May 9

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1871 - The first Hispanic player in major league baseball was Esteban Enrique Bellan. The 21-year old Cuban infielder plays for Troy Haymakers of the National Association.
1888 - With a twelve-run lead, Louisville Colonels' right-handed pitcher Icebox Chamberlain holds the Kansas City Cowboys scoreless pitching left-handed for the last two innings .
1896 - Washington defeats Pittsburgh 14 - 9 in a beanball battle. Senators pitcher Win Mercer hits three Pittsburgh batters while Pirate Pink Hawley plunks three Washington batters in a disastrous 11-run 7th inning, tying a mark he set on July 4, 1894. Hawley retires in 1900 after only nine seasons with a still-standing National League record of 195 hit batters. All told, eight batters are plunked in the contest, an NL-record five by Hawley. The five Washington batters hit by pitches ties the NL mark and won't be matched till July 2, 1969.
1896 - Baltimore's Hughie Jennings knocks down Reds 3B Charlie Irwin before he can catch Bid McPhee's throw. Jennings scores afterward to give the Orioles a controversial 6 - 5, 10-inning win over Cincinnati. Umpire Bob Emslie is escorted out of the ballpark by Cincinnati police.
1901 - The Pirates beat Chicago, 8-1 as Deacon Phillippe tops Jock Menefee. It is the 8th game in nine days between the two teams, half in Pittsburgh and the last four in Chicago.
1901 - In Cleveland, rookie P Earl Moore, purchased from Dayton for $1,000, allows two unearned runs but no White Sox hits through nine innings. Cleveland matches the White Sox with two runs of their own in the 3rd inning. In the 10th, with rain coming down, the Sox use singles by Sam Mertes and Dutch Hartman off Moore, "The Steam Engine in Boots", to score two runs and win, 4-2. The threatening weather keeps the crowd to 400 at League Park.
1903 - The Boston Pilgrims top the visiting New York Highlanders, 12-5, with a little help from umpire Caruthers, who tosses out New York pitcher Jesse Tannehill and 2B Williams for a ball call at home.
1904 - New York's Joe McGinnity wins his 2nd game in three days against the Cardinals, beating St. Louis 5-1. Iron Joe is now 7-0 on the year.
1904 - Chicago's Jake Weimer allows just two hits in beating the Boston Beaneaters, 6-0.
1908 - Art Devlin cracks a 1st inning double with the bases loaded and the New York Giants score seven runs off Irv Young in the 1st two innings. Christy Mathewson scatters 10 Braves hits in coasting to a 7-3 win.
1909 - The St. Louis Cardinals take out a $50,000 life insurance policy on manager Roger Bresnahan for reasons having to do more with publicity than concerns about his health.
1911 - At Hilltop Park, Christy Mathewson and Three Finger Brown renew their rivalry, Matty emerges the winner, 5 - 2 over the Cubs ace.
1912 - Roy Akin of Houston, who hit the ball that led to Walter Carlisle's remarkable unassisted triple play at Los Angeles the year before, turns the tables. Playing 3B against Waco (Texas League), he catches a hit-and-run bunt, steps on 3B, and then tags the runner coming down from 2B.
1912 - The Giants top the host Cardinals, 8 - 3, with Christy Mathewson easily winning over Gene Woodburn.
1914 - Before 18,000, Christy Mathewson scatters 10 hits in shutting down the Braves, 2 - 0. A Chief Meyers double off Lefty Tyler accounts for both New York runs. Boston is now 3 - 11, 10 games behind the Pirates.
1915 - It is Nap Lajoie Day as the long-time hero returns to Cleveland in a Philadelphia A's uniform. But Nap is hitless as Guy Morton tosses a 6 - 0 shutout against Philadelphia.
1916 - Thirty walks are allowed at Philadelphia as Detroit overwhelms the A's 16 - 2. Tiger rookie George Cunningham is lifted with one out in the 3rd inning after walking six batters. He is given the win, but leaves with a no hitter and leading 9 - 0. Eighteen of the walks are issued by the A's - 12 by reliever Carl Ray - on their way to a season total of 715. Not until 1938 will a team (the St. Louis Browns with 737) top that. Detroit will add another 11 walks against the A's tomorrow for a 2-game major-league record of 29.
