1880 – After 21 consecutive victories at home‚ Chicago suffers its first defeat at Lake Front Park this season‚ losing to Providence, 6 – 4. The White Stockings had not lost a National League game at home since August 25‚ 1879.
Rookie Harry Stovey hits his first ML HR‚ connecting off Jim McCormick as Worcester beats Cleveland 7-1. Stovey will be the first ML player to reach 100 career HRs.
Cleveland beats Boston, 6 – 5, with Gid Gardner pitching his first game of the season. Jim McCormick had pitched complete games in all of Cleveland’s 31 previous National League games.
1880 – Abner Dalrymple, George Gore and Larry Corcoran, all normally left-handed batters, cross over and bat right-handed against southpaw Lee Richmond and get one hit each as Chicago beats Worcester, 4 – 0.
1880 – John Montgomery Ward of the Providence Grays pitches a perfect game against the Buffalo Bisons, winning 5 – 0. Losing pitcher Pud Galvin makes the last out. This is the second perfect game in the National League in six days; the first one was pitched by Lee Richmond on June 12th. The next perfect game by a National League pitcher will not happen for 84 years, when Jim Bunning turns the trick on Father’s Day in 1964.
At the Worcester Agriculture Fairgrounds, Lee Richmond pitches the first perfect game, beating Cleveland, 4-0. The 23 year-old rookie southpaw threw a no-hitter in a collegiate exhibition against the White Stockings last season.
On June 11, 1880 1880 – Yale beats Worcester‚ 3 – 2‚ to raise the college team’s record against pros to 9-1 for the season. The Elis will lose 2 to Chicago and finish 10-3 versus pro clubs‚ including 2-2 vs. the National League.
On June 10, 1880 Boston’s Charley Jones‚ last year’s home run king with 9‚ hits 2 homers in one inning‚ becoming the first big leaguer to accomplish this feat. Both homers come off Buffalo’s Tom Poorman in the 8th inning of a 19 – 3 rout. Jones now has league-high 4 homers‚ one more than Fred Dunlap.
1880 – Larry Corcoran of Chicago and John Ward of Providence battle to a 1 – 1 tie in 16 innings‚ called because of darkness. Sixteen innings will remain the longest game in big-league history until August 17‚ 1882‚ when Ward will win 1 – 0 over Detroit in 18 innings.
With George Wright in its lineup‚ Boston upsets Chicago, 11 – 10. Wright scores 2 runs and fields flawlessly‚ but will play no more games because of protests from Providence‚ which still has him “reserved.” The loss snaps Chicago’s win streak of 13‚ which they will top in a little more than a month (June 2-July 8).
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