2nd

Bid McPhee smacks 4 hits, including a HR and a double, to support Gus Shallix's one-hit pitching and give Cincinnati (AA) a 16-1 romp over Washington.

4th

Louisville (AA) ace Guy Hecker defeats Brooklyn in a morning game (5-4) and again in the afternoon (8-2) en route to a season total of 52 wins. This remains the AA record.

Boston (UA) 2B Tom O'Brien gets 5 hits, including a ball which disappears into a dirt heap and cannot be dug out in time to prevent O'Brien from circling the bases. Thanks in part to the groundskeeper (or lack thereof) Boston whips Kansas City 23-3.

5th

After a 17-2 loss at Cincinnati (AA), Philadelphia Athletic pitcher Al Atkinson deserts his club for Chicago (UA)--the first player to break his contract and join the UA.

6th

Louisville slips past New York (AA) into first place with a 5-1 win over Baltimore.

10th

Hugh "One Arm" Daily of Chicago (UA), having tied Charlie Sweeney's one-game record of 19 strikeouts in his previous outing July 7th, becomes the first ML pitcher to hurl consecutive one-hitters, defeating Boston 2-1. By season's end Daily will have hurled 4 one-hitters, a ML record equaled by Grover Alexander in 1915.

In the AA's longest game of the season, Louisville ace Guy Hecker emerges after 15 innings a 5-4 victor over Baltimore ace Bob Emslie.

11th

P William "Bolliky Bill" Taylor, who deserted St. Louis (UA) after compiling a 25-4 won-loss record, wins in his first outing for Philadelphia's Athletics (AA), a 5-2 four hitter vs. Toledo. He will go on to win 17 more games for the A's in 1884.

12th

Boston (NL) C Mert Hackett is struck on his mask by a foul tip, and his forehead is gashed by one of the mask's wires. Louisville (AA) C Dan Sullivan is forced to leave a game the same week when a foul ball breaks through his mask.

19th

Boston's (UA) Fred "Dupee" Shaw holds pennant-bound St. Louis to one hit while fanning 18 batters, but loses the game 1-0 when batter Bill Gleason gets all the way to 2B on a dropped 3rd strike and scores on a wild pitch. In his outings of July 16th, 19th, and 21st, Shaw will amass 48 strikeouts, a ML record for 3 consecutive games (as is his 2-game total of 34 strikeouts on July 19th and 21st).

20th

Cincinnati star Charley Jones slugs 3 triples to propel his club to a 17-5 rout of Indianapolis. The victory puts the 5th-place Reds within 2 games of the lead in the tight AA race.

22nd

Providence star Charles Sweeney is suspended without pay after he refuses to move from the mound to RF in the 9th inning with a safe lead over Philadelphia. Sweeney quits the Grays and jumps to St. Louis (UA), for which he wins 24 games for a season's total of 41. As a result, Charles Radbourn is forced to pitch almost every game for the rest of the year. Sweeney's stubbornness has an immediate effect as substitute P Joseph "Cyclone" Miller surrenders 8 runs and gives the Athletics a 10-6 win.

Columbus (AA) slips into first place past Louisville and the Mets with a 5-1 win over Toledo.

24th

The New York Mets move past Columbus into the AA lead, rising from 4th place in 5 days.

30th

Lon Knight of Philadelphia (AA) goes 6-for-6 to lead the Athletics to a 19-11 win over Washington.

Showing why they lead the AA, the Metropolitans take their 11th straight win 11-5 over Brooklyn.