May 8

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1878 - Providence Grays CF Paul Hines catches a fly by Jack Burdock and starts a triple play, racing in to touch third before Jack Manning could return, then throwing to second to nab Ezra Sutton. Some eyewitnesses contend that Sutton had passed third and was out when Hines touched the base, making it the only unassisted triple play by an outfielder. This contradicted the version by Manning, Jim O'Rourke and others present, which has been accepted generally as the correct account.
1896 - The St. Louis Browns dismiss manager Harry Diddlebock for intoxication. Player Arlie Latham and owner Chris Von der Ahe manage two games apiece before Von der Ahe settles on Roger Connor.
1896 - In the top of the 9th inning, Philadelphia's Billy Nash starts to argue with the umpire over a called strike. Clark Griffith throws a pitch in the midst of the argument which nicks Nash's bat, resulting in a DP. Griffith's quick thinking helps the Chicago Colts take a 5 - 3 victory.
1898 - Rookie Harry Steinfeldt, the "wonder from Wonderville," replaces injured Bid McPhee at 2B for the Cincinnati Reds, gets three hits against Louisville, and handles nine chances afield.
1899 - Harry Wolverton's bases-loaded home run in the bottom of the 9th gives the Chicago Orphans an 8 - 7 victory over Cleveland.
1900 - John McGraw and Wilbert Robinson end their holdout and sign with the Cardinals. Both contracts have the reserve clause crossed out, freeing McGraw to return to Baltimore in the AL in 1901.
1901 - Amos Rusie, the Hoosier Thunderbolt, makes his first start for the Cincinnati Reds after a two-year layoff and is bombed 14-3 by the Cards. Emmet Heidrick snags five singles off Rusie. After two more appearances, he goes back to digging ditches, having won 245 games, mostly for the New York Giants, in nine years.
1901 - In a letter to AL team owners, Ban Johnson says that the rule requiring clubs to cut their players to 14 will not be enforced until May 20th.
1901 - In their long-delayed AL home opener, Boston defeats Philadelphia's Bill Bernhard, 12-4, behind Cy Young, who has jumped from the St. Louis NL team. Boston is led by Buck Freeman, who has a single, triple and homer. Young complains that he does not like the rule against pitchers warming up but he will still lead the AL with his 1.62 ERA. His 33 wins are 41.8 percent of his team's 79 victories, a post-1900 record, it will stand until Steve Carlton wins 45.8 percent of the Phils' 59 wins in 1972. Young also complains about catchers. "I do not like the league rule compelling the catcher to stand behind the bat all the time. It handicaps a pitcher. I cannot extend myself as I would like."
1902 - Bill Duggleby, the first league jumper to return to the Phillies, loses, 2-1, to St. Louis. Returnee Chick Fraser will win his first start on May 23rd, 5-2 over Chicago. Harry Wolverton will return after 59 games with the Washington Nationals. All others will remain with their new teams. Of all those that the Athletics acquired, only Monte Cross stays.
1902 - The Chicago Cubs again top the Giants, winning 10-4. Cubs manager Frank Selee comments that the distance from the pitcher's mound to the plate looks short. Horace Fogel, the Giants manager, measures the distance and finds the lane is 15 inches short. New York protests and it is upheld on June 3rd. The two games are ordered replayed.
1903 - Chicago White Stockings pitcher Nixey Callahan gets five hits for the 3rd time in his career (also June 29, 1897 and May 18, 1902), but the 11-inning loss to the St. Louis Browns is the final game he will pitch in the major leagues. He will play other positions until 1913. Nixey is the only pitcher ever to garner five hits three times.
1906 - Shorthanded because of injuries, Connie Mack puts pitcher Chief Bender in LF in the 6th inning in a game against the Boston Pilgrims. Bender, who banged his first homer on May 5, responds with two roundtrippers, both inside the park, off Jesse Tannehill, in the A's win. Bender will hit just three more homers in his 16-year career.
