April 26

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Events, births and deaths that occurred on April 26.

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1901 - After two days of rain at Columbia Park, 10,547 fans witness the Philadelphia Athletics of Connie Mack make the their American League debut losing to the visiting Washington Senators, 5 - 1.
1902 - At Sportsman's Park, Addie Joss of the Cleveland Bronchos pitches a one-hitter shutout in his major league debut beating the hometown St. Louis Browns, 3 - 0. The lone hit is a scratch single by Jesse Burkett.
1904 - Ty Cobb, making his pro baseball debut at the age of seventeen, hits a home run and double for the Augusta Tourists in the South Atlantic League.
1905 - Chicago Cubs outfielder Jack McCarthy throws out three runners at home plate, each time completing a double play, during a 2 - 1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. McCarthy becomes only the second outfielder in major league history to record three double plays in a single game.
1931 - At Griffith Stadium, a walk to Lyn Lary is followed by a Lou Gehrig home run, a smash which clears the fence, but bounces back into the hands of Senators center fielder Harry Rice. The base runner Lary thinks the ball has been caught on the fly for the third out returning to the dugout without crossing home plate, and Gehrig, running with head down, is ruled out for passing a runner in front of him costing the Yankees a possible victory (they lost by two runs), the 1931 home run crown (he tied Babe Ruth with 46) and two RBI to add to his record setting 184 for the season.
1941 - Wrigley Field becomes the first ballpark to install an organ to entertain fans, with Roy Nelson manning the keyboard. But Nelson's successful pregame serenade doesn't help the Chicago Cubs as they fall to pitcher Max Lanier and the rival St. Louis Cardinals, 6 - 2.
1946 - New York Giants pitchers Harry Feldman and Ace Adams defect to the outlaw Mexican League.
1955 - Bob Turley pitches a one-hit shutout and struck out 10 to lead the New York Yankees to a 5 - 0 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
1959:
- Sadaharu Oh hits the first home run of his Nippon Pro Baseball career. Oh will go on to hit 868 home runs during his stellar career in Japan, setting a world record for the most documented home runs in professional baseball history.
- At Crosley Field, Cincinnati Reds pitcher Willard Schmidt becomes the first major leaguer to be hit by a pitch twice in one inning. Schmidt is the third inning target of Bob Rush and Lew Burdette as Cincinnati beats the Milwaukee Braves, 11 - 10.
1961 - At Tiger Stadium, Roger Maris hits his first home run of the season off Paul Foytack and Mickey Mantle adds home runs from both sides of the plate for the eighth time in his career as New York defeat Detroit 13 - 10.
1969 - The Baseball Records Committee decides to give Babe Ruth credit for one more home run during his career for a total of 715. The committee rules that one of Ruth's home runs had been incorrectly ruled a triple. The committee will later reverse its decision, returning Ruth to a total of 714 home runs.
1980 - Steve Carlton of the Philadelphia Phillies sets a modern day National League record by pitching his sixth career one-hitter. Carlton shuts out his former team, the St. Louis Cardinals, 7 - 0.
1982 - Boston Red Sox rookie Wade Boggs collects his first major league hit when he singles against Rich Dotson of the Chicago White Sox. Boston win, 3 - 2. Boggs will go on to win five American League batting championships.
1986 - The game between the California Angels and Minnesota Twins is delayed for nine minutes when strong winds tear a hole in the Metrodome roof, causing suspended lights and speakers to sag toward the field. The roof is reinflated and California rallies for six runs in the ninth inning to win 7 - 6.
1988 - New York Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez hits a pair of home runs and drives in seven runs during a 13 - 4 rout of the Atlanta Braves. The seven RBI give Hernandez 1,000 for his major league career.
1990 - Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan ties Bob Feller's major league record by hurling his 12th career one-hitter. Ryan strikes out 16 batters in shutting down the Chicago White Sox, 1 - 0. The only hit allowed is Ron Kittle's second inning check-swing single to right field. The victory is the 293rd in Ryan's career.
