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1959 The Continental League is formally announced, with franchises located in Denver, Houston, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York City, and Toronto. The new major league is the brainchild of William Shea, an attorney who proposed the idea a year after the Giants and Dodgers left New York City to move to the West Coast.
1963 John Bateman's eighth-inning homer at Colt Stadium scores the only run in the Mets' 21st consecutive defeat on the road. The 1-0 complete-game decision to Houston is Roger Craig's 16th straight loss, tying Craig Anderson's dubious club record established in the franchise's inaugural season last year.
1964 In the first clash of tenth-place teams in major league history, the Senators prevail, beating the Mets in the Hall of Fame exhibition game, 6-4. The Cooperstown combatants will collectively lose 209 games this season, but Washington will climb out of the cellar to finish ahead of Kansas City.
1964 The Hall of Fame inducts seven new members, swelling the ranks of the 25-year-old institution to 101. The recent inductees include Luke Appling, voted in by the BBWAA, and spitballers Burleigh Grimes and Urban Faber, pre-1900 era players Tim Keefe and John Montgomery, lifetime .330 hitter Heinie Manush, and skipper Miller Huggins, all selected by the 12-man Veterans' Committee in February.
1965 League officials increase the number of foreigners allowed on each Japanese professional team from 2 to 3. However, the Yomiuri Giants announce their team will not have any foreigners on their roster, a policy which lasts ten years until the signing of Davey Johnson.
1966 Six weeks after the team plays their first game in the Peach State, the Wisconsin Supreme Court overrules a lower court decision of Wisconsin v. The Milwaukee Braves by a narrow vote of 4-3, declaring that the state doesn't have the jurisdiction to keep the team from moving to Atlanta. Due to the close vote, the state of Wisconsin decides to appeal the majority's decision to the United States Supreme Court.
1966 Sandy Koufax strikes out 16 Phillies, and Jim Bunning whiffs 12 Dodgers in the first 11 innings of a pitching duel between future Hall of Famers at Chavez Ravine. With both starters out of the game, Los Angeles beats Philadelphia, 2-1, thanks to an unearned run scored in the bottom of the twelfth inning.

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1968 Denny McLain, en route to posting a 31-6 record, earns his 20th victory of the season when he blanks Baltimore at Memorial Stadium, 9-0. The Tiger right-hander is the third pitcher in history to reach the milestone this quickly, with only Rube Marquard (Giants, July 19, 1912) and Lefty Grove (A's, July 25, 1931) accomplishing the feat earlier in a season.

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1972 In his managerial debut, Cubs skipper Whitey Lockman watches Fergie Jenkins throw a one-hitter to blank the Phillies at Veterans Stadium, 4-0. Willie Montanez's fourth-inning double spoils the Canadian right-hander's bid for a no-hitter.

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1975 The Mets release Cleon Jones after suspending him nine days ago for insubordination following an altercation with manager Yogi Berra. The outfielder from Mobile (AL) will not play again this year but will briefly join the White Sox next season, playing thirteen games with the club before ending his 13-year career with a .281 batting average.
1978 Light-hitting Indians' second baseman Duane Kuiper becomes one of only three modern major leaguers to hit two bases-loaded triples in one game. The pair of three-baggers helps the Tribe beat the Yankees, 17-5.
1978 Mike Cubbage completes the cycle when he connects for a two-run seventh-inning triple in the Twins' 6-3 win over the Blue Jays at Metropolitan Stadium. The rare event becomes possible when the Minnesota third baseman is thrown out (9-4-5) at third base, trying to stretch a double into a triple in his first at-bat.
1979 On his first day back in a home uniform, eight years after leaving the Expos, Rusty Staub receives the most prolonged standing ovation in franchise history when he pinch-hits for Elias Sosa in the bottom of the eighth inning in a 5-4 loss to Pittsburgh. The first-place Montreal club re-acquired 'Le Grand Orange' from the Tigers to come off the bench as an experienced pinch-hitter and to fill in at first base.