1907 - Christy Mathewson tosses his 2nd straight shutout, stopping the visiting Pirates, 4-0, on four hits. Lefty Leifield takes the loss. First-place New York has now won 10 in a row and holds a slim lead over Chicago.
1907 - Frank Pfeffer of the Boston Doves pitches a 6-0 no-hitter against the Reds. He will be known as "Big Jeff" until his younger, and bigger, brother Ed "Jeff" Pfeffer becomes a star hurler for Brooklyn in 1913.
1911 - At New York, Smokey Joe Wood beats the Yankees, 4 - 0, in six innings. He gives up just one hit, a single to Caldwell.
1911 - The Phillies' Grover Cleveland Alexander records his first shut out, stopping Brooklyn 5 - 0 on three hits. Alex fans nine to run his record to 3 - 1.
1912 - The White Sox beat Washington 7 - 6, snapping Walter Johnson's five-game win streak. Johnson gives up two 2-run home runs, one to Harry Lord in the 1st and another to Ping Bodie in the 5th. A Johnson fastball breaks the arm of 3B Lee Tannehill, an injury that will hamper the infielder's throwing ability, and ends the career of the 10-year veteran. Sox starter Joe Benz leaves with an injury after pitching one 1/3 inning. Ed Walsh pitches the next five 2/3 innings, allowing three runs, and Frank Lange allows the same in his two innings.
1912 - The Giants score nine runs by the 3rd inning and young Jeff Tesreau holds on for an 11 - 8 win over the Cardinals. Christy Mathewson relieves in the 9th for New York. In the 7th inning, with a man on third, Tesreau grounds to SS Wally Smith, whose throw to 1B hits ump Brick Owens in the head knocking him out (as noted by Retrosheet). Owens' wife, who is watching from the grandstands, faints. The runner is sent back to 3B and Tesreau hits again. Owens is back at work tomorrow.
1912 - The Pittsburgh Filipinos, of the newly formed United States League, opens the season at vacant Exposition Park. The team is named after its veteran Deacon Phillippe, former Pirates star. The USL has promised not to sign current major leaguers, but will not last through June. It will form the basis for the next year's Federal League, though.
1912 - First baseman Heinie Zimmerman has a homer, triple and double to lead Chicago to a 9 - 8 win over the Braves in Boston.
1914 - When the Senators relieve with Walter Johnson, the A's greet him with six runs in three innings to drive the Big Train from the mound. Johnson throw the one and only beanball of his career, a fast ball at the head of Frank "Home Run" Baker, a particular nemesis of Johnson's. The beanball misses Baker, whom Johnson calls "the most dangerous batter that I ever faced." Baker had hit .385 against the Nats ace up till this game (4 seasons); he'll hit just .207 off him in the next nine years. When the dust settles, the game ends in a 9 - 9 tie.
1915 - The Yankees pound the Red Sox, 10 - 3, scoring all of their runs in the 4th inning. Sixteen Yanks come to the plate in the frame.
1922 - Hasty makes wasty as Cleveland hits a ML record-tying four triples in the 5th off the A's Bob Hasty and roll over Philadelphia, 14 - 4. George Uhle is the winner.
1922 - Sam Breadon buys controlling interest"”72%"”in the Cardinals. He and Branch Rickey, who owns the rest of the stock, will combine to create one of baseball's most successful operations. Breadon demotes Rickey to veep, but allows him to remain as field manager.
1925 - Every National League city will have a Golden Jubilee Day. The first, between two of the original teams left from the 1876 season, at Boston, sees former Boston players from 1876 on hand. The Braves beat Chicago 5 - 2.
1926 - Chicago's Grover Cleveland Alexander beats the Giants, 6 - 4, with George McQuillan taking the loss. It is Alex's last win in a Cubs uniform.
1926 - The Yankees score seven in the 2nd but lose to Detroit 14 - 10, knocking themselves out of the lead; Washington moves into first.
1926 - A three-alarm blaze burns down Fenway's grandstand roof and left field bleachers. The Boston Red Sox, desperately in need of cash, use most of the insurance proceeds to pay for operations and leave a vacant lot where the bleachers once stood.
