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2012 Ricky Nolasco becomes the franchise leader in career wins when Miami beats Colorado at Marlins Park, 7-6. The 29-year-old right-hander, who hit a double to put his team ahead, surpasses Dontrelle Willis for the most team victories, improving his record to 69-53 for the South Florida squad.
2014 Barack Obama becomes the first U.S. president to visit the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown. During his visit, the Commander in Chief, a White Sox fan, holds FDR's green-light letter and a pair of spikes worn by Chicago's "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, who was one of the eight players banned from the game for their alleged role in fixing the 1919 World Series.
2019 Josh Bell, for the second time in two weeks, reaches the Allegheny River on the fly, hitting PNC Park's fifth 'splash' home run since the ballpark opened in 2001. The Pirates' first baseman accomplishes the feat when he blasts a second-inning Jon Gray changeup 454 feet over the Clemente Wall in right field in the team's 9-3 loss to the Rockies.

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2021 In his major league debut, Taylor Walls collects a pair of two-baggers, doubling as a righty in the fifth, and then as a lefty in the ninth in the Rays’ 3-1 victory over the Blue Jays at TD Ballpark. The 24-year-old switch-hitting shortstop joins Rich Becker (1993 Twins, two doubles) and George Wright (1982 Rangers, double/home run) as the third player to break in with an extra-base hit from both sides of the plate.

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• • 1963 - Mickey Mantle hit a pitch from Kansas City's Bill Fischer off the right-field facade at Yankee Stadium in an 8-7 victory over the A's.
  • 1968 - Willie Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit three home runs, a double and a single in a 13-6 victory over the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. Stargell's double just missed going out, bouncing off the railing of the left field bleachers.
  • 1976 - St. Louis' Reggie Smith hit three home runs - two right-handed and one left-handed - and drove in five runs in a 7-6 win over the Philadelphia Phillies. Smith's third homer came with two outs in the ninth and broke a 6-6 tie.
  • 1977 - Boston and Milwaukee hit a combined 11 home runs in a 14-10 Red Sox victory at Fenway Park, tying a major league record. The Red Sox connected for six and the Brewers hit five in the first game of a doubleheader.
  • 1983 - Cliff Johnson of the Toronto Blue Jays hit his 18th career pinch home run. The drive, off Baltimore's Tippy Martinez, tied Johnson with Jerry Lynch on the career pinch homer list.
  • 1998 - Brian Cox went 6-for-6, including a grand slam in a 10-run third inning, as Florida State rolled past Delaware 27-6 in the NCAA Atlantic II Regional. Freshman Matt Diaz hit three home runs for the Seminoles.

Baseball Birthdays on May 22...

• • 1866 - Morrison, Hank
  • 1884 - McCarthy, Tom
  • 1886 - Maloney, Charlie
  • 1890 - Mangus, George
  • 1893 - Parker, Pat
  • 1894 - Warner, Hooks
  • 1900 - Cotter, Hooks
  • 1901 - Ganzel, Babe
  • 1902 - Jones, Dick
  • 1902 - Simmons, Al
  • 1903 - Kerr, Mel
  • 1904 - Morgan, Ed
  • 1913 - Lohrman, Bill
  • 1915 - Woods, Pinky
  • 1918 - Clark, Otie
  • 1934 - Valdivielso, Jose
  • 1935 - Piche, Ron
  • 1941 - Spriggs, George
  • 1943 - Hriniak, Walt
  • 1943 - John, Tommy
  • 1944 - Coggins, Frank
  • 1946 - Robinson, Dave
  • 1946 - Colborn, Jim
  • 1947 - Hinton, Rich
  • 1949 - Eden, Mike
  • 1954 - Mercer, Mark
  • 1956 - Brouhard, Mark
  • 1965 - Carter, Larry
  • 1966 - Mesa, Jose
  • 1968 - Levine, Al
  • 1969 - Eshelman, Vaughn
  • 1973 - Tavarez, Julian
  • 1974 - Bale, John

