Mexico and American baseball have a bond that will make them inseparable forever, and they have a first and last name: Baldomero Almada.
The “Melo” Almada, born in Huatabampo, in the state of soundwas immortalized for being the first Mexican to play in the Major Leagues in 1933. And as if that weren’t enough, he has a record that no one has managed to beat to date, scoring nine runs in a single game with the Boston Red Sox.
Almada’s history in this sport began thanks to the support of his brother Luis, also a baseball player, who should have been the first Mexican to play in the Major Leagues, but an injury prevented him from doing so. Instead, Baldomero was his brother.
Thus, the July 25, 1937 Almada drew a record in the Major League that is rarely talked about and that hardly anyone knows, and which remains in force today: that of those 9 games in one day.
The “Melo” did it when he participated in a doubleheader against the Washington Senators and it is also the only current brand in which a Mexican appears.
That day Almada got what Herman Long joined in 1894 also with Boston. Facing the St. Louis Browns, Aldama (the team’s leading hitter) had his epic day by scoring four goals in the first game of the day, before hitting the pot five times in the other game on 25 July.
Overall, he went 6-9, with two doubles, a home run, an RBI and a couple of stolen bases. After that, no one else in the Major League has repeated what the Mexican accomplished that afternoon at Sportsman’s Park III.
Source: Clarin
