The superb Masahiro Tanaka shook off a first-inning unearned run and allowed just four singles while going eight innings in a 3-1 victory over the Twins in Yankee Stadium on May 31, 2014. He retired 10 Minnesota batters on strikes and 10 on ground balls, and probably would have pitched a complete game had rain not caused a delay in the bottom of the eighth.
Two-sport star Deion Sanders made his New York Yankee debut on May 31, 1989, in the Stadium a good one. He threw a Mariner out on the bases, drove in a run, and triggered a five-run, seventh-inning rally with a single.