July 22

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1876 - In his major league debut, Louisville pitcher Johnny Ryan throws a record 10 wild pitches in a 30-7 loss to Chicago. It will be the rookie's first and last game.
1905 - Weldon Henley of the Athletics, who will win four games all year, fires a no-hitter against the 7th place St. Louis Browns 6-0. Harry Davis and Lave Cross each have three hits off Barney Pelty. During his four-year big league career, the Georgia native Henley will compile a 32-43 won-loss record. St. Louis cops a split by defeating Rube Waddell, 3-2, in the nitecap.
1906 or 1907 - Without a single assist registered by his Reds teammates, Bob Ewing beats the Phillies, 10-3.
1908 - In Pittsburgh, Brooklyn first sacker Tim Jordan hits an over-the-fence home run, the first in nine years, but its all the scoring his team can muster. The Pirates prevail, 2-1.
1909 - For the first of four times in his career, Ty Cobb steals 2B, 3B, and home in an inning, doing it in the 7th inning against the Red Sox pitcher Harry Wolter. It is also Ty's first swipe of home in his career. The Tigers beat Boston 6 - 0.
1909 - Brooklyn ace Nap Rucker strikes out 16 Cardinals in a 1-0 win. Rucker will fan 201 batters this year, just four behind Orval Overall, the National League leader.
1909 - Pitching for Portland (PCL), Alex Carson pitches a 10-inning no-hitter against LA, winning 1-0.
1910 - Bugs Raymond, talented but hard-drinking spitball pitcher, walks the winning run home in New York's 4th straight loss to the Pirates. John McGraw suspends him for the rest of the season.
1911 - Brooklyn hurler Nap Rucker loses a no-hitter with two outs in the 9th inning when Cincinnati's Bob Bescher comes through with a hit. Rucker wins the game, 1-0, outpitching Frank Smith, who gives up two hits and an unearned run. The Reds set a major-league record for nine innings by going to bat just 24 times (it'll be topped in the AL and tied twice in the NL this century) and the two teams combine for just 48 at bats, to tie a major-league record set April 22, 1910.
1911 - The Pirates pay St. Paul of the American Association $22,500 for right-hander Marty O'Toole, the highest purchase to date. Barney Dreyfuss spends another $5,000 for his batterymate Billy Kelly. In 1912, O'Toole will be 15-17 and lead the NL with 159 walks. He will last only two more years.
1913 - Cards P Slim Sallee beats Brooklyn, 3-1, and scores one of the runs himself on a steal of home; he is the only pitcher in Cardinal history to do so.
1922 - The Cards go into first place by 1/2 games by beating Boston while the Reds are downing the Giants. It is the first time both St. Louis teams are ever on top together. St. Louis overcomes an 8-3 deficit in the 8th, to win, 9-8. The game was halted to clear hundred of straw hats off the field. For the Cards, it is their 23rd win in 29 games, but from here on out they will slide.
1923 - Walter Johnson notches his 3,000th strikeout on the way to 3,508. He fans five in beating Cleveland 3-1.
1925 - The Yankees buy SS Leo Durocher from Hartford (Eastern League).
1926 - With the help of four triples, the Reds score 11 runs in second inning en route to a 13-1 victory over the Braves. Curt Walker ties a National League record for most triples in an inning by hitting two in the frame.
1927 - Red Lucas of the Reds pitches a 3-0 one-hitter against Dazzy Vance and the Robins. The "hit" is a sixth-inning grounder by Hank DeBerry which goes between the legs of Cincinnati 2B Hughie Critz.
1928 - P Red Faber of the White Sox comes up to bat in the eighth with two runners on base and the game with the Yankees tied 4-4. He swings twice right-handed against righty Wilcy Moore and misses. He then switches to the left side and knocks in the winning runs with a single to center.
1930 - Phillies P Phil Collins hits home runs in the fourth and fifth innings of an 11-5 win over the Pirates. He will hit just two more HRs in his 8-year career.
1932 - Billy Jurges, shot on July 6, returns to the Cubs lineup.
1934 - Dazzy Vance's last hurrah? He wins the last complete game he will ever pitch and notches his 2,000th strikeout to beat the Braves 4-2 for the Cardinals.
1935 - The Red Sox end a game for the second consecutive day with pitcher Wes Ferrell hitting a walk-off home run. As a pinch-hitter yesterday his round-tripper beat the Tigers, 7-6, and as today's starter, his game-ending homer earns him 2-1 victory against the Browns.
