September 16

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1883 - Tommy Burns and Ned Williamson of the National League's Chicago White Stockings both score three runs in the seventh inning to establish a major league record which still stands today.
1903 - The Pilgrims whip Cleveland, scoring in each of the eight innings they bat to win 14-7. Boston collects 23 hits to Cleveland's 12.
1904 - The Giants sweep two from Brooklyn as Christy Mathewson wins the opener, 2-1, allowing just four hits. Two of the hits, a triple and homer, are by rookie Emil Batch. Joe McGinnity wins the nitecap, 5-3.
1905 - The Highlanders find themselves a little short on infielders so RF Willie Keeler, who is lefthanded, plays 2B in both games of a twin bill. The talented Keeler played two games at shortstop for New York in 1893.
1905 - At Boston, the leading Giants sweep two from the Beaneaters, winning 3-1 and 7-1. In the opener, Christy Mathewson wins his 10th straight, beating Irv Young, who allows just three hits. Boston notches eight off Matty.
1909 - The University of Wisconsin baseball team arrives in Tokyo to begin a series of games against Japanese schools.
1909 - President Taft attends a Cubs-Giants game in Chicago and players are introduced to him before the game. Giants ace Christy Mathewson then outdeals Chicago ace Three Finger Brown, 2-1, with each allowing seven hits. Taft downs popcorn and lemonade during the match, according to the Chicago Tribune.
1910 - Christy Mathewson stops the Bucs on five hits, as the Giants top Pittsburgh 3 - 1 to move a half-game behind the 2nd place Pirates. Al Leifield takes the loss.
1911 - At Forbes Field, Marquard, with relief from Christy Mathewson, beats the Pirates, 6 - 2. Before the game the Giants mascot, Victory Faust, strikes out Honus Wagner on three pitches, to the delight of the 20,000 fans.
1911 - For the second time in a week, an American League rookie debuts with a shutout; the Brown's Elmer Brown stops the Senators, 6 - 0.
1911 - Boston's Smoky Joe Wood and rookie Buck O'Brien toss back-to-back shutouts to beat Cleveland. Wood wins 6 - 0 and O'Brien follow with a 3 - 0 win. O'Brien, who relieved in his last appearance, will finish all of his five starts going, 5 - 1.
1912 - The Reds shut out the Phillies in a twinbill, winning 6 - 0 and 1 - 0. Art Fromme allows four hits in the lid lifter, while Rube Benton outduels Grover Cleveland Alexander, 1 - 0, in the nitecap. Benton allows five hits.
1912 - The Cubs riddle Christy Mathewson for 10 hits to beat the Giants, 4 - 3. Jimmy Archer's solo homer is the game winner.
1912 - The Pirates' 2 - 1 win over Brooklyn is their 12th in a row; they will overtake the Cubs and finish 2nd.
1914 - At the age of 23, Roger Peckinpaugh is hired as the manager of the Yankees to finish the season.
1915 - In the first of important four games series at Fenway Park, the Tigers (90 - 48) and Red Sox (90-44) square off. Detroit knocks out starter Rube Foster, then rookie reliever Carl Mays keeps throwing at Ty Cobb till he hits the Tiger star on the wrist. Cobb slings his bat at Mays in retaliation, and the crowd reacts by throwing bottles at Cobb. The next inning, Cobb catches a fly ball for the final out and then needs a police escort to leave the field. The Tigers win 6 - 1.
1916 - The Reds Fred Toney pitches 12 innings in the nitecap against Brooklyn before the game is called at 1 - 1 apiece. Zack Wheat goes hitless to end his hit streak at 29 consecutive games. He'll put together a streak of 26 in 1919.
1916 - At Baker Bowl, Grover Cleveland Alexander is coasting with a two hit, 6 - 0 lead in the 8th over the Cubs, when weak-hitting Steve Yerkes lines a single followed by manager Joe Tinker's only hit of the year. On a DP grounder, 1B Fred Luderus pulls his foot of the bag and Chicago goes on to score three runs. Second-place Philadelphia wins, 6 - 3, to pull with one 1/2 games of Brooklyn.
1919 - Dutch Ruether beats the Giants 4-3 to clinch the Reds' first pennant since American Association days.
1920 - Chicago's Dickie Kerr tops the Yankees 8 - 3, the loss dropping New York to 2nd place behind Cleveland.
1920 - Duster Mails delivers for the Indians, canceling the Senators 1 - 0 for his 4th win without a loss. Joe Sewell scores the lone run.
