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. May 4th

2002
» Barry Bonds hits his 400th home run as a Giants, leading the Giants to a 3–0 win over Cincinnati. Ryan Jensen relieves starter Jason Schmidt in the 1st inning and carries a no–hitter into the 8th before surrendering a single to Jason LaRue. Bonds is the first player to hit 400 homers for one team and 100 with another.

Pinch–hitter Shea Hillenbrand hits a 2–out grand slam in the 9th inning, off Victor Zambrano, to give the Red Sox a 7–5 win over host Tampa Bay. It is the 3rd straight game in which Tampa Bay has blown a lead in the 9th; According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Devil Rays are the first A.L. team since the 1929 White Sox to lose three straight games after taking the lead into the 9th inning.

2000
» The Phillies bash the Reds, 14-1, as OF Doug Glanville gets five hits. The Phils tie the major-league record by hitting four consecutive doubles in the 1st inning.

1999
» The Cubs blow an early 8-2 lead, as the Rockies score three in the 6th, three in the 7th, and three in the 8th to take an 11-8 lead. Chicago bounces back with two in the bottom of the 9th, however, to defeat Colorado, 12-11. Cub 1B Mark Grace hits a bases-loaded homer in the 3rd inning, relinquishing his title as the active player with the most at bats without a grand slam (6,136 at bats). Cincinnati SS Barry Larkin is the new leader with 5,817 at bats.

Mark McGwire hit a grand slam off Greg Maddux. It is the 12th grand slam of McGwire's career and just the 2nd regular season grand slam that Maddux has allowed (the 1st was to Benito Santiago in 1996). The Cardinals scored six runs in the 2nd off Maddux, which was the 1st time he's allowed six runs in an inning. For McGwire, it is also his 100th home run with the Cardinals, becoming the 24th player to hit 100+ home run with more than one franchise and the 14th player to hit 100+ home run in both leagues.

1998
» The Dodgers become the first major league team to have an Asian office with the opening of their headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.

1997
» Detroit P Willie Blair suffers a broken jaw when he's struck by a 107-mile-per-hour line drive off the bat of Cleveland's Julio Franco in the 6th inning of the Tigers' 2-0 victory. Blair still gets credit for the win.

1996
» Roger Pavlik follows Ken Hill's one-hitter with one of his own, the first time in 79 years teammates have tossed back-to-back one-hitters in the American League, as Texas tops the Tigers, 3–1. Mark Lewis's 2-out homer in the 5th inning is the only Bengal safety. Neither Pavlik or Hill allows a walk.

The visiting A's get a homer from Jason Giambi to beat the Royals, 5–2, but lose 3B Scott Brosius. Brosius, hitting .351 with eight homers, is hit by a Mark Gubicza pitch in the 4th that breaks his right arm.

The Rockies bang out 21 hits, including a pair of three-run homers by Andres Galarraga, to hook the Marlins 17–5. The Rockies score seven runs in the first inning when they cash in three of their five home runs. Galarraga drives in seven runs for the day.

Butch Hobson, former Red Sox manager and current skipper of the Triple-A Scranton-Wilkes-Barre Red Barons, is arrested in Rhode Island on a cocaine possession charge.

1995
» The Mets defeat the Expos, 5-1, in 10 innings on Todd Hundley's pinch-hit grand slam. Hundley becomes only the 11th player in history to hit a pinch-hitter grand slam in extra innings.

1994
» Detroit 2B Lou Whitaker drives in seven runs in the Tigers' 14-7 win over the Rangers. He strokes a 3-run home run in the 3rd inning, and a grand slam in the 8th.

The Cubs end their record home-losing streak of 12 games by beating the Reds, 5–2. Steve Trachsel is the winner, with help from home runs by Sammy Sosa and Eddie Zambrano and a "good luck" goat in attendance.

1992
» The Pirates score 11 runs in the 6th inning of their 12–5 win over Cincinnati. Buc reliever Dennis Lamp, who pitches only the top of the 6th, is the happy recipient of the outburst.

White Sox P Alex Fernandez hurls a 1-hit shutout over the Brewers, winning 7–0.

During KC's 11–6 win over Cleveland, Indians OF Albert Belle charges the mound after two of P Neal Heaton's pitches sail behind him. In the bullpen, Indian P Ted Power gets up from his chair to join the fight at the mound, and suffers a strained right calf muscle. He is forced to go on the DL with the injury.

