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Events, births and deaths that occurred on July 3.

Events

• 1900 - At Pittsburgh, Jack Chesbro beats the Beaneaters, 2 - 1; the Boston battery is Ted Lewis and Boileryard Clarke.
• 1906 - At Cleveland, the Naps top the Tigers, 5 - 0, in game called after six innings on account of rain. To underscore the soggy conditions, Detroit outfielder Germany Schaefer plays the last few innings wearing a raincoat over his uniform.
• 1909:
  • At a packed Washington Park, the Giants beat up Brooklyn, winning, 5 - 3 and 2 - 1, in a total of 23 innings. In the opener, Christy Mathewson relieves Bugs Raymond with the score knotted at 3 in the 9th. Matty shuts out the Superbas in the next six innings, and the Giants score two in the 14th off Harry McIntire for the win.
  • The Cardinals commit 17 errors in a doubleheader loss to the Reds, 10 - 2 and 13 - 7, to tie a modern major league record.
• 1911 - At Philadelphia, the A's Frank Baker hits for the cycle in a 5 - 1 win over the Yankees in the second game of a doubleheader.
• 1912:
  • The Giants' Rube Marquard nips Nap Rucker, 2 - 1, to capture his 19th straight game this season. With two end-of-year wins in 1911, he has 21 in a row in regular season play. Both marks are records. On the 8th, the Cubs will beat him, but he will ultimately compile a league-leading 26 victories against 11 defeats. Today's game is the Giants' 16th consecutive win. Brooklyn will end the streak tomorrow.
  • Walter Johnson picks up a win and is given a rare rest in the 6th inning as Washington coasts to a 10 - 2 win over the Highlanders. Johnson will rack up an American League record 16 straight wins before he is beaten.
• 1913:
  • The Giants hand Pete Alexander his third loss in the four-game series, as Jeff Tesreau wins, 4 - 2, in 11 innings. New York is now in first place by 3 1/2 games.
  • The Red Sox tally 15 hits off Washington's Walter Johnson, but lose, 1 - 0, in 15 innings. This a major league frustration record for most hits in a shutout. Ray Collins takes the loss.
• 1914:
  • Charles Bender and Bob Shawkey whitewash the Yankees, 2 - 0 and 1 - 0, for an A's sweep.
  • The Braves make their second trade in four days, acquiring OF Josh Devore from the Phils for IF Jack Martin.
• 1915:
  • The Browns lose to the Indians, 3 - 1. Despite walking nine, George Sisler pitches a complete game victory.
  • The Red Sox split with the A's, losing the first game, 7 - 3, before taking the nitecap, 11 - 0. Jack Barry makes his first appearance for the Sox, playing the final two innings against his old mates.
• 1917 - After managing for five games, Honus Wagner resigns as manager. Czech born Hugo Bezdek is named as his replacement, his qualifications include being the football coach at Penn State.
• 1922 - Bob Meusel hits for the cycle for the second time in his career to pace the Yankees to a 12 - 1 whipping of the Athletics. Meusel and Babe Ruth go back-to-back in the 7th as Carl Mays cruises to his 22nd straight win over the Athletics.
• 1925 - Brooklyn 2B Milt Stock sets a modern National League record by getting four hits in his fourth consecutive game.
• 1929 - The Cubs and Reds turn nine double plays, tying the Detroit-Washington 1925 mark. The 7 - 5 Chicago win is their seventh in a row, giving them a half-game lead over the Pirates.
• 1932 - With a Boston law restricting games within 1,000 feet of a church on Sundays having just been repealed, the first Sunday game is played at Fenway Park with the Red Sox losing to the Yankees, 13 - 2. The Sox had used Braves Field for Sunday games when the bylaw was in effect from 1929 until this season.
• 1935:
  • Giants SS Dick Bartell plays a ten-inning game with no fielding chances.
  • The Cubs drop Kiki Cuyler to cut their payroll. He will sign with the Reds in two days' time.
• 1939:
  • Johnny Mize equals a National League record with four extra-base hits - a double, a triple, and two home runs - in the Cards' 5 - 3 win over the Cubs.
  • Cleveland's Ben Chapman ties the modern major-league record with three triples, as Bob Feller notches his 13th victory, 4 - 2.
• 1943 - OF Leon Culberson hits for the cycle in a 12 - 4 Red Sox win over the Indians. It is a natural cycle, as the four hits - single, double, triple and homer - are achieved in that order. Culberson is the last Red Sox rookie to have accomplished the feat, and the last player to have an inside-the-park homer as part of the quartet of hits.
• 1947:
  • The Indians purchase Larry Doby from the Newark Eagles. In two days, the twenty-two-year-old will become the first African-American to play in the American League.
  • Akira Noguchi, a pitcher, hits the first inside-the-park grand slam in Nippon Pro Baseball history.
• 1948 - Dick Lane, CF of Muskegon (Central League), hits five home runs in a game against Fort Wayne. Lane, who will get a trial with the Chicago White Sox in 1949, will hit only seven other home runs during the year and only 18 in a four-year minor league career.
