⚾ On This Day in MLB History ⚾
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June 15. The premier of Lou Gehrig.
- 1923 - Lou Gehrig makes his Major League debut with the New York Yankees as a pinch hitter.
- 1925 - The Philadelphia Athletics go into the bottom of the 8th inning trailing, 15 - 4, and score 13 runs to defeat the ★ Cleveland Indians, 17 - 15.
- 1928 - Ty Cobb of the Philadelphia Athletics steals home for the 54th and final time in his 24-year career to extend his major league record. It comes in the 8th inning against the ★ Cleveland Indians. The Athletics beat Cleveland, 12 - 5, as Lefty Grove is the winning pitcher.
- 1993 - In a small but necessary first step, Minor League Baseball bans the use of smokeless tobacco on the field, in dugouts and on any mode of transportation used by its teams, with violators subjected to fines and ejection. It will take until 2016 for Major League Baseball to adopt a similar measure as part of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
- 1997 - In one of the more surprising developments of the first weekend of interleague play, the Baltimore Orioles complete a sweep of the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field, on Lenny Webster's 10th-inning home run off Mark Wohlers. One byproduct of interleague play that isn't a surprise is the increase at the turnstiles. Attendance is up nearly 10,000 per game for the weekend, and the Seattle Mariners average 52,074 for their four interleague games in the Kingdome.
- 2020 - The impasse over the resumption of the MLB season gets deeper, as Commissioner Rob Manfred now states that there may not be a season at all. It was expected that he would decree a 50-game season, as allowed by the March 26th agreement between the MLBPA and owners, but he is now reluctant to do so.
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Yesterday in MLB history - I watched the Astros game yesterday and they made history. There is a thing in baseball that is normally rarer than a no hitter. It's called an Immaculate Inning. What happens is the pitcher is able to strike out all 3 batters in the inning with only 3 pitches each, all strikes and no balls and no walks. There have been only 106 such innings in all the history of major league baseball. So you can see it is even more rare than no hitters. But the Astros pitchers had two such innings, each one thrown by two different pitchers in the same game. That is where they made history because that has never happened before in the history of MLB.
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Yesterday in MLB history - I watched the Astros game yesterday and they made history. There is a thing in baseball that is normally rarer than a no hitter. It's called an Immaculate Inning. What happens is the pitcher is able to strike out all 3 batters in the inning with only 3 pitches each, all strikes and no balls and no walks. There have been only 106 such innings in all the history of major league baseball. So you can see it is even more rare than no hitters. But the Astros pitchers had two such innings, each one thrown by two different pitchers in the same game. That is where they made history because that has never happened before in the history of MLB.
Yesterday in MLB history - I watched the Astros game yesterday and they made history. There is a thing in baseball that is normally rarer than a no hitter. It's called an Immaculate Inning. What happens is the pitcher is able to strike out all 3 batters in the inning with only 3 pitches each, all strikes and no balls and no walks. There have been only 106 such innings in all the history of major league baseball. So you can see it is even more rare than no hitters. But the Astros pitchers had two such innings, each one thrown by two different pitchers in the same game. That is where they made history because that has never happened before in the history of MLB.
good - so now that the cheaters got another "accolade"
may the tide now change and leave the astros as a fortuneless hack club and falling into the AL west basement.
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June 16. And oh those rowdy old-timers, again.
- 1887 - A huge brawl breaks out in the 9th inning of a game between the Browns and Orioles in Baltimore, MD when Curt Welch bowls over Orioles 2B Bill Greenwood in the 9th inning with the score tied, 8 - 8. Thousands of spectators run on to the field, clamoring for Welch's arrest - or worse. Police have to intervene, and the game is called. Welch is whisked away to safety while Browns pitcher Dave Foutz, a Baltimore native, speaks to the crowd to calm them slightly. However, another mob gathers at the train station, preventing Welch from leaving town. He will be forced to attend a court hearing the next day, where Greenwood pleads in his favor, stating that the play was nothing out of the ordinary in a baseball context, although some of the Orioles' fans would like to see criminal charges laid. Wisely, the Browns will keep Welch out of the next day's game to ease tensions.
- 1909 - Jim Thorpe makes his baseball pitching debut for the Rocky Mount Railroaders (Eastern Carolina League) with a 4 - 2 win over the Raleigh Red Birds. It is the professional play in this year that will later cause him to lose his Olympic gold medals won in the 1912 Olympics (thus violating the amateur status rules). In 1983, thirty years after his death, his medals will be restored by the International Olympic Committee.
- 1940 - A disgruntled group of ★ Cleveland Indians players petition owner Alva Bradley to fire team manager Oscar Vitt. Bradley turns down the players' request, but eventually watches the team lose its hold on first place during the final weeks of the regular season. The Indians players will be derided as "cry-babies" for their initiative.
- 1951 - Andy Strong, an outfielder for the Crowley Millers, is killed by a lightning strike in the 6th inning of a game with the Alexandria Aces. The game had been halted in the 5th inning due to rain but conditions were clear when play resumed.
- 1962 - An injured Mickey Mantle returns after a one-month layoff and hits a dramatic three-run pinch home run in the top of the 8th inning. Although Mantle's blast gives the Yankees a 9 - 7 lead, ★ Cleveland comes back to score a run in the bottom of the 8th and wins the game in the 9th, 10 - 9, on a two-run homer by Jerry Kindall.
- 2014 - Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn, winner of eight National League batting titles, passes away from cancer of the salivary gland at 54, likely a result of his long-time use of smokeless tobacco. He spent his entire 20-season major league career with the San Diego Padres and is the only player to have been a member of their two World Series teams, in 1984 and 1998.
