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6/11
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BIRTHDAYS
1879 Roger Bresnahan Hall of Fame catcher, outfielder and manager (St. Louis Cardinals; first shin guards and batting helmet), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 1944)

1911 Russ Hodges sportscaster (NY Mets, SF Giants; Wednesday Night Fights), born in Dayton, Tennessee (d. 1971)

1970 Bill Selby infielder (Boston Red Sox), born in Monroeville, Alabama
1977 Odalis Pérez pitcher (MLB All Star 2002; Atlanta Braves, LA Dodgers, KC Royals), born in Las Matas de Farfán, Dominican Republic (d. 2022)

1980 Yhency Brazobán (Los Angeles Dodgers), born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
1983 José Reyes, born in Villa González, Santiago, Dominican Republic
1988 Brock Holt, American utility (only player to hit for the cycle in postseason - Boston Red Sox, 2018), born in Fort Worth, Texas

 

FROM MLB's This Day in Baseball History+​

1904 After pitching 9.1 innings of no-hit baseball, Cubs' hurler Bob Wicker settles for a 1-0, twelve-inning, one-hit victory over the Giants when Sam Mertes, for the second time in his career, breaks up an extra-inning no-hitter. The light-hitting outfielder also spoiled Indians right-hander Earl Moore's 1901 bid for a no-no when he started the game-winning rally for the White Sox with a one-out single in the top of the tenth inning.

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1911 At Chicago's West Side Grounds, Heinie Zimmerman of the Cubs drives in nine runs to set a team record, tied by Sammy Sosa in 2002. The Windy City infielder hits two home runs, a triple, and two singles in the 20-2 rout of the Braves.

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1915 At the Polo Grounds, in the Yankees' 10-9 victory over the White Sox, Ray Caldwell, batting left-handed, becomes the first major leaguer to hit a home run in consecutive pinch-hit appearances. The New York right-hander, an eventual 19-game winner this season, hit the first of his two round-trippers against Chicago as a pinch-hitter yesterday.

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1938 In the first of his two consecutive no-hitters, Johnny Vander Meer keeps the Boston Bees hitless in Cincinnati's 3-0 victory at Crosley Field. The Reds' southpaw continues his no-no mojo four days later by beating the Dodgers, 6-0, without giving up a hit in the first night game played in Brooklyn.

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1952 At Wrigley Field, 35 year-old Hank Sauer, the NL's eventual MVP, hits three solo shots off Phillies southpaw Curt Simmons. The Cubs All-Star outfielder's trio of round-trippers accounts for all of Chicago's offense when the team beats the visiting Phillies, 3-2.

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1957 The Dodgers' Roy Campanella surpasses former Cub and Giant backstop Gabby Hartnett to establish a new National League mark when he hits his 237th career round-tripper as a catcher. Campy's historic home run comes off Ray Crone in the seventh inning of Brooklyn's 7-2 loss to the Braves at Ebbets Field.

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1961 In Game 1 of a twin bill at Tiger Stadium, Norm Cash becomes the first Detroit player to hit a fair ball over the right-field roof. The first baseman's prodigious poke off Joe McClain is no avail when the Tigers lose to the Senators, 7-4.

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1963 After Brock Davis is intentionally walked to load the bases, third baseman Bob Aspromonte blasts a tenth-inning walk-off grand slam off Lindy McDaniel, lifting the Colt .45s to a 6-2 victory over the Cubs. Chicago had tied the Colt Stadium contest in the top of the ninth on a triple by Dick Bertell, a walk to Bob's brother Ken, and Don Landrum's RBI single.

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1968 The Reds trade Milt Pappas, who had been feuding with former teammate and now team broadcaster Joe Nuxhall, along with Ted Davidson and Bob Johnson, to the Braves for Clay Carroll, Tony Cloninger, and Woody Woodward. The 2-5 right-hander became expendable after complaining the team was violating the contract by players not flying first-class as well as being critical of the front office's refusal to cancel the game on the day of assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy's funeral.
1969 The Cubs trade Adolfo Phillips and right-hander Jack Lamabe to the Expos for Paul Popovich, acquired today by Montreal, along with Ron Fairly from the Dodgers in exchange for Maury Wills and Manny Mota. Chicago's latest infielder, a solid switch-hitting utility player, will play a prominent role for his new team, filling in for injured second baseman Glenn Beckert and batting .312 overall in 60 games.

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1972 LA outfielders Manny Mota and Willie Davis hit inside-the-park homers down the foul lines at Dodger Stadium off Bucs' starter Bruce Kison. Roberto Clemente's seventh-inning home run over the fence proves to be the difference in Pittsburgh's 7-5 victory, their 21st win in the last 26 games.

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1972 Graig and Jim Nettles become the tenth different pair of brothers to homer in the same game when they both go deep in the Cleveland Stadium contest. Twins center fielder Jim's solo shot in the top of the sixth inning is matched by his older brother's blast in the bottom of the seventh in Minnesota's 5-3 victory over the Indians.

