September 10

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1889 - New York Giants pitcher Mickey Welch strikes out as the first pinch hitter in ML history.
1902 - In a doubleheader with the Orioles, the A's bring Rube Waddell in for eight innings of relief in the opening win. Rube comes back to pitch another two innings of relief in the nitecap to pick up his 2nd win for the day. It won't happen again until 1915.
1904 - A crowd of 15,250 cheer the first-place Giants to a pair of one-run wins over the Phillies. Roger Bresnahan's 9th inning triple scores two in the opener, as Hooks Wiltse earns his 11th straight win. Dummy Taylor wins the nitecap, 6-5, as the Giants finish four straight doubleheaders with five victories, a loss and a tie. New York leads the 2nd-place Colts by 17 games.
1904 - The A's Eddie Plank and Boston's Cy Young face each other, with the Athletics prevailing, 1-0, in 13 innings.
1908 - Louie Durham of the Indianapolis Browns pitches and wins both ends of a doubleheader against the Toldeo Mud Hens. Historian Fred Schuld notes that this is the 5th doubleheader this season that Durham has accomplished this feat. Previously he beat the Milwaukee Brewers (June 14), Columbus Champs (July 18), St. Paul Saints (July 25), and the Louisville Night Riders (Aug 8).
1908 - Detroit takes its 2nd straight extra-inning game from the White Sox, 6-5 in 11 innings, and the Indians beat the Browns, 5-2. The AL race leaves Detroit 75-52, Chicago 72-57, St. Louis 71-57.
1912 - Philadelphia A's rookie Stan Coveleski makes his first appearance in the majors and shuts out Detroit, 3 - 0.
1912 - Boston's Smoky Joe Wood wins his 15th straight, with 9th inning relief help from Sea Lion Hall, beating the White Sox, 5 - 4. He scatters 12 hits and strikes out 5. There is some question about which pitcher should receive credit for the win, but American League president Ban Johnson will rule in favor of Wood.
1913 - Honus Wagner is given a souvenir bat carved from a piece of wood taken from naval hero Oliver Perry's flagship Niagara, which was sunk in Lake Erie 100 years before.
1915 - Boston's Babe Ruth wins his 15th of the year, stopping the visiting A's, 7 - 2 on six hits. Ruth, 3rd in the AL in hitting, is 0-for-4 at the plate.
1915 - St. Louis (FL) pitcher Dave Davenport follows up his no-hitter with a 2-hitter, beating Newark, 3 - 0.
1915 - Rogers Hornsby, brought up a week earlier from class D Denison (Western Association), makes his ML debut for the Cardinals. With the Cards trailing the Reds, 70, after six innings, Hornsby plays SS and goes hitless in two appearances against Cincy rookie Charles "King" Lear, who wins, 7 - 1.
1917 - A red-hot Grover Alexander, chasing thirty wins, beats the Braves, 5 - 2, for the Phils.
1918 - Players on both sides threaten to strike unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers. They back off, however, when told they will appear greedy while their countrymen are fighting a war. There are no fines, but no World Series rings or mementos are given out this year. On the field, Hippo Vaughn comes back with two days of rest and blanks the Red Sox 3 - 0 on five hits in game 5.
1919 - The Indians' Ray "Slim" Caldwell, struck by lightning 2 weeks earlier, no-hits his former teammates the Yankees 3-0 at the Polo Grounds.

1921 - Catcher Wally Schang has five of the Yankees' 21 hits as the New Yorkers wallop the A's 19 - 3. A ML record-tying five Yankees collect two hits in the 9th inning: Schang, Mays, Miller, Peckinpaugh, and Ruth. Ruth's 2nd hit, a single, hits Peck for the 3rd out. Winning P Carl Mays gives up 13 hits to Philadelphia in winning his 16th straight over them.
1922 - The Yankees play their farewell home game in the Polo Grounds. An estimated 40,000 overflow the stadium with another 25,000 turned away. Joe Bush beats the Philadelphia A's 10 - 3 in the opener, and Waite Hoyt edges the A's in the second 2 - 1. Plans are in the works to expand the park to 56,000 capacity, but this is the last regular season American League game at the Polo Grounds. The Yanks will play their next 18 games on the road, and then open in Yankee Stadium next spring.
