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Compiled By PAUL MONTELLA

By The Associated Press

May 20

1919 -- Babe Ruth won a game on the mound and at the plate. He hit his first career grand slam, and the Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Browns 6-4.

1925 -- The Cleveland Indians scored six runs in the last of the ninth to beat the New York Yankees 10-9. Tris Speaker scored the winning run from first on a single.

1932 -- Paul Waner of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit four doubles in one game.

1941 -- Lefty Grove of the Boston Red Sox won his 20th consecutive game at home, the longest home park streak in the major leagues. Boston beat the Detroit Tigers, 4-2.

1947 -- The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Boston Braves 4-3 in a game that featured 22 hits -- all singles. The Pirates had 12 singles, the Braves 10.

1953 -- In the 13th game of the season, the Milwaukee Braves surpassed their 1952 attendance of 281,278, when they were in Boston.

1959 -- The Detroit Tigers beat the Yankees, 13-6, to place New York in last place for the first time in 19 years.

1962 -- Chicago Cubs rookie Ken Hubbs had eight singles in eight trips to the plate. The Cubs swept the Philadelphia Phillies, 6-4 and 11-2.

1978 -- Willie Stargell hit a 535-foot homer off Montreal's Wayne Twitchell -- the longest home run in Montreal's Olympic Stadium -- to highlight the Pirates' 6-0 victory. It was also Stargell's 407th career homer, tying him with Duke Snider on the career list.

1984 -- Boston's Roger Clemens earned his first major league victory. The Red Sox beat the Minnesota Twins, 5-4.

1991 -- Jeff Reardon got his 300th save and Steve Lyons and Jack Clark homered, sending the Boston Red Sox past the Milwaukee Brewers 3-0.

1999 -- Robin Ventura became the first major leaguer to hit grand slams in both games of a doubleheader, leading the New York Mets to a sweep over Milwaukee, 11-10 and 10-1. He had two slams in a game for the Chicago White Sox on Sept. 4, 1995.

2001 -- Barry Bonds hit two homers in the San Francisco Giants' 11-6 loss to the Atlanta Braves, giving him a total of five in two games, becoming the 23rd player in history to do so.

2006 -- Barry Bonds tied Babe Ruth for second place on the career home run list during San Francisco's 4-2, 10-inning victory over the Oakland Athletics.

2009 -- Boston center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury tied a major league record with 12 putouts by an outfielder in a nine-inning game, previously done by Earl Clark of the Boston Braves in 1929 and Lyman Bostock of the Minnesota Twins in 1977. He accomplished the feat in the Red Sox's 8-3 win over Toronto.

2009 -- Nick Swisher, Robinson Cano and Melky Cabrera hit consecutive home runs for the New York Yankees in an 11-4 victory over Baltimore. All three solo shots to right field came in the second inning off Orioles starter Jeremy Guthrie -- with two strikes.

2011 -- R.A. Dickey regained command of his knuckleball and confounded the New York Yankees for six innings, Daniel Murphy homered and a youthful New York Mets lineup won the Subway Series opener 2-1. The Yankees lost their sixth straight game at home for the first time since 2003.

2014 -- Chris Davis hit three home runs and drove in five runs to lead the Baltimore Orioles to a 9-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

2014 -- Adam Wainwright threw a one-hitter, facing one hitter over the minimum, to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 5-0 win over Arizona.

Today's birthday: Jayson Werth, 36.

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