July 2

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1901 - With Boston leading 5-2 over the Orioles in the 6th inning, the O's score two runs off starter George Cuppy, and he leaves with two runners on base. Reliever Ted Lewis allows the runs to score, and Baltimore goes on to win 7-5. Lewis is charged with the loss under the existing rules.
1903 - Seeing that George Davis is playing for the Giants, Ed Delahanty decides to jump to New York too. Leaving the Nationals in Detroit, he boards an eastbound train. He is put off the train for rowdy, and possibly drunken, behavior at Niagara Falls. When he tries to walk across the railroad bridge over the Niagara River, he falls to his death. He had a 16-year career with a .346 batting average.
1903 - Pitcher Jack Doscher, making his debut with the Chicago Cubs, is the first son of a former ML player to also play in the ML. Father Herm was a third baseman with Troy, Chicago, and Cleveland before the turn of the century. Jack loses today at Philadelphia, 7-2, and will end the season with the Brooklyn Superbas.
1904 - The Boston Pilgrims send infielder Bill O'Neill and cash to Washington for 11-year vet Kip Selbach. Selbach almost went to the Highlanders in early May, but the deal was nixed by then-new Washington manager Patsy Donovan.
1904 - Highly touted rookie Walter Clarkson, the top college (Harvard) pitcher and brother of two major leaguers, makes his ML debut. He limits the Senators to eight hits, but the Highlanders manage just four hits and lose, 3 - 2, in the 1st of 2.
1909 - The White Sox steal 12 bases in the course of a 15 - 3 win over St. Louis. Three are steals of home, including one by P Ed Walsh in the 6th inning, for a modern ML record.
1911 - Detroit pounds out a 14 - 6 victory over Cleveland as Ty Cobb, hitting in his 40th straight game, has three hits and three runs.
1912 - At New York, Boston's Larry Gardner legs out two inside-the-park homers but the Red Sox still lose, 9 - 7, to New York.
1913 - Christy Mathewson allows 13 hits but the Giants continue to pummel the Phils, winning 8 - 4. Matty gives up no walks to run his streak to 34 innings.
1915 - For the first time since the 1911 World Series, Jack Coombs pitches against Christy Mathewson. Now with the Dodgers, Coombs wins the duel, shutting out the Giants, 3 - 0. Two singles and Zack Wheat triple in the 8th is the difference.
1915 - The last place A's continue to dismantle, selling Jack Barry, part of the "$100,000 infield", for $8,000 to Boston.
1922 - A's OF Tilly Walker hits two home runs, giving him four in two days, as the A's lose to New York 9 - 3. He will finish with 37 for the year, two ahead of Babe Ruth. The Athletics, with the American League's winningest pitcher in Eddie Rommel (27-13) and losingest in Slim Harriss (9-20) will lead the AL with 114 home runs and climb out of the cellar.
1927 - The Senators complete a sweep of four games over the A's and climb into second place on a 9-game winning streak.
1930 - Carl Reynolds of the White Sox hits three consecutive HRs in the second game of a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium. Two of them are hit inside the park. The feat is second-billed, as headlines tell of Ruth tearing a nail off his finger on the OF screen.
1931 - Babe Ruth homers to drive in a run for the 11th consecutive game as the Yankees drub Detroit, 12-1. Ruth has 18 RBI in the string.
1933 - Carl Hubbell pitches an entire 18-inning shutout for the Giants over the Cardinals to tie a record for the longest 1-0 game. He strikes out 12 and walks none, allowing only six hits in a duel with Tex Carleton, who goes the first 16 innings. In game 2, played in semidarkness, Roy Parmelee wins 1-0, on a Johnny Vergez HR. The notoriously wild Giants' pitcher does not issue a walk and strikes out 13.
1934 - At Wrigley Field, veteran ump Bill Klem's delayed call of the infield fly rule leads the Cardinals to protest their game with the Cubs. The game is suspended with two out in the bottom of the 7th inning with the Cubs ahead 5-1, and will be completed on the last day of the month with St. Louis losing with the final score of 7-4.
1936 - Cleveland OF Bruce Campbell, recently returned from a bout with spinal meningitis, goes 6-for-6 in the first game of a doubleheader. He singles in his first AB in the nightcap. The Indians sweep two, winning 14 - 6 and 4 - 2.
1937 - Rollie Hemsley is suspended by the Browns for violation of training rules.