1922 - Pennant fever rages in St. Louis, as the Yankees come to town with a half-game lead. Bob Shawkey outpitches Urban Shocker 2 - 1, as Sisler ties Ty Cobb's 1911 record by hitting in his 40th straight game. While chasing a fly ball in the 9th, New York OF Whitey Witt is hit in the head and knocked cold by a soda bottle thrown from the bleachers. Ban Johnson will initially offer a $1,000 reward for the name of the bottle-thrower. Then, to calm the crowds, the American League offers the theory that Witt stepped on the bottle and it flew up and hit him. The incident leads to a ban on the sale of bottled drinks in ballparks.
1923 - The Cubs lose 10 - 6 to the Giants in Chicago, despite the hitting of Hack Miller who collects three doubles and a triple. A riot occurs in the 8th inning when umpire Charlie Moran makes an out call at 2B on Sparky Adams, Moran is pelted by hundreds of pop bottles. Judge Landis, in attendance at the game, shakes his cane at the angry mob, and play is held up for 15 minutes. John McGraw and the umpires need a police escort at the conclusion.
1924 - Jim Bottomley goes 6-for-6, including two homers, and bats in a record twelve runs as the Cardinals beat the Dodgers, 17-3. The previous mark of 11 RBIs in one game was established in 1892 by today's opposing Dodger manager, Wilbert Robinson.
1924 - At Ebbets Field, Cards 1B Jim Bottomley's three singles, a double, and two home runs produce a major-league record 12 RBI in the St. Louis 17 - 3 win over the pennant-chasing Robins. Willie Sherdel coasts home for the win. Bottomley starts the rampage with a 2-run single in the 1st, doubles home a run in the 2nd, hits a 4th inning grand slam off Art Decatur, and a 2-run home run off Decatur in the 6th. He follows with a 2-run single in the 7th, off Tex Wilson, and a run-scoring single in the 9th, after which he's removed for a pinch runner. Brooklyn manager Wilbert Robinson, watching from the dugout, set the previous record with the Orioles in 1892.
1925 - In the first of two games, Cubs veteran Grover Alexander wins 3 - 0 over Boston. Boston comes back to take game 2, 8 - 6.
1925 - John Bates of Nashville (Southern) goes hitless ending his 46-game hitting streak. He hit .371 during the streak.
1926 - The Giants clean house early, giving Heinie Groh his release and allowing Irish Meusel to buy out his. Irish will finish out his career with a season in Brooklyn.
1926 - En route to a 23-3 rout of the Phillies at Baker Bowl, the Cardinals cross home plate 12 times during the third inning. The dozen runs establishes a franchise record.
1926 - At Philadelphia, the Cards sweep a pair from the Phils to tie for first place. They open with a 23 - 3 pasting, a game in which 36 players are used, 22 by the Phils. The Cards plate 12 runs in the 3rd inning, with all the Cardinals getting a hit except Billy Southworth, who is robbed of a double by Freddy Leach's catch. Taylor Douthit has a walk and single, two stolen bases, and two runs scored in the game. Flint Rhem is the winning pitcher. The Cards lighten up in game 2, winning 10 - 2, behind Art Reinhart.
1930 - Flint Rhem returns to the Cardinals with an improbable story that he was kidnapped by gamblers and forced to drink bootleg whiskey.
1930 - Brooklyn's collapse begins. The Cardinals tie for first place when Bill Hallahan outduels Dazzy Vance 1-0 in 10 innings.
1931 - World Series tickets can now be printed as the St. Louis Cardinals repeat as NL champions. They beat the Phillies 6 - 3 behind Bill Hallahan's 18th win of the year, and prepare for a rematch of the 1930 World Series. Earlier in the day, The Reds clinched it for the Birds by sweeping the Giants, 7 - 3 and 4 - 3.
1933 - The Giants win two over the 2nd place Cubs, winning the first one 2 - 1 behind Carl Hubbell's 22nd win. New York takes the nitecap, 6 - 3.
1933 - In St. Louis, the Cardinals edge the Dodgers 14 - 13 and pull off a triple steal in the 7th inning. The second game is called in the 5th with Brooklyn ahead 4 - 2.
1934 - The largest turnout in Polo Grounds history, 62,573, suffers as the Deans take 2 from the Giants. Diz needs relief from Tex Carleton for a 5-3 opener, but Paul goes 11 innings for a 3-1 win.
