June 21

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1900 - Brooklyn rallies for five in the 9th to beat Philadelphia 8-6 and take over first place. They will hold the lead for the rest of the season. Despite the win, Brooklyn is averaging only 1,100 fans per game and a concerned NL president Ned Young floats the idea of the franchise moving to Washington, DC.
1901 - Right-hander Harley 'Doc' Parker of the Reds gives up 21 runs and 26 hits to Brooklyn in his first start of the season - and ML farewell appearance. The 26 hits is a post-1900 record, tied by Al Travers in 1912, and by the A's Hod Lisenbee in 1936. The 21 runs allowed is an NL mark. Harley also faces a record 55 (TSN says 53) batters in the game. Led by Keeler's five hits, incluidng a HR and 2B, the Superbas win, 21-3
1903 - In a Sunday match in Canton, Ohio, Boston outslugs Cleveland to win 12-7. Buck Freeman is 5-for-6, including the cycle, with six RBIs, while Nap Lajoie is 3-for-5 for Cleveland.
1906 - At the Polo Grounds, umpire Bob Emslie tosses John McGraw in the 4th inning, but his fellow ump Hank O'Day goes one better, banishing Joe McGinnity and first sacker Dan McGann in the 5th. Down 4-2, Christy Mathewson relieves for the Giants and shuts out the Pirates over the last four innings. The Giants load the bases in the 9th and Chappie McFarland relieves a tired Sam Leever. A single scores one and with two outs, Doc Marshall singles to score the winning run. Mathewson wins, 5-4.
1907 - The Cubs top the Cardinals 2-0 as C Johnny Kling throws out all four would-be St. Louis base stealers. Three-Finger Brown wins his 10th straight game.
1911 - Grover Cleveland Alexander wins for the 2nd day in a row, hooking up with Brooklyn's Doc Scanlan for a 15-inning operation, won by the Phils, 2 - 1.
1914 - Against Detroit P George Boehler, Walter Johnson connects for a 5th-inning grand slam and it is the difference as Washington wins, 7 - 3.
1916 - Rube Foster of the Red Sox no-hits the Yankees 2 - 0, for the first no-hitter in Fenway Park, beating Bob Shawkey 2 - 0. Harry Hooper leads the offense with three hits. Red Sox president Lannin hands Rube a $100 bonus and each of his Sox teammates receive a gold-handled pocket knife engraved with the date.
1917 - In a game against Salt Lake City, Red McKee of the San Francisco Seals (PCL), forgets the bases are loaded and attempts to steal 3B. His inadvertent ploy works as the startled pitcher is called for a balk.
1922 - The Robins pound out 25 hits to Pittsburgh's 19 as Brooklyn wins 15 - 14.
1931 - George Earnshaw notches the 12th consecutive victory for the A's, 6-5, at Chicago.
1933 - Behind Earl Whitehill, the Senators beat the Browns, 9 - 0. Joe Cronin has his 2nd of five consecutive multi-hit games.
1933 - In the Texas League, Shreveport pitcher Ralph Erickson no-hits the Houston Buffaloes and beats Dizzy Dean, 2 - 0.
1935 - Babe Herman, on waivers from Pittsburgh, returns to Cincinnati.
1936 - Van Mungo stops the Cubs' win streak at 15, leaving them a half game behind the Cards, who lose to the Giants.
1936 - Mickey Cochrane checks out of the hospital and goes to a Wyoming ranch to recover his health.
1937 - Johnny Allen, off to a 4-0 start for Cleveland, has an appendectomy in Boston and will miss eight weeks of the season.
1938 - Red Sox 3B Pinky Higgins extends his consecutive-hit string to 12, with eight hits in a doubleheader split with Detroit. He is 4-for-4 in each game, a Boston win in the opener, 8 - 3. Detroit wins the nitecap, 5 - 4, with Rudy York catching both games. Tomorrow, Pinky will strike out against Vern Kennedy in his first at-bat ending the streak.
1939 - The New York Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement, based on the report that he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The 36-year-old star will remain with the team as captain.
1940 - Washington rookie Sid Hudson takes a no-hitter into the 9th inning, but the Browns' Rip Radcliff hits a pop fly double down the RF line with no outs. A passed ball puts him on 3rd, but Hudson retires three for a 1 - 0 win. He'll beat the A's on a one-hit shutout in August.