1916 - The Red Sox and Dutch Leonard stop the Cleveland Indians, 5 - 1, ending the first-place Tribe's 8-game win streak. The game marks Tris Speaker's return to Boston, and 15,000 cheer his every move. After one inning Speaker inadvertently heads into the Sox dugout, much to the crowd's delight.
1916 - The Giants, 2 - 13 and in last place, open their western swing with a 13 - 5 win at Pittsburgh. New York uses three pitchers, and pound three Buc hurlers for 16 hits. New York will win their next 16 games.
1923 - At St. Louis, A's pitcher Walt Kinney relieves in the 3rd with his team down 3 - 0, and helps tie the score in the 6th by reaching Urban Shocker for a solo home run. The Browns rock Kinney for four runs in the 7th and he is lifted, and St. Louis goes on to win, 10 - 5. For Kinney, his home run comes on his last ML at bat.
1925 - Behind Jesse Barnes, the Braves beat the visiting Cubs, 2 - 1, in 11 innings. Dave Harris's walk off homer in the 11th wins it.
1927 - Pounding five Boston pitchers for 22 hits, the 2nd-place Tigers outlast the Red Sox, 17 - 11. Harry Heilmann leads the cat attack with two homers and two singles.
1930 - The Yankees and the Tigers outfielders make only two putouts for an American League record which has never been equaled. The National League record for OF idleness is one chance (Pittsburgh versus Brooklyn, August 26, 1910). Detroit's George Uhle strikes out eight in winning, 5 - 4, and dropping the Yanks to 7th place. Hank Johnson (7 innings) and George Pipgras are the New York hurlers.
1933 - The Red Sox sell Earl Webb to the White Sox.
1935 - The Braves Rabbit Maranville sets a new record for National League service by appearing in his 23rd season. It is his first appearance since breaking his ankle in last year's spring training. The Rabbit has a single but Tex Carleton is too much for the Braves and the Cubs win, 8 - 1.
1935 - At Philadelphia, Charlie Gelbert of the Cardinals plays his first game since a 1932 hunting accident almost severed his leg. Gelbert's error in the 7th paves the way for the Phils' first run as they win, 2 - 1. The victory goes to Bucky Walters, the infielder whom manager Jimmy Wilson has been endeavoring to convert to a pitcher all spring. Bucky allows four hits and scores the winning run in the 9th to win his first ML game.
1937 - Reds C Ernie Lombardi ties the modern major-league record with six hits (5 singles and a double) in six consecutive times at bat, as Cincinnati routs Philadelphia 21 - 10 on 24 hits. Alex Kampouris tallies eight RBIs for the Reds on three homers, one a grand slam.
1937 - At the Polo Grounds, Carl Hubbell wins his 4th straight and his 20th in a row, subduing the Cubs, 4 - 1. The game is scoreless for six innings. Hubbell matches the mark of Rube Marquard, who won one game in 1911 and 19 straight more in 1912.
1938 - At Boston, Jimmie Foxx drives in five runs on a pair of homers to pace the Red Sox to a 15 - 3 drubbing of Cleveland. Jim Bagby is the winner.
1940 - The press reports the impending sale of the Yankees by the Ruppert estate to political bigwigs Jim Farley and Jesse Jones. The Sporting News declares the sale will be for $4 million. The imminent sale will resurface on the front page several times during the next year, but it never happens.
1940 - After yesterday's rainout at Wrigley Field, the Brooklyn Dodgers score three in the 10th to beat Larry French, 4 - 1. Newt Kimball is the winner.
1943 - Due to poor grade of rubber cement used to make baseballs because of wartime rubber shortages, a different type of baseball is put into play today with dramatic results. In eight games, six home runs are hit compared to a total of nine homers tallied in the season's first 72 games.
1944 - Joe McCarthy returns as Yankees manager after missing much of spring training and the early season due to illness.