1935 - Brown beats Brown as Pittsburgh reliever Mace Brown pitches five innings of shutout relief to beat Boston, 5 - 3. Wally Berger's 3rd double of the game in the 9th is the only hit he allows. The Bucs Gus Suhr plays 1B in the last inning to run his streak of consecutive games played to 619, a new NL record. The old mark was set by Eddie Brown from 1924 to 1928.
1935 - In the opener of a critical 4-game series in Chicago, the Giants lose 8 - 3 to Lon Warneke. The Cubs have now won 12 straight.
1937 - Future Hall of Famer Martin Dihigo pitches the first professional no-hit, no-run game on Mexican soil, a 4-0 victory against Nogales at Veracruz. In 1938, Dihigo will lead the Mexican league in 4 categories: ERA (0.90), wins (18-2), strikeouts (184), and batting (.387).
1939 - The New York Yankees clinch their 4th successive pennant with a win over Detroit.
1940 - A rhubarb at Ebbets Field results in a suspension and fine for Leo Durocher for "inciting a riot." Perhaps better known from the game is the photo showing an obese Brooklyn fan astride George Magerkurth, pummeling the veteran umpire.
1940 - Called up from the Eastern League in August, Phillies rookie Danny Litwhiler singles in both games of 7-1 and 3-2 losses to St. Louis, extending his hitting streak to 21 straight games. He will be stopped tomorrow by Whitey Moore at Cincinnati. He will hit .345 in 36 games.
1940 - Rookie Johnny Lucadello of the St. Louis Browns hits HRs from each side of the plate versus the New York Yankees in a 16-4 Browns win. Only Wally Schang, in 1916, had accomplished the same in the AL. Mickey Mantle in 1955 will be the next AL player to do it. These are the only HRs Lucadello will hit all year.
1944 - Jack Kramer's one-hitter against the White Sox puts the Browns back into first place.
1948 - Joe DiMaggio hits his 300th career home run joining Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mel Ott, Jimmie Foxx, Rogers Hornsby, Chuck Klein and Hank Greenberg as the only major leaguers to reach this milestone.
1950 - At Ebbets Field, Reds rookie Ted Tappe pinch hits in the eighth and homers in his first major league at bat. The round tripper, off Erv Palica, helps cement a 6 - 3 win over Brooklyn. Tappe will hit four more homers, all as a member of the Cubs.
1950 - Rookie Whitey Ford tosses a 6-hitter to give the Yankees the rubber game in Detroit, 8 - 1 and move them back into first place. DiMaggio hits his 30th HR and the Yanks score seven runs in the ninth as Ford drives to his seventh win without a loss. The Red Sox will follow the Yankees into Detroit and sweep three from the Tigers.
1951 - The visiting"”and rampaging"”Giants sweep the Pirates, 7 - 1 and 6 - 4. Larry Jansen wins his 19th and Sal Maglie collects his 23rd. It is Maglie's 11th straight win over the Bucs. The Giants collect 29 hits in the two games, including six by Al Dark, in handing losses to Howie Pollet and reliever Murry Dickson. The Dodger lead of four 1/2 is their slimmest since July 4th.
1951 - At the Stadium, Joe DiMaggio's long triple off Bob Feller scores two runs in the 5th and Allie Reynolds holds on for a 5 - 1 New York win. The Yanks take over first place for good by a margin of .003 points over Cleveland.
1951 - In Chicago, the Dodgers beat up on the Cubs, winning, 6 - 1, behind rookie Clem Labine. Rookie Bob Kelly takes the loss, allowing six hits, including Gil Hodges #38.
1952 - Pacific Coast League's Sacramento manager, former major league all-star second baseman Joe Gordon, pinch hits homers in both ends of a doubleheader. The first one, a grand slam, wins the game, 4-1.
1952 - Joe Gordon, former All-Star 2B for the Yankees and Indians and now manager of Sacramento (PCL), inserts himself as a pinch hitter in each game of a twin bill with Los Angeles and homers on both occasions. The first one is a grand slam that wins the game 4-1.
1955 - Slugger Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt. He will make just 2 pinch-hit appearances in September, and he will go to bat in the WS just 10 times.
1957 - The Los Angeles City Council approves a 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for a Dodger stadium if the club will finance a public recreation area.
1958 - Former American League batting champion George Stirnweiss is killed in a train wreck in Red Bank, NJ.
1958 - Yankee killer Frank Lary is the 3rd pitcher to beat them seven times in the same season, as the Tiger star defeats them, 4 - 2. Ed Walsh (9-1 in 1908) and Ed Cicotte (7-1 in 1916) were the others.