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1984 Pete Rose passes Ty Cobb as the all-time single leader when he collects his 3,053rd off Steve Carlton in a 6-1 Expo victory over the Phillies. The Montreal switch-hitter, who will also pass the 'Georgia Peach' to become the all-time hit leader, ends his 24-year career with 3,215 one-base hits.

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1988 Tommy John becomes the first pitcher to commit three errors on one play when he (1) bobbles Jeffrey Leonard's grounder, and then, to recover, (2) throws the ball down the right-field line that Dave Winfield retrieves and fires home, where the Yankee left-hander cuts it off, (3) relaying the throw wildly to the plate, allowing two runs to score. The 45 year-old southpaw's fourth-inning miscues don't stop him from getting the victory in the Bombers' 16-3 rout of the Brewers in the Bronx.
1989 In the team's 10-1 rout of San Francisco, Dale Murphy becomes the 10th major leaguer to collect six RBIs in the same inning when he connects for two three-run round-trippers in the Braves' ten-run sixth at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. The 33-year-old right fielder also becomes the second player in franchise history to go deep twice in the same frame, joining Robert Lowe, who accomplished the unusual feat in 1884.

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1998 Wade Boggs' eighth-inning single in the Devil Rays' 11-5 win over Oakland moves him past Babe Ruth and into 33rd place on the career hits list with 2,874. The future Hall of Fame third baseman will end his 18-year career with 3,010 hits, finishing with a .328 lifetime batting average.

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1998 Pirates' second baseman Tony Womack of the Pirates establishes a new major league mark by not grounding out into a double play in 888 consecutive at-bats. Dodger outfielder Pete Reiser previously set the record in 1946.
1998 Sammy Sosa hits his first grand slam, establishing the mark for most career homers before hitting a grand slam (246). Tomorrow, 'Slamming Sammy' will hit another, becoming the 18th major leaguer to hit a grand slam on consecutive days.

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1998 With a three-run blast in the sixth inning, Arkansas Travelers' outfielder Tyrone Horne completes the first and only home run cycle in a professional baseball game. The minor leaguer also slugged a two-run homer in the first inning, a grand slam in the second, and a solo shot in the fifth during the 13-4 victory over San Antonio.

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2000 Jim Fregosi wins his 1,000th game as a big-league skipper when the Blue Jays beat the Mariners, 7-2. The former major league infielder, who has also managed the Angels, White Sox, and Phillies, finishes his 15-year managerial tenure with a 1028-1094 (.484) record, with one postseason appearance.

2000 The Rockies and Red Sox complete a seven-player trade. The Red Sox receive pitchers Rolando Arrojo and Rick Croushore, infielder Mike Lansing, and an undisclosed amount of cash for second baseman Jeff Frye and pitchers Brian Rose and John Wasdin, as well as minor league pitcher Jeff Taglienti.
2005 Ryan Freel becomes the first player in the Reds' 136-year history to steal five bases in a game, including two in the ninth that moves him to third base, where he scores the eventual winning run on Felipe Lopez's sacrifice fly. The Cincinnati second baseman's thievery contributes to the team's 7-6 victory over the Dodgers at Chavez Ravine.
2008 Brad Ziegler sets a major league record by pitching 27 innings without allowing a run from the start of his career. The A's 28-year-old rookie right-hander hurls a scoreless seventh and eighth in Oakland's 6-5 victory over the Rangers to surpass the previous mark of 25 frames established in 1907 by Phillies' moundsman George McQuillan.
2009 Josh Willingham becomes just the 13th major leaguer to hit two grand slams in the same game. The 30-year-old outfielder's fifth and sixth-inning bases-loaded home runs set the pace in the Nationals' 14-6 victory over Milwaukee at Miller Park.