1941 - Lefty Grove's Fenway consecutive win streak, which started on May 3, 1938, ends at 20 games with a 13-9 loss to the St. Louis Browns.
1942 - Ted Lyons wins his 250th career game, 6-5 over the Red Sox. A week later, he will beat New York's Red Ruffing to match the Yankee hurler's 251 career wins. The White Sox veteran will finish the season with 20 complete games in 20 starts, lead the AL with a 2.10 ERA, then enter the Marine Corps at age 42.
1946 - A federal judge rules that the Seattle club does not have to play returning serviceman Al Niemiec but it does have to pay him his $720 a month contract through the season. At midseason, 143 players who had ML contracts when they went to war had been released or sent to the minors. Former major-league players Van Mungo, Lou Finney, Chubby Dean, Nate Andrews and Max Butcher are all playing in Class D leagues.
1950 - Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit, a 7th-inning single off the Indians' Marino Pieretti, as the Yanks win 8 - 2. DiMaggio joins Luke Appling and Wally Moses as the only active players with 2,000 or more hits. Eddie Lopat is the winning pitcher, running his record against Cleveland to 25 - 6.
1950 - Phils rookie Bob Miller (6-0) continues his unbeaten streak, turning back the Pirates, 7 - 4. Jones, Ennis, Seminick and Nicholson lead a home run attack, and Miller helps by starting a triple play in the 7th. Hank Borowy, obtained on waivers from the Phils, takes the loss.
1950 - Renegade ball player Danny Gardella admits accepting a pay-off to drop his suit against baseball. After a month long tryout with the Cardinals, Gardella had been sent to their Houston farm club where, shortly afterward, he was released. Gardella argues that he should be paid for the entire year, and he blames his release on his suit against the ML.
1951 - Bill Veeck gets an option to buy the St. Louis Browns from the DeWitts.
1951 - At Chattanooga; Mobile outscores the hosts 28-7. Bears 1B Wayne Belardi goes 4-for-7 with two home runs - including a grand slam - a double and 10 RBIs. Every Bear hitter scores at least two runs. Belardi's outburst will earn him another call-up to the Dodgers.
1952 - As a publicity stunt, Harrisburg of the Inter-State League signs a woman player, Eleanor Engle, but she does not get into a game. Female ball players are officially banned by minor league President George Trautman shortly after.
1956 - Chicago and Baltimore one-hit one another as White Sox pitcher Jack Harshman beats Oriole hurlers Connie Johnson and George Zuverink, 1-0.
1957 - One month after graduating from high school, Cardinals P Von McDaniel, 18, 2-hits the Dodgers in his first ML start, 2-0. He holds the Dodgers hitless until the sixth inning.
1958 - Frank Lary pitches his 3rd straight shutout, beating the Yankees' Duke Maas, 1 - 0. Al Kaline throws out Maas at the plate and hits his 7th home run to extend his hitting streak to 18 games.
1958 - White Sox lefty Billy Pierce hurls a 2-hitter against the Orioles, winning 1 - 0 over Billy Loes. It's the Sox 5th shutout in the last six games.
1959 - At Los Angeles, the Reds' Don Newcombe subdues the Dodgers, 17 - 3. Newk pitches a complete game and collects four hits and four RBIs.
1959 - Milwaukee's Hank Aaron hits three 2-run home runs at Seals Stadium to power the Braves to a 13 - 3 win over the Giants. It's the only 3-homer game of Aaron's career.
1960 - Reno (California League) beats visiting Stockton, 8 - 3, as legendary fireballer Steve Dalkowski strikes out 19 Silver Sox batters.
1960 - Despite two home runs and a single by Ted Williams, driving in four runs, the Red Sox lose to KC, 11 - 7. Jerry Casale puts the Sox in the hole by giving up hits to the first six batters.
1960 - Whitey Ford outduels Yankee Killer Frank Lary to give New York a 6 - 0 win in Detroit. Mickey Mantle is 3-for-5 with two homers off Lary.
