This date in baseball
1901 Cy Young of the Boston Red Sox won his 300th game with a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia A’s.
1945 Tommy Holmes of the Boston Braves went hitless to end his consecutive-game hitting streak at 37 games, a National League record that stood until Pete Rose broke it in 1978.
1949 Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians and Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe of the host Brooklyn Dodgers became the first black players to appear in an All-Star game as the American League took advantage of five National League errors to win 11-7 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.
1951 Allie Reynolds of the New York Yankees beat Bob Feller of the Indians 1-0 with a no-hit game at Cleveland. Gene Woodling’s home run was the difference.
1955 St. Louis’ Stan Musial hit Frank Sullivan’s first pitch of the 12th inning for a home run to give the NL All-Star team a 6-5 victory over the AL at Milwaukee’s County Stadium. The AL had led 5-0 after six innings.
1979 In the most ill-fated promotion in baseball history, thousands of fans overran the Comiskey Park field during “Disco Demolition Night” and caused the Chicago White Sox to forfeit the second game of a doubleheader after losing to Detroit 4-1 in the first.
1990 Melido Perez pitched the record-tying seventh no-hitter of the season as the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 8-0 in a game shortened to six innings by rain. That was one inning longer than the rain-shortened no-hitter pitched in 1988 by Melido’s brother Pascual, who watched from the Yankees’ bench.
1994 Tony Gwynn barely slipped past Ivan Rodriguez on Moises Alou’s double in the 10th inning to give the NL an 8-7 victory and end its record six-game losing streak in the All-Star game. Fred McGriff’s two-run home run in the ninth off Lee Smith had tied it and earned him MVP honors.
1997 Francisco Cordova and Ricardo Rinco combined for a 10 inning no-hitter as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Houston Astros 3-0. Cordova pitched nine innings, walking two and striking out 10, before being removed with the score 0-0. Rincon pitched the 10th and got the win when Mark Smith hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the inning.
2005 Miguel Tejada and Mark Teixeira led the American League to a 7-5 victory over the National League in Detroit for its eighth consecutive victory. Tejada, the game’s MVP, hit a home run off John Smoltz to start the scoring and Teixeira added a two-run home run off Dontrelle Willis.
2011 Prince Fielder hit a three-run homer and Roy Halladay and his relief combined on a six-hitter to lead the NL over the AL 5-1, giving the senior circuit its first twogame winning streak in the All-Star game since the mid-1990s.
2016 Kansas City’s Eric Hosmer hit a home run and drove in two runs, Royals teammate Salvador Perez also hit a two-run home run, and the American League won its fourth consecutive All-Star Game, beating the NL 4-2.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS J.D. Hammer 25; Nick Delmonico 27; Chasen Shreve 29; Nick Vincent 33; Howie Kendrick 36; Tony Sipp 36.