July 30th

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2002
» Montreal OF Cliff Floyd is traded for the second time in three weeks, going to the Red Sox in exchange for minor league pitchers Seuny Jun Song and Sun Woo Kim.

2001
» The Cubs get P David Weathers and P Roberto Miniel from the Brewers for P Ruben Quevedo and OF Peter Zoccolillo.

The Yankees reacquire P Sterling Hitchcock from the Padres, sending San Diego P Brett Jodie and OF Darren Blakely.

The Giants obtain P Jason Schmidt and OF John Vander Wal from the Pirates in exchange for OF Armando Rios and P Ryan Vogelsong.

The Mets send All–Star P Rick Reed to the Twins for OF Matt Lawton.

2000
» The Braves defeat the Astros, 6-3, as Tom Glavine wins his 200th career game.

The Phillies bring P Kent Bottenfield back to the NL, sending cash and vet Ron Gant to the Angels.

The Cardinals obtain P Jason Christiansen from the Pirates in exchange for IF Jack Wilson.

The Astros trade P Doug Henry to the Giants for P Scott Linebrink.

1999
» The Yankees defeat the Red Sox, 13-3, as 2B Chuck Knoblauch raps out five hits, including a double and home run, and drives home four runs.

1998
» The Indians score three runs in the top of the 17th inning against Seattle, then hold on as the Mariners fight back with two of their own in the bottom of the stanza. Cleveland gets 16 hits in the contest while Seattle accounts for 19 in a losing cause. Alex Rodriguez steals his 30th base in the game, to go along with his 31 homers. He's the 6th 30-30 player in American League history.

The Red Sox bring back OF–1B Mike Stanley from the Blue Jays in exchange for minor league pitchers Peter Munro and Jay Yennaco.

The Braves obtain IF Greg Colbrunn from the Rockies in exchange for minor league Ps David Cortes and Mike Porzio.

The Ladies Professional Baseball League suspends the remainder of the season due to low attendance. In the last game played, the Long Beach Aces lose to the San Jose Spitfires, 7–0.

1997
» David Wells fires a 3-hitter as the Yankees beat the Royals, 7–0. Tino Martinez hits his 36th homer and Luis Sojo has four hits.

At Boston, the Red Sox beat the Mariners, 8–7, in 10 innings. Steve Avery grounds out as a pinch hitter in the 10th, the first Sox pitcher to hit since Tim Lollar in 1986.

1996
» The Reds acquire OF Kevin Mitchell from the Red Sox for minor leaguers Brad Tweedlie and Roberto Mejia. Cincy also sells OF Eric Anthony to the Rockies.

Boston gets a leadoff hitter when the Mariners trade OF Darren Bragg to the Red Sox in exchange for P Jamie Moyer. Moyer, in a portent of his success with the M's, is 7-1.

The Giants trade P Mark Leiter (4–10) to the Expos for pitchers Tim Scott and Kirk Rueter.

1995
» Mike Schmidt, Richie Ashburn, Negro League star Leon Day, former National League president William A. Hulbert, and Vic Willis are inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Chili Davis of the Angels is charged with disorderly conduct following California's 8-3 win over the Brewers in Milwaukee. Davis allegedly slapped a fan who was taunting him. Chili also had a hit in the game.

The Astros Jeff Bagwell suffers a broken hand when his is hit by a pitch in the 4th from Brian Williams in the Astros 7–1 win over the Padres. It is the same bone that he broke last year when he was hit by a pitch from Andy Benes on August 10, two days before the strike.

1994
» Detroit defeats Oakland, 14-2, as Tiger C Chad Kreuter ties a major league record with three sacrifice flies. He is the 9th player in history to perform the feat.

The Giants defeat the Rockies by a score of 6-4, as Giants pitcher Rod Beck sets a major league record by converting his 25th save in 25 opportunities. Beck held the previous record of 24 which he set last season.

1993
» The Yankees obtain P Paul Assenmacher from the Cubs in a 3-way deal which sees P John Habyan go to the Royals and OF Karl Rhodes to the Cubs.

1992
» The Blue Jays trade C Greg Myers and OF Rob Ducey to the Angels in exchange for P Mark Eichhorn.

1991
» Boston relief pitcher Jeff Gray collapses in the clubhouse prior to the Red Sox game with Texas. He becomes lightheaded, his speech slurs, and he suffers weakness in the right side of his body. Diagnosed as suffering from a stroke, Gray will undergo two years of rehab and, in 1994, become a minor league pitching coach. Gray's stroke comes on the 11th anniversary of J.R. Richard's stroke. In the game which follows, the Red Sox Carlos Quintana ties a major league record by driving in six runs in one inning in Boston's 11-6 victory. He strokes a double and a grand slam.

