May 15

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1862 - Baseball's first enclosed park, the Union Grounds, opens in Brooklyn, NY.
1893 - After tagging out St. Louis Browns OF Steve Brodie in a collision at the plate, Cincinnati Reds C Harry "Farmer" Vaughn throws a bat at Brodie, hitting him on the shoulder. Vaughn is ejected and fined $25 as St. Louis wins 10 - 6 and moves past the Cleveland Spiders and the Pittsburgh Pirates into first place.
1894 - In the aftermath of a fierce fight between Baltimore's John McGraw and Boston's Tommy Tucker in the 3rd inning, a devastating fire starts in the RF stands at Boston's South End Grounds. The fire destroys $70,000 worth of equipment as well as the park, the only truly double-decked grandstand Boston would ever have. The fire spreads to adjacent blocks and eventually destroys or severely damages 170 buildings. The team moves to the Congress Street ball park for several months before returning to the rebuilt Walpole Street Park.
1899 - Willie Keeler, one of the smallest players and best bunters, drives the ball past startled LF Ed Delahanty of the Phillies for an inside-the-park grand slam and an 8 - 5 victory for Brooklyn.
1901 - The first shut out in American League history (during its time as a major league) is recorded as Watty Lee of the Washington Senators blanks the Boston Americans, 4-0.
1901 - Christy Mathewson (6-0) tosses his 3rd straight shutout, outpitching Jack Taylor to beat the Orphans, 4-0. The Giants move into 1st place with the win over Chicago.
1903 - At Detroit, the Tigers pick on Pilgrim outfielder Patsy Dougherty and collect five triples and two homers in winning, 8-6. Dougherty misjudges a number of fly balls.
1905 - Dummy Taylor and the Giants edge the Chicago Zephyrs (Cubs), 1-0, the first of three straight collars by Giants pitchers. Joe McGinnity will win tomorrow, 4-0.
1906 - Hooks Wiltse of the Giants becomes the first pitcher of the modern era to fan four batters in a single inning, fanning the side after the first Cincinnati batter, Jim Delahanty, in the 5th inning reaches base on Roger Bresnahan's 3rd-strike error. Wiltse also fanned the side in the 4th inning to total seven batters punched out in just two innings, the first and only time this happens. Hooks K's 12 Reds overall enroute to a victory, 4-1. However, the Giants suffer a major loss when Turkey Mike Donlin, after getting three hits, breaks his leg sliding into 2B.
1911 - Ring Lardner writes, "They are using a new ball this year. It's livelier and that means more hitting, and more hitting means longer games, and that's the devil. It appears to be impossible to finish a game in less than two hours."
1911 - With the score tied in the 10th inning, Boston's Smokey Joe Wood intentionally walks Ty Cobb, issuing one of two free passes the star will receive all season. Two batters later, Jim Delahanty drives in Cobb for Detroit's 5 - 4 win. With two safeties today, Cobb starts a 40-game hit streak.
1912 - Ty Cobb charges into the stands at Hilltop Park in New York and attacks a crippled heckler named Claude Lueker. Other fans and Tigers mix it up before order is restored, and Ban Johnson suspends Cobb indefinitely for the incident.
1915 - Claude Hendrix pitches a 10 - 0 no-hitter for Chicago (FL) over Pittsburgh.
1917 - In Cleveland, P Babe Ruth is lifted with one out in the 6th and the Red Sox leading 6 - 5. Dutch Leonard then shuts down the Indians to preserve the victory, and he is awarded the win by the official scorer. The decision is eventually reversed, giving Ruth his 8th straight win. The White Sox will stop his streak on the 18th.
1918 - In an 18-inning game, Senators legend Walter Johnson defeats Lefty Williams, who also pitches the entire game, and the White Sox, 1-0.
1918 - Former player-manager Patsy Tebeau commits suicide in St. Louis.
1919 - After 12 scoreless innings, Cincinnati scores 10 runs in the 13th inning to beat Al Mamaux and the Dodgers, 10-0. Reds RF Alfred "Greasy" Neale has a record 10 putouts. Hod Eller's scoreless string will end at 22, but he will go on to win 10 in a row.
