June 5, 1981 - Houston's Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as baseball's all-time walks allowed leader, giving up two walks in a 3-0 win over the Mets to raise his total to 1,777. Ryan also fans ten batters while pitching a five-hitter.  When Ryan's career ends, his final total rises to 2,795 walks allowed, the current MLB record.

Boxscore & P-B-P:  http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1981/B06050HOU1981.htm

June 6, 1925 - At Griffith Stadium, future Hall of Famer Eddie Collins hits a double to become the sixth major leaguer to collect 3,000 career hits. The 38-year White Sox infielder strokes the historic two-bagger off Washington's Walter Johnson, also a future inductee in Cooperstown.

    On June 7 in Baseball History...

    1906 - Christy Mathewson and Joe McGinnity give up 11 first inning runs allowing the Cubs to rout the Giants, 19-0. Matty, who is probably still suffering the effects of diphtheria contracted in the spring, retires only one batter while issuing six base-on balls in the West Side Grounds contest.

    1911 - After having little success in vaudeville and the movies, hard drinking and battling Turkey Mike Donlin returns to the Giants. His baseball comeback will fall short.

    1921 - Due to the body of a slain girl found at the ballpark in Kingsport, Tennessee, the game is canceled to prevent the bloodhounds from becoming confused.

    1931 - In their one-day road trip to Detroit made necessary by the Sunday prohibition of baseball in Philadelphia, the A's trounced the Tigers, 12-2. The 'Mackmen' strand 18 base runners during the Navin Field contest.

    1932 - Pitcher John Quinn, at 47, becomes the oldest player to have an extra-base hit (a double) and bat in a run as the Dodgers beat the Cubs 9-2.

    1936 - The Bronx Bombers beat the Indians in a 16-inning game, 5-4. During the extra-inning marathon played at Yankee Stadium, the pitchers for either team fail to record a single strikeout.

    1938 - In a game against the Red Sox, Indians' pitcher Johnny Allen storms off the mound and doesn't return when he is ordered by ump Bill McGowan to cut off his distracting dangling sweatshirt sleeve. The shirt ends up in the Hall of Fame but the Lenoir, North Carolina native doesn't.

    1944 - Tiger southpaw Hal Newhouser walks nine in six innings, a contributing factor in the 3-1 loss to White Sox at Comiskey Park. 'Prince Hal', a future Hall of Famer, will average nearly 4.5 base on balls per nine innings during the season.

    1946 - One hour before game time, Pirates players vote 20-16 in favor of a walkout rather than play against the Giants, in order to gain recognition of the American Baseball Guild. To strike, however, requires a two-thirds majority and so the walkout does not occur. Aims of organizer Robert Murphy are not exactly stated, but goals are sometimes identified as a minimum salary of $7,500, arbitration of salary disputes, and players sharing in 50 percent of any sale price.

    1950 - The Red Sox compile 42 total bases in their 20-4 bashing of the Browns. The Fenway fireworks will continue tomorrow when Boston adds insult to injury beating St. Louis, 29-4.

    1954 - Dodger catcher Roy Campanella steals home in the top of the 12th inning in a 7-5 victory over St. Louis at Sportman's Park. Campy had added an insurance run in with an eighth inning round-tripper, but the Redbirds scored three times in the bottom of the ninth to tie the score.

    1960 - In the Cardinals' 9-1 loss to Pittsburgh at Forbes Field, Bob Gibson ties a major league record when he strikes out four batters in one inning, the additional whiff coming as a result of a wild pitch. The fourth-inning strikeout victims include Jerry Lynch, Jim Pagliaroni, B. Mazeroski, and Don Cardwell.

    1966 - The New York Mets, picking first in the June free-agent draft, pass up Arizona State outfielder Reggie Jackson to select catcher Steve Chilcott. Chilcott will retire after six years in the minors and will be the first number-one pick to never play in the major leagues. The A's take Jackson with the second pick.

    1967 - The Reds play their major-league record 11th consecutive one-run game, losing to San Francisco at Crosley Field‚ 4-3. Cincinnati's 19 year-old fireballer Gary Nolan, who strikes out 15 opponents‚ including fanning Willie Mays four times, a first in the Say Hey Kid’s Hall of Fame career, takes the loss after Willie McCovey blasts a three-run eighth-inning round-tripper‚ and reliever Bob Lee allows the decisive run to cross the plate in the frame.


    1967 - The last-place Yankees have the first pick in the free-agent draft and use it to take Ron Blomberg. The Cubs tap shortstop Terry Hughes with the next pick. All 20 first-round picks are high school players, and only 11 will eventually reach the major leagues.

    1969 - The Washington Senators name Jeff Burroughs the number one pick in the June free-agent draft. The Astros choose J.R. Richard as the second pick, and the White Sox follow with 3B Ted Nicholson. Cincinnati picks Ken Griffey on the 29th round, while Kansas City, with a record 90 picks, takes Al Cowens with their 84th choice.

    1969 - Washington's D.C. Stadium is officially renamed Robert F. Kennedy Stadium during a memorial service at the ballpark for the slain U.S. senator. In attendance for the ceremony are former NFLer Roosevelt Grier and Olympian Rafer Johnson, both who help to apprehend RFK's assassin, Sirhan B. Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel.

    1970 - Vic Davalillo gets two hits when he comes to the plate twice appearing as a pinch hitter during the seventh inning at Busch Stadium. The Venezuelan outfielder's two singles contribute to the seven-run frame of the Cardinals’ 10-7 come-back victory over San Diego.

    1972 - In the night cap of a twin bill, the Pirates edge the Padres in 18 innings at Jack Murphy Stadium, 1-0. The winning run crosses the plate as a result of Gene Alley's forcing in a run with a base-on-balls, following Bill Mazeroski receiving an intentional walk to load the bases.

    1973 - The Rangers make Texas high school pitcher David Clyde the number-one pick in the free-agent draft. He will make his major league debut later this month. Dave Winfield, the number four pick, will go straight to the major leagues. Winfield was also taken in the NBA and NFL drafts. John Stearns is taken second by the Phillies, and the Brewers, picking third, take Robin Yount. Randy Scarbery becomes the first player selected twice in the first round of the regular phase of the draft when the A's take him 23rd. The Astros picked him first in 1970, but he opted for college instead.

    1974 - The Padres, with their third number-one free-agent pick in five years, select Brown University shortstop Bill Almon. They had selected him three years earlier out of high school. The Rangers take pitcher Tommy Boggs with the second pick. The Red Sox, picking twientieth, take shortstop Eddie Ford, son of Whitey Ford.

    1975 - After an outstanding collegiate career at the University of La Verne, Royals' scout Rosey Gilhousen signs Dan Quisenberry as an undrafted free agent. During his 10-year tenure with Kansas City, the right-handed reliever saves 238 games, leading the American League for five seasons.

    1977 - The White Sox select Harold Baines with the number-one pick in the draft. Bill Veeck had first seen Baines play Little League ball and had followed his career. Pitcher Bill Gullickson is taken with the second pick by the Expos, and Milwaukee takes University of Minnesota infielder Paul Molitor with the third pick. Danny Ainge, a potential pro basketball player, is picked in the 15th round.

