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Events, births and deaths that occurred on June 27.

Events

• 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 beats his old teammate Jesse Tannehill and Boston, 8 - 4.
• 1906 - The Giants take another from Boston, winning 4 - 2 and moving in second place in the National League, just two games behind the front-running Cubs.
• 1907 - At National League Park, 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 ten games in back of the Cubs. New York buys the contract of Larry Doyle for $4,500 from the Springfield Senators of the Three-I 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 protests to umpire Rip 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 Ban Johnson's time-saving rule, which declares that pitchers must throw as soon as the batter is in the box, is soon withdrawn.
  • 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 is 2 for 4 with a run and RBI for the A's.
• 1916 - Boston's Babe Ruth allows two runs in the 1st inning, but settles down to beat the A's, 7 - 2, while striking out ten. Red Sox infielder Larry Gardner is caught stealing three times, the second time this year that A's catchers have caught a baserunner three times (the other was New York's Fritz Maisel, on April 26th). 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 American League runner be again 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, and the first player to pull off the feat for the Sox.
  • Detroit Stars pitcher Bill Force no-hits the St. Louis Stars, 3 - 0, at Mack Park in a Negro National League game.
• 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 home run is the clincher.
  • 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 scored. As on the 24th, Mike Haley, the official 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 tenth in a row as the second place Tigers whip St. Louis, 2 - 1. Detroit manages just three hits, but two are homers by Hank Greenberg and Charlie Gehringer.
  • To honor the lyricist of Take Me Out to the Ballgame, Jack Norworth Day is celebrated at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. Neither Norworth nor his partner Albert Von Tilzer, who wrote the music, had ever 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 second perfect game in league history. The Tigers will soon call up Stuart.
• 1951:
  • The third-place Red Sox score three runs in the 7th to beat the A's, 6 - 5. Sox pitcher Ray Scarborough gets beaned with an errant pickoff throw and is knocked unconscious; reliever Willard Nixon earns the win.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 baserunner. Pierce then fans Albie Pearson to win, 3 - 0. It is Pierce's third straight shutout.
  • At Cincinnati, Johnny Temple drills a two-out triple in the 9th inning to drive in two runs. The Redlegs beat the Giants, 6 - 5.
• 1959 - With the players voting, Hank 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 Larry Jackson and Ray Sadecki to sweep the Cubs, 4 - 0 and 8 - 0. Jackson yields four hits in the first game and Sadecki allows five hits in the nitecap. Sadecki hits a 9th-inning home run and Julian Javier and Curt 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 first. The Sox assault youthful pitching star Jim Bouton (10-3) for all their runs in the first five innings.
  • Detroit's Norm Cash achieves a rarity by playing an entire game at 1B without a fielding chance, as the Twins win, 10 - 6.
  • 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 right field to catcher Clay Dalrymple in the 4th that nips a runner. Dalrymple homers in the 8th.
  • A meager crowd of 6,497 fans at Fenway Park sees one of the park's great catches. Cleveland OF Al Luplow races full tilt for Dick Williams's drive to right-centerfield, reaches over the fence, and gloves the ball while flipping over the barrier into the bullpen. Cleveland wins, 6 - 4.
• 1964:
  • Roberto Clemente's two-run, tape-measure double finds its way out of Forbes Field at its farthest point, touching off Pittsburgh's come-from-behind, 8th-inning, game-winning rally off Cincinnati's Bob Purkey and Bill Henry. Dick Schofield singles, Bill Virdon doubles and both score on Clemente's ground-rule double that bounces over the center-field wall. The game is thus deadlocked and, one out later, Clemente will score the deciding run ahead of Manny Mota's home run off Henry.
  • 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 second-place Tigers lose to Cleveland, 8 - 1. The future Hall of Famer will miss 28 games.
  • Baltimore RF Frank Robinson is hurt in a collision at second base 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.
• 1971 - Roberto Clemente's 1,200th RBI comes in the form of a tie-breaking, 8th-inning, pinch-hit homer off Joe Hoerner, culminating Pittsburgh's come-from-behind 10 - 9 victory over Philadelphia in the second game of a doubleheader. Clemente is thus the first of only six players in the 33-year history of Veterans Stadium to reach the centerfield upper deck. Reporter Gene Collier, in town to visit the newly-opened ballpark, will remember this blast more than three decades later, writing in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about the unforgettable moment when this milestone blast struck the "enormous mock Liberty Bell mounted on the facing of the upper deck in dead center," thus preceding by more than ten months Greg Luzinski's celebrated May 16, 1972 shot to the same location.