1964 - On Father's Day at Shea Stadium, Jim Bunning fans 10, drives in two runs, and pitches the first perfect game (excluding Don Larsen's 1956 World Series effort and Harvey Haddix's 1959 overtime loss) since Charlie Robertson's on April 30, 1922. Philadelphia beats the Mets, 6 - 0. He also becomes the first pitcher to win no-hitters in both leagues, and Gus Triandos becomes the first catcher to catch a no-hitter in each league. Bunning throws just 90 pitches in winning his 2nd no-hitter. The next time Bunning faces the Mets he will shut them out, the first no-hit pitcher this century to do that. The Mets don't fare much better in the nitecap as 18-year-old rookie Rick Wise wins his 1st game and gives up just three hits for an 8 - 2 win. Johnny Klippstein comes on in the 9th. The Phils increase their National League lead to two games over the Giants.
1964 - The Yankees move into first place by eight percentage points over Baltimore, as they outpitch the White Sox to win 2 - 0 and 2 - 1. Mickey Mantle and Elston Howard home runs win it 2 - 0 for Jim Bouton in the opener against White Sox pitcher Juan Pizarro, and an error wins the nightcap 2 - 1 in the 17th. The Yankees sweep 4, giving up just one run in 41 innings, and take nine games from Chicago in 11 days.
1966 - Satchel Paige makes his final pro pitching appearance, going the first two innings for the Peninsula Grays (Carolina League) against the Greensboro Yankees. Satch gives up two runs. As noted by historian Bill Deane, Peninsula's regular catcher, Johnny Bench, took the night off.
1966 - In the first game of a twinbill, there are two on and two outs in the 9th inning when Frank Robinson makes a spectacular catch against New York's Roy White, diving into the stands over the short right field fence and disappearing from view. He emerges with the ball and it is ruled a catch, preserving a 7 - 5 Baltimore victory, rather than 8-7 defeat. Robby will do it again on August 11th.
1968 - It's been a bad week for the Cubs, but they end their scoreless streak at 48 innings, tying a ML mark set in 1906, beating the Reds, 3 - 2, behind Joe Niekro. George Culver is the losing pitcher, allowing the Cubs 1st score in the 3rd inning when he gives up a walk with the sacks full. The five straight shutout losses also ties a league mark. The streak started on June 15, the final eight innings of a loss to Atlanta and continued with the following games: a 1 - 0 loss to Phil Niekro in 11 inn; a 1 - 0 loss to the Cards' Nelson Briles; a 4 - 0 one hitter to Steve Carlton and a 1 - 0 loss to Bob Gibson. During the drought, Fergie Jenkins allows one run in 18 inn and got loss and no decision.
1969 - Minnesota scores a club-record 11 runs in an inning, the 10th inning at Oakland, and set major-league record for runs in the 10th, in winning 14 - 4. The Twins send 16 batters to the plate in the frame garnering eight hits, four walks, and three errors. Harmon Killebrew's 3-run homer is the big blow. Minnesota's 11 match the New York Yankees' 12th inning of July 26, 1928, for most runs for one club in extra innings, and shatters the previous high for the 10th inning of eight runs. The A's add a run of their own in the 10th to set a record (12) for runs in the 10th by two clubs. Yesterday, Oakland won, 3 - 2, in 14 innings.
1969 - Willie Horton powers two homers, one a grand slam, and drives in six runs to power the Tigers to a 9 - 5 win over the visiting Senators. Mickey Lolich (8 - 1) is the winner, allowing just four hits.
1970 - Cleveland wins the first game against Detroit, 2 - 1, but Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez then goes 7-for-7 with six singles and a double to tie a record set in 1892, in a 12-inning 9 - 8 nitecap win. Mickey Stanley's home run wins it for the Tigers. Gutierrez, wearing #7, started the game hitting .218, and was 0-for-18 before today. Gutierrez will collect just seven hits in all of 1971, and 128 hits for his career.
1971 - Indians slugger Ken Harrelson announces his retirement from baseball to join the pro golf tour.
1972 - Rico Petrocelli and Carl Yastrzemski lead the Red Sox to a 11-inning, 10 - 9 win over Texas. Yaz collects five hits and score four times, while Rico drives in six runs, four with a grand slam. Frank Howard is 4-for-4 for Texas. Luis Tiant Jr. wins with an inning of shutout relief.
