September 13

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1845 - Alexander Cartwright presents the first set of baseball rules, 20 in total.
1883 - Cleveland's one-arm pitcher Hugh Daily no-hits Philadelphia, 1-0.
1889 - Hoss Radbourn pitches a complete doubleheader for Boston, too, but fails to win either game. After losing the opener to Cleveland, 3 - 0, he has to hit a home run himself in the 9th inning of the nightcap to salvage a 4 - 4 tie.
1900 - At the Polo Grounds, Christy Mathewson makes his first start, pitching a complete game loss to the Colts. Chicago wins, 6-5, scoring four runs in the first, thanks to an error by 1B Jack Doyle.
1901 - The Baltimore Orioles edge the A's, 12-10. In the 9th, the A's have the tying runs on base with two out when Connie Mack sends up pinch hitter Doc Powers to bat for Nap Lajoie, who was sulking and refused to hit. Powers flies out to end the game.
1902 - Tinker, Evers, and Chance play their first game as a SS-2B-1B combo for Chicago. Germany Schaefer is at 3B as Chicago clips St. Louis, 12-0.
1902 - The Superbas top the Giants' Christy Mathewson, 7-2, with the help of five New York errors, three by 3B Bill Lauder.
1906 - At St. Louis, Chicago tops the Cardinals 6-2 as Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown wins his 11th straight.
1907 - Pittsburgh's Nick Maddox makes his ML debut and tosses a nifty 4-0 shut out over the St. Louis Cards.
1907 - At Washington Park, Christy Mathewson tops Jim Pastorius, 2-1, striking out 11 Superbas batters. Dan McGann is 4-for-4 for New York, while teammate Jack Hannifin collects a single, double, triple and two walks in his five at bats.
1908 - An error by Pitt's Charlie Starr accounts for all three Reds' runs as the Pirates lose 3-2. The loss drops the Pirates to 3rd place.
1908 - Lancaster (Ohio State League) P Walt "Smoke" Justis hurls his 4th no-hitter of the season, defeating Marion 3-0. His other gems came on July 19th, August 2nd, and September 8th. Justis had no record in two ML appearances with Detroit in 1905.
1908 - Browns pitcher Rube Waddell gives up a Detroit run in the first when Ty Cobb triples home Matty McIntyre, but ties the game when he singles a run home in the 2nd. Waddell allows nothing after that and the Browns win, 2-1, when Syd Smith singles in the winner in the bottom of the 11th.
1909 - Tigers' outfielder Ty Cobb wins the home run crown with his ninth round-tripper (all inside-the park).
1909 - Ty Cobb clinches the AL home run title with his 9th round-tripper. It is an inside-the-park drive against the Browns. In fact, all his nine home runs this season are inside-the-park, including two on July 15th. He is the only player in this century to lead in home runs without hitting one out of the park. Only Sam Crawford (12 in 1901) has hit more inside-the-park homers in a year than Cobb.
1910 - The Giants split with the Pirates, winning 11 - 1, then getting outslugged, 15 - 3. Christy Mathewson loses the opener, allowing five runs in eight innings.
1913 - The Pirates split with the Giants, losing the opener, 4 - 2 to Christy Mathewson, and then cruising to an 8 - 0 victory in the nitecap.
1920 - The Indians and Sox both win, the Tribe edging the A's, 3 - 2, and the Sox mauling the Nats, 15 - 6.
1920 - Carl Mays, who started yesterday, opens today for the Yankees in Detroit. This time he is more effective, stopping Detroit on two runs. Ruth hits his 49th home run and Mays drives in the final run of a 4 - 2 win.
1922 - The Browns announce that George Sisler has severely strained ligaments and cannot lift his right arm over his head. He might be out for the remainder of the season, jeopardizing the Browns' pennant chances and Sisler's 39-game hitting streak. Ironically, the injury occurred when Sisler tried to catch a throw on a hit by Ty Cobb, whose streak he is trying to break. Without Sisler, the Browns rally to beat the Tigers, 8 - 6. Jacobson, playing 1B, makes two errors.
