BB On this Date ~ Events & Birthdays #2

FROM MLB's This Day in Baseball History+​

1884 New York Gotham pitcher Mickey Welch strikes out the first nine Cleveland Blues hitters to come to the plate, establishing a major league record. The mark will last until 1970 when Mets' right-hander Tom Seaver strikes out the last ten San Diego batters he faces in a Shea Stadium contest.

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1921 John Michaelson becomes the first person born in Finland to play in a major league game. The 27-year-old White Sox right-hander from Taivalkoski, who will also pitch his last game in just two days, posts an ERA of 10.12, appearing in only two games for Chicago.

1926 Using the same lineup in both games, the Indians sweep a twin bill from Boston at Fenway Park, 6-1 and 5-1. The Tribe's right-hander Emil' Dutch' Levsen, who will become the last major league pitcher to win two complete-game victories in one day, accomplishes the feat when he throws consecutive four-hitters without striking out a batter in either game.

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1932 Due to the anticipation of an eclipse, the Red Sox play a game against the Indians several days earlier than scheduled, beating the Tribe in 11 innings, 4-3. Three days later, Fenway goes dark for twenty minutes during the solar event.

1945 A moment in American history occurs in Brooklyn as Branch Rickey meets with Jackie Robinson to share his plans to integrate the major leagues. During the three-hour meeting, the Dodgers' president will shout racial epithets to 'test' the 26-year-old ballplayer's mettle to withstand the abuse which will come with being the first player to cross the color line this century.

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1949 Jeff Heath becomes the first major leaguer to hit a ninth-inning game-tying pinch-hit home run, followed by an extra-inning walk-off round-tripper, giving Boston a 6-5 victory over the Reds in the tenth. The outfielder came off the bench and blasted reliever Ewell Blackwell's first pitch to knot the score at 5-5 before taking the Whip deep again in the next frame, ending the Braves Field contest.

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1951 The Giants' 16-game winning streak ends when Howie Pollet six-hits the team in the Pirates' 2-0 victory at the Polo Grounds. The consecutive victories enable Leo Durocher and his club to narrow the Dodgers' lead from 13.5 to six.

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1962 Al Jackson limits the opposing batters to three hits, going the distance in the Mets’ 2-0 victory over the Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium. The 26-year-old left-hander’s effort marks the fourth time he has blanked the opponents, accounting for all of the expansion team’s shutouts the entire season.

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1967 Chico Ruiz, in the ninth inning of a Reds' 3-2 loss to Philadelphia at Crosley Field, becomes the only major leaguer ever to pinch-hit for Johnny Bench. The 28-year-old Cuban infielder, with a runner on second, flies out to left field, standing in for the future Hall of Famer, who goes 0-for-3 in his first big-league game.

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1967 Giants hurler Gaylord Perry begins the longest consecutive inning scoreless streak in franchise history when he shuts out the Dodgers at Candlestick Park, 7-0. The right-hander will not give up another run for 40 innings, a feat the son of a tenant farmer from North Carolina will repeat three seasons later.

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1970 Tony Horton unexpectedly takes himself out of the lineup during the fifth inning of a doubleheader's second game against California. The game will be his last in the major leagues, as a deep slump and the constant harassment from the Cleveland fans take a personal toll on the promising 25-year-old first baseman.

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1971 In his first at-bat in the Little League World Series finale, Lloyd McClendon blasts a three-run homer, prompting the Chinese Taipei manager to order his pitchers to intentionally walk the 12-year-old for the rest of the game. The Gary, Indiana Little Leaguer, the future manager of the Pirates and Mariners, hit five home runs in five at-bats, all on the first pitch, and is walked in his other five plate appearances in the three games he plays in the tournament.

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1971 The Cubs pay tribute to a longtime fan favorite with 'Ron Santo Day' at Wrigley Field. With 34,988 to honor the veteran third baseman, he goes 1-for-3 and scores a run, but it isn't enough when Atlanta spoils the special day, beating Ferguson Jenkins and the hometown team, 4-3.

