2012 in baseball

The following are the baseball events of the year 2012 throughout the world.  

Contents 1 Major League Baseball 2 Nippon Professional Baseball 3 Honkbal Hoofdklasse 4 Australian Baseball League 5 Serie del Caribe/Caribbean Series 6 Little League World Series 7 Events 7.1 January 7.2 February 7.3 March 7.4 April 7.5 May 8 Deaths 8.1 January 8.2 February 8.3 March 8.4 April 8.5 May 9 Sources 10 External links

Major League Baseball

June

• June 4–6: First-Year Player Draft.

• June 8: Interleague play begins.

• June 15–25: The NCAA Division I College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska is scheduled to take place.^[1]

July

• July 8: All-Star Sunday - Futures Game, Legends and Celebrity Softball, at Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City.

• July 9: Home Run Derby, at Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City.

• July 10: 83d MLB All-Star game, at Kauffman Stadium, Kansas City.

• July 22: Hall of Fame inductions, at Cooperstown, N.Y.

• July 31: Non-waiver trade deadline: Last day to trade a player without securing waivers.

August

• August 31: Final day to trade for a player who will be eligible for a postseason roster.

'September

• September 1: Active rosters expand from 25 to 40 players.

October

• October 3: End of 2012 MLB regular season.

December

• December 3–6: Baseball winter meetings, at Nashville, Tennessee.

Source: MLB.com

Nippon Professional Baseball

Honkbal Hoofdklasse

Australian Baseball League

Serie del Caribe/Caribbean Series

Little League World Series

• The LLWS will be held in August in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

Events

January

• January 9 - Former Cincinnati Reds shortstop Barry Larkin was the only player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, getting 86.4 percent of the vote by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. He will be honored July 22 in Cooperstown, along with the late Ron Santo, who was elected by the Golden Era Committee; Toronto Sun baseball writer Bob Elliott, winner of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award; and Tim McCarver, winner of the Ford C. Frick Award.^[2]

• January 12 - Major League owners voted to approve a contract extension for two years for commissioner Bud Selig through the 2014 season.^[3]

• January 13 - In an cost efficient effort to bolster the rotation, prized New York Yankees catching prospect Jesús Montero and pitcher Héctor Noesi are traded to the Seattle Mariners in exchange for power pitching right hander Michael Pineda and minor leaguer Jose Campos. The Yankees build upon the trade agreement in a matter of hours with the addition of free agent Hiroki Kuroda to a one year deal worth around 10 million dollars.^[4]

• January 17 - At White House, President Barack Obama dubbed the St. Louis Cardinals the "greatest comeback team in the history of baseball" thanks to their thrilling late-season charge into the playoffs and death-defying, seven-game triumph in last November's World Series. Leading off at the event was first lady Michelle Obama, celebrating her 48th birthday. Two key figures of the championship season were absent. Manager Tony La Russa retired after the series, while star Albert Pujols signed a $240 million contract with the Los Angeles Angels in the offseason.^[5]

February

• February 6 - Dominican Republic's Leones del Escogido were soundly defeated by Venezuela's Tigres de Aragua, 7–0, but still clinched the 2012 Caribbean Series title when Mexico's Yaquis de Obregón lost to Puerto Rico's Indios de Mayagüez in the early game, 4–3, to play itself out of contention.^[6]

• February 23 - 2011 National League MVP Ryan Braun wins appeal against 50-game suspension. The suspension was overturned by baseball arbitrator Shyam Das. The Braun case marks the first time a big leaguer has successfully challenged a drug-related penalty in a grievance. According to ESPN sources, Major League Baseball is weighing the possibility of suing in federal court to reverse the decision.^[7]

March

• March 2 - Major League Baseball expanded its playoff format to 10 teams for the 2012 season, adding a second wild card in each league. The decision establishes a new one-game, wild-card round in each league between the teams with the best records.^[8]

• March 16 - Andy Pettitte comes out of retirement to a $2.5 million deal with the New York Yankees.

