reserve 1B Billy Glynn hits three HRs in a row and drives in eight runs in a 13-6 win over Detroit.
1961 - Cardinals first baseman Bill White hits three home runs and a double in a 9-1 rout over the Dodgers.
1961 - At Yankee Stadium, Roger Maris cracks a 7th inning solo home run against the Indians, and also is credited - erroneously, as it turns out - with a 3rd inning RBI on a single. The two RBIs are officially recorded, though just one appears in the game's box score, and the error will not be noted until 1995. With the correction, Maris and Jim Gentile become co-leaders in RBIs for the season.
1964 - Dennis Bennett beats Juan Marichal 2 - 1 to give the Phillies a 3-game sweep of the Giants at Candlestick. The Phils hold a one 1/2 game lead at the All-Star break.
1965 - Minnesota takes an AL lead it will not give up, as Dave Boswell and Jim Perry pitch the Twins to a 6 - 2 and 2 - 0 sweep of the Red Sox. The Sox win just one of 18 games with the Twins this year.
1965 - Jim Maloney pitches the Reds to a 7 - 5 win against the Dodgers, as Cincinnati takes the NL lead.
1966 - The Cubs give up on Ernie Broglio releasing him outright to Tacoma (PCL).
1967 - Red Sox P Jose Santiago loses to California, 4 - 3, and will not lose again this year. He wins his next eight straight.
1969 - AL East leader Baltimore breaks a 3-game losing streak as Dave McNally (12-0) wins his 14th straight game 9 - 3 at Detroit. Detroit OF Mickey Stanley plays his 220th straight errorless game and C Bill Freehan picks Paul Blair off 3B unassisted. Blair, on third with a triple, strolls too slowly back to the bag after the bat flies out of the hands of Frank Robinson.
1969 - Minnesota regains the American League West lead behind the pitching of Jim Perry and a 13 - 1 rout of Oakland at Metropolitan Stadium.
1970 - Reds rookie Wayne Simpson (13 - 1) win his 10th straight, beating the visiting Astros, 3 - 1.
1970 - At Fenway Park, Boston's John Kennedy makes his first ML at bat a memorable one when he pinch hits an inside-the-park homer. Kennedy bats for P Mike Nagy in the 5th inning of the 8 - 4 Boston win over the Indians.
1971 - The Yankees and Red Sox each collect 16 hits, but for the 2nd day in a row the Red Sox hit four homers to win, 12 - 7. The Sox score six in the 6th when Rico Petrocelli hits a bases loaded triple and George Scott and Joe Lahoud follow with homers.
1972 - Nolan Ryan (10-5) strikes out eight in topping the Brewers, 2 - 1. Winston Llenas, batting for Ryan in the 9th, singles off starter Earl Stephenson for the winning run.
1973 - Dave Concepcion collects a triple, double and three singles to lead the Reds to a 4 - 3 win over the Giants. His 3rd single drives in the winning run in the 9th.
1979 - University of Hawaii lefty Derek Tatsuno, selected in the 2nd round of the June draft by the Padres, signs with a subsidiary of the Seibu Lions for $750,000. Tatsuno, of Japanese-American descent, set an NCAA record of 20 wins (in 22 starts). He will finally sign with the Milwaukee Brewers, who select him in January of 1982 but he will be ineffective in the minors.
1980 - Reds pitcher Bruce Berenyi makes his ML debut and the Astros welcome him with a 6-run first inning. Mario Soto relieves and pitches eight 2/3 inning of shutout ball, allowing just three hits. The Reds rally to win, 8 - 6.
1982 - Pittsburgh's first two hitters, Omar Moreno and Johnny Ray, hit homers off Houston's Joe Niekro. Niekro settles down and wins, 6 - 4.
1984 - Down 4 - 1 with two outs in the 9th, the visiting Tigers score six runs to beat the Rangers, 7 - 4. Lou Whitaker's bases-loaded single scores two, Alan Trammell's single scores another, and Kirk Gibson seals it with a three-run shot down the RF line. Charlie Hough is the loser, while reliever Aurelio Lopez's record goes up to 7 - 0.
