This date in baseball

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1900: The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Boston Braves 1917 in 10 innings to set a major league record for most runs scored by two clubs on opening day. The Braves scored nine runs in the ninth inning to put the game into extra innings.

1920: Al Schacht, who later became the “Clown Prince of Baseball,” was all business in pitching the Senators to a 70 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics.

1938: Emmett Mueller of the Phillies and Ernie Koy of the visiting Dodgers each homered in their first major league atbats as Brooklyn defeated Philadelphia 125.

1949: The New York Yankees unveil a granite monument to Babe Ruth.

1956: The Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 54 in 10 innings at Jersey City’s Roosevelt Stadium, the first major league game held in New Jersey.

1960: Roger Maris makes his New York Yankees debut.

1981: In an International League night game, the Rochester Red Wings and Pawtucket Red Sox played to a 22 tie through 32 innings before play was suspended at 4: 07 a. m. The game was completed later in the season with Pawtucket scoring the winning run in the 33rd inning of the longest game in professional baseball history. 1987: Rob Deer hit a threerun homer to tie the score and Dale Sveum won the game with a tworun shot as the Milwaukee Brewers rallied for five runs in the ninth inning to beat the Texas Rangers 64 and set an American League record with their 12th straight victory to start the season.

1996: Juan Gonzalez homered and drove in six runs as Texas beat Baltimore 267. The Rangers scored 16 runs in the eighth inning — one short of the modern major league mark — and scored the most runs by an AL team in 41 years.

1997: A major league game is played in Hawaii for the first time. 2002: Jeff Cirillo of the Seattle Mariners ties a major league record with 99 consecutive errorless games played at third base.