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Compiled By PAUL MONTELLA April 21 1910 -- The Cleveland Indians played their first game at League Park and lost to the Detroit Tigers 5-0 before a crowd of 19,867. 1955 -- The Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Philadelphia Phillies 14-4 at Ebbets Field for their 10th consecutive victory from the start of the season -- a major league record that lasted until 1981. 1967 -- After 737 consecutive games, the Dodgers were rained out for the first time since moving to Los Angeles. The St. Louis Cardinals were scheduled. 1982 -- The Atlanta Braves beat the Cincinnati Reds 4-3 for their 13th straight victory. 1984 -- In his second start since August 1982, Montreal pitcher David Palmer threw five perfect innings against the St. Louis Cardinals in a 4-0 victory stopped by rain. 1987 -- The Milwaukee Brewers' 13-game winning streak from the start of the season ended with a 7-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox. Milwaukee shared the major league streak of 13 straight, set by the Atlanta Braves in 1982. 1994 -- Eddie Murray set a major league record with his 11th switch-hit home run game, and the Cleveland Indians beat the Minnesota Twins 10-6. 1996 -- Brady Anderson led off the first inning with a home run for the fourth straight game for Baltimore. The Texas Rangers overcame that homer, beating the Orioles 9-6. 2002 -- Randy Johnson struck out 17 batters while giving up two hits in Arizona's 7-1 win over Colorado. 2002 -- Atlanta's Rafael Furcal tied a modern major league record and became the first Braves player in 46 years to hit three triples in a game, as Atlanta beat Florida 4-2. 2006 -- Alfonso Soriano hit three home runs and drove in a career-high five RBIs, powering Washington past Atlanta 7-3. 2006 -- Albert Pujols hit his major league leading 11th homer of the season and drove in four RBIs in St. Louis' 9-3 win over Chicago. Pujols' first inning two-run blast was his 1,000th career hit. He became the fastest player in major league history to reach that milestone with 200 homers. Pujols needed 806 games to reach the milestones, topping the previous record by Willie Mays of 825 games. 2012 -- Phil Humber threw the first perfect game in the majors in almost two years, leading the Chicago White Sox to a 4-0 victory over the Seattle Mariners. It was baseball's 21st perfect game and first since Philadelphia's Roy Halladay threw one against the Florida Marlins on May 29, 2010. 2012 -- Nick Swisher hit a grand slam to help the New York Yankees erase a nine-run deficit, then he added a two-run double to give them the lead as they posted back-to-back seven-run innings to beat Boston 15-9 at Fenway Park. The Yankees, who pounded the Boston bullpen for seven runs in the seventh and eighth innings, matched their biggest rally after a nine-run deficit since April 18, 1950, when they trailed the Red Sox 9-0 after five innings and went on to win 15-10. 2014 -- Ike Davis became the first player to hit grand slams for different teams in the same April, and Neil Walker had a game-winning single with two outs in the ninth inning as the Pittsburgh Pirates twice overcame deficits to beat the Cincinnati 6-5. Davis' slam came in the fourth inning off Mike Leake. He hit a game-winning, ninth-inning slam off the Reds' J.J. Hoover on April 5 for the New York Mets, who traded him to the Pirates on April 18. Today's birthdays: Joc Pederson, 23; Josh Rutledge, 26.
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