The Angels trade 3B Jack Howell to the Padres for OF Shawn Abner.

1990
» In a surprisingly harsh ruling, Commissioner Fay Vincent orders Yankees owner George Steinbrenner to resign as the club's general partner by August 20th and bans him from day-to-day operation of the team for life. The ruling is a result of Steinbrenner's $40,000 payment to confessed gambler Howie Spira for damaging information about since-traded Yankee star Dave Winfield.

Jack Clark hits his 300th career home run in San Diego's 4–3 eleven-inning loss to the Braves. His homer in the 10th ties the game and is his 17th homer in extra innings. He's now in 2nd place in overtime homers to Willie Mays's 22.

Nolan Ryan becomes the 20th 300 game winner in history, in a 11–3 Texas win over Milwaukee. Ryan is not around to finish, joining Steve Carlton and Early Wynn as the only pitchers not to hurl a complete game for their 300th win.

1989
» Mark Grace belts a 2-out 3-run homer, off Rick Aguilera, to give the Cubs a 6–4 win over the Mets. Les Lancaster is the winner as the Cubs sweep three from the Mets.

1988
» John Franco saves his 13th game of July in Cincinnati's 2–0 win over San Diego, setting a major-league record for saves in one month.

1987
» The Pirates trade P Don Robinson to the Giants for minor league catcher Mackey Sasser and cash. The Indians trade fading veteran Steve Carlton to the Twins for a player to be named later.

1986
» C Ron Hassey is traded for the 3rd time in eight months, this time going to Chicago in a deal that brings OF-DH Ron Kittle, SS Wayne Tolleson, and C Joel Skinner to New York.

1984
» At San Diego, Dave Dravecky allows one hit—a double to Bill Russell in the 7th—as the Padres rout the Dodgers, 12–0.

1980
» Attempting to throw for the first time since being hospitalized for tests last week, J.R. Richard suffers a stroke and is rushed to Houston's Methodist Hospital for emergency surgery to remove a life-threatening blood clot in his neck. He will never pitch in the major leagues again.

1978
» The Expos crush the Braves 19–0, collecting 28 hits and an National League-record-tying eight home runs. Andre Dawson, Larry Parrish, Dave Cash, and Dawson again homer in the 4th inning; Parrish has a single and three consecutive home runs in the game, only the 3rd major leaguer to do it. Not till Andres Galarraga in 1995 will a hitter bang homers in three consecutive innings. The 58 bases breaks an 85-year-old record held by the Reds. Woodie Fryman conducts the win over Mickey Mahler.

1977
» Yankee pitcher Don Gullett picks up his 10th win of the year, a 9–3 victory over the A's. But it will prove to be his final win of the year when he injures his shoulder in the 7th inning and leaves the game.

1976
» The Reds do all their scoring in the first three innings to beat Houston, 13-8 in the 1st of 2. Cincy adds a 4–2 win in the nitecap to sweep as Bench hits his 250th homer.

In a Southern Association game in Memphis, the Chick's Art Gardner hits a 3rd inning shot off the CF wall and, while Syracuse OF Rick Bladt searches for the ball, Gardner circles the bases for an inside-the-park home run. When Bladt can't find the ball, the umpires rule the hit is only a double.

1975
» P Jose Sosa homers in his first ML at bat as the Astros beat the Padres 8–4. It will be Sosa's only home run in the majors.

Pat Darcy pitches a complete game win, 6–1, over the visiting Giants. It's the first CG by a Reds pitcher in 45 games.

1973
» The Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits first-place Oakland 6–0, while teammate Jeff Burroughs hits the 2nd of three grand slams in a 10-day period (July 26th-August 4th). Bibby, who came to Texas in a June 6th trade with the Cardinals, strikes out 13 batters.

1972
» Ralph Garr and Earl Williams collect 10 hits and 10 runs between them to lead the Braves to 14–4 and 5–4 victories over the Dodgers. They each have four RBIs in the two games.

The Angels beat Kansas City, 4–3, when Bob Oliver hits a leadoff home run in the 11th inning against his former team. The win goes to Lloyd Allen, relegated to the bullpen after five straight losses as a starter. Allen's batterymate, Jack Hiatt, is 1-for-1 after taking over in the late innings. Hiatt, purchased yesterday from the Astros, appears without a number on his uniform since there was not enough time to sew one on.

