2002
» The White Sox defeat the Rangers, 11–6, scoring eight runs in the 6th inning. It is the third time this season they've had an outbursts of eight or more runs in an inning.

A collector from Pennsylvania buys Shoeless Joe Jackson's famous bat, Black Betsy, for $577,610, believed to be the highest price ever paid for a bat.

2001
» Kevin Brown retires 17 straight batters, allows two hits as the Dodgers subdue the Marlins, 1–0. For the first of three times in six weeks, Gary Sheffield provides the only scoring with a home run. Teeing it up is A.J. Burnett, just off the DL after five weeks with a stress fracture in his foot.

2000
» The Marlins calcimine the Mets, 3-0, behind Ryan Dempster's 1-hitter. C Mike Piazza's 6th inning double is NY's only hit.

The Astros score seven runs in the 10th inning to defeat the Dodgers, 14-8. C Mitch Meluskey gets five hits for Houston, including a double.

The Twins whitewash the Tigers, 4-0, as manager Tom Kelly gets his 1,000th career win. He is the 46th skipper to reach the milestone.

1999
» Pedro Martinez fans 15 Angels as Boston defeats Anaheim, 6-0, for his league-leading 6th victory.

At Jacobs Field, the Indians overcome a 9-1 deficit by scoring four runs in the 6th, seven runs in the 7th, and seven more in the 8th, to defeat the Devil Rays, 20-11. Down eight and winning by nine is the biggest swing since July 8, 1990, according to historian Tom Ruane. Roberto Alomar and David Justice each drive home five runs for the Tribe, who have five players get three or more hits. Tampa Bay's Fred McGriff hits a 2-run shot off another Tampa native, Dwight Gooden. For McGriff, it is the 34th ML park he has homered in, a new ML record. He was tied with Gary Gaetti and Ellis Burks.

The Blue Jays defeat the Rangers, 9-6, as 3B Tony Fernandez strokes five hits, including three doubles.

The White Sox top the Athletics, 7-1, as rookie OF Carlos Lee shows why he is the Sox top prospect by hitting a homer in his first at bat. Lee is the first Sox player to ever hit a home run in his 1st big league at bat.

The Rockies defeat the Phillies, 8-1. In the process, they tie an NL record by extending their scoring streak to 14 straight innings before Curt Schilling stops them in the 2nd frame.

The Cubs fall to the Reds, 3-2. By holding Cincinnati scoreless in the 1st inning, Chicago P Kevin Tapani ends the Cubs' record for allowing runs in 13 consecutive innings.

The Padres edge the Braves, 4-3, as umpire Wally Bell returns to action 11 weeks after undergoing quintuple heart bypass surgery.

1998
» 1B Carlos Delgado goes 5–for–5, while driving in four of Toronto's runs in a 6–0 Blue Jay victory over Seattle. The Mariners tie a major league record and set an American League record by stranding 16 in a 9-inning shutout loss. The major league record was set by the Cardinals on May 24, 1994.

The Tigers sweep a series (of any length) in Oakland for the first time ever, coming back to beat the A's 6–3. The Tigers sweep the 2-game series with the 3rd game rained out. The last road sweep for Detroit against the A's was in 1965, in Kansas City.

1997
» The Expos score a National League-record 13 runs in the 6th inning of their game against the Giants on the way to a 19-3 win. The Expos send 17 batters to the plate. Mike Lansing homers twice in the inning to drive in five runs, becoming the 3rd Expo to perform the feat, and the 1st NL second baseman to do so since Bobby Lowe in 1894. Henry Rodriguez hits a grand slam in the 5-run 5th.

At Fenway, Red Sox C Scott Hatteberg hits a pair of homers—his first two in the majors—to pace the Sox to an 11–3 win over the Twins. Teammate Reggie Jefferson also hits a pair of homers.

Former Tiger star Denny McLain is sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay $2.5 million in restitution for stealing from the pension fund of a company he owned. The company, Peet Packing, went bankrupt 18 months after McLain bought it.

