Template:Today in Baseball/June 25

July 5: Today's featured birthday is that of Jay Spurgeon, who turns 50.

• 1903 - Whitey Platt loses two complete game decisions to Pittsburgh. He is the only player to do so in the 20th Century.
• 1912 - New York's Rube Marquard (pictured) runs his win streak to 17 games by edging the Phillies, 2–1.
• 1936 - Brooklyn's Van Mungo ties the major-league record with seven consecutive strikeouts, but loses to the Reds, 5-4.
• 1959 - In the first NPB game ever attended by the Japanese emperor, Sadaharu Oh and Shigeo Nagashima hit home runs in the same contest for the first of many times. Nagashima ties it in the 5th with a home run and wins it in the bottom of the 9th with another blast. It is one of the most famous NPB games ever.
• 2005 - In a game against the Orioles, the Mariners' battery consist of a pair of 42-year-olds as Jamie Moyer throws to backstop Pat Borders. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, it marks the first time in major league history that two players 42 years or older have been the starting pitcher and catcher for a team.

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