SABR/Baseball Reference Encyclopedia

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Tiago da Silva has played in Taiwan, Italy, San Marino, Venezuela, Mexico, the US and the Dominican Republic. He has been on the Brazilian national team and Italian national team, competing in the Baseball World Cup, World Baseball Classic, Intercontinental Cup and European Championship, winning Gold, Silver and Bronze. He has been very successful as both a starter, winning All-Star pitcher and Italian Series MVP honors in Italy, and as a reliever, finishing among the save leaders in the Mexican League and Venezuelan League. He even was a position player early in his career for Brazil and in Italy.

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Alyssa Nakken becomes the first woman to appear in uniform in a major league baseball game when she takes over as first base coach for the San Francisco Giants following an ejection.
Roki Sasaki (pictured) throws the first Nippon Pro Baseball regular season perfect game in 28 years, becoming the youngest player to throw one. He ties the NPB record for strikeouts in a game (19) and shatters the old record of consecutive strikeouts (13; the old mark was 9).
Ngayaw Ake becomes the all-time CPBL home run king, breaking a tie with Tai-Shan Chang.
The Caimanes de Barranquilla become the first team from Colombia to win a Caribbean Series title; 1B Reynaldo Rodríguez in named Caribbean Series MVP.
Tony Batista, David Ortiz, Luís Saint-Claire and Juanchy Sánchez are inducted into the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame.

Recent Deaths – Recent Events

April 14: Today's featured birthday is that of Frank Cipriani, who turns 81.

1910 - William Howard Taft (pictured) becomes the first president to throw out the first ball on Opening Day. In a duel of future Hall-of-Famers, Walter Johnson outperforms Eddie Plank with a 3-0 victory.
1925 - The Cleveland Indians set the Opening Day record with 21 runs, thanks in part to four errors by George Sisler.
1955 - The New York Yankees become one of the last major league teams to integrate when Elston Howard makes his debut, driving in a run in a 8-4 defeat.
1969 - Mack Jones hits the first MLB home run outside of the USA when he homers in the first home game for the Montréal Expos. Dan McGinn gets the win.
1990 - In the first game in which two Cy Young Award winners factor into the victory, Bret Saberhagen wins one for the Kansas City Royals while Mark Davis is credited with the save.

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