September 14

Events, births and deaths that occurred on September 14.

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• 1900 - At the Polo Grounds, the Giants pull off the first triple play of the 20th century. With Chicago's Johnny Kling behind the plate, Jack Doyle, George Davis and Kid Gleason do the deed. It'll be 10 years before another trifecta is pulled off in the National League.
• 1901 - Boston's Cy Young records his 30th win of the year, beating the visiting Washington Nationals, 12 - 1.
• 1903 - The Giants take the opener of a doubleheader in St. Louis, 8 - 2. In the nitecap, Giants rookie Red Ames begins his 17-year career with a 5-inning 5 - 0 no-hitter, striking out seven Cards. The game is called in mid-afternoon due to darkness caused by an impending storm.
• 1904 - Boston, with a half-game lead over New York, sends Bill Dineen to the mound. Patsy Dougherty leads off with a single and Willie Keeler follows with a bunt that C Lou Criger fires into the crowd to allow Patsy to score. Keeler scores a play later. Boston's only tally against Jack Chesbro comes in the 9th on a 2-base error and a wild pitch. New York wins 3 - 1. The nightcap is called after five innings and a 1 - 1 score.
• 1905 - Joe Tinker and Johnny Evers engage in a fist fight on the field during an exhibition game in Washington, IN, because Evers took a taxi to the park, leaving his teammates in the hotel lobby. The pair will not speak to each other ever again.
• 1906 - The Superbas sweep the Giants for the second time in a week. Red Ames loses the opener for New York, 5 - 3, and Harry McIntire outpitches Christy Mathewson for a 1 - 0 win in the nitecap.
• 1907:
  • At the West Side Grounds, Chicago beats the visiting Reds, 12 - 5. The Cubs collect 19 hits to the Reds 10 hits - all 29 are singles.
  • Washington's Sam Lanford, 21, has one of the worst debuts any pitcher ever endures. Lanford walks two New York batters, hits 2, including Frank LaPorte in the head, throws a wild pitch, and balks - all in the first inning. Six runs score, but it is not all Lanford's fault. Two errors and a passed ball add to his woes.
• 1908 - Former ML outfielder Ike Van Zandt, age 31, commits suicide by shooting himself.
• 1909 - John Heydler announces that the National League will use two umpires per game in 1910.
• 1910 - Detroit rookie Dave Skeels, just 17 years old, make his first and only ML appearance, surrendering eight runs on nine hits and four walks in six innings, but comes away with a win. He finishes the day and his ML career with an ERA of 12.00.
• 1911 - At Boston, the Giants pound the Rustlers 13 - 9, scoring six runs in the 9th inning for a 13 - 4 lead. The winner is Hooks Wiltse with little relief from Doc Crandall in the 9th: Doc allows seven hits and five runs.
• 1912 - Former ML player and current president of the Connecticut League Jim O'Rourke catches a complete game for New Haven at age 60.
• 1913 - In front of the largest crowd of the season (22,000), Cubs hurler Larry Cheney hurls a 14-hit shutout against the visiting Giants, defeating them 7 - 0 while setting a major-league record for most hits allowed in a 9-inning whitewashing. Milt Gaston of Washington will duplicate the feat on July 10, 1928. Cheney wins his 20th over Rube Marquard, also seeking his 20th.
• 1914:
  • After being ejected for swearing, Johnny Evers claims he was talking to the ball and not to umpire Mal Eason, but the Braves' shortstop is still suspended for three days.
  • The Giants edge the Phillies, 3 - 2, but the Quakers jump on Christy Mathewson for seven runs on seven hits in three innings, and win 10 - 6.
• 1915:
  • Babe Ruth fires a two-hitter, as the Red Sox beat the White Sox, 2 - 1, for their 7th win in a row. Ruth has two of Boston's three hits. Boston will win four of five in the series with Chicago.
  • The Cardinals, battling for 4th place in the National League, lose 6 - 2 to Brooklyn's Jack Coombs. Rogers Hornsby is in the starting lineup for the first time, but goes hitless. Tomorrow he will get his first ML hit, a single off Rube Marquard.
  • George Dumont debuts with Washington and fires a 3 - 0 shutout over Cleveland. Dumont will finish the year at 2-1, with both wins shutouts.
