This date in baseball

MAY 22

1933 Joe Sewell of the New York Yankees struck out for the first time this season during a 3-0 victory over Cleveland. Sewell would strike out only three more times in 524 at-bats.

1957 The Boston Red Sox hit four home runs in the sixth inning of an 11-0 victory over Cleveland. Gene Mauch, Ted Williams, Dick Gernert and Frank Malzone connected. All the home runs came on the first 16 pitches from Cal McLish.

1959 Baltimore’s Hoyt Wilhelm pitched a one-hitter against the New York Yankees for a 5-0 victory. Jerry Lumpe’s single in the eighth spoiled the no-hit bid.

1963 Mickey Mantle hit a pitch from Kansas City’s Bill Fischer off the rightfield facade at Yankee Stadium in an 8-7 victory over the A’s.

1968 Willie Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit three home runs, a double and a single in a 13-6 victory over the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. Stargell’s double just missed going out, as it bounced off the railing of the left-field bleachers.

1976 St. Louis’ Reggie Smith hit three home runs — two right-handed and one left-handed — and drove in five runs in a 7-6 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. Smith’s third home run came with two outs in the ninth and broke a 6-6 tie.

1977 Boston and Milwaukee hit a combined 11 home runs in a 14-10 Red Sox victory at Fenway Park, tying a major league record. The Red Sox connected for six and the Brewers hit five in the first game of a doubleheader.

1983 Cliff Johnson of the Toronto Blue Jays hit his 18th career pinch home run. The home run, off Baltimore’s Tippy Martinez, tied Johnson with Jerry Lynch on the career pinch home run list.

1998 Brian Cox went 6 for 6, including a grand slam in a 10-run third inning, as Florida State rolled past Delaware 27-6 in the NCAA Atlantic II Regional. Freshman Matt Diaz hit three home runs for the Seminoles.

2000 Milwaukee beat Houston in the first game of a doubleheader 10-9, coming back from a 9-2 deficit to tie the score with seven runs in the bottom half of the ninth inning. The Brewers won the game in the 10th on a home run by Jose Hernandez.

2008 Boston’s J.D. Drew and Mike Lowell hit grand slams to help Daisuke Matsuzaka remain unbeaten as the Red Sox posted an 11-8 victory over the Kansas City Royals.

2009 Michael Cuddyer hit for the cycle and matched his career high with five RBI as Minnesota defeated Milwaukee 11-3. Cuddyer hit a three-run home run in the first inning, doubled in the third and singled in the fourth before completing the cycle by tripling on a broken-bat liner into the left-field corner in the sixth.