1927 - The Yankees draw a record 52,000 to Comiskey Park but Waite Hoyt spoils the party by winning one of his league-leading 22 games, 9 - 0, the 2nd straight shutout of the Sox. Batterymate Pat Collins homers in the 7th, while Lou Gehrig adds a pair of triples.
1927 - At New York, the 2nd place Giants take the Cubs to camp, 5 - 4, behind the pitching of Virgil Barnes. Bill Terry's double in the 9th drives home the winning run. Earl Webb hits a two run homer for Chicago in the 6th as Chicago manages to leave no runners on base in the game.
1927 - At Detroit, Marty McManus singles in two runs in the 9th to lead the Tigers to a 3 - 2 win over the Red Sox. Fats Fothergill goes hitless for the 1st time this season to end his 18-game hitting streak.
1929 - At Pittsburgh's Schenley Park, the Giants' Carl Hubbell pitches an 11 - 0 no-hitter against the Pirates, allowing just one walk. In the 9th, the 1st two batters reached on errors before Hubbell records a strikeout and starts the game-ending DP. It's the first no-hitter by a lefthander since Dutch Leonard in 1918. Chick Fullis starts the scoring with a home run in the 2nd, his 3rd in three days, and Mel Ott adds two home runs to take the National League lead.
1930 - Freddie Lindstrom has his 2nd 5-hit game of the season, hitting for the cycle, as the Giants defeat the Pirates 13 - 10.
1934 - Cardinal P Bill Walker has his arm broken by a batting practice smash by Joe Medwick.
1934 - The Chicago White Sox name Jimmie Dykes as their new manager, replacing Lew Fonseca, who later will become the motion picture specialist for the ML.
1935 - Reds backstop Ernie Lombardi equals the major-league record with four straight doubles, all in consecutive innings (6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th) and each off a different pitcher: Syl Johnson, Orville Jorgens, Euel Moore and Frank Pearce. The slow-footed Lombardi also has a "long single" in the 23-hit, 15 - 4 win over the Phillies in game 1. The Reds collect seven doubles and two homers. In the nightcap, the Phils snap their nine-game losing streak with a 5 - 4 victory.
1937 - Washington's Bobo Newsom, who will pitch in four decades, hits his only major-leaguer homer. It comes in Detroit off Tiger ace Schoolboy Rowe as the Talkative One wins, 8 - 3.
1939 - Chuck Klein hits a pinch-triple with the bases loaded off the Reds' Johnny Vander Meer, and the Phils win 8 - 7.
1939 - At Ebbets Field, Cards veteran Pepper Martin breaks up a pitching duel between Brooklyn's Red Evans and Bob Weiland by swiping home in the 6th inning. Martin's two-out steal is the only run of the game as the Cards win, 1 - 0.
1939 - In a 4 - 2 Cubs win at the Polo Grounds, Cubs first sacker Phil Cavarretta breaks his leg sliding into a base. He'll be out of action until July 25, and will appear in just seven more games this year, all as a PH.
1940 - In a 23-2 rout of Brooklyn, the Reds' Harry Craft hits for the cycle (a home run, a triple, a double and two singles) as Cincinnati pounds out 27 hits.
1940 - The Waner brothers, Lloyd Waner and Paul Waner, lose their places in the Pittsburgh OF when new manager Frankie Frisch acquires Vince DiMaggio for Johnny Rizzo, who hit 23 home runs as a rookie in 1938. Vince takes over CF, flanked by Maurice Van Robays and Bob Elliott, each playing their first full season. Yesterday the Bucs sold OF Fern Bell to Toronto.
1942 - At Ebbets Field, in the first twilight game in 24 years, the Dodgers top the Giants 7 - 6 with Dolph Camilli's 7th inning home run onto Bedford Avenue the big blow. With more than 24,000 fans on hand, nearly $60,000 is raised for the Navy Relief Fund, as all the proceeds are donated. Everyone, including the ball players and umps, pay their way into the park.
