June 27

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1894 - For the first time in nearly a month, covering 24 games, Baltimore fails to score at least seven runs, losing to Chicago 13 - 4.
1900 - In a New York State League game, Binghamton tops Oswego, 2-1. Playing for Binghamton is Heavyweight boxing champ James J. Corbett, making the last of 37 appearances in the minors. He is 0 for 3.
1903 - The Pirates crush 15 hits off Iron Joe McGinnity, including four hits by Honus Wagner, but it takes the Bucs 11 innings to cut down the Giants. In the Pirates' next game, on the 30th against Brooklyn, Wagner will collect another four hits.
1904 - Patsy Dougherty has another three hits as the Highlander beat his old teammate Jesse Tannehill and Boston, 8-4. Boston leads the AL by just a half game. Long Tom Hughes will win tomorrow to stretch the lead to one 1/2 games.
1906 - The Giants take another from Boston, winning 4-2 and moving in 2nd place in the NL, just two games behind the front-running Cubs.
1907 - At Baker Bowl, Christy Mathewson and Hooks Wiltse combine to beat the Phillies, 2-0. Lew Moren pitches a fine game but loses. The Giants, playing .625 ball, are still 10 games in back of the Cubs. New York buys the contract of Larry Doyle for $4,500 from the Mattoon Giants of the Kitty League.
1910 - The White Sox play their last game at the 39th Street Grounds, losing to Cleveland, 7 - 2.
1911 - In the 7th inning at Huntington Avenue Grounds, the A's Stuffy McInnis steps into the batter's box to lead off and hits Ed Karger's warm-up pitch for an inside-the-park home run while the Red Sox are still taking their positions. Boston manager Patsy Donovan's protests to ump Ben Egan, but Egan rejects the protest on the basis of Ban Johnson's new rule prohibiting warm-up pitches. The A's win, 7 - 3. Ban Johnson's time-saving rule, which declares that pitchers must throw as soon as the batter is in the box, is soon withdrawn.
1911 - White Sox ace Ed Walsh shuts out the Tigers, 3 - 0. Ty Cobb is held to an infield single and then is cut down stealing.
1913 - Washington's Walter Johnson tops the A's, 2 - 0, to start a 14-game winning streak. He won't lose for another two months.
1914 - The A's top Walter Johnson and Washington, 4 - 2. Eddie Collins Sr. is 2-for-4 with a run and RBI for the A's.
1916 - Boston's Babe Ruth allows two runs in the first inning, but settles down to beat the A's, 7-2, while striking out 10. Red Sox infielder Larry Gardner is caught stealing three times, the 2nd time this year that A's catchers have caught a base runner three times (New York's Fritz Maisel, April 26). On June 29th, Lee Magee will be caught three times by the A's while trying to steal, and not until Rickey Henderson, in 1982, will an AL runner be cut down thrice in a game.
1922 - White Sox catcher Ray Schalk hits for the cycle against the Tigers. He's just the second major-league catcher to cycle.
1930 - A Ladies Day crowd swells the Wrigley Field attendance to a park record 51,556 to watch the Cubs' 7-5 win over Brooklyn. Kiki Cuyler's 10th-inning HR is the clincher.
1930 - At Philadelphia's Shibe Park, Jack Quinn becomes the oldest player to hit a home run in major league history. The A's pitcher is nine days shy of his 47th birthday when he connects for the solo shot. Jimmie Foxx and Al Simmons also homer as Quinn gets the win over the Browns. Quinn's record will be broken by Julio Franco over 75 years later.
1934 - The temperature reaches 115 degrees at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. Dizzy Dean leaves the game with two out and the score tied 7 - 7 in the top of the 9th. Reliever Jim Mooney retires Mel Ott, and when Bill DeLancey homers in the bottom of the inning to win the game, Dean is given credit for the win, his 12th of the year, though he wasn't the pitcher of record when the winning run scores. As on the 24th, Mike Haley, the scorer who had been overruled earlier that day, is the scorer and gives the win to Dean. Taking no chances, he asks John Heydler to review his decision and Heydler agrees.
