This Day In Baseball May 13

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Notable Events and Chronology for May 13

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May 13, 1903

In a 13-7 rout of the Corsicana Oil Cities, Paris Parasites left fielder Clyde Bateman becomes the second player in Texas League history to hit four home runs in a game, a feat accomplished last season by Oil Cities catcher Jay J. Clarke. In less than two months, the 26 year-old slugger, who will lead the circuit in hitting and homers, makes history again when he throws a no-hitter for the Steers (the franchise’s new name after moving to Waco on June 26) against the Fort Worth Panthers. (Ed. note- Clyde Bateman is also known as Quait Bateman – LP)

May 13, 1911

Rube Marquard sets a record for relievers (since broken) with 14 strikeouts in his eight-inning appearance.

May 13, 1911

Cobb hits first Grandslam, but Tigers lose when Red Sox comeback from 9 down to win

May 13, 1923

Joe Sewell of the Cleveland Indians strikes out twice in one game for the first time in his career

May 13, 1929

At Cleveland’s League Park the first game in major league history in which players from both teams wear numbers on the back of their jerseys.

May 13, 1942

Jim Tobin of the Boston Braves becomes first modern era pitcher to hit three home runs

May 13, 1947

During the pregame infield practice, a barrage of racial slurs is directed at Jackie Robinson by the Cincinnati fans during the Dodgers’ first visit to Crosley Field this season. Brooklyn shortstop Pee Wee Reese, a Southerner from Kentucky with friends attending the game and captain of the team, engages the black infielder in conversation, and then put his arm around his teammate’s shoulder, a gesture that stuns and silences the crowd.

May 13, 1952

Ron Necciai of the Bristol Twins strikes out 27 batters in throwing a 7-0 no-hitter

May 13, 1952

Larry Miggins hits the first of his two major league home runs, going deep off Preacher Roe in the fourth inning of the Cardinals’ 14-8 loss to the Dodgers at Ebbets Field. The round-tripper hit by the Bronx-born outfielder, who had once shared his dream of playing in the big leagues during a prep school assembly with a buddy with aspirations to be a baseball broadcaster, is called by an overwhelmed Vin Scully, Brooklyn’s play-by-play announcer who had wondered that day with his friend “what the odds against that would be.”

May 13, 1955

At Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits home runs from both sides of the plate for the first time in his major league career. The New York Yankees slugger finishes the game with three home runs – two left-handed and one right-handed – and drives in all of his team’s runs in a 5 – 2 victory over the Detroit Tigers. Whitey Ford is the winning pitcher and Steve Gromek the loser.

May 13, 1955

For the first time in his major league career, Mickey Mantle hits home runs from both sides of the plate, finishing the game with three round-trippers – two from the left side and one batting right-handed. The switch-hitting slugger drives in all of his team’s runs in the 5-2 victory over Detroit at Yankee Stadium.

May 13, 1955

Mickey Mantle blasts home runs from both sides of the plate for the first time in his major league career

May 13, 1958

Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals collects his 3,000th hit

May 13, 1958

Teammates Willie Mays and Daryl Spencer each have four extra-base hits as San Francisco beats the Dodgers in Los Angeles, 16 – 9. Mays hits two home runs, two triples, a single and drives in four runs, and Spencer has two home runs, a triple, a double and six RBI for a combined 28 total bases.

May 13, 1958

Giants set record with 50 Total bases in a 16-9 rout of the Dodgers

May 13, 1965

Los Angeles Angels pitcher Dick Wantz dies following surgery for brain cancer. The 25-year-old Wantz had made his debut only one month earlier, pitching one inning in relief in his only major league appearance.

May 13, 1965

California Angels pitcher Dick Wantz dies following surgery for brain cancer

May 13, 1966

1966 – Dick Farrell and Claude Raymond combine for a one-hitter in Philadelphia. The Astros only manage three hits themselves but the last is a ninth-inning blast by Jim Wynn off Chris Short that hits the roof of Connie Mack Stadium for a 1-0 victory.