1958 - The Pirates keep their slim pennant hopes alive as they win a suspended game from the Cards, 2-1, then take the regular game, 3 - 1, behind Ron Kline. In the opener, young George Witt (9-2) picks up where he left off when the game was suspended six weeks ago, winning his 8th straight game. For Witt, plagued with arm troubles all year, it is his last appearance of the year, as he leaves on the 24th to finish his senior year at Long Beach State. Witt's 1.61 ERA in 106 innings is the National League's best. Alas, he'll go 0-7 next season with a 6.96.
1960 - At the age of thirty-nine, Warren Spahn pitches a no-hitter beating the Phillies 4-0. The crafty lefty sets an all-time Braves record with 15 strikeouts.
1960 - Warren Spahn, 39 years old, notches his 11th 20-win season with a no-hitter against the Phillies winning 4-0. Spahn also sets a Milwaukee club record with 15 strikeouts in handing the last-place Phils their 90th loss of the year.
1960 - 17th With Ty Cobb among the 49,055 fans in attendance at Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle cracks a 2-run homer, his 35th, off the O's Chuck Estrada to give New York a 2 - 0 lead in the first. Berra adds a home run. In the last of the 8th, Bobby Richardson's hit off Estrada's glove drives in two runs for a 5 - 3 New York win.
1960 - The Orioles (83-58) and Yankees (82-57) open a crucial four games series with the O's just .002 in back of New York. But Lopez and Roger Maris crack homers to back Whitey Ford's 4 - 2 win over the Birds. The two runs off Ford were the first the Birds have scored off him at the Stadium in 33.2 innings. Shantz rescues Whitey in the 9th.
1961 - At Detroit, Roger Maris connects for #57, off Frank Lary, to stay a game ahead of Ruth's 1927 pace. But Lary wins his 21st, 10 - 4, over Ralph Terry, with help from Norm Cash, who belts a homer, his 37th, and a triple. Al Kaline adds four hits and a sac fly.
1961 - The Senators acquire Claude Osteen from the Reds for 1B Dave Sisler and cash.
1962 - Mays celebrates his return to the lineup by cracking a 3-run home run in the 8th inning, his 44th of the year, to tie the Pirates 4 - 4. Pittsburgh tops the Giants in the 10th inning when Smoky Burgess hits a 2-run home run.
1963 - The Dodgers and Cardinals begin a first-place showdown before 32,442 fans at Busch Stadium. Ron Perranoski saves a 3 - 1 win for Johnny Podres and the Dodgers.
1964 - The White Sox move into a first-place tie (88-61) with Baltimore by besting Detroit 4 - 1, while the Orioles lose to Minnesota 2 - 1. The Yanks are one point behind.
1965 - Claude Osteen launches a Dodgers' winning streak as he shuts out the Cubs 2 - 0. The Dodgers will win their next 3, all by shutouts, in St. Louis.
1965 - An eventful day in Boston includes the firing of GM Mike Higgins and a no-hitter by Dave Morehead. Boston beats Cleveland 2 - 0. Morehead lost a no-hitter against Cleveland in 1963 on Fred Whitfield's bad-hop single in the 8th.
1965 - Bob Bolin's 5 - 1 win at Houston gives the Giants 14 straight wins, the longest National League streak since 1951.
1965 - At Fenway Park, Red Sox Dave Morehead pitches a 2-0 no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians.
1966 - The Mets (5) and Giants (3) tie a major-league record by using eight pinch hitters in the 9th inning as the Mets win 5 - 4. Willie McCovey hits a 500-ft home run, judged the longest ever at Candlestick Park.
1967 - The Phils top the Dodgers, 8 - 4 in 11 innings, when Rick Joseph hits a pinch grand slam to end it.
1967 - Norm Cash drives in five runs and John Hiller goes the distance, enabling Detroit to take the American League lead with a 9 - 1 win over the Yankees.
1968 - Umpires Al Salerno and Bill Valentine are fired by American League President Joe Cronin. The men in blue claim the dismissals are due to their efforts organizing a union.
1968 - AL President Joe Cronin fires umpires Al Salerno, an 8-year veteran, and Bill Valentine, with seven years. They say they have been fired for activities related to starting an umpires union.
1969 - Juan Marichal blanks the Braves 2 - 0, as the Giants regain first place.
1970 - Clyde Wright joins Dean Chance (1964) as the Angels 2nd twenty-game winner as he beats the Twins, 5 - 1. Bert Blyleven, 19-year old rookie, ties an American League record by striking out the first six batters. He strikes out 10 in six 2/3 innings.