1939 - The Dodgers and Bees play a 23-inning, 2-2 game at Boston, called on account of darkness after 5 hours and 15 minutes. Whit Wyatt pitches 16 innings for the Dodgers.
1940 - Bobo Newsom (10 - 1) wins his 10th in a row as the 2nd place Tigers whip St. Louis 2 - 1. Detroit manages just three hits, but two are homers by Greenberg and Gehringer.
1940 - To honor the lyricist of Take Me Out to the Ballgame, Jack Norworth Day is celebrated at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. Norworth or his partner Albert Von Tilzer, who wrote the music, had never seen a game when they created the song in 1908.
1950 - At Toledo (American Association), Marlin Stuart of Toledo pitches a 1-0 perfect game against Indianapolis. It is the 2nd perfect game in league history. The Tigers will recall Stuart.
1951 - The third-place Red Sox score three runs in the seventh to beat the A's, 6 - 5. Sox pitcher Ray Scarborough gets beans with an errant pickoff throw and is knocked unconscious and reliever Nixon earns the win.
1951 - Former Cubs farmhand Boyd Tepler brings a $450,000 suit against baseball, the Chicago Cubs, and William Wrigley, citing an arm injury he suffered in 1944. His suit contends that "negligent" coaching allowed him to continue with flaws in his pitching motion that resulted in damage to his arm and the end of his promising career.
1951 - Behind three-run homers by Andy Pafko and Duke Snider, Don Newcombe coasts to an easy win over the Giants.
1952 - Phils manager Eddie Sawyer is fired. Steve O'Neill will replace him the next day.
1955 - Boston's young star 1B Harry Agganis dies of complications following a bout with pneumonia.
1955 - The Orioles trade 2B Bobby Young to the Indians for IF Hank Majeski.
1958 - Billy Pierce of the White Sox retires 26 Washington Senators in a row before pinch-hitter Ed Fitz Gerald loops a double to become the only base runner. Pierce then fans Albie Pearson to win, 3 - 0. It is Pierce's 3rd straight shutout.
1958 - At Cincinnati, Johnny Temple drills a 2-out triple in the 9th inning to drive in two runs. The Reds beat the Giants, 6 - 5.
1959 - With the players voting, Henry Aaron gets a unanimous vote for the All-Star Game, making him the first player so selected.
1961 - Gene Green, Willie Tasby and Dale Long hit consecutive home runs for the Senators, as they trim Cleveland 8 - 5.
1962 - The Cards receive a pair of shutouts from Jackson and Sadecki to sweep the Cubs, 4 - 0 and 8 - 0. Jackson yields four hits in Game One and Sadecki allows five hits in the nitecap. Sadecki hits a 9th inning home run and Javier and Flood hit back-to-back homers off Bob Anderson.
1963 - Chicago's Ray Herbert allows five Yankee singles to beat the Yankees, 6 - 0, and give the Sox a virtual tie for 1st. The Sox assault youthful pitching star Jim Bouton (10-3) for all their runs in the first five innings.
1963 - Detroit's Norm Cash achieves a rarity by playing an entire game at 1B without a chance, as the Twins win 10 - 6.
1963 - The Phillies' Ray Culp (10-5) beats the Pirates 13 - 4, but CF Tony Gonzalez's streak of 205 straight errorless games ends with a 7th-inning muff. Johnny Callison hits for the cycle for the only time in his career. Callison adds a walk and a throw from RF to catcher Dalrymple in the 4th that nips a runner. Dalrymple homers in the 8th.
1963 - A meager crowd of 6,497 fans at Fenway see one of park's great catches. Cleveland OF Al Luplow races full tilt for Dick Williams's drive to right-CF, reaches over the fence, and gloves the ball while flipping over the barrier into the bullpen. Cleveland wins, 6 - 4.
1964 - Cleveland 3B Max Alvis is stricken with spinal meningitis. He will be disabled for six weeks but will make the All-Star team in 1965.