• 1949 - Giants P Monte Kennedy hits a grand slam and shuts out the Dodgers, 16 - 0.
• 1950 - With rookie Joe Collins not hitting and Tommy Henrich still injured, Casey Stengel asks Joe DiMaggio to play 1B in an experiment. In the 7 - 2 loss he handles 13 chances cleanly but is clearly not happy with the move. After this one-game experiment, Joe returns to the outfield.
• 1951:
  • Bill DiBenedetto of the Class D Hornell Dodgers walks 21 in a 5 - 1 loss to Corning. This number of walks breaks the 36-year-old record of Harry Harper of the Minneapolis Millers.
  • Giants rookie Willie Mays blasts a 13th-inning solo homer off the Phillies' Jocko Thompson to give New York a win. It is Willie's second extra-inning homer in two weeks: he will hit another on July 7th, against the Braves' George Estock.
  • Former Dodger pitcher Hugh Casey, 37, kills himself with a shotgun blast to the neck.
• 1955 - Pittsburgh's right fielder Roberto Clemente pounds Dodger pitching in the opener of a twin bill split, doing most of his damage against former Montreal Royals teammate Ed Roebuck. "Eddie was celebrating his 24th bithday," reports Jack Hernon of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "but Roberto Clemente apparently didn't know about it. The Buc rookie belted him for two triples, scoring the tying run on the first one in the 4th and driving home the run Ron Kline needed in the 5th."
• 1959:
  • Boston fires manager Pinky Higgins, replacing him tomorrow with Billy Jurges. Coach Rudy York takes over for today's game.
  • After giving up a grand slam to the A's Bob Cerv, Herb Score settles down and strikes out 14 in Cleveland's 8 - 4 win.
• 1960:
  • Before 50,556 fans in New York, the Yankees sweep two from the Tigers, winning 7 - 6 and 6 - 2. In the opener, Ryne Duren fans Charlie Maxwell with the bases loaded and two outs in the 9th. Detroit is ahead, 2 - 1, in the night cap when Norm Cash argues at length about a call at first base, and finally gets tossed. When play resumes, Pete Burnside serves up a three-run homer to Mickey Mantle, batting righty. The Yankees are 23-5 since June 5th and lead the American League by three games.
  • A day after his wedding in Chicago, Jim O'Toole pitches and loses, as the Cubs pound him for seven runs and nine hits in less than five innings. Chicago wins, 7 - 5. An unsympathetic manager Fred Hutchinson deadpans: "It was his turn to pitch. I didn't tell him to get married."
• 1962 - The Yankees need all five home runs - two each by Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, plus one by Bobby Richardson - to edge the A's, 8 - 7. Mantle's second homer, in the 8th, is the tie breaker.
• 1963:
  • In a split with the Orioles, Minnesota SS Zoilo Versalles ties an American League mark by making five errors. The Twins win, 7 - 5, then lose, 4 - 3.
  • At Houston, the Reds' John Tsitouris allows just two hits in beating Houston, 2 - 1. Cincy collects just two hits in the win, scoring the first run on Johnny Edwards' homer and the second when Rusty Staub misses a pickoff throw from Hal Woodeshick and Pete Rose scores from first base.
• 1964 - Birdie Tebbetts returns to limited duty as manager of the Indians.
• 1965 - Pre-game horseplay between Phillies teammates Frank Thomas and Richie Allen turns serious when Thomas swings a bat at Allen. Allen recovers enough to hit a three-run triple in the 7th and Thomas hits a pinch homer to tie the game in the 8th inning. But the Reds prevail, 10 - 8. Following the game, the Phils release Thomas, who has had a history of irritating players before the incident with Allen, and he signs with Houston.
• 1966:
  • Pitcher Tony Cloninger hits two grand slams and drives in nine runs, as the Braves rout the Giants at Candlestick Park, 17 - 3. Cloninger is the first National League player to slam two in a game, and the first pitcher ever, and his nine RBIs are a major-league record for pitchers, breaking Vic Raschi's mark of seven. The National League record for pitchers was five, held by several; the last hurler to collect five RBIs in a game was Cloninger himself, who had five on June 16th against the Mets.
  • Mickey Mantle hits a 1st-inning homer, and for the second time this week has hit three home runs in consecutive times at bat. New York blows a 5 - 0 lead in the 8th as the Senators storm back. Bobby Richardson homers in the 11th to give New York a 6 - 5 lead. In the bottom of the inning, Paul Casanova is on first when a sacrifice bunt moves him to second base. He overruns the bag and decides to head to third where he knocks the ball away from Tom Tresh. He then continues home where he is thrown out by a mile.
• 1967:
  • At the launching pad in Atlanta, Billy Williams, Ron Santo and Randy Hundley homer for Chicago, and Rico Carty and Felipe Alou answer for the Braves - all in the 1st inning, a major league record. Carty adds another homer later, but Glenn Beckert's three-run shot helps put the game out of reach. Ray Culp emerges the winner, 12 - 6.
