May 13

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Events, births and deaths that occurred on May 13.

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1911:
- Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers hits his first grand slam. After six innings, Detroit leads the Boston Red Sox, 10 - 1. Boston comea back to win the game 13 - 11 in 10 innings.
- The New York Giants score a major league record 10 runs before the St. Louis Cardinals retire the first batter in the first inning. Fred Merkle drives in six of the Giants' 13 runs in the first en route to a 19 - 5 victory. When Giants manager John McGraw decides to save starting pitcher Christy Mathewson for another day, Rube Marquard enters the game in the second inning and sets a record for relievers (since broken) with 14 strikeouts in his eight-inning appearance.
1923 - Joe Sewell of the Cleveland Indians strikes out twice in one game for the first time in his career. Washington Senators rookie Cy Warmoth is the pitcher. In a 14-year career, Sewell will have only one other multiple strikeout game.
1929 - At Cleveland's League Park, the Indians defeat the Yankees, 4 - 3, in the first game in major league history in which players from both teams wear numbers on the back of their jerseys.
1942 - Jim Tobin of the Boston Braves almost single-handedly beats the Chicago Cubs at Braves Field, 6 - 5, by pitching a five-hitter and hitting three consecutive home runs. Tobin, who hit a pinch-homer the day before, becomea the only pitcher in modern history to collect three home runs in a game. His fourth at-bat results in a fly ball caught against the fence in left field.
1952 - In an Appalachian League game, Ron Necciai of the Bristol Twins strikes out 27 batters while pitching a 7 - 0 no-hitter against the Welch Miners. Four of the Welch hitters reach base on a walk, an error, a hit by pitch and a passed ball charged to Twins' catcher Harry Dunlop on a swinging third strike. But 27 outs are recorded that night via strikeout. Actually, there are four in the ninth inning, as a result of Dunlop's miscue, and one batter is retired on a grounder in the second inning.
1955 - At Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits home runs from both sides of the plate for the first time in his major league career. The New York Yankees slugger finishes the game with three home runs - two left-handed and one right-handed - and drives in all of his team's runs in a 5 - 2 victory over the Detroit Tigers. Whitey Ford is the winning pitcher and Steve Gromek the loser.
1958:
- Teammates Willie Mays and Daryl Spencer each have four extra base hits as San Francisco beats the Dodgers in Los Angeles, 16 - 9. Mays hits two home runs, two triples, a single and drives in four runs, and Spencer has two home runs, a triple, a double and six RBI for a combined 28 total bases.
- Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals collects his 3,000th career hit with a pinch-double off Chicago Cubs pitcher]Moe Drabowsky at Wrigley Field. The Cardinals win 5 - 3.
1965 - California Angels pitcher Dick Wantz dies following surgery for brain cancer. The 25-year-old Wantz had made his debut only one month earlier, pitching one inning in relief in his only major league appearance.
1969 - Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs reaches the 1,500 runs batted in milestone with seven RBI in a 19 - 0 shellacking of the expansion San Diego Padres. Hard-throwing right-hander Dick Selma earns the win as the Cubs tie a modern-day record for the most one-sided shutout in National League history.
1976 - For the sixth consecutive game, George Brett of the Kansas City Royals collects at least three hits.
1980 - Ray Knight of the Cincinnati Reds hits two home runs in the fifth inning - including a grand slam - to lead the Reds to a 15 - 4 rout of the New York Mets.
1982 - The Chicago Cubs win game No. 8,000 in their history with a 5 - 0 shutout of Houston at the Astrodome.
1989 - Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins ties a major league record with four doubles against the Toronto Blue Jays. He becomes the 35th player to hit four doubles in a game, the first since Toronto's Damaso Garcia in 1986.
1993 - George Brett of the Kansas City Royals hits his 300th career home run in the sixth inning of a 7 - 3 victory over the Cleveland Indians. Brett joins Hank Aaron, Al Kaline, Willie Mays, Stan Musial and Carl Yastrzemski as the only major league players with at least 3,000 hits and 300 home runs.
1994 - Tim Salmon of the California Angels ties an American League record with his 13th consecutive hit.
1998 - The Atlanta Braves set an National League record and tie a major league mark by hitting home runs in 25 straight games, doing it when Ryan Klesko hits a two-run shot in the sixth inning against St. Louis.
2000 - Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Todd Stottlemyre earns his seventh victory of the season as the Diamondbacks beat the San Diego Padres 6 - 2. It is also Stottlemyre's 136th career win. He and father Mel Stottlemyre become the first father-son combination to record 300 wins.
2001 - Alex Rodriguez becomes the fifth-youngest (25 years, 289 days) big leaguer to hit his 200th career home run. Mel Ott accomplished the feat in 1934 at the youngest age (25 years, 144 days) followed by Eddie Mathews (25 years, 243 days), Jimmie Foxx (25 years, 267 days) and Mickey Mantle (25 years, 280 days).
2002 - Thirty-eight home runs shy of the exclusive 500 home run club, Jose Canseco retires at 37 age due to injuries sustained in recent years. The former American League MVP, who was cut by the Expos during spring training, had his best years in Oakland, forming with Mark McGwire one of the most feared one-two punches of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
2009:
- Ryan Zimmerman's hitting streak ends at 30 games when he goes 0 for 3 with two walks, but Washington beats San Francisco 6 - 3 behind the pitching of Shairon Martis. Zimmerman falls one game short of the franchise record of 31 games set by Vladimir Guerrero in 1999, when the Nationals were still the Montreal Expos.
- Alfonso Soriano hits his 53rd leadoff homer as the Chicago Cubs defeat the Padres 6 - 4 in a rain-shortened game. Soriano's blast ties Craig Biggio for second on the all-time list, still well behind record holder Rickey Henderson at 81; it also breaks the Cubs record held by Jimmy Ryan, as it is Soriano's 21st such homer since joining the team in 2006. For the Padres, Adrian Gonzalez hits two long balls off winner Ted Lilly.
- The Pirates down the Cardinals 5-2. Adam LaRoche has a home run reversed on instant replay review; it marked the first time in 14 reviews that a home run call was reversed since instant replay was instituted in 2008.
- The Reds beat the Diamondbacks 10-3. Arizona rookie Gerardo Parra homers off Johnny Cueto in his first major league at-bat, the 100th player to homer in their first trip up in the Show.