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1889 - John Clarkson pitches and wins both games of a doubleheader for Boston over Cleveland, allowing just 10 hits total in the 3 - 2 and 5 - 0 victories, which put Boston two games ahead of New York in the race.
1900:
- Sammy Strang, a rookie 3B, breaks in with seven hits for the Chicago Orphans in a doubleheader against the Giants. Chicago catcher Johnny Kling and Giants pitcher Win Mercer collide at the plate in the 7th inning of the second game, and Mercer is carried off the field unconscious. Chicago coasts, 9 - 1 in the opener, with Mercer the loser to Jock Menefee. New York takes the nitecap, 7 - 6, when Dummy Taylor fashions a 7-inning win over Jack Taylor.
- The Reds commit 17 errors in a doubleheader at Brooklyn, losing 7 - 2 and 13 - 9, the most errors in one day by any team in the 20th century. Iron Man McGinnity closes both games for Brooklyn; he has worked in every game for a week.
- The Chicago White Stockings roll by Cleveland, 12 - 4, to clinch the AL's first pennant.
- Milwaukee takes two from Detroit by 2 - 1 scores, each game taking one hour, 20 minutes, the fastest time of the year.
1901 - Baltimore's Joe McGinnity hurls two more complete games, winning over Philadelphia 4 - 3 and losing 5 - 4. The A's reach McGinnity for 10 hits in the nitecap.
1903:
- Boston's Tom Hughes defeats the Highlanders, 10 - 1, for his 20th win of the year.
- In St. Louis, Roger Bresnahan's 10th inning sacrifice fly scores Jack Warner with the game winner, as New York wins 4 - 3. Despite giving up 12 hits, Christy Mathewson is the winner over Jim Hackett.
1904 - Boston wins its 2nd of 19 games against the Giants, and beats Christy Mathewson in the process, 3-1.
1905:
- Cards pitcher Jack Taylor allows just three Pirate hits - all by Honus Wagner - and teammate Harry Arndt swipes home in the bottom of the 9th to give St. Louis a 2 - 1 victory. Wagner will spoil two more no-hitters by collecting the only hits: against Art Fromme on May 27, 1911 and facing Phil Douglas on October 2, 1914.
- At the Polo Grounds, the Giants and Brooklyn split a twinbill. Christy Mathewson wins the opener, 3 - 2, when Bill Dahlen singles home the winner in the 9th. The second game is called after seven innings with Brooklyn leading, 8 - 5.
1907:
- In a 2 - 0 win against the Highlanders at Hilltop Park, Washington's Walter Johnson strikes out five batters, though it will be recorded as four K's. Researchers in the 1990s will find the extra K, resulting in Johnson's lifetime total of 3,509. The issue crops up again on Opening Day, 2001, when Roger Clemens ties (or beats) the mark.
- Boston loses to the Athletics, 7 - 1, to start a 16-game losing streak.
1908:
- In the dogfight for the American League pennant, the White Sox play their 4th straight extra-inning game at Detroit, a total of 43 innings. The White Sox win their second straight, while the Browns lose their second in a row to Cleveland.
- New York tops the Superbas, 6 - 3, for a sweep of the 5-game series with Brooklyn. The Giants score four in the 8th, including a long triple by Christy Mathewson, to put the game away.
- A day after beating the A's Eddie Plank, 2 - 1, Washington's Walter Johnson is forced to start again, this time replacing sore-armed Charlie Smith. Remarkably, Johnson records his 5th complete game victory in nine days.
1910:
- At Oakland, Vean Gregg of Portland pitched a Pacific Coast League-record third one-hitter, a 2 - 0 win over Oakland.
- At Toronto, Dick Rudolph (Eastern League) pitches 10 hitless innings over Montreal. Rudolph wins in 12 innings, 2 - 1.
1911 - In the nitecap of a game billed as a pitchers' duel, Boston's Cy Young and the Giants' Christy Mathewson face each other before 10,000, Boston's largest crowd of the year. Young gives up three homers and nine runs in less than three innings. After the Giants build a 9 - 0 lead, John McGraw lifts Mathewson, who pitched just two innings, preferring to save his ace for the pennant race against Chicago and Philadelphia. This is the only time the two pitchers ever face each other. Mathewson adds to New York's scoring in the 3rd by swiping home. The Giants coast, 11 - 2. In the field, Matty also helps when, with Doc Miller on first base in the 2nd inning, a line drive to center by Hank Gowdy results in a double play (8-4-1-3). New York wins the first game, 9 - 3, and now lead the Cubs by two games.