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1862 William "Dummy" Hoy, baseball outfielder (most accomplished deaf player in MLB history; NL stolen base leader 1888; Washington Senators, Cincinnati Reds), born in Houcktown, Ohio (d. 1961)

1888 Zack Wheat, Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (NL batting champion 1918; Brooklyn Superbas / Dodgers / Robins 1909–26), born in Hamilton, Missouri (d. 1972)

1924 Clyde King, baseball pitcher, coach, manager and executive (Brooklyn Dodgers; New York Yankees), born in Goldsboro, North Carolina (d. 2010)

1956 Buck Showalter baseball manager (AL Manager of the Year 1994, 2004, 14; NY Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers, Baltimore Orioles) and analyst (ESPN, YES network), born in DeFuniak Springs, Florida

1961 Kevin Romine, baseball player

1969 Ramon Caraballo, baseball player

1970 Ricky Gutierrez, infielder (Houston Astros), born in Miami, Florida

1971 Marshall Boze, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers), born in San Manual, Arizona
1978 Mike González baseball player, born in Corpus Christi, Texas
1979 Kirk Saarloos baseball player

 

FROM MLB's This Day in Baseball History+​

1890 The Giants and the Pittsburgh Alleghenys established a National League record when the teams combine to steal seventeen bases in a single game. New York will win the Polo Grounds contest, 17-10.
1901 Scoring nine runs in the bottom of the ninth at Cleveland's League Park, the Blues, later known as the Indians, stun the Senators, 14-13. The incredible comeback, which consists of six singles, two doubles, a walk, a hit batsman, and a passed ball, comes after two outs.
1901 Clark Griffith, the White Sox's pitcher-manager, working in relief for his club, decides to walk Philadelphia's Napoleon Lajoie intentionally with the bases loaded. The strategy proves successful when he induces the next three batters to ground out to complete the 11-9 victory at Chicago's South Side Park.

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1910 In the top of the ninth inning in a game against Boston, Cincinnati's outfielder Dode Paskert steals second base, third base, and home plate. The thievery proves to be the margin of victory when the Reds edge the Doves, 6-5.

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1918 Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder issues a "work-or-fight" order, initially setting July 1 as the deadline for players to enter the needed war workforce or face induction into military service. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, ignoring Woodrow Wilson's letter stating that the President saw "no necessity" for curtailing play, allows the major leaguers to compete through Labor Day, with rosters staying intact for the shortened season and the World Series.
1924 Senator right-hander Walter Johnson strikes out 14, including six consecutive batters to tie an AL mark, en route to tossing a 4-0 one-hitter over Chicago. A fourth-inning single by Harry Hooper spoils the Big Train's bid for his second career no-hitter.

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1935 In Cincinnati, rain postpones the first-ever scheduled major league night game, but the team will face the Phillies tomorrow night. The Reds will play eight evening contests this season, including one against every club in the National League.
1936 With the Reds trailing by three runs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning at Crosley Field, Sammy Byrd hits Cy Blanton's pitch for a game-ending home run, giving Cincinnati an incredible come-from-behind 4-3 victory. The 29-year-old outfielder becomes the third major leaguer to hit an ultimate grand slam, A round-tripper in the home team's final at-bat, and erases a three-run deficit, resulting in a one-run victory.

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1945 The Braves send pitcher Red Barrett along with $60,000 to the Cardinals for Mort Cooper, who had threatened to leave St. Louis over a salary dispute. After the early season swap, the newest Redbird goes 21-9 for his team, while Boston's newcomer, a twenty-game winner for the previous three seasons, posts a modest 7-4 record for the sixth-place club.

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1948 Yankees' slugger Joe DiMaggio hits three consecutive home runs, the first two off future Hall of Famer Bob Feller. The trio of round-trippers helps the Bronx Bombers defeat the Tribe, 6-5.

