2002
» Oakland scores eight runs in the 9th inning to complete their 12–2 win over Texas.

The White Sox trade OF Kenny Lofton to the Giants in exchange for minor league pitchers Felix Diaz and Ryan Meaux.

The Indians send P Paul Shuey to the Dodgers. In return, the Tribe gets P Terry Mulholland and minor league pitchers Ricardo Rodriguez and Francisco Cruceta.

Ozzie Smith is inducted in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

2001
» In a day-night DH, Vinny Castilla of the Houston Astros became the 13th player this season to hit three home runs in a game when he does it against the Pittsburgh, but the Pirates still edge the Astros, 9–8, with an amazing comeback. Pittsburgh becomes only the 2nd team in NL history to win a game by scoring seven runs with two outs and nobody on base in the 9th inning. Brian Giles caps the scoring with a walk-off grand slam off Astros ace Billy Wagner to win it. The Cubs did it, against the Reds, in the first game of a doubleheader on June 29, 1952.

The Twins get P Todd Jones from the Tigers in exchange for P Mark Redman.

2000
» The Mets pick up All-star SS Mike Bordick from the Orioles for IF/OF Melvin Mora, C Mike Kinkade, and pitchers Lesli Brea and Pat Gorman. New York then picks up OF Bubba Trammell and P Rick White from the Devil Rays for light-hitting OF Jason Tyner and P Paul Wilson.

The Indians obtain pitchers Bob Wickman, Steve Woodard, and Jason Bere from the Brewers in exchange for slugging 1B Richie Sexson, pitchers Paul Rigdon and Kane Davis, and a player to be named.

The Indians keep trading, bringing back OF Wil Cordero from the Pirates for talented prospects IF Enrique Wilson and OF Alex Ramirez. The Tribe had declined to resign Cordero after last season and he upped with the Bucs for three years. Then they pick up slick-fielding 1B David Segui from the Rangers for OF Ricky Ledee.

The Athletics obtain pitchers Jim Mecir and Todd Belitz from the Devil Rays in exchange for P Jesus Colome and a player to be named. Mecir will fill in for the slumping Jason Isringhausen.

1999
» The Blue Jays obtain 1B David Segui from the Mariners in exchange for pitchers Tom Davey and Steve Sinclair. Segui's refusal of the Mariners' 3-year, $17 million offer prompted the trade. Segui will settle for a one-year arbitrated contract with the Jays.

1998
» I like, it so much, I'll do it again. Sammy Sosa hits his 2nd grand slam in four at bats in the Cubs 7–5 loss to the Diamondbacks. Sosa is the first Cub to hit grand slams in consecutive games, and just the 18th in history.

Twins 2B Todd Walker ties a club record with his 9th consecutive hit, in a 3–0 victory over KC. He also matches a club record by reaching base safely 11 straight times. Walker's batting average is now up to .352.

1997
» In the 1st game of a doubleheader, Milwaukee P Steve Woodard, recalled just that morning, hurls eight innings of 1-hit ball to defeat the Blue Jays, 1-0. Mike Fetters tosses a hitless 9th for the Brewers. Toronto's only hit is a double by CF Otis Nixon.

1996
» Padres' C John Flaherty has his 27-game hitting streak stopped by the Marlins in the Padres' 8-2 win. The streak is the 2nd-longest ever by a catcher behind Benito Santiago's Padres' record.

Darryl Strawberry's 300th career home run, a 2-run shot in the 9th, lifts the Yankees to a 3–2 win over the visiting Royals. The Yankees now lead by 12 games.

1995
» The Yankees get P David Cone from the Blue Jays in a trade for minor league pitchers Marty Janzen, Jason Jarvis, and Mike Gordon. The team also trades OF-DH Danny Tartabull to the Athletics for OF-DH Ruben Sierra and minor league P Jason Beverlin.

With baseball's new speed up rules in place, the Cubs dispose of the Phillies 4–0 in a brisk 2:29. Cubs' P Frank Castillo says, "It wasn't the rule about throwing a pitch in 12 seconds since I usually throw in five seconds."

The Orioles acquire 3B-OF Bobby Bonilla and a player to be named from the Mets in exchange for outfielders Alex Ochoa and Damon Buford.