1946 - At Griffith Stadium, Detroit 2B Eddie Mayo snags a 3rd inning liner off the bat of Gil Torres to start a triple play. The ball was deflected by P Hal Newhouser, but Mayo grabbed it before it hit the ground. It is the 2nd time in a year that Mayo has started a triple play off Torres: in the 2nd inning of a nitecap on July 20, 1945, Mayo grabbed a Torres line drive to start the TP.
1946 - Hot-hitting Boston 2B Johnny Pesky becomes the first player in American League history to score six runs in one game, as the Red Sox beats the White Sox 14 - 10. Mickey Harris is the winner, despite giving up 17 hits in eight 2/3 innings. Boo Ferriss retires Taffy Wright for the last out and the Sox have now won 13 straight.
1946 - 2B Lonny Frey of the Reds throws out six straight runners as part of an 11-assist game against Brooklyn. Frey also adds a triple and two singles but the big Red blow is a 3-run pinch homer in the 10th by Padsgett to win the game, 8 - 5.
1947 - A movement among Cardinal players to protest its first meeting with Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers is aborted by a clubhouse talk from owner Sam Breadon, according to a story by writer Stanley Woodward. League president Ford Frick had warned the team that if a strike occurred, any player involved would be suspended. Cardinal manager Eddie Dyer denies there was any strike talk. The Cards win 5 - 1, for their 2nd win in a row.
1948 - An infield single by Johnny Blatnik of the Phillies in the 7th prevents a perfect game by Harry Brecheen of the Cardinals. Brecheen will become the National League ERA leader with 2.24 and the winning percentage leader on a 20-7 record. The Cards win 5 - 0 and Brecheen scores his 3rd straight shutout.
1948 - The A's win their 6th straight, pull off a triple play, and batter the White Sox, 16 - 1. Winning pitcher Carl Scheib puts the game away with an 8th-inning grand slam, and the A's are now tied for the American League lead with the Indians.
1948 - At Griffith Stadium, Larry Doby pounds a 408-foot homer to CF, which hits the loudspeakers 35 high, to help the Indians top the Senators, 6 - 1. Larry's ball bounces back onto the field and was initially declared in play. The 8th-inning three-run homer is the longest home run in the Stadium since Babe Ruth's shot in 1922, and is the first of Doby's four career inside-the-park homers. World War two veteran Gene Bearden makes his first start, allowing just three Nat hits. He walks four in the 9th inning to allow the lone run, as Washington finally scores after three straight shutouts.
1948 - The A's purchase 37-year-old P Nels Potter from the Browns for $20,000.
1949 - In Philadelphia, the Reds score five in the 9th to take a 7 - 3 lead, but the Phils tie to go into extra innings. Cincinnati then scores seven runs in the 12th to win, 147.
1950 - The Senators send Clyde Vollmer to Boston for SS Merl Combs and OF Tommy O'Brien. Tomorrow, the Sox well sell P Harry Dorish to the Browns.
1950 - Ralph Kiner hits his second grand slam in three games. It is the future Hall of Famer's eighth career bases full homer.
1951 - Bobby Shantz, A's lefty, wins his first game of the season, stopping the White Sox, 9 - 4, on 12 hits. Ferris Fain and Eddie Joost hit consecutive homers for the A's.
1953 - After 13 straight losses to New York, the Red Sox win a dramatic 11-inning 2 - 1 thriller at Fenway. Billy Goodman's homer off starter Johnny Sain gives starter Hal Brown the win. Dick Gernert's 2nd inning home run is the other Boston score. In Boston's previous win over New York, August 9, 1952, all the scores came on solo homers.
1957 - The Indians clout three homers to back Early Wynn's 10 - 4 win over the Yankees. Mickey Mantle has a homer and three RBIs for New York.
1957 - At Comiskey, Boston slugger Ted Williams hits three home runs, all off Bob Keegan, and drives in all the runs as the Red Sox stop Chicago, 4 - 1.
