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1910 The Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates played to an 8-8 tie. Each team had 38 atbats, 13 hits, 12 assists, 2 errors, 5 strikeouts, 3 walks, one hit batsman and one passed ball.

1921 George Sisler of the St. Louis Browns became the first batter in American League history to hit for the cycle twice. Sisler went 5 for 5 and drove in 3 runs in a 7-5, 10-inning win over the Detroit Tigers.

1939 The New York Yankees beat the Philadelph­ia Athletics 21-0 to equal the major-league record for lopsided shutouts. Every batter in the Yankees lineup hit safely. Joe DiMaggio and Babe Dahlgren had two home runs apiece, each hitting an inside-the-parker. Pitcher Red Ruffing had four hits and drove in three runs.

1948 Satchel Paige, 42, pitched his first major league complete game against the Chicago White Sox. Paige gave up five hits en route to 5-0 Cleveland victory.

1969 Jim Palmer of the Orioles, plagued by arm trouble the year before, threw an 8-0 no-hitter against the Oakland A’s in Baltimore.

1979 St. Louis’ Lou Brock reached 3,000 hits with an infield hit off Chicago Cubs pitcher Dennis Lamp. St. Louis won 3-2.

2004 Kansas City rookies Abraham Nunez and John Buck hit grand slams to lead the Royals past the Oakland Athletics 10-3.

2005 New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera blew his first save since April 6 in a 7-5 win over Texas. Rivera had converted a career-best 31 consecutiv­e saves before allowing Kevin Mench’s tworun, game-tying single in the ninth.

2013 Paul Goldschmid­t hit the first pitch of the 11th inning for a game-ending home run after leading off the ninth with a tying homer, to help Arizona beat Baltimore 4-3 with a winning blast for the second straight night.

2015 The Toronto Blue Jays won their 11th consecutiv­e game, beating the Oakland Athletics 4-2. The AL East leaders also won 11 in a row in June, becoming the first team with winning streaks of at least 11 since Cleveland in 1954.

2016 Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge became the first teammates to hit home runs in the first at-bats of their major league debuts in the same game, sparking the New York Yankees to an 8-4 win over Tampa Bay.

2018 Ronald Acuna Jr. hit leadoff home runs in both games of a doublehead­er for the Atlanta Braves.

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