1912:
- Cleveland sweeps a doubleheader with league-leading Boston, taking just 11 total innings to win. The first game is called after five innings with the Naps ahead, 9 - 3. The rain stops and the umps decide to start second game. After six innings, with Cleveland leading 6 - 0, the nitecap is called on account of darkness.
- The leading Giants split with the Cardinals, losing the opener when the Birds blast reliever Doc Crandall in the 9th to win, 4 - 2. Jeff Tesreau wins his 6th straight in the nitecap.
1914:
- Yankee SS Roger Peckinpaugh, 23, replaces Frank Chance and becomes the all-time youngest manager, and the 7th in the club's 12-year existence. He will win 9 of 17 games and will manage next at Cleveland in 1928.
- In Philadelphia, Grover Cleveland Alexander is awarded an automobile before the game as the Phillies' most popular player, then drives over the Giants' Rube Marquard for a 1 - 0 win.
1916 - Walter Johnson and Babe Ruth, both pitching on two days rest, square off. Washington scores two runs in the 9th when John Henry lines a bases-loaded double off Ruth to tie the game, 2 - 2. Boston scores in the 10th, but Washington tallies twice off Ernie Shore to win, 4 - 3. Johnson is the winner.
1924 - Chicago's Hack Miller hits a pinch home run in the 8th to tie the game with the Phils at six apiece. The Cubs go on to win 10 - 8.
1925 - In Detroit's Game One loss to Cleveland, 3 - 1, in 13 innings, Detroit's Jackie Tavener hits ML-record tying three triples. Benn Karr goes the distance for the win. Detroit then takes the nitecap, 3 - 2.
1930 - The last bounce home run is hit by Robins catcher Al Lopez at Ebbets Field. The American League changed the rule in 1929.
1931 - At Boston, Eddie Durham and Detroit's Arthur "Red" Herring hook up in a 13-inning pitching duel, won by the Sox pitcher, 1 - 0.
1932:
- With their 100th victory of the year, the Yankees clinch the American League pennant as George Pipgras beats the Indians at Cleveland Stadium, 8 - 3. Yankee manager Joe McCarthy, who captured a flag with the 1929 Cubs, becomes the first manager to win pennants in both American and National League.
- In the bottom of the ninth, Johnny Frederick hits his major league record-setting sixth pinch-homer of the season giving the Dodgers a 4 - 3 victory over the Cubs.
1933 - The Dodgers are zero for the afternoon against the Pirates, as Heinie Meine tops them 1 - 0 in the opener and Waite Hoyt wins the nitecap, 2 - 0.
1935:
- Dizzy Dean wins his 26th, a 5 - 2 victory over New York's Carl Hubbell, to keep the Cardinals in 1st place by a game. But the Cards' Ducky Medwick has his hitting streak stopped at 28 straight games
- Charlie Grimm's Cubs continue their hot hitting, trouncing the Dodgers, 13 - 3. Augie Galan has four hits and five RBIs for the 'Grimm Reapers.'
1936 - Kid Elberfeld, at the age of 61, grounds out to third as he pinch-hits for the Fulton team in the Kitty League.
1942 - Mort Cooper wins his 20th game and 8th shutout, stopping Brooklyn 3 - 0. St. Louis finally catches the Dodgers when Max Lanier wins the second game 2 - 1.
1947 - Pirates' outfielder Ralph Kiner hits a record eight home runs in four games. Tony Lazzeri had hit seven round-trippers in four games in 1936.
1950:
- The Yankees blow a 6-run lead as Cleveland scores four in the ninth inning off Allie Reynolds to win, 8 - 7. Luke Easter's 3-run home run - his second of the game - is the big blow, as the Yankees skid to second place, a half game behind Detroit and a half game ahead of Boston.
- Ewell Blackwell gives up just one hit, a run-scoring double in the fourth to Gene Hermanski, but the Dodgers whip the Reds ace, 2 - 1. Carl Erskine allows three hits, including a double by Blackwell and a home run by Ted Kluszewski. Hermanski and Duke Snider drive in the two runs for Brooklyn.