1996
» Eric Anthony and Eric Davis hit back-to-back homers in the 12th inning off reliever Todd Worrell to give host Cincinnati a 3–2 win over the Dodgers. Before the game, the Dodgers announce that CF Brett Butler has throat cancer and will not return to baseball. Butler, 38, has been on the DL since May 2, and a tonsillectomy revealed the cancerous lump. He will undergo surgery on May 21.

In another announcement out of Cincinnati, Marge Schott issues an apology for her laudatory comments about Adolph Hitler made last Sunday. Acting commissioner Bud Selig says, "we will continue to monitor the situation."

The first-place Yankees score eight runs in the 6th inning to beat the hapless Tigers, 12–5. Paul O'Neill is 2-for-3 to raise his average to .384, and Ruben Sierra drives home four runs. After the game, the Yankee players learn that clubhouse leader David Cone has an aneurysm in the front of his right shoulder that will require surgery on May 10th. Cone has experienced numbness in his pitching hand as a result.

The Angels put ace RHP Mark Langston on the DL and he will be out of action until early July with a cartilage tear in his right knee.

1995
» The Indians pound out 26 hits in their 17-inning, 10-9 victory over the Twins. Eddie Murray drives home five runs as four players get four hits each in the contest.

Atlanta manager Bobby Cox is arrested by police at his home, and jailed overnight, as he is charged with simple battery. He is accused of punching his wife and pulling her hair. The couple will appear together at a news conference to deny that he assaulted her. Mrs. Cox called police to request their help in breaking up an argument.

1993
» Tigers 1B-C Mickey Tettleton hits home runs from both sides of the plate in Detroit's 7-6, 12-inning win over the Yankees. It is the 2nd time Tettleton has turned the trick in his career. Detroit uses three walks and a hit to win in the 12th.

In a Triple-A game between the Omaha Royals and Oklahoma City 89ers, the Royals explode for four consecutive home runs with two outs in the 8th inning of their 11-4 victory. Karl Rhodes, Terry Shumpert, Russ McGinnis, and Bob Hamelin all connected for Omaha, off Gerald Alexander. After the next batter made the 3rd out, Benny Distefano led off the 9th for Oklahoma City with a homer, making five round-trippers in six batters. The Royals win, 11–4. Only once before in the minors have there been four straight homers hit: for Tulsa (Western League) on July 1, 1923. Lyman Smith, Jocko Conlan, Wes Griffin, and Jim Blakesley hit home runs off Wichita's Karl Black. They were the first four batters of the contest in the opener of a doubleheader.

1992
» The Indians commit around-the-horn errors in a 8–7 victory over the Rangers. 1B Paul Sorrento boots a ground ball, 2B Carlos Baerga misses a pop–up, SS Mark Lewis drops a throw and 3B Brook Jacoby boots another grounder.

1991
» Harold Baines leads Oakland to an 11–3 win over Baltimore by bashing three home runs and a double in four at bats. Mike Moore (5–0) is the winner.

1986
» Thirty-six-year-old Phillies OF Garry Maddox, an 8-time Gold Glove winner, retires. Only Roberto Clemente and Willie Mays have won more Gold Gloves in the outfield.

1982
» Keith Moreland has two home runs and seven RBI to power the Cubs to a 12–6 win over the Phils.

1980
» Kansas City collects nine consecutive hits (one shy of the American League record set by Boston in 1901) in an 8-run 4th inning, and goes on to defeat Texas 12–5.

1978
» At Riverfront, the Expos stomp the Reds, winning, 19–5, then lose the nitecap, 4–2. Pete Rose sits out game two because of stomach cramps, ending his consecutive games played at 678.

1977
» In a 12–10 losing slugfest with the Pirates, Pete Rose has two hits to run his hitting streak to 20 games. Pete will go hitless tomorrow, then rack up another 20-game hit streak later in the season.

1976
» At Honolulu's Aloha Stadium, in a PCL game between the Tacoma Twins and Hawaii, Twins P Bill Butler ignores the stadium ban against metal cleats and begins warming up. Stadium officials then turn the outfield lights off, and after 30 minutes of darkness, umpire Bill Lawson forfeits the game to Tacoma. PCL President Roy Jackson supports the umpire, but a few weeks later, Minor League head Bobby Bragan overrules Jackson and orders the game replayed.

