SCOREBOARD
Saturday, May 19
Atlanta at Boston (1:05 p.m. EDT). Daisuke Matsuzaka (5-2) faces John Smoltz (5-2).
STARS
Thursday
-Fausto Carmona, Indians, allowed four hits for his first career shutout and complete game, a 121-pitch performance that beat Johan Santana and Twins 2-0.
-Delmon Young, Devil Rays, hit a two-run homer in the 10th inning and drove in five runs to lead Tampa Bay to an 8-6 victory over Texas.
-Gabe Gross, Brewers, homered twice to lift the Brewers over Philadelphia 3-2.
-Jermaine Dye, White Sox, homered and drove in four runs, powering Chicago to a 4-1 win over New York.
POWER STROKE
Delmon Young’s second homer of the night, a two-run shot in the 10th inning, helped the Tampa Bay Devil Rays beat the Texas Rangers 8-6 on Thursday night and extend their season-high winning streak to four games. Young drove in five runs in the game.
STREAKING
Fausto Carmona is 5-0 in his last five starts and hasn’t given up a run in 15 straight innings after a 2-0 win over Minnesota on Thursday. … Boston won for the eighth time in 10 games, 2-1 win in the opener of a doubleheader with Detroit.
STRUGGLING
Minnesota has lost eight of its last 10 after a 2-0 loss at Cleveland on Thursday.
DEMPSTER DIVE
The Mets pulled off their biggest ninth-inning comeback since 1999 by scoring five runs off Cubs reliever Ryan Dempster on Thursday. Carlos Delgado’s one-out, two-run single off Scott Eyre capped the rally, which set off a wild celebration at home plate.
ODDITIES
The Pittsburgh Pirates used four sacrifice flies and took advantage of five Florida Marlins errors in a sloppily played 7-2 win Thursday night. The Pirates, who committed two errors of their own, tied a club record set Sept. 9, 1988, against Philadelphia with four sacrifice flies. The Marlins tied a club record for errors.
SOUTHPAW PLIGHT
Kansas City beat a left-handed starter for the first time this year, winning 7-4 over Dallas Braden and Oakland on Thursday. The Royals had been 0-10 when opponents started lefties.
SPEAKING
“It’s not normal. He’s not even human. It was so scary, I thought I was hung over.” – Minnesota’s Torii Hunter of Fausto Carmona and his sinker after the Cleveland right-hander shut out the Twins 2-0 on Thursday.
SEASONS
May 19
1910 – Cy Young won the 500th game of his career as the Cleveland Indians beat the Washington Senators, 5-4, in 11 innings.
1910 – Boston beat the Pirates 6-3 for the first time in 26 tries.
1942 – Paul Waner of the Boston Braves got his 3,000th career hit off Pittsburgh’s Rip Sewell in a 7-6, 11-inning loss to the Pirates.
1956 – Pittsburgh’s Dale Long hit a ninth-inning homer against the Chicago Cubs. It was Long’s first of eight straight games with a homer.
1962 – Stan Musial of St. Louis became the NL career hits leader. The 41-year-old got a ninth-inning single for his 3,431st hit and moved past Honus Wagner. The Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 8-1.
1968 – After hitting 10 home runs in six games, Frank Howard of the Washington Senators was stopped by pitcher Earl Wilson of Detroit, which won the game 5-4.
1981 – Pittsburgh’s Jim Bibby gave up a leadoff single to Terry Harper of the Atlanta Braves, then retired the next 27 batters for a 5-0 one-hitter. Bibby also hit two doubles.
1998 – Mark McGwire hit three two-run homers against Philadelphia. It was the second time this season and fourth time in his career McGwire hit three homers in a game. McGwire became the 12th player to have two three-homer games in a season.
2000 – Jason Kendall hit for the cycle and drove in a career-high five runs, leading Pittsburgh to a 13-1 rout of St. Louis. Kendall had a two-run homer in the first inning, an RBI single in the second, a double in the third and a two-run triple in the eighth.
2004 – Atlanta’s 45-year-old Julio Franco broke his own record for the oldest player to hit a pinch-hit homer. Franco, who had a pinch-hit homer two weeks earlier against San Diego, hit a two-out, two-run homer to tie the game at 4 in the eighth. The Braves lost 6-4 in 11 innings to the Diamondbacks.
Today’s birthdays: Claudio Vargas 29; Brandon Inge 30; Josh Paul 32.