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1954 The White Sox send infielder Grady Hatton, obtained from Cincinnati in April, along with $100,000 to the Red Sox in exchange for George Kell, the 1949 American League batting champion. Chicago acquires the 31-year-old six-time All-Star third baseman, who started the season with a .311 lifetime batting average, as a significant upgrade, both defensively and offensively, at the hot corner.

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1962 Joe Pepitone homers twice to become the second player in Yankee history to hit two home runs in the same inning when the Bronx Bombers score nine times in the eighth inning of a 13-7 rout of Kansas City. In 1936 as a rookie, Joe DiMaggio became the first pinstriper to accomplish the feat.

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1963 Mets' first baseman Gil Hodges is immediately named as the Senators' manager, replacing Mickey Vernon when the teams complete the deal that sends Waterbury (CT) native Jimmy Piersall to New York. The 33 year-old part-time outfielder, who will bat only .194 in 40 games for his new team, will be released in July after drawing the ire of manager Casey Stengel for running the bases backward to celebrate his 100th career home run.

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1965 Mets' outfielder Ron Swoboda takes his position wearing a batting helmet - on his foot. After kicking the protective headgear, which gets stuck on his spikes, manager Casey Stengel ordered the young player to go out to the field.

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1965 In the first inning of a 5-2 loss to San Francisco, Jimmy Wynn cannot catch Jim Ray Hart's two-out routine fly ball when he loses the ball in the glare of diffused Texas sunlight streaming through plastic panes of the newly-opened Astrodome. The base-clearing inside-the-park three-run home run results in the painting of the ballpark's ceiling the next day and will lead to Astroturf's use next season because the grass will be unable to be grown due to the reduced amount of sunlight.

 

1970 After a 17-16, 15-inning loss, the Giants replace manager Clyde King with Charlie Fox, their Phoenix PCL affiliate skipper. With a 19-23 record at the time of the Goldsboro, NC native's dismissal, San Francisco recovers to go 14 games over .500, finishing third under their new field boss.
1980 In the early morning hours of the players' planned walkout, the MLBPA and the owners reach a preliminary four-year agreement, allowing the matter of free agency to be reopened the following season. The unresolved issue over free-agent compensation will lead to a 50-day strike next year that results in the loss of 712 games.
1984 The Tigers win their 16th consecutive road game, defeating the Angels, 4-2. Detroit's victory ties an American League record established by the Senators in 1912.
1991 In front of a sparse Olympic Stadium crowd of 8,833, Tommy Greene, making his 15th start as a major leaguer, no-hits the Expos, 2-0. The Phillies' right-hander joined the rotation replacing Danny Cox, who had suffered a pulled groin in his last start.

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1991 At the Metrodome, Kirby Puckett strokes five singles and a triple in the Twins' 10-6 loss in 11 innings to Texas. The outfielder's performance marks the second time he collects six hits in a game, making him the fourth post-1900 major leaguer, along with Doc Cramer, Jim Bottomley, and Jimmie Foxx, to have accomplished the feat twice during their career.

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1991 With his fourth-inning swipe of second base at Shea Stadium, Andre Dawson becomes the third member of the 300/300 club, with his 300th stolen base. The 36-year-old Cubs outfielder, who has also hit 354 home runs, joins Bobby Bonds and Willie Mays in reaching the milestone.

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1993 The Royals Hall of Fame inducts team owner Ewing Kauffman. The public appearance at the stadium will be the philanthropist's last trip to the Kansas City ballpark, which will be renamed in his honor shortly before his death on the first day in August.
1998 Carl Pavano pitches seven strong innings in his major-league debut for the Expos, allowing two runs, one earned, on three hits and strikes out six in the team's 3-2 walk-off win over the Phillies at Olympic Stadium. Montreal acquired the 22-year-old Southington, Connecticut native in the Pedro Martinez trade with the Red Sox along with a player to be named later (Tony Armas).