1924 - At the Polo Grounds, the Giants rip the Braves 22 - 1 in the opener of a doubleheader. Frankie Frisch goes 6-for-6 before grounding out.
1925 - Bob Meusel, Babe Ruth, and Lou Gehrig hit successive homers in the 4th inning of Game One versus the A's, all off Sammy Gray. New York wins, 7 - 3. Then, Ruth and OF Ben Paschal hit back-to-back homers in the 4th of game 2, but New York loses, 5 - 4.
1926 - In the Browns 5 - 4 win over the White Sox, pitcher Win Ballou stops Harry McCurdy's consecutive hit streak at 10, Win also wins.
1928 - The Giants gain one 1/2 games on the Cards and Cubs by winning two from Boston while the leaders lose. New York moves into 2nd tomorrow with another sweep of the Braves. Fred Fitzsimmons wins the opener for the Giants, 4 - 1, and Joe Genewich wins the nitecap, 11 - 0.
1932 - Dodger OF Johnny Frederick hits his record 6th pinch-hit home run of the season. It is a dramatic 9th-inning, 2-run shot that beats Burleigh Grimes and the Cubs, 4 - 3. Frederick's six pinch-hit home runs doubles the previous record of three held by Ham Hyatt in 1913, Cy Williams in 1928, and Pat Crawford in 1929. With just nine pinch-hits altogether, his home run percentage is a ML record.
1933 - The first Negro League East-West All-Star Game is played at Comiskey Park. Willie Foster goes the distance in the West's 11 - 7 victory.
1934 - Burleigh Grimes, in his second stint with the Pirates this year, picks up his 270th win, in relief, as the Pirates beat the Giants, 9 - 7. It is the Hall of Famer's last ML win.
1934 - Dizzy Dean wins his 25th game, beating the Phillies 4 - 1. It is the fifth straight for the Cards, now four games behind.
1935 - Chicago beat the Braves, 4 - 0, behind Charlie Root for their 7th straight win. Freddie Lindstrom is the batting star with a double and single to drive home a pair as Chicago stays a game behind the Cardinals and one 1/2 ahead of the Giants. The Giants win a pair today, 4 - 3 and 4 - 2 over the Pirates, while the Cards score three in the 8th to edge the Phils, 4 - 2.
1935 - The Browns triumph 8 - 6 of the A's, handing the Mackmen their 13th straight loss. Foxx is 2-for-3 for the A's, while Carey and Coleman each have three hits for the Browns.
1935 - Washington's Buck Newsom scatters six hits to shut out the leading Tigers, 6 - 0. Schoolboy Rowe pitches six innings to take the loss.
1938 - Jimmie Foxx of the Red Sox hits 2 HRs in a game for the 9th time this season, breaking a record held by Babe Ruth and Hack Wilson.
1939 - In the first game of a doubleheader, Indian Ray Caldwell no-hits the Yankees, 3-0.
1940 - Former ML infielder Sam Crane, serving time for the 1930 murder of his former sweetheart and her boyfriend, starts parole proceedings.
1941 - Johnny Schmitz makes his ML debut and notches a victory by throwing only one pitch in the 9th inning of the Cubs 5-4 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1950 - The Red Sox win their 22nd in a row at home from the Athletics, 6 - 2, a streak dating back to 1949. The Red Sox won all 11 games two years in a row.
1950 - Joe DiMaggio becomes the first player to hit three HRs in one game at spacious Griffith Stadium, as the Yanks beat Washington 8 - 1. Joe also adds an RBI double, to pass the 100-ribbie mark for the ninth time. The Senators lead the second game 6 - 2 when rain washes it out in the fourth. New York is now a half-game in back of the leaders with Boston a half game behind the Yankees.
1950 - San Francisco (PCL) lefty Al Lien throws a 17-inning, 1 - 0, shutout over the Hollywood Stars.
1950 - In an 8-1 victory over the Washington Senators, Yankee clipper Joe DiMaggio becomes the first major leaguer to hit three home runs at Griffith Stadium.