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1971 Rick Wise hits two home runs, including a grand slam, en route to a complete-game victory in the Phillies' 7-3 defeat of the Giants. Five weeks earlier, the 25-year-old right-hander hit two round-trippers while throwing a no-hitter against the Reds.

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1977 Steve Garvey collects five extra-base hits in one game when he bashes three doubles and two homers, including a grand slam, in the Dodgers' 11-0 rout over St. Louis at Chavez Ravine. The LA first baseman becomes just the fourth major leaguer to accomplish the feat, joining Lou Boudreau (1946 Indians - HR, four 2B), Joe Adcock (1954 Braves - four HR, 2B), and Willie Stargell (1970 Pirates - two HR, three 2B).

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1990 Ellis Burks becomes only the second Red Sox player to hit two home runs in the same inning when he goes deep twice in Boston's eight-run fourth frame during the team's 12-4 rout of the Tribe at Cleveland Stadium. In 1928, second baseman Bill Regan became the first BoSox player to accomplish the feat when he homered twice, including an inside-the-park round-tripper in the top of the fourth inning against Chicago at Comiskey Park.

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1990 Ryne Sandberg becomes the first second baseman to hit 30 home runs in consecutive seasons when he homers to deep left field off Bill Gullickson leading off the fourth inning in the Cubs' 5-2 victory over Houston at the Astrodome. 'Ryno' will finish the season with 40 round-trippers, the most in the National League.

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1992 In a 22-2 rout, the Blue Jays pitching staff yields 31 hits, of which 22 are singles, to help the Brewers set an American League record. The 'Brew Crew' scores in every inning except the fifth inning in the SkyDome contest.

1996 The Indians finish the season 12-0 against Detroit when they beat the hometown team at Tiger Stadium, 9-3. Cleveland, en route to a division title in the AL Central, becomes only the seventh team since 1900 to sweep a season series from an opponent.

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1997 After a catcher's interference call extends the sixth inning, Javy Lopez hits Darryl Kile's next pitch for a three-run home run that proves to be the difference in the Braves' 4-2 victory over the Astros at Turner Field. The frame appeared to be over when Ryan Klesco grounded out to short, going to first base when his bat hit Tony Eusebio's glove.

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2000 The players' association, pleased with the November 1996 deal, exercises its option to extend the collective bargaining agreement, ensuring labor peace through October 31, 2001. The owners have expressed concerns about the expected move, believing the present CBA has widened the talent gap between the high and low-revenue markets due to escalating salaries.

2001 Alex Rodriguez becomes the ninth player and the second shortstop in major league history to hit 40 home runs in four consecutive seasons. The first shortstop to reach the plateau was Hall of Famer Ernie Banks, who accomplished the feat from 1957-60 for the Cubs.

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2003 Eric Gagne earns his 44th straight save when he retires the side in order in the Dodgers' 6-3 victory over the Astros at Minute Maid Park. The 27-year-old Los Angeles reliever's effort, en route to expanding the mark to 55, establishes a new major league record, surpassing Tom Gordon, who had saved 43 in a row to begin a season with the Red Sox in 1998.

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2003 Jose Reyes becomes the youngest player in major league history to hit a home run from each side of the plate. The 20-year-old shortstop accounts for all the Mets runs, hitting a solo shot from the right side off southpaw Mike Hampton and then, batting as a left-handed hitter in the ninth, a two-run dinger off right-hander Trey Hodges in the team's 3-1 victory over Atlanta at Turner Field.

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2005 Down three runs in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Hawaii ties Curacao, 6-6, sending the Little League championship game into extra innings for the first time since 1971. The Ewa Beach bunch beats the Caribbean champs, 7-6, when Michael Memea hits a walk-off homer in the bottom of the seventh inning.

2007 Atop his right-field foul pole perch at Yankee Stadium, a not-so-shy squirrel watches the Bronx Bombers beat the Red Sox, 5-3. The bushy-tailed good luck charm has become a fan favorite, receiving standing ovations and cheers as he is shown on the scoreboard video screen scampering up and down on the pole.

