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1996 In the eighth, the Rangers fall one run short of setting a modern major-league mark, scoring 16 runs in one inning in their 26-7 rout of the Orioles. In 1952, the Red Sox tallied 17 times in the seventh frame in a 23-3 rout of Detroit at Fenway Park.
1997 The Cubs lose their 13th consecutive game to match the longest losing streak in the franchise's 122-year history. Reliever Turk Wendell, wearing #13, is tagged with the loss when Chicago drops a 6-3 decision to Mets at Shea Stadium.
1997 In the first major league game ever played in Hawaii, the Cardinals edge the Padres, 1-0, at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu. The three-game set, known as Padres Paradise Series, find the hosts dropping two of three contests to the Redbirds.
1998 Equaling their largest margin of victory when keeping an opponent scoreless, the Mets rout Cincinnati at Cinergy Field, 14-0. Outfielder Bernard Gilkey crosses the plate in the first, third, fifth, seventh, and eighth inning, becoming only one of four players in franchise history to score five runs in one game.

1998 The Devil Rays, en route to finishing last in the AL East, improve their record to 10-6, beating the Angels at Anaheim, 6-0, becoming the first expansion team to be four games over .500 at any point in their inaugural season. In contrast, the 1962 Mets posted a 3-13 mark in their first 16 games.
1999 A sore back puts Oriole third baseman Cal Ripken, Jr. on the disabled list for 22 games. The injury marks the first time the Iron Man, who, in 1995, broke Lou Gehrig's consecutive game record by playing in 2,131 straight games, has been placed on the DL during his 19-year career.

 

2000 Veteran hurler Orel Hershiser ties a major league mark, equaled by 19 others, hitting four batters in one game. Astro Richard Hidalgo also ties a modern major league record by getting hit three times in a game, twice by Hershiser, and a third time by Dodger reliever Matt Herges.
2002 Mariners' third baseman Jeff Cirillo ties the major league record for consecutive errorless games at the hot corner by playing his 99th contest without a miscue. John Wehner, a journeyman infielder with the Dodgers, Pirates, and Marlins, established the mark during a span of eight-plus seasons.

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2004 After faking a throw to third base before throwing to first, A's right-hander Justin Duchscherer, is called for a balk by umps Paul Emmel and Mike DiMuro as the result of stepping toward home plate before beginning his pick-off move. The Oakland hurler's mound miscue ends the 14-inning contest, giving the Mariners a 2-1 balk-off victory at Safeco Field.
2005 David Wright's seventh-inning grand slam at Philadelphia's Citizens Bank Park establishes a club record for home runs hit in a game. The Mets go deep seven times (Reyes-2, Diaz-2, Piazza, Wright, and Mientkiewicz) when they rout the Phillies, 16-4.
2009 Daniel Cabrera puts the ball in play when he grounds out to first and then reaches base safely for the first time in his six-year career when he walks on four straight balls thrown by Florida's Hayden Penn. The Diamondbacks' right-hander had previously struck out in all of his 18 major league at-bats, including one in today's game, setting a major-league mark for consecutive strikeouts.
2009 For the third successive day, the Marlins rally in the top of the ninth, completing a three-game sweep against the Nationals. The last team to win three consecutive times after trailing in the ninth inning were the 1998 Tigers, coming back dramatically in a trio of mid-September contests to beat Toronto and Minnesota.

 

2012 En route to an 11-4 victory in Washington, Jose Altuve, Brian Bogusevic, and Matt Downs all collect three-baggers in Houston's five-run first frame. It is the first time in franchise history the Astros hit three triples in one inning. @WESGATORS
2013 After stealing second base, Jean Segura changes his mind about swiping third and returns to the bag, but thinking he's out because Ryan Braun occupies the base, he starts to head for the dugout before realizing he is safe and scrambles back to first. Two pitches later, the bewildered Milwaukee baserunner tries to steal second base again, becoming the first player to have taken second base once and then is caught stealing the same bag in the same inning.
2013 According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Matt Harvey becomes the first pitcher in modern major league history to win his first four games while giving up less than a total of ten hits. The 24-year-old Mets right-hander easily outduels his mound opponent, Washington's former phenom, Stephen Strasburg, prompting the Citi Field crowd to start chanting, "Har-vee's be-tter, "Har-vee's be-tter."

