June 9th in 1990s Baseball
Happy 1990s Birthday to The Cobra!
Happy 1990s Birthday to Tom Edens, who is the only player from his high school in Fruitland, ID to reach the big leagues.
Tom won 19 games over seven seasons.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Scarborough Green, who played in 117 games for the Cardinals and Rangers between 1997 and 2000.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Randy Winn, who made his debut with the Devil Rays in 1998 and spent 13 years in the bigs. He also played college hoops at Santa Clara where he was roomates with Steve Nash.
6/9/90
The Reds trade Ron Robinson and Bob Sebra to the Brewers for Billy Bates and Glenn Braggs.
Both Bates and Braggs play key roles in the Reds’ World Series run.
6/9/92
The Mets trade Tim Burke to the Yankees for Lee Guetterman.
6/9/96
The Red Sox trade minor leaguer Scott Bakkum to the Phillies for Lee Tinsley.
6/9/97
Cleveland trades Chad Curtis to the Yankees for David Weathers.
Weathers pitches through the 2009 season.
Curtis plays until 2001 and becomes a high school football coach where is is convicted of six charges of criminal sexual misconduct invloving teenage girls.
6/9/92
The Marlins sign Tony Saunders as an amateur free agent.
He makes his debut in 1997 and is the first player selected by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the expansion draft.
6/9/99
Jacque Jones goes 0-for-4 against the Reds in his big-league debut.
He collects his first hit two days later and spends 10 years in the bigs.
6/9/94
Vatican officials visiting express concern that a potential Orioles World Series game may conflict with the Pope’s visit to the city in October.
Fortunately for the Pope, baseball owners force a strike that cancels the World Series for the first time ever. Problem solved!
6/9/99
An eventful day for Bobby Valentine, who gets into a heated argument with Newsday reporter Marty Noble before the game, then gets ejected and returns to the dugout in disguise.
6/9/90
Randy Milligan homers thrice and drives in 6 in a 10-1 Orioles win over the Yankees.
6/9/90
Ellis Burks goes 3-for-5 and drives in 6 as the Red Sox beat Cleveland 11-6.
It is one of five games in which Burks drives in at least 6 in his career.
6/9/90
Eddie Murray homers from both sides of the plate for the 10th time in his career to tie the record set by Mickey Mantle.
6/9/91
The A’s retire Catfish Hunter’s No. 27 in a pregame ceremony.
6/9/91
John Kruk hits two triples in a game against the Reds.
Rickey Henderson had one triple all year. Speed never slumps.
6/9/92
Orel Hershiser allows four hits in eight innings to beat the Braves 3-2. It his his 14th straight win over Atlanta, a streak that extends back to September of 1987.
6/9/96
After the Rockies putup 32 runs on the first two games of the series off Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and the Atlanta pen. John Smoltz beats the Rockies 8-3 to improve his record to 12-1.
He also catches a pitch in the back.
6/9/98
Cecil Fielder of the Angels and Yamil Benitez of the Diamondbacks each hit grand slams in the same inning in Anaheim’s 10-8 win.
Darin Erstad has 5 hits for the Angels and Cecil drives in 6. It’s the 7th time he drives in at least six in his career.
6/9/98
Lenny Dykstra tells ESPN that his career is over, saying, “I can’t play again. I’m not physically able to play again.”
He stops short of saying he is retiring but he has not played a game since 1996 and does not play another.
He also catches a pitch in the back.
6/9/99
Randy Johnson allows ten hits and six runs over seven innings but also strikes out 14 and the D-Backs beat the Cubs 8-7.
6/9/99
Jeff Bagwell homers thrice and drives in six.
6/9/99
The Rockies and Mariners combine for 10 homers in a 16-10 Seattle win.
Butch Huskey‚ Ken Griffey Jr.‚ David Bell‚ and David Segui homer for Seattle.
Angel Echevarria homers twice for the Rockies‚ who also get dingers from Edgard Clemente‚ Kurt Abbott‚ Dante Bichette‚ and P Curtis Leskanic.
6/9/99
Travis Lee goes 5-for-5 to lead Arizona to an 8-7 win over the Cubs.
6/9/90
Cleveland releases released Doug Sisk.
He signs with the Braves and finishes his career in Atlanta after the 1991 season.
6/9/91
The Royals release Terry Puhl and his career is over.
He finishes with 1,361 hits and an incredible 1980 NLCS with the Astros.
6/9/92
MLB Owners unanimously approve the sale of the Seattle Mariners to a group headed by Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Nintendo.
6/9/92
A day after being suspended for the 7th time for drug-related offences, Steve Howe applies to be reinstated.
He returns in 1993.
6/9/93
The Padres fire general manager Joe McIlvaine and appoint 29-year-old Randy Smith as VP of baseball operations and GM‚ making him the youngest GM in history.
6/9/90
The Orioles place Brady Anderson on the DL with a torn ligament in his ankle suffered during batting practice.
He returns to the lineup on July 20th.
6/9/91
The Cubs place Rick Sutcliffe on the DL and activate Danny Jackson.
Sut returns in August.
6/9/98
Jeff Kent sprains his right knee on an Alex Rodriguez takeout slide.
He hits the DL the following day and misses a month.
“I didn’t think it was bad until I got home and saw the replay,” he tells the media. “Now I think it was cheap. There’s no need for that.”
We lost Bob Welch OTD in 2014
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