SCOREBOARD
Tuesday, April 17
Boston at Toronto (7:07 p.m. EDT). Daisuke Matsuzaka starts for the Red Sox after striking out 10 in his major league debut.
Sunday
STARS
-Marco Scutaro, Athletics, hit a three-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning, sending Oakland to a 5-4 win over the New York Yankees.
-Albert Pujols, Cardinals, hit two home runs and had five RBIs, helping St. Louis beat Milwaukee 10-2.
-Dioner Navarro, Devil Rays, hit a tiebreaking double in the ninth inning and Tampa Bay beat Minnesota 6-4.
-Kyle Lohse, Reds, struck out a career-high 12 batters in eight innings to lead Cincinnati to a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
-C.C. Sabathia, Indians, struck out 10 and allowed five hits over eight innings in a 2-1 win over the White Sox.
-Jose Vidro, Mariners, homered twice and drove in four runs in a 14-6 win over the Rangers.
JACKIE’S DAY
Jackie Robinson broke major league baseball’s color barrier on April 15, 1947, with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the sport celebrated the 60th anniversary of his debut throughout the country Sunday, when more than 200 players, managers and coaches wore his number.
WASHED OUT
A nor’easter pounded much of the East Coast, wiping out six baseball games and postponing the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s major league debut in five cities on Sunday. It was the most postponements in one day in the major leagues since April 12, 1997, when eight games were postponed, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
BOOM
Marco Scutaro hit a three-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning, sending the A’s to a 5-4 win over the New York Yankees on Sunday. Scutaro drove an 0-2 pitch from Mariano Rivera off the screen just inside the left-field foul pole for the second game-ending homer of his career.
BREAKING OUT
Albert Pujols broke out of an April drought with two home runs and five RBIs, helping the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 10-2 on Sunday. Pujols, who hit a major league-record 14 homers last April, has three this month. He entered the game batting .158 with two RBIs and 17 career multihomer games.
STREAKS
Tampa Bay’s Delmon Young extended his AL-leading hitting streak to 12 games with a two-run homer in the sixth inning of a 6-4 win over the Twins on Sunday.
SPEAKING
“It’s kind of disappointing a little bit because we wanted to be on the field. This is a special day for baseball and for Jackie Robinson and Jackie Robinson’s family because he did a lot for this game.” – Mets shortstop Jose Reyes on major league baseball’s celebration of the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s debut on Sunday. Storms wiped out games in five cities, including a doubleheader in Pittsburgh.
SEASONS
April 17
1892 – In the first Sunday game in National League history, Cincinnati defeated St. Louis 5-1.
1932 – New York first baseman Bill Terry tied an NL record with 21 putouts as the Giants beat Boston 5-0 behind Hal Schumacher’s two-hitter.
1951 – In his first major league game, Mickey Mantle went 1-for-4 as the New York Yankees defeated the Boston Red Sox 5-0.
1953 – Mickey Mantle cleared the bleachers at Griffith Stadium with a 565-foot home run off Chuck Stobbs. The shot came in the fifth inning of a 7-3 win over the Senators.
1964 – The New York Mets lost their first game at Shea Stadium to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-3. Pittsburgh’s Willie Stargell hit the first homer at Shea.
1969 – Bill Stoneman of Montreal pitched a 7-0 no-hitter against the Philadelphia Phillies in the 10th game of the Expos’ existence.
1976 – Mike Schmidt of the Philadelphia Phillies hit four consecutive home runs and a single in an 18-16, 10-inning victory over the Cubs in Wrigley Field. Hitting .167 going into the game, he connected twice off Rick Reuschel, once off Rick’s brother, Paul, and once off Darold Knowles. He drove in eight runs.
2001 – Barry Bonds became the 17th major leaguer to hit 500 home runs. Bonds’ two-run, eighth-inning drive off Terry Adams went into San Francisco Bay to lead the Giants over the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2.
2006 – Albert Pujols of St. Louis tied a major league record with a home run in his fourth consecutive at-bat in a 2-1 win over Pittsburgh. A day after hitting three homers, Pujols homered to center off Paul Maholm in the top of the first to give the Cardinals a 2-0 lead.
Today’s birthday: Gary Bennett, 34.