1939 - In a doubleheader with the Dodgers before 51,435 at the Polo Grounds, the fireworks start two days early. The Dodgers take a uneventful opener 3-2, but in the fourth inning of the nitecap, Dodger player-manager Leo Durocher ends the inning by grounding into a DP and spikes 1B Zeke Bonura as he crosses the bag. Bonura takes off after Durocher, chases him down the RF line, and throws his mitt at him. He finally wrestles him to the ground. Both players are ejected, and the Giants go on to win 6-4. To Bonura's charge of intentional spiking, the Lip retorts, "If that big clown hadn't got his foot in my way, I wouldn't have been close to him."
1941 - On a sweltering day in front of 52,832 fans at Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio breaks Wee Willie Keeler's 1897's major league record consecutive game hit streak of 45 with a three-run homer off Red Sox hurler Dick Newsome.
1946 - The Yankees nip the Red Sox 2-1 before a Stadium crowd of 69,107. Spud Chandler walks nine in the first 4 innings but takes a no-hitter into the 9th before Bobby Doerr hits a one-out single.
1948 - The Senators beat the Yankees, 2 - 1, in 12 innings as Walt Masterson allows three hits and goes all the way for the win. Tom McBride makes 12 putouts to set the American League record for PO in LF in extra innings. The Yanks drop two games behind 1st-place Cleveland and one 1/2 games behind the A's.
1950 - Indian great Bob Feller wins his 200th ML game, 5 - 3, over Detroit in the 2nd game of a doubleheader split. Detroit wins the opener, 8 - 5, for their only win in the four game series.
1950 - At Crosley Field, Monk Dubiel makes his 4-hitter hold up as the Cubs win 16 - 0 over the Reds. Andy Pafko drives in five runs with a double, triple and home run, Bill Serena adds a 3-run homer, and Hank Edwards has three RBIs on four hits.
1950 - The Yankees gain a split of their 4-game series in Boston by trouncing the Red Sox 15 - 9. Big John Mize plays first and contributes a home run and a single.
1951 - Bill Veeck gets the necessary 75 percent of outstanding stock on the last day of his option to buy the St. Louis Browns from Bill and Charlie DeWitt.
1954 - 3B George Kell of the White Sox wrenches his knee and is out for five weeks.
1956 - NBC pays $16.25 million for the TV-radio rights to the All-Star Game and the World Series. The players' pension fund will get 60 percent of the revenues.
1957 - The Women's Christian Temperance Union charges that baseball has become "beerball," since so many broadcasts are sponsored by breweries.
1958 - ML baseball reinstates 1B Ed Bouchee of the Phils, who was suspended on a morals charge.
1958 - The Dodgers split a doubleheader with St. Louis, winning 3-2 before dropping the nightcap 6-4. A crowd of 66, 485 see the game at the Coliseum. This puts the Dodgers over the one million mark in just 35 home dates.
1959 - Gene Freese hits his 2nd grand slam of the season, off the Reds' Jim Brosnan, as the Phils win 7 - 6. Don Newcombe wins the nitecap for the Reds 8 - 4.
1961 - The Yankees hit five homers -- #28 by Mickey Mantle and #'s 29 and 30 by Roger Maris -- to easily beat the Senators, 13 - 4.
1961 - The Pirates sweep a pair from the Giants, winning 7 - 6 and 9 - 0. Sore-armed Vern Law, making his 1st start in more than three weeks, is lifted in the 6th and Harvey Haddix wins in relief. Bobby Shantz pitches a 5-hitter to win the nitecap as the Bucs score six unearned runs off Juan Marichal. The Giants, two 1/2 games back yesterday, will be nine out on the evening of July 8.
1961 - Pitcher Glen Hobbie and Tony Taylor each hit a pair of homers for the Cubs, but it is not enough as the Cardinals win, 10 - 9. Pinch hitter Richie Ashburn's bases-loaded single in the 8th brings home the deciding run .
1962 - At Cincinnati, Reds 1B Gordy Coleman hits a 2-run homer in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Cubs, 4 - 3.
1962 - In the first game of a doubleheader, P Johnny Podres of the Dodgers ties the modern National League record with eight consecutive strikeouts in a 5 - 1 win. Stan Williams also wins 4 - 0, as the Dodgers sweep Philadelphia and move into first place.
1963 - In one of baseball's most memorable pitching duels, the Giants' Juan Marichal and the Braves' Warren Spahn both hurl 15 scoreless innings before Willie Mays ends the marathon with a homer off Spahnie in the bottom of the 16th giving San Francisco a 1- 0 win.
1963 - Nipping Curt Simmons and St. Louis 1 - 0, Don Drysdale puts the Dodgers into first place for good.
1966 - Frank Howard, Don Lock and Ken McMullen hit consecutive home runs with two outs in the 6th inning, and Mike McCormick pitches a complete game, as Washington defeats a winless Whitey Ford and the Yankees, 10 - 4. Mike McCormick is the winner for Washington, giving up five hits including a Mickey Mantle homer, his 14th, in the 9th.