 

2011 With a 9-2 victory at Yankee Stadium thanks to Felix Hernandez's seven innings of four-hit, one-run ball, the Mariners post their first win since July 5 to end their 17-game losing streak, a franchise record. Seattle's recent futility surpassed the team's previous longest winless drought, which consisted of 14 consecutive defeats in 1992.
2011 For the second straight season, the Cardinals trade a starting outfielder for more pitching when they deal Colby Rasmus, along with relievers Trever Miller and Brian Tallet, to the Blue Jays in exchange for Edwin Jackson (acquired from the White Sox a few hours earlier) and relievers Octavio Dotel and Marc Rzepczynski. Last year, the Redbirds dealt right fielder Ryan Ludwick to San Diego in a three-team deal that brought Indian starter Jake Westbrook to St. Louis.
2011 Ervin Santana, facing only two hitters over the minimum, no-hits against the hometown Indians at Progressive Field, 3-1. The Tribe's only run against the Angels' right-hander results from a first-inning wild pitch run following an error by shortstop Erick Aybar.

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2011 "While we cannot begin to understand how umpire Jerry Meals did not see the tag made by Michael McKenry three feet in front of home plate, we do not question the integrity of Mr. Meals. Instead, we know that Mr. Meals' intention was to get the call right. Jerry Meals has been umpiring Major League games for 14 years and has always done so with integrity and professionalism. He got this one wrong." - FRANK COONELLY, president of the Pirates.
Pirates file a formal complaint with the Commissioner's Office expressing their extreme disappointment by how its 19-inning game against the Braves ended earlier this morning. The statement shares the organization's dismay of umpire Jerry Meals not seeing the tag made by Michael McKenry three feet in front of home plate that resulted in Atlanta's 4-3 victory at Turner Field.
2014 In front of an enthusiastic Cooperstown crowd of nearly 50,000, the Hall of Fame inducts White Sox slugger Frank Thomas, left-hander Tom Glavine, right-hander Greg Maddux, managers Bobby Cox, Joe Torre, and Tony La Russa. Thomas becomes the first player to be enshrined, having spent more than half of his time as a designated hitter, and Torre is the only Hall of Famer to collect more than 2,000 hits as a player and win more than 2,000 games as a skipper.

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2017 The top of the Nationals lineup hit four consecutive home runs in one inning when Brian Goodwin, Wilmer Difo, Bryce Harper, and Ryan Zimmerman go deep in the bottom of the third inning in the team’s 15-2 rout of the Brewers. Milwaukee right-hander Michael Blazek becomes the first pitcher in baseball history to allow five home runs in an inning when Anthony Rendon adds another round-tripper later in the frame.
2019 In the Angels' 8-7 victory over the Orioles, Albert Pujols hits his 100th home run at Angel Stadium, becoming the 12th major leaguer to accomplish the feat at two ballparks, having passed the century mark at Busch Stadium. Also, the Anaheim slugger joins Mark McGwire (Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Busch Stadium) and Frank Robinson (Crosley Field, Memorial Stadium) as only the third player to do the deed in an American and National League park.

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On July 27 in Baseball History...