    1982 - Steve Garvey plays in his 1,000th consecutive game and goes 0-for-4 in a 4-3 loss to the Braves. Garvey's streak is the fifth longest in major league history.

    1983 - Steve Carlton of the Phillies strikes out Cardinals' outfielder Lonnie Smith for his 3,522nd career strikeout to pass Nolan Ryan as the all-time strikeout leader. On the same night‚ Ryan strikes out three San Francisco batters to finish one shy of Lefty's total, but will finish his career with 5,714, far ahead of the Philadelphia left-hander's mark of 4,136.

    1986 - The Pirates make University of Arkansas third baseman Jeff King the first choice in the June draft. Gregg Swindell is the next pick. Neither will sign for six weeks but Swindell will be in the major leagues after just three starts in the minors. Bo Jackson is taken in the fourth round by the Royals and College Pitcher of the Year Mike Loynd is taken by Texas in the seventh round.

    1986 - Amos Otis and Steve Busby are honored during a pre-game ceremony as they become the first inductees into the newly created Royals Hall of Fame.

    1989 - For the first time in major league history, the same game is played partly outdoors and partly indoors when the Blue Jays beat the Brewers, 4-2 in a contest that features the closing of the SkyDome's retractable roof in the fifth inning due to inclement weather.

    1994 - A's outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 1,100th career base.

    1998 - Dave Burba becomes the first Indians' pitcher to homer in 26 years when he goes deep in a 6-1 inter-league victory over the Reds at Cinergy Field. Ironically, the right-hander was scheduled to be the Opening Day pitcher for Cincinnati but was traded to Cleveland for Sean Casey the day before season started.

    1998 - After going 6-0 against the Atlanta and Florida, the Cubs complete their third consecutive three-game sweep by beating the White Sox, 13-7. The last time Chicago put together a similar streak occurred in 1918.

    2004 - The Minnesota Twins signed Gary Glover as a free agent.

    2006 - With just ten sacrifice flies during their first 58 games, the Rockies tie a major league with five sac flies during the 16-9 Coors Field victory over Pittsburgh. The Mariners established the mark against Oakland in 1988.

    2007 - With the Yankees' 10-3 victory over the White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field, Joe Torre wins his 2,000th game as a manager. The former Braves (257), Mets (286) and Cardinals (351) skipper becomes the first person in big league history to have to reached the milestone and also have at least 2,000 hits as a player.

    2007 - With two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning at Network Associates Coliseum, Shannon Stewart lines a single to right field to break up Curt Schilling's no-hitter. Thanks to a first inning home run by David Ortiz, the Red Sox beat the A's, 1-0.

    2008 - Johnny Damon goes 6-for-6, including a walk-off single which gives New York a wild 12-11 comeback victory over the Royals. The outfielder becomes the first Bronx Bomber, and only the second player, to collect six hits at Yankee Stadium.

    2010 - With the 13th pick in the MLB First-Year Player Draft, the Chicago White Sox select LHP Chris Sale from Florida Gulf Coast University in Florida.  Sale would sign with the White Sox within two weeks of his drafting and would become the first player of his draft class to reach the majors  two months later.

    2012 - Starlin Castro becomes the 28th player to collect 500 hits before the age of 23 when he singles off A.J. Burnett with two outs in the fifth inning in the Cubs' 12-2 victory over the Bucs at PNC Park. The 22-year, 167 day old Chicago shortstop reaches the milestone in his 421st major league game.

    2014 - As part of Wrigley Field's 100th anniversary, the Cubs honor 97 year-old Lennie Merullo, who receives a rousing ovation when he tosses the ceremonial first pitch prior to the team’s 5-2 victory over the Marlins. The former infielder, who went 0 for 2 when he played in three games for Chicago in the 1945 Fall Classic, is the last living person to play in a World Series game for the franchise. 

    2015 - The Atlanta Braves signed David Aardsma as a free agent.




    Baseball Birthdays on June 7...

    1856 - Benners, Ike
    1861 - Begley, Gene
    1862 - Reccius, Phil
    1863 - Ely, Bones
    1877 - Popp, Bill
    1882 - Perdue, Hub
    1884 - Moriarty, George
    1885 - McGeehan, Dan
    1888 - Chalmers, George
    1893 - Vann, John
    1899 - Henion, Lafayette
    1900 - Wells, Ed
    1901 - Conway, Jerry
    1914 - Buxton, Ralph
    1917 - Thompson, Junior
    1921 - McCahan, Bill
    1933 - Score, Herb
    1944 - Reberger, Frank
    1944 - Nelson, Roger
    1945 - Mitterwald, George
    1947 - Money, Don
    1947 - Munson, Thurman
    1948 - Ryerson, Gary
    1950 - Moloney, Richie
    1957 - Decker, Marty
    1958 - Laudner, Tim
    1960 - Paciorek, Jim
    1966 - Wilson, Trevor
    1966 - Slocumb, Heathcliff
    1969 - Pierce, Jeff
    1971 - Petagine, Roberto
    1974 - Richard, Chris
    1978 - Perez, Odalis
    1978 - Mendez, Donaldo
    1981 - Johnson, Tyler
    1982 - Vasquez, Virgil
    1983 - Lowe, Mark
    1983 - Mathis, Doug
    1984 - Berg, Justin
    1987 - Halton, Sean
    1989 - Kiekhefer, Dean
    1991 - Farrell, Luke
    1992 - Velasquez, Vincent
    1994 - Jones, Ryder



    Baseball Deaths on June 7...

    1909 - Cady, Charlie
    1909 - Decker, George
    1927 - Griffin, Pat
    1949 - Bell, Hi
    1962 - McCluskey, Harry
    1964 - Stricklett, Elmer
    1982 - Johnson, Art
    1984 - Benton, Rabbit
    1993 - Roberge, Skippy
    1995 - Lake, Eddie
    1996 - Blair, Buddy
    1997 - Goletz, Stan
    1998 - Buskey, Tom
    1999 - Garber, Bob
    2003 - Garrett, Greg
    2004 - Kitsos, Chris
    2011 - Pagan, Jose
    2016 - Quevedo, Ruben

On June 8 in Baseball History...

    1920 - The Reds' Edd Roush falls asleep in center field during a long argument in the infield. Heinie Groh goes out to wake him, but the ump ejects Roush for delaying the game.

    1921 - Babe Ruth is arrested for speeding in New York, fined $100, and held in jail until 4:00 PM. Game time is 3:15, so a uniform is taken to him. He changes in jail and follows a police escort to the ballpark where he enters with New York trailing 3-2. The Yanks rally for a 4-3 win.

    1927 - Tony Lazzeri becomes the first Yankee to hit three home runs in one game, including a ninth inning blast that ties the game. The round-tripper closes a five-run deficit, and New York goes on to beat the White Sox in the 11th inning at the Stadium, 12-11.

    1933 - Jimmie Foxx homers in his first three at-bats as the A's outscore the Yankees 14-10. He had homered his last time up the previous day to give him four consecutive home runs.