1950 - For the second consecutive year, the Red Sox sweep the home season series with the A's. The winning streak at Fenway now extends to 22 wins without a loss against Philadelphia.
1955 - OF Hank Bauer of the Yankees, pressed into emergency service as a catcher, permits a passed ball, setting up the winning run in a 9-8 loss to the White Sox.
1958 - Dick Stuart clouts a 10th inning homer to give Bob Friend his 20th win of the year as the Pirates beat the Giants, 6 - 4.
1958 - In Cleveland, 50,021 fans turn out for "Back the Indians" night. It is Cleveland's largest crowd since 1955, but the Yankees dampen the enthusiasm with an 8 - 3 win.
1959 - Mickey Mantle goes 5-for-6, including a HR, in a 12-1 romp over Kansas City's Ray Herbert.
1959 - Brothers Jim and Ed Bailey form the battery for the Cincinnati Reds in the 2nd game of a doubleheader against the Cubs. Jim is charged with the 6-3 loss in his ML debut.
1960 - In Detroit, Mickey Mantle unloads a cannon shot for three runs in the 6th inning, the ball clearing the RF roof and landing in the Brooks Lumber Yard across Trumbull Avenue. New York pins a 5 - 1 loss on Paul Foytack that moves them a half game in first place ahead of Baltimore, losers today. In June, 1985, Mantle's blow was retroactively measured at 643 feet, and will be listed in The Guinness Book of World Records at that distance.
1961 - The Reds Bob Purkey allows just two hits in beating the visiting Cards, 5 - 2.
1961 - The Yankees sweep the Indians, 7 - 6 and 9 - 3 , their 12th win in a row at home and the Indians 20th loss in a row at Yankee Stadium. Mickey Mantle gets number 53 in the nitecap, while Roger Maris, homerless, stays at 56. The official scorecard credits Mantle with two runs scored: it will be discovered in 1995 that one of the runs should go to Bill Skowron. In the 2nd game, Clete Boyer sends a Jim Perry pitch into the LF corner that hits the lower deck of the grand stand and bounces back into play. While home plate ump Joe Linsalata calls it a home run, the other two umps agree with Tribe CF Jimmy Piersall who contends the ball is in play. Boyer's home run trot is interrupted at 3B with a tag out. Piersall's contribution in Game One is fighting with a fan who climbed onto the field.
1961 - At Chicago, the Phillies score seven in the 7th, including Don Demeter's grand slam, and notch six more in the 8th to beat the Cubs, 14 - 6. There is some solace for the Cubs as introduce a pair of gems: Ken Hubbs debuts with two hits and two runs and Lou Brock has one hit, one run and a pair of errors.
1962 - Against Hank Aguirre, Mickey Mantle clouts a 4th inning homer run, the 400th of his career, to tie the game 1 - 1. The Yanks score two in the 9th off Aguirre to beat Detroit 3 - 1. The victory, combined with a Minnesota loss, gives the Yanks a three 1/2 game lead over the Twins. The surprising Angels are in 3rd place, four games back.
1962 - The Angels Dean Chance loses his no hit bid when Zoilo Versalles singles in the 8th inning for the only Twins hit. Chance wins, 5 - 0.
1963 - At New York, the Giants trail 3 - 0 after 7 innings when manager Alvin Dark sends up consecutive Alous to bat in the 8th. Pinch hitter Jesus Alou grounds out, pinch hitter Matty Alou strikes out, and leadoff hitter Felipe Alou bounces back to P Carlton Willey. The Giants lose, 4 - 2. Willie McCovey's 38th homer and Orlando Cepeda's 29th account for the SF scoring.
1963 - Stan Musial hits a HR in his first at bat as a grandfather, and Bob Gibson (17-8) blanks the Cubs 8 - 0.
1964 - Baltimore tops the Senators 12 - 5, despite Brooks Robinson hitting into his 2nd triple play. Brooks will hit into a record four TPs by the time he hangs up his glove.
1964 - The Phils split a 2-game series with the Cards and build a 6-game lead in the National League on Chris Short's 5 - 1 win. Short strikes out 12 throwing no curves to win his 16th. A pivotal play is 3B Dick Allen's stop and throw out of Javier's sharp grounder with two men on in the 2nd.
