2013 in baseball

The following are the baseball events of the year 2013 throughout the world.

Champions

Major League Baseball

Main article: 2013 Major League Baseball season

Other Champions

• International
  • National teams
    • World Baseball Classic: Dominican Republic
  • International club team competitions
    • Caribbean Series: Yaquis de Obregón (Mexico)
  • Domestic leagues
    • Dominican League: Leones del Escogido
    • Mexican League: Yaquis de Obregón
    • Puerto Rican League: Criollos de Caguas
    • Venezuelan League: Navegantes del Magallanes

Upcoming events

• June 6–8

First-Year Player Draft

• July 12–16

Major League Baseball All-Star FanFest (at Javits Center)

• July 14

Taco Bell All-Star Sunday (at Citi Field)

SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game

Taco Bell All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball Game

• July 15

All-Star Workout Day (at Citi Field)

Home Run Derby

• July 16

84th MLB All-Star Game (at Citi Field)

• September 29

Final day of regular season

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Australian Baseball League

Main article: 2012–13 Australian Baseball League season

Little League World Series

Main article: 2013 Little League World Series

Events

January

• January 9 – For the first time since 1996, the Baseball Writers Association of America fails to select a player for induction into the Hall of Fame. Craig Biggio, in his first year on the ballot, leads all players with 68.2 percent of the vote and falls 39 votes short of induction. Jack Morris is next with 67.7 percent, followed by Jeff Bagwell (59.6), Mike Piazza (57.8 in his first year on the ballot) and Tim Raines (52.2). Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa, all in their first year on the ballot, receive 37.6, 36.2 and 12.5 percent of the votes respectively.

February

• February 7 - At Winter Baseball, Doug Clark hit a solo home run in the top of the 18th inning to led Mexico's Yaquis de Obregón beat Dominican Republic's Leones del Escogido, 4–3, to clinch the 2013 Caribbean Series final. The game lasted seven hour and 28 minutes, making it the longest game in Caribbean Series 55-year history. The previous record of six hours, 13 minutes was set in the 2007 Opening Game, when Tony Batista of the Dominican Republic hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the 18th inning to give his team a 4–3 victory over Venezuela. Mexico's pitcher Luis Mendoza was named the Most Valuable Player of the event.

• February 18 - For the first time since salary arbitration began in 1974, none of the MLB players who filed wound up arguing their cases. After peaking at 35 hearings in 1986, the number of salary arbitration cases argued has not reached double digits since 2001. The total of cases dropped to a record low of three in 2005, 2009 and 2011, and then there were none at all this year. All 133 players who filed last month settled, gaining an average increase of 119 per cent, according to a study by The Associated Press.

March

• March 5 - Major League Baseball intends to expand the use of instant replay for the 2014 season and will be studying over the course of this year which calls to review and how to do it. League officials plan to visit Miami during the World Baseball Classic and various spring training sites to examine camera angles and other factors that will help them develop a plan.

• March 19 - At AT&T Park, the Dominican Republic blanked Puerto Rico, 3–0, to complete the most dominant championship run in the brief history of the World Baseball Classic. The Dominican team, managed by Tony Peña, capped a 8–0 unbeaten run to become the first undefeated champion team in the tournament. New York Yankees second baseman Robinson Canó earned MVP honors, after batting an average of .469 (15-for-32) with two home runs and six RBIs, while Tampa Bay Rays closer Fernando Rodney finished for his seventh save to extend his own Classic record. The losing team would congratulate the winner on the field, a sportsmanlike and uncommon gesture in MLB playoff games.

• March 31 - At Minute Maid Park, the Houston Astros, in their American League debut, defeat the Texas Rangers 8-2. The victory is the 4,000th in the history of the Astros, who had played in the National League for 51 years, the first three (1962-1964) as the Houston Colt .45's.

