This Weekend in Baseball History
April 30th, 2017: Anthony Rendon is a one-man wrecking crew, going 6-for-6 with three homers and 10 RBI as the Nationals put up a football score on the Mets, winning 23 – 5 in Washington. He joins Walker Cooper as the only two players ever to have 6 hits and 10 RBIs in one game.
April 30th, 2014: The Dodgers beat the Twins 6-4 at Target Field for the 10,000th victory in franchise history. Zack Greinke improves to 5-0, giving up just one unearned run in 6 innings.
April 30th, 1993: The Phillies wrap up their winningest April ever with a 7-6 victory over the Dodgers in L.A. that raises their record to a National League best 17-5. Darren Daulton's two-run homer in the top of the 8th puts the Phils ahead to stay.
April 30th, 1970: Cubs Hall of Fame outfielder Billy Williams plays in his 1000th consecutive game. But Chicago falls to the Braves 9-2 at Fulton County Stadium.
April 30th, 1968: Ron Swoboda homers off Chris Short in the 2nd inning for the game's only run. Don Cardwell holds the Phillies to just five hits in a 1-0 Shea Stadium victory.
April 30th, 1961: Willie Mays becomes the ninth player with a four home run game. He leads the Giants to a 14-4 win over the Braves at Milwaukee's County Stadium. Fellow Hall of Famer Willie McCovey roomed with Mays on that road trip. He recalled that they'd ordered ribs the night before and Mays got deathly ill in their hotel room. Happily, he recovered overnight, and went on to have the greatest single game of his career.
April 30th, 1948: Stan Musial has the first of four five-hit games he'd produce during that season. The Cardinals Hall of Famer homers, doubles and adds three singles in a 13-7 win over Reds at Crosley Field.
April 30th, 1946: Bob Feller stops the Yankees cold for his second career no-hitter. He strikes out 11, while catcher Frankie Hayes homers in the top of the 9th for the game's only score.
April 30th, 1903: The New York Highlanders win their first home opener in Manhattan, beating the Washington Senators 6-2 at Hilltop Park (the site of the current Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center).
May 1st, 2000: Barry Bonds becomes the first player to hit a ball into McCovey Cove. The first "splashdown" home run into San Francisco Bay helps the Giants beat the Mets, 10-3.
May 1st, 1992: Exactly a year to the day after breaking Lou Brock's stolen base record, Rickey Henderson becomes the first major leaguer ever to reach the 1000 mark... He does it in the A's/Tigers game in Detroit.
May 1st, 1991: Rickey Henderson steals the record-breaking 939th stolen base of his career, in the A's 7-4 afternoon win over the Yankees in Oakland. More history was made that night as Nolan Ryan throws the seventh no-hitter of his career; he strikes out 16 as his Texas Rangers blank the Blue Jays 4 -0.
May 1st, 1965: Yogi Berra appears in his first game for the Mets. He grounds out pinch hitting in the 8th inning of a 9-2 loss to the Reds at Crosley Field.
May 1st, 1959: Early Wynn fires a one-hit shutout, strikes out 14 and hits a double and home run -- for the game's only score -- in a 1-0 White Sox win over the Red Sox.
May 1st, 1951: Mickey Mantle smacks the first home of run of his career. The Yankee rookie connects off Randy Gumpert of the White Sox in an 8 - 3 victory at Comiskey Park. Also noteworthy: Minnie Minoso, a day after being obtained in a trade from Cleveland, becomes the first black player in White Sox history.
May 1st, 1920: Babe Ruth belts his first home run as a Yankee. It comes over his former club the Red Sox, in a 6-0 victory at the Polo Grounds. His victim: past Boston and future Yankee teammate Herb Pennock.
May 2nd, 2002: Mike Cameron becomes the 13th major leaguer to hit four homers in a game, as the Mariners pummel the White Sox 15-4.
May 2nd, 2001: Paul O'Neill's 9th inning single off LaTroy Hawkins makes him the 215th player to reach 2000 career hits. But the Yankees lose 4-2 to the Twins at the Metrodome.
May 2nd, 1964: The Minnesota Twins crush four homers in a row in the top of the 11th -- by Tony Oliva, Bob Allison, Jimmie Hall and Harmon Killebrew -- for the winning margin in a 7-3 victory over the A's in Kansas City.
May 2nd, 1954: Stan Musial authors the first five home run day in baseball history, as the Cardinals and Giants split a doubleheader at old Busch Stadium. Three round trippers help lead St. Louis to a 10-6 win in the opener -- but his pair in the nightcap aren't enough to stop a 9-7 New York victory. (The Giants sported a pair of future Hall of Famers in their lineup: Monte Irvin homered in the opening game, but Willie Mays didn't clear the fences.)
May 2nd, 1939: Lou Gehrig, ill with what's soon diagnosed as ALS, asks manager Joe McCarthy not to include him in the Yankees lineup at Detroit -- ending an historic streak of 2130 consecutive games. Replacing Lou at 1st base, Babe Dalgren is one of the batting stars (with a homer and double) in a 22-2 win over the Tigers.
May 2nd, 1923: Yankee shortstop Everett Scott plays in his 1000th consecutive game (a streak that would eventually grow to 1307). But the bigger achievement was the 100th career shutout by Senators ace Walter Johnson, who blanked the Yanks 3-0.
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