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1925 |
The National League cancels all games due to the funeral of Dodger owner Charles Ebbets, who died three days ago of a heart attack. Edward McKeever, who assumed the presidency of the Brooklyn club, catches a cold at the owner's funeral and will die of influenza in eight days.
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1948 | Returning after serving his one-year suspension from baseball, Dodger manager Leo Durocher uses 24 players in a 9-5 loss to the Giants. Commissioner Happy Chandler suspended the controversial 'Lip' last April for an assortment of actions deemed detrimental to baseball. |
1955 |
The Dodgers win their 10th consecutive game from the start of the season when they beat the Phillies, 14-4. The Ebbets Field's victory establishes a major league record that lasts until 1981, when the A's chalk up 11 straight wins, beginning on Opening Day.
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1967 | For the first time since the Dodgers moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles in 1958, rain postpones a game in the City of Angels. The postponement of their scheduled game against the Cardinals ends a streak of 737 consecutive contests at home, including exhibitions and World Series games, without a washout. |
2000 | Due to the umpires' equipment going to New York instead of Cincinnati, the Reds' game against the Dodgers starts 27 minutes later. A downtown store supplies the replacement gear, but due to heavy traffic, the goods arrive at Cinergy Field with the assistance of a police escort. |
2016 |
Cubs right-hander Jake Arrieta tosses a no-hitter in the Cubs' 16-0 rout over the Reds at Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park. Not having not lost in his last 17 regular-season starts since his gem against the Dodgers last season, The Chicago ace becomes the second pitcher, joining Johnny Vander Meer, who threw consecutive no-hitters in 1938, to go unbeaten between tossing hitless games.
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6 Fact(s) Found