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Thursday, July 5, 2012

TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY JULY 5

2005  Manny Ramirez hits his 20th 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 250th win – ends season with 15 or more wins for the 14th year in a row
1999  Randy Johnson loses his 3rd 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 3,000th strikeout – ends at 4,672       

1998  Juan Gonzalez becomes the 2nd 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 1st, A’s score 13 in the bottom of the 1st – highest scoring 1st inning by 2 teams in MLB history
1996  Indians are shut out for the 1st time this season – lose 7-0 to Chicago
1993  Oakland’s Rickey Henderson leads off both games of a double header with a HR – 1st 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 89th Men’s Wimbledon Open
1968  Rod Laver wins Wimbledon
1937  Joe DiMaggio hit his 1st grand slam
1919  Babe Ruth hit 2 HRs in a game for the 1st time – ended doing it 72 times

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