2002
» After sitting through a 2-hour rain delay, the Red Sox defeat the Mariners, 4–1, behind the pitching of Pedro Martinez. Martinez strikes out the side in the 1st inning on nine pitches, the 17th time the feat has been performed since 1970. Pedro is now 10–0 against the Mariners, with a 0.93 ERA against them. For the M's, it is just their 4th road defeat in 21 games.

2001
» The Tigers defeat the Devil Rays, 18-2, scoring nine runs in the 5th inning. Nine Tigers drive home runs. The win goes to Victor Santos, his first ML win, but his consecutive innings pitched without an earned run is snapped at 27.1.

The Diamondbacks defeat the Cubs, 4-0, as Randy Johnson (5 innings), Byung-Hyun Kim (3 innings), and Bret Prinz (1 inning) combine on a one-hitter. The Cubs have now lost eight in a row. Before tomorrow's game, Julio Zuleta will borrow a scene from the movie Major League and use a voodoo stick on the Cubs bats to instill hits. It works.

The Yanks stop Seattle's 8-game win streak, winning, 14–10. Ex-Mariner Tino Martinez is 4-for-5 with a homer and four ribbies. John Halama is the loser with seven runs in three IP. Ichiro Suzuki is 3-for-6 with two steals to extend his hitting streak to 23 games.

2000
» The Cardinals defeat the Phillies, 7-2, behind Mark McGwire's three home runs and seven RBIs. The homers move McGwire past Mickey Mantle into 8th place on the all-time list with 539.

The Padres defeat the Marlins, 6-2. Florida steals 10 bases in 10 attempts in the game, falling one shy of the modern NL mark. Luis Castillo and Cliff Floyd steal three apiece, while Mark Kotsay and Preston Wilson each pilfer a pair.

The Rangers defeat the Orioles, 8-7. Frank Catalanotto gets three hits for the Rangers, and extends his consecutive hit streak to a team-record 10 before making an out.

The Twins defeat the A's, 10-5, as Denny Hocking has five hits, including two doubles and a home run, and three RBIs.

1999
» The Yankees lose to the Red Sox, 6-3, as Joe Torre returns as Yankee manager after being treated for prostate cancer.

The Mariners defeat the Twins, 10-1, as Seattle DH Edgar Martinez clouts three home runs and drives home four runs.

1B Mark Grace's 3-run home run in the 11th inning gives the Cubs a 4-1 victory over the Marlins. SS Alex Gonzalez has all three of Florida's hits.

In Boston, Joseph Schnabel pleads guilty to stealing wills signed by baseball Hall of Famers George Wright and 1920s umpire Tom Connolly and selling them for more than $15,000. The discovery of the missing documents led authorities in other parts of the country to realize they had experienced similar thefts.

1998
» Oakland 3B Mike Blowers hits for the cycle and drives home four runs in the A's 14–0 win over the White Sox. Blowers homers in the 2nd inning, doubles in the 5th, singles in the 7th, and triples in the 8th to become only the 2nd player in franchise history to accomplish the feat.

1997
» At Oakland, hot-hitting Frank Thomas goes 4-for-4 to lead the White Sox to a 10–4 win over the A's. Thomas has two RBIs, a walk and three runs; he has now reached base in 12 straight plate appearances. In the 6th inning, Albert Belle scores and throws an elbow at the face of A's catcher George Williams as he goes by. Belle is hit on the leg by a pitch from Aaron Small in his next at bat.

The Mets use five straight walks by Colorado pitchers—three with the bases loaded—to score eight runs in the 8th inning and beat the Rockies, 10–4. New York trails 4-2 entering the eighth before Colorado's bullpen totally unravels, throwing 20 balls in 23 pitches to five batters. Rockie pitchers walk 12 in the game.

The Expos defeat the Dodgers, 7-4, with the help of five hits, including two doubles and a homer, by 2B Mike Lansing.

In the Tigers' 6-5 victory over the Royals, KC left fielder Bip Roberts has a 14-minute at bat against P Felipe Lira. The 1st-inning at bat features 18 pitches, as well as nine pickoff throws to first and six aborted attempts to steal by Tom Goodwin, who was on 1st base.