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1981 The Mariners' 8-2 victory over the Orioles played in the Kingdome will be the last game played before the major league players strike over compensation for free agents. Baseball's fifth work stoppage results in 713 games not played and lasts fifty days.
1985 At Veterans Stadium, Von Hayes becomes the first player to hit two home runs in the first inning of a game. The outfielder's leadoff homer and a grand slam in the Phillies' nine-run first frame contribute to Philadelphia's 26-7 rout of the Mets.

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1988 Yankee skipper Billy Martin decides to use starting pitcher Rick Rhoden as his designated hitter due to a shortage of right-handed hitters to face southpaw Jeff Ballard, making the right-hander the first hurler to start at the position. In his lone plate appearance, the right-handed hurler hits a sacrifice fly before being lifted for a pinch-hitter in the fifth inning of the Yankees' 8-6 victory over the Orioles.

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1989 Dwight Evans plays in his 2,293rd game wearing a Red Sox uniform, surpassing Ted Williams' total to become second on the all-time list for games played with the team. Carl Yastrzemski holds the franchise mark, playing in 3,308 contests before he retired in 1983.

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1990 At the age of 43, Ranger Nolan Ryan no-hits the A's, 5-0, becoming the oldest player to throw a no-hitter, extending his major league record to six. The 'Ryan Express' becomes the first player to throw one in three different decades and to accomplish the feat for three different teams.

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1995 Mark McGwire ties a major league record by hitting five homers in back-to-back games, becoming the 15th player to accomplish the feat and the first American Leaguer to do it twice. Big Mac's three homers in consecutive at-bats, all solo shots against Zane Smith that cleared the Green Monster, help the A's defeat the Red Sox at Fenway Park, 8-1.
1995 Angels' closer Lee Smith sets a major league record, nailing down his 16th consecutive save in 16 appearances in the team's 5-4 victory over the Orioles at Camden Yards. Doug Jones had previously set the mark in 1988, recording 15 straight saves in 15 appearances with the Indians.

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1995 Yankee starting pitcher Mariano Rivera, allowing five runs on seven hits in 2.1 innings in the team's eventual 10-7 victory over Seattle, is sent back to the minor leagues. The Bombers' starting shortstop, a 20-year-old infielder named Derek Jeter, will also be demoted after the Bronx ballpark contest.
1997 After 11 straight wins starting on Opening Day, Roger Clemens gets beat for the first time wearing a Blue Jays uniform when the Mariners defeat Toronto at the Skydome, 5-1. The 34 year-old will lead the American League in victories with 21 en route to winning his fourth Cy Young Award.
1999 At County Stadium, Milwaukee retires Paul Molitor's uniform number 4. During the ceremony, the 21-year major league veteran, who also played with the Blue Jays and the Twins, announces if he goes into the Hall of Fame, he will do so as a Brewer, fulfilling a 2004 promise.

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2002 In the top of the ninth inning during the Indians and Phillies interleague game at Jacobs Field, an explosive device thrown from the upper deck explodes in a lower-level smoking area, causing minor injuries to two people. The police hold three young men suspected of causing the blast heard throughout the ballpark on suspicion of felonious assault and aggravated arson.
2002 Rays' first baseman Jared Sandberg goes deep twice on the first pitch in his two at-bats in the fifth frame in the team's 11-2 victory over the Dodgers Tropicana Field. The 24-year-old rookie, the nephew of Hall of Fame second baseman Ryan Sandberg, becomes the 39th player in baseball history to hit two home runs in one inning, a feat his uncle never accomplished.

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2003 For the first time since 1958, the Yankees are no-hit when the Astros keep them hitless with a record-setting six pitchers combining to stop the Bronx Bombers' streak of 6,980 games with at least one hit. Orioles' knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm was the last hurler to accomplish the feat, with a 1-0 victory in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium.

 

2008 At Dolphin Stadium during a 6-2 Marlins victory over the Phillies, the best play of the night is made in Section 253 as a fan catches a foul ball in his beer cup. After removing the prized possession, the happy patron continues to drink his adult beverage.

2008 With the score knotted at two at Dolphin Stadium, Marlins' second baseman Dan Uggla hits a walk-off grand slam to beat the first-place Phillies, 6-2. It's the second time in franchise history a game has ended with a bases-loaded dinger, with Bobby Bonilla accomplishing the feat against the Rockies in 1997.

