Old Sweater
05-19-2011, 04:29 AM
1903 - Due to Sunday restrictions in Cleveland, a major league game is played in Columbus, Ohio with the "hometown" Cleveland Naps defeating the New York Highlanders, 9 - 2.
1906 - Rube Waddell's no-hitter is broken up by Ty Cobb's bunt single.
1910:
Cy Young wins the 500th game of his career as the Cleveland Naps beat the Washington Senators, 5 - 4, in 11 innings.
The Boston Doves beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 6 - 3. for the first time in 26 tries.
1933 - For the first time in major league history, brothers on opposite teams hit home runs in the same game. Boston Red Sox catcher Rick Ferrell homers off his brother Wes Ferrell in the second inning, but the Cleveland Indians pitcher returns the favor as he homers in the third on a pitch called by his sibling. It is the only time that the Ferrell brothers homer in the same game.
1942 - Paul Waner of the Boston Braves collects his 3,000th career hit off Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Rip Sewell in a 7 - 6, 11-inning loss to the Pirates.
1956 - At Forbes Field, Dale Long of the Pittsburgh Pirates hits a ninth-inning home run in a 7 - 4 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Long will hit home runs in each of his next seven games, establishing a major league record for home runs in consecutive games.
1959:
In a game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Pirates right fielder Roberto Clemente injures his right elbow. Pittsburgh Press reporter Les Biederman writes: "The Puerto Rican lasted three innings last night as the Cardinals beat the Pirates, 8 - 2, retiring in favor of Roman Mejias after making an underhanded throw while pitcher Larry Jackson waltzed from first to third on an ordinary single in the third inning. Clemente complained of pains in the right elbow in Chicago but X-rays taken there failed to reveal anything wrong. Clemente says he injured the arm making a sliding catch in Los Angeles and simply aggravated an old ailment." Pittsburgh's banged-up ball hawk will not return to the starting lineup until July 9.
At Memorial Stadium, Baltimore Orioles pitcher Billy O'Dell hits a weird 120-foot home run against the Chicago White Sox. His shot hits the foul line and bounces over the head of right fielder Al Smith, allowing O'Dell to circle the bases. Thanks to O'Dell's two-run, inside-the-park home run, the Orioles win the game, 2 - 1. Billy Pierce is the loser.
1960 - In a spectacular major league debut, Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants pitches no-hit ball against the Philadelphia Phillies until Clay Dalrymple pinch-hits a two-out single in the seventh inning. Marichal finishes with 12 strikeouts and a one-hit 2 - 0 shutout, becoming the first National League pitcher since 1900 to debut with a one-hitter.
1962 - Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals becomes the National League career hits leader. The 41-year-old has a ninth-inning single for his 3,431st hit and moves past Honus Wagner. St. Louis beats the Dodgers, 8 - 1.
1963 - Bill Bruton of the Detroit Tigers ties a major league record by collecting four doubles in one game. Curiously, Bruton will total only 21 doubles on the season.
1964 - St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Ernie Broglio throws a major league record-tying three wild pitches in one inning. In an interesting twist, the Cardinals, who lose to the Chicago Cubs, 7 - 4, will trade Broglio to the Cubs later in the season. The deal will net St. Louis future Hall of Fame outfielder Lou Brock.
1968 - After hitting 10 home runs in six consecutive games, establishing a new major league record, Frank Howard of the Washington Senators is stopped by Detroit Tigers pitcher Earl Wilson, who defeats the Senators, 5 - 4, in the first game of a doubleheader. In the second game, Al Kaline hits a two-run homer off Washington's Steve Jones to become the Tigers' all-time home run leader, surpassing Hank Greenberg. Detroit wins, 7 - 0, completing a sweep.
1970:
The lawsuit filed by former St. Louis Cardinals All-Star Curt Flood against Major League Baseball begins its hearing in federal court. Judge Irving Ben Cooper presides over the case, which will result in the upholding of baseball's reserve clause.
Ray Schalk dies in Chicago, Illinois, at the age of 77. An excellent defensive catcher, Schalk played in the 1917 and 1919 World Series for the Chicago White Sox. In 1955, he gained induction into the Hall of Fame.