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2019 When right-hander Adam Ottavino faces the Royals' Terrance Gore in the seventh inning of New York's 6-2 victory at Yankee Stadium, the matchup becomes the first zero vs. zero confrontation to take place in a big-league game. The 33-year-old reliever, whose the first Bronx Bomber to wear the uniform #0, strikes out the Kansas City outfielder, the second Royals player ever to don a cipher and the first since George Scott wore it in 1979.
2020 Steve Dalkowski, a nine-year minor league veteran, playing mostly in the Orioles organization in the 1950s and '60s, dies from COVID-19 at 80. The New Britain (CT) native, believed to be one of the hardest throwing pitchers in the history of the game, once beaned a mascot, becoming the inspiration for the character of Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh, a hurler with a blazing but uncontrollable fastball played by Tim Robbins in the 1988 classic baseball movie, Bull Durham.

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1961 Don Mattingly, American baseball 1st baseman (6 x MLB All-Star; AL MVP 1985; 9 x Gold Glove; 3 x Silver Slugger; AL batting champion 1984; NY Yankees) and manager (LA Dodgers, Miami Marlins), born in Evansville, Indiana

1973 Todd Hollandsworth, American baseball outfielder (LA Dodgers), born in Dayton, Ohio


1891 Dave Bancroft (1891) The lone Hall of Famer born this date

 

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1903 On Opening Day, before 8,376 fans at Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds, the Americans defeat the A's in the morning game of a Patriot's Day twin bill, 9-4. In front of 27,658 spectators, Connie Mack's Athletics win the matinee match-up, 10-7, which features two future Hall of Fame hurlers, Eddie Plank and Cy Young.

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1910 Indians hurler Addie Joss throws his second career no-hitter, beating the White Sox, 1-0. Two seasons ago, facing fellow future Hall of Fame pitcher Ed Walsh, the right-hander tossed a perfect game against the Pale Hose.

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1912 After two days of rain, the first major league game finally occurs at Fenway Park in front of 27,000 enthusiastic fans, the largest crowd to attend a game in Boston. The inaugural contest is memorable, with the Red Sox staging an eleven-inning 7-6 walk-off victory over the New York Highlanders when Tris Speaker, following a game-saving catch he made in the top of the frame, singles, plating Steve Yerkes, who reached base on an error and advanced on a passed ball.

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1912 In Detroit, the Tigers play their first game in Navin Field, later to known as Tiger Stadium, defeating Cleveland, 6-5. The ballpark at the corner of Trumbull and Michigan, which will serve as the team's home for the next 87 years, replaces Bennett Park, located on the same site since 1896.

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1916 In Chicago, the Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park, beating the Reds in 11 innings, 7-6. In 1926, the ballpark will become known as Wrigley Field, in honor of William Wrigley, the chewing gum mogul who gained full ownership of the team seven seasons ago.

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1920 Phillies player-manager Gavvy Cravath calls upon himself to pinch-hit against the Giants. The Philadelphia slugger responds with a three-run homer, the last round-tripper of his career, to beat New York, 3-0.

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1927 The Indians spoil the White Sox debut at the newly-expanded Comiskey Park, edging the Pale Hose, 5-4. The new upper deck in the outfield allows 23,200 additional fans to enjoy the game.

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1937 Gee Walker strokes a homer, triple, double, and a single to become the first player to hit for the cycle on Opening Day. The 29-year-old Tigers outfielder's performance helps Detroit beat the Indians at Navin Field, 4-3.

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1938 Throwing the first of his twelve career one-hitters, 19-year-old Indians right-hander Bob Feller beats the Browns on Opening Day, 9-0. The only St. Louis hit in the League Park contest is a sixth-inning bunt laid down by backstop Bill Sullivan, who is called safe by rookie ump Ed Rommell on a very close play at first base.

