May 19th in 1990s Baseball
Happy 1990s Birthday to Rick Cerone, who wrapped up his career with the Expos in 1992. Rick caught in the big leagues for 18 years.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Ed Whitson, who pitched for 15 years in the big leagues and won 126 games.
Eric Show was born OTD in 1956. He pitched in the bigs for 11 years and won a career-high 16 games for the Padres in 1988.
He is well known for his politics and for giving up Pete’s record-breaking hit, but he had a tragic life.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Luis Salazar, who spent 13 years in the bigs with four teams and played every position except catcher.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Luis Aquino, who pitched in the big leagues for nine years, primarily out of the pen, but he did make 69 starts as well.
Luis won 31 games and saved 5.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Jim Campbell, who went 1-0 with an 8.38 E.R.A. for the Royals in 1990 in two games.
He got knocked around in his debut but only allowed two runs in his second, and final, start.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Turk Wendell!
Happy 1990s Birthday to Phil Leftwich, who pitched in 34 games for the Angels between 1993 and 1996.
His father pitched for Detroit and Cleveland in the ’60s and ’70s.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Scott McClain, who made his debut with the Devil Rays in 1998 and his final game in the bigs with the Giants in 2008.
He played in just 44 games but stretched them out over 11 seasons.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Josh Paul, who spent nine years in the bigs with four teams.
He later became a minor league manager and a big-league bench coach.
Happy 1990s Birthday to Chris Fussell, who went 5-9 for the Orioles and Royals over three big-league seasons.
5/19/93
Lance Painter gets roughed up a bit in his big-league debut, allowing six runs in 4 1/3 to the Cardinals.
He is converted to a reliever a few years later and pitches in the bigs for 10 years.
5/19/95
Chris Stynes makes his debut as a pinch-hitter.
He collects his first hit in June and spends 10 years in the bigs with six teams.
5/19/93
Reds pitcher Steve Foster tapes an appearance on The Tonight Show where he has to knock down milk bottles with baseballs.
When he knocks them over, Tonight Show host Jay Leno picks up the famale audience member that bet on him and puts her in Fosters arms.
Foster doesn’t know what to do and walks off the stage. He spends the rest of the day calling his wife and leaving her messages in case she sees the show.
5/19/90
Tom Brunansky goes 5-for-5 with two homers and drives in seven in a 13-1 win over the Twins.
5/19/90
Tommy Herr goes 5-for-7 in a 15-12 Phillies extra-inning win over the Dodgers.
5/19/90
Kevin Gross takes a perfect game into the 7th against the Giants before walking leadoff hitter Brett Butler.
Sn Francisco scores three times in the inning but Gross and the Expos win the game 7-4.
5/19/91
Dave Gallagher goes 5-for-5 and drives in three in a 10-2 Angels win over the Orioles.
5/19/92
Bert Blyleven goes six innings against the Yankees in his first game since August 10th of 1990.
Blyleven had two rotator cuff surgeries before returning to the mound and making 24 starts in his final big-league season.
5/19/93
Erik Hanson strikes out 13 but Doug Strange’s wallkoff single beats the M’s 4-3.
5/19/95
Dwight Smith’s two-out pinch-hit slam gives the Braves a 4-0 walkoff win over the Marlins.
5/19/95
Marty Cordova homers for the 4th-straight game as the Twins beat the Mariners 8-6.
Cordonva’s streak ties Jimmie Hall and Kent Hrbek for the longest homer streak by a rookie in Twins history.
5/19/97
Steve Finley hits three solo homers in a 13-6 Padres win over the Reds.
It was not a good day for Cincinnati. They hit into a triple play, allowed five homers and lost Jeff Brantley to a shoulder injury.
5/19/97
Jeff Bagwell homers twice and colletcs his 1,000th career hit in a 9-5 win over the Phillies.
5/19/97
The Cubs score in all but two innings to beat the Giants 15-4.
Scott Servais homers and drives in 5 for Chicago.
5/19/98
Jim Thome homers and drives in four as Cleveland beats the Royals 16-3.
Cleveland pounds out 20 hits in the game.
5/19/98
Mark McGwire homers thrice and drives in six in a 10-8 Cardinals win over the Phillies.
5/19/99
Mike Lieberthal homers twice and drives in six but the Phillies fall to Montreal 10-9.
5/19/99
Jeffrey Hammonds homers thrice and the Mayor goes 4-for-4 with two homers and drives in six as the Reds beat the Rockies 24-12.
Cincinnati bangs out 28 hits in the game.
5/19/91
Things get physical between the Blue Jays and White Sox.
5/19/98
Armando Benitez dots Tino and it’s on at Yankee Stadium.
Benitez earns an eight-game suspension while Darryl Strawberry and Graeme Lloyd each get two. Jeff Nelson and Alan Mills are suspended for two games.
5/19/92
The Mets place Bret Saberhagen on the DL with tendonitis in his right index finger.
The injury keeps him out of action for two months.
5/19/92
The Phillies place Dale Murphy on the DL with knee problems.
He does not return until the final game of the season.
5/19/96
The Phillies place Lenny Dykstra on the DL with a rib cage strain.
He never plays again.
5/19/97
Cleveland puts Jack McDowell on the DL with an elbow injury.
He misses the rest of the season.
5/19/93
After a 13-25 start, the Mets fire manager Jeff Torborg and replace him with Dallas Green.
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