1946 - At Chicago, Braves first sacker Johnny Hopp swipes home in the 12th to break a 2 - 2 tie with the Cubs. Boston scores twice more to win, 5 - 2, with Lefty Wallace taking the decision over Ray Prim.
1946 - At Fenway, Boston (20-3) runs its win streak to 14 by edging Chicago, 7 - 5. Bobby Doerr's 2-run homer in the 4th inning is the big blow. Mickey Harris, in relief, wins his 2nd game in two days.
1947 - In his first game outside of New York City, Jackie Robinson has two hits and scores twice in the Dodgers 6 - 5 loss to the Phillies. After the game, the Dodgers give their young first baseman a vote of confidence by selling Howie Schultz, Robby's back up, to the Phils for $50,000. Tomorrow, Branch Rickey announces he's giving up his attempts to pry Johnny Mize away from the Giants.
1947 - Heralded Giant rookie Clint Hartung makes his first pitching appearance and throws six shutout innings of relief against the Braves. He will start 20 games and compile his best season at 9-7. He will also play seven games in the OF and bat .309 for the year. But the Braves win today, 6 - 2, behind Warren Spahn.
1948 - In the 2nd game of the Sunday doubleheader between the Pirates and the Dodgers, the umpire continues the game through a seven P.M. curfew because he believes Pittsburgh to be stalling with a 5 - 4 lead. The Dodgers pass the Pirates for a 7 - 5 score, but Ralph Kiner hits a 3-run home run to carry Pittsburgh to a 10 - 8 victory. The Pirates are fined $100 for violating the curfew and Kiner will end up tying Johnny Mize with 40 home runs.
1948 - The Indians sweep a pair at Fenway, beating the Red Sox, 4 - 1 in 10 innings, and 9 - 5. A Ted Williams homer in the opener is the only Sox score, while Ken Keltner belts a pair of homers. They both add another in the nitecap, but Larry Doby clouts a monstrous 2-run shot to dead center for the Tribe. He'll add another in a win tomorrow as Cleveland stays percentage points ahead of the A's.
1949 - At Detroit, the Tigers set back the first-place Yankees, 4 - 1, behind the five-hit pitching of Ted Gray. Vic Raschi also allows just five hits, including a homer by Dick Wakefield, in taking the loss.
1949 - The first-place Giants win their 7th in a row as Sheldon "Available" Jones stops the Cubs, 7 - 2. Aided by ten walks and homers by Sid Gordon and Willard Marshall, the Giants pin the loss on starter Ralph Hamner, who allows one hit in three innings.
1950 - Ralph Kiner of the Pirates hits his 2nd grand slam in three days - and the 8th of his career - and adds a 3-run homer to drives in seven runs as the Pirates beat Brooklyn 10 - 5.
1953 - At Boston, the first place Yanks beat the Red Sox, 6 - 4. Mickey Mantle hits one homer off Bill Werle and is robbed of another when Jimmy Piersall makes a sensational catch at the Sox bullpen in right-center field.
1954 - Athletics C Wilmer (Billy) Shantz, brother of P Bobby Shantz, hits a grand slam, the first homer of his professional career. It comes off former A's pitcher Harry Byrd, now with the Yanks. Shantz will hit just one more ML home run. Wilmer's slam is all the offense as the Yankees win, 7 - 4. The nitecap ends 1 - 1 after nine innings.
1956 - Tom Poholsky allows four hits and the Cardinals beat the Phils and Herm Wehmeier, 3 - 0. It is a club-record 14th win in a row for the Cardinals over Wehmeier stretching back to July 3, 1949. It is also a National League record for consecutive losses from the start of a career.
1958 - After six straight home rainouts, the Yanks play their first home night game of the year, against Washington. Mickey Mantle breaks a 2 - 2 tie in the 3rd with an inside-the-park solo homer off Pedro Ramos. New York rolls to a 9 - 5 win.
1958 - The Tigers pick up P Herm Wehmeier from the Cards for cash.
1959 - Mrs. Dorothy Rigney, her husband Johnny Rigney, and Hank Greenberg all resign their posts with the Chicago White Sox.
