The Team Sports History for July 3 belongs to the baseball pitchers of the MLB. Multiple standout performances by the fellas that stand on the hill check all of the boxes for spectacular sporting events.
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Daily Digits July 3
Sports history is made every day of the year. We will preserve at least a small sampling from some great athletes every day based on the uniform number they wore.
40 - 41- 15 - 44 - 33 - 28
July3 , 1912 - New York Giants pitcher Rube Marquard tied Tim Keefe's 1888 MLB record 19 game win-streak with 2-1 win v Brooklyn Dodgers; has 21 with 2 end-of-season in 1911
July 3, 1966 - 1966 was the first baseball season for the Braves in Atlanta after 13 seasons in Milwaukee and before that playing in Boston. Atlanta knew they had live bats in Number 44 Hank Aaron, Joe Torre (Number 15), and Eddie Mathews (Number 41), and the club did not realize that on this day they could depend on another stick in the lineup to produce runs. Atlanta Braves hurler Number 40, Tony Cloninger, became the first NL player and only pitcher to hit 2 grand slams in a MLB game. The Braves routed the San Francisco Giants 17-3 in the contest.
July 3, 1968 - Cleveland pitcher Luis Tiant, Number 33 struck out an MLB record 19 Minnesota Twins in 1-0 win This was a record for a 10 inning game. That was not all as he also record 32 Ks in consecutive games.
July 3, 1970 - California Angels pitcher Clyde Wright must have looked at the calender and said, hey I want in the Daily Digits Sports Break too! Wright in his Number 52 no-hit the Oakland A's, 4-0.
July 3, 1974 - Pitching in a MLB-record 13th consecutive game for the LA Dodgers, Mike Marshall (Number 28) saved Number 25, Tommy John's 4-1 win over the Cincinnati Reds
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A Very Special thanks to information obtained from the following brilliant internet sites: On This Day Sports, the Sports Reference's family of website databases & Stathead.com.
Banner photo is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of Rube Marquard & Wilbert Robinson, Brooklyn NL (baseball) circa 1916 from the Bain News Service, publisher.
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