1901 Chicago defeated Cleveland 8-2 in the first American League game. Three other scheduled games were rained out. The game lasted 1 hour, 30 minutes in front of a reported crowd of 14,000 at the Chicago Cricket Club.
1911 Battle Creek of the South Michigan League turned two triple plays in the first two innings against Grand Rapids.
1917 George Mogridge of the New York Yankees pitched a no-hitter against the Red Sox in Boston, winning 2-1.
1931 Chicago’s Rogers Hornsby hit three consecutive home runs to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-6 at Forbes Field.
1947 Johnny Mize of the New York Giants hit three consecutive home runs in a 14-5 loss in Boston. It was a major league-record fifth time in his career that Mize hit three home runs in one game.
1958 Lee Walls hit three home runs and drove in eight runs as the Chicago Cubs routed the Los Angeles Dodgers 15-2 at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
1962 Sandy Koufax struck out 18 Chicago Cubs and pitched the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 10-2 victory at Wrigley Field.
1965 Casey Stengel recorded his 3,000th victory as a manager when the New York Mets beat the San Francisco Giants 7-6.
1994 Julio Franco and Robin Ventura twice hit back-to-back home runs in Chicago’s 7-6 loss to Detroit.
1996 Greg Myers and Paul Molitor each had five RBI as the Minnesota Twins set a team record for runs and routed the Detroit Tigers 24-11. It was the highest run total against the Tigers in 84 years, matching the mark set in a 24-2 loss to the Philadelphia Athletics on May 18, 1912.
1998 Moises Alou drove in five runs and Carl Everett homered from each side of the plate to lead Houston to an 8-4 victory over Montreal.
2007 Oakland set a major league record in a 4-2 victory over Baltimore by keeping the Orioles off the scoreboard in the first inning. It was the 20th consecutive game in which the A’s did not allow a first-inning run, a record for the start of the season.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS Welington Castillo 26; Carlos Beltran 36.
Sports, Pages 20 on 04/24/2013