• 1916 - Four days after his first appearance, Pirate rookie Burleigh Grimes makes his first start, against the Robins at Ebbets Field. Brooklyn breaks a scoreless tie with two runs in the 7th, after Honus Wagner flubs a double play grounder hit by Casey Stengel. Wagner, who ostensibly had told the rookie to have Stengel hit the ball to short, reportedly says, "Those damn big feet of mine have always been in my way." Pittsburgh scores two in the 8th to tie but pitcher Larry Cheney hits a run-scoring double in the bottom of the 9th to win it for Brooklyn.
• 1917 - Boston peppers Pol Perritt for 12 hits but the Giants pitcher still pitches a 5 - 0 shutout victory.
• 1920 - The Yankees increase their American League lead to 1 1/2 games by topping the Tigers 13 - 3. Cleveland and the White Sox are both shut out, the A's beating the Indians 8 - 0 and Washington whitewashing the Sox 7 - 0. The Sox are now 2 1/2 games back.
• 1921 - Washington's Walter Johnson gives up three hits but still faces just 27 batters in edging the Browns 1 - 0. Following two singles in the 4th, George Sisler's line drive is turned into a triple play. Jack Tobin singles in the 7th, but Johnson picks him off. Tobin will set an American League record this year with 179 singles, a mark that Sam Rice will top in 1925.
• 1923:
  • Red Sox first baseman George Burns completes an unassisted triple play against the Indians as he gathers in a Frank Brower line drive, tags Rube Lutzke coming from first, and beats Riggs Stephenson back to second.
  • The Cubs' Vic Keen stops the Giants, 7 - 1, cutting the National League leaders lead down to a half-game. The lone Giants score is a George Kelly homer.
• 1924 - Hours after beating the Tigers in Detroit, Walter Johnson receives word he's been elected American League MVP with 55 points. White Sox 2B Eddie Collins is a distant 2nd. He was runner-up to Babe Ruth last year.
• 1926 - The Reds take the National League lead with a 5 - 1 win over the Robins. Cincy is now up by a half game.
• 1929 - The A's clinch the American League pennant with a 5 - 0 win over the White Sox.
• 1930 - Brooklyn becomes the third team in three days to lead the National League, beating Cincinnati, 8 - 3, while the Cards split a doubleheader.
• 1934 - Bobo Newsom walks the first 4 batters and departs the first game of the doubleheader, which the Browns will lose to the A's, 9 - 7. He starts the 2nd game with 4 straight strikeouts and wins, 5 - 2.
• 1935:
  • The Yankees split with the American League-leading Tigers, winning 2 - 1 and losing 5 - 1. Hank Greenberg, leading the AL in hitting at .346, is 0 for the afternoon, with five strikeouts. "The hooting and jeering which some of the fans turned loose against Hank wasn't much of a tribute to the sportsmanship of his home town" (New York American).
  • Frank Crosetti returns to New York after an operation at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital to remove floating cartilage in his right knee. He'll soon return to his home in California.
  • The Braves snap their 14-game losing streak by tipping the Reds, 6 - 4. The Braves drive Tony Freitas from the mound in the 6th inning with seven hits, four for extra bases.
  • The Cubs outlast the Dodgers, 18 - 14, for their 11th straight win and go into first place. In winning, the Cubs use a relief pitcher for the first time in 11 games. Chicago scores five in the 2nd and eight in the 6th in outhitting Brooklyn 18 hits to 15. Johnny Babich starts and goes a third of an inning to take the loss. Starter Charlie Root is the Chicago winner.
  • The Giants top the faltering Cards, 5 - 4 in 11 innings, to move into 3rd place, just 3 1/2 games in back of the Cubs. The Cards drop to 2nd place with the loss. Paul Dean was to start today's game but he suffered what is called a severe heart attack while attending the Canzoneri-Ghnouly bout. The loss goes to Phil Collins, who comes on in the 11th.
  • The Senators win their fifth straight, beating the Indians, 5 - 1. Bobo Newsom scatters 10 hits - 5 by Earl Averill, including two doubles and a triple - to go the route. Joe Vosmik, in the race for the batting championship at .345, breaks out of his recent slump going 1 for 4.
• 1936 - Pittsburgh's Paul Waner ties Rogers Hornsby's modern National League record, reaching 200 hits for the 7th time.
• 1940 - The United States, Hawaii, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Puerto Rico meet in the 3rd annual World Amateur Baseball Championship tourney, the first championship series to feature more than 3 participants. Cuba, the host country, is the victor for the 2nd consecutive year. The initial tourney had been held in England in 1938 and was also won by the host country, Great Britain.