1975
» The Braves trade C Johnny Oates, along with the contract of Dick Allen, to the Phillies for two players and cash. Allen had refused to report to Atlanta following his trade from the White Sox on December 3, 1974, and announced his retirement.

1974
» At Riverfront Stadium, the Reds Fred Norman strikes out 13 Cardinals, but loses, 1–0. The Birds score their only run in the 9th on Norman's throwing error.

1973
» Five solo home runs account for all of the Pirates scoring in a 5–4 win over the Dodgers.

1970
» The Yankees Roy White homers from both sides of the plate in a 7–3 win over Oakland.

Wes Parker's 10th inning triple is the game winner in a 7–4 win over the Mets. With the hit, Parker ends the day having hit for the cycle, the first Los Angeles Dodger to turn the trick.

The Expos loose their biggest scoring burst in their 2-year history, topping the Giants, 15–8, on 15 hits. Jim Fairey has a homer and four RBIs, while Willie Mays homers for the Giants. In the first inning, RF Rusty Staub throws out the Giants Ron Hunt, 9–3.

1966
» With the Yankees winning only four of the first 20 games, GM Ralph Houk fires Johnny Keane and installs himself as Yankees manager. New York will win 13 of the next 17 under Houk.

San Francisco sets a modern National League record (for the inning) by scoring 13 runs in the 3rd inning en route to a 15–2 win at St. Louis. The 13 runs are also the most scored in the 3rd inning by two teams.

Dodger Jim Lefebvre hits home runs right- and lefthanded in the same game, as Los Angeles routs Cincinnati 14–2. On June 5th, teammate Wes Parker will match Lefebvre.

1963
» The major leagues approve a $50,000 grant to the National Collegiate Baseball Foundation to operate the new Central Illinois Collegiate League.

1962
» Former baseball executive Frank Lane signs on as GM of the Chicago Packers of the National Basketball Association.

1961
» At LA's Wrigley Field, the Angels draw their largest day crowd (19,722) and beat the Yankees, 5–3. The Angels take two out of three from New York to drop the Yankees two 1/2 games behind Detroit.

Trailing Milwaukee, 4-0 after seven innings, the Reds unleash the fire power. They score three runs in the 8th on homers by Frank Robinson and Wally Post, and two more in the 9th, on homers by Leo Cardenas and Gordy Coleman, to win 5–4.

The Phils outhit the Giants, but first place SF wins, 7–0, behind Billy Loes. Three of the Giants six hits off Robin Roberts are home runs.

1960
» Eddie Bressoud's 3-run home run -- a 397-foot, inside-the-park shot off Harvey Haddix -- highlights a 6-run rally as the Giants edge Pittsburgh 6–5 at Candlestick Park. San Francisco ties a major-league record and sets a National League record by having left just two men on base in two consecutive games (16 innings), while winning both.

Siblings Larry Sherry and Norm Sherry of the Dodgers become the 10th brother battery in ML history. Catcher Norm belts an 11th-inning home run to give his relief-pitching brother Larry a 3–2 win against Philadelphia.

Red Sox pitcher Bill Monbouquette allows just one hit in beating the visiting Tigers, 5–0. Neil Chrisley's double is the only safety.

Takehiko Bessho becomes the winningest pitcher in Japan as his Tokyo Giants beat the Hanshin Tigers 6–3. Bessho has 302 wins, one more than Victor Starfin.

1959
» 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 6–2.

1958
» Pirates Bob Skinner, Ted Kluszewski and Frank Thomas hit home runs in the 5th inning at Seals Stadium, but the Giants win 8–6.

1957
» Gil McDougald of the Yankees hits a wicked line-drive that strikes Cleveland's Herb Score in the right eye. Score, with a broken nose and lacerations, is carried off the field on a stretcher. Bob Lemon relieves and wins the game, 2–1. Score will return the following year but his pitching will not be the same.

1956
» 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, 6–3 at the Polo Grounds.

