This date in baseball

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1909 Leon Ames of the New York Giants pitched a no-hitter for 91/ innings on opening day, but lost 3-0 3 to Brooklyn in 13 innings.

1915 Rube Marquard of the New York Giants no-hit the Brooklyn Dodgers, winning 2-0.

1947 Jackie Robinson played his first major league game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He went 0 for 3, but scored the deciding run in a 5-3 victory over the Boston Braves in Brooklyn. He was the first black to appear in the majors since 1884.

1957 President Dwight Eisenhower officially opened the 1956 season by tossing out the first ball at Griffith Stadium in Washington D.C. The ball was the 10 millionth Spalding baseball to be used in major league play.

1958 Major league baseball came to California as the transplanted Giants and Dodgers played the first game on the Pacific Coast. Playing in Seals Stadium in San Francisco, Ruben Gomez blanked Los Angeles 8-0.

1968 Houston and the New York Mets played 24 innings in a night game in the Astrodome before the Astros won 1-0. The game lasted more than six hours.

1976 New York opened the refurbished Yankee Stadium with an 11-4 victory over the Minnesota Twins.

1987 Juan Nieves threw the first no-hitter in Brewers history as Milwaukee beat Baltimore 7-0.

1993 Sparky Anderson earned his 2,000th victory as a manager as the Detroit Tigers rallied to beat the Oakland Athletics 3-2.

1993 Andre Dawson became the 25th player to hit 400 home runs as the Boston Red Sox beat the Cleveland Indians 4-3.

1998 The first-ever American League-National League doubleheader is held in New York’s Shea Stadium as the New York Yankees beat the Anaheim Angels 6-3 and the New York Mets edge the Chicago Cubs 2-1. The Yankees draw a crowd of 40,743, a dramatic contrast to the gathering of 16,012 who show up for the Mets game at night.

2000 Cal Ripken became the 24th player to reach 3,000 hits when he lined a clean single to center off Twins reliever Hector Carrasco. He reached the milestone with his third hit in a 6-4 victory over the Minnesota Twins and became the seventh player in major league history to get 3,000 hits and 400 home runs.

2006 Eric Chavez, Frank Thomas, and Milton Bradley all hit home runs on consecutive pitches in Oakland’s 5-4 victory over Texas.

2008 Jose Lopez became the 12th player in major league history to hit three sacrifice flies in a game, and the Seattle Mariners tied the team record for five sac flies in an 11-6 victory over Kansas City.

2009 Ian Kinsler of Texas became the fourth player in team history to hit for the cycle, and was 6 for 6 in Texas’ 19-6 victory over Baltimore.

2010 Florida’s Jorge Cantu extended his major league season-opening record to 10 games with a hit in a 102 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.

2011 Texas tied an AL record by turning six double plays and the Rangers picked up where they left off last October, beating the New York Yankees 5-3. This was the 15th time an AL team made six DPs in a game. The major league mark for double plays in a game is seven by San Francisco in 1969.

2011 Brennan Boesch hit a go-ahead two-run double with the bases loaded in the 10th inning and Detroit rallied to beat Oakland 8-4 for manager Jim Leyland’s 1,500th career win. Leyland became the 19th major league manager to reach 1,500 wins, doing so on his first attempt.

(AP file photo) Jackie Robinson played his first major league game for the Brooklyn Dodgers on this date in 1947, going 0 for 3 but scoring the deciding run in a 5-3 victory over the Boston Braves.