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2009 Umpire Don Briggs throws the entire crowd, approximately 100 fans in attendance at Winfield-Mount Union High School (IA) for a contest against West Burlington, out of the game following his controversial call in the fifth inning. The incident occurs when the home team coach refuses to remove any of the unruly local fans, causing the ten-year veteran scholastic arbitrator to take action by borrowing a cell phone to call the police to help with the ejections.
2010 Andy Pettitte joins Whitey Ford and Red Ruffing as the only Yankees hurlers to notch 200 victories. The 37-year-old southpaw, who also reaches the 3,000 career inning plateau in the first frame of the game, gets his historic win when New York beats Houston, his former team, in an interleague contest in the Bronx, 4-3.

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2013 In a much-anticipated major league debut, Gerrit Cole throws six scoreless six innings in the Pirates' 8-2 victory over San Francisco at PNC Park. A larger-than-average Tuesday night crowd of 30,614, which includes over 10,000 walk-ups, is on hand to watch the overall 2011 First-Year Player Draft No. 1 selection earn his first big league career victory.

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2014 The Royals become the first team since the 1980 Expos to score four runs in one game, all on sacrifice flies. Kansas City, the first winning team to accomplish the feat, beat the Indians, 4-1, with their quartet of long balls in the Kauffman Stadium’s afternoon contest.
2019 Yordan Alvarez becomes the twenty-third player since 1908 to hit a homer in each of his first two career games, going deep in the Astros' 10-8 victory over the Brewers at Minute Maid Park. The 21-year-old Astro freshman, who homered in his second major league at-bat two days ago, will be named the American League Rookie of the Year, finishing the season with 27 round-trippers while playing in 87 games for the AL champs.

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On June 11 in Baseball History...

• • 1927 - During the ninth inning, the Philadelphia Athletics field a team of seven future Hall of Famers. The outfield consists of Ty Cobb in right, Al Simmons in center, and Zack Wheat in left. Jimmie Foxx is at first base, Eddie Collins is at second, and Lefty Grove pitches in relief. Cy Perkins started as catcher, but when Mickey Cochrane pinch-hit for him, seven Cooperstown-bound players were in the lineup.
  • 1974 - Mel Stottlemyre makes his 272nd consecutive start, with no relief appearances, to set an A.L. record.
  • 1985 - Von Hayes becomes the first major-league player ever to hit two home runs in the first inning, leading off with a home run and capping a nine-run outburst with a grand slam as the Phillies go on to rout the Mets 26-7. The 26 runs in one game are a club record and the most in the N.L. since 1944.
  • 1988 - Yankees designated hitter Rick Rhoden hits a sacrifice fly in New York's 8-6 win over Baltimore. He is the first pitcher to start a game as a DH since the rule was adopted in 1973.
  • 1990 - Ageless Nolan Ryan pitches his unprecedented sixth career no-hitter, striking out 14 batters in a 5-0 win over the A's. He is the first to pitch a no-hitter for three different teams, and the first to throw a no-hitter in three different decades.
  • 1995 - Montreal's Rondell White has six hits, scores five runs, and hits for the cycle in a 13-inning 10-8 win over the Giants.
  • 1997 - Kevin Brown pitches the first no-hitter of the season and the second no-hitter in Marlins history in a 9-0 win over the Giants in San Francisco. Brown has a perfect game going until he hits pinch-hitter Marvin Benard with a 1-2 pitch with two outs in the eighth inning. Benard is the only Giants player to reach base. San Francisco starter William Van Landingham also had a no-hitter for six innings before Charles Johnson's home run in the seventh breaks up the bid and triggers a Florida offensive explosion.

Baseball Birthdays on June 11...

• • 1858 - Suck, Tony
  • 1860 - Joy, Pop
  • 1860 - Friel, Pat
  • 1879 - Bresnahan, Roger
  • 1884 - Strobel, Allie
  • 1885 - Mahoney, Chris
  • 1886 - Derrick, Claud
  • 1887 - Culp, Bill
  • 1887 - Dell, Wheezer
  • 1892 - Woods, Clarence
  • 1892 - Yelle, Archie
  • 1894 - Whittaker, Walt
  • 1894 - Calvo, Jack
  • 1896 - Hollocher, Charlie
  • 1899 - Allen, Horace
  • 1902 - Nevers, Ernie
  • 1913 - Baker, Tom
  • 1919 - Jones, Earl
  • 1929 - Thomas, Frank
  • 1939 - Stewart, Jimmy
  • 1946 - Morris, Danny
  • 1948 - Cash, Dave
  • 1959 - Davis, Mike
  • 1964 - Jones, Ron
  • 1967 - Doherty, John
  • 1969 - Koelling, Brian
  • 1970 - Selby, Bill
  • 1977 - Pettyjohn, Adam

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6/12
OTD
BIRTHDAYS
1968 Scott Aldred, pitcher (Minnesota Twins), born in Flint, Michigan

1970 Damon Buford, outfielder (Texas Rangers), born in Baltimore, Maryland

1971 Ryan Klesko, outfielder (Atlanta Braves), born in Westminster, California

1974 Hideki Matsui player, born in Neagari, Ishikawa, Japan