1989 – Rick Wolff, 37, writing an article on minor-league baseball for Sports Illustrated, finishes a three-day stint playing second base for the Class-A Midwest League’s South Bend White Sox. He replaces Cesar Bernhardt and goes 4 for 7 against the Burlington Braves. Wolff will finish the year with the highest batting average of any Chicago White Sox farmhand.

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1989 – Rick Wolff, 37, writing an article on minor-league baseball for Sports Illustrated, finishes a three-day stint playing second base for the Class-A Midwest League’s South Bend White Sox. He replaces Cesar Bernhardt and goes 4 for 7 against the Burlington Braves. Wolff will finish the year with the highest batting average of any Chicago White Sox farmhand.

Sammy Sosa becomes the youngest Dominican to play in the majors. The Rangers’ leadoff batter, a twenty-year, seven months old rookie, goes 2-for-4 with a double in Texas’s 8-3 loss to the Yankees.

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Sammy Sosa becomes the youngest Dominican to play in the majors. The Rangers’ leadoff batter, a twenty-year, seven months old rookie, goes 2-for-4 with a double in Texas’s 8-3 loss to the Yankees.

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Baltimore trades Dennis Martinez to Montreal

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On June 16, 1986, the Baltimore Orioles ended a 12-year relationship today when trade seemingly over-the-hill pitcher Dennis Martinez to the Montreal Expos for a player to be named later, Orioles General Manager Hank Peters said Montreal General Manager Murray Cook would give him a list of names sometime in the future, and the Orioles…

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1984 – Ray Knight’s three-run shot and Phil Garner’s two-run blast in the seventh overcome a 5-1 Dodger lead en route to a 7-5 Houston triumph. Prior to the seventh, the Astros had hit only two homers in the Dome all season. Mike Madden gets the win in relief. 

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1984 – Ray Knight’s three-run shot and Phil Garner’s two-run blast in the seventh overcome a 5-1 Dodger lead en route to a 7-5 Houston triumph. Prior to the seventh, the Astros had hit only two homers in the Dome all season. Mike Madden gets the win in relief. 

Mario Sotos suspended for second time

Mario Sotos suspended for second time

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Mario Soto’s second suspension of the season is the result of the Cincinnati starter firing a baseball at a group of opposing players, striking Braves coach Joe Pignatano after he punched Claudell Washington, who was being restrained by umpire Lanny Harris as he charged the mound. The Reds suspends he fiery right-hander for three games due to this incident with Washington, who had been the target of his brushback pitches, getting five games off for pushing the home plate ump.

Terry Franconia hurts knee after going 2-4

Terry Franconia hurts knee after going 2-4

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June 16, 1982 Montreal Expo Terry Francona goes 2-4 against the Cardinals to raise his batting average to .321, but suffers a knee injury in the 7th inning that sidelines him for the remainder of the season and forever alters his playing career. [jetpack_subscription_form title=”Join the Community” subscribe_text=”We bring you cool stories about the game,…

Tom Seaver hurls the first no-hitter of his brilliant career

Tom Seaver hurls the first no-hitter of his brilliant career

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On June 16, 1978, Tom Seaver hurls the first no-hitter of his brilliant career at Riverfront Stadium. Seaver strikes out three and walks three as the Cincinnati Reds halt the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0. Seaver had barely missed pitching no-hitters on three previous occasions, during the first 12 years of his career. losing the bid…

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1972 – Jim Wynn belts a solo shot off Dick Selma in the bottom of the eleventh to stun the Phillies, 1-0. Houston outlasts eventual Cy Young Award winner Steve Carlton, who blanked them on six hits for the first ten frames. Don Wilson and Tom Griffin team for the shutout. 

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1972 – Jim Wynn belts a solo shot off Dick Selma in the bottom of the eleventh to stun the Phillies, 1-0. Houston outlasts eventual Cy Young Award winner Steve Carlton, who blanked them on six hits for the first ten frames. Don Wilson and Tom Griffin team for the shutout. 

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Oakland A’s hit five solo home runs in a 5-1 victory over the Washington Senators

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On June 16, 1971, The Oakland Athletics hit five solo home runs in a 5 – 1 victory over the Washington Senators. Powerful first baseman Mike Epstein bangs out home runs in his first two at-bats, giving him homers in four straight at-bats over two games. Joe Rudi also adds a pair and Dave Duncan…

One night after beating the Astros with his glove, Roberto Clemente does it with his bat. The Pittsburgh superstar blasts a two-run homer to right field in the 7th inning, snapping a 4 – 4 deadlock and lifting the National League East leaders to a 6 – 4 triumph. The late splurge enables Dock Ellis to make it through the night, surviving a four-run 6th, into which he’d carried a no-hitter. Roberto’s blast, off one of his old favorite bats, comes against Wade Blasingame after Gene Clines’ one-out single; it takes the shape of a line drive to right that keeps rising past Cesar Cedeno, who had first thought he could make the catch before helplessly watching it sail way over his outstretched glove.

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One night after beating the Astros with his glove, Roberto Clemente does it with his bat. The Pittsburgh superstar blasts a two-run homer to right field in the 7th inning, snapping a 4 – 4 deadlock and lifting the National League East leaders to a 6 – 4 triumph. The late splurge enables Dock Ellis to make it through the night, surviving a four-run 6th, into which he’d carried a no-hitter. Roberto’s blast, off one of his old favorite bats, comes against Wade Blasingame after Gene Clines’ one-out single; it takes the shape of a line drive to right that keeps rising past Cesar Cedeno, who had first thought he could make the catch before helplessly watching it sail way over his outstretched glove.