The Angels trade P Chuck McElroy and C Jorge Fabregas to the White Sox in exchange for C Chad Kreuter and OF Tony Phillips.

1996
» Mets' backstop Todd Hundley drives in seven runs and Mark Clark wins, 14–5, over the Giants. SS Rey Ordonez gets four hits and almost makes four throwing errors—he's charged with 2—but Rico Brogna at first retrieves two for outs. Clark's win is his 2nd complete game: no other Met has gone the distance.

1995
» The Walt Disney Company becomes the managing partner of the Anaheim Angels by purchasing 25% of the team.

1994
» The Cincinnati Enquirer quotes Marge Schott as saying she doesn't want her Reds players to wear earrings, because "only fruits wear earrings." She will later clarify her statement saying she was "not prejudice against any group, regardless of lifestyle preferences." Dodger P Roger McDowell buys earrings for the whole team and they will wear them in the clubhouse in Cincinnati: Tommy Lasorda doesn't allow them to wear them on the field.

Japanese P Hiromi Makihara of the Yomiuri Giants pitches a perfect game, 6–0 win over the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. It is the 15th perfect game in Japanese baseball history.

1992
» San Diego P Bruce Hurst hurls a one-hit shutout over the Mets, defeating Dwight Gooden by a score of 3–0. The only hit is a single by the recently acquired Chico Walker. Hurst does it without Tony Gwynn, who breaks the tip of his right middle finger by slamming it in the door of his Porsche on the way to the bank. Gwynn is hitting .369.

1990
» In a 7–0 loss to the Astros, Cubs 2B Ryne Sandberg finally commits an error. This ends his ML-record errorless streaks at 123 games and 584 chances. Joe Morgan held the previous record of 91 games.

1988
» In Oakland's 39th game of the season, pitcher Dave Stewart breaks the major-league record with his 12th balk in a 4–1 loss to the Red Sox. Stewart will finish the season with 16 balks.

In a deal made possible by the emergence of rookie 1B Mark Grace, the Cubs deal veteran 1B Leon Durham to the Reds for reliever Pat Perry.

1985
» At Houston, the Astros beat the Cards, 6–5. Nolan Ryan caps Houston's scoring with a 2-run single in the 8th. It is his first since May 1984, a strong of 57 hitless at bats.

It's a day for hitting pitchers, as Atlanta's Rick Mahler drills a 3-run double to help beat the Cubs, 4–3.

1983
» Chicago's Rich Dotson pitches a one-hitter against the Orioles, and loses 1–0. Baltimore's lone hit is Dan Ford's 8th-inning home run.

1982
» Tigers Larry Herndon hits three home runs in an 11–9 win over Oakland, and in the process becomes the 14th player in ML history to hit home runs in four consecutive plate appearances. On May 16th, he homered in his final at bat to give Detroit a 7–6 win over Minnesota.

In Chicago, the White Sox top Texas 10–2 behind LaMarr Hoyt's 13th straight win stretching back to 1981. Hoyt's record at Comiskey Park is now 15–0.

1981
» Fernando Valenzuela finally loses 4–0 to the Phillies. His ERA "rises" to 0.90.

1979
» Dale Murphy has three home runs in three at bats, knocking in five runs, to pace the Braves to a 6–4 victory over the Giants.

1976
» The White Sox trade OF Carlos May to the Yankees for pitcher Ken Brett and OF Rich Coggins.

1973
» During a 5–4 win over the Royals, the A's Bill North punches Kansas City P Doug Bird, earning a 3-day league suspension.

1971
» Jose Cardenal singles in the 9th to give the Cards a 6–5 win over the Dodgers. Cardenal, playing RF, also nabs Don Sutton in the 3rd inning on a 9–3 putout.

1969
» Rod Carew steals 2B, 3B, and home in the 3rd inning of Minnesota's 8–2 loss to Detroit. Cesar Tovar also steals 3rd and home ahead of Carew, and the two steals of home in an inning ties a ML record. Tovar pays a price when Mickey Lolich hits him in the head with a pitch in his next at bat.