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1998 David Wells extends his American League record consecutive outs streak to 38 when Boston leadoff hitter Darren Lewis grounds out to begin the contest. The Yankee southpaw, who authored a perfect game in his last outing, had also retired the final ten Kansas City batters he faced in the start before the 'perfecto.'

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1999 Brady Anderson gets hit twice by a pitch in the same inning to set an American League record. The Oriole leadoff man, the third major leaguer to accomplish the feat, scores twice when the Birds tally ten runs in the first inning, routing the Rangers at Camden Yards, 16-5.
2000 Mariners' outfielder Rickey Henderson draws his 2,000th career walk, becoming only the third player in baseball history to reach the milestone. Hall of Famers Babe Ruth and Ted Williams are the only other major leaguers to have accomplished the feat.

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2002 Shawn Green hits four home runs in one game to become the 14th player in major league history, the second this month, to accomplish the feat. The Dodger right fielder's 6-for-6 performance in Milwaukee's Miller Park, which also includes a single and double, breaks Joe Adcock's 1954 mark for total bases by one, with a total of 19.

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2002 The Dodgers set a franchise mark when the team hits eight homers in one contest, bashing the Brewers, 16-3. Shawn Green's four round-trippers account for half of the record-breaking barrage, and Brian Jordan, Hiram Bocachica, Adrian Beltre, and Dave Hansen contributing four-baggers in the Miller Park contest.
2004 Kaz Matsui, who surpasses Tommie Agee's 1969 team record, sets a franchise mark with his fifth leadoff home run of the season, becoming the first Mets player to accomplish the feat in consecutive games. The 28-year-old Japanese shortstop is also the first big leaguer to have his first five career round-trippers be hit batting first in the first inning of a game.

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2004 The River City Rascals, a member of the independent Frontier League, announce a 'Sports Criminals Night,' which will turn T.R. Hughes Ballpark into a giant cell block, with complete with a 'dugout jail' for fans during the June 2nd game against the Rockford Riverhawks. The team cancels the event, intended to humorously poke fun at the media's coverage of athletes in trouble, after the community's protests.

 

2008 Six weeks after his successful thyroid cancer surgery, Diamondback hurler Doug Davis allows just one run over seven innings in an 11-1 win over the Braves at Turner Field. The 32-year-old southpaw joins Red Sox starter Jon Lester, who threw a no-hitter earlier in the week to serve as an inspiration for cancer patients and their families.
2008 Giving up just one run in 6.1 innings in the Giants' 8-2 victory over the Marlins, southpaw Barry Zito avoids becoming the first starter in franchise history to start a season 0-9. The former Cy Young Award winner, who signed a $126 million deal with San Francisco before last season, has posted a 12-22 record since donning the orange and black.
2009 At Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Jason Giambi hits his 400th career home run. The A's designated hitter goes deep off Dan Haren leading off the fourth inning in an 8-7 loss against Arizona to become the 44th major leaguer to reach the milestone.

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2011 In a profile piece written by Jeffrey Toobin for The New Yorker, Fred Wilpon makes some very candid comments about some of the 'stars' on his payroll. The embattled Mets owner is critical of the often injured Jose Reyes and Carlos Beltran, and calls David Wright a nice kid, but "not a superstar."
2011 Chasing a sixth-inning foul pop near the Rangers dugout in the sixth inning, A.J. Pierzynski nearly makes contact with George W. Bush, who is sitting in the owner's box with his wife, Laura. The ball drops harmlessly into the stands, but the former president takes the opportunity to converse with the startled White Sox catcher.
2011 In the Brewers' 11-3 win over the Nationals at Miller Park, Corey Hart hit his first three homers of the season and drives in seven runs, tying both franchise records. The Milwaukee right fielder goes deep with two-run blasts in the first and fifth off Washington starter Tom Gorzelanny to reach the 100th career homer run milestone and then adds a two-out three-run shot in the eighth, becoming the tenth Brewers player to hit three in one game.