1985 - At Wrigley Field, the first three hitters in the Cubs' announced batting order are Billy Hatcher, Davey Lopes and Ryne Sandberg. After Hatcher walks, Lopes takes a strike before someone in the Cubs' dugout sees that the lineup card submitted to the umpire has Sandberg listed second and Lopes third. Sandberg then finishes the at-bat (during which Hatcher is picked off) and singles. Lopes, hitting in his proper turn, doubles Sandberg home. All for naught as the Giants beat them, 12-6.
1987 - The knuck is not knuckling and Chicago hands Cleveland's Phil Niekro a 17 - 0 pasting. Scott Nielsen is the winner.
1987 - A's first baseman Mark McGwire becomes the first rookie to hit 30 homers before the All-Star Game as Oakland defeats the Red Sox, 6-2.
1989 - Barry Bonds homers in Pittsburgh's 6 - 4 loss to the Giants, giving Barry and father Bobby Bonds the ML father-and-son home run record with 408. The Bells (Gus Bell and Buddy Bell) and the Berras (Yogi Berra and Dale Berra) had shared the record of 407.
1989 - Mark McGwire hits his 100th career home run off of Royals hurler Charlie Leibrandt.
1991 - In a unanimous vote, final approval is given by baseball owners for the Rockies and the Marlins to join the National League in 1993.
1992 - Umpire Bill Hohn ejects an Atlanta Braves fan from the Braves-Cubs game for making obscene gestures. The gestures might have been meant for the Braves, who are shut out 8 - 0. Greg Maddux goes seven innings for the win over John Smoltz, giving up three runs. The other five come off Juan Berenguer, who lasts 1/3 of an inning. Chicago gets homers from Kal Daniels, Andre Dawson, Ryne Sandberg and Mark Grace.
1993 - Oakland OF Rickey Henderson leads off both games of the A's doubleheader against the Indians with home runs. It is the 1st time this has happened since 1913, when Harry Hooper performed the feat for the Boston Red Sox. The Athletics win the 1st game, 6-5, but the Indians come back to take the nightcap, 6-2.
1994 - California C Chris Turner leads the Angels to a 10-3 win over Boston. Entering the game batting only .138, Turner strokes five hits, including a pair of doubles, and gets two RBIs. He also becomes the first Angel C ever to steal home with a 2nd-inning theft.
1994 - Toronto 3B Darnell Coles leads the Blue Jays to a 14-3 win over Minnesota by stroking three homers and driving home four runs.
1995 - Mariners 1B Tino Martinez strokes five hits, but Seattle still loses to Detroit by a score of 8-6. Martinez's hits include a double and a pair of home runs, as he notches five ribbies.
1996 - After the California Angels score three runs in the top of the 1st inning, the Oakland Athletics respond with 13 of their own in the bottom half to mark the highest scoring 1st inning by two teams in major league history. The 13 runs is one short of the record. DH Matt Stairs ties a major league mark with six RBIs in the frame. The Athletics go on to post a 16-8 victory.
1996 - Behind Wilson Alvarez, the White Sox hand the Indians their first shutout of the year, beating them, 7 - 0. The Sox now trail the Tribe by just two games.
1997 - The Expos retire Andre Dawson's uniform No. 10 prior to the game with Atlanta. Once the festivities are over, the Braves defeat Montreal, 5-3, with Chipper Jones' 3rd-inning grand slam the big blow.
1998 - The White Sox plate 14 runs - including eight in the 6th inning - on 12 hits against Red Sox pitching, but it's not enough for a win. Boston strokes 20 hits and pushes 15 runners across for a 15 - 14 victory.
1998 - In a game that is halted for 3 1/2 hours by rain and takes 6 hours, 9 minutes to complete, the Rangers beat the Mariners, 9-2.