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1939 For the first time in club history, the A's wear numbers on their uniforms. Connie Mack, the owner/ manager of the team, believed the sale of scorecards would suffer because their jerseys could identify players.
1939 In the only game he'll ever play with Lou Gehrig in the field, Ted Williams strikes out in his first major league at-bat. The 20-year-old Red Sox rookie, last season's American Association Triple Crown winner, will finish the day 1-for-4 with the first hit of 2,654 he will collect during his 19-year career, a 400-foot double in a 2-0 loss at Yankee Stadium.

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1944 During a World War II mission, Elmer Gedeon is killed when his plane is shot down over France, becoming the first of two major leaguers to die in World War II. The B-26 bomber pilot, who played five major league games as an outfielder for the Senators at the end of the 1939 season, will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
1946 The Cubs are shut out by Cardinal southpaw Harry Brecheen in their home opener at Wrigley Field, 2-0. The game is the first in the club's history to be televised, with 'Whispering' Joe Wilson doing the play-by-play on Chicago's WBKB.

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1948 On Opening Day, George Vico homers on the first pitch he ever sees in the major leagues, becoming only the fifth player to accomplish the feat. The home run, given up by White Sox hurler Joe Haynes, is the first of only a dozen the Tigers rookie first baseman collects in his brief two-year career.
1948 In the first big-league game he ever attends, Richie Ashburn makes his major league debut, going 1-for-5 in the Phillies' Opening Day victory over Boston at Shibe Park. The 21-year-old rookie left fielder replaces holdout Harry Walker, last year's National League batting champ, batting leadoff in the Phillies' lineup.

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1951 Nine days after firing the very popular General Douglas MacArthur from his post as Commander of the Far East, U.S. President Harry S. Truman throws out the ceremonial first pitch at the Senators' home opener against New York at Griffith Stadium. The Air Force Band tries to drown out the boos from the crowd directed at the Commander in Chief by loudly playing "Ruffles and Flourishes" and "Hail to the Chief" during the pregame ceremonies.
1955 Humberto Robinson, a native of Colon, becomes the first player from Panama to appear in a major league game when he comes out of the Braves' bullpen in a 9-5 victory over the Cubs. The 24-year-old right-handed reliever earns a save, striking out Hank Sauer, the only batter he faces in the Wrigley Field contest.

 

1967 Tom Seaver, a right-hander the Mets obtained in a lottery drawing that included the Braves, Phillies, and Indians, gets his first major-league win when the team beat the Cubs, 6-1. The 22-year-old rookie, who will become known as the 'Franchise,' goes 7.2 innings, giving up eight hits and one run in the Shea Stadium contest.

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1968 Jon Warden, the last man to make the team in spring training, makes his third appearance, and wins for the third time in relief, as Detroit beats the White Sox at Comiskey Park in 10 innings, 4-1. Due to a torn rotator cuff injury after being selected by the Royals in the expansion draft, the rookie sensation, who will be the only Tiger not to appear in the World Series, will pitch only one season, finishing with a 4-1 win-loss record and a 3.62 ERA.

1978 Padres' rookie Ozzie Smith, a future Hall of Famer due to his defensive prowess at short, makes what he will rate as his best play ever when he dives to his left to field a grounder hit by Jeff Burroughs of Atlanta. Although the ball takes a bad hop and scoots behind the 'Wizard's' head, he promptly sticks out his bare right hand, snagging the ball before popping to his feet to get the out at first base.

