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Associated Press
04-05-2025
- Sport
- Associated Press
This Date in Baseball - Pete Rose became the youngest and 14th player with 3,000 hits
May 5 1904 — Cy Young of the Red Sox pitched a perfect game against the Philadelphia Athletics, beating Rube Waddell 3-0. Having pitched nine hitless innings in two previous efforts, he ran his string of hitless innings to 18. 1917 — Ernie Koob of the St. Louis Browns pitched a no-hitter against the Chicago White Sox for a 1-0 win in St. Louis. 1925 — Manager Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers hit three homers, a double and two singles against the St. Louis Browns. 1925 — Shortstop Everett Scott of the New York Yankees was benched, ending his streak of 1,307 consecutive games played that started while playing for the Boston Red Sox. Scott, who gave way to Pee Wee Wanninger, had the longest playing streak before Lou Gehrig. 1933 — Pepper Martin of the St. Louis Cardinals hit for the cycle and scored four runs in a 5-3 win over the Philadelphia Phillies. 1939 — Sam Chapman of the Philadelphia Athletics hit for the cycle in a 10-5 win over the St. Louis Browns. Chapman completed the cycle with a single in the ninth. 1955 — Brooklyn Dodgers rookie Tom Lasorda makes his first major league start as he he throws three wild pitches in one inning, tying a major league record. After his pitching career, Lasorda will enjoy far more success as a Hall of Fame manager. 1962 — Bo Belinsky of the Los Angeles Angels beat the Baltimore Orioles 2-0 with a no-hitter at Dodger Stadium. Belinsky struck out nine and walked four. 1975 — The Oakland Athletics release pinch runner Herb Washington, ending his unusual major league career. Curiously, Washington played in 105 major league games without batting, pitching, or fielding. He collected 31 stolen bases and scored 33 runs. 1978 — Pete Rose became the youngest and 14th player with 3,000 hits when he singled against Montreal's Steve Rogers at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium. 1980 — National League president Chub Feeney suspended Pittsburgh's Bill Madlock for 15 days and fined him $5,000 for shoving his glove in the face of home plate umpire Gerry Crawford. 1999 — Colorado became the first team in 35 years and the third this century to score in every inning in a 13-6 win over the Chicago Cubs. The last time a team scored in all nine innings was also at Wrigley Field, when St. Louis beat the Cubs on Sept. 13, 1964. 2000 — St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire hits the longest home run in the 30-year history of Cinergy Field, but the 473-foot shot is not enough as Ken Griffey, Jr.'s home run leads the Cincinnati Reds past St. Louis, 3-2. 2003 — Matt Stairs of the Pittsburgh Pirates hits a home run off Houston Astros pitcher Wade Miller which is estimated at 461 feet, making it the longest in the history of Minute Maid Park. 2004 — Mike Piazza set a major league mark for homers as a catcher, hitting No. 352, in the New York Mets' 8-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants. 2004 — Roger Clemens of the Houston Astros moves past Steve Carlton for second place on the career strikeout list with his 4,137th in Houston's 6-2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. 2006 — At Citizens Bank Park, Omar Vizquel of the San Francisco Giants plays his 2,302nd game at shortstop, catching Cal Ripken, Jr. for third-most all time. Vizquel is now behind Hall of Famers Luis Aparicio (2,581) and Ozzie Smith (2,511). He will eventually pass both. 2015 — Bartolo Colon became the first pitcher in at least 100 years to beat the same opponent with seven different teams, stopping Baltimore once again and leading the New York Mets to a 3-2 win over the Orioles. 2018 — In pitching a perfect 9th inning in a 6 - 5 win against the Rangers, Craig Kimbrel of the Red Sox becomes the 29th man to record 300 saves. He is the youngest to reach the mark at 29 (Francisco Rodriguez was 31) and has needed the fewest games, 494 (Mariano Rivera had done so in 537 games) and save opportunities (330, compared to 335 for Joe Nathan) to do so. _____
Chicago Tribune
14-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Today in History: President Abraham Lincoln shot
Today is Monday, April 14, the 104th day of 2025. There are 261 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth during a performance of the play 'Our American Cousin' at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Lincoln was taken to a boarding house across the street and died the following morning at 7:22 am. Also on this date: In 1828, the first edition of Noah Webster's 'American Dictionary of the English Language' was published. In 1912, the British liner RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m., ship's time, and began sinking. (The ship went under two and a half hours later, killing over 1,500 people.) In 1910, William Howard Taft became the first U.S. president to throw the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game as the Washington Senators beat the Philadelphia Athletics 3-0. In 1935, the devastating 'Black Sunday' dust storm descended upon the central Plains as hundreds of thousands of tons of airborne topsoil turned a sunny afternoon into total darkness. In 1981, the first test flight of America's first operational space shuttle, the Columbia, ended successfully with a landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California. In 2021, A white former suburban Minneapolis police officer, Kim Potter, was charged with second-degree manslaughter for killing 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright in a shooting that ignited days of unrest. (Potter would be found guilty and serve 16 months in prison.) Today's Birthdays: Former NYPD detective Frank Serpico is 89. Actor Julie Christie is 85. Rock musician Ritchie Blackmore is 80. Actor Peter Capaldi is 67. Actor Brad Garrett is 65. Actor Robert Carlyle is 64. Golf Hall of Famer Meg Mallon is 62. Baseball Hall of Famer Greg Maddux is 59. Actor Anthony Michael Hall is 57. Actor Adrien Brody is 52. Rapper Da Brat is 51. Actor Sarah Michelle Gellar is 48. Actor-producer Rob McElhenney is 48. Actor Abigail Breslin is 29.