2016 - ★ Victor Martinez connects for three homers to lead the Tigers to a 10 - 4 win over the Royals. The Tigers hit six homers in all, with Nick Castellanos, James McCann and Miguel Cabrera adding the other long balls. However, it's not all good news for Detroit as OF J.D. Martinez breaks his elbow running into the fence while chasing a ball in the right-field corner and will be out for a long stretch.
2019 - An authentic Babe Ruth New York Yankees jersey from 1928-30 sets a record for a piece of baseball memorabilia as it sells for $5.64 million at auction.
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Yesterday in MLB history - I watched the Astros game yesterday and they made history. There is a thing in baseball that is normally rarer than a no hitter. It's called an Immaculate Inning. What happens is the pitcher is able to strike out all 3 batters in the inning with only 3 pitches each, all strikes and no balls and no walks. There have been only 106 such innings in all the history of major league baseball. So you can see it is even more rare than no hitters. But the Astros pitchers had two such innings, each one thrown by two different pitchers in the same game. That is where they made history because that has never happened before in the history of MLB.
good - so now that the cheaters got another "accolade"
may the tide now change and leave the astros as a fortuneless hack club and falling into the AL west basement.
good - so now that the cheaters got another "accolade"
may the tide now change and leave the astros as a fortuneless hack club and falling into the AL west basement.
Ya might want them to wait until after the weekend before they start losing. The have the Whitesox in town for a 3 gamer starting tomorrow. Those guys are only 2.5 games behind Cleveland in the standings.
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June 17.
- 1915 - Zip Zabel comes out of the Chicago Cubs bullpen with two outs in the 1st inning to face the Brooklyn Robins. Zabel wins the game in the 19th inning, 4 - 3, in the longest relief effort in major league history. Brooklyn starter Jeff Pfeffer goes the distance, scattering 15 hits as he labors 18 1/3 innings, only to lose on a throwing error by second baseman George Cutshaw.
- 1916 - The Chicago White Sox pound Babe Ruth with 12 hits in eight innings, including three by Shoeless Joe Jackson, to beat the visiting Boston Red Sox, 5 - 0. The loss drops Boston into sixth place.
- 1960 - Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox hits his 500th career home run against the ★ Cleveland Indians at ★ Cleveland Stadium. Williams' two-run shot off Wynn Hawkins helps the Red Sox beat Cleveland, 3 - 1. Williams becomes the fourth player in major league history to hit 500 home runs, joining Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, and Mel Ott.
- 1967 - A nine-hour and five-minute doubleheader between the Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Athletics sets a major league record for the longest ever. The first game includes a rain delay, and the second goes 19 innings before a Dave Duncan home run gives the Athletics a 6 - 5 victory. Detroit wins the opener, 7 - 6.
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1993: - Baseball owners vote overwhelmingly, 26-2, in favor of expanding the postseason for the first time since 1969. The new system, which is set to begin in 1994, will double the number of teams that qualify to eight by realigning each league into three divisions, with two teams qualifying as wild cards. The 1994 strike will delay its implementation by one year, however.
- San Francisco Giants outfielder Darren Lewis sets a major league record by playing his 243rd consecutive game without committing an error. It is also the most ever by any outfielder at the start of his career.
- 1993 - Carlos Baerga of the ★ Cleveland Indians hits three home runs in a 9 - 5 loss to the Detroit Tigers. Detroit hits five home runs of their own, including a pair each by Travis Fryman and Dan Gladden. Baerga, Fryman and Gladden also tie an American League record for three players with two or more home runs in a nine-inning game.
Births.
- 1955 - Joe Charboneau, outfielder
Deaths.
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June 19. Baseball in 1846 ?
- 1846 - At the Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ, the New York Ball Club defeats the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club, 23 - 1 (some sources say 21 - 1). Alexander Cartwright serves as the umpire, which is curious, as Cartwright is one of the Knickerbockers' best players.
- 1903 - Lou Gehrig is born in New York City. Gehrig will make his major league debut with the New York Yankees in 1923. He will become the Yankees' everyday first baseman, replacing Wally Pipp and set a record for the longest consecutive games played streak while combining with Babe Ruth to form one of the greatest run-producing tandems of all time.
- 1955: - Ted Williams, held hitless for three straight games, blasts a pair of towering home runs as the Red Sox overpower ★ Cleveland, 11 - 8. The Associated Press reports: "Williams leaned into a fastball by rookie fireballer ★ Herb Score for a 450-foot drive into the dead centerfield blea hers in the 5th inning to end a hitless string at ten official times at bat. In the 8th inning, he connected again for a 430-foot drive into the right field stands off the veteran ★ Bob Feller."
1973: - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds and Willie Davis of the Los Angeles Dodgers both collect their 2,000th hits. It is a single for Rose against the San Francisco Giants and a home run for Davis against the Atlanta Braves.
1977: - The ★ Cleveland Indians fire Frank Robinson, the first black manager in major league history, and replace him with coach Jeff Torborg.
- 2001 - Ellis Burks of the ★ Cleveland Indians hits three home runs in a 10 - 9 loss to Minnesota.
- 2019 - One day after fouling a bunted ball in his face during batting practice and breaking his nose, Max Scherzer takes the mound for the Nationals against the Phillies sporting a prominent black eye. He still stymies the opposition with 7 scoreless innings in a 2 - 0 win. "Trust me, this thing looks a lot worse than it actually feels," he explains to journalists.
Births.
- 1903 - Lou Gehrig, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 1941)
- 1950 - Duane Kuiper, infielder
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June 21. Some ★ famous and unusual names. Uecher ?