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1982 The Braves record their 12th consecutive win, a 4-2 decision over the Reds, to establish a major-league record for the most victories from the beginning of the season. The previous mark had been set a year earlier by the Oakland A's.
1985 Matt Panetta's timely hitting and outstanding defensive play help Katz defeat MIC, 6-2, in South Meriden Little League action. The 11-year-old is awarded the game ball as a result of his efforts.
1988 The Orioles break a major league record for consecutive losses at the start of a season, a mark the team shared with the 1904 Senators and 1920 Tigers when they lose their 14th straight contest since Opening Day, an 8-6 loss to Milwaukee. The Birds will drop 21 games before registering their first victory of the season.
1988 Yankees outfielder Claudell Washington, appearing as a pinch-hitter, hits the 10,000th round-tripper in franchise history, the most in the major leagues. The historic home run comes off Jeff Reardon in the top of the ninth inning in New York's eventual extra-inning 7-6 victory over Minnesota at the Metrodome.

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1990 After retiring 26 consecutive A's players, Mariners right-hander Brian Holman gives up a homer to pinch-hitter Ken Phelps, turning his perfect game into the franchise’s ninth one-hitter when he strikes out Rickey Henderson for the final out. Ironically, the round-tripper will be the final one 'Digger' hits in his 11-year major league career.

1997 In the second game of a doubleheader, the Cubs stop their season-opening losing skid at 14 games, beating the Mets, 4-3. By dropping the opener, Chicago set a National League record (0-14) for the most consecutive losses to start a season and has the second-worst mark behind the Orioles, the losers of 21 decisions before winning a game in 1988.
1997 Mark McGwire's 491-foot blast becomes the only fourth home run to bounce over the left-field roof at Tiger Stadium. The A's first baseman joins Harmon Killebrew (1962), Frank Howard (1968), and Cecil Fielder (1990) as the only players to accomplish the feat.
1999 A crowd of 37,317 fans enjoys a 3-2 victory over the Braves when LA surpasses the 100 million mark in attendance at Dodger Stadium. The ballpark opened in 1962, four seasons after the franchise moved from Brooklyn to the west coast.
2001 Blue Jay first baseman Carlos Delgado hits three homers for the second time this month, accounting for four of the runs in the team's 12-4 victory over Kansas City at Kauffman Stadium. The Toronto clean-up hitter also turned the homer hat trick in Tampa Bay during the third game of the season.

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2006 At Petco Park in his first at-bat of the season, Kaz Matsui hits an inside-the-park round-tripper, making it the third successive season in which the Mets second baseman has hit a home run in his initial plate appearance of the year. Ken Griffey Jr. also accomplished the feat starting in 1997 with the Mariners but had walked before going deep.

2006 Appearing as a pinch-hitter at Petco Park, Julio Franco becomes the oldest major leaguer to hit a home run. The 47 years, 240 days old's eighth-inning blast, which put the Mets ahead in their 7-2 victory over the Padres, surpasses Jack Quinn, who accomplished the feat as a pitcher for the Philadelphia A's at the age of 46 years, 357 days.
2006 As the Nationals beat the Phillies, 10-4, Frank Robinson becomes the 53rd manager to win 1000 big-league games. The first black skipper, who has also been the dugout leader for the Indians, Giants, Orioles, and Expos, has compiled a 1,000-1,095 record in 16 seasons.

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2007 Alex Rodriguez becomes the second player to hit twelve home runs in the season's first fifteen games when he goes deep twice in the Yankees' 7-6 loss to Boston at Fenway Park. Hall of Fame third baseman Mike Schmidt also accomplished the feat, hitting a dozen for the Phillies in 1976.

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2007 The first Virginia Tech home athletic event, a game against Miami, since the campus massacre, which claimed 32 lives of students and staff, draws 3,132 fans. The overflow crowd is the largest ever recorded in the 18-year history of English Field, home of the Hokies college baseball team.
2007 In honor of their hard-playing center fielder, the first 10,000 adult fans attending the Great American Ball Park game receive a Ryan Freel Dirty T-shirt giveaway from the Reds. The Cincinnati leadoff hitter,Ryan Freel known to finish games wearing a filthy uniform, doesn't disappoint as he raises lots of dust getting on base twice, including a key single in the tenth inning of the Reds' 2-1 victory over the Phillies.