1922 - In a 4 - 1 win at New York, Ty Cobb beats out a grounder to SS Everett Scott. Veteran writer Fred Lieb scores it a hit in the box score he files with the Associated Press. But official scorer John Kieran of the New York Tribune gives an error to Scott. At the season's end, the American League official records, based on AP box scores, list Cobb at .401. New York writers complain unsuccessfully, claiming it should be .399, based on the official scorer's stats. Lieb will reverse himself at the end of the year, but Ban Johnson goes with the hit call.
1923 - At Boston, the Cards trim the Braves 10 - 5. The Birds are led by Jim Bottomley's three triples.
1926 - Behind Pete Donohue, the Reds whip the Giants, 11 - 6, and move into first place. Led by the National League's two top contact hitters - C Bubbles Hargrave at .353 and OF Cuckoo Christensen at .350 - and the pitching of Pete Donohue, Carl Mays and Eppa Rixey, they'll stay in 1st until mid-July.
1927 - In St. Louis, Eddie Miller has his 2nd 4-hit day in a row, and Wally Schang is 3-for-3 with a grand slam to lead the Browns to an 8 - 6 win over the A's. Eddie Collins and Al Simmons homer for Philley.
1928 - The Giants make six double plays against the Cubs at Wrigley, but lose 10 - 7.
1933 - The major leagues advance the cut-down date a month, limiting rosters to 23 players on May 15 instead of June 15.
1934 - The Buffalo Bisons hit five home runs in one inning against the Albany Senators. A rookie, Jake Plummer, is beaned by the Albany pitcher after the 5th home run in a row, and a promising career is ruined.
1935 - Lou Gehrig steals home in a 4 - 0 Yankee win over the Tigers. It is his 15th and last steal of home, all of which were double steals.
1936 - Washington's Bobo Newsom strikes out 11 former teammates to hand the Browns their 23rd loss in their last 27 games. The Nats win, 10 - 5, behind a 17-hit attack. Les Tietje is the loser without retiring a batter.
1940 - 1B Art Mahan and 2B Ham Schulte establish themselves as regulars at their positions with the Phillies. Fewer than a dozen players have been 120-or-more-game regulars in their only season in the ML, and the Phillies, again locked in last place, have two of them in one season. Neither Phillie will hit .250, but Schulte will top 2B in fielding.
1940 - In the Pirates' 5 - 2 loss to the Giants, only three Bucs bat in the 2nd, but all reach base. Maurice Van Robays singles and is picked off; Vince DiMaggio walks and is forced at 2B by Frankie Gustine, who is caught stealing.
1941 - Rip Radcliff, one of the top American League batters in 1940 for the Browns, is waived to the Tigers as a result of a sudden batting decline.
1941 - Joe DiMaggio gets a single in four at bats against Eddie Smith of the Chicago White Sox to start his 56-game hitting streak. Joe D's hit goes unnoticed as the Yankees lose, 13 - 1. Taffy Wright homers and drives in four White Sox runs, the 8th straight game he's driven in a run.
1941 - A single by Jimmy Bloodworth in the 7th is the only hit for the Senators as they lose to the Browns' Denny Galehouse, 7 - 0.
1944 - Frankie Hayes hits a grand slam in the 9th inning off the Tigers' Rufe Gentry, as the Athletics win, 6 - 2.
1944 - A day after the Reds pitch a one-hitter, Reds reliever Clyde Shoun, making his first start of the season, throws a no-hitter to nip the Boston Braves 1 - 0. Only 1,014 see the 32-year-old lefty top Jim Tobin, who had thrown a no-hitter of his own back in April. Reds reserve 3B Chuck Aleno accounts for the sole run with his only 1944 home run.
1946 - Mel Harder and Steve Gromek fire back-to-back shutouts over the A's as Cleveland wins two, 3 - 0 and 5 - 0.
