⚾ On This Day in MLB History ⚾

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★ April 18. Today's CWS at CLE game postponed. ~AND~ 4/18/2009 Cleveland crushes NYY.

1929 - At Yankee Stadium, Babe Ruth hits a home run in his first at-bat since his marriage the day before. As he rounds second base tips his hat to his new bride, Claire Merritt Hodgson.
1939 - Announcer Red Barber calls the action in the Brooklyn Dodgers' 7 - 3 loss to the New York Giants, marking the first time a regular-season Brooklyn game is broadcast on the radio.
1942 - Due to the fear of a Japanese attack, west coast military leaders ask the Pacific Coast League to limit crowds to 3,000 fans.
1955 - Roberto Clemente's first major league home run – a 440- to 450-foot inside-the-parker off Giants southpaw Don Liddle – arrives three games into his big league career and it's just his luck that it occurs in the one stadium that, due to its freakish configuration, could possibly have contained this blast, namely the Polo Grounds, that semi-rectangular oddity wherein 279- and 257-foot foul lines coexist with 455- and 449-foot power alleys. This first New York visit also has a deeper significance for Clemente since, in his third major league game, he's playing on the same field with both his new mentor and role model, Willie Mays (alongside whom he was playing just two months earlier in Santurce), and his boyhood hero, Monte Irvin, whose winter ball career Clemente monitored religiously in the late 1940s and who, in the interim, has himself become both a teammate and something of a mentor to Mays.

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2009 - ★ Cleveland. crushes the New York Yankees, 22-4, at New Yankee Stadium, scoring 14 runs in the 2nd inning, the most runs given up in an inning in Yankee history. Asdrubal Cabrera hits a grand slam, Mark DeRosa and Shin-Soo Choo add three-run home runs, and Travis Hafner, Grady Sizemore and Victor Martinez all connect for solo shots for the Indians. Yankee starter Chien-Ming Wang, who missed the second half of 2008 with a leg injury, is charged with 8 runs in 1 1/3 innings to raise his ERA for the year to 34.50. Making his major league debut, Anthony Claggett succeeds him but gives up 8 more runs in 1 2/3 innings. ★

Did anyone here watch that classic game ? It was fantastic !

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April 19.

1890:. The Brooklyn Bridegrooms, who will later be known as the Dodgers, play their first National League game. At South End Grounds, the former American Association club loses to the host Boston Beaneaters, 15 - 9. Brooklyn will go on to win the pennant in their first season in a new league, following their title in a different major league the previous season.

1960 - Roger Maris makes his New York Yankees debut, batting four hits, including two home runs, against the Boston Red Sox.
1965 - At a cost of $20,000, the original Astrodome ceiling is painted because the sun's glare makes fielding fly balls hazardous. This will cause the grass to die and spur the introduction of artificial turf next season.
1979 - Rich Gossage and Cliff Johnson of the New York Yankees brawl in the clubhouse after a 6 - 3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles. Gossage suffers a sprained ligament in his thumb, which will keep him out of action until July 12th. As "punishment" for injuring the team's ace reliever, the Yankees will trade Johnson to the. ★ Cleveland Indians later in the summer.
2000 - Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Orel Hershiser ties a major league mark, equaled by 19 others, hitting four batters in one game. Richard Hidalgo of the Houston Astros also ties a modern major league record by getting hit three times in the game, twice by Hershiser and a third time by Dodgers reliever Matt Herges.
2006: Ramón Hernandez of the Baltimore Orioles hits a home run with four RBI in an 18 - 9 win over the. ★ Cleveland Indians. Victor Martinez homers for Cleveland, extending his hitting streak to 14 games, the longest in the majors this season.

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April 20. Some Cleveland baseball history today.

1910 - Addie Joss of the ★ Cleveland Naps pitches his second career no-hitter. A busy Joss helps himself by recording 10 fielding assists during the 1 - 0 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
1912 - The Boston Red Sox play the first game in the history of Fenway Park, after three previous attempts to play the opener have been rained out. The Red Sox open up with an 11-inning, 7 - 6 victory over the New York Highlanders, the predecessors to Boston's arch-rivals, the New York Yankees. Tris Speaker delivers the game-winning RBI before a crowd of 27,000 fans. Minutes later, the Detroit Tigers christen their Navin Field with a 6 - 5 win over the. ★ Cleveland Naps.
1916 - The Chicago Cubs play their first game in the newly-built Federal League Weeghman Park, which will be renamed "Wrigley Field" in 1926. The stadium, minus the upper deck added later, seats 14,000, but 20,000 fans are on hand. Greeting fans on the Addison Street side is JOA, a bear cub owned by Cubs (partial) owner J. Ogden Armour. Everyone goes home happy as Vic Saier's 11th-inning sacrifice fly gives the Cubs a 7 - 6 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.
1937 - Gee Walker hits for the cycle on Opening Day to lead the Tigers to a 4 - 3 victory over ★ Cleveland. Walker hits the cycle in reverse order: home run, triple, double and single.