1965 - Phils rookie Ferguson Jenkins debuts with four 1/3 innings of relief against the Cardinals and picks up his first victory. Philadelphia wins 5 - 4 in 12 innings. It is the Phillies 10,000th game decision since 1900.
1965 - The Orioles sweep a pair from Kansas City, 5 - 2 and 10 - 5. In game 2, the O's get consecutive home runs by in 8th from Brooks Robinson, Curt Blefary, and Adair.
1966 - Cardinal P Dick Hughes tops the Pirates on Tim McCarver's bases load hit off the RF wall. Pittsburgh falls a game in back of the Dodgers.
1967 - Joel Horlen revives Chicago pennant hopes with a 5 - 0 no-hit win against the Tigers. Detroit hits only two balls to the outfield. Behind the pitching of Cisco Carlos with help from Hoyt Wilhelm and Bob Locker, the Sox win game two by a 4 - 0 score to move a game behind the 2nd-place Red Sox.
1967 - At Candlestick Park, San Francisco hurler Gaylord Perry's 40-inning team record consecutive scoreless streak comes to an end as the Cubs score an unearned run in the seventh inning of 2-1 loss to Giants. The future Hall of Famer will match his franchise mark with another string of scoreless innings in 1970.
1967 - In the first game of a doubleheader, White Sox Joe Horlen no-hits the Tigers, 6-0.
1967 - Minnesota leads the tight American League race after edging the Orioles 4 - 2 at Baltimore.
1968 - Don Wilson, who struck out 18 Reds on July 14, fans 16 Reds today while pitching the Astros to a 3 - 2 win in game 1. The Reds win the nitecap, 4 - 3.
1968 - Billy Williams hits three home runs in a game for the first time in his career. It's all the Cubs' scoring, as they beat the Mets 3 - 1 behind Bill Hands. Added to two home runs on September 8th, Williams has a ML-record-tying five over two straight games.
1969 - Using a major-league record 27 players in one game, the Royals lose 11 - 4 at California. Andy Messersmith faces 20 different batters in the complete game win, while KC uses six pitchers. Bubba Morton plays just three innings but drives in five runs.
1969 - Meanwhile the Mets sweep the Expos, 3 - 2 and 7 - 1. Ken Boswell's single in the 12th wins the opener. Taylor in relief of Jim McAndrew, who pitches the first 11 innings, is the winner. Mike Wegener matches McAndrew for 11 innings, striking out 15 Mets. In the night cap, the Mets score six runs in the 3rd to knock out starter Howie Reed. The winner is Nolan Ryan (6 - 1), who gives up three hits and fans 11. The Mets' two wins puts them into first place by a game, the 1st time ever the team has been atop the NL. The Cubs' loss drops them out of first after 155 days atop the NL. Chicago will continue to swoon and finish the month with a 9-17 record.
1969 - The Mets sweep the Montreal Expos , 3-2 in 12 innings and 7-1 and move into first place for the first time in their history.
1969 - The Cubs drop a 6 - 2 decision to the Phils, and drop to 2nd place, one game in back of New York. The Cubs are out of first place after 155 days atop the National League East.
1970 - Lee May hits a 1st inning grand slam, off Joe Moeller, and the Reds roll to a 13 - 4 win over the host Dodgers.
1970 - Cleveland whips the Senators, 13 - 4. Frank Howard, with no walks today, hits two homers for Washington. Cleveland pitchers will walk Howard 30 times this season, 12 intentionally.
1971 - Houston's Jack Billingham scores his 2nd straight 1 - 0 victory, beating Cincinnati five days after victimizing San Francisco.
1972 - A round-robin tournament, replacing the Junior World Series, begins, with Hawaii defeating a team of Caribbean all-stars 6 - 2. The series proves to be a financial and artistic failure.
1973 - Against the Giants, Hank Aaron connects for his 37th homer (career #710) in the 3rd inning, and then is lifted in the 4th when he doesn't feel well. Infielder Marty Perez pinch hits for Aaron. Davey Johnson adds his 40th homer of the year.
1973 - The Brewers reach 70 wins for the first time in franchise history, besting the Tigers. Jim Colborn goes all the way for his 19th win and Dave May hits his 25th home run of the year.