1971
» The Indians, with a 42-61 record, fire manager Alvin Dark. Johnny Lipon takes over, but the team goes 18-41 the rest of the season.

Frank Robinson's home run spoils a no-hit bid by the Royals Dick Drago, who loses, 1–0, in a rain-shortened game. Play is stopped with one out in the 5th. Robby's homer is the 493rd, tying him with Lou Gehrig for 11th place on the homer list.

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1969
» Its a bad day for the Mets at Shea. In the 1st of two games, Houston scores 11 runs in the 9th inning, eight coming home on grand slams by Jimmy Wynn and Denis Menke, to trounce the Mets 16–3. This is the first time this century in the National League that two grand slams have come in the same inning, with Mets pitchers Cal Koonce and Ron Taylor teeing up the honors. (The last time in the American League was July 18, 1962.) Taylor also serves up a single to Houston relief P Fred Gladding, the only hit of Gladding's career in 63 ML at bats and 450 games. Game two is no different as the Astros tally 10 runs in the 3rd inning to thrash the Mets, 11–5. Curt Blefary triples with the sacks full and pitcher Larry Dierker (13-8) homers with a man on.

Using five homers, the Braves thrash the Phils, 6–3, in game 1. Felipe Alou and Hank Aaron homer and Bob Tillman, hitting .187, hits three in a row. Aaron's blast is the 537th of his career and moves him past Mickey Mantle on the all-time list. The Phils win the nitecap, 4–3. Dick Allen homers in the 2nd inning and follows a Johnny Callison homer in the 8th with his 2nd shot of the game.

1968
» In the first inning, Washington SS Ron Hansen turns the 8th unassisted triple play in ML history and the first in 41 years. Cleveland's Joe Azcue hits a liner to Hansen, who steps on 2B to double Dave Nelson, and tags Russ Snyder sliding into 2B for the 3rd out. Hansen's effort is not enough, as Washington loses 10–1.

1966
» Chicago's Gary Peters shuts down the Yankees, 6–0, facing just 29 batters. The efficient Peters uses just 75 pitches.

The Twins Dave Boswell allows just a 7th inning single to Snyder in beating the Orioles, 7–0.

1965
» Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9–2 loss to the Giants. Bragan says he ordered the spitters to prove rules against them are not being enforced.

1963
» The Phillies tally 11 hits off the Giants Billy O'Dell, but the Digger shuts them out, 5–0.

1962
» Homers by Leon Wagner, Pete Runnels, and Rocky Colavito power the American League past the National League 9–4 in the 2nd All-Star Game of 1962.

1960
» Just as he predicts, Philadelphia P Art Mahaffey, just called up from Buffalo, picks off the first batter to get a hit against him. Then with the next batter to get a hit, he does it again. Curt Flood and Bill White are the base runner victims, but St. Louis still wins 6–3. In his next game, the first batter to get a hit off Mahaffey will be Jim Marshall, and Mahaffey will pick him off as well.

1959
» In his ML debut, Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4 with two triples off Robin Roberts to lead the Giants to a 7–2 win over the Phils. McCovey was hitting .372 with 29 home runs at Phoenix when promoted.

The Southern Association suspends Chattanooga 1B Jesse Levan for life because of his involvement as a go-between for gamblers seeking to fix games. His teammate, Waldo Gonzales, receives a one-year suspension.

The PCL's Portland club sues ML baseball for $1.8 million, citing unfair practices through television that could bring the downfall of the minor leagues. They warn the ML not to start a 3rd league or expand.

1957
» Ron Northey hits his ninth pinch-hit HR, off Buster Freeman, enabling the Phillies to beat the Reds 8-5.

1955
» The Orioles get P Ed Lopat from the Yankees for P Jim McDonald and cash.

1954
» Against Allie Reynolds, 3B Bob Kennedy hits the first grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles. The Orioles surpass the top season attendance the Browns had in their 52 years, as they draw 27,385 for the game, giving them 7,000 more than the 712,918 St. Louis drew in 1922.

1953
» The Giants Monte Irvin grounds into three DPs, tying a NL record, as Milwaukee wins 5-0.

1952
» Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick sets a waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs bid with the club lowest in the league to get the first pick. He sets the price at $10,000. He also bars all other deals after July 31st.

Journeyman hurler Lou Kretlow fashions his second consecutive 2-hitter, as the White Sox down New York 7-0.

1951
» Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes "peons" of baseball players. National Association President George Trautman testifies, denying that minors hampered independent teams.