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1938 - Bob Feller of the ★ Cleveland Indians pitches the first of 12 career one-hitters, beating the St. Louis Browns, 9 - 0.

2012:
- The Red Sox celebrate the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park by inviting 200 former players and coaches, from Don Aase to Bob Zupcic, to come on the field for pre-game celebrations. However, the Yankees spoil the party by hitting five homers, including two by Eric Chavez, on their way to a 6 - 2 win. For Ivan Nova, it is his 15th consecutive victory, dating back to last season.
- The Cincinnati Reds win the 10,000th game in franchise history by defeating the Cubs, 9 - 4, on a cold blustery day at Wrigley Field. Cubs starter Chris Volstad gives up four runs in the 1st to send the Reds on their way.

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April 21.

1910 - The new League Park opens in ★ Cleveland, with a capacity of 21,000. 18,832 watch Detroit and Ed Willett beat the Naps, 5 - 0.
1946 - Frankie Hayes of the. ★ Cleveland Indians plays the last of his 312 consecutive games as a catcher. He started his streak on October 12, 1943, while playing for the St. Louis Browns.
1955 - At Ebbets Field, the Brooklyn Dodgers beat Robin Roberts and the Philadelphia Phillies, 14 - 4, for their 10th consecutive victory from the start of the season, setting a major league record that will last until 1981.
1961 - The Minnesota Twins, formerly known as the Washington Senators, play their first home game in Minnesota at Metropolitan Stadium, losing to the expansion "new" Washington Senators, 5 - 3.
1994 - ★ Cleveland Indians first baseman Eddie Murray hits home runs from both sides of the plate in a game for the 11th time in his career to break the record set by Mickey Mantle. Cleveland beats the Twins, 10 - 6. The two homers also move Murray past Dave Kingman into 20th place on the all-time list with 444.
2006:
At Rogers Centre, Manny Ramirez of the Boston Red Sox hits two home runs in the 12-inning, 7 - 6 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. Ramirez's first homer is his 200th with the Red Sox and 436th for his career. He also hit 236 homers with the. ★ Cleveland Indians, becoming the fourth major leaguer to hit 200 homers with two different teams, after Jimmie Foxx, Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro.

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April 23. Slow day for ★ Cleveland and Bob Feller.

1919 - Anticipating a poor season at the gate, the major leagues open a reduced 140-game season. Despite the lack of close races, attendance remains high all year and every club will show a profit.

1939 - Rookie Ted Williams goes 4 for 5, including his first major-league home run, but the Boston Red Sox lose to the Philadelphia Athletics, 12 - 8, at Fenway Park.
1940 - Flooding of the Ohio River causes cancellation of today's game between the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals at Crosley Field. Weather forecasters predict that the flood's waters will reach as high as eight feet at the ballpark. The next day's game will also be postponed.
1950 - At Braves Field, in the second of two games, the Boston Braves and Philadelphia Phillies start the match in daylight and finish under the lights, a first in the majors. The Phillies win, 6 - 5. Johnny Sain hurls the Braves to a 4 - 3 victory in the opener.
1952:. Bob Cain of the St. Louis Browns and ★ Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians each pitch one-hitters, with the Browns prevailing, 1 - 0. This ties a major league record for the fewest hits by two teams in a game (since broken). Bobby Young hits a triple in the 1st inning and scores on an Al Rosen error as the Browns move into first place. The ★ Indians' only hit is a single by Luke Easter. For Feller, it is the fourth time he's tossed a one-hitter against the Browns.

1962 - The expansion New York Mets win the first game in franchise history after nine consecutive losses, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9 - 1, at Forbes Field. Jay Hook's five-hit complete game snaps Pittsburgh's record-tying winning streak of 10 games undefeated from the start of the season as the Mets' 0-9 start had tied a National League record for futility.
2012: Ivan Rodriguez, who has caught more games than anyone in big league history, announces his retirement after a 21-year career. He was hoping to continue playing this season as well, but found no takers for his services. The Rangers honor him by having him throw the ceremonial first pitch before today's game; unusually, he throws it from his familiar position behind the plate, with Michael Young catching it at second base and tagging out a phantom baserunner.
2022 - Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers becomes the 33rd member of the 3,000 hit club with a 1st-inning single off Antonio Senzatela of the Rockies at Comerica Park. Cabrera is only the 7th member of the club to have also hit 500 home runs.

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April 24. Big day in early professional baseball.

