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1892 - Sadie McMahon loses a no-hitter, and the game, when Denny Lyons of the New York Giants singles in the only run in the Baltimore Orioles' 1 - 0 loss.
1897 - Bill Joyce hits four triples to lead the New York Giants to an 11 - 5 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates at Exposition Park. This is the last time this feat is accomplished in major league history. Previously, George Strief of the American Association Philadelphia Athletics hit four triples in a game on June 25, 1885.
1907 - Hooks Wiltse pitches the New York Giants to a 6 - 2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. For New York, it is their 17th straight victory to run their season record to 24-3. Despite the run, the Giants stand in first place by just one game over the Chicago Cubs.
1912 - The Detroit Tigers use a team of replacement players against the Philadelphia Athletics. With 19 players on strike in protest of the recent suspension of Ty Cobb, manager Hughie Jennings recruits college players and a number of local semipro players to avoid a forfeit and fine. Detroit loses to the Athletics, 24 - 2, as pitcher Al Travers gives up all 24 runs on 26 hits.
1926 - In Kansas City, Monarchs shortstop Dobie Moore's six-and-a-half year Negro League career is ended when he is shot in the lower leg and suffers a compound fracture to his left tibia.
1929 - At the Baker Bowl, the Brooklyn Robins outslug the Philadelphia Phillies for a 20 - 16 victory in the first game of a doubleheader. Babe Herman and Johnny Frederick each have five hits for Brooklyn. The Phillies win the second game 8 - 6. Frederick scores eight runs in the doubleheader to set a major league record for most runs scored in two games. The teams combine for a record 50 runs in a doubleheader.
1930 - George Pipgras tosses his third shutout of the season as the New York Yankees again support his pitching by bombing the host Boston Red Sox, 11 - 0. Babe Ruth hits an Ed Morris pitch over the right field bleachers, for one of the longest home runs ever at Fenway Park.
1931 - Babe Herman of the Brooklyn Robins hits for the cycle for the first of three times in his career, which will become a major league record. Brooklyn beats the Cincinnati Reds, 14 - 4.
1933 - The first All-Star Game is announced for July 6 at Comiskey Park. It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair celebration and is sponsored by the Chicago Tribune. Fans will pick the players.
1935 - Bucky Walters of the Philadelphia Phillies shuts out the Chicago Cubs for ten innings and bats a RBI single to win the game, 1 - 0.
1936 - Brooks Robinson is born in Little Rock, Arkansas. The perennial Gold Glove third baseman will make his debut with the Baltimore Orioles in 1955. In 1964, Robinson will win the American League MVP Award. Six years later, his defensive brilliance will lead the Orioles to a World Series victory.
1938 - Wes Ferrell of the Washington Senators pitches and bats to defeat Detroit, 5 - 1, at Tiger Stadium. Ferrell belts a mammoth home run, while his batterymate, brother Rick Ferrell, goes hitless.
1945 - Luis Olmo of the Brooklyn Dodgers hits a triple and home run, each with the bases loaded, in the Dodgers' 15 - 12 victory over the Chicago Cubs. No major league player has done that since. Olmo adds a double for good measure.
1946 - Reggie Jackson is born in Abington, Pennsylvania. Jackson will make his debut in 1967 with the Kansas City Athletics. He will finish his career with 563 home runs.
1950 - At the Polo Grounds, Rube Walker hits a grand slam in the sixth inning for the Chicago Cubs. In the bottom of the inning, Monte Irvin also hits a grand slam for the New York Giants. It is the first time in major league history that each team hit a grand slam in the same inning. The game is called on account of rain after six innings, and the Giants win, 10 - 4.
1951 - Boston Braves catcher Walker Cooper goes 5-for-5 in a 12 - 3 rout of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Max Surkont wins his fifht game, scattering 10 hits and giving up late inning home runs to Ralph Kiner and Wally Westlake.
1955 - At Fenway Park, the Cleveland Indians score 11 runs in the fifth inning to beat the Boston Red Sox, 19 - 0, and give Herb Score an easy win over Willard Nixon. The big blow in the inning is a grand slam by Vic Wertz. It is the worst shutout pasting ever by Boston and the most runs ever in a shutout for the Indians.
