1993 – Doug Drabek drills a home run off Pedro Martinez to beat the Dodgers, 3-2. Drabek picks up his fourth win while Doug Jones gets the save. Earlier, Craig Biggio had tagged Pedro Astacio for a solo shot.
Mets catcher Gary Carter hits his 299th career home run, connecting for a three-run round tripper off Greg Booker in the seventh inning of the team’s 7-4 victory over the Padres at Jack Murphy Stadium. The future Hall of Fame backstop will go 230 at-bats and three months before hitting #300 on August 11th.
After starting off with an 18-2 record, the Brewers drop their 10th in a row, losing, 13 – 0, to Kansas City. The Brew Crew’s only hit off Charlie Leibrandt is a bunt single.
A’s infielder Tony Phillips goes 5 for 5, hits for the cycle and drives in four runs as Oakland beats Baltimore, 8 – 4.
On May 16, 1984, Carlton Fisk of the Chicago White Sox hits for the cycle in a game against the Kansas City Royals. In spite of Fisk’s history-making day, the White Sox lose the game, 7-6. It was Fisk’s only triple of the year and he joins the 1945 Pirates’ Bill Salkeld as the only…
The Twins sell 51,863 tickets to their 8 – 7 loss to the Blue Jays, but only 6,346 fans show up for the game. The skewed numbers are the result of a massive ticket-buying plan organized by Minneapolis businessman Harvey Mackay to keep the Twins in Minnesota; if the club does not sell 2.41 million tickets this season it can break its lease with the Metrodome. Taking advantage of reduced prices on the Family Day promotion, Mackay pays $218,718 for 44,166 tickets.
Steve Carlton lifts a grand slam off Fernando Valenzuela to lead the Phillies to a 7 – 2 win over the Dodgers.
On May 16, 1984, At his request the Baltimore Orioles release 39-year-old longtime star Jim Palmer, who had struggled to a record of 0-3 with an ERA of 9.17. Palmer, who declines the Orioles’ offer to retire and accept a job within the organization, will unsuccessfully attempt to latch on with another team. @ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF90YWdzIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsiYmVmb3JlIjoiTGVhcm4gTW9yZSBhYm91dCB0aGUgdGVhbXMsIHBsYXllcnMsIGJhbGwgcGFya3MgYW5kIGV2ZW50cyB0aGF0IGhhcHBlbmVkIG9uIHRoaXMgZGF0ZSBpbiBoaXN0b3J5IGp1c3QgY2xpY2sgdGhlIHRhZ3MhICAiLCJhZnRlciI6IiIsImxpbmtfdG9fdGVybV9wYWdlIjoib24iLCJzZXBhcmF0b3IiOiIgfCAiLCJjYXRlZ29yeV90eXBlIjoicG9zdF90YWcifX0=@
In an 11-4 rout of the Pirates, rookie right fielder Darryl Strawberry hit his first major league home run, a two-run round-tripper off Pittsburgh’s Lee Tunnell at Three Rivers Stadium. The troubled Mets outfielder, the eventual franchise leader with 252 homers, will hit a total of 335 during his turbulent 17-year career with the Mets, Dodgers, Giants, and Yankees.
Despite six 9th-inning runs on solo home runs by Dave Engle and Bobby Mitchell and two-run shots by Gary Gaetti and Mickey Hatcher, the Twins lose, 7 – 6, to Oakland. Engle’s and Hatcher’s homers are pinch hits.
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