Baseball's May 3rd Milestones

0:00It's May 2nd. Welcome to MLB News Today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story. On May 3rd, baseball saw its first-ever match-up of pitching brothers when Brooklyn's Jesse Barnes beat his sibling Virgil and the New York Giants, 7-6. Jump to 1936, Joe Demagio debuted for the Yankees with three hits and a 14-5 route of the St. Louis Browns. In a 1951, rookie Gil McDougall tied a big league record by driving in six runs in one inning, including a Grand Slam as New York. Crushed the Browns 17-3. Fast forward to the 50s and 60s, Detroit's Charlie Maxwell smashed four straight homers across a double-header sweep of the Yankees in 1959. Pete Rose nashed his first major league dinger off St. Louis Ace Ernie Broglio in 1963, then got moved to third base by Sparky. Anderson, a dozen years later in 1975, kick-starting his versatility.

1:00Milestones piled up in the 70s and 80s, like Bobby Bond's hitting his 300th homer to join Willie Mays in the 300th homers, and 300th Steele's club in 1979. Ferguson Jenkins became just the fourth hurler, with 100 wins in both leagues the next year, and Willie McCuvvey belted his 500th, 21st and final shot, Tine Ted Williams. These highlights included Baltimore's Greg Olson, reaching 100 saves at age 25, the youngest ever in 1992, and Seattle's Dan Wilson ripping the franchise is first inside the par Grand Slam in 1998. Boston's Creighton Gubinich, followed with a Grand Slam, as his very first big league hit in 1999. From no hitters like Francisco Leriano's Gem in 2011, to Dusty Baker hitting 2,000 wins as Houston manager in 2022, May. Third keeps delivering drama, from each year's tough release in 2018, to legends like Mariana Rivera battling injury, baseball's timeline stays stacked with these gems.