• 1972:
  • Mickey Lolich is staked to a 4 - 0 lead when the Tigers hit three consecutive 1st-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 win, 5 - 2. Bobby Murcer's home run accounts for one of the Yank runs.
  • 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.
  • Nolan Ryan (8-5) triples and scores the go-ahead run in the 7th as California beats the Twins, 3 - 1. Poor baserunning in the 4th doesn't help the Twins' cause: with Harmon Killebrew on third base and Steve Braun on second with no outs, Jim Nettles flies out to Jim Spencer in left field. Killebrew fakes a dash to the plate and Braun starts from second base. A relay catches Braun at second and another throw nips Killebrew at third for a triple play.
• 1973:
  • David Clyde, 18 and fresh out of Houston's Westchester High School, makes his much hyped debut with the Rangers, before 35,698, the largest Rangers crowd of the year. Clyde, the number one pick in the 1973 amateur draft, walks the first two Twins batters he faces, then gets Bobby Darwin, George Mitterwald and Joe Lis on swinging third strikes. Clyde goes five innings and gives up only one hit - a two-run home run by Mike Adams - walks seven and strikes out eight. He is the winner, 4 - 3.
  • Led by 1B Joe Torre, who hits for the cycle, the Cards tally 22 hits to roll over the Pirates, 15 - 4. Torre hits a double in the 1st, homers in the 3rd, and triples 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 in the game. 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 Bruce Sutter shuts down Montreal for two innings to earn his 20th save. Sutter's ERA is now a minuscule 0.69.
  • 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 (April 12, 1973 was the first time), and also becomes the all-time National League leader with 17 career grand slams. Andre Dawson, in 1978 and 1986, will also clout two round trippers in an inning twice. 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 New York 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 first base on Jack Clark's easy grounder in the 1st 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 ten 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 base, third, and home, garnering three of his four season steals. Baker swipes second, and the next batter walks, then gets caught in a rundown. Dusty steals third during the rundown and just keeps running. San Francisco wins 14 - 9, with Chili Davis adding a pinch grand slam in the five-run 5th. Randy Lerch wins with a third of an 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.
  • 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 second 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 major league record. Thompson is thrown out by Bo Diaz in the 4th, 6th, 9th, and 11th innings.
• 1987:
  • Darrell Evans slugs a two-run home run in the 1st inning off Mike Boddicker for his 2,000th career hit, but his Tigers lose to Baltimore, 4 - 2.
  • A's rookie Mark McGwire hits three home runs and drives in five runs helping to defeat the Indians, 13 - 3.
  • 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 second National League batting title.
  • The Bend Bucks, managed by Mel Roberts, meet the Boise Hawks, managed by Derrel Thomas, in a Northwest League game. It marks the first time in Organized Baseball history that two black managers have 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 later.
  • 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 will be 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.
  • Atlanta OF Ron Gant fans four times against Houston's Darryl Kile, giving him seven consecutive strikeouts, and a record-tying ten in his last three games. The Astros and Kile defeat the Braves, 3 - 0.
  • 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.
  • The Milwaukee Brewers introduce the first Sausage Race during the 6th inning of their game at Milwaukee County Stadium. To everyone's surprise, physical characters dressed as cartoon sausages replace the "dot race" that had been a feature on the scoreboard for a few years already and make a dash from left field to home plate. The race is a huge success with fans and is made a permanent fixture, while copycat races will be introduced around baseball as a result.
• 1994 - The Cubs defeat the Pirates, 2 - 1, as P Randy Myers records his 200th career save. He is only the third lefthander to reach the mark.
• 1996:
  • The Athletics stroke eight home runs in an 18 - 2 pounding of the Angels. Scott Brosius hits two, while Mark McGwire, Geronimo Berroa, Jason Giambi, Terry Steinbach, Ernie Young and Jose Herrera also connect. The seven different players going deep ties the major league record.
  • 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 drives in four runs for Chicago.
  • The Orioles acquire OF Geronimo Berroa from the Athletics in exchange for P Jimmy Haynes.
  • The left side of the Kansas City infield accounts for ten 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 one-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, 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 ends Toronto's streak of 23 consecutive games with at least one home run - two shy of the major league mark.
  • The Dodgers release veteran P Orel Hershiser, who announces his retirement.
