This date in baseball

1903 The New York Highlanders won their home opener at Hilltop Park, 6-2 over Washington.

1919 Philadelphia’s Joe Oeschger and Brooklyn’s Burleigh Grimes pitched complete games in a 9-9, 20-inning tie. Both teams scored three runs in the 19th inning. Oeschger gave up 22 hits and walked 5, while Grimes allowed 15 hits and walked 5.

1922 Charlie Robertson of the Chicago White Sox pitched a 2-0 perfect game against the Detroit Tigers. Johnny Mostil, playing left field for the only time, made two outstanding catches.

1940 James “Tex” Carleton of the Brooklyn Dodgers threw a 3-0 no-hitter at Cincinnati.

1944 In the first game of a doubleheader split, New York first baseman Phil Weintraub drove in 11 runs and player-manager Mel Ott scored six runs as the Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 26-8. Brooklyn won the nightcap 5-4.

1946 Bob Feller struck out 11 New York Yankees en route to his second of three career no-hitters, a 1-0 victory at Yankee Stadium.

1958 Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox became the 10th major league player to reach 1,000 extra-base hits in a 10-4 loss to the Kansas City Athletics at Fenway Park.

1961 Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants hit four home runs and drove in eight runs in a 14-4 victory over the Braves in Milwaukee. Hank Aaron hit two home runs for the Braves.

1966 Rick Reichardt hit two home runs in the eighth inning to help the California Angels beat the Boston Red Sox 16-9.

1967 Steve Barber and Stu Miller of the Baltimore Orioles combined on a no-hitter in a 2-1 loss to the Detroit Tigers in the first game of a doubleheader. Barber pitched 82/3 innings and Miller one-third of an inning.

1969 Jim Maloney of the Cincinnati Reds struck out 13 en route to a 10-0 no-hitter over the Houston Astros, the third of his career.

1970 Chicago Cubs outfielder Billy Williams became the first player in National League history to play 1,000 consecutive games. The Cubs lost 9-2 to the Atlanta Braves at Fulton County Stadium.

1977 Ron Cey of the Los Angeles Dodgers hit a seventh-inning home run in a 6-4 victory over the Montreal Expos. Cey finished the month with an April major league record 29 RBI.

1985 Dale Murphy of the Atlanta Braves tied Ron Cey’s April RBI record of 29 with two RBI in an 8-4 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.

1988 New York and Cincinnati hooked up in a wild game at Riverfront Stadium that the Mets pulled out 6-5, on a delayed call by first base umpire Dave Pallone. The call resulted in a $10,000 fine and 30-day suspension of Reds Manager Pete Rose when Pallone accidentally poked Rose in the cheek and Rose shoved Pallone twice.

1988 New York’s Dave Winfield tied the record of 29 RBI in April when he drove in two in the Yankees’ 15-3 rout of Texas.