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June 23rd

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1917 Red Sox reliever Ernie Shore replaces an ejected Babe Ruth, who had walked the only batter he faced, and retires the next consecutive 26 batters. The only base runner is thrown out trying to steal second.
1930 The Dodgers get twelve consecutive hits in a 19-6 win over the Pirates at Forbes Field. Two of the dozen hits in the eight-run sixth inning include a pair of homers hit by Brooklyn outfielder Babe Herman.
1946 At the Polo Grounds, Eddie Waitkus and Marv Rickert hit back-to-back inside-the-park home runs in the fourth inning. The Cubs, however, still lose to the Giants, 15-10.
1950 The game's eleventh round-tripper, a ninth inning game-winning home run by Hoot Evers, gives the Tigers a dramatic a 10-9 victory over the Yankees. The decisive four-bagger in the Bronx sets the major league record for the most homers ever hit in a single game.
1961 Sam Mele is named to replace Cookie Lavagetto as the manager of the Twins during the team's first season in Minnesota. As a coach, the Astoria, New York native filled in as the skipper of the club while Lavagetto took a seven-game leave of absence in earlier in the month.
1962 Larry Doby becomes one of the first players with major league experience to sign with a Japanese team. The future Hall of Famer wiill play with the Chunichi of the Nippon Professional Baseball League, but the former Indians' outfielder will only hit .225 for the Dragons.
1963 After taking Dallas Green deep, Jimmy Piersall runs around the bases in the correct order, but backward, to celebrate his 100th career home run. The Mets' outfielder, who thought of the stunt after being disappointed by the lack of attention Duke Snider's 400th round-tripper received, will be released two days later by manager Casey Stengel.
1971 In addition to hitting two home runs and driving in three runs, Rick Wise, faces throws only 95 pitches to 28 batters to no-hit the Reds, 4-0. The Phillies' hurler will again hit two home runs in same game this season against San Francisco in August.
1973 Twenty days after pitching his high team to a state championship, Rangers' rookie David Clyde pitches five innings, strikes out eight and allows just one hit in his first major league start as Texas defeats the Twins, 4-3. A crowd of 35,698 fans, the first sellout at Arlington Stadium, to see the debut of the 18-year-old phenom , $125,000 bonus baby.
1973 For the fourth consecutive game that he pitches during the month of June, Phillies' hurler Ken Brett hits a home run. The right-hander will end his 14-year career with ten round-trippers, 307 less than his brother George.
1984 In a 12-11, 11-inning Chicago victory, Cubs' second baseman Ryne Sandberg hits a lead-off solo home run in the ninth off Cardinal reliever Bruce Sutter tying the score 9-9 then hits a two-run, two-out homer in the 10th to knot the game, 11-11.
1984 The Roger Maris Museum opens in the West Acres Shopping Center located in Fargo, North Dakota. Nearly 2,000 visitors are attracted to the 72-foot showcase which features memorabilia from the slugger’s 12-year big league career, including a ticket stub from the 162nd game of the 1961 season.
1986 The Braves strand 18 runners on base establishing a National League record. Enough Atlanta players do score to give the team a 6-5 victory over L.A. at Dodger Stadium.
1993 Jay Buhner becomes the first player in Mariners history to hit for the cycle. To complete the task, the right fielder triples and will score the winning run in the 14th inning of a 8-7 victory over the A's at the Kingdome.
1995 'Marvelous' Marv Throneberry, known best by his antics as a Met, dies from cancer at the age of 60. The first baseman's gaffes on the field became emblematic of the hapless new franchise in the Big Apple.
1996 The Yankees complete a four-game sweep of the Indians in Cleveland for the first time since 1964.
2003 Stealing second base at Pacific Bell Park in the 11th inning, Barry Bonds becomes the first player to hit 500 homers and steal 500 bases in his career. The Giants' left fielder may not only be the charter member of the 500-500 club, many believe, including him, he will most likely only member, as no one else may ever reach this plateau.
2005 Making his professional debut, Yakima Bears hurler Ryan Doherty pitches a perfect sixth and seventh, striking out three of the six batters he faces, during a 3-2 loss to the Vancouver Canadians. At 7’1”, the right-hander from Toms River, New Jersey, who signed a free-agent contract with Diamondbacks after pitching for Notre Dame, becomes the tallest pitcher in professional baseball history surpassing Jon Rauch who stands a mere 6 feet-11 inches.
2006 White Sox starter Jose Contreras establishes a franchise mark, surpassing LaMarr Hoyt and Wilson Alvarez, by winning his 16th consecutive decision as Chicago beat the Astros 7-4 in a match up of last year's World Series rivals. The Cuban right-hander, whose last defeat occurred on August 15 last season against the Twins, hasn't been beaten in his past 21 regular season starts
2006 Defeating Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre, 6-1, the Mets set a club record winning their ninth straight decision on the road. The team had won their eight decisions on an 10-game road trip including stops in Los Angeles, Arizona, and Philadelphia.
2008 In an inter-league contest against the Mets at Shea Stadium, Mariners' right-hander Felix Hernandez becomes the first pitcher in the 31-year history of the franchise to hit a home run. The homer, which comes off fellow Venezuela ace Johan Santana, is also the first grand slam hit by a American League pitcher since Steve Dunning of the Indians homered off A’s moundsman Diego Segui in 1971.
2010 In a move that surprises its players, the fourth-place Marlins (34-36) fire their manager, Fredi Gonzalez along with bench coach Carlos Tosca and hitting coach Jim Presley. Edwin Rodriguez, the skipper of the team’s Triple-A affiliate in New Orleans, is named to fill the position on an interim basis.
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