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Associated Press
2 days ago
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This Date in Baseball - Roger Clemens reached 300 wins and becomes the 3rd pitcher with 4,000 Ks
June 13 1905 — Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants pitched his second no-hit game, beating the Chicago Cubs and Mordecai Brown 1-0. Mathewson and Brown matched no-hitters for eight innings. The Giants got two hits in the ninth for the win. 1912 — Christy Mathewson recorded his 300th career victory with a 3-2 triumph over the Chicago Cubs. 1921 — Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees pitched the first five innings and hit two home runs in an 11-8 victory over the Detroit Tigers. 1937 — New York's Joe DiMaggio hit three consecutive home runs to give the Yankees an 8-8, 11-inning tie against the St. Louis Browns in the second game of a doubleheader. 1947 — In the first night game played at Fenway Park, the Red Sox beat the Chicago White Sox 5-3. 1948 — Babe Ruth Day at Yankee Stadium drew 49,641 fans who saw Ruth's No. 3 retired and the Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians 5-3. 1957 — Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox hit three home runs and drove in five runs in a 9-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians as Williams became the first AL player to have two three-homer games in a season. 1973 — The Los Angeles Dodgers' infield of Steve Garvey (first base), Davey Lopes (second base), Ron Cey (third base) and Bill Russell (shortstop) played together for the first time in a 16-3 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. The quartet would set a major league record for longevity by playing 8 1/2 years in the same infield. 1980 — Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies goes 4 for 5 to move past Honus Wagner into fifth place on the all-time hit list with 3,431. 1998 — For the fourth time in major league history, teammates hit back-to-back homers in consecutive innings. Atlanta's Javy Lopez and Andruw Jones each homered in the second and third inning of the Braves' 9-7 win over Montreal at Turner Field. 2003 — Roger Clemens reached 300 wins and became the third pitcher with 4,000 strikeouts, leading the New York Yankees over the St. Louis Cardinals 5-2. Clemens, the 21st pitcher to make it to 300, allowed two runs in 6 2-3 innings and struck out 10, raising his total to 4,006. Clemens joined Nolan Ryan (5,714) and Steve Carlton (4,136) in the 4,000-strikeout club. 2008 — Chase Utley, Ryan Howard and Pat Burrell hit consecutive home runs in the first inning of Philadelphia's 20-2 rout of St. Louis. 2012 — Matt Cain pitched the 22nd perfect game in major league history and first for San Francisco, striking out a career-high 14 batters and getting help from two running catches to beat the Houston Astros 10-0. Cain's 125-pitch masterpiece featured a pair of great plays by his corner outfielders. Left fielder Melky Cabrera chased down Chris Snyder's one-out flyball in the sixth, scurrying back to make a leaping catch on the warning track. Right fielder Gregor Blanco ran into right-center to make a diving catch on the warning track and rob Jordan Schafer for the first out of the seventh. 2015 — Alex Rodriguez collects his 2,000th career RBI with a two-run home run in the New York Yankee's 9-4 loss to the Baltimore Orioles. Rodriguez is the fourth player to reach the milestone joining Cap Anson, Babe Ruth and leader Hank Aaron. 2019 — Shohei Otani becomes the first Japanese player to hit for the cycle in Major League Baseball. 2021 — The Blue Jays set a record for a visiting team at Fenway Park by blasting 8 homers in an 18 - 4 win over the Red Sox. Seven different players go deep, with Teoscar Hernandez doing so twice, while Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hits his major league-leading 21st. 2024 — It took him 14 seasons and 320 other long balls, but J.D. Martinez finally hits a walk-off homer, doing so off Tanner Scott of the Marlins with Francisco Lindor on base in the 9th inning to give the Mets a 3 - 2 win. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, this is the third most homers by anyone before a first walk-off shot, trailing only Mark Teixeira (408) and Jose Bautista (336). _____
Associated Press
28-05-2025
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- Associated Press
This Date in Baseball - Rickey Henderson breaks Ty Cobb's 62-year-old A.L. stolen base record
May 29 1916 -- Christy Mathewson defeated the Boston Braves 3-0 for the New York Giants' 17th consecutive road win. 1922 -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled organized baseball was primarily a sport and not a business, and therefore not subject to antitrust laws and interstate commerce regulations. The suit had been brought by the Federal League's Baltimore franchise. 1928 -- Bill Terry hit for the cycle to lead the New York Giants to a 12-5 win over Brooklyn at Ebbets Field. Terry became the first player in major league history to include a grand slam as part of the cycle. 1942 -- New York's Lefty Gomez, self-described as the worst-hitting pitcher in baseball, banged out four hits while pitching a 16-1 four-hitter against Washington. 1946 -- In a reverse integration role, Edward Klep became the first white to play in the Negro leagues in a game played in Grand Rapids. Klep pitched seven innings for the Cleveland Buckeyes against the American Giants in his debut with the Negro American League team. 1956 -- Dale Long went hitless for the Pirates, ending his major league record streak of home runs in eight consecutive games. The Brooklyn Dodgers beat Pittsburgh, 10-1. 