1974 - Cardinal outfielder Lou Brock ties and breaks Maury Willis' single season stolen base record with his 104th and 105th swipes against the Phillies.
1974 - Cubs pinch hitters Carmen Fanzone and Jim Tyrone each clout homers against the Pirates, but the Bucs win 12 - 4.
1974 - The Cardinals lose to the Phillies 8 - 2, but Lou Brock breaks Maury Wills' major-league record by stealing his 104th and 105th bases of the season. It also gives him 740 career SBs, breaking Max Carey's National League record of 738.
1974 - Former batting champion Alex Johnson, purchased by the Yankees from the Texas Rangers yesterday, arrives in Boston during the Red Sox - Yankee game. With the score tied 1 - 1 in the 12th, Johnson socks a pinch-HR to win it for New York 2 - 1.
1976 - Nolan Ryan hurls a 3-hit 3 - 2 victory for California, fanning 18 White Sox batsmen. Bart Johnson is the losing pitcher.
1977 - Roy Howell leads the way with 13 total bases (two home runs, two doubles and a single) and nine RBIs as the Blue Jays rout the Yankees, 19-3.
1977 - Toronto's Roy Howell knocks in nine runs with a single, two doubles, and two home runs, as the Blue Jays crush the Yankees 19 - 3. Catfish Hunter takes the loss to finish the season at 9-9. He will not pitch again till the World Series.
1977 - White Sox knuckleballer Wilbur Wood hits three batters in the first inning on the way to a 6 - 1 loss to the Angels. All of Wilbur's plunks are consecutive, tying a record set by Dock Ellis three years ago.
1978 - The Red Sox throw 22-year-old Bobby Sprague at the Yankees and the lefty last just two-thirds of an inning walking three and allowing one hit. The Yankees take the lead and top the Red Sox 7 - 4 behind Ed Figueroa and Rich Gossage. Boston collects just five hits, including Fred Lynn's 21st homer. The Yankees outhit the Red Sox 67-21, and outscore them 42-9, in a sweep that leaves the teams in a tie for first place, and caps a remarkable march to the top from 4th place, 14 games out.
1980 - The Phillies Marty Bystrom makes his first ML start and beats the Mets, 5 - 0.
1980 - Houston moves into a 1st place tie with the Dodgers in the NL West by beating Los Angeles, 6 - 5.
1980 - Montreal freshman Bill Gullickson strikes out 18, the most ever by a rookie, as the Expos beat the Cubs, 4-2.
1980 - Expos 21-year-old P Bill Gullickson strikes out 18 Cubs in a 4 - 2 win at Olympic Stadium, setting a major-league record for rookies and falling one short of the all-time record for strikeouts in a 9-inning game. The win keeps Montreal one-half game ahead of Philadelphia in the National League East.
1981 - The Reds send Doug Bair to the Cards for P Joe Edelen and 2B Neil Fiala.
1985 - To bolster their pitching staff for the pennant race, the Angels acquire veteran Don Sutton from the A's for two players to be named later.
1986 - Eric Davis leads the Reds to a 14 - 2 pasting of the host Giants by belting three home runs, scoring five runs and knocking in 4. His first two homers are off starter Vida Blue.
1988 - Orel Hershiser shuts out the Reds 5 - 0 to become a 20-game winner for the first time. It is his 2nd straight shutout.
1989 - Five days after hitting a home run for the Yankees in a 12 - 2 win over the Mariners, Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown in his NFL debut with the Atlanta Falcons. Sanders hit .234 in 14 games for New York this year in his first attempt at playing two sports professionally.
1990 - Cubs rookie Steve Wilson K's 10 Cards in five innings, and relievers add eight more to help beat the Cards 4 - 1. Fellow rookie Dwight Smith contributes a 2-run home run. Chicago leads St. Louis by two 1/2 games and Montreal by 4.
1990 - In the first head-to-head matchup of pitchers named Abbott, Jim Abbott's Angels beat Paul Abbott's Twins 3 - 1. Minnesota's Carmen Castillo pinch hits late in the game to complete the successful "Abbott and Castillo" revival.