2008 The Blue Jays release Frank Thomas a day after the slugger became angry for not being in the lineup. After a clubhouse meeting, Toronto G.M. J.P. Ricciardi and the designated hitter reach a "mutual agreement," allowing the disgruntled player to continue to be a full-time player on another team.
2010 In the first five innings of a 7-6 loss to the Red Sox at Fenway Park, the Rangers swipe nine bases, including a club record of five in one inning, to establish a franchise mark. The number of stolen bases allowed by the Boston backstops ties the dubious distinction for the most ever yielded by the team in one game established in 1913.
2010 Rockies president Keli McGregor, while on a business trip for the club, is found dead in his hotel room in downtown Salt Lake City. The 48-year-old baseball executive, believed to have died of natural causes, spent 17 years with Colorado.
2011 Bud Selig announces MLB is taking over operations of the Dodgers because of concerns over team finances and the ability of Frank McCourt to run the franchise. Los Angeles is facing substantial debt payments, which the owner plans to meet by using funding from the club's new $2.5 billion, 20-year media rights deal with Fox Sports, pending the Commissioner's approval of the agreement between the News Corp.'s media company and the team.

 

2012 The Reds become the fifth major league team to record their 10,000th franchise victory with a 9-4 win over Chicago at Wrigley Field. Cincinnati joins the Giants, Cubs, Dodgers, Cardinals, and Braves in reaching the milestone.
2012 With more than 200 former players in attendance, including the likes of team icons Johnny Pesky, Luis Tiant, Carl Yastrzemski, Bill Buckner, and Pedro Martinez joining the celebration, the Red Sox commemorate the 100th anniversary of the opening of Fenway Park. Caroline Kennedy, the great-granddaughter of Boston's former mayor known as Honey Fitz, who threw out the first pitch on Opening Day in 1912, tosses one of the three ceremonial first pitches.
2012 Ivan Nova wins his 15th straight decision when the Yankees beat Boston at Fenway Park, 6-2. The victory moves the right-hander ahead of Whitey Ford (1961) and Steve Sundra (1938-39), and one shy of the franchise record of 16 consecutive wins, established last season by Roger Clemens.

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2013 After flying from Los Angeles, Neil Diamond shows up unannounced at Fenway Park to ask the Red Sox if he can sing Sweet Caroline at the first game at the ballpark since the Boston Marathon bombing. The crowd and the rest of the nation are genuinely 'Boston Strong' after his eighth-inning performance of the team's anthem. In an emotional ceremony before the team's first game at Fenway Park since the bombing at the Boston Marathon, the Red Sox recognize the victims and the heroes of the tragedy. David Ortiz sums up the mood of the city when he tells the capacity crowd, "This jersey that we wear today, it doesn't say Red Sox. It says Boston. This is our f'***ng city, and nobody's going to dictate our freedom. Stay Strong."
2014 Ian Kinsler scores from first on a base-on-balls as the result of the Angels committing three errors on the same play in the first inning of the Tigers’ 2-1 victory over the Angels at Comerica Park. The second baseman's trip begins when backstop Hank Conger throws ball four into centerfield, where Mike Trout makes an error trying to nail him advancing to third, and he then scores on pitcher Hector Santiago's errant toss to the plate.
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On April 20 in Baseball History...

