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| 1948 | Former Dodger skipper Leo Durocher, who left the team ten days ago, makes his first appearance at Ebbets Field since taking over the Giants. The return of 'the Lip' is less-than-triumphant when his new team drops a 13-4 decision to Brooklyn. |
| 1951 | In a 9-1 victory over the Cubs at Wrigley Field, Jim Russell becomes the first player in major league history to hit a home run from both sides of the plate in two different games. Mickey Mantle surpasses the Dodger outfielder's accomplishment in 1956 when he goes deep right and left-handed in the same game for the third time. |
| 1960 | The Phillies end their scoreless streak of thirty-eight consecutive innings when Johnny Callison plates Tony Gonzalez with a sixth-inning single in the team's 4-3 victory over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Philadelphia's drought began when the team failed to score in the last six frames of a 3-0 win against the Giants at Candlestick Park and continued being shut out in three straight games (2-0, 2-0, and 9-0) by the Dodgers in Los Angeles. |
| 1991 | Mark Gardner no-hits the Dodgers for nine innings, but Los Angeles wins the game in the bottom of the tenth on two singles off the Expos' starter and Darryl Strawberry's RBI single off reliever Jeff Fassero. It's the first time the Dodgers had been hitless at home for nine innings since Johnny Vander Meer's second straight no-hitter in 1938. |
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