1991
» Mackey Sasser and Mark Carreon stroke consecutive pinch home runs in the Mets' 6-4, 12-inning win over the Giants. It is the first time the feat has been performed in the National League since 1975.

Chris James of the Indians collects nine RBIs in Cleveland's 20-6 victory over the A's.

1990
» The Red Sox trade reliever Lee Smith to the Cardinals for OF Tom Brunansky.

1989
» Toronto's Junior Felix hits the first pitch he sees in the big leagues for a home run off Kirk McCaskill, but the Blue Jays lose 3–2 in 10 innings. He is the 27th American League player ever to homer in his first ML at bat, and the 10th to do so on the first pitch.

Cleveland's John Farrell no-hits the Royals for eight innings before Kevin Seitzer singles. Doug Jones nails down the 3–1 one-hitter.

1988
» Joe Niekro, 43, is released by the Twins, joining Steve Carlton and Tippy Martinez as the 3rd veteran pitcher to be released by the club since Opening Day.

1987
» Candy Maldonado hits for the cycle to lead San Francisco's 21-hit attack in a 10–7 win over St. Louis.

Tim Wallach hits three home runs and drives in six runs, but Montreal loses at Atlanta, 10–7.

1986
» Veteran manager and executive Paul Richards dies. The innovative Richards is probably best known for designing the oversized catcher's glove used to catch knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm.

1985
» The wind is blowing out a Wrigley, and seven homers are hit in the 12–8 Cubs win over the Padres. Shawon Dunston hits his first ML homer, while Graig Nettles hits two for the Pads. Chicago gets 11 walks from the SD pitchers.

1984
» At Minnesota, Oakland's Dave Kingman hits a pop up that collides with the Metrodome, 180 feet up, and stays there. The ball is dislodged tomorrow. Frank Viola pitches seven 2/3 scoreless innings in the Twins 3–1 win.

1983
» Johnny Bench collects his 2,000th career hit, a single off Steve Carlton in a 9–4 Cincinnati loss to the Phillies.

1982
» Twins rookie OF Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from a nervous disorder known as Tourette's Syndrome, is forced to remove himself from a 5–3 loss to the Red Sox when he is taunted mercilessly by bleacher fans and his violent twitching becomes uncontrollable. Eisenreich, who was hitting .310 after making the jump from A ball to the major leagues, will be hospitalized on May 9th and will make several unsuccessful comeback attempts before retiring in 1984. He will ultimately return to the majors with the Royals in 1987.

1981
» Yankee reliever Ron Davis strikes out the last eight batters of the game in a 4–2 win over the Angels, tying Nolan Ryan's American League record (done twice) for consecutive strikeouts and setting a new record for consecutive strikeouts by a reliever.

In the battle of the Cruz brothers, Astro Jose Cruz launches a 3-run missile in the 1st inning of Chicago's Mike Krukow, while brother Hector Cruz answers with a solo shot off Joaquin Andujar in the 6th inning. The Astros edge the Cubs 5–4.

1980
» Royals catcher Darrell Porter, returning to the starting lineup after spending six weeks in alcohol and drug rehabilitation, drives in three runs in Kansas City's 5–3 win over Boston.

Toronto's Otto Velez ties an American League record with four home runs in a doubleheader sweep of Cleveland at Exhibition Park. The Jays win 9–8 and 7–2. Velez homers three times in the opener, including a grand slam in the first inning and a game winner in the bottom of the 10th, and finishes the day with 10 RBI. Otto's clouts come with the bases empty, one on, two on and the slam.

White Sox 1B Mike Squires catches the final inning of an 11–1 loss to the Brewers, becoming the first lefthander to catch in the majors since Dale Long in 1958.

At Riverfront Stadium, Junior Kennedy's grand slam gives the Reds a 5–4 win over the Cubs.

1976
» At Wrigley, Rick Monday is honored before the Tuesday game, and he receives a copy of the proclamation and the flag he had rescued. Dodger VP and GM Al Campanis had to make special arrangements to get the flag out of the LAPD evidence room in time to present it to Rick. There are less than 5000 on hand as the Cubs lost to the Dodgers, 9–6. Rick has one hit and an RBI driving in Davey Rosello.

