Father’s Day memories: One for each team

Father’s Day is particular, in particular in baseball, which has a historic previous steeped in recollections of fathers passing their admire of the game on to their younger folks. There were some big Father’s Day moments on the self-discipline through the years, and that’s a search for at one from every club.

American League East

Blue Jays: McDonald’s emotional blast
June 20, 2010
Quickly earlier than Father’s Day in 2010, Blue Jays infielder John McDonald’s father, Jack, handed away after a war with cancer. The funeral was once held on a Friday; two days later, McDonald was once called off the bench in the ninth inning against the Giants as a defensive replacement for Aaron Hill. Stepping in for the first time since being activated from the bereavement checklist, McDonald snuck one over the wall in left self-discipline, pumping his fist as he rounded first wicked, and was once noticeably emotional as he touched home plate and pointed to the sky. McDonald was once a fan accepted and defensive wiz, but he hit loyal 28 homers in his 16-one year occupation, which made this 2d the total more particular. — Keegan Matheson

Orioles: Roenicke’s $1 million slam
June 17, 1984
Gary Roenicke hit 121 home runs over his 12-one year occupation, including 106 with the Orioles between 1978-1985. The tie-breaking eighth-inning immense slam he hit on Father’s Day 1984 was once per chance his most particular, and never most appealing on fable of it despatched the Orioles to a dramatic 6-2 secure over the Yankees at Yankee Stadium. The slam from Roenicke also received a fan a $1 million prize, courtesy of a promotion advertised on the published earlier than and one day of Roenicke’s at-bat. — Joe Trezza

Rays: Shields dominates Marlins
June 19, 2011
James Shields holds the franchise fable with 19 complete video games, and one in all his most dominant performances came against the Marlins on Father’s Day in 2011. Dewayne Vibrant began the game by reaching on an error and came visiting to rating on a Gaby Sanchez sacrifice wing. The bustle was once unearned for Shields, who then settled in effectively, allowing loyal four hits and striking out 10 in the day out. Shields threw 110 pitches in the 2-1 secure, 79 for strikes, and recorded 15 swings and misses. Shields finished with 11 complete video games in 2011, his first All-Well-known person season. — Juan Toribio

Purple Sox: Inexperienced’s stroll-off tops Braves
June 21, 2009
After spending the total 2008 marketing campaign in the Yankees’ Minor League machine, journeyman Nick Inexperienced surprisingly emerged as Boston’s starting shortstop in the first half of 2009, and his with out a doubt feel-factual story continued on Father’s Day. In a game that had swung against the Braves, Inexperienced led off the underside the ninth and equipped at the first pitch he observed from reliever Jeff Bennett, completely lofting a wing ball down the road in loyal, the place apart it curled round Pesky’s Pole for a stroll-off homer. Pleasure ensued at Fenway because the followers went wild, and so did the Purple Sox, who mobbed Inexperienced at home plate. It was once one in all 17 homers Inexperienced would hit in his occupation, and undoubtedly, the one he remembers the fondest. — Ian Browne

Yankees: That’s a wrap! Sport-ending triple play
June 20, 2021

Aroldis Chapman had thrown eight balls and most appealing one strike, walking the first two males he confronted as he tried to lock down a one-bustle lead against the Athletics on Father’s Day 2021. Chapman fired a 98.4 mph fastball down and in to Sean Murphy, who chopped a grounder to 3rd baseman Gio Urshela. Stepping on third wicked, Urshela threw to DJ LeMahieu for the 2d out, then LeMahieu relayed to first baseman Chris Gittens for the closing out of the game. It was once the Yankees’ third triple play of the season, tying a Well-known League fable, and the first game-ending triple play on fable of the Phillies turned one on Aug. 23, 2009, against the Mets. — Bryan Hoch

AL Central

Guardians: Hassey walks it off
June 20, 1982

Since 1982, the Guardians get viewed eight Father’s Day video games extinguish in a stroll-off or extra innings — or both. They received five of these eight video games, the most most up-to-date being a string of three consecutive Father’s Day stroll-off/extra-innings wins from 2014-16.

