TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY courtesy of National Pastime
1945 – Every game on the American League schedule is rained out for the fourth consecutive day.
1961 – Roger Maris, en route to his record-breaking season of 61 home runs, hit his first round-tripper of the year at Yankee Stadium. The eighth inning homer off Pete Burnside, his fourth overall, doesn’t help when the Senators beat the Bronx Bombers, 8-7.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRxsEbQUID4]1998 – In front of nearly 50,000 fans on Beanie Baby Day at Yankee Stadium, David Wells retires all 27 batters he faces, defeating the Twins, 4-0. It is only the 13th perfect game in modern major league history.
And finally…in 2009 Pudge Rodríguez hit his 300th career home run, a fourth inning shot off of Chicago’s Rich Harden, in the Astros’ 6-5 win at Wrigley Field. The perennial All-Star catcher will finish his 21-year major league career with 311 round-trippers.
STAT OF THE DAY provided by @HighHeatStats
Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew died five years ago today. He led the majors in homers from 1959 to 1970 with 476.
PLAYERS BORN TODAY
Lou Chiozza (1910), Pascual Perez (1957), Jose Guillen (1976) and Carlos Pena (1978)
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