1922 - The powerful Baltimore Orioles win their 4th straight International League pennant. The O's are paced by Lefty Grove (18 - 8), in his 3rd of five seasons (108 - 36) in Baltimore.
1922 - Pittsburgh sweeps a pair from the visiting Braves, winning 8 - 1 and 6 - 1. Wilbur Cooper and Johnny Morrison are the winners. Joe Genewich makes his ML debut in relief for the Braves. Genewich jumped from the sandlots, where he was making $5 a game pitching, directly to the Braves, bypassing the minors.
1923 - The Senators win 7 - 3 over Detroit, with Walter Johnson picking up the victory. Harry Heilmann is 2-for-4 and scores a run for the Bengals.
1923 - The White Sox buy OF Maurice Archdeacon from Rochester (International League) for $50,000. After batting .402 in 22 games, the little speed merchant will drop to .319, then to .111, then out of sight.
1924 - Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance shuts out the Reds, 2 - 0, for his 14th win in a row.
1924 - Detroit's Emory Rigney hits a 7th inning solo off Walter Johnson, but the Nationals chug their way to a 6 - 4 win.
1925 - Dodger hurler Dazzy Vance no-hits the Phillies after one-hitting the team from the City of Brotherly Love five days earlier.
1925 - Reds ace Pete Donohue wins his 20th, beating Chicago, 5 - 2, at Wrigley.
1925 - Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance narrowly misses back-to-back no-hitters over Philadelphia, pitching a 10 - 1 no-hitter five days after a 1 - 0 one-hitter. The Phils' lone run is scored by Chicken Hawks, who reaches 2B on an error. Five days earlier it was Hawks' 2nd- inning single that ruined Vance's no-hitter. On June 17, 1923, Vance lost a no-hitter with two out in the 9th. In the 2nd game, the Phils win, 7 - 3, behind Chicken Hawks' grand slam.
1927 - Babe Ruth hits two (52), and the Yankees win a pair from Cleveland to clinch the AL pennant with a 98-41 record and 17-game lead. It is Miller Huggins's fifth pennant, tying him with Connie Mack.
1931 - At Wrigley, the Cubs win 11 - 7 over the Braves when player-manager Rogers Hornsby cracks an 11th inning pinch grand slam. According to historian David Vincent, this is the first extra inning pinch grand slam in ML history. The Cubs take the second game, 8 - 1, behind Guy Bush's one-hitter, his 2nd of the year. His first was against the Cards on August 9th.
1931 - Yankee Tony Lazzeri steals 2B, reaches 3B, then steal home in the 12th to give Lefty Gomez a 2 - 1 win over Detroit in the lidlifter. New York edges the Tigers, 4 - 3, in nitecap although Earl Whitehill holds them to six hits. One of the hits is a 2-run home run by Gehrig in the 6th.
1931 - After the Giants lose 1 - 0 to Larry Benton in the opener, Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons pitches New York to a 9 - 4 nitecap win over the Reds. Bill Terry contributes two doubles and two home runs in the win.
1931 - Cardinal P Paul Derringer has his scoreless inning streak stopped at 33, but manages to beat the Phils, 6 - 2, on six hits.
1932 - Brooklyn's Jack Quinn earns his 247th ML victory at age 49 pitching a complete game 6 - 5 win over the Cardinals. It is the final win of his career. Dizzy Dean fans nine in the nitecap, but the Cards lose, 3 - 1.
1933 - The Sox toss their vets at the A's and almost pull off a sweep. Sam Jones, 41, tops Philadelphia, 3 - 2 in the opener, but the Mackmen then beat 44-year-old Red Faber, 4 - 2, in the nitecap.
