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1989 — Los Angeles and Houston played 22 innings at the Astrodome in the longest night game in National League history -- 7 hours and 14 minutes. The Astros won the game on Rafael Ramirez’s RBI single ...
But after hitting his 661st career home run to pass the legendary Willie Mays for sole possession of fourth place on Major League Baseball's all-time list in Thursday's 4-3 win over the Baltimore ...
2003 -- Atlanta became the second team in major league history to start a game with three straight homers in its 15-3 win over the Reds. Rafael Furcal, Mark DeRosa and Gary Sheffield hit consecutive ...
Minneapolis Millers phenom Willie Mays was sitting in a movie theater on an off day in Sioux City, Iowa, on this date in 1951 ...
2011 — Infielder Wilson Valdez wound up as the winning pitcher when the Philadelphia Phillies needed 19 innings to outlast the Cincinnati Reds 5-4. Valdez threw a hitless 19th inning in his first ...
In his last 33 games before Thursday, when Milwaukee opened a four-game series in Pittsburgh, Hoskins was hitting .349 with seven home runs and 23 runs batted in. His average and on-base percentage ...
Baseball Hall of Famer Willie McCovey, who hit 521 career home runs and won the 1969 National ... In 1962, he and Hall of Fame teammate Willie Mays led the Giants to the World Series against ...
Soto made a weak three-hop throw home on Anthony Volpe’s 243-foot sacrifice fly in a four-run third, then scored after his second walk, on Brandon Nimmo’s single in the fourth. Soto had ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Greeted by a rare standing jeer in his return to Yankee Stadium, Juan Soto stepped out of the batter’s box, took off his helmet, tipped it to the crowd and touched it against ...