Chris Sale, making his 100th career start, becomes only the second major league pitcher to record 10-plus strikeouts in eight straight starts when he whiffs 12 batters in the White Sox’s 2-1 extra-inning victory over the Cardinals at Busch Stadium. The 26 year-old southpaw joins Pedro Martinez, who also accomplished the feat in 1999 with the Red Sox.

Rookie Mike Montgomery of the Mariners pitches his second straight shutout in defeating the Padres, 5 – 0, on a one-hitter. The only hit is a double by Yangervis Solarte with one out in the 7th

Chris Sale ties a record set by Pedro Martinez in 1999 when he strikes out 10 or more batters for the 8th straight start. He also collects his first major league hit in limiting the Cardinals to a run and strikes out 12 in 8 innings, but leaves with the game tied 1 – 1. The White Sox win, 2 – 1, in 11 innings.

On June 25, 2015 By pitching 7 scoreless innings in a 7 – 0 win over the Braves, Doug Fister extends Washington’s streak of scoreless innings by its starting pitchers to a team record 41 1/3. It has been a group effort, with Joe Ross, Max Scherzer, Gio Gonzalez, Stephen Strasburg and Jordan Zimmermann also making starts during the streak, which began in the 2nd inning of Ross’s start…

Marco Estrada of the Blue Jays takes a perfect game into the 8th inning until Logan Forsythe of the Rays barely beats out a slow roller to third for an infield single with one out. Just before Forsythe’s hit, 3B Josh Donaldsonhelps out Estrada with a tremendous catch as he leaps head-first into the stands to catch a foul pop-up by David DeJesus. This comes after Estrada had started his last start with 7 hitless innings. The game is scoreless until the 12th inning, when Chris Colabello hits a solo homer to give the Jays a 1 – 0 win.

ESPN reveals it has obtained a copy of a notebook belonging to Pete Rose which contains evidence of regular betting on baseball games during the 1986 season. The notebook was seized during a police raid on one of Rose’s associates in 1989, after Rose was banned from baseball by Commissioner Bart Giamatti, and had been under court-ordered seal since. Its content corroborate the contents of the Dowd Report, which led to Rose’s suspension, and make it even less likely that current Commissioner Rob Manfred will reverse it, as Rose has pleaded for him to do.

Melissa Mayeux becomes the first female to be placed on the Major League Baseball’s international registration list, making her eligible to be signed by pro teams on July 2. The 16 year-old shortstop of the French U-18 junior national team campaigned successfully to abolish the country’s “no-girls-allowed” rule, so she could keep competing with the boys.

On June 21, 2015 Former OF Darryl Hamilton, 50, who was employed as an analyst with the MLB Network, is found dead in his home in Pearland, TX, victim of multiple gunshot wounds. His companion is also also found dead with a single wound, apparently self-inflicted, in what police describe as a murder-suicide. The couple’s 14-month-old child is…