April 30

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Events, births and deaths that occurred on April 30.

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1887:
- The Philadelphia Quakers beat the New York Giants, 19 - 10, in the first game played at the Baker Bowl located at Broad & Huntingdon Street Park in Philadelphia.
- In front of nearly 10,000 at Recreation Park in Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Alleghenies (later to be known as the Pirates) defeat the defending league-champion Chicago White Stockings, 6-2.
1900 - Brothers Joe, Jim, and Tom Delahanty, playing their third year together with the Allentown Peanuts, opened the Atlantic League season by banging out a family total of 11 hits for 20 total bases.
1903 - The New York Highlanders won their home opener at Hilltop Park, 6 - 2, over the Washington Senators.
1919 - At Baker Bowl, Joe Oeschger of the Philadelphia Phillies and Burleigh Grimes of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitched complete games in a 9 - 9, 20 - inning tie. Both teams scored three runs in the 19th inning. Oeschger gave up 22 hits and walked five, while Grimes allowed 15 hits and walked five.
1922 - Charlie Robertson of the Chicago White Sox pitched a 2 - 0 perfect game against the Detroit Tigers. Robertson, a 26-year-old rookie, became the third pitcher in the modern era to hurl a perfect game.
1940 - Tex Carleton of the Brooklyn Dodgers threw a 3 - 0 no-hitter against the Cincinnati Reds at Crosley Field.
1944 - In the first game of a doubleheader split, first baseman Phil Weintraub collected 11 RBI and player-manager Mel Ott scored six runs drawing five walks as the New York Giants defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers, 26 - 8. Brooklyn wins the nightcap 5 - 4 in a game shorten due to darkness.
1946 - Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians struck out 11 and pitched his second of three career no-hitters and his first since returning from a three-and-a-half year stint in World War II. Feller defeated the New York Yankees, 1 - 0, on Frankie Hayes' home run in the ninth inning.
1949 - At Wrigley Field, Rocky Nelson of the St. Louis Cardinals hit an inside-the-glove two-run home run to turn a ninth inning 3 - 2 Chicago Cubs lead into a 4 - 3 Cardinals victory. Cubs center fielder Andy Pafko caught a blooper that was strewn with paper cups, and umpire Al Barlick called Nelson safe on a supposedly "trapped" catch. Pafko started arguing with Barlick, and forgot to call time. Nelson circled the bases, for perhaps the only "inside the glove" home run history.
1952 - Ted Williams played his final game before leaving for military duty in Korea. In his last at-bat on "Ted Williams Day" at Fenway Park, he blasted a game-winning, two-run home run against Dizzy Trout of the Detroit Tigers. The home run gives the Red Sox a 5 - 3 victory.
1958 - Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox became the tenth major league player to tally 1,000 extra base hits in the 10 - 4 loss to the Philadelphia Athletics at Fenway Park.
1961 - Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants hit four home runs against the Milwaukee Braves in the Giants 14 - 4 victory at County Stadium. Mays became just the ninth player in major league history to hit four homers in one game.
1966 - California Angels outfielder Rick Reichardt hit two home runs in the eighth inning to help California beat the Boston Red Sox, 16 - 9.
1967 - Steve Barber and Stu Miller of the Baltimore Orioles combined on a no-hitter, but still lose the game to the Detroit Tigers, 2 - 1. A wild Barber gave up 10 walks in eight and one-third innings before giving way to Miller, who pitched one-third of an inning.
1969 - Jim Maloney of the Cincinnati Reds struck out 13 en route to a 10 - 0 no-hitter over the Houston Astros at Crosley Field. Bobby Tolan had four RBI in support of Maloney, who recorded his first no-hitter after pitching a ten-inning masterpiece against the Cubs in 1965.
1970 - Chicago Cubs outfielder Billy Williams becames the first player in National League history to play 1,000 consecutive games in the 9 - 2 loss to the Atlanta Braves at Fulton County Stadium.
1974 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels struck out 19 batters in a 16 - 6 win over the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. Ryan tied a major league record established by Tom Seaver for the most strikeouts in a single game.
1977 - Ron Cey of the Los Angeles Dodgers hit a seventh inning home run in the 6 - 4 victory over the visiting Montreal Expos. Cey finished the month with an April major league record 29 RBI (since broken) as the red-hit Dodgers improved to a 17-3 start under new manager Tommy Lasorda.
1979 - Alexandria Mariners third baseman Gary Pellant homers from both sides of the plate in the 7th inning of a 20-7 win. It is the second time in Organized Baseball history that a player has accomplished this feat.
