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.

The White Sox batter the Tigers, 17–9. The two teams combined to hit a record–tying 12 home runs in the contest, matching the record they set together on May 28, 1995.

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. Reds starter Wade Miller served up a homer in the 1st to Lance Berkman, who hits another in his next at bat, good for five RBIs. He leads the National League with 74 ribbies. The Astros win in the 10th, 6–5. Austin Kearns has four hits, and Adam Dunn a homer for the Reds.

A combined total of 62 home runs are hit in today's games, breaking the old ML mark set on April 7, 2000. A record nine players have multiple home run games, breaking the previous mark of 8.

The Yankees obtain OF Raul Mondesi from the Blue Jays in exchange for minor league P Scott Wiggins.

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.

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.

Phil Nevin and Carlos Baerga hit back-to-back pinch-hitter home runs in the 9th inning, as San Diego defeats Colorado, 15-3.

Hey Mom! Texas righty pitcher Jeff Zimmerman defeats his brother Jordan Zimmerman, a lefty for Seattle, 7–6.

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.

Umpire Tom Hallion is suspended for three games for his actions during an argument with Colorado catcher Jeff Reed and pitching 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. 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.

1998
» The Red Sox and Pedro Martinez pile on the Expos, defeating them 15–0 at Fenway. The Sox collect 20 hits for Pedro.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1994
» Seattle OF Ken Griffey Jr. leads the Mariners to a 12-6 win over the Yankees by getting five singles.

1993
» Chicago OF Sammy Sosa gets six hits, one short of the National League record, in the Cubs' 11-8 win over the Rockies.

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.

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.

The Braves send Dion James to the Indians for CF Oddibe McDowell. The Braves will move Dale Murphy back to RF.

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.

The Braves send OF Dion James to the Indians for OF Oddibe McDowell, and P Zane Smith to Montreal for three minor leaguers.

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.

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.

1986
» After 14 wins, Roger Clemens suffer his first loss as Toronto scores three times in the 8th inning to down Boston 4–2. Clemens was one game short of the American League record for consecutive wins at the start of a season.

1985
» Houston's Joe Niekro wins his 200th career game 3–2 over the Padres. Joe and Phil Niekro join Jim Perry and Gaylord Perry as the only pitching brother combinations to win at least 200 games per pitcher.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1977
» The White Sox Jim Spencer clubs two home runs—one a grand slam—against the Twins and ties the club record of eight RBI. Spencer also had eight RBI on May 14th. Chicago wins, 13–8.

1976
» The Astros outslug the Reds, 10–9, in 14 innings, collecting 25 hits for the 2nd time in five weeks. Pete Rose has five hits for the Reds.

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.

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.

1973
» The Reds continue to roll as Tony Perez hits a 2-run homer in the 9th to beat the Dodgers, 4–2.

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.

Reggie Smith homers from both sides of the plate as Boston beats Milwaukee 15–4.

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.

The Reds score eight runs in the 8th to defeat the Dodgers, 12–2, at Riverfront Stadium. Tony Perez' 3-run homer is the big blow.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

Cleveland edges the Orioles, 10–9, helped by Tony Horton, who hits for the cycle. Dennis Higgins is the winning pitcher.

1969
» Reds hurler Jerry 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.

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.

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.

1963
» Nipping Curt Simmons and St. Louis 1–0, Don Drysdale puts the Dodgers into first place for good.

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.

At Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle deposits a 6th inning homer halfway up the third tier in right to lead New York to a 8–4 win over the A's. Mick walks his other three times up.

At Cincinnati, Reds 1B Gordy Coleman hits a 2-run homer in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Cubs, 4–3.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

1958
» The Dodgers split a doubleheader with St Louis, winning 3-2 before dropping the nightcap 6­4. 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.

ML baseball reinstates 1B Ed Bouchee of the Phils, who was suspended on a morals charge.

1957
» The Women's Christian Temperance Union charges that baseball has become "beerball," since so many broadcasts are sponsored by breweries.

1956
» NBC pays $16.25 million for the TV-radio rights to the All-Star Game and the WS. The players' pension fund will get 60 percent of the revenues.

1954
» 3B George Kell of the White Sox wrenches his knee and is out for five weeks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1941
» Joe DiMaggio extends his consecutive-game hitting streak to 45 by hitting a HR off Boston's Dick Newsome, surpassing Willie Keeler's all-time record.

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."

1937
» Rollie Hemsley is suspended by the Browns for violation of training rules.

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.

1934
» The Cardinals protest a game with the Cubs in a dispute over a delayed call on an infield fly by veteran umpire Bill Klem.

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.

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.

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.

1927
» The Senators complete a sweep of four games over the A's and climb into second place on a 9-game winning streak.

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.

1915
» The last place A's continue to dismantle, selling Jack Barry, part of the "$100,000 infield," for $8,000 to Boston.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With the Phils leading the Giants' Christy Mathewson, 4–3, Pete Alexander relieves Sleepy Bill Burns in the 7th and holds New York scoreless over the last three innings. The Phils jump on Matty for another three runs in the 8th to win, 7–3.

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.

1908
» The Giants rally for two runs in the 7th off Phillies starter Bill Foxen, and win, 4–3. Christy Mathewson wins his 14th.

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.

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.

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, .346 batting average.

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.

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.