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5/13
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BIRTHDAYS
1934 Leon Wagner, American baseball outfielder (MLB All-Star 1962, 63; LA Angels), born in Chattanooga, Tennessee (d. 2004)

1969 Lyle Mouton, American outfielder (LSU,Chicago White Sox), born in Lafayette, Louisiana

1971 Michael Sirotka, American pitcher (Chicago White Sox), born in Chicago, Illinois

1977 Robby Hammock, American baseball player (Arizona Diamondbacks), born in Macon, Georgia

1978 Barry Zito, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants), born in Las Vegas, Nevada

 

FROM MLB's This Day in Baseball History+​

1903 In a 13-7 rout of the Corsicana Oil Cities, Paris Parasites left fielder Clyde Bateman hits four home runs to become the second player in Texas League history to accomplish the feat, joining Oil Cities' Jay J. Clarke. In less than two months, the 26-year-old slugger, who will lead the circuit in hitting and homers, makes history again when he throws a no-hitter for the Steers (the franchise's new name after moving to Waco on June 26th) against the Fort Worth Panthers.
1911 The Red Sox come back to beat the Tigers 13-11, overcoming a nine-run deficit in the Bennett Park contest. Duffy Lewis' tenth-inning grand slam proves to be the difference in the game that also featured Ty Cobb's first bases-loaded round-tripper.

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1911 In the bottom of the first inning en route to 19-5 rout of the Cardinals, the Giants score 13 runs, tallying a record ten times before the first batter is retired in the Polo Grounds contest. Fred Merkle collects six RBIs, including a three-run inside-the-park round-tripper, in New York's first-frame offensive barrage.

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1929 For the first time in major league history, both teams are wearing numbers on their jerseys when the Indians host the Yankees at League Park in Cleveland. The numerals will become a permanent fixture on each club's attire.
1942 Braves' pitcher Jim Tobin, en route to a 6-5 victory over the Cubs, becomes the first modern-day hurler to hit three home runs in one game, equalling the feat of Guy Hecker, who hit three inside-the-park round-trippers playing for Louisville in 1886. 'Ironsides,' who pinch-hit a homer in the eighth inning of yesterday's contest, would have hit five consecutive blasts, if his first-inning fly ball against the fence had gone out.

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1947 During the pregame infield practice, a barrage of racial slurs is directed at Jackie Robinson by the Cincinnati fans during the Dodgers' first visit to Crosley Field this season. Brooklyn shortstop Pee Wee Reese, a Southerner from Kentucky with friends attending the game and captain of the team, converses with the black infielder, putting his arm around his teammate's shoulder, a gesture that stuns and silences the crowd.

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1952 "He grabbed me by the shoulder and said, 'Larry, you're going to be in the big leagues and the first time you hit a home run, I'm going to be the announcer to tell the world about it.' Can you imagine that? He's 15 years old. I'll be damned if it didn't happen." - LARRY MIGGINS, recalling his prep school friend's prediction during a school assembly. Larry Miggins, who had shared his dreams of being a big leaguer with a Fordham Prep buddy, hits the first of his two major league round-trippers, going deep off Preacher Roe in the fourth inning of the Cardinals' 14-8 loss to the Dodgers at Ebbets Field. The friend turns out to be Brooklyn's play-by-play announcer Vin Scully, the 15-year-old classmate with aspirations of being a baseball broadcaster, who had predicted he would call his friend's first big-league homer during that conversation.

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1952 At Shaw Stadium, 19-year-old Bristol (VA) pitcher Ron Necciai strikes out twenty-seven batters when he no-hits Welch (WV) in a Class D Appalachian League game. In the ninth inning, catcher Harry Dunlop, encouraged by the fans, deliberately mishandles the third strike, allowing the hitter to reach base, giving the Gallatin (PA) native a chance to strike out 27, which he does by whiffing the four batters in the frame.

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1954 In an 8-1 victory over the Reds at Connie Mack Stadium, Robin Roberts gives up a leadoff home run to third baseman Bobby Adams. The 27-year-old right-hander then proceeds to retire the next 27-consecutive batters in one of the most memorable games of his Hall of Fame career.

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1955 For the first time in his major league career, Mickey Mantle hits home runs from both sides of the plate, finishing the game with three round-trippers - two from the left side and one batting right-handed. The switch-hitting slugger drives in all of his team's runs in the 5-2 victory over Detroit at Yankee Stadium.