1955
» Backed by Elston Howard's first ML homer, and Mickey Mantle's tie breaker to dead CF in the 8th, the visiting Yanks overpower the Red Sox, 9–6. The Yanks spot Boston a 5–0 lead before roaring back with three in the 9th.

Behind Carl Erskine, the Dodgers beat Robin Roberts and the Phils, 6–3, for their 9th straight win. All the Phils scoring is on solo homers -- two by Willie Jones and one by Del Ennis. For the Phils, it is their 8th loss in a row while the Brooks have now won 20 out of 22 games. The game is almost forfeited in the 7th after plate ump Art Gore chases Roberts, Earl Torgeson, and Jack Meyer from the Phils bench. Fans rain dozens of beer cans down on Gore and fellow ump Jocko Conlan.

The White Sox nip the Tigers, 1–0, behind Dick Donovan's 2nd shutout.

1954
» At New York, Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra crash back-to-back homers in the 7th to pin a 2–0 loss on the A's Morrie Martin.

1950
» The Cards humble the Braves 15–0 behind Howie Pollet's 4-hitter. Enos Slaughter had a triple and three singles to drive in four runs.

1948
» At Chicago, the Dodgers use eight hits, three errors and one four walks to subdue to Cubs, 9–5. Preston Ward's bases loaded triple off Ralph Hamner following three walks is the key blow. Hugh Casey wins with five innings of shutout relief.

1946
» The Red Sox stretch their win streak to 12 games by topping the Browns, 10–6. The Sox score four runs in the 7th to tie the game, and then win it in the bottom of the 14th on Leon Culberson's grand slam. Clem Dreiseward steams to his 2nd win during Boston's streak.

Cleveland loses 2–1 in 10 innings to the Senators Mickey Haefner.

1944
» The Cubs lose to the Pirates 6–5, Chicago's 12th loss in a row, and ruins Charlie Grimm's 2nd debut as a Cubs manager.

1941
» At Philadelphia, Cubs pitcher Bill Lee cracks a pair of homers while pitching Chicago to an 11–2 win over the Phils. Bill Crouch takes the loss.

At the Polo Grounds, Reds SS Eddie Joost accepts a record 19 chances as Cincinnati edges New York, 1–0. In addition to his 10 assists and nine putouts, Joost has a throwing error and the game's only stolen base. Ernie Lombardi's homer accounts for the only run as Bucky Walters is the winner over Prince Hal Schumacher in a battle of veterans. Both pitchers keep the ball down and each outfield accounts for a single flyout, tying the ML mark for fewest chances by two teams.

The Pirates send veteran Lloyd Waner to the Braves, where he will be reunited with his brother, in exchange for P Nick Strincevich. Waner will play just a month in Boston before being swapped to the Reds for Johnny Hutchings.

1940
» The Dodgers are drubbed by the Cardinals 18–2 when St. Louis totals 49 bases on 20 hits. The Cards have 13 extra base hits, seven of them home runs to set a National League mark for extra bases on long hits (29). Eddie Lake and Johnny Mize each have a pair. Brooklyn then becomes the first NL team to fly, going from St. Louis to Chicago on two planes. The Red Sox flew the same route July 30, 1936, but for reasons of cost and risk, no other teams try the airlines. The Dodgers will fly from New York from Chicago.

1939
» Joe Gordon smacks two homers and Red Rolfe one to pace the Yankees to a 15–4 hosing of the White Sox. Red Ruffing is again the easy winner; in his last outing the Yanks scored 22 against Detroit.

After seven straight road wins, the Red Sox lose to the Browns, 6–3, and drop to 2nd place. Bobo Newsom's 7-hitter stops Boston. The Yankees take over first place, and remain there the rest of the season.

Before 36,005 at the Polo Grounds, the Giants crush the Cubs, 10–3. Mel Ott has a triple double, and two singles, while ex-Cubbies Billy Jurges and Frank Demaree have two hits apiece. Cliff Melton is the winner for the Giants, now 8-8.

1934
» In Boston, Schoolboy Rowe wins for Detroit with five innings of relief, as Detroit tops the Red Sox, 8–6. Rowe settles the game with a home run.

