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1911 In the sixth inning in Detroit, the White Sox lead the Tigers, 13-1, and after eight innings, the Pale Hose lead, 15-7. The Tigers, however, score eight unanswered runs in the final two frames and win the Navin Field contest, 16-15, despite being down by as much as 12 runs.
1919 At Fenway Park with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Red Sox Wally Schang catcher is the victim of third baseman Jimmy Austin’s the hidden ball trick. The play ends the game with the Browns beating Boston, 3-2 .
1938 After accepting GM Larry MacPhail's offer to coach first base, Babe Ruth wears a Dodger uniform for the first time as a coach and takes batting practice with the team. The 'Bambino' will quit at the end of the season ending his ties with major league baseball.
1940 Dodger Ducky Medwick, traded less than a week ago is beaned by former Cardinal teammate Bob Bowman and needs to be carried off the field on a stretcher; Brooklyn president Lee MacPhail accuses the St. Louis pitcher of deliberately hitting Medwick in the head because the two had quarreled in a hotel elevator prior to the game.
1947 Reds' hurler Ewell Blackwell no-hits the Braves, 6-0. First baseman Babe Young hits two three-run homers to account for all of Cincinnati's runs.
1950 In the second game of a twin bills against the A's at Cleveland Stadium, the Indians establish an American League record by scoring 14 runs in the first inning as they rout Philadelphia, 21-2. Cleveland also won the first game from the Mackmen, 7-0.
1953 Sending twenty-three batters to the plate at Fenway, the Red Sox enjoy a 17-run and 14-hit seventh inning when they pound the Tigers, 23-3. Sammy White sets a modern major league record scoring three times in the frame, and outfielder Gene Stephens collect three hits in the to establish an American League record.
1958 White Sox pitcher Billy Pierce retired 26 consecutive batters before pinch-hitter Ed Fitzgerald doubles weakly inside the right field line for the Senators' only hit. The 31-year old southpaw then strikes out Albie Pearson on three pitches to one-hit Washington, 3-0.
1960 Tom Sheehan becomes the oldest person to debut as a major league manager The 66 year-old replaces fired Giant skipper Bill Rigney, resulting with the then second-place club finishing the season fifth, 16 games behind Pittsburgh.
1961 In Game 1 of a doubleheader at Fenway Park, the Red Sox, trailing by seven runs entering the bottom of the ninth, beat the Senators, 13-12, with the decisive blow being a Jim Pagliaroni two-out walk-off grand slam. The Boston backstop, in addition to catching all 22 innings of the twin bill, hits another walk-off home run in the 13th inning of the nightcap giving the BoSox a 6-5 victory.
1967 Astros' hurler Don Wilson no-hits the Braves, 2-0, striking out 15 of the 30 batters he faces. The right-handed fireballer, who pitch another no-no for Houston next season, becomes the tenth pitcher to throw a no-hitter as rookie.
1973 On Fathers’ Day, the A’s stage a Mustache Day promotion giving fans with hair above their upper lip free admission into the ballpark. Charlie O. Finley offers his players get $300 bonus for growing facial hair for the event, and all do except Vida Blue, who is still bitter about his recent contract negotiations with the team owner.
1975 Red Sox rookie outfielder Fred Lynn hits three home runs driving in ten runs in the 15-1 rout of the Tigers. The Chicago native also hits a single and triple, that just misses being a fourth homer by a few feet.
1977 In the bottom of sixth inning at Fenway Park, Yankees manager Billy Martin yanks Reggie Jackson out of the game after the outfielder’s curious approach to a fly ball turns a questionable hit into a cheap double for Jim Rice. In the dugout, the skipper and sensitive superstar begin screaming at one another and have to be separated by coaches Yogi Berra and Elston Howard.
1979 Billy Martin returns to dugout to manage the Yankees for second time replacing Bob Lemon, the skipper who replaced him last season and led the team to a World Championship. Martin will be at the helm this season for 95 games, and the fourth place team will win 55 of those games.
1986 Angel's hurler Don Sutton becomes the 19th major league pitcher to win 300 games when the Alabama native three-hits the Rangers, 4-1. The 43-year old right-hander will finish with a total of 324 victories during his 23-year playing career.
1989 Phillies trade infielder/outfielder Juan Samuel to the Mets for outfielder Lenny Dykstra, relief pitcher Roger McDowell and a player to be named later, that will be minor league pitcher Tom Edens.
1996 Chris Anderson becomes the first player representing the Tampa Bay Devil Rays to get a base hit. The Hudson Valley catcher, the team's 66th-round draft choice, delivers a run-producing single in the second inning of the Renegades' 7-6 loss to New Jersey in the New York-Penn League contest.
2000 The A's slam the Royals, 21-3, as every player in the Oakland starting lineup has at least one hit, one RBI and scores a minimum of one run. The 18-run difference is largest margin of victory for the A's and the largest margin of defeat for the Royals in the team's respective histories.
2000 In a 19-2 rout of the Diamondbacks, it takes only first four innings for Mike Lansing to hit for the cycle getting a triple in the first, a two-run homer in the second, a double in the third and a single in the fourth.
2001 Citing he wants to spend more time with his family, Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr. announces he will retire at the end of the season. The two-time MVP will be best remembered for his streak of playing in consecutive 2,632 games.
2001 A mandate issued by the the commissioner's office imposes a two-minute limit for warm-up tosses thrown by relievers who come in during an inning, with the time starting when the pitcher enters fair territory. At the beginning of a frame the allotted warm-up time for a hurler will be one-minute and forty-seconds unless the game is on national television, in that event the time limit will be increased by 20 seconds.
2002 In the first major league game to feature four players with 400 career homers, the Cubs beat the Rangers, 4-3, when Alex Gonzalez hits a walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth inning. Sammy Sosa (475), Fred McGriff (459) and Juan Gonzalez (401) watched Rafael Palmerio add his 460th home run to the total.
2004 At Shea Stadium, Hall of Fame catchers Carlton Fisk, Johnny Bench, Gary Carter, and Yogi Berra take part in a pre-game ceremony to honor Mike Piazza for hitting more home runs as a catcher than anyone in baseball history. The Mets’ backstop established the new mark, breaking Carlton Fisk’s record, with his 352nd home run on May 5.
2005 After 136 at-bats and 155 plate appearances with the bases full, Derek Jeter hits the first grand slam in his career. The Yankees shortstop’s homer ends the longest drought (at bats and number of homers) among current major leaguers without hitting a bases loaded home run.
2006 In a game in which veteran hurler Kenny Rogers wins his 200th career victory, the Tigers go yard eight times to set a club record. Cubs starter Mark Prior, who recently returned from the 60-day disabled list, gives up three of the home runs in the 6-run first inning of the 12-3 barrage at Wrigley Field.
2007 Trailing the Red Sox by 15½ games in the AL East after playing just sixty-nine games, the last-place Orioles fire Sam Perlozzo as the team's manager. Bullpen coach Dave Trembley is named as the interim manager in the midst of an O's eight-game losing streak as the club embarks on a West Coast road trip.
2010 President Obama, along with his two daughters, makes an unannounced trip to National Park to watch Stephen Strasburg pitch against his favorite team, the White Sox. The commander-in chief is on hand to see the 21-year old fireballer strike out ten batters to bringing the phenom's three-game total to 32, three more than the rookie record of 29 established by J.R. Richard in 1971.
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