1946 - Fireworks occur as Brooklyn starter Les Webber brushes back Enos Slaughter in the first inning, but the Cardinal outfielder retaliates by bunting up the 1B line and flattening Webber as he tries to field the bunt. Slaughter then silences the fans with two catches in the first inning and a throw to double off Furillo. The Cards move into first place by edging the Dodgers, 1 - 0, behind Howie Pollet.
1948 - In a PCL game, Seattle's Dick Barrett stops Sacramento, 2 - 0 with a 7-inning perfect game.
1948 - At Brooklyn, Jim Russell's first-inning home run is the only score as Boston's Warren Spahn beats Rex Barney, 1 - 0. It's the 3rd shutout in a row for Brave hurlers.
1949 - White Sox hurler Bill Wight coasts to a 10 - 0 win over the Indians, and Al Gettel follows with a 2 - 0 whitewash of the Tribe.
1949 - Boston's Vern Bickford stops the Dodgers, 4 - 0, allowing just four singles. One is by Gil Hodges, extending his hitting streak to 17 games. Jim Russell switch-hits a homer and double to pin the loss on Morrie Martin. The Braves start Al Lakeman at 1B in place of Earl Torgeson, who separated his shoulder yesterday when he attempted to block Jackie Robinson on a double play. Torgeson will be operated on tomorrow and will be sidelined several months.
1951 - In a fine trade for Chicago, the White Sox send lefty Bob Cain to the Tigers for hurler Saul Rogovin.
1951 - At Fenway Park, the Red Sox celebrate the 50th anniversary of their first American League game in Boston. On hand are 29 old-timers who played, managed, or umpired in the AL in that first year including Connie Mack, Dummy Hoy, Cy Young, Hugh Duffy, Clark Griffith, Tom Connolly, Billy Sullivan Sr., Wid Conroy, Bill Bradley and Ollie Pickering. Eight of the 29 participated in the first AL game, played in Chicago on April 24, 1901. The game that followed the ceremony featured dramatic home runs as Ted Williams hits the 300th of his career in the 4th inning against Chicago's Howie Judson. With Williams up in the 8th inning, White Sox manager Paul Richards moves reliever Harry Dorish to 3B and brings in Billy Pierce to pitch to Ted. Williams pops up against the lefty, and Dorish then returns to the mound. Boston ties the game against Dorish at 7 - 7, but little Nellie Fox, playing in his 6th season, cracks his first major league homer in the 11th to give Dorish a 9 - 7 victory. Ray Scarborough is the loser. The Sox will win their next 13 games.
1951 - At Crosley Field, Braves P Vern Bickford pitches a 2-hitter, but Ewell Blackwell bests him by allowing one hit, as the Reds win, 1 - 0. Connie Ryan's 6th inning hit is the 1st off Bickford, and Johnny Pramesa's homer in the 7th is the other. The only Boston hit is a 5th inning double by Bob Elliott. The Reds tie the National League record (set in 1911) for nine innings by going to bat just 24 times.
1952 - After pitching four no-hitters in the minors, 33-year-old Virgil "Fire" Trucks of Detroit pitches his first in the ML, a 1 - 0 blanking of the Senators. Vic Wertz's dramatic two-out home run in the 9th off Bob Porterfield wins the game at Briggs Stadium. Trucks will throw a second no-hitter this year.
1953 - At St. Louis, the Cardinals pound Preacher Roe for six runs in the 2nd en route to a 9 - 3 win over the Dodgers. It is the Cards first win against Roe after 10 straight losses: they last beat him August 28, 1950. Last night, they beat Carl Erskine after losing seven straight to the lefty.
1954 - With a pin in his shoulder, Ted Williams returns to action after breaking his collarbone in spring training and is hitless in two at bats against Baltimore. The O's win, 2 - 1, behind Joe Coleman.
1955 - Chicago's Dick Donovan tosses his 3rd shutout of the season, beating the Senators, 3 - 0.
1955 - New York's Irv Noren hits an inside-the-park grand slam in an 8 - 4 victory over the A's. New York wins the nitecap to sweep the A's. Mickey Mantle is 4-for-9 for the afternoon and is hitting .311.