1971 - In its inaugural season, Riverfront Stadium's first ever inside-the-park home run is hit by Roberto Clemente, a smash off Gary Nolan. The ball is hit high off the left-field wall over the reach of Bernie Carbo. The ball bounces high and back toward the infield past Buddy Bradford in center and by the time he is able to retrieve it on the rain-soaked turf, Clemente is rounding third. Clemente's adds a triple that drives in a run and comes to score himself, then singles in another run in the 9th inning in a 6 - 1 decision over Cincinnati.
1979 - After a bitter six-week strike, the major league umpires return to work. During the work stoppage, the men in blue were replaced by amateur and minor league arbiters.
1981 - At Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jim Bibby narrowly misses a perfect game when he gives up a leadoff single to Terry Harper of the Atlanta Braves, then retires the next 27 batters for a 5 - 0 one-hitter. Bibby helps himself by hitting two doubles with one run and one RBI. Phil Niekro is the loser. In 1973, Bibby pitched a no-hitter for the Texas Rangers against the Oakland Athletics.
1998 - At Veterans Stadium, Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hits three two-run home runs in a 10 - 8 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. It is the second time this season and fourth time in his career that McGwire has hit three home runs in a game. He also becomes the 12th player in major league history to have two three-home run games in a season.
2000:
Jason Kendall hits for the cycle and has a career-high five RBI, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 13 - 1 rout of the St. Louis Cardinals. Kendall hits a two-run home run in the first inning, an RBI single in the second, a double in the third and a two-run triple in the eighth. Kendall also becomes the first Pirate ever to hit for the cycle at Three Rivers Stadium.
Miguel Ojeda becomes the third Mexican Leaguer to hit four home runs in a game, following Roy Johnson and Derek Bryant. Ojeda is the first person to do so in a four at-bat game.
2001 - Reversing its original decision, MLB's official statistician, the Elias Sports Bureau, will now list Randy Johnson's 20 strikeouts as tying a record. Although the game went into extra innings, Johnson's nine-inning performance will be noted along with the Roger Clemens and Kerry Wood's 20 strikeouts outings in the 2002 record book.
2002 - Chicago Cubs first baseman Fred McGriff hits a two-run home run at Miller Park to tie Ellis Burks' record of homering in 40 different major league ballparks. The Cubs defeat the Brewers, 4 - 3, in 11 innings.
2004:
45-year-old Julio Franco breaks his own record for the oldest player in major league history to bat a pinch home run. Franco, who had a pinch-hit homer two weeks earlier against San Diego, hits a two-out, two-run homer to tie the game at 4 - 4 in the eighth inning. Despite Franco's effort, the Arizona Diamondbacks defeat the Atlanta Braves, 6 - 4, in 11 innings.
Brad Thompson breaks a 97-year-old minor league record set in 1907 by Irvin Wilhelm by hurling 57 consecutive scoreless innings. Thompson sets the mark pitching in the Southern League for the Tennessee Smokies, a Double-A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals. He falls just two innings short of the professional mark of 59 established by Orel Hershiser in 1988.
2006:
Melvin Mora signs a three-year extension with the Baltimore Orioles that will keep him with the club through the 2009 season. The new deal is worth a guaranteed $25 million and includes an option for a fourth year.
In interleague play, David Wright wins the first Subway Series game of the year between the two New York City teams when he hits a two-out RBI single off Mariano Rivera in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Mets a 7 - 6 victory over the Yankees
2007 - Aaron Bates of the Lancaster JetHawks becomes the first player in the 61-year history of the California League to hit four home runs in one game. Amazingly, his teammate Brad Correll will match the feat just 35 days later.
2008:
Jason Varitek catches his fourth no-hitter, tying Ray Schalk for the MLB record; one of Schalk's no-hitters was later removed from the official records, making Varitek the first backstop to have four official no-hitters to his name. The hurler is Jon Lester, only two years after he was sidelined with lymphoma. The Red Sox top the Royals, 7 - 0, as Lester fans nine.
