BB On this Date ~ Events & Birthdays #2

1990 At Candlestick Park, Giants' hurler Scott Garrelts is perfect, putting away the first 26 Reds batters 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 established 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.


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 gave up the go-ahead run, Anthony Young's record-setting 27-game losing streak comes to an abrupt end when the Mets scored twice in the ninth for a 5-4 walk-off victory over Florida at Shea Stadium. The infamous string of bad luck covered 81 appearances over two seasons, including 14 losses as a starter and 13 as a reliever.

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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 be an essential piece of the team's success in the late nineties.

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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.

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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, obtaining 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 Oriole outfielder Melvin Mora's wife, Gisel, gives birth to quintuplets. The three boys and two girls, weighing under two and a half pounds each, are doing well.

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.'

 

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.

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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 pitchers of Frisco RoughRiders (Rangers-AA) 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 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 when 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 bid farewell to their All-Star outfielder, who batted .289 with 15 home runs and 66 RBIs in the final season of his seven-year deal with the team.

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.

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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 all the inductees were posthumously honored happened in 1968, with the enshrinement of Pud Galvin, the game's first 300-game winner, 63 years after his death.

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.

2023 In a 5-1 victory over the Nationals at Citi Field, Pete Alonso homers twice, becoming the second player in Mets history with four 30-homer seasons. The 28-year-old first baseman joins Hall of Fame catcher Mike Piazza in accomplishing the feat for the team.
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Although the space is occupied by charter school today 44th and Parkside Park was here. It was home to the Philadelphia Stars of the Negro Leagues. Hall of famers include Oscar Charleston, Turkey Stearns, and Jud Wilson.

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A #HappyBirthday to retired sportscaster Marty Brennaman (82). #Reds 1999 Virginia Sports Hall of Fame inductee 2000 Ford C. Frick Award recipient 2005 National Radio Hall of Fame inductee 4X Virginia Sportscaster of the Year 12X Ohio Sportscaster of the Year
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JULY 29 BASEBALL BIRTHDAYS
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1899 Walter Beall

1938 Don Wert (Detroit Tigers)


1951 Dan Driessen


1963 Steve Frey pitcher (Orioles, Philadelphia Phillies)


1965 Luis Alicea infielder (St Louis Cardinals)

1968 Mike Williams pitcher (MLB All-Star 2002, 03; only pitcher in All-Star game with ERA over 6.00; Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates


1970 Steve Wojciechowski pitcher (Oakland A's)


1980 Ryan Braun (Los Angeles Angels)

1984 Chad Billingsley MLB player (Los Angeles Dodgers)


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This Day in Baseball History
July 29th​

1908 Rube Waddell fans sixteen of his former teammates when the Browns defeat the A's at Sportsman's Park, 5-4. During the off-season, Philadelphia's owner/manager, a frustrated Connie Mack, traded his talented but free-spirit hurler to St. Louis.

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1911 In the first game of a twin bill at Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds, Red Sox right-hander Joe Wood whiffs twelve Browns en route to a 5-0 no-hitter. 'Smokey,' a nickname coined due to his blazing fastball, throws the fifth hitless game in franchise history and the last accomplished in the Boston ballpark.

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1911 The Giants establish a franchise mark with nine stolen bases in the team's 8-0 rout of the Redbirds at Robison Field in St. Louis. Eight different New York players contribute to the record, with seven of the nine bags pilfered off Cardinals backstop Jack Bliss.

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1915 Pirates' third baseman Honus Wagner reaches Robins hurler Jeff Pfeffer for a grand slam in the eighth inning, helping Pittsburgh beat Brooklyn at Forbes Field, 8-2. The inside-the-park round-tripper makes the 41-year-old infielder the oldest player to hit a home run with the bases full, a record that will last until 1985.

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1919 At Navin Field, Dutch Leonard decides to pitch around Bob Roth with two outs in the ninth inning to face Babe Ruth. Although the Boston slugger, who has already reached the Detroit southpaw with two doubles, responds by tying an American League record with his ninth homer of the month and sixteenth of the season, the Tigers prevail, 10-8.

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1928 The Indians follow their eight-run first inning with nine more tallies in the next frame of their 24-6 rout of the Yankees at Dunn Field. The Tribe's third baseman, Johnny Hodapp, collects two singles in the second and sixth frames.

