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1880 - Jim "Pud" Galvin wires the Buffalo club from San Francisco, accepting terms to play for the Bisons despite his contract to play in the California League.
1893 - Brooklyn's joy over beating the New York Giants in the bottom of the last inning for the 2nd straight day is partially dashed as youngster Willie Keeler fractures a bone while sliding. Keeler will miss nearly two months of action.
1894 - For the first time in ML history that teammates have combined for three straight home runs, as Frank Shugart, George "Doggie" Miller and Heinie Peitz of St. Louis hit consecutive roundtrippers in the 7th inning. In all, Shugart hits three home runs and Peitz 2, giving St. Louis a total of 6. However, their heroics are to no avail as their club falls to Cincinnati, 18 - 9.
1895 - During the course of a 14 - 4 win over St. Louis, Philadelphia slugger Sam Thompson becomes the 3rd man in National League history to hit 100 home runs in a career.
1897 - Nap Lajoie slugs two home runs and a double to lead the Phillies to a 13 - 1 rout of St. Louis. Lajoie continues the hit streak he started on May 8th and will not go hitless until May 31st, a string of twenty games.
1897 - Jack Doyle hits an unusual home run for Baltimore, but Washington defeats the Orioles 13 - 5. The home run is noteworthy in that the ball rolls to the fence where a ladder had been placed. It rolls up the ladder and disappears over the fence.
1898 - Amos Rusie of the Giants sets down Brooklyn on one hit and wins 5 - 0.
1904 - The Cards beat up Christy Mathewson, scoring five runs and knocking him out after the first inning. St. Louis continues the shelling to win 14-1. Matty, now 4-2, will not lose to St. Louis in his next 24 decisions.
1905 - Pitching for the Waco Tigers, John Lower gave up a hit in the first inning, then allowed no hits over the last 14 innings of the game.
1909 - Organized Baseball's longest no-hitter takes place in a Blue Grass League contest between the Lexington Colts and the Winchester Hustlers. Fred Toney, later to pitch in the only double no-hitter, throws a 17-inning no-hitter for Winchester, winning 1-0. He fans 19 opponents and walks only one, in beating Lexington's Baker, who allows seven hits. A squeeze play ends the game.
1909 - The White Sox edge the Senators, 1-0, in 11 innings, handing Walter Johnson his 2nd straight 1-0 loss on his way to a 20th century record ten losses by shutouts. For the Nationals, it is their 3rd straight 1-0 loss, tying a mark set by the Browns two weeks ago.
1910 - The White Sox tally seven runs in five innings against Walter Johnson to coast to a 10 - 3 win. Johnson's record is now 2 - 5, and the Washington Post suggests that the Nats "trade this phenom for a couple of good fielders."
1910 - The Cubs' Heinie Zimmerman makes four errors and four hits in a 9 - 5 win over the Giants. Red Ames, in relief of Christy Mathewson, is hammered for the loss.
1911 - The Detroit Tigers lose their first home game of the year 6 - 2, as New York hands George Mullin his first loss. The Tigers have a 21 - 2 record and will lead the pack until July 4th.
1913 - The Yankees commit eight errors, but still end up beating the Tigers, 10 - 9, in 10 innings. Three of the miscues are by three by SS Claud Derrick, who will field just .872 for the year. Related? In 10 days, the Yanks deal for SS Roger Peckinpaugh.
1913 - Walter Johnson two-hits the White Sox to run his consecutive scoreless innings pitched to 52 2/3.
1916 - Led by Tris Speaker's two hits and three runs, Cleveland tops the Red Sox and Babe Ruth, 6 - 2.
1918 - Pittsburgh's lefty Earl Hamilton is 6-0 with an 0.83 ERA after beating the Giants. He then enlists in the Navy.
1926 - At Yankee Stadium, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth hit back-to-back homers off Tiger starter Sam Gibson, and the Yankees outscore the Tigers, 13 - 9. Herb Pennock is the winner.
1928 - The Giants send OF George Harper to the Cards for C Bob O'Farrell. O'Farrell, who managed the Birds in 1927, never regained his effectiveness behind the plate after an arm injury. The trade makes room for 18-year-old Mel Ott to take over the RF position, a spot he will hold for 18 years.
1929 - The visiting Reds beat the Braves, 5 - 2, behind Red Lucas. Joe Stripp homers for Cincy, which scores another 3 unearned runs on Rabbit Maranville's 1st error of the year. Boston's Les Bell homers and teammate CF Earl Clark sets 2 NL records that will last the century: most putouts in a game (12) and most chances (13).
