Kelly Gruber Positions: Third Baseman and OutfielderBats: Right • Throws: Right6-0, 180lb (183cm, 81kg)Born: February 26, 1962 in Houston, TXDraft: Drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 1st round (10th) of the 1980 MLB June Amateur Draft from Westlake HS (Austin, TX).High School: Westlake HS (Austin, TX)Debut: April 20, 1984 (14,891st in major league history) vs. CAL 0 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SBLast Game: June 29, 1993 vs….
May 28, 1989 – George Bell ends the Toronto Blue Jays’ twelve-year stay at Exhibition Stadium with a walk-off home run off Bobby Thigpen to win the Jays’ final game there with a 7-5 win over the Chicago White Sox, the same team the Jays’ faced in their first game at Exhibition Stadium…
Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers comes within two outs of his sixth career no-hitter, losing it when Nelson Liriano hits a triple in the 9th inning. Texas beats the Toronto Blue Jays, 4 – 1, as Ryan finishes with his 10th lifetime one-hitter.
Blue Jay third baseman Kelly Gruber becomes the first player to hit for the cycle in franchise history when he singles in the eighth inning of the team’s 15-8 win against Kansas City. The 27 year-old All-Star infielder’s Toronto teammates buy him a tricycle in recognition of the Exhibition Stadium accomplishment.
The Blue Jays blast a major league record of ten home runs in an 18-3 rout of the Orioles at Exhibition Stadium. Ernie Whitt goes deep three times, Rance Mulliniks and George Bell each hit a pair, and Lloyd Moseby, Rob Ducey, and Fred McGriff each go deep once, with Baltimore’s Mike Hart adding one to tie the two-team major league mark of 11.