    1934 - The Reds becomes the first team to travel in an airplane when Cincinnati GM Larry MacPhail flies 19 of his players to Chicago for a series against the Cubs. In 1946, New York will be the first team to fly on a regular basis, using a chartered a Douglas DC-4, that will become known as the 'Yankee Mainliner'.

    1935 - Lou Gehrig collides with Carl Reynolds on a play at first base and leaves the game with arm and shoulder injuries. His consecutive streak is preserved, in part, by a rainout of the next day's game and an open date.

    1939 - At Shibe Park, the Yankees, using the long ball, rout the hometown A's 22-3. The Bronx Bombers set a franchise record hitting eight home runs during the contest, a mark which will not be tied for 68 years.

    1940 - In a 23-2 rout of Brooklyn, the Reds' Harry Craft hits for the cycle (a home run, a triple, a double and two singles) as Cincinnati pounds out 27 hits.

    1944 - Red Barrett retires the first 22 batters he faces before his bid for a perfect game is broken up with an eighth inning single by Delmar Ennis. The Cardinals' right-hander gains his first victory of the season with his 7-0 whitewashing of Philadelphia at Sportsman's Park.

    1950 - After beating the Browns 20-4 with 23 hits yesterday at Fenway Park, the Red Sox set the major-league record for runs scored by one team as they maul St. Louis again, 29-4. Boston’s two day totals set consecutive games records for hits and runs scored.

    1951 - White Sox reliever Marv Rotblatt becomes the first pitcher to be driven in from the bullpen when he enters the game in the 8th inning to face the Yankees in a 4-2 loss at Comiskey Park. At the present time, transportation to the mound is only for White Sox pitchers, but later in the season, the team will provide the visiting bullpen hurlers with a black Cadillac, which has been supplied by a local funeral home.

    1955 - After only eight games and 13 innings of work, the Dodgers option rookie left-handed pitcher Tom Lasorda to Montreal to make room for a bonus baby who is also a southpaw. Sandy Koufax, who had injured his ankle, comes off the 30-day disabled list.

    1961 - Milwaukee sets a major-league record with four consecutive home runs in the seventh inning against the Reds. Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron hit back-to-back home runs off Jim Maloney. Joe Adc*ck greets reliever Marshall Bridges with another home run, and Frank Thomas sets the record. When these four teammates end their major-league careers, they will have hit a combined total of 1,889 homers. For all the bombardment, the Braves lose 10-8.

    1965 - Arizona star sophomore Rick Monday, selected by the Athletics, is the first player chosen in the initial major league free-agent draft of high school, college, and sandlot players. Picking second, the Mets take pitcher Les Rohr. In the tenth round, they finally take Nolan Ryan. Cincinnati picks Johnny Bench in the second round.

    1968 - Don Drysdale works four scoreless innings against Philadelphia before finally allowing a run, after 58 2/3 shutout innings, on Howie Bedell's sacrifice fly. Bedell has no other RBI in 1968. Drysdale breaks the major league record of 56 consecutive scoreless innings set by Walter Johnson in 1913. The Dodgers win 5-3.

    1969 - On Mickey Mantle Day, the Yankees retire uniform number 7 in front of a crowd of 60,096 at the ballpark in the Bronx. The Mick also receives a plaque from Joe DiMaggio that will be hung on the center field, and, then in turn, he gives the 'Yankee Clipper' a similar plaque, telling the crowd, "His should be just a little bit higher than mine."  The Yankees then sweep the White Sox 3-1 and 11-2.


    1970 - Players and management end their labor dispute by agreeing to a new standard player contract. Among the players' victories is a raise in the minimum salary from $10,000 to $12,000 per year.

    1971 - Danny Goodwin is chosen as the first player in the June draft and turns down a reported $50,000 offer from the White Sox to attend Southern University. He will be chosen number one again in 1975. The Padres select pitcher Jay Franklin with the second pick. Future M.V.P. Keith Hernandez lasts until the 42nd round.

    1971 - At Municipal Stadium, Paul Splittorff earns his first major league victory when Kansas City defeats the visiting Senators, 4-2. In 1969, the 23-year old left-hander became the first player signed by the Royals to appear on the expansion team's major-league roster.

    1972 - Shortstops are the first two picks in the June draft. The Padres make Dave Roberts the number-one selection and the Indians pick Rick Manning number two.

    1976 - The Houston Astros, picking first in the baseball draft, select Arizona State pitcher Floyd Bannister. Bannister is one of 12 eventual major leaguers from the ASU team, which finished third in the College World Series. The Tigers take pitcher Pat Underwood with the second pick. Outfielder Rickey Henderson lasts until the fourth round.

    1977 - Nolan Ryan notches his fourth career 19-strikeout game, hurling the first 10 innings of a game against Toronto.

    1978 - Bob Horner, the College Player of the Year, is selected first in the free-agent draft by the Braves. The Blue Jays make Lloyd Moseby the second selection.

    1979 - The Mariners make Al Chambers the number-one pick in the free-agent draft. The Mets take UCLA pitcher Tim Leary with the second pick. The Blue Jays, picking third, take high-school catcher Jay Schroeder, who will play football for UCLA and in the NFL but will never catch in the majors. Dan Marino and John Elway are selected fourth and seventeenth, respectively, by the Kansas City Royals during the free-agent baseball draft. The two future NFL Hall of Fame quarterbacks will never play a day of professional baseball.

    1981 - The Seattle Mariners take Oral Roberts University righthander Mike Moore with the first pick overall in the annual amateur draft. The Cubs take Wichita State's Joe Carter with the second pick. The Yankees use their first-round pick to take Stanford quarterback John Elway.

    1986 - The Orioles beat the Yankees 18-9 in in the longest nine inning game ever played in American League history. The contest takes four hours and sixteen minutes to complete.

    1987 - Angels' hurler Don Sutton (312) loses to Phil Niekro (314), who throws seven and one-third scoreless innings for the Indians in a 2-0 win at Anaheim. It is the third time this century, all occurring during the past two seasons, that two 300-game winners have started against one another.

    1989 - After taking a 10-0 lead in the top of the first inning (Pittsburgh's best inning since 1942), the Pirates lose to the Phillies 15-11. After the season, Pirates broadcaster Jim Rooker will conduct a charity walk from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh as a result of his on-air promise to walk home if the Pirates blew their early lead.

    1989 - Steve Jeltz becomes the first player in the 106-year history of the franchise to homer from both sides of the plate when his two round-trippers help the Phillies overcome a 10-0 first-inning deficit to beat the Pirates at Veterans Stadium, 15-11. The switch-hitting shortstop will hit only five home runs during his entire big league career which includes 1,749 at-bats.

    1993 - After serving as Milwaukee's mascot from 1973 to 1984, Bernie Brewer comes out of retirement after an eight-year absence. The mustachioed costumed character, once renown for sliding into a mug of beer after hometown homers, is brought back by popular demand when the fans vote for his reinstatement by an overwhelming 21,751 to 1,389 margin.

    1996 - With two outs in the bottom of the ninth and LSU down by a run, Warren Morris hits the first-ever College World Series-ending walk-off home run giving the Tigers a dramatic come-from-behind 9-8 win over Miami. The second baseman, who missed 39 games this year due to a broken bone in his right wrist, hadn't hit a round-tripper this season.

