July 9

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1902 - The A's Rube Waddell and Boston's Bill Dinneen battle for 16 innings before the visiting Philadelphians push across two runs in the 17th to win, 4 - 2. Shortstop Monte Cross hits a 2-run home run in the 17th.
1904 - The Giants' Iron Joe McGinnity wins two today, both in relief. In the opener Joe takes over for Christy Mathewson in the 8th with the Giants ahead, 2 - 1. The Cards tie it in the 8th, but New York scores three in the 9th to win, 5 - 3. It's deja vu in the nitecap, as McGinnity relieves Hooks Wiltse and the Giants score two in the 9th to win, 5 - 2. McGinnity's record is now 22 - 2.
1912 - Christy Mathewson tops Three-Finger Brown, 5 - 2, despite allowing 11 hits and not striking out one Chicago batter.
1914:
- The Austin Senators of the Texas League loses their 27th straight.
- Ossee Schreckengost, 39, peripatetic catcher (7 teams) best known as battery and roommate of Rube Waddell while with the Athletics, dies of uremia at Philadelphia. Skilled defensively on the field, Schreckengost was an eccentric off. He had it written into his contract that Waddell could not eat crackers in bed.
1929 - Cardinals OF Chick Hafey, with eight straight hits in his two previous games, gets two more before the Phils' "Fidgety Phil" Collins stops him. His 10-for-10 ties the NL record. The Cards win 7-4.
1930:
- Alex Gaston of the Red Sox beats the Senators to stop a 10-game winning streak by the league-leading Senators. In 1929 he halted an 11-game string by the A's, the eventual winners.
- The Phillies come from behind in the last of the ninth to defeat the Giants 5-4. Chuck Klein's double off Carl Hubbell drives in Lefty O'Doul from second.
1931 - Freddie Lindstrom breaks his ankle sliding into 3B. He will be out of the lineup until early August, leaving the Giants with only three outfielders.
1932 - Yankees OF Ben Chapman has three HRs in the second game of a doubleheader with Detroit at Yankee Stadium. Two are inside the park, as the Yankees win 14-9.
1936 - The temperature is 106 degrees in Central Park, the hottest July nine on record in New York as the Indians take on the Yankees at the Stadium. The temperature at the park is 102. The Yanks score four in the 1st inning, but Cleveland comes back to score 11 runs on 15 hits, including five homers, to win 11 - 4. Hal Trosky, Roy Weatherly and Joe Vosmik all homer in the 2nd frame to tie the ML record. Trosky hits another homer to tie for the American League lead with 23. Lou Gehrig and Earl Averill also homer.
1937 - Joe DiMaggio hits for the cycle as he delivers two home runs, a triple, double and single helping the Yankees maul the Senators, 16-2. The 'Yankee Clipper' will accomplish this feat only once again in 1948.
1938 - Carl Hubbell is routed when Boston's Tony Cuccinello, Max West and Elbie Fletcher hit successive fourth-inning HRs.
1939 - The Red Sox win 4-3 and 5-3 to sweep a 5-game series in Yankee Stadium. The Yankee lead is now 6 1/2 games. Joe Cronin drives in runs in both games, giving him 12 games in a row with RBI.
1940 - At the 1940 All-Star Game in Sportsman's Park, five National League hurlers combine to throw the first shutout in All-Star history. Paul Derringer, Bucky Walters, Whit Wyatt, Larry French and Carl Hubbell three-hit the junior circuit, 4-0, with the help of Max West's three-run homer.
1946 - With seven Red Sox teammates on the AL squad, Ted Williams stages a power show with two HRs, two singles, a walk, 4 runs scored, and 4 RBI to lead the AL to a 12-0 laugher over the NL at Fenway Park. The highlight of the 1946 All-Star Game is Williams's HR off a Rip Sewell blooper pitch.
1948 - At Boston, Johnny Sain becomes the National League's 1st 11-game winner, beating Robin Roberts and the Phils, 13 - 2. Alvin Dark has three hits running his hit streak to 21 games. In the 4th inning Dark triples off the reliever Ken Heintzelman, then steals home.
1951 - At a joint meeting between players and owners, agreement is reached on night curfews and the retention of the reserve clause.
1953 - At Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium, Phillies reliever Bob Miller replaces Robin Roberts ending the starter's consecutive game streak at 28. The future Hall of Famer (1976) had finished every game he started since beating the Cardinals last season on August 28.
