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| 1979 | Goose Gossage sustained a sprained ligament in his left thumb after a 6-3 loss to the Orioles in New York due to a clubhouse brawl with Yankee teammate Cliff Johnson. Due to the altercation, the reliever will be out of action until mid-July, and Johnson will be traded to the Indians in June for southpaw Don Hood. |
| 1996 |
In the eighth, the Rangers fall one run short of setting a modern major-league mark, scoring 16 runs in one inning in their 26-7 rout of the Orioles. In 1952, the Red Sox tallied 17 times in the seventh frame in a 23-3 rout of Detroit at Fenway Park.
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| 1999 | A sore back puts Oriole third baseman Cal Ripken, Jr. on the disabled list for 22 games. The injury marks the first time the Iron Man, who 1995 broke Lou Gehrig's consecutive game record by playing in 2,131 straight games, has been placed on the DL during his 19-year career. |
| 2020 |
Once considered one of the hardest throwing pitchers in the history of the game, Steve Dalkowski, a nine-year minor league veteran, playing mostly in the Orioles organization in the 1950s and '60s, dies from COVID-19 at 80. After beaning a mascot, the New Britain (CT) native inspired the character of Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh, a hurler with a blazing but uncontrollable fastball played by Tim Robbins in the 1988 classic baseball movie Bull Durham.
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4 Fact(s) Found