April 13th in 1990s Baseball
Happy 1990s Birthday to Ricardo Rincon, who won 21 games and saved 21 for five teams.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Mark Leiter, who pitched in the bigs for 11 years, primarily as a starter, but spent one season as the closer for the PHillies and saved 23 games.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Doug Strange, who made his debut with the Tigers in 1989 and spent nine years in the bigs with six teams.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Wes Chamberlain, who hit 13 homers and drove in 50 as a rookie in 1991 with the Phillies and spent six years in the bigs.
4/13/93
The Braves trade Mark Davis to the Phillies for minor leaguer Brad Hassinger.
Davis, the 1989 N.L. Cy Young winner, goes 1-2 in his return to Philadelphia and finishes his career with the Padres.
4/13/95
The Angels trade Chad Curtis to the Tigers for Tony Phillips.
Phillips hits .261 with 27 homers for the Angels.
4/13/91
The Rangers sign Brian Downing as a free agent.
He hits .278 with 17 dingers and wraps up his career with the Rangers in 1992.
Downing spent 20 years in the bigs, which isn’t bad for a guy who wasn’t drafted.
4/13/95
The Cubs sign Howard Johnson as a free agent.
In his final big-league season, HoJo hits .195 in 87 games.
4/13/95
The Rangers sign Mickey Tettleton as a free agent.
He hits 32 bombs and drives in 78.
4/13/90
Craig Grebeck goes 0-for-1 as a pinch-hitter against Cleveland in his big-league debut.
He plays 59 games as a rookie and spends 12 years in the bigs, primarily with the White Sox.
4/13/99
Jeff Zimmerman throws 1 2/3 scoreless innings against the Mariners in his big-league debut.
He wins nine games as a rookie and finishes 3rd in the A.L. ROY chase.
He pitches until 2001 when he suffers an elbow injury that ends his career.
4/13/98
The Yankees game with the Angels is postponed after a 500 pound beam falls onto seats in the mezzanine level.
Fortunately, the ballpark was empty and no one was injured.
4/13/90
The A’s beat the Mariners 15-7 on 21 hits, just one of them homers.
It’s the first of 371 times in the ’90s that a team scores 15 or more runs in a game.
Rickey goes 4-for-5 with a homer.
4/13/90
In his first start in more than nine months after battling elbow problems, John Tudor shuts out the Phillies to earn his first win since 1988.
He finishes the year with a 12-4 record and retires.
4/13/91
Dave Winfield homers thrice and drives in 6 as the Angels beat the Twins 15-9. It is the only three-homer game of Winny’s career.
4/13/91
Cal Ripken Jr. homers twice and drives in 7 as the Orioles beat Texas 11-4.
4/13/91
The Tigers strike out ten times in a 4-1 loss to the White Sox.
It is the second time in their first five games that they punch out ten times and they would lead all of baseball with 1185 by season’s end.
This cartoon appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer on April 14, 1991.
4/13/91
Kevin Mitchell homers twice and drives in four as the Giants hammer the Astros 16-2.
San Francisco took an 8-0 lead into the 7th and tacked on eight more.
4/13/92
Delino DeShields and Archi Cianfrocco each collect two hits as Montreal beats St. Louis 3-2. It is the Expos first home hame since September 8, 1991. The team played 32 consecutive road games because of a concrete collapse at The Big O.
4/13/93
Lee Smith becomes the all-time saves leader as the Cardinals beat the Dodgers, 9 – 7.
Smith picks up his 358th save, surpassing Jeff Reardon.
4/13/93
Travis Fryman goes 3-for-5 with a homer and five RBI as the Tigers hammer the A’s 20-4 at Tiger Stadium.
4/13/96
Hideo Nomo strikes out 17 in a 3-1 win over the Marlins.
4/13/98
Ken Griffey, Jr. of the Seattle Mariners hits his 300th career home run to become the second-youngest player (Jimmie Foxx) to reach the milestone.
Junior is 28.
4/13/99
Ivan Rodriguez homers twice and drives in nine as the Rangers beat Seattle 15-6.
4/13/91
The White Sox activate Charlie Hough and release Steve Lyons.
He signs with Boston five days later.
4/13/96
The Mariners release Felix Fermin.
He hooks on with the Cubs and finishes his career in Chicago.
4/13/98
After their third blown save in 11 games, the Mariners fire pitching coach Nardi Contreras and replace him with Stan Williams.
The M’s begin the season with a 3-9 record and finish at 76-85.
4/13/94
Perdo Martinez has a perfect game going with one out in the 8th inning when he hits Reggie Sanders.
Sanders charges the mound. I still don’t understand this but, then again, it wasn’t me who got dotted by Pedro.
Montreal wins the game 3-2.
4/13/94
The Phillies place Tommy Greene on the DL with shoulder tendonitis.
Greene went 16-4 in 1993 but he would win just two more games in his career.
4/13/98
The Mariners place slugger Jay Buhner on the DL with a knee problem.
He does not return to the lineup until June and finishes the year with 15 homers in 72 games.
4/13/99
The Brewers place Jose Valentin on the DL with a torn ligament in his thumb. He misses two months.
We lost the great Harry Kalas OTD in 2009.
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