1971 - At Candlestick, George Foster hits an 8th inning grand slam to pace the Reds to an 8 - 1 win over the Giants.
1971 - At New York, lefty Juan Pizarro shuts out the Mets and Tom Seaver, 1 - 0. Pizarro does it all, clubbing a solo homer to win his own game. It's Pizarro's 2nd shutout in a row and Seaver's first loss after seven straight wins. Tom's last loss was August 1, also to Pizarro.
1972 - Following the Reds-Padres game at Riverfront Stadium, "This is your Life" host Ralph Edwards surprises Johnny Bench as the catcher is the featured guest on the program. With cameras rolling, Bench's family and friends appear as Edwards narrates the show.
1972 - Joe Coleman wins his 17th game and Dick McAuliffe clouts two home runs and drives in four to lead Detroit to a 6 - 2 win in Milwaukee. This is Detroit's 5th win in a row and keeps them a percentage point behind Boston.
1972 - In an 18-5 victory over the Mets, Cub infielder Glen Beckert goes 0-for-6 and sets a record by leaving 12 men on base.
1972 - Expo P Balor Moore extends his scoreless-inning streak to 25 before serving up a 7th-inning 3-run home run to lose to the Phillies 3 - 1. The home run is the first for Phils rookie Mike Schmidt.
1972 - At Wrigley, Glenn Beckert sets a dubious major-league record by stranding 12 base runners but his Cubs beat the Mets, 18 - 5. The Cubs jump first, knocking out Tom Seaver in just two 1/3 innings. After Seaver loads the bases on walks in the 3rd, pitcher Burt Hooton homers. Chicago garners 15 walks, with Elrod Hendricks walking five straight times, a National League record. Cubs 2B Glenn Beckert sets a dubious major-league record when he strands 12 baserunners.
1972 - Phillies' rookie third baseman Mike Schmidt hits his first career home run breaking Expos' Balor Moore's 25 consecutive scoreless inning streak. Michael Jack Schmidt will finish his 18-year career with 548 round-trippers.
1975 - Rennie Stennett ties Wilbert Robinson's ML record, set June 10, 1892, by going 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game. The Pirates 2B collects two hits each in the first and 5th innings, and scores five of his club's runs in a 22 - 0 massacre of the Cubs, a major-league record for the biggest score in a shut out game in the 20th century. John Candelaria pockets the easy win, while Rick Reuschel is the loser. His brother Paul Reuschel, along with Tom Dettore, Oscar Zamora, and Buddy Schultz also pitch for Chicago.
1975 - Rennie Stennett ties a major league mark established in 1892 going 7-for-7 in a nine-inning game. The Pirates' second baseman gets two hits in one inning (1st and 5th) twice helping make the game the most one-sided shutout since 1900, as the Bucs crush the Cubs at Wrigley Field, 22-0.
1975 - At Fenway, Luis Tiant shuts out the Orioles, 2 - 0 for the Red Sox. It's the Senor's 1st shutout of the year after leading the American League in 1974.
1977 - Seattle and Doc Medich beat Kansas City 4 - 1 to end the Royals' winning streak at 16 games"”the longest in the majors in 24 years.
1978 - With 55,091 looking on, the Yankees snap a 2 - 2 tie with a 9th inning triple by Willie Randolph and a sacrifice fly by Thurman Munson to beat the Red Sox, 3 - 2. New York now leads by three 1/2 games. The Yanks first score on a Reggie Jackson 2-run blast in the 5th. Both starters, Catfish Hunter and Mike Torrez, go the distance.
1979 - At Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Bombers hold Catfish Hunter Day to honor their future Hall of Fame pitcher who will be retiring at the end of the season at the age of 33. A 20-year-old left-hander named Dave Righetti makes his major league debut for the home town team.
1979 - Willie Wilson hits his 5th inside-the-park homer this season in a 6 - 3 loss to Seattle at Kansas City. It is the most IPHR hit in a season since Kiki Cuyler hit eight for the Pirates in 1925.
1983 - Minnesota's Tim Teufel goes 5-for-5 with a triple and the first two home runs of his ML career in an 11 - 4 win over the Blue Jays.
1985 - Detroit's Nelson Simmons hits a home run from each side of the plate, the first Tiger to do so. But the Orioles answer with six homers of their own in overpowering the Tigers, 14 - 7. Cal Ripken hit is 2nd homer of the game in the 8th, and Eddie Murray and Fred Lynn followed with successive homers. The three straight ties a Birds record.
