2002
» Rafael Furcal triples three times to tie the modern major-league record as the Braves defeat the Marlins, 4–2. The last player to accomplish the feat was Lance Johnson of the White Sox in 1995.

The Diamondbacks trounce the Rockies, 7–1, as Randy Johnson strikes out 17 batters in becoming the first pitcher this year to win five games. It is the 6th time he has fanned 17 or more in a game.

The White Sox score eight runs in the 1st inning off Jose Lima and hold on to beat the Tigers by a score of 11–8. Pinch-hitter Ray Durham strokes a 2run single in the 8th to snap an 8–8 tie.

Making his first start in almost seven years, Cincinnati's Jose Rijo allows one unearned run in five innings as the Reds defeat the Cubs, 5–3. It is Rijo's first win since July 13, 1995.

Tulsa Drillers manager Tim Ireland is ejected in a Texas League game for arguing about organ music at Rich Winder Field in Little Rock, Arkansas. Against the Travelers Ireland becomes irate when organist Rich Pharris starts playing "I've Been Working on the Railroad" while Trent Durrington bats in the 6th. Twice, Durrington, distracted by the music, tries to call time, but umpire Jason Markley refuses. Durrington, an Australian, yesterday was greeted at the plate by "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Boy.'' He asked Pharris to replace the song with "anything else.'' Ireland expresses his irritation to umpire Markley who tosses him, but orders Pharris to play only between innings. As Ireland leaves the field, Pharris plays "Happy Trails."

2001
» Jon Lieber gets his first win and Sammy Sosa hits the first grand-slam at the new PNC Park in Pittsburgh.

2000
» The Twins defeat the Rangers, 10-5, as Ron Coomer slugs two home runs and drives home seven runs for Minnesota.

The Angels down the Devil Rays, 9-6. Mo Vaughn and Tim Salmon hit back-to-back homers for Anaheim in the 4th inning, then repeat the feat in the 9th. Troy Glaus also homers in those same two innings, marking the 1st time in major league history that three players homer in the same inning twice in the same game. The three players with two home runs in the game ties another ML record.

1999
» The Braves defeat the Dodgers, 11–4, by scoring seven runs in the 12th inning, two short of the National League record for the frame.

The Yankees defeat the Rangers, 4–2, as Roger Clemens ties an American League record with his 17th consecutive win over two seasons. Johnny Allen (1936–37) and Dave McNally (1968–69) previously accomplished the feat for the Indians and Orioles, respectively.

The Astros defeat the Cubs, 10–3, as 1B Jeff Bagwell clouts three home runs and drives home six runs. It is Bagwell's 2nd career 3–homer game. The 4–baggers give Bagwell 225 for his career with the Astros, surpassing Jimmy Wynn as the team's career leader.

A Florida woman is awarded $2.7 million by a jury for an injury she received during a Phillies–Marlins game on August 8, 1993. Linda Postlethwaite had her nose broken by an errant pitch from former Phillies hurler Mitch Williams during a game at Joe Robbie Stadium.

1997
» P Ryan Franklin of the Mariners' Double-A Memphis farm team hurls a 7-inning no-hitter in the 1st game of a doubleheader against Carolina. In Franklin's last game on April 13, he hurled the first six innings of a combined no-hitter against Chattanooga.

1996
» Dean Palmer's grand slam and 2-run homer lead Texas (13–4) to a 9–6 win over the Orioles and a sweep of the 3-game series. The O's Brady Anderson lead off the game with a home run, the 4th straight game he's socked a lead-off home run, and believed to be a major league record.

Rookie pitcher Tom Thobe makes two errors in the 15th inning to allow the Padres to score, then grounds out to end the game, as Atlanta loses 2–1.

New York's expensive free-agent, Kenny Rogers, finally debuts, throwing a no-hitter for five 1/3 innings. He leaves with a 4–0 lead, and New York holds on for a 9–5 win over the Twins.

1994
» Cleveland 1B Eddie Murray smacks home runs from both sides of the plate in the Indians' 10-6 win over the Twins. It is the 11th time that he has performed the feat, breaking the record previously held by Mickey Mantle.

1991
» Pittsburgh becomes the first team in history to come back from a 5-run deficit in the bottom half of an extra inning to win a game. The Pirates score six times in the 11th inning of a game against the Cubs to eke out a 13-12 victory.

After losing his 1st two starts when the Twins were shut out, Scott Erickson is victorious, 4–3, at California. He allows five hits and benefits from an tie-breaking unearned run off reliever Mark Eichhorn. It is the start of a 12-game win streak for Erickson, who will go 20–8 on the year.

1990
» The Reds beat the Braves 8–1 to run their record to 9-0, the best start in club history. The lone Brave score is a home run by Dale Murphy, his 335th as an Atlanta Braves, passing Hank Aaron. The Reds will lose tomorrow to Atlanta, the team with the best (13–0 in 1982) start ever.