1901 - Three rain postponements give Chicago the honor of hosting the first major league game in American League history (the circuit played as a minor league in 1900). At South Side Park, a crowd of over 10,000 fans attends the game to see pitcher Roy Patterson take the win for the Chicago White Sox over the the visiting ★ Cleveland Blues, 8 - 2. Clark Griffith manages Chicago.
1902 - Professional baseball gets its start in Durham, North Carolina as the Durham Tobacconists (who will be renamed the Bulls 11 years later) play an exhibition game against Trinity College (now Duke University). The Bulls, except for 1971-1980, when minor league baseball didn't exist in the city, will continue to play in Durham until the present day.
1911 - The Battle Creek Crickets of the Southern Michigan League turn two triple plays in the first two innings of today's game.

1962: Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers strikes out 18 Chicago Cubs in a 10 - 2 victory at Wrigley Field. Koufax ties the record of 18 strikeouts in a single game, matching the mark set by Bob Feller with the ★ Cleveland Indians.

2001 - The American League celebrates its 100th anniversary as a major league.
2009:. Zack Greinke continues to dominate opposing hitters as he pitches a second straight complete game for the Kansas City Royals. He strikes out 10 in a 6 - 1 win over Detroit. The Tigers' lone run in the 5th inning is unearned, but it ends Greinke's streak of 38 consecutive scoreless innings dating back to last season. He is nonetheless 4-0 with a virgin ERA so far this year, on his way to winning the AL Cy Young Award.
2017:. Eric Thames hits two more homers, both off Amir Garrett, to lead the Brewers to an 11 - 7 win over the Reds. Thames has hit 10 homers in his first 19 games after three years spent in the Korea Baseball Organization.
- Dovydas Neverauskas becomes the first Lithuanian to play in the majors. He allows one run in two innings to close out a 14-3 Pirates loss to the Cubs. He is also the first major league pitcher to emerge from the MLB European Academy.

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April 25. A lot of strange and historic things happened on this date.

1901 - At Bennett Park, the Detroit Tigers make an incredible comeback in their American League debut. Trailing 13 - 4 in the bottom of the 9th inning, the Tigers score 10 runs in their last at-bat to defeat the visiting Milwaukee Brewers, 14 - 13. Frank Dillon drives in the game-winning run with a double, his fourth of the game. Dillon's four doubles is an opening day record that will be matched by Jim Greengrass in 1954.
1904 - New York Highlanders pitcher Jack Chesbro posts the first of his 41 wins on the season, an American League record that still stands.
1916 - At the Polo Grounds, Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox pitches a 10-inning complete game to defeat the Yankees, 4 - 3. Ruth gives up two earned runs on eight hits, but is hitless at the plate.

1948 - Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians ties a major league record by striking out five times in the Indians' 7 - 4 victory over Detroit at Tiger Stadium.

1958 - Reds-killer Roberto Clemente once again commandeers Crosley Field; his first home run of the season gives Pittsburgh a 4 - 3 win over Cincinnati. Clemente is in on all the scoring, carrying home the tying run in the 6th and, one inning later, putting Pittsburgh ahead for good with a three-run shot. Redlegs third baseman Don Hoak is eaten alive by Clemente's 6th-inning leadoff smash, the latter's crazy carom affording Clemente a hustle double. One ground ball and one fly ball later, Roberto is in with the run that cancels out George Crowe's 2nd-inning homer. The tie will last exactly one inning and, even then, only because of Clemente's arm, whose mere presence prevents Frank Robinson's 7th-inning double from scoring speedy Vada Pinson from first with the tie-breaker. The 1 - 1 tie thus secured, Clemente climaxes the bottom of the frame with a two-out, three-run, 400-foot blast to right center, supplying the remainder of Pittsburgh's offensive output, just enough to outlast Cincy.

1962 - Catcher Harry Chiti is traded for himself when the Cleveland Indians send him to the New York Mets in exchange for a player to be named later. On June 15th, the Mets will sell Chiti back to Cleveland to complete the deal.
1982 - Just 14 games into the season, New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner fires manager Bob Lemon and replaces him with Gene Michael, the man Lemon had replaced the previous September. Michael won't finish the season either.
1997:. Matt Williams hits three home runs and David Justice hits a pair as the Cleveland Indians and Milwaukee Brewers combine to match a major league record for home runs in a nine-inning night game with 11. Cleveland hits a club-record 8 in all, including 3 in one inning as the Indians beat the Brewers, 11 - 4.
2001 - Rickey Henderson of the San Diego Padres sets a major league record with his 2,063rd base on balls in San Diego's 5 - 3 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. The mark had been held by Babe Ruth.
2019 - In the NFL draft, the Arizona Cardinals select University of Oklahoma QB Kyler Murray first overall. He had been the #1 pick of the Athletics in the 2018 amateur draft, 9th overall, as an outfielder, and had signed with the A's before giving up baseball last winter. This makes him the first player to be a first-rounder in both the NFL and MLB drafts.

