April 27th in 1990s Baseball
Happy 1990s Birthday to Chris Carpenter, who made his debut with Toronto in 1997 and won 144 games over 15 seasons as two rings.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Tony Eusebio, who made his debut with Houston in 1991 and played until 2001.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Steve Connelly, who pitched in three games for the 1998 A’s and somehow managed to post an E.R.A. of 1.93 coupled with a WHIP of 3.00.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Brian Giles, who spent parts of six seasons in the bigs with four teams and whose Grandfather played in the Negro Leagues in the ’20s and ’30s.
Brian also played in China and coached in the minor leagues in the early 2000s.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Jim Eppard, who spent four years in the bigs with the Angels and Blue Jays and won four batting titles in the minor leagues.
He later became a hitting coach in both the minor leagues and the big leagues.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Paul Miller, a 53rd-round draft pick who went 1-0 for the Pirates between 199 and 1993.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Bob MacDonald, who won eight games over six seasons in the bigs with Toronto, Detroit, the Mets, and the Yankees.
He was a member of the World Series winning 1992 Blue Jays but did not pitch in the postseason that year.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Bob Ayrault, who went 5-3 over two seasons with the Phillies and Mariners.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Eric Hillman, a 6’10” lefty who won four games over three seasons with the Mets and later pitched in Japan for Bobby Valentine.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Patrick Lennon, who spent parts of six years in the bigs with Seattle, Kansas City, Oakland, and Toronto.
He played high school baseball with Tommy Greene and high school football with Chester McGlockton.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Mike Neill, who played in six games for the 1998 Oakland A’s and hit .267 with a double.
4/27/90
Wally Backman goes 6-for-6 in a 9-4 Pirates win over the Padres. It’s one of six 6-hit games in the decade.
4/27/90
Tim Leary allows four dingers, all solo shots, in six innings against the Angels but the Yankees win the game 5-4.
It’s the first of 173 times during the 1990s that a pitcher gives up for or more homers in a game.
4/27/92
Coming off a Cy Young season in 1991, Tom Glavine throws his second 2-hit shutout of April in a 5-0 win over the Cubs.
He finishes the season with a 20-8 record and finishes 2nd in the Cy Young race to Greg Maddux.
4/27/93
Jimmy Key throws a one-hit shutout against the Angels.
Gary DiSarcina’s leadoff single in the 6th is the only hit he allows.
4/27/93
Tim Wakefield goes 10 innings to beat the Braves 6-2.
He throws 172 pitches, walks 10, strikes out 1. It is the third time in 1993 that he walks at least nine in a start and he goes 3-0 in those starts.
4/27/94
Scott Erickson no-hits the Brewers. He entered the game leading the big leagues in hits allowed.
It’s the first no-no in Twins history.
4/27/95
Ed Sprague hits a slam and drives in five as the Blue Jays beat the A’s 7-1 to sweep a two-game series.
Toronto outscores Oakland 20-2 in the series.
4/27/96
Eric Young goes 5-for-6 and scores two runs in a 6-5 Rockies win over Montreal.
4/27/96
Barry Bonds becomes the sixth player in baseball history, and the second member of his family, to reach the 300 HR/300 SB mark.
4/27/98
Raul Mondesi goes 5-for-6 with a homer but the Dodgers fall to Milwaukee 6-5 in 13 innings.
4/27/99
Doug Glanville goes 2-for-5, including a walkoff single in the bottom of the 10th to beat the Reds 1-0 at The Vet.
Curt Schilling throws nine scoreless for the Phillies and Jeff Brantly gets a vulture win.
4/27/99
Shane Reynolds throws 8 scoreless innings and goes 2-for-3 at the plate with 3 RBI in an 11-0 Astros win over the Diamondbacks.
4/27/99
B.J. Surhoff goes 5-for-5 with a homer and 3 RBI in a 8-4 Orioles win over Kansas City.
4/27/90
The Brewers release Terry Francona.
He signs with the Cardinals, hits .263 in Triple-A and his playing career is over.
4/27/94
The A’s release Dave Righetti.
He finishes the year with Toronto and wraps up his career with the White Sox in 1995.
4/27/96
The Pirates select Joe Boever off waivers from the Tigers.
He splits the rest of the season between Triple-A and the bigs, appearing in 13 games for the Pirates.
4/27/98
The Devil Rays select Julio Santana off waivers from the Rangers.
He goes 5-6 for Tampa Bay over the rest of 1998.
4/27/90
Orel Hershiser has reconstructive surgery to repair his throwing shoulder.
He misses the reminder of the season and returns to the mound in May of 1991.
4/27/91
The Braves announce that Tommy Gregg has a broken bone in his left hand as a result of being hit by a ball from a pitching machine during batting practice.
The injury keeps him out of action until June 9th.
4/27/93
Robin Yount undergoes arthroscopic knee surgery after injuring himself against the Twins a few days earlier.
He returns to the lineup in mid-May and plays in 127 games in his 20th, and final, big-league season.
4/27/97
The Padres place Wally Joyner on the DL with a sprained ankle and call up a youngster named Derrek Lee from Triple-A Las Vegas.
He makes his big-league debut the following day.
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