• 1942:
  • In the Negro League World Series, Leon Day, pitching for the Homestead Grays, fans 12 in beating Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Monarchs, 4 - 1, in Game 4. The Monarchs protest, contending that Day and 3 other players were picked up from other teams. Day's win is disallowed, and the Monarchs sweep the 4 games.
  • With all the National League hubbub, the Yankees go about their lofty business, clinching the flag against Cleveland 8 - 3. Tiny Bonham wins his 20th game, and Joe DiMaggio strokes 4 hits.
• 1946 - Roy Hamey, president of the American Association, is named general manager of the Pirates by its new owners.
• 1950:
  • In Detroit, Vic Raschi posts his 20th win of the season to give New York a hard-fought 7 - 5 win. Raschi walks in two runs in the opening inning as Detroit tallies four runs, but New York comes back as Joe DiMaggio cracks his 29th home run and Johnny Mize follows a walk to Hank Bauer with his 10th homer. New York takes over first place by a half game.
  • Pinch-hitter Ted Tappe homers in his first major-league at bat, off Erv Palica, but the Reds lose 6 - 2 to Brooklyn. The Reds also drop the second game, 5 - 2.
  • The Browns stretch their win streak to eight games by beating the Red Sox, 6 - 3, for their second win over the Millionaires in 20 games. The eight-game streak is the longest since 1944 for St. Louis. The defeat drops the Bosox two games behind the Yanks. His fractured elbow now healed, Ted Williams pinch hits in the eighth and doubles.
• 1951:
  • Preacher Roe wins his 20th game against just two losses, as the Dodgers edge the Pirates, 3 - 1. Andy Pafko hits his 14th homer for Brooklyn, still six games ahead of the Giants.
  • At Yankee Stadium, the Yanks move into first place with a 5 - 1 win over the Indians. Joe DiMaggio triples in the 5th with two on to send the Yanks on their way.
  • Browns rookie Bob Nieman hits two home runs in his first two ML at bats, a record unequaled. They come against Mickey McDermott of the Red Sox, but Boston still wins 9 - 6. Boston has homers by Dom DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Walt Dropo.
  • Aided by five Cubs errors, Giant P Jim Hearn picks up his 15th win, 7 - 2. Bob Rush is the loser. Wes Westrum is tossed by Al Barlick for arguing a safe call at the plate. He'll get a fine and 3-day suspension.
• 1952 - Enos Slaughter of the Cardinals walks twice in the 5th inning. Teammate Stan Musial chips in with a home run and a double in the inning, as St. Louis scores 11 runs against Dave Koslo. The Giants pitcher loses the game 14 - 4, his first loss to St. Louis after 13 straight victories since June 11, 1950.
• 1953:
  • The Yanks clinch their 5th straight pennant with an 8 - 5 win over the Indians. 2B Billy Martin has 4 RBI.
  • Johnny Klippstein of the Cubs stops Duke Snider's hitting streak at 27 consecutive games, the longest in the National League this year. The Cubs win, 3 - 1, for their 10th win in a row.
• 1954 - Willie Mays hits a 1st inning double and scores the only run in a 1 - 0 win over the Cards. It is Johnny Antonelli's 21st win of the year. Mays's hit is his 82nd extra-base hit, breaking Mel Ott's team record.
• 1955 - Herb Score of the Indians breaks Grover Cleveland Alexander's rookie record of 235 strikeouts. He finishes the season with 245.
• 1958 - The Yankees win their 24th pennant, and 9th under Casey Stengel, winning Game One against the A's, 5 - 3. This ties Casey for first with Connie Mack for the most American League pennants won. New York completes the sweep with a 12 - 7, 14-inning win in game 2. Virgil Trucks allows two hits over the last six innings for the win.
• 1961:
  • The Cardinals and Cubs set a National League record by using 72 players in a doubleheader (more than 18 innings). St. Louis leads the way with 37 players and wins twice, 8 - 7 and then 6 - 5 in 11 innings. Ken Boyer climaxes a 7 for 11 day by cycling in the nitecap, completing it by belting his 22nd home run of the year in the 11th inning. The Cards have won all 11 games with the Cubs at Busch Stadium this year.
  • At Los Angeles, Duke Snider caps a 4-run 9th inning by drilling a dramatic 3-run homer on a 2-strike count. The home run gives the Dodgers a 7 - 6 win and cuts the Reds lead to five games.