2007 “The judgment that high school baseball players’ safety is more important than higher batting averages and more offense is a classic legislative judgment that the City Council could constitutionally make,” - JUDGE G.KOELTL, striking down arguments from opponents that the City Council acted outside its authority in seeking to protect health and safety of its constituents.
In a thirty-nine-page decision, US District Judge John G. Koeltl upholds a New York City law passed by the City Council in April over the veto of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, banning metal bats in high school baseball games. A coalition of bat manufacturers, the USA Baseball organization, various coaches, and some of the ballplayers' parents begin legal action opposing the decision.

 

2008 The Cubs game against the Phillies at Wrigley Field becomes the first contest to be played using video replay available to umpires to review calls regarding fair or foul home runs, balls in or out of the ballpark, and fan interference determinations. Not employed in any of the three ballparks going online today, all major league clubs will use the new technology starting tomorrow.

2008 In the 11-2 victory over the Dodgers, Cristian Guzman becomes the second player in Nationals history to hit for the cycle, joining Brad Wilkerson, who accomplished the feat in 2005, the team's first year in Washington, D.C. The 30-year-old shortstop completes his cycle with an eighth-inning triple.

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2008 The Red Sox's last regular-season game at Yankee Stadium is a fitting finale for the two rivals at the 85-year-old historic ballpark. Trailing 2-0, the Bronx Bombers rally late in the game, thanks to Jason Giambi's seventh-inning pinch-hit two-run homer and his walk-off single in the ninth, to beat Boston, 3-2, avoiding a sweep and keeping their wild-card hopes alive.

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2009 In the sixth inning, John Hester, appearing as a pinch-hitter, homers in his first major league at-bat in Arizona's 14-7 victory over Houston. The 25-year-old catcher, who will hit six round-trippers in 93 games, becomes the 101st player to accomplish the feat and the second Diamondback player this season, joining Gerardo Parra, who also went deep in his first big league plate appearance in May.

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2012 Starlin Castro agrees to a seven-year contract extension with the Cubs, including a club option for an eighth season in 2020. The 22-year-old shortstop, already a two-time All-Star, became the youngest player in National League history to lead the circuit in hits when he collected 207 last season.

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2014 Working as a starter and reliever, Giants right-hander Yusmeiro Petit sets a major league record retiring his 46th consecutive batter when he fans Charlie Culberson in the third inning of the team's 4-1 victory over Colorado at AT&T Park. The San Francisco hurler, best known for losing his bid for a perfect game with two outs and two strikes last September, breaks the 2009 mark established by Mark Buehrle, who made 45 batters in a row make an out while pitching for the White Sox.

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2015 After seven unproductive seasons, the Mariners, suffering through the second-longest postseason drought in baseball, fire general manager Jack Zduriencik. The former much-touted Milwaukee scouting director, named by Baseball America in 2007 as the first non-GM to receive its Major League Executive of the Year Award, was given a contract extension a year ago when Seattle would finish the season with 87 victories.

2015 "Vin will be back for one more year (at least). God bless us, everyone" - JIMMY KIMMEL's cue card message to the crowd.
Team executive Magic Johnson, appearing on the Dodger Stadium video board, introduces Jimmy Kimmel to report "big, breaking news." The ABC late-night television host, who waves to the fans without saying a word, displays a succession of cue cards, informing the Chavez Ravine crowd the 87-year-old Vin Scully will be returning to broadcast Dodgers games in 2016, his 67th season.

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2016 The Endwell Little League wins the League World Series when Ryan Harlost tosses a five-hitter in the team's 2-1 victory over South Korea. The boys from the Binghamton suburb become the first U.S.squad to win LLWS since Huntington Beach (CA) copped the crown in 2011 and the first from New York to win the title since 1964.

2020 On the same day MLB celebrated Jackie Robinson Day, Chadwick Boseman, the actor who portrayed the Brooklyn Dodgers star in the 2013 movie 42, dies of colon cancer. The 43-year-old actor, best known for the title role in Marvel's blockbuster Black Panther, played music legend James Brown and future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshal on the big screen.