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April 26. Addie Joss, Ty Cobb, Roger, Mickey and more.

1902 - At Sportsman's Park, Addie Joss of the Cleveland Bronchos pitches a one-hit shutout in his major league debut, beating the hometown St. Louis Browns, 3 - 0. The lone hit is a scratch single by Jesse Burkett.
1902 - At Sportsman's Park, Addie Joss of the Cleveland Bronchos pitches a one-hit shutout in his major league debut, beating the hometown St. Louis Browns, 3 - 0. The lone hit is a scratch single by Jesse Burkett.
1904 - Ty Cobb, making his pro baseball debut at the age of seventeen, hits a home run and double for the Augusta Tourists in the South Atlantic League.
1961 - At Tiger Stadium, Roger Maris hits his first home run of the season off Paul Foytack, and Mickey Mantle adds home runs from both sides of the plate for the eighth time in his career as New York defeat Detroit, 13 - 10.
1990 - Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan ties Bob Feller's major league record by hurling his 12th career one-hitter. Ryan strikes out 16 batters in shutting down the Chicago White Sox, 1 - 0. The only hit allowed is Ron Kittle's 2nd-inning check-swing single to right field. The victory is the 293rd in Ryan's career.
2005 - At Yankee Stadium, Alex Rodriguez slugs his way to the best performance of his career, hitting three home runs in his first three at-bats off Angels pitcher Bartolo Colón. The Yankees win, 12 - 4, as Rodriguez becomes only the 11th player in major league history to collect 10 or more RBI in a game. He is one RBI shy of the American League record of 11 set in 1936 by Hall of Famer and former Yankee Tony Lazzeri, and two short of the major league mark of 12 shared by Jim Bottomley (1924) and Mark Whiten (1993), both of the Cardinals.
2011. The Cleveland Indians bang five home runs in a 9 - 4 win over the Royals. Jack Hannahan hits two of the long balls, Shin-Soo Choo has a three-run shot, and Grady Sizemore and Matt LaPorta hit the other homers. Justin Masterson is now 5-0 for the first-place Indians

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April 27. Kind of a slow day in MLB.

1947 - Babe Ruth Day at Yankee Stadium draws a crowd of more than 58,000 to honor the ailing star. In the game, Sid Hudson of the Washington Senators beats Spud Chandler and the Yankees, 1 - 0.
1971:
- Curt Flood jumps the Washington Senators after 13 games and departs for Denmark, ending his playing career. Flood batted .293 and won seven Gold Glove Awards during his 15-year major league tenure. He will continue his antitrust suit, which will eventually reach the Supreme Court.
- Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves joins Babe Ruth and Willie Mays as the only major league players to hit 600 home runs. His historic homer, a 350-foot drive over the left field wall, comes off Gaylord Perry in the 3rd inning of a 6 - 5 ten-inning loss to the San Francisco Giants at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
- 1990 - Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Orel Hershiser will miss the rest of the season after undergoing surgery on his pitching shoulder. He had not missed a start since joining the club's rotation in 1984.
- 2006:. Ben Broussard of the Cleveland Indians goes 4 for 5 with two home runs, including a grand slam and 8 RBI, in Cleveland's 15 - 3 win over the Boston Red Sox.

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Events, births and deaths that occurred on April 28. Not much Cleveland news.

1901 - Cleveland Blues pitcher Bock Baker gives up a record 23 singles as the Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland, 13 - 1.

1930 - The first night game in the history of Organized Baseball is played in Independence, Kansas. The Muskogee Chiefs defeat the Independence Producers, 13 - 3, in a battle of Western Association rivals.
1934 - Goose Goslin of the Detroit Tigers hits into four double plays, but Detroit still beats the Cleveland Indians, 4 - 1.
1961 - 40-year-old Warren Spahn becomes the second oldest man to pitch a no-hitter in major league history. The Milwaukee Braves' ace masters the San Francisco Giants, 1 - 0, for his 290th career win, second no-hitter and 52nd shutout. Spahn strikes out nine batters and walks only two. Hank Aaron drives in the game's lone run with a single in the 1st inning off loser Sad Sam Jones.
2007 - Trevor Hoffman pitches in his 803rd game for the San Diego Padres, breaking the record for games pitched with one club. The prior record had been shared by Walter Johnson and Elroy Face.
2009 - Trevor Hoffman adds another save to his all-time leading total when he picks up number 555 in pitching a scoreless 9th inning in Milwaukee's 6 - 5 win over Pittsburgh. It is the Brewers' 14th straight win over Pittsburgh, dating back to 2007. This is Hoffman's first save for the Brewers; he picked up two as a rookie for the Florida Marlins in 1993, and the 552 others came with the San Diego Padres.