1951 - In Cincinnati, Lloyd Merriman hits a bases-loaded triple in the 7th, off Carl Erskine, to give the Reds a 6 - 3 win. Dodger starter Don Newcombe leaves in the 1st inning with a pulled muscle in his pitching arm and Erskine takes the loss. The Dodgers are now 5 1/2 ahead of the idle Giants whose last game of the season in St. Louis is rained out, and the National League reschedules it for tomorrow afternoon as part of a doubleheader.
1953 - Carl Erskine defeats the Braves 5 - 2, as the Dodgers clinch the pennant earlier than any other team in history.
1954 - A standing-room-only crowd of 84,587 at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, which establishes the record for the largest crowd to have ever watched a major-league baseball game, witness the pennant-bound Indians sweep a doubleheader from the Yankees, 4 - 1 and 3 - 2. On this bright sunny day, over 12,000 fans are without seats and stand 10-11 rows deep behind the outfield fences as well as 3-5 rows deep in walkways.
1958 - The Giants sweep the Phillies 5 - 2 and 19 - 2 as Willie Mays has six hits to raise his average to .333. Jim Davenport tops him with seven hits, including a 3-run inside-the-park home run in the first inning of game 2, and scores seven runs.
1959 - Sam Jones' 20th victory of the season, 9 - 1 over the Phillies, puts the Giants back in first place by a game.
1960 - A crowd of more than 20,000 sees the first-place Pirates dump the Giants, 6 - 1, and sets a new Pittsburgh home attendance record of 1,521,251 - 4,230 more than the old mark set in 1948.
1961:
- The Phillies drive Sandy Koufax from the mound in a 9-run 2nd inning and go on to defeat the Dodgers, 19 - 10. The loss drops LA 4 1/2 games behind the Reds. The big gun for the Phils is ex-Dodger Don Demeter, who hits a 2-run homer in the 1st, singles in a run in the 2nd, adds a 3-run home run in the 7th and a solo in the 9th. Two other Phils homer while 4 Dodgers go deep.
- At Milwaukee, the Reds' Joey Jay beats his old team, 1 - 0, for his 20th victory of the year. He's the Reds first 20-game winner since Ewell Blackwell in 1947.
1962:
- In the dugout in Cincinnati, Willie Mays collapses from nervous exhaustion. He is taken to the hospital and will miss four games. The Giants lose 4 - 1 and will lose their next six to take them apparently out of the race.
- Washington's Tom Cheney sets a ML mark with 21 strikeouts in a 16-inning game at Baltimore. Bud Zipfel's 16th-inning home run off Dick Hall gives the Senators a 2 - 1 win.
- In Cleveland, Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle lead the way to a Yankee win, 5 - 2. Mantle hits a 3-run homer in the 5th off Pedro Ramos, his 2nd favorite all-time cousin (12 homers allowed).
1964:
- The Orioles' Frank Bertaina and the A's Bob Meyer duel in the ML's 5th double one-hitter. Bertaina prevails 1 - 0, his first ML win and only decision of the year. John Orsino's 8th inning double and Doc Edwards' 5th inning two-bagger account for the hits. Baltimore sets a major-league record for fewest at-bats in a nine inning game with 19, and both clubs go to the plate just 46 times. The last battle of matching one-hitters was June 21, 1956.
- The Indians score six in the 1st, and outlast the White Sox, 11 - 10. For 2nd-place Chicago, it is their 4th loss in six games. The loss goes to starter Ray Herbert, with Sam McDowell the victor.
1965 - Washington's Brant Alyea debuts with a pinch-hit home run on the first pitch from Rudy May in his first ML at bat. Yes, a major-league first. In Washington, 840 fans watch the Senators beat the Angels, 7 - 1.
1966 - Ron Perranoski of the Dodgers fans the first six batters he faces and earns a 3 - 2 win over the Mets and Tug McGraw. With the help of 2B Ron Hunt, Mets rookie SS Bud Harrelson picks off Lou Johnson with the hidden ball trick in the 6th.
1967 - The Reds rout the Pirates, winning 15 - 7.
1969:
- Juan Marichal (18-10) pitches a one-hitter, as the Giants beat the Reds 1 - 0, but Atlanta takes the National League West lead by beating Houston, 4 - 3. Tommy Helms' 3rd-inning single is the only hit in what Marichal calls "my best game ever."
