This date in baseball
1926 Earl Sheely of the Chicago White Sox hit three doubles and a home run against the Boston Red Sox. Sheely doubled in each of his last three at-bats the previous day to give him seven consecutive extra-base hits, tying a major league record. The six doubles in the two games also tied a major league record.
1943 In the fastest nine-inning night game in American League history, the Chicago White Sox beat the Washington Senators 1-0 in 1 hour, 29 minutes.
1948 Joe DiMaggio had two home runs, a triple, double and single to lead the New York Yankees to a 13-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
1952 Duke Snider’s home run highlighted a 15-run first inning in the Dodgers’ 19-1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds in Brooklyn. Snider, Pee Wee Reese and Billy Cox each made three plate appearances in the first inning.
1986 Rafael Ramirez of Atlanta had four doubles in seven at-bats as the Braves beat the Chicago Cubs 9-8 in 13 innings.
1996 Larry Walker drove in a career-high six runs, hitting 2 two-run home runs, a triple and a double in the Colorado Rockies’ 12-10 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. His 13 total bases set a club record.
1997 Roger Clemens earned his 200th career victory, leading the Toronto Blue Jays to a 4-1 victory over the New York Yankees.
2000 For the first time in baseball history, there were six grand slams in a single day. Anaheim’s Garret Anderson hit the record-breaker off Kansas City’s Chris Fussell. J.T. Snow of San Francisco, Brian Hunter of Philadelphia, Jason Giambi of Oakland, and Los Angeles’ Adrian Beltre and Shawn Green connected with the bases loaded before Anderson. The old mark of five was set in 1999.
2005 The Texas Rangers set two club records in an 18-3 rout of the Houston Astros. Texas got home runs from Rod Barajas, Hank Blalock, Laynce Nix and Mark Teixeira in an eight-run, fourhome run second inning. Texas slugged a team-record eight home runs total on the day, also receiving blasts from Kevin Mench, Richard Hidalgo and two from David Dellucci.
2009 Albert Pujols of St. Louis hit a home run in the first inning that knocked out the “I” on the Big Mac Land sign located in Busch Stadium’s left field. The Cardinals won 3-1.
2010 Dan Haren doubled twice, drove in three runs and pitched eight strong innings, offsetting Edwin Encarnacion’s three home runs for Toronto, and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Blue Jays 8-6. Haren allowed 4 runs on 9 hits and 2 of Encarnacion’s 3 home runs. 2013 Mike Trout hit for the cycle and drove in five runs to lead the Los Angeles Angels in a 12-0 rout of the Seattle Mariners.
2015 Madison Bumgarner homered off Clayton Kershaw and once again outpitched the reigning National League MVP and Cy Young winner, as the San Francisco Giants shut out the Los Angeles Dodgers for the third consecutive day, 4-0. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Jose Alvarado 22; Joe Ross 24; Joey Rickard 26; Jacob Turner 26; Matt Wieters 31; Andrew Miller 32.