In a 7 - 6 Twins victory over the Royals, rookie Bobby Korecky gets his first big league win with 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief. More notably, he connects for a single, the first Twins pitcher ever to get a hit outside an interleague contest since the enactment of the designated hitter rule in 1973.
2009:
The Nationals come back from a 5 - 0 deficit, score a run in the bottom of the 9th to send the game into extra innings, but lose 8 - 5 to the Pirates when Adam LaRoche belts a two-run double in the 10th. Washington has lost six straight games, in spite of scoring five runs or more in each contest. With Joe Beimel taking the loss, the Nats' bullpen is 1-14 for the year.
Dontrelle Willis wins his first game in 20 months and his first in a Detroit Tigers uniform as the Tigers shut out the Rangers 4 - 0. Willis retires 17 batters in a row at one point and snaps the Rangers' seven-game winning streak.
Former Korea Baseball Organization batting champion Hae-yong Ma publishes a book claiming many foreign import players and some locals used steroids. The KBO instituted limited steroid testing in 2007 and had no global system due to cost reasons.
2010:
Adrian Gonzalez homers and drives in 6 runs to snap the Dodgers' winning streak at 9 games, as San Diego wins, 10 - 5. Also for the Padres, Will Venable has four hits, including two doubles and a triple, while Jon Garland records the win over his former team.
The Yankees learn that C Jorge Posada has a broken bone in his right foot and will be out of action for three to four weeks. Francisco Cervelli has already assumed the bulk of the playing time behind the plate this season. Posada joins DH Nick Johnson, out with a wrist injury, and OF Curtis Granderson on the disabled list, while OF Marcus Thames and Nick Swisher are both day-to-day because of a sprained ankle and a sore biceps, respectively. The Rays take advantage of their banged-up opponents, beating them 10 - 6 and increasing their lead in the AL East to 4 games.
CF Angel Pagan hits the first inside-the-park homer in the history of Nationals Park in the 4th inning, starts a triple play in the 5th and for good measure makes a spectacular diving catch of Roger Bernadina's line drive with the bases loaded in the 6th, but New York still manages to lose for the 9th time in 11 games, 5 - 3 to the Nationals. It has been 55 years since Ted Kazanski was the last major leaguer to perform the two feats in the same game.
1906 - Rube Waddell's no-hitter is broken up by Ty Cobb's bunt single.
1910:
Cy Young wins the 500th game of his career as the Cleveland Naps beat the Washington Senators, 5 - 4, in 11 innings.
The Boston Doves beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 6 - 3. for the first time in 26 tries.
1933 - For the first time in major league history, brothers on opposite teams hit home runs in the same game. Boston Red Sox catcher Rick Ferrell homers off his brother Wes Ferrell in the second inning, but the Cleveland Indians pitcher returns the favor as he homers in the third on a pitch called by his sibling. It is the only time that the Ferrell brothers homer in the same game.
1942 - Paul Waner of the Boston Braves collects his 3,000th career hit off Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Rip Sewell in a 7 - 6, 11-inning loss to the Pirates.
1956 - At Forbes Field, Dale Long of the Pittsburgh Pirates hits a ninth-inning home run in a 7 - 4 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Long will hit home runs in each of his next seven games, establishing a major league record for home runs in consecutive games.
1959:
In a game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Pirates right fielder Roberto Clemente injures his right elbow. Pittsburgh Press reporter Les Biederman writes: "The Puerto Rican lasted three innings last night as the Cardinals beat the Pirates, 8 - 2, retiring in favor of Roman Mejias after making an underhanded throw while pitcher Larry Jackson waltzed from first to third on an ordinary single in the third inning. Clemente complained of pains in the right elbow in Chicago but X-rays taken there failed to reveal anything wrong. Clemente says he injured the arm making a sliding catch in Los Angeles and simply aggravated an old ailment." Pittsburgh's banged-up ball hawk will not return to the starting lineup until July 9.
At Memorial Stadium, Baltimore Orioles pitcher Billy O'Dell hits a weird 120-foot home run against the Chicago White Sox. His shot hits the foul line and bounces over the head of right fielder Al Smith, allowing O'Dell to circle the bases. Thanks to O'Dell's two-run, inside-the-park home run, the Orioles win the game, 2 - 1. Billy Pierce is the loser.