1961 - Jim Gentile becomes the 3rd player to hit grand slams in consecutive innings (Tony Lazzeri in 1936, Jim Tabor in 1939: Rudy York in 1946 also hit two grand slams, but not in consecutive innings) when he belts one off Pedro Ramos in the first and adds another off Paul Giel in the 2nd. His eight RBI in consecutive innings set a ML record. Gentile also tacks on a sacrifice fly to give him a club record nine RBI in the 13 - 5 drubbing of the Twins.
1961 - The Indians tie a major-league record with just 23 official at bats as Chicago's Herb Score pitches a 2-hit 4 - 2 win.
1962 - The Orioles ship Marvelous Marv Throneberry to the Mets for C Hobie Landrith and cash.
1962 - Brooks Robinson becomes the 6th major leaguer this century to hit grand slams in back-to-back games, as he hits one against Kansas City's Ed Rakow. Baltimore wins 6 - 3 at home. Brooks hit a grand slam on the 6th.
1963 - Ernie Banks becomes the first National League 1B to register 22 putouts (and 23 chances) in a game, as the Cubs beat Pittsburgh 3 - 1 on Dick Ellsworth's 2-hitter. Singles in the 2nd and 9th are the only Buc safeties, as they pound Ellsworth's slider into the ground.
1964 - At Cleveland, Pedro Ramos gives up four home runs to New York -- Tony Kubek, Mickey Mantle, Joe Pepitone, and Hector Lopez -- as the Yankees win 6 - 2.
1965 - In the 2nd game, Cleveland and Boston combine for nine double plays, tying an American League record.
1966 - At Minneapolis, the Yankees (6 - 20) edge the Twins, 3 - 2. Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, and Joe Pepitone, with the game-winner in the 9th inning, hit homers for New York.
1967 - Cardinals' outfielder # 9 Roger Maris hits his first National League home run on the ninth day of the month in seat 9 of section 9.
1971 - At San Francisco, the Braves and Giants split a pair. After the Giants win the opener, 5 - 2, the Braves take the nitecap, 6 - 5, in 11 innings. Orlando Cepeda connects for a grand slam and solo homer for Atlanta, while Willie McCovey has a 3-run home run for SF. The Braves win it in the 10th when Ralph Garr scores after collecting his 4th hit.
1973 - The Reds' Johnny Bench slugs three home runs and knocks in seven runs in a 9 - 7 defeat of Steve Carlton and the Phillies. Bench homers in the 1st, walks in the 3rd, and homers again in the 5th and 7th. It is the 2nd time Bench has hit three home runs in a game against Carlton; the first came on July 26, 1970. Bench ties a major-league record with four consecutive homers, having hit one in his final at bat last night in the Reds 7 - 1 win. Despite the three homers, Dave Concepcion's 2-run homer in the 9th, off Barry Lersch, is the game-winner.
1973 - Al Bumbry and Rich Coggins hit their first major league homers, slugging them back-to-back off the Athletics' Catfish Hunter. The A's still win, 4 - 3.
1976 - The Reds score another 14 runs to beat the Cubs, 14 - 2. Ken Griffey hits a grand slam, one of six homers hit by the Reds. Tony Perez has a pair with George Foster, Dan Driessen, and Pete Rose leaving the park as well.
1976 - White Sox P Wilbur Wood suffers a fractured kneecap in a 4 - 2 win over the Tigers. Wood will miss the rest of the season.
1977 - The Blue Jays beat the Mariners, 12-4, when the two new American League's teams meet for the first time.
1979 - At the Astrodome, substitute umpire Dave Pallone ejects the entire Cardinal bench after the players throw helmets and bats onto the field to protest a call. The minor league arbitrator was pressed into duty due to the major league umpire strike.
1979 - Gary Roenicke spoils Mike Norris's no-hit bid by hitting a double in the 7th inning. It's the only hit Norris allows as Oakland tops the Orioles, 4 - 2.
1979 - The Yanks release Paul Blair, who signs with the Reds.
1979 - Four bench-clearing brawls and two grand slams (Gary Matthews Sr. and John Milner) highlight the Pirates wild 17 - 9 victory over the Braves. Substitute umpires eject five players, four managers, and a coach.