1972 - Bob Gibson wins his 211th, passing Jess Haines as the Cards' biggest winner, in St. Louis's 14 - 3 win over the Padres. Gibson cracks a 3-run homer in the 7th before exiting.
1973 - White Sox pitcher Stan Bahnsen shuts out the Indians, 2 - 0, but gives up 12 hits while doing it, two shy of the record in a shutout.
1973 - Houston's Lee May collects three home runs and a single in a 12 - 2 win over San Diego. The bright side for the Pads is Dave Winfield's first ML homer, off Ken Forsch.
1974 - The Braves fire manager Eddie Mathews, the only man to play for the Braves in Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta. Clyde King is hired to replace him.
1975 - In the opener of a doubleheader, the Angels' Frank Tanana strikes out 17 Rangers without a walk during a 4 - 2 win. Texas cops the nitecap, 6 - 5.
1976 - Bert Blyleven hurls a one-hit shutout as the Rangers edge the A's, 1 - 0. On the 26th, Blyleven will pitch another 1-0, one-hit victory, beating the White Sox in 10 innings.
1977 - Behind Luis Tiant's 2-hitter, the Boston Red Sox pummel the Baltimore Orioles, 7 - 0. Jim Rice and George Scott bang homers. The Sox also sign Tommy Helms, released by the Pittsburgh Pirates, and waive Doug Griffin.
1977 - Cincinnati Reds pitcher Paul Moskau homers on his 2nd ML at bat, but gives up four runs in 4+ innings. The Reds prevail over the Philadelphia Phillies, 10 - 5, at Veterans Stadium.
1978 - The California Angels' Dave Machemer homers in his first ML at bat during a 5 - 2 win over the Minnesota Twins. Machemer never hits another.
1983 - The Reds edge the Giants, 6 - 5, in 16 innings on Ron Oester's single. Both teams score a run in the 14th.
1984 - Oakland A's Carney Lansford goes 0-for-5 against the Detroit Tigers, snapping his 24-game hit streak. The streak is an Oakland record and the longest AL skein of the year. Lansford will collect hits in next 11 games.
1985 - Twins manager Billy Gardner is fired and replaced by Baltimore pitching coach Ray Miller.
1986 - Bo Jackson, college football's Heisman Trophy winner in 1985 and the first pick (by Tampa Bay) in the NFL draft, stuns observers nationwide by signing with the Kansas City Royals instead.
1986 - The season ends for Philadelphia Phillies C Darren Daulton when he tears the ACL in his left knee in a home plate collision with the St. Louis Cardinals' Mike Heath. St. Louis wins, 8 - 6.
1988 - With two outs in the 9th inning, Detroit Tigers SS Alan Trammell blasts a grand slam to give the Bengals a 7 - 6 win over the New York Yankees.
1989 - Chicago White Sox Carlton Fisk surpasses Yogi Berra as the American League leader for career home runs by a catcher as his 307th home run helps to beat the New York Yankees, 7-3.
1994 - The Red Sox score 10 times in the top of the first inning as they go on to defeat the Blue Jays, 13-1.
1996 - The New York Yankees acquire Billy Brewer and give Steve Howe his release.
1997 - The Seattle Mariners ride a 9-run 7th inning to a 15 - 8 slugfest win over the Texas Rangers. Dan Wilson has a 3-run double and Jay Buhner has two RBIs - 5 overall- in the big inning to pace the M's 13-hit barrage.
1997 - Manny Ramirez has six RBIs, four on a grand slam, to lead the host Cleveland Indians to a 13 - 4 win over the New York Yankees and Andy Pettitte.
1997 - Six inches of rain fall in a few hours in Milwaukee, WI flooding Milwaukee County Stadium to the third row. The dugouts are filled with water to the roof.
1997 - The host Detroit Tigers blast the Boston Red Sox 15 - 4. The Sox, trailing by 12 runs, try OF Darren Bragg at 3B, and put IF Mike Benjamin on the mound for the 9th. Benjamin retires all three batters, the only one of five Sox hurlers to do so.
1998 - The Dodgers fire general manager Fred Claire and manager Bill Russell. Former manager Tommy Lasorda is hired as GM on an interim basis. Glenn Hoffman, who managed the team's AAA Albuquerque Dukes farm club, takes over as interim manager.