• • 1890 - Brooklyn's American Association club holds a 13-8 lead over Columbus in the eighth inning at Long Island Grounds on a Sunday game when they run out of baseballs and are forced to forfeit. Brooklyn will win only 26 of 100 games and will disband on August 25.
  • 1927 - Mel Ott, 18 years old, hits his first Major League home run, an inside-the-park round-tripper. It is the only inside-the-park job of his 511 career homers.
  • 1945 - The Cubs purchase pitcher Hank Borowy from the New York Yankees in an unexpected waiver deal. Borowy, 10-5 with the Yankees, was put on waivers, apparently to solve a roster problem. The Cubs snatch him for $97,500, and he will help the Cubs win the pennant with an 11-2 record.
  • 1953 - Dizzy Dean and Al Simmons are inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown. Along with them, the veterans committee enshrines Chief Bender, Bobby Wallace, 19th-century manager Harry Wright, executive Ed Barrow, and umpires Bill Klem and Tom Connolly.
  • 1970 - The Expos beat the White Sox 10-6 in the annual Hall of Fame game, following the induction ceremonies for Lou Boudreau, Earle Combs, Ford Frick, and Jesse Haines.
  • 1978 - The Yankees win the first game of a doubleheader 11-0, but the Indians rebound to win the second game 17-5. Duane Kuiper ties the Major League record with two bases-loaded triples in the nightcap, only the third player (after Bill Bruton and Elmer Valo) to do so in the twentieth century.
  • 1982 - Oakland's Rickey Henderson gets caught stealing three times by the Angels, across 13-innings. Not since 1932, has an American Leaguer been thrown out three times in a game.
  • 1983 - While picking up his first win as a member of the Royals, Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton as the third pitcher this season to reach 3,500 career strikeouts, fanning four Indians in a 5-4 victory to raise his total to 3,501.
  • 1984 - Pete Rose collects his 3,053rd career single off Steve Carlton in the seventh inning of Montreal's 6-1 win over Philadelphia, passing Ty Cobb as baseball's all-time singles king.
  • 1988 - Tommy John makes three errors on one play in the Yankees' 16-3 rout of the Brewers.
  • 1992 - Houston starts its club-record 26-game road trip with a grand slam by Eric Anthony. The Astros are sent away so the Republican National Convention can take over the Astrodome.

Baseball Birthdays on July 27...

• • 1840 - Knowdell, Jake
  • 1849 - Force, Davy
  • 1856 - Robinson, Charlie
  • 1861 - Lillie, Jim
  • 1874 - Messitt, Tom
  • 1875 - Ketchum, Fred
  • 1876 - Baxter, Moose
  • 1880 - McIlveen, Irish
  • 1880 - Tinker, Joe
  • 1880 - Doscher, Jack
  • 1882 - Wallace, Huck
  • 1883 - Kane, Harry
  • 1885 - Hall, Charley
  • 1886 - Yantz, George
  • 1890 - Crum, Cal
  • 1896 - Walberg, Rube
  • 1898 - Taylor, Zack
  • 1898 - Bengough, Benny
  • 1899 - Faulkner, Jim
  • 1905 - Leopold, Rudy
  • 1905 - Durocher, Leo
  • 1907 - Carroll, Ed
  • 1915 - Kimble, Dick
  • 1917 - Sayles, Bill
  • 1923 - Boone, Ray
  • 1928 - Bicknell, Charlie
  • 1933 - Kucks, Johnny
  • 1935 - Edelman, John
  • 1936 - Lock, Don
  • 1942 - Hiatt, Jack
  • 1945 - Biittner, Larry
  • 1952 - Wills, Bump
  • 1952 - Dauer, Rich
  • 1954 - Kingman, Brian
  • 1955 - Rawley, Shane
  • 1957 - Rayford, Floyd
  • 1959 - DeSa, Joe
  • 1961 - Santovenia, Nelson
  • 1968 - Goodwin, Tom
  • 1971 - Bowers, Shane
  • 1974 - Sikorski, Brian
  • 1975 - Hillenbrand, Shea
  • 1975 - Wilson, Enrique
  • 1975 - Rodriguez, Alex

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1901 Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball pitcher (MLB record career double plays [79] 1938-64) and manager (Giants, Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies), born in Mishawaka, Indiana (d. 1979)

1942 Marty Brennaman, American sportscaster, born in Portsmouth, Virginia

1949 Vida Blue, American baseball pitcher (6 x MLB All Star; Cy Young Award, AL MVP 1971; World Series 1972-74, Oakland A's; SF Giants, KC Royals), born in Mansfield, Louisiana

 

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1890 Giants hurler Mickey Welch joins Pud Galvin and Tim Keefe in becoming baseball's third hurler to record his 300th victory. After today's 4-2 victory over Pittsburgh, the 31-year-old Brooklyn native will win only seven more games before ending his 13-year career next season.