The Cubs Bill Lee makes his first major-league start, stopping the Phillies, 2–0.

1933
» Reds SS Leo Durocher and Cardinals P Paul Derringer are the principals in a trade that gives St. Louis a player to replace Charley Gelbert, the victim of a hunting accident in November. The pickup is a good one for the Reds, as Derringer will fire four 20-game seasons for Cincy.

1932
» Giant stars Carl Hubbell and Hal Schumacher toss back-to-back shutouts over the Reds. King Carl wins a 1-0 squeaker and Prince Hal follows with a 3–0 win.

A rare dual league doubleheader takes place at Forbes Field. In the first game the Pirates play the Phillies, losing 5–3. In the nitecap, the local Negro League Homestead Grays take on the Philadelphia Hilldales.

1931
» The Cubs top the Reds, 5–4, in 11 innings. Jakie May gets the decision over Ray Kolp.

1930
» Chick Hafey has five RBI in the 5th inning as the Cards beat the Phils 16–11 to move out of the cellar and begin the climb to an eventual pennant. Pete Alexander makes his first appearance against his old mates and is hit hard. The loss drops the Phils to last place, while the Cards head the other way.

1929
» Yankee southpaw Tom Zachary wins a 6–5 game in relief at St. Louis, the first of his 12 wins without a loss for the year, a ML record. No pitcher will have a better season without losing a game. His batterymate, rookie Bill Dickey, helps out with his first major league homer, off General Crowder.

1928
» Trailing the Browns 15–1, the Senators let reliever Clay Van Alstyne bat in the 9th inning, Clay had earlier scored the only Nats run and responds with his first ML home run, a solo shot. It is also his last home run and his last at bat.

1927
» At Comiskey Park, Lou Gehrig christens the new RF pavilion by parking a 9th inning grand slam there, off Ted Lyons. It's the 1st homer in the remodeled park. The Yankees coast to an 8–0 win behind Herb Pennock.

1926
» Chuck Dressen's 4th hit of the game, in the Reds 3-run 9th, drives in the winning run in a 6–5 win over the Phils.

1925
» Pirates SS Glenn Wright pulls a solo triple play at 2B in the 9th, grabbing Jim Bottomley's liner, stepping on the bag before Johnny Cooney can get back, and tagging Rogers Hornsby coming down from 1B to end the game. The Pirates win 10–9 after scoring six runs in the 8th.

The Phils game with New York is rained out, the 8th postponed game in a row for Philadelphia.

1923
» Tigers 3B Bob Jones ties an American League record with nine assists; Willie Kamm will match it for the White Sox on September 30th.

1922
» Giants righthander Jesse Barnes walks Cy Williams in the 5th to spoil a 6–0 perfect no-hitter over the Phils. Williams is erased on a DP and Barnes faces just 27 batters in the no-hitter. Lee Meadows takes the loss.

Pirates rookie Walter Mueller hits a home run on the first ML pitch he sees, and it comes from Grover Alexander. The box score credits the home run to teammate Ray Rohwer. In four years Mueller will hit one more home run. Alexander exits in the 2nd inning and the Pirates win, 11–5.

1921
» Bob Meusel of the Yankees hits for the cycle, and his triple with 2 on beats the Senators 6-5 in the 9th. Former president Wilson witnesses the exciting game in Washington.

1917
» Red Sox P Babe Ruth allows just two singles in outpitching Washington's Walter Johnson. Ruth knocks in the only run with an 8th inning sacrifice fly. Ruth strikes out 3, while Johnson fans seven and gives up four hits. It is the 3rd time that Johnson has lost to Ruth by a 1–0 score. Ruth is now 6–0 with six complete games.

1916
» Pittsburgh's Max Carey hits a homer off Cubs rookie Jimmy Lavender to give the Pirates a 1–0 win. The Cubs will lose ten 1–0 decisions this year, tying the ML record.

1914
» The Giants come from behind to beat the last-place Braves, 7–6, scoring four runs in the 8th inning. Art Fromme is the winner.