• • 1910 - Addie Joss of Cleveland pitched the second no-hitter of his career, a 1-0 win over the White Sox in Chicago.
  • 1912 - Fenway Park was opened in Boston and the Red Sox defeated the visiting New York Yankees, 7-6, in 11 innings. Tiger Stadium in Detroit also opens its doors as the Tigers defeated the Cleveland Indians, 6-5.
  • 1916 - The Chicago Cubs played their first game at Weeghman Park � renamed Wrigley Field in 1926 � defeating the Cincinnati Reds, 7-6, in 11 innings.
  • 1920 - Manager Gavvy Cravath of the Philadelphia Phillies inserted himself as a pinch hitter and beat the New York Giants with a three-run homer, 3-0. It was his last in the majors.
  • 1939 - In his first major league game, Ted Williams hit a 400-foot double in four at-bats as the Boston Red Sox lost, 2-0, to New York at Yankee Stadium.
  • 1967 - Tom Seaver of the New York Mets recorded his first major-league victory with a 6-1 triumph over the Chicago Cubs. Seaver went 7 2/3 innings and gave up eight hits and one run.
  • 1982 - The Atlanta Braves recorded their 12th consecutive victory from the beginning of the season � a 4-2 decision over Cincinnati in Atlanta � and eclipsed the major-league record set a year earlier by the Oakland A's.
  • 1988 - The Baltimore Orioles set a major-league record with their 14th straight defeat at the start of the season, losing to the Milwaukee Brewers, 8-6.
  • 1990 - Seattle's Brian Holman lost his bid for baseball's 13th perfect game with two outs in the ninth inning on Ken Phelps' pinch-hit home run in the Mariners' 6-1 victory over Oakland.

Baseball Birthdays on April 20...

• • 1866 - Hannifan, Pat
  • 1869 - Nichol, Sam
  • 1869 - Dowd, Tommy
  • 1876 - Hemphill, Charlie
  • 1880 - Smith, Charlie
  • 1881 - Flanagan, Steamer
  • 1884 - Mowrey, Mike
  • 1885 - Easterly, Ted
  • 1891 - Bancroft, Dave
  • 1896 - Rowe, Harland
  • 1897 - Vedder, Lou
  • 1898 - Werts, Johnny
  • 1901 - Wilson, Frank
  • 1902 - Deitrick, Bill
  • 1915 - Tipton, Eric
  • 1917 - Peck, Hal
  • 1923 - Gomez, Preston
  • 1924 - Bilbrey, Jim
  • 1929 - Agganis, Harry
  • 1938 - Dickson, Jim
  • 1946 - Hutton, Tom
  • 1947 - Machemehl, Chuck
  • 1950 - Prall, Willie
  • 1950 - Wilcox, Milt
  • 1952 - Gilbert, Joe
  • 1954 - Clarey, Doug
  • 1954 - O'Berry, Mike
  • 1956 - Tolman, Tim
  • 1956 - Chiffer, Floyd
  • 1960 - Kutcher, Randy
  • 1961 - Mattingly, Don
  • 1964 - Jones, Jimmy
  • 1965 - Yoshii, Masato
  • 1966 - Perezchica, Tony
  • 1967 - Brummett, Greg
  • 1969 - Smith, Dan
  • 1973 - Winchester, Scott
  • 1973 - Hollandsworth, Todd

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BIRTHDAYS
1887 Joe McCarthy Hall of Fame manager (World Series 1932, 36–39, 41, 43; New York Yankees), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1978)
Joe & Leo the Lip

1957 Jesse Orosco, pitcher (NY Mets, Orioles, Dodgers), born in Santa Barbara, California

1962 Les Lancaster baseball player Dallas Baptist

1963 Ken Caminiti, MLB third baseman, 1987-2001, (Houston Astros, San Diego Padres, and 3 other teams; NL MVP- 1996), born in Hanford, California (d. 2004)

1980 Jeff Keppinger baseball player

 

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1898 In a game against the Giants, Philadelphia Nationals' pitcher Bill Duggelby blasts a grand slam in his first major league at-bat. More than a century will pass before Jeremy Hermida accomplishes the feat again when the Marlin rookie pinch-hitter goes yard with the bases full facing the Cardinals' Al Reyes Dolphins Stadium in 2005. (Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his first game but in his third at-bat)

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1900 At Schorling's Park on Chicago's south side, the White Sox, as a minor league team, play their first game in franchise history, losing to Milwaukee, 5-4. The small wooden ballpark located at 39th and Princeton, also known as Southside Park, will continue to be the Windy City home for the team when they join the American League next season.