  • In St. Louis the fans get boxing with their baseball in the Cards' 7 - 3, win over the Reds. Bob Gibson pitches inside to Tony Perez in the 5th inning, and the pair exchange words after Perez flies out. Both benches empty but there is no fighting until the Reds bullpen, led by Bob Lee, show up. It takes 12 minutes before the police are needed to restore order.
• 1968 - Luis Tiant registers 19 K's in ten innings, as Cleveland beats Minnesota, 1 - 0. Tiant sets two modern major league records - most strikeouts in a ten-inning game; and 32 strikeouts in consecutive games - and ties the modern major-league record of 41 strikeouts in three successive appearances. He will top the American League in ERA with 1.60.
• 1969 - At Los Angeles, Lee May hits a two-run homer in the 11th and the Reds beat the Dodgers, 4 - 3. For May, second in the National League to Willie McCovey (27) in dingers, it is his 23rd homer, matching his birth date and uniform number (his younger brother Carlos May will also have his birth date as his uniform number). Wayne Granger, the third Red pitcher in the 11th, stops the Dodger rally.
• 1970:
  • At Chicago's Wrigley Field, Gene Alley and Roberto Clemente each hit two homers to help the visiting Bucs outlast their hosts, 16 - 14. This slugfest also numbers a game-tying, 2nd-inning grand slam by Chicago's Billy Williams among its eight homers and 70 total bases. Mother Nature, however, has to get a good deal of credit for the day's offensive production; clearly, the "Windy City" has earned its sobriquet today. "It blew fourteen miles per hour toward center," reports the Chicago Tribune, "prompting Clemente to all but apologize for his first homer." "I just tapped the ball," Clemente tells the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "There was no way that ball should have gone out of here. The wind was blowing to left, to center, to right. Everywhere it was blowing, it was for the hitter."
  • In Boston, a Carl Yastrzemski homer in the opener and an unearned run in the nitecap provide the Red Sox with 2 - 1 and 5 - 4 wins over Cleveland. In the second game, Indians reliever Dean Chance is told to remove a tiny flag pin on his cap by umpire Ed Runge in compliance with a rule prohibiting glass buttons and metal objects on uniforms because of their glare.
  • Mike Lum hits three homers as the Braves beat the Padres, 8 - 1, in the first game of a doubleheader. The Braves continue hitting in the second game to win, 9 - 4.
  • In pregame ceremonies, California's Clyde Wright is inducted into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Hall of Fame for his pitching while at Carson-Newman College. He then hurls a 98-pitch no-hitter against Oakland, winning, 4 – 0, in one hour and 51 minutes. Reggie Jackson's 400-foot shot to dead center in the 7th is caught.
• 1973:
  • Brothers Gaylord Perry (Indians) and Jim Perry (Tigers) pitch against each other for the only time in their careers. Neither finishes the game, but Gaylord is charged with the 5 - 4 loss as two Norm Cash home runs help Detroit. The two brothers will be teammates with Cleveland next year.
  • Minnesota's Tony Oliva hits three solo home runs during a 7 - 6 loss at Kansas City.
• 1974 - Pitching in his major league-record 13th consecutive game for the Dodgers, Mike Marshall saves Tommy John's 4 - 1 win over the Reds in the first game of a doubleheader. Marshall will get a rest in the second game, but will pitch in a record 106 games this year.
• 1975 - Fred Lynn's second error of the game allows the Brewers to score in the 10th. The 3 - 2 win lifts the Brewers into a tie with Boston in the American League East. But Milwaukee will fall flat in August and slide to a fifth-place finish.
• 1976 - The Tigers' rookie sensation Mark Fidrych shuts out the Orioles, 4 - 0, for his eighth straight victory.
• 1977:
  • On his 24th birthday, Angel Frank Tanana records his 14th straight complete game in beating the A's, 6 - 4, and raising his record to 12-5. His overworked arm will plague him for the rest of the season, and he will wind up 15-9.
  • Ron Guidry scatters six hits and tosses his second consecutive shutout, a 2 - 0 Yankee win over Detroit. Roy White breaks the scoreless game with a double in the 8th inning.
  • In an 11 - 7 win over the Padres, Phillies 3B Mike Schmidt hits an inside-the-park homer, the second of his career. He'll hit one more, in 1982.
• 1978 - At Fenway Park, Carl Yastrzemski strokes a run-scoring double in the 3rd, his 2,800th career hit, as the Sox pummel the Yankees, 9 - 5. Yaz adds two singles in Boston's 12-hit attack, as Dennis Eckersley (9-2) tops Ed Figueroa. The win moves Boston ahead of second-place Milwaukee by 7 1/2 games with New York now trailing by eight games.
• 1980:
  • Ken Landreaux ties the modern major-league record with three triples in Minnesota's 10 - 3 win over Texas. Doug Flynn will match it in a month.
  • The major leagues' largest crowd in seven years (73,096) watches Wayne Garland two-hit the Yankees, 7 - 0, at Cleveland Stadium.