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April 29. Oh those wacky old timers.

1902 - Baltimore Orioles infielder John McGraw is hit by pitches five times, but home plate umpire Jack Sheridan refuses to allow him to take first base. In the 9th inning, McGraw is hit for the last time and sits down in the batter's box in protest. American League president Ban Johnson will suspend McGraw for five games.
1913 - Wearing the uniforms of the Chicago White Sox, the Cincinnati Reds lose to the Chicago Cubs, 7 - 2, at West Side Grounds. Cincinnati forgot to pack uniforms and has to don those of their opponents' crosstown rivals.
1918 - Cleveland Indians centerfielder Tris Speaker executes the fourth unassisted double play of his career in Cleveland's 8 - 4 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
1931 - Wes Ferrell of the Cleveland Indians pitches a 7 - 0 no-hitter over the St. Louis Browns, whose roster includes his brother, Rick. Wes helps his own cause with a home run, a double, and four RBI.
1952 - Cleveland Indians outfielder Jim Fridley goes 6 for 6 as Cleveland soundly beats the Philadelphia Athletics, 21 - 9.
2011:
The Cleveland Indians are having the best April in the team's 110-year history as today's 9 - 5 win over Detroit moves their record to an American League-best 17-8. The key hit today is a walk-off grand slam by Carlos Santana off losing pitcher Joaquin Benoit.
2018 - Making his major league debut for the Pirates, Nick Kingham retires the first 20 Cardinals batters he faces before allowing a single to Paul DeJong with two outs in the 7th. He then retires the next batter, ending his day with just that hit allowed, no walks and 9 strikeouts in 7 innings, earning his first career win, 5 - 0. No pitcher had made it through six perfect innings in his debut since 1974.

What ever happened to Nick Kingham ?

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April 30. Oh those daffy Quakers, Alleghenys and Peanuts -and- a lot of other stuff going on today.

1887:
- The Philadelphia Quakers beat the New York Giants, 19 - 10, in the first game played at the Baker Bowl located at Broad & Huntingdon Street in Philadelphia.
- In front of nearly 10,000 at Recreation Park in Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh Alleghenys (later to be known as the Pirates) defeat the defending league-champion Chicago White Stockings, 6 - 2.
1900 - Brothers Joe, Jim, and Tom Delahanty, playing their third year together with the Allentown Peanuts, open the Atlantic League season by banging out a family total of 11 hits for 20 total bases.
1903 - The New York Highlanders win their home opener at Hilltop Park, 6 - 2, over the Washington Senators.
1919 - At the Baker Bowl, Joe Oeschger of the Philadelphia Phillies and Burleigh Grimes of the Brooklyn Robins pitch complete games in a 9 - 9, 20-inning tie. Both teams score three runs in the 19th inning. Oeschger gives up 22 hits and walks five, while Grimes allows 15 hits and walks five.
1923 - The New York Yankees sign 20 year old prospect Lou Gehrig to a contract paying him a salary of $2,000 and a bonus of $1,500. Yankees scout Paul Krichell had watched the Columbia University star blast a 450-foot home run against New York University two days earlier.

1946 - ★ The great Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians strikes out 11 and pitches his second of three career no-hitters, his first since returning from a 3 ½ year stint in World War II. Feller defeats the New York Yankees, 1 - 0, on Frankie Hayes' home run in the 9th inning.
1952 - Ted Williams plays his final game before leaving for military duty in Korea. In his last at-bat on "Ted Williams Day" at Fenway Park, he blasts a game-winning, two-run home run against Dizzy Trout of the Detroit Tigers. The home run gives the Red Sox a 5 - 3 victory.
1961 - Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants hits four home runs against the Milwaukee Braves in the Giants' 14 - 4 victory at County Stadium. Mays becomes just the ninth player in major league history to hit four homers in one game.

2005: - Major league players are asked by Commissioner Bud Selig to agree to a 50-game suspension for the first offense, a 100-game suspension for the second offense and a lifelong ban after the third offense for the use of steroids. In addition to the harsher "three-strike" rule, the commissioner is also seeking a ban on amphetamines.

2013: - The Indians put on a power display, hitting seven home runs in a 14 - 2 demolition of the Phillies. Ryan Raburn hits two long balls for the second straight game, while Carlos Santana, Mark Reynolds, Lonnie Chisenhall, Michael Brantley and Drew Stubbs hit the others. The first five shots are worth two runs each. Roy Halladay allows four of the homers, good for 8 runs in 3 2/3 innings.

