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Event Description / The Technology Era Baseball First |
| 04-14-2010 |
Jorge Cantu surpassed the hit and RBI mark of George "Highpockets" Kelly, who opened the first eight games of the 1921 season with the New York Giants with a hit and an RBI — making Cantu the first player in Major League history to collect at least one hit and one RBI in his team's first nine games (streak reached ten, see his 2010 game logs) and ALSO becoming the first in history to open a season with an RBI in his team's first nine games (see Most Games With an RBI Consecutively for records). |
| 05-09-2010 |
The 19th perfect game in Major League history was tossed by Oakland Athletics hurler Dallas Braden against the Tampa Bay Rays - the first perfect game thrown against a team with the best record in the Major Leagues. |
| 05-09-2010 |
Dallas Braden was the first pitcher in Major League history whose first career complete game was also a perfect game. |
| 05-27-2010 |
With their sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies, the New York Mets became the first team in Major League history to hold a defending League Champion scoreless over a three-game series. |
| 06-09-2010 |
Carlos Lee became the first player in Major League history with three career extra-inning grand slams (#1 06-08-2001 | #2 06-28-2007) after hitting a 10th-inning grand slam on this date (which gave the Astros a 6-2 win). |
| 07-06-2010 |
The Colorado Rockies, in defeating the St Louis Cardinals 12-9, became the first National League team in history to score 9 or more runs in the last inning of a walk-off win - the first ever took place during the 1901 season. |
| 08-11-2010 |
When D-Back outfielder Stephen Drew hit the fourth consecutive home run in the 4th inning vs. Milwaukee, he and brother J.D. Drew (who was part of such an inning twice) became the first brothers in Major League history to be a part of a four-consecutive home run inning. |
| 09-07-2010 |
The All-Time Saves Leader (for about five years), Trevor Hoffman, became the first player in Major League history to reach the 600 saves plateau. |
| 10-06-2010 |
With one amazing Division Series game, Roy Halliday of the Philadelphia Phillies became the first National League hurler to pitch a no-hitter in post-season play and the first pitcher in Major League history to pitch a no-hitter in the same year's regular season and post-season. |
| 03-31-2011 |
Grounding into Double Plays (GIDP) might be considered a "new" stat (officially recorded since 1933 in the National League and 1940 in the American League), but Albert Pujols made statistical history with it when he became the first player in history to ever ground into three double players in an Opening Day game. |
| 03-31-2011 |
Ramon Hernandez, Cincinnati Reds catcher, became the first player in Major League history to hit an Opening Day walk-off home run after coming to the plate with his team trailing by more than one run. |
| 04-03-2011 |
Texas Rangers' second baseman Ian Kinsler became the first player in Major League history to home run in his first official at-bat in each of his team's first three games of a season. (NOTE:HRs in his 1st AB on 4/1 and 4/2...walked in 1st on 4/3 before homering in the 3rd). |
| 04-03-2011 |
The Rangers' Ian Kinsler and Nelson Cruz became the first pair of teammates in Major League history to hit home runs in their first three games of the season. |
| 04-03-2011 |
The Rangers' Ian Kinsler and Nelson Cruz and Yankees' Mark Teixeira became the first trio in American League history to each hit home runs in their first three games of the season. (NOTE: To open the 2002 season, Gary Sheffield (Braves) Lance Berkman (Astros) and Derrek Lee (Marlins) became the first trio in Major League / National League history to hit home runs in their first 3 games.) |
| 04-04-2011 |
Texas Rangers' outfielder Nelson Cruz became the first player in American League history (Willie Mays was the first in Major League History, see 1971. In 1998 Mark McGwire tied the National League mark set by Mays.) to home run in each of his team's first four games of a season. |
| 04-14-2011 |
Seasoned veteren Johnny Damon hit a walk-off home run with the Tampa Bay Rays making him the first player in Major League history to hit a walk-off home run with five different teams - the other four: 04-10-2000 (Royals), 04-26-2002 (Red Sox), 05-17-2009 (Yankees) and 05-01-2010 (Tigers). |
| 04-15-2011 |
Colby Lewis, starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers, was granted three days' paternity leave under new rules established by Major League Baseball making him the first Major League baseball player to be granted paternity leave. |
| 05-03-2011 |
The Minnesota Twins' hurler Francisco Liriano became the first pitcher in Major League history to throw a no-hit, no-run game against an opposing starting pitcher (the White Sox' Edwin Jackson whose no-no was with the Arizona Diamondbacks) who had thrown a no-hitter the season before. |
| 08-18-2011 |
