IN THE NEWS: Mickey Mantle takes Steve Gromek deep in the first inning at the Stadium, and New York rolls to a 92 win over Detroit. Hank Bauer also homers as Whitey Ford hurls his 3rd CG win.
IN THE NEWS: Twenty-five Giants and 23 Cubs appear a ML recordin a 17-inning marathon finally won by the visiting Giants 65. The two teams combined to intentionally walk 11 batters, a record, with the Cubs contributing seven of the free passes. Losing pitcher Jim Brosnan chipped in with four walks, all intentional. Cub 3B Don Hoak was not one of the strollers, whiffing a National League record six timesall against different pitches, while Ernie Banks, Willie Mays and Wes Westrum were twice walked intentionally. Whitey Lockman starts in LF, goes to 1B, returns to LF, and finishes at 1B. Ex-Giants Monte Irvin is 0-for-5 against five pitchers. The game is six minutes shy of the 5:19 record set by the Dodgers-Braves in 20 innings in 1940.
LF Lee Walls of the Pirates goes 5-for-5 against St. Louis in a 10-inning 109 loss to St. Louis.
Yankee killer Frank Lary tames New York 81 at the Stadium. Mickey Mantle's 9th inning home run is New York's only score, as they drop into 2nd place behind the White Sox.
IN THE NEWS: Before 4,308 at the Stadium, Mickey Mantle homers for the 3rd day in a row, but Kansas City holds on to win, 87. A Mick homer in the 5th is followed by homers by Hank Bauer and Yogi Berra.
IN THE NEWS: The Yankees clout four homers -- Yogi Berra's, Hank Bauer's inside-the-park, and two moonshots by Mickey Mantle -- to top the A's, 52. Mantle's 2nd homer hits the RF facade just inside the foul pole, and almost clears the roof.
Despite a near-record strikeout performance by Don Ferrarese, the Indians beat the Orioles, 21. Ferrarese, making his first ML start after relieving for two years, fans 13. The Indians are hitless until Al Rosen homers in the 5th.
IN THE NEWS: The future National League president, Bill White of the NY Giants, homers, off Ben Flowers, in his first time up in the ML. But the Giants lose to St. Louis, 63 at the Polo Grounds.
IN THE NEWS: Tom Poholsky allows four hits and the Cardinals beat the Phils and Herm Wehmeier, 30. 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 a career.
IN THE NEWS: At Yankee Stadium, Bob Lemon gives Cleveland a 72 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.
IN THE NEWS: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. The Cards trade pitchers Harvey Haddix, Stu Miller, and Ben Flowers to Philadelphia for P Herm Wehmeier and Murry Dickson. Wehmeier, who lost to the Cards two days ago, has never beaten St. Louis, losing his first game to them on July 3, 1949. The string of 14 losses to one team ties the ML record. The Cards also trade 2B Solly Hemus for SS Bobby Morgan in a separate deal.
IN THE NEWS: Carl Erskine pitches his 2nd no-hitter for the Dodgers four years after his first, a 30 wipeout of the Giants. Two walks gave New York their only base runners.
Orioles lefty Don Ferrarese allows no hits through eight innings against the Yankees, but Andy Carey and Hank Bauer open the 9th with singles. Ferrarese holds on for a two-hit, 10, victory.
IN THE NEWS: The Braves destroy the Redlegs 150 and 61. In game one, Warren Spahn homers as his offensive contribution to the win.
At Brooklyn, Duke Snider hits two homers, one a grand slam, as the Dodgers beat the Giants, 64. Carl Furillo's homer provides the other score. It is the Duke's first slam at Ebbets.
IN THE NEWS: Bob Lemon tops the Yankees for the 2nd time in four days to give the Indians a 32 win at Cleveland. New York's only score comes in 4th when Gil McDougald and Mickey Mantle hit back-to-back homers.
IN THE NEWS: In Jersey City, Cards RF Wally Moon hits the first ML home run, but St. Louis loses 53 to the Dodgers. The Dodgers score five unearned runs in the 4th.
On a blustery day in Cleveland, the Yankees top the Indians, 41. Mickey Mantle hits a homer, off Bud Daley, while his pal Billy Martin is benched for the first time. Bobby Richardson takes his place at 2B.
IN THE NEWS: Pittsburgh continues swapping by sending OF Bobby Del Greco and P Dick Littlefield to St. Louis for OF Bill Virdon. Virdon, the 1955 Rookie of the Year, was hitting just .211 for the Cards when GM Frank Lane unloads him. Virdon will hit .334 the rest of the year for Pittsburgh.
IN THE NEWS: Mickey Mantle hits home runs from both sides of the plate for the 3rd time in his career, eclipsing the mark of Jim Russell. The shots come off Billy Pierce and Dixie Howell, the 2nd tying the game. Mantle and Yogi Berra, the American League's top home run hitters, combine for 20 bases as the visiting New Yorkers nip Chicago 87 in 10 innings.
IN THE NEWS: In the Pirates 74 win, slugger Dale Long hits a 9th-inning home run against the Cubs for the first of a string of eight home runs in eight games.