1967 - In front of a crowd of 40,000, Ferguson Jenkins (11-5) pitches the Cubs into a first-place tie with St. Louis by defeating Cincinnati 4 - 1. The Cubs have won 17 of 19 games.
1969 - Reds hurler Gerry Arrigo ties a National League record by hitting three Braves in the 2nd inning of a 9 - 4 Atlanta win. Reds hurlers plunk two more and the Braves set a post-19th century major-league record of five hit batters in one game. It won't be matched till April 19, 2000.
1970 - Cleveland edges the Orioles, 10 - 9, helped by Tony Horton, who hits for the cycle. Dennis Higgins is the winning pitcher.
1970 - Montreal's John Bateman drives in a team-record seven runs to pace the Expos to a 13 - 10 win over the Cards. Bateman's first hit is a grand slam in the Expos' six-run 1st inning.
1970 - The Reds hand the Braves their 9th loss in 10 games, as Cincy wins, 2 - 1. Jim Merritt becomes the National League's 1st 13-game winner and his batterymate Johnny Bench drives in both runs.
1970 - Detroit's Joe Niekro no-hits the Yankees until Horace Clarke singles in the 9th inning. The Tigers win 5 - 0. This is the 3rd time in the month that Clarke has broken up a no-hitter, having spoiled bids by KC's Jim Rooker (June 4th) and Boston's Sonny Siebert (June 19th).
1970 - At Connie Mack Stadium, the Phils break their scoreless streak of 53 innings and sweep two from the Mets, 6 - 1 and 3 - 2. With successive pinch hits by Tony Taylor, Ron Stone and Byron Browne, the Phils score six in the 8th inning to win the opener for Jim Bunning, then again come from behind to win the nitecap for Chris Short. The opener is the 6,000th game played at the ancient stadium.
1972 - At Montreal, rookie P Bob Rauch walks four batters in the 9th to enable the Expos to defeat the Mets, 4 - 3. For Rauch, it's his only ML decision. Mike Marshall wins for the Expos.
1972 - Reggie Smithhomers from both sides of the plate as Boston beats Milwaukee 15 - 4.
1972 - Willie McCovey hits his 14th career grand slam to pace the Giants' 9 - 3 win over the Dodgers. Randy Moffitt wins his first ML game and receives a congratulatory telegram from his sister Billie Jean King, who is playing at Wimbledon.
1972 - The Reds score eight runs in the 8th to defeat the Dodgers, 12 - 2, at Riverfront Stadium. Tony Perez's 3-run homer is the big blow.
1972 - Minnesota's Jim Kaat, sporting a 10-2 record and a 2.07 ERA, breaks his pitching hand while sliding. He will miss the remainder of the season. Kaat is relieved in the 8th by Granger, but gets credit for the 6 - 4 win over the White Sox. Tom Bradley wins his 10th in the nitecap, 2 - 1, for Chicago.
1973 - The Reds continue to roll as Tony Perez hits a 2-run homer in the 9th to beat the Dodgers, 4 - 2.
1975 - In a 13 - 5 win over Detroit, Baltimore's Don Baylor homers his first three times up, giving him four consecutive home runs over two games to tie the ML record.
1975 - Jim Rice, installed today as the Red Sox regular LF, belts two homers in the first game, including one that is the longest ever hit at County Stadium. In game 2, Fred Lynn is kept off the bases, ending his streak of 38 straight games. Boston's Rick Wise wins the opener, 6 - 3, not giving up a hit until two are out in the 9th. George Scott then clouts a 2-run homer, and Danny Darwin follows with another dinger.
1976 - The Astros outslug the Reds, 10 - 9, in 14 innings, collecting 25 hits for the 2nd time in five weeks. Pete Rose Sr. has five hits for the Reds.
1977 - For the second time this season, Jim Spencer has an eight RBI day. The White Sox first baseman's two home runs helps to beat the Twins.
1978 - Ron Guidry wins his 13th consecutive game, the best start in Yankee history, in beating Detroit, 3 - 2. With the Yankees down 2 - 0, Mickey Rivers long drive to right is caught by a fan reaching down to take it away from Detroit's Mickey Stanley. The fan drops the ball and Stanley, waiting for an interference call, fails to retrieve. Rivers motors for an inside-the-park homer and New York ties the game 2 - 2, eventually winning it.
1979 - Indians manager Jeff Torborg announces his resignation effective at the end of the season. In three weeks he will be fired and replaced by Dave Garcia.
