Miracle Mets Before the Mets' home opener on Friday, the team was set to honor the legacy of Ed Kranepool, the team's former first baseman and member of the 1969 World Series champions who died at ...

1952 — Ted Williams plays his final game before leaving for military duty in Korea. 1958 —Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox became the 10th major leaguer to reach 1,000 extra-base hits in a 10-4 loss ...

The Mets used Jeff McNeil in center field Saturday against the Washington Nationals, marking the fourth time the second ...

It was perhaps poetic, considering Kranepool, a hero on 1969’s World Series-winning Miracle Mets, had dedicated ... The fan-favorite first baseman/outfielder never put up gaudy statistics ...

2006 — Mike Piazza hits his 400th career home run. 2016 — Andrew McCutchen hit three homers and drove in five runs to help the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Colorado Rockies 9-4. 2019 — All eyes are ...

1969 — Houston’s Don Wilson beat the Cincinnati Reds with a 4-0 no-hitter at Crosley Field, one day after the Reds’ Jim Maloney no-hit the Astros and nine days after Wilson absorbed a 14-0 pounding by ...

First baseman Fred Whitfield: 108 home runs Woodlawn High School in Birmingham: St. Louis Cardinals 1962, Cleveland Indians 1963-1967, Cincinnati Reds 1968-1969, Montreal Expos 1970. Second ...

1969 — The Baseball Records Committee decides ... against Rich Dotson of the Chicago White Sox. 1988 — New York Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez hits a pair of home runs and drives in ...

The 6-4 first baseman – his ... with the 1969 Washington Senators, who are now the Texas Rangers. Beltran’s career high was 41 with the New York Mets in 2006. 20. Tony the tiger: The man ...

The weather could be warmer and the home team’s pitchers could do a better job of throwing the ball to first base, and yet neither of those items changes the fact this has become a disinterested ...

The Yankees hit nine home runs, including three on Nestor Cortes' first ... to the Mets, and they were finally able to let it all out in the first inning Friday when the first baseman lifted ...