• 1962:
  • Jim Piersall is knocked unconscious by a revolving door in his hotel in Baltimore, shortly after the hearing on his arrest.
  • The Phillies top St. Louis 2 - 1 on Johnny Callison's 9th-inning home run. Callison also hit a game-winning home run in last night's 2 - 1 win over Milwaukee.
• 1965 - Five days after pitching against each other, the Cubs' Bob Hendley and LA's Sandy Koufax hook up again. No no-no this time as Hendley allows four hits and wins, 2 - 1.
• 1967 - Walt Bond, who played for the Indians, Astros, and Twins, dies of leukemia at age 29. Bond had been released by the Twins this year and was with Jacksonville (International League) when he went on the inactive list because of the disease.
• 1968:
  • The Tigers rally in 9th to beat the A's, 5 - 4, making Denny McLain the first thirty-game winner since Dizzy Dean reached the milestone in 1934.
  • Hiroshima Carp ace Yoshiro Sotokoba tosses a perfect game against the Taiyo Whales. That's not all, as he sets a Central League record with 16 strikeouts in a game.
  • Veteran southpaw Bob Veale outduels Tom Seaver, as the Pirates trounce the Mets, 6 - 0, with half their runs supplied by Roberto Clemente. Clemente's hits both of career home runs off Seaver today, in the fourth and sixth innings; the latter follows Matty Alou's leadoff double and lands a good 40 to 50 feet beyond the 410-foot marker in dead center field.
• 1971 - The Dodgers beat the first-place Giants, 6 - 5, to climb within one game of first place in the National League West. Bobby Bonds has two homers for SF, but Manny Mota's pinch-hit double in the 9th drives in three runs.
• 1972 - Roberto Clemente's batting practice moon shot again comes close to Wrigley Field's scoreboard. Bart Ripp, writing in Sport Magazine, recalls Clemente's confrontation with 6' 7" Jim McKee, a young, fireballing, Pirate pitching prospect who has just made Richie Hebner, Al Oliver and Willie Stargell look foolish: "Clemente dusted his hands, then took his usual righthanded stance deep in the box, as far from the plate as possible. Standing still, Clemente heard the first pitch go by, then primly stuck his bat out over the plate at the next three. Each time, the ball hit the club, then pirouetted to the grass, just fair, and there they stuck as if they had landed in wet cement. Roberto then took three swings, but did not move his legs or hips, just the arms and wrists – he was merely getting his eye in. The result was three line drives – to left, to center, to right. All base hits in any game. Clemente slowly hauled out his familiar swing: the front leg lifted and cocked to the catcher, his torso leaping at the ball, the swing ending with his back foot hanging in the air. He proceeded to undress the rookie, smacking severe line drives all over old Wrigley Field. Not paying any respect to a god, Hebner shouted taunting encouragement to Clemente, 'Come on, take one more swing.' Clemente motioned to the pitcher, wiping the side of his hand across the letters of his uniform. McKee put it right there, right on the outside corner, and Clemente swung once more. The ball nearly tipped the button of McKee’s cap, then once past second began to rise on a straight line. It was still rising when it struck the bleachers just below the scoreboard, 500 feet away. The people around the cage surveyed the landing site for a few seconds, then closed their mouths and looked back into the cage. It was empty, as Clemente walked back to the dugout, rolling his head about to relieve a crick in his neck."
• 1973 - In Cincinnati, the Reds score three runs in the 9th to trip the Braves, 7 - 6. Bobby Tolan drives in the winner after Phil Gagliano drives in two runs with a 2-out single.
• 1974:
  • In Los Angeles, the Reds defeat the Dodgers, 4 - 2, to pull to within 1 1/2 games of the National League West lead. That's as close as they'll come as they lose six of their next eight games.
  • Graig Nettles homers for the Yankees in the first inning, and brother Jim Nettles homers for the Tigers in the 2nd. This is the second time that the two brothers have homered in the same game for different teams, having done it on June 11, 1972, when Graig was with Cleveland and Jim with Minnesota. Graig's team wins, 10 - 7.
• 1975 - The Red Sox top the Brewers, 8 - 6, as Robin Yount breaks Mel Ott's 47-year-old record by playing in his 242nd game as a teenager.
• 1977 - In an 8 - 5 Milwaukee win, veteran Ken McMullen hits a pinch homer for the Brewers in the 8th inning against Seattle's Tom House. The homer, McMullen's 156th, comes on his last major league at bat. He'll be released in December and retire.
