SCOREBOARD
Sunday, May 20
New York Yankees at New York Mets (8:05 p.m. EDT). Chien-Ming Wang faces off against John Maine in the finale of a three-game series.
STARS
Friday
-Grady Sizemore, Indians, had four hits, including a two-run homer, and Cleveland beat Cincinnati 9-4.
-Boof Bonser, Twins, struck out a career-high 11 while giving up one run in seven innings in Minnesota’s 8-1 victory over Milwaukee.
-Andrew Miller, Tigers, pitched six scoreless innings in his first major league start and Detroit defeated St. Louis 14-4.
-Brian Roberts, Orioles, tied a career high with four hits in Baltimore’s 5-4 win over Washington.
-Emil Brown, Royals, hit a three-run homer to lift Kansas City over Colorado 5-2.
CHANGING OF THE GUARD?
The nine-time defending AL East champion Yankees fell 10 games behind division-leading Boston after a 3-2 loss to the crosstown-rival Mets on Friday night. The Yankees had not been double digits back in the AL East since before Joe Torre was their manager, when they trailed the Red Sox by 10 games after play on Sept. 22, 1995, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The Mets entered the series with a record 7 1/2 games better than that of the Yankees – before this year, the biggest margin the Mets had held was 3 1/2 games in July 2000, according to Elias.
PROUD NEW PAPA
Brandon Duckworth is on top of the world. First he witnessed his daughter’s birth and then he returned to the Royals and picked up his first win in almost a year. Duckworth pitched 1 2-3 scoreless innings and also had a single in Kansas City’s 5-2 win over Colorado on Friday night. Duckworth was given the scorecard after the game and said he plans to hang it up in the nursery of Sophia Duckworth, who was born Wednesday morning.
WITH THE SACKS FULL
Mark Ellis hit his second career grand slam in the Giants’ 15-3 victory over the Athletics on Friday night. … Torii Hunter hit his second grand slam of the season in Minnesota’s 8-1 victory over Milwaukee.
MEMORY LANE
Rockies 5-2.
STREAKS
Brandon Phillips extended his career-best hitting streak to 20 games in Cincinnati’s 9-4 loss to Cleveland on Friday. The Indians have won eight in a row at home following the win. … Randy Winn extended his hitting streak to 17 games in San Francisco’s 15-3 loss to Oakland. … Jorge Posada extended his hitting streak to 13 games in the Yankees’ 3-2 loss to the Mets.
SNAPPED
Baltimore snapped a five-game losing streak by beating Washington 5-4 on Friday.
FUTILITY
The eight runs for the Padres in an 8-1 win over the Mariners Friday night were an offensive eruption. San Diego is 11th in the National League in runs scored and scored three runs or less nine times this month.
MAJOR ROUT
Lake Elsinore – the San Diego Padres’ minor league affiliate – put on a record-setting performance, beating Lancaster, Boston’s farm team, 30-0 Friday night in the Class-A California League. Lake Elsinore posted the most-lopsided victory ever against Lancaster. The Storm came close to the league mark for runs, set by Fresno with 34 in 1947.
SPEAKING
“I really didn’t want to go, but the ball was hit pretty well. My legs felt like Jell-O for two innings after that.” – Twins third baseman Jeff Cirillo, after hitting his first triple of the season in the Twins’ 8-1 victory over Milwaukee on Friday night. Cirillo, who played for the Brewers the past two seasons, also hit a two-run homer and had three RBIs in his first trip back to Miller Park.
SEASONS
May 20
1919 – Babe Ruth won a game on the mound and at the plate. He hit his first career grand slam as the Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Browns 6-4.
1925 – The Cleveland Indians scored six runs in the bottom of the ninth to beat the New York Yankees 10-9. Tris Speaker scored the winning run from first on a single.
1932 – Paul Waner of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit four doubles in one game.
1941 – Lefty Grove of the Boston Red Sox won his 20th consecutive game at home, the longest home-park streak in the major leagues. Boston beat the Detroit Tigers, 4-2.
1947 – The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Boston Braves 4-3 in a game that featured 22 hits – all singles. The Pirates had 12 singles, the Braves 10.
1953 – In the 13th game of the season, the Milwaukee Braves surpassed their 1952 attendance of 281,278, when they were in Boston.
1959 – The Detroit Tigers beat the Yankees, 13-6, to place New York in last place for the first time in 19 years.
1962 – Chicago Cubs rookie Ken Hubbs had eight singles in eight trips to the plate in a doubleheader. The Cubs swept the Philadelphia Phillies, 6-4 and 11-2.
1978 – Willie Stargell hit a 535-foot homer off Montreal’s Wayne Twitchell – the longest home run in Montreal’s Olympic Stadium – to highlight the Pirates’ 6-0 victory. It was also Stargell’s 407th career homer, tying him with Duke Snider on the career list.
1984 – Boston’s Roger Clemens earned his first major league victory. The Red Sox beat the Minnesota Twins, 5-4.
1991 – Jeff Reardon got his 300th save and Steve Lyons and Jack Clark homered as the Boston Red Sox beat the Milwaukee Brewers 3-0.
1999 – Robin Ventura became the first major leaguer to hit grand slams in both games of a doubleheader, leading the New York Mets to a sweep over Milwaukee, 11-10 and 10-1. He had two slams in a game for the Chicago White Sox on Sept. 4, 1995.
2001 – Barry Bonds hit two homers in the San Francisco Giants’ 11-6 loss to the Atlanta Braves, giving him a total of five in two games, becoming the 23rd player in history to do so.
2006 – Barry Bonds tied Babe Ruth for second place on the career home run list during San Francisco’s 4-2, 10-inning victory over the Oakland Athletics.
Today’s birthdays: Austin Kearns, 27; Jason Werth, 28; Wilson Valdez, 29; Ramon Hernandez, 31; David Wells, 44.