Jul 10, 2020 5 min read

NASCAR LINEUP

NASCAR Monster Energy Series Quaker State Sanitizer 400 Lineup

Sunday, July 12

At Kentucky Speedway

Sparta, Ky.

Lap length: 1.50 miles

(Car number in parentheses)

1. (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota.

2. (22) Joey Logano, Ford.

3. {4) Kevin Harvick, Ford.

4. (10) Aric Almirola, Ford.

5. (88) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet.

6. (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford.

7. (1) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet.

8. (9) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet.

9. (19) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota.

10. (21) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford.

11. (12) Ryan Blane, Ford.

12. (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota.

13. (17) Chris Buescher, Ford.

14. (47) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Chevrolet.

15. (14) Clint Bowyer, Ford.

16. (20) Erik Jones, Toyota.

17. (42) Matt Kenseth, Chevrolet.

18. (43) Bubba Wallace, Chevrolet.

19. (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet.

20. (48) Jimmy Johnson, Chevrolet.

21. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet.

22. (38) John H. Nemechek, Ford.

23. (6) Ryan Newman, Ford.

24. (8) Tyler Reddick, Chevrolet.

25. (53) Garrett Smithley, Chevrolet.

26. (77) Josh Bilicki, Chevrolet.

27. (32) Corey LaJoie, Ford.

28. (00) Quin Houff, Chevrolet.

29. (41) Cole Custer, Ford.

30. (34) Michael McDowell, Ford.

31. (15) Brennan Poole, Chevrolet.

32. (37) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet.

33. (13) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet.

34. (95) Christopher Bell, Toyota.

35. (51) Joey Gase, Ford.

36. (27) JJ Yeley, Ford.

37. (96) Daile Suarez, Toyota.

38. (66) Timmy Hill, Toyota.

ON THIS DATE

July 11

1911 – The St. Louis Cardinals baseball team survives a deadly train wreck at 3:35 a.m. on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad. The train crashes into a viaduct and plunges down an 18-football embankment near Bridgeport, Conn., killing 14 people and leaving 47 others injured. Nobody from the Cardinals is hurt and they labor for 15 hours to aid the survivors. The railroad pays the players $25 apiece for their efforts in the rescue and for their lost possessions.

1944 – In the first baseball all-star game played in Pittsburgh, Phil Cavaretta of the Chicago Cubs reaches base five times as the National League beats the American League 7-1 at Forbes Field.

1961 – Roberto Clemente’s 10th-inning single drives in Willie Mays with the winning run in the National League’s 5-4 victory in the all-star game in San Francisco.

1966 – Former University of Pittsburgh basketball player Dave Sauer is named head coach at Canon-McMillan High School.

1976 – At Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, 34 couples marry at home plate, and a wrestling championship match takes place in a promotion billed as Headlocks and Wedlocks. The Braves take down the New York Mets, 9-8.

1982 – Hollis Stacy shoots an even-par 72 before defeating Kathy Postlewait on the first hole of sudden death to win her second consecutive LPGA West Virginia Classic at Speidel Golf Course in Wheeling, W.Va.’s Oglebay Park.

1985 – Jack Lambert, middle linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers, retires from the NFL on his 33rd birthday. Lambert missed most of the 1984 season because of a dislocated big toe, an injury that has not healed.

1988 – Brendan Folmar completes 22 of 35 passes for 297 yards and 3 TDs as the Pittsburgh Gladiators rout the New York Knights 44-28 in the Arena Football League.

1989 – Quicksilver Golf Club owner Bob Muphy announces plans for the course to host a tournament on the PGA’s Ben Hogan Tour next spring.

2001 – After requesting to be traded, Jaromir Jagr is dealt by the Pittsburgh Penguins to the Washington Capitals in exchange for Kris Beech, Michal Sivek and Ross Lupaschuk. Jagr scored 439 goals for the Penguins. None of the players acquired by Pittsburgh have scored an NHL goal.

July 12

1949 – Three players from Washington County – St. Louis outfielder Stan Musial (Donora), St. Louis third baseman Eddie Kazak (Muse) and Philadelphia Andy Seminick (Muse) – are in the starting lineup for the National League in baseball’s all-star game at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn. Musial goes 3-for-4 with a home run and Kazak is 2-for-2, but the American League wins 11-7 as Joe DiMaggio drives in three runs.

1974 – A benches-clearing, fist-swinging brawl erupts during the fourth inning in the second game of a doublehader between the Pittsbrugh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds at Three Rivers Stadium. The brawl is triggered when the Pirates’ Bruce Kison is hit by a pitch from Cincinnati’s Jack Billingham. Pirates relief pitcher Daryl Patterson suffers a black eye during the brawl and an open wound on his left side after being bitten by Reds pitcher Pedro Borbon. Patterson had both of his arms wrapped around Borbon’s head at the time.

1976 – John Haught, an assistant football coach at Chartiers-Houston for the past seven years, is named the Bucs’ head coach.

1979 – In the most ill-fated promotion in baseball history, thousands of fans overrun the Comiskey Park playing field during “Disco Demolition Night” between games of a doubleheader and cause the Chicago White Sox to forfeit the second game to Detroit. Umpire Dave Phillips declares the field unplayable after a delay of more than an hour and postpones the game. Later, American League president Lee MacPhail ruled the game a forfeit win for the Tigers.

1987 – Pittsburgh’s Bobby Bonilla becomes the second player to hit a home run into Three Rivers Stadium’s right-field upper-deck seats, driving in two runs in the fifth inning, and the Pirates beat the San Diego Padres, 4-2.

1988 – Former Washington High School and Pitt running back Brian Davis agrees to a free-agent contract with the Cleveland Browns.

1994 – Barely a month before the season prematurely ends for the first time because of labor strife, Moises Alou’s double scores Tony Gwynn with the winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning and the National League defeats the American League, 8-7, in 10 innings at Three Rivers Stadium. MVP Fred McGriff homers in the bottom of the ninth off Lee Smith to send the game to extra innings.

1997 – Starter Francisco Cordova pitches nine no-hit innings, reliever Ricardo Rincon follows with one no-hit frame and pinch-hitter Mark Smith hits a two-out game-winning solo home run in the bottom of the 10th as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Houston Astros, 1-0. The combined no-hitter moves the Pirates back into a first-place tie in the National League Central Division with the Astros.

1998 – Center Ron Francis leaves the Pittsburgh Penguins and signs a free-agent contract with the Carolina Hurricanes.