• 1978:
  • The Angels score 13 unearned runs in the 9th inning to cap a 16 - 1 win over the Rangers.
  • Jim Bouton, 38, earns a 4 - 1 win for the Braves over the Giants. It is Bouton's first major league victory since 1970, after which he retired from pro baseball for a few years, and the last of his career. The Bulldog gives up just three hits in six innings.
• 1980:
  • In a 10 - 7 win over the Cubs, Lee Mazzilli homers to break a drought for Mets. It is the team's first homer in 175 2/3 innings, going back to August 26 when Claudell Washington homered. This will be the longest drought for the rest of the century.
  • Eddie Murray hits three home runs, but Baltimore loses to Toronto, 4 - 3 in 13 innings, to fall five games behind the first-place Yankees in the American League East.
• 1982 - Richie Hebner and Bill Madlock hit grand slams to lead the Pirates to a 15 - 5 rout of the Cubs.
• 1983 - Nick Esasky's 1st-inning grand slam, off Phil Niekro, propels the Reds to a 6 - 4 win over the visiting Braves.
• 1984 - Rookie Mark Langston (15-9) becomes the first Mariner to win 15 games in a season by beating the Royals, 2 - 1, on a 5-hitter.
• 1986:
  • Bo Jackson slugs his first major league home run - a 475-foot blast believed to be the longest to date at Royals Stadium - as Kansas City downs Seattle, 10 - 3.
  • Giant third baseman Bob Brenly, usually a catcher, ties a major league record by making four errors in one inning, but makes amends by hitting two home runs, including the game-winner, as San Francisco beats the Braves, 7 - 6.
• 1987 - In an 18 - 3 Blue Jay blowout which features Toronto hitting a major league record ten home runs, Orioles' manager Cal Ripken, Sr., in the bottom of the 8th inning, puts Ron Washington at shortstop, ending Cal Ripken's record consecutive-innings streak of 8,264, spanning 904 games.
• 1988 - Mike Greenwell hits for the cycle to help Mike Boddicker earn a victory in his first game against his former club, a 4 - 3 Boston win over the Orioles. Lee Smith notches his 26th save.
• 1989:
  • Jeff Reardon saves Minnesota's 2 - 0 win over Toronto to become the first pitcher ever to record at least 30 saves in five consecutive seasons.
  • In St. Louis, the Cards draw just 1,519 - a stadium record - for a game with the Pirates.
  • Houston's Mike Scott (20-8) becomes a 20-game winner for the first time by beating the Dodgers, 11 - 3. He is the first major league pitcher to reach that plateau this season.
  • The major league owners approve the sale of the Mariners to Jeff Smulyan and Michael Browning for $77 million, the highest price ever paid for an American League club.
• 1990:
  • Mariner Ken Griffey, Sr. and his son, Ken Griffey, Jr., become the first father and son to hit homers in the same major league game. The back-to-back blasts are given up by Angel hurler Kirk McCaskill.
  • Oakland's Dave Stewart wins his 20th game of the season, 9 - 1 over the Twins to become the first pitcher since Jim Palmer (1975-1978) to post four straight 20-game seasons.
• 1991:
  • In the Tigers' 6 - 4 win over the Brewers, Detroit's Cecil Fielder hits a 502-foot home run, which is believed to be the first ball ever hit out of Milwaukee's County Stadium, off Dan Plesac. The ball lands in the back of a truck driven by Gary Schumacher, who doesn't stop until he is near Madison, WI.
  • Mariano Duncan, Hal Morris, and Paul O'Neill hit back-to-back-to-back home runs off Astros hurler Mark Portugal for the Reds. The homers account for the only Cincinnati runs in a 7 - 3 loss.
• 1994 - The remainder of the baseball season is canceled by acting commissioner Bud Selig after 34 days of the players' strike. There will be no World Series for the first time since 1904.
• 1995 - The sale of the Oakland Athletics for $85 million to Steven Schott and Ken Hoffman is approved by major league owners. A provision of the sale is that the team remain in Oakland, CA.
• 1996:
  • Mark McGwire hits his 50th home run off Cleveland hurler Chad Ogea becoming the 13th player in major league history to reach that plateau. The Cardinal first baseman gives the milestone ball to his eight-year-old son, Matthew.