  • Heavy medical news. Houston reliever Billy Wagner undergoes surgery to repair a partially-torn flexor tendon and is out for the year. Anaheim's Jason Dickson and Tampa Bay's Juan Guzman undergo arthroscopic surgery on their right shoulders and will miss the remainder of the season as well.
  • 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.
• 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 1st, and led the Braves by eight games before starting their tumble. Chipper Jones drives in three runs and Odalis Perez allows two earned runs.
  • 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. Those three youngsters are SS Brandon Phillips, southpaw Cliff Lee and flycatcher Grady Sizemore, all of whom will become top-flight major leaguers. Colon will pitch wvery well in half a season in Montreal and the Expos also obtain P Tim Drew in the trade, but it does not balance the scales in the heavily-lopsided deal.
• 2003 - In the 50-minute bottom of the 1st inning at Fenway Park against the Marlins, the Red Sox establish a major league record by scoring ten 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 1st inning with 14.
• 2005 - In beating the Blue Jays, 4 - 3, Hideo Nomo of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays records his 200th win between Nippon Pro Baseball and the major leagues, gaining him entry into the Meikyukai.
• 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 major league history to hit 100 homers, doing so in his 325th game.
• 2008:
  • In a 15 - 6 Mets win in the first game of a doubleheader with the Yankees, Carlos Delgado drives in nine runs, setting a franchise record. Delgado hits a grand slam (the 12th of his career), a three-run homer and a two-run double.
  • Dallas McPherson goes deep off Justin Berg; it is the seventh straight game in which the Albuquerque Isotopes star has homered. This ties the all-time minor league record.
• 2009:
  • Tim Wakefield makes his 382nd start for the Boston Red Sox, tying Roger Clemens for most in franchise history. The 42-year-old knuckleballer earns his tenth win of the year with six scoreless innings against the Atlanta Braves. Boston prevails, 1 - 0, with Mark Kotsay driving in the game's only run.
  • J.A. Happ registers his first career shutout in a 10 - 0 drubbing of the Blue Jays by Philadelphia. Jayson Werth homers twice, including a mammoth blast that reaches the upper deck of the Rogers Centre.
  • The Indians send Mark DeRosa, who has hit 13 homers, to the Cardinals for Chris Perez and a player to be named later.
• 2010:
  • Jamie Moyer of the Phillies gives a 3rd-inning two-run homer to the Blue Jays' Vernon Wells to pass Robin Roberts for most gopher balls given up in the major leagues with 506. But the hit doesn't phase Moyer, who cruises to an 11 - 2 victory, thanks to six unearned runs, the result of four Toronto errors.
  • Josh Hamilton hits a 468-foot blast into the upper deck in right-centerfield to extend his hitting streak to 21 games and lead the Rangers to a 10 - 1 win over Houston. The Rangers are now 20-5 in June and have taken a four-game lead over the Angels in the AL West.
  • Trailing 6 - 2 in the 9th, the Yankees rally for four runs against Dodgers closer Jonathan Broxton to tie the game, then win it with a two-run homer by Robinson Cano against George Sherrill in the 10th. In the four-run rally, Cano drives in the first of the runs with a one-out double, then Chad Huffman sends two more runs home on a single. Curtis Granderson slides home ahead of James Loney's throw on Colin Curtis's grounder to first to tie the game.
  • Rodrigo López allows two hits in six innings in a 2 - 1 win over the Rays. Diamondbacks starting pitchers have now allowed only five hits in their past four games, a major league record.
• 2011 - Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt files for bankruptcy protection in a Delaware court, blaming Major League Baseball's refusal to approve a long-term television deal with Fox Sports that, McCourt claims, would have solved the team's current cash flow challenge. The Dodgers are rumored to be on the verge of failing to meet salary obligations at the end of the month, and the move seeks to make it harder for MLB to seize control of the team. The bankruptcy does not affect the team on the field, as they pound out 25 hits in a 15 - 0 rout of Minnesota. The 25 hits tie the club record since its move to Los Angeles in 1958. Every starter in the lineup has at least a hit, a run scored and an RBI, a first for the team. Tony Gwynn, Matt Kemp and Trent Oeltjen all have four hits - as many as the Twins. Chad Billingsley is the beneficiary of the offensive windfall.
• 2012:
  • The Yankees lose two starting pitchers on the same day. First, they place CC Sabathia's name on the disabled list with a groin strain, then in their game against the Indians, Andy Pettitte is hit by a line drive off the bat of Casey Kotchman in the 5th inning, breaking an ankle. Small consolation, the Yanks win the game, 5 - 4.