May 13, 1969

Cubs rout Padres 19-0 as Ernie Banks drives in 7 and reaches 1500 RBI’s

May 13, 1969

Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs reaches the 1,500 runs batted in milestone with seven RBI in a 19 – 0 shellacking of the expansion San Diego Padres. Hard-throwing right-hander Dick Selma earns the win as the Cubs tie a modern-day record for the most one-sided shutout in National League history.

May 13, 1969

1969 – Houston plays their first game outside the United States, a 10-3 pounding of the Montreal Expos at Parc Jarry. Doug Rader drives in three and Johnny Edwards produces two run-scoring singles against their new expansion foe. Donn Clendenon, who refused to accept a trade to Houston during the winter, goes 0-for-5. 

May 13, 1972

Buzz Capra is the winning pitcher in a 1 – 0 Mets victory over the San Francisco Giants. Capra’s first major league RBI – a 2nd-inning single scoring Cleon Jones – is the only run of the game.

May 13, 1976

For the sixth consecutive game, George Brett collects at least three hits, batting an incredible .692 during the span. The Royals’ third baseman, who is 18-for-26 against the Orioles, Twins, and White Sox, raises his season’s batting average from .277 to .396 with his torrid pace at the plate.

May 13, 1980

Ray Knight of the Cincinnati Reds hits two home runs in the 5th inning – including a grand slam – to lead the Reds to a 15 – 4 rout of the New York Mets.

May 13, 1980

Fred Lynn becomes 13th Red sox to hit for the Cycle

May 13, 1981

1981 – Don Sutton twirls a five-hit shutout to blank St. Louis, 3-0. Art Howe adds a two-run homer. Off the field, Mike Ivie is hospitalized for mental exhaustion less than a month after he was traded to Houston for Jeff Leonard and Dave Bergman. Expected to be the cleanup hitter, Ivie bats .237 with no homers in 19 games. He will miss the rest of the season. 

May 13, 1982

The Cubs become the first major league team to win 8,000 games when Allen Ripley and Lee Smith combine to shut out Houston in Chicago’s 5-0 victory at the Astrodome. The milestone comes in the 15,337th contest in the 107 year history of the franchise.

May 13, 1985

After trailing by eight runs, going into the bottom of the sixth inning, the Yankees rally to beat the Twins 9-8. Don Mattingly’s ninth inning two-out three-run walk-off home run at the Bronx ballpark is the finishing touch.

May 13, 1988

1988 – Glenn Davis drives in four and Gerald Young provides four hits as Houston pounds the Cubs, 8-2. Nolan Ryan tosses his first complete game in over two years, fanning eleven. Davis leads the league in RBIs (33) while Young leads in stolen bases (22). 

May 13, 1989

Kirby Puckett ties a major league record by collecting four doubles in a game

May 13, 1993

George Brett of the Kansas City Royals hits his 300th home run

May 13, 1994

Tim Salmon of the California Angels ties an American League record with his 13th consecutive hit.

May 13, 1998

The Atlanta Braves set a National League record and tie a major league mark by hitting home runs in 25 straight games, doing it when Ryan Klesko hits a two-run shot in the 6th inning against St. Louis.

May 13, 1999

The Mexico City Tigers crack three grand slams in a 16 – 5 rout. Luis Garcia hits two of them and Julio Franco adds one.

May 13, 2000

Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Todd Stottlemyre earns his seventh victory of the season as the Diamondbacks beat the San Diego Padres, 6 – 2. It is also Stottlemyre’s 136th career win. He and father Mel Stottlemyre become the first father-son combination to record 300 wins.

May 13, 2001

Alex Rodriguez becomes the fifth-youngest big leaguer to hit his 200th career home run, at 25 years and 289 days. Mel Ott accomplished the feat in 1934 at the youngest age (25 years, 144 days).

May 13, 2002

38 home runs shy of the exclusive 500 home run club, Jose Canseco retires at 37 age due to injuries sustained in recent years. The former American League MVP, who was cut by the Expos during spring training, had his best years in Oakland, forming with Mark McGwire one of the most feared one-two punches of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

May 13, 2007

In the comeback, which will become known as the Mother’s Day Miracle, the Red Sox rally for six runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat Baltimore at Fenway Park, 6-5. Prior to the final frame, Orioles starter Jeremy Guthrie had blanked the opponents on three hits before Boston crossed the plate six times, thanks to two singles, two doubles, three walks, and two errors.