1998 - The Boston Red Sox trade C Jim Leyritz and OF Ethan Faggett to the San Diego Padres for P Carlos Reyes and Dario Veras, and C Mandy Romero.
1998 - The Cincinnati Reds start an outfield against the Houston Astros of Dmitri Young, Mike Frank and Chris Stynes. Yup, for you movie buffs, that would be Young, Frank and Stynes. It is still a horror for the Reds as they lose their 8th straight, 4 - 2. Pete Schourek is the CG winner. The losing streak will reach 10 as the Kansas City Royals will win the next 2.
1998 - Cleveland Indians lefty Bartolo Colon coasts to a 11 - 0 shutout over the New York Yankees.
1999 - Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Tony Fernandez becomes the Dominican-born career hits leader with his 2,178th hit to move ahead of Julio Franco. Fernandez's hit plated the winning run with two outs in the ninth in Toronto's 2-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals. Franco, deemed washed-up by the baseball world and out of the majors at this time, will reclaim the record several years later.
2000 - The New York Mets announce that SS Rey Ordonez will be out for the season because his broken left forearm is not healing properly.
2000 - The Oakland A's defeat the Baltimore Orioles, 10-3, as Eric Chavez becomes the first Oakland player to hit for the cycle at home since the team moved to Oakland in 1968.
2001 - In the annual Congressional baseball game, the Republicans defeat the Democrats, 9-1. Republican Congressman Steve Largent of Oklahoma, a former NFL great, strikes out eight while allowing just six hits and no walks. The Dems can breathe easier next year since Largent will be resigning his seat to run for governor. The elephants have compiled a 26-14 record since the Congressional newspaper, Roll Call, began sponsoring the game in 1962. Before 1962, the game was played intermittently beginning when former major-leaguer John Tener, then a Republican Congressman from Pennsylvania, organized the first contest in 1909.
2001 - The Arizona Diamondbacks roll past the Astros, 14-5, as rookie 2B Junior Spivey goes 5-for-6 with three RBIs and three runs scored.
2001 - The San Francisco Giants beat the San Diego Padres, 8-6, as OF Barry Bonds hits his 38th home run to set a new mark for homers hit before the All-Star break.
2001 - Returning to major leagues after a stint with Newark Bears of the independent Atlantic League, Jose Canseco starts as the designated hitter for the Chicago White Sox. The former All Star, who has 446 career home runs (23rd all time), didn't get any offers after being released by the Anaheim Angels in the spring.
2002 - The Florida Marlins defeat the Detroit Tigers, 4 - 1, as Luis Castillo hits safely in his 35th consecutive game tying Fred Clarke (1895), Ty Cobb (1917), and George Sisler (1924-25) for the 10th-longest streak in major league history. The Florida Marlins infielder's third inning infield hit off knuckleballer Steve Sparks's glove also surpasses 1987 Benito Santiago's for longest streak established by a Latin player.
2002 - During the New York-Penn League game between New Jersey Cardinals and Staten Island Yankees, a fan hops a fence goes and goes onto the field to argue an umpire's call at first base. The 38-year old woman is at the game with her 8-year-old daughter's Brownie troop.
2003 - In the 13th inning at Veterans Stadium, pinch-hitter Todd Pratt hits a two-run home run giving the Philadelphia Phillies a walk-off 6-5 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Boston's shortstop Nomar Garciaparra's club tying record 6-for-6 (all singles) performance could not prevent the bullpen from blowing three late leads; 2-1 in the 8th (Jim Thome's HR ties it), 3-2 in 12th (Thome's second HR ties it).
2005 - General Manager Dan O'Brien meets face to face with Cincinnati Reds skipper Dave Miley (125-164) to inform the third-year manager of his decision to fire him. Former Texas Rangers manager Jerry Narron will becomes the 58th manager in Reds history.
2005 - After building 10-2 lead at Yankee Stadium, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays lose to Bronx Bombers 20-11 making it the second time in franchise history the team is ahead by eight or more runs and lose by nine or more tallies. No other club history has ever achieved this dubious distinction as the D-Rays with their 1999 defeat to the Indians now have accomplished the feat twice.