  • The Mets erupt for an uncharacteristic offensive outburst, crushing the Cubs, 17 - 1, their most runs in two years. They hit four homers, two by Daniel Murphy, a grand slam by Scott Hairston and a three-run shot by Ike Davis. With David Wright driving in five runs, those four players combine for all 17 RBI. Jon Niese is the beneficiary of all that offense, while Jeff Samardzija is charged with the loss.
  • Tim Lincecum and the Giants blank the Dodgers, 3 - 0. It is the first time in the Giants' 123-year history that they shut out their rival Dodgers every contest of a three-game series.
• 2013 - Japan's players union calls for the resignation of Nippon Pro Baseball Commissioner Ryozo Kato following revelations that Kato introduced a new baseball without discussing with or notifying players. The new livelier ball has resulted in a sharp increase in home runs. Kato's claim that he did not know the ball was changed does little to give anyone confidence in his leadership.
• 2014 - For the second straight game, pitchers for the Lynchburg Hillcats of the Carolina League no-hit the Wilmington Blue Rocks. Cody Scarpetta and Benino Pruneda combine on the 5 - 0 win, one night after Lucas Sims and Alex Wilson had turned the trick in a 5 - 1 win. Wilmington's sole run in the two days came courtesy of a walk, passed ball, error and groundout.
• 2017 - The University of Florida wins the first College World Series title in school history, defeating Louisiana State University, 6 - 1, in the final game of the tournament , completing a sweep of the best-of-three finals. P Alex Faedo is named the MVP of the series.
• 2018 - The Tigers fire pitching coach Chris Bosio for making "insensitive comments" in violation of team policy, although the precise nature of these comments is not disclosed. He is replaced by bullpen coach Rick Anderson.
• 2019 - The starters for the 2019 All-Star Game are named, at the conclusion of the fans' vote. For the first time, this voting is two-tiered, with today's winners the victors of a second round of strictly on-line voting among the three top finishers at each position, after the more traditional ballots have been counted. The results are well-balanced, with only one team managing as many as three players elected - the Astros with 3B Alex Bregman and OFs George Springer and Michael Brantley - and are generally representative of who have been the best players so far this year.
• 2021 - A little over a week after MLB has begun to systematically examine pitchers for foreign substances to improve grip, a first victim is caught: Hector Santiago of the Mariners is ejected after umpires discover an unknown sticky substances on his glove. The glove is impounded and sent for further analysis, while Santiago protests his innocence, claiming that he was only using rosin to prevent perspiration from dripping unto his hands. He will be issued a ten-game suspension.
• 2022 - The Orioles do something unprecedented in franchise history as they hit back-to-back homers in consecutive innings in defeating the Mariners, 9 - 2. Rookie Adley Rutschman and Ryan Mountcastle both connect in the 3rd, and Anthony Santander and Austin Hays follow suit in the 4th, with all four long balls coming against George Kirby.

Births

• 1854 - Harry Diddlebock, manager (d. 1900)
• 1854 - Frank Thompson, catcher (d. 1925)
• 1859 - Joe Moffett, infielder (d. 1935)
• 1860 - Pat Powers, manager (d. 1925)
• 1861 - Jackie Hayes, catcher (d. 1905)
• 1868 - Bill Daley, pitcher (d. 1922)
• 1871 - Bill Rotes, pitcher (d. 1934)