1968
» Frank Howard ties the American League record with a home run in his 6th consecutive game to lead Washington to an 8–4 win over Detroit. His 10 home runs in the six games are the most of all the record holders. Howard's 10 home runs (in 20 at bats) are also the most ever in one week (Sunday through Saturday). Earl Wilson will stop him tomorrow. For Detroit, Al Kaline belts a pinch-HR off Steve Jones. It is Kaline's 307th home run, surpassing Hank Greenberg's 306 in a Tiger uniform.

Don Drysdale posts his 2nd consecutive shutout, 1–0, over Houston.

Pirate Bill Mazeroski plays his 392nd straight game, a record for National League 2B, in an 8–3 loss to the Reds.

1962
» Mickey Mantle suffers a pulled groin muscle, tears muscles in his right thigh, and injures his left knee trying for an infield hit that becomes the final out of New York's 4–3 loss to Minnesota. He will miss one month.

ML owners approve a Player Development Plan that will ensure the survival of at least 100 minor league clubs for 1963.

The minor leagues are reorganized into four classes rather than 7. Classes B, C, and D are grouped as Class A, Classes AA and A become Class AA, and Class AAA remains the same, along with the rookie classification.

1961
» Ryne Duren comes in for the Angels and notches four strikeouts in the 7th inning against the White Sox. He fans Minnie Minoso, Roy Sievers, J.C. Martin, and Sammy Esposito to tie the ML record. One pitch eludes C Del Rice and results in the winning run. Chicago takes it 6–4.

Ray Kendrick ties the California League record with 19 strikeouts in Fresno's 12–3 defeat of Stockton.

1958
» The Indians' Carroll Hardy pinch-hits for Roger Maris and smacks a 3-run home run off Billy Pierce to pace the Tribe's 7–4 win. Hardy will pinch-hit for Ted Williams in 1960.

The Yanks score five in the 4th off Pedro Ramos to top the Senators, 5–2.

1957
» Seconds before the 10:20 p.m. curfew will end the White Sox-Orioles game, the Birds Dick Williams cracks a game-tying homer off Paul LaPalme. The game ends 4–4.

1956
» 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 8–7 in 10 innings.

1955
» Cleveland scores 11 runs in the 5th to whip the Red Sox 19–0, and give Herb Score an easy win over Willard Nixon. Vic Wertz's grand slam is the big blow in the inning. It is the worst shutout pasting ever by Boston and the most runs ever in a shutout for the Tribe.

Milwaukee slugger Eddie Mathews undergoes an appendectomy and is lost for two weeks.

At the Stadium, Mickey Mantle's 8th inning grand slam off Mike Fornieles powers the Yankees past the White Sox, 11–6. In the play before Mantle's blast, a grounder was ruled a dead ball after Hank Bauer interfered with Nellie Fox at 2nd, leaving the sacks jammed. The Sox lose Minnie Minoso for two weeks with a hairline fracture of the skull after he is hit by a pitch from Bob Grim.

1953
» Redlegs P Bud Podbielan walks 13 batters in 10 innings against Brooklyn, but holds on to win 2–1 on a Ted Kluszewski homer off starter Preacher Roe. No one has walked 13 in the National League since 1918. The Dodgers strand 18 against the former Dodger pitcher, tying the NL mark.

The Tigers and Red Sox split a pair, with Detroit winning the opener 5–2 behind Ned Garver. Walt Dropo has a single, double and triple against his old teammates. His first inning single, off the Green Monster, drives in his American League-leading 26th run. The Sox win the nitecap, 8–5 behind Mel Parnell (5-0) and Ellis Kinder.

1951
» Catcher Walker Cooper of the Braves goes 5-for-5 in a 12–3 route of the Pirates. Max Surkont (5–1) is the winner, scattering 10 hits and giving up late inning home runs to Ralph Kiner and Wally Westlake.