1967 - Al Kaline breaks his hand as he slams his bat into the bat rack after being struck out by Sam McDowell as the 2nd-place Tigers lose to Cleveland 8 - 1.. The future Hall of Famer (1980) will miss 28 games.
1967 - Baltimore RF Frank Robinson is hurt in a 2B collision with Al Weis, as the White Sox beat the Orioles 5 - 0. Robinson suffers double vision and will miss 28 games.
1969 - Cubs southpaw Ken Holtzman retires the first 20 batters, before the Cards erupt for two runs in the 7th and one in the 8th to win, 3 - 1. Steve Carlton (8-5) strikes out 12.
1972 - Mickey Lolich is staked to 4 - 0 lead when the Tigers hit three consecutive first-inning home runs against New York's Wade Blasingame, making his American League debut. Tony Taylor leads off with a walk before Aurelio Rodriguez, Al Kaline and Willie Horton wade in with homers to finish Blasingame. Lolich, pitching on two days rest, notches his 12th, winning 5 - 2. Bobby Murcer's home run accounts for one of the Yank runs.
1972 - Continuing his slugging, John Mayberry belts a home run, double and two singles to lead the Royals to a 6 - 4 win over the White Sox. Mayberry has driven in 20 runs in his last 11 games.
1972 - Nolan Ryan (8-5) triples and scores the go-ahead run in the 7th as California beats the Twins, 3 - 1. Poor base-running in the 4th doesn't help the Twins cause: With Harmon Killebrew on 3B and Steve Braun on 2B with no outs, Nettles flies out to Spencer in left field. Killebrew fakes a dash to the plate and Braun starts from 2B. A relay catches Braun at 2B and another throw nips Killebrew at 3B for a triple play.
1973 - David Clyde, 18 and fresh out of Houston's Westchester High School, makes his eagerly awaited debut with the Rangers, before 35,698, the largest Rangers crowd of the year. Clyde, the number one pick in the draft, walks the first two Twins he faces, then gets Bobby Darwin, George Mitterwald and Joe Lis on swinging 3rd strikes. Clyde goes five innings and gives up only one hit -- a 2-run home run -- walks seven and strikes out 8. He is the winner 4 - 3.
1973 - Led by 1B Joe Torre, who hits for the cycle, the Cards tally 22 hits to roll over the Pirates 15 - 4. Torre hit a double in the 1st, homered in the 3rd, and tripled in the 4th. After hitting into a double play, and then walking in the 8th, Torre asks to be pinch run for, but Red Schoendienst leaves him. Torre then singles in the 9th inning completing the cycle, and raising his average to .338.
1974 - The Angels fire manager Bobby Winkles. Whitey Herzog will serve as interim boss for four games before Dick Williams assumes the reins.
1977 - The Cubs edge the Expos, 4 - 3 as Sutter shuts down Montreal for two innings to earn his 20th save. Sutter's ERA is now a minuscule 0.69.
1977 - The Giants' Willie McCovey smashes two home runs, one a grand slam, in the 6th inning to pace a 14 - 9 victory over the Reds. McCovey becomes the first player to twice hit two home runs in one inning (4/12/73), and also becomes the all-time National League leader with 17 career grand slams. Andre Dawson, in 1978 and 1986, will clout two round trippers in an inning. Reliever Joe Hoerner helps as he enters the 6th with two outs, the sacks full, and the Reds holding a 7 - 6 lead. He hits two batters, then serves up the slam to McCovey.
1978 - New York's Graig Nettles belts a two-run homer in the 14th to give the Yankees a 6 - 4 win over the Red Sox. Dick Drago serves up Nettles' 13th homer of the year. Sparky Lyle (6 - 1) wins in relief. Ron Guidry (13-0) starts for NY and gives up eight hits in six innings.
1980 - The Dodgers' Jerry Reuss pitches a 8 - 0 no-hitter against the Giants at Candlestick Park. Reuss, who strikes out only two but doesn't walk a batter, is deprived of a perfect game when SS Bill Russell throws wildly to 1B on Jack Clark's easy grounder in the first inning.