1975
» The Giants beat the Astros 8–6 in the first game of a doubleheader at Candlestick. In the 2nd inning, Houston's Bob Watson scores what is calculated as ML baseball's one-millionth run of all time (the Philadelphia Nationals Wes Fisler scored the first run on April 22, 1876) as Milt May hits John Montefusco's first pitch to drive him home. The Reds Dave Concepcion homers about the same moment and races around the bases, but Watson, on 2B, scores first. The Reds lose to Atlanta, 3–2.

Harmon Killebrew returns to the Met wearing the visitors Royals uniform. His #3 is retired before the game, and the Killer then brings the crowd to its feet when he unloads a homer in his first at bat. Minnesota wins 6–3, behind Jim Hughes.

In the first of 2, the Astros J.R. Richard walks 11 Giants in 8–6 loss. Houston wins the nitecap, 12–8.

Mets outfielder Cleon Jones is arrested in St. Petersburg, Florida, after the police find him naked in a van with a teenage girl who is holding a stash of narcotics. Jones tells the cops that he is "C. Joseph Jones, a laborer."

1973
» The Phillies edge the Braves 4–3 in a 20-inning marathon. Dick Ruthven starts for the Phils and Jim Lonborg finally gets the win over Ron Reed.

1970
» Houston's Jim Bouton posts the first complete-game victory of his NL career, yielding six hits in beating the Cubs, 7–2. Bouton (2-2) scores two runs.

Rico Carty sets an Atlanta club record hitting in his 23rd straight game as the Braves beat Pittsburgh, 5–3.

1969
» The Astros tie a major-league record with seven DPs in a 3–1 win against the Giants. Curt Blefary sets a record for 1B by participating in all 7.

Bob Oliver goes 6-for-6 (4 singles, a double and a home run), as the Royals coast over California 15–1. Every KC starter collects a hit and scores a run.

1966
» Willie Mays hits a National League record 512th home run -- topping another Giant, Mel Ott -- and the Giants beat the Dodgers 6–1.

Tribe SS Larry Brown and LF Leon Wagner are both hurt in a severe collision at Yankee Stadium. Brown suffers a fractured skull, cheekbone, and nose. Wagner receives a broken nose and slight concussion. Cleveland wins, 2–1, behind starter Sonny Siebert.

The Mets Jack Hamilton just misses a no-hitter as he beats the Cardinals 8–0. The only Bird bingle is a 2-strike bunt by pitcher Ray Sadecki that catches Mets 3B Ken Boyer playing back.

1965
» Masanori Murakami arrives in San Francisco from Japan to rejoin the Giants as a relief pitcher, ending a bitter contract dispute between the Giants and his home team, the Nankai Hawks. Murakami will have a good season; appearing in 45 games, he wins four and loses one, saves 8, gives up 57 hits in 74 innings, fans 85, and walks only 22 while posting an ERA of 3.50.

To take the place of the injured Tommy Davis, the Dodgers bring up 31-year-old Lou Johnson from Spokane. The veteran will hit .259 in Dodger blue.

1963
» The Braves Bob Shaw shatters the existing balk record when he is called for five in a 7–5 loss to the Cubs. Shaw is penalized three times in the 3rd inning alone, tying the major-league record set the previous week by Jim Owens.

The Yankees edge the Twins, 3–2, beating Jim Kaat on three solo homers. Elston Howard hits two, and Mickey Mantle adds one.

1962
» The first-place Giants win their 10th straight game, beating the Cubs 11–6. Billy Pierce wins his 4th straight and gives up a run after 17 2/3 innings of shut out pitching. The 10 wins is the longest winning streak since they moved west.

The Red Sox stage a 12-run uprising in the 5th inning to defeat the White Sox, 13–6. Ed Bressoud and Carl Yastrzemski have two hits in the frame as does pinch hitter Russ Nixon.

Arthur Allyn becomes sole owner of the White Sox by purchasing the 46-percent share held by an 11-man Chicago syndicate.

1961
» At Crosley Field, Reds pitcher Joey Jay pitches a one-hitter to beat the Phils, 4–0. Johnny Callison's 1st-inning single is the only hit.

The Phils send P Dick Farrell and SS Joe Koppe to the Dodgers for 3B Charlie Smith and OF Don Demeter. Demeter will give the Phils three solid years.