- 1900 - Brooklyn rallies for five runs in the 9th to beat Philadelphia, 8 - 6, and take over first place. They will hold the lead for the rest of the season. Despite the win, Brooklyn is averaging only 1,100 fans per game and a concerned National League president Nick Young floats the idea of the franchise moving to Washington, DC.
- 1903 - In a Sunday match in Canton, Ohio, Boston outslugs ★ Cleveland to win, 12 - 7. Buck Freeman is 5 for 6, including the cycle, with six RBIs, while ★ Nap Lajoie is 3 for 5 for Cleveland.
- 1939 - The New York Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement, based on the report that he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The 36-year-old star will remain with the team as captain.
1950: - Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit, a 7th-inning single off the ★ Indians' Marino Pieretti, as the Yanks win, 8 - 2. DiMaggio joins Luke Appling and Wally Moses as the only active players with 2,000 or more hits. Eddie Lopat is the winning pitcher, running his record against ★ Cleveland to 25-6.
1966: -★ Satchel Paige makes his final professional pitching appearance, going the first two innings for the Peninsula Grays (Carolina League) against the Greensboro Yankees. Satch gives up two runs. Peninsula's regular catcher, Johnny Bench, takes the night off.
- 1967 - ★- Bob Uecker of the Atlanta Braves hits a grand slam for the only time in his career. It comes in the 3rd inning off Ron Herbel of the San Francisco Giants in a 9 - 2 Braves win at Candlestick Park.
- 1970 - ★ Cleveland wins the first game against Detroit, 2 - 1, but Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez then goes 7 for 7 with six singles and a double to tie a record set in 1892, in a 12-inning, 9 - 8 nitecap win. Mickey Stanley's home run wins it for the Tigers. Gutierrez, wearing #7, starts the game hitting .218, and was 0 for 18 before today. Gutierrez will collect just seven hits in all of 1971, and 128 hits for his career.
- 1971 - ★ Indians slugger Ken Harrelson announces his retirement from baseball to join the pro golf tour. ?
- 1986: - ★ Bo Jackson, college football's Heisman Trophy winner in 1985 and the first pick (by Tampa Bay) in the NFL draft, stuns observers nationwide by signing with the Kansas City Royals instead.
1997 - ★ Manny Ramirez has 6 RBIs, four on a grand slam, to lead the host ★ Cleveland Indians to a 13 - 4 win over the New York Yankees and Andy Pettitte.
1998 - ★ Cleveland Indians lefty Bartolo Colon coasts to a 11 - 0 shutout over the New York Yankees.
2008 - In a 7 - 2 ★ Cleveland win over the Dodgers, C.C. Sabathia homers off Chan-ho Park. It is ★ Sabathia's second home run the first time an American League pitcher has hit that many since the DH had been instituted. After the game, ★ Sabathia's career batting line in 42 plate appearances is an impressive .300/.317/.475 for a 107 OPS+. Wow, a DH ?
2012 - Remember him ? The ★ Cleveland Indians give up on former top ★ prospect Beau Mills, a first-round pick in the 2007 amateur draft, when they send him to the Cincinnati Reds for cash considerations. Mills is hitting only .197 as the first baseman for AAA Columbus, and is being demoted to AA Pensacola by the Reds.
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June 22.. Honus, Ty, Babe and the business of baseball.
- 1902 - ★ Cleveland plays its third straight Sunday game in a minor league park, this time in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Cleveland beats Washington, 6 - 4, behind ★ Addie Joss. <-- Also a great story by Matt Underwood.
- 1908 - Honus Wagner gets hit No. 2,000 in the 8th against Jake Weimer of the Reds, who wins 4 - 0 over the Pirates. Wagner makes an error when he is struck on the finger in the 1st inning.
- 1912 - Ty Cobb gets pinch hit for in an unusual scenario. With two outs in the 9th, and the Tigers down 11 - 3, Cobb is nowhere to be found, and George Mullin substitutes and flies out to end the game. It turns out Cobb is in the clubhouse showering.
- 1916 - Babe Ruth almost duplicates teammate Rube Foster's no-hitter, allowing just three singles, two by Frank Gilhooley, in beating the Yankees, 1 - 0. The game takes one hour, 18 minutes.
- 1934 - Detroit takes over first place, beating Washington, 11 - 3, dislodging the Yankees who lose, 4 - 1, to ★ Cleveland.
- 1934 - Bill Terry and Joe Cronin, managers of the 1933 pennant winners, are named to head the All-Star teams, establishing a precedent that is still followed.
- 1946 - Bill Veeck heads a syndicate which purchases the ★ Cleveland Indians. This launches Veeck on a long career as a lively promoter at the major league level, having already achieved success in the minors.
- 1996: - ★ In Cleveland, Ruben Sierra homers from both sides of the plate as the Yankees beat the Indians, 11 - 9. One of Sierra's home runs comes in the nine-run 6th inning. ★ Albert Belle, back from a two-game suspension, is 3 for 5 with a homer, and Eddie Murray adds his 488th home run for the Tribe. The game takes 4:10.
2010 - The sale of the Texas Rangers by Tom Hicks to a group headed by Chuck Greenberg is not proceeding smoothly. Although announced in January, it is now before a Federal Bankruptcy Court. Judge Michael Lynn issues a ruling today that creditors are adversely affected by a plan to pay them $75 million and are entitled to vote on it. The sale could fall through if the creditors veto the deal, valued at $575 million overall; at issue is the treatment of $525 million in loans on which Hicks's ownership group defaulted last year.
