Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
This date in baseball
1884 Pud Galvin pitched the most lopsided no-hitter in major league history as the Buffalo Bisons routed the Detroit Wolverines 18-0. It is the second career no-hitter for Galvin.
1910 Jack Coombs of the Philadelphia A’s and Ed Walsh of the Chicago White Sox combined in a 16-inning scoreless tie. Coombs struck out 18 and allowed three hits.
1945 Bill Salkeld of Pittsburgh hit for the cycle in a 6-5 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. The Pirate catcher went 5 for 5 and drove in all five runs.
1945 Boston’s Tom McBride became the third player to drive in six runs in an inning as the Red Sox pounded Washington 15-4. McBride had a bases-loaded double and triple during the Red Sox’s 12-run fourth inning.
1953 New York’s Vic Raschi set a record for a pitcher by driving in seven runs in a 15-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers.
1963 New York’s Mickey Mantle, batting for the first time in two months after breaking his left foot, had a pinch-hit home run as the Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 11-10 for a split of a doubleheader.
1973 John Briggs of the Milwaukee Brewers went 6 for 6 in a 9-4 victory over the Cleveland Indians.
1979 Atlanta knuckleballer Phil Niekro set modern major league records with four wild pitches in one inning (fifth) and six in one game. The Braves lost to Houston 6-2.
1982 Joel Youngblood became the first player in major league history to play and get a base hit for two different teams in two different cities in the same day. In the afternoon, his hit drove in the winning run for the New York Mets in a 7-4 victory at Chicago. After the game, he was traded to the Montreal Expos and played that night in Philadelphia. He entered the game in right field in the fourth inning and later got a single.
1985 Tom Seaver, 40, became the 17th 300-game winner in major league history with a six-hitter all singles as the Chicago White Sox defeated the New York Yankees 4-1 on Phil Rizzuto Day.