• March 28 - At Tokyo Dome, Japanese baseball legend Ichiro Suzuki had four hits and drove in a run, leading the Seattle Mariners to a 3-1 win over the Oakland Athletics in Major League Baseball season opener.^[9]

• March 30 - At 49 age, Jamie Moyer became the oldest starting pitcher ever on an Opening Day roster. Moyer joined the Colorado Rockies on this date, which was the 20th anniversary of his being released by the Chicago Cubs. At that time, he had been released three times in three years. He will be 50 in November.^[10]

April

• April 4 - The St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Miami Marlins 4-1 in the first regular-season game at Marlins Park. The ceremonial first pitch is thrown by Muhammad Ali, who won his first of three heavyweight boxing championships by defeating Sonny Liston in Miami in 1964. The game marks Mike Matheny's managerial debut; he replaced Tony LaRussa, who retired after managing the Cardinals to the 2011 World Series title.

• April 5 - The longest MLB Opening Day game was played, with the Toronto Blue Jays defeating the Cleveland Indians, 7–4. This game was played at Cleveland and lasted 16 innings. A three-run homer by J. P. Arencibia marked the difference. The marathon eclipsed the previous longest openers – 15 innings between Cleveland and Detroit on April 19, 1960, and 15 innings between Philadelphia and Washington on April 13, 1926.^[11]

• August 7 - Rajai Davis hit a two-run double in the 12th inning, as Toronto rallied for the second straight game against Cleveland's bullpen and the Blue Jays beat the Indians in extra innings again, by the same score of 7–4.^[12]

• April 7 - Robin Ventura earned his first career victory as a manager, as the Chicago White Sox defeated the two-time defending American League champion Texas Rangers, 4–3, at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.^[13]

• April 8 - The Boston Red Sox lost to the Detroit Tigers, 13–12,^[14] while the New York Yankees were defeated by the Tampa Bay Rays, 3–0.^[15] These results marks the second time in Major League history that both the Red Sox and Yankees started with a 0-3 record. The other was in the 1966 season, in which Boston started 0-5 and finished next-to-last with a 72-90 record, and New York started 0-3 and finished last with a 70-89 record.

• April 10 - The Miami Marlins suspended manager Ozzie Guillén for five games because of his controversial comments about Fidel Castro.^[16]

• April 13
  • The Boston Red Sox began their 101st season at Fenway Park by winning their eighth straight home opener, 12–2, over the Tampa Bay Rays.^[17]
  • Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Aaron Harang set a franchise record by striking out nine consecutive batters against the San Diego Padres. The Dodgers went on to win 9–8. Harang fell one strikeout short of the all-time major league record of 10 set by Hall of Fame Tom Seaver of the New York Mets on April 22, 1970, also against San Diego. Harang broke the 50-year-old Dodgers mark of eight consecutive strikeouts, which was recorded by Johnny Podres against the Philadelphia Phillies on July 2, 1962.^[18]

• April 17 - At Coors Field, Colorado Rockies pitcher Jamie Moyer, at 49 years 5 months, becomes the oldest pitcher to record a Major League victory as the Rockies defeat the San Diego Padres 5-3. The previous record was held by Jack Quinn, who recorded his last Major League victory in 1932, two months after his 49th birthday.

• April 18
  • Bartolo Colón of the Oakland A's pitches eight shutout innings in a 6-0 win over the Los Angeles Angels. The game includes a stretch, from the fifth to the eight inning, in which Colon pitches 38 consecutive strikes, the longest such streak since major league baseball began recording the statistic in 1988.
  • Cliff Lee of the Philadelphia Phillies scatters seven hits over 10 innings to become the first starting pitcher to throw ten shutout innings since Mark Mulder of the St. Louis Cardinals in 2005. Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants, meanwhile, allows only two hits until being lifted for a pinch-hitter after 9 innings. The two become the first pair of starting pitchers to combine for at least 19 shutout innings since 1999. The Giants win the game 1-0 in walk-off fashion in the bottom of the 11th inning.