The individual that takes the cake, though? Their 5-4 secure over the Purple Sox on June 20, 1982, in 14 innings. Tied at 4 with the bases loaded and one out in the underside of the 14th, Ron Hassey hit a stroll-off single to complete a nearly about four-hour game. Cleveland’s starter, Len Barker, ended up pitching 10 innings that game earlier than being relieved by Dan Spillner, who pitched the final four innings to design the secure. — Mandy Bell

Royals: Maldonado shines with ‘necktie’ chest protector
June 16, 2019
Royals catcher Martín Maldonado accepted Father’s Day by sporting a blue necktie on his chest protector, an image that went viral. Maldonado also delivered on the self-discipline that day with three hits to lead Kansas Metropolis over the Twins, 8-6. Maldonado instructed journalists after the game that he wrote the names of his dad, brother, family and shut visitors on the chest-protector tie, along with “Chuffed Father’s Day” at the underside.

“I loyal wanted to complete one thing diversified for the fathers available, family people, visitors,” Maldonado talked about after the game. Maldonado drove in two runs, one with a single one day of a three-bustle 2d inning and yet another with a double in the eighth inning that precipitated the secure. — Jeffrey Flanagan

Tigers: Polanco’s stroll-off ends wild game
June 19, 2005
The Tigers and Giants had a crazy assist-and-forth war on Father’s Day in 2005, that comprises more than one lead adjustments from the eighth inning on. Todd Linden’s three-bustle home bustle off Detroit closer Troy Percival gave San Francisco an 8-5 lead, but Chris Shelton’s two-bustle homer off Tyler Walker with two outs in the underside half despatched the game to extra innings. An inning later, Placido Polanco — who had been traded from Philadelphia to Detroit loyal two weeks earlier — hit his first home bustle as a Tiger, a two-bustle stroll-off for a 10-8 Detroit secure. — Jason Beck

Twins: Extra innings yields 15th straight secure
June 16, 1991
When Father’s Day rolled round in 1991, the Twins were in the course of most appealing their fourth lumber of 10 or more wins in club historic previous and hadn’t yet lost a game in the month of June. That didn’t alternate on that Sunday afternoon against the Indians at Cleveland Stadium, though it took more than nine innings to defend rolling. Kirby Puckett hit a solo homer in the sixth and Al Newman knocked an RBI single in the seventh to push the Twins forward in a pitchers’ duel between Kevin Tapani and Greg Swindell, but Rick Aguilera coughed up the tying bustle in the eighth. It took a puny-ball rally in the pinnacle of the Tenth to actual a 4-2 victory, the Twins’ 15th straight secure. The lumber, which stays the longest in club historic previous, anchored a 21-2 bustle that pushed the Twins from fifth place apart to first in the division and place apart them in top place apart to secure their 2d World Series championship in five seasons. — Attain-Hyoung Park

White Sox: Lee drives in seven
June 16, 2002
Carlos Lee constantly got the simpler of the Cubs one day of his occupation, producing 39 home runs and 109 RBIs against the club total with 24 homers and 61 RBIs coming at Wrigley Field. The slugger outdid himself on Father’s Day in 2002, hitting two home runs and riding in seven one day of a 10-7 White Sox victory against their North Aspect competitors. Lee hit a immense slam in the third off Kerry Wood to erase a 4-2 deficit and added a three-bustle, proceed-forward blast off Carlos Zambrano in the fifth among his three hits. Ed Walsh also deserves consideration for his one-hit shutout against the Cleveland Naps on June 20, 1909, defeating Cy Young, as dwell the 2000 White Sox, who trounced the Yankees, 17-4, on Father’s Day to complete a 7-0 road day out to Cleveland and Original York. — Scott Merkin