1980 - Chicago's Ross Baumgarten allows only a 7th-inning single to Rod Carew en route to a one-hit 1 - 0 shutout of the Angels. Baumgarten will finish the season 2-12.
1982 - Boston's Tony Perez singles off Milwaukee's Bob McClure (7-2) for his 2,500th career hit, but that's a lone bright spot as the Brewers clobber the Red Sox, 14 - 5. Gorman Thomas has a pair of homers as six are hit.
1983 - For the 2nd game in a row, Reds' Gary Redus hits a leadoff home run. And for the 2nd game in a row the Reds lose to the Braves. Today it is 4 - 2; yesterday, 5 - 2. pitching brother combinations to win at least 200 games per pitcher.
1985 - Astros hurler Joe Niekro notches his 200th career victory. The Niekro brothers (Joe & Phil) will join the Perrys (Jim & Gaylord) as the only brothers to win at least 200 games per pitcher.
1986 - The Blue Jays scores three runs in the eighth inning to beat the Red Sox and Roger Clemens, 4-2. Clemens was one game short of the American League record for consecutive wins at the start of a season.
1987 - Jim Eisenreich, making a comeback after being forced out of the major leagues by a nervous disorder in 1984, hits his first ML home run since 1982 to lead the Royals to a 10 - 3 win over his former club, the Twins.
1987 - Houston's Glenn Davis ends Steve Bedrosian's record-setting streak of 13 consecutive saves by belting a 3-run home run in the top of the 9th inning to give the Astros a 7 - 6 win over the Phillies.
1989 - Brewers OF Robin Yount, 33, collects his 2,500th hit in a 10 - 2 win over the Yankees. Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Hank Aaron and Mel Ott are the only players to reach that milestone at a younger age.
1989 - The Braves send OF Dion James to the Indians for OF Oddibe McDowell, and P Zane Smith to Montreal for three minor leaguers. The Braves will move Dale Murphy back to RF.
1990 - Nolan Ryan strikes out seven batters in a 3 - 2 loss to the Red Sox. This gives him a record 22 seasons with at least 100 strikeouts. He had shared the record of 21 with Don Sutton.
1991 - After grounding out in a 4-1 loss to the Dodgers, Padres C Benito Santiago throws his batting helmet in disgust. The helmet bounces into the dugout, where it strikes pitching coach Mike Roarke in the head before ricocheting over to bean coach Greg Riddoch, giving him a concussion. Santiago is fined $300.
1993 - In honor of the team's owner, Royals Stadium is renamed Kauffman Stadium.
1993 - At Philadelphia's Veterans Stadium, the latest game in major league history ends at 4:40 am as relief pitcher Mitch Williams, in his first at-bat of the season, singles home the winning run in the tenth inning giving the Phillies a 6-5 victory over the Padres. The game, which started at 1:26 am due to the three rain delays in Game 1 of the twin bill, eclipses the 3:35 mark established in Atlanta on July 4, 1985 in game which ended with fireworks after the Mets beat the Braves in 19 innings, 16-13.
1993 - Chicago OF Sammy Sosa gets six hits, one short of the National League record, in the Cubs' 11-8 win over the Rockies.
1994 - Seattle OF Ken Griffey Jr. leads the Mariners to a 12-6 win over the Yankees by getting five singles.
1995 - Dodger righthander Hideo Nomo, who is leading the National League in strikeouts, becomes the first player from Japan to be selected for the major league All-Star Game.
1996 - The Marlins sign Domingo Aramboles, 16-year-old Dominican pitcher, to a contract, giving him a $5,500 signing bonus. Aramboles produces a birth certificate showing he's 16, but later on it is discovered that he is only 14, and the Commissioner's office will nullify the contract. His 1.71 minor league ERA will earn him a big bonus when he signs in 1998. Josephang Bernhardt, another Latin ball player who will produce a phony birth certificate, will be taken away from Tampa Bay and sign with Toronto for $750,000.
1996 - An MRI on Tony Gwynn shows fraying of the tendon in his right heel. The Padres star will be out for at least four weeks and miss the All-Star Game.
1996 - The Reds put P Pete Schourek on the 15-day DL, but he'll undergo elbow surgery on July 17th and miss the rest of the season. The Reds' other ace, Jose Rijo, recovering from surgery last August, has yet to pitch off the mound for Birmingham.
1996 - Oakland breaks a 6-6 tie by scoring five runs in the 9th inning to defeat Seattle 11-6. 1B Jason Giambi leads the way with five hits.
1998 - The Red Sox and Pedro Martinez pile on the Expos, defeating them 15 - 0 at Fenway. The Sox collect 20 hits for Pedro.