• 1871 - Will Smalley, infielder (d. 1891)
• 1877 - Bull Durham, pitcher (d. 1960)
• 1882 - Dennis Potts, minor league pitcher (d. 1963)
• 1890 - Rube Benton, pitcher (d. 1937)
• 1892 - George Ross, pitcher (d. 1935)
• 1893 - Charlie Wheatley, pitcher (d. 1982)
• 1894 - Red Bluhm, pinch hitter (d. 1952)
• 1894 - Joe Connolly, outfielder (d. 1960)
• 1900 - Lum Davenport, pitcher (d. 1961)
• 1905 - Fred Saigh, owner (d. 1999)
• 1906 - Dick Terwilliger, pitcher (d. 1969)
• 1907 - John Krider, minor league pitcher and manager (d. 1981)
• 1909 - Les Pearson, outfielder (d. 1986)
• 1911 - Rodolfo Fernández, pitcher (d. 2000)
• 1914 - Irv Bartling, infielder (d. 1973)
• 1914 - Wendell Smith, writer (d. 1972)
• 1914 - Charles Urbanus Sr., Hoofdklasse player and coach (d. 1980)
• 1915 - Fred Martin, pitcher (d. 1979)
• 1915 - Ken Peters, minor league infielder (d. 2013)
• 1916 - Bobby Maduro, minor league owner (d. 1986)
• 1916 - Fuzz White, outfielder (d. 2003)
• 1917 - Billy Southworth Jr., minor league outfielder (d. 1945)
• 1918 - Fred Webb, minor league pitcher (d. 2009)
• 1920 - Cecil Kaiser, pitcher (d. 2011)
• 1921 - Hank Behrman, pitcher (d. 1987)
• 1921 - Lou Kretlow, pitcher (d. 2007)
• 1921 - Hsiao-Chang Yen, Taiwanese executive; Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1986)
• 1923 - Gus Zernial, outfielder; All-Star (d. 2011)
• 1925 - Wayne Terwilliger, infielder (d. 2021)
• 1926 - Al Porto, pitcher (d. 2005)
• 1928 - Garnett Bankhead, Negro League pitcher (d. 1991)
• 1929 - John Herbold, college coach (d. 2017)
• 1929 - Dick Marlowe, pitcher (d. 1968)
• 1930 - Bob Trowbridge, pitcher (d. 1980)
• 1931 - Charles Bronfman, owner
• 1931 - Chuck Coles, outfielder (d. 1996)
• 1931 - Eddie Kasko, infielder, manager; All-Star (d. 2020)
• 1932 - Dick Bergquist, college coach (d. 2019)
• 1932 - Ray Nichting, minor league outfielder (d. 2021)
• 1934 - Ed Hobaugh, pitcher
• 1938 - Elmo Plaskett, catcher (d. 1998)
• 1940 - Terry Banderas, minor league outfielder
• 1942 - Danny Breeden, catcher
• 1943 - Rico Petrocelli, infielder; All-Star
• 1944 - Jack Baswell, umpire
• 1945 - Daniel Keller, minor league pitcher
• 1953 - Joe Zdeb, outfielder
• 1956 - Takashi Nishimoto, NPB pitcher
• 1957 - Gary Givens, minor league pitcher
• 1959 - Roy Johnson, outfielder (d. 2009)
• 1960 - Jackie Gutierrez, infielder
• 1963 - Tsutomu Sakai, NPB pitcher
• 1963 - Nelson Simmons, outfielder
• 1964 - Takashi Inomata, NPB pitcher
• 1965 - Willie Ambos, minor league pitcher
• 1965 - Chip Duncan, minor league pitcher
• 1966 - Jeff Conine, outfielder; All-Star
• 1967 - Lee Hancock, pitcher
• 1967 - Denny Wiseman, minor league pitcher
• 1969 - Atsushi Kataoka, NPB infielder
• 1970 - Jim Edmonds, outfielder; All-Star
• 1970 - Ricardo Jordan, pitcher
• 1970 - Dario Pérez, minor league pitcher (d. 2006)
• 1971 - Tod Brown, college coach
• 1971 - Juan Viñas, Dominican national team pitcher
• 1974 - Andy Larkin, pitcher
• 1975 - Tom Sergio, minor league infielder
• 1975 - Daryle Ward, outfielder
• 1976 - Peter Durfee, umpire
• 1976 - Arnold Elles, scout
• 1976 - Johnny Estrada, catcher; All-Star
• 1976 - Félix Martínez, Puerto Rican national team infielder
• 1976 - Chris Woodward, infielder; manager
• 1977 - Juan Pena, pitcher
• 1978 - Pat Lynch, minor league pitcher
• 1978 - Oscar Salazar, infielder
• 1980 - Tessa Heeres, Dutch women's national team outfielder
• 1980 - Seong-hoon Jeong, KBO infielder
• 1980 - Luis Rodriguez, infielder
• 1980 - Oleg Semenov, Russian national team infielder
• 1981 - Brian Burgamy, minor league infielder