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2020 The Nationals scrap their virtual World Series ring ceremony, planned for airing on television and streaming online when the players decide they would rather wait to be together in person to receive their championship jewelry. The team will still unveil the ring's design tomorrow, the day initially selected for the presentation, because the date marks the anniversary of Washington's turnaround from a 19-31 record to a Game 7 victory in the Fall Classic
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On May 23 in Baseball History...

• • 1926 - Hack Wilson smacks a fifth inning home run off the Wrigley Field scoreboard, situated at ground level, to start a 14-8 rout of the Braves. Wilson is the first player to hit a ball off the scoreboard, which, in 1937, will be moved atop the newly built bleachers. Later that night, Wilson and a few others are arrested at a friend's apartment for drinking beer in violation of the Prohibition Act.
  • 1944 - Wartime restrictions are eased and the Polo Grounds is the scene of the first night game in metro New York since 1941. The Giants Bill Voiselle loses a 2-1, ninth-inning lead because an apparent last-out fly ball is dropped by center fielder Johnny Rucker when Charles Mead runs into him. Two runners score and the Dodgers win
  • 1978 - The A.L. approves the transfer of the Red Sox to a group headed by Jean Yawkey, Buddy LeRoux, and Haywood Sullivan. The purchase price is $15 million. Sullivan had a seven-year catching career for the Red Sox and Royals, while LeRoux was the Boston trainer for eight years.
  • 1980 - Five hours after the midnight deadline passes, the players and owners avert a strike by announcing a new four-year basic agreement. The new deal raises the minimum salary from $21,000 to $30,000 and increases the clubs' contributions to the players' pension fund, but the major issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved.
  • 1989 - Cleveland loses to Detroit 7-2 to drop its record to 21-22, but remains in first place in the A.L. East by percentage points. It marks the latest in a season a sub-.500 team has been in first place.
  • 1991 - Tommy Greene tosses the season's second no-hitter, a 2-0 win over Montreal.
  • 1995 - Cubs pitcher Kevin Foster and Rockies hurler Marvin Freeman each hit home runs off each other in a 7-6 Chicago win at Coors Field. Foster and Freeman are just the tenth duo this century to hit and throw gopher balls against each other.

Baseball Birthdays on May 23...

• • 1844 - Johnson, Caleb
  • 1850 - White, Elmer
  • 1859 - Peak, Elias
  • 1862 - Hoy, Dummy
  • 1864 - McGeachy, Jack
  • 1869 - McBride, Algie
  • 1872 - Phillippe, Deacon
  • 1873 - Taylor, Jack
  • 1874 - Shea, Nap
  • 1879 - Miller, Bill
  • 1881 - Thomas, Frosty
  • 1885 - McLaurin, Ralph
  • 1885 - Bradley, Hugh
  • 1888 - Wheat, Zack
  • 1890 - Payne, George
  • 1892 - Smith, Pop-Boy
  • 1892 - Stuart, Luke
  • 1893 - Leifer, Elmer
  • 1894 - McElwee, Lee
  • 1899 - Kelliher, Frank
  • 1899 - Niebergall, Charlie
  • 1900 - Brett, Herb
  • 1903 - Sullivan, Charlie
  • 1905 - Child, Harry
  • 1906 - Hudlin, Willis
  • 1906 - Creeden, Pat
  • 1909 - Gomez, Chile
  • 1910 - Huckleberry, Earl
  • 1918 - Mancuso, Frank
  • 1921 - Drescher, Bill
  • 1923 - McCarthy, Jerry
  • 1924 - King, Clyde
  • 1929 - Wilhelm, Spider
  • 1948 - Cleveland, Reggie
  • 1952 - Mangual, Pepe
  • 1952 - Metzger, Butch
  • 1958 - Norman, Nelson
  • 1961 - Romine, Kevin
  • 1964 - Minutelli, Gino
  • 1969 - Caraballo, Ramon
  • 1970 - Gutierrez, Ricky
  • 1971 - Boze, Marshall
  • 1979 - Crespo, Cesar

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