June 11th in 1990s Baseball
Happy 1990s Birthday to Odalis Perez, who made his debut with the Braves in 1998 and spent ten years in the bigs.
Odalis won 73 games and made the All-Star team in 2002.
Ron Jones was born OTD in 1964.
He made his debut with the Phillies in 1988 and played 97 games over four seasons in Philadelphia.
Ron passed away in 2006 at age 41.
Happy 1990s Birthday to John Doherty, who won 32 games over five seasons with the Tigers and Red Sox.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Brian Koelling, who played in 7 games for the Reds in 1993.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Bill Selby, who made his debut with the Red Sox in 1996, spent 1997 in Japan, and returned to the states to finish his big-league career with Cleveland and Cincinnati.
He also played in Mexico.
6/11/93
The Mets trade Tony Fernandez back to Toronto in exchange for Darrin Jackson.
6/11/90
Chris Nabholtz allows two runs over five innings against the Phillies in his big-league debut.
He wins six games as a rookie and spends six years in the bigs.
6/11/95
Phil Nevin goes 1-for-5 with an RBI single off C.J. Nitkowski in his first at-bat in his big league debut.
Nevin was the overall Number one pick in the 1992 draft and spends 12 years in the bigs
6/11/99
Randy Wolf allows just one run over six innings to beat the Blue Jays in his big-league debut.
He wins six games as a rookie and spends 16 years in the bigs.
6/11/93
Erik Hanson allows a four run single in the 4th inning of the Mariners’ 8-2 loss to California. With the bases loaded‚ Greg Myers singles to left. Left fielder Henry Cotto boots the ball‚ then throws over the head of C Bill Haselman as two runs score. Hanson‚ who is backing up home‚ fires a throw over 3B Edgar Martinez’s head allowing two more runners to score.
6/11/93
The Brewers game with the Yankees is interrupted by a colony of seagulls.
6/11/90
Nolan Ryan throws his 6th career no-hitter, a 5-0 gem against Oakland.
He also becomes the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter in three different decades.
6/11/90
Lenny Dykstra’s hitting streak stops at 23 games‚ as he goes 0 for 8 in a doubleheader with Montreal.
Dykstra’s average drops from .407 to .392.
6/11/93
Cal homers and drives in five as the Orioles hammer the Red Sox 16-4 at Fenway.
Baltimore has 16 hits in the game.
6/11/94
Gibby homers twice and drives in 7 as the Tigers beat the Angels 11-5.
6/11/95
Mark McGwire homers in three consecutive at-bats and ties the major league record of five homers in consecutive games.
All five are solo shots.
Oakland wins the game 8-1.
6/11/95
Lee Smith sets a major league record with a save in his 16th consecutive appearance, and the Angels beat the Orioles 5-4.
6/11/95
Rondell White collects six hits and becomes the fourth Expo to ever hit for the cycle in Montreal’s 10-8, 13-inning win over the Giants.
6/11/96
Dan Wilson goes 5-for-6 and drives in three as the Mariners hammer 18-8.
Tough day for Rick Aguilera, who gives up 10 runs (9 earned) on 10 hits in 3 innings of work.
6/11/96
Scott Bullett goes 5-for-5 with a homer and 4 RBI as the Cubs beat the Phillies 9-2.
6/11/97
Jeff Fassero and the Mariners beat Roger Clemens and the Blue Jays 5-1.
It is Clemens’ first loss since September 28th of 1996.
6/11/99
The Brewers retire Paul Molitor’s uniform number 4.
6/11/99
Miguel Tejada homers thrice and drive in 5 in a 12-6 A’s win over the Dodgers.
6/11/94
Kevin Mitchell misses the Reds game against the Rockies after getting hit in the eye by a thrown bottle at a night club the previous evening.
He returns to the lineup the following day.
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