1934 - With his fiancee, Edna Mae Skinner of Oklahoma, watching, Schoolboy Rowe halts the Tiger skid with a 2-0 win over Washington. He asks in a radio interview: "How'm I doing, Edna?"
1934 - Judge Landis sells the WS broadcast rights to the Ford Motor Company for $100,000. Previously no fee had been charged.
1934 - Lefty Gomez pitches a 3-hitter against the Indians for his 25th win.
1935 - Friday the 13th brings bad luck to the Cards. Trailing the Giants 10 - 6 in the last of the 9th, the Cards tie it up and then give the ball to Dizzy Dean. But the Giants score three in the 10th against the tired star, to win 13 - 10. With Larry French and the Cubs beating the Dodgers 4 - 1, St. Louis now leads the NL by four percentage points.
1936 - Bob Feller, still only 17, breaks the AL record and ties the ML mark with 17 strikeouts, defeating the A's 5-2.
1936 - The Cardinals and Giants split a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds before 64,417, the largest crowd in the 60-year history of the NL.
1936 - Indians' teenage pitching phenom Bob Feller sets a new major league record by striking out 17 batters as he two-hits the A's, 5-2. After the season, 'Bullet Bob' will return to his Van Meter, Iowa home to graduate from high school.
1937 - Manager Charlie Dressen presses Reds GM Warren Giles for a contract renewal and is fired. Chief scout Bobby Wallace takes over the last-place team.
1938 - A special committee names Alexander Cartwright to Baseball's Hall of Fame for originating the sport's basic concepts. Henry Chadwick, inventor of the box score and the first baseball writer, is also honored.
1941 - The Dodgers Whit Wyatt beats the Cards Mort Cooper 1-0 in St. Louis. Dixie Walker's double in the 8th is the first Dodger hit. Walker then relays a stolen sign to Billy Herman, who singles him home.
1942 - Following their showdown the day before at Ebbets Field, both the Dodgers and Cardinals have doubleheaders this day. The Cards salvage a split with the Phillies, but Brooklyn loses both games to Cincinnati. The Dodgers recover sufficiently to win their final 8 games and finish with 104 wins, 4 more than their pennant level of 1941, but the Cards win 106, winning 43 of their final 52 games.
1942 - Chicago Cub SS Lennie Merullo makes a ML record 4 errors in the 2nd inning of the nightcap against the Boston Braves. Merullo's son is born today and is named Boots. The Cubs win 12-8 after losing the first game 10-6.
1946 - The Boston Red Sox clinch the AL pennant, edging the Cleveland Indians 1-0 on Ted Williams's inside-the-park HR, the only one of his career. Williams punches the ball over the shift when LF Pat Seerey pulls in behind the SS position. The Boston margin at the season's end will be 12 games.
1948 - Cleveland P Don Black suffers a cerebral hemorrhage while at bat against the Browns. Black's life will hang in the balance for a week. Owner Bill Veeck of the Indians arranges a benefit game for Black on September 22, a contest that attracts 76,000, and $40,000 of the receipts are turned over to the pitcher.
1948 - While batting, 32-year old Indian pitcher Don Black suffers a cerebral hemorrhage and is rushed to the hospital in critical condition. The hurler will survive, but his major league career is over.
1949 - For the 2nd time in his career, Ralph Kiner hits HRs in 4 consecutive at bats, over 2 games. He performed the same feat in 1947. The 2 HRs today are numbers 33 and 34. Kiner's 1949 total will include 25 on the road, 29 at Forbes Field, 14 of them in the bullpen enclosure still known as Greenberg Gardens.
1949 - For the second time in his career, Ralph Kiner hits four consecutive homers. After homering in his last two at-bat in the previous game (September 11) he goes deep in his first two at bats in today's contest.
1950 - Giants' pitcher Sal Maglie's consecutive scoreless inning streak ends at 45 when Pirates' outfielder Gus Bell hits a 257-foot pop fly which just clears the wall at the Polo Grounds.
