June 4
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Events, births and deaths that occurred on June 4.
- 1911 - The Cincinnati Reds roll over the Boston Braves, setting a since tied record of 13 different players scoring.
- 1940:
- The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Boston Bees 7 - 2 in the first night game at Forbes Field.
- The St. Louis Cardinals played their first night game at Sportsman's Park, against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
- 1951 - Gus Bell hits for the cycle to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 12 - 4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium. His son, Buddy, and his grandson, David, will also play in the major leagues.
- 1964 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers becomes the fourth major league pitcher to hurl three no-hitters by blanking the Philadelphia Phillies 3 - 0 at home.
- 1967 - St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Curt Flood's errorless streak of 227 games and 568 chances ends when he drops a fly ball in a game against the Chicago Cubs at Busch Stadium.
- 1968 - The Los Angeles Dodgers' Don Drysdale pitches his sixth straight shutout, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 5 - 0, and establishes two new major league records. Drysdale tops Doc White's 64-year-old mark of five shutouts, and with 54 scoreless innings, he breaks Carl Hubbell's NL string by 1-3, set in 1933, en route to a record 58 2/3 innings new mark.
- 1972 - A major league record eight shutouts are pitched in 16 major league games: five in the AL, three in the NL. Two are recorded by the AL Oakland Athletics, who sweep a pair from the Baltimore Orioles by identical 2 - 0 scores.
- 1986 - Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Barry Bonds, the son of former star Bobby Bonds, goes 4-for-5 with his first home run (off Craig McMurtry) as Pittsburgh whips the Atlanta Braves 12 - 3.
- 1990 - Ramón Martinez of the Los Angeles Dodgers strikes out 18 Atlanta Braves in a three-hit 2 - 0 win. He ties Sandy Koufax's club record and is one short of the NL mark.
- 1996 - Pamela Davis pitches one inning of scoreless relief and gets the win in a minor league exhibition game. She is believed to be the first woman to pitch for a major league farm club under the current structure of the minor league system. Davis, a 21-year-old right-hander, pitches for the Jacksonville Suns, a Double-A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers, against the Australian Olympic team.
- 2000 - Esteban Yan of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays becomes the 77th major league player to hit a home run in his first at bat, but just the fourth AL pitcher and the first since the Angels' Don Rose in 1972, the year before the designated hitter rule took the bat out of AL pitchers' hands.
- 2002 - The Minnesota Twins score 10 runs in the seventh inning to close out the scoring in a 23 - 2 win over the Cleveland Indians, the most runs in franchise history. Minnesota also gets a franchise - record 25 hits (they hit 24 five times as the Washington Senators) and tie the AL record as four players have four or more hits. They are the fifth team to do it. On the flip side, the Indians tie their team record for the biggest loss, tying the mark set in a 21 - 0 loss to the Detroit Tigers on September 15, 1901. Cleveland also becomes the first team since the 1969 San Diego Padres to lose two games in the same season by 19 or more runs.
- 2003 - Although his bat may have contained cork in the previous days game, all five of Sammy Sosa's historic bats housed at the Hall of Fame and the 76 of confiscated from his locker by Major League Baseball reveal no signs of tampering.
- 2003 - At Puerto Rico's Hiram Bithorn Stadium, Jeff DaVanon of the Angels becomes the fourth major league player to have three consecutive multi-homer games. Lee May (1969 NL), Frank Thomas (1962 NL) and Gus Zernial 1951 AL) were the others. At the same time, DaVanon also becomes the third player to do it from both sides of the plate in two back-to-back contests, matching Ken Caminiti 1995 NL) and Eddie Murray 1987 AL).
- 2007 - 18-year-old Yuki Saito is named to the Tokyo Big Six University League Best Nine, the first freshman pitcher in history to be selected in the spring season.
- 2008 - Joe Mauer drives in two on a sacrifice fly to become the first major leaguer to accomplish that since Alex Ochoa in 2001. Down 5-2 in the 5th against Daniel Cabrera and the O's, the Minnesota star flies to Adam Jones at the warning track. Nick Punto scores and after Jones falls while trying to throw, Carlos Gomez comes around from second.