1960 - In a spectacular major league debut, Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants pitches no-hit ball against the Philadelphia Phillies until Clay Dalrymple pinch-hits a two-out single in the seventh inning. Marichal finishes with 12 strikeouts and a one-hit 2 - 0 shutout, becoming the first National League pitcher since 1900 to debut with a one-hitter.
1962 - Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals becomes the National League career hits leader. The 41-year-old has a ninth-inning single for his 3,431st hit and moves past Honus Wagner. St. Louis beats the Dodgers, 8 - 1.
1963 - Bill Bruton of the Detroit Tigers ties a major league record by collecting four doubles in one game. Curiously, Bruton will total only 21 doubles on the season.
1964 - St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Ernie Broglio throws a major league record-tying three wild pitches in one inning. In an interesting twist, the Cardinals, who lose to the Chicago Cubs, 7 - 4, will trade Broglio to the Cubs later in the season. The deal will net St. Louis future Hall of Fame outfielder Lou Brock.
1968 - After hitting 10 home runs in six consecutive games, establishing a new major league record, Frank Howard of the Washington Senators is stopped by Detroit Tigers pitcher Earl Wilson, who defeats the Senators, 5 - 4, in the first game of a doubleheader. In the second game, Al Kaline hits a two-run homer off Washington's Steve Jones to become the Tigers' all-time home run leader, surpassing Hank Greenberg. Detroit wins, 7 - 0, completing a sweep.
1970:
The lawsuit filed by former St. Louis Cardinals All-Star Curt Flood against Major League Baseball begins its hearing in federal court. Judge Irving Ben Cooper presides over the case, which will result in the upholding of baseball's reserve clause.
Ray Schalk dies in Chicago, Illinois, at the age of 77. An excellent defensive catcher, Schalk played in the 1917 and 1919 World Series for the Chicago White Sox. In 1955, he gained induction into the Hall of Fame.
1971 - In its inaugural season, Riverfront Stadium's first ever inside-the-park home run is hit by Roberto Clemente, a smash off Gary Nolan. The ball is hit high off the left-field wall over the reach of Bernie Carbo. The ball bounces high and back toward the infield past Buddy Bradford in center and by the time he is able to retrieve it on the rain-soaked turf, Clemente is rounding third. Clemente's adds a triple that drives in a run and comes to score himself, then singles in another run in the 9th inning in a 6 - 1 decision over Cincinnati.
1979 - After a bitter six-week strike, the major league umpires return to work. During the work stoppage, the men in blue were replaced by amateur and minor league arbiters.
1981 - At Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Jim Bibby narrowly misses a perfect game when he gives up a leadoff single to Terry Harper of the Atlanta Braves, then retires the next 27 batters for a 5 - 0 one-hitter. Bibby helps himself by hitting two doubles with one run and one RBI. Phil Niekro is the loser. In 1973, Bibby pitched a no-hitter for the Texas Rangers against the Oakland Athletics.
1998 - At Veterans Stadium, Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hits three two-run home runs in a 10 - 8 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. It is the second time this season and fourth time in his career that McGwire has hit three home runs in a game. He also becomes the 12th player in major league history to have two three-home run games in a season.
2000:
Jason Kendall hits for the cycle and has a career-high five RBI, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 13 - 1 rout of the St. Louis Cardinals. Kendall hits a two-run home run in the first inning, an RBI single in the second, a double in the third and a two-run triple in the eighth. Kendall also becomes the first Pirate ever to hit for the cycle at Three Rivers Stadium.
Miguel Ojeda becomes the third Mexican Leaguer to hit four home runs in a game, following Roy Johnson and Derek Bryant. Ojeda is the first person to do so in a four at-bat game.
2001 - Reversing its original decision, MLB's official statistician, the Elias Sports Bureau, will now list Randy Johnson's 20 strikeouts as tying a record. Although the game went into extra innings, Johnson's nine-inning performance will be noted along with the Roger Clemens and Kerry Wood's 20 strikeouts outings in the 2002 record book.