- 2015 - ESPN reveals it has obtained a copy of a notebook belonging to Pete Rose which contains evidence of regular betting on baseball games during the 1986 season. The notebook was seized during a police raid on one of Rose's associates in 1989, after Rose was banned from baseball by Commissioner Bart Giamatti, and had been under court-ordered seal since. Its content corroborate the contents of the Dowd Report, which led to Rose's suspension, and make it even less likely that current Commissioner Rob Manfred will reverse it, as Rose has pleaded for him to do.
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June 24. Oh those oldies and other strange things.
- 1907 - In a Tri-State League contest at Williamsport, a game with Altoona ends in the 4th inning when a bolt of lightning sets fire to the grandstand. Williamsport pitcher Rube Vickers is so stunned by the ordeal that he needs medical attention.
- 1911 - In a Reds win in Cincinnati, Cards player-manager Roger Bresnahan is called out on strikes by Bill Klem to end the game. When Roger argues too long over the call, Klem belts him. An embarrassed National League president Tom Lynch will fine the arbiter $50 for the punch.
- 1931 - Bill Sweeney, Red Sox 1B, makes 21 putouts, one fewer than Hal Chase's 1906 record. Boston outfielders have no putouts as the Red Sox lose, 7 - 3, in ★ Cleveland.
- 1936 - Rookie Joe DiMaggio ties three major-league records in New York's 10-run 5th inning against the White Sox, hitting 2 home runs for 8 total bases. With 2 doubles, he equals the modern record of four long hits in a game. New York beats St. Louis, 18 - 4.
- 1946 - A bus careens off a Cascade Mountain pass road, killing nine members of the Spokane (Western International League) club. Jack Lohrke, a young infielder, had gotten off the bus at its last stop before the accident, on orders to report to San Diego. The future Giant and Phil will be known ever after as "Lucky" . Ben Geraghty is also among the survivors.
- 1968 - Detroit RF Jim Northrup becomes the 6th American League player to hit two grand slams in one game, connecting in the 5th inning off Eddie Fisher and in the 6th off Billy Rohr, as the Tigers bomb ★ Cleveland, 14 - 3. Denny McLain is the victor. First baseman Willie Smith pitches the last three innings, walking just one and allowing one hit and no runs. Detroit's Don Wert is taken to the hospital following a 6th inning beaning which shatters his batting helmet. He will miss just a few games.
- 1970:In a doubleheader with the ★ Indians at Yankee Stadium, Bobby Murcer ties Lou Gehrig's record of four straight homers. The Yanks lose the opener, 7 - 2, despite Murcer's 9th-inning home run off ★ Sam McDowell. Murcer next connects off the second game's starter, Mike Paul, hitting a solo shot in the 1st inning. A walk in the 4th, then a two-run homer off Paul in the 5th, and a game-tying homer in the 8th, off Fred Lasher. New York scores in the bottom of the 9th to salvage a 5 - 4 win. Cleveland ★ 1B Tony Horton hears a boo and literally crawls back to the dugout after fanning on two of Yankee hurler Steve Hamilton's "folly floaters." Sensitive to fans booing during the season, Horton will be hospitalized, and at 25, this is his last season.
1969: - Richie Allen is fined $2,500 and suspended indefinitely when he fails to appear for the Phillies twi-night doubleheader game with the Mets. Allen had gone to New Jersey in the morning to see a horse race and got caught in traffic trying to return. He will stay suspended until July 20th. Allen picked up a $1000 fine in May when, for two straight days, he reportedly arrived at the ballpark after the game had started. Without Allen, the Phils drop a pair, 2 - 1 and 5 - 0.
- 1988 - Cleveland's ★ Doug Jones celebrates his 31st birthday by saving his 14th game in 14 appearances, breaking the major-league record for consecutive saves set last season by Steve Bedrosian. Jones retires all seven batters he faces to close out the Indians' 7 - 5 win over the ♠︎ Yankees.
1989 - ★ Cleveland's Joe Carter hits three home runs in a game for the third time in his career as the Indians beat Texas, 7 - 3. The Rangers' Charlie Hough and Kenny Rogers combine to allow just six hits - all homers.
1998: - The ★ Indians trade OF Geronimo Berroa to the Tigers for P Tim Worrell and minor league OF Dave Roberts.
- 2008 - For the first time since Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, the New York Yankees visit Pittsburgh, PA. After Bill Mazeroski, the hero of that Game 7, throws out the ceremonial first pitch, the home team pulls off a reenactment of their last meeting, upsetting ♠︎ New York. The Pirates top the Yanks, 12 - 5, with six Bucs getting multiple hits. Ryan Doumit goes 3 for 5 with a homer, two runs and two RBI and Freddy Sanchez scores three times while Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter and Jason Giambi go a combined 1 for 12.
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June 25. Kind of a slow day.
1902: - A federal court judge rules that Brooklyn has no claim on C Deacon McGuire, who jumped to Detroit. Two weeks later, another U.S. judge denies jurisdiction to ★ stop Nap Lajoie from playing for ★ Cleveland, thus ending the Phillies' chances of regaining him legally.
- 1939 - ★ Cleveland batters Ben Chapman, Hal Trosky and Jeff Heath homer in the 7th inning to tie a major-league record, while beating Philadelphia, 8 - 4.
- 1961: - ★ Vic Power is the baserunner on first base in the bottom of the 9th, when Chuck Essegian pinch-hits a single. Power, thinking it is a home run, waits to shake hands with Essegian, and is forced out at second base. Detroit and Jim Bunning win, 6 - 3, then ★ Cleveland takes the nightcap, 4 - 3.
