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On May 13 in Baseball History...​
  • 1911 - Fred Merkle has six RBI as the Giants tee off on three St. Louis pitchers for 13 runs in the first inning, including a major league record ten before a single out is recorded. John McGraw decides to save starter Christy Mathewson for another day. Rube Marquard works the last eight innings and strikes out 14, setting a record for strikeouts by a reliever. The Giants win 19-5.

  • 1942 - Pitcher Jim Tobin of the Boston Braves slams three successive home runs to beat the Chicago Cubs at Braves Field. Tobin is the only major league pitcher to accomplish this. He had a pinch-hit homer the day before.

  • 1955 - Mickey Mantle hit three home runs � two left-handed and one right-handed � as the Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers 5-2.

  • 1958 - Willie Mays and Darryl Spencer each had four long hits as San Francisco beat the Dodgers in Los Angeles 16-9. Mays had two homers, two triples, a single and four RBIs, and Spencer had two homers, a triple, a double and six RBIs for a combined 28 total bases.

  • 1958 - Stan Musial got his 3,000th hit with a pinch-double off Chicago's Moe Drabowsky at Wrigley Field. The Cardinals won 5-3.

  • 1967 - Mickey Mantle's 500th home run, off Stu Miller, lifted the New York Yankees to a 6-5 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.

  • 1980 - Ray Knight of Cincinnati hit two home runs in the fifth inning � including a grand slam � to lead the Reds to a 15-4 rout of the New York Mets.

  • 1982 - The Chicago Cubs won game No. 8,000 in their history with a 5-0 victory over Houston at the Astrodome.

  • 1989 - Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins tied a major league record with four doubles against the Blue Jays. He became the 35th player to hit four doubles in a game, the first since Toronto's Damaso Garcia in 1986.

  • 1993 - George Brett hit his 300th career home run in the sixth inning of Kansas City's 7-3 victory over Cleveland. Brett joined Hank Aaron, Stan Musial, Carl Yastrzemski, Willie Maysand Al Kaline as the only players with at least 3,000 hits and 300 homers.

  • 1998 - The Atlanta Braves set an N.L. record and tied a major league mark by hitting home runs in 25 straight games, doing it when Ryan Klesko hit a two-run shot in the sixth inning against St. Louis.

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Just watched re-run of the terrible St. Louis Cardinals National League Baseball Club Incorporated. Playing in Boston last night and came back in the 9th to beat the Red Sox, which is surprising. My son went to the series because he wanted to see Fenway Park. In the top of the 6th, Andrew Knizner ripped a line drive near where he was sitting with fans scattering everywhere. In the end, my son ended up with the ball and it was cool seeing this on the MLB replay just now. We’ve gone (and I’ve gone) to hundreds of games over the years and this is the first and only time anyone in my family has actually gotten a ball during live play.
 
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cardvolfan said:
Just watched re-run of the terrible St. Louis Cardinals National League Baseball Club Incorporated. Playing in Boston last night and came back in the 9th to beat the Red Sox, which is surprising. My son went to the series because he wanted to see Fenway Park. In the top of the 6th, Andrew Knizner ripped a line drive near where he was sitting with fans scattering everywhere. In the end, my son ended up with the ball and it was cool seeing this on the MLB replay just now. We’ve gone (and I’ve gone) to hundreds of games over the years and this is the first and only time anyone in my family has actually gotten a ball during live play.
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