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1958 As a pinch-hitter, Stan Musial collects his 3000th hit in the sixth inning off Moe Drabowsky in the Cardinals' 5-3 victory over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. 'The Man,' the youngest player to reach the milestone, is the eighth major leaguer to accomplish the feat.

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1958 San Francisco teammates Willie Mays and Darryl Spencer each have four long hits, driving in four and six runs, respectively, in the team's 16-9 victory over the Dodgers at LA's Memorial Coliseum. The Giants' center fielder and shortstop combine for 28 total bases, with Mays hitting two homers, two triples, a single, and Spencer adding two round-trippers, a three-bagger, and a double to the offensive outburst.

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1958 In a complete-game effort, Phillies right-hander Robin Roberts gives up six hits, beating the Braves at Connie Mack Stadium, 5-2. The win marks the 31-year-old hurler 191st career victory, which sets a franchise record, surpassing the mark established in 1930 by Pete Alexander.

 

1960 The Phillies drop their third consecutive 1-0 decision, losing to Jim O'Toole and the Reds at Crosley Field. Giants' hurlers Jack Sanford and Sam Jones had shut out Philadelphia in the previous two days at Candlestick Park.
1969 With his daughter Jan, along with her classmates, in attendance at chilly Wrigley Field, first baseman Ernie Banks drives in seven runs with two three-run homers and a double in the Cubs' 19-0 rout of San Diego. Following the consecutive no-run performances by Ferguson Jenkins and Ken Holtzman, Dick Selma adds another, making it the first time in 60 years that the team has shut out its opponents in three consecutive games.

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1970 With two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning at Wrigley Field, Gary Gentry gives up his only hit, a short fly hit by Ernie Banks that outfielder Dave Marshall gets a glove on, but he cannot hold on to the ball. The Mets right-hander settles for a one-hit 4-0 victory over the Cubs, just missing the opportunity of being the first hurler in franchise history to throw a no-hit game if official scorer Jim Enright had ruled differently on the blooper to left field.
1976 For the sixth consecutive game, George Brett collects at least three hits, batting an incredible .692 during the span. The Royals' third baseman, 18-for-26 against the Orioles, Twins, and White Sox raises his season's batting average from .277 to .396 with his torrid pace at the plate.

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1980 Fred Lynn's run-scoring triple in the eighth inning of the Red Sox's 10-5 victory over the Twins completes the 13th cycle in franchise history. The Boston outfielder, who collected four RBIs, hit a double in the first inning, drove in two with a fourth-inning round-tripper, pushed across another run with a single in the sixth frame of the Fenway Park contest.

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1982 The Cubs become the first major league team to win 8,000 games when Allen Ripley and Lee Smith combine to shut out Houston in the team's 5-0 victory at the Astrodome. The milestone comes in the 15,337th contest in the 107-year history of the franchise.
1985 After trailing by eight runs, going into the bottom of the sixth inning, the Yankees rally to beat the Twins 9-8. Don Mattingly's ninth-inning two-out, three-run walk-off home run at the Bronx ballpark is the finishing touch.
1985 A day before his 43rd birthday, Tony Perez becomes the oldest player to hit a grand slam when he goes deep off Phillies' reliever Dave Rucker in the sixth inning of the Reds' 7-3 victory at Riverfront Stadium. The 42-year-old pinch-hitter breaks the seventy-year-old record held by Pirates' third baseman Honus Wagner, and the new mark will last until Julio Franco, 46, hits a base-loaded round-tripper in 2004.

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1991 In the broadcast booth at Wrigley Field, Skip Caray and Chip Caray, the Braves' play-by-play announcers, join Cubs legend Harry Caray, the patriarch of the three-generation broadcasting family. The 77-year-old grandfather, known for his warm relationship with the Chicago fans, takes tremendous pride that his son and grandson have chosen to be baseball broadcasters. Holy Cow!

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1993 One day before his 40th birthday, George Brett hits his 300th career home run, joining Hank Aaron, Stan Musial, Carl Yastrzemski, Willie Mays, and Al Kaline as the only players with three hundred homers and three thousand hits. The Royals' third baseman's historic ball is picked up by a fan, who happens to be blind, on a veterans' hospital outing.