1930 - The A's conquer the Indians, 6 - 4 at Philadelphia. Jimmie Foxx's 7th-inning triple with two on breaks the tie.
1934 - Lou Gehrig hits two home runs (one a grand slam) and a pair of doubles, tying the record with four long hits, and drives in seven runs, but leaves the game after five innings with a severe cold. The Yanks top the White Sox, 13 - 3. During the game Ben Chapman shouts racial remarks at a Jewish fan. In 1947, he will lead the dugout bigots in protest of Jackie Robinson.
1936 - By beating the A's, 7 - 2, at home the Yankees move into first place and will remain there the rest of the season. Rookie Joe DiMaggio makes his belated home debut and hits his first home run, off George Turbeville. Lou Gehrig has four hits and two RBIs and Johnny Murphy, in his first start of the season, picks up the win.
1936 - In Washington, the Senators top the A's and Lefty Grove, 4 - 0. Grove had come into the game having allowed just one earned run in his previous 48 innings.
1936 - Joe Sullivan, Detroit pitcher, weakens after 12 innings of scoreless relief and Cleveland edges Detroit 9 - 7. Sullivan takes over for Auker in the 2nd and is splendid before losing in the 15th.
1937 - Monte Pearson pitches a one-hitter in stopping the White Sox, 6 - 0. Joe DiMaggio hits his 1st two homers of the year and George Selkirk his 5th for NY. Chicago's only hit is a one-out first inning single by Larry Rosenthal, who was erased on a DP.
1939 - Phillies' backstop Dave Coble catches a ball thrown from the top of Philadelphia's City Hall. The rookie catcher handles the 521-foot dropped ball cleanly.
1939 - Bill Klem, behind the plate at the Reds game in Cincinnati, celebrates his 35th anniversary as a National League umpire. He then calls the 10 - 5 Reds loss to Brooklyn.
1942 - The Reds' Ray Starr and Bucky Walters both pitch shutouts over the Cardinals. Starr wins the opener, 1 - 0, allowing nine hits, and Bucky coasts, 3 - 0, on a 4-hitter.
1944 - Mel Harder wins his 200th career game as Cleveland defeats the Red Sox 5 - 4. He is the 50th to reach this mark.
1944 - Cardinal ace Mort Cooper picks up his first win of the season as the Cards beat the Dodgers 4 - 2.
1946 - Before a Friday Ladies' Day crowd at Yankee Stadium of 64,183, the first-place Red Sox take their 15th straight game, a 5 - 4 win over the Yankees. Earl Johnson gets the win with four innings of scoreless relief. A Joe DiMaggio grand slam accounts for all the Bombers' scoring.
1947 - At Cincinnati, Ewell Blackwell whips the Cubs, 5 - 1, to start a 16-game winning streak. He won't lose until July 25.
1949 - Longtime Cardinal owner Sam Breadon dies. Robert Hannegan, the man to whom he sold the club, will die October 6.
1950 - The Reds trade veteran C Walker Cooper to the Braves for 2B Connie Ryan.
1952 - Hank Bauer of the Yankees goes 5-for-6 in an 18 - 3 romp over Boston. The Sox come away with a record-tying 10 assists in the 5th inning.
1953 - Vic Raschi makes his 1st relief appearance in two years, limiting the Red Sox to three hits in four innings, as the Yankees win, 7 - 4. Billy Goodman sustains a freak rib accident, which will keep him out of action for three weeks, when Jim Piersall picks him up and lugs him from the field to break up Goody's argument with umpire Jim Duffy. Del Wilber hits his 2nd consecutive pinch homer in the 8th; his first came on May 6th.
1953 - Behind Billy Loes and Roy Campanella, the Dodgers move into first place with 5 - 0 win over the Phillies. Loes tosses his only shutout of the year, while Campy drives in all five runs with a double and homer. Campanella collects 44 RBIs in his first 30 games. Not until Tino Martinez in 1997, will anyone else reach 40 in the first 30.
1953 - Pittsburgh IF Eddie O'Brien and Johnny O'Brien become the first twins to play for the same team in the same game, when Johnny enters the nitecap of a Giants game on defense and Eddie later pinch runs. But the Giants take the twinbill, 4 - 0, behind Sal Maglie's 3-hitter, and 3 - 2. In game 2, Jim Hearn comes within two outs of his 13th straight over the Pirates, but falters and Frank Hiller wins in relief. Bobby Hofman's pinch home run in the 9th wins it.