1994
» Texas P Kenny Rogers hurls a perfect game, defeating the Angels, 4-0. Rogers fans eight in the 11th regular season perfect game in major league history. He becomes the 1st left-hander in American League history to toss a perfecto and the 14th P in history.

The Players Association executive board approves of August 12 as the date for a strike.

1993
» Seattle's Ken Griffey homers for the 8th consecutive game, tying the major league mark set by Dale Long and tied by Don Mattingly. The Mariners lose to the Twins, however, 5-1.

The Mets defeat the Marlins, 5-4, as Anthony Young takes the win in relief, ending his 27-game losing streak.

Detroit 3B Travis Fryman strokes five safeties as he hits for the cycle in the Tigers' 12-7 loss to the Yankees. He is the first Tiger to cycle in 43 years.

Darren Daulton belts a grand slam and two-run triple as the Phils pound the Cards, 14–6. Dave Hollins drives in three runs as well for the Quakers.

1992
» In the Mets 8–6 win over the Phils, Howard Johnson suffers a hairline fracture of his wrist. He'll go on the DL August three and miss the rest of the season.

1991
» Dennis Martinez of the Expos tosses the 13th (excluding Haddix and Shore) perfect game in major league history, setting down all 27 Dodgers to face him in a 2-0 win. Martinez strikes out five in the contest. Catcher Ron Hassey becomes the 1st receiver to catch two perfectos, having been behind the plate for Len Barker's masterpiece in 1981. Dodger IF Alfredo Griffin goes 0-for-3 against Martinez, to go along with his 0-for-3 in Tom Browning's perfect game in 1988, and 0-for-2 in Barker's perfecto in 1981.

1990
» Cal Ripken's errorless streak ends at 95 consecutive games, as Baltimore loses to Kansas City 10–9. The streak is a new major-league record for a SS, eclipsing Kevin Elster's 89-game mark.

Cubs SS Shawon Dunston ties a major-league record with three triples in a 10–7 win over the Expos. Shawon also drives in five runs.

With one out to go, the Giants Scott Garrelts loses a no-hitter when the Reds Paul O'Neill singles. Garrelts finishes with a 4–0 one-hit win.

1989
» Cardinal speedster Vince Coleman is caught stealing by Nelson Santovenia in a 2–0 win over Montreal, ending his ML-record streak of 50 consecutive stolen bases.

1987
» Montreal's Jeff Reed makes three errors in the 7th inning of an 8–3 loss to the Cubs, tying the major-league record for catchers.

1985
» Lou Brock, Enos Slaughter, Arky Vaughan, and Hoyt Wilhelm are inducted into the Hall of Fame in a ceremony in Cooperstown, New York.

Darrell Evans hits his 300th career home run, off Ken Schrom, to lead Detroit to a 3–2 win over the Twins.

Porter drives in three runs with a double and homer to lead the Cards to a 4–2 win over the Padres. LaMarr Hoyt loses after winning 11 straight.

1982
» Atlanta's Phil Niekro (10-3) posts his 250th career win 8–6 over the Padres. The 43-year-old knuckleballer will finish the season 17-4, leading the major leagues in winning percentage.

After a 3–2 loss to the Brewers, Rangers manager Don Zimmer is fired and replaced by Darrell Johnson. During the 1976 season, Zimmer had replaced Johnson as manager of the Boston Red Sox.

1980
» At Montreal, the Expos beat the Reds, 5–4, with Fred Norman getting the win over Mario Soto. Ron LeFlore of the Expos steals his 62nd base in the 7th inning and the Montreal scoreboard notes that the first SB was 115 years earlier. As LeFlore stands off base reading the message, he is tagged out.

1979
» The Cubs Dave Kingman continues his slugging with a single and three consecutive home runs during a 6–4 loss to the Mets. It is Kingman's 2nd 3-HR game of the season (May 17th), and enables him to tie the major-league record with five home runs over two consecutive games.

At Texas, the Boston Red Sox pull off a first-inning triple play—9-4-3—against the Rangers. It's Boston's 3rd TP of the year (July 23 and May 10) tying a major-league record and it's needed as the Sox win, 1–0. Dennis Eckersley beats Fergie Jenkins.