Mickey Mantle homers and extends his hitting streak to 16 games, as the Yankees top the Twins, 5–2. New York sweeps all three games in Minnesota.

1960
» The Cubs make a trade—with WGN—plucking Lou Boudreau out of the broadcast booth to replace Charlie Grimm (6-11) as manager, Jolly Cholly takes Lou's chair behind the mike. The Cubs win, 5–1, over the Pirates as Dick Ellsworth gains his first ML victory.

The Orioles C Gus Triandos sets American League records with three passed balls in one inning (6th) and four in one game, but Hoyt Wilhelm, making a rare start, goes seven innings and gets credit for a 6–4 Baltimore win over the White Sox. Early Wynn records his 2,000th strikeout in a no-decision effort for the Sox. Triandos' PB mark for an inning will be tied by reserve backstop Myron Ginsberg in six days, and Tom Egan will collect five PBs in 1970 to erase Gus' name.

1958
» At Seals Stadium, light-hitting OF Roman Mejias of the Pirates hits three home runs in the opener with San Francisco to lead Pittsburgh to a 6–2 win. Mejias will hit just five homers this year. SF's two runs come on homers by Orlando Cepeda. The Giants win the nitecap 4–3 in 10 innings.

1956
» The National Braille Press presents to manager Pinky Higgins the Red Sox 1956 schedule, printed in Braille for the first time.

1954
» The Phils and Cards set a ML record, later broken, by using 42 players in an 11-inning, 14–10 victory for Philadelphia. The Cards use eight pitchers and the Phillies use 7.

1953
» Busch Stadium bans bottles from the park during a game due to fans tossing soda bottles during a 7–6 Browns loss to the Yankees on April 28th. Meanwhile, at Pittsburgh, the Cards' Vinegar Bend Mizell shuts out the Bucs, 5–0.

1952
» Boston 1B Faye Throneberry hits his 2nd grand slam of the season off Early Wynn of the Indians, but the Tribe wins, 9–6. The Red Sox have accounted for all four of the American League's grand slams thus far, as the infielder joins teammates Walt Dropo and Don "Footsie" Lenhardt.

1951
» NY Representative Emanuel Celler, citing the case of Danny Gardella, plans a probe of ML baseball for antitrust violations.

In St. Louis, the Yanks pummel the Browns 8–1 behind Eddie Lopat. Mickey Mantle, again batting leadoff and playing RF, connects for his 2nd home run, off Duane Pillette, a 450-shot in the 6th inning.

1950
» The White Sox, helped by Bob "Sugar" Cain's 5-hitter, embarrass the Yankees 15–0 at the Stadium. The score ties the Yank's team record, set in 1907, for the most runs in a shutout loss. One bright spot for the Yankees in the humiliating defeat is Phil Rizzuto's three hits.

In a 9–6 win at St. Louis, Phillies' OF Dick Sisler raps five hits in a row. He has a home run and four singles to drive in 5. He starts the next game with three hits in a row before making out.

1949
» White Sox infielder Floyd Baker, who will play 874 games in his 13 year ML career, hits his only home run, off Sid Hudson, into "Home Run Lane," named for GM Frank Lane, in an 8–7 loss to Washington.

A day after the two teams played to a 13-inning, 14-14 tie, the Tigers beat the Red Sox, 5–1, behind Virgil Trucks 3-hitter. The Tigers shell Mickey Harris for 14 hits in five 2/3 innings.

1946
» Jim Bagby beats the Indians' Bob Feller, 6–2, as the Red Sox have now won nine straight. Ted Williams drives in three runs on a double and home run.

1944
» Joe Cicero, actor Clark Gable's cousin, hits three home runs, two of which are grand slams, for 10 RBI, as Newark beats Montreal 17–8 in the International League.

The Browns announce that they are dropping their segregation policy restricting African Americans to the bleachers. Henceforth, "Negroes" may purchase a ticket for any seat.

1943
» Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick demonstrates the revised "balata ball" to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet. This ball will prove to be 50 percent livelier than the 1942 one. When introduced in games on May 9th, six home runs will be hit in four doubleheaders compared with nine home runs hit with the previous ball in the first 72 games.

1942
» The Reds score 12 runs in the 4th inning and coast to a 15–4 win over the visiting Giants.