1985 - Dale Murphy of the Atlanta Braves had two RBI in the 8 - 4 win over the Cincinnati Reds to tie Ron Cey's 1977 major league record for 29 RBI in April.
1986 - The Seattle Mariners struck out 16 more times in a 9 - 4 loss to the Boston Red Sox, to set a major league record of 36 strikeouts in two consecutive games.
1988:
- Dave Winfield drove in his 28th and 29th runs of the season in the Yankees 15 - 3 rout of Texas, tying the major league record for RBI in April.
- The New York Mets and Cincinnati Reds hooked up in a wild game at Riverfront Stadium that the Mets pulled out 6 - 5, on a delayed call by first base umpire Dave Pallone. The call resulted in a $10,000 fine and 30-day suspension of Reds manager Pete Rose when Pallone accidentally poked Rose in the cheek and Rose shoved Pallone twice.
1989 - The Toronto Blue Jays acquired pitcher Al Leiter from the New York Yankees in exchange for veteran outfielder Jesse Barfield. Leiter will contribute significantly to the Jays' World Championship in 1993, winning nine of 15 decisions as a spot starter and long reliever.
1994 - Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Joe Carter finished April with 31 RBI to set a major league record for the month. Colorado Rockies first baseman Andres Galarraga finished with 30 RBI to set a National League record.
1996 - Jeff King of the Pittsburgh Pirates became the third major leaguer to hit two home runs in one inning twice in his career in the 10 - 7 victory over the Cincinnati Reds at Riverfront Stadium. King first accomplished the feat a year earlier on August 8.
1997:
- Tino Martinez, who got off to a painfully slow start with the Yankees in 1996, finished April with 34 RBI to set a major league record for the month.
- The Atlanta Braves have no trouble getting used to their new stadium or their two new outfielders Kenny Lofton and Michael Tucker as they became the first team to ever finish April with 19 wins. Atlanta ended the month with a .760 winning percentage overall and a gaudy 12-2 record at Turner Field. Lofton ended with a .395 average and Tucker at .418 following a 12 - 3 pounding of the Cincinnati Reds to round out the month.
1999 - About 3,000 fans wearing T-shirts that said, "$hare the wealth" protested baseball economics at the Yankees-Royals game at Kauffman Stadium. The protesters turned their backs when the Yankees batted, then walked out during the fourth inning. The Yankees began the season with baseball's top payroll at $85.05 million, and the Royals were 25th at $23.8 million.
2000:
- The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 4 - 3, as Mark McGwire and Jim Edmonds batted home runs. St. Louis finished the month with 55 home runs, a new major league record for April. It also tied the National League mark for homers in any month. Major league batters also set a record for most home runs in a month by hitting 931 in April; the total is 140 more than the number hit in 1999.
- Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks defeated the Chicago Cubs, 6 - 0, as he became only the third pitcher in major league history to win six games in April.
2002:
- Al Leiter cruised through seven three-hit innings in the Mets 10 - 1 victory over the Diamondbacks to become the first pitcher to beat all 30 teams in major league history.
- Texas Rangers shortstop Alex Rodriguez became the second-youngest player to reach 250 home runs in a 10 - 3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays. Only Jimmie Foxx was younger.
2005:
- Major league players are asked by Commissioner Bud Selig to agree to a 50-game suspension for the first offense, 100-game suspension for the second offense and a lifelong ban after the third offense for the use of steroids. In addition to the harsher three-strike rule, the commissioner also is seeking a ban on amphetamines.
- With an enthusiastic crowd chanting "Let's go, ground crew" at RFK Stadium, the inexperienced group puts on quite a show of ineptitude as they struggle for to put the tarp on a very soggy field during the second rain delay of the rain-shorten Washington Nationals 5 - 3 victory over the New York Mets. New York files a protest after the game is called off in the bottom of the eighth claiming the field became unplayable due to Washington's inability to cover the field during 37-stoppage of play.
2008:
- Julio Franco announces his retirement as a player at age 49. He had been playing with the Tigres de Quintana Roo of the Mexican League and had last played in the Major Leagues in 2007.
- The Huntsville Stars tie a 37-year-old Southern League record with 13 extra-base hits in a game; they only have two singles in the victory. They beat the Montgomery Biscuits 14-6. Contributing are LF Cole Gillespie (3 doubles, home run), DH Ryan Crew (double), 1B Chris Errecart (double), CF Michael Brantley (double), RF Matt LaPorta (double, home run), 3B Mat Gamel (triple, 2 home runs) and 2B Mike Bell (home run).