1950 - Sal Maglie's string of scoreless innings ends at 45, but he beats the Pirates 3 - 1 in a rain-shortened seven-inning game. Pirate Gus Bell's 257-foot fly ball barely clears the RF wall at the Polo Grounds. For Maglie, it is his 11th straight win.
1951 - Yankees leadoff hitter Mickey Mantle drives a Virgil Truck's pitch deep into the RF upper deck to start the Yankee scoring. Witnesses say that if Mantle had hit it more to CF, the ball would've traveled 600 feet. Mantle then K's three times, as Trucks drives over New York for a 9 - 2 Detroit win. Trucks adds a pair of RBIs.
1951 - The Cards play a rare doubleheader"”the first in the 20th century"”with two different teams, defeating the Giants 6 - 4 in the first game in the afternoon when they score six runs against Sal Maglie in the 2nd inning. In the nitecap, against the Braves, the Cards manage just one hit"”by pitcher Al Brazle"”in losing to Warren Spahn, 2 - 0. The Cards total attendance is 8,865"”4,160 for the Giants and 4,705 for the Braves.
1951 - At Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, the Cardinals split a three-team doubleheader beating the Giants 6-4 in a rescheduled afternoon game due to rain the day before, and then the Redbirds are blanked by the Braves in the regularly scheduled night game, 2-0. It is the first time since 1883 that three-team twin bill has been played.
1952 - OF Frank Carswell of the Buffalo Bisons wins the International League batting title with a .344 average. He also leads the league in HRs with 30 and has 101 RBI.
1952 - Warren Spahn strikes out 6 Pirates in a row en route to an 8-0 win in Boston.
1953 - P Bob Trice becomes the first black to appear in a ML game for the Philadelphia Athletics.
1953 - Red Sox C Sammy White makes an unassisted DP.
1953 - Bob Trice becomes the first black player to appear for the A's. The former Homestead Grays hurler will only pitch in three games for Philadelphia this season and 19 next year and few more in 1956.
1954 - Redlegs slugger Ted Kluszewski scores a run in a 6-5 loss to the Pirates. Big Klu has scored in 17 consecutive games, a modern record.
1958 - The Braves Warren Spahn becomes the first lefty to win 20 or more games nine times, as he beats St. Louis 8 - 2. Eddie Plank and Lefty Grove each won 20 games eight times.
1959 - Glen Hobbie of the Cubs stops Ken Boyer's hitting streak at 29 games. He was 41-for-117 for a .350 mark over the course of his streak. Hobbie allows just 4 hits in shutting out the Cards 8-0.
1959 - The Braves Red Schoendienst returns to the line-up for the first time since being diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis last November.
1960 - Nellie Fox hits a 2-out home run in the 11th to give the visiting White Sox a 6-5 win over the Senators. It is Nellie's 2nd home run of the year.
1960 - Eighteen-year-old OF Danny Murphy becomes the youngest Cub to hit a home run when he clouts a 3-run homer off Bob Purkey, but the Reds win 8 - 6 in Cincinnati. Murphy will play just 49 games for the Cubs from 1960 to 1962. He will come back as a pitcher for the White Sox in 1969 and 1970.
1962 - In Kansas City's 5 - 4 win over the Angels, 17-year-old Ed Kirkpatrick pinch hits in the 9th for LA. He is the youngest in the American League since Jim Derrington, in 1956, and no one younger will debut this century in the AL.
1962 - Washington OF Jim Piersall is arrested for going into the stands after a heckling fan prior to a game against Baltimore. He is charged with disorderly conduct, but later cleared. Hicks replaces Jimmy in the 7 - 1 loss to the Orioles. O's winning pitcher Chuck Estrada clouts one of the three Birds homers.
1963 - Jim Bouton's 20th win, 2 - 0 at Minnesota, clinches the Yankees 28th pennant.