1941
» The Indians win their 10th in a row, 12–4, over Washington. Al Smith is the winner.

In St. Louis, Lefty Grove wins his 294th victory, 11–4, over the Browns. The Red Sox back Lefty with 15 hits.

1939
» In Detroit, Ted Williams belts two homers for the first time in his career to lead the Red Sox to a 7–6 win over the Tigers. Off Bob Harris, Williams thumps one homer over the right-field roof, the first ever hit out over the double deck at Briggs Stadium.

Executive vice president Larry MacPhail is elected president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1938
» At Washington, the Indians and Senators match zeroes for 12 innings before the Zeke Bonura scores in the bottom of the 13th to win, 1–0. Dutch Leonard goes all the way for Washington and walks none while allowing six hits. Feller pitches the first 10 innings for the Tribe.

1937
» Ripper Collins, Joe Marty, and John Bottarini homer for the Cubs in the 8th inning against the Phils, as visiting Chicago wins 14–7.

Carl Hubbell wins his 3rd straight the year, 19th overall, but did not finish the game as the Giants nip the Reds, 7–6. Dick Bartell hits two homers to back King Carl.

With the bases loaded in the 11th inning, the Washington Senators pull of a triple steal, with Ben Chapman on the front end, to break a 5–5 tie. When the dust clears, the Senators score seven to beat the Indians, 12–5.

1935
» Jimmie Foxx scores five runs, as the A's beat the Indians 12–1.

1933
» New York's Lefty Gomez throws no-hit ball for eight innings before Detroit's Charlie Gehringer leads off the 9th with a home run. Gerald Walker follows with a double, reaches 3rd when Gomez throws a wild pitch, and scores. Gomez then retires the side for a 5–2 Yankee win.

1931
» At Yankee Stadium, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, back in the lineup, switch positions to spare Ruth's lame leg. Despite five hits by the pair, the Red Sox beat the Yankees, 7–3, as Gehrig makes an error. It is the last game in which Gehrig plays OF.

1929
» At Comiskey Park, Lou Gehrig wallops three home runs against the Sox in an 11–9 New York shootout. His middle home run, in the 7th inning, is sandwiched between roundtrippers by Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel. With his homer off Red Faber in the 2nd, Gehrig joins Ruth as the 2nd slugger to clear the RF stands, 75 feet high and 360 feet away from home plate. The Ruthian clout came off Tommy Thomas in 1927. His last homer of the day is served up by Dan Dugan.

At Baker Bowl, Cubs pitcher Pat Malone holds the Phillies scoreless, and collects three singles and two RBI to win easily, 16–0. Hack Wilson and Kiki Cuyler each hit two doubles, and Rogers Hornsby homers. The Cubs take the 2nd game as well, 9–7.

1928
» At Pittsburgh, the Boston Braves beat Ray Kremer and the Pirates, 5–4, in 11 innings. Kremer is matched by Ed Brandt who also goes 11 frames. For Kremer, it is his first loss at home after 22 wins, a major-league record for consecutive wins at home that won't be matched in the 20th century.

1923
» In St. Louis, Marty Callaghan's swipe of home in the bottom of the 10th wins it, 2–1 for the Cardinals. Virgil Cheeves is victorious over the Cubs Fred Toney.

1921
» The Giants end Brooklyn's winning streak at 11 games 3-2.

1919
» The Giants play their first legal Sunday game at home, before 35,000 fans, losing to the Phils 4-3. More than 25,000 turn out in Brooklyn the same day. By early June, the Giants will outdraw their 1918 attendance.

The A's collect 18 hits, but lose to Washington 12-6, leaving an AL-record-tying 17 on base.

1916
» Christy Mathewson, beset with back problems, makes his first start of the year, losing to the Braves, 7–6, in 10 innings. Matty goes the distance allowing 15 hits, including a homer to rival pitcher Lefty Tyler. The Giants were held in check by Tyler until the 9th when, trailing 4–0, they tie it up. Fred Merkle's homer is the big blow in the inning.

Red Sox pitcher Dutch Leonard shuts out the Yankees, 3–0. The Yanks will take the next three games to drop Boston below .500.