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1943 In a Red Cross charity game, Babe Ruth leads the Yank-Lands, a club featuring former Yankees and Indians, against the Cloudbusters, a U.S. Navy team from the University of North Carolina's Chapel Hill Naval Pre-Flight School. 'The Bambino,' appearing as a pinch-hitter in his only plate appearance in the 8-5 loss to the servicemen at Yankee Stadium, is walked by a 25-year-old Navy pilot trainee and Boston Braves right-hander Johnny Sain.

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1952 The seventh-place Reds dismiss manager Luke Sewell, replacing him with the recently released skipper of the Browns, Rogers Hornsby. While the 'Rajah' takes a week to look over the Cincinnati farm system, coach Earle Brucker will take over the team on an interim basis.

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1962 After disappearing to use the restroom with Gene Conley when the Red Sox bus got stuck in New York traffic two days ago, infielder Pumpsie Green shows up in the team's hotel in Washington D.C., having missed a doubleheader loss to the Senators. The prodigal infielder is fined $500 for his disappearance, while his teammate, who will return on June 30, remains AWOL.
1963 Dick Ellsworth strikes out Cardinals' left fielder Stan Musial three times in the Cubs' 5-1 victory at Wrigley Field. It will be the only time 'Stan the Man' is whiffed three times in a game during his 22-year career, a span of 3026 contests.

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1964 During a 3-1 victory over the Yankees in New York, Angel infielder Jim Fregosi becomes the first player to complete the cycle in the 3+ years of the franchise's existence. The Los Angeles shortstop will accomplish the feat again in 1968, making it the second occurrence in club history.

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1967 The Indians break a five-game losing streak when Tony Horton hits a walk-off homer leading off the bottom of the 12th inning. The first baseman's round-tripper breaks up a scoreless pitching duel between Steve Hargan and Orioles' right-hander Moe Drabowsky, who allows only six hits in the extra-inning contest at Cleveland Stadium.
1970 At Anaheim Stadium, Angels' catcher Tom Egan has a tough day when he allows five passed balls on pitches thrown by three Halo hurlers. The California backstop, making matters worse he also commits a sixth-inning error, allowing the eventual winning run to score in a 6-5 loss to the Yankees.
1971 Orioles' third baseman Brooks Robinson, a sixteen-time Gold Glove winner, commits three errors. Thanks to Frank Robinson's ninth-inning three-run walk-off home run off Rollie Fingers, the Orioles prevail and beat the A's, 3-2.
1976 White Sox pitchers John 'Blue Moon' Odom (5 innings) and reliever Francisco Barrios (4 innings) combined to no-hit the A's, 2-1. The win will be the Chicago starter's last of his 84 victories in the major leagues.

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1978 At Candlestick Park, the Giants beat the Cubs 9-8 in a game that began at Wrigley Field. The Chicago contest, interrupted three times by rain, was suspended with a man on first and two out in the top of the eighth inning because of darkness.
1979 Cubs' slugger Dave Kingman, who hit a pair of round-trippers yesterday, becomes the sixth player in major league history to hit three home runs in one game twice in a season. ''Sky King's' trio of long flies isn't enough when Chicago drops the Shea Stadium contest to the Mets, 6-4.

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1983 American League president Lee MacPhail upholds the Royals' protest, ruling George Brett's 'Pine Tar' home run should count. The game resumes on August 18, continuing from the point of the third baseman's controversial round-tripper, with the Royals beating the Yankees, 5-4.
1985 The Hall of Fame welcomes new inductees Lou Brock, Enos Slaughter, Arky Vaughan, and Hoyt Wilhelm. Wilhelm is the first pitcher to be inducted because of his role as a relief pitcher.

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1985 Darrell Evans's home run, a sixth-inning solo blast off Ken Schrom, proves to be the difference when the Tigers beat Minnesota at the Metrodome, 3-2. The Detroit third baseman's 300th career round-tripper comes on a 3-0 pitch at exactly 3:00 pm.

1990 At Candlestick Park, Giants' hurler Scott Garrelts is perfect, putting away the first 26 Reds batter he faces. Paul O'Neill's two-out single to shallow center field in the ninth inning breaks up the no-hitter, and the right-hander ends up with a one-hit 4-0 blanking of Cincinnati.