Joe DiMaggio makes a rare mental error against Detroit, catching a Steve Souchock fly ball in deep CF and, thinking it's the third out, begins trotting in. It's only the second out, and George Kell scores from 2B to make the score 4–2 in the eighth. Despite the lapse, the Yanks win, 5–4, with DiMag knocking in the winning run in the ninth.

1950
» Del Ennis of the Phils hits his 2nd grand slam in three days in a 10–0 pasting of Pittsburgh. He adds a two-run homer as the Phils take the 2nd game, 4–2, and helps the Phils boost their lead to three games over St. Louis. His seven RBIs in two games gives him 41 for the month, A new Phils record.

The Cards stop the Giants, 6–3, to end New York's win streak of nine games. Gerry Staley wins his 10th on a 7-hitter and is back by Enos Slaughter's single, double, and triple. Red Schoendienst's wide toss to 3rd in the 9th ends his streak of 57 games without an error. He had handled 323 chances without an error.

1948
» At Cleveland, the Red Sox are victorious, 8–7, for their 25th win of the month, a club record.

1947
» The New York Giants edge the Cincinnati Reds 6-5 in 10 innings, ending Ewell Blackwell's winning streak at 16 games. All games are complete games and five are shutouts.

1944
» The fourth straight bad start by Bucky Walters of Cincinnati will deprive him of the ERA title. Bucky gives up 27 runs in 24 innings after a brilliant start of the season. He will recover to win 23 games and finish with an ERA of 2.40, but teammate Ed Heusser will be the ERA champ with 2.38.

1943
» Phil Cavarretta of the Chicago Cubs HRs off the RF foul pole against Johnny Allen of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The ball is retrieved, and Bill Nicholson hits the next pitch out of Wrigley Field. The result: one ball, one pitcher, two pitches, two HRs. The Cubs go on to beat the Dodgers 13-2.

1940
» Veteran Lou Finney hits so well for the Red Sox early in the season that manager Joe Cronin must make a place for him in the lineup. With rookie Dom DiMaggio joining Ted Williams and Doc Cramer in the OF, Cronin puts Finney at 1B when Jimmie Foxx volunteers to catch. The experiment lasts but a few games.

1936
» Vern Kennedy wins his 10th in a row, pitching the White Sox to a win over the A's, 7–4. Bob Kennedy connects off Kennedy for his 16th homer of the year, while Gordon "Dusty" Rhodes is handed one of his American League-high twenty losses. Hod Lisenbee, signed yesterday, is effective in relief of Rhodes.

Kiki Cuyler of the Reds has eight straight hits—all singles—during a doubleheader split with the Phils. The Reds win the opener, 5–0, behind Bill Hallahan, then lose, 5–4 to veteran Ray Benge, making his first start for the Quakers since being acquired on waivers from the Bees.

The Boston Red Sox, led by owner Tom Yawkey and accompanied by AL President Will Harridge, fly from St. Louis to Chicago aboard one plane. Five players elect to take the train. In 1934, the Reds flew from Cincinnati to Chicago, but divided the players among three planes. Some of the Reds still chose to take the train.

The Yankees, with Jake Powell back in CF for the injured Hoag, drop a 5–4 decision to Detroit. On August 1st, Powell will go to LF, with DiMaggio playing CF for the first time. Selkirk will return to RF. The Yanks loses today when Charlie Gehringer ties the match with a two-run homer in the 8th. Bill Dickey allows a ball to get by him in the 10th and Burns scores the winner. Schoolboy Rowe pitches 10 innings for the win over Johnny Broaca.

At Brooklyn, the Cardinals Jim Winford tosses a 4-hitter in stopping Stengel's men, 7–0. The Cards climb to within a game of the top as the Cubs lose. After the game, at Mama Leone's on W 48th Street, baseball writers give a birthday dinner to Casey Stengel.

Buffalo pitcher Bill Harris tosses his 2nd no hitter in the International League, stopping Newark.

At the funeral of Charles Knapp, president of the Baltimore Orioles as well as the International League, Warren Giles is named interim league president. Giles is the president of the Rochester Red Wings. With Knapp's death, Mrs. Jack Dunn, majority owner of the Orioles, assumes the role of team president.

1933
» The Cards Dizzy Dean sets a 20th-century major-league record with 17 strikeouts in the first game of a doubleheader with the Cubs. His teammate, C Jimmie Wilson, totals 18 putouts, also a new record.

Burleigh Grimes, nine days short of his 40th birthday, is released by the Cubs and signs with the Cardinals.

1930
» Cincinnati loses an exhibition night game at Indianapolis. In 1935 the Reds will inaugurate night baseball in the majors.