1914
» At the Polo Grounds, the Dodgers hit for the cycle against Christy Mathewson in the 4th inning to take a 3–0 lead. Casey Stengel's double caps the scoring. But New York is gifted with two runs on an errant throw by catcher Lew McCarty in the 4th, and they go on to win, 4–3.

1913
» The U.S. League tries to compete as a ML, with teams in Baltimore, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Reading, New York, Newark, Washington, and Lynchburg. They will open May 10th and fold May 12th; Baltimore is the pennant winner with a 2–0 record.

Pittsburgh's Babe Adams tosses a 2-hitter at the Reds, and drives home the game's only run with the Pirates' only hit of the game.

1912
» In New York the Giants pilfer nine bases on catcher George Graham in a 4–3 win over the Phils. Christy Mathewson is the winner over Cliff Curtis. Matty allows five hits, but his two base on balls score in the 8th when he serves up a homer to Tom Downey. Phils 3B Hans Lobert, one of the fastest men in the game, chases a foul ball into the stands and breaks his kneecap.

1911
» Staked to a 6–0 lead, Giants' ace Christy Mathewson coasts to a 7–2 win against Boston.

1910
» President Taft takes in two games starting with the Reds and the Cardinals at Robison Field in St. Louis. The Cards score five in the 1st as Reds pitchers Fred Beebe, Walt Slagle (in his only ML appearance) and Harry Coveleski will eventually walk a record 16 in the 12–3 loss. The Cards walk seven to total a record 23. Taft doesn't stick around. He leaves for Sportsman's Park in hopes of seeing some good baseball and is rewarded by a 3–3, 14-inning battle between the Browns' Joe Lake and the Naps' Cy Young that ends in darkness. There will be a record 19 ties in the AL this year.

1909
» The Pirates sweep Chicago, winning their 4th straight by edging Three-Finger Brown, 1-0, in 11 innings. Dots Miller drives in the lone run. It is the 2nd time in three weeks that the Pirates have beaten Brown, 1-0, in extra innings.

Christy Mathewson makes his first appearance of the year, giving up nine hits, four walks and three runs in seven innings against the Phillies. Philadelphia wins, 5-2, to complete a 3-game sweep of the cellar-dwelling Giants.

1908
» The Giants jump on Tully Sparks for five runs in the first inning and coast to a 12-2 win over the Phillies. Christy Mathewson leaves with a 9-0, lead and runs his record to 5-0.

1907
» Hooks Wiltse shuts out Brooklyn, 10-0, allowing just one hit in eight innings. Henry Mathewson, Christy's brother, mops up in the 9th in his final ML appearance.

The White Sox crush the Highlanders, winning 15-0, setting a New York team record for biggest opponents score in a whitewash. On July 15th, the two teams will repeat the score.

1904
» At Detroit, Cleveland starter John Hickey loads the bases in the 5th and is lifted for Addie Joss, who gives up a bases-clearing triple. Addie holds the Tigers scoreless after that, but the 3-2 loss-according to the ruling at the time-goes to Joss [this loss will bounce back and forth between the two pitchers].

Justice Gaynor rules in favor of Brooklyn players arrested for playing baseball on Sunday at Washington Park. In an appeal, Sunday baseball will again be ruled illegal on June 18th.

1901
» Fire destroys the wooden grandstand at League Park in St. Louis and halts St. Louis and Cincinnati with a 4-4 tie in the 10th inning. The 6,000 fans, a third in the 35 cent grand stands beat a leisurely retreat. The city refuses to permit a duplicate park to be reconstructed, but wants a steel or fireproof grandstand instead.

1898
» Nap Lajoie of the Phillies goes 0-for-4 after 22 hits in the first 11 games.

1897
» Cap Anson Day is celebrated in Chicago during the home opener with St. Louis. A near-capacity crowd of 14,968 is on hand, including comedian Eddie Foy, actress Maurice Barrymore, and his daughter Ethel, and Alderman John Maynard Harlan, whose son will become a Supreme Court Justice. Anson plays an errorless game behind the plate and adds a single in Chicago's 5–2 victory.

1892
» Cincinnati players Billy Rhines, Jerry Harrington, and Eddie Burke are disciplined after getting involved in a fight the previous evening. Harrington and Burke are each fined $100, but Rhines—who won 45 games for the Reds over the last two years—is suspended without pay for the rest of the season. Nevertheless, Rhines will throw 84 ineffective innings this year.