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⚾ Tony Gwynn Debuts in style
Gwynn will win 7 batting titles and post highest career BA since
July 19, 1982, 22-year-old Tony Gwynn makes his major league debut for the San Diego Padres. In a harbinger of things to come, the future National League batting champion collects two hits against the Philadelphia Phillies. Gwynn, a seven-time batting champion, will play his entire career with the Padres before announcing his retirement in 2001.
July 19, 1897, Honus Wagner made his big league debut with the Louisville Colonels. The Flying Dutchman won eight batting titles in his career, and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1936. He still is considered the games best shortstop.
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July 19 , 2006 -- Roger Clemens moves into eighth place on the all-time wins list with a 4-2 victory over Greg Maddux and the Cubs. He tosses six shutout innings to notch his 343rd career win. Craig Biggio leads off the game with a home run and Preston Wilson, on his 32nd birthday, smacks two key doubles to spearhead the offense..
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Who is the first player whose qualifying batting average led the majors while playing for the Texas Rangers franchise?
Hint: #1 When was named the Most Valuable Player of the All-Star Game one year, he became the first of his countrymen ever to achieve that honor.
Hint: #2 He was the first Cleveland Indians player since Hall of Famer Earl Averill in 1929-34 to collect one hundred eighty hits in each of three consecutive seasons.
July 19, 1910, Cy Young of the Cleveland Spiders wins the 500th game of his career. The 43-year-old future Hall of Famer defeats Washington, 5-4, in 11 innings. Young will finish with an all-time record of 511 victories. A ball from that game is in the Hall of Fame collections.
July 19, 1960, future Hall of Famer Juan Marichal makes his major league debut for the San Francisco Giants. Marichal pitches a no-hitter until the seventh and winds up with a one-hit, 2-0 victory over the Phillies. Marichal will enjoy a 16-year career with the Giants, Boston Red Sox, and Los Angeles Dodgers.
July 19, 1975, New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson is ruled out for using an illegal bat that has too much pine tar. The umpire’s ruling, which is based on the pine tar exceeding the 18-inch limit, negates Munson’s first inning RBI single against the Minnesota Twins.
July 19, 1977 -- At Yankee Stadium, features the return of the Franchise, Tom Seaver, returning back to NYC for the first time after Mets dealt him to Cincinnati. He would also return again in August to face the Mets & Jerry Koosman and later return in October to announce the World Series games between Yankees and Dodgers. The National League scores four times in the opening inning off Jim Palmer, en route to a 7 - 5 All-Star Game victory. Don Sutton, hurling three scoreless innings, is named the game's MVP. It’s the Senior Circuit’s sixth straight victory, and their 14th in the last 15 games.
July 19, 1982, the first Cracker Jack Old-Timer’s Classic is played in front of 29,000 enthusiastic fans at Washington’s RFK Stadium, the American League beats the NL in the first-ever Old-timer’s All-Star Classic, 7-2. Warren Spahn gives up a leadoff homer, over the shortened left-field fence, to 75 year-old Luke Appling, a Hall of Fame infielder who played his entire career with the White Sox. helping the American League old-timers to a 7-2 win over the National League in a 5-inning battle of retired baseball stars.
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July 19, 1989 Cleveland Indians OF Joe Carter hits 3 home runs in a game for the 2nd time this season in a 10-1 win over the Minnesota Twins It is his 4th career 3-HR game, tying Lou Gehrig's American League record, and gives him a MLB record-tying 5 HR in 2 games. Carter also has 6 RBI in the game.
July 19, 1994 -- Two hours before the Mariners are scheduled to play the Orioles in the Kingdome, four 15-pound wood-fiber tiles fall from the ceiling of the stadium, landing in the empty seats. The game is postponed indefinitely as an inspection finds that many water-damaged tiles will have to be replaced before baseball can be played there again this season.
July 19, 2001 -- At Qualcomm Stadium contest Arizona defeats San Diego, 3 - 0, in the completion of a game that was suspended after two innings on July 18th.
Randy Johnson strikes out 16 batters in his seven innings in relief of Curt Schilling to break the major league mark for relievers set by Walter Johnson on July 25, 1913. He allows just one hit - C Wiki Gonzalez's 8th-inning single - for the Padres' only hit in the contest. In addition to setting the record for Ks in a game by a reliever, Johnson also sets the National League reliever record with seven consecutive strikeouts. Johnson is one shy of the major league mark, set by Ron Davis, on May 4, 1981. The game is the first time a pitcher with 300 strikeouts in a season, relieved a pitcher with 300 strikeouts in a season.
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"It's rare, and becoming rarer, that one man is so identified with a franchise and a city as Tony [Gwynn] is with San Diego and the Padres." - George F. Will
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