1967: - Heavyweight contender Joe Frazier wants to hold a clinic to teach baseball players how to fight. "All they do is hurt themselves instead of the other guy," he said from his training camp. "Look at Joe Pepitone. He banged up his hands without getting a punch across. Baseball players should know about combinations as well as double plays." Frazier said he would hold a clinic on a day when the Yankees are off.
- Boston C Carlton Fisk, injured last June 23rd, returns to action for the first time in a year in an 8 - 5 loss to ★ Cleveland.
- 1980 - Five ★ Cleveland pitchers issue 14 walks, including five with the bases loaded, in a 13 - 3 loss to Detroit.
- 2005 - In a game against the Orioles, the Mariners battery consists of a pair of 42-year olds as Jamie Moyer throws to backstop Pat Borders. 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.
2011 - The Giants may not score a ton of runs, but they have a knack for winnin' ugly. Today, they score the game's lone run in the 7th on a bases-loaded balk by ★ Cleveland's Tony Sipp. The inning begins poorly for San Francisco, with Nate Schierholtz hitting a lead-off double, then slipping between second and third base in trying to stetch it to a triple and being tagged out easily; Miguel Tejada then reaches on a throwing error by 2B Cord Phelps, who later commits a second error on a ground ball by pitcher Matt Cain, before reliever Sipp commits the fateful mistake. Cain is the winner over ★ Justin Masterson, who deserved a better fate.
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Today in baseball 3 Astros pitchers combined to no-hit the Yankees in new Yankee Stadium 3-0, only the 2nd no hitter against them since 1958. The other was by the Astros in the old Yankee Stadium in 2003. Interestingly the Astros' ace reliever Pressly came in with the 3-0 lead in the 9th, struck out the first two and ground out the last. Ironically on Thursday night he came in with same 3-0 lead, walked the first two, gave up a 3 run HR equalizer and then the winning RBI single by Judge to lose the game 7-6.
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June 26. Kind of a slow day.
- 1916 - Cleveland players, in a game with the White Sox, wear numbers pinned to their sleeves, marking the first time players are identified by numbers corresponding to those on the scorecard. Jack Graney, leading off for the Tribe, is the first batter to wear a number in the 20th Century.
- 1939 - In Philadelphia, the Yankees play the first night game in history losing to Connie Mack's A's, 3 - 2.
1958 - Joe Gordon replaces Bobby Bragan as manager of the ★ Cleveland Indians, signing a contract through 1959.
1961 - * At Los Angeles's Wrigley Field, Angel reliever Art Fowler, who has allowed just one hit in his last 12 innings, serves up a 9th-inning home run to Bill Skowron as New York wins, 8 - 6. Mickey Mantle adds an earlier homer, off Ken McBride, and Whitey Ford wins his 13th. Yogi Berra collects his 2,000th career hit, all as a Bronx Bomber. To celebrate the achievement a huge cake is rolled out.
1964 - University of Wisconsin star Rick Reichardt receives the highest bonus to date ($200,000) as he signs with the Angels.
- 1968 - Cardinal Bob Gibson pitches his 5th straight shutout shutout in the first game of a doubleheader with Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh wins the second game, 3 - 1, although the Cardinals stop Maury Wills' 24-game hitting streak.
- 1996 - Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda undergoes an angioplasty after suffering a mild heart attack. Bill Russell is named Los Angeles' interim manager.
- 2010: - Oh my ! - The Red Sox get bad news before today's game, learning that 2B Dustin Pedroia, their hottest hitter this year, has a fractured left foot, the result of fouling off a ball in last night's game. He joins four other Sox regulars on the DL disabled list - Josh Beckett, Jacoby Ellsbury, Mike Lowell and Jeremy Hermida. Then, in the game against the Giants, pitcher Clay Buchholz comes up lame in the top of the 2nd inning after reaching base with his first major league hit and must be removed from the game. But the bullpen comes up big, as seven relievers give up only 2 runs in 8 innings and the Sox win, 4 - 2. Darnell McDonald and Mike Cameron homer for Boston. Before the game, the Giants retire number 20 in honor of Hall of Fame OF Monte Irvin. In tomorrow's game, ★ C Victor Martinez will suffer a broken left thumb, adding to Boston's injury woes.
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June 27. Oh those rowdy old-timers.
. A lot of ★ Cleveland Indians news today. And ♠︎ Elvis.
- 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.
- 1915 - In the first of two at ★ Cleveland the Red Sox win 5 - 3 behind Babe Ruth and Carl Mays,
- , the Red Sox win 5 - 3 behind Babe Ruth and Carl Mays,
- 1918 - Tris Speaker is. suspended for the remainder of the season because of his assault on umpire Tom Connolly following a dispute at home plate in a game in Philadelphia.
- 1926 - The ★ Indians use the same lineup in two victories over the Red Sox, including Dutch Levsen, who pitches the 6 - 1 and 5 - 1 sweep. He strikes out none
- 1932 - Due to the anticipation of an eclipse the Red Sox complete a game several days earlier than scheduled with the ★ Indians and beat the Tribe in 11 innings, 4 - 3. Three days later, Fenway Park goes dark for twenty minutes during the solar event.
- 1939 -★ Cleveland OF Jeff Heath punches a taunting fan leaning over the railing, but the umpires MISS the incident and he goes unpunished.
- 1950: - Earle and Roy Mack, Connie's sons by his first marriage, purchases 54 % interest in the Athletics from Connie Mack, Jr., their younger brother from a second marriage. Earle, Roy and Connie Mack now own 1,198 shares out of 1,500. "As long as dad wants to manage," the two announce, "he will continue to manage."