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2021 With the 6-3 Cardinals win over the Pirates at PNC Park, skipper Tony La Russa, with his 2,195th career triumph, moves past Sparky Anderson for third place for most victories by a big-league manager. Connie Mack (3,731) and John McGraw (2,763) are first and second on the all-time managerial list for the number of major league wins.

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BIRTHDAYS
1971 Henry Blanco born in Caracas, Venezuela


1977 Aaron Rowand born in Portland, Oregon



1977 Roy Oswalt pitcher (MLB All-Star 2005–07; NLCS MVP 2005; NL wins leader 2004; combined no-hitter 2003; Houston Astros), born in Weir, Mississippi


1979 Ryan Shealy born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida


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FROM MLB's This Day in Baseball History+​

1918 Cubs southpaw Lefty Tyler tosses a gem, beating the Reds at Wrigley Field, 1-0. The victory clinches the National League pennant for Chicago, ending the season 10.5 games ahead of the second-place Giants.

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1934 In the nightcap of a twin bill, Schoolboy Rowe, after sixteen straight victories, finally loses when the A's chase him after seven innings in a 13-5 final at Philadelphia's Shibe Park. In his last start, the Tiger right-hander tied the American League record for consecutive wins shared by Smoky Joe Wood, Walter Johnson, and Lefty Grove.

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1939 Wheaties sponsors the first telecast of a baseball game when their ads air during the Ebbets Field contest between the Reds and the Dodgers. The commercial broadcast is available only in New York City, where approximately 500 people own television sets.

1948 Jackie Robinson hits for the backward cycle when he homers in the first inning, triples in the fourth, doubles in the sixth, completing the rare event with a single in the eighth. In addition to his ten total bases, the Dodger second baseman drives in two runs, scores three times, and steals a base, helping Brooklyn beat the Cardinals at Sportsman's Park, 12-7.

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1951 With his second home run of the game, the sixth time he has accomplished the feat this year, Gil Hodges hits his 36th round-tripper to establish a new franchise record for homers in a season. The Dodger first baseman's seventh-inning three-run blast in the team's 13-1 rout of Cincinnati at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field surpasses the 35 set by Babe Herman in 1930.

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1951 The Yankees send rookie hurler Lew Burdette and $50,000 to the Braves for 33-year-old right-hander Johnny Sain. The trade will come back to haunt the Bronx Bombers when the right-hander throws three complete-game victories in the 1957 World Series, won by Milwaukee in seven games.

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1965 Giants center fielder Willie Mays breaks Ralph Kiner's record for home runs in a month when the 'Say Hey Kid' hits a moon shot off Jack Fischer for his 17th round-tripper in an 8-3 victory over New York. The former Pirates outfielder, now a broadcaster for the Mets on WHN radio and WOR-TV, calls the four-bagger, which breaks the monthly mark he established with 16 round-trippers in 1949 during September.

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1966 On a typically cool night at Candlestick Park, the home of the San Francisco Giants, the Beatles play their final concert, ending their half-hour set with Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally." The 'Fab Four's performance on a five-foot stage, located just behind second base surrounded by a six-foot-high wire fence, is less than stellar due to the ballpark's inadequate lighting, poor acoustics, and the group's growing disdain for doing live shows.

1966 Getting the Cubs' 4-2 win in relief, Robin Roberts becomes the first and only pitcher to beat the Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta Braves. On Independence Day in 1948, the future Hall of Famer went the distance to notch his third big league victory, beating the Boston Braves at Shibe Park in his rookie year with the Phillies.

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1967 Kansas City's leadoff batter Bert Campaneris' three triples at the spacious Municipal Stadium are to no avail as the home team loses to Cleveland in ten innings, 9-8. The A's shortstop becomes the first American Leaguer to accomplish the feat since Ben Chapman tagged a trio of three-baggers in 1939 for the Tribe.

