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Felix Hernandez, Mariners, hit a grand slam and gave up one run in 42/3 innings before leaving with a sprained ankle in a 5-2 win over the Mets.
Ben Sheets, Brewers, gave up one run on four hits in a 4-1, complete-game victory over the Braves. Sheets struck out seven without issuing a walk in improving to 9-1 on the season.
Dan Haren, Diamondbacks, outpitched Josh Beckett by giving up just two hits and a walk in seven innings of a 2-1 win over the Red Sox.
John Lackey, Angels, gave up six hits and one earned run over eight innings, striking out six in a 3-2 win over the Nationals.
Jose Guillen, Royals, homered, doubled and drove in two runs to help Kansas City improve to 10-3 against the National League with an 8-4 win over the Rockies.
Seasons
June 25
1934 -- Pitcher John Broaca tied a major-league record by striking out five consecutive times but pitched the Yankees to an 11-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Lou Gehrig had better luck at the plate, hitting for the cycle.
1937 -- Augie Galan of Chicago became the first National League switch-hitter to hit home runs from both sides of the plate as the Cubs beat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 11-2.
1950 -- Chicago's Hank Sauer hit two home runs and two doubles to pace the Cubs to an 11-8 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.
1961 -- Baltimore and California used a major-league record 16 pitchers, eight by each side, as the Orioles edged the Angels, 9-8, on Ron Hansen's 14th-inning homer.
1968 -- Bobby Bonds, in his first major league game, hit a grand slam off John Purdin to help San Francisco to a 9-0 win over Los Angeles.
1998 -- Sammy Sosa broke the major-league record for homers in a month, hitting his 19th of June leading off the seventh inning of the Cubs' 6-4 loss to Detroit. Sosa passed the mark set by Detroit's Rudy York in August 1937.
1999 -- Jose Jimenez, a rookie right-hander having one of the worst seasons of any NL pitcher, threw St. Louis' first no-hitter in 16 seasons, outdueling Randy Johnson in a 1-0 victory over Arizona.
2002 -- History was made when Luis Pujols' Detroit Tigers took the field against Tony Pena's Kansas City Royals. Pujols and Pena became the first Dominican-born managers to oppose each other in a major league game.
2004 -- Larry Walker hit three home runs -- the third in the 10th inning -- in Colorado's 10-8 victory over Cleveland.
2007 -- A fan charged at Bob Howry during the Cubs' 10-9 win over Colorado, after the reliever helped blow an 8-3 lead in the ninth inning. Howry gave up back-to-back RBI singles to Garrett Atkins and Brad Hawpe and a three-run homer to Troy Tulowitzki. The fan then jumped onto the field from the roof of the Rockies' dugout and made it a few feet from the mound before security guards tackled him. Howry earned the victory when Alfonso Soriano hit a game-ending two-run single in the bottom of the inning.
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