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1910 In front of 19,867 of the Tribe's faithful, Detroit right-hander Ed Willett spoils the team's debut in League Park, blanking Cleveland, 5-0. The ballpark, located at E. 66th and Lexington Avenue, will serve as the franchise's full-time home until the club moves during the 1932 season to Municipal Stadium.

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1925 The National League cancels all games due to the funeral of Dodger owner Charles Ebbets, who died three days ago of a heart attack. Edward McKeever, who assumed the presidency of the Brooklyn club, catches a cold at the owner's funeral and will die of influenza in eight days.
1944 After hitting just one home run in his last 297 games, Mike Kreevich hits two round-trippers in the Browns' 5-3 victory over Chicago at Sportsman's Park. The 35-year-old right fielder will finish the season with five homers for the eventual American League champs.

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1946 Frank Hayes establishes a major league record for catchers when he plays in the last of 312 consecutive games behind the plate. The 31-year-old Indian backstop's streak began on October 2, 1943, when he started for the Browns on the final day of the season at Yankee Stadium.

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1948 Returning after serving his one-year suspension from baseball, Dodger manager Leo Durocher uses 24 players in a 9-5 loss to the Giants. The controversial 'Lip' had been suspended last April by commissioner Happy Chandler for an assortment of actions deemed detrimental to baseball.

Burleigh Grimes, Babe Ruth, and Leo Durocher. Brooklyn Bench
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1951 At Griffith Stadium, Gil Coan hits two triples in the Senators' seven-run sixth inning in an 8-7 loss to New York. The Washington left fielder will be the last major leaguer to accomplish the feat until Rockies' leadoff hitter Cory Sullivan collects a pair of three-baggers in one frame in 2006. @WESGATORS

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1955 The Dodgers win their 10th consecutive game from the start of the season when they beat the Phillies, 14-4. The Ebbets Field's victory establishes a major league record that lasts until 1981 when the A's chalk up 11 straight wins, beginning on Opening Day.
1959 At Wrigley Field, Stan Musial breaks up Glen Hobbie's no-hitter with a two-out seventh-inning double. The 23-year-old right-hander settles for a one-hitter, going the distance in the Cubs' 1-0 victory over the Cardinals.

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1961 The Twins, formerly known as the Washington Senators before moving to Minnesota, play their first home game, losing to the 'new' expansion Washington Senators, 5-3 in front of 24,606 fans at Metropolitan Stadium. The club's move to the North Star State will attract 1,256,723 fans, third-best in the American League, and far better than their last season in the nation's capital, where the team drew only 743,404 fans, the worst gate in the league.
1966 The Phillies obtain Larry Jackson and Bob Buhl from the Cubs in exchange for future Hall of Fame hurler Ferguson Jenkins, outfielder Adolfo Phillips, and first baseman/outfielder John Herrnstein. The pair of right-handers will post a 47-53 record collectively for Philadelphia as Chicago's new moundsman will win twenty or more games for six consecutive seasons starting in 1967.

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1967 Rain postpones a game for the first time since the Dodgers opened its stadium in Chavez Ravine in 1962. The postponement of their scheduled game against St. Louis ends a streak of 737 consecutive contests at Dodger Stadium without a washout.
1967 After ending the Red Sox's rookie no-hit bid last week, Elston Howard once again spoils Billy Rohr's effort to get into the record book when his eighth-inning two-run single breaks up the southpaw's shutout. The 21-year-old goes the distance, earning his second complete-game victory over the Bronx Bombers in seven days, but fails to become the eighth freshman to start his career with back-to-back scoreless games.

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1972 In the first American League game ever played in Texas, the transplanted Washington franchise, now known as the Rangers, beat California, 7-3. The club, managed by Ted Williams, will play their home schedule at Arlington Stadium, located between Fort Worth and Dallas, formerly known as Turnpike Stadium.