• April 19 - José Altuve, Brian Bogusevic, and Matt Downs of the Houston Astros each hit a triple in the top of the first inning in an 11–4 victory over the Washington Nationals. This was the first time in Astros history that they hit 3 triples in an inning and also tied the club record for most in a game. 1995 was the last time a team had 3 triples in the first inning.^[19]

• April 21
  • At Safeco Field, Philip Humber pitched the first perfect game in the majors in almost two years, leading the Chicago White Sox to a 4–0 victory over the Seattle Mariners. It was the 21st perfect game in major league history and first since Philadelphia Phillies' Roy Halladay threw one against the Florida Marlins on May 29, 2010. It was also the third in White Sox's history, joining Mark Buehrle against the Tampa Bay Rays on July 23, 2009, and Charles Robertson against the Detroit Tigers on April 30, 1922.^[20]
  • At Fenway Park, the New York Yankees tie a franchise record by overcoming a nine-run deficit to win. Trailing 9–0 after five innings, the Yankees begin their comeback in the sixth inning on the first of Mark Teixeira's two home runs, which come from both sides of the plate, the 13th time he has done so. The Yankees score seven runs in the seventh on a Nick Swisher grand slam, followed by Teixeira's second home run; then another seven runs in the eighth inning (the tying and go-ahead runs, Eduardo Núñez and Derek Jeter, score on a Swisher double) to defeat the Boston Red Sox 15-9. Teixeira and Swisher each drive in six runs for the Yankees, who last overcame a 9-run deficit to win on June 26, 1987, also against the Red Sox.^[21]

• April 25
  • Paul Konerko of the Chicago White Sox became the 48th player in major league history to join the 400 home run club with a solo shot against the Oakland Athletics at O.co Coliseum.^[22]
  • The Miami Marlins became the first team in MLB history to walk four consecutive batters using four consecutive pitchers. Marlin pitchers Josh Johnson, Randy Choate, Steve Cishek, and Mike Dunn walked Lucas Duda (by Johnson), Justin Turner (by Choate), Scott Hairston (by Cishek), and Josh Thole (by Dunn).^[23]

• April 26
  • Pablo Sandoval of the San Francisco Giants went 1-for-5, extending his season-opening hitting streak to 19 games, a franchise record. Sandoval went into the game tied with Johnny Rucker, who hit in the first 18 games of the 1945 season with the then New York Giants.^[24]
  • The New York Mets field an entire starting line-up of home grown talent for the first time since September 19, 1971. With former Mets farmhand José Reyes batting lead-off for the Miami Marlins, the game starts with ten players who began their careers with the Mets on the field at once.^[25]

• April 27 - Ryan Cook of the Oakland Athletics becomes the 60th pitcher in MLB history to strike out four batters in an inning. J. J. Hardy, Nick Markakis, Adam Jones, and Matt Wieters of the Baltimore Orioles each strike out swinging in the bottom of the eighth inning, with Jones reaching first base as the result of a third-strike wild pitch.

May

• May 2 - At Angel Stadium of Anaheim, Jered Weaver of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim no-hits the Minnesota Twins 9–0. Weaver strikes out nine and allows only two baserunners: Chris Parmelee, who strikes out in the second inning but reaches on a passed ball, and Josh Willingham, who walks in the seventh. The no-hitter is the first against the Twins since David Wells' perfect game in 1998.^[26]

• May 3:
  • Mariano Rivera tore a ligament in his right knee before the New York Yankees lost 4–3 to the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium.^[27]
  • Cincinnati Reds starter Homer Bailey celebrated his 26th birthday and Chicago Cubs starter Ryan Dempster celebrated his 35th birthday, marking the first time in Major League history that opposing starting pitchers both celebrated birthdays. The Reds went on to win 4-3 in 10 innings in Cincinnati.^[28]

• May 7 - At Fenway Park, the Baltimore Orioles outlasted the Boston Red Sox, 9–6, in 17 innings. Adam Jones hit a three-run home run in the top of the 17th off designated hitter Darnell McDonald, whom the Red Sox turned to once their bullpen was empty. Orioles DH Chris Davis, who had never pitched an inning in professional baseball, hurled two innings of shutout ball and was credited with the victory.^[29] The last time two teams brought in position players to pitch in the same game was on October 4, 1925, when Detroit Tigers' Ty Cobb and St. Louis Browns' George Sisler closed out the second game of a doubleheader on the last day of the season.^[30] Davis also struck out five times at the plate to record the first platinum sombrero of the season, and became the eighth player, but first non-pitcher, since 1918 to get a win for a game in which he was striking out five times.^[31]