AL West

Angels: Weaver’s dominant showing
June 19, 2016
Jered Weaver made the most of Father’s Day in 2016, throwing a three-hit shutout against the A’s in a 2-0 victory in Oakland. All three hits he allowed were singles as he fired the eighth and closing shutout of his occupation. Weaver in any other case struggled that season, but this was once a throwback efficiency for a pitcher who finished among the many top five in the AL Cy Young balloting three cases and also threw a no-hitter in 2012. — Rhett Bollinger

Astros: Wilson’s no-no
June 18, 1967
On Father’s Day in 1967, Don Wilson threw the first no-hitter in Astrodome historic previous in a 2-0 secure over the Braves earlier than a crowd of 19,199. The 22-one year-dilapidated fanned five of the closing six batters he confronted, including Hank Aaron to complete off the game, and finished with 15 K’s total. Wilson, who threw 143 pitches in the no-no loyal three days after throwing 155 in a game, outdueled Phil Niekro in what was once the future Hall of Famer’s third occupation initiating. It was once the first no-hitter in the NL since Sandy Koufax tossed his fourth and closing no-no on Sept. 9, 1965, and the first by an NL rookie since Chicago’s Sam Jones against Pittsburgh on May maybe maybe also 12, 1955. Astros proprietor Roy Hofheinz reportedly ripped up Wilson’s contract after the game and gave him a $1,000 elevate. — Brian McTaggart

Athletics: Original father Canha shines
June 17, 2018
Taking half in his first Father’s Day game after the delivery of his daughter five months prior, Designate Canha showed out with highlights one day of in a 6-5 comeback victory over the Angels at the Oakland Coliseum. Canha belted a two-bustle homer in the 2d earlier than turning in a game-tying RBI single with two outs in the ninth to send the game into extras. In the Tenth, Canha covered 98 feet in 5.4 seconds on a deep wing ball from Andrelton Simmons to construct a mettlesome working procure loyal earlier than hitting the wall in left-heart self-discipline. The ball had loyal a 5% procure probability, per Statcast, making it a 5-star procure. The A’s eventually received it on a stroll-off single by Jonathan Lucroy in the 11th. — Martin Gallegos

Mariners: Griffey’s two-homer day
June 20, 1993
Ken Griffey Jr. constantly most standard coming up colossal on days of importance for his dad, Ken Griffey Sr., and that was once positively true on Father’s Day in 1993 when Junior smacked two home runs and recorded five RBIs in a 13-2 victory over the Rangers at the Kingdome. The youthful Griffey was once loyal 23 at the time, though already rising as an MLB star in his fifth season with the Mariners. Griffey effort up hitting five home runs on Father’s Day in his occupation and also hit eight homers on his dad’s birthday, April 10. No longer to be now not accepted, Bret Boone — the son of worn MLB participant and manager Bob Boone — also homered in the 1993 Father’s Day secure against Texas for loyal the sixth long ball of his younger occupation. — Greg Johns

Rangers: Hamilton delivers in the Tenth
June 20, 2010
The Rangers, going thru the Astros at Minute Maid Park, trailed, 4-3, going into the ninth earlier than tying the game. Ian Kinsler led off with a single against Astros reliever Matt Lindstrom, stole 2d and scored on a single by Josh Hamilton. The Rangers then took the lead in the Tenth after a leadoff single by Julio Borbon. Again it was once a single by Hamilton — on his means to being voted the AL’s Most Treasured Player — that place apart the Rangers forward. The victory finished a three-game sweep of Houston and was once Texas’ eighth in a row. The Rangers ended up winning 11 straight and opened up a 4 1/2-game lead in the AL West on their means to a division championship. — T.R. Sullivan

