TROY — Tri-City ValleyCats pitcher Jalon Long figured he has watched "Moneyball," the 2011 baseball movie starring Brad Pitt, "a thousand times." Long's interest in the film about the 2002 Oakland ...
2002 — Chicago out hit Cincinnati 22-17 but lost to the Reds 15-12. The last major league team to get 22 hits and lose a nine-inning game was Oakland on April 27, 1980. The Athletics lost that game 20 ...
1932 — Brooklyn’s Johnny Frederick hit his sixth pinch home run of the season, a major league record, in the ninth inning to spark the Dodgers to a 4-3 triumph over the Chicago Cubs at Ebbets Field.