IN THE NEWS: White Sox P Early Wynn, 39, pitches a one-hitter for a 10 victory over Boston. He fans 14 and belts a home run in the 8th, off Tom Brewer, for the only run.
Harmon Killebrew's 10th inning home run, the 2nd of the game for the third sacker, gives Washington a 43 win over the woeful Tigers (2-14). Jim Bunning and Camilo Pascual each go the rout. Bunning is done in by errors by Eddie Yost and Rocky Bridges in the 8th, though Yost hits a double and home run against his old team.
The ML executive council approves the Players Association proposal for two All-Star Games each year.
IN THE NEWS: Frank Robinson of the Reds hits for the cycle, in a 164 rout of the Dodgers.
The Red Sox send P Dave Sisler and 2B Ted Lepcio to the Tigers for P Billy Hoeft, then trade Hoeft on June 15 to Baltimore for P Jack Harshman. Harshman will last a month before he's sold to the Indians.
Charley Maxwell, restored to the Tigers lineup although batting only .136, hits four consecutive home runs in a doubleheader sweep of the Yankees 42 and 82. "Paw Paw" is 24 in the opener, with a 9th inning homer, then homers his first three at-bats in game 2.
C Hank Foiles of Pittsburgh makes an unassisted DP in a 21 loss to St. Louis.
At Crosley Field, Jerry Lynch cracks a 3-run homer in the bottom of the 9th and the Reds top the Dodgers, 63.
IN THE NEWS: The Los Angeles Coliseum is jammed by 93,103 on "Roy Campanella Night" for an exhibition game between the Dodgers and the New York Yankees. This is the largest crowd in ML history. The Yanks win 62.
IN THE NEWS: The Phils Jim Hearn comes on in relief to pitch 11/3 innings against the Pirates. He allows two earned runs before the game is suspended, with the Pirates ahead 64. Hearn is released before the game is completed in July and will be charged with the loss two months after his retirement.
In the first game of a doubleheader, Cubs reliever Elmer Singleton defeats reliever Lindy McDaniel of the Cardinals 109. In the nightcap, McDaniel is the winner and Singleton the loser 87.
The Yanks sweep two from the Senators at the Stadium, winning 63 and 32 in 10 innings. Mickey Mantle's homer in the 3rd inning of the opener starts the Yanks scoring as they beat Chuck Stobbs. Mantle singles and scores the winning run in the 10th of the nitecap. Yogi Berra has a home run in the nitecap and sets a new major-league record for consecutive errorless games by a catcher with 148.
IN THE NEWS: At Yankee Stadium, Yogi Berra's errorless streak of 148 games comes to an end when he makes an error on his 34th birthday today. Berra also homers, as do Elston Howard and Mickey Mantle, but New York loses 76 to the first-place Indians.
Ted Williams plays his first game after being sidelined since March with neck and shoulder trouble. He is 0-for-5 in Boston's 43 loss to Chicago in 12 innings.
Harmon Killebrew hits his 11th and 12th home runs and drives in five runs to lead the Senators to a 74 win over the Tigers. He also leads the American League in runs (26) and RBIs (28).
At Wrigley, the Braves Lew Burdette loses a 32 lead in the 9th when he serves up a gopher to Walt Moryn. After loading the bases, Burdette fires what he thinks is strike three to pinch hitter Earl Averill. His next pitch is grand slammed by Averill for a 73 Cubs win.
IN THE NEWS: Massachusetts marks the 100th anniversary of the first college baseball game, between Amherst and Williams. Teams reenact the original contest.
IN THE NEWS: At Baltimore, Billy O'Dell's 120 foot 2-run home run is all he needs to beat the White Sox, 21. O'Dell slices a ball that bounces over Al Smith's head in LF for an inside-the-park home run in the 2nd.
IN THE NEWS: The Yankees sink to last place, the first time since May 25, 1940, as Detroit drubs them 136. Fittingly, it is Yankee Killer Frank Lary who wins it, improving his lifetime record against New York to 185.
IN THE NEWS: Baltimore's Hoyt Wilhelm one-hits the Yankees 50, with Jerry Lumpe's single in the 8th the spoiler. Switch hitter Mickey Mantle hits righty against Wilhelm and does no better than he has been lefty. On May 28, Wilhelm will beat the Yankees again, 5-0.
IN THE NEWS: In a singular performance, Harvey Haddix of the Pirates pitches a perfect game against Milwaukee for 12 innings, only to lose in the 13th. Felix Mantilla opens the last inning by reaching base on an error. A sacrifice and an intentional walk to Hank Aaron brings up Joe Adcock, who hits one out of the park in right-CF for an apparent 30 victory. Aaron pulls a "Merkle," leaving the field, and Adcock passes him on the basepaths. Both are called out as Mantilla scores. Lew Burdette goes all 13 innings for his 8th win, scattering 12 hits. As a consequence of the baserunning in the 13th, the Braves leave an National League-record one runner on base. Haddix's gem makes him the 9th pitcher to lose a no-hitter in extra innings; A combined effort of three Reds pitcher, on May 26, 1956, was the last. Making Haddix's effort even more remarkable is the fact that the Braves hitter knew what was coming. In 1993, Bob Buhl admitted that the Braves pitchers were stealing the signs from Smoky Burgess, who could not crouch down all the way. They would place a towel on the bullpen fence in such a way to signal fastball or breaking ball.
At Comiskey Park, a helicopter lands behind 2B before a Sox-Indians game, and four midgets dressed as spacemen jump out. Capturing 5'9" Nellie Fox and 5'10" Luis Aparicio, the spacemen, led by Eddie Gaedel, present the two with ray guns. Gaedel reportedly says, "I don't want to be taken to your leader; I already know him."
In a trade that benefits the Yankees, New York send pitchers Tom Sturdivant and Johnny Kucks, SS Jerry Lumpe and that player to be named later to Kansas City. The Yankees get P Ralph Terry, who has been ripening on the vine, and Hector Lopez. Terry will win 73 games for NY and pitch in five straight World Series.
IN THE NEWS: League President Warren Giles rules that the final score of the Harvey Haddix perfect game should be amended to 10, since both runners Henry Aaron and Joe Adcock were ruled outAaron for leaving the field, and Adcock for passing him in the basepath. Adcock is credited with a double and not a home run.
IN THE NEWS: President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his White House staff attend a game. He gets slugger Harmon Killebrew's autograph on a home run ball for his grandson David, as Washington defeats the Red Sox 76. The Killer will bang 15 homers in May.
IN THE NEWS: Ted Williams celebrates his 20th season by clouting a dramatic home run in an 83 Boston win in a doubleheader nitecap against Baltimore. The Sox were trailing 32 in the 7th when the Splinter connects for his 1st homer this year. The Sox take the opener, 54, after spotting the O's a 41 lead.
IN THE NEWS: Seven pitchers record 23 strikeouts in the Cards-Dodgers game tying the National League mark. Sandy Koufax is high with nine as Los Angeles wins 53.
In the 2nd game of a doubleheader, Gene Freese's home run accounts for the only Phillies run in a 21 loss to the Braves and Warren Spahn. For Freese, it is his 5th pinch homer of the season, one short of the NL record. Freese will hit 23 home runs this season, but no more in the pinch. The Phils win the opener, 60, behind Robin Roberts.
At Washington, the Yankees beat the Senators, 30, on Bob Turley's two-hitter. Moose Skowron accounts for the scoring with a three-run homer. Mickey Mantle almost homers, but his 438-foot drive is caught by CF Bob Allison.
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