1958 - At Wrigley Field, the Reds score eight runs in the 9th inning to overcome an 8 - 2 deficit and beat the Cubs, 10 - 8. Cincy's last three runs come on a homer by Smoky Burgess.
1961 - The Angels trade P Tex Clevenger and OF Bob Cerv to the Yankees for P Ryne Duren, P Johnny James and OF Lee Thomas. For Cerv, it is his 3rd tour of duty in pinstripes.
1961 - The new National League entry is New York is officially named the "Mets." Not Metropolitans, just Mets. At a ceremony at the Savoy Hilton, owner Joan Payson swings a bottle of champagne and after three unsuccessful whacks turns the job over to a waiter who uses a bottle opener. The "Mets" was the choice among the 10 finalists: Continentals, Burros, Mets, Skyliners, Skyscrapers, Bees, Rebels, NYBs, Avengers, and Jets. The original list was 644 names from 9,613 suggestions. The Metropolitans nickname had been used by the New York American Association team in the 1880s.
1963 - Pirates LF Willie Stargell's first ML homer and Cubs P Bob Buhl's first ML hit in 88 at bats highlight a 9 - 5 Chicago win over Pittsburgh.
1963 - The Braves acquire Chico Fernandez from the Tigers for Lou Johnson and cash, then turn around and swap him to the Mets for Larry Foss.
1963 - An 8-run, 7th inning gives the White Sox an 8 - 3 win, a sweep of the A's, and the American League lead.
1963 - A Stan Musial home run against the Dodgers gives him 1,357 extra-base hits, surpassing Babe Ruth's ML record. He will get 20 more; his record would be later broken by Hank Aaron. The Cards lose 11 - 5.
1964 - In Cleveland, there are tornado warnings, but New York supplies damage when Mickey Mantle cracks a 3-run homer off Tommy John in the 4th inning to lead New York to a 10 - 3 win.
1965 - The Elmira Pioneers beat the Springfield Giants 2 - 1 in 27 innings, a new (but broken June 14, 1966) record for Organized Baseball's longest game. The attendance is 386 fans. Fred Beene picks up the win, pitching the last 12 innings. The game is scoreless for 25 innings, with both teams scoring in the 26th, and finally Elmira breaks through in the 27th. Elmira is managed by Earl Weaver.
1965 - A ML-record streak of 438 chances accepted without an error and 89 straight errorless games by Baltimore 2B Jerry Adair ends with his 8th-inning fumble in a 4 - 3, 15-inning loss to the Tigers.
1966 - In the last game at old Busch Stadium, San Francisco slugs out a 10 - 5 win over St. Louis.
1966 - Orioles' outfielder Frank Robinson hits the first ball ever completely out of Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. The shot clears the 451' wall and lands on the other side of the left-field wall, going an estimated 541'. It comes off Indian hurler Luis Tiant. Tiant had pitched 27 scoreless innings in a row prior to the shot. Baltimore won 8-3 to tie Cleveland for first place.
1966 - In a controversial trade for San Francisco, St. Louis acquires popular 1B Orlando Cepeda from the Giants for P Ray Sadecki. Sadecki will go 3-7 in 1966, and Cepeda will win the MVP in St. Louis in 1967.
1968 - Oakland's Catfish Hunter pitches a perfect game against the Twins, winning 4-0. The 22-year old righthander hurls the first American League regular season perfecto in 46 years. He strikes out 11, including Harmon Killebrew three times, and drives in three of the A's four runs, the other coming on a two-out, bases-loaded walk to 1B Danny Cater in the eighth inning. Only 6,298 fans were in attendance.
1970 - A record 30 home runs are hit by NL players in seven games, including two apiece by each of five players. The 20 MPH wind at Wrigley produces nine homers as the Cubs defeat the Reds, 10 - 7, snapping the Reds win streak at eight games. Hal McRae and Tony Perez have a pair for the Reds while Billy Williams has two for Chicago.
1971 - The A's trade 1B Don Mincher, P Paul Lindblad, C Frank Fernandez and cash to the Senators for 1B Mike Epstein and P Darold Knowles. The Nats will sell Fernandez back to the A's in late June, and the A's will trade Frank to the Cubs.
