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On July 4 in Baseball History...​
  • 1905 - In the afternoon game of a doubleheader, Philadelphia's Rube Waddell bests Cy Youngin a 20-inning marathon as the Athletics down Boston 4-2. A's catcher Ossee Schreckengostworks twenty-eught innings in one day, a Major League record.

  • 1911 - In the morning game between Chicago and Detroit, Ed Walsh stops Ty Cobb's 40-game hitting streak as the White Sox win 7-3. Cobb has batted .491 since the streak started on May 15.

  • 1939 - A tearful Lou Gehrig tells 61,808 fans at Yankee Stadium, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.' Gehrig's uniform number four is retired, the first Major League player so honored.

  • 1960 - Mickey Mantle's three-run first-inning home run off Hal Woodeshick is the 300th of his career. Mantle becomes the 18th player to join the 300 club, but the Yankees drop a 9-8 decision to Washington.

  • 1974 - Mike Marshall picks up a 3-2 win over Reds. Over the past 30 days, Marshall is 9-0 with three saves and a 1.82 ERA in twenty appearances.

  • 1980 - Nolan Ryan fans Reds outfielder Cesar Geronimo to become the fourth pitcher ever to reach 3,000 career strikeouts. Geronimo was also Bob Gibson's 3,000th career strikeout victim. Despite the milestone, Ryan is tagged with the 8-1 loss.

  • 1983 - Dave Righetti pitches the Yankees' first no-hitter since Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series. He handcuffs the Red Sox 4-0 before a holiday crowd of 41,077 at Yankee Stadium.

  • 1984 - Phil Niekro strikes out five batters in the Yankees' 5-0 win over Texas to become the ninth pitcher in major league history to record 3,000 career strikeouts.

  • 1985 - In a marathon game that borders on the surreal, the Mets endure two rain delays and six hours and ten minutes of playing time to beat the Braves 16-13 in 19 innings. Relief pitcher Rick Camp, an .060 career hitter, homers in the 18th inning to tie the game no pitcher has ever homered that late in a game. Keith Hernandez hits for the cycle in a game that ends at 3:55 a.m. on July 5, the latest finish in Major League history. At 4:01 a.m., the post-game fireworks display begins, causing some local residents to think the city is under attack.

  • 1987 - In a seven-player swap, the Padres trade pitchers Dave Dravecky and Craig Leffertsand outfielder Kevin Mitchell to the Giants for third baseman Chris Brown and pitchers Keith Comstock, Mark Davis, and Mark Grant. In 1989, Mitchell will win the MVP Award for the Giants and Davis will win the Cy Young for the Padres.

  • 1988 - Kansas City releases pitcher Dan Quisenberry, whose 238 saves are the fourth most in major league history. He will sign with St. Louis next week.

  • 1989 - Cincinnati's Tom Browning is three outs from his second career perfect game when Dickie Thon doubles. Browning is eventually relieved by John Franco in a 2-1 win over Philadelphia.

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On July 5 in Baseball History...​
  • 1904 - The Giants' 18-game winning streak ends when the Phillies prevail 6-5 in ten innings. The Giants record is now 53-18, effectively ending the National League race. At season's end, the Giants will refuse to play the postseason World Series against American League champion Boston.

  • 1935 - Tony Cuccinello of the Dodgers and Al Cuccinello of the Giants hit home runs, the first time in the National League brothers on opposing teams homered in the same game.

  • 1937 - Frank Demaree of Chicago went 6-for-7 in the first game of a doubleheader in which the Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 13-12 in 14 innings. DeMaree had two singles in the second game.

  • 1947 - Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians becomes the first black to play in the American League. He strikes out as a pinch hitter as the Chicago White Sox edge the Indians 6-5.

  • 1951 - After sweeping the Giants in a three-game series, Dodgers manager Chuck Dressendeclares, 'We knocked 'em out. They won't bother us anymore.' The Dodgers now lead the Giants by 7 1/2 games, but the Giants will have the last laugh.

  • 1961 - Bill White hit three home runs and a double to power the St. Louis Cardinals to a 9-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

  • 1987 - Mark McGwire became the first rookie to hit 30 homers before the All-Star break and Jose Canseco homered twice, leading Oakland to a 6-3 victory over Boston.

  • 1989 - Barry Bonds homers in Pittsburgh's 6-4 loss to the Giants, giving Barry and father Bobby the major league father-and-son home run record with 408. The Bells (Gus and Buddy) and the Berras (Yogi and Dale) had shared the record of 407.

  • 1991 - The Colorado Rockies and the Florida Marlins receive unanimous approval from owners to join the National League in 1993.

  • 1993 - Rickey Henderson of the Athletics opened both games of a doubleheader with a homer, the first player to accomplish the feat in 60 years.

  • 1998 - Roger Clemens became the 11th pitcher in baseball history to notch 3,000th strikeouts.

  • 1998 - Juan Gonzalez became the second player to top 100 RBIs before the All-Star break, homering in the first and seventh innings off Seattle's Randy Johnson.

  • 2000 - Luis Gonzalez became the first Arizona player to hit for the cycle as the Diamondbacks beat Houston 12-9.

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Baseball Deaths on July 5... ​

 
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Mets on a 3 game winning streak and Rangers lead down to 3 over Astros in A.L. West. Trout on D.L. for next 8 weeks for Angels and Kershaw and Judge skipping All-star game. Last!y Guardians win in extras to stop Braves winning streak !!!!!!
 
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