1955 - Dodger ace Don Newcombe one-hits the Cubs, 3 - 0. Gene Baker, who singles in the 4th and is caught stealing, is the only base runner.
1956 - At Yankee Stadium, Bob Lemon gives Cleveland a 7 - 2 win over the Yankees. Mickey Mantle has a solo homer in the 6th for New York. For Mantle, it is his 20th homer of May, a new record. The slugger adds a double and two singles and is hitting .425 with 50 RBIs.
1957 - Mayor George Christopher of San Francisco confers with Horace Stoneham on a possible shift of the Giants franchise to the West Coast.
1959 - In the first game of a doubleheader, Cubs reliever Elmer Singleton defeats reliever Lindy McDaniel of the Cardinals, 10 - 9. In the nightcap, McDaniel is the winner and Singleton the loser, 8 - 7.
1959 - The Phils' Jim Hearn comes on in relief to pitch 11/3 innings against the Pirates. He allows two earned runs before the game is suspended, with the Pirates ahead, 6 - 4. Hearn is released before the game is completed in July and will be charged with the loss two months after his retirement.
1959 - The Yanks sweep two from the Senators at the Stadium, winning 6 - 3 and 3 - 2 in 10 innings. Mickey Mantle's homer in the 3rd inning of the opener starts the Yanks scoring as they beat Chuck Stobbs. Mantle singles and scores the winning run in the 10th of the nitecap. Yogi Berra has a home run in the nitecap and sets a new major-league record for consecutive errorless games by a catcher with 148.
1960 - Joe Ginsberg of the Orioles loses a struggle with Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckler, and ties the record set six days earlier by teammate Gus Triandos with three passed balls in one inning. Dick Williams of the A's belts a grand slam, as the American League record of three on one day in one league is tied for the 2nd time in 16 days. Williams also doubles in a 9-run 5th inning. Kansas City beats Baltimore 10 - 0.
1960 - Grand slams by Red Sox teammates Vic Wertz and Rip Repulski at Fenway Park give Boston a 9 - 7 win over Chicago. The National League-vet Repulski's 8th-inning shot off Don Ferrarese comes on his first AL at bat.
1961 - Mike McCormick fires his 2nd 3-hit shutout of the year, stopping the Pirates, 3 - 0. The Giants are 3-up, 3-down in eight of the nine innings, but score three in the 5th, two on McCormick's single.
1961 - The Cardinals tie a major-league record when three pinch hitters -- Charlie James, Don Taussig and Alex Grammas -- strike out in the 9th inning against the Reds. Cincinnati's Bill Henry pitches just the 9th to save the 3 - 2 win, the Reds' 9th in a row.
1961 - The White Sox purchase Wes Covington from the Braves. Covington will play for four teams in 1961, before settling in with solid years for the Phillies.
1962 - Minnesota's Lenny Green and Vic Power hit back-to-back home runs off Cleveland's Jim Perry to start the game, tying a ML record. Cleveland comes back to win 9 - 4. It'll be another nine years before two leadoff batters in the American League belt homers, and it will be Perry teeing up those as well.
1965 - At Fenway Park, the 9th-place Yankees lose again, 3 - 2, when Carl Yastrzemski outhits a hobbling Mickey Mantle. Yaz hits a pair of homers and sacrifice fly, while Mantle is 3-for-4 with a homer. After Mantle doubles with two outs in the 9th, starter Jim Lonborg is lifted and Dick Radatz gets the final out. It is Lonborg's first major league win.
1967 - The Mets acquire 3B Ed Charles from the Athletics for infielder Bob Johnson. Charles will be the oldest starter for the Mets.
1967 - In the 8th inning against Jim Bunning of the Phillies, Hank Aaron drives a ball to deep CF and scores ahead of the relay. It will be the only inside-the-park home run among his 755.
1967 - Adolfo Phillips steals home to help the Cubs edge the Giants, 5 - 4.
1968 - Denny McLain wins 12 - 1 at Washington, as the Tigers pass the first-place Orioles. Detroit will remain in the lead for the rest of the season.
1970 - The Braves' Hoyt Wilhelm becomes the first major league pitcher to appear in 1000 games. Atlanta loses 6-5 to the Cardinals.
1970 - At Wrigley Field, Pete Rose clubs a 2-run homer off Fergie Jenkins in the 9th inning, as the Reds overcome the Cubs, 7 - 6.