1971 - At Philadelphia, Joe Morgan has four hits, steals two bases, and scores three runs to lead Houston to an 8 - 1 win over the Phils. Winning P Don Wilson knocks in two runs with a bunt double that rolls past SS Larry Bowa, who is breaking for 3B.
1973 - Ralph Miller, the last living nineteenth century ballplayer, dies in Cincinnati at 100 years of age. He was the first former major leaguer to become a centenarian.
1973 - For the second time in his career, Pirate Willie Stargell poles one out of Dodger Stadium. His blast off Andy Messersmith hits the RF pavilion roof 470 feet away. His first home run, a 506-foot shot, came off Alan Foster on August 5, 1969. No other player has hit one out of the stadium. LA wins, 7 - 4.
1973 - In a 9 - 7 losing effort against the Giants, Cardinals ace Bob Gibson makes his 242nd consecutive start. It is a new 20th century record passing that of Red Ruffing, who never pitched in relief the last 10 years of his career.
1973 - Cubs manager Whitey Lockman is ejected during a 12-inning, 3 - 2 win over the Padres. Coach Ernie Banks fills in for the last few innings, technically becoming the ML's first black manager. Cub Bob Locker pitches in his 500th game: all have been in relief, a ML record.
1978 - After a Bernie Carbo walk and a groundout, the Royals intentionally walk Jim Rice to pitch to Carl Yastrzemski, who clouts a 3-run homer. The Red Sox, down 5 - 4, beat the Royals, 8 - 4. Mike Stanley is the winner over Dennis Leonard.
1979 - Consecutive home runs by Eddie Murray, Lee May and Gary Roenicke in the 6th power the Orioles to an 8 - 2 win over Oakland. Murray has now hit in 19 straight games.
1979 - The Twins roll by the Toronto Blue Jays, 16 - 6. In the 7th, Twins Roy Smalley III, Craig Kusick and Ken Landreaux all homer off Toronto's Balor Moore.
1979 - During an 8 - 7 loss to Texas, Kansas City loses two regulars, both as a result of being hit by pitches from Ed Farmer. OF Al Cowens suffers a fractured jaw and will miss 21 games. 2B Frank White sustains a broken hand and will sit out 33 contests. Farmer will be traded three times in the next 12 months. On June 20, 1980, Cowens will hit a grounder off Farmer and charge the mound.
1981 - Oakland's Steve McCatty beats the Brewers, 2 - 0. Dwayne Murphy supplies a solo home run and Dave McKay swipes home for the other score. McKay also stole home last September.
1984 - Twins' rookie Kirby Puckett hits four singles in his first major league game helping Minnesota beat the Angels, 5-0. He is the 9th player in history to collect four hits in his first 9-inning game.
1984 - The first eight-hour major league game comes to an end when Harold Baines homers with one out in the 25th inning giving the White Sox a 7-6 victory over the Brewers. The game had started the night before but was suspended in the 17th because of a curfew.
1985 - Ryne Sandberg's homer, off Mike Krukow, is the only score as Rick Sutcliffe and the Cubs beat the Giants, 1 - 0.
1985 - Seattle's Mike Moore no-hits the Rangers for eight innings, then is driven from the game on four hits in the 9th. But the Mariners hang on for a 4 - 2 victory.
1986 - Chuck Cottier is fired as manager of the Mariners. He will be replaced tomorrow by Dick Williams, who resigned as manager of the Padres in February.
1988 - Pittsburgh's Doug Drabek takes a no-hitter into the 9th before allowing a pinch single to Randy Ready and a home run to Marvell Wynne, but wins a 6 - 2 two-hitter over the Padres.
1991 - Howard Spira is found guilty of trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. Spira had already received $40,000 from Steinbrenner.
1992 - Astros P Butch Henry gets his 1st major league hit - a 3-run, inside-the-park homer - but its not enough as Houston loses 6 - 3 to Pittsburgh. It will be Henry's only ML homer.