    1997 - En route to a 2-0 shut out of the Tigers, Mariners' southpaw Randy Johnson strikes out 15 batters. It is the 74th time in the career of the 'Big Unit' has reached double digits in punch outs.

    2001 - For the first time in major league history, the two Texas teams play one another during the regular season. The Astros beat the Rangers, 5-4, in the first game of the Lone Star Series played in Arlington, Texas.

    2001 - Damion Easley becomes the ninth player in Tiger history to hit for the cycle, and the first Detroit player since 1993 when Travis Fryman accomplished the feat. The New York City native's eighth inning right-field triple completes the deed in the 9-4 victory over the Brewers.

    2005 - The Phillies trade infielder Placido Polanco to the Tigers for right-hander reliever Ugueth Urbina and utility infielder Ramon Martinez. Urbina, a two-time All-Star closer, will become the setup man for Billy Wagner in Philadelphia and Polanco will become the starting second baseman in Detroit.

    2007 - In the third inning of a 10-3 loss to Boston at Chase Field, a surprised Alberto Callaspo is tagged out by Julio Lugo after he takes a lead from second base. The Diamondbacks’ base runner is the victim of the hidden ball trick when he doesn’t realize the Red Sox shortstop had never returned the ball to the pitcher.

    2007 - With their 3-0 victory over Detroit at Comerica Park, the Mets begin a span of 18 games to become the first team in baseball history to play six consecutive series against six different clubs that all participated in the playoffs the previous season. New York will compile an 8-10 record during the stretch playing against the Tigers, Dodgers, Yankees, Twins, A's, and the Cardinals.

    2008 - Rick Harden begins the game by striking out the side on nine pitches in the A's 7-3 victory over Los Angeles at Oakland's McAfee Coliseum. Maicer Izturis, Howie Kendrick, and Garret Anderson all go down swinging in the 33-year old right-hander's immaculate inning.

    2009 - The Chicago White Sox signed Freddy Garcia as a free agent.

    2010 - The much anticipated major league debut of Stephen Strasburg lives up to its hype when the 21-year old whiffs 14 Pirate batters in seven innings in the Nationals' 5-2 victory in Washington, D.C. Baffling Pittsburgh with a mix of 100-mph fastballs and devastating curves, the right-handed rookie’s strikeout total is second only to Houston’s J.R. Richard, who fanned 15 Giants in 1971 during a 5-3 complete-game victory against San Francisco.

    2010 - Tim Wakefield tosses 7.1 innings in Boston’s 3-2 victory over Cleveland at Progressive Field to becomes the Red Sox all-time leader in innings pitched. The 43-year old right-handed knuckleballer surpasses Roger Clemens, who had established the mark during his 13 seasons with the club by throwing 2,776 frames.

    2010 - At the age of 20 years and 212 days, Mike Stanton becomes the second-youngest player to debut with the Marlins with Miguel Cabrera remaining the youngest by 149 days. The rookie right fielder’s impressive debut, 3-for-5 scoring two runs in Florida’s 10-8 loss to Philadelphia, is overshadowed by the much-anticipated start of Washington’s Wonder Boy, Stephen Strasburg in the nation’s capital.

    2012 - Six Mariners pitchers combine to hurl the franchise's third no-hitter when starter Kevin Millwood leaves the game with injury and five relievers, Charlie Furbush, Stephen Pryor, Lucas Luetge, Brandon League and Tom Wilhelmsen, keep the Dodgers hitless in the team's 1-0 victory at Safeco Field. Brian Runge, the home plate umpire, was also behind the dish for Philip Humber's perfect game making him the first ump to call balls and strikes for two no-hitters in one season since Drew Coble accomplished the feat in 1990.

    2012 - The St. Louis Cardinals released Scott Linebrink.

    2013 - The Cincinnati Reds released Mike MacDougal.

    2015 - The Atlanta Braves released Donnie Veal.


    Baseball Birthdays on June 8...

    1862 - Lee, Tom
    1870 - Donahue, Tim
    1877 - Neuer, Tex
    1887 - Paddock, Del
    1891 - Danner, Buck
    1895 - McConnell, Sam
    1901 - Tankersley, Leo
    1911 - Mungo, Van
    1912 - Krausse, Lew
    1913 - Reid, Earl
    1913 - Mahan, Art
    1919 - Schanz, Charley
    1919 - Phillips, Damon
    1923 - Kleine, Hal
    1925 - Ennis, Del
    1925 - Gaedel, Eddie
    1928 - Clarke, Webbo
    1928 - Konikowski, Alex
    1930 - Dahlke, Jerry
    1930 - Paine, Phil
    1934 - Smith, Bill
    1935 - Brunet, George
    1937 - Grzenda, Joe
    1937 - Lopez, Art
    1942 - Magrini, Pete
    1942 - Colton, Larry
    1944 - Belanger, Mark
    1946 - Lind, Jack
    1953 - Kucek, Jack
    1954 - Sakata, Lenn
    1957 - Robinson, Don
    1958 - Castillo, Carmen
    1959 - Burns, Britt
    1961 - Gross, Kevin
    1962 - Gibbons, John
    1963 - Ruskin, Scott
    1965 - Ritz, Kevin
    1967 - Chitren, Steve
    1968 - Mlicki, Dave
    1971 - Whisenant, Matt
    1975 - Perisho, Matt
    1976 - Johjima, Kenji
    1979 - Orr, Pete
    1981 - Mahar,  Kevin
    1986 - Salome, Angel
    1989 - McFarland, T. J.
    1991 - Alvarez, R. J.
    1991 - Gore, Terrance


    Baseball Deaths on June 8...

    1893 - Collins, Bill
    1931 - Ford, Ed
    1935 - Parker, Jay
    1939 - Paige, Pat
    1945 - Kemmer, Bill
    1950 - Titcomb, Cannonball
    1953 - Reagan, Rip
    1954 - O'Hara, Tom
    1963 - Smith, Earl
    1965 - Clark, Pep
    1966 - Munch, Jake
    1967 - Jacobs, Art
    1975 - Carroll, Ownie
    1982 - Paige, Satchel
    1982 - Jeffries, Irv
    1988 - Chipple, Walt
    1989 - McQuillen, Glenn
    1989 - Falk, Bibb
    1989 - Verban, Emil
    1990 - Stewart, Neb
    1993 - Henshaw, Roy
    1997 - Hunt, Ken
    2004 - Jones, Mack
    2008 - Sharkey, Mick
    2009 - Dasso, Frank
    2011 - Northrup, Jim
    2013 - Sosa, Jose
    2014 - McCool, Billy

On June 9 in Baseball History...

    1906 - A 19-game losing streak ends for the Boston Beaneaters with a 6-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals.

    1914 - At the Baker Bowl, Honus Wagner becomes the second player in the history of the game to collect 3000 hits when he doubles off Philadelphia's Erskine Mayer. Cap Anson is the only major leaguer to amass as many hits.