1955:
Chicago newspaperman Arch Ward, the originator of the All-Star Game, dies at age 58 as he is leaving to cover his 22nd midseason classic.
- Giants P Jim Hearn does it all, hitting two HRs. and whipping the Dodgers 10-2 at the Polo Grounds.
- Mickey Mantle goes 5-for-5, and Bob Turley tosses a 2-hitter in a 4-0 win over Washington.
1956 - The BBWAA, by a narrow margin of 14-12, vote to establish the Cy Young Award to honor the major leagues' most outstanding pitcher. Commissioner Ford Frick initiated the idea because he felt hurlers were not recognized in the MVP voting, but ironically the first recipient of the Cy Young Award, Dodger Don Newcombe, also won the Most Valuable Player Award.
1957 - At Busch Stadium in St. Louis, the AL nips the NL 6-5 in the 24th All-Star Game. Both teams score 3 in the 9th inning, but Minnie Minoso's running catch with the bases loaded chokes off the NL's last-half rally.
1958 - On Capitol Hill, Casey Stengel and Mickey Mantle appear in front of the Senate Anti-Trust and Monopoly Subcommittee which is investigating the baseball monopoly power in regards to sport's antitrust exemption. After 'The Old Perfessor' gives 45 minutes of rambling and confusing testimony, Senator Estes Kefauver laughs when Mickey Mantle's answers his inquiry about the topic with, "My views are just about the same as Casey's."
1959:
- The Red Sox club the Yankees, 14 - 6 before 30,253, the largest crowd at Fenway so far this year. Frank Sullivan is the winner. Wertz, Williams and Avila club homers. Williams and Avila drive in seven runs.
- Two 20-year-old Baby Birds - Milt Pappas and Jerry Walker - shut out the Senators 8 - 0 and 5 - 0. The Orioles recall young Brooks Robinson from the minors.
- Roger Craig relieves in the 3rd and pitches 11 scoreless innings, throwing just 88 pitches, to give the Dodgers a 4 - 3 victory over the Braves. The loss drops the Braves from 1st place to 3rd, as Brooklyn takes over 2nd place.
- Ray Herbert and Johnny Kucks of Kansas City sweep the Tigers 5 - 0 and 4 - 0 in a doubleheader.
- In the first game of a doubleheader, Gene Freese blasts his 3rd grand slam of the year as the Phils top the Cards 11 - 0 at home.
- ML baseball announces that the 1960 season will open one week later than this year in hopes of getting better weather.
1960 - Jim Coates suffers his first loss after nine straight wins, and 14 straight over two seasons, as the Red Sox beat the Yankees 6 - 5. The Sox are lead by Vic Wertz, who slugs a home run, double and single to drive in four runs. Coates's major-league record is 17 - 2.
1961:
- At Los Angeles, Frank Robinson has a pair of homers, a double and single to drive in seven runs and the Reds coast over LA, 14 - 3.
- The Tigers take over 1st place with a doubleheader sweep of the Angels. Frank Lary's 13th victory in the opener, a 1 - 0 three-hitter, is followed by Jim Bunning's 6 - 3 win in the nitecap.
- Sherm Lollar's 9th-inning pinch-hit grand slam, off Frank Funk, for the White Sox crushes Cleveland 7 - 5. It is the 5th pinch slam in the American League this season - two by the Sox - and ties the ML record. The Sox also win a 2nd game 9 - 8. Over the afternoon eight home runs are hit.
1962 - At a meeting held in conjunction with the All-Star Game, the ML players request a reduced schedule for the 1963 season. They also vote unanimously to continue playing two All-Star Games each year.
1963 - Willie Mays is held to a single, but dominates a 5 - 3 National League win in the All-Star Game. He also walks, steals twice, scores twice, bats in a pair, and makes a great catch. It is Stan Musial's 24th All-Star appearance, a record. Musial's teammates comprise the starting infield for the NL: 1B Bill White, 2B Julian Javier, SS Dick Groat and 3B Ken Boyer. Javier was chosen as the replacement for Pittsburgh's injured 2B, Bill Mazeroski.
1965 - Senators LF Frank Howard ties a major-league record with seven strikeouts in Washington's twin-bill split with the Red Sox.
1966 - Felipe Alou hits two home runs off Sandy Koufax, the 3rd and last time that Sandy gives up two homers to one batter in a game. Atlanta beat the Dodgers, 5 - 2.