1971 - At New York, Bud Harrelson's 2-run single in the 7th beats Houston and Wade Blasingame, 2 - 1. It is Blasingame's first loss to the Mets after nine wins.
1972 - Orioles lefty Dave McNally hurls his 4th shutout of the season, blanking the Rangers, 1 - 0. Pete Broberg, who allows just two hits, takes the loss.
1975 - Will McEnaney provides three 1/3 innings of hitless relief to seal the Reds' 7 - 1 win over the Mets. Clay Kirby gets the win.
1977 - The Braves lose a doubleheader to the Pirates, 3 - 0 and 2 - 1, to run their loss streak to 16. Jim Rooker is the winner in game 1, with Larry Demery the victor in game 2.
1981 - Expos' hurler Charlie Lea no-hits the Giants, 4-0, becoming the first French-born pitcher to accomplish the feat. He walks four and strikes out eight in the 2nd game of a doubleheader. It is the first no-hitter at Stade Olympique, which opened for baseball in 1977.
1984 - In the Giants' 4 - 2 loss at Pittsburgh, the Giants' CF Chili Davis throws out two runners in one inning. Dale Berra drives in three runs for the winners. Don Robinson, relieving in the 8th with the bases loaded and no outs, stops SF on no runs.
1988 - Mark Langston strikes out 16 batters in a 4 - 2 win over Toronto, equaling the 1988 ML high set yesterday by Boston's Roger Clemens in a 2 - 0 three-hitter over the Royals.
1989 - The Cubs lose to the Giants, 4 - 3 when a rally falls short. Jerome Walton is tagged for the last out as he is crawling to 3B. Walton injures his hamstring on the play and will miss a month.
1989 - Mark Langston no-hits Toronto for eight innings before Tom Lawless singles and the Blue Jays rally for three runs to beat Seattle, 3 - 2. It is the 3rd time this season that the Blue Jays have broken up a no-hit bid in the 9th inning.
1991 - Oakland OF Jose Canseco is photographed leaving the West Side apartment of singer Madonna. He then goes 0-for-3 in Oakland's 5 - 3 loss to the Yankees.
1994 - The Braves score seven runs in the bottom of the 9th to come back from an 8-1 deficit to tie the Phillies. Atlanta goes on to win the game, 9-8 in 15 innings.
1996 - For his second straight start, Braves' P John Smoltz is backed by 18 hits and he coasts to his 7th straight win, 11 - 0 over the Phils. Javy Lopez leads the Braves with four hits. Smoltz beat the Phils, 11 - 9, on May 5th, when the Braves also collected 18 hits.
1996 - Yankees' P David Cone undergoes surgery to remove an aneurysm in his pitching arm.
1996 - The Red Sox edge the Blue Jays, 6 - 5, in 11 innings. John Valentin ties the score with a 2-out homer in the 9th and Troy O'Leary homers in the 11th to win it. Heathcliff Slocumb, Tom Gordon and Mike Stanton combine to strike out 17 Jays.
1996 - Montreal's Henry Rodriguez hits his 2nd homer of the game, a 3-run shot in the 8th, to send the Expos to a 5 - 2 win over the Astros. Starter Jeff Fassero is the winner. Following Rodriguez' home run, the game is delayed when fans in the LF bleachers shower the field with "Oh, Henry" candy bars.
1996 - The Athletics defeat the Twins by a score of 15-5. Oakland CF Ernie Young gets four safeties, including three home runs, and drives home 6. Young entered the game with three career homers in 164 major league ABs. He is believed to have had the fewest career home runs of any player ever to hit three in a game.
1997 - A streak of 19 straight steals by Twins baserunners is stopped when Denny Hocking is caught stealing. The Twins fall to the Blue Jays, 6-4.
1997 - After missing April due to a hand injury, Juan Gonzalez shows his old clout, hitting a grand slam and knocking in six runs in the Rangers' 11 - 5 win over the Red Sox.
1997 - In San Francisco, the Cubs pull off the first triple play in the majors this year, taking advantage of the infield fly rule and the wind at San Francisco to turn an odd one against the Giants. With two on, Stan Javier lofts a fly into shallow center field and umpire Bob Davidson waits before calling an infield fly rule. Three Cubs lunge for the ball before it bounces off center fielder Brian McRae's glove and hits the ground for the first out. Kirk Rueter tries for third, but McRae's throw beats him. Darryl Hamilton tries for second, but 3B Jose Hernandez's throw to Ryne Sandberg nabs him to complete the triple play. The Giants will win the game, however, 4-2.