    1919 - Dodger standout pitcher Rube Marquard breaks his leg running the bases ending his season with a record of 3-3. The hurler will end his 18-year Hall of Fame career in 1925 after compiling a 201-177 record along with an ERA of 3.08.

    1933 - Walter Johnson takes over as Cleveland manager.

    1934 - In the eighth inning of the Senators' 8-1 victory of the Red Sox, Boston hurler Lefty Grove becomes the first pitcher in major league history to yield six doubles in one frame. The future Hall of Famer, ailing from a sore arm‚ gives up five consecutive two-baggers during Washington's barrage.

    1945 - Following an 8-7 win over the Phils, Brooklyn manager Leo Durocher is arrested on a complaint by a fan that Durocher slugged him while an Ebbets Field cop pinned back his arms. Charges are later dropped when the fan admits that he received $6,750 from the Dodgers for his injuries.

    1946 - The usually mild mannered Giants manager Mel Ott is ejected from both games of a doubleheader for arguing with the umpires. 'Master Melvin's' protests are to little avail as his team loses twice to Pittsburgh, 2-1 and 5-1.

    1946 - Ted Williams clouts the farthest home run ever hit at Fenway Park, a shot estimated to have traveled 502 feet before striking the straw hat of a fan sitting in seat 21 in the 37th row in of section 42 in right field. The seat will be painted red to commemorate the location Splendid Splinter's Ruthian blast, although at the time of the homer the area consisted of bleachers and not individual seats.


    1946 - En route to becoming the first team to draw two million fans at home, the Yankees reach the one million mark at the earliest date in major league history. The Bronx Bombers, the first team to attract one million patrons when 1,289,422 go through the Polo Grounds turnstiles in 1920, will average 29,422 fans this season, 14,000 more a game than for any previous season at Yankee Stadium.

    1949 - In eighteen innings, the Phillies beat the Pirates at Shibe Park, 4-3. The intrastate rivals both have sixteen hits in sixty-eight at bats and commit three errors along with twenty-one assists.

    1961 - En route to fanning 11 Red Sox batters, Ryne Duren breaks an American League mark when he records seven consecutive strike outs in the Angels' 5-1 victory over Boston. In the second game of a twilight-night double-header at Fenway Park , the bespectacled fireballing right-hander whiffs Frank Malzone to end the first inning, and then proceeds to strike out the side in the second and third frame sending Pete Runnels, Jim Pagliaroni, Don Buddin, Mike Fornieles, Chuck Schilling and Gary Geiger back to the bench with their bats.

    1963 - In the first major league game ever played on a Sunday night, the Colt .45's extend the Giants' losing streak to seven games blanking the visiting team, 3-0. Due to the extreme heat during the days of the Texan summer months, baseball grants permission for games to be played in the evening at Colt Stadium.

    1966 - Trailing 4-3 in the bottom of the seventh at Metropolitan Stadium, the Twins erupt for the first five-home run inning in American League history. Rich Rollins, Zoilo Versalles, Tony Oliva, Don Mincher, and Harmon Killebrew all go deep to give the Twins a 9-4 victory over the A’s.

    1968 - Unlike its decision in April to delay the start of the season after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis, Major League Baseball lets individual teams decide if they will postpone games when Robert F. Kennedy is killed two months later by an assassin's bullet. When Houston decides to continue playing their scheduled home contests, Rusty Staub and Bob Aspromonte, both who will be traded at the end of the season, protest by benching themselves in today's 3-1 loss to Pittsburgh at the Astrodome.

    1973 - Rightfielder Rusty Staub becomes the pivot man in a very unusual double play during a 4-2 Mets victory against the Dodgers at Shea Stadium. Racing in from the outfield, the 'Le Grand Orange' gets a throw near second base from first baseman John Milner and tags Davey Lopes, who was picked-off from first and then throws home to nail Tom Paciorek trying to score from second during the P-1B-SS-1B-2B-1B-2B-RF-C rundown.

    1973 - The Mets retire Gil Hodges' number 14 in tribute to their late manager, who died of a heart attack just prior to the start of the season. In addition to leading his underdog club to a World Championship in 1969, the quiet leader also hit the first home run in franchise history, a 1962 solo shot at Busch Stadium off St. Louis right-hander Larry Jackson.

    1984 - With the score tied 3-3 and the bases loaded in the 12th inning, Garry Han**** decides to drop Pete O'Brien's long foul flyball to prevent the out from becoming a game-ending sacrifice fly. Wayne Tolleson tags up and scores the winning run for Texas when the umpires rule the left fielder had caught the ball.

    1989 - Mets outfielder Darryl Strawberry hits his 200th career home run in a ten-inning, 4-3, loss to the Pirates. The six-foot, six-inch slugger will finish his 18-year major league career with 335 round-trippers.

    1990 - Eddie Murray ties Mickey Mantle's major league mark hitting a homer from both sides of the plate for the tenth time in his career. The switch-hitting first baseman's second home run of the game, batting left-handed against Eric Show, proves to be the eventual winning run in the Dodgers' 5-4 victory over San Diego in the 11th inning at Jack Murphy Stadium.

    1999 - After being ejected in the 12th inning by plate umpire Randy Marsh for arguing a catcher's interference call, Bobby Valentine returns to the dugout with a fake mustache and glasses. The National League will suspend the Mets' manager for two games and fine him for using the disguise.


    2005 - Going yard twice in his 4-for-4 day, Alex Rodriquez becomes the 40th and youngest big leaguer to hit 400 career home runs. On the 316th day of 29th year of his life, the Yankee superstar third baseman, who surpasses Ken Griffey Jr. for the honor, connects for a solo shot off Brewers’ southpaw Jorge De La Rosa in the eighth inning for the milestone marker.

    2007 - At Jamsil Stadium in Seoul, Yang Jun-hyuk of the Samsung Lions becomes the first player in the 26-year history of the Korean baseball league to collect 2,000 hits. The 14-year veteran singled on a 2-1 pitch in the ninth inning much to the delight of the 23,000 Doosan Bears fans watching the visiting outfielder reach the unprecedented milestone.

    2008 - Ken Griffey, Jr. becomes the sixth player in major league history to hit 600 career home runs. With a runner on third, Junior goes deep in the first inning on 3-1 pitch thrown by Marlins' moundsman Mark Hendrickson in the Reds' 9-4 victory at Dolphin Stadium.

    2009 - Twenty-one teams miss an opportunity to draft 17-year-old high school standout Mike Trout, who in three years will become an impact player in the American League during his rookie season. The 'Millville Meteor', selected in the first round of the Amateur Draft (25th overall) by the Angels, is most notably is pass over by the Nationals and the Diamondbacks, teams that would both pick twice before Los Angeles made its first selection.

    2010 - The Diamondbacks beat Atlanta, 2-1, thanks to a bizarre two-run inside-the-park homer hit by Gerrado Parra in the eighth inning of the Chase Field contest. The decisive runs score when Nate McLouth and Jason Heyward violently collide after sprinting into the gap in left-center field trying to make the play.

    2011 - In the midst of a nine-game losing streak, the A's fire manager Bob Geren and replace him with Bob Melvin, who will serve as interim manager for the rest of the season. During his four-plus seasons at the helm, the 47 year-old former Oakland skipper compiled a 361-412 record with the team.