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2000 Todd Stottlemyre limits the opponents to one run in six innings to earn his 136th career victory when the Diamondbacks beat San Diego at Qualcomm Stadium, 6-2, making the Stottlemyres the first father and son to combine for 300 wins. The 35 year-old Arizona right-hander plans to give the game ball to his dad, Mel, who began chemotherapy early this season for bone marrow cancer.
2000 The Mets release a disgruntled Rickey Henderson, a day after he fails to hustle, turning a likely double into a single. The 41-year-old stolen base leader is batting .219 with no homers and two RBIs at the time of his release.
2001 Still angry with umpire Mike Winters' ninth-inning check-swing call of the night before, Devil Rays' manager Hal McRae gets thrown out before the game's first pitch when he steps out of the dugout to pick up his lost cause.
2001 Alex Rodriguez becomes fifth-youngest (25 years, 289 days) player to hit his 200th career homer. Mel Ott accomplished the feat in 1934 at the youngest age (25 years, 144 days), followed by Eddie Mathews (25 years, 243 days), Jimmie Foxx (25 years, 267 days), and Mickey Mantle (25 years, 280 days).
2002 Thirty-eight home runs shy of the exclusive 500 mark, one-time 'Bash Brother' Jose Canseco, 37, retires due to injuries sustained in recent years. The former American League MVP, released by the Expos during spring training, had his best years in Oakland as a teammate of Mark McGwire.

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2007 In the comeback, which will become known as the Mother's Day Miracle, the Red Sox rally for six runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat Baltimore at Fenway Park, 6-5. Before the final frame, Orioles starter Jeremy Guthrie had blanked the opponents on three hits before Boston crossed the plate six times, thanks to two singles, two doubles, three walks, and two errors.

 

2008 Along with the Red Sox' loss, the Rays' 2-1 victory over the Yankees in 11 innings puts the team in sole possession of first place for the first time in franchise history. The win makes Tampa Bay seven games over .500 (23-16), a mark never accomplished during the first 11 seasons of the club's existence.
2009 Ryan Zimmerman's Nationals-record consecutive hit streak comes to an end at 30 games when he grounds into a ninth-inning force play, ending the day 0-for-3 with two walks in the team's 6-3 victory at AT&T Park. Only two Washington ballplayers, Hall of Famers Heinie Manush and Sam Rice, have had longer hit streaks than the Nats' third baseman.

2010 Trey Hillman, who compiled a 152-207 record in his two-plus years with the club, is fired by the Royals. The popular and well-respected 47 year-old, who piloted the team to a 12-23 record this season, including today's victory, will be replaced by the team's current baseball operations assistant and former Brewers manager, Ned Yost.
2013 Thanks to a seventh-grade history class project, a three-mile stretch of the Kansas K-79 highway, from K-16 highway to Circleville, is designated by the Kansas legislature as the Barnes Brothers Memorial Highway in honor of Ozzie and Virgil. The McAlister middle schoolers' research about the siblings, who grew up in the community and played with the Braves, Giants, and Dodgers in the 1910-20s, brought to light many of their major league accomplishments, including being participants in the first brother matchup in big-league history.

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2013 Justin Upton, playing In his first game at Chase Field since the January trade that sent him to Atlanta in a seven-player deal, collects four hits, including a home run and a double. The first overall pick by Arizona in the 2005 amateur draft receives a mixed reaction from the crowd, with slightly more cheers than boos during Atlanta's 10-1 rout of the Diamondbacks.
2015 Corey Kluber becomes one of five pitchers to strike out 18 or more batters without issuing a walk, joining Luis Tiant, Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson, and Kerry Wood. The 29-year-old right-hander, who goes eight innings to get the victory when the Indians beat St. Louis 2-0 in the Progressive Field contest, also ties Johnson for the most strikeouts in a start lasting less than nine innings.

