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1968Dodger right-hander Don Drysdale's scoreless streak ends at a record 58 2/3 consecutive innings when Tony Taylor is driven in by Howie Bedell's sacrifice fly in the fifth inning. It will be the Phillies outfielder's only RBI for the season.

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Orel Hershiser's most successful season came in 1988, when he set a major league record by pitching 59 consecutive innings without allowing a run.
 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orel_Hershiser

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Hershiser started playing poker competitively in 2006. After retirement from baseball he moved to Summerlin, Nevada and befriended a poker instructor. He became a regular at Red Rock's poker room in Summerlin, playing $2?$5 NLHE.[69]

Hershiser signed with Poker Royalty to represent his poker career.[70] He was invited to participate in the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Playing under the PokerStars banner, Hershiser stunned the poker world by making the quarterfinals, defeating 2006 event champion Ted Forrest, Allen Cunningham, and Freddy Deeb[71]?players who had won a total of 12 World Series of Poker bracelets heading into the event. Andy Bloch defeated him in the quarterfinals.[72]

Hershiser has played in a number of events, including the 2008 World Series of Poker and the 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Hershiser won $54,570 on September 7, 2008, by taking ninth place in the $10,000 Pokerstars World Championship of Online Poker Event 5.[73] Hershiser also has made a tradition of giving an autographed baseball to the poker player who eliminates him.[74]
 

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Zack Greinke has to prove he can pitch on the road


6.14 era in 5 starts...at Colo tonight ...

was lights outs last start at home vs easy Marlins

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Greinke first five -115 at Coors Field :0008

Rockies starter been known to blow up at home and Greinke seems to be finding the groove.

Coors Field will test him but.......that's why he makes the big bucks
 

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1944Six weeks shy of his 16th birthday, Joe Nuxhall becomes the youngest person to play in a major league contest in this century. After being called in the ninth inning into a 13-0 rout by the Cardinals at Crosley Field, the 15 year-old high school southpaw, who will stay in the Reds organization for over sixty years, becoming best known as the voice for the team's radio broadcasts, retires the first batter he faces, but is unable to get out of the inning, yielding five walks, two hits, one wild pitch, and five runs.

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1967In front of his family and friends, Astros' outfielder Jimmy Wynn, a Cincinnati native, hits the longest home run in the history of Crosley Field. The Toy Cannon's monstrous shot off right-hander Mel Queen in the team's 9-4 loss to the Reds clears the 58-foot scoreboard in left-center and bounces onto Interstate 75 outside the stadium.

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17 years.........:0corn
last Tues.
News: C C Sabathia (3-1) allowed two runs on three hits and a walk while striking out six over seven innings to pick up the win Tuesday against the Blue Jays. (Tue Jun 5)


and TODAY

Coley HarveyESPN Staff Writer


The Yankees and Nationals have finally completed a game this season. New York takes this one, winning Tuesday night's series opener, 3-0. The Yankees can go for the brief two-game series sweep Wednesday. Didi Gregorius' bat came back to life in this one, as the recently slumping shortstop hit a pair of home runs. CC Sabathia got the win, the 240th of his career, and the 123rd of his time in pinstripes. The Yankees' bullpen also kept its scoreless streak going; up to 21 2/3 innings now

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June 2, 1998: Drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 1st round (20th pick) of the 1998 amateur draft. Player signed June 29, 1998.

July 7, 2008: Traded by the Cleveland Indians to the Milwaukee Brewers for a player to be named later, Rob Bryson (minors), Zach Jackson and Matt LaPorta. The Milwaukee Brewers sent Michael Brantley(October 3, 2008) to the Cleveland Indians to complete the trade.

November 1, 2008: Granted Free Agency.

December 20, 2008: Signed as a Free Agent with the New York Yankees.
 

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1973The Dodgers infield, a quartet which will be together eight and a half years, setting a major league record for longevity, plays together for the first time. First baseman Steve Garvey, second baseman Davey Lopes, third baseman Ron Cey, and shortstop Bill Russell are in the lineup in the 16-3 defeat to the Phillies.

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1969Reggie Jackson accumulates 11 total bases and drives in ten runs in Oakland's 21-7 rout of the Red Sox. The A's outfielder's offensive output in the Fenway Park contest includes a pair of two-run homers, a double, and a single.

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2005Before a pitch in the seventh inning, the umpires are asked to investigate Brendan Donnelly's glove for a foreign substances. Upon the discovery of illegal pine tar, the Angel pitcher, who claims he uses the substance to control sweating, is tossed, resulting in managers Mike Scioscia and Frank Robinson exchanging angry words, which incites a brawl, clearing both benches and bullpens.

3:45 mark an old but still true baseball purist lets Scioscia have a few words....Robinson was a baseball Titan in both leagues..

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1977The Mets trade the 'Franchise', Tom Seaver, to the Reds for pitcher Pat Zachary, second baseman Doug Flynn, and minor leaguers Steve Henderson and Dan Norman. Dave Kingman is also traded by New York to the Angels for Bobby Valentine and a minor league player.

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Seaver would end his career in BeanTown :SIB
 

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Gus Bell, ex-big leaguer, would watch his son, Buddy, play in high school from a parked car beyond the outfield fence so Gus could concentrate on the game. ?If I made a good play,? Buddy said, ?he?d honk the horn once. If I made a great play, he?d honk it twice.?
 

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1986Collegiate 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.

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1997Aaron Boone, son and grandson of former major leaguers Bob and Ray, is called up from the minor leagues by the Reds. To make room on the roster, Cincinnati demotes his brother, Bret.

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KC has lost 8 straight..

the last 7 have been by 3 or more runs......


also have lost 14 of their last 15.........

now there is money in the bank..........
 

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Rockies last 20 games...

17 OVERS
3 UNDERS........


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they go to the top of the 5th with the Mets 10 runs across.

live calls for 15' ......right now ..subject to change ......:mj07:

Mile High Baseball.............:00hour

correction ......11 combined now...........:SIB
 

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Bottom 9th

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Giancarlo Stanton homered (425 ft.) to deep left center, Didi Gregorius scored

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[h=1]David SchoenfieldESPN Senior Writer [/h]On the Yankees broadcast, Michael Kay points out that Giancarlo Stanton is still waiting for his signature Yankees moment. Two pitches later, he drills on 0-2 slider:SIBfrom Ryan Cook for a two-run, walk-off home run as the Yankees rally from a 5-0 deficit for their biggest comeback win of the year. Maybe Stanton is finally a True Yankees (c)

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