June 21st in 1990s Baseball
Happy 1990s Birthday to Rick Sutcliffe, who won Rookie of the year with the Dodgers in 1979 and the CY Young in 1984 with the Cubs.
Rick pitched until 1994.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Jeff Musselman, who went to Harvard, and won 12 games as a rookie with Toronto in 1987.
He spent five seasons in the bigs with the Jays and Mets. He currently works for Scott Boras.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Brad Moore, who appeared in 8 games for the Phillies in 1988 and 1990.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Donovan Osborne, who won 21 games for the Cardinals in his first two seasons but battled injuries throughout the rest of his career. He missed four full seasons and finished with 47 wins over nine years.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Sean Runyan, who went 1-5 out of the bullpen for the Tigers between 1998 and 2000.
6/21/95
Milwauke trades Derrick May to Houston for a PTBNL.
May hits .301 in 78 games for the second-place Astros in 1995.
6/21/98
The Red Sox trade minor leaguer Ethan Faggett and Jim Leyritz to the Padres for Carlos Reyes, Mandy Romero and Dario Veras.
6/21/94
The Reds sign Ron Gant as a free agent.
Atlanta released Gant in March after he broke his leg in a motorcycle accident.
He misses all of 1994 but hits .276 with 28 homers and 88 RBI for the Reds in 1995.
6/21/93
Jeromy Burnitz goes 0-for-1 against the Expos in his big-league debut.
He gets his first hit the following day and spends 14 years in the major leagues.
6/21/98
Bobby Howry throws two scoreless innings against the Twins in his big-league debut.
He records 9 saves as a rookie and takes over as the Sox closer in 1999.
6/21/98
Paul Lo Duca goes 1-for-2 with an RBI single against the Rockies in his big-league debut.
He spends 11 years in the bigs and earns four All-Star nods.
6/21/97
The Brewers/Royals game is postponed after more than seven inches inches of rain fall in a few hours in Milwaukee.
6/21/98
The Reds start an outfield against the Astros consisting of Dmitri Young, Mike Frank, and Chris Stynes. Unfortunately, the Young, Frank & Stines OF does not help as the Reds fall to Houston 4-2.
6/21/90
Kevin Seitzer goes 5-for-6 with a homer in a 14-4 Royals win over the Twins.
6/21/91
Mickey Tettleton homers twice and drives in six to lead Detroit to a 9-2 win over the Angels.
6/21/94
A tough day for the home nine as Boston scores 10 runs in the top of the first to beat Toronto 13-1.
The Red Sox nearly bat around twice and Mo Vaughn has two of Boston five doubles in the inning.
6/21/95
The Reds beat the Braves 3-1 at Riverfront. After going 12-0, it is Tom Glavine’s first loss at Riverfront Stadium in his career.
He finishes his career with a 16-4 record at Riverfront.
6/21/97
The Mariners trail Texas 7-5 before scoring 9 runs in the top of the 7th inning to win 15-8.
Seattle collects five hits and four walks in the inning and Jose Cruz has the misfortune of going 0-for-2 in the inning.
6/21/97
Tony Clark homers and drives in 5 to lead Detroit to a 15-4 win over Boston.
Damion Easley and Travis Fryman also homer for the Tigers. Mike Benjamin pitches the 9th and retires all three batters he faces, the only one of five Sox hurlers to do so.
6/21/97
Manny Ramirez goes 4-for-6 with a slam and six RBI to Cleveland to a 13-4 win over the Yankees.
6/21/98
Manny Ramirez homers twice and Cleveland hits five home runs total in an 11-0 win over the Yankees.
6/21/90
The Royals release Richard Dotson and his career is over.
He finishes with 111 wins over 12 seasons in the bigs.
6/21/92
The Padres release Gary Pettis.
He signs with Detroit and plays 48 games before retiring.
6/21/96
The Yankees release Steve Howe and his career is over.
6/21/98
The Dodgers fire general manager Fred Claire and manager Bill Russell. Former manager Tommy Lasorda is hired as GM on an interim basis.
Glenn Hoffman, who manages the team’s AAA Albuquerque Dukes farm club, takes over as interim manager.
We lost Darryl Hamilton OTD in 2015
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