- 1950 - At Fenway Park the Red Sox come back from 10 - 0 and 12 - 1 deficits to beat the ★ Indians 15 - 14.★ Bob Feller is the loser, this time in his only relief appearance of the season, coming in for starter ★ Bob Lemon, the American League's winningest pitcher. Dom DiMaggio's two triples and a single pace the offense. It is the second day in a row the Tribe has blown a big lead, losing a seven run advantage yesterday
- 1951: - The ★ Indians triumph over the A's, 1 - 0, on Bob Kennedy's homer off Sam Zoldak. It is Sam's second 1 - 0 loss to the Tribe. Early Wynn wins his 15th to keep the Indians a game ahead of New York, 7 - 5 winners in 10 innings at St. Louis.
- 1959: - Before 70,938 fans in ★ Cleveland, the first-place White Sox top the 2nd-place Indians, 7 - 3, behind the pitching of Bob Shaw. The Tribe now trail by 2 1/2 games.
- 1970: - ★ Cleveland and California split a pair, with the Angels taking the opener, 3 - 2 and the Tribe the nitecap, 5 - 1. Cleveland's ★ Tony Horton plays his last professional game. The 25 -year-old budding star, despondent over a batting slump and fans' booing, will be hospitalized for depression.
- 1981: - ★ Cleveland's John Denny shuts out Seattle, 1 - 0.
- 1983 - The Indians trade pitcher ★ Len Barker to the Braves for Rick Behenna, cash, and two players to be named later. The two turn out to be OF Brett Butler and 3B Brook Jacoby.
1993 ‐ The Mets sign P Kirk Presley, their top pick in this year's amateur draft, for $960,000. The pitcher is a distant cousin of ♠︎ Elvis Presley. In 1999, Gerry Hunsicker will recall his decision to draft Presley: "I didn't make one of the brightest decisions of my career when I passed on a young pitcher out of Ferrum College (Billy Wagner) and chose another who never got out of A ball."
- 2020 - Because Jackie Robinson Day, normally celebrated on April 15th, was shut out by the Coronavirus pandemic this year, it is rescheduled today, on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington. It takes place amidst nationwide questioning on racial relations, following the brutal shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, WI earlier in the week, and the Astros and Athletics elect not to play, staging instead a brief ceremony in Robinson's honor, following in the steps of other MLB teams and other sports who have done the same over the past two days. The producers of the film 42 had made a 4.2 million donation of medical equipment for the African-American community on the original day, but today everyone is saddened upon hearing of the passing at 43 of actor Chadwick Boseman, who portrayed Jackie Robinson in the 2013 film.
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June 28. A so-so day in MLB.
- 1911 - Just two and a half months after a fire destroyed the old Polo Grounds, the new grounds open for business. The old bleachers, seating 10,000, were untouched, but the new double-decker grandstand seats another 16,000. Only 6,000 fans show up for the inauguration as Christy Mathewson shuts out the Rustlers, 3 - 0, on nine hits. On the front end of a double steal, Mathewson swipes home in the 4th inning. While guests at the Highlanders' Hilltop Park, the Giants won 21 of 29 games.
- 1925: - Tris Speaker connects for the 658th double of his career, breaking ★ Nap Lajoie's career record. He will go on to set the all-time record - still standing - with 792.
- 1927: - The Yanks build a 9 - 0 lead against the A's, and withstand an 8-run rally by the Mackmen in the 9th to win, 9 - 8. New York now leads the American League by 10 games. Lou Gehrig collects his 100th hit of the year, belting his 23rd homer with one on. Babe Ruth, nursing a sore right knee, sits out his third straight game.
- 1928 - Babe Ruth slugs two home runs to lead the Yankees to a 10 - 4 victory over the Athletics, and Ty Cobb appears in his 3,000th career game.
- 1974 - At ★ Cleveland, Indians OF Leron Lee crashes into Boston C Carlton Fisk, knocking him out of the game. Fisk's left knee injury is so serious he will not return to action this year, and, with a broken arm sustained in next year's spring training, will not play until June 1975.
- 1997: - Yankees P David Wells starts the game against★ Cleveland wearing Babe Ruth's autographed cap from the 1934 season. Manager Joe Torre makes him take it off after the 1st inning since it doesn't conform to the team's current uniform. Without the cap, Wells blows a 3 - 0 lead as the ★ Indians go on to a 12 - 8 victory. The Indians mount a 19-hit attack, as CF Marquis Grissom accounts for five of the hits, while 3B Matt Williams gets four hits, including a pair of homers, and drives home six runs.
- 2016: - The ★ Indians defeat the Braves, 5 - 3, behind ★ Corey Kluber, for their ★ 11th straight win. It is the team's longest winning streak since 1982 and they now lead the AL Central by 5 1/2 games.
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June 29. Kind of a slow day.
- 1880 - ★ Cleveland beats Boston, 6 - 5, with Gid Gardner pitching his first game of the season. Jim McCormick had pitched complete games in all of Cleveland's 31 previous National League games.
- 1934 - Lou Gehrig is beaned in an exhibition game played in Norfolk, Virginia, and suffers a concussion.
- 1940 - ★ Bob Feller fans 11 White Sox in gaining his 12th win of the year, 7 - 3. The Tribe now lead the American League by 2 1/2 games.
- 1941 - In a doubleheader with the Senators, Joe DiMaggio ties and then breaks the American League consecutive game hitting streak of 41 established by George Sisler. In the opener, he knots the record with a double off Dutch Leonard, and in the nightcap the "Yankee Clipper" tops the record with a 7th-inning single against Walt Masterson.
