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June 16th

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1884 Due to an inflammation in his right index finger, Larry Corcoran of the White Stockings’ (Cubs) pitches both left-handed and right-handed in a game against the Bisons. The natural right-hander hurls four innings alternating throwing arms before moving to shortstop in Chicago’s 20-9 loss at Buffalo’s Olympic Park.
1893 At New York’s Polo Grounds - Southeast Diamond, the Gothams (who will eventually be known as the Giants) offer free admission to both escorted and unescorted women making it the first 'Ladies Day' in baseball history. The females fans see their home town favorites beat the Cleveland Spiders, 5-2.
1916 At Braves Field, right-hander Tom Hughes no-hits the Pirates, 2-0. 'Salida Tom' will finish the season with 16-3 record, the best win-loss percentage in the National League, for the third-place Boston club.
1933 Last year's National League batting champ, Lefty O'Doul, and pitcher Watty Clark, a 20-game winner last season, are traded by the Dodgers to the Giants for first baseman Sam Leslie.
1938 Future Hall of Famer Jimmie Foxx is walked six straight times in the Red Sox 12-8 victory over Browns. The Boston first baseman will lead the American League this season with 119 base on balls.
1941 Johnny Vander Meer becomes the first hurler to start a game by throwing four consecutive bases on balls before retiring a single batter. The Giants will beat the Reds, 6-0.
1953 With a 3-1 victory in the Bronx, the Browns halt the Yankees' winning streak at 18. The St. Louis win snaps their own 14-game losing streak and hands Whitey Ford his first loss in eight decisions.
1957 Dixie Howell, in a three and two-third scoreless innings in relief, limits Washington to four hits earning his second victory of the season . The 37-year old's hitting proves to be the difference when his home runs in the fifth and sixth innings propel the White Sox to 8-6 victory at Comiskey Park.
1964 In a 7-1 victory over the Astros, Cardinal third baseman Ken Boyer hits for the cycle. In the same game, Lou Brock, recently obtained from the Cubs for Ernie Broglio, makes his debut in a St. Louis uniform with two hits, including a triple, and the fleet outfielder also steals a base.
1969 In an effort to return major league baseball to Milwaukee, the Chicago White Sox play a home game at County Stadium where only 13,133 fans show up to see the 'home' team beat the Pilots, 8-3. Ironically, the visitors will leave Seattle next season to move to the 'Cream City' with the one-year old American League franchise becoming known as the Brewers.
1969 In the bottom of the first inning at Metropolitan Stadium, Tony Oliva and Rod Carew complete a double steal swiping second and third base repectively. On the next pitch thrown by Angels’ starter Tom Murphy , the pair repeat the feat, as Carew steals home for the sixth time this season tying the American League record.
1971 Recently traded from Senators, Mike Epstein homers in his first two at-bats (giving him four consecutive homers over two games) helping the A's defeat his former team, 5-0. All the runs score on solo homers.
1976 Mark Fidrych tosses his sixth consecutive complete game beating Kansas City, 4-3. The 21-year old Detroit rookie has finished every game he has started since making his May 15 debut in the Tigers rotation.
1978 Reds' right-hander Tom Seaver no-hits the Cardinals, 4-0. It is Tom Terrific's first no-hitter after coming close three times his 12-year career.
1987 In the sixth inning of a 6-5 Baltimore loss to New York at Yankee Stadium, Cal Ripken collects his 1,000th career hit when he singles to center field off Rich Bordi. The shortstop is the youngest player in Orioles history to reach the milestone.
1989 Sammy Sosa becomes the youngest Dominican to play in the majors. The Rangers' leader off batter, a twenty-year, seven months old rookie, goes 2-for-4 with a double in Texas's 8-3 loss to the Yankees.
1989 With the Mets 5-3 victory over the Expos, Dwight Gooden wins his 100th career game. Doc's 100-37 career total at the century mark is second only to Hall of Famer Whitey Ford's 100-36 start with the Yankees in 1958.
1991 Otis Nixon establishes a National League record and ties the 1912 major league mark set by the A's Eddie Collins by swiping six bases in one game. Crime doesn't pay when the Braves' outfielder thievery cannot overcome an 7-6 loss to Montreal at Olympic Stadium.
1991 Against the Reds, Phillies' right-hander Andy Ashby strikes out the side on only nine pitches to become the 12th pitcher in National League history to use the minimum amount of pitches needed to record three strikeouts in one inning. The Philadelphia rookie becomes first in franchise history to accomplished the feat.
1997 At Yankee Stadium, the Mets beat their cross-town rivals, 6-0, in the first-ever regular season game between the two teams. Dave Mlicki throws a complete game shut out blanking the Bronx Bombers on nine hits.
2001 In a game that features thousands of swarming moths, Boston beat the Braves and the bugs in extra innings at Turner Field, 9-5. Although the insects have little bearing on the outcome of the game, the insects clearly bothered the some players, including Dave Martinez who claimed to having sucked one into his mouth.
2001 John Olerud becomes the twenty-first player to hit for the cycle more than once his career. Among all of the players who have accomplished hitting a single, double, triple and home run in the same game, the Mariners' first baseman has the fewest career triples with just 12 in his 13-year major league stint.
2005 After a pitch goes between his legs, Richmond Braves flycatcher Esix Snead charges the mound and pummels the Syracuse SkyChiefs hurler, David Bush. The action incites an International League brawl which will results in 40 players, a coach and a manager being fined and/or suspended, including a ten-day hiatus for Snead.
2006 For first time 35 years, the Yankees play a regular season game in the nation's capital beating the Nationals in an inter-league contest at RFK Stadium, 7-5. The Bronx Bombers' previous game in Washington, played in the same ball park on Sept. 30, 1971, ended with New York being awarded a 9-0 victory when Senators fans, as a protest to losing another franchise for the second time since 1961, refuse to leave the field with their team ahead by two runs in the season finale.
2006 In the sixth inning of 9-8 to Linx in Ottawa, Brandon Watson of the Columbus Clippers breaks the 95-year old International League record by extending his hitting streak to 43 consecutive games. The Nationals farmhand, who is batting .360 during this stretch, eclipses the mark set by Jack Lelivelt of the Rochester Hustlers by set in 1912.
2008 In his fifth season with Seattle, Bill Bavasi is fired as the general manager of the team with the worst record in the major leagues (24-45). Two weeks ago, in a move he comes to regret, the embattled GM locked the clubhouse doors and mandates the Mariners players to sit together and be publicly held accountable for their slow sart.
2010 Michael Young’s two-run single in the eighth inning not only contributes to the Rangers’ 6-3 victory over Florida, but also establishes a club record for hits. The 33-year old third baseman surpasses Ivan Rodriguez’s club record with his 1,748th hit, reaching the mark in 91 less games than Pudge.
27 Fact(s) Found