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| 1946 | At Boston's Fenway Park, hometown favorite Ted Williams hits two homers and two singles, collecting five RBIs in the American League's 12-0 rout of the Senior Circuit in the most lopsided game in All-Star history. The first-place Red Sox placed eight players on the Midsummer Classic roster, which includes starters Dom DiMaggio (cf), Johnny Pesky (ss), and Bobby Doerr (2b), in addition to Williams, who plays the entire game in left field. |
| 1970 | Dalton Jones comes off the bench at Tiger Stadium against his former team and hits an upper-deck grand slam 'single' against the Red Sox. The pinch-hitter passes teammate Don Wert between first and second, resulting in the hit becoming a three-RBI single instead of a round-tripper. |
| 1972 | Striking out three Red Sox batters in the second inning en route to a 16 K complete game performance against Boston, Nolan Ryan becomes the third pitcher in baseball history to have struck out the side on nine pitches twice during his career. The Angels fireballer, who first did it with the Mets in 1968, joins Lefty Grove (twice in 1938) and Sandy Koufax (1962 and 1964) as the other hurlers who have accomplished the feat. |
| 1976 | Longtime Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey dies of leukemia at New England Baptist Hospital. The Fenway Park center field flag is lowered to half-mast to pay tribute to the 73-year-old philanthropist the Boston Herald called "'baseball's best friend," a legacy questioned due to allegations of racism during his four-plus decades in Boston. |
| 1988 | Nolan Ryan, notching his 100th victory as an Astro, becomes only the second hurler to win a hundred games with a team in each league when Houston beats New York, 6-3. The 41-year-old right-hander, who also won 134 games for the Angels, joins Cy Young, who reached the plateau with the Cleveland Spiders (NL) and the Boston Pilgrims (AL), a team known as the Red Sox starting in 1908. |
| 2002 |
Despite chants of 'Let them play!' from the sellout crowd of 41,871 at Milwaukee's Miller Park, Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig declares the 73rd All-Star Game a 7-7 tie after 11 innings. No player is selected to receive the first Ted Williams Most Valuable Player award, an honor named for the late Red Sox legend who died five days ago.
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| 2013 | Boston's David Ortiz ties Harold Baines for the most hits by a designated hitter with his eighth-inning single off Seattle's Charlie Furbush, giving him 1,688 career hits as a DH. 'Big Papi,' before the record-tying at-bat, had already collected a home run and a pair of doubles in the Red Sox' 11-8 victory at Safeco Field. |
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