This date in baseball

JUNE 2

1928 Les Bell of the Boston Braves hit three home runs and a triple at Braves Field, but the Cincinnati Reds came away with a 20-12 victory.

1928 The Philadelphia Phillies defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1.

All three runs came from pinch-hit home runs. 1941 Lou Gehrig died in New York at age 37.

1949 The Philadelphia Phillies hit five home runs in the eighth inning against the Cincinnati Reds. Andy Seminick hit two and Del Ennis, Willie Jones, and Schoolboy Rowe hit one apiece. Seminick had homered earlier in the game.

1959 The Baltimore Orioles-Chicago White Sox game at Comiskey Park was delayed for nearly half an hour as a swarm of gnats overcame the field. Groundskeepers tried using bug sprays and torches, but the gnats wouldn’t budge. A postgame fireworks display was brought in from center field and a smoke bomb was attached to the framework. The gnats left and the Orioles defeated the White Sox 3-2.

1990 Randy Johnson pitched the first no-hitter in the Seattle Mariners’ history as he beat the Detroit Tigers 2-0. The 6-10 left-hander walked six and struck out eight while pitching the first no-hitter at the Kingdome, which opened for baseball in 1977.

1996 Houston starter Darryl Kile tied the modern major league record by hitting four batters in a 2-0 loss at St. Louis, and the first to do it in the Natioanl League since Moe Drabowsky in 1957.

2000 Tampa Bay’s Fred McGriff hit his 400th career home run, but the Devil Rays lost to the New York Mets 5-3.

2000 Rick Aguilera of the Chicago Cubs became the 13th pitcher with 300 saves in a 2-0 victory over Detroit. Aguilera reached the mark in 614 career appearances, third quickest.

2002 Philadelphia pitcher Robert Person drove in seven runs with a grand slam and a three-run home run in an 18-3 victory over Montreal. Person had just come off the disabled list and collected his first win of the season.

2005 Kansas City completed a sweep of the New York Yankees with a 5-2 victory. The Royals, who have the worst record and second-lowest payroll in the major leagues, finished their first three-game sweep of the Yankees at home in 15 years.

2009 Dan Uggla of the Marlins became the fastest second baseman to 100 home runs in Florida’s 10-3 victory over Milwaukee. Uggla’s two-run shot in the bottom of the second came in his 502nd game as a second baseman, beating Alfonso Soriano to 100 by 34 games.

2010 Ken Griffey Jr. announced his retirement after 22 seasons in the major leagues. Hitting only .184 in part-time duty for the Mariners, he retired with 630 career home runs and six seasons of 40 or more home runs. Most of his career was spent with Seattle and the Cincinnati Reds.

2010 Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers lost his bid for a perfect game with two outs in the ninth inning on a call that first base umpire Jim Joyce later admitted he blew. First baseman Miguel Cabrera cleanly fielded Jason Donald’s grounder to his right and made an accurate throw to Galarraga covering the bag. The ball was there in time, and all of Comerica Park was ready to celebrate the 3-0 victory over Cleveland, until Joyce emphatically signaled safe.

2011 Aubrey Huff hit three home runs and matched his career best with six RBI and the San Francisco Giants posted a 12-7 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. Huff hit two-run home runs in the fourth and ninth and a solo shot in the seventh.

2015 In a memorable major league debut, Rangers 3B Joey Gallo hit a two-run home run in his second at-bat on the way to collecting 3 hits and 4 RBI in leading Texas to a 15-2 beating of the White Sox.

2017 Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers records his 2,000 career strikeout.

2018 Jacob deGrom matches a career high set just two weeks earlier by racking up 13 strikeouts in 7 innings in a start against the Cubs.