1992 - The Reds' Glenn Braggs closes out his career by clouting a homer in his last at bat, off Steve Avery. Braggs tears cartilage in his right knee on the swing, and is forced to leave the game. Atlanta eventually wins, 3 - 2.
1996 - In the Dodgers 5 - 4 win over the Reds, Brett Butler breaks his hand on a bunt attempt when he is hit by a pitch. The 39-year-old Butler, who battled back from cancer surgery, is out for the year after playing five games.
1996 - The Expos use nine pitchers in a vain attempt to stop the Cubs. Chicago wins, 10 - 3. The nine pitchers in a regulation game matches the ML mark set by the 1949 Browns, who used nine in a season ending promotion.
1997 - The Rangers overcome a 5-run deficit in the 9th inning to defeat the Dodgers, 13 - 12. Rusty Greer drives in the winner with a 2-out single, the 4th time this year he's done it in the Rangers' final at-bat.
1997 - The American Association's plays its final game Wednesday night in Des Moines, Iowa with the Buffalo Bisons defeating the Iowa Cubs for the final American Association title. The Association's existing teams will merge with the International League and the perhaps "to-be-newly named" Pacific Coast League in 1998.
1997 - In a 7-6 loss to the Giants, Cardinal Mark McGwire becomes only the second player in major league history to hit 50 home runs in consecutive seasons. Babe Ruth accomplished the feat twice in 1920-21 and 1927-28 seasons.
1999 - The Indians score 12 runs in the 4th inning -- one short of the American League record for the inning -- on their way to a 14-6 win over the White Sox.
1999 - The Rockies call up John Cangelosi from Sky Sox, where he has played the past month. The vet needs 12 days of ML service to reach his 10-year pension.
1999 - The Red Sox trip the Yankees, 3-1, as Pedro Martinez hurls an impressive one-hitter for his 21st victory of the year. Martinez strikes out 17 batters, the most Yankees ever fanned in a single game. DH Chili Davis' 2nd inning home run is NY's only safety. Chuck Knoblauch leading off the game gave the Yankees their only other baserunner he was caught stealing, so Martinez faces just one over the minimum.
1999 - Umpires opposed to union chief Richie Phillips announce plans to form a new union and seek certification to represent all umpires.
2000 - The Marlins defeat the Diamondbacks, 4-3 in 12 innings. Randy Johnson strikes out 14 Florida players in seven innings, including Mike Lowell to end the 4th for his 3,000th career strikeout. He is the 12th hurler to reach the milestone. Johnson 1st strikeout of the game gives him 300 for the 3rd consecutive year. Only Nolan Ryan has reached 300 Ks more times (6).
2000 - On his 37th birthday, Diamondback southpaw Randy Johnson becomes the 12th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters. Marlin third baseman Mike Lowell is the 'Big Unit's' historic victim whiffing on four pitches ending the fourth inning. The lefty's first strike out of the game is his 300th of the season tying him with Nolan Ryan for accomplishing the feat three consecutive years.
2001 - The Cardinals shut out the Brewers, 8 - 0, as Darryl Kile pitches six innings for the win. Mark McGwire hits his 24th homer. Jamey Wright is the loser and also fails to plunk any batters, ending his possible major-league record of hitting a batter in 10 straight games.
2002 - A game after their 10 - game win streak ends, the Angels inch closer to the first place A's with a 6 - 5 win at Anaheim. The A's blow a 4 - 0 lead but the Angels tie in the 4th and go ahead on Shawn Wooten's 2 - run double in the 6th. The Angels lead the M's by six games in the wild card race.
2002 - Alex Rodriguez breaks the home run record for shortstops he established last season. The Ranger infielder slugs his major league leading 52nd and 53rd home runs of the season helping Texas to defeat the Mariners, 3-2.
2003 - Javy Lopez homers off Phillies' righty Vicente Padilla to give the Braves a franchise-record 216 home runs for the season. The 1996 Orioles hold the major league mark with 257 and the Astros established the National League record at 249 in 2000.
2007 - Troy Tulowitzki homers off of Kyle Lohse. It is his 20th home run of the season and gives him the record for National League rookie shortstops. Ernie Banks had held the record with 19 for 53 years.