1978
» The Orioles Rich Dauer has his 10th straight game with at least two hits in each. In his streak, which began on July 18, Dauer hit .583 (28-for-48). Dauer's mark is a club record.

1977
» In a wild one at Wrigley, the first-place Cubs (6) and Reds (5) combine for 11 home runs to tie the ML record. The first-place Cubs come back four times to win 16–15 in 13 innings in a contest that goes four hours and 50 minutes. Dave Rosello's RBI single wins it. The Reds lead 6–0 to start, beginning with Rose's leadoff home run, and lead 15–14 near the finish, but Dave Rosello's RBI single off Jack Billingham wins the game. Reuschel wins his 15th and 2nd in two days, pitching just 2/3 of an inning. Going deep are Buckner (2), Murcer, Mitterwald (2, including one in the 12 inning), and Morales for Chicago: Rose, Bench, Griffey, Lum and Geronimo homer for the Reds. Rick Reuschel (15–3), who shut out the Reds two days earlier, is the winner with 2/3 of an inning.

In New York, a Thursday crowd of 40,918 cheer as New York unleashes a 15 hit attack to down the Orioles, 14–2. The Yankee barrage includes homers by Graig Nettles, Thurman Munson and Roy White.

Toronto peppers Gaylord Perry for 11 hits, but the Texas hurler still shuts them out, 3–0.

1976
» Blue Moon Odom and Francisco Barrios combine on a no-hitter as the White Sox top the A's 2–1. Odom walks nine in five innings and is lifted after throwing a ball in the 6th, and Barrios adds another two passes. For Odom (2-0), this is his last ML victory.

1974
» The Reds whip the Padres, 14–1, at Riverfront Stadium.

1973
» Tony Perez makes his 4th hit of the game a good one, homering in the 10th to beat the Padres, 2–1. Don Gullett, in relief of Tom Hall, is the winner over Randy Jones.

The Kansas City Royals blow out the Oakland A's, 19–8, with Aurelio Monteagudo picking up the win. A defensive moment is provided by A's CF Billy North, who makes an unassisted DP.

1972
» Steve Carlton wins his 10th straight for the last place Phils, beating the Cubs Milt Pappas, 2–0. Lefty allows four hits and strikes out 7, while setting the club record for consecutive wins.

1970
» A bad day for Angels C Tom Egan: he is charged with five passed balls, all with different pitchers, and he drops a throw for an error to permit what proves to be the winning run in a 6–5 loss to the Yankees. Egan does get his name in the American League record book with the five passed balls.

Donn Clendenon sets a club record by driving in seven runs as the Mets beat the Giants, 12–2. A sac fly and a pair of 3-run homers does it. Jim McAndrew is the winner.

1968
» Dave McNally outduels Mickey Lolich to give Baltimore a much-need win over the Tigers, 5–1.

Ken Holtzman and the Cubs beat the Dodgers Don Sutton, 1–0. It is Sutton's 2nd straight 1–0 loss to Chicago; he is now 0-10 against the Cubs, and Holtzman will top him the next three times they face each other.

At Shea Stadium, Reds pitchers Jim Maloney and Clay Carroll combine on a one hit, 5–3, victory. Maloney gives up a run scoring double to Cleon Jones in the first inning and then is lifted in the 6th after walking three batters. Carroll gives up two run-scoring grounders, but pitches four hitless frames.

1966
» Rick Reichardt, California's young hitting star, is sidelined with a kidney ailment. He will have a kidney removed in two weeks.

1965
» RF Tony Conigliaro suffers a broken left wrist when hit by a Wes Stock pitch in a 6–0 Boston win. He will miss 24 games.

The Reds Sammy Ellis outpitches Sandy Koufax, as he beats the Dodgers, 4–1, striking out 12 batters.

1964
» The Angels Jim Fregosi hits for the cycle to assure a 3–1 win over the Yankees. New York's only score is a Mickey Mantle homer over the CF fence at Chavez Ravine, one of only two hits off Dean Chance. It's the first homer given up by Chance in 69 innings.

1963
» The Mets' 8–2 loss at Houston is their 22nd straight away from the Polo Grounds, and matches the major-league record by the 1890 Pirates.

Chicago Dick Ellsworth strikes out 10 Cardinals, including Stan Musial three times, in a 5–1 win.