1936 - In a 16-4 cakewalk over the Pirates, Phillies OF Johnny Moore hits three straight home runs.
1939 - A Boston Bees fan, outraged when Al Lopez drops a pop foul, his second and the team's seventh of the game, jumps from the stands to punch the Boston catcher.
1941 - Dick Wakefield becomes baseball's first 'bonus baby' when he signs with the Tigers for $52,000 and a new car. The University of Michigan standout will hit .143 in seven at-bat this season.
1948 - The Yankees take the rubber game of the series with the Indians as Vic Raschi earns the decision over Bob Feller, 6-5. Joe DiMaggio's grand slam is the big blow for the Bombers: he has hit four homers and a triple in Feller's four starts against New York. His eight RBIs in the three games with Cleveland gives him a league-leading 82.
1948 - Denny Galehouse returns to the Red Sox lineup and stops Chicago, 3-0. Vern Stephens clouts a 2-run homer. In the 2nd game, a 5 - 3 win, Stephens adds a homer to take over the American League RBI lead with 83. The winner is Ellis Kinder, the first of 18-straight wins over Chicago (through June 1, 1952).
1950 - In a battle of diminutive southpaws, Chicago's Billy Pierce out-duels the A's Bobby Shantz to win, 6-1. Consecutive homers by Dave Philley and Phil Masi in the 6th do in Shantz, pitching on three days rest.
1950 - The Phils split a pair with the Reds to retain a tie for the NL lead with the Cardinals. Robin Roberts wins his 11th in the opener, stopping the Reds, 2-0, on four hits. Willard Ramsdell takes the loss. In game 2, Howie Fox shuts out the Phils till the 9th to win, 6-1.
1950 - Red Sox manager "Old Marse" Joe McCarthy leaves the team, citing ill health as the reason. Steve O'Neill replaces him. The Red Sox whip the Browns, 11-2, for their 12th win in 13th meetings with St. Louis. Mickey McDermott pitches the complete game win, pulling the Bosox to within six 1/2 of first-place Detroit.
1951 - With the Cubs 10 games under .500 at 35-45, Phil Cavarretta replaces Frankie Frisch (141-196) as manager. They will go 27-47 the rest of the way to finish in last place.
1952 - Detroit's Virgil Trucks gives up one hit in beating Washington 1-0.
1954 - Stengel switches players in an effort to get more power in the Yankee lineup. Phil Rizzuto plays 2B and Mickey Mantle plays SS, the position he manned four years ago in the minor leagues. Mantle wins the game 3-2 against Chicago with a 10th-inning HR.
1955 - In the first game of a doubleheader, the Phillies beat the Cardinals] 5-3. The win completes an 11-game winning streak, setting a team record. All the wins were at home. They drop the nitecap 8-1.
1956 - The Hall of Fame announces special rules governing elections. Writers should vote every two years, alternating with the veterans committee; because of criticism, this will revert back in 1962. To be eligible players must have been retired as a player for five years.
1958 - The Phillies replace manager Mayo Smith with Eddie Sawyer, who had managed the club l948-52.
1959 - Veteran Bobby Avila, in his first game with Milwaukee, hits a 2-run 9th inning home run, off the Reds' Jim O'Toole, to help give the Braves a 5-4 win.
1960 - At Fenway, the Red Sox down the Indians 6-4. Vic Wertz has a 3-run homer and four RBIs. Ted Williams also homers and, in the 7th inning, steals 2B. Williams sets a major-league record as the only player to steal bases in four consecutive decades: he'll be matched by Rickey Henderson in 2000. Jimmy Piersall homers twice, both off winner Ike Delock.
1960 - The Yankees purchase 33-year-old P Luis Arroyo from Jersey City (IL). He will be a key to New York's 1960 pennant and be a star in 1961.
1961 - John Blanchard does it again with a solo pinch-hit home run to start a 3-run 9th-inning Yankee rally to tumble the Red Sox, 11-9.
1962 - Floyd Robinson of the White Sox goes 6-for-6, all singles, as Chicago defeats Boston 7-3 at Fenway Park. Robinson raises his average 12 points, to .319 and ties for 1st in the 1962 AL in RBIs with 71.
