Don Baylor is hit by a first-inning pitch thrown by Angels’ hurler Kirk McCaskill. The Yankee DH has been plunked 190 times, breaking, pardon the expression, the American League record established by Minnie Minoso in 1963 while playing with the White Sox.

On August 29, 1985 — Don Baylor is hit by a first-inning pitch thrown by Angels’ hurler Kirk McCaskill. The Yankee DH has been plunked 190 times, breaking, pardon the expression, the American League record established by Minnie Minoso in 1963 while playing with the White Sox.


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