1950
» Cards third baseman Tom Glaviano makes three errors on successive plays in the 9th—2 wild throws and a boot—that lets in four runs in a 9–8 loss. The Dodgers trail by an 8–0 score in the game, and close to 8–5 in the 9th and have the bases jammed when Glaviano experiences his nightmare. He ties a major-league record set most recently by Dodgers Billy Cox last year.

At the Polo Grounds, Rube Walker poles a grand slam in the 6th inning for the Cubs. In the bottom of the inning, Monte Irvin hits a grand slam for the Giants, the first time in history that each team has slammed in the same inning. The game is called on account of rain after six innings, and the Giants win, 10–4, behind Clint Hartung. Johnny Schmitz, the first of four pitchers, is the loser.

1949
» The Pirates trade Johnny Hopp (.218) to the Dodgers for Marv Rackley. Hopp will go 0-for-14 while Rackley will be 11-for-35 before the trade is canceled on June 7.

1948
» The lowly Cubs edge the Phillies, 3–2, as Johnny Schmitz outduels young Curt Simmons. Four Phillie errors let in all three Cub runs.

An International League game in Jersey City draws less than 1,700 on a night a Giants' telecast is being received in 600 bars in Jersey. The minor leagues, especially in the East, are getting testy over the impact of the major leagues open television policy.

1947
» At Chicago, the Dodgers and Jackie Robinson attract a crowd of 46,572—still a single game paid attendance record at Wrigley. Brooklyn scores after 18 shutout innings and beats the Cubs, 4–2, extending the Cubs' losses to five straight. Robinson goes 0-for-4 to stop his hitting streak at 14 games: he'll start a 21-game streak on June 14. Joe Hatten is the winner while Cubs starter and loser Johnny Schmitz walks eight and strikes out nine before relief comes in.

Ewell Blackwell outpitches Mort Cooper to give the Reds a 2–1 win over the Braves. Red Barrett then outpitches Johnny Vander Meer, 3–1, to give the Braves a split for the day. Only a game and a half separate the first-place Braves from the 5th-place Pirates.

In St. Louis, the Cards drop a pair to Philadelphia, losing 6–3 and 1–0. Ken Raffensberger wins the nitecap for the Blue Jays with a brilliant complete-game shutout. Ken Heintzelman wins the opener for the Phils. Harry Walker is 5-for-10 in the two games, while Emil Verban (.337) knocks in the winning run in the 12th.

1946
» In a great trade for Detroit, the Tigers acquire 3B George Kell from the A's for popular hometown outfielder Barney McCosky. McCosky, back from the war, is hitting just .198. The Tigers then sell veteran 3B Pinky Higgins to the Red Sox.

The Red Sox coast to an 18–8 win over the Browns as Mickey Harris wins his 7th straight. Ted Williams has a grand slam for Boston.

After rainouts the past two days, the Giants and Cubs play the first of two games, with the Cubs rolling to a 19–3 win. Game two is washed out.

1945
» A wet record. The Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Athletics both have seven straight games postponed because of rain in the past four days. In the American League, every game between the 14th and the 17th is rained out.

In a 15–12 Dodgers' victory over the Cubs, Brooklyn's Luis Olmo hits a triple and home run, each with the bases loaded. No 20th century ML player has done that since. Olmo adds a 2B for good measure. Former OF Ben Chapman is the winning pitcher.

Jimmie Foxx hits the 2nd pinch grand slam of his career, off Ken Burkhart, to give the Phils an 8–7 lead. But St. Louis rallies in the 9th to win 11–8.

1944
» Rufe Gentry wins his own game with an RBI single in the 8th inning. The Tigers defeat the Athletics, 1–0.

1941
» The Cards rally to beat the Phils, 6–5, but they lose rookie C Walker Cooper who fractures a scapula bone and dislocates a collar bone. Cooper is bowled over by Hal Marnie, who scores in the 5th.

1940
» After beating the Phillies 11 straight times over two 1/2 years, the Reds Paul Derringer finally loses, 8–3. The Phils collect 12 hits in eight innings off Derringer.