1998 - Toronto defeats Tampa Bay, 2 - 1, with the help of seven 1/3 strong innings by Roger Clemens. In the game, Clemens fanned Devil Ray LF Randy Winn for his 3,000th career K. Only 10 other pitchers had reached that mark in major league annals.
1998 - Hot-hitting Manny Ramirez hits two more homers, one a grand slam, in the Indians' 12 - 3 win over KC. Manny had two homers on July 3.
1998 - Defeating the Orioles 1-0, the Yankees improve their to record 61-20 equaling the best 81-game start in major league history. The mark matches the record of the 1902 Pittsburgh Pirates and the 1907 Chicago Cubs.
1998 - Juan Gonzalez becomes the second player in major league history to go over the 100 RBI mark before the All-Star Game. His major league-leading total 101 RBIs is second only to Tiger slugger Hank Greenberg who had 103 in 1935 and finished the season with 170.
1999 - The Cardinals defeat the Diamondbacks, 1-0, as Jose Jimenez hurls a 2-hitter to defeat Randy Johnson. Jimenez no-hit the Diamondbacks in his last appearance against them. Johnson loses his 3rd game in a row, during which Arizona has not scored a run and only made three hits. He K's 12 Cardinals to tie Dwight Gooden's National League mark of 43 strikeouts over three starts. He also reaches 200 strikeouts for the year and ends St. Louis rookie Joe McEwing's 25-game hitting streak, the 5th longest ever for a rookie.
2000 - The Diamondbacks trip the Astros, 12-9. Arizona OF Luis Gonzalez becomes the 1st Diamondback to hit for the cycle, hitting a double in the 1st inning, a single in the 3rd, a triple in the 8th, and a home run in the 9th. It is the 1st time the feat is accomplished in new Enron Field. Gonzalez is just the 9th player to both hit for the cycle and have a 30+ game hitting streak during his career.
2001 - Atlanta's Greg Maddux notches the 250th win of his career with a 9 - 5 decision over Philadelphia.
2001 - The Rangers score nine runs in the 4th inning and go on to defeat the Mariners, 14 - 2.
2001 - The Expos beat the Marlins, 9 - 6. Montreal 3B Geoff Blum homers from both sides of the plate in the contest.
2001 - Pirates skipper Lloyd McClendon is fined $1,000 for walking off the field with first base in the June 26 Brewers game. It's the first time a manager has been fined for 'stealing' a base.
2002 - Baseball legend Ted Williams, considered by many the greatest hitter in the history of the game, dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 83. The first-ballot Hall of Famer, who was a lifetime .344 hitter, won MVP and the Triple Crown twice each, led American League in batting for six seasons, and hit .406 in 1941 during his 19-year career with the Red Sox.
2002 - The Yankees obtain P Jeff Weaver from the Tigers in a 3 - team deal. NY sends P Ted Lilly to the Oakland A's while the Athletics send IF Carlos Pena to Detroit. The Tigers also acquire P Franklyn German and a player to be named from Oakland, while the A's get OF John-Ford Griffin and P Jason Arnold from New York.
2002 - The Twins score eight runs in the 7th inning to down the Mariners, 8 - 4.
2002 - The Cubs fire manager Don Baylor and hire Bruce Kimm in his place.
2004 - At Dodger Stadium, Diamondback third baseman Chad Tracy's ninth inning run-scoring single on an 0-2 change up ends Eric Gagne's record streak of 84 consecutive saves. The new mark established by the Los Angeles closer is 30 more than the prior mark set by Tom Gordon in 1999.
2004 - In an effort to honor local military personnel, the Twins give away a G.I. Joe action figures to the first 5,000 children attending a game against the Royals. The team, in an effort to appease protesting peace groups, who see the promotion glorifying war, asks Hasbro, the toy's maker, to remove the customary gun from G.I. Joe's side, but the hand grenades remain visible.
2005 - Passing Eddie Murray, Red Sox left fielder Manny Ramirez hits his 20th career grand slam, now the second-most in major league history. The Dominican Republic native trails only Yankee legend Lou Gehrig, who holds the major league record with 23.