1967 - In the bottom of the 9th inning, Willie Stargell breaks a 1 - 1 tie by slamming a Jim Maloney pitch over the RF roof at Forbes Field. The Bucs top the Reds, 2 - 1.
1968 - Appropriately, pitching dominates the All-Star Game in the first All-Star game played indoors. Willie Mays, playing in place of injured Pete Rose Sr., tallies an unearned run in the first inning against American League starter Luis Tiant Jr. to complete the scoring for the day - the first All-Star effort to end 1 - 0. Don Drysdale, Juan Marichal, Steve Carlton, Tom Seaver, Ron Reed and Jerry Koosman hold the AL to three hits.
1969:
- With one out in the 9th, Chicago's Jimmy Qualls singles to left-center field, the only blemish on Tom Seaver's 4 - 0 near-perfect win before a record crowd (59,083) at Shea Stadium.
- With the Twins hosting Kansas City, the Royals' Bob Oliver attempts to steal 2B with Ellie Rodriguez at bat. Catcher John Roseboro pushes Rodriguez's bat out of the way and his throw to 2B nails Oliver. After huddling eight minutes with his umpire crew, home plate ump John Rice declares Rodriguez out for interference and orders Oliver back to 1B, though (as author Rich Marazzi points out) the rule states that an out nullifies an interference call. The Royals win, 4 - 3. Killebrew accounts for all the Twins scoring with a homer.
- President Nixon watches the Senators for the 4th time this season, and they finally win one for him, beating the Indians, 3 - 0, behind Joe Coleman's 4-hitter.
1970:
- Dalton Jones of the Tigers loses a grand slam against the Red Sox when he passes teammate Don Wert on the base paths. Jones pinch hits for Jim Price and belts a 2-2 pitch from Vincente Romo into the RF upper deck for a grand slam. However, he passes Wert between first and second and is called out, ending up with a 3-RBI single.
- In Atlanta, Chief Nok-a-homa is joined by his cousin, Chief Round-the-Horn. The duo fails to inspire the Braves, who lose to the San Francisco Giants, 7-6, in 11 innings.
1971:
- The Royals' Freddie Patek hits for the cycle off of Jim Perry. The 5'5" Kansas City shortstop's efforts help defeat the Twins, 6-3.
- Braves SS Leo Foster makes a memorable debut. Against the Pirates, he errs on his first chance, hits into a double play in the 5th, and a triple play in the 7th. Pittsburgh rolls by Atlanta, 11-2.
- The A's beat the Angels 1 - 0 in the longest shutout in American League history - 20 innings. Vida Blue strikes out 17 batters in 11 innings for the A's, while the Angels' Billy Cowan ties a major-league record by fanning six times. Both teams combine for 43 strikeouts, a new major-league record for incompetence (or pitching dominance, depending on one's perspective).
1972:
- The Twins lose to the Yankees, 9 - 6, despite Rich Reese's pinch grand slam. For Reese, it is his 3rd pinch grand slam, tying Ron Northey's ML record.
- The Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 batters, including an American League-record eight in a row and three on nine pitches in the 2nd inning, as he stops the Red Sox on one hit. Carl Yastrzemski's one-out single in the 1st is only hit: Ryan then racks up his eight K's and retires the last 26 consecutive batters. Sonny Siebert loses the 3 - 0 battle. For Ryan, he is the 3rd pitcher to twice fan the side on nine pitches.
1973 - In a record-setting walkathon between the Reds and Expos, 25 base on balls are handed out as Montreal strolls to an 11 - 6 win. Well off the American League's two-team mark of 30, this tops the National League record of 23, last reached on July 7, 1911. Six Montreal pitchers walk 16, one short of the record for an NL team, while Reds pitchers Clay Carroll and Tom Hall walk 9. Hal King pinch hits a grand slam for the Reds in the 6th inning, his 2nd pinch dinger in nine days.
1976:
- In Houston, the Astros' Larry Dierker no-hits the Montreal Expos, 6 - 0, to even his record at 8-8. Dierker, who had previously thrown two one-hitters, strikes out eight, including the first two in the 9th.
- Before 53,328 in Cincinnati, the Pirates score two runs in the 10th on a Richie Zisk homer and take an 11 - 9 lead, only to lose to the Reds, 12-11. George Foster's single scores the tying and winning runs.