- Pitchers Jerry Koosman and Don Cardwell both hurl 1 - 0 wins and drive in the winning runs, as the hot Mets sweep the Pirates. The Cubs, meanwhile, win, snapping their 8-game losing streak, but now trail by 2 1/2 games.
1973 - Pitcher Jack Billingham hits a bases-loaded double to help his cause as the Reds beat the Dodgers, 7 - 3.
1974:
- The Reds sweep a pair from the Braves and the two teams combine for a major-league record three grand slams. Cesar Geronimo hits one in the 2nd inning of game 1, as does the Braves' Darrell Evans. The Braves hang on for a 9 - 6 win, then take game two by a 6 - 2 score. Johnny Bench hits the 3rd grand slam of the day in game 2. Bench will finish the year with 129 RBIs to top the National League, and his 315 total bases will lead the league. He is the only catcher in ML history to lead a league in TB (Bench caught 137 games, played 3B in 36 games and 1B in 5].
- Detroit P John Hiller picks up his 17th win in relief, an American League record, as he beats Milwaukee, 9 - 7.
1976 - DH Minnie Minoso singles for the White Sox against the Angels' Sid Monge. At 53, Minoso is the oldest ever to collect a hit in the major leagues.
1978 - The Pirates break their five-game losing streak by beating the Phils, 5 - 1, to split the 2-game series with their cross-state rivals. The Phils are now four games ahead of Pittsburgh in the National League East.
1979 - Carl Yastrzemski reaches the 3000 hits milestone when he singles off Yankee Jim Beattie.
1981 - Red Sox rookie Bob Ojeda no-hits the Yankees for eight innings at Yankee Stadium before Rick Cerone and Dave Winfield lead off the 9th with back-to-back doubles. Reliever Mark Clear preserves a 2 - 1 win.
1982:
- For the 2nd time this season, Milwaukee gets three consecutive home runs - from Cecil Cooper, Ted Simmons, and Ben Oglivie - in a losing cause, as the Yankees win, 9 - 8. Six homers are hit in the game. Curt Kaufman wins his first ML decision and his only as a Yank.
- With Minnesota leading 7 - 4 in the bottom of the 4th, Terry Felton relieves Twins starter Brad Havens. Felton leaves in the bottom of the sixth with one out, runners on first and second and his team clinging to a 7 - 6 lead. Both runners score and by the time the Royals are through, instead of his first ML win, Felton ends up charged with his 16th (and final) career loss. Kansas City wins royally, 18 - 7, one of the biggest comebacks of the decade. John Pacella, who takes over in the 8th, surrenders back-to-back dingers, tosses two wild pitches, and allows six runs. Willie Aikens adds a pair of homers for KC.
1984 - Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 batters in a 2 - 0 victory over the Pirates to break Herb Score's major league rookie strikeout record of 245. Doctor K's whiff of Marvell Wynne raised his season total to 246 to set the new mark.
1986:
- In his first major league at bat, Oakland's Terry Steinbach homers at Cleveland. It comes off Greg Swindell in a 9 - 3 victory. Mike Witt (18-8) is the winner.
- The Twins fire manager Ray Miller and replace him with coach Tom Kelly.
1988 - Baltimore's Eddie Murray collects his 2,000th career hit in a 6 - 1 loss to Boston, and Atlanta's Dale Murphy drives in his 1,000th career run in a 5 - 4 loss to Los Angeles.
1989 - The Indians fire manager Doc Edwards and replace him for the remainder of the season with scout John Hart.
1990 - Yankees starter Steve Adkins doesn't allow a hit in his ML debut, but he walks eight batters in just 1 1/3 innings, as Texas wins 5 - 4. Adkins walks the first three batters, then retires the side. After a fly out in the 2nd, he walks the next five before being lifted, two shy of Dolly Gray's consecutive walk record.
1991 - Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan wins his 10th game, beating the Twins, 4 - 3, and becoming just the second pitcher ever to reach double figures in wins in 20 different seasons. Don Sutton did it in 21 seasons. The win, Ryan's 312th of his career moves him past Tom Seaver into 14th place on the career list. Jack Morris is the complete game loser.
1993:
- Tony Gwynn, who hasn't played since September 5, undergoes arthroscopic knee surgery. Gwynn's batting average is a league leading .358.
- Paul Molitor drives in his 100th run of the year in the Blue Jays' 4 - 1 win over California. He thus becomes the oldest player in major league history to post his 1st 100-RBI season.
