June 14

[edit] Events

[edit] 1870

• The Cincinnati Red Stockings lose to the Brooklyn Atlantics, 8-7 after winning the first 27 games of their season. The game features the first recorded double play and the first known switch hitter, Bob Ferguson

[edit] 1876

• George Hall of the Philadelphia Athletics becomes the first player to hit for the cycle

[edit] 1933

• New York Yankees manager, Joe McCarthy, and Lou Gehrig are tossed out of a game. McCarthy is suspended for 3 games, but Gehrig isn't and his consecutive game streak stays alive at 1,249 games

[edit] 1952

• Warren Spahn strikes out 18 batters in 15 innings tying a National League record, but his Chicago Cubs still lose to the Milwaukee Braves, 3-1

• Dewey Griggs, a scout for the Milwaukee Braves, signs Hank Aaron

[edit] 1953

• The New York Yankees complete a sweep of the Cleveland Indians and extend their winning streak to 18 games.

[edit] 1963

• Duke Snider hits his 400th career home run off of Bob Purkey to help the New York Mets beat the Cincinnati Reds, 10-3

[edit] 1965

• Jim Maloney keeps the New York Mets hitless for 10 innings, but the Cincinnati Reds still lose, 1-0 when Maloney allows an 11th inning home run to Johnny Lewis.

[edit] 1969

• Reggie Jackson leads the Oakland A's to a 21-7 win over the Boston Red Sox with 5 hits (2 of them homers) and 10 RBI

[edit] 1974

• Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 batters in 12 innings including 6 consecutive times striking out Cecil Cooper

[edit] 1979

• San Francisco Giants firstbaseman, Willie McCovey hits his 513th home run becoming the all-time left handed National League home run leader.

[edit] 1985

• Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to take the helm as manager of the Baltimore Orioles

[edit] 1994

• Mike Benjamin goes 6-7 in a 13 inning game for the San Francisco Giants. He also knocks in the winning run to beat the Chicago Cubs, 4-3. He sets a major league record with 14 hits in 3 games.

[edit] 1996

• Cal Ripken plays in his 2,216th game passing Sachio Kinugasa of the Hiroshima Carp in the Japanese Central League to become the world wide Iron Man

[edit] 2002

• For the first time since 1972 no DH is used on a day where all the teams are playing. There are 14 interleague games scheduled and all of them take place in National League parks

[edit] 2003

• Fred McGriff comes off the DL to hit cleanup for the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was the first time that he was on the DL in his 18 year career.

[edit] 2005

• Ichiro Suzuki becomes the 3rd fastest major leaguer to reach the 1000 hit plateau. The 31 year old Seattle Mariner accomplished the feat in 696 games.

• Benches clear in a game between the Los Angeles Angels and the Washington Nationals after a foreign substance is found on the glove of Angels' hurler, Brendan Donnelly and the skippers for the two teams, Mike Scioscia and Frank Robinson get into a heated arguement.