2019 - CC Sabathia becomes the 17th pitcher to reach 3,000 strikeouts as he fans John Ryan Murphy in the 2nd inning of a 3 - 1 loss to the Diamondbacks. He's just the third lefthander to reach the total, and the first pitcher since 2008 to do so. Justin Verlander will also join the exclusive club before the end of the season

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May 1. Cleveland baseball, Mickey and more.

1891 - In front of almost 10,000 fans, Cy Young of the Cleveland Spiders defeats the Cincinnati Reds, 12 - 3, in the first game ever played in Cleveland's League Park.
1924 - Bill Barrett of the Chicago White Sox steals home twice, in the 1st and 9th innings, against the Cleveland Indians.
1947 - For the first time, the Cleveland Indians will play all their games at Cleveland Stadium. The Indians abandon League Park, where most weekday games have been played since Cleveland Stadium opened. New Cleveland owner Bill Veeck installs an inner fence to cut power alleys from 435 to 365 feet at Municipal Stadium.

1951 - On Mother's Day, Mickey Mantle hits the first home run of his career off Randy Gumpert in an 8 - 3 victory over the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park. In the same game, former Negro Leagues star Minnie Miñoso becomes the first black player in the history of the White Sox franchise. Miñoso belts a home run in his first at-bat for the team off Vic Raschi.
1955 - Cleveland Indians starters show up for a "pitching clinic" during a doubleheader sweep of the Boston Red Sox at Cleveland Stadium. Veteran Bob Feller pitches hitless ball for 6+ innings and hurls his major league record 12th one-hitter in a 2 - 0 victory in the opener, and in the nitecap rookie Herb Score strikes out the first nine batters (for a total of 16) en route to a 2 - 1 four-hit victory.
2015 - Alex Rodriguez ties Willie Mays for fourth place on the all-time home run list when he hits number 660 against the Red Sox. The homer comes as a pinch-hitter in the 8th inning against Junichi Tazawa and gives the Yankees a 3 - 2 lead that will hold for the rest of the game.
2020 - Even though there is no baseball being currently played, P Emmanuel Clase of the Indians manages to get himself suspended, as the results of a test are positive for Boldenone, an anabolic steroid. He will be suspended for 80 games from whenever the season eventually starts.

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May 3. Joe D, Charlie hustle and more.

1896: The Louisville Colonels lose their 11th straight game, to the Cincinnati Reds, 5 - 3.
- With an overflow crowd of 17,231 at West Side Grounds, the umpire rules that any ball hit into the crowd is a ground rule triple. The Chicago Colts take advantage and crack nine triples, including three by Bill Dahlen, to crush the St. Louis Browns, 16 - 7.

1936 - Joe DiMaggio makes his major league debut for the New York Yankees and has three hits in a 14 - 5 victory over the St. Louis Browns.
1952 - The Cleveland Indians set a record when they use 23 players in a regular game against the Washington Senators, including the first black battery in American League history. Quincy Trouppe is the catcher when pitcher Sam Jones comes to relieve.
1961:. Another brilliant Warren Spahn performance is spoiled when left fielder Mel Roach's misplay costs the Milwaukee Braves' ace a second no-hitter in a row. Spahn settles for a two-hitter in topping the Dodgers, 4 - 1.
1963: In his first and only at bat with the Baltimore Orioles, pitcher Buster Narum hits a home run off Don Mossi of the Cleveland Indians. Six days later, Narum will be optioned to Triple-A Rochester but will return to the majors next year with the Washington Senators, where he will hit two more home runs. Narum becomes the first pitcher to have more homers than wins in a season, but he will be matched on September 2nd by Ed Hobaugh, and in 1992 by Dave Eiland.
- 1963 Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds hits his first major league home run off St. Louis Cardinals ace Ernie Broglio.
- 1979 - Bobby Bonds of the Cleveland Indians hits his 300th career home run against Moose Haas in a 6 - 1 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers. Bonds has collected 413 stolen bases at the time and becomes the second player, after Willie Mays, to have 300 home runs and 300 stolen bases.
- 1980:. Ferguson Jenkins of the Texas Rangers becomes the fourth pitcher in major league history to win 100 or more games in each league. Jenkins beats the Baltimore Orioles, 3 - 2 at Arlington Stadium, as he joins Cy Young, Jim Bunning and Gaylord Perry in the exclusive club.
- 1995 - Rookie third baseman David Bell makes his debut with the Cleveland Indians in a 14 - 7 victory over Detroit. His appearance represents the third generation of his family to play in the major leagues. David's father, Buddy, and his grandfather, Gus, previously starred in the big leagues. The Bells become the second three-generation family in major league history, joining the Boone family (Ray, Bob, Bret and Aaron). Gus Bell will die four days later.