1956 - Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees hits home runs from both sides of the plate for the third time in his career, setting a major league record. Mantle includes a perfect 4-for-4 day, helping New York to an 8 - 7 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
1957 - Dick Williams of the Baltimore Orioles hits a ninth-inning, game-tying solo home run off Paul LaPalme of the Chicago White Sox seconds before 10:20 p.m., the curfew set so Chicago can catch a train out of Baltimore. If Williams had done anything else, the White Sox would have won. The game is later replayed from the beginning and Baltimore wins.
1958 - Cleveland Indians outfielder Carroll Hardy pinch-hits for Roger Maris and responds with his first major league home run, a three-run shot off Billy Pierce, to give Cleveland a 7 - 4 victory over the Chicago White Sox. With the Boston Red Sox, Hardy will pinch-hit for Ted Williams on September 20, 1960, and will also pinch-hit for rookie Carl Yastrzemski on May 31, 1961, making him the only player to go in for both future Hall of Famers.
1961 - Los Angeles Angels pitcher Ryne Duren posts four strikeouts in the seventh inning against the Chicago White Sox. He strikes out Minnie Miñoso, Roy Sievers, J.C. Martin, and Sammy Esposito to tie a major league record, in the 6 - 4 loss to the White Sox.
1962 - Bob Allison and Harmon Killebrew hit grand slams in the first inning to lead the Minnesota Twins to a 14 - 3 victory over the Cleveland Indians.
1968:
- Frank Howard of the new Washington Senators ties an American League record by hitting a home run in his sixth consecutive game. With a pair of home runs against Detroit Tigers ace Mickey Lolich, Howard now has 10 homers in his last six games, also an AL record.
- Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates plays his 392nd straight game, setting a record for National League second basemen, in an 8 - 3 loss to the Cincinnati Reds.
1969 - Rod Carew of the Minnesota Twins steals second base, third, and home plate during the third inning of an 8 - 2 loss to the Detroit Tigers. Carew pulls off the trifecta against the battery of Mickey Lolich and Bill Freehan. Carew becomes the first player in 28 years to steal three bases in sequence in the same inning. Cesar Tovar also steals two bases in the game.
1979 - Dale Murphy hits three home runs with five RBI in three at bats, to pace the Atlanta Braves to a 6 - 4 victory over the San Francisco Giants.
1981 - Los Angeles Dodgers rookie Fernando Valenzuela finally loses a game, 4 - 0, to the Philadelphia Phillies. He is now 8-1 and his earned run average increases to 0.90.
1982:
- Larry Herndon of the Detroit Tigers hits three home runs in an 11 - 9 win over Oakland, and in the process becomes the 14th player in major league history to hit home runs in four consecutive plate appearances. On May 16, he homered in his final at bat to give the Tigers a 7 - 6 victory over Minnesota.
- The Chicago White Sox beat the visiting Texas Rangers, 10 - 2, behind LaMarr Hoyt's 13th consecutive win stretching back to 1981. Hoyt's record at Comiskey Park is now 15 - 0.
1983 - At Memorial Stadium, Rich Dotson of the Chicago White Sox pitches a one-hitter against the Baltimore Orioles, but loses 1 - 0. Baltimore's lone hit is Dan Ford's eigth-inning home run. Storm Davis (7 1/3 innings) and Tippy Martinez (1 1/3 innings) combine in the four-hit shutout, with Martinez taking the win.
1988 - In the Oakland Athletics' 39th game of the season, pitcher Dave Stewart breaks a major league record committing his 12th balk of the season in a 4 - 1 loss to the Red Sox. Stewart will extend the record with 16 balks during the year.
1990:
- Chicago Cubs second baseman Ryne Sandberg's errorless game streak comes to an end after 123 games and 584 chances. Joe Morgan of the Cincinnati Reds had held the previous record of 91 games.
- The Baltimore Orioles tie an American League record with eight consecutive singles in a seven-run first inning against Bobby Witt to beat the Texas Rangers, 13 - 1. The eight straight singles equal a record set by the Washington Senators against the Cleveland Indians in 1951 and matched by the Oakland Athletics against the Chicago White Sox in 1981.
1992 - Bruce Hurst of the San Diego Padres pitches a one-hit, 3 - 0 shutout against the New York Mets and Dwight Gooden. The only hit is a single by the recently-acquired Chico Walker.
1994 - Hiromi Makihara of the Yomiuri Giants pitches a perfect game, in the 6 - 0 win over the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. It is the 15th perfect game in Nippon Pro Baseball history.