• 1981 - Garett Gentry, minor league catcher
• 1982 - Kazumasa Kikuchi, NPB pitcher
• 1983 - Oscar Bernard, coach
• 1983 - Dalvis Cazorla, Venezuelan women's national team pitcher
• 1983 - Jim Johnson, pitcher; All-Star
• 1984 - Maxwell León, minor league infielder
• 1984 - Jeison Pacheco, Cuban league infielder
• 1985 - Steve Edlefsen, pitcher
• 1985 - Randolph Kirindongo, minor league catcher
• 1985 - Shota Oba, NPB pitcher
• 1985 - Craig Rodriguez, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Young-seop Bae, KBO outfielder
• 1986 - Kyle Russell, minor league outfielder
• 1986 - Zach Zaneski, minor league catcher
• 1987 - Brett Hunter, minor league pitcher
• 1989 - Abraham Almonte, outfielder
• 1989 - A.J. Schugel, pitcher
• 1989 - Jamie Wilson, New Zealand national team pitcher
• 1990 - Nick Martini, outfielder
• 1991 - Pui-Shing Fu, Hong Kong national team infielder
• 1992 - Derrick Sylve, minor league pitcher and manager
• 1993 - D.J. Davis, minor league outfielder
• 1993 - Shogo Noda, NPB pitcher
• 1993 - Yacksel Rios, pitcher
• 1993 - Tom Robson, minor league pitcher
• 1994 - Trey Ball, minor league pitcher
• 1995 - Jonah Heim, catcher; All-Star
• 1996 - Artuur Driessens, First Division pitcher
• 1996 - Dylan Rosa, minor league outfielder
• 1997 - Yordan Álvarez, outfielder; All-Star
• 1997 - Mitch Neunborn, minor league pitcher
• 1997 - Se-jin Park, KBO pitcher
• 1998 - Brendan Verspreet, First Division pitcher
• 1998 - Xander Verspreet, First Division infielder
• 1999 - L.J. Jones, minor league infielder
• 2002 - Je-Andrick Lourens, Curaçao national team pitcher

Deaths

• 1886 - George Creamer, infielder, manager (b. 1855)
• 1906 - Dan Campbell, umpire (b. 1865)
• 1919 - Larry Schlafly, infielder, manager (b. 1878)
• 1921 - Hugh Nicol, outfielder, manager (b. 1858)
• 1938 - Jerry Donovan, catcher (b. 1876)
• 1940 - Frank Thompson, infielder (b. 1895)
• 1948 - Bull Barbour, infielder (b. 1892)
• 1955 - Harry Agganis, infielder (b. 1929)
• 1960 - Square Moore, pitcher (b. 1900)
• 1962 - Yukichi Nagatoshi, NPB outfielder (b. 1920)
• 1962 - Charlie Schmutz, pitcher (b. 1892)
• 1964 - John Shackelford, infielder (b. 1905)
• 1964 - Tex Wisterzil, infielder (b. 1888)
• 1966 - Marty Krug, infielder (b. 1888)
• 1967 - Al Lien, minor league pitcher (b. 1915)
• 1970 - Joe Atkins, infielder (b. 1922)
• 1979 - Pat Maloney, outfielder (b. 1888)
• 1981 - Sam McConnell, infielder (b. 1895)
• 1982 - Eddie Morgan, outfielder (b. 1914)
• 1983 - Ralph Carroll, catcher (b. 1891)
• 1983 - Jesse Landrum, infielder (b. 1912)
• 1988 - Red Bullock, pitcher (b. 1911)
• 1989 - Lowell Wrigley, college coach (b. 1910)
• 1990 - Joe O'Rourke, pinch hitter (b. 1904)
• 1991 - Charlie Humber, infielder (b. 1914)
• 1992 - Sandy Amoros, outfielder (b. 1930)
• 1992 - Bob Harvey, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1918)
• 1992 - Frank Jelincich, outfielder (b. 1917)
• 1992 - Woody Main, pitcher (b.1922)
• 1994 - Alan Strange, infielder (b. 1906)
• 1997 - Ray Benge, pitcher (b. 1902)
• 2002 - Ralph Erickson, pitcher (b. 1902)
• 2004 - Takeshi Suzuki, NPB infielder (b. 1932)
• 2005 - Dick Dietz, catcher; All-Star (b. 1941)
• 2005 - Goro Toi, NPB infielder (b. 1939)
• 2007 - Edward Black, minor league pitcher (b. 1927)
• 2008 - Alex Garbowski, pinch-runner (b. 1922)
• 2010 - Lee Anthony, minor league pitcher (b. 1918)
• 2011 - Elmer Sexauer, pitcher (b. 1926)
• 2016 - Tom Morgan, college coach (b. 1933)
• 2017 - Anthony Young, pitcher (b. 1966)
• 2020 - Jim Cuneo, umpire (b. 1932)
• 2020 - Adrian Devine, pitcher (b. 1951)