1955 - After the Braves win the lidlifter with the Phils, 6 - 5, Philadelphia comes back in the nightcap to win, 9 - 1, and break their 13-game losing streak. Robin Roberts is the victor. Billy Bruton's leadoff home run is the only run off Roberts.
1956 - The Dodgers buy P Sal Maglie from the Indians, who are eager to unload the veteran.
1957 - With the May 15 deadline to cut rosters to 25 players, a number of veterans are handed their walking papers. Among them are: pitchers Ellis Kinder and Jim McDonald, OF Bob Kennedy (White Sox), 1B Preston Ward (Indians), 1B Eddie Robinson (Tigers).
1957 - At Baltimore, the Indians rap Mike Fornieles for five hits and three runs in the 16th to defeat the Orioles, 11 - 8. The Tribe had scored three in the 8th after an error by Billy Gardner and three more in the 14th after an error by Wayne Causey. Gardner steals home in the 14th for one Bird run and the 3rd run scores on Russ Nixon's wild throw.
1959 - Massachusetts marks the 100th anniversary of the first college baseball game, between Amherst and Williams. Teams reenact the original contest.
1960 - After being traded from the Phillies, Don Cardwell no-hits the Cardinals in his Cub debut. The Winston-Salem, NC native becomes the first pitcher to keep the opponents hitless in a first start after being traded.
1961 - The Alou brothers and Orlando Cepeda lead an 18-hit attack as San Francisco overpowers the Cubs, 14 - 1. Dick Ellsworth gives up six runs in the 1st without retiring a batter. Cepeda hits two homers and a double and drives in five runs, while Felipe Alou hits his 1st grand slam and brother Matty Alou his first ML homer. Matty will combine with Jesus Alou in 1965 to homer in the same game. Mike McCormick is the easy winner.
1962 - Cubs P Barney Schultz ties Roy Face's major-league record by relieving in his 9th consecutive game for Chicago. Today's effort doesn't help as the Cubs lose, 6 - 5 in 13 innings against the Mets. Roger Craig, en route to a 10 - 24 year, is the winner, while Tony Balsamo loses to notch his only career decision.
1963 - Down 4 - 0 to the Twins, Mickey Mantle hits a two-run homer off Pedro Ramos to put the Yankees on the board. Mantle later scores the winning run as New York wins, 4 - 3.
1965 - Cubs P Dick Ellsworth throws a one-hitter at the Dodgers, but unfortunately the lone hit is a three-run pinch home run by Al Ferrara in the 8th inning that gives Los Angeles a 3 - 1 win.
1965 - At Memorial Stadium, Mickey Mantle slices an opposite field homer in the 8th inning off Dick Hall to give New York a 3 - 2 win over the Orioles.
1966 - Rocky Mount Leafs teammates Dick Drago and Darrell Clark each pitch 7-inning no-hitters against the Greensboro Yankees, Drago winning 5 - 0 in the opener. His roommate Clark wins 2 - 0 in the nightcap.
1967 - Roberto Clemente clubs three homers to drive in all seven runs for Pittsburgh - but it's not enough. The Reds win, 8 - 7.
1968 - The first American League game played in Milwaukee since 1901 is a 4 - 2 California win against Chicago before 23,403 fans. Rain shortens the game to five innings. This is the first of the nine games the White Sox will play in Milwaukee in 1968.
1969 - Willie Horton leaves the Detroit bench during a 2 - 1 win against Chicago and goes AWOL for four days.
1969 - With one out in the 9th, Cesar Tovar lines a single to stop Dave McNally's no-hit bid. The O's lefty ends with a one hit, 5 - 0, win over the Twins.
1970 - After the Mets have a day off, ace Tom Seaver matches Gary Gentry by allowing one hit in beating the Phillies and Woodie Fryman, 4 - 0. The two consecutive one-hitters ties a ML record.
1971 - Fergie Jenkins (7 - 2) pitches and bats the Cubs to a 6 - 4 win over San Diego. Jenkins hits a 2-run home run and finishes his 7th game in eight starts. Billy Williams connects for his 300th home run.