California's Bert Blyleven lasts just four innings, allowing seven runs in an 8–0 loss to Minnesota. Blyleven allows nine hits, including homers to Kent Hrbek and Randy Bush. He's now reached the 400 mark in gopher balls, 7th on the all-time list. West is the winner with help from Candelaria.

In a White Sox-Cubs exhibition game, Steve Lyons plays all nine positions for the South Siders.

1987
» The White Sox beat the Brewers 7–1, ending their season-opening winning streak at 13 games. Milwaukee's 13-0 start tied the major-league record set by the 1982 Braves.

1984
» Montreal's David Palmer, who missed all of the 1983 season following elbow surgery, pitches a rain-shortened 5-inning perfect game 4–0 against the Cardinals to give the Expos a doubleheader sweep. It is the 4th perfect game of less than nine innings in ML history.

At home before 34,395 fans, the Tigers beat the White Sox 4–1, ending LaMarr Hoyt's personal 15-game winning streak. Dave Rozema pitches six shut out innings for the win, while Lou Whitaker has a homer and three runs scored.

1982
» The Braves score two runs in the bottom of the 9th to beat Cincinnati 4–3 for their record-breaking 13th win since the start of the year.

1980
» George Foster has a home run and four singles to lead the visiting Reds to a 6–5 win over the Astros.

1977
» Detroit's Dave Rozema shuts down Boston 8–0 for his first ML win.

Yankee manager Billy Martin, faced with a 2-8 slump in the past 10 games, draws his lineup out of a hat. Chris Chambliss, batting 8th, drives in five runs on two doubles and a homer and New York beats Toronto, 8–6. Ken Holtzman is the winner.

1976
» In Chicago, Montreal's Tim Foli hits for the cycle, but it takes him two days to do it. Foli has a single, double and triple against the Cubs today but, with the Expos ahead 11–3, the game is called on account of darkness. When play resumes tomorrow, Foli will add a homer in the 8th inning.

The Astros break up a scoreless duel with the Dodgers by scoring a run in the 16th.

1972
» The Rangers celebrate their first game in their new home, Arlington Stadium, halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth, by outscoring the Angels, 7–6.

A pinch hit double by Jim Fairey allows the unbeaten Expos to defeat the Cardinals, 2–1. The Cardinals strand 15 runners, including three in the 9th. At the plate, losing pitcher Rick Wise, one of the best hitting pitchers in baseball, leaves a record-tying nine runners on base.

1971
» In a 10–2 Pirates win over the Braves, Willie Stargell hits three home runs in a game for the 2nd time of the young season. Stargell turned the trick 11 days ago.

1970
» The Reds clout seven home runs by six different batters (Carbo (2), Bench, Rose, Concepcion, Perez, and Tolan) while the Braves counter with three home runs of their own (Carty, Cepeda, Millan) in a night game slugfest won by Cincinnati, 13–8. The 10 home runs, the six different batters for one team and nine different batters for two teams, all tie or set NL records.

1969
» Jim Palmer wins his 3rd straight, allowing four hits, as the Orioles clobber the Indians, 11–0.

1968
» Behind complete-game wins by Earl Wilson and Denny McLain, the Tigers beat the White Sox, 4–1 and 2–1, to stretch their win victory streak to nine games. The Sox have yet to win.

The Dodgers win a pair from the Mets behind reliever Phil Regan, who picks up both wins. It'll earn him a trip to Chicago.

1967
» At Fenway, rookie Bill Rohr again tops the Yanks, beating Mel Stottlemyre, 6–1. Elston Howard's 7th-inning homer is the only Yankee score. Rohr will return to the minors after the Gary Bell acquisition and resurface with the Indians next year.

1966
» The 1–7 Cubs trade veteran pitchers Larry Jackson and Bob Buhl to Philadelphia for young P Ferguson Jenkins, OF Adolfo Phillips, and 1B/OF John Herrnstein. "It's the best deal we could've made," says Phils manager Gene Mauch. "I think it complemented our staff exactly the way we wanted." Jenkins was 2–1 for the Phils in 1965 after being brought up from Arkansas (PCL), but he'll go into the Hall of Fame as a Cub.

The Braves trip the Phils, 5–4, as Chris Short's wild pitch past Bob Uecker allows the winning run to score. Eddie Mathews sets a major-league record by playing his 2009th game at 3B, topping Eddie Yost's mark.

1965
» At Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle puts New York ahead with a two-run homer in the first off Camilo Pascual, but the Twins come back to win 7–2.

1964
» All runs score on home runs as the Pirates win 8–5 at Wrigley Field, tying a record for the most runs on home runs with no other runs scoring. home runs by nine different players tie the ML record.