- 1965: - The Yankees lose Roger Maris for 49 games with bone chips in the heel of his right hand.
- 1965 -★ Indian P Ralph Terry's 8 - 5 win at Boston gives Cleveland
- 1968 - The Red Sox finally score on ★ Luis Tiant, but Cleveland tops Boston, 8 - 1. Tiant strikes out 13 in the win.
- 1968 - In the first game of a doubleheader, Mickey Mantle ties the score with a 2-run homer in the 6th, but rookie Reggie Jackson breaks the tie in the 8th with his 9th homer of the year. The A's win, 5 - 2.
- 2000 - The Royals defeat the ★ Indians, 6 - 1. ★ Bartolo Colon takes the loss for Cleveland, in the process becoming just the 4th pitcher in major league history to start a game by walking the first four batters he faces.
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June 30. A lot of Cleveland from 1901 to 1914+. And a lot of other stuff.
- 1901 - Pete Dowling of ★ Cleveland throws the first no-hitter in American League history, 7 - 0 against his former team, Milwaukee - except hardly anyone notices. This is because most game reports credit him with a one-hitter, the single safety being hit in the 7th inning by Wid Conroy on a ball that 3B Bill Bradley fails to snag.★ However the official scorer soon reverses his decision, charging Bradley with an error, and Milwaukee's papers give the hurler proper credit, but they're reach is not wide enough to prevent Dowling's feat to be largely lost in the mists of history until it is re-discovered in the 21st century.
- 1902: - ★Cleveland is the first American League team to hit three consecutive home runs in one inning as Nap Lajoie, Piano Legs Hickman and Bill Bradley connect in the 6th off St. Louis, with all the hits ending in the LF bleachers at St. Louis. The last two come on the first pitch thrown. Jack Harper tees up the gopher balls in the 17 - 2 loss. The feat was last done on May 10, 1894.
- 1905: - ★ Nap Lajoie is sidelined by blood poisoning from neglect of a spike wound. He will play in only ★ 65 games, losing a chance to lead the American League in batting for the 5th straight year.
- 1912 - In game two of a doubleheader at St Louis, Joe Jackson ties the major-league record with three triples to pace ★ Cleveland to a 15 - 1 pasting of the Browns.
- 1914 - ★ Cleveland's Terry Turner ends a long dry spell by hitting a three-run homer off the Browns' Earl Hamilton. Turner's last home run was back in 1906: he had gone 3,186 at bats without a round-tripper.
- 1918 - In the 10th inning, Babe Ruth hits his 11th homer to beat Walter Johnson, 3 - 1, and boost the Red Sox back into first place. Ruth is playing CF when not pitching.
1948 ★: - In his first full season as a pitcher, Bob Lemon of the ★ Cleveland Indians pitches a ★ no-hitter, beating the Detroit Tigers, 2 - 0 in front of 49,628 at Briggs Stadium. Lemon has only two scares: Dale Mitchell makes a miraculous catch of a George Kell drive in the fourth and Ken Keltner makes a great stop behind third base in the 5th. The Tigers' home was the last park in the junior circuit to use lights, installing illumination only two weeks ago.
1950 - Joe and Dom DiMaggio both hit home runs in the 10 - 2 Red Sox victory over New York in the nightcap of a doubleheader. It has been 15 years since two brothers homered in a game.
- 1952 - Satchel Paige is named to the All-Star team.
- 1962: - With the aid of 13 strikeouts and a Frank Howard home run, Sandy Koufax no hits no-hits Bob Miller and the Mets, 5 - 0 in Los Angeles. Sandy starts off the game by fanning the side on nine pitches in the 1st inning, the first National League pitcher to strike out the side on nine pitches since Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance, in 1924. It will be the first of four career no-hitters thrown by Koufax.
- 1970 - A sellout crowd of 51,050 is on hand for the dedication of Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium, rushed to completion so the Reds can host the All-Star game. There is no electricity in the refreshments , and the scoreboard occasionally misfires, but Hank Aaron doesn't misfire as he hits the park's first home run off Cincinnati starter Jim McGlothlin in the 1st inning. The Braves win, 8 - 2.
- 1978: - Larry Doby becomes the second black major league manager, replacing Bob Lemon as skipper of the White Sox. Chicago has a 34-40 record attime, and will go 37-50 the rest of the way.
- 1986: - 1985 Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson makes his professional baseball debut with the Memphis Chicks of the AA Southern League and goes 1 for 4 with two strikeouts.
- 1993 - The ★ Indians finish their home stand with a 4 - 2 win over the White Sox. The Indians have now ★ won 23 straight at Jacobs Field.
- 2020 - Remember this ? Minor League Baseball officially announces the ★ cancellation of its season, as Major League Baseball will not make players available to minor league teams this year. Teams will instead keep a "taxi squad" of eligible players ready to be added to the major league roster if the need arises. The decision was pretty much inevitable in any case, as minor league teams are dependent on gate receipts to cover most operating expenses, and did not have the option of playing games solely for a television audience as their major league counterparts are now preparing to do.
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July 01. A lot of Cleveland Indians stuff today.
- 1921 - Casey Stengel is traded from the last-place Phils to the second-place Giants, along with IF Johnny Rawlings and P Red Causey for IF Goldie Rapp and outfielders Lance Richbourg and Lee King.
- 1934: - Bill Terry is the top vote-getter in the All-Star balloting. Babe Ruth leads all American League outfielders.