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2016 Chris Heisey's pinch-hit home run, his third of the season, marks the first time the Nationals have had two pinch-hitters go deep in the same game. Earlier in the contest, Stephen Drew, coming off the bench, blasted a game-tying two-run shot in the sixth inning of Washington's eventual 5-3 victory over Miami.
2020
"Im not playing unless I get mine. Im not splitting no revenue. I want all mine. Bro, y'all got to understand, too, because yall going to be like: Bro, play for the love of the game. Man, whats wrong with you, bro? Money should not be a thing. Bro, Im risking my life. What do you mean, It should not be a thing? It 100% should be a thing." - BLAKE SNELL, Rays' southpaw commenting on a Twitch stream about his salary during 2020 season. Rays' southpaw Blake Snell, invoking many fans' ire, indicates he will not pitch this year if his pay continues to be cut, strongly disagreeing with the owners' proposal to base salaries on a 50-50 split of revenue with the players. The 27-year-old left-hander, recipient of the 2018 AL Cy Young Award, will receive $43,210 for each day of the schedule, the prorated share of his salary when the season does start.
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On May 13 in Baseball History...​

1911 - Fred Merkle has six RBI as the Giants tee off on three St. Louis pitchers for 13 runs in the first inning, including a major league record ten before a single out is recorded. John McGraw decides to save starter Christy Mathewson for another day. Rube Marquard works the last eight innings and strikes out 14, setting a record for strikeouts by a reliever. The Giants win 19-5.
1942 - Pitcher Jim Tobin of the Boston Braves slams three successive home runs to beat the Chicago Cubs at Braves Field. Tobin is the only major league pitcher to accomplish this. He had a pinch-hit homer the day before.
1955 - Mickey Mantle hit three home runs � two left-handed and one right-handed � as the Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers 5-2.
1958 - Willie Mays and Darryl Spencer each had four long hits as San Francisco beat the Dodgers in Los Angeles 16-9. Mays had two homers, two triples, a single and four RBIs, and Spencer had two homers, a triple, a double and six RBIs for a combined 28 total bases.
1958 - Stan Musial got his 3,000th hit with a pinch-double off Chicago's Moe Drabowsky at Wrigley Field. The Cardinals won 5-3.
1967 - Mickey Mantle's 500th home run, off Stu Miller, lifted the New York Yankees to a 6-5 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.
1980 - Ray Knight of Cincinnati hit two home runs in the fifth inning � including a grand slam � to lead the Reds to a 15-4 rout of the New York Mets.
1982 - The Chicago Cubs won game No. 8,000 in their history with a 5-0 victory over Houston at the Astrodome.
1989 - Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins tied a major league record with four doubles against the Blue Jays. He became the 35th player to hit four doubles in a game, the first since Toronto's Damaso Garcia in 1986.
1993 - George Brett hit his 300th career home run in the sixth inning of Kansas City's 7-3 victory over Cleveland. Brett joined Hank Aaron, Stan Musial, Carl Yastrzemski, Willie Mays and Al Kaline as the only players with at least 3,000 hits and 300 homers.
1998 - The Atlanta Braves set an N.L. record and tied a major league mark by hitting home runs in 25 straight games, doing it when Ryan Klesko hit a two-run shot in the sixth inning against St. Louis.
Baseball Birthdays on May 13...

1851 - Buttery, Frank
1859 - Smith, Leo
1878 - Hemphill, Frank
1880 - Burns, Jack
1883 - Archer, Jimmy
1884 - Halla, John
1884 - Main, Alex
1884 - Niehoff, Bert
1886 - Gardner, Larry
1886 - Miller, Frank
1890 - Lambeth, Otis
1895 - Lanning, Red
1895 - Mills, Frank
1897 - Canavan, Hugh
1901 - Taylor, Leo
1901 - Burke, Pat
1901 - Jones, John
1902 - Neubauer, Hal
1910 - Berger, Boze
1917 - Stringer, Lou
1918 - Goldstein, Lonnie
1918 - Gillenwater, Carden
1924 - Fannin, Cliff
1927 - Smith, Bob
1927 - Rhodes, Dusty
1932 - Shepard, Jack
1933 - Roseboro, Johnny
1934 - Wagner, Leon
1934 - LeJohn, Don
1935 - Dailey, Bill
1942 - Macleod, Billy
1947 - Kealey, Steve
1949 - Hughes, Terry
1950 - Beniquez, Juan
1950 - Valentine, Bobby
1960 - Faedo, Lenny
1965 - Rijo, Jose
1966 - Nichting, Chris
1968 - Castillo, Braulio
1969 - Mouton, Lyle
1971 - Sirotka, Mike
1975 - Callaway, Mickey
1975 - Cressend, Jack
1978 - Zito, Barry

