Lefty Tom Drees, 26, pitches his third no-hitter of the season for AAA Vancouver, beating Las Vegas, 5 – 0, in the 7-inning opener of a doubleheader. He fired consecutive 1 – 0 no-hitters, beating Calgary in nine innings (May 23rd) and Edmonton in seven (May 28th). Drees, now 12-11, will pitch 7+ innings for the White Sox in 1991 for his only major league action.

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Lefty Tom Drees, 26, pitches his third no-hitter of the season for AAA Vancouver, beating Las Vegas, 5 – 0, in the 7-inning opener of a doubleheader. He fired consecutive 1 – 0 no-hitters, beating Calgary in nine innings (May 23rd) and Edmonton in seven (May 28th). Drees, now 12-11, will pitch 7+ innings for the White Sox in 1991 for his only major league action.

1986 – Dale Holman, of the International League’s Richmond Braves becomes the first professional player ever to play for two teams in one game. The game was suspended because of rain on June 16th when he was in the lineup for Syracuse. By the time the game is completed today, Holman had been traded to Richmond and is in the lineup for the other side.

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1986 – Dale Holman, of the International League’s Richmond Braves becomes the first professional player ever to play for two teams in one game. The game was suspended because of rain on June 16th when he was in the lineup for Syracuse. By the time the game is completed today, Holman had been traded to Richmond and is in the lineup for the other side.

Joe Niekro and Dave Smith combine on a two-hitter to blank San Diego, 3-0

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1981 – Joe Niekro and Dave Smith combine on a two-hitter to blank San Diego, 3-0. Niekro and Steve Mura trade goose eggs for seven innings until Tony Scott drives home Joe Pittman in the eighth. Gary Woods then delivers Scott. In the ninth, Scott again plates Pittman with an insurance run. The shutout caps a seven-game road trip to open the “second season”, with the Astros winning five of them.