1901 \u2014 Cy Young of the Boston Red Sox won his 300th game with a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia A\u2019s.<\/p>\n
1921 \u2014 Babe Ruth sets a record of 137 career home runs.<\/p>\n
1945 \u2014 Tommy Holmes of the Boston Braves went hitless to end his consecutive-game hitting streak at 37 games, an NL record that stood until Pete Rose broke it in 1978.<\/p>\n
1949 \u2014 Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians and Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe of the host Brooklyn Dodgers became the first black players to appear in an All-Star game as the AL took advantage of five NL errors to win 11-7 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
1951 \u2014 Allie Reynolds of the New York Yankees beat Bob Feller of the Indians 1-0 with a no-hit game at Cleveland. Gene Woodling\u2019s home run was the difference.<\/p>\n
1955 \u2014 St. Louis\u2019 Stan Musial hit Frank Sullivan\u2019s first pitch of the 12th inning for a home run to give the NL All-Star team a 6-5 victory over the AL at Milwaukee\u2019s County Stadium. The AL had led 5-0 after six innings.<\/p>\n
1979 \u2014 In the most ill-fated promotion in baseball history, thousands of fans overran the Comiskey Park field during \u201cDisco Demolition Night\u201d and caused the Chicago White Sox to forfeit the second game of a doubleheader after losing to Detroit 4-1 in the first.<\/p>\n
1990 \u2014 Melido Perez pitched the record-tying seventh no-hitter of the season as the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 8-0 in a game shortened to six innings by rain. That was one inning longer than the rain-shortened no-hitter pitched in 1988 by Melido\u2019s brother Pascual, who watched from the Yankees\u2019 bench.<\/p>\n
1994 \u2014 Tony Gwynn barely slipped past Ivan Rodriguez on Moises Alou\u2019s double in the 10th inning to give the NL an 8-7 victory and end its record six-game losing streak in the All-Star game. Fred McGriff\u2019s two-run homer in the ninth off Lee Smith had tied it and earned him MVP honors.<\/p>\n
1997 \u2014 Francisco Cordova and Ricardo Rinco combined for a 10 inning no-hitter as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Houston Astros 3-0. Cordova pitched nine innings, walking two and striking out 10, before being removed with the score 0-0. Rincon pitched the 10th and got the win when Mark Smith hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the inning.<\/p>\n
2005 \u2014 Miguel Tejada and Mark Teixeira led the American League to a 7-5 win over the National League in Detroit for its eighth straight win. Tejada, the game\u2019s MVP, homered off John Smoltz to start the scoring and Teixeira added a two-run drive off Dontrelle Willis.<\/p>\n
2008 \u2014 Greg Maddux became the oldest pitcher in big league history to steal a base at 42 years and 89 days when he stole a base in San Diego\u2019s loss to Atlanta. Jim Kaat had the previous mark. It was Maddux\u2019s 11th stolen base of his career.<\/p>\n
2011 \u2014 Prince Fielder hit a three-run homer and Roy Halladay and his relief combined on a six-hitter to lead the NL over the AL 5-1, giving the senior circuit its first two-game winning streak in the All-Star game since the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n
2016 \u2014 Kansas City\u2019s Eric Hosmer homered and drove in two runs, Royals teammate Salvador Perez also hit a two-run homer, and the American League won its fourth consecutive All-Star Game, beating the NL 4-2.<\/p>\n
2021 \u2014 The Korea Baseball Association announced that it is suspending its season due to a spike in COVID-19 cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1901 \u2014 Cy Young of the Boston Red Sox won his 300th game with a 5-3 victory over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[92859,5,26345,141,48,2542,33095,15325,882,44218,41641,41852,92861,4722,25597,11368,10417,4723,10418,28371,92863,36014,45031,4,29751,9501,1219,9496,89,2543,92860,14466,28700,373,20363,92858,92862,18781],"class_list":["post-749019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-red-sox","tag-allie-reynolds","tag-baseball","tag-bob-feller","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bostonredsox","tag-don-newcombe","tag-dontrelle-willis","tag-eric-hosmer","tag-francisco-cordova","tag-frank-sullivan","tag-fred-mcgriff","tag-gene-woodling","tag-greg-maddux","tag-ivan-rodriguez","tag-jackie-robinson","tag-jim-kaat","tag-john-smoltz","tag-larry-doby","tag-lee-smith","tag-mark-smith","tag-mark-teixeira","tag-miguel-tejada","tag-mlb","tag-moises-alou","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-pete-rose","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-red-sox","tag-redsox","tag-ricardo-rinco","tag-roy-campanella","tag-roy-halladay","tag-salvador-perez","tag-stan-musial","tag-this-date-in-baseball-july-12","tag-tommy-holmes","tag-tony-gwynn"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}