1963 - Diomedes Olivo, who will split his time between the Cards (5-6 in 1963) and Atlanta (International League) pitches a 1-0 no-hitter for Atlanta over Toronto. At "45 something" Olivo is likely the oldest pitcher in OB to toss a no-hitter.
1964 - Led by Willie Stargell, who hits for the cycle, the Pirates roll over the Cards 13-2.
1965 - Ed Bailey hits a grand slam and drives in eight runs, as the Cubs beat the Phillies 10-6 at Wrigley Field.
1966 - Clay Dalrymple breaks up a no-hitter bid by Giants hurler Gaylord Perry with an eighth-inning single. It is the second the Phillies catcher has spoiled a no-hit bid in the eighth inning at Candlestick Park as he collected the only hit in Juan Marichal's debut in 1960. Perry sets a San Francisco record with 15 strikeouts in the 4-1 win. The Giants (57-39, .594) are two percentage points behind the first-place Pirates (56-38, .596).
1967 - Using five pitchers in the same inning, the Braves establish a major league mark for the number of hurlers called upon in one frame. Ken Johnson, Ramon Hernandez, Claude Raymond, Dick Kelley and Cecil Upshaw all face the Cardinals in the ninth inning in the 5-4 Red Bird victory.
1967 - The White Sox get Sandy Alomar Jr. and infielder Ken Boyer from the Mets in exchange for infielder Billy Southworth and catcher J.C. Martin.
1969 - For the first time, the All-Star Game is postponed due to rain.
1973 - Reds All-Star SS Dave Concepcion suffers a season-ending broken ankle in a 6-0 win over the Expos.
1975 - Jerry Koosman steals second base and pitches complete game in a 3-1 New York Mets' victory over the Cincinnati Reds.
1977 - Rick Reuschel allows just four hits as the Cubs beat the Braves, 1-0.
1979 - In the first of two at Wrigley Field, the Reds roll over the Cubs 12-1, behind Bill Bonham. Johnny Bench ties the National League record by collecting five walks and Dave Concepcion hits an 8th-inning grand slam off Willie Hernandez to put the score in double digits. The Cubs come back in game two to win, 8-4.
1979 - The Royals' George Brett has three home runs and five RBI in a 7-6 win over the Rangers.
1980 - Atlanta's Bob Horner belts two home runs in a 7-5 win over the Expos, giving him 15 homers in his last 23 games and 13 in the month of July, just two short of the major-league record shared by Hank Greenberg, Joe DiMaggio and Joe Adcock. Horner will hit one more home run in July, and finish the season with a career-high 35.
1983 - Angels OF Brian Downing misplays Chet Lemon's line drive in the 6th inning of a 13-11 loss to Detroit, ending his American League-record consecutive error-less game streak at 244.
1986 - The Mets win a crazy five-hour marathon with the Reds in 14 innings, winning 6-3. Setting the tone, Darryl Strawberry is ejected after arguing a called 3rd strike in the 5th. In the 9th, Howard Johnson inadvertently kicks the ball after Reds C Bo Diaz drops a third strike. Johnson runs out of the baseline and is hit in the back with the throw from pitcher Ron Robinson. Reds coach Billy DeMars is ejected for arguing the safe call. The Mets, down 3-1, with two out, tie the game when Dave Parker who drops a routine fly ball. In the 10th, Davey Johnson sends in pitcher Rick Aguilera to hit for pitcher Doug Sisk. Aguilera walks, but is stranded. In the Reds 10th, pinch-runner Eric Davis steals 2B and 3B, bumping into Ray Knight. Knight decks Davis and both benches empty. Knight, Davis, Kevin Mitchell and Mario Soto are ejected. Gary Carter moves to 3B, Roger McDowell comes in to pitch, and Jesse Orosco moves from the mound to RF. With two out and a runner on 2B in the 11th, Orosco returns to pitch, McDowell moves to LF, and Mookie Wilson shifts to right. Rose protests when Orosco is permitted eight warm-up pitches. Orosco whiffs Max Venable to end the inning. In the 12th, the Mets are forced to lead off the inning with Orosco and McDowell, and go down in order. McDowell returns to pitch in the 13th and gets Tony Perez to fly to Orosco in right. Howard Johnson belts a three-run homer in the 14th and McDowell retires the side in order.