1989 After helping to arrange a syndicate to purchase the controlling interest in the Rangers for $89 million, George W. Bush, who also bought into the deal with a small stake of $500,000, convinces the investor group to make him managing general partner. The future president of the United States will become the team's public face, with co-general partner Edward W 'Rusty' Rose handling financial matters of the club.
1990 The Reds beat the Braves at Riverfront Stadium, 8-1, for their ninth consecutive victory since Opening Day. The eventual World Champions' winning streak is the best start in club history.
1994 At the Metrodome, switch-hitting DH Eddie Murray knocks a home run from both sides of the plate in the Indians' 10-6 win over the Twins. 'Steady Eddie' has gone deep batting both left-handed and right-handed in the same game eleven times, breaking the previous record established by Yankee legend Mickey Mantle in 1964.

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1996 En route to hitting 50 home runs this season, Oriole outfielder Brady Anderson leads off his fourth consecutive game with a round-tripper when he goes deep off Darren Oliver in the team’s 9-6 loss to the Rangers at The Ballpark in Arlington. Despite their leadoff man’s heroics, Baltimore goes 0-4 in those games.

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1997 The Devil Rays sign Rolando Arrojo, the former ace of the Cuban National Team. The 28-year-old right-hander, who defected from his homeland just before the start of the 1996 Summer Olympics, will set a record for wins by an expansion pitcher with 14 victories.

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2000 Due to the umpires' equipment going to New York, instead of Cincinnati, the Reds' game against the Dodgers starts 27 minutes later than scheduled. A downtown store supplies the replacement gear, but due to heavy traffic, the goods arrive at Cinergy Field with the assistance of a police escort.
2002 Atlanta shortstop Rafael Furcal ties a major league record, which was last previously done by White Sox outfielder Lance Johnson in 1995, by hitting three triples in a game. The previous Braves player to hit three three-baggers in one contest was Danny O'Connell, who accomplished the feat at County Stadium in 1956 when the team played in Milwaukee.

2006 Kansas City names the Kauffman Stadium Press Box after Hall of Fame writer and former Royals board member Joe McGuff. The 1984 J.G. Taylor Spink Award Winner died in February at 79 after battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease.
2012 Phillip Humber's first major league complete game is baseball's twenty-first perfect game when he retires all 27 Mariners he faces in the White Sox' 4-0 victory at Safeco Field. The 29-year-old right-hander, who had Tommy John surgery in 2005, is the third Pale Hose pitcher to accomplish perfection, joining Mark Buehrle (2009 vs. Tampa Bay) and Charles Robertson (1932 vs. Detroit).

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2014 Although he breaks his bat on the swing, Ike Davis becomes the first major leaguer to hit a grand slam for two different teams in April when he homers off Mike Leake, helping the Pirates defeat the Reds, 6-5, at PNC Park. Before being traded by the Mets to Pittsburgh earlier in the month, the 27-year-old first baseman went deep against another Cincinnati hurler, J.J. Hoover, for a walk-off slam in the bottom of the ninth at Citi Field.

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2015 Celebrating the 150th anniversary year of their first meeting, Wesleyan and Yale, the Connecticut schools believed to have played the first college baseball contest using the rules which resemble today’s game, meet at New Haven’s Yale Field. The Bulldogs, unlike their 39-13 rout in 1865, only beat their Middletown rivals, 7-3, improving their record in the intercollegiate series to 62-18-2.

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2016 Cubs right-hander Jake Arrieta tosses a no-hitter in the Cubs' 16-0 rout over the Reds at Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park. The Chicago ace becomes the second pitcher, joining Johnny Vander Meer, who threw consecutive no-hitters in 1938, to go unbeaten between no-no's, having not lost in his last 17 regular-season starts since his gem against the Dodgers last season.

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2018 A's southpaw Sean Manaea tosses the twelfth no-hitter in franchise history and the first since southpaw Dallas Braden's perfect game in 2010, when he keeps the opponents hitless in the team's 3-0 victory over the 17-2 Red Sox at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The 26-year-old's performance ends Boston's run of 3,987 games without being no-hit, a streak dating back to Mariners' Chris Bosio's no-no against the club at the Kingdome on April 22, 1993.

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