This date in baseball

1923 Lefty O’Doul, pitching for the Boston Red Sox, allowed 13 runs in the sixth inning to the Cleveland Indians, who won 27-3. In 1928, he returned to the majors as a great hitting outfielder.

1936 The National League won its first All-Star game 4-3 at Braves Field in Boston.

1937 Lou Gehrig drove in four runs with a home run and a double to pace the American League to an 8-3 victory over the National League in the All-Star game at Washington’s Griffith Stadium. In attendance was President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1959 At Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, the first of two All-Star games played that season went to the NL, 5-4. The NL scored the tying and winning runs in the bottom of the eighth when Hank Aaron singled in a run and scored on a triple by Willie Mays.

1964 The NL beat the AL 7-4 in the AllStar game on Johnny Callison’s twoout, three-run home run off Dick Radatz in the bottom of the ninth inning at New York’s Shea Stadium. The victory pulled the NL even with its rivals (17-17-1) for the first time since the series began.

1982 Harold Baines hit three successive home runs, including a grand slam, to lead the Chicago White Sox to a 7-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers.

1998 Coors Field lived up to its billing as a hitter’s haven as the American League beat the Nationals 13-8 at Coors Field in the highest-scoring AllStar game ever. The 21 runs broke the record set in the AL’s 11-9 victory in 1954.

2003 Shea Hillenbrand had his first three-home run game — tying a major league record by hitting home runs in three consecutive innings — and drove in seven runs as Arizona beat Colorado 14-6.

2006 Cleveland Indians designated hitter Travis Hafner became the first major leaguer to hit five grand slams before the All-Star break when he connected in the second inning of a 9-0 victory over Baltimore.

2009 Alan Embree earned the victory in Colorado’s 5-4 victory over Washington without throwing a pitch. He entered with two outs in the eighth and picked off Austin Kearns, who had singled off Joel Peralta. It was the first time a major leaguer had gotten a victory without throwing a pitch since B.J Ryan for Baltimore at Detroit on May 1, 2003.

2011 Travis Hafner hit a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth inning to cap the Cleveland’s five-run rally for a 5-4 victory over Toronto. Hafner hit the first pitch from Luis Perez deep into the right-field seats for Cleveland’s second game-ending slam of the season. Carlos Santana also did it to beat Detroit 9-5 on April 29.