2010 - Brett Cecil, feeling dizzy and congested, pitches the best game of his career as he throws six perfect innings in Toronto's 5 - 1 win over Cleveland. A one-out walk to Grady Sizemore in the 7th breaks the perfecto and is followed by Jhonny Peralta's single. Cecil is the fourth different Blue Jays pitcher to carry a no-hitter into the 7th inning this year; he allows just the one hit in 8 innings and strikes out 10.

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May 4. Not much Cleveland or Indians information today.

1869 - The Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first all-professional baseball team, start their first regular season with a 45 - 9 victory over the Great Westerns of Cincinnati.
1871 - A National Association contest between the ★ Cleveland Forest Citys and Fort Wayne Kekiongas is officially the first Major League game ever played. Fort Wayne is the winner, 2 - 0, behind a four-hit shutout by pitcher Bobby Mathews. Al Pratt is the losing pitcher. Cleveland's catcher, Deacon White, is 3 for 4, including the first hit (a double) and also is the first to hit into a double play. Bill Lennon becomes the first catcher to throw a runner out trying to steal second base. In the 127 games during the 1871 season, there are a total of four shutouts.
1910 - Not wanting to offend either club, U.S. President William Howard Taft attends two games in one day. After watching part of a game between the hometown St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds at Robison Field, he travels cross-town to watch the remainder of the game between the St. Louis Browns and ★ Ceveland Naps at Sportsman's Park.
1931 - In an effort to put less strain on his leg, Babe Ruth plays first base as Lou Gehrig moves to right field. Gehrig commits a costly error in the outfield helping the Washington Senators beat the Yankees, 7 - 3.

1946 - Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators collects six straight hits before having his streak ended by Steve Gromek of the ★ Cleveland Indians. Travis' performance marks one of the few highlights of his career after World War II, where he suffered frozen feet.

1967 - Roberto's Revenge: Old Testament Style – Donn Clendenon and Roberto Clemente combine to give Don Drysdale a taste of his own medicine (perhaps taking Orlando Cepeda's adage – "the trick with Drysdale is to hit him before he hits you" – a tad literally). Dodger beat writer Frank Finch reports: "Before Drysdale retired, he took a physical pounding from the Pirates. Clemente's third hit almost tore Don's right hand off, and later in the same inning Donn Clendenon's drive drilled Drysdale on the shins so hard that it bounced to first base, where Wes Parker made an easy put-out."
1991 - Chris James of the ★ Cleveland Indians drives in nine runs with two home runs and two singles, breaking a club record for RBI and leading the Indians to a 20 - 6 victory over the Oakland Athletics.
2021 - The minor leagues start their season, after having been on hiatus since September of 2019 due to the Coronavirus pandemic. In the interim, the governing structure, Minor League Baseball, has been thoroughly reorganized and in effect replaced by the Professional Development League.

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You never know what you will see in any sporting event.

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May 5. Slow day.

1904 - At Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans hurls the second of his three no-hitters, a 3 - 0 perfect game against the Philadelphia Athletics and Rube Waddell. Young will eventually complete 24 straight hitless innings, still the record, and 45 shutout innings in a row, a record until broken by Jack Coombs' 53 scoreless frames in 1910.
1922 - Facing the Detroit Tigers, Bill Bayne of the St. Louis Browns pitches a no-hitter into the 9th inning. Detroit manager Ty Cobb then sends up five straight pinch hitters, the first of whom breaks up the no-hitter. One of the pinch hitters Cobb inserts is Bob Fothergill, who bats for him and strikes out, becoming the only man ever to pinch hit for Cobb. The Browns win, 6 - 1.

1954 - Baltimore Orioles pitcher Bob Turley gives up two hits to the New York Yankees but is defeated by his former teammates, 4 - 2. It is Turley's second two-hit loss of the season; the Cleveland Indians defeated him on April 2nd.
1955:. Brooklyn Dodgers rookie Tom Lasorda makes his first major league start as he he throws three wild pitches in one inning, tying a major league record. After his pitching career, Lasorda will enjoy far more success as a Hall of Fame manager.
1978 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the 14th major leaguer to collect 3,000 hits when he singles off Montreal's Steve Rogers at Riverfront Stadium.
1980 - National League president Chub Feeney suspends Pittsburgh's Bill Madlock for 15 days and fines him $5,000 for shoving his glove in the face of home plate umpire Jerry Crawford, after being called out on strikes with the bases loaded in a game a few days earlier.

2011 - The Indians pull out a 4 - 3 victory in 12 innings over the A's to improve to 21-9, the best 30-game start in team history. The Tribe needs to use its entire bullpen to secure the win, obtained when Jack Hannahan hits a bases-loaded single off Craig Breslow in the top of the 12th. Cleveland adds another run, which will be needed, as its 7th pitcher of the night, Chris Perez, gives up a run in picking up the save in the bottom of the 12th.