  • The Tulsa Drillers score three runs on a fly out in a 7 - 1 win over the Jackson Mets. With the bases loaded, Ron Gooch flies out to Archie Amerson. Amerson's throw home to get Mike Jirschele is off-target and the ball bounces away from C Stan Hough as Jirschele and George Wright score. Jackson pitcher Tom Thurberg recovers the ball but his throw is wild as well and hits on-deck batsman Phil Klimas. Mel Barrow charges home with the third run of the play, having legged it from first base.
• 1982 - A County Stadium-record crowd of 55,716 watches the Brewers shut out the Red Sox, 7 - 0, to move into a first-place tie with Boston in the AL East.
• 1983 - The Rangers explode for 12 runs in the 15th inning of a 16 - 4 win over the A's, setting a new major-league record for runs in a single extra inning. Reserve Bobby Jones has five hits in the game, including two doubles in the 15th. Dave Beard is the loser for Oakland, while Odell Jones is the victor.
• 1987:
  • During "Dick Howser Day" at Royals Stadium, the former manager's uniform number 10 is retired and the skipper is inducted into the Royals Hall of Fame.
  • Hitting just .212, Astros SS Dickie Thon bolts from the team. Thon has never fully recovered from a 1984 beaning that left him with blurred vision. An angry Astros General Manager Dick Wagner will put Thon on the disqualified list and he will not play for the rest of the year. Thon will become a free agent in November.
• 1988 - Oakland P Gene Nelson steals a base while pinch running for Don Baylor in a 9 - 8, 16-inning win over Toronto, becoming the first American League pitcher to steal a base since John "Blue Moon" Odom in 1973. Jose Canseco's three home runs are not quite enough, and the game is not decided until Mark McGwire connects in the 16th inning to end it. McGwire will hit another 16th-inning home run tomorrow.
• 1992:
  • Cleveland sends washout speedster Alex Cole (.206 with nine stolen bases) to the Pirates for Tony Mitchell and John Carter. For Cole, it is his fourth team in three years. He'll vacate Pittsburgh for the Rockies after the season.
  • Dodgers P Pedro Astacio makes an impressive major league debut with a three-hit, 2 - 0 shutout of the Phillies in the second game of a doubleheader. Astacio fans ten Phils while walking four. The Dodgers also take the opener, 5 - 1, with Bob Ojeda topping Curt Schilling.
• 1993 - Detroit's Cecil Fielder becomes the third player in history to homer onto the left field roof at Tiger Stadium, doing so in the Tigers' 11 - 5 loss to the Rangers. Harmon Killebrew and Frank Howard are the only other players to accomplish the feat.
• 1994:
  • Athletics P Bobby Witt hurls his third consecutive shutout, defeating the Red Sox, 10 - 0, on a six-hitter.
  • The Mets' Rico Brogna breaks up Andy Benes's no-hit bid with a double in the 8th inning. The Padres win, 7 - 0, as Benes fans 13 and walks only one in his one-hitter. He also drives home three runs with a double of his own.
  • The Indians retire Larry Doby's uniform number, 47 years after he broke the American League color line.
• 1995:
  • Colorado downs Houston by a score of 15 - 10 at Coors Field. The Rockies' attack is led by 1B Andres Galarraga, who strokes three singles, a double, and two home runs, while driving home five runs and scoring four. The victory moves Colorado one game ahead of the idle Dodgers for first place in the National League West.
  • The Cardinals shut out the Expos, 6 - 0, behind the combined one-hit pitching of Mike Morgan and Jeff Parrett. Wil Cordero's single is Montreal's only hit.
• 1996:
  • In Atlanta's 3 - 1 win over the Expos, Montreal first baseman David Segui fractures his left thumb when pitcher Ugueth Urbina fires over to first base and hits his teammate. Henry Rodriguez takes over at 1B.
  • The Yankees sign Venezuelan Jackson Melian, just turned 16, to a contract for $1.6 million. His bonus is a record for Latino ball players. Melian will fail to make the majors.
  • The Mets defeat the Phillies, 10 - 6, as rookie OF Alex Ochoa leads the way by going 5 for 5 and hitting for the cycle.
• 1998:
  • The Mets trade P John Hudek to the Reds in exchange for OF Lenny Harris.
  • Manny Ramirez's two home runs are Cleveland's only hits against Kansas City pitcher Jose Rosado, but they're enough to give the Tribe a 2 - 1 win over the Royals.
• 1999:
  • The Rockies defeat the Padres, 12 - 10, in the first game of a doubleheader, ending San Diego's 14-game winning streak. The win also stops Colorado's nine-game losing streak. The Rockies also take the second game, 8 - 6.
  • Before the game against San Francisco, Dodgers players gather in their bullpen and burn the white caps the club adopted in spring training along with other equipment. It doesn't work as Los Angeles loses, 9 - 1, for their sixth straight loss.
  • The Phillies defeat the Cubs, 21 - 8, scoring eight runs in the 1st inning and seven more with two outs in the 4th. 2B Marlon Anderson gets five hits for Philadelphia, including a home run off 3B Gary Gaetti, who is forced into mound duty for Chicago.
  • Milwaukee defeats Pittsburgh, 9 - 4, as 3B Jeff Cirillo strokes five hits, including a double and home run, and drives home three runs.
