TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY courtesy of National Pastime
1913 – Wearing White Sox uniforms, the Reds are defeated by the Cubs, 7-2, at Chicago’s West Side Park. Cincinnati forgot to pack uniforms and had to don those worn by their opponents’ crosstown rivals.
1996 – John Franco becomes the first left-hander to record 300 saves, allowing just a hit and no runs in the top of the ninth inning in the Mets’ 3-2 victory over Montreal at Shea Stadium. The southpaw recorded his first save exactly 12 years ago on this date wearing a Reds’ uniform.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9YQ8fhuTYs]2007 – At Coors Field during a 9-7 Colorado victory over the Braves, Troy Tulowitzki turns the 13th unassisted triple play in big league history. With the base runners on first and second on the move in the top of the seventh, Rockies shortstop Tulowitzki catches Chipper Jones’ line drive (1), steps on second to retire Kelly Johnson (2), and then tags Edgar Renteria (3) returning to first base.
And finally…in 2015, in a game that is closed to the public due to the civil unrest in Baltimore, resulting from the death of Freddie Gray, the Orioles beat the White Sox in an afternoon contest at a completely empty Camden Yards, 8-2. The first two games of this series were postponed and the scheduled weekend series against the Tampa Bay Rays is being shifted to St. Petersburg, Florida in an effort to save the much-needed law enforcement resources for the affected neighborhoods in the Charm City.
STAT OF THE DAY provided by @HighHeatStats
30 years ago today, Roger Clemens struck out 20 batters in a game against the Mariners. Other than Clemens himself, who repeated the feat in 1996, no Red Sox pitcher since has recorded more than 17 K’s in a game, done twice by Pedro Martinez.
PLAYERS BORN TODAY
Luis Aparicio (1934), Rick Burleson (1951), Bob McClure (1952) and Josh Booty (1975)
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