Paul Molitor of the Brewers hits for the cycle in a 4 – 2 victory over Minnesota. Molitor triples in the 1st, singles in the 3rd, doubles in the 5th, and homers in the 7th.
The Red Sox defeat the White Sox by a 9 – 6 score in a night game at Fenway Park which takes 4 hours and 11 minutes to complete for a new American League record. The contest is nine minutes longer than the previous longest 9-inning night game.
England’s Queen Elizabeth is President George Bush’s guest at the A’s-Oriole game played at Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium.
Oakland OF Jose Canseco is photographed leaving the West Side apartment of singer Madonna. He then goes 0 for 3 in Oakland’s 5 – 3 loss to the Yankees.
Gambler Howard Spira is found guilty of trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. Spira had already received $40,000 from Steinbrenner.
Darryl Strawberry returns to New York as a Dodger with mixed results. A crowd of 49,118 mostly booing fans watches him hit a two-run home run, and they cheer when he makes the last out of the game with the potential tying and winning runs on base in the 6-5 Mets victory.
1991 – Rookie Jeff Bagwell hits only the ninth upper-deck home run at Three Rivers Stadium, a 456-foot pinch-hit poke in a 6-4 victory over Pittsburgh. Steve Finley follows with a two-run shot for the winning margin.
Chris James establishes the club record for RBIs in a game by driving in nine runs with a pair of homers and two singles, helping Cleveland to crush the A’s, 20-6. The Indians first baseman’s offensive output will account for 22% of the 41 runs he will drive in this season.
At County Stadium, the Milwaukee Brewers defeat the Chicago White Sox in a six-hour, five-minute, 19-inning contest, the longest in the American League since the same two clubs played 25 innings on May 8, 1984. Willie Randolph gets the winning RBI in the 19th.
On May 1, 1991, Rickey Henderson of the Oakland A’s becomes the all-time leader in stolen bases. Henderson steals the 939th base of his career, breaking the record held by Hall of Famer Lou Brock. Henderson’s breaks the record in the fourth inning, when he swipes third base against catcher Matt Nokes in a 7-4…
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