  • The City of Houston and Harris County agree to terms with the Astros to build a $265 million stadium with a retractable roof. The deal needs several approvals, including a November 5 referendum.
  • Mets C Todd Hundley hits his 41st home run of the season to set a new major league mark for catchers. The Mets defeat Atlanta, 6 - 5, in 12 innings. Johnny Bench hit 45 in 1970, but only 38 while behind the plate. Hundley also owns the Mets home run record, previously held by Darryl Strawberry with 39.
• 1997:
  • Sandy Alomar hits a bases-loaded single to key a bizarre seven-run 8th, and Cleveland defeats Chicago, 8 - 3. Jim Thome nails his 40th homer for the Indians. Chicago ties a major league record by using nine pitchers in the nine-inning game, including five in the 8th. The 4th in that inning, Keith Foulke, is called in without a warm-up by manager Terry Bevington to intentionally walk a batter. The Tribe increases its American League Central lead to 7 1/2 games over Chicago and Milwaukee. Before the game the Sox retire Carlton Fisk's uniform number 72. Bitter over his 1993 release and not being allowed into the locker room during the playoffs that year, Fisk requests that Jerry Reinsdorf and GM Ron Schueler not be there for the ceremony.
  • Mark McGwire notches his 51st homer, and St. Louis scores seven runs in the eighth to win, 10 - 4. McGwire, the first player with consecutive 50-homer seasons since Babe Ruth in 1927-1928, connects off Joey Hamilton (11-6) in the sixth. He has 17 homers in 37 games since St. Louis acquired him from Oakland on July 31 and has 14 games remaining to chase Roger Maris' season record of 61.
• 1998:
  • Kansas City scores in all eight of their innings at bat as they down visiting Oakland, 16 - 6.
  • In another pitchers duel, the White Sox score twice in the 12th inning, then hold on for a 17 - 16 win over the Tigers. The teams combine for 41 hits, including five each for Albert Belle of the Sox and rookie OF Juan Encarnacion of the Bengals. Encarnacion also scores five runs while driving home 4. Belle and SS Craig Wilson bring home five each for Chicago.
• 1999:
  • The Yankees rally with a pair of grand slams, just the 3rd time in club history, to beat the Blue Jays, 10 - 6. Bernie Williams ties the game with a slam in the 8th inning, and Paul O'Neill wins it in the 9th with another slam.
  • The Royals lose a doubleheader to the Angels, 8 - 6 in the opener and 6 - 5 in the nightcap. In the second game, Kansas City OF Mark Quinn makes a memorable major league debut. After making an out in his first trip to the plate, Quinn doubles in his next at bat, then hits homers his last two times up. He becomes just the 3rd player in history to hit two home runs in his first big league game. Bob Nieman (on this day in 1951) and Bert Campaneris (in 1964) are the only others to accomplish the feat.
  • The Expos defeat the Dodgers, 3 - 0, behind Javier Vazquez' one-hitter. Vazquez allows just a leadoff single to Mark Grudzielanek in the 4th inning, and a walk to Gary Sheffield in the same frame, while fanning 10.
• 2002:
  • Barry Bonds ties Hank Aaron for the most 100-RBI seasons by a National League player as he drives in his 100th run of the season for the 11th time in his career. The major league record is 13 shared by Jimmie Foxx, Lou Gehrig, and Babe Ruth.
  • P Derek Lowe wins his 20th game as the Red Sox beat the Orioles, 6 - 4. Lowe becomes the first pitcher in history to win 20 games the season after saving 20. He is also the first to record at least 40 saves and later win 20. Dennis Eckersley and John Smoltz did it the other way around.
  • The Diamondbacks shut out the Brewers, 5 - 0, as Randy Johnson wins his 22nd game of the season. Johnson fans 17 Milwaukee batters in the contest.
  • The Yankees beat the White Sox, 8 - 4, in a rain-shortened affair. Chicago C Miguel Olivo hits a 3-run home run in his first major league at bat.
  • Chin-Feng Chen becomes the first Taiwan-born player to appear in the major leagues as he walks and scores as a pinch-hitter for the Dodgers against the Rockies. The 24-year-old first baseman-outfielder played for the 1990 Taiwan team which won the Little League World Series.
• 2003:
  • Homering in his final at-bat, Vladimir Guerrero hits for 'Le Carrousel' at Montreal's Olympic Stadium. Facing Mets' southpaw Tom Glavine, the Expos right fielder doubles (2nd), singles (3rd) and hits a triple (5th) and completes the sixth cycle in team history going deep off Dan Wheeler in the 7th.