1963 - The Dodgers split in Philadelphia and lead the Cards by two 1/2 games. Chris Short tops Sandy Koufax, 3 - 2, in the opener, before Ron Perranoski wins the nitecap, 2 - 1.
1964 - St. Louis becomes the first National League club to score in each inning since the Giants did it on June 1, 1923. They coast, 15 - 2, at Wrigley Field with Curt Simmons improving his record to 15 - 9. Dick Ellsworth goes to 14-15 for Chicago. Julian Javier, Lou Brock, and Mike Shannon homer for the Birds.
1964 - The Cardinals become the only the second team in major league history this century to score at least one run in every inning as they rout Chicago, 15-2. A dropped pop-up in top of the ninth secures St. Louis' place in history.
1965 - At the Astrodome facing Don Nottebart, Giant outfielder Willie Mays becomes the fifth player in major league history to hit 500 career home runs. The 'Say Hey Kid' will hit a league-leading and career high 52 home runs en route to his second MVP season.
1965 - Willie Mays's 500th home run (off Don Nottebart) and Juan Marichal's 22nd victory beat Houston 5 - 1. The win is the Giants 11th straight and gives them a two 1/2 game lead.
1969 - Detroit is eliminated when they lose to the Senators, 11 - 6. The Nats score five in the 5th, three coming home on a Ken McMullen homer, one of his four hits in the game. Detroit rallies in the 6th on Willie Horton's 3rd grand slam of the year, but McMullen knocks home another two runs to give Darold Knowles (7-3) the win over Tom Timmermann.
1969 - Bobby Bonds becomes the 4th 30-homer, 30-steal player in ML history, but the Reds beat the Giants 6 - 4. His 32nd steal, on August 13th, erased Willie Mays's SF record of 31.
1969 - Baltimore becomes the American League East champs when Tom Phoebus wins the clincher 10 - 5 over Cleveland. Baltimore is 18 games ahead of Detroit with 17 to play.
1969 - In a 6-4 defeat to the Reds, Bobby Bonds becomes the fourth player in major league history steal at least 30 bases and hit at least thirty home runs in the same season. The other members of the 30/30 club include Ken Williams (1922-Browns) , Willie Mays (1956 & 1957-Giants) and Hank Aaron (1963-Braves).
1970 - At Wrigley, the Pirates lead the Cubs, 2 - 1 with two outs and no on in the 9th when Willie Smith hits a routine fly to Matty Alou. Alou drops it and three singles later the Cubs have a 3 - 2 win. The victory puts the Cubs a game behind the Buc and a half-game behind the Mets.
1970 - Kansas City sweeps a pair from Oakland, winning both by 8 - 7 scores. In the 11-inning opener, A's SS Bert Campaneris sets an American League record by participating in six DPs. It will be tied in the National League.
1971 - Frank Robinson of the Orioles homers in each game of a doubleheader split with Detroit, becoming the 11th member of the 500-HR club with his 2nd shot. The O's win the opener, 9 - 1, behind Dave McNally's 13th consecutive win. The Tigers use 17 hits to win the nitecap, 10 - 5, for Scherman, who pitches eight 2/3 innings in relief of Joe Niekro.
1971 - After connecting for #499 in Game 1 of a doubleheader, Frank Robinson of the Orioles joins the 500 home run club in the nightcap with a ninth-inning three-run homer off Fred Scherman of the Tigers.
1972 - The Reds Johnny Bench hits a 2-run homer in the bottom of the 10th to beat the Braves, 8 - 6. He hit a grand slam yesterday in a 7 - 5 win over Atlanta, and he'll have 11 homers and 33 ribbies for September.
1972 - Frank Howard, who is not playing regularly for the Tigers, hits a 3-run homer off Dave McNally of the Orioles for a Detroit victory. It is his 13th career fourbagger off his favorite pitcher. He had hit one with the Rangers on July 18th, and 11 with the Senators 1965-1971.