May 13, 2009

Alfonso Soriano hits his 53rd leadoff homer as the Chicago Cubs defeat the Padres, 6 – 4, in a rain-shortened game. Soriano’s blast ties Craig Biggio for second on the all-time list, still well behind record holder Rickey Henderson at 81; it also breaks the Cubs record held by Jimmy Ryan, as it is Soriano’s 21st such homer since joining the team in 2006. For the Padres, Adrian Gonzalez hits two long balls off winner Ted Lilly.

May 13, 2009

The Pirates down the Cardinals, 5 – 2. Adam LaRoche has a home run reversed on an instant replay review; it marks the first time in 14 reviews that a home run call has been reversed since instant replay was instituted in 2008.

May 13, 2009

Ryan Zimmerman’s hitting streak ends at 30 games when he goes 0 for 3 with two walks

May 13, 2009

The Reds beat the Diamondbacks, 10 – 3. Arizona rookie Gerardo Parra homers off Johnny Cueto in his first major league at-bat, the 100th player to homer in his first trip up in the Show.

May 13, 2009

2009 – Every person in the Astros’ starting lineup, including pitcher Mike Hampton, has a multi-hit game in the 15-11 victory over Colorado at Coors Field. Lance Berkman leads the 24-hit attack (one shy of the club record) with a 4-for-4 night. Miguel Tejada adds three hits while Geoff Blum drives in five. Houston scores all their runs without the benefit of a homer. 

May 13, 2010

Mat Latos comes extremely close to pitching a no-hitter, but has to settle for a one-hit shutout, the first complete game of his career, as San Diego beats the Giants, 1 – 0. The only hit he allows is a ground ball by Eli Whiteside in the 6th that glances off him towards third baseman Chase Headley, whose throw to first base is a fraction of a second too late to retire Whiteside. For good measure, Latos also drives in the only run of the game.

May 13, 2010

Zack Greinke finally earns his first win of the year, but it comes too late to save Trey Hillman’s job. The Royals announce after the 6 – 4 win over the Indians that their manager has been fired and will be replaced by former Milwaukee Brewers manager Ned Yost. The Royals are 12-23 and in a familiar last place in the AL Central.

May 13, 2010

Trey Hillman, who compiled a 152-207 record in his two-plus years with the club, is fired by the Royals. The popular and well-respected 47 year-old, who piloted the team to a 12-23 record this season, including today’s victory, will be replaced by the team’s current baseball operations assistant and former Brewers manager, Ned Yost.

May 13, 2011

Justin Verlander does his best Johnny Vander Meer imitation but comes up short in his first start since pitching the second no-hitter of his career on May 8th. The Tigers ace is still masterful, though, keeping the Royalshitless until Melky Cabrera’s two-out triple in the 6th. He ends up allowing two hits in 8 innings in a 3 – 1 win. His losing opponent in last week’s no-hitter, Toronto’s Ricky Romero, also has a low-hit game, giving up the first of his four hits with two outs in the 6th. He comes up one out short of a complete game shutout, leaving Frank Francisco to get the final out of a 2 – 0 victory over the Twins.

May 13, 2011

Jeremy Hellickson also shines on a night of great pitching performances. The Rays rookie pitches a four-hitter for the first complete game and shutout of his career in Tampa Bay’s 3 – 0 win over the Orioles, on his way to winning the Rookie of the Year Award. Matt Joyce and Johnny Damon hit homers that account for all of the Rays’ runs.

May 13, 2011

Coco Crisp gambles and loses: in the 8th inning, with the A’s trailing the White Sox, 4 – 3, he attempts a straight steal of home with left-handed reliever Matt Thornton on the mound, but C A.J. Pierzynski manages to tag him out as he slides. The Sox hold on for the win.

May 13, 2012

The Mariners beat the Yankees, 6 – 2, in Andy Pettitte’s return to pinstripes after a one-year retirement. Justin Smoak and Casper Wells hit homers against Pettitte; Kevin Millwood picks up his first win for the M’s. Wells is a dutiful son on Mother’s Day, hitting his long ball after his mom, who drove all the way from Schenectady, NY to the Big Apple to attend the game, asked him to hit a home run to make it memorable.

