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Washington Nationals at Atlanta Braves, Game 4Where: Citizens Bank Park
When: June 6, 2021, 1:05 PM EDT
Weather: 91°, mostly sunny, at game time
Austin Voth (RHP, 2-0, 2.93 ERA)
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Vince Velasquez (RHP, 2-1, 4.08)
Washington Nationals
Philadelphia Phillies
• 1523: Gustav Vasa elected King of Sweden, ending the Kalmar Union, commemorated as the National Day of Sweden (Sveriges nationaldag)
• 1832: Paris Uprising suppressed, memorialized in Les Misérables
• 1844: Founding of the YMCA
• 1944: Normandy landings
On this day in baseball:• 1925 - Eddie Collins hits his 3000th hit, a double off Walter Johnson at Griffith Stadium.
• 1939 - First Little League game played.
• 1939 - The New York Giants become the first team to hit 5 home runs in one inning.
• 1944 - Baseball schedule cancelled due to the D-Day invasion.
• 1957 - First fog-out in MLB history at Ebbets Field.
• 2006 - As
National Pastime puts it, "On the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year of the century, the Dodgers score six runs in the sixth inning during the sixth game of the homestand".
• 2007 - Trevor Hoffmann records his 500th save, a record for relievers.
• 2017 - Scooter Gennett hits four home runs in one game, with 10 RBI.
Today's birthdays:Nathan Hale (1755-1776), Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Thomas Mann (1875-1955), Sukarno (1901-1970), Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978), Robert Englund (1947-), Harvey Fierstein (1954-), Björn Borg (1956-)
Baseball birthdays:HOFer Bill Dickey (1907-1993), Merv Rettenmund (1943-), Bud Harrelson (1944-), Tony Graffanino (1972-), Mark Ellis (1977-), Matt Belisle (1980-), Collin Balester (1986-), Anthony Rendon (1990-)
Today is also International Convoy Day, or at least it will be later, when we reach the dark of the moon on the sixth of June.