1991 Expos right-hander Dennis Martinez pitches a perfect game, defeating Los Angeles 2-0 at Dodger Stadium. Ron Hassey becomes the first backstop ever to catch two perfect games, as he also was behind the plate on May 15, 1981, when Indian hurler Len Barker faced 27 batters, beating the Blue Jays, 3-0.

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1993 Facing Willie Banks in a 5-1 loss to the Twins at the Kingdome, Mariner Ken Griffey Jr. homers in his eighth straight game to tie a major league record held by Dale Long (1956) and Don Mattingly (1987). Junior barely misses breaking the record in tomorrow's game when he hits a long double off the right-center field wall at the Kingdome.

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1993 "That wasn't even a big monkey that was on my back. It was a zoo. The guys treated it like I had won a World Series game for them." - Anthony Young, commenting on his teammates' reaction to the end of his 27-game losing streak. *After a shaky one-inning relief performance, in which he gives up the go-ahead run, Anthony Young's record-setting 27-game losing streak comes to an abrupt end when the Mets score twice in the ninth for a 5-4 walk-off victory over Florida at Shea Stadium. The infamous string of bad luck, covering 81 appearances over two seasons, included 14 losses as a starter and 13 as a reliever.

1994 Kenny Rogers hurls the 12th perfect game in modern major league history and becomes the first American League left-hander to accomplish the feat when he beats the Angels, 4-0. The Rangers' southpaw throws the fifth no-hitter in franchise history, being the first to do it perfectly.

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1995 The Yankees trade Danny Tartabull to the A's for Jason Beverlin and Ruben Sierra. Oakland's newest outfielder signed a lucrative free-agent deal worth more than $5 million a year with New York after the 1991 season, never producing offensively on the level he played with Kansas City.
1995 The Yankees obtain David Cone from the Blue Jays in exchange for Marty Janzen and two minor leaguers, Jason Jarvis and Mike Gordon. The trade for the right-hander, considered one of the best deals in franchise history, will prove to be an essential piece of the team's success in the late nineties.

1996 Darryl Strawberry's 300th career round-tripper is a dramatic ninth inning, two-run dinger, which gives the Yankees a come-from-behind 3-2 win over the Royals. The 34-year-old 'Straw' will finish his stormy 17-year major league career with 335, hitting 75% of his round-trippers as a member of New York's other team, the Mets.

1998 After setting the record yesterday for hitting the most home runs before getting a grand slam, Sammy Sosa hits another today in the Cubs' 7-5 loss to Arizona at Bank One Ballpark. The Chicago slugger becomes the 18th major leaguer to hit a bases-loaded homer on consecutive days.
2000 Unable to win in four months, David Cone is sent to the team's minor league camp in Tampa by Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. The struggling veteran will be under the supervision of Billy Connors, the Yankees vice president of player personnel.
2000 The Mets have a busy day on the trading block as they obtain Oriole shortstop Mike Bordick for utility players Melvin Mora and Mike Kinkade and minor pitchers Lesli Brea and Pat Gorman. A few hours later, New York completes a four-player deal with the Devil Rays, receiving reliever Rick White and outfielder Bubba Trammell in exchange for minor leaguers Jason Tyner and Paul Wilson.
2001 With two outs in the ninth inning at PNC Park, Brian Giles erases a three-run deficit with a walk-off grand slam, defeating an astounded Astros squad, 9-8. Houston's All-Star closer Billy Wagner gives up the Pittsburgh left fielder's 'sayonara slam.'

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2002 During his induction speech at the Hall of Fame ceremonies in Cooperstown, with the song 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' playing in the background and with a copy of 'The Wizard of Oz' in his hands, Ozzie Smith compares his baseball career to Dorothy's away trip from Kansas. The 47 year-old, citing the recipe for his success during his 19-year career with the Cardinals and Padres, tells the crowd he had the mind to dream, which the Scarecrow cherished, a heart to believe, which the Tin Man wanted, and courage to persevere, which the Lion lacked.

