May 25, 2023

May 25 1906 Jesse Tannehill's 3-0 victory over the Chicago White Sox snapped a 20-game losing streak -- 19 at home -- for the Boston Red Sox. 1935 Babe Ruth, winding up his career with the Boston Braves, hit three home runs and a single at Pittsburgh, but the Pirates won 11-7. Ruth connected once off Red Lucas and twice off Guy Bush. 1941 Boston's Ted Williams raised his batting average over .400 for the first time during the season. Williams finished the season batting. 406. 1951 Willie Mays, a highly touted rookie for the Giants, went 0 for 5 in his debut against the Philadelphia Phillies. 1982 Ferguson Jenkins became the seventh pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters in the Chicago Cubs' 2-1 loss at San Diego. Jenkins reached the milestone by striking out Garry Templeton in the third inning. 2001 Kerry Wood of the Chicago Cubs allowed one hit and struck out 14 in a 1-0 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers. Wood took a no-hit bid into the seventh before giving up a leadoff single to Mark Loretta. 2001 Hideo Nomo of the Boston Red Sox tossed a one-hitter and struck out 14 in a 4-0 victory over Toronto. Nomo faced one batter over the minimum of 27, giving up a leadoff double in the fourth to Shannon Stewart. 2002 Shawn Green of the Los Angeles Dodgers homered twice in a 10-5 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks, setting a major league record with seven home runs in his last three games. 2005 The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1 in 12 innings, as Manager Tony La Russa wins his 823rd game with the Cardinals, passing Whitey Herzog for second place on the franchise list. La Russa is 218 victories behind Cardinals leader Red Schoendienst. 2009 Jim Thome passes Mike Schmidt for 13th on the all-time home run list, as the Chicago White Sox thumped the Los Angeles Angels 17-3. 2009 Cleveland rallied from a 10-0 deficit in the fourth as Victor Martinez's two-out, two-run single in the ninth capped a seven-run inning and lifted the Indians to an 11-10 victory over Tampa Bay. The Indians became the first team in the majors to win after trailing by 10 runs since the Texas Rangers rallied to beat the Detroit Tigers 16-15 on May 8, 2004. 2011 Andruw Jones hit 2 two-run home runs, Mark Teixeira also hit a two-run shot and Mariano Rivera made a milestone appearance in New York's 7-3 victory over Toronto. Rivera pitched the ninth inning in a non-save situation, the 1,000th game he's played for the Yankees. The 11-time All-Star closer became the first player in major league history to reach the plateau for one team and the 15th to make it overall. Jones homered in the second inning and Teixeira in the third off Jo-Jo Reyes, who matched a major league record by making his 28th consecutive start without a win. 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 professional pitching appearance. He became the first position player to become a winning pitcher since Colorado catcher Brent Mayne on Aug. 22, 2000. 2012 Nelson Cruz hit a grand slam and tied his career high with eight RBI, Josh Hamilton hit his 19th home run of the season and the Texas Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 14-3. Cruz's grand slam came in the seventh inning and gave Texas a 14-1 lead. He also had a three-run double in the first and an RBI single in the sixth. 2013 Angel Pagan became the first San Francisco player to end a game with an inside-the-park home run, connecting with a runner aboard in the bottom of the 10th inning to give the Giants a 6-5 victory over Colorado. The last major leaguer to hit an inside-the-park home run that ended a game was Rey Sanchez for Tampa Bay on June 11, 2004 -- also in a 10-inning victory over Colorado. 2014 Josh Beckett of the Dodgers records the first no-hitter of the year by blanking the Phillies 6-0. It is the first no-hitter by a Dodgers pitcher since Hideo Nomo pitched one in 1996, and the first nine-inning no-hitter by an opposing pitcher in Philadelphia since Bill Stoneman of the Montreal Expos back in 1969. 2019 The Padres set a franchise record with 7 home runs in a 19-4 victory over the Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre. Wil Myers and Hunter Renfroe hit two each while Austin Hedges blasts a grand slam off Edwin Jackson. Cal Quantrill is the beneficiary of this power display as he records his first career victory a short distance from his hometown of Port Hope, ON, while another local boy, Josh Naylor from Mississauga, ON, collects his first three big league hits for the Padres in the game. 2021 By working home plate in a game between the Cardinals and White Sox, Joe West sets a new career record with 5,376 games as an umpire, passing Bill Klem, whose last game was in 1941. 2022 Anaheim City Council votes unanimously to cancel the sale of Angel Stadium and surrounding land to Los Angeles Angels owner Arte Moreno, following the resignation of Mayor Bill Sidhu on corruption charges a few days earlier. The $350 million sale had been agreed in December 2019 but not yet finalized, and was at the center of an FBI investigation that led to accusations that Sidhu had provided insider information to the team and in return demanded kickbacks in the form of campaign contributions. The city councillors are now no longer convinced that the proposed deal reflects the city's best interests, and are willing to risk a breach of contract lawsuit from Moreno in order to examine a potential deal again, starting from scratch. -- The Associated Press