Nationwide League East

Braves: Hank hammers three
June 21, 1959
Hank Aaron ranks 2d in MLB historic previous with 755 homers and seventh with 62 occupation multi-homer video games, but he hit three homers in a game most appealing once — in a 13-3 secure over the Giants at San Francisco’s Seal Stadium on Father’s Day in 1959. Aaron began his memorable efficiency with a two-bustle homer off Johnny Antonelli in the first inning. The Braves outfielder added two-bustle shots in the sixth and seventh innings to extra assist Warren Spahn’s complete game effort. — Designate Bowman

Marlins: Lowell helps Fish defend hot
June 15, 2003
The Marlins began off their 2003 World Series championship season with a 19-29 fable earlier than they began to warmth up in unhurried May maybe maybe also. Florida carried that momentum into June, and on Father’s Day, the Fish routed the Rangers, 10-4, in Arlington, winning for the 14th time in 22 video games. Mike Lowell had a colossal game, going 3-for-4 with two home runs, a double, a stroll and 4 RBIs, whereas Ivan Rodriguez and Luis Castillo chipped in with three hits every. That was once a huge selection of bustle toughen for left-hander Designate Redman, who gave up two runs in seven innings on his means to the secure. — Joe Frisaro

Mets: Amazins sweep doubleheader
June 15, 1986
Father’s Day 1986 coincided with Banner Day at Shea Stadium, a conventional tradition that observed followers bid bedsheets with written messages — typically encouraging, continuously flamboyant — to the ballpark. With more than 40,000 followers packed into Shea as a end result, the Mets swept the Pirates in a doubleheader. Bob Ojeda pitched a complete game in a 4-1 secure in the day half, taking the lead for factual on a Keith Hernandez RBI double in the fourth. In the nightcap, the Mets exploded for eight runs (six of them on homers by Mookie Wilson, Gary Carter and Ed Hearn), earlier than Roger McDowell slammed the door on an 8-5 victory with a seven-out effect. — Anthony DiComo

Nationals: Adams homers twice after procure with dad
June 16, 2019
Matt Adams performed procure with his father, Jamie, at Nationals Park earlier than game time. Then, he beaten two home runs and drove in seven on that identical self-discipline to vitality the Nats to a 15-5 victory over the D-backs on Father’s Day final season. “Chuffed to get him here,” Adams talked about postgame. “It was once one thing particular. He’s constantly wanted to play procure, so it was once good so as to at final let him dwell his dream.” Washington improved to 33-38 as it continued its climb from a 19-31 initiating. That afternoon, Kurt Suzuki and Anthony Rendon also homered, and Aníbal Sánchez picked up the secure with six innings of two-bustle ball. The secure began a 27-game stretch by which the starting rotation did now not undergo a loss, tying a Well-known League fable situation by the 1916 Original York Giants. — Jessica Camerato

Phillies: Bunning’s perfecto
June 21, 1964
There were 23 most appealing video games in baseball historic previous, but Jim Bunning threw the first and most appealing one on Father’s Day. He blanked the Mets at Shea Stadium in the heart of the Phillies’ unfriendly ‘64 marketing campaign, when they held first place apart for loads of of the season earlier than blowing a 6 1/2-game lead with 12 video games to play. It was once the first most appealing game in the Nationwide League since Providence’s John Bernard Law 1st viscount montgomery of alamein Ward’s in 1880, and the first in baseball in the in kind-or-garden season since White Sox lefty Charlie Robertson in 1922. Bunning’s most appealing game stays one in all the most memorable moments in Phillies historic previous. — Todd Zolecki

NL Central

Brewers: Vaughn caps colossal sequence with stroll-off slam
June 16, 1991
The Brewers get the most appealing fable in baseball on Mother’s Day, but the worst ticket on Father’s Day, so the pickings are somewhat slim. Jimmy Nelson’s 10-strikeout pitching gem against the Padres on Father’s Day in 2017 was once the Brewers’ first complete game in nearly about two years, but for sheer drama the nod goes to Greg Vaughn, who punctuated a huge weekend against the A’s in 1991 at County Stadium by hitting a stroll-off immense slam for an 11-7 Brewers secure. It was once the fourth stroll-off slam in franchise historic previous, and it capped a three-hit, six-RBI afternoon for Vaughn, at some point after he homered twice and drove in five runs in Sport 1 of a Saturday doubleheader against Oakland. Vaughn finished with 17 homers that season, his first one year with 500-plus at-bats. — Adam McCalvy