1986 - The Cubs fire their ball girl Marla Collins when it is revealed that she posed nude for Playboy magazine. The photos will appear in the October issue and accompany shots of Marla in her Cubs uniform and one of Harry Caray pointing to a tattoo on her right thigh. The Cubs win today 6-4 behind Ed Lynch, who ties a National League record in the 1st inning by making three putouts. The record was set in 1975 by another Cub, Rick Reuschel.
1986 - Ken Griffey Sr. hits three solo home runs but Atlanta falls to Philadelphia 5-4 in 11 innings. Griffey is the 2nd Brave this month to hit three or more home runs in a losing cause.
1989 - The Yankees trade popular 3B Mike Pagliarulo and Don Schulze to San Diego for pitcher Walt Terrell and Fred Toliver. Toliver won't report to New York till September 27 and Terrell will sign with the Pirates on November 29.
1989 - Johnny Bench, Carl Yastrzemski, Red Schoendienst and ump Al Barlick are inducted into the Hall of Fame at ceremonies in Cooperstown, New York.
1993 - Kirby Puckett belts a ball to the left of the baggie hanging on the RF fence at the Metrodome. The ball is ruled in play and Kirby gets a double, though the replay shows it to be a homer. Minnesota goes on to defeat the Orioles, 8-4.
1993 - During Colorado's 7-6 win over St. Louis, Cardinal P Bob Tewksbury surrenders a walk to Eric Young in the 7th inning, ending his streak of 55 1/3 innings without issuing a free pass. The National League record is 68.
1993 - Kansas City's Greg Gagne hits a home run off Detroit's Mark Leiter in the Royals' 12-6 victory. The home run is the 10,000th hit in the long history of Tiger Stadium, making it the first ballpark to reach that figure. During the game, Detroit 3B Travis Fryman draws a walk off KC P Enrique Burgos, then proceeds to circle the bases on three wild pitches by Burgos.
1994 - Mets P Dwight Gooden is admitted to the Betty Ford Center in California for treatment of substance abuse.
1994 - Cleveland defeats Chicago, 9-8, as Indians 3B Jim Thome clouts three solo home runs. The victory moves the Tribe to within two games of the division-leading ChiSox.
1995 - White Sox SS Ozzie Guillen shoves the Brewers' Jeff Cirillo at 3B touching off a bench-clearing brawl. The "highlight" is the two managers, Phil Garner and Terry Bevington, swinging at each other. Chicago goes on to a 4-2 victory.
1996 - The Indians spoil Eddie Murray's return to Baltimore by beating the Orioles, 9-5. Murray gets a standing O from the crowd and on his 3rd at-bat belts a home run, the 493rd of his career.
1996 - Toronto's Erik Hanson walks Cleveland's Jim Thome without throwing a 4th ball. With the count 2-2 the pitch is wide and Thome jogs to 1B. Ump Mike Everitt, a fill-in from the PCL, had incorrectly called the count 3-2 before the pitch, and Thome, who knew better, didn't correct him. The next batter, Albert Belle, hits a 3-run double for a 4-2 win.
1997 - In Montreal, Vinny Castilla has five hits, including two home runs, as the Rockies out-slug the Expos, 11-9. Castilla's two-run shot off Dave Veres with two outs in the 12th gives Colorado just its third win in 19 games.
1997 - Major League Baseball names Toronto exec Paul Beeston as its first president and CEO. The 52-year-old Canadian has been president of the Toronto club since 1991.
1997 - Greg Maddux parcels out just 78 pitches as the Atlanta Braves defeat the Chicago Cubs 4-1 in the opener of a doubleheader Tuesday. It is the lowest pitch total for a 9-inning complete game since Bob Tewksbury threw 76 for the Cardinals against the Reds on August 29, 1990. Chicago takes the second game 5-4.
1997 - The Cincinnati Reds release veteran IF and former MVP Terry Pendleton, who was signed as a free agent during the off season.
1998 - The Yanks deflate the Tigers, 13-2, to run their record to 71-25, a major-league record percentage after 96 games.
1999 - The Padres defeat the Giants, 8-7. OF Barry Bonds fans four times for the Giants, while SF P Jerry Spradlin strikes out four Padres in the 7th inning. Spradlin becomes the 1st pitcher in SF history to perform the feat, which has been turned 32 previous times.
1999 - Toronto defeats Cleveland, 4-3. Indians manager Mike Hargrove accidentally hands in an incorrect lineup card, forcing Cleveland to forfeit the DH and bat P Charles Nagy in the 7th spot in the batting order. Nagy fails to get a hit in his two at bats.
