The Yankees defeat the Red Sox‚ 7 – 3 as SS Derek Jeter gets 5 hits‚ including a double and home run. David Cone takes the loss‚ going 5 innings and giving up 3 runs. Andy Pettitte is the winner.

The Twins score 8 runs in the 3rd inning to give Brad Radke an 8 – 0 lead, then hold on to edge the Mariners, 12 – 11. The M’s will use the momentum to win their next 15 and set a franchise record.

For the second time this season, Barry Bonds homers in six consecutive games. His nine homers during this span of games establishes a National League mark. 1968 Senators slugger Frank Howard’s feat of hitting 10 homers in six games is the major league record. The Giants lose to the Diamondbacks, 12 – 8, as Mark Grace has four hits, including two doubles.

The Diamondbacks double the Giants, 4 – 2, overcoming another home run by Barry Bonds. His 8th home run in five games ties another major league record.

 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hits two home runs in a 11 – 6 loss to the Atlanta Braves, giving him a total of five homers in two games, becoming the 23rd player in major league history to do so.

Reversing its original decision, MLB’s official statistician, the Elias Sports Bureau, will now list Randy Johnson’s 20 strikeouts as tying a record. Although the game went into extra innings, Johnson’s nine-inning performance will be noted along with the Roger Clemens and Kerry Wood’s 20 strikeouts outings in the 2002 record book.

The Arizona Diamondbacks defeat the Chicago Cubs, 4 – 0, as Randy Johnson (five innings), Byung-Hyun Kim (three innings), and Bret Prinz (one inning) combine on a one-hitter.

Mets free agent acquisition Steve Trachsel becomes the first pitcher in franchise history to give up four home runs in an inning, pitching himself out of the starting rotation in the process (one day later, he’ll be off the roster altogether, off to Norfolk for a three-week Triple A stint). To be fair, the Met bullpen does not exactly cover itself in glory either, with Rick White and John Franco each contributing 4 runs to San Diego’s 15-run total; an uncharacteristically economical Franco accomplishes all this in one third of an inning. The one Met bright spot is the performance turned in by a newcomer assigned mop-up duty in the 9th, super sub Desi Relaford, who moves over from SS to make the only mound appearance of his major league career. Sporting a tailing change-up and a fastball, which at 91 MPH is about 5 MPH faster than anything Trachsel was able to muster, Desi fans the opposing pitcher, then induces two consecutive Padres to fly out to the deepest part of the park.

Rickey Henderson leads off with a home run, extending his major-league record for leadoff home runs to 79. This is more than the combined total for the #2 and #3 players on the list: Brady Anderson (44), and Bobby Bonds(35).

Chicago outfielder Sammy Sosa becomes the thirty-third major leaguer to reach 400 career homers when he goes deep off Houston’s Shane Reynolds at Wrigley Field. The popular Dominican outfielder has hit 371 homers as a Cub, putting him third on the all-time franchise list behind Ernie Banks (512) and Billy Williams (392).