1965 -- Philadelphia's Richie Allen hit a 529-foot home run over the roof of Connie Mack Stadium off Chicago's Larry Jackson in the Phillies' 4-2 victory. 1976 -- Houston's Joe Niekro was the winning pitcher and hit a home run off his brother, Phil Niekro. The Astros beat the Atlanta Braves 4-1. It was the only home run hit by Joe in his 22-year major league career. 1990 -- Oakland's Rickey Henderson broke Ty Cobb's 62-year-old American League stolen base record, but the Toronto Blue Jays still beat the Athletics 2-1. Henderson's 893rd steal came in the sixth inning. 2000 -- Oakland second baseman Randy Velarde turned the 10th unassisted triple play in regular-season history during a 4-1 loss to the New York Yankees. With runners on first and second in motion, Shane Spencer hit a line drive to Velarde who caught the ball, tagged out Jorge Posada (running from first) and stepped on second to beat Tino Martinez. 2002 -- Roger Clemens recorded the 100th double-digit strikeout game of his career, fanning 11 in seven innings against Chicago. Nolan Ryan (215) and Randy Johnson (175) were the others to have 100 double-digit strikeout games. 2002 -- In an article in Sports Illustrated former NL MVP Ken Caminiti stated that about 50 percent of current major league players used some form of steroids. 2003 -- Colorado, behind Todd Helton's three home runs and Ron Belliard's five hits beat the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers 12-5. Helton added a single and drove in six runs. 2010 -- Philadelphia's Roy Halladay threw the 20th perfect game in major league history, beating the Florida Marlins 1-0. It was the first time in the modern era that there were a pair of perfect games in the same season. Halladay faced three Marlins pinch-hitters in the ninth. Mike Lamb led off with a long fly ball, Wes Helms struck out, and Ronny Paulino to hit a grounder to third for the 27th out. Halladay struck out 11 and went to either 3-1 or 3-2 counts seven times, twice in the game's first three batters alone. 2013 -- Chris Davis went 4 for 4 with two home runs, and the Baltimore Orioles overcame three homers by Ryan Zimmerman to beat the Washington Nationals 9-6. 2013 -- Dioner Navarro had the first three-homer game of his career, connecting from both sides of the plate at Wrigley Field to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 9-3 win over the Chicago White Sox. Navarro drove in a career-high six runs and scored four times. 2014 — Diamondbacks pitcher Josh Collmenter faces the minimum 27 batters in spite of allowing three hits in a complete game shutout defeat of the Cincinnati Reds. The three Reds baserunners were erased on double plays. 2015 — Lewis-Clark State wins their 17th NAIA baseball title. 2021 — The Twin's Josh Donaldson scored the two-millionth run in major league history. _____
New York Times
22-05-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Reader survey: Make your picks for the MLB All-Quarter Century Team
The late 1900s. What a time it was. Ancient curses held remarkable staying power. Chicks dug the long ball. The Montreal Expos were a thing. Nobody'd ever heard of a sweeper or a splinker. Elly De La Cruz, Julio Rodríguez and Bobby Witt Jr. hadn't even arrived on the planet. At the end of that century, Major League Baseball asked fans to vote for the greatest players of the last 100 years. Somehow, fans forgot to include Christy Mathewson, Stan Musial and Honus Wagner. MLB found spots for them, but not for Jimmie Foxx, Satchel Paige or Tom Seaver. Advertisement It's really tough to distinguish among the best of the best — and even with just a quarter century to examine, the task is hard. But that's what we're asking you to do, folks, because we trust your baseball acumen and we're fascinated to see what you think. The Athletic's Jayson Stark cast the first ballot. Now it's your turn. Yes, we're aware of the technicality that the year 2000 was actually the end of the previous century, not the start of this one. But can we all agree that 1999 was the end of the 1900s, and 2000 was the beginning of the 2000s? Great. It's right there in the numerals, after all. For this exercise, we're asking you not to consider achievements prior to 2000. We're also not disqualifying anyone for chemical dalliances; it's up to each voter to determine what to do about players with ties to steroids. Naturally, hundreds of players crossed over from one century to the next. And plenty of today's superstars have a long way to go. We had to come up with some kind of minimum, and conveniently enough, one multi-time MVP (Barry Bonds) played in the first eight seasons of the 2000s, and another (Shohei Ohtani) has played in the last eight seasons of the 2000s. It didn't seem right to exclude Bonds or Ohtani. So — with apologies to the Pete Alonso, Brad Radke, Tarik Skubal and Bernie Williams fan clubs — we're going with eight years as the minimum. Write-in candidates are allowed, as long as they meet the eight-year requirement. We'll keep the polls open until Tuesday, May 27 at 9 p.m. ET, then reveal and discuss the results in a future story. Make your picks for each position below. For first base, second base, shortstop, third base, catcher, left field, center field, right field and DH, select one player from the eight choices at each position. For the starting pitchers, select a five-man rotation from the 30 pitchers listed. For the relievers, pick two from the eight choices. If you encounter technical difficulties, try taking the survey here. (Illustration: Demetrius Robinson / The Athletic; Top photos: Jonathan Daniel, Sarah Stier / Getty Images)
