July 6<\/p>\n
1929 \u2014 The St. Louis Cardinals scored 10 runs in the first and fifth innings in beating the Philadelphia Phillies, 28-6, in the second game of a doubleheader. The Cardinals had 28 hits and set an NL record with the 28 runs.<\/p>\n
1933 \u2014 The first major league All-Star game was played at Comiskey Park in Chicago. The AL, managed by Connie Mack, defeated the NL, managed by John McGraw, 4-2 on Babe Ruth\u2019s two-run homer.<\/p>\n
1938 \u2014 Johnny Vander Meer, Bill Lee and Mace Brown combined to limit the AL to one run and seven hits as the NL won the All-Star game 4-1 at Cincinnati\u2019s Crosley Field. Lefty Gomez of the New York Yankees suffered his first defeat in four All-Star starts.<\/p>\n
1942 \u2014 The AL beat the NL 3-1 in the All-Star game at the Polo Grounds in New York on first-inning home runs by Lou Boudreau of the Cleveland Indians and Rudy York of the Detroit Tigers. York\u2019s shot came with a man on base.<\/p>\n
1949 \u2014 Walker Cooper of Cincinnati went 6-for-7, including three home runs and drove in 10 runs, against Chicago at Crosley Field. Cooper also had three singles and scored five times to lead the Reds to a 23-4 rout of the Cubs.<\/p>\n
1966 \u2014 Boog Powell of the Baltimore Orioles knocked in 11 runs in a doubleheader against the Kansas City A\u2019s to tie an AL record. In the first game, Powell hit two home runs, including a grand slam, two doubles and a sacrifice fly to drive in seven runs as the Orioles won 11-0. Powell had four RBIs in the nightcap.<\/p>\n
1983 \u2014 On the 50th anniversary of the All-Star game, Fred Lynn\u2019s grand slam off Atlee Hammaker, the first in All-Star competition, capped a record seven-run third inning. The AL also set a one-game record for runs scored in a 13-3 victory that ended an 11-game NL winning streak. Chicago\u2019s Comiskey Park was the site, as it was for the first All-Star game in 1933.<\/p>\n
1986 \u2014 Atlanta\u2019s Bob Horner became the 11th player in major league history to hit four home runs in a game and it still wasn\u2019t enough to win the game. The Montreal Expos pounded the Braves\u2019 pitching staff for an 11-8 victory.<\/p>\n
2000 \u2014 Keith McDonald of the St. Louis Cardinals became the second player in major league history to homer in his first two at-bats, connecting in the second inning of a 12-6 loss to Cincinnati.<\/p>\n
2005 \u2014 Florida pitchers retired 28 consecutive batters from the third inning on and set a team record with 22 strikeouts in a 12-inning, 5-4 victory over Milwaukee. A.J. Burnett matched his career high and the individual club record with 14 strikeouts in six innings.<\/p>\n
2007 \u2014 Justin Morneau homered three times in the second game of a doubleheader to help Minnesota sweep Chicago 20-14 and 12-0. The Twins won the opener behind Jason Kubel\u2019s seven RBIs.<\/p>\n
2009 \u2014 Chase Utley hit a three-run homer and Shane Victorino and Greg Dobbs each had two-run shots during a 10-run first inning, helping the Philadelphia Phillies rout the Cincinnati Reds 22-1.<\/p>\n
2010 \u2014 Alex Rodriguez hit the 21st grand slam of his career and adds a solo home run to bring his career total to 597.<\/p>\n
2016 \u2014 The Orioles and the Dodgers combine for 36 strikeouts in a 14 inning game at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n
2017 \u2014 With two hits in a 4-3 loss to the Cardinals, Florida Marlins Ichiro Suzuki become the all-time leader for hits by a player born outside the United States with 3,054 passing Rod Carew.<\/p>\n
2022 \u2014 Aaron Judge hits his 30th homer of the year, a grand slam, in the Yankees\u2019 16 – 0 demolition of the Pirates. He is the fourth Yankees hitter to reach the mark before the All-Star Game, following Roger Maris in 1961, Alex Rodriguez in 2007 – and himself in 2017.<\/p>\n
_____<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 6 1929 \u2014 The St. Louis Cardinals scored 10 runs in the first and fifth innings in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[6097,138799,5654,64,63,1186,4034,369588,369599,339688,369587,5257,369598,5260,369594,369601,8100,369592,369593,369602,369590,369589,1187,369596,591,6784,2704,2365,369595,369591,369600,369597,85,2366],"class_list":["post-780917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-judge","tag-alex-rodriguez","tag-athletics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-history","tag-bill-lee","tag-bob-horner","tag-boog-powell","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-connie-mack","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-fred-lynn","tag-greg-dobbs","tag-ichiro-suzuki","tag-jason-kubel","tag-john-mcgraw","tag-johnny-vander-meer","tag-justin-morneau","tag-keith-mcdonald","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-lou-boudreau","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-rod-carew","tag-roger-maris","tag-rudy-york","tag-shane-victorino","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}