  • At Comerica Park, Detroit sets a franchise record for losses as they drop their 110th loss to the Royals, 7 - 2. The 1996 Tigers squad finished the season with a 53-109 record.
• 2008:
  • Carlos Zambrano of the Chicago Cubs pitches a no-hitter against the Houston Astros, winning 5 - 0 at Milwaukee's Miller Park. The game was shifted from Houston to Milwaukee due to Hurricane Ike. It is the first no-hitter pitched on a neutral site in modern major league history, although the crowd is composed almost exclusively of Cubs fans who have made the short trip from Chicago.
  • In the first Final Four, Danesi Nettuno beats T&A San Marino 3 - 2 to win the 2008 European Cup Final Four. The win is revenge for Nettuno, which lost the Italian Series to San Marino. Tiago da Silva turns in a good start, allowing 1 run in 7 innings, but his bullpen fails to hold the lead. Ramon Tavarez drives in 2 and wins MVP honors. Former major leaguer Giovanni Carrara saves the game but gives San Marino a chance with two hits.
• 2009:
  • A strong performance by Tim Lincecum, who strikes out 11 over 7 innings, leads the Giants to a 9 - 1 win over Colorado as the two teams battle for the NL wild card.
  • Justin Morneau, the 2006 American League MVP, will miss the remainder of the season because of a stress fracture in his back. Morneau hurt himself sliding into first base in the Twins' game on September 11, but kept on playing. He ends the year with an even 30 homers and 100 RBI.
• 2010 - The Giants lose a frustrating game to the Dodgers, 1 - 0, on a fielding error by Juan Uribe. Barry Zito suffers his 9th consecutive loss in spite of giving up only one hit in 5 2/3 innings. The Dodgers' run comes in the 6th after they load the bases on a hit batsman and two walks; with two outs, Casey Blake bounces a ball towards the mound, which SS Uribe fields but bobbles, allowing Reed Johnson to score. Clayton Kershaw throws a four-hit shutout for the win, even though Matt Kemp's single is Los Angeles's only base hit of the contest.
• 2011 - The Mexican League issues its awards for the season. The MVP goes to Luis Terrero, who led the league in runs (109), RBI (110), slugging (.770) and OPS (1254) and was second in average (.390) and homers (38) while posting the second 30-30 season in Mexican history. ERA leader Marco Tovar (12-4, 3.11) was named Pitcher of the Year, save leader Sandy Nin (8-4, 24 Sv, 2.80) Reliever of the Year, Pablo Ortega (10-3, 3.29 after 2-6, 8.24) Comeback Player of the Year, Alejandro Martinez (7-2, 2.90) Rookie of the Year and Matias Carrillo Manager of the Year.
• 2012 - Chris Sale wins his 17th game of the year as the White Sox shut out the Twins, 6 - 0. The Sox stay ahead of the Tigers in the AL Central, although Detroit also wins by shutout, 4 - 0 over the Indians, as Justin Verlander is the winner.

[edit] Births

• 1852 - Henry Luff, infielder (d. 1916)
• 1853 - Jake Goodman, infielder (d. 1890)
• 1865 - Doc Leitner, pitcher (d. 1937)
• 1869 - Kid Nichols, pitcher, manager; Hall of Famer (d. 1953)
• 1879 - Jack Dunleavy, outfielder (d. 1944)
• 1882 - Phil Cooney, infielder (d. 1957)
• 1882 - Bunny Madden, catcher (d. 1954)
• 1884 - Willie Hogan, outfielder (d. 1974)
• 1884 - Andy O'Connor, pitcher (d. 1980)
• 1888 - Nick Allen, catcher (d. 1939)
• 1888 - Reggie Richter, pitcher (d. 1934)
• 1908 - John Bottarini, catcher (d. 1976)
• 1912 - Icehouse Wilson, pinch hitter (d. 1973)