1963
» Yakima (Northwest League) C Rico Carty hits two home runs in one at bat. The rookie catcher's first blast is nullified because time had been called.

Cincinnati P Jim Owens sets a National League record as the first hurler in NL history charged with three balks in one inning (the 2nd) in a 7–0 loss at Los Angeles.

The Senators acquire P Jim Coates from the Yankees in exchange for P Steve Hamilton. The Yanks sell P Hal Brown to Houston.

1959
» OF Don Demeter of the Dodgers hits three home runs, including the game winner in the 11th in a 9–7 win against the Giants in the Los Angeles Coliseum. One of his home runs is an inside-the-park 4-bagger, as he drives in six runs.

Stan Musial breaks up another no-hitter. His 7th-inning double off Glen Hobbie is the Cards' only safety in a 1–0 loss to the Cubs.

1958
» The A's Frank House scores 2 runs as a pinch hitter in an 8-run 8th inning, as the Athletics trim the Indians 9-4. House's feat is only the 6th occurrence in the ML.

1957
» Reds' baserunner Don Hoak breaks up a DP by fielding a Wally Post ground ball and flipping it to Braves SS Johnny Logan. The umpire calls Hoak out for interference but Post is given a single on the play. The Braves win 3-1. In yesterday's 5­4 loss to the Braves, baserunner Johnny Temple let Gus Bell's ground ball hit him with the same result; Temple out for interfering and Bell awarded a single.

1956
» Art Ditmar of the Athletics limits the White Sox to 1 hit, winning 15-1.

1955
» Brooklyn wins its 10th in a row, trouncing Robin Roberts of the Phils 14-2. This sets a new ML record for consecutive wins to start a season, later broken by Oakland.

1954
» At Yankee Stadium, Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle belt back-to-back homers in the 3rd, off Leo Kiely, and Gil McDougald adds a solo blast to key the Yankees to a 5–1 win over the Red Sox.

In the first night game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium, Bob Turley has a no-hitter against Cleveland when, with one out in the 9th, Al Rosen singles and Larry Doby homers. Turley strikes out 14, but loses, 2–1.

1951
» Gil Coan of the Senators gets two triples in the 6th inning at Washington, the last major leaguer to collect two triples in an inning. The Senators score seven runs in the frame, but that's it as they lose to the Yankees, 8–7. Tom Ferrick is the winner.

22nd Led by Gus Bell, who belts a homer, three doubles and a single, the Pirates defeat the Reds, 7–5. The second game of the twinbill is postponed because of a sloppy Crosley Field.

1950
» Boston's Vern Stephens slugs a 9th-inning grand slam off the A's Harry Byrd to lead the Red Sox to an 8–2 romp. It was the first of 33 American League grand slams in 1950. The ML season total of 68 is a record up to this point. In 1995, the number will exceed 100 slams for the first time.

In Boston, Sam Jethroe makes his home debut, the first black man to play for the Braves. He goes 1-for-3 in a 2–2 tie with the Phillies. The game is called when a thunderstorm hits.

In Cleveland, before 79,570 fans, the 4th largest paid attendance to date, the Yankees take two from the Indians, winners of nine out of their last 11. In the opener, DiMaggio drives in six runs on two homers, one a grand slam, and the Yankees roll 14–5. New York collects 19 hits in the nitecap to win easily, 12–4. Eddie Lopat and Allie Reynolds each win their 4th of the year, as the Yankees now pace the AL by two 1/2 games.

1948
» Leo Durocher, back at the helm of the Dodgers after a one-year suspension, uses 24 men in one game, a 9-5 loss to the Giants.

White Sox C Mike Tresh hits his first HR in 787 games, 2,568 at bats. He hit his previous HR in 1940.

1946
» Cleveland C Frank Hayes catches the last of 1,312 consecutive games as a backstop, a streak begun on October 12, 1943, when he was with the Browns. Virgil Trucks wins 3-2 for the Tigers.

1944
» Mike Kreevich hits 2 HRs, as the Browns beat the White Sox 5-3. In the preceding 3 years, a period involving 297 games, Kreevich tallied just one homer.

1943
» Travel restrictions limit the crowd to 4,000 in St. Louis as the Browns Al Hollingsworth blanks the White Sox 3-0, the Browns' 7th consecutive Opening Day win.

1942
» Only 4 games are played in the ML, but all end in shutouts: Pirate Rip Sewell blanks the Cubs 6-0; Reds P Johnny Vander Meer beat the Cards 1-0 in 11 innings; Cleveland's Jim Bagby nips the Tigers 1-0, and the Browns Al Hollingsworth beats the White Sox 3-0.

1939
» Ted Williams plays his first game at Fenway, scoring the first run for Boston against the A's on a Frankie Hayes passed ball. The Sox roll to a 9–2 win.