IN THE NEWS: The Pirates draw their biggest crowd in five years32,326and sweep a pair from the Braves, 65 and 50. Dale Long hits a homer in each game and drives in seven runs. Bob Friend wins the opener and Ron Kline fires the six hitter in the nitecap.
At Kansas City, Mickey Mantle clouts a drive over the 2nd and more distance fence in RF to help the Yankees win, 85. The drive, off Moe Burtschy, matches homers to that spot by Larry Doby and Suitcase Simpson.
IN THE NEWS: Detroit's Red Wilson belts a two run home run in the bottom of the 9th to give the Tigers a 32 win against the Yankees. The loss goes to Whitey Ford, his first following six wins. Ford had given up just five earned runs through 54 innings before today.
IN THE NEWS: The A's score two in the 9th to tie the Senators at five apiece, the score another two runs in the 17th to win, 76. The winning run scores on a wild pitch by Camilo Pascual.
IN THE NEWS: Mickey Mantle goes 5-for-5 with an intentional walk in an 114 win against the Tigers. Mantle is hitting .421. He combines with Joe Collins for back-to-back homers, off Duke Maas.
IN THE NEWS: Three Redlegs pitchers -- Johnny Klippstein, Hersh Freeman and Joe Black -- combine to no-hit the Braves for nine 2/3 innings. Klippstein walks eight in seven hitless innings before giving way to Freeman for one inning. Black walks two in his stint and finally gives up a 2-out double to Jack Dittmer in the 10th and two more hits in the 11th to lose, 21. Hank Aaron's triple and two intentional walks sets up a Frank Torre single. This is the 8th no-hitter to be lost in extra innings, and the only combined-effort one. Starter Ray Crone doesn't give up a run until two out in the 9th when Wally Post's RBI double in the 9th provides the Reds with their only run. Torre has two RBIs, including the winner.
IN THE NEWS: Thanks to a dropped 3rd strike by C Hobie Landrith, P Jim Davis of the Cubs fans four straight Cardinals in the 6th inning. Wally Moon leads off the inning with a double and then steals 3B. The knuckler then K's Hal Smith and Jackie Brandt. His 3rd strike on Lindy McDaniel eludes Landrith, and the pitcher reaches first while Moon scores. Don Blasingame then strikes out for the 4th strikeout in the inning. Not since Guy Morton, in 1916, has a pitcher fanned four in one inning. But the Cubs still lose, 119. The Cards pummel the Cubs in the 2nd game as well, winning 122.
IN THE NEWS: Dale Long of the Pirates connects against the Dodgers Carl Erskine at Forbes Field for his 8th home run in eight games, a record that will stand until the Yankees Don Mattingly equals it in 1987. Pittsburgh wins, 32, behind Bob Friend's 2-hitter.
White Sox SS Luis Aparicio hits his first ML home run, off Kansas City's Tom Lasorda, to open the Sox scoring in the 5th. With the score tied 44 in the 9th, reliever Billy Pierce walks Hector Lopez, and Enos Slaughter then wins the game with a home run.
The White Sox buy P Gerry Staley from the Yankees.
IN THE NEWS: For the second time in two years, Gus Bell of the Redlegs hits three homersall consecutivegoing 5-for-5 in a 104 win over the Cubs at Wrigley. Bell drives in seven runs. Brooks Lawrence coasts to his 6th straight win.
Dodgers P Don Newcombe beats the Pirates 101 and blanks Dale Long in four ABs, stopping his home run streak. Newk has a 3-run double off Ron Kline in the 2nd to help clinch his 7th win.
At Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle's walk in the 7th is the first base runner against Willard Nixon, and Mantle's 2-out 9th inning homer deprives the Boston righty of a shutout. Boston wins 73 at the Stadium.
IN THE NEWS: The wind is still blowing out at Wrigley as Braves Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron and Bobby Thomson hit consecutive first-inning home runs against the Cubs Russ Meyer. Meyer then hits the next batter, Billy Bruton, with a pitch, and when Bruton charges the mound, both he and Meyer are ejected in the ensuing fight. The Cubs plate three in the 1st and reliever Turk Lown homers in the 2nd for his first ML roundtripper. Thomson adds another home run, but the Braves lose the first game 109. They hold on to win the 2nd, 119. Fifteen home runs in the two games, including four by Thomson, sets a ML-record in a doubleheader. All but three of the homers are solo.
Mickey Mantle hits one of the most memorable home runs in his career, in the 2nd game of a doubleheader with the Washington Senators. He tags a pitch from Camilo Pascual that comes within 18 inches of leaving Yankee Stadium, something never accomplished by any major leaguer. The ball was still climbing when it caromed off the upper-stand facade, about 396 feet from home plate. Estimates are that the ball could have traveled more than 600 feet. It is Mantle's 20th home run of the season; no one else has ever hit 20 home runs before June. Mantle also homers in the opener, off Pedro Ramos, with two on as New York sweeps, 43 and 125.
IN THE NEWS: The Cubs and Braves keep banging on each other like rented mules, with Milwaukee coming out on top, 158. Lew Burdette is the winner, while Paul Minner absorbs his 12th loss in a row to the Braves, a streak that started August 29, 1951.