Cardinals: Historical Father’s Day comeback
June 15, 1952
In the first game of a Father’s Day doubleheader against the Original York Giants, the Cardinals were down 11-0 by the third inning. Starter Joe Presko allowed five runs in the 2d, and reliever Jack Crimian allowed six in the third. But then third baseman Tommy Glaviano led off the fifth inning with a home bustle. Pitcher Invoice Werle singled, shortstop Solly Hemus walked and 2d baseman Purple Schoendienst singled to load the bases for Stan Musial. “The Man” lined a two-bustle single to left self-discipline, and all straight away the Cardinals had some momentum. First baseman Dick Sisler scored Schoendienst with a single, and loyal fielder Enos Slaughter launched a three-bustle home bustle to cap the Cardinals’ seven-bustle inning. St. Louis scored three in the seventh, two in the eighth and two in the ninth for a 14-12 victory. The 11-0 rally situation an NL comeback fable, which wasn’t tied unless Houston rallied from an 11-0 deficit in 1994 against, you guessed it, the Cardinals. — Anne Rogers

Cubs: Madlock’s colossal day
June 15, 1975
On Father’s Day in 1975, Invoice Madlock delivered a vintage efficiency against the Fat Purple Machine, going 4-for-4 with three RBIs in a 4-3 secure over Cincinnati. He rapped an RBI single in the third, aloof two more RBIs on a double in the seventh and ended the day with a .360 practical. Madlock finished the one year batting .354 to divulge that batting crown. Other mighty Father’s Day moments consist of Willson Contreras hitting his first Well-known League homer in his first occupation at-bat in ‘16, Andre Dawson going deep against the Expos in both ‘88 and ‘89, backup catcher Steve Lake turning in an 11th-inning stroll-off single vs. the rival Cardinals in ‘86, Jake Arrieta spinning a shutout and Dexter Fowler belting a immense slam in a rout of the Twins in 2015, Shawon Dunston’s two-homer day against the Giants in 1994 and Lou Brock homering over the wall in loyal-heart at the Polo Grounds — a distance of 460 feet — against the Mets in ’62. — Jordan Bastian

Pirates: ‘Pops’ delivers on Father’s Day
June 20, 1971
Fittingly, Willie Stargell, the individual that’d turned into is named “Pops,” starred on Father’s Day. On their means to winning the 1971 World Series, the Pirates swept the Expos in a doubleheader at Three Rivers Stadium — and Stargell homered in both video games. Whereas Steve Blass pitched a complete game and Richie Hebner drove in four runs, the Hall of Reputation slugger Stargell took Howie Reed deep in the fifth inning of Pittsburgh’s 7-1 victory in the opener. It was once a 430-foot shot into the greater deck, in accordance to a Original York Times fable, at the time the longest home bustle hit at Three Rivers Stadium, and one in all Stargell’s MLB-main 48 homers on the one year. Then the Bucs bashed the Expos with a seven-bustle seventh inning in the 2d game, with Stargell smashing a immense slam off Mike Marshall of their 7-3 secure. — Adam Berry

Reds: Griffey launches No. 500 with dad in the stands
June 20, 2004
At Busch Stadium II in St. Louis with his father, worn Reds star Ken Griffey Sr., in the seats, Ken Griffey Jr. slugged his milestone five hundredth home bustle on Father’s Day. The long ball to loyal self-discipline came in the sixth inning as Cincinnati defeated the Cardinals, 6-0. At the age of 34, Griffey was once the sixth-youngest to reach 500 homers and the 20th total.