- Boston Red Sox owner and president Tom Yawkey dies.
1977 - Ralph García of Juarez (Mexican League) hurls his 2nd no-hitter of the season in beating Durango, 3 - 1. He throttled Nuevo Laredo without a hit on April 16th.
1979 - The fans elect three Red Sox to start in the American League outfield for the All-Star Game: Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Rice and Fred Lynn.
1985:
- New York's Ron Guidry works eight 2/3 innings to win his 10th straight, beating the Royals, 6 - 4. Guidry allows nine hits and strikes out 1.
- The Blue Jays trade 1B-OF Len Matuszek to the Dodgers for veteran Al Oliver, who joins his 5th club in the last three seasons.
- In the bottom of the third inning of a game between the Blue Jays and the Mariners, Phil Bradley is on second with one out when Gorman Thomas singles to right. Jesse Barfield's throw to Buck Martinez nails Bradley, though Martinez breaks his ankle in the collision. When Thomas tries to take 3B on the play, Martinez' throw sails into LF. Thomas tries to score but George Bell's throw to Martinez beats him. Buck makes the catch and tag while sitting on the ground. Whitt takes over catching and the Jays win in 13 innings, 9 - 4. The big blow is a grand slam homer by George Bell in the 13th - the first extra inning slam in club history - to break a 4 - 4 tie.
1986:
- The Padres trade P Tim Stoddard to the Yankees for P Ed Whitson, who had become the target of such fan abuse in New York that manager Lou Piniella would no longer pitch him in Yankee Stadium.
- Atlanta's Dale Murphy does not play in the Braves 7 - 3 win over the Phillies, ending his consecutive-game streak at 740. Murphy hadn't missed a game since September 1981.
1987 - Mike Schmidt hits his 513th career home run off Atlanta's Zane Smith to move past Eddie Mathews and Ernie Banks into 10th place on the all-time list, but the Phillies lose to the Braves 11 - 6.
1988:
- Nolan Ryan wins his 100th game as an Astro, 6 - 3 over the Mets, and becomes the 7th pitcher in ML history to win 100 for two different clubs. Ryan won 138 games for the Angels in the 1970s.
- Chris Speier hits for the cycle and Ernest Riles hits the 10,000th home run in Giants history to lead San Francisco to a 21 - 2 rout of the Cardinals. The 21 runs are a San Francisco record. Speier also cycled as an Expo in 1978, just the 4th major leaguer to do so for two teams. He joins Joe Cronin (Washington, 1929; Red Sox, 1940), Babe Herman (Dodgers, 1931; Cubs, 1933) and Bob Watson (Astros, 1977; Boston, 1979).
1991 - Cal Ripken Jr.'s 3-run home run lifts the American League to a 4-2 win over the National League in the annual All-Star Game. Andre Dawson homers for the NLers who lose for the 4th straight year. Ripken, who also won the pre-All-Star Game Home Run Derby, is named the game's MVP. Tony LaRussa becomes the first manager with three straight All-Star victories.
1992:
- Baltimore's Brady Anderson and Mike Devereaux lead off the game against the Twins' Scott Erickson with back-to-back homers. The Orioles go on to a 4 - 2 victory.
- Bobby Valentine is fired as manager of the Texas Rangers. At the time, he had managed the team for 1,186 games, the most in major league history with one club without winning a division or league title. Toby Harrah replaces Valentine on an interim basis.
- The Red Sox trade P Tom Bolton to the Reds in exchange for OF Billy Hatcher.
1993 - By homering twice in Montreal's 6-1 win over San Diego, Expo OF Moises Alou sets a record for most hits that are all homers in consecutive games, with 6. He had a homer yesterday, one on the 7th, and two on the 6th.
1994 - Alex Rodriguez, the first draft pick in 1993, has his first two ML hits in Seattle's 7 - 4 win over Boston. Rodriguez is the youngest player to start in the majors since C Brian Milner for Toronto, June 23, 1978.
1995 - A worker installing lights for a computer trade show falls 25 feet to his death in the Toronto SkyDome.
1996:
- The National League defeats the American League, 6-0, in the All-Star Game. Ken Caminiti and Mike Piazza homer for the winners. Piazza's homer goes into the upper deck and he also adds a RBI double. The game is the first All-Star contest in which no walks are issued by either team. Cal Ripken Jr. starts the game, despite suffering a broken nose when he accidentally catches a forearm from Chicago P Roberto Hernandez. Hernandez slipped on the tarp during the AL team photo shoot.