• May 8
  • Josh Hamilton tied the major league record by hitting four home runs, all of them two-run shots, as he went five-for-five in the Texas Rangers' 10–3 win over the Baltimore Orioles at Candem Yards. It marked the 16th four-home-run game in major league history, and the 6th in the American League. Hamilton added a double, while setting a career-high with eight runs batted in. His 18 total bases in the game broke the club record last set by José Canseco in 1994 against the Seattle Mariners, while the 18 total bases served to set a new league record and was one shy of the major league record posted by Shawn Green in the 2002 season.^[32][33]
  • Class-A Greenville Drive (Boston) made history as three pitchers combined to toss the club's first ever no-hitter. Miguel Pena (six innings), Hunter Cervenka (two) and Tyler Lockwood (one) joined forces to defeat the Rome Braves (Atlanta), 1–0. A solo home run by Keury De La Cruz off David Filak in the sixth inning counted for the only run of the game.^[34]

• May 14 - Major League Baseball dropped its 100-game suspension of Colorado Rockies catcher Eliezer Alfonzo for a positive drug test because of the same procedural issues that came up in the Ryan Braun case. Alfonzo became the first player suspended twice for performance-enhancing drugs under the MLB testing program when the commissioner's office announced a 100-game penalty in September 2011. Alfonzo appealed and was notified that MLB had lifted the ban. The dispute came because the storage and shipment of his urine sample was similar to the one that led to Braun's 50-game drug penalty getting overturned by an arbitrator in February of the current year.^[35]

• May 16 - New York Mets COO Jeff Wilpon, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig, NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg and owner Fred Wilpon announced that the 2013 All-Star Game will be held at Citi Field.^[36]

• May 17
  • Yan Gomes started at third base for the Toronto Blue Jays, becoming the first Brazilian-born player in major league history. Born in São Paulo, Gomes went 2-for-3 in a 4–1 victory over the New York Yankees at Rogers Centre ballpark.^[37]
  • Former Boston Red Sox manager Butch Hobson, now heading the Lancaster Barnstormers in the Atlantic League, became the 20th manager in baseball history to reach 1,500 career victories with the club's win.^[38]

• May 18 - At Comerica Park, Justin Verlander has his bid for a third career no-hitter broken up with one out in the ninth inning of the Detroit Tigers' 6-0 interleague victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. A single by Josh Harrison foils this bid and will be the only hit Verlander allows. Verlander, who had already pitched an interleague no-hitter against the Milwaukee Brewers in 2007, as well as a no-hitter against the Toronto Blue Jays in 2011, was bidding to join Larry Corcoran, Cy Young, Bob Feller, Sandy Koufax and Nolan Ryan as pitchers who had thrown three Major League no-hitters. The no-hitter would also have been the first pitched against the Pirates since Bob Gibson no-hit them in 1971.^[39]

• May 20
  • Mike Aviles hit a home run in the second pitch he saw from Cliff Lee, to become the first Boston Red Sox player in 99 years to lead off consecutive games with a home run, joining Hall of Famer Harry Hooper, who did it in the 1913 season. Josh Beckett hurled up seven scoreless innings and Aviles also singled in a run in the 5–1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.^[40]
  • Max Scherzer of the Detroit Tigers struck out 15 batters in seven inning of work and the Tigers won the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4–3, at Comerica Park. Scherzer's 15 strikeouts were the most by a Tigers pitcher in 40 years. Mickey Lolich had 15 strikeouts against the Boston Red Sox on October 2, 1972. Previously, Lolich set the club record of 16 during the 1969 season, doing it twice in less than three weeks.