1987 - In a 6 - 4 win, California's Bob Boone catches his 1,919th ML game to break the record held by Hall of Famer Al Lopez.
1987 - Cleveland's Joe Carter joins the 30-30 club, stealing his 30th base of the season in a 5 - 3 loss to Seattle.
1987 - Stealing his 30th base, a career-high, Indian Joe Carter becomes the ninth major leaguer to hit 30 home runs and to swipe 30 bases in the same season.
1988 - Reds' Tom Browning pitches a perfect game against the Dodgers striking out eight and allowing only eight balls to be hit out of the infield in his 1-0 victory. Over three starts including the perfect game he retires 40 consecutive batters - one shy of a major league record.
1988 - Cincinnati's Tom Browning pitches the 14th perfect game in ML history, striking out seven in a 1 - 0 win over the Dodgers. Tracy Woodson strikes out to end the only no-hitter in the major leagues this season.
1990 - Cleveland trades pending free agent Bud Black (11 - 10) to Toronto for Mauro Gozzo, Steve Cummings, and Alex Sanchez. Black will sign with the Giants on November 9.
1990 - Pirates ace John Smiley (12 - 7) scatters nine hits to top the Cubs Greg Maddux (17 - 12). The Bucs win 8 - 6, but the Cubs still lead by five 1/2 games over the Mets and Cardinals.
1991 - Kevin Tapani (15-8) becomes the Twins third 15-game winner, pitching a 3-hitter for seven 2/3 inning against the Royals. The Twins win, 9 - 0, jumping on Mark Gubicza. Tapani is 13 - 2 since June 5.
1991 - It's a day for suspensions. Atlanta OF Otis Nixon is suspended for 60 days (the remainder of the season) for violating baseball's drug policy. Nixon, who had been arrested on charges of cocaine possession in 1987, is currently leading the National League with 72 SBs. He will miss the NL playoffs due to the suspension. Cincinnati P Norm Charlton is suspended for seven days and fined an undisclosed amount for admitting he intentionally threw at Dodgers C Mike Piazza in a game played on September 9th.
1991 - Bonehead baserunning almost costs the Dodgers a win over the Reds. With one out in the 11th, and the score 3 - 3, L.A. has Jose Offerman on 3B, with Brett Butler on 1B. When Lenny Harris hits a ground ball, Offerman tries to score but fails to touch the plate and is tagged out on the throw. Harris is called out for passing Butler, who inexplicably stands watching the play. But the Dodgers rally with three runs in the 12th to win, 6 - 5. Eddie Murray hits his 1st triple of the year and Eric Karros has his 1st ML hit, a double, before Joey Hamilton's game winning single. L.A. sets a NL-record in the four 1/2 hour marathon by using 27 player, including nine pitchers. The Reds use 19.
1991 - Barry Bonds homers and drives in his 100th run for the 2nd consecutive season, just the 8th Pirate to accomplish that. Pittsburgh beats the Cubs, 9 - 2,
1991 - The Braves blow a 3-run lead and lose to the Giants, 8 - 5, at Candlestick Park. Darren Lewis scores half the Giants runs.
1992 - The Cubs blow out the Phils 14 - 9 to give Greg Maddux his 18th win. Maddux gives up three earned runs in six innings. Led by Andre Dawson's four hits, the first four hitters collect 11 hits and 11 ribbies for the Cubs. Dave Hollins homers for the Phils, while Dawson, Ryne Sandberg and Rick Wilkins go deep for Chicago. Mark Grace makes his an error, ending his streak of 102 errorless games at 1B; his streak began after two errors on May 18 vs. the Dodgers.
1992 - White Sox 1B Frank Thomas gets five hits, all singles, in Chicago's 9 - 6 win over the Yankees. Rookie Sterling Hitchcock loses his 1st ML decision.
1993 - Dave Winfield of the Twins singles for the 3,000th hit of his career, making him the 19th player to reach that mark. Dennis Eckersley serves up a single in the 9th as Minnesota tops the Athletics by a score of 5 - 4.
1993 - At the age of 41, Twins' Dave Winfield becomes the 19th major leaguer to collect 3000 hits as he singles to left off A's ace Dennis Eckersley in a 5-1 home victory over Oakland.
1995 - San Diego beats the Cubs, 12 - 4, as Sammy Sosa and Ken Caminiti each pound a pair of homers. Caminiti collects one from each side of the plate. Tony Gwynn (.367) has three ribbies going 3-for-5.
