SCOREBOARD
Saturday, May 5
Seattle at N.Y. Yankees (3:55 p.m. EDT). The Yankees rebounded from a slow start by sweeping a three-game series with Texas this week.
STARS
Thursday
-Manny Ramirez, Red Sox, hit two homers to help Boston beat Seattle 8-7.
-Jimmy Rollins, Phillies, had two triples and two RBIs in Philadelphia’s 9-7 win over San Francisco.
-Gil Meche and Ross Gload, Royals. Meche allowed two hits in seven innings and Gload went 4-for-4 with 2 RBIs and Kansas City beat Los Angeles 5-2.
FAREWELL
The St. Louis Cardinals were among an estimated 500 mourners for Josh Hancock, who died in an automobile accident early Sunday. The 29-year-old Hancock was driving a rented Ford Explorer early Sunday when it crashed into a flatbed tow truck on a highway in St. Louis. Hancock broke into the major leagues in 2002 and played for four teams. He was 3-3 with one save last season and led Cardinals relievers in innings with 77.
DOMINANCE
Damion Easley and David Wright each hit three-run homers in the ninth inning, and the Mets beat Arizona 9-4 on Thursday night for their 11th straight victory in Chase Field.
COMEBACKS
Grady Sizemore hit a tiebreaking double in the eighth inning, and the Cleveland Indians rallied from a four-run deficit to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5 Thursday night and complete a three-game sweep. Victor Martinez had four hits for Cleveland, which trailed 4-0 in the third inning of Cliff Lee’s first start of the season but came back for its 10th win in 11 games following a 7-7 start. … Luke Scott hit a go-ahead, two-run double in a three-run eighth inning to give Houston the 7-5 victory. The Astros, losers of nine of their previous 12, took two of three for their first series win since sweeping two games at Cincinnati on April 18-19.
STREAK
Torii Hunter extended his hitting streak to a career-high 18 games in Minnesota’s 6-4 loss to Tampa Bay on Thursday night.
SNAPPED
Pittsburgh beat Milwaukee 4-2 on Thursday night, snapping the Brewers’ seven-game winning streak.
SPEAKING
“We had a little extra attitude this week. Not that we were freaking out, but it was like, let’s put our foot on the gas a little bit.” – Doug Mientkiewicz of the Yankees. New York beat Texas 4-3 and 5-2 Thursday night to sweep a doubleheader and three-game series from the Rangers to rebound from a rocky start.
SEASONS
May 5
1904 – Cy Young of the Red Sox pitched a perfect game against the Philadelphia Athletics, beating Rube Waddell 3-0. Having pitched nine hitless innings in two previous efforts, he ran his string of hitless innings to 18.
1917 – Ernie Koob of the St. Louis Browns pitched a no-hitter against the Chicago White Sox for a 1-0 win in St. Louis.
1925 – Manager Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers hit three homers, a double and two singles against the St. Louis Browns.
1925 – Shortstop Everett Scott of the New York Yankees was benched, ending his streak of 1,307 consecutive games played that started while playing for the Boston Red Sox. Scott, who gave way to Pee Wee Wanninger, had the longest playing streak before Lou Gehrig.
1962 – Bo Belinsky of the California Angels beat the Baltimore Orioles 2-0 with a no-hitter at Dodger Stadium. Belinsky struck out nine and walked four.
1978 – Pete Rose became the 14th player with 3,000 hits when he singled against Montreal’s Steve Rogers at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Stadium.
1980 – National League president Chub Feeney suspended Pittsburgh’s Bill Madlock for 15 days and fined him $5,000 for shoving his glove in the face of home plate umpire Gerry Crawford.
1999 – Colorado became the first team in 35 years and the third this century to score in every inning in a 13-6 win over the Chicago Cubs. The last time a team scored in all nine innings was also at Wrigley Field, when St. Louis beat the Cubs on Sept. 13, 1964.
2001 – Sammy Sosa homered and had four RBIs, and Julian Tavarez pitched seven solid innings as the Chicago Cubs beat Los Angeles 20-1 at Wrigley Field. The Cubs scored eight runs in each of the last two innings.
2004 – Mike Piazza set a major league mark for homers as a catcher, hitting No. 352, in the New York Mets’ 8-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants.
2004 – Roger Clemens moved past Steve Carlton for second place on the career strikeout list with his 4,137th in Houston’s 6-2 win over Pittsburgh.
Today’s birthdays: Chris Duncan 26; Mike Redmond 36.