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1938 On the WGN's White Sox pregame radio show, Yankee outfielder Jake Powel responds to a Bob Elson question concerning his offseason employment as a Dayton, Ohio policeman, quips, "I crack n*****s on the head." Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis downplays the incident, describing the ballplayer's comments as acting not "intentionally, but carelessly," and will suspend the reserve flychaser for ten days.

1944 Annabelle Lee, the aunt of future major leaguer Bill Lee, pitches the first of five perfect games in the 12-year history of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The Minneapolis Millerettes southpaw knuckleballer, who will toss a no-hitter for the Fort Wayne Daisies precisely one year from this date, doesn't allow any batters to reach first base in the 18-0 rout of the Kenosha (WI) Comets.

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1955 Smoky Burgess hits three home runs and drives in nine runs in the Reds' 16-5 rout of Pittsburgh at Crosley Field. In addition to his grand slam and pair of two-run round-trippers, the Cincinnati catcher also collects a run-scoring single.

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1968 At Connie Mack Stadium, Reds' right-hander George Culver faces 34 batters, throws a no-hitter, and beats the Phillies, 6-1. Philadelphia tallies an unearned run in the second inning when Dick Allen reaches base on a throwing error by the third baseman, goes to second on another miscue on the same play, and gets to third base on a groundout before scoring on a sacrifice fly.

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On July 29, 1968, George Culver woke up and felt sluggish. He was feeling sick, he was too nauseated to eat his lunch, he tried to ride to work with his roomie, Pat Corrales, but his stomach had other plans. He arrived late to the ballpark, then couldn't warm up as planned because his ingrown toenail flared up, requiring a novacaine injection. The AP wire said, "George Culver had himself quite a day - a lousy, sick, toe-hurtin', curve-ballin', no-hittin', glorious kind of day."

1969 Eighteen years after his last game, Major League Baseball proclaims Joe DiMaggio as its greatest living player, a title the Yankee Clipper would proudly embrace until he died in 1999. Sportswriters determined the controversial nickname, considering Mickey Mantle and Hank Aaron are among many worthy candidates, in a poll to coincide with professional baseball's centennial.

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1978 The Yankee Stadium crowd is pleasantly surprised as recently resigned manager Billy Martin returns to join in on the Old Timers' Day festivities. Much to their delight, the fans respond with a seven-minute standing ovation when informed 'Billy the Kid' will return as the team's skipper in 1980.

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1983 Due to a dislocated thumb suffered in a collision at home plate in an attempt to score in the first game of the Padres' doubleheader against Atlanta, first baseman Steve Garvey's consecutive game streak ends in the nightcap at 1,207. At the time, the span is the third-longest in major league history without missing a game.


1986 Sparky Anderson, the first manager to win the World Series in each league, also becomes the first to win 600 games in both the National and American Leagues when Detroit beats the Brewers, 9-5. The future Hall of Fame skipper finishes with a 2194-1834 (.545) record during his 26 years with Reds and Tigers, capturing five Pennants and three World Series.

1988 The Orioles deal pitcher Mike Boddicker to the Red Sox for Brady Anderson and Curt Schilling. Boddicker will have two successful years with Boston, and Anderson will become a productive leadoff hitter for Baltimore, with Schilling becoming one of baseball's most dominant pitchers of his era.


1988 After home plate umpire Mike Reilly doesn't grant his request for a time-out, Bo Jackson recovers to hit a home run despite not being set in the batter's box when the pitch is delivered. The Royals left fielder's fourth-inning three-run poke off Jeff Ballard contributes to Kansas City's 6-3 victory over Baltimore at Memorial Stadium.

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1989 The White Sox trade left fielder Fred Manrique and franchise home run leader Harold Baines to the Rangers for outfielders Scott Fletcher, Sammy Sosa, and southpaw Wilson Alvarez. Three seasons later, the Pale Hose will send Slammin' Sammy to the Cubs, where the Dominican slugger will hit 545 home runs during his 13-year stay with their crosstown rivals.

1989 During a Veterans Stadium pregame ceremony, the , which features the future Hall of Famer receiving a ring with his uniform digits in diamonds and a trip around the world for his family. After being traded from the Cardinals in 1972, the left-hander posted 241 wins (1st in franchise history), compiled 3,031 strikeouts (1st), and threw 39 shutouts (2nd) during his 15-year tenure with the team.

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1989 Rickey Henderson steals five bases and scores four runs without getting an official time at-bat. The improbable offensive output occurs when the A's leadoff hitter is issued four bases-on-balls by Randy Johnson, the winner in the M's 14-6 victory at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.

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