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| 1969 | Oriole right-hander Jim Palmer, coming off the disabled list just four days earlier, throws a no-hitter against Oakland. Baltimore's 8-0 victory gives the team a comfortable 14½ game lead in the first-ever American League East Division race. |
| 1978 | Although the Yankees score five runs in the top of the seventh before the rain ends the game, the Bronx Bombers lose to the Orioles, 3-0, when the score reverts to the last completed inning. In 1980, the rules committee decides to suspend contests, not cancel, starting from the point of the delay. |
| 2018 | Ronald Acuña Jr. becomes the fourth player in history to lead off both games of a doubleheader with a home run when he smacks Merandy Gonzalez's first pitch of the nightcap over the SunTrust Park's centerfield wall. The 20-year-old phenom joins Harry Hooper (Red Sox, May 30, 1913), Rickey Henderson (A,s, July 6, 1993), and Brady Anderson (Orioles, Aug. 21, 1999) as the only players to accomplish the feat. |
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