1999 - Pete Rose, banned from all aspects of the game by Commissioner Giamatti in 1989, appears as a special instructor for the newly created Sacramento Steelheads. The team plays in the Western Baseball League which is independent, and therefore not governed by major league baseball.
1999 - In a 12-4 rout of the Mariners, Boston's shortstop Nomar Garciaparra hits two grand slams as well as a two-run homer becoming the first American League player to drive in 10 runs in a game since 1975. Garciaparra clouts a bases loaded homer in the 1st, a 2-run shot in the 3rd, and another grand slam in the 8th. Nomar is the first Bosox member since Jim Tabor, in 1939, to slam two slams in a game, and just the 9th in ML history. Robin Ventura last did it, in 1995.
2000 - The Pirates defeat the Mets, 13-9, as Wil Cordero goes 5-for-5 with a double, home run, and four RBIs. The Mets' Rickey Henderson becomes the 21st major-leaguer to garner 10,000 at bats in his career. Henderson finishes the night with 10,002 ABs and trails only Cal Ripken Jr., among active players.
2000 - The Twins defeated the Indians, 10-9, overcoming an 8-1 deficit. It is the biggest comeback in Minnesota's 40-year history.
2000 - Richard Ankiel, father of Cardinals rookie P Rick Ankiel, is arrested for allegedly throwing a loaded handgun from his car. The elder Ankiel is soon to begin serving an almost 6-year sentence for participating in a cocaine and marijuana trafficking operation.
2000 - Marlins P Ricky Bones is scratched from his start after injuring his lower back watching television. The injury occurs while Bones is relaxing in a clubhouse recliner.
2001 - At the SkyDome, the A's outslug the Blue Jays, 14 - 8, as seven homers leave the park. Miguel Tejada hits a 3-run home run, the 6th game in a row he's homered at the SkyDome. Jason Giambi and Carlos Delgado match homers, and Brian Simmons and Darrin Fletcher go back-to-back.
2001 - The Giants score eight runs in the 6th inning and roll by the Expos, 13-0. Kirk Rueter goes eight innings for the win. Britt Reames loses his 4th in a row. The Giants, led by four by Armando Rios, collect 18 hits.
2001 - The Royals defeat the Indians, 8-3, ending Cleveland's 10-game winning streak. Brian Meadows goes six 2/3 innings for the win over Bartolo Colon. Mike Sweeney and Mark Quinn each have three hits.
2001 - A MRI reveals White Sox first baseman and two-time Most Valuable Player Frank Thomas has a right tricep tear which will require surgery. The injury, caused by diving for a ground ball, will keep the 'Big Hurt' out of action for the rest of the season.
2001 - The Brewers defeat the Cubs, 11-1, as OF Jeromy Burnitz hits three home runs and drives in six runs. Devon White adds a grand slam, while Sammy Sosa does the only Cubs damage with his 398th career home run. The Brewers, 8 - 0 in their new ball park, are just three games in back of Chicago in the NL Central.
2002 - The Angels score eight runs in the 3rd inning on their way to a 19 - 0 rout of the White Sox. The Haloes join the 1923 Indians, 1939 Yankees and 1950 Red Sox as the only teams to beat two opponents by 19 or more runs in the same season. Earlier this year, the Angels beat the Indians, 21 - 2. The Anaheim calcimine of Chicago is just the 11th since 1901 in which a team scored 19 or more runs while shutting out its opponent, and the first such shutout in the A.L. since 1955 when Cleveland beat Boston, 19 - 0.
2002 - The Phillies' Vicente Padilla holds Arizona hitless until Chris Donnels doubles with two outs in the 8th inning. He surrenders another hit in tossing a 4 - 0 victory.
2005 - Tony Peña, the American League manager of the year in 2003, resigns as manager of the Royals. Bob Schaefer, the team's bench coach, will try to improve the worst record in the big leagues (8-25) as he becomes Kansas City's interim skipper.
2007 - The KIA Tigers sign Hee-Seop Choi, the first Korean position player to have played in the majors. Choi had spent 2006 in AAA and on the disabled list. Choi is the fourth South Korean player to move from the USA to the Korea Baseball Organization this year, following Seung Song, Jung Bong and Hyang-nam Choi.
2008 - The Brewers drop their 7th game in their past 8 contests, 5-3, to the Cardinals. One bright spot is Ben Sheets's 1,082nd strikeout, breaking Teddy Higuera's franchise record.