2002 - Chicago Cubs first baseman Fred McGriff hits a two-run home run at Miller Park to tie Ellis Burks' record of homering in 40 different major league ballparks. The Cubs defeat the Brewers, 4 - 3, in 11 innings.
2004:
45-year-old Julio Franco breaks his own record for the oldest player in major league history to bat a pinch home run. Franco, who had a pinch-hit homer two weeks earlier against San Diego, hits a two-out, two-run homer to tie the game at 4 - 4 in the eighth inning. Despite Franco's effort, the Arizona Diamondbacks defeat the Atlanta Braves, 6 - 4, in 11 innings.
Brad Thompson breaks a 97-year-old minor league record set in 1907 by Irvin Wilhelm by hurling 57 consecutive scoreless innings. Thompson sets the mark pitching in the Southern League for the Tennessee Smokies, a Double-A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals. He falls just two innings short of the professional mark of 59 established by Orel Hershiser in 1988.
2006:
Melvin Mora signs a three-year extension with the Baltimore Orioles that will keep him with the club through the 2009 season. The new deal is worth a guaranteed $25 million and includes an option for a fourth year.
In interleague play, David Wright wins the first Subway Series game of the year between the two New York City teams when he hits a two-out RBI single off Mariano Rivera in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Mets a 7 - 6 victory over the Yankees
2007 - Aaron Bates of the Lancaster JetHawks becomes the first player in the 61-year history of the California League to hit four home runs in one game. Amazingly, his teammate Brad Correll will match the feat just 35 days later.
2008:
Jason Varitek catches his fourth no-hitter, tying Ray Schalk for the MLB record; one of Schalk's no-hitters was later removed from the official records, making Varitek the first backstop to have four official no-hitters to his name. The hurler is Jon Lester, only two years after he was sidelined with lymphoma. The Red Sox top the Royals, 7 - 0, as Lester fans nine.
In a 7 - 6 Twins victory over the Royals, rookie Bobby Korecky gets his first big league win with 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief. More notably, he connects for a single, the first Twins pitcher ever to get a hit outside an interleague contest since the enactment of the designated hitter rule in 1973.
2009:
The Nationals come back from a 5 - 0 deficit, score a run in the bottom of the 9th to send the game into extra innings, but lose 8 - 5 to the Pirates when Adam LaRoche belts a two-run double in the 10th. Washington has lost six straight games, in spite of scoring five runs or more in each contest. With Joe Beimel taking the loss, the Nats' bullpen is 1-14 for the year.
Dontrelle Willis wins his first game in 20 months and his first in a Detroit Tigers uniform as the Tigers shut out the Rangers 4 - 0. Willis retires 17 batters in a row at one point and snaps the Rangers' seven-game winning streak.
Former Korea Baseball Organization batting champion Hae-yong Ma publishes a book claiming many foreign import players and some locals used steroids. The KBO instituted limited steroid testing in 2007 and had no global system due to cost reasons.
2010:
Adrian Gonzalez homers and drives in 6 runs to snap the Dodgers' winning streak at 9 games, as San Diego wins, 10 - 5. Also for the Padres, Will Venable has four hits, including two doubles and a triple, while Jon Garland records the win over his former team.
The Yankees learn that C Jorge Posada has a broken bone in his right foot and will be out of action for three to four weeks. Francisco Cervelli has already assumed the bulk of the playing time behind the plate this season. Posada joins DH Nick Johnson, out with a wrist injury, and OF Curtis Granderson on the disabled list, while OF Marcus Thames and Nick Swisher are both day-to-day because of a sprained ankle and a sore biceps, respectively. The Rays take advantage of their banged-up opponents, beating them 10 - 6 and increasing their lead in the AL East to 4 games.
CF Angel Pagan hits the first inside-the-park homer in the history of Nationals Park in the 4th inning, starts a triple play in the 5th and for good measure makes a spectacular diving catch of Roger Bernadina's line drive with the bases loaded in the 6th, but New York still manages to lose for the 9th time in 11 games, 5 - 3 to the Nationals. It has been 55 years since Ted Kazanski was the last major leaguer to perform the two feats in the same game.