April

• April 1 - At Dodger Stadium, Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles Dodgers shuts out the San Francisco Giants 4-0 on four hits and helps his own cause by homering in the same game. The home run, the first of Kershaw's career, comes in the eighth inning off relief pitcher George Kontos and breaks a scoreless tie. Kershaw, who had been locked in a pitcher's duel with Matt Cain for six innings, becomes the only second pitcher since 1921 to throw an Opening Day shutout and hit a home run in the same game, Bob Lemon having accomplished the feat in 1953.

• April 2 - In defeating the Houston Astros 7-0 at Minute Maid Park, Yu Darvish of the Texas Rangers has a perfect game broken up with two out in the ninth, a Marwin González ground ball going through Darvish's legs for a single. Darvish, who is pulled after the base hit, records 14 strikeouts, which would have tied him with Sandy Koufax and Matt Cain for most strikeouts by a perfect game pitcher. The Rangers' last no-hitter had also been a perfect game, by Kenny Rogers in 1994. The Astros, victims of Matt Cain's perfect game in 2012, avoid joining the Tampa Bay Rays in 2009 and 2010 as the only teams to have perfect games thrown against them in consecutive seasons.

• April 14 - The Chicago Cubs tie a major league record with five wild pitches in a single inning and become the first team to do so in a regular season game. Edwin Jackson and Michael Bowden combine to throw five wild pitches in the sixth inning of a game against the San Francisco Giants at Wrigley Field, equalling a feat performed by Rick Ankiel of the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2000 National League Division Series. The Giants go on to win the game 10-7 in 10 innings.

Deaths

January

• January   6 - Cho Sung-min, 39, South Korean All-Star pitcher for the Japan's Yomiuri Giants.

• January   7 - Jim Cosman, 69, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in parts of three seasons between 1966 and 1970.

• January 11 - Fred Talbot, 71, pitcher who played from 1963 through 1970 for the Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Athletics, New York Yankees and Seattle Pilots.

• January 12 - Bubba Harris, 86, pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Athletics and Cleveland Indians in part of three seasons spanning 1948-1951.

• January 13 - Enzo Hernández, 63, Venezuelan shortstop who played from 1971 through 1978 for the San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers.

• January 15 - Bill Glynn, 87, first baseman who played for the Philadelphia Phillies and Cleveland Indians in part of five seasons spanning 1949-54.

• January 19 - Milt Bolling, 82, shortstop who spent seven seasons in the majors from 1952 to 1958, and afterwards worked for the Boston Red Sox organization during 30 years.

• January 19 - Stan Musial, 92, one of the best hitters in Major League history and a Hall of Fame outfielder/first baseman, who spent a 22-year career with the St. Louis Cardinals spanning 1941-1963, taking seven National League batting titles and three MVP awards, while helping the Cardinals capture three World Series titles in the 1940 decade.

• January 19 - Earl Weaver, 82, Hall of Fame manager who won 1,480 games as Baltimore Orioles skipper, while leading the team to the World Series four times over 17 seasons, winning the Series championship title in 1970.

• January 20 - Ron Fraser, 79, College Baseball Hall of Fame coach, who posted a 1,271-438-9 record for the Miami Hurricanes from 1963 through 1992, including two CWS tiles in 1982 and 1985.

• January 23 - Ed Bouchee, 79, first baseman who played with the Philadelphia Phillies from 1956-1960 and the Chicago Cubs in 1960 and 1961 before joining the New York Mets in 1962.

• January 24 - Harry Taylor, 77, relief pitcher for the 1957 Kansas City Athletics.

• January 27 - Chuck Hinton, 78, All-Star outfielder who played between 1961 and 1968 for the Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians and California Angels.

• January 27 - Barney Mussill, 93, relief pitcher for the 1944 Philadelphia Phillies.

• January 28 - Lonnie Goldstein, 94, first baseman who played with the Cincinnati Reds in parts of the 1943 and 1946 seasons.