The Cards collect just seven hits off Hot Potato Luke Hamlin, but all are for extra bases to tie an National League record. The Dodgers lose, 6–2. Five of the hits are home runs -- 2 each by Johnny Mize and Terry Moore. Pee Wee Reese steals his 17th base in 26 games; the Cards have just five stolen bases.

The Yanks vacate last place by beating the White Sox, 3–0, behind Monte Pearson's 2-hitter.

1939
» The Athletics waive P Bud Thomas, acquired from the Senators on waivers on May 1, to Detroit. Thomas will go 7–0 for the Tigers.

1938
» After Bobo Newsom equals the American League record with six consecutive strikeouts, Joe DiMaggio hits his 2nd home run of the game, and Newsom and the Browns lose to New York 11–7. DiMag drives in five runs and WP Lefty Gomez knocks in 3.

At Detroit, Wes Ferrell pitches and bats the Indians to a 5–1 win. Ferrell hits a solo homer, while his batterymate, brother Rick Ferrell, goes hitless.

1935
» Bucky Walters shuts out the Cubs for ten innings and singles home Jimmy Wilson to win the game, 1–0. Walter gets two of the three Phils' hits off young Roy Henshaw.

1934
» At Comiskey Park, Jimmie Foxx tees off against Ted Lyons and hits the first home run to ever land in the CF bleachers. Hank Greenberg will match Double X in 1938, then no one will reach the bleachers until Alex Johnston in 1970. Chicago still wins, 5–4.

1933
» The first ML All-Star Game is announced for July six at Comiskey Park. It will be played as part of the Chicago World's Fair celebration and is sponsored by the Chicago Tribune. Fans will pick the players.

1931
» Brooklyn's Babe (Babe Herman, that is) hits for the cycle to help beat the Reds, 14–4. Al Eckert pitches 2/3 inning to take the loss, his last ML decision.

1930
» George Pipgras tosses his 3rd shutout of the season as the Yankees again support his pitching by bombing the Red Sox, 11–0, in Boston. Babe Ruth clocks an Ed Morris pitch over the RF bleachers, one of the longest homers ever at Fenway.

At Washington, the A's nip the Senators, 1–0, behind Lefty Grove' five hitter. Philadelphia manages just three hits off Lloyd Brown.

1929
» Brooklyn and Philadelphia score a ML-record 50 runs in a doubleheader at Baker Bowl. The Robins (Dodgers) win the opener 20–16, and the Phils take the 2nd game 8–6, despite a Dodgers triple play. Highlights include Brooklyn's Johnny Frederick tallying five runs in the opener, which combined with his three yesterday, gives him a ML-record eight in two games. Both Frederick and teammate Babe Herman collect five hits in the slugfest. Chuck Klein homers in each game, #'s seven and 8.

1923
» At Detroit, former Tiger pitcher, Howard Ehmke pitches his Boston Red Sox team to a 6-2 victory in 10 innings. Ty Cobb is 0-for-3 and caps the day with a heated argument (under the grandstand), reportedly because Ehmke hit him with a pitch.

1915
» On Suffrage Day, 4,100 women buy tickets to see the Giants-Cubs game in New York, and the suffragettes announce they will pay five dollars to each player who scores a run. "Wildfire" is the only recipient, as Chicago pulls a first inning double steal with Frank Schulte on the front end. Heinie Zimmerman is on the rear. The one run stands up against Jeff Tesreau and Bert Humphries wins, 1–0, with each pitcher allowing three hits.

1914
» In a 2–0 Boston win, Detroit's Ty Cobb is hit in the ribs by a pitch from Boston's Dutch Leonard, but stays in the game. In Cobb's next at-bat, he drags a bunt down the first base line and spikes Leonard when the pitcher tries to field the ball. In a few days, Cobb will leave the lineup because of a broken rib, the result of the pitch.

At Princeton University, Alexander MacMillan unveils his new invention, an automatic pitching machine. Called a Bat-Ball, the device propels a ball every eight seconds. At the unveiling, would-be batters are charged a penny for every pitch thrown.

