1901 – Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants pitched his first of two career no-hitters, beating the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-0.

1969 – Cincinnati’s Lee May hit four home runs in a doubleheader split with the Atlanta Braves. May had two home runs and drove in five runs in both games as the Reds lost the opener, 9-8, but came back to win the second game, 10-4.

1969 – Rod Carew stole home off Chicago’s Gerry Nyman in the Minnesota Twins’ 6-2 victory. It was Carew’s seventh steal of home for the year and tied Pete Reiser’s 1946 major league mark.

1973 – Nolan Ryan of the California Angels struck out 17 batters and threw his second no-hitter of the year, beating Detroit, 6-0.

1980 – Johnny Bench broke Yogi Berra’s record for home runs by a catcher as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Montreal Expos, 12-7. Bench hit his 314th homer as a catcher off David Palmer. Bench had 33 home runs while playing other positions.

1990 – Chicago’s Bobby Thigpen became quickest to reach 30 saves in a season as the White Sox beat New York, 8-5.

1997 – The San Francisco Giants scored 13 runs to set a modern NL record for runs in a seventh inning en route to a 16-2 rout of the San Diego Padres. The Giants set the NL record for the most runs in a seventh inning since 1900.

1999 – After 221â2 years in the dreary Kingdome, Seattle finally played a home game outdoors, moving into a $517.6 million ballpark with a retractable roof. Jose Mesa wasted a ninth-inning lead by walking four batters, and the Mariners lost, 3-2, to the San Diego Padres in Safeco Field’s opener.

2003 – Anaheim’s Garret Anderson went 3-for-4 with a two-run homer and a double as the American League beat the National League in the All-Star game, 7-6. Hank Blalock of Texas hit a go-ahead, two-run homer as a pinch-hitter in the eighth off Los Angeles’ Eric Gagne.

2005 – Baltimore’s Rafael Palmeiro became the 26th player to reach 3,000 career hits, curling an RBI double into the left-field corner off Joel Pineiro in the fifth inning of a 6-3 win over Seattle.