On June 12, 1967, the Chicago White Sox and Washington Senators play the longest night game in major league history. The 22-inning marathon lasts six hours and 38 minutes before Senators catcher Paul Casanova delivers a game-winning single in the bottom of the 22nd inning.
1966 – Astros pitcher Dave Giusti tosses a complete game for an 8-4 victory over the Cubs. Giusti also goes 3-for-3 at the plate, including a double. John Bateman belts a two-run homer, Rusty Staub gets a two-run inside-the-park homer and Dave Nicholson adds a three-run shot.
6/12/1964: Lou Clinton of the Angels hit a three run shot off of Hank Aguirre in the top of the first in Detroit. The game was called off after a 50 minute delay in the top of the second with the Angels still ahead 3-0.
On June 12, 1963, Chicago White Sox outfielder Dave Nicholson matches a major league record by striking out seven times in a doubleheader against the Los Angeles Angels. Nicholson will lead all American League batters with 175 strikeouts in 1963.
On June 12, 1961, Hall of Fame owner Bill Veeck sells his interest in the Chicago White Sox to partner Arthur Allyn. The 48-year-old owner decides to leave the game, in part because of health reasons.
Despite giving up a hit in the bottom of the sixth in the Giants’ 3-0 victory over Philadelphia, Mike McCormick is credited with a no-hitter when the game is rained out, and the inning is never completed, statistically erasing the hit. Due to a rule change in 1991 that mandates a game must last for at least nine innings for the hitless effort to be called an official no-hitter, the right-hander’s five-inning rain-shortened outing no longer appears in the record book as a no-no.
6/12/1959: Harmon Killebrew hit a homer to left field with two outs in the bottom of the first inning of a game in Washington. It came off Herb Score of the Indians. The game was halted by rain after that hit.
1956 – Roberto Clemente’s 5th-inning, two-out, two-run rope into Crosley Field’s right-centerfield bleachers vaults Pittsburgh past Cincinnati both in the game and in the standings, transforming a 3 – 2 deficit into a 4 – 3 lead and pushing Pittsburgh to the head of the class, atop the National League by half a game over the newly-demoted Redlegs.
6/12/1955: In what would have been the second game of a doubleheader in Philadelphia, Wally Post of Cincinnati homered off Ron Negray of the Phillies in the first with one out and two on base. Andy Seminick homered off Rudy Minarcin in the bottom of the second with one out and no one on base. The game was washed out in the bottom of the third inning.
The Indians (35-17) move into first place when Bob Feller gets his 2,500th career strikeout in the Tribe’s 4-3 victory over Boston at Fenway Park. ‘Rapid Robert’ will finish his 18-year major league career striking out 2,581 hitters, an average of more than six batters a game.
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