Daisuke Matsuzaka holds the Angels to an infield hit over eight innings while striking out nine as the Red Sox win, 5 – 0, their fourth straight win after an awful start to the season.

The Marlins’ Anibal Sanchez comes close to throwing the second no-hitter of his career, beating the Rockies, 4 – 1. The Rockies’ lone run, which scores on a walk and a two-base error in the 1st, is unearned; Dexter Fowleris the only batter to get a hit off Sanchez with a 9th-inning single. Sanchez, who pitched a no-hitter in 2006, strikes out a career-high 9 batters in the one-hitter.

The Rangers hit five home runs by five different batters in five consecutive innings to down the Royals, 11 – 6. Mike Napoli, Ian Kinsler, David Murphy, Adrian Beltre and Mitch Moreland all take advantage of windy conditions at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington to go deep between the 3rd and 7th innings.

The Brewers beat the Astros, 14 – 7, with Yovani Gallardo hitting his 9th career home run. It has taken him only 177 at-bats – the last major league pitcher to reach 9 homers that fast was Don Drysdale (144 AB, 1958).

Chad Huffman has a career day with the Columbus Clippers in a 19 – 3 rout of the Louisville Bats in the International League. Huffman belts three homers and drives in 10 runs in the contest, setting a team record for runs driven in in a game; he drives in at least one run in each of his six plate appearances, including a bases-loaded walk, a run-scoring ground ball out and a single off Johnny Cueto. On a rehabilitation assignment from the Reds, Cueto is the starter and loser, giving up 8 runs in 1 2/3 innings, but the three homers come off three different relievers who succeed him on the mound.

Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association come to an agreement on paying pensions for major league players active from 1947 to 1979 who failed to qualify for benefits at the time. Until 1979, players needed to have completed four full years of major league service to qualify for a pension, leaving hundreds short. Since 1980, benefits accrue from the first day a player spends in the majors. 904 players will receive payments thanks to the agreement.

Bud Selig announces MLB is taking over operations of the Dodgers because of concerns over team finances and the ability of Frank McCourt to run the franchise. Los Angeles is facing substantial debt payments, which the owner plans to meet by using funding from the club’s new $2.5 billion, 20-year media-rights deal with Fox Sports, but the Commissioner has withheld his approval of the agreement between the News Corp.’s media company and the team.

The Orioles snap an 8-game losing streak with an 11 – 0 shellacking of the Twins at Camden Yards. Matt Wieters and Brian Roberts combine for 7 RBI, Vladimir Guerrero homers, and Jake Arrieta pitches 7 scoreless innings as Carl Pavano is victimized.

Mariano Rivera is saddled with a rare blown save, allowing the Blue Jays a comeback 6 – 5 win at the Rogers Centre. After homers by Mark Teixeira and Curtis Granderson turn an early 2 – 2 tie into a 5 – 3 Yankees lead, Yunel Escobar leads off the bottom of the 9th with a double off the all-time great closer, who already has seven saves this year. A wild pitch on a walk to Jose Bautista and a perfectly-executed squeeze bunt by John McDonald tie the game at 5-all. In the 10th, Travis Snider doubles home the winning run against Ivan Nova, pressed into the game as the Yankees’ bullpen is depleted; Snider had gone 0 for 5 on the day and had snapped a bat into pieces in frustration after striking out with the bases loaded to end the 6th inning.

Tiger outfielder Ryan Raburn becomes the first player to hit a ball off Seattle’s Safeco Field’s retractable roof when his first-inning pop fly makes contact with one of the trusses approximately 175 feet above the playing field. The redirected foul ball, which falls between Mariner catcher Miguel Olivo and third baseman Chone Figgins, if caught, would have been the second out of the inning, according to the ballpark’s ground rules.