- In a 9 - 2 win, Houston's Jeff Bagwell is struck on the left hand by a pitch from the Phils Ben Rivera. He suffers a broken bone and will miss the last 20 games, snapping his consecutive game streak at a club-record 304.
- The Twins defeat the Rangers, 4 - 2, on Nolan Ryan Appreciation Night in Arlington, TX. Ryan takes the loss for Texas.
1994 - At Harrisburg, Bill Pulsipher of Binghamton (Eastern League) fires a 2-0 playoff no-hitter against Harrisburg. Binghamton evens the series at a game apiece and will win the series, three to 1.
1996 - Rockies' OF Ellis Burks steals his 30th base of the season, making him the 19th player in history to join the 30-30 club. He hits his 37th homer of the season and drives in five runs in Colorado's 16 - 8 win over Atlanta.
1996:
- Milwaukee trounces Texas, 15 - 4, led by 2B Fernando Vina who goes 5 for 6, with a triple, two home runs, three RBIs, and four runs scored.
- In an 8 - 5 win over the Royals, the Mariners' Alex Rodriguez sets a major league shortstop record for with his 88th extra base hit.
- With two home runs and a single, Yankee center fielder Bernie Williams has eight RBI helping the Bronx Bombers defeat the Tigers, 12 - 3.
1997:
- Florida C Charles Johnson sets a major league record by playing his 160th straight game without committing an error. The previous mark was set by Rick Cerone. The Marlins lose the game, however, 1 - 0 to the Giants.
- The Mets tie the game in the 8th and use 23 players before losing to the Expos, 3 - 2 in 15 innings. The loss goes to Joe Crawford, the second time this season he has lost by allowing a run in the 15th.
1998:
- Cubs' OF Sammy Sosa becomes the 4th player in history to reach the 60-home run mark for a season when he slugs number 60 off Valerio de los Santos of the Brewers in the 7th inning of the 15 - 12 Chicago win.
- Mark McGwire draws his 152nd walk of the season, to break the National League mark set by Barry Bonds, as the Astros defeat the Cardinals, 3 - 2.
- Philadelphia rides five hits by SS Alex Arias, including three doubles, to a 13 - 4 win over the Pirates.
1999 - Before a crowd of 50,027, the Red Sox finish their 3-game series at Yankee Stadium with a 4 - 1 win for a sweep. It is the first 3-game sweep at Yankee Stadium for the Red Sox since 1986.
2000:
- In a 5 - 4 loss to the Diamondbacks, Dodger Dave Hansen breaks Johnny Frederick's 1932 major league record for pinch-hit home runs in a single season by his seventh pinch-hit homer.
- Suspended New York Yankee Darryl Strawberry is sentenced to two years' house arrest after admitting he violated probation by driving under the influence of medication and leaving the scene of an accident.
- The Cubs' Kerry Wood pitches his 2nd career complete game, winning 2 - 1 over the Reds. Two unearned runs do in Osvaldo Fernandez.
2002 - A jury, and not a judge or umpires, will decide whether Alex Popov actually controlled Barry Bonds's record-setting 73rd home run ball in his glove. Popov, who lost possession the ball valued at approximately $1 million after being mobbed by fans, claims it should belongs to him and not Patrick Hayashi, who ended up with the historic souvenir.
2005 - Making his season debut with just 20 games left in the regular schedule, Barry Bonds returns to the Giants' lineup with bang, lining a double in his first at-bat and barely missing hitting his 704th career homer. The 41-year old slugger had been placed on the disabled list at the start of the season due to an infection following knee surgery.
2008 - The Marlins make history in a 2 - 1 win over the Nationals, becoming the first team to have four infielders hit 25 or more homers. Jorge Cantú hits his 25th, joining Mike Jacobs (32), Dan Uggla (30) and Hanley Ramírez (29). Despite the power, Florida is barely over .500 at 75-72.
2009:
- In a rare win for the Orioles over the Yankees, 7 - 3, Brian Roberts hits a grand slam and his club-record 51st double of the year.
- Rookie 3B Casey McGehee of the Brewers continues to impress, belting two homers and driving in 6 runs on 4 hits in a 9 - 2 win over the Diamondbacks. He has 15 homers, 57 RBI and a .306 batting average for the year, putting in first or tied for first among National League rookies in all three triple crown categories.