1913
» In Detroit, 25,000 show up to see Walter Johnson battle the Tigers. Washington wins 2–1, with Detroit's only score coming on a Ty Cobb steal of home in the 7th.

1912
» The Tiger players protest Ty Cobb's suspension and vote to strike. Faced with a $5,000 fine for failing to field a team, club owner Frank Navin orders manager Hugh Jennings to sign up some local amateurs. Al Travers, Bill Leinhauser, Dan McGarvey, Billy Maharg (whose real name was Graham, "Maharg" reversed), Jim McGarr, Pat Meany, Jack Coffey, Hap Ward, and Ed Irvin put on Tiger uniforms. Two Detroit coaches, Joe Sugden, 41, and Jim McGuire, 48, complete the lineup, and score the only two runs for Detroit. The Athletics win 24–2, as Travers goes all the way, giving up 26 hits and 24 runs in eight innings. The only recruit to hit for Detroit is Irvin, who laces two triples in three at bats and closes his ML career with a 2.000 slugging average (only three other players will debut with two triples -— Roy Weatherly, Willie McCovey, and John Sipin). Only one ever plays another ML game: Maharg will bat once for the Phils in 1916. He will also be involved as a conspirator in the Black Sox scandal of 1919. A's starter Jack Coombs leaves after three innings with a 6–0 lead, good enough for a win under the rules at the time. Boardwalk Brown and Herb Pennock divide the rest of the pitching for the A's. Starter Travers, having pitched his only ML game, returns to his studies at St. Joseph's College and later becomes a Catholic priest.

The $400,000 Redland Field is dedicated in Cincinnati. A number of dignitaries, including Pennsylvania governor John Tener, AL Prexy Ban Johnson, and White Sox owner Charles Comiskey are on hand. Designed by Harry Hake at a cost of $225,000, the field replaces the aging Palace of the Fans on the same site, and looks very much like the Crosley Field that will eventually replace it. The Reds then delight the 20,000 fans by beating Christy Mathewson and the Giants, 4–3.

1911
» Babe Adams pitches the Pirates to a 6–1 win over the Giants. The Bucs gang up on Christy Mathewson for 10 hits in seven innings.

1910
» The Reds collects 11 hits off Christy Mathewson, but the Giants outslug Cincy to win, 10–6. It is Matty's 13th win in a row over the Reds. The Giants score four runs in the 4th, four more in the 7th and two in the 8th to pin the loss on George Suggs, now 5–1.

1908
» Coming back against the Reds, Christy Mathewson is treated poorly again. The Reds pound him for 15 hits and nine runs in seven innings to win 9-5, handing Matty his 3rd loss in a week.

1907
» Hooks Wiltse pitches the Giants to a 6-2 win over the Cardinals. For New York, it is their 17 straight win to run their season record to 24-3. Despite the run, the Giants are in first by just one game over Chicago.

1906
» Christy Mathewson, weakened from a bout of diphtheria, is pounded for 14 hits by the Pirates and loses, 7-6. Honus Wagner paces the attack with two singles and a triple and also picks off Bill Dahlen off 2B in the 9th inning with the hidden ball trick. Dahlen, intently watching Lefty Leifield on the mound, misses Wagner who gently touches him with the ball. John McGraw is so furious with Dahlen that he slaps him with a $100 fine, later rescinded. The Pirates have now won three in a row from New York.

1905
» The Pirates smack Christy Mathewson for nine hits and beat the host Giants, 7-2.

1898
» Chicago pitcher Walter Thornton has a bad control day as hits three consecutive batters in the 4th in an 11–4 loss to St. Louis. Willie Sudhoff is the winner, while former Colt player George Decker has four hits. Thornton's three HBPs in a row is an ML record.

1897
» Bill "Scrappy" Joyce's four triples pace the New York Giants to an 11–5 win over the Pirates at Pittsburgh. This is the last time this feat is accomplished in ML history. Philadelphia's (AA) George Streif hit four on June 25, 1885.

1892
» John "Sadie" McMahon loses a no-hitter—and the game—when New York's Denny Lyons singles in the only run in Baltimore's 1–0 loss.