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1939 At Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, NBC televises the first major league game on experimental station W2XBS, covering a doubleheader where the Reds win the first game, 5-2, and the Dodgers take a 6-1 victory in the nightcap. The network employs two cameras, one behind home plate, showing an expansive view of the field, and the other on the third-base line to capture the plays at first base.


Baseball's First Televised Game
1947 Dodger rookie Dan Bankhead, becoming the major league's first black pitcher, doesn't do well in a relief stint, giving up ten hits and six runs in 3⅓ innings in a 16-3 loss to the Pirates. The 27-year-old right-hander hits his only big-league home run in his first major league at-bat, a two-run blast off Fritz Ostermueller in the second inning of the Ebbets Field contest.
1965 At Shea Stadium, the Mets beat the Dodgers, 5-2, making rookie southpaw Tug McGraw (2-2) the first Mets pitcher to defeat Sandy Koufax (21-7). Previously, New York had lost 13 consecutive times to the future Hall of Fame southpaw.
1972 The Astros name former Cubs' skipper Leo Durocher as the club's manager to replace Harry Walker, who compiled a 355-353 (.501) during his nearly five seasons at the helm. The hiring marks only second time two National League teams have been piloted by the same person in the same season, with the first occurring when 'Leo the Lip' took the helm for both the Dodgers and the Giants in 1948.
1993 The Mets announce that Vince Coleman will remain on paid administrative leave until the end of the season, effectively ending his playing career with the team. Fred Wilpon's decision that the outfielder, who signed a four-year $11.95 million deal before the 1991 season, will never put on a Mets uniform again results from Coleman's admission of tossing an M-100 leaving a Dodger Stadium parking lot last month that injured three people.
2020

"Our team and the Reds felt that with our community and our nation in such pain, tonight we wanted 100 percent of the focus to be on issues that are much more important than baseball," - BRENT SUTER, the MLB Players' Association representative for the Brewers.

MLB postpones the Miller Park contest to respect the Brewers' decision not to participate against the Reds following the police shooting of a 29-year-old Wisconsin black man. Later in the day, the Mariners, who have more Black players than any team in the sport, and the Dodgers also choose not to play.

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