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⚾Jim Bunning celebrates fathers day perfectly
June 21, 1964 On Father’s Day at Shea Stadium, Jim Bunning fans 10, drives in two runs, and pitches the first perfect game (excluding Don Larsen’s 1956 World Series effort and Harvey Haddix’s 1959 extra-inning loss) since Charlie Robertson’s on
April 30, 1922. Philadelphia beats the Mets, 6 – 0. Bunning also becomes the first pitcher to win no-hitters in both leagues, and Gus Triandos becomes the first catcher to catch a no-hitter in each league. Bunning throws just 90 pitches in winning his second no-hitter. The next time Bunning faces the Mets he will shut them out. The Mets don’t fare much better in the nitecap as 18-year-old rookie Rick Wise wins his first game and gives up just three hits for an 8 – 2 win. The Phils increase their National League lead to two games over the Giants.
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June 21, 1938 Red Sox 3B Pinky Higgins extends his consecutive hit string to 12, with eight hits in a doubleheader split with Detroit. He is 4 for 4 in each game, a Boston win in the opener, 8 - 3. Detroit wins the nitecap, 5 - 4, with Rudy York catching both games. Tomorrow, Pinky will strike out against Vern Kennedy in his first at-bat, ending the streak.
TRIVIA:
Which player had the longest consecutive games-played streak within Cal Ripken's record 2,632-game streak?
Hint: #1 His games played streak is still the longest in the history of the major league baseball's oldest continually-operating franchise?
Hint: #2 He was once named one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People”.
June 21, 1939 The New York Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement, based on the report that he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The 36-year-old star will remain with the team as captain.
June 21, 1942 Ted Lyons wins his 250th career game, 6 - 5, over the Red Sox. A week later, he will beat New York's Red Ruffing to match the Yankee hurler's 251 career wins. The White Sox veteran will finish the season with 20 complete games in 20 starts, lead the AL with a 2.10 ERA, then enter the Marine Corps at age 42.
June 21, 1946, future Hall of Famer Bill Veeck purchases the Cleveland Indians. Veeck, the head of a group of new owners, will make headlines in 1947, when he signs Larry Doby as the first African-American player in the history of the American League
June 21, 1950 Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit, a 7th-inning single off the Indians' Marino Pieretti, as the Yanks win, 8 - 2. DiMaggio joins Luke Appling and Wally Moses as the only active players with 2,000 or more hits. Eddie Lopat is the winning pitcher, running his record against Cleveland to 25-6.
June 21, 1957 In his first major league start, Von McDaniel, who graduated from Oklahoma's Hollis High School last month, two-hits the Dodgers at Busch Stadium, 2-0. Brooklyn does not get a hit off the 18 year-old bonus baby until the sixth inning.
June 21, 1966 Satchel Paige makes his final professional pitching appearance, going the first two innings for the Peninsula Grays (Carolina League) against the Greensboro Yankees. Satch gives up two runs. Peninsula's regular catcher, Johnny Bench, takes the night off.
June 21, 1970 At Cleveland Stadium, Detroit's shortstop Cesar Gutierrez goes 7 for 7 with six singles and a double to tie a record set in 1892, in a 12-inning, 9 - 8 nitecap win. Mickey Stanley's home run wins it for the Tigers. Gutierrez, wearing #7, starts the game hitting .218, and was 0 for 18 before today. Gutierrez will collect just seven hits in all of 1971, and hit .235 with just 128 hits for his career.
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June 21 , 1973 -- Lee May belts three home runs as Houston puts a 12-2 hurt on the Padres . May's three bombs net five runs. Tommy Helms socks a grand slam for four more while Cesar Cedeno contributes a solo shot. Ken Forsch picks up the complete-game victory although he allows Dave Winfield's first big league homer in the 5th inning.
June 21, 1975, In the opener of a doubleheader, California Angels' 21-year-old Frank Tanana strikes out 17 Rangers without a walk during a 4 - 2 win. Tanana struck out 5 straight at one point and gave up 9 hits, all singles, and strike out every batter at least once. His previous career-high was 13.
June 21, 1977 At Memorial Stadium, the Boston Red Sox pummel the Baltimore Orioles, Luis Tiant fires a 2-hitter and Jim Rice and George Scott bang homers. Fireworks happen in the 9th Scott who homered earlier was hit by Martinez and charged the mound. The HBP resulted in 3 insurance runs the Red Sox, as the cruise to the victory.
June 21, 1986, Bo Jackson, the former Auburn running back who won the Heisman Trophy last season and was the No. 1 pick in the National Football League draft, signed with the Kansas City Royals today, reportedly shunning a $7 million deal with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for a contract worth less than a million.
June 21, 1989, Carlton Fisk of the Chicago White Sox sets a record for most home runs by a catcher. Fisk hits his 307th home run as a receiver, breaking the record held by Yogi Berra. Fisk’s home run, part of a three-RBI day, helps the White Sox to a 7-3 win over the New York Yankees.
Quote of the day:
““He was really silly,” teammate and catcher Gus Triandos told the Sporting News after the game. “He was jabbering like a magpie on the bench.”
“I do that to take my mind off how hot it is,” Bunning said. “It helps keep me loose.”
Milestones
Birthdays:Highlights: Eddie Lopat | Debuts:Notable: Jim Dwyer |
Final Games:Highlights: Larry Miller | Passings:Notable: Bud Stewart |
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