1925
» The White Sox stop Coveleski's streak at 13, beating Washington 11-1.

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1924
» Bill Sherdel is called out of the Cardinals bullpen to pitch to PH Johnny Mokan of the Phillies. There are no outs in the eighth with runner's on 1B and 2B. Sherdel throws one ball, and Mokan bunts it in the air to Jim Bottomley coming in from 1B. He throws to SS Jimmy Cooney, who doubles the runner at 2B and throws to Hornsby who goes covering 1B. A triple play on one pitch.

1922
» The Pirates again top the Giants, 7–0, as Max Carey bangs another two home runs. The Pirates will win two more to sweep the four-game series with the Giants.

The Giants send pitchers Fred Toney and Larry Benton to the Braves with $100,000 and bring back righthander Hugh McMillan. Toney refuses to report and stays in New York. When Benton develops into a consistent pitcher, the Giants will buy him back.

The Browns move to a one 1/2 game lead, beating the Red Sox, 4–1, as the White Sox beat New York. Ken Williams hits #26, one of three Brownie bombs.

1917
» The Tigers Ty Cobb, Bobby Veach, and Ossie Vitt follow each other in the lineup, each going 5-for-5 in a 16–4 win over Washington. Having three players collect five hits ties the major-league record for the century. Cobb also scores five times.

The host Red Sox top the White Sox, 3–1, behind Babe Ruth's 4-hitter. Chicago bunches three of the four hits in the 3rd, including an RBI triple by Joe Jackson.

1916
» The New York Times Book Review pans Ring Lardner's baseball novel You Know Me, Al, recently published by George H. Doran Company at $1.25. The reviewer says "the author was for some time sporting writer on a Chicago newspaper, and so may be supposed to know his subject thoroughly, but for the honor of the 'national game' we trust that his "busher" is not typical of the majority of its players. . . . As it contains many accounts of baseball games strung together on the thinnest possible thread of plot, it may please the 'fans.'"

Carl Mays tops the St. Louis Browns, 9–3 for a Red Sox win. With the Browns sweeping the Yankees, Boston goes into first place.

1914
» It's a bad day for the Chief as the Giants lose a tough one to the Reds, 2–0. The Giants catcher doubles in the 6th and then is out for missing 1B. In the 9th, Chief Meyers throws one ball over Stock's head at 3B, bounces one to 2B on a steal, and tosses another into CF. The three errors hand Christy Mathewson the loss.

Ernie Shore stops the White Sox, 4–0, to give the Red Sox rookie a 4–0 record.

1912
» Led by Red Murray's homer, the Giants pound Chicago rookie Jimmy Lavender for five runs in the first two innings on their way to a 10–4 win. Each team makes four errors, but Christy Mathewson scatters nine hits to win. The Giants lead the NL by 10 games.

1910
» The "surprise of the year," according to Ed Bang in Sporting Life, "came on July 30th when it was announced that the Naps had secured Joe Jackson from the New Orleans Pelicans for $5,000. It is believed that Connie made the Naps the concession [as part of the Lord-Rath trade] to allow them to purchase Jackson from New Orleans." Jackson had been up with the A's briefly in 1908 and 1909.

1909
» After winning 13 in a row, Christy Mathewson loses to Pittsburgh 3–1, giving up four hits and three runs in the first inning. Red Ames relieves in the 2nd. Mathewson's record is now 15–3.

1907
» Cincinnati manager Ned Hanlon, whose managing days began in 1889 at Pittsburgh, announces this will be his last season. His record includes five pennants-4 at Baltimore, one at Brooklyn.

1906
» A State Supreme Court judge rules that, despite "voluntary contributions" instead of paid admissions, Brooklyn is conducting a business enterprise and thus violating the law prohibiting Sunday baseball in New York. Sunday baseball in Brooklyn will not be legal until 1919.

At the Polo Grounds, the Giants jump on Cincy's Bob Wicker, lighting him up for 17 hits to win 9-1. Christy Mathewson and Cy Seymour each have three hits, with Matty exiting the game after six innings. The umps call the game after eight innings on account of darkness.

1904
» Cardinal pitcher Jack Taylor walks seven and tosses three wild pitches to help the host Pirates beat St. Louis, 5–2. The outcome will be viewed suspiciously because several local gamblers bet heavily on Pittsburgh before the game, but the real reason is Taylor and Jake Beckley's late night public drinking.

1901
» Ban Johnson says the AL will place a team in St. Louis in 1902. The Milwaukee franchise is seen as the most likely to be transferred. New York will likely have a franchise while Cleveland and Baltimore will likely lose theirs.