1981 - Tom Paciorek hits his 2nd game-winning, bottom-of-the-9th home run in as many games, a 3-run blow giving the Mariners a 6 - 5 win over the Yankees. The previous night, Paciorek led off the 9th with a solo homer to give Seattle a 3 - 2 win over the Yankees.
1984 - Umpire Joe West ejects two television cameramen from Shea Stadium when they allow the Mets to view replays of a controversial play at the plate in which Hubie Brooks is called out. The Mets beat Atlanta, 3 - 1, with Ron Darling getting the win.
1984 - The longest- and slowest - game in American League history ends in the 25th inning when Harold Baines homers off Chuck Porter to give the White Sox a 7 - 6 victory over the Brewers. It is the latest homer in history. The game falls one inning shy of the ML record, but takes by far the most time to play: eight hours and six minutes. The contest was suspended yesterday after 17 innings with the score tied 3 - 3, and each team scores three more runs in the 21st. The Sox lose a chance to win in the 21st as runner Dave Stegman is touched by 3B coach Jim Leyland, which leads to a Sox protest. Tom Seaver pitches the final inning to earn the win, then wins the regularly scheduled game as well 5 - 4. Tom Paciorek of the Sox, who sets a major-league record as he enters the game in the fourth inning and registers nine at bats.
1985 - The Giants end a 24-inning scoring drought by scoring a run with 2-out in the 12th to beat Chicago, 1 - 0. Scott Garrelts is the winner with four innings of relief over Warren Brusstar.
1987 - After going 15 years without one, Chris Speier hits his 2nd grand slam in a week to lead San Francisco to a 9 - 4 win over Pittsburgh. Speier also connected for a grand slam against the Cardinals on May 5th.
1987 - Eddie Murray homers from each side of the plate for the 2nd consecutive game, a ML first. Murray's four home runs in two days help the Orioles to 7 - 6 and 15 - 6 wins over the White Sox. Yesterday, Murray took righty Jose DeLeon and lefty Ray Searage deep; today it is Joel McKeon (LHP) and Bob James (RHP).
1988 - Oakland beats Detroit 3 - 1 to extend its club-record winning streak to 14 consecutive games, the longest in the majors since 1977. The A's will finally lose tomorrow 8 - 2 to the Tigers after starting the skein on April 23rd. Oakland leads by eight games in the American League West.
1988 - Jerry Reuss picks up his 200th career victory with 71/3 shutout innings in Chicago's 3 - 0 win over Baltimore.
1989 - A's slugger Jose Canseco has an operation to repair a stress fracture in his left hand and will miss the first half of the season. The injury occurred after just nine at bats in the Cactus League.
1989 - For the first time since April 10th, no ML games are shutouts, ending a streak of 29 consecutive days with at least one shutout.
1989 - Mets SS Kevin Elster and Red Sox catcher Rick Cerone end their ML-record errorless game streaks for their positions. Elster had played 88 consecutive games without an error while Cerone had played 159.
1990 - At New York, the A's edge the Yankees, 2 - 1 in 11 innings. Rickey Henderson plates the first run, scoring from 2B on a 6 - 3 ground out. Rick Honeycutt is the winning pitcher.
1990 - Louisville OF Bernard Gilkey sets an American Association record by collecting three hits 0 2 singles and a home run - in the Redbirds' 16-run 3rd inning against the Nashville Sounds. 21 players collect 14 hits in the frame. The Redbirds win 18 - 4 after losing to the Sounds yesterday, 17 - 5.
1993 - Cubs 1B Mark Grace hits for the cycle in Chicago's 5-4 loss to the Padres. He is the 14th Cub to do so.
1993 - The Rockies reach the 1,000,000 mark for attendance in their meeting with Atlanta. It is the fastest (17 home dates) any team has gotten to the magic number. The Braves win the game, however, 12-7.
1994 - Central Valley Rockies (California League) SS Neifi Perez pulls an unassisted triple play on a line drive.
