Games on May 1, 1999

The games of May 1, 1999

On May 1, 1999, 15 games went into the books. The widest margin belonged to the St. Louis Cardinals, 16-5 winners over the Montreal Expos. Decided by a single run were the Chicago Cubs 2-1 over the San Diego Padres and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 4-3 over the Detroit Tigers. The rest of the slate: the Chicago White Sox beat the Anaheim Angels 8-5, the Cincinnati Reds fell to the Atlanta Braves, 5-1, the Minnesota Twins beat the Baltimore Orioles 7-2, the Houston Astros topped the Florida Marlins 6-4, the New York Yankees topped the Kansas City Royals 8-4, the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-3, the New York Mets beat the San Francisco Giants 9-4, the Oakland Athletics fell to the Boston Red Sox, 7-2, the Los Angeles Dodgers topped the Philadelphia Phillies 12-6, and the Colorado Rockies fell to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9-3. The list shows final scores; no game on this date has a full box score here. The pager links to the previous game day, Apr 30, 1999 and the next, May 2, 1999. For the wider picture, see the 1999 season.