1999 - The Rockies sweep a doubleheader from the Dodgers, winning the 1st game, 4-1, and the 2nd, 12-11. In the nightcap, Dodger SS Mark Grudzielanek collects five hits and scores four runs.
2000 - The Indians lose to the Twins, 10-6, as Cleveland SS Omar Vizquel makes an error, snapping his AL-record 95-game error-less streak.
2000 - The Expos defeat the Marlins, 17-7, as rookie Andy Tracy hits a grand slam and drives in seven runs.
2000 - The Mariners defeat the Rangers, 13-5, at Safeco Field. The game is halted by a rain delay of 54 minutes when the retractable roof fails to close after three innings of play.
2001 - The Phillies pull out a 3-2 win over the Mets on Bobby Abreu's 8th inning home run off John Franco. It is the 1st home run hit by a lefty off Franco since September 22, 1993.
2001 - At Cleveland, Bartolo Colon pitches the Tribe to a 6-3 win over the Tigers and pulls Cleveland within a game of Minnesota in the AL Central. Thome adds his AL-high 31st homer. Before the game, the Indians honor their Century 100, with 38 of their all-time greats on hand. Receiving the biggest applause is Rocky Colavito. Bob Feller, as well as 91-year-old great Mel Harder also receives a huge hand.
2001 - In the Marlins' 11-7 win over the Reds, Cincy P Frank Rodriguez strikes out four batters in one inning, the 7th. He's the 4th Reds hurler to do it. Earlier this season, Erik Hiljus of the Oakland A's turned the trick.
2001 - Greg Maddux wins his 9th straight, 8-2, over the Expos. Maddux strikes out seven in eight innings, and has now pitched 51 innings without a walk. John Smoltz, in his first-ever relief appearance, throws the 9th.
2001 - Shane Reynolds, Octavio Dotel and Billy Wagner become the first Astros pitchers to throw a shutout at Enron Field as they combined to blank the Cubs, 3-0. It took 132 games before the home team calcimined an opponent at Enron, which opened on April 7, 2000. That shutout drought at a new facility tops the old record of 103 games set by the Colorado Rockies after moving into Coors Field in 1995. Last season, Astros hurlers threw only two shutouts, both on the road.
2002 - The Twins top the White Sox, 11-6, as OF Jacque Jones gets five hits, including a home run.
2002 - Over 20,000 fans gather at Fenway for a tribute entitled, "Ted Williams: A Celebration of an American Hero," The two hour salute of the man many consider to be the greatest hitter history, a vet of the World War II and the Korean War and a generous supporter of the Jimmy Fund, in addition to moving music and video, includes comments from present and former Red Sox players and broadcasters, historian Ken Burns, and former U.S. Senator John Glenn, who was Ted's wing man during the Korean War.
2002 - Although the Los Angeles Times has reported MLB players had tentatively set a strike date of September 16, union leader Donald Fehr, through a memo sent to players, indicates no such decision has been made. It would be baseball's ninth work stoppage since 1972.
2005 - Washington Nationals outfielder Jose Guillen armed with a measuring tape and the help of a few teammates, checks the distance from home plate to the fences at Washington's RFK Stadium and finds inaccuracies. The club had brought in a surveyor earlier in the day and as a result of the findings moved the green pads with the ``380 markings closer to the respective foul lines to be more accurate.
2005 - Toronto Blue Jays traded utility infielder John McDonald to the Detroit Tigers for cash considerations. This gave the Blue Jays an open spot on the roster so that Aaron Hill could stay with the team when Corey Koskie returned from injury.
2007 - Tulsa Drillers first base coach Mike Coolbaugh is hit in the head by a liner from Tino Sanchez. The blow kills the long-time minor league star and former major league player. Coolbaugh had only been hired earlier that month after Orlando Merced resigned.
2008:
- The Mets blow a 5-2 lead entering the 9th as four relievers fail to protect Johan Santana's fine starting effort. The Phillies rally for a 8-6 win and overtake the Mets for first in the NL East Division. So Taguchi and Jimmy Rollins hit two-run doubles. The Mets are without closer Billy Wagner, undergoing testing for shoulder pain.
- The Diamondbacks pick up closer Jon Rauch from the Nationals for prospect Emilio Bonifacio. In other trade news, the Astros get Randy Wolf from San Diego for Chad Reineke.