• January 28 - Earl Williams, 64, 1971 National League Rookie of the Year, and catcher from 1970 to 1977 for the Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos and Oakland Athletics.

• January 30 - George Witt, 79, pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Angels and Houston Colt .45's from 1957-1962.

• January 31 - Tony Pierce, 67, pitcher for the Kansas City/Oakland Athletics in 1967 and 1968.

• January 31 - Fred Whitfield, 75, first baseman who played from 1962 through 1970 for the St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos.

February

• February   2 - Edith Houghton, 100, former baseball prodigy and first female scout in Major League history.

• February   3 - Steve Demeter, 78, infielder for the 1959 Detroit Tigers and the 1960 Cleveland Indians, who also was an eight-time minor league All-Star, managed a first-place team in the Carolina League, coached in the majors, and gained induction in the International League Hall of Fame.

• February   3 - Lavonne Paire Davis, 88, All-Star catcher who set several batting and fielding records during her 11-year career in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, and an inspiration for the central character in the 1992 film A League of Their Own.

• February 10 - Jake Thies, 86, pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates during the 1954-1955 seasons.

• February 17 - Sophie Kurys, 87, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League MVP and four-time All-Star, a speedy infielder who set several all-time records, including 1,114 career stolen bases and five steals in a single game.

• February 22 - Mario Ramírez, 55, Puerto Rican infielder who played with the New York Mets and San Diego Padres from 1980-1985.

• February 28 - Yo-Yo Davalillo, 84, Venezuelan infielder for the 1953 Washington Senators.

March

• March   2 - Tom Borland, 80, pitcher for the Boston Red Sox from 1960-1961, who also was named the CWS Most Outstanding Player in 1955 while pitching for Oklahoma A&M.

• March   7 - Ray Martin, 87, pitcher for the Boston Braves in parts of three seasons spanning 1943-1948.

• March   7 - Jake Striker, 79, pitcher who played from 1959 to 1960 with the Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox.

• March   7 - Carl Thomas, 80, pitcher for the 1960 Cleveland Indians.

• March 13 - Ducky Detweiler, 94, third baseman who played for the Boston Braves in the 1942 and 1946 seasons.

• March 14 - Jack Curran, 82, two-sport coach and member of nine different Halls of Fame, who won more basketball and baseball games (2,491) than any high school coach in United States history.

• March 16 - Yadier Pedroso, 26, pitcher for the Cuban national baseball team, who played in the 2006 and 2013 World Baseball Classic editions.

• March 18 - Earl Hersh, 80, reserve outfielder for the 1956 Milwaukee Braves.

• March 21 - Joe B. Scott, 92, Negro League outfielder who played from 1938 to 1956 for the New York Black Yankees, Pittsburgh Crawfords, Chicago American Giants and Memphis Red Sox.

• March 23 - Virgil Trucks, 95, two-time All-Star pitcher who helped the Detroit Tigres clinch the 1945 World Series title, and one of five pitchers to throw two no-hitters in a major league season.

• March 25 - Lou Sleater, 86, left-handed knuckleballer for six teams between 1950 and 1958, and also one of 10 pitchers to hit a walk-off home run since 1957.

• March 28 - Gus Triandos, 82, four-time All-Star catcher who played from 1953 through 1965 for five different teams, most prominently with the Baltimore Orioles.

• March 30 - Bob Turley, 82, three-time All-Star and Cy Young Award winning pitcher, who lifted the New York Yankees, trailed 3 games to 1, to a come-from-behind victory over the Milwaukee Braves in the 1958 World Series.

April

• April   1 - Bob Smith, 82, pitcher for the Red Sox, Cardinals, Pirates and Tigers in part of four seasons spanning 1955-1959.

• April 11 - Grady Hatton, 90, third baseman for six teams in 12 seasons from 1946-1960, and later a manager for the Houston Astros from 1966 to 1968.

External links

• 2013 MLB Schedule
• Baseball Almanac – Major League Baseball Players Who Died in 2013