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1971 Braves' outfielder Hank Aaron becomes the first player in the National League to drive in at least 100 runs in eleven different seasons. The future Hall of Famer will collect 2297 RBIs during his 23-year Hall of Fame career to set an all-time major league mark.

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1972 In a 3-0 victory, Giants' right-hander Jim Barr retires the first 20 Cardinals he faces today, setting a major league record of recording 41 consecutive outs, having retired the final 21 players in his previous appearance against the first-place Pirates.

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1977 After four seasons and 1,382 major league at-bats, Duane Kuiper hits his first and only homer when he goes deep off Steve Stone in the Indians' 9-2 victory over the White Sox at Cleveland Stadium. The 27-year-old second baseman will come to bat 3,379 times during his 12-year career, establishing the modern major league record for most career at-bats with exactly one home run.

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1977 At Jack Murphy Stadium, 39-year-old Cardinals outfielder Lou Brock swipes his 893rd bag, breaking Ty Cobb's 49-year-old major league career record for stolen bases. The Georgia Peach had established the mark in 1928 as a member of the Philadelphia A's at the age of 41.

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1977 In a 6-1 loss at Baltimore, Angel starter Nolan Ryan, who will finish the season fanning 341 batters, strikes out 11 Orioles to pass the 300 mark for the fifth time in his career. The future Hall of Fame right-hander will retire as baseball's all-time leader with 5,714, averaging 9.5 K's per nine innings.

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1985 Don Baylor is hit by a first-inning pitch thrown by Angels' hurler Kirk McCaskill. The Yankee DH has been plunked 190 times, breaking, pardon the expression, the American League record established by Minnie Minoso in 1963 while playing with the White Sox.

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1986 Down by eight runs in the bottom of the final frame, the Angels score nine times to beat the Tigers, 13-12. Dick Schofield, batting for the second time in the inning, completes the amazing comeback with a two-out walk-off grand slam off Willie Hernandez.

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1986 Let's Go Mets Go!, a music video that features players, coaches, and fans, and a cameo appearances by Joe Piscopo, Howard Stern, and film critic Gene Shalit debuts on the Shea Stadium Diamondvision. Shelton Leigh Palmer, best known for writing Meow Mix jingle, composed and produced the team's official theme song, which becomes a Gold Record, and directed the accompanying triple-platinum four-minute video.

1989 Giving up just three singles, recently acquired Mets southpaw Frank Viola outduels Orel Hershiser and beats the Dodgers, 1-0. The classic contest between two aces marked the first time in baseball history that the reigning winners of the Cy Young Award have faced one another in the regular season.

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1993 Joining Hall of Famers Willie Mays and Hank Aaron, George Brett becomes the third player in baseball history to swipe his 200th stolen base and collect 3,000 hits and 300 home runs. The Royals third baseman's historic heist occurs during a 5-4, 12-inning victory over the Red Sox at Kauffman Stadium.

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1995 With two out in the ninth inning at Three Rivers Stadium, Paul Wagner loses a no-hitter against the Rockies on an infield single by Andres Galarraga. The 27-year-old Pirates right-hander will win the game, 4-0, but will lead the National League in losses this season, posting a 5-16 record for Pittsburgh.

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1996 The Orioles become the first major league team to have seven players hit 20 or more home runs in the same season when Bobby Bonilla goes deep off right-hander Bob Wells in the first inning of a 9-6 loss to Seattle at the Kingdome. The other Baltimore sluggers to reach the plateau are Rafael Palmeiro, Roberto Alomar, Cal Ripken, B.J. Surhoff, Brady Anderson, and Chris Hoiles.

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1998 Derek Jeter hits his 17th home run to establish a new record for Yankee shortstops. The 24-year-old infielder surpasses Roy Smalley's 1982 mark when he goes deep to right field off Bob Wells in the team's 11-6 victory over Seattle in the Bronx.

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1999 Tony Eusebio's home run in the top of the 13th inning is the difference in the Astros' 11-9 victory over the Braves in Atlanta. The Houston catcher's homer breaks the skid of eleven consecutive losses, a team record.

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