1995 - Coors Field, the National League's first baseball-only park in 23 years, opens in dramatic fashion in Denver, Colorado, as Dante Bichette of the Rockies hits a three-run home run to defeat the visiting Mets in 14 innings, 11 - 9, tying the National League record for most innings played in a season opener.
1997 - Ryne Sandberg of the Chicago Cubs breaks the major league record for most home runs by a second baseman as Chicago win Pittsburgh 7 - 6. His 267th career home run surpasses the old mark set by Joe Morgan from 1965-84. Sandberg hit the first five home runs of his career as a third baseman before he moved over to second.
2000 - Vladimir Guerrero of the Montreal Expos hit his 100th career home run to help Montreal beat Colorado, 9 - 2.
- The St. Louis Cardinals set a major league record by hitting 50 home runs in April. Homers by Rick Ankiel, Jim Edmonds and Fernando Tatis in the 7 - 0 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers help to break the mark established by the 1997 Cleveland Indians with 49.
2001:
- Hideo Nomo of the Boston Red Sox just misses becoming the fifth pitcher since 1900 to hurl two no-hitters in a single season as former Gold Glove right fielder Darren Lewis just misses catching Torii Hunter's blooper in the top of the seventh inning. The hit, which many consider a questionable call by the scorer, is the only hit given up by Nomo in the 2 - 0 victory over the Twins. Nomo pitched a no-hitter against Baltimore on April 4. He will miss another no-hitter on May 25 against Toronto.
- Kevin Malone resigns as the general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers after 2 1/2-years in the post. Despite having the National League largest payroll, Los Angeles has failed to make the playoffs during his tenure.
2002:
- Odalis Perez was perfect for six innings as the Dodgers beat the Cubs 10 - 0 at Wrigley Field, but he wound up with a one-hitter after speedy Corey Patterson beat out a bad-hop infield single leading off the seventh. Perez faced the minimum 27 batters in his first career shutout.
- Colorado Rockies GM Dan O'Dowd dismisses manager Buddy Bell. Not wanting to assign blame for the worst start in Rockies history, the 6-16 club will now be piloted by Clint Hurdle, Colorado's hitting coach for the past six seasons.
2005 - At Yankee Stadium, Alex Rodriguez slugs his way to the best performance of his career, hitting three home runs in his first three at-bats off Angels pitcher Bartolo Colón. The Yankees win, 12 - 4, as Rodriguez becomes only the 11th player in major league history to collect 10 or more RBI in a game. He is one RBI shy of the American League record of 11 set in 1936 by Hall of Famer and former Yankee Tony Lazzeri, and two short of the major league mark of 12 shared by Jim Bottomley (1924) and Mark Whiten (1993), both of the Cardinals.
2006:
- Mike Piazza hit his career 400th home run in San Diego's 3 - 2 loss to Arizona at PETCO Park. Piazza is the 41st player in major league history to reach the 400-HR plateau, and one of nine active players to do it.
- Kevin Mench set a Texas Rangers record by homering in his sixth straight game, a 6 - 4, 10-inning loss to Oakland. Mench's grand slam in the fourth inning was his second during the streak and the third of his career. He has 20 RBI this season, all in the last seven games.
- At Yankee Stadium, Tampa Bay beat New York 4 - 2 despite setting a team record by walking 14 batters. It was the first time a team walked 14 and won the game in 10 innings or less since April 26, 1993, when Philadelphia did it over 10 innings against San Francisco, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
- Bronson Arroyo of the Cincinnati Reds struck out eight over eight innings of one-hit ball to earn his fourth win, a 5 - 0 shutout of Washington. Arroyo is now 4-0.
2008 - The Dodgers top the Rockies, 11-3. Mark Redman allows 10 first inning runs but is left in the contest; such a scenario had not taken place in MLB for over a century. Redman threw shutout ball for the next five frames, but still took the loss. Los Angeles sent 13 batters to the plate in the first, with a Matt Kemp grand slam being the key blow.