Mike Jacobs, a six-year Major Leaguer who was playing for the Rockies' Triple-A team, received a 50-game suspension from Major League Baseball on Thursday after testing positive for the performance-enhancing substance human growth hormone. He was the first player to be suspended for HGH use since MLB started testing for it in the Minor Leagues last summer. See Baseball Steroid Suspensions for a complete list. |
| 08-25-2011 |
The 2011 New York Yankees were the first team in Major League history to ever hit three grand slams during the same game. The whole team gets credit for this record (men do have to be on base), but those who went deep were: Robinson Cano, Russell Martin and Curtis Granderson. |
| 09-28-2011 |
Evan Longoria (Tampa Bay Rays) became the first American League player in Major League history to hit a walk-off home run (vs the New York Yankees) in his team's final regular season game to clinch a post-season playoff berth. |
| 10-11-2011 |
Tied 3-3 with the Detroit Tigers in the bottom of the eleventh inning, Texas Rangers outfielder Nelson Cruz hit the first walk-off grand slam in post-season history. |
| 10-16-2011 |
In leading off the home team half of the first inning with a home run off Cardinals' pitcher Edwin Jackson, the Brewers' Corey Hart became the first player in Major League history to hit a leadoff homer against the same pitcher in both the regular-season (August 3, 2011, also at Miller Park) and postseason in the same year since postseason divisional play began. |
| 10-20-2011 |
St. Louis Cardinals pitchers Jaime Garcia and Fernando Salas both appeared in Game 2 of the 2011 World Series and became not only the first Mexican-born teammates to play in the same World Series, but also the same World Series game. |
| 10-20-2011 |
Appearing in Games 1 and 2 of the 2011 World Series, the Cardinals outfielder Allen Craig became the first player in World Series history to drive in his team's go-ahead runs in both games as a pinch-hitter. |
| 10-22-2011 |
With singles in the 4th and 5th innings and home runs in the 6th and 7th innings of Game 3 of the 2011 World Series, St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols became the first player in World Series history to have hits in 4 consecutive innings. With his home run in the 9th inning, Pujols became the first National League player to hit 3 home runs in a World Series game. |
| 10-27-2011 |
In Game 6 of the 2011 World Series, the St. Louis Cardinals (versus the Texas Rangers) became the first team in World Series history to both score in the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th innings and to also come back to win having been down twice two runs behind in the 9th and later innings. |
| 10-28-2011 |
David Freese became the first player in World Series history to have a game-tying RBI in the 9th inning and then the game-winning RBI in extra innings. |
| 10-28-2011 |
With his victories versus the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 5 of the 2011 NL Divisional Series and Game 7 of the 2011 World Series versus the Texas Rangers, the St. Louis Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter became the first pitcher to ever win two "winner-take-all" games in the same postseason. |
| 10-31-2011 |
In announcing his retirement from baseball, the St. Louis Cardinals skipper Tony La Russa became the first manager in Major League history to retire after having guided his team to a World Series Championship. He is also the only manager in Major League history to have managed two players, Mark McGwire and Albert Pujols, who have each hit over 400 home runs (McGwire 497 homers, the highest total in Major League history, and Pujols 447) while they played for one manager. |
| 11-14-2011 |
In being named 2011 National League Rookie of the Year, the Atlanta Braves hurler Craig Kimbrel became the first pitcher in the history of the award to have won all 32 first place votes. |
| 11-21-2011 |
In being named the 2011 American League Most Valuable Player, Justin Verlander became the first American League pitcher to have also won the Rookie of the Year Award (2006) and the Cy Young Award (2011). |
| 04-15-2012 |
Second baseman Omar Infante hit a second-inning home run making Miami Marlins history. It was the first home run by a Miami Marlins player at Marlins Park setting off the 75-foot home run sculpture beyond the left-field fence for the first time. |
| 04-24-2012 |
The New York Mets, versus the Miami Marlins, became the first team in Major League history to have four straight batters draw walks from four different pitchers. |
| 04-30-2012 |
The New York Mets, versus the Houston Astros, became the first team in Major League history to have seven consecutive batters face seven different pitchers. |
| 05-02-2012 |
Atlanta Braves slugger Chipper Jones (versus the Philadelphia Phillies) and the Colorado Rockies slugger Jason Giambi (versus the Los Angeles Dodgers) became both the first over 40 year-old players and 400 plus career homerun hitters to hit walk-off home runs on the same day. |
| 05-10-2012 |
The Baltimore Orioles are the first team in American League history to hit three consecutive home runs (Ryan Flaherty, J.J. Hardy and Nick Markakis) from the start of a game. |
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