1999 - Houston defeats Cincinnati, 7-5, ending the Reds' 10-game winning streak. Cincinnati's streak consisted of an unprecedented 10 straight victories over division-leading clubs.
1999 - Umpire Tom Hallion is suspended for three games for his actions during an argument with Colorado catcher Jeff Reed and coach Milt May on June 26th. The dispute began when Rockies pitcher Mike DeJean, while walking to his dugout complained to third base umpire Terry Tata about a check-swing call, and home plate ump Hallion, told DeJean to get in the dugout. Hallion bumped Reed and May during the dispute. Officials couldn't recall another suspension of an umpire for an on-field dispute. In 1990, National League president Bill White was prepared to suspend umpire Joe West for slamming Philadelphia pitcher Dennis Cook to the field, but commissioner Fay Vincent intervened and no discipline was imposed.
1999 - Phil Nevin and Carlos Baerga hit back-to-back pinch-hitter home runs in the 9th inning, as San Diego defeats Colorado, 15-3.
1999 - In the Cards' 9 - 5 loss to the Diamondbacks, Mark McGwire belts a pair of homers, his 56th multi-homer game, which moves him into 4th place on this list ahead of Foxx.
1999 - Hey Mom! Texas righty pitcher Jeff Zimmerman defeats his brother Jordan Zimmerman, a lefty for Seattle, 7 - 6.
2000 - At Shea Stadium, Mets fan Gregory Sweeney is arrested and charged with reckless endangerment after he throws a ball back onto the field which John Rocker had tossed into the stands. In a few day later, the 26-year old Brooklyn man will be exonerated as Queens District Attorney Richard Brown concludes Mr. Sweeney had no criminal intent and was doing nothing more than following a baseball tradition of returning an unsolicited and unwanted souvenir.
2000 - After hitting two home runs in 2-1 victory over the Expos, Marlins outfielder Mark Smith becomes a hero for the second time this day when he pulls a man from a smoke-filled car minutes before the car explodes.
2001 - At the SkyDome, Manny Ramirez belts a 3-run homer in the 1st and the Red Sox roll to a 16-4 clipping of the Blue Jays. Manny's blast travels 491 feet, the longest homer in Dome history; it is his 7th of the year against the Jays, the most an opponent has hit in a season; and his 5th at the Dome, which also ties an opponents record. Chris Stynes has three hits, three runs, and three errors in the hitfest. Hideo Nomo is the winner.
2002 - The Yankees obtain OF Raul Mondesi from the Blue Jays in exchange for minor league P Scott Wiggins.
2002 - Fifty-three major league players hit a record 62 home runs breaking the mark of 57 established on April 7, 2000. A record nine players have multiple home run games, breaking the previous mark of 8. The barrage includes a record-tying dozen hit at Chicago's Comiskey Park by the White Sox and the Tigers, the same two teams which set the major league record for homers in a game with 12 at Tiger Stadium in May 1995.
2002 - At Cincinnati, the Astros and Reds play the first inning with non - regulation baseballs, the result of a mix-up by an attendant in the umpires' locker room. The attendant did not notice the word "practice" stenciled on the 144 balls he rubbed up for the game; the practice balls generally have defects such as irregular stitching or weight deviations. Astros pitcher Wade Miller notices the practice ball when warming up and informs ump Mark Hirschbeck, who rules that the practice balls must be used in the bottom of the 1st before switching. The Astros win in the 10th, 6 - 5. Austin Kearns has four hits, and Adam Dunn a homer for the Reds. Lance Berkman drives in five for Houston.
2002 - The Giants scored eight runs in the 1st inning on their way to a 18 - 5 rout of the Rockies. OF Tsuyoshi Shinjo gets five hits for SF, including a 2B and two home runs. Damon Minor, Shinjo, and Reggie Sanders each homer twice to tie a ML record. The Giants become the 16th team to have three players with multiple home runs in the same game.
2004 - Suffering through their worst season since their inception in 1998, the Diamondbacks replace manager Bob Brenly with third-base coach Al Pedrique. The former skipper of Arizona's Triple-A Tucson Sidewinders becomes the second Venezuelan to manage in the big leagues.
2005 - In one of the most severe penalties ever imposed by the commissioner's office for on-field behavior, Kenny Rogers is suspended for 20 games and fined $50,000 for actions which sends a cameraman to the hospital and launches a police investigation. The veteran southpaw, who will appeal the MLB decision, is selected by his peers to be a member of the American League All-Star squad scheduled to play next week in Detroit.
2007 - Roger Clemens allows two hits in eight innings against the Twins en route to his 350th win in the major leagues. The last pitcher to reach 350 victories in MLB was Warren Spahn in 1963.