1962
» On Old Timers Day at Yankee Stadium, White Sox knuckleballer Eddie Fisher loses a 3–0 shut out when he surrenders 7th inning homers to Mickey Mantle and Blanchard and loses, 4–3.

Pumpsie Green returns to the Red Sox and is fined.

1961
» The Yanks buy 1B Bob Hale from Cleveland. This will make vet Earl Torgeson, signed on June 17, expendable. They'll release Torgy as a player in early September and sign him as a coach.

1960
» With relief help from Bobby Shantz, Whitey Ford, who leaves with an upset stomach, picks up a 4–0 win over the Indians. Kubek, Mickey Mantle, and Boyer homer for the pinstripers. The Yanks sweep, winning the nitecap, 9–2, and take over 1st place by three percentage points.

The Red Sox, losers of nine straight to the White Sox, beat Chicago 4–2, knocking the Pale Hose out of 1st.

Boston OF Gary Geiger (.302), who homered yesterday against Chicago, suffers a collapsed lung and is out for the rest of the season.

1959
» The White Sox take over first place for good by toppling the Yankees 4–3 behind pitcher Billy Pierce. Al Smith, with a 2-run home run in the 8th, provides the winning margin. The Sox will go 13–9 against the Yankees this year, the first time since 1925 that Chicago is over .500 for the season against the Bombers.

1958
» For the sixth time in his career, Mickey Mantle hits HRs from both sides of the plate. New York beats the Athletics 14-7.

1954
» Giants OF Dusty Rhodes hits three consecutive HRs at the Polo Grounds to back Johnny Antonelli's 10-0 whipping of St. Louis. It is Antonelli's 10th consecutive win. Willie Mays smacks his 36th HR, a 447 foot clout to LF.

1952
» Rogers Hornsby, after being fired by the St. Louis Browns, replaces another former Brownie manager, Luke Sewell, as manager of the Cincinnati Reds.

1951
» Charlie Gehringer succeeds Billy Evans as GM of the Detroit Tigers.

Clyde Vollmer, who started the month on the bench, continues his explosive fireworks against the Indians. He singles in the tying run in the 15th and then in the 16th hits a grand slam off reliever Bob Feller for an 8–4 Red Sox win. The grand slam is the latest hit in a game in major-league history. Mickey McDermott pitches all 16 innings for the Sox, striking out 15 and walking one.

Pitcher Russ Meyer hurls a 1–0 shut out over the Cubs, the fourth shutout in a row for the Phillies staff. Robin Roberts, Ken Johnson and Bubba Church pitched the earlier shutouts.

The Giants go 7–0 at Crosley Field this year by defeating the Reds, 3–1. Willie Mays has his third homer in six days and Larry Jansen wins to go 15–2 against the Rhinelanders.

1950
» The Indians' Larry Doby, Al Rosen, and Luke Easter connect for consecutive home runs in the 3rd in a 13–1 whipping of the Red Sox.

1949
» A 12-for-25 run raises Jackie Robinson's NL-leading average to .364. Jackie will tail off from that mark but will win the batting title at .342.

Detroit pitcher Dizzy Trout hits a ninth inning grand slam against the Senators to help the Tigers to a victory.

1948
» Detroit's Dizzy Trout shuts out the Red Sox, 13–0, to stop Boston's win streak at 13 games. Hoot Evers paces the 18-hit attack with four hits.

1940
» King Kong Keller clouts three HRs for the New York Yankees in a 10-9 Yanks win over Chicago in the first game of a doubleheader split.

1936
» In the 6th inning of a 16–6 Yankee win in Detroit, the Tiger's Goose Goslin drives a ball in the gap in right center. Right fielder DiMaggio and CF Myril Hoag, in for a slumping Powell, sprint for the ball and collide, the ball bounding by for an inside-the -park homer. Both players are knocked unconscious but appear unhurt: Dimag stays in though Hoag is replaced. He'll play tomorrow and collect a single, then collapse in his hotel room on the 30th with a brain clot. Hoag will be operated on successfully at Harper Hospital and will be out the rest of the season, but he'll return to play six more years. New York wins the game on 20 hits, scoring four runs in each of the first two innings, and three apiece in the 4th and 5th. Lou Gehrig's two doubles, single and number 31 with two aboard pace the visitors. Tommy Bridges is the loser while Johnny Murphy, who relieves Monte Pearson in the 4th, is credited with the win. Selkirk adds a homer for the Yankees, who have now hit 122.