1995 - The Cleveland Indians tie a major league record by scoring eight runs in the first inning before making an out. Seven of the runs score as the results of home runs including Kenny Lofton's leadoff round-tripper, Paul Sorrento's grand slam and Carlos Baerga's two run blast. Cleveland goes on to a 10-0 victory behind Orel Hershiser and Paul Assenmacher.
1995 - High school star Shawn Gallagher is intentionally walked his last time up and goes hitless. Entering the game, Gallagher, from Wilmington, North Carolina, had hit safely in 51 straight games, tying the prep mark set by Stan Brown of Noblesville, Indiana.
1995 - California DH Chili Davis leads the Angels to an 11-2 win over Texas by notching five hits and driving home five runs. Davis' safeties include a double and home run.
1996 - The Cardinals use an 11-run 8th inning to beat the Giants, 16 - 8. Willie McGee's grand slam is the highlight of the inning, and Luis Alicea also adds four RBI in the game. Barry Bonds hits his league high 15th homer to pace the Giants.
1997 - Seattle tops Baltimore, 8-2, with the help of five hits, including a double and homer by 2B Joey Cora.
1997 - Prior to the team's game with Atlanta, Pirates players stand inside the stadium gates to shake hands and pose for pictures. They then proceed to beat the Braves, 9-0.
1997 - Against the Royals in the 6th inning, the Yankees catch Jay Bell in a rundown when Bell is suddenly called out by umpire Dale Ford, who thinks he passed the preceding baserunner, Jose Offerman. Offerman, however, had been forced out at 3B. Royals' manager Bob Boone argues until the umps agree and put runners back at 2B and 3B and call for a resumption of play. Chili Davis then lines a 2-run single off Kenny Rogers to tie the score. The Royals win 7 - 5 in 12 innings, with the victory going to Randy Veres. The Yanks protest that the rundown play should not have been reversed. Gene Budig will dismiss the protest, stating that with the rundown there were several scenarios where Bell could have escaped a tag.
1999 - The Yankees defeat the Mariners, 6-1. Relief P Mike Stanton makes his 1st major league start for NY, ending his major league record streak of 552 consecutive relief appearances prior to his 1st start. The previous record of 443 was set by Gary Lavelle of the Giants.
1999 - After starting with a single, Marshall McDougall hits six consecutive home runs and drives in 16 runs in a 26-2 rout of Maryland. The Florida State's junior second baseman, who will become a member of the Rangers' 40-man roster, breaks existing NCAA records for runs batted in and homers in a single game. His mark breaks the home run record set by Henry Rochelle of Campbell, who hit five homers in a game in 1985. The RBI mark was held by Jim LaFountain of Louisville who drove in 14 against Western Kentucky University in 1976.
1999 - The Pirates defeat the Cardinals, 12-9, as SS Pat Meares gets five hits, including a double. Brant Brown adds a 3-run inside-the-park homer.
2000 - The Cardinals score eight runs in the 2nd inning on their way to a 13-6 win over the Giants.
2001 - Although the deed will not be officially recognized as tying a record because the game against the Reds goes extra innings, Diamondback southpaw fireballer Randy Johnson join Roger Clemens and Kerry Wood as the only pitchers ever to strike out 20 hitters over nine innings. After being pulled in the ninth, the three-time Cy Young Award winner does not get an opportunity to break Senators' Tom Cheney's major league mark of 21 strikeouts recorded in a 16-inning contest on September 12, 1962 against the Orioles.
2001 - Red Sox 2B Chris Stynes, who had three hits in yesterday's win, suffers two fractures in his left cheekbone when he is hit by an Aaron Sele pitch in the 2nd inning. He'll miss six weeks. Seattle breaks a 5 - 5 tie in the 8th on John Olerud's double to win, 10 - 5. David Bell has four RBI for the M's, while Trot Nixon homers and Manny Ramirez and Troy O'Leary go back-to-back in the 4th.
2006 - Delmon Young is suspended for 50 games by the International League for throwing a bat which hit a replacement umpire in the chest. The Devil Rays' top prospect, the brother of Tiger star Dmitri Young, was selected as the minor league player of the year by Baseball America in 2005.