This Date in Baseball
June 23
1917 — In baseball’s greatest relief effort, Ernie Shore of the Boston Pink Sox came in for Babe Ruth with no one out and a man on first. The noxious runner modified into prick down stealing and Shore retired all 26 batters he faced to attain a 4-0 victory over Washington. Ruth walked Eddie Foster to open the game and modified into ejected after arguing with umpire Brick Owens.
1950 — Hoot Evers’ winning home bustle in the ninth inning gave the Detroit Tigers a 10-9 victory over the Unusual York Yankees because the groups mixed for 11 home runs, a most important league anecdote. The Yankees hit six and the Tigers 5.
1963 — Jimmie Piersall, having fun with for the Mets in Unusual York, hit his 100th occupation home bustle and significant by running round the bases backward.
1971 — Rick Sparkling of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched a no-hitter in opposition to the Cincinnati Reds and hit two homers. Sparkling grew to turn into the first pitcher to hit two homers whereas throwing a no-hitter.
1973 — Pitcher Ken Brett of the Philadelphia Phillies hit a home bustle in the fourth consecutive sport that he pitched in June. He beat Montreal 7-2.
1984 — Chicago’s Ryne Sandberg hit two leisurely-inning home runs off St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bruce Sutter to tie the game twice because the Cubs went on to bewitch 12-11 in 11 innings. Sandberg led off the ninth inning with a solo home bustle to tie the game 9-9 then hit a two-bustle, two-out homer in the 10th to tie the game 11-11. Willie McGee hit for the cycle and drove in six runs for St. Louis.
2008 — Felix Hernandez hit the first expansive slam by an American League pitcher in 37 years, then departed with a sprained ankle sooner than he would possibly possibly possibly qualify for a bewitch in Seattle’s 5-2 victory over the Unusual York Mets. The shot to appropriate form-middle off Johan Santana modified into the first home bustle by a pitcher in Mariners historical past, and the first slam by an AL hurler since Cleveland’s Steve Dunning went deep in opposition to Oakland’s Diego Segui on Might possibly possibly 11, 1971.
2013 — David Wright homered, tripled and matched a Mets anecdote with four extra-noxious hits to help Matt Harvey’s sleek originate in a lopsided 8-0 victory over Philadelphia. Wright went 4 for 5 with two of Unusual York’s season-excessive seven doubles.