SCOREBOARD
Friday, May 11
St. Louis at San Diego (10:05 p.m. EDT). Jake Peavy, who has 56 strikeouts in 46 1-3 innings, starts for the Padres.
STARS
Wednesday
-Aubrey Huff, Orioles, hit a walkoff homer in the 10th inning and Baltimore beat Tampa Bay 1-0.
-Jason Marquis, Cubs, threw a three-hitter, retiring the first 16 batters he faced, and Chicago edged Pittsburgh 1-0.
-Ryan Howard, Phillies, hit a pinch-hit grand slam to lead Philadelphia past Arizona 9-3.
-Cha Seung Baek, Tigers, pitched a six-hitter to lead Detroit to a 9-2 victory over Seattle.
-Geoff Jenkins, Brewers, homered and singled in the go-ahead run in the eighth in a 3-1 victory over Washington.
SWEET 16
lete game.
OLDSTERS
In the Phillies’ 9-3 win over the Diamondbacks on Wednesday night, Jamie Moyer (4-2) won a matchup of the oldest lefties in history – the 44-year-old Moyer against 43-year-old Randy Johnson. At a combined 88 years and 48 days, the two broke a record set April 24 for oldest lefties when Johnson faced San Diego’s David Wells. Johnson and Wells were a combined 87 years and 300 days.
STREAKS
Torii Hunter extended his hitting streak to 23 games with an infield single in Minnesota’s 6-3 loss Wednesday night to Chicago. Hunter’s streak is tied for the fourth-longest in team history. … Alfonso Soriano’s leadoff homer in the Cubs’ 1-0 victory over the Pirates extended his hitting streak to 17 games. … Lance Berkman homered for the third game in a row in a 3-2 win over Cincinnati.
SNAPPED
Seattle snapped Detroit’s eight-game winning streak with a 9-2 victory Wednesday night. … J.J. Hardy’s 19-game hitting streak ended in Milwaukee’s 3-1 win over Washington.
SLUMPING
The Nationals have dropped eight straight after a 3-1 loss to Milwaukee on Wednesday, their longest skid since moving to Washington. … The Reds fell into last place in the NL Central with their seventh loss in eight games following a 3-2 loss to Houston. … Boston defeated Toronto 9-2 to hand the Blue Jays their eighth straight loss.
SPEAKING
“I may have been the old Randy for six innings. Then I just got old.” – Arizona lefty Randy Johnson, on pitching six scoreless innings before being removed in the seventh inning of a 9-3 loss to Philadelphia. The 43-year-old Johnson combined with 44-year-old Jamie Moyer to break the record set April 24 of the oldest lefties to square off in history when Johnson faced San Diego’s David Wells.
SEASONS
May 11
1904 – Cy Young’s 23-inning no-hit string ended. The streak included two innings on April 25, six on April 30, a perfect game against the Philadelphia A’s on May 5, and six innings today.
1919 – Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators pitched 12 scoreless innings in a duel with Jack Quinn of the New York Yankees at the Polo Grounds. The Big Train allowed only two hits and retired 28 batters in a row. Future football star George Halas, batting leadoff for the Yankees, went 0-for-5, striking out twice.
1919 – Hod Eller of the Cincinnati Reds pitched a no-hitter to beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-0. Eller struck out eight and walked three.
1923 – Setting several Pacific Coast League records, Pete Schneider of Vernon hit five homers and a double to knock in 14 runs in a 35-11 romp over Salt Lake City.
1955 – Ernie Banks’ grand slam – the first of five on the year – led the Chicago Cubs to a 10-8 victory that snapped the Brooklyn Dodgers’ 11-game winning streak.
1963 – Sandy Koufax pitched the second of four career no-hitters to help Los Angeles beat San Francisco 8-0.
1971 – Cleveland pitcher Steve Dunning became the last American League pitcher to hit a grand slam. Dunning’s homer off Diego Segui of the Oakland A’s gave the Indians a 5-0 lead, but Phil Henningan got the victory as the Indians won 7-5.
1996 – Al Leiter, the wildest pitcher in the American League the previous season, pitched the first no-hitter in Florida’s brief history as the Marlins beat the Colorado Rockies 11-0.
1998 – Kerry Wood of the Chicago Cubs set the major league record for strikeouts in consecutive games (33) by fanning 13 Arizona Diamondbacks in a 4-2 victory. The record for strikeouts had been 32, set by Luis Tiant in 1968 and matched by Nolan Ryan (1974), Dwight Gooden (1984) and Randy Johnson (1997).
2000 – The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Chicago Cubs 14-8 in the longest nine-inning game in National League history – 4 hours, 22 minutes. The teams tied the major league record set by Baltimore and the Yankees on Sept. 5, 1997.
2003 – Rafael Palmeiro of Texas became the 19th player to join the 500-homer club. In a 17-10 win, Palmeiro hit a full-count fastball into the right field stands off Cleveland right-hander David Elder.
Today’s birthday: Francisco Cordero 32.