1996 - Steve Finley's lead off home run in the 11th gives the Padres a 2 - 1 over the host Giants. SF's only run is Barry Bonds 40th, and he joins Hank Aaron and Jose Canseco as the only players with 40 home runs and 30 stolen bases in a season.
1996 - A fifth inning triple off of Royals' pitcher Jose Rosado gives Twins' Paul Molitor 3000 hits, and he will become the first major leaguer to accomplish this milestone in the same season in which he also collects 200 hits. It is the first time a three-bagger is a career 3000th hit.
1996 - The Mariners stop the Rangers, 6 - 0, as Jamie Moyer pitches eight innings of hitless ball. Edgar Martinez collects his 50th double, just the 5th player this century to hit 50 doubles in two straight years.
1996 - Backed by two 3-run homers from Tim Raines, celebrating his 37th birthday, Jimmy Key stops the Blue Jays, 10 - 0. Raines 2nd home run, a 457 blast to the Stadium CF, is the longest hit by a Yankee this year. The Yanks are now three games up in the American League East.
1996 - Paul Molitor of the Twins triples in the 5th inning of Minnesota's 6-5 loss to KC for his 3,000th big league hit. He becomes the 1st major leaguer to get 200 hits in the same season in which he reached 3,000. Teammate Chuck Knoblauch gets his 1,000th hit in the same game.
1996 - In their 5 - 2 loss to the Braves, Mets OF Lance Johnson hits his 20th triple. He's the first NLer to reach that plateau since Willie Mays in 1957.
1997 - For the 2nd straight day, the Giants lose on a home run, as the Braves win, 6 - 4. Eddie Perez's grand slam in the 6th gives the Braves a ML record-tying 11 slams for the year.
1997 - In Philadelphia, Curt Schilling retires the first 22 Mets batters to lead the Phils to a 3 - 2 win. He also passes the 300-strikeout mark when he strikes out Edgardo Alfonzo in the 4th inning, just the 13th pitcher to reach it and the first in the National League since Mike Scott in 1986. Pinch-hitter Luis Lopez breaks up Schilling's bid for a no hitter with a one-out, single to center in the eighth.
1997 - The Yankees sweep the Red Sox, winning 2 - 0 and 4 - 3. Andy Pettitte pitches eight innings in the opener, striking out career-high 12. Willie Banks is the winner in the nitecap with six 2/3 innings.
1997 - Phillies' right-hander Curt Schilling whiffs nine Mets becoming the thirteenth player in major league history since 1900 to record 300 strikeouts in a season.
1997 - In Miami, Florida's Bobby Bonilla fouls off six two-strike pitches before blasting a grand slam with two outs in the ninth inning to give the Marlins a dramatic 9 - 6 win. For Bonilla, it is his 8th career slam. Larry Walker, Andres Galarraga, and Vinny Castilla homer for Colorado, which sets an NL record with 223 homers this year.
1997 - Jimmy Key, 0 - 7 in his last nine starts at Camden Yards, beats the Cleveland Indians 7-2 to give the Orioles a split in a day-night doubleheader. Roberto Alomar has three hits and three RBIs and Brady Anderson and Rafael Palmeiro homer in the win. In the opener, Charles Nagy pitches five-hit ball into the seventh inning and Matt Williams drives home two runs to lead the Indians to a 4-2 victory.
1997 - At Wrigley Field, Kevin Tapani pitches a 1-hitter for his first NL shutout and Sammy Sosa breaks a scoreless tie with a two-run, 6th-inning homer as Chicago beats Cincinnati, 5 - 0. Bret Boone's leadoff single in the sixth is the only Reds hit.
1997 - Mark McGwire hits his 52nd home run hours after signing a three-year contract with the Cards for $28.5 million. But Cardinals' closer Dennis Eckersley collapses in the 9th and the Dodgers come back to win, 7 - 6. McGwire's 517-foot first-inning blast, the longest ever measured at Busch Stadium, ties him for the ML lead with Ken Griffey Jr.
1998 - For only the 30th time in major league history and the 12th time it has been done consecutively, four batters strike out in one inning. Thanks to Randy Knorr's passed ball, Marlin rookie Kirt Ojala accomplishes the feat in the fourth inning of the Marlins' 3-2 defeat to the Expos.
