NO-HITTER HURLED ON SAME DATE OF 1ST PERFECT GAME: Tigers hurler Justin Verlander threw a no-no against the Brewers on Tuesday. And it turns out that JV did it on the anniversary of the first-ever perfect game in professional baseball history:

The site NO MAS informs us that back on June 12, 1880, John Lee Richmond of the Worcester Ruby Legs blanked the Cleveland Blues at the fabulous Worcester Agricultural Fairgrounds. Richmond was able to silence the bats of such Blues hitters as Barney Gilligan, Orator Shaffer and Jack Glasscock.

Remarkably, the second perfect game in history came only five days later, when John Montgomery Ward went 27-up and 27-down for the Providence Grays.

Other whiffs of note on this date include Hub Pruett striking out Babe Ruth three straight times in 1922, and the whole league striking out in 1981.