1993 - At Denver, the Rockies blow a 6 - 0 lead in the 8th inning and lose to the Braves, 8 - 7 on Sid Bream's pinch-hit, opposite field, pop fly grand slam.
1994 - Danny Tartabull, Mike Stanley and Gerald Williams hit back-to-back-to-back home runs for the Yankees in the 6th inning of NY's 8-4 win over Boston.
1994 - Pittsburgh OF Andy Van Slyke goes 8-for-9 in the Pirates' 9-2 and 9-3 doubleheader sweep of the Cubs. Van Slyke homers and doubles in the first game, while driving in four runs.
1994 - In their first official game against an all-men's team, the Colorado Silver Bullets are defeated by the Northern League All-Stars, 19-0. The Bullets are outhit, 21-2, and commit six errors in the field. They become the first women's team to play a men's professional team. Leon Durham hits two homers and Oil Can Boyd making the start for the All-Stars.
1997 - Jason Kendall's 3-run double leads Pittsburgh to an 8-run 4th inning as the Pirates outslug the Rockies, 10 - 8. Al Martin and Kevin Elster homer for the Bucs, who have scored 24 runs and 31 hits in their two games at Coors Field.
1997 - In Baltimore, the O's stop Randy Johnson's 16-game win streak with a decisive 13 - 3 pasting of the Mariners. Baltimore is led by Chris Hoiles, who collects six RBIs on two homers and a double. Johnson strikes out 10 in six innings, but gives up five runs on six hits and two walks as he attempted to become the first American League pitcher since Dave McNally (1968-69) to win 17 straight.
1998 - Cardinals 1B Mark McGwire hits his 400th career home run in a 9 - 2 loss to the Mets. He is the 27th player to reach 400, and does so in fewer at bats than anyone in history, 4,726. Babe Ruth had taken 127 more at-bats, having held the old record.
1998 - The Rockies top the Expos, 7 - 5, despite five hits by Montreal SS Mark Grudzielanek.
1998 - A bit behind McGwire is Andres Galarraga, who clubs his 300th home run in the Braves' 3 - 2 loss to the Padres. Tony Gwynn homers off Tom Glavine.
1998 - Charlie Hayes, playing 1B, snags Jeff Blauser's liner and starts the Giants' first triple play since 1980. Hayes also has four hits in the 14 inning, 5 - 4, loss to the Cubs at Wrigley.
1999 - The Mariners defeat the Yankees, 14-5, as 3B John Mabry gets five hits.
2000 - The Angels defeat the A's, 9-8, despite home runs by brothers Jason and Jeremy Giambi for Oakland. Vladimir and Wilton Guerrero of the Expos were the previous brothers to homer in the same game.
2000 - The Royals defeat the Tigers, 4-1, in 11 innings. OF Johnny Damon grounded out to start the game, ending his streak of 10 consecutive games with a leadoff hit in the 1st inning. It is the longest such streak since 1975.
2000 - Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hits his 12th home run of the season, against the San Francisco Giants. The homer tied "Big Mac" with Jimmie Foxx for ninth place on the all-time list with 534 career homers. McGwire needs just two taters to catch number eight on the list, Mickey Mantle, at 536.
2001 - The Devil Rays edge the Orioles, 4-3, as Tampa Bay's Fred McGriff joins Mark McGwire, Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Eddie Murray and Reggie Jackson as the only players to homer off 300 different pitchers in their career. McGriff's solo in the 8th snaps a 3 - 3 tie.
2001 - Diamondbacks flamethrower Randy Johnson strikes out 20 Reds in Arizona's 4-3 win over Cincinnati in 11 innings. Johnson gets all 20 in his nine innings of work, but does not officially tie Roger Clemens and Kerry Wood's record since the contest goes into extra frames. The Reds score two in the top of the 11th, but the D'Backs come back with 3, scoring the winning run on a bases loaded walk by reliever Danny Graves.
2001 - The Padres steal eight bases enroute to a 7 - 1 win over the Braves.