• 2000:
  • The Marlins defeat the Mets, 2 - 0, on Derrek Lee's two-run homer in the 9th, off Turk Wendell. Jesús Sánchez, 0-6 versus New York, is the winner. The loss ends C Mike Piazza's streak of 15 consecutive games with an RBI, two short of the major league mark.
  • The Red Sox beat the Twins, 11 - 8, hitting four home runs and scoring nine runs in the 4th inning.
  • The White Sox outslug the Royals, 14 - 10, scoring eight runs in the 5th inning. Chicago becomes the first team since the 1984 Detroit Tigers to win 12 straight games on the road.
• 2001:
  • Pawtucket's Izzy Alcantara makes every sports show in the country when he reacts to an inside pitch by drop-kicking Scranton/Wilkes-Barre C Jeremy Salazar and then charging the mound. Izzy's Bruce Lee impression will earn him a seven-game suspension and get him dropped from the International League All-Star Game. The Sox will call up the slugger on September 1st.
  • Rockies OF Ron Gant is traded to the A's in exchange for OF Robin Jennings.
  • The Braves score eight runs in the 7th inning on their way to a 14 - 7 victory over the Phillies. Chipper Jones goes 4 for 4 in the contest and scores five runs.
• 2005 - During the fireworks display at Pawtucket's McCoy Stadium, two shells misfire and land in the stands. Injuries include four or five employees of the fire company with minor burns and some fans who are injured when they stumble trying to escape from the mishap.
• 2009
  • Albert Pujols, the major league home run leader, hits his fourth grand slam of the year, a team record, as the Cardinals dispose of the Reds, 7 - 4. He now has 350 career dingers, becoming the third-youngest to reach the mark, after Alex Rodriguez and Ken Griffey Jr.
  • Manny Ramirez, back from his 50-game suspension, goes 0 for 3 with a walk, but the Dodgers beat San Diego, 6 - 3. Los Angeles scores five runs in the 1st, taking advantage of ManRam's walk and of two throwing errors. Hiroki Kuroda is the winner against Chad Gaudin.
• 2010:
  • The Yankees score all 11 of their runs in the 3rd inning as they defeat the Blue Jays, 11 - 3. Brett Gardner hits his first career grand slam in the outburst.
  • The Diamondbacks provide new manager Kirk Gibson with a vivid display of why they are in last place in the NL West, committing a team record six errors in a 14 - 1 loss to the Dodgers, Gibson's first as a manager. But the most egregious error is courtesy of the winners: in the 2nd inning, Dodger pitcher Clayton Kershaw is caught going the wrong way on the bases. Standing at first base after an error by Tony Abreu, he goes past second base on a long drive by Rafael Furcal. Thinking CF Chris Young made the catch, he retreats to first base, only to be passed by Furcal, who correctly saw that Young dropped the ball and is running all out. Furcal is out for passing a preceding runner, losing credit for a potential triple.
  • Harmon Killebrew falls off the top ten home run list as Jim Thome goes deep twice for the Twins to give Thome 574 dingers in the big leagues.
• 2011:
  • Rosters for the 2011 All-Star Game, to be played July 12th in Phoenix, AZ, are announced. Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista leads all vote-getters with 7.4 million votes, the most-ever in All-Star balloting. Left off the roster is Ichiro Suzuki, ending a streak of ten straight appearances in the mid-summer classic.
  • Jose Bautista hits his 27th homer as the Blue Jays snap Cliff Lee's streak of scoreless innings at 34 in beating the Phillies, 7 - 4. Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion and Eric Thames all connect off Lee in the 8th inning, after he had thrown shutouts in his three previous starts.
  • The Red Sox complete a three-game sweep of the Astros with a 2 - 1 win, courtesy of a 9th-inning bases-loaded walk to Kevin Youkilis, scoring pinch-hitter Drew Sutton, who had himself walked to start the inning. Josh Beckett fans 11 in eight innings for the win.
• 2012:
  • Chipper Jones celebrates being named an All-Star in replacement of the injured Matt Kemp by going 5 for 5 with four RBI and two doubles in the Braves' 10 - 3 win over the Cubs. The 40-year-old third baseman even steals his first base of the season.
  • The White Sox rout the Rangers, 19 - 2, behind the pitching of Chris Sale, who wins his tenth game of the year. The Sox score nine runs in the 5th inning - seven of them unearned -, capped by A.J. Pierzynski's three-run homer.
  • The Brewers win a wild one, 13 - 12 over the Marlins in ten innings. The Brewers manage to blow a 9 - 2 lead in the 7th and 8th innings, and the Marlins pull ahead on Jose Reyes's solo homer in the top of the 10th. With two outs in the bottom of the same inning, Aramis Ramirez hits a two-run walk-off home run off embattled Marlins closer Heath Bell to give Milwaukee the win.
  • The Pirates move in to a surprising tie for first place with Cincinnati in the NL Central thanks to an 8 - 7 win over the Astros. Drew Sutton, playing for his third organization this year, hits a walk-off home run while Andrew McCutchen goes 3 for 4 with a homer to improve to .360, the best batting average in the majors.