May 13, 2012

Another Mother’s Day hero is the Marlins’ Giancarlo Stanton, swinging a pink bat in support of breast cancer research, who belts a walk-off grand slam off Manny Acosta of the Mets, capping a 6-run 9th-inning rally as Miami wins, 8 – 4. And he is not the only player to accomplish the feat, as the Reds’ Joey Votto also ends his team’s game with a slam, completing a three-homer game as Cincinnati defeats the Nationals, 9 – 6. It the first time that two games end on a grand slam on the same day since April 10, 1988, when Mo Vaughn and Steve Finley were the hitters.

May 13, 2013

Jordan Zimmermann is the first major league pitcher to seven wins as he also drives in three runs in Washington’s 6 – 2 victory over the Dodgers. His opponent, Josh Beckett, falls to 0-5. For Washington, Bryce Harper runs at full speed into the outfield fence in the 5th inning as he attempts to catch a fly ball hit by A.J. Ellis; he has to leave the game and while he will return to action quickly, the nagging injuries resulting from the collision will affect his production significantly for the rest of the season.

May 13, 2013

In his return to Arizona after his off-season trade, Justin Upton has a huge night, banging out four hits including a homer in a 10 – 1 Braves win over the Diamondbacks.

May 13, 2013

Justin Upton, playing In his first game at Chase Field since the January trade that sent him to Atlanta in a seven-player deal, collects four hits, including a home run and a double. The first overall pick by Arizona in the 2005 amateur draft receives a mixed reaction from the crowd, with slightly more cheers than boos during Atlanta’s 10-1 rout of the Diamondbacks.

May 13, 2014

2014 – Two pitchers with long winless streaks face-off in tonight’s game between the Dodgers and Marlins. Josh Beckett records his first win since the 2012 season as he gives up a run in 6 2/3 innings in a 7 – 1 Dodgers win. His opponent, Jacob Turner extends his streak to 16 starts and is 0-10 on the road for his career, in spite of an ERA under 4.00.

May 13, 2015

Last year’s AL Cy Young Award winner, Corey Kluber of the Indians, finally gets his first win of the year after starting off 0-5. He strikes out 18 Cardinals batters and allows only one hit over 8 innings to lead Cleveland to a 2 – 0 win. The 18 strikeouts tie a club record set by Bob Feller in 1938 and are the most by any American League pitcher since Roger Clemens also struck out 18 in 1998.

May 13, 2015

Jonathan Singleton of the Fresno Grizzlies drives in 10 runs in a 17 – 6 beating of the Albuquerque Isotopes in the Pacific Coast League. He goes 4 for 6 with two homers, including a grand slam, in setting a new club record for RBIs.

May 13, 2016

Major League Baseball announces its decision in the case of SS Jose Reyes, who has been on administrative leave since spring training following an off-season domestic violence incident. While prosecutors decided to drop criminal charges, MLB comes down hard, extending Reyes’ suspension until May 31st, a total of 51 games, costing Reyes $7 million in salary.

May 13, 2016

Chris Heisey’s pinch-hit home run, his third of the season, marks the first time the Nationals have had two pinch-hitters go deep in the same game. Earlier in the contest, Stephen Drew, coming off the bench, blasted a game-tying two-run shot in the sixth inning of Washington’s eventual 5-3 victory over Miami.

May 13, 2017

Bryce Harper signs a contract extension that will pay him $21.6 million in 2018, his final year before he becomes eligible for free agency, an amount which is a record for a player in his arbitration years. He then celebrates by hitting a walk-off homer off Edubray Ramos with two outs in the 9th to lead Washington to a 6 – 4 win over the Phillies.

May 13, 2018

Called up from AAA earlier in the day, Joey Rickard has a great game for the Orioles against the Rays as he homers twice and drives in 4 runs in a 17 – 1 rout. Danny Valencia and Trey Mancini also homer for the last-place Birds and Dylan Bundy pitches 7 scoreless innings in his first start since allowing 7 runs and 4 homers without retiring anyone in a start against the Royals on May 8th.

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Todays Major League Debuts On  May 13

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