• May 21 - In Double-A action, three New Hampshire Fisher Cats (TOR) pitchers combined to throw the third no-hitter in franchise history, stifling the Portland Sea Dogs (BOS) in a 6–0 victory at New Hampshire. Combining on the gem for the Fisher Cats were Brett Cecil (5⅔ innings), Danny Farquhar (2⅓), and Ronald Uviedo (1). It was the first no-hitter for New Hampshire since Kyle Drabek hurled a complete-game, nine-inning ho-hitter against the New Britain Rock Cats (MIN) on July 4, 2010.^[41]

• May 26 - Jarrod Saltalamacchia had a pinch-hit, two-run home run off Fernando Rodney with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning, to lift the Boston Red Sox to a 3–2 win over the Tampa Bay Rays at Fenway Park. It was the first walk-off home run of Saltalamacchia's career, while Rodney suffered the first blown save of the season after a perfect 15-for-15 in save opportunities.^[42]

• May 28 - Chris Sale struck out a career-high 15, Adam Dunn hit a two-run home run, and the Chicago White Sox extended its winning streak to six games with a 2–1 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field. Sale nearly made White Sox history in a dominating victory, allowing one run on three hits and two walks in 7⅓ innings, while finishing one strikeout shy of the team record. Jack Harshman struck out 16 Boston Red Sox batters on July 25, 1954.^[43]

• May 29 - Hideki Matsui became the first player in baseball history to play 10 seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball and 10 seasons in the Major Leagues when he debuted for the Tampa Bay Rays against the Chicago White Sox. Matsui broke a scoreless tie with a two-run home run in his second at-bat in an eventual loss for the Rays. He has also homered in his majors debuts with the Anaheim Angels and the New York Yankees.^[44]

• May 30 - Carlos González hit three home runs in his last three at-bats, en route to a Colorado Rockies 13–5 victory over the Houston Astros. González broke a 5-all tie with a solo shot leading off the bottom of the fifth inning, added a two-run drive in the sixth, and then had another solo shot in the eighth. Michael Cuddyer contributed also with a grand slam in the first frame and Dexter Fowler added a three-run homer in the sixth.^[45]

Deaths

January

• January  2 - Howie Koplitz, 73, pitcher for the Tigers and Senators in parts of five seasons spanning 1961-1966, a former Southern Association MVP and TSN Minor League Player of the Year in 1961.

• January  8 - Glenn Cox, 80, pitcher for the Kansas City Athletics from 1955 to 1958.

• January 17 - Marty Springstead, 74, former American League umpire from 1966 to 1985, who at the age of 36 in 1973 became the youngest umpire crew chief in World Series history, and also worked in three Series, three All-Star Games and five AL championship series.^[46]

• January 21 - Cliff Chambers, 90, pitcher for the Cubs, Pirates and Cardinals from 1948 to 1953.

• January 21 - Troy Herriage, 81, pitcher for the 1956 Kansas City Athletics.

• January 22 - Andy Musser, 74, play-by-play broadcaster for the Philadelphia Phillies during 26 seasons from 1976 through 2001.

• January 26 - Bud Byerly, 91, pitcher who played for the Cardinals, Reds, Senators, Red Sox and Giants for parts of 11 seasons spanning 1943-1960.

• January 31 - Rick Behenna, 51, pitcher for the Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians in parts of three seasons from 1983 through 1985.

February

• February  1 - Herb Adams, 83, backup outfielder who played from 1948 to 1950 with the Chicago White Sox.

• February  7 - Danny Clyburn, 37, outfielder who played parts of three seasons with the Baltimore Orioles and Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the late 1990s.

• February 11 - Gene Crumling, 89, catcher for the 1945 St. Louis Cardinals, one of many ballplayers who only appeared in the majors during World War II conflict.

• February 16 - Gary Carter, 57, Hall of Fame catcher principally with the Montreal Expos and New York Mets. His two-out, tenth-inning single for the Mets in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series, started one of the most improbable rallies in postseason history.

• February 17 - Howie Nunn, 76, relief pitcher for the Cardinals and Reds in parts of three seasons from 1959 to 1962.

• February 24 - Agnes Allen, 81, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League pitcher.