Forbes
26-03-2025
- Sport
- Forbes
Raw Rookies Making MLB Debut On Opening Day Are Really Rare
A handful of top prospects and spring phenoms will make their MLB debut on Opening Day 2025. It is a rare feat. The chance of succeeding on that day and having a long, distinguished career is even slimmer. When the final pitch had been thrown in 2024, only 23,373 players had ever appeared in an MLB game since the first pitch was delivered on April 22, 1876. That was by Lon Knight of the Philadelphia Athletics to George Wright of the Boston Red Caps of the National League. Neither were technically rookies as they had played in other leagues, but the game was the first in National League history. Historians call the NL the first 'Major' League. Boston won that day, 6-5. Wright hit .301 over 12 seasons as a shortstop, became a manager, owned a team for one year and opened a sporting goods empire. All of that got him elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1937. Knight went 10-22 at age 23 that year and never won another game. A year ago, 20-year-old Jackson Merrill reported to the San Diego Padres' spring camp as a shortstop. He left it as their starting center-fielder. The Padres played the Los Angeles Dodgers in the season opener in South Korea on March 20. Merrill went 0-for-3. He got two hits the next day and kept on hitting. In 156 games, Merrill batted .292 with 24 homers, 90 RBI and 16 stolen bases, finishing second in NL Rookie of the Year voting to Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes, who came up after the season started. Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Jackson Chourio placed third. He went 1-for 3 in his MLB debut opener. LOS ANGELES: Rookie Jackson Merrill of the San Diego Padres hits a home run against the Los Angeles ... More Dodgers in Game Two of the NL Division Series at Dodger Stadium on Oct. 6, 2024. (Photo by) In the AL, the top four finishers in rookie voting, Luis Gil of New York, Colton Cowser of Baltimore, the Yankees' Austin Wells and Oakland's Mason Miller had all played some MLB ball before the 2024 openers. Here's a look at how some Hall of Famers debuted on Opening Day. Most players including many greats did not play their first game in an opener. Lefty Grove, April 14, 1925: Robert Moses Grove is one of only three starting pitchers to debut on Opening Day since 1920. None did well. He became great. Against Boston, the 25-year-old gave up 6 hits, 5 runs and 4 walks in 3 2/3 innings for the Philadelphia Athletics. He went 10-12 as a rookie; 300-141 for his career. Al Gerhauser debuted on Opening Day 1943 for the Athletics. He was hit hard then and for his career: a 25-50 record over five years. Jim Bagby was hit hard in his debut in 1938 for Boston and went 97-96 over 10 seasons. His father, also named Jim, had a 127-89 career mark including 31-12 for the 1920 champion Indians. CHICAGO: American League outfielders Babe Ruth, Al Simmons and Earl Averill befote the first MLB ... More All-Star Game, July 6, 1933, at Comisky Park. Earl Averill, April 16, 1929: He became the first AL player to homer in his first MLB at bat, hitting an 0-2 pitch from Boston's Earl Whitehill over the fence at Cleveland's League Park on Opening Day. As a 27-year-old rookie, he hit .332 with 198 hits, 110 runs, 18 homers and 96 RBI. Ted Williams, April 20, 1939: Teddy Ballgame struck out his first time at bat off future Hall of Famer Red Ruffing at Yankee Stadium. Boston's precocious 20-year-old, hitting sixth in the order, doubled his next time up. Ruffing then fanned him again and got him on an infield popout in the ninth inning. New York won, 2-0. Williams hit .327 with 31 homers and led the AL with 145 RBI as a rookie. Jackie Robinson, April 15, 1947: He went 0-for-3 with a run on the historic day he broke the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. His first hit came the next day, a bunt single. He hit .291 with 12 homers, 125 runs, 48 RBI and NL-leading 29 stolen bases to earn the first Rookie of the Year Award. BRROKLYN, NY: The Brooklyn Dodgers' infield for the season opener against the Boston Braves at ... More Ebbets Field on April 15, 194 — Spider Jorgensen, Pee Wee Reese, Eddie Stanky and Jackie Robinson. (Photo by Irving Haberman/) Mickey Mantle, April 17, 1951: Only 19, he started in right field, hitting third at Yankee Stadium. Boston right-hander Bill Wight got him to ground out to second base to end the first inning and pop to third to end the third. In the sixth, Mantle singled home Phil Rizzuto, went to second on a single by Joe DiMaggio and scored on a single by Yogi Berra. All four are Hall of Famers. Mantle flew out in the