    2014 - Indian third baseman Lonnie Chisenhall drives in nine runs, tying a franchise record first established in 1991 by Chris James. The Cleveland infielder collects five hits, including three home runs, in the team's 17-7 rout of Texas at Globe Life Park in Arlington.

    2015 - In front of a dwindling crowd, made up of mostly remaining Giants fans, Chris Heston strikes out the side in the ninth inning to finish the season’s first no-hitter, a 5-0 Giants’ victory over the Mets at Citi Field. The no-no thrown by the 27 year-old rookie right-hander, making just his 13th career start, is 17th in franchise history and marks the fourth straight season the feat has been accomplished by a San Francisco hurler, with Matt Cain (2012) and Tim Lincecum (2013 and 2014) throwing complete games without yielding a hit during the past three years.

    2015 - The Los Angels Angels of Anaheim released Zach Stewart.

    2015 - The New York Yankees signed Sergio Santos as a free agent. 

    2016 - The Chicago White Sox signed Justin Morneau as a free agent.

    2017 - The Chicago White Sox claimed Alen Hanson from Pittsburgh Pirates on waivers.



    Baseball Birthdays on June 9...

    1859 - Gardner, Gid
    1878 - Hesterfer, Larry
    1879 - Lauterborn, Bill
    1887 - Kraft, Clarence
    1888 - Cunningham, Bill
    1890 - Glenn, Harry
    1893 - Wheat, Mack
    1893 - Meusel, Irish
    1893 - Kavanagh, Charlie
    1899 - Narleski, Bill
    1900 - Callaghan, Marty
    1902 - Dunham, Lee
    1903 - Ryba, Mike
    1908 - Gregory, Paul
    1911 - McCormick, Frank
    1920 - Madrid, Sal
    1921 - Shore, Ray
    1925 - Pearce, Jim
    1926 - Smalley, Roy
    1931 - Virdon, Bill
    1937 - Jacobs, Jake
    1939 - Clemens, Doug
    1939 - Gotay, Julio
    1943 - Look, Bruce
    1946 - Egan, Tom
    1951 - Parker, Dave
    1951 - Baldwin, Billy
    1956 - Fulgham, John
    1961 - Edens, Tom
    1974 - Green, Scarborough
    1974 - Winn, Randy
    1976 - Kaye, Justin
    1979 - Anderson, Jason
    1980 - Fontenot, Mike
    1981 - Anderson, Drew
    1982 - Coats, Buck
    1983 - Richar, Danny
    1984 - Gurriel, Yulieski
    1988 - Kelly, Joe
    1988 - Rosscup, Zach
    1989 - De La Cruz, Joel
    1990 - Andreoli, John
    1992 - Wolters, Tom
    1993 - Holder, Jonathan



    Baseball Deaths on June 9...

    1889 - Burke, Mike
    1930 - McCarty, Lew
    1930 - Patton, Harry
    1934 - Dexter, Charlie
    1936 - Bartson, Charlie
    1937 - Kerr, Doc
    1937 - Watkins, Bill
    1952 - McHale, Bob
    1958 - Fick, John
    1959 - Huelsman, Frank
    1962 - Thompson, Will
    1972 - Bissonette, Del
    1974 - Caraway, Pat
    1977 - Lohr, Howard
    1980 - Hale, Odell
    1984 - Rhawn, Bobby
    1995 - Versalles, Zoilo
    1997 - Lee, Thornton
    2012 - Taylor, Hawk
    2014 - Welch, Bob
    2015 - Eschen, Larry

June 9, 1997 - 90-year-old former White Sox pitcher Thornton Lee dies in Tucson, Arizona. During his sixteen year MLB career, Lee pitched 11 seasons for the White Sox.

Lee reached the major leagues in 1933 at age twenty-seven and struggled for four years with Cleveland. His fortunes changed when White Sox manager Jimmy Dykes saw something in the lefthander and obtained him in a three-way deal. Relying on fine control and a sinking fastball, he blossomed under the tutelage of coach Muddy Ruel and became one of baseball's top lefthanders from 1937 to 1941. But little offensive support left him on the losing end of many close decisions.

In 1941 he had a great year, leading the league with 30 complete games and a 2.37 ERA, and collecting a $2,500 bonus for winning more than 20. Three years of misery followed; he broke his arm and underwent two bone chip removals and a neck operation. He bounced back in 1945, going 15-12, and was still pitching at age forty-two, nine years before his son, pitcher Don Lee, broke in with the Tigers. Ted Williams homered off both of them, the only man to hit a HR off a father and son. (DB)

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/leeth01.shtml

http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Thornton_Lee_1906

June 10, 1952 - White Sox outfielder Sam Mele sets the franchise record with six RBI in one inning! In the 6th inning of a game at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Mele hits a grand slam, then bats again and knocks in two more with a triple. The White Sox would win it 15 - 4.

Boxscore & P-B-P:  http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1952/B06100PHA1952.htm

June 10, 1991 - The White Sox win a thrilling 13-inning  3 - 2 game at Arlington Stadium on a bang-bang game-ending play at the plate. Two unearned runs in the top of the 13th inning gave the White Sox a two run lead.  Then in the bottom of the 13th, with two outs, one run already in and the tying run at 2nd base, White Sox first baseman Dan Pasqua boots an infield grounder but second baseman Joey Cora quickly recovers and throws a strike to catcher Matt Merullo who tags out the sliding Rangers pitch runner Mario Diaz to end the game!

Boxscore & P-B-P:  http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1991/B06100TEX1991.htm

June 11, 1961 - White Sox lefty Billy Pierce pitches a complete game six-hitter to help the Sox salvage game two of a Sunday doubleheader at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. Sox first baseman Roy Sievers provides most of the offense driving in three runs with his four hits. Final score: White Sox 7, Baltimore Orioles 1.

Boxscore & P-B-P:  http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1961/B06112BAL1961.htm

June 12, 1928 - Lou Gehrig collects fourteen total bases to lead the Yankees to a 15-7 win over the White Sox; the New York first baseman blasts two triples and two homers.

Boxscore & P-B-P:  http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1928/B06120CHA1928.htm




June 12, 1967 - In a 22-inning game which takes six hours, 38 minutes and ends at 2:43 in the morning, the Senators defeat the White Sox at D.C. Stadium, 6-5. The marathon causes the American League to adopt a curfew stating that no inning may begin after 1 00 a.m.

Boxscore & P-B-P:  http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1967/B06120WS21967.htm

On June 13 in Baseball History...

    1905 - New York hurler Christy Mathewson pitches his second career no-hitter defeating the Cubs, 1-0. In 1901, 20-year old 'Matty' became the first rookie in the modern era to throw a no-no, holding the Cardinals hitless in the Giants' 5-0 victory at Robison Field.

    1913 - In the top of the ninth inning with no outs at New York's Polo Grounds, Christy Mathewson strands a runner on third base to record his 300th victory when the Giants edge the Cubs, 3-2. During his 17-year major league career, 'Big Six' will compile a 373-188 record.