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5/14
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BIRTHDAYS
1878 James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
1881 Ed Walsh, American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, manager (Chicago WS; MLB ERA record 1.82), born in Plains Township, Pennsylvania (d. 1959)

1890 Alex Pompez, American baseball executive (d. 1974)
1899 Earle Combs, American MLB baseball centerfielder, 1924-35 (New York Yankees), born in Richmond, Kentucky (d. 1976)
1937 Dick Howser, American baseball shortstop (MLB All Star All-Star 1961, 61 KC A's) and manager (World Series 1977, 78 NY Yankees; KC Royals 1985), born in Miami, Florida (d. 1987)

1942 Tony Perez, baseball player

1947 Dick "Dirt" Tidrow, American MLB pitcher, 1972-84 (Cleveland Indians; New York Yankees and 3 other teams), and executive (Asst GM, San Francisco Giants), born in San Francisco, California

1948 Dave LaRoche, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1955 [Jose] Dennis Martínez, Nicaraguan baseball pitcher (Orioles, Expos, Indians), born in Granada, Nicaragua

1963 Pat Borders, catcher (California Angels), born in Columbus, Ohio
1965 Joey Cora, Caguas Puerto Rico, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1976 Brian Lawrence, American baseball player
1977 Roy Halladay, American MLB pitcher, 1998-2013, 8X All-Star, 2X Cy Young Award (Toronto Blue Jays, Philadelphia Phillies), born in Denver Colorado (d. 2017)

 

FROM MLB's This Day in Baseball History+​

1883 The Phillies, known as the Quakers at the time, win their first game in franchise history when they rout the White Stockings, later to be known as the Cubs, at Chicago's Lake Front Park. Philadelphia had lost its first eight games of the season before today's 12-0 victory and will finish the season in last place in the eight-team National League with a dismal 17-81 (.173) record.

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1904 The Senators establish a major league record by starting the season 0-13 when the team drops a 6-3 decision to New York at Hilltop Park. Washington will be 11 games out of first place before the club wins its first contest this year.
1913 Walter Johnson's streak of 55.2 scoreless innings ends when he gives up a run in the bottom of fourth in the Senators' 10-5 victory against the Browns at Sportsman's Park. The right-hander's record will last until 1968, when Don Drysdale surpasses the mark, tossing 58.2 blank frames for the Dodgers.

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1914 Jim Scott pitches nine innings of no-hit ball against the Senators but loses when he gives up two hits in the 10th inning. Howie Shanks' bad-hop triple off the White Sox right-hander scores Chick Gandil, who singled leading off the final frame, giving Washington the walk-off 1-0 victory at Griffith Stadium.

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1918 With the anticipation of crime rates decreasing in the city, officials in Washington D.C. lift the prohibition on playing baseball on Sunday in the nation's capital. In five days, 17,000 enthusiastic fans, the largest crowd in the history of Griffith Stadium, will be treated to a dramatic, 1-0 extra-inning victory against Cleveland in the first contest played on a Sunday in the District.
1920 The Giants inform the Yankees, tenants since 1913, they are not renewing the Bronx team's lease to play at the Polo Grounds at the end of the season. There is speculation the National League team, which later will decide to continue sharing their home until the completion of the American League club's new stadium in 1923, may have been reacting to the team's recent acquisition of Babe Ruth.
1920 Beating the Tigers in relief at Griffith Stadium 9-8, Senator right-hander Walter Johnson registers his 300th victory. Although the 'Big Train' hurled for mostly losing teams during his 21-year career, he will compile 417 victories, including winning 20-games or more for ten consecutive seasons (1910-1919).
1927 In the top of the seventh in the Phillies' game against St. Louis, a section of the right-field stands of the Baker Bowl collapses, causing hundreds of fans to fall on the patrons below. Although there are many injuries, the only fatality is a victim of the stampeding crowd.
1939 During the Indians' 9-4 victory over Chicago at Comiskey Park, a woman, sitting in the stands near the visitor's dugout, is injured when Marvin Owen's foul ball strikes her just above the right eye. The Indians' starting pitcher, her 20-year-old son Bob, threw the pitch that resulted in Mrs. Feller needing seven stitches on Mother's Day.

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