- At the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Cuban pitcher Rolando Arrojo defects to the U.S.
- The Giants trade 1B Mark Carreon to the Indians for P Jim Poole.
1997 - Bob Boone is fired as Royals manager and replaced by Tony Muser.
1998:
- Benny Agbayani, Norfolk Tides outfielder about to be called up to the Mets, is married at home plate to his fiancee Neila before the Triple-A All-Star Game between the International and Pacific Coast Leagues. Agbayani, from Hawaii, and his bride wear Hawaiian shirts and have a receiving line of bat-toting ballplayers. The IL whips the PCL, 8-4. Tomorrow, Agbayani will make his ML debut, pinch-running in the 9th of an 8 - 8 game. He will slip trying to steal and get run down. Another Met runner is doubled off 2B in the 10th and the Expos win, 9 - 8.
- Brewers owner Bud Selig, who served as acting commissioner for nearly the last six years, is named by the owners to be baseball's ninth commissioner. To avoid conflicts of interest, his ownership of the Milwaukee's franchise will be placed in trust.
- Ila Borders becomes the first female pitcher in history to start a minor league baseball game, as she hurls the first five innings, surrendering five hits and three runs, while registering two walks and two strikeouts, for the Duluth-Superior Dukes in their 8 - 3 loss to the Sioux Falls Canaries in the Northern League. Borders was tagged with the loss.
1999:
- The Royals lose to the Astros, 6-5, despite five hits, including a double, by 3B Joe Randa.
- The uniform Lou Gehrig wore when he made his famous "luckiest man on earth" speech on July 4, 1939 is sold for $451,541 at auction. Leland's spokesman Marty Appel says the flannel pinstripe uniform worn by the Hall of Fame first baseman was purchased by a south Florida man who did not want his name made public. The winning bid was made over the phone. Yesterday Carlton Fisk's home run ball that won Game Six of the 1975 World Series for the Boston Red Sox sold for $113,273.
- The Diamondbacks acquire P Matt Mantei from the Marlins in exchange for pitchers Vladimir Nunez and Brad Penny and a player to be named.
2000:
- In the Padres' 4 - 3 win over the Rangers, closer Trevor Hoffman becomes the 17th pitcher to record 250 career saves.
- The Angels win over the Rockies, 10-4, as OF Darin Erstad gets four hits. Erstad now has 144 safeties, the most by any player at the All-Star break since Ralph Garr had 149 in 1974.
- Houston's Jose Lima ends his 13-game losing streak and the Astros beat the Royals, 9-6.
- Led by 1B Tyler Houston, who strokes three home runs and drives home six runs, the Brewers beat the Tigers, 10-3.
- The Yankees lose to Mike Hampton and the Mets, 2 - 0. Benitez closes for the Mets, while Andy Pettitte is the loser. The Yanks also lose Shane Spencer, who blows out his knee and ends his season. The game at Shea Stadium draws 54,283, the largest regular season crowd for the Mets since 1970.
2001 - Arizona OF Luis Gonzalez beats Chicago OF Sammy Sosa in the Home Run Derby during the All - Star festivities.
2002 - Despite chants of 'Let them play!' from the sellout crowd of 41,871 at Milwaukee's Miller Park, Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig declares the 73rd All-Star Game a 7-7 tie after 11 innings. No player is selected to receive the first Ted Williams Most Valuable Player award, named in honor of the late Red Sox legend who died five days ago. Alfonso Soriano and Barry Bonds hit home runs in the contest.
2005:
- After 11 years, Coors Field finally has a 1-0 game as the Rockies escape a bases full ninth inning to edge the Padres. The span of 847 regular season games is the longest time ever needed for any big league ballpark to host a contest with baseball's lowest possible score.
- Mike Sweeney's 5-for-5 performance helps him tie a Kansas City Royals franchise record collecting 8 consecutive hits. With knocks in his last three at-bats yesterday, the Royals designated hitter's streak includes three doubles and five singles.
- In his first big-league at-bat, Cubs pinch hitter Adam Greenberg is struck in the back of the head by the first pitch he sees from Marlin hurler Valerio de los Santos. The 24-year old Guilford, Connecticut native is forced to leave the game, but will be okay after the dizziness and headaches caused by a mild concussion wears off.