    1921 - Babe Ruth pitches the first five innings and hits two home runs in the Yankees' 11-8 victory over the Tigers at the Polo Grounds. The 'Bambino' will break his own major league record this year going deep 59 times, but this is the only time this season he will be the starting pitcher for the Bronx Bombers.

    1924 - After Bob Meusel is plunked on the back by Bert Cole, the Yankee outfielder hurls his bat at the Detroit southpaw and charges the mound. The resulting ninth-inning melee includes players, fans and the police, and when ump Billy Evans is unable to clear the field after nearly a thirty minute delay, he forfeits the game to New York, 10-6.

    1930 - For the first time baseball history, former batting champions are exchanged for one another when the Senators trade Goose Goslin to the Browns for Heinie Manush. Both Hall of Fame outfielders won their titles in the American League with Manush hitting .387 playing for the Tigers in 1926, and Goslin leading the circuit two years later with a .378 batting average for Washington.

    1938 - The Reds acquire Bucky Walters from the Phillies in exchange for catcher Spud Davis, southpaw Al Hollingsworth and $50,000. Cincinnati's new right-hander will play a major role in the team's two consecutive National League pennants when he wins 27 games in 1939 and has another 22 victories in 1940.

    1940 - In the inaugural Hall of Fame game, the Red Sox beat the Cubs at Doubleday Field, 10-9. Future Hall of Famer Ted Williams hits two home runs during the six-inning rain-shortened exhibition.

    1947 - In the first night game played at Fenway Park, the Red Sox score all their runs in the fifth inning to beat Chicago, 5-3. The contest is not the first major league game to played under the lights in Boston with the cross town NL rivals having played an evening tilt last season against New York at Braves Field.

    1948 - With the crowd of 49,641 singing 'Auld Lang Syne' to the Babe, the Yankees celebrate the silver anniversary of Yankee Stadium by holding 'Babe Ruth Day'. With members of the 1923 team (the first team to play in the stadium) looking on, the dying superstar's uniform number 3 is retired and sent to Cooperstown.

    1950 - Hoot Evers' ninth-inning home run gave the Detroit Tigers a 10-9 victory over the New York Yankees as the teams combined for 11 home runs, a major league record. The Yankees hit six and the Tigers five.

    1957 - Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams becomes the first American Leaguer to have two three-homer games in one season. The 'Splendid Splinter' drives in five runs helping Boston to defeat the Indians, 9-3.

    1957 - In a game which features the ejection of Johnny Logan and Don Drysdale, Clem Labine loses for the first time in ten months and 38 relief appearances when the Braves beat Brooklyn, 8-5. The Milwaukee shortstop charged the mound after getting drilled in the ribs by the Dodger right-hander resulting in banishment for both players.

    1957 - At Comiskey Park, an ugly brawl, precipitated by an Art Ditmar pitch behind Larry Doby’s head, breaks out when the White Sox infielder takes exception to being the target of the bean ball and punches the Yankee hurler. Billy Martin, Walt Dropo, Bill Skowron and Enos Slaughter all actively participate in the melee.

    1957 - The Indians, in an effort to get more power from their outfield, send Jim Busby to the Orioles in exchange for 28-year old Dick Williams, who will play only 67 games with the Tribe before being dealt back to Baltimore. As a result of the trade, Roger Maris will move from left to become Cleveland's full-time center fielder.

    1965 - At Shea Stadium, Ron Swoboda breaks the franchise record for home runs hit by a rookie when he goes deep off Dick Ellsworth in the first inning with a three run homer, a poke that will provide all of the runs the Mets will score in their 3-2 victory over Chicago. Jim Hickman had established the mark with 13 round-trippers in 1962, the club's inaugural season.

    1973 - The Dodgers infield, which will be together eight and a half years setting a major league record for longevity, play together the first time. First baseman Steve Garvey, second baseman Davey Lopes, third baseman Ron Cey and shortstop Bill Russell are in the line up in the 16-3 defeat to the Phillies.

    1973 - Dock Ellis walks a batter without ever throwing a pitch to him. After going 2-0 on the Atlanta left fielder Sonny Jackson, the Pirates right-hander is replaced by Ramon Hernandez, who throws two more balls to Dick Dietz, a pinch-hitter for Jackson, to complete the base-on-balls which is attributed to the Bucs' starting pitcher.

    1975 - The Indians deal right-hander Gaylord Perry to the Rangers for three pitchers, Jim Bibby‚ Jackie Brown‚ and Rick Waits‚ along with approximately $100‚000. In his three-plus years with Texas, the future Hall of Famer compiles a 48-43 record posting an ERA of 3.26.

    1976 - The Mets sweep the Giants in a twin bill at Candlestick Park, 4-2 and 4-1. The victories mark the first time in 17 tries that the team has won two games on the same day.

    1994 - At the age of 34, Cubs second baseman Ryne Sandberg suddenly retires walking away from $16 million. 'Ryno' will return to the Chicago line-up in 1996 to play for two more seasons before completing his 16-year Hall of Fame career.

    1994 - Don Mattingly surpasses fellow first baseman Wally Pipp for consecutive games played in a Yankees uniform. ‘Donnie Baseball’s 1,469th game is second to only to another Bronx Bomber first sacker named Lou Gehrig, who played in 2,130 straight contests.

    1998 - The first triple play ever completed at Dodger Stadium is turned by Darren Dreifort (p), Eric Young (2b), Jose Vizcaino (ss) and Bobby Bonilla (3b). With Colorado runners on first and second base, the 1-6-4 double play becomes a triple killing when Jamey Wright is thrown out at third base by the LA second baseman, who covered first base for the second out.

    1998 - For the fourth time in major league history, teammates hit back-to-back homers in consecutive innings. Javy Lopez and Andruw Jones accomplish the feat in the second and third frame of the Braves' 9-7 victory over Montreal at Turner Field.

    1998 - The Angels stroke a franchise-record eight doubles in their 18-6 victory in Texas. Jim Edmonds leads the Halos' attack with three two-baggers with Gary Disarcina (2), Darin Erstad, Matt Walbeck, and Garret Anderson also contributing to the club's new mark.

    1999 - With his Astros ahead 4-1 in the 8th inning, the game is suspended when Houston manager Larry Dierker can't speak, falls and begins shaking violently due to a gran mal seizure.

    1999 - Omar Olivares ties a major league record by hitting four Diamondbacks. The Angels' hurler becomes the 19th pitcher to hit four batters in a game, but the second Anaheim moundsman in three weeks to tie the dubious mark as teammate Steve Sparks also plunked four batters on May 22.

    2001 - After losing to the Expos in 12 innings on Mark Smith's home run which was clearly foul when viewed with video replays, the Yankees restore the missing screen on the bottom three feet to the fair side of the left-field foul pole. The section was removed so fans sitting behind the pole would have an unobstructed view of the game.

    2001 - Texas' Ruben Sierra homered from both sides of the plate for the sixth time in his career, but the Rangers lost 5-3 to the Dodgers.

