SCOREBOARD
Sunday, May 6
Chicago at L.A. Angels (3:35 p.m. EDT). Mark Buehrle faces off against Bartolo Colon.
STARS
Friday
-John Smoltz, Braves, pitched seven scoreless innings in a 4-0 victory to get his first win against the Dodgers in eight years.
-Tim Wakefield, Red Sox, threw seven shutout innings in a 2-0 win over Minnesota.
-Nick Markakis, Orioles, singled in the winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning, giving Baltimore a 3-2 comeback victory over Cleveland.
-J.J. Hardy, Brewers, homered, and had four hits and three RBIs, extending his hitting streak to 15 games, as Milwaukee beat Pittsburgh 10-0.
-Troy Tulowitzki, Rockies, broke an 11th-inning tie with an RBI single and Colorado topped Cincinnati 6-5.
HOME AWAY FROM HOME
The New York Mets won their 12th straight game at Chase Field, extending their club record for consecutive victories in a road ballpark with a 5-3 victory over the Diamondbacks on Friday night.
BOTTOM-HEAVY
Jose Guillen, Kenji Johjima, Betancourt and Jose Lopez – the bottom four batters in Seattle’s starting lineup – combined to go 9-for-18 with 10 RBIs as the Mariners scored their most runs in three years in a 15-11 win over New York.
AGELESS
Julio Franco homered in the Mets’ 5-3 win over Arizona to extend his record of being the oldest to homer in the majors, at 48 years, 8 months and 12 days.
STREAKS
Torii Hunter had two hits to extend his hitting streak to 19 games in Minnesota’s 2-0 loss to Boston on Friday night. … J.J. Hardy extended his hitting streak to 15 games as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-0. … Albert Pujols extended his hitting streak to 12 games in a 3-2 win over Houston. … Atlanta’s Edgar Renteria extended his hitting streaks to 13 during a 4-0 win against the Dodgers. … Derrek Lee has reached base in all 27 of the Cubs’ games this season.
SNAPPED
Derek Jeter’s hitting streak ended at 20 games and the Yankees lost to Seattle 15-11 Friday night. Jeter had hits in 59 of his previous 61 regular-season games dating to last year. … Colorado ended a 12-game losing streak in the state of Ohio with a 6-5 win over Cincinnati. The Rockies are 4-19 in the state since 2002. … Chipper Jones saw his 12-game hitting streak end in the Braves’ 4-0 win over Los Angeles. … St. Louis snapped a five-game losing streak with a 3-2 win over Houston.
SPEAKING
“I don’t do well when I can’t play. I don’t know what to do. So I just bother a lot of people. It’s nice to get into the lineup.” – Oakland’s Nick Swisher, on returning to the lineup after being sidelined by a strained left hamstring. Swisher hit a tiebreaking, three-run homer in the top of the ninth to lead the Athletics to a 5-2 victory over Tampa Bay.
SEASONS
May 6
1915 – As a pitcher for Boston, Babe Ruth had three hits, including his first major league home run when he connected off Jack Warhop of the New York Yankees at the Polo Grounds.
1917 – Bob Groom of the Browns duplicated teammate Ernie Koob’s feat of the previous day by pitching a 3-0 no-hit victory against the Chicago White Sox in the second game of a doubleheader in St. Louis.
1951 – Cliff Chambers of the Pittsburgh Pirates pitched a 3-0 no-hitter in the second game of a doubleheader against the Braves in Boston.
1953 – Bobo Holloman of the St. Louis Browns pitched a 6-0 no-hitter against the Philadelphia Athletics in his first major league start. He never pitched another complete game in the majors.
1982 – Gaylord Perry of the Seattle Mariners became the 15th major league pitcher with 300 victories when he defeated the New York Yankees 7-3 at the Kingdome.
1994 – Anthony Young won as a starter for the first time in more than two years as the Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-1. The win ended Young’s 29-game losing streak as a starter.
1998 – Rookie Kerry Wood tied the major league record with 20 strikeouts in a nine-inning game, pitching a one-hitter to lead the Chicago Cubs over the Houston Astros 2-0. The 20-year-old right-hander tied the record set by Boston’s Roger Clemens against Seattle in 1986, and matched by Clemens against Detroit in 1996. Wood broke the NL record of 19 strikeouts in a nine-inning game, held by Steve Carlton, Tom Seaver and David Cone.
2005 – San Diego’s Trevor Hoffman became the third pitcher in major league history to reach 400 saves in the Padres’ 6-5 victory over St. Louis. Hoffman joined Lee Smith (478) and John Franco (424) in the 400-save club.
Today’s birthdays: Dustin Nippert, 26; Willie Mays, 76.