Earl Averill raps his 18th and 19th homers of the year, off Earl Whitehill, as Cleveland beats the Senators, 6–4. Lloyd Brown is the winner, allowing 11 hits. Hal Trosky extends his hitting streak to 22 games, while Cleveland's Roy Weatherly sets an American League rookie record by hitting in his 20th consecutive game.

Dolph Camilli's 9th inning homer, his second of the game, caps a 4-run rally as the Phillies top the visiting Cubs, 5–3. Reliever Larry French, who replaces Roy Henshaw in the 9th, loses after he gives up a single to Johnny Moore off the RF wall to tie, K's Chuck Klein and serves up the dinger to Dolph.

Bill Dietrich makes his 1st start for the White Sox since being picked up on waivers and Chicago makes it easy with a 19–6 win over Philadelphia. Dietrich helps with four singles.

1935
» Ted Lyons ties a major-league record with two doubles in the same inning while beating the Browns 14-6.

1934
» The veteran Waite Hoyt stops Dizzy Dean's win streak at 10 with a 5-4 win in Pittsburgh.

Chuck Dressen, who will win pennants in Brooklyn and manage 16 seasons in the ML, begins by replacing Bob O'Farrell at the helm for the Cincinnati Reds.

Pittsburgh's Red Lucas, whose hitting keeps him in the lineup in close games, is relieved after 250 consecutive innings as a starting pitcher.

1931
» The White Sox record an AL-record 12 hits in the 8th inning against the Yankees. They score 11 runs as Bob Fothergill homers and triples to win 14-12.

1922
» The American League announces plans to erect a $100,000 monument to baseball in East Potomac Park, Washington. It never gets built.

The Yanks move back into first when Sad Sam Jones beats Ray Kolp, 7–3. Kolp lasts just two innings before Bill Bayne takes over for the final seven and allows two runs. Ken Williams hits his 23rd but Whitey Witt counters with a 3-run home run.

1917
» In a doubleheader at St. Louis, the Red Sox sweep, winning both games by 3–2 scores, the 2nd in 11 innings. In the 20 innings, not one Red Sox batter strikes out. Another oddity is in game 2, as Ernie Shore is called out twice when hit with a batted ball.

1914
» The Red Sox acquire lefty Vean Gregg (9–3), a 20 game winner the past three years, from Cleveland for Adam Johnson, Fritz Coumbe, and catcher Ben Egan.

1913
» At Robison Field, Christy Mathewson outpitches Bob Harmon for a 4–0 Giants win. Matty allows four hits and walks 2.

1911
» Charley "Victory" Faust shows up at the Giants' hotel in St. Louis asking for a tryout. Manager John McGraw observes the "pitcher," who obviously is no player, and carries him on the team as an unofficial "mascot," and good luck charm. But the Giants lose to the Cards today, 5–2, with the help of five errors.

1909
» Brooklyn's Jim Pastorius no-hits the Phillies until pinch hitter Marty Martel laces a one-out triple in the 9th inning. Pastorius wins 4–0.

1908
» Hooks Wiltse and Vic Willis lock horns and the Giants and Pirates duel for 16 innings before the game is called, 2–2, because of darkness. Honus Wagner is 0-for-6 but drives home a run with a "sacrifice fly."

Walter Johnson's (1–5) recuperation from his operation seems complete as he pitches 15 innings against the Browns with neither team scoring. Washington pulls out a 2–1 victory in the 16th as Johnson K's 15, Big Train's highest strikeout total for his career. He will win 11 of his next 13 decisions.

1907
» The Reds take their 3rd game in a row from the Giants, and winning pitcher Jake Weimer adds insult to injury with a swipe of home. An incensed John McGraw gets into a fight with a park security man and belts him. Police break it up and no arrests are made.

1903
» Boston's Vic Willis outpitches Mathewson to beat the Giants, 5-3. Third sacker Ed Gremminger solves Matty, banging out a single, double, homer and sacrifice to lead Boston.