• 2013:
  • Max Scherzer of the Tigers gets lucky number 13, a 6 - 2 win over the Blue Jays that improves his record to 13-0 on the year. It is the best start by a pitcher since Roger Clemens began the 1986 season 14-0.
  • Jeff Locke of the Pirates is not quite in the same universe, but still wins his eighth straight decision as the Bucs defeat the Phillies, 6 - 5. Locke lost his first start of the year before embarking on the streak. Andrew McCutchen reaches base five times and scores twice for Pittsburgh.
• 2014:
  • With the bases loaded and one out in the top of the 2nd inning, Blue Jays outfielder Anthony Gose hits a grounder to A's 1B Nate Freiman. The first baseman attempts to start a double play by tagging runner Munenori Kawasaki and throwing home, but 1B umpire Vic Carapazza rules that Munenori avoided the tag and is safe, allowing C Stephen Vogt to benefit from a force out on Edwin Encarnacion at the plate. Things get odd when Blue Jays manager John Gibbons decides to challenge the call at first base, arguing his own baserunner was out, in order for Encarnacion's run to stand. Gibbons wins the challenge, but A's manager Bob Melvin wants to protest the game, claiming the video review rule was interpreted incorrectly, since Vogt's failure to tag Encarnacion was a direct result of the original call. In the end, the run is inconsequential, as Oakland wins, 4 - 1, but Major League Baseball will have to reflect on whether the rule needs to be tweaked to address a similar situation in the future.
  • Nostalgic for the 1980s, Rays manager Joe Maddon proposes a starting line-up that goes 8-6-7-5-3-0 (for the DH spot)-9 in today's game against the Tigers, reproducing the 1981 hit single "867-5309/Jenny" by Tommy Tutone. The line-up fails to be a hit, though, as the Rays lose, 8 - 1, to Max Scherzer. Maddon claims the line-up, which features Vince Belnome making his major league debut in the "0" slot, is inadvertent, but he embraces the coincidence as the namesake song is played in his team's dugout.
• 2016 - Major League Baseball celebrates military appreciation day by staging a game in Fort Bragg, NC, the nation's largest military base. The Marlins defeat the Braves, 5 - 2 in a temporary 12,500 seat ballpark with no paid admission, as all spectators are active military members and their families. It's the first major league game ever played in the state of North Carolina.
• 2017 - The Cincinnati Enquirer reveals that Cuban-born umpire Angel Hernandez has sued Major League Baseball before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging racial discrimination that has resulted in his being passed over for prestigious postseason assignments and for promotion to the rank of crew chief. He points specifically to the appointment of Joe Torre, with whom he had run-ins when he was a manager, as MLB Vice-President for Baseball Operations in 2011 as a source of the alleged poor treatment he has received.
• 2018 - The Rays win a wild game over the Marlins, 9 - 6. The score is tied at 4 through 15 innings when the Rays break through for five runs in the top of the 16th. Pitcher Vidal Nuno contributes to the rally with an RBI single, but injures his leg while running to first and has to be replaced by a pinch-runner, starting pitcher Nathan Eovaldi, who scores the final run. However, the Rays try to avoid using another pitcher for the bottom of the frame by calling back-up catcher Jesús Sucre to the mound. The Marlins manage to load the bases on three singles, none of them hit particularly hard, before Bryan Holaday hits a sacrifice fly. At that point Rays manager Kevin Cash has no choice but to bring in a real pitcher, Jose Alvarado, who allows another run to score on a ground out, then walks P Dan Straily, who is pinch-hitting for P Brett Graves. Cameron Maybin comes up to bat representing the tying run, but he grounds out to second to end the game, as Alvarado picks up an unusual save. At 5 hours and 31 minutes, it is the longest road game in Rays history.
• 2020 - With the release of its schedule for the abbreviated upcoming season, Major League Baseball announces the cancellation of the 2020 All-Star Game, which was supposed to take place in Dodger Stadium on July 14th. It will be the first season without an All-Star Game since World War II. The 2021 game remains scheduled to be played in Atlanta, GA, meaning Dodger Stadium will get its shot in 2022.
• 2021 - The Slovakian national team is going to the European Championship for the first time, winning one of the 2021 European Championship Qualifiers. They pound an Irish national team loaded with Irish-American players (some with pro experience), 12 - 2, as Jakub Ižold fans nine and also drives in three. In one of the other qualifiers, Greece wins a return to the Euros as Dimitri Kourtis pitches six shutout innings and scores three in an 8 - 4 win over Lithuania; like Ireland, Greece relies heavily on American players.
• 2022 - The Astros are running away with the AL West title as they win their sixth straight, 4 - 2 over the Angels, increasing their lead over L.A. to 13 1/2 games. The Astros tie a club record with 20 strikeouts, led by 13 in six innings by Framber Valdez, for a major league record 48 over the three-game series. However, it's rookie SS Jeremy Peña who steals the show by going 4-for-5 with two homers, including a walk-off shot off Ryan Tepera that breaks a 2 - 2 tie with two outs in the 9th.