1951 - Veteran ★ Bob Feller pitches the third no-hitter of his career, tying the record of Cy Young and Larry Corcoran, as he beats Detroit's Bob Cain, 2 - 1. Feller loses his shutout in the fourth when Johnny Lipon reaches on an error, swipes second base, goes to third on a errant pickoff, and scores on a sacrifice fly. Rookie Bob Chakales shuts out the Tigers in the nightcap, 2 - 0, for ★ Cleveland's 10th straight win over Detroit. Detroit has scored eight runs in the ten losses.
- 1952 - The ★ Indians' Larry Doby walks five times in a 19-inning game.
- 1956 - Mickey Mantle switch-hits home runs in the same game for the fourth time in his career. The Yankees win 8 - 6 over Washington.
- 2007 - ★ Mike Hargrove surprisingly resigns as the manager of the Seattle Mariners with the team in first place in the AL West.
- 2014 - It requires no less than two video reviews, but the ★ Indians pull an unlikely triple play in the 4th inning of their 10 - 3 win over the Dodgers. With runners on the corners, Adrian Gonzalez slashes a pitch to left field; Michael Brantley runs in to make the catch and guns down Dee Gordon at the plate. Yasiel Puig then makes a late break for second base and appears to beat C Yan Gomes's throw to 2B Jason Kipnis. Indians manager ★ Terry Francona is the first to object, asking for a review of the call at second base, and it is overturned; Dodgers manager Don Mattingly then comes out of the dugout and asks officials to take another look at the out at home, but that one stands, and the Indians have a triple play.
- 2015: - Carlos Carrasco of the ★ Indians comes within one strike of pitching a no hitter. as the Rays' Joey Butler lines a two-out, two-strike pitch in the 9th over 2B Jason Kipnis' head. The hit comes after Carrasco had walked Asdrubal Cabrera and hit Brandon Guyer with a pitch earlier in the inning and drives in a run; Carrasco is removed from the game and Austin Adams records the last out of an 8 - 1 win.
- 2016 - The ★ Indians set a new team record with their 14th straight win. but it doesn't come easy as they need 19 innings to defeat the Blue Jays, 2 - 1. Carlos Santana, who had scored the Indians' first run in the 3rd, homers off infielder Darwin Barney for the winning run. 19 pitchers are used in the game, with starter ★ Trevor Bauer going the last five innings for Cleveland to earn the win; for its part, Toronto runs out of pitchers in the 18th, and another infielder, Ryan Goins, precedes Barney on the mound.
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July 02. Larry Doby jersey day.
1903: - Seeing that George Davis is playing for the Giants, Ed Delahanty decides to jump to New York too. Leaving the Nationals in Detroit, he boards an eastbound train. He is put off the train for rowdy, and possibly drunken, behavior at Niagara Falls. When he tries to walk across the railroad bridge over the Niagara River, he falls to his death. He had a 16-year career with a .346 batting average.
- 1918 - The Red Sox clinch the pennant, winning the first of a twin bill from the A's 6 - 1, as Babe Ruth wins his ninth game in his last 11 starts.
1931: - Wes Ferrell of ★ Cleveland hits two home runs, as he beats the White Sox, 13 - 5, at Chicago. He will end his career with a record 37 home runs as a hurler, plus one as a pinch hitter.
- 1945 - The Senators again muff a chance to go into first place, dropping a pair to the Yankees, 3 - 2 and 3 - 1. In between games, Nats pitcher Bert Shepard receives the Distinguished Flying Cross for his service in World War II. Shepard lost his leg in battle.
- 1959 - Sandy Koufax fans 18 Giants to set a National League mark in a 5 - 2 Dodger win. The game is witnessed by a crowd of 82,974 spectators (60,194 of whom have paid admission), the largest ever for a regular-season game.
- 1960 - The World Series-bound Pirates come from behind yet again, trumping the Giants, 7 - 4. Roberto Clemente hits a two-out, two-run homer and Roy Face closes the game. For the Giants, Willie Mays does his best with a single, double and near-homer his first time up, but falls victim to Face in his final at-bat, a 7th-inning strikeout, representing the tying run at the plate. Later, Les Biederman will elicit Willie's post-game prognosis: "The Pirates sure are impressive. Nothing seems to bother them. You're behind 3 - 0, then a couple of hits, a couple of errors and boom! They have confidence and they show it. It's a good team and should go all the way without too much trouble.
- 1964 - Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of next year's California Angels.
1970: - ★ Cleveland edges the Orioles, 10 - 9, helped by Tony Horton, who hits for the cycle. Dennis Higgins is the winning pitcher.
- 1979 - ★ Indians manager Jeff Torborg announces his resignation effective at the end of the season. In three weeks he will be fired and replaced by Dave Garcia.
1993: - In honor of the team's owner, Royals Stadium is renamed Kauffman Stadium.
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July 03. Get a kick out of some of the oldies names. A lot of Cleveland Indians chit-chat today.
- 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.
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.
1915: - The ★ Browns ?? lose to the ★ Indians, ?? 3 - 1. Despite walking 9, George Sisler pitches a complete game victory.
1939 - ★ Cleveland's Ben Chapman ties the modern major-league record with three triples, as ★ Bob Feller notches his 13th victory, 4 - 2
- 1964 - ★ Birdie Tebbetts returns to limited duty as manager of the ★ Indians.
- 1968 - Luis Tiant registers 19 K's in 10 innings, as ★ Cleveland beats Minnesota, 1 - 0. ★ Tiant sets two modern ML records - most strikeouts in a 10-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 .160 !
- 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.
- 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
- 1994 - The ★ Indians retire Larry Doby's uniform number, 47 years after he broke the American League color line.
- 1998 - ★ 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.
And finally.....
- 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.
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