1998:
- Due to drastic payroll cuts reducing the World Champions' effectiveness, two class-action lawsuits are filed against the Florida Marlins - one for breach of contract and the other accusing the team of false advertising.
- With a 6 - 3 victory over Baltimore, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays become only the second expansion team in major league history to sweep an four-game series on the road. The 1993 Colorado Rockies, who did it against the Los Angeles Dodgers, are the other team to accomplish this feat.
- Mike Blowers of the Oakland Athletics hits for the cycle and has four RBI in the Athletics' 14 - 0 win over the Chicago White Sox. Blowers becomes only the second Oakland A's player to accomplish the feat.
1999:
- Edgar Martinez hits three home runs, tying a major league record with five homers in two games, to give the Seattle Mariners a 10 - 1 victory over the Minnesota Twins. Martinez homered twice in the opener of the series.
- Luis Gonzalez of the Arizona Diamondbacks extends his hitting streak to 30 games with a two-run, first-inning home run in a 7 - 3 victory over the San Francisco Giants. Gonzalez, whose streak matches the longest this decade, becomes the 37th player in major league history to reach the 30 mark.
- The Boston Red Sox defeat the New York Yankees, 6 - 3, in the return of Yankees manager Joe Torre after being treated for prostate cancer.
- Mark Grace hits a three-run home run in the 11th inning to give the Chicago Cubs a 4 - 1 victory over the Florida Marlins. Alex Gonzalez has all three of Florida's hits.
2000:
- Mark McGwire hits three home runs and had a career-high seven RBI, leading the St. Louis Cardinals over the Philadelphia Phillies, 7 - 2, at Veterans Stadium. Curt Schilling (two) and Wayne Gomes (one) are his victims. The home runs move McGwyre past Mickey Mantle into eighth place on the all-time career list with 539.
- The San Diego Padres defeat the Florida Marlins, 6 - 2. Florida steals 10 bases in 10 attempts in the game, falling one shy of the modern National League record. Luis Castillo and Cliff Floyd steal three apiece, while Mark Kotsay and Preston Wilson each steal a pair.
- The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles, 8 - 7. Frank Catalanotto has three hits for the Rangers, and extends his consecutive hit streak to a team-record 10 before making an out.
- The Twins defeat the A's, 10 - 5, as Denny Hocking has five hits, including two doubles with a home run and three RBI.
2001 - The Arizona Diamondbacks defeat the Chicago Cubs, 4 - 0, as Randy Johnson (five innings), Byung-Hyun Kim (three innings), and Bret Prinz (one inning) combine on a one-hitter.
2002 - After sitting through a two-hour rain delay, the Boston Red Sox defeat the Seattle Mariners, 4 - 1, behind the pitching of Pedro Martinez. Martinez strikes out the side in the first inning on nine pitches, the 17th time the feat has been performed since 1970. Martinez is now 10 - 0 with a 0.93 ERA against the Mariners.
2003 - The Texas Rangers sweep three games at Yankee Stadium for the first time in the franchise's 43-year existence.
2004 - At the age of 40, Randy Johnson becomes the oldest pitcher in major league history to throw a perfect game, retiring all 27 hitters to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks over the Atlanta Braves, 2 - 0. It is the 17th perfect game in major league history and the first since David Cone of the Yankees did it against Montreal on July 18, 1999. Johnson also joins Cy Young, Jim Bunning, Hideo Nomo and Nolan Ryan as the only pitchers to throw no-hitters in both leagues, and creates the longest time span between no-no's, having first accomplished the feat against the Detroit Tigers in June of 1990.
2008 - Matt Harrison throws the first complete game no-hitter in Frisco RoughRiders history, blanking the San Antonio Missions 2 - 0 despite 6 walks in 7 innings in the first half of a doubleheader.
2009:
- Returning from a strained forearm that has kept him out of action all year, the Angels' John Lackey picks up his first win of the year in a 10 - 6 victory over Seattle. Lackey actually made his season debut three days earlier but was ejected after only two pitches for throwing at Texas lead-off hitter Ian Kinsler.
- Jason Kendall goes 2 for 5 to help the Brewers beat the Cardinals 8-4. He becomes the 8th player to collect 2,000 hits in the majors while playing primarily catcher.