This date in baseball
1907 In the second game of a doubleheader, shortened by agreement, Ed Karger of the St. Louis Cardinals pitched a seven-inning perfect game, beating the Boston Braves 4-0.
1926 Tris Speaker of Cleveland hit his 700th career double but the Indians lost to the Chicago White Sox, 7-2. The double came in the third inning off Joe Edwards.
1929 Babe Ruth hit his 500th career home run in the second inning off Willis Hudlin at Cleveland’s League Park. The home run was Ruth’s 30th of the year, but it wasn’t enough as the Indians beat the Yankees 6-5.
1951 Robin Roberts of the Philadelphia Phillies beat the New York Giants 4-0, dropping the Giants 131/2 games behind the first-place Brooklyn Dodgers.
1961 Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves scattered six hits to beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 for his 300th career victory.
1970 Philadelphia’s Jim Bunning beat the Houston Astros 6-5 to become the first pitcher to win 100 games in both leagues since Cy Young.
1986 Cincinnati player-manager Pete Rose, 45, singled four times and doubled to set a National League record with the 10th five-hit game of his career. Rose drove in three runs in a 13-4 loss to the San Francisco Giants to move one ahead of Max Carey for the record.
1987 Mark McGwire of the Athletics broke Al Rosen’s American League rookie record by hitting his 38th home run in Oakland’s 8-2 loss to the Seattle Mariners.
2004 Randy Wolf homered twice and threw seven solid innings to lead Philadelphia to a 15-4 victory over Colorado. Wolf went 3 for 3 and scored three runs.
2007 Rick Ankiel hit two home runs and drove in three runs, the latest power display by the former pitcher, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-1.
2010 Arizona tied a major league record by hitting four consecutive ho m e runs, with Adam LaRoche, Miguel Montero, Mark Reynolds and Stephen Drew all connecting in the fourth inning of an 8-2 victory over Milwaukee.
2013 After Mariano Rivera blew a third consecutive save for the first time in his famed career, Brett Gardner hit a home run with two outs in the ninth inning to give the New York Yankees a 5-4 victory over the Detroit Tigers. Rivera, with a record 643 saves, had never failed three in a row in 936 relief appearances.
2018 Oakland’s Ramon Laureano pulled off a spectacular double play and the Athletics beat the Los Angeles Angels 7-0. With one out and Eric Young Jr. on first, Laureano raced into the gap in left-center to haul in Justin Upton’s drive. The rookie center fielder then uncorked a 320-foot throw on a fly to first base to complete the double play. Marcus Semien hit two home runs and Khris Davis also connected for Oakland.