1982 - The Braves tie the major-league record with seven double plays in a 2 - 0, 14-inning win over Cincinnati. Mario Soto pitches 10 shutout innings for the Reds but gets no decision. The loss starts the Reds on a streak where they'll lose 20 out of 23 games.
1984 - In the 3rd inning against the Reds, Giants OF Dusty Baker swipes second, third, and home, garnering three of his four season steals. Baker swipes 2B, and the next batter walks, then gets caught in a rundown. Dusty steals 3B during the rundown and just keeps running. San Francisco wins 14 - 9, with Chili Davis adding a pinch grand slam in the 5-run 5th. Randy Lerch wins with a 1/3 inning of relief.
1985 - San Francisco's Jeffrey Leonard hits for the cycle in a 7 - 6 loss to the Reds. He is the first Giant to do so since Dave Kingman in 1972.
1985 - The Padres trade 2B Alan Wiggins to the Orioles for pitcher Roy Lee Jackson and a player to be named later. Wiggins, who recently completed his 2nd stay at a drug rehabilitation center, was never reactivated by the Padres, who vowed that he would never play for them again.
1986 - Give him an A for effort. San Francisco 2B Robby Thompson is caught stealing four times in the Giants' 7 - 6, 12-inning win over the Reds, establishing a new ML record. Thompson is thrown out by Bo Diaz in the 4th, 6th, 9th, and 11th innings.
1987 - Darrell Evans slugs a 2-run home run in the first inning off Mike Boddicker for his 2,000th career hit, but his Tigers lose to Baltimore 4 - 2.
1987 - A's rookie Mark McGwire hits three home runs and drives in five runs helping to defeat the Indians, 13-3.
1987 - Tony Gwynn goes 3-for-4 in San Diego's 8 - 4 win over Atlanta to raise his batting average to .387. Gwynn will finish the season at .370 to win his 2nd National League batting title.
1987 - The Bend Bucks, managed by Mel Roberts, met the Boise Hawks, managed by Derrel Thomas, in a Northwest League game. It marked the first time in Organized Ball history that two black managers had faced each other.
1990 - Brewers DH Dave Parker gets his 2,500th career hit in a 5 - 4 win over the Yankees.
1991 - The Indians trade P Tom Candiotti and OF Turner Ward to the Blue Jays in exchange for OF Glenallen Hill, OF Mark Whiten, P Denis Boucher and a player to be named later.
1992 - The Dodgers trade OF Kal Daniels to the Cubs in exchange for a player to be named.
1992 - The Mets edge the Cards with all the runs coming on homers: Dave Gallagher and Tim Jones match dingers, and Howard Johnson's homer in the bottom of the 9th makes John Franco (6-0) a winner. It is Johnson's last homer of the year.
1993 - Anthony Young sets a major league record losing his 24th straight decision as the Cardinals beat the Mets, 5-3.
1993 - Atlanta OF Ron Gant fans four times against Houston's Darryl Kile, giving him seven consecutive strikeouts, and a record-tying 10 in his last three games. The Astros and Kile defeat the Braves, 3-0.
1993 - The Calgary Cannons of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League explode for 35 hits in a 23-12 pasting of the Las Vegas Stars. Cannons OF Lee Tinsley goes 7-for-8 in the contest. Calgary ties a PCL record with nine consecutive hits in the 2nd inning.
1994 - The Cubs defeat the Pirates, 2-1, as P Randy Myers records his 200th career save. He is only the 3rd left-hander to reach the mark.
1996 - The Athletics stroke eight home runs in an 18-2 pounding of the Angels. Scott Brosius hits 2, while Mark McGwire, Geronimo Berroa, Jason Giambi, Terry Steinbach, Ernie Young and Jose Herrera also connect. The seven different players going deep ties the ML record.
1996 - The Rockies pound the Dodgers, 13-1, as Andres Galarraga leads the way with a double, two homers, and a team-record eight runs driven in.
1997 - The White Sox defeat the Twins, 10-6, as OF Albert Belle goes 5-for-5, including a double and home run. C Jorge Fabregas drive in four runs for Chicago.