[edit] Births
- 1849 - Bill Parks, outfielder, manager (d. 1911)
- 1851 - Tim Murnane, infielder, manager (d. 1917)
- 1867 - George Townsend, catcher (d. 1930)
- 1870 - Tom Lipp, pitcher (d. 1932)
- 1877 - Pat Crisham, infielder (d. 1915)
- 1882 - Joe Burg, infielder (d. 1969)
- 1885 - Bobby Vaughn, infielder (d. 1965)
- 1886 - Orlie Weaver, pitcher (d. 1970)
- 1889 - Lee Magee, outfielder, manager (d. 1966)
- 1892 - Herb Kelly, pitcher (d. 1973)
- 1892 - Paul Maloy, pitcher (d. 1976)
- 1892 - George Twombly, outfielder (d. 1975)
- 1900 - George Watkins, outfielder (d. 1970)
- 1906 - Doc Marshall, infielder (d. 1999)
- 1907 - George Washington, outfielder (d. 1985)
- 1908 - Orville Jorgens, pitcher (d. 1992)
- 1908 - Bob Klinger, pitcher (d. 1977)
- 1913 - Joe Holden, catcher (d. 1996)
- 1913 - Amby Murray, pitcher (d. 1997)
- 1915 - Bill Holland, pitcher
- 1915 - Tony Venzon, umpire (d. 1971)
- 1922 - Ray Coleman, outfielder
- 1922 - Ross Grimsley, pitcher (d. 1994)
- 1925 - Dick Aylward, catcher (d. 1983)
- 1928 - Billy Hunter, infielder, manager; All-Star
- 1930 - Harry Barrett, minor league pitcher (d. 2008)
- 1932 - John McNamara, , manager
- 1933 - Arnold Earley, pitcher (d. 1999)
- 1938 - Art Mahaffey, pitcher; All-Star
- 1939 - Phil Linz, infielder
- 1947 - Doug Griffin, infielder
- 1953 - Howard Bushong, college coach
- 1953 - Larry Demery, pitcher
- 1956 - Terry Kennedy, catcher; All-Star
- 1957 - Tony Pena, catcher, manager; All-Star
- 1958 - Ricky Jones, infielder
- 1964 - Antonio Pacheco, Cuban National League infielder and manager
- 1964 - Steve Searcy, pitcher
- 1965 - Beau Allred, outfielder
- 1965 - Kurt Stillwell, infielder; All-Star
- 1967 - Scott Servais, catcher
- 1967 - Rick Wilkins, catcher
- 1969 - Robert Perez, outfielder
- 1973 - David Lundquist, pitcher
- 1974 - Trace Coquillette, infielder
- 1974 - Darin Erstad, outfielder; All-Star
- 1976 - Chang-yong Lim, KBO pitcher
- 1976 - J.C. Romero, pitcher
- 1978 - Hiroyuki Kobayashi, NPB pitcher
- 1983 - Cla Meredith, pitcher
- 1983 - James Deters, minor league player
[edit] Deaths
- 1886 - Jim Ward, catcher (b. 1855)
- 1898 - Harry Smith, utility player (b. 1856)
- 1915 - Tim Hurst, manager (b. 1865)
- 1926 - Sandy Griffin, outfielder, manager (b. 1858)
- 1929 - Harry Frazee, owner (b. 1880)
- 1940 - Phil Baker, infielder (b. 1856)
- 1941 - Bill Coyle, pitcher (b. 1871)
- 1946 - Tom Barry, pitcher (b. 1879)
- 1950 - Dean Sturgis, catcher (b. 1892)
- 1954 - Harold G. Hoffman, minor league executive (b. 1896)
- 1957 - Paul Krichell, catcher (b. 1882)
- 1961 - George Davis, pitcher (b. 1890)
- 1966 - Ralph McConnaughey, pitcher (b. 1889)
- 1967 - Henry Benn, pitcher (b. 1890)
- 1982 - Tony Kaufmann, pitcher (b. 1900)
- 1992 - Carl Stotz, Little League baseball founder (b. 1910)
- 1993 - Bobby Reeves, infielder (b. 1904)
- 1998 - Shirley Povich, writer (b. 1905)
- 2001 - John Corriden, pinch runner (b. 1918)
- 2005 - Ken Weafer, pitcher (b. 1913)
- 2007 - Clete Boyer, infielder (b. 1937)
