TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY JULY 5

2005  Manny Ramirez hits his 20^th grand slam – trails only Lou Gehrig with 23

2004  Eric Gagne’s streak of 84 consecutive saves ends – 30 more than prior record

2003  Serena Williams beats sister Venus at Wimbledon

2002  Ted Williams dies at age 83 – hit .406 in 1941 and .344 lifetime

2001  Braves pitcher Greg Maddux gets his 250^th win – ends season with 15 or more wins for the 14^th year in a row

1999  Randy Johnson loses his 3^rd game in a row – in the 3 games Arizona had not scored a run, and he had 43 strikeouts in the 3 starts

1998  Boston beats White Sox 15-14 – Boston had 20 hits, Chicago 12

1998  Roger Clemens gets his 3,000^th strikeout – ends at 4,672       

1998  Juan Gonzalez becomes the 2^nd MLB player in history to have over 100 RBI before the All-Star break (Hank Greenberg 103 in 1935)

1998  NYY win and are 61-20 – best MLB record in history after 81 games

1996  Angels score 3 runs in the 1^st, A’s score 13 in the bottom of the 1^st – highest scoring 1^st inning by 2 teams in MLB history

1996  Indians are shut out for the 1^st time this season – lose 7-0 to Chicago

1993  Oakland’s Rickey Henderson leads off both games of a double header with a HR – 1^st time since 1913 this had occurred

1992  Dream Team wins final game of the Basketball Tournament of America 127 to 80 over Venezuela – they won all 6 games by a 51.5 margin

1975  Arthur Ashe wins 89^th Men’s Wimbledon Open

1968  Rod Laver wins Wimbledon

1937  Joe DiMaggio hit his 1^st grand slam

1919  Babe Ruth hit 2 HRs in a game for the 1^st time – ended doing it 72 times