1997 - The Orioles acquire OF Geronimo Berroa from the Athletics in exchange for P Jimmy Haynes.
1997 - The left side of the KC infield accounts for 10 runs as 3B Craig Paquette and SS Jay Bell each drive home five in the Royals' 16-3 win over Milwaukee.
1998 - Ismael Valdes hurls a 1 - hit shutout in beating the Pirates, 2 - 0. Pittsburgh's only hit is a single by 1B Kevin Young as Valdes fans seven without walking a batter.
1999 - In front of 56,530 fans, the 1,765th and last major league game is played at the Kingdome with the Mariners beating the Rangers in the stadium's finale, 5-2. Ken Griffey, Jr. fittingly clouts the last homer. Griffey hit 198 of his 377 homers at the Dome. The Mariners will open their new home -- Safeco Field -- on July 15th.
2000 - The Devil Rays defeat the Blue Jays, 11-1. In doing so, Tampa Bay end Toronto's streak of 23 consecutive games with at least one home run - 2 shy of the major league mark.
2000 - The Dodgers release veteran P Orel Hershiser, who announces his retirement.
2000 - Heavy medical news. Houston reliever Billy Wagner undergoes surgery to repair a partially torn flexor tendon and is out for the year. Pitchers Anaheim's Jason Dickson and Tampa Bay's Juan Guzman, undergoes arthroscopic surgery on their right shoulders and will miss the remainder of the season.
2000 - The Atlanta Braves back off from their decision to bar from their chartered flights four team announcers who had raised questions about the catcher's box at Turner Field. After TBS discussed the width of the catcher's box in a game against the Brewers three days ago, Skip Caray, Pete Van Wieren, Joe Simpson and Don Sutton were kicked off a flight to Montreal and had to take a commercial flight. TBS aired a video showing the catcher's box was four to five inches smaller than it was the previous night, when Milwaukee management complained about where Braves catcher Javy Lopez was setting up. Opposing teams have long said that Atlanta pitchers are given the benefit of an extra-wide strike zone, particularly on the outside corners. Catchers who set up wide of the plate can increase the chances of an outside pitch being called a strike. The video was shown after a rare balk call against Fernando Lunar, the Braves catcher. Home-plate umpire John Shulock ruled that Lunar set up with his right foot outside the 43-inch-wide box. The balk led to Milwaukee's first run and a heated argument between Shulock and Braves manager Bobby Cox, who was ejected. Atlanta lost the game 2-1.
2001 - The Braves bump the slumping Phillies out of first place in the NL East with a 10 - 4 win over them. The Phils were 35 - 18 on June 1, and led the Braves by eight games. Chipper Jones drives in three runs and Odalis Perez allows two earned runs.
2001 - The Astros obtain P Ron Villone from the Rockies for P Jay Powell.
2002 - As part of a six-player deal , the Indians trade their #1 starter, right-hander Bartolo Colon, to the Expos for first baseman Lee Stevens, three minor league prospects and cash. In exchange, Cleveland get top prospect Brandon Phillips as well as southpaw Cliff Lee and flycatcher Grady Sizemore.
2003 - In the 50-minute bottom of the first inning at Fenway Park against the Marlins, the Red Sox establish a major league record by scoring 10 runs before making an out. Lead-off hitter Johnny Damon, with a single, double and triple, ties a major league mark with three hits in an inning as the home team equals an American League record for most runs scored in the first inning with 14.
2007 - Ryan Howard hits his 100th career home run in a 9-6 loss to the Reds. The shot against Aaron Harang makes him the fastest player in MLB history to hit 100 homers, doing so in his 325th game.
2008:
- In a 15-6 Mets win in the first half of a doubleheader with the Yankees, Carlos Delgado drives in nine runs, setting a New York Mets franchise record. Delgado hits a grand slam (the 12th of his career), a 3-run homer and a 2-run double.
- Dallas McPherson goes deep off of Justin Berg; it is the 7th straight game the Albuquerque Isotopes star has homered in. This ties the all-time minor league record.