1973 - During an 8 - 6 win over the Padres, the Giants Tito Fuentes ties a major-league record by being hit by pitches three times.
1974 - In Atlanta, Johnny Bench drives in all six runs as the Reds win, 6 - 2.
1974 - The Phillies set an National League record by using 27 players during a 17-inning 7 - 3 loss to the Cardinals. The Cards had set the record two days earlier.
1974 - With 16 games remaining, the enigmatic Dick Allen of the White Sox announces he is quitting the team. His 32 home runs, the last of which was hit August 16th, will still be enough to lead the American League.
1977 - The Dodgers Dusty Baker drives in a team-record five runs in one inning, the 2nd, as Los Angeles whips the Padres 18 - 4. LA leads the West by 13 1/2 games.
1982 - Steve Carlton (20-9) shuts out St. Louis 2 - 0 on three hits and raps a solo home run to become the major league's first 20-game winner this season.
1983 - Dan Quisenberry breaks John Hiller's all-time single-season save record, recording the final two outs of the Royals' 4 - 3 win over the Angels for his 39th save of the season.
1983 - Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals three bases in a 6 - 5 win over Texas to give him 101 for the season and a ML-record three consecutive seasons with 100 or more.
1983 - Mets rookie backstop Mike Fritzgerald becomes the 48th major leaguer to hit a home run in his first big league at bat.
1983 - Recording his 39th save, Royals' closer Dan Quisenberry breaks John Hiller's single-season record. The submariner gets the last two outs in a 4-3 victory over the Angels.
1983 - Mets C Mike Fitzgerald becomes the 48th player in ML history to hit a home run in his first at bat, connecting for a solo shot off Tony Ghelfi in the 2nd inning of New York's 5 - 1 win over Philadelphia.
1985 - The Rangers trade P Dave Stewart to the Phillies for pitcher Rich Surhoff, whose brother B.J. Surhoff was the first pick in the amateur draft in June.
1986 - The Rangers set a club record with seven home runs in a 14 - 1 rout of Minnesota. Five of the home runs come off Twins starter Bert Blyleven, who will yield a ML-record 50 this season.
1987 - Chicago's Floyd Bannister faces the minimum 27 batters in a 2 - 0 one-hitter against Seattle, striking out 10 while walking none. Hard-luck loser Mark Langston pitches a 2-hitter for the Mariners.
1989 - Fay Vincent becomes baseball's eighth commissioner when he succeeds the late Bart Giamatti.
1989 - Fay Vincent is elected baseball's 8th commissioner, succeeding the late Bart Giamatti, whom he served as deputy commissioner.
1991 - Toronto OF Joe Carter drives in a run in the Blue Jays' 7-6 victory over the A's, becoming the 1st player in history to reach the 100 plateau in three consecutive seasons with three different teams. Nine players (Dick Allen, Orlando Cepeda, Rocky Colavito, Goose Goslin, Rogers Hornsby, Reggie Jackson, Lee May, Al Simmons, and Vic Wertz) have collected 100 RBI with three teams, but none consecutively.
1991 - A 55-ton concrete beam crashes onto an empty public walkway at Olympic Stadium in Montreal. The Expos will reschedule, playing their final 13 home games on the road while the stadium is repaired and growing cracks in concrete ribs supporting the stadium are checked out.
1992 - Cleveland's Kenny Lofton steals his 53rd and 54th bases breaking the American League rookie record of 53 set by Donie Bush in 1909. Lofton will swipe a league-high 66 bases, 12 ahead of another rookie Pat Listach, and lead AL center fielders with 14 assists. He scores both runs today, including the winner in the 9th, to beat the White Sox, 2 - 1. Eric Plunk is the winner with Steve Olin picking up his 25th save.
1993 - The Astros' game against the Rockies in Colorado is postponed when the Denver area is hit by a late-summer storm which deposits more than five inches of snow. Just 24 hours before game time, it had been 92 degrees.sept seven promoted to majors, Oak P Kurt Abbott homers in 2nd at bat, off Jack Morris.