“It’s been a huge Father’s Day for me. I’ve loved every minute of it,” talked about Griffey Sr., a member of the Fat Purple Machine. “I doubtlessly was once under more stress than he was once. He’s unexcited enjoying and I needed to sit and explore. It was once a good Father’s Day present off, but it absolutely’s a easy means to secure out of giving me one thing. He ain’t getting off that straightforward.” — Designate Sheldon

NL West

D-backs: Womack’s particular slam
June 17, 2001
After shedding his father two months earlier, Tony Womack hit a immense slam on Father’s Day in what was once an emotional 2d for the former. As he rounded first wicked, tears began to float down Womack’s face. When he crossed home plate, he pointed to the sky and wiped the tears from his face. As his teammates consoled him, he wept in the dugout. Womack added two doubles in the game.

“I did now not even are seeking to head to sleep final evening luminous that the following day was once Father’s Day,” Womack talked about. “I wished to defend some distance off from it if in any admire that you would possibly per chance additionally take into consideration on fable of I wasn’t prepared. I’m unexcited now not prepared.” — Steve Gilbert

Dodgers: Vintage Koufax
June 20, 1965
In the first game of a Father’s Day doubleheader at Dodger Stadium, Sandy Koufax fired a 12-strikeout one-hitter to beat the Mets and Warren Spahn, 2-1, with a Ron Relatively double riding in both Dodgers runs. The correct hit off Koufax was once a Jim Hickman home bustle in the fifth inning. That brought Koufax’s fable to 11-3 with a 1.96 ERA. He went on to a 26-8 ticket, received World Series Sport 7 with a shutout on two-days’ rest and received his 2d of three Cy Young Awards. — Ken Gurnick

Giants: Rueter’s extra-particular day
June 14, 2000
Father’s Day arrived rather early for Giants left-hander Kirk Rueter, who began and received a game against the Reds on the the same day his wife, Karla, was once scheduled to give delivery to the couple’s first daughter. Rueter fired six innings of 1-bustle ball in a matinee efficiency to lead the Giants to a 6-2 secure earlier than heading to the neatly being facility for his wife’s labor induction. A few hours later, the pair welcomed Hope Elaine Rueter into the realm.

“It was once a protracted day, but a most appealing day,” Rueter talked about afterward. — Maria Guardado

Padres: Brown’s gem caps 12-1 stretch
June 21, 1998
The 1998 Padres were runaway NL West winners. But in early June, they slumped and fell at the assist of the rival Giants. A important two-week stretch loomed, with the club situation to play the Giants seven cases. San Diego would secure 12 of 13 over these two weeks, including six of seven against San Francisco. The Padres capped the bustle with a Father’s Day gem from Kevin Brown, who struck out nine Giants over 8 2/3 innings. Tony Gwynn had three hits, and Trevor Hoffman came on to fable the effect in a 5-1 victory. In a two-week span, the Padres had gone from a game assist in the NL West to a 5 1/2-game lead. They were on design for an NL pennant that October. — AJ Cassavell

Rockies: Nolan’s Father’s Day stroll-off cycle
June 18, 2017
On Father’s Day in 2017, Nolan Arenado gave his dad — and a huge selection of dads in Colorado — a historic present. He turned the first participant in Well-known League historic previous to hit a stroll-off home bustle to complete the cycle when his crew was once trailing getting into that plate appearance, lifting the Rockies to a 7-5 victory over the Giants at Coors Field. Absolute top four diversified players had ever hit a stroll-off homer for the cycle, length.

“I was once fired up,” Arenado talked about afterward, sporting his blood-stained jersey after the bill of Charlie Blackmon’s helmet lower Arenado on the side of his face one day of the put up-homer party at home plate. “I heard the crew. But I loyal talked a couple of exiguous prayer. I was once admire, ‘Peaceable down, give me power so as to unhurried this game down.’ That’s what it is all about.” — Thomas Harding