1905 \u2014 Weldon Henley of the Philadelphia Athletics pitched a no-hitter, defeating the St. Louis Browns 6-0 in the first game of a doubleheader. It was the highlight of Henley\u2019s 4-11 season.<\/p>\n
1906 \u2014 Bob Ewing pitched the Cincinnati Reds to a 10-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies without a single assist by teammates.<\/p>\n
1923 \u2014 Washington\u2019s Walter Johnson struck out opposing pitcher Stan Coveleski for his 3,000th career strikeout. The Big Train, the first player in MLB history to reach 3,000 strikeouts, struck out five and allowed one run to give the Senators a 3-1 win over Cleveland.<\/p>\n
1926 \u2014 Cincinnati had four triples in an 11-run second inning as the Reds beat the Boston Braves, 13-1. Curt Walker hit two in the inning to tie an NL record for most triples in an inning.<\/p>\n
1932 \u2014 Philadelphia\u2019s Mickey Cochrane hit for the cycle and drove in four runs to lead the Athletics to an 8-4 win over the Washington Senators.<\/p>\n
1962 \u2014 Floyd Robinson of the Chicago White Sox had six singles in six at-bats in a 7-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox.<\/p>\n
1964 \u2014 Pittsburgh\u2019s Willie Stargell hit for the cycle, drove in three runs and scored four times in the Pirates\u2019 13-2 rout of the St. Louis Cardinals.<\/p>\n
1967 \u2014 The Atlanta Braves used a major league record five pitchers in the ninth inning of a 5-4 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. The pitchers were Ken Johnson, Ramon Hernandez, Claude Raymond, Dick Kelley and Cecil Upshaw.<\/p>\n
1997 \u2014 Atlanta\u2019s Greg Maddux turned in a masterful pitching performance, using 76 pitches in a complete game 4-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n
2000 \u2014 Seattle\u2019s 13-5 win over Texas was interrupted for 54 minutes when a rainstorm drenched fans at Safeco Field and the $517.6 million stadium\u2019s roof wouldn\u2019t close because of a computer problem. The roof finally began closing about 20 minutes later.<\/p>\n
2006 \u2014 Alfonso Soriano had three doubles, a triple and scored two runs to lead Washington to a 7-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n
2012 \u2014 Seth Smith hit a tying homer in the ninth inning, Coco Crisp singled home the winning run in the 12th and the surging Oakland Athletics rallied from four runs down to stun the New York Yankees 5-4 and complete a four-game sweep. The Yankees had not been swept in a four-game series since May 2003 against Toronto.<\/p>\n
2013 \u2014 Ryan Braun, the 2011 National League MVP, was suspended for the rest of the season and the postseason, the start of sanctions involving players reportedly tied to a Florida clinic accused of distributing performance-enhancing drugs. The Milwaukee Brewers star accepted the 65-game ban, 15 games more than the one he avoided last year when an arbitrator overturned his positive test for elevated testosterone because the urine sample had been improperly handled.<\/p>\n
2014 \u2014 The Minnesota Twins turn a triple play against the Yankees.<\/p>\n
2022 \u2014 In their first game after the All-Star break, the Blue Jays set a team record for runs in a 28 – 5 beatdown of the Red Sox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1905 \u2014 Weldon Henley of the Philadelphia Athletics pitched a no-hitter, defeating the St. Louis Browns 6-0 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[13102,5,93897,26140,93898,44005,93894,93899,26823,4722,93896,2328,2304,47699,4,2305,2303,9501,9496,93900,24882,93895,88794,93893,11560,8000],"class_list":["post-757708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-alfonso-soriano","tag-baseball","tag-bob-ewing","tag-cecil-upshaw","tag-claude-raymond","tag-coco-crisp","tag-curt-walker","tag-dick-kelley","tag-floyd-robinson","tag-greg-maddux","tag-ken-johnson","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-mickey-cochrane","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-ramon-hernandez","tag-ryan-braun","tag-seth-smith","tag-stan-coveleski","tag-this-date-in-baseball-july-22","tag-walter-johnson","tag-willie-stargell"],"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\/757708","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=757708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757708\/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=757708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}