1993 - Royals C Mike Macfarlane twice is charged with throwing errors to 1st base following strikeouts in Kansas City's 9-0 win over Chicago.
1995 - Tigers Lou Whitaker and Al Trammell set American League record for joint appearances (1915 games).
1996 - By hitting his 30th home run Dante Bichette joins his teammate Ellis Burks as a member of the 30/30 club. The Rockies join the 1987 New York Mets as the only teams in history to have two 30-30 players (Howard Johnson and Darryl Strawberry) during the same season.
1996 - Toronto C Charlie O'Brien unveils a hockey-style catcher's mask in the game against the Yankees. The mask is a success, but the Blue Jays lose to the New Yorkers, 4-1. Andy Pettitte wins his 21st.
1997 - In St. Louis, Tony Gwynn reaches 200 hits for the fifth time in his career in the Padres 8 - 3 win over the Cardinals. Greg Vaughn has a three-run double to lead the attack.
1997 - The Mets, down 6 - 0 with one strike to go in the bottom of the 9th rally to tie the Expos. Carl Everett ties the game with a grand slam. Two innings later, Bernard Gilkey hits a three-run homer to end it, 9 - 6. Facing Dustin Hermanson, the Mets manage just one hit through the first eight innings, and that is a blooper by Carlos Mendoza, his first ML hit. Two singles and two relievers later the Mets tie it. John Franco is the winner over Steve Kline.
1997 - The Dodgers drop a 5-1 decision to the Astros as Tom Candiotti's knuckleball does all sorts of tricks in the 1st inning. Candiotti hit three Houston batters in the frame, and another to lead off the 2nd, to tie a major league mark. C Mike Piazza also records two passed balls in the inning as the Astros score four of their five runs.
1998 - Sammy Sosa hits his 61st and 62nd home runs of the season against the Milwaukee Brewers to tie the National League record of 10 multi - HR games in a single season set by Ralph Kiner in 1947. The two home runs pace the Cubs to an 11 - 10 win, and tie Sosa with Mark McGwire for the home run lead.
1998 - Arizona defeats the Reds, 5 - 0, behind the 1 - hit pitching of Andy Benes. Gregg Olson picks up the last two outs for the save, as 1B Sean Casey gets the only hit for Cincinnati.
1999 - Mike Hampton (203) wins his 20th game, 13 - 2, over the Phils and Astros win their club-record 11th straight game.
2001 - The IL cancels the Governors Cup playoff in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attack. Louisville held a 1 - 0 over Scranton/Wilkes Barre.
2001 - Due the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Major League Baseball postpones all games through September 17. The 91 missed games, the most regular-season contests not played since World War I forced the cancellation of the final month of the 1918 season, have been re-scheduled for the week after the regular season ends meaning the World Series is likely to extend into November for the first time in history.
2002 - The White Sox score eight runs in the 9th inning to seal a 13 - 2 win over the Yankees.
2002 - Oriole infielder Mike Bordick establishes a new American League record playing his 96th consecutive errorless game at shortstop. The mark was held by former teammate Cal Ripken.
2002 - The U.S. Senate passes a resolution honoring Tiger broadcaster Ernie Harwell who is retiring at end of the season. The 84-year-old has been a major league baseball announcer for 55 years.
2003 - After signing a one-day contract, Ken Daneyko grounds out to short in his professional baseball debut with the Newark Bears. The former New Jersey Devils defenseman, who was honored by the team before the game, plays DH against the Pennsylvania Road Warriors in a game started in a driving rainstorm and called immediately after his at bat.
2005 - During the six-run second inning uprising by the Padres, each Dodger outfielder commits an error. Ricky Ledee (lf) , Jose Cruz Jr. (rf) and Jayson Werth (cf) fielding contributes to the 6-4 loss to first place San Diego.