FROM THE DUGOUT STEPS

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6/12/1981

Major League Baseball experiences its first in-season work stoppage. The 50-day strike, which will end on July 31, results in 712 games not being played.

 

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Alden Gonzalez
ESPN Staff Writer

Shohei Ohtani, who just hit for the cycle, has a 1.517 OPS since June 4. Only Christian Yelich's is higher. I don't think anybody expected him to be this good a hitter. Not this quickly, at least.

 

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auto shade ...:0074

 

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6/14/1965

Reds starter Jim Maloney, who strikes out 18 batters, no-hits the Mets for ten innings, but loses 1-0 when Johnny Lewis connects for a homer in the eleventh in the Crosley Field contest. In August at Wrigley Field, the right-hander will once again give up no hits through the first nine innings, but this time will record a no-hitter when his teammate Leo Cardenas connects in the top of the tenth, providing the only run in Cincinnati's 1-0 victory over Chicago.

 

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6/14/1974

Nolan Ryan, throwing an unbelievable 235 pitches, whiffs 19 batters in 13 innings, including Cecil Cooper six consecutive times, in the Angels' 4-3 victory over Boston in 15 innings in Anaheim. The right-hander's performance will be the first of three 19-strikeout outings the Texan throws this season.

 

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6/11/1938

In the first of two consecutive no-hitters he will hurl, Johnny Vander Meer keeps the Boston Bees hitless in Cincinnati's 3-0 victory at Crosley Field. The Reds' southpaw, in the first night game played in Brooklyn, continues his no-no mojo four days later by beating the Dodgers, 6-0, without giving up a hit in the Ebbets Field contest.

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6/15/1938

In the first night game played in New York City, Johnny Vander Meer pitches his second consecutive no-hitter, beating the Dodgers at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, 6-0. Four days ago, the Reds' southpaw held the Braves hitless in a 3-0 victory at Crosley Field.



Back to Back No No's :nono:

one of the best baseball trivia questions ever

 

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6/15/1999

Brewers' pitcher Jim Abbott, born without a right hand, gets the first hit in his 11-year career when he connects in the fourth inning for a rbi-single off Jon Lieber in the team's 11-4 victory over the Cubs at County Stadium. The southpaw didn't bat playing for the Angels and the Yankees due to the designated hitter rule in the American League.

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6/19/1942

For the first and only time in a career that spans 1,787 contests, Joe DiMaggio strikes out three times in a game. Indians' hurler Mel Harder does the deed in the Tribe's 5-4 victory over the Yankees at Cleveland Stadium.

 

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Clayton Kershaw lowers his career ERA vs Giants to 1.68 and now has 343 strikeouts vs SF (his most vs any opponent)..Kershaw is he only pitcher since ER became official in 1913 with 300+ K and a sub-2.00 ERA vs a single opponent



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Marly Rivera
ESPN Writer

Here is what Dominican Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez answered when I asked him if he had any concerns as to whether the international community would believe the explanation of David Ortiz's shooting as a case of 'mistaken identity': "We presented irrefutable audio and video evidence today. Science is science, evidence is evidence. These facts are undisputed; the rest is speculation."


Marly Rivera
ESPN Writer

Dominican Attorney General Jean Alain Rodr?guez: "The target of the hit was not to be David Ortiz, it was another individual that was in the same place and the same table and by coincidence was dressed similar to David that night. This confusion happened because of a picture that was taken minutes before the attack and circulated between one of the masterminds and the contract killers."


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6/20/1986

Collegiate football standout Bo Jackson, who will eventually spend four seasons with the Oakland Raiders, signs to play baseball with the Royals, the defending World Champions. The Auburn running back had been drafted first overall in the 1986 NFL Draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but the Heisman trophy winner turns down the Buccaneers' more lucrative offer when the team refuses to let him play two sports.


6/20/1991

At Comiskey Park, Ivan Rodriguez makes his major league debut with the Rangers. The 19 year-old backstop becomes the youngest person to catch a major league game.

hit .264 ...............payed in 86 games.......started 81...........
19 years old..........

 

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The announced attendance at Busch Stadium tonight for Albert Pujols' return: 48,423. It's the second-largest crowd in the history of Busch Stadium III.


Bradford Doolittle, ESPN Staff Writer

 

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6/24/1947

At Forbes Field, Jackie Robinson steals home in the Dodgers' 4-2 victory over the Pirates. It is the Brooklyn infielder's first thievery of the dish, something the rookie will accomplish 19 times during his ten-year career.

by 1949 Jackie Robinson is MVP of the NL

 

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The Dodgers are 25-7 at home..........:0071:0071:0071

The Dodgers are 34-9 at home................:0071:0071:0071

 

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Alden Gonzalez
ESPN Staff Writer

Shohei Ohtani threw 40 pitches off a mound, then singled and doubled in his first two at-bats, and man I really hope this guy can be a two-way player all of next year. So cool to watch

 

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6/27/1963

Tigers first baseman Norm Cash plays an entire game without recording a put out in the team?s 10-6 loss to the Twins at Minnesota?s Metropolitan Stadium. Six strikeouts, sixteen balls caught in the air, and two fielder choices account for the 24 outs made by the home team.


watch a game for that to occur again...:0003

 

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Marly Rivera
ESPN Writer

I spoke to many Red Sox and Yankees players about the short distance to center, just 385 to dead center field, and many of them said that while it's short, since London Stadium is built to Olympic standards, with little or no air movement, it's difficult to get the ball over the 16-ft wall.

 

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7/4/1976

After hitting an apparent grand slam in the top of the second inning, Tim McCarver is credited with only a three-run single when he passes teammate Garry Maddox on the basepaths in the Phillies' 10-5 victory over the Pirates at Three Rivers Stadium. The other base runners are allowed to score on the Philadelphia catcher's 'grand slam single' because only the player who passes his teammate is called out and there were less than two outs.

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7/12/1910

The legendary verse detailing the Cubs' double-play combination of Tinker to Evers to Chance, entitled That Double Play Again, is published for the first time. When the 'New York Evening Mail' republishes the same poem six days later, the newspaper will use the title by which the poem is best known today, Baseball's Sad Lexicon