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** [[Jim Kerr]] hit the organization's first home run, a solo shot, in the fifth inning. | ** [[Jim Kerr]] hit the organization's first home run, a solo shot, in the fifth inning. | ||
** [[Matt Quatraro]], catching, suffered the first game-related injury during a home-plate collision.<ref name="buttefalls">{{cite news |last=Topkin |first=Marc |title=Butte falls 5-4 |publisher=St. Petersburg Times |date=June 20, 1996 |page=3C}}</ref> | ** [[Matt Quatraro]], catching, suffered the first game-related injury during a home-plate collision.<ref name="buttefalls">{{cite news |last=Topkin |first=Marc |title=Butte falls 5-4 |publisher=St. Petersburg Times |date=June 20, 1996 |page=3C}}</ref> | ||
| + | * The scheduled game between the the [[Hudson Valley Renegades]] and the [[New Jersey Cardinals]] of the Short-Season [[New York-Penn League]] was postponed due to rain.<ref name="hudson">{{cite news |last=Hayes |first=M. |title=Butte loses 5-4 to Idaho Falls |publisher=Tampa Tribune |date=June 20, 1996 |page=Sports 6}}</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 18:45, 12 March 2012
June 19 in Tampa Bay baseball:
1996
Games
The Devil Rays organization played the first official games in franchise history:
- The Devil Rays lost, 10-1, to the Yankees in a Rookie-level Gulf Coast League game at Al Lang Stadium in St. Petersburg, FL.
- Pablo Ortega threw the first pitch, a ball.
- Alex Sanchez recorded the organization's first hit, a bunt single, in the first inning.[1]
- The Butte Copper Kings lost, 5-4, to the Idaho Falls Braves in an Advanced-Rookie Pioneer League game at Alumni Field in Butte, MT.
- Jim Kerr hit the organization's first home run, a solo shot, in the fifth inning.
- Matt Quatraro, catching, suffered the first game-related injury during a home-plate collision.[2]
- The scheduled game between the the Hudson Valley Renegades and the New Jersey Cardinals of the Short-Season New York-Penn League was postponed due to rain.[3]