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May 6. Ruth, Mays -but- no Indians classics today ? That's a first so far.

1915 - Babe Ruth, pitching for the Boston Red Sox, collects three hits, including his first major league home run when he connects off Jack Warhop of the New York Yankees at the Polo Grounds.
1931 - Willie Mays is born in Westfield, Alabama. After a brief career in the Negro Leagues, Mays will make his major league debut with the New York Giants in 1951. During a 22-year major league career, Mays will bat .302 with 660 home runs and 1903 RBI. Mays will gain Hall of Fame honors in 1979.
1941.- Hank Greenberg makes his last game before entering the U.S. military a memorable one as he hits two home runs with three RBI helping the Detroit Tigers to a 7 - 4 victory over the New York Yankees.
1955 - Roberto Clemente crashes Willie Mays's birthday party in his second visit to the Polo Grounds, by banging a 430-foot triple over the birthday boy's head in the midst of a decisive rally in a 3 - 2 Pirate win over the Giants. Jesse Abramson of the New York Herald Tribune reports: "Roberto Clemente tripled so far over Mays' head that even Willie on his charger, shedding the cap, couldn't catch it..."
1958 - Commemorating the three-year anniversary of his party-crashing heroics, Roberto Clemente again disrupts Willie Mays's birthday celebration, if not quite so dramatically. Bob Stevens of the San Francisco Chronicle reports: "Only a spectacular catch by Clemente on a 400-foot blast by Mays in the 6th with the bases loaded and George Witt on the mound prevented San Francisco from making a genuine rout of the thing." Circus catch notwithstanding, the Bucs' bats fail to ignite as they suffer a 7 - 0 whitewashing.
1982 - Gaylord Perry of the Seattle Mariners becomes the 15th major league pitcher with 300 victories when he defeats the New York Yankees, 7 - 3, at the Kingdome. Perry becomes the first pitcher to notch his 300th win since Early Wynn did it in 1963.

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May 7.

1917 - Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox allows only two hits as he outpitches Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators, 1 - 0, at Griffith Stadium. Ruth helps himself by driving in the winning run with a sacrifice fly.
1922 - Jesse Barnes of the New York Giants pitches the only no-hitter of the year, beating the Philadelphia Phillies, 6 - 0, at the Polo Grounds.
1925 - At Forbes Field, Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Glenn Wright turns an unassisted triple play in the 9th inning against the St. Louis Cardinals when he catches Jim Bottomley's line drive, steps on second base to double Jimmy Cooney, and tags Rogers Hornsby coming from first. Despite Wright's effort, the Cardinals win, 10 - 9.
1940 - The Brooklyn Dodgers become the first National League team to fly when they travel by air to Chicago from St. Louis.

I remember this next one when I was 6 years old Herb Score's picture was on the May 8 front page of our Youngstown Vindicator, it was awful.

1957 - Cleveland Indians pitcher Herb Score is hit on the right eye by a line drive off the bat of the Yankees' Gil McDougald in the 1st inning. The ball breaks Score's nose and damages his eye; he will miss the rest of the season.

1995 - Former All-Star outfielder Gus Bell dies at the age of 66. As the patriarch of a three-generation baseball family, Bell reached the 100-RBI mark four times while starring for the Cincinnati Reds. His son, Buddy, and his grandsons, David and Mike, later played in the major leagues.
1999 - In the biggest comeback in Jacobs Field history, the Cleveland Indians score 18 runs in the final three innings to overcome a 9 - 1 deficit and beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, 20 - 11. Tampa Bay's first baseman Fred McGriff sets a major league record by homering in his 34th major league ballpark.
2009:. - The Dodgers' star outfielder, Manny Ramirez, is suspended for 50 games for testing positive for a banned substance. He is the most prominent player yet caught under Major League Baseball's PED policy implemented in 2005.
2009 - The Red Sox score 12 runs in the 6th inning before recording an out in their 13 - 3 win over Cleveland. Jason Bay drives in four of the runs with a double and a three-run homer in the record-tying scoring spree.
2014:.- Nolan Arenado of the Rockies matches a team record by extending his hitting streak to 27 games when he goes 3 for 5 in a 9 - 2 win over the Rangers; Michael Cuddyer had set the record only a year ago. Arenado does not have to wait long as he hits a two-run double off Colby Lewis in the 1st. In the game, Adrian Beltre hits his 100th homer as a member of the Rangers; he is only the 5th player to hit 100 or more homers with three different teams, having previously done so with the Dodgers and Mariners; the four others are Darrell Evans, Reggie Jackson, Alex Rodriguez and ★ Jim Thome.