• February 24 - Terry Mathews, 47, relief pitcher for the Marlins, Orioles, Rangers and Royals in part of eight seasons spanning 1991-1999.

• February 24 - Jay Ward, 73, pitcher for the Twins and Reds in parts of three seasons between 1963 and 1970, who later managed several successful minor league teams.

• February 25 - Dave Cheadle, 60, relief pitcher for the 1973 Atlanta Braves.

March

• March  3 - Lloyd Hittle, 88, pitcher for the Washington Senators from 1949 to 1950.

• March  3 - Jim Obradovich, 62, first baseman who played briefly for the Houston Astros in 1978.

• March  4 - Don Mincher, 73, two-time All-Star first baseman and member of the 1972 Oakland Athletics World Series champions, who also has the distinction of being the only major leaguer to play with the Washington Senators franchise that became the Minnesota Twins, then played with a second incarnation of the Senators who were renamed the Texas Rangers.

• March  6 - Helen Walulik, 82, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League pitcher and outfield/infield utility.

• March  9 - Harry Wendelstedt, 73, National League umpire who worked five World Series and four All-Star games during his 33-year career from 1966 through 1998.

• March 11 - Hub Andrews, 89, relief pitcher for the New York Giants from 1947 to 1948.

• March 15 - Dave Philley, 91, outfielder and pinch-hitting specialist for eight different teams between 1941 and 1962, who still holds the major league records for most consecutive pinch-hits in a season (nine, 1958) and for most at-bats in an 18-inning double-header (13, 1951), while also holds an American League record for the for most pinch-hits in a season (24, 1961).^[47]

• March 18 - Furman Bisher, 93, sportswriter who authored several books, including an autobiography of Hank Aaron.

• March 20 - Mel Parnell, 89, two-time All-Star pitcher and the winningest left-hander in Boston Red Sox history with 123 wins from 1947–1956, who also posted a 25-7 record in 1949 and hurled a no-hitter in 1956.

• March 24 - Dennis Bennett, 72, pitcher for the Phillies, Red Sox, Mets and Angels between 1962 and 1968.

• March 29 - Ray Narleski, 83, two-time All-Star reliever with the Cleveland Indians, and part of a brilliant bullpen that featured Don Mossi and Hal Newhouser, during the historic 1954 season.

• March 30 - Janet Anderson, 90, Canadian pitcher for the Kenosha Comets of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

• March 31 - Jerry Lynch, 82, Pirates and Reds outfielder, whose 116 career pinch-hits is the 10th-most in Major League Baseball history.

April

• April  2 - Allie Clark, 88, outfielder who played from 1947 through 1953 for the New York Yankees, Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Athletics and Chicago White Sox.

• April  8 - Al Veigel, 95, pitcher for the 1939 Boston Bees.

• April 10 - Andy Replogle, 58, pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers from 1978 to 1979.

• April 17 - Stan Johnson, 75, backup outfielder who played for the Chicago White Sox and Kansas City Athletics between 1960 and 1961.

• April 18 - John O'Neil, 92, backup shortstop for the 1946 Philadelphia Phillies, who spent more than 45 years spanning 1939-1986 as player, player/manager, manager, general manager and scout.

• April 24 - Fred Bradley, 91, pitcher for the Chicago White Sox from 1948 to 1949.

• April 26 - Bill Skowron, 81, eight-time All-Star first baseman and part of five World Series champion teams.

May

• May  8 - Jerry McMorris, 71, principal owner of the Colorado Rockies from 1992 through 2005.

• May  9 - Carl Beane, 59, public address announcer for the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park since the 2003 season.

• May 11 - Frank Wills, 53, pitcher for the Royals, Mariners, Indians and Blue Jays from 1983 through 1991, who won the American League pennant-winning game for Toronto in the 1989 season.

• May 16 - Kevin Hickey. 56, pitcher for the White Sox and Orioles in part of six seasons between 1981 and 1991.

• May 16 - Thad Tillotson, 71, relief pitcher for the New York Yankees from 1967 to 1968, who also pitched for the Nakai Hawks in Japan during the 1971 season.

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