eighth in his first AB right-handed, off lefty reliever Mickey McDermott. Mantle battled the first of so many injuries as a rookie and played only 96 games, hitting ,265 with 13 homers and 65 RBI. Henry Aaron, April 13, 1954: Batting fifth for the Milwaukee Braves, he went 0-for-5 at Cincinnati's Crosley Field. Seven other Braves combined for 13 hits in a 9-8 loss. Aaron hit into a double play his first time up. He got his first MLB hit, a double, in his first time up in the Braves' second game. At age 20, he hit .280 with 13 homers and 69 RBI as a rookie. Frank Robinson, April 17, 1956: Batting seventh, he went 2-for-3 at Crosley Field for Cincinnati against St. Louis Cardinals lefty Wilmer (Vinegar Bend) Mizell. He hit a ground-rule double in his MLB debut and then a single. Mizell got him to ground into a forceout and then issued an intentional walk to the 20-year old slugger. Robby hit .290 with 38 homers, 90 RBI, an NL-leading 122 runs and was NL Rookie of the Year. Mizell was voted to Congress in 1968, serving through 1975. CLEVELAND: Player/Manager Frank Robinson connects for the Cleveland Indians at Municipal Stadium. ... More (Photo by:) In 1975, Robinson homered in Cleveland off the Yankees' Doc Medich his first time up as MLB's first black manager. Many player-managers did not debut as skippers on an Opening Day, such as Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker and Pete Rose. It was Robinson's eighth homer in an opener, a record. Luis Aparicio, April 17, 1956: "Little Looie" went 1-for-3, batting eighth at Comiskey Park against Cleveland right-hander and future HOFer Bob Lemon. He flew out to right and center then singled in an eighth-inning rally that gave Chicago a 2-1 win. The shortstop was the AL Rookie of the Year after batting .266 with 21 stolen bases -- the first of nine straight years leading the AL in steals. Robin Yount, April 5, 1974: Batting ninth at age 18 for the Milwaukee Brewers, he went 0-for-1 with a walk off Boston's Luis Tiant and was replaced by pinch-hitter Felipe Alou. Yount went 0-for-13 until getting his first hit in his fifth game, off Baltimore lefty Dave McNally. Yount hit .250 with three homers, 26 RBI as a rookie. Eddie Murray, April 7, 1977: The switch-hitter fanned his first time up, batting fifth against Texas Rangers right-hander and future HOFer Bert Blyleven. Then the 21-year-old bounced out to Blyleven and singled. The Baltimore Orioles' first baseman was ROY after batting .283 with 27 homers, 83 RBI. Ken Griffey Jr.: April 3, 1989: The Seattle Mariners' outfielder doubled in his first AB, off Oakland ace Dave Stewart at age 19. He hit .264 with 16 homers, 16 steals as a rookie. Albert Pujols, April 2, 2001: Batting sixth for the St. Louis Cardinals, he singled his third time up against Colorado lefty Mike Hampton at Coors Field, At age 21, he mashed 37 homers with 130 RBI and a .329 average to win ROY. Pete Rose, April 8, 1963: The all-time hits leader had to wait awhile for his first safety. He passed away last year at age 83 after waiting a lifetime for Hall of Fame recognition denied because he admitted to gambling on baseball in 1989. Many say keep him out; others say he belongs. The debate continues. At age 22, he did not hit safely until his fourth game. He walked his first time up, grounded out, reached on an error, scored and struck out on Opening Day. He was 0-for-4 the next day, 0-4 with a walk the next day and 0-for-1 with a walk and hit-by-pitch before tripling off Pirates right-hander Bob Friend. He got 4,255 more hits. Joe Charboneau, April 11, 1980: 'Super Joe' homered in his second AB off the Angels' Dave Frost at Anaheim Stadium. In the Cleveland Indians' home opener on April 19, he homered again and went 3-for-4. A hero was born. OLMSTED FALLS, OH: My copy of the 1980 record by "Section 36". That was the section in left field ... More where fans cheered Joe Charboneau. Cleveland rock-n-rollers Don Kriss and Stan Bloch recorded a song, 'Go Joe, Charboneau.' The rookie hero, opening beer bottles with his eye socket, pulling out his own tooth with pliers, and being stabbed by a fan in Mexico wielding a pen, made news everywhere. He also hit everywhere, batting .289 with 23 homers, 89 RBI to win ROY. The next spring he wrenched his back and was never the same. He played only 70 more MLB games, batting .212 with 7 homers. You can see Joe in the movie classic 'The Natural,' filmed in Buffalo when Joe went to the minors to try to recapture his swing. He's one of the extra ballplayers in the dugout behind star Robert Redford. Let's see how many rookies make their MLB Debut on Opening Day 2025 behind the scenes or in a starring role.
