May 28

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1946: The first night game is played at Yankee Stadium. The Senators beat the Bronx Bombers in the Tuesday evening tilt, 2-1.

1951: After starting his career 0-for-12, Giants rookie Willie Mays gets his first hit, a 450-foot homer off Braves left-hander Warren Spahn. Ironically it is the first of 18 home runs the Say Hey Kid will hit off the Hall of Fame hurler- the most he will hit off any one pitcher.

1956: Pirates first baseman Dale Long hits his eighth home run in eight games. This major league record will be later tied by Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly and Mariner outfielder Ken Griffey, Jr.

1957: With an unanimous vote, National League owners grant permission to both the Dodgers and Giants to relocate their clubs to the West Coast if they so desire.

1968: The American League votes to divide itself into two divisions and reduce its schedule to 156 games.

1971: Due to a dispute with owner Paul Richards and manager Lum Harris over alleged team rules and mismanagement, infielder Clete Boyer gets his wish and is released by the Braves. Ken and Cloyd's brother ends his career hitting safely in his last nine games including five home runs and nine RBIs.

1976: Ron LeFlore's 30-game hitting streak comes to end as Detroit loses to the Yankees, 9-5. Ed Figueroa and Tippy Martinez hold the Tiger outfielder hitless in four at-bats.

1982: During an argument with the umpires, Durham Bulls skipper Bobby Dews throws second base into the stands and then takes off his jersey and powders under his arms with the rosin bag before kicking it into the air.

1996: In a 12-8 win at the Kingdome, Orioles' third baseman Cal Ripken has his first career three-homer game and collects a career-high eight RBIs.

2000: The Diamondbacks team-record 11-game home winning streak is halted by the Brewers, 4-3. Marquis Grissom's RBI single in the 11th inning is the difference.

2000: Homering in their 15th straight game, the Astros set a team record in a 4-3 victory over the Braves. Ken Caminiti and Lance Berkman each go deep helping Houston to establish the record.

2000: The Angels, for the first time in franchise history, hit four home runs in one inning. Anaheim goes yard four times in the fifth inning with Darin Erstad, Mo Vaughn, Tim Salmon and Garret Anderson supplying the fireworks in the 11-4 victory.

2001: Marlin skipper John Boles (22-26, 8.5 GB) is fired a day after reliever Dan Miceli blasts the skipper and his coaching staff for their lack of major league playing experience. Tony Perez, an Hall of Farmer, is named to take Bowles place on an interim basis.

2001: Collecting five singles and a three-run homer, Dodger backstop Paul Lo Duca goes 6-for-6 in against the Rockies to tie a National League record for hits in an extra-inning game.

2003: When Rafael Furcal, Mark DeRosa and Gary Sheffield all go deep off Reds' Jeff Austin in the bottom of the first inning, the Braves become only the second team in big league history to begin a game with three consecutive home runs. On April 13, 1987, in San Diego's home opener, the Padres wasted no time making up a two-run first inning deficit as the each of the first three Padres (Marvell Wynn, Tony Gwynn, and John Kruk) all went yard in the bottom of the first inning off Giant starter Roger Mason.

2004: Saving the Yankees' 7-5 victory over the Devil Rays in Tampa Bay, Mariano Rivera notches his 300th career save. The Panama City native becomes the first Yankee and 17th reliever in major league history to reach the milestone.

2004: Matt Clement becomes the 21st big league pitcher and the first Cubs' hurler in over a century to hit three batters in one inning to tie a major league record. The victims plucked in the fifth inning of the first game of a doubleheader against the Pirates are Bobby Hill, Jason Kendall and Craig Wilson.

2005: During the eighth inning of 17-1 rout by the Red Sox, the Yankee Stadium scoreboard goes blank for a few moments as the operator cannot keep up with the Boston barrage. The BoSox's 27 hits, one shy of a Bronx Bomber record for hits allowed, is the most collected by the club since tying the team record of 28 in June of 2003, in a game also started by Carl Pavano as a Marlin.

2005: At Great American Ball Park, the number 10 joins 5 (Bench), 8 (Morgan), 24 (Perez), 20 (F. Robinson) 1 (Hutchinson), and 18 (Kluszewski) on the facade of the press box, as the Reds retire Sparky Anderson's uniform number. As the skipper of the 'Big Red Machine', George Lee Anderson became the franchise's winningest manager (863-586) and captured four NL pennants (1970, 1972, 1975-76 ) and two World Championships (1975-76).

2005: With three remaining games left in May, the Padres surpass the previous club record for the most wins for any one month. The 5-3 win over the Giants marked the team's 19th victory since May 1.

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