1913
» New York's Ray Keating tosses a one-hitter against the Tigers, allowing just a 2nd inning single to Chas Deal. Ty Cobb strikes out his first two times up, then calls it quits for the day. The Yankees win 6–0.

Christy Mathewson relieves Red Ames in the 2nd inning with New York ahead, 3–1, and the bases full of Reds. Matty shuts down Cincy and rolls to a 6–4 win over Rube Benton.

1911
» Ty Cobb goes 4-for-5 and drives in the tying and winning runs to help Detroit beat lefty Doc White and the Chicago White Sox, 5–4.

1906
» Umpire Tim Hurst strikes New York Highlander manager Clark Griffith in the mouth. Hurst is suspended for five days.

Detroit Tigers P Bill Donovan steals 2B, 3B, and-on the front end of a double steal-takes home in the 5th inning of an 8-3 victory over Cleveland. He also slugs a triple. Donovan swiped home against Cleveland last year as well.

Boston (NL) acquires P Gus Dorner from the Reds for P Chick Fraser.

1904
» In St, Louis, the first-place Giants provoke a protest in winning 2-1, with a pair in the 9th off starter Jack Taylor. John McGraw, pinch running after a single by Jack Warner, scores on a single by Roger Bresnahan. As McGraw rounded 3B, with 1B coach Gilbert following him, the entire Giant team collects along the 3B line yelling, St. Louis 1B Jake Beckley complains to the ump about it and, when one of the Giants dashes to home from the coach's box, Beckley fires to an uncovered home plate, thinking it is Bresnahan trying to score. Which he then does for the win. St. Louis manager Kid Nichols protests the game, claiming, correctly, that the players left the bench in violation of rule 56, section 17. The rule states: "if one or more members of the team at bat stand or collect around a base for which a base runner is trying, thereby confusing the fielding side and adding to the difficult of making such play, the base runner shall be declared out for the interference of his teammate or teammates." NL president Pulliam rejects the complaint and many fans and writers agree, saying the protest is unmanly, as noted by historian Benton Stark (The Year They Called off the World Series).

1903
» At the Polo Grounds, Giants 1B Dan McGann steals four bases to lead New York to an 8-4 win over the Phillies. Christy Mathewson beats the Phils for the 2nd time in a week, scattering nine hits. Teammate Iron Joe McGinnity, a bench spectator, is tossed in the 8th inning by umpire August Moran for mouthing off too much.

For the 2nd time in his career, Fred Clarke hits for the cycle and adds a walk, sacrifice and stolen base, but the effort comes up short as the Reds beat the Pirates, 10-8. The Pirates also lose Honus Wagner after a play at 2B with Reds infielder Jack Morrissey. When Wagner threatens to punch Morrissey, umpire Bug Holliday restrains him and the two clinch. Wagner is suspended for three games.

1902
» Elmer Flick signs with Cleveland. Sporting Life says that A's officials "presumably consented" to the move.

The Cubs' Jack Taylor beats Christy Mathewson 4-0 at Chicago's West Side Grounds. Taylor gives up just two hits, while Matty allows five. Following a Giants' protest tomorrow that Taylor was pitching from in front of the rubber, this game will later be ruled invalid and all the records will be thrown out, including Taylor's win and Matty's loss.

1897
» Baltimore survives Duff's two doubles and three singles to defeat the Athletics 13–11.

1896
» Boston scores in all eight innings in a 17–1 rout of the hapless Colonels, who help to dig their own grave by committing 10 errors.

1894
» Baltimore (National League) routs the Washington Senators 17–0 for Baltimore's only shutout of the season. Tony Mullane is the winner over Al Maul, the 2nd time Al has been on the short end of a lopsided mauling (August 29, 1890).

1892
» Bill Hutchison hurls a one-hitter, permitting only a Jim O'Rourke 9th-inning single, to lead the Chicago Colts to an 8–0 win over the Giants.

1880
» George Gore of Chicago goes 6-for-6—all singles—with five runs scored as the White Stockings trounce Cincinnati 20–7. Gore will lead the National League in batting with a .360 average.