• 2023 - Ronald Acuña Jr. records his 40th steal of the year in Atlanta's 4 - 2 win over the Guardians, the ninth straight victory by the Braves. He has already also hit 20 homers and driven 50 runs, a combination that is unprecedented by any player before the All-Star break.

Births

• 1842 - Henry Dobson, umpire (d. 1942)
• 1861 - William McLaughlin, infielder (d. 1936)
• 1862 - John Gillespie, outfielder (d. 1926)
• 1869 - George Cuppy, pitcher (d. 1922)
• 1876 - Ralph Frary, umpire (d. 1925)
• 1881 - Cliff Curtis, pitcher (d. 1943)
• 1881 - Fred Olmstead, pitcher (d. 1936)
• 1882 - Tom Tennant, pinch hitter (d. 1955)
• 1882 - Bill Tozer, pitcher (d. 1955)
• 1885 - Jack Dalton, outfielder (d. 1950)
• 1886 - Mike Balenti, infielder (d. 1955)
• 1888 - Wesley Callahan, infielder (d. 1953)
• 1891 - Joe Houser, pitcher (d. 1953)
• 1892 - Bunny Brief, infielder (d. 1963)
• 1893 - Dickie Kerr, pitcher (d. 1963)
• 1896 - Curt Walker, outfielder (d. 1955)
• 1897 - Heinie Sand, infielder (d. 1958)
• 1900 - Joe Brown, pitcher (d. 1950)
• 1904 - Luke Hamlin, pitcher (d. 1978)
• 1911 - Art Patchin, minor league pitcher (d. 1977)
• 1912 - Saburo Nakamura, NPB infielder (d. 1939)
• 1913 - Shigeo Murakami, NPB outfielder (d. 1945)
• 1914 - Buddy Rosar, catcher; All-Star (d. 1994)
• 1917 - Piper Davis, infielder, manager; All-Star (d. 1997)
• 1920 - Al Montgomery, catcher (d. 1942)
• 1920 - Paul O'Dea, outfielder (d. 1978)
• 1922 - Art Fowler, pitcher (d. 2007)
• 1922 - Howie Schultz, infielder (d. 2009)
• 1925 - Raymond Theobald, minor league outfielder (d. 2009)
• 1929 - Whitey Ries, minor league infielder and manager (d. 2008)
• 1930 - Al Pilarcik, outfielder (d. 2010)
• 1930 - Jim Westlake, pinch hitter (d. 2003)
• 1931 - Ed Roebuck, pitcher (d. 2018)
• 1931 - Glenn Sample, college coach (d. 2008)
• 1935 - Mutsuo Minagawa, NPB pitcher; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
• 1935 - Takashi Nakagawa, NPB pitcher
• 1940 - Coco Laboy, infielder
• 1940 - Cesar Tovar, outfielder (d. 1994)
• 1940 - Kiyoshi Yano, NPB outfielder (d. 2014)
• 1941 - Casey Cox, pitcher (d. 2023)
• 1948 - Phil Meeler, pitcher
• 1949 - Curtis Moore, minor league outfielder (d. 2011)
• 1950 - Rob Ellis, outfielder
• 1952 - Ryan Kurosaki, pitcher
• 1953 - Julio Cuarezma, minor league infielder
• 1953 - Frank Tanana, pitcher; All-Star
• 1953 - John Verhoeven, pitcher
• 1954 - Takamasa Suzuki, NPB pitcher
• 1955 - Matt Keough, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2020)
• 1955 - Jeff Rineer, pitcher
• 1956 - Larry Whisenton, outfielder
• 1957 - Danny Heep, outfielder
• 1959 - Kurt Kepshire, pitcher
• 1960 - Jack Daugherty, outfielder
• 1960 - Yasushi Matsumoto, Japanese national team outfielder
• 1963 - Don August, pitcher
• 1963 - Keith Seifert, minor league infielder
• 1964 - Warren Newson, outfielder
• 1965 - Greg Vaughn, outfielder; All-Star
• 1966 - Moises Alou, outfielder; All-Star
• 1966 - Dennis Hood, minor league outfielder
• 1967 - Mike Campas, minor league infielder
• 1967 - Brian Cashman, general manager
• 1968 - Juan Belza, Spanish national team outfielder
• 1968 - Mike Farmer, pitcher
• 1968 - Henry Manning, college coach
• 1968 - Billy White, minor league infielder and manager
• 1969 - Hideaki Okubo, NPB catcher
• 1971 - Jose Soriano, CPBL pitcher
• 1972 - Scot Donovan, minor league pitcher
• 1973 - Chang-hee Kim, KBO outfielder
• 1974 - Mike Heidemann, minor league infielder
• 1974 - Oscar Mairena, Nicaraguan national team infielder
• 1975 - Bok-yeoh Lee, South Korean national team infielder
• 1975 - Christian Parker, pitcher
• 1978 - Yoann Bernard, Division Elite pitcher