1973 - California's Nolan Ryan strikes out 12, including the side in the 1st, and hurls his first career no-hitter in beating Kansas City 3 - 0. For C Jeff Torborg, it is his 3rd no-hitter. SS Rudy Meoli preserves the no-no with a spectacular over the shoulder catch in the 8th. It is the first of a record seven no-hitters the 'Ryan Express' throw during his career including another one in two months.
1973 - Milwaukee beats the Indians 2 - 1 on Dave May's home run in the bottom of the 17th inning. It is May's 10th home run of the season, one more than he had in 1972.
1974 - At Riverfront Stadium, Reds pitcher Roger Nelson has his no-hitter broken up by Bobby Bonds, who clubs a 2-run homer in the 8th. Chris Speier homers in the 9th for the other Giants hit and Nelson finishes with a 4 - 3 win.
1976 - Mark Fidrych wins his first ML start, a complete-game 2-hit 2 - 1 victory over the Indians. The Bird holds the Indians hitless for six innings, talks to the ball, and tamps down the mound before toeing the rubber each inning.
1976 - At Cincinnati, the Mets' Tom Seaver loses, 2-0, to the Reds as Santo Alcala pitches a 4-hitter.
1980 - In Cincinnati, Ray Knight has two homers, including a grand slam, as the Reds whip the Mets, 15 - 4.
1981 - The Indians' Len Barker pitches the 9th perfect game in 20th century ML history 3 - 0 over the Blue Jays before just 7,290 fans on a rainy night at Cleveland's Cleveland Stadium. Last year's American League strikeout leader, Barker fans 11. It is the 11th time in major league history the feat has been accomplished, and the first time in 13 years since its been done (Catfish Hunter - 1968).
1982 - Pirate pitcher Rick Rhoden makes his 12 - 9 win over the Reds a little easier when he doubles and homers in the Bucs' 9-run 3rd inning. Johnny Ray drives in five runs in the big inning. The Reds make it close with eight runs in the 8th and 9th.
1984 - It's a day for hitting pitchers. Good-hitting Tim Lollar leads the way by collecting all four RBIs for his team, but his Padres lose 6 - 4. The Cards win 9 - 1 over the Braves as Joaquin Andujar, a poor hitter, hits a grand slam. Just before his blast, Andujar looked into the Cards' dugout, then gestured to the RF stands.
1989 - The Blue Jays fire manager Jimy Williams and replace him with hitting coach Cito Gaston. Williams led the club to a 12-24 start and had several publicized run-ins with star slugger George Bell, who refused to be the DH.
1989 - The Twins lose, 4 - 3, to the Royals and also lose Kent Hrbek, who dislocates his left shoulder diving for a ball. He'll be out till June 26. Before the injury, Hrbek hits his 7th homer of the year.
1991 - England's Queen Elizabeth is President George H. W. Bush's guest at the A's-Oriole game played at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium.
1991 - The Red Sox defeat the White Sox by a 9-6 score in a night game at Fenway Park which takes four hours and 11 minutes to complete for a new American League record. The contest is nine minutes longer than the previous longest 9-inning night game.
1991 - Paul Molitor of the Brewers hits for the cycle in a 4-2 victory over Minnesota. Molitor triples in the 1st, singles in the 3rd, doubles in the 5th, and homers in the 7th.
1992 - The Mets' newly acquired Bret Saberhagen (3 - 2) pitches five innings before leaving with tendinitis in his pitching hand that will effectively sideline him for the rest of the year. He will not win another game following today's 4 - 1 decision over the Dodgers.
1993 - In Milwaukee, Cleveland starter Charles Nagy (2 - 6) leaves the game with a shoulder injury after pitching to just two batters. Nagy will go on the DL in two days and undergo surgery on June 29.
1993 - The Expos retire Rusty Staub's uniform prior to the game with the Mets.
1994 - Six Florida Marlins pitchers combine to shut out the Cubs, 3-0. Starter Chris Hammond gets credit for the victory.
1995 - Ramon Martinez, Rudy Seanez and Todd Worrell combine on a 1-hitter as the Dodgers shut out the Pirates, 4-0, to move them within two games of Colorado for the lead in the National League West.