• 1916 - Jerry Doggett, broadcaster (d. 1997)
• 1917 - John Douglas, infielder (d. 1984)
• 1924 - Jerry Coleman, infielder, manager; All-Star
• 1927 - Jim Fanning, catcher, manager
• 1927 - Dave Hillman, pitcher
• 1931 - Dewey Williams, minor league pitcher (d. 2000)
• 1931 - Don Williams, pitcher (d. 2011)
• 1933 - Fred Green, pitcher (d. 1996)
• 1934 - Bob Perry, outfielder
• 1936 - Stan Williams, pitcher; All-Star
• 1938 - Frank Carpin, pitcher
• 1945 - Curtis Brown, outfielder
• 1947 - Harry Parker, pitcher (d. 2012)
• 1956 - Les Filkins, minor league outfielder
• 1956 - Jong-kyeom Yoo, KBO pitcher
• 1957 - Jerry Don Gleaton, pitcher
• 1957 - Tim Wallach, infielder; All-Star
• 1959 - Rick Colbert, minor league catcher
• 1962 - Carlos Hernandez, minor league pitcher
• 1962 - Norihiro Komada, NPB infielder
• 1965 - Troy Neel, designated hitter
• 1966 - Mike Draper, pitcher
• 1969 - Mike Durant, catcher
• 1972 - David Bell, infielder
• 1973 - Jason Holowaty, Division Elite infielder
• 1973 - Joe Winkelsas, pitcher
• 1974 - Chad Bradford, pitcher
• 1974 - Mike Zywica, minor league outfielder
• 1975 - George Lombard, outfielder
• 1977 - Simon Young, minor league player
• 1978 - Maxim Yudaev, Russian national team infielder
• 1983 - Eddie Degerman, minor league pitcher
• 1982 - Chuck Jeroloman, minor league infielder
• 1983 - John Hester, catcher
• 1983 - Li Ma, China Baseball League outfielder
• 1984 - Yilenia Moreno, Cuban womens' national team player
• 1984 - Bobby Mosebach, pitcher
• 1984 - Josh Outman, pitcher
• 1985 - Brandon Hicks, infielder
• 1985 - Delmon Young, outfielder
• 1986 - Mike Loree, minor league pitcher
• 1987 - David Bromberg, minor league pitcher
• 1988 - Matt Koppensteiner, Austrian national team pitcher
• 1989 - Kevin Rucker, minor league player
• 1990 - David Kandilas, minor league outfielder
• 1990 - Derek Law, minor league pitcher
• 1991 - Kellen Sweeney, minor league infielder
• 1992 - Trevor Gretzky, minor league outfielder
• 1992 - Matthias Group, First Division outfielder

[edit] Deaths

• 1900 - Ed Knouff, pitcher (b. 1867)
• 1907 - Jack Wentz, infielder (b. 1863)
• 1908 - Ike Van Zandt, outfielder (b. 1876)
• 1914 - Jim McDonald, infielder (b. 1860)
• 1930 - Jim McCauley, catcher (b. 1863)
• 1932 - Henry Jackson, infielder (b. 1861)
• 1940 - Andy Knox, infielder (b. 1864)
• 1943 - Bill Murray, infielder (b. 1893)
• 1949 - Billy Martin, infielder (b. 1894)
• 1950 - Billy Ging, pitcher (b. 1872)
• 1951 - Wally Roettger, outfielder (b. 1902)
• 1959 - Bill Upham, pitcher (b. 1888)
• 1967 - Walt Bond, outfielder (b. 1937)
• 1968 - Hans Lobert, infielder, manager (b. 1881)
• 1969 - Jackie Tavener, infielder (b. 1897)
• 1970 - Sam Lanford, pitcher (b. 1886)
• 1970 - Jimmie Long, catcher (b. 1898)
• 1971 - Bill Holden, outfielder (b. 1889)
• 1973 - Rene Monteagudo, pitcher (b. 1916)
• 1973 - Sloppy Thurston, pitcher (b. 1899)
• 1977 - Beau Bell, outfielder; All-Star (b. 1907)
• 1984 - Edgar Barnhart, pitcher (b. 1904)
• 1984 - Jimmy Pofahl, infielder (b. 1917)
• 1993 - Bill Atwood, catcher (b. 1911)
• 1994 - Stubby Greer, minor league infielder and manager (b. 1920)
• 1994 - Jay Kirke Jr., minor league outfielder and manager (b. 1912)
• 2000 - George Myatt, infielder, manager (b. 1914)
• 2001 - George Bradley, scout (b. 1942)
• 2002 - Jim McKee, pitcher (b. 1947)
• 2002 - Eddie Shokes, infielder (b. 1920)
• 2003 - Allen Lewis, writer (b. 1916)
• 2010 - Arnoud Blom, Hoofdklasse infielder (b. 1945)