    2001 - The Pittsburgh Pirates trade infielder Enrique Wilson (.186, 8, 1 in 46 games) to the Yankees in exchange for Double-A Norwich relief pitcher Damaso Marte (3-1, 3.50 in 23 appearances).

    2001 - Van Meter and St. Marys (Martensdale) tie a national high school record established in 1928 by hitting 16 home runs in one game. Twelve different players go deep benefitted by the wind and a small ballpark.

    2003 - On his fourth attempt, 40-year-old Roger Clemens becomes the 21st pitcher, the first since 1990, to record his 300th victory, tossing 6 2/3 innings in the Yankees' 5-2 inter-league victory over the Cardinals. In the second inning when Edgar Renteria swings through a full-count fastball, the 'Rocket' also joins Nolan Ryan (5,714) and Steve Carlton (4,136) as just the third hurler to record his 4000th career strikeout.

    2005 - In a Fenway Park pre-game ceremony prior to the interleague series against the Reds, who have not played in Boston since the 1975 World Series, the Red Sox pay tribute to Carlton Fisk and his 12th-inning Game 6 walk-off homer by naming the bright yellow stanchion in left field, where the ball landed, the Fisk Foul Pole. The former hometown hero enjoys the festivities from the Monster Seats as the crowd cheers when the home run is replayed on the scoreboard to the tune of Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus.

    2006 - The first wireless bullpen communication system in baseball history is used at Wrigley Field when a cell phone, which will be sent to the Hall of Fame, is used for the first time in major league history to call the bullpen. From the dugout, Cubs pitching coach Larry Rothschild calls the bullpen during the third inning to start warming up reliever Angel Guzman.

    2008 - Omar Vizquel becomes the first Giant to steal home in a quarter of a century. The infrequent swipe of the plate, last accomplished by Max Venable in 1983, comes in the second inning of a 5-1 inter-league loss to A's.

    2008 - Chase Utley, Ryan Howard and Pat Burrell hit consecutive homers in the first inning of Philadelphia's 20-2 rout of St. Louis.

    2009 - Torii Hunter of the Angels hit three consecutive homers in Los Angeles' 9-1 win over San Diego.

    2010 - Jose Posada’s fifth-inning grand slam, his second in the past two games, proves to be the difference in the Yankees’ 9-5 victory over Houston at the Stadium. The Bronx Bomber backstop joins Bill Dickey (1937) and Babe Ruth (1927, 1929) as the only players in franchise history to hit home runs with the bases loaded in consecutive contests.

    2010 - With their first sweep at Dodger Stadium, the Angels complete their 14-game road trip with 11 victories, the most for the team on a single trip since 1962. In the 6-5 decision over their crosstown rivals, Halos' hurler Jered Weaver strikes out his older brother, Jeff, who came into the game as long reliever in the third inning, for the first time since they were kids.

    2010 - In game against their cross-town rivals at Wrigley Field, the Cubs get out of a bases loaded jam in the final frame for a 1-0 victory over the White Sox. Juan Pierre's leadoff single in the top of the ninth spoils Ted Lilly's bid for a no-hitter, a feat that hasn't been accomplished at the 'Friendly Confines' since Milt Pappas threw a no-no in 1972.

    2011 - The Chicago White Sox claimed Leyson Septimo from the Arizona Diamondbacks on waivers.

    2012 - Matt Cain tosses the fifth no-hitter and second perfect game of the season when he retires 27 consecutive batters in the Giants' 10-0 rout of the Astros at AT&T Park. The San Francisco right-hander, with the help of two great defensive plays from outfielders Melky Cabrera and Gregor Blanco, becomes the first pitcher in the 129-year history of the franchise and the 22nd in major league history to accomplish the feat.


    2012 - Ted Barrett becomes the first major league ump to be behind the plate for two perfect games. In addition to calling ball and strikes for today's gem thrown by the Giants' Matt Cain, the 18-year veteran arbitrator was also the home-plate umpire when David Cone threw his perfecto against the Expos at Yankee Stadium in 1999.

    2012 - R.A. Dickey, who gives up only an first inning infield single for his second career one-hitter in the Mets' 9-1 victory over the Rays, breaks the franchise record for consecutive scoreless innings. Surpassing the previous club mark of 31 2-3 scoreless innings in a row set by Jerry Koosman in 1973, the 37 year-old knuckleballer establishes a new mark of 32 2/3 frames before his string is snapped with an unearned run in the ninth inning.

    2013 - The Pittsburgh Pirates released Jose Contreras.

    2014 - The Northwest League's Spokane Indians, the short-season single-A affiliate of the Rangers, introduce a new home alternate uniform which features the name “S’q'n'i" in lettering across the front of the jersey along with a character not in the English language. The word, which translate to Spokane in the Salish’s native language, will be in addition to a logo created in 2006 that uses local native imagery.


    2016 - The New York Yankees released Neal Cotts.



    Baseball Birthdays on June 13...

    1845 - Simmons, Joe
    1871 - Klobedanz, Fred
    1876 - McCann, Gene
    1878 - Bergen, Bill
    1879 - Malay, Charlie
    1891 - Kavanagh, Marty
    1894 - Baldwin, Henry
    1895 - Palmero, Emilio
    1897 - Foss, George
    1900 - Youngblood, Chief
    1903 - Yerkes, Carroll
    1904 - O'Connell, John
    1907 - Desautels, Gene
    1913 - Luby, Hal
    1920 - Rodriguez, Hector
    1922 - Parnell, Mel
    1929 - Swartz, Bud
    1932 - Gastall, Tom
    1933 - Williams, Billy
    1936 - Mathias, Carl
    1941 - Lachemann, Marcel
    1950 - Strampe, Bob
    1952 - Whitt, Ernie
    1955 - Clark, Bobby
    1966 - Coolbaugh, Scott
    1971 - Thompson, Jason
    1972 - May, Darrell
    1974 - Sweeney, Brian
    1977 - Ortiz, Jose
    1979 - Aldridge, Cory
    1979 - Diggins, Ben
    1985 - Strop, Pedro
    1986 - Lucroy, Jonathan
    1987 - Miller, Justin
    1989 - Smyly, Drew
    1990 - McCann, James



    Baseball Deaths on June 13...

    1914 - Weber, Charlie
    1918 - Wheeler, George
    1928 - Corgan, Chuck
    1938 - Reilly, Josh
    1958 - Stankard, Tom
    1962 - Lanning, Red
    1967 - Reichle, Dick
    1967 - Baird, Doug
    1976 - Davenport, Claude
    1982 - Bobb, Randy
    1987 - Betts, Huck
    1992 - Rice, Len
    1996 - Piechota, Al
    2000 - Tiefenauer, Bobby
    2003 - Hayden, Lefty
    2014 - Ballinger, Mark
    2014 - Pittman, Joe

(posted just so I could use the photo of Cindy Sandberg in her corn cob dress)

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June 13, 1994 - At the age of 34, Cubs second baseman Ryne Sandberg suddenly retires walking away from $16 million. 'Ryno' will return to the Chicago line-up in 1996 to play for two more seasons before completing his 16-year Hall of Fame career.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1995-05-07/features/9505070405_1_ryne-sandberg-chicago-cubs-fans-quitting