1996 - The Mariners spot the Yankees four runs, then hammer starter Jimmy Key and five other pitchers for 19 hits to win 10 - 5. Seven Mariners collect two or more hits, and Edgar Martinez drives in four runs. A wild Key takes his 5th straight loss, while Yankee reliever Mariano Rivera records four outs to stretch his runless innings to 21 2/3. The Yanks will place Key on the 15-day DL.
1996 - After a 2-hour delay in Milwaukee because of fog, Frank Thomas leads the way with six RBI as the White Sox bang the Brewers, 20 - 8. This ties a 1975 mark for the most runs given up by Milwaukee in a game. The Sox, with 21 hits, score six runs in the 2nd and another six in the 6th.
1996 - Mo Vaughn cracks two of Boston's four home runs, and the Red Sox score in each of the first seven innings, to clip the Angels, 17 - 6. Mike Stanley matches Mo's four RBI.
1996 - Denny Neagle, allowing four hits in seven innings, wins his 5th straight game to give Pittsburgh a 3 - 0 win over the Braves. The Braves have now been shut out five times, one more than all of last year. The Braves lose more than the game when OF David Justice dislocates his right shoulder swinging at a pitch in the 2nd inning. The shoulder has never healed from an injury last year, and Justice will undergo surgery that will sideline him for the year.
1996 - The Yankees outbid four other American teams and sign Japanese P Katsuhiro Maeda to a $1.5 million contract. The Yanks obtain the fastballer from the Seibu Lions for more than $350,000. Maeda, who has his hair dyed orange, was 0 - 2 with the Lions from 1993 through 1995, but refused to sign for the 1996 season unless he was traded to a U.S. team.
1997 - The Chicago Cubs hit four triples - three in the same inning - to beat the visiting Padres, 8-2. The Cubs score four runs in the 7th off Tim Scott as Brian McRae, Doug Glanville and Sammy Sosa all triple.
1998 - In one of the biggest trades in recent years, the Dodgers send All-Star C Mike Piazza and 3B Todd Zeile to the Florida Marlins in exchange for outfielders Gary Sheffield and Jim Eisenreich, C Charles Johnson, 3B Bobby Bonilla and P Manuel Barrios.
1999 - Rangers P Esteban Loaiza breaks his hand when a car door slams on it. He's out indefinitely.
1999 - When SS Alex Arias of the Philadelphia Phillies snags Mike Piazza's line drive in the sixth inning he starts the Phillies' 30th franchise triple play and their 10th against a team from New York City. It was just the second triple play turned in Veterans Stadium and the 237th in the National League since 1901. Arias has participated in two triple plays for the Phils, he initiated one last season against the San Francisco Giants. The Mets still win, 9 - 7.
2001 - The Brewers pound out 22 hits as they defeat the Phillies, 14-10. The Brewskis almost blow an 8-run lead before going ahead in the 10th inning on Richie Sexson's double. Tyler Houston gets five hits, including a double, for Milwaukee, while Devon White hits a grand slam.
2002 - Astros' bench coach Tony Pena is named manager of the Royals replacing interim skipper John Mizerock, who had taken over the reins when Tony Muser was released on April 29. Buck Showalter and Bucky Dent were rumored to be candidates for the position.
2005 - For the first time this season, the White Sox did not lead in a game as they are beaten by the Orioles, 6-2. The streak of being ahead in 37 straight games establishes a major league record from the beginning of a season and ties the 1934 Yankees and the 1942 Cardinals for the third-longest span in major league history.
2007 - Jesse Litsch sets a new Toronto Blue Jays record for the longest appearance in a debut, going 8 2/3 innings and allowing only one run in four hits.
2008 - The Indians beat the Athletics, 4-2. The Cleveland starting pitchers had a consecutive inning scoreless streak of 44 1/3 IP before Aaron Laffey's throwing error scores Bobby Crosby in the second. It is the longest such streak since the 1974 Orioles starters had 54 straight goose eggs. The most recent Cleveland staff to match the feat was the 1948 Indians, who had 47 in a row.