1938
» The Dodgers Tot Pressnell shuts out the Phillies 9-0 in his first ML start.

1935
» Cleveland sets a new AL record, playing a total of 41 innings in their 3rd consecutive overtime game: 14 innings against St. Louis (win 2-1), 24 innings against Detroit (win 2-1), and 13 innings against Detroit (lose 3-2).

Philadelphia's Blondy Ryan ties a ML record by turning 5 DPs against the Giants. The Phillies make 6 DPs in all to equal the NL record.

1934
» Moe Berg, little-used Senators catcher, plays his 117th consecutive errorless game, dating back to 1931. It is an AL record.

1932
» Lefty O'Doul, injured in spring training, plays his first game for Brooklyn and has 2 hits.

Terry hits his 6th HR in 4 games, as the Giants outslug the Phillies 13-8.

Mark Koenig is released by Detroit to the San Francisco Missions (PCL). He will make a dramatic return with the Cubs late in the season.

1929
» In Chicago before 45,000, the Cubs top the Cards, 4–0, with Guy Bush winning over Willie Mitchell. Hornsby is 4-for-4 with two doubles, but the Rajah will go 1-for-13 in his next three games.

Detroit P Earl Whitehill hits his first ML home run, off Browns reliever Herb Ty Cobb, to help himself to a 16–9 win. Whitehill will hit two more homers this year, then just one more in his career.

1922
» Detroit Tiger OF John Mohardt gets his only ML hit, a single against Cleveland's Charlie Jamieson, an outfielder who mops up in the Indian loss. Mohardt will play just five games in the major leagues, but the former Notre Dame football star will play with Red Grange and the NFL Bears in 1925.

Down 4–2 in the 9th, the White Sox tie the Browns, then blast two relievers for six runs in the 10th and win, 10–5.

1917
» At Washington's home opener, President Wilson is absent, but Veep Thomas Marshall does the tossing of the first ball. Walter Johnson rolls to a 3–0 win over the A's, beating Joe Bush. Johnson allows just three hits and strikes out 11.

In Boston's Opener, James Curley tosses out the first ball and Babe Ruth then beats the Yankees again, 6–4, on nine hits. At bat, the Babe is 3-for-3 with a triple and two doubles.

1913
» The Pirates use eight hits in a row plus a sacrifice fly to score seven runs in the 8th inning in a come-from-behind victory over the Cardinals, 8–5.

1912
» Reds SS Jimmy Esmond, a .195 hitter, hits the first home run at Redland (later, Crosley) Field, off Bill Steele. The inside-the-park blow is his only roundtripper of the year. Nobody will hit one out of the Cincinnati park until Pat Duncan does it on June 2, 1921. Esmond's 3-run homer leads the Reds to a 7–1 over the Cardinals.

1911
» In the snow at Philadelphia, the Red Sox sweep a pair from the A's, winning 13–4 and 4–3.

1910
» League Park opens in Cleveland with a capacity of 21,000; 18,832 watch Detroit and Ed Willett beat the Naps, 5–0.

1904
» In the Giants home opener, more than 32,000 fans crowd the Polo Grounds for the match against the Phillies. The visitors fail to cooperate, hammering Christy Mathewson for six hits and seven runs in the 5th inning. Rookie Hooks Wiltse relieves, but Philadelphia coasts to a 12-1 win.

1903
» At Brooklyn's home opener at Washington Park, Mrs. Charles Ebbets throws out the first ball and then Henry Schmidt and the Giants' Christy Mathewson keep the ball low as a National League-record 43 total chances are taken by two clubs. The Superbas have 23 assists, including eight by Schmidt in his ML debut; the Giants have 21. Catcher Jack Warner drives home the winning run for a 2–1 New York victory. The total chance record will be tied by the Giants and Reds May 15, 1909.

1902
» The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, reversing a lower court's decision, grants a permanent injunction (effective only in Pennsylvania) barring jumpers Nap Lajoie, Chick Fraser, and Bill Bernhard from playing for the A's, or any team but the Phillies. Not mentioned, but covered by the decision, are: Elmer Flick, Monte Cross, and Bill Duggleby of the A's; Ed Delahanty, Al Orth, Harry Wolverton, and Jack Townsend of Washington; Ed McFarland (White Stockings) and Red Donahue (Browns).

Christy Mathewson gives the Giants their 2nd victory, winning his 2nd by topping Boston, 6-3.

1900
» The American League entry in Chicago opens with the Chicago White Stockings losing to the Milwaukee Brewers, 5-4. Chicago will win tomorrow, 5-3, behind the pitching of Roger Denzer.

1880
» George Wright turns down Providence's final contract offer. Since the club has turned down Worcester's offer and will not allow any other club to negotiate with Wright, he will sit out the entire season (except for one game), the first player victimized by the reserve system.