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2002 The Giants trade two minor league pitchers, right-hander Felix Diaz and left-hander Ryan Meaux, to obtain veteran center fielder Kenny Lofton from the White Sox. The 35-year-old outfielder will finish the season with the second-place club, hitting .267 in 46 games before signing as a free agent with the Pirates.
2002 Gary Sheffield's team record of reaching base ends at 52 straight games in the Braves' 7-1 loss to the Phillies at Turner Field. The Atlanta right fielder surpassed Dale Murphy's previous mark of 48 consecutive contests.

 

2004 Troy Percival strikes out Alfonso Soriano and gets Mark Teixeira to ground out to nail down a 2-0 Angels victory over Texas in Anaheim. The 34-year-old right-hander becomes the 18th major league closer to record 300 career saves and the fifth-fastest to reach the milestone.

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2005 At Whataburger Field, a trio of Frisco RoughRiders (Rangers-AA) pitchers hurls nine perfect innings to beat the hometown Corpus Christi Hooks (Astros-AA), 3-0. A.J. Murray (6), Steve Karsay (2), and Scott Feldman (1) combine to throw only the third nine-inning perfect game, the first by a combination of hurlers, in the 117-year history of the Texas League.

2006 The Brewers have a busy day wheeling and dealing as the team sends All-Star left-fielder Carlos Lee and a minor league outfielder to the Rangers and acquire third baseman David Bell from the Phillies in separate deals. The Brew Crew gets reliever Francisco Cordero, fly chasers Kevin Mench and Laynce Nix, and a minor league southpaw from Texas and trade Class A right-hander Wilfrido Laureano to the Philadelphia to get their new infielder.
2006 In an 8-7 loss to the Diamondbacks at Minute Maid Park, Luke Scott becomes the first rookie and sixth player in franchise history to hit for the cycle. The Houston 28-year-old right-fielder, who had a three-run homer in the fourth, a fifth-inning triple, and a double in the seventh inning, completes the rare feat with a two-out single in the 11th inning.

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2007 With the help of two day-night doubleheaders, MLB establishes a new daily attendance record as 717,478 go through the turnstiles for the 17 games played on Saturday. The former mark of 640,412, set on July 3, 1999, was accomplished with the same number of games played.

 

2011 The Mets acquire 21-year-old right-hander Zack Wheeler, a top minor league prospect from the Giants, in exchange for outfielder Carlos Beltran and cash considerations. New York bids farewell to their All-Star outfielder, batting .289, with 15 home runs and 66 RBIs in the final season of his seven-year deal with the team.

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2011 With their 10-9 victory, the visiting Mets complete a four-game sweep in Cincinnati for the first time in franchise history. The Great American Ball Park victory is especially rewarding because Carlos Beltran, the team's best offensive player, was traded to San Francisco during the series.
2012 Ike Davis drives in all of the runs in the Mets' 6-3 loss in Arizona when he becomes the ninth player in franchise history to hit three home runs in a game. The New York first baseman joins Steve Finley (2004, Diamondbacks), Eddie Murray (1980, Orioles), and Clyde McCullough (1942, Cubs) as only the fourth player in baseball history to account for all three of his team's runs with solo homers in a defeat.

2013 After being elected by the Pre-Integration Veterans Committee in December, the induction of Yankee owner Jacob Ruppert, 19th-century backstop Deacon White, and umpire Hank O'Day marks the first time the Hall of Fame ceremony doesn't include a living selection. The last time there weren't any inductees alive to be honored occurred in 1968, with the enshrinement of Pud Galvin, the game's first 300-game winner, 63 years after his death.

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2017 In his second appearance with the independent San Rafael Pacifics, 37-year-old southpaw Lou Evans sings the Star-Spangled Banner, becoming the first starting pitcher in professional baseball to perform the National Anthem before taking the mound. The 2001 Marlins' nineteenth-round draft pick will retire after the game, ending his comeback from a 12-year hiatus due to injuries.
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