1998 - Ken Griffey Jr. steals his 20th base of the season in a 4 - 1 victory over Oakland. He becomes just the 3rd player in history to record at least 50 home runs and at least 20 stolen bases in the same season. Willie Mays and Brady Anderson are the others.
1998 - Sammy Sosa's grand slam in the 8th inning, his 63rd home run of the year, leads the Cubs to a 6 - 3 win over San Diego. He now has 154 RBIs for the season.
1998 - Montreal scores two runs in the bottom of the 9th inning to defeat Florida, 3 - 2. Rookie P Kirt Ojala, who went the distance for the Marlins, ties a major league record by striking out four Expos in the 4th inning. Ojala fans Fernando Seguignol, Vladimir Guerrero, Shane Andrews, and Brad Fullmer to become the 12th hurler in major league history to fan four batters consecutively. Guerrero reached base on a 3rd - strike passed ball.
1998 - With homers in four straight at-bats and five in two games, Cleveland's Manny Ramirez ties a major league record. The Indian right fielder, who homered in his final three at-bats last night, goes deep off of Twin Bob Tewksbury in the first and takes 3-2 pitch to left in the fifth for his fifth homer in six at-bats.
1998 - Tom Gordon ties Jose Mesa's major league 1995 single-season record with his 38th consecutive save and sets a Red Sox mark with his 41st save of the season as Boston defeats the Orioles, 4-3.
1998 - Detroit rookie P Sean Runyan makes his 84th appearance of the season in the Tigers' 2 - 1 loss to Toronto. He breaks Mike Myers' rookie record of 83 set in 1996.
1998 - In front of 49,891 patrons at San Diego's Jack Murphy Stadium, Sammy Sosa ties Mark McGwire by hitting his record-setting 63rd home run. The 434-foot eighth inning two-out blast off Brian Boehringer is a tie-breaking grand slam as 'Slammin' Sammy collects all six RBIs as the Cubs beat the Padres, 6-3.
1998 - Cleveland defeats Minnesota by a score of 8 - 6. Indians' OF Manny Ramirez homers in his 1st at bat, giving him round - trippers in four consecutive ABs to tie a major league mark. After grounding out his 2nd time up, he will homer again in the 5th inning. Matt Williams, out of action for a month with a broken wrist, homers in his first at bat since August 7.
1999 - In a 7 - 1 Kansas City win over Anaheim, Carlos Beltran collects his 100th RBI. He's the first rookie since Mark McGwire, in 1987, to reach that level.
2000 - Cub outfielder Sammy Sosa joins Mark McGwire (1997-99) as the only major leaguer to hit 50 home runs three consecutive seasons.
2000 - Seattle's Jamie Moyer (13 - 9) scatters three hits over seven scoreless innings to coast to his 11th straight win over the Orioles, winning 14 - 0. Alex Rodriguez hits his 37th home run in the 1st off Mike Mussina. Moyer, 11 - 1 against his old team, started his win streak on April 18, 1996, when he was with Boston.
2000 - The Cardinals defeat the Cubs, 7-6, despite Sammy Sosa's 50th home run of the season. Sosa becomes the 2nd player to hit 50 or more in three consecutive years, joining Mark McGwire.
2002 - Diamondback righty Curt Schilling K's his 300th victim to join Randy Johnson in becoming the first teammates to each strike out at least 300 batters in the same season.
2002 - Giant left fielder Barry Bonds walks three times breaking his own record for base on balls in a season with 178. Approximately one-third of the free passes given to the San Francisco slugger have been intentional (60 out of 178).
2007:
- Jim Thome hits his 500th home run, a two-run walk-off shot off Dustin Moseley that gives the Chicago White Sox a 9-7 victory over the Los Angeles Angels. Thome is the third player to reach the milestone in 2007, after Frank Thomas and Alex Rodriguez.
- The Dutch national team wins the 2007 European Championship for their fifth straight European Championship title. This also clinches them a spot in the 2008 Olympics. In the finale, Roger Bernadina scores three times in the 6-1 win, while David Bergman carries a no-hitter into the 7th against Great Britain.
- The Braves start three players with the same surname - 3B Chipper Jones, LF Brandon Jones and CF Andruw Jones. The last time a team had done that was the 1999 Pirates with Emil Brown, Adrian Brown and Brant Brown. The 2001 Pirates did not capitalize on the chance when they had Enrique Wilson, Jack Wilson and Craig Wilson.
- Yasuhiko Yabuta plunks Greg LaRocca with a pitch. It is the 24th time this year LaRocca has been hit by a pitch, tying the Nippon Pro Baseball record.