Jerry Goff, playing in his first game of the season, ties a modern major league record when he allows six passed balls in the Astros’ 7-6 loss to the Expos at Olympic Stadium. The 32 year-old Houston backup backstop, filling in for starter Rick Wilkins, who caught all 13 frames of yesterday’s extra-inning loss to Montreal, equals the dubious mark for misplaying six pitches in one game shared by Harry Vickers (1902 Reds) and Geno Petralli (1987 Rangers).

On ‘John Franco Day,’ the New York veteran reliever is ejected from the game, along with eight other players, as the result of participating in a fifth-inning bench-clearing brawl at Shea Stadium. Prior to the game the Mets celebrated their closer’s recent 300th career save, but his unavailability in the ninth leads to three hurlers combining to give up the tying runs in the team’s eventual 7-6 walk-off victory over Chicago.

The Athletics defeat the Twins by a score of 15 – 5. Oakland CF Ernie Young gets four safeties, including three home runs, and drives home 6. Young entered the game with three career homers in 164 major league at-bats. He is believed to have had the fewest career home runs of any player ever to hit three in a game.

Montreal’s Henry Rodriguez hits his second homer of the game, a 3-run shot in the 8th, to send the Expos to a 5 – 2 win over the Astros. Starter Jeff Fassero is the winner. Following Rodriguez’s home run, the game is delayed when fans in the LF bleachers shower the field with “Oh, Henry” candy bars.

The Red Sox edge the Blue Jays, 6 – 5, in 11 innings. John Valentin ties the score with a 2-out homer in the 9th and Troy O’Leary homers in the 11th to win it. Heathcliff Slocumb, Tom Gordon and Mike Stanton combine to strike out 17 Jays.

Yankees P David Cone undergoes surgery to remove an aneurysm in his pitching arm.