After having missed spring training and the first month of the season because of collusion, Montreal Expos outfielder Tim Raines debuts by going 4 for 5, including a 10th-inning grand slam, in an 11 – 7 win over the New York Mets.
Graig Nettles and Dion James each hit grand slams to lead the Atlanta Braves to a 12 – 4 rout of the Houston Astros. It is the first time since July 3, 1966 (when pitcher Tony Cloninger did it by himself), that the Braves have hit two grand slams in one game.
1986 – Bob Knepper runs his record to 5-0 with a 6-1 victory at chilly Montreal. Manager Hal Lanier has been using a three-man rotation of Knepper, Mike Scott and Nolan Ryan to get the Astros off to a fast start.
LaMarr Hoyt faces 27 batters in a 3 – 0, one-hit shutout against the New York Yankees. Don Mattingly has the only hit for New York, an opposite-field blooper in the 7th inning, which is followed by a double play.
Jose Cardenal goes 6 for 7 with four RBI, including a double and a home run, as the Cubs defeat the Giants, 6 – 5, in the 14-inning first game of a doubleheader.
On May 2, 1972, the long holdout of Oakland A’s pitching star Vida Blue comes to an end. Blue, who won the both the American League MVP and Cy Young awards in 1971, agrees to sign a contract for $63,000, after balking at owner Charlie Finley’s previous offers. Perhaps affected by the long layoff, the…
On May 2, 1969, future Hall of Famer Al Lopez resigns as manager of the Chicago White Sox due to health reasons. Lopez, who leaves the game with 840 wins and two pennants, is replaced by Don Gutteridge.
1967 – Houston erupts for eight runs in the eighth to wallop the Phillies, 10-3. Rusty Staub has four RBIs. Bob Aspromonte slams a three-run shot and Jim Wynn has two hits in the decisive frame. Winning pitcher Mike Cuellar drills a run-scoring double to help his own cause.
At Memorial Stadium, the Orioles host “Safety Patrol Day” to honor students who helped their schoolmates travel to and from school safely by giving free admission to 20,000 children from around the state of Maryland to the team’s game against the Cleveland. Unfortunately, a freak accident involving an escalator to the upper deck causes the death of a teenage girl and injuries to 46 other children when a people channeler, a device to control the crowding of patrons getting onto an escalator, was inadvertently left on top, restricting the flow of kids in the wrong direction, a blockage which caused children to fall back onto one another when they could not exit at the same pace as people getting onto the the moving steps.
On May 2, 1964, At Municipal Stadium in Kansas City, the visiting Minnesota Twins hit four consecutive home runs in one inning. Tony Oliva (his second of the game), Bob Allison, Jimmie Hall, and Harmon Killebrew (his second of the game, he hit a go-ahead home run in 9th) go deep in the 11th inning…
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