• 1979 - Carlos Batista, minor league player
• 1979 - Koji Onuma, NPB pitcher
• 1980 - John Koronka, pitcher
• 1980 - Asdrubal Oropeza, minor league infielder
• 1981 - Dan Meyer, pitcher
• 1981 - Peng-Chi Wang, CPBL infielder
• 1982 - Kazuya Fujita, NPB infielder
• 1982 - Danny Gorrín‎, Serie A1 catcher
• 1982 - Logan Kensing, pitcher
• 1982 - Carlos Quirola, Ecuadorian national team pitcher
• 1983 - Edinson Volquez, pitcher; All-Star
• 1984 - Tetsuya Matsumoto, NPB outfielder
• 1985 - Greg Reynolds, pitcher
• 1986 - Tommy Hunter, pitcher
• 1987 - Tyler Bortnick, minor league infielder
• 1987 - Casey Coleman, pitcher
• 1987 - Daniel Martinez, Division Honor outfielder
• 1987 - Jesse Orosco, Jr., minor league pitcher
• 1987 - Zach Putnam, pitcher
• 1987 - Yangervis Solarte, infielder
• 1987 - Kévin Velayoudon, New Caledonia national team infielder
• 1989 - Seiya Inoue, NPB infielder
• 1990 - Tae-yang Lee, KBO pitcher
• 1990 - Brandon Maurer, pitcher
• 1991 - Scottie Allen, minor league pitcher
• 1991 - Takeshi Nakamura, Japanese national team outfielder
• 1991 - Wei-Chen Wang, CPBL infielder
• 1992 - Dillon Haviland, drafted pitcher
• 1993 - Senquez Golson, drafted outfielder
• 1993 - Carlos Jiménez, minor league infielder
• 1994 - Eduardo Vera, minor league pitcher
• 1995 - Trenton Brooks, infielder
• 1995 - Robert Dugger, pitcher
• 1996 - Codi Heuer, pitcher
• 1996 - Cole Tucker, infielder
• 1997 - Michel Otañez, pitcher
• 1998 - Alexander Cheuk-Hei Chan, Hong Kong national team pitcher
• 2003 - Mitch Bratt, minor league pitcher

Deaths

• 1924 - Ed Householder, outfielder (b. 1869)
• 1927 - Joseph Nicholson, minor league pitcher (b. 1869)
• 1929 - Bill McClellan, infielder (b. 1856)
• 1936 - Bill Niles, infielder (b. 1867)
• 1940 - John Stafford, pitcher (b. 1870)
• 1941 - Tom McCreery, outfielder (b. 1874)
• 1944 - Pete McBride, pitcher (b. 1875)
• 1944 - Charlie Reynolds, catcher (b. 1865)
• 1945 - Shigeo Murakami, NPB outfielder (b. 1913)
• 1948 - Charles Witherow, pitcher (b. 1852)
• 1950 - Ed Donalds, pitcher (b. 1883)
• 1951 - Hugh Casey, pitcher (b. 1913)
• 1952 - Fred Tenney, infielder, manager (b. 1871)
• 1955 - Carlos Smith, minor league outfielder and manager (b. 1878)
• 1957 - Dolf Luque, pitcher (b. 1890)
• 1958 - Paul Smith, outfielder (b. 1888)
• 1959 - Red Barnes, outfielder (b. 1904)
• 1960 - Bill Killefer, catcher, manager (b. 1887)
• 1962 - Jimmy Walsh, outfielder (b. 1887)
• 1965 - Hank Robinson, pitcher (b. 1889)
• 1968 - Pat Simmons, pitcher (b. 1908)
• 1969 - Hunky Shaw, pinch hitter (b. 1884)
• 1969 - Harry Spratt, infielder (b. 1887)
• 1971 - Hap Dumont, National Baseball Congress founder (b. 1904)
• 1972 - Leroy Herrmann, pitcher (b. 1906)
• 1975 - Ed Johnson, outfielder (b. 1899)
• 1981 - George Knothe, infielder (b. 1898)
• 1982 - Spencer Harris, outfielder (b. 1900)
• 1983 - Fernando Campos, writer; Salon de la Fama (b. 1893)
• 1986 - Bill McCahan, pitcher (b. 1921)
• 1992 - George Staller, outfielder (b. 1916)
• 1992 - Slim Vaughan, pitcher (b. 1910)
• 1993 - Don Drysdale, pitcher; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1936)
• 1997 - Rufe Gentry, pitcher (b. 1918)
• 2002 - Earl Francis, pitcher (b. 1935)
• 2003 - Vince Lloyd, broadcaster (b. 1917)
• 2008 - Annabelle Lee, AAGPBL pitcher (b. 1922)
• 2008 - Bud Younger, college coach (b. 1924)
• 2016 - Dave Poole, college coach (b. 1928)
• 2019 - Gary Kolb, outfielder (b. 1940)
• 2019 - Tony Robichaux, college coach (b. ~1962)
• 2020 - Tyson Brummett, pitcher (b. 1984)
• 2021 - Nino Escalera, outfielder (b. 1929)
• 2021 - Jackie Wright, minor league infielder (b. 1959)