September 18

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1889 - The Browns' Tommy McCarthy steals second base, third, and home in the 7th inning of a 3 - 2 St. Louis victory in Kansas City.
1900 - The American League season ends with Chicago four games in front. Says the Reach Guide: "Effective pitching and sharp fielding were the rule as only 17 batters hit over .300. There was less disorder in the field than the other league, owing to the vigilance of Ban Johnson in protecting umpires."
1903:
- Christy Mathewson relieves Dummy Taylor with the score knotted at 5 - 5 in the 7th. The Giants then push across two runs off Jack Sutthoff and Matty wins his 29th of the year.
- The Cubs beat the Phils, 6 - 5, in the first game of a twinbill. In the second game, Chick Fraser no-hits Chicago 10 - 0 for the Phils. Peaches Graham, normally a catcher, is the loser in his only major league decision, while Fraser K's five and walks 4.
- Bill Dinneen wins his 20th as Boston defeats Cleveland, 7 - 6.
- In the absence of official sanction, the presidents of the pennant-winning clubs sign an agreement to meet in a best-of-9 series for the championship. The Pirates clinch the pennant tomorrow.
1908:
- Cleveland's Bob Rhoads pitches a no-hitter against the Red Sox 2 - 1, beating Frank Arellanes, the only Mexican-American pitcher in the ML.
- The White Sox stay close to the top when Ed Walsh tops Walter Johnson to win 1 - 0. The Sox manage just three hits off the Senators' ace.
- The largest crowd in the history of the National League - 35,000 - cheer as the Giants shove the Pirates to five games off the pace by sweeping a doubleheader. Christy Mathewson shuts out the Bucs in the first game, 7 - 0, for his 11th shutout and his 33rd win. Then the Giants collect 18 hits to take the nitecap, 12 - 7, as Hooks Wiltse and Joe McGinnity combine for the win. The other hitting occurred in the first game when Mike Donlin tired of a heckler and punched him in the eye. Police quickly moved in.
1909:
- Before 35,409, the largest paid baseball attendance ever, Chief Bender beats Bill Donovan and the Tigers 2 - 0 at Philadelphia to keep the A's in the pennant race. The A's are 14-8 against Detroit this year, setting an American League record for most wins against the pennant winner. Ty Cobb is the Triple Crown winner with a .377 BA, nine home runs (all inside-the-park), and 107 RBI. He also will lead the American League with 216 hits, 116 runs, and 296 total bases. His 76 stolen bases make him the only player ever to win a quadruple crown.
- In Pittsburgh, Vic Willis stops Brooklyn on just one hit, a topped roller in the 3rd inning by Zack Wheat. It will be the closest ever to a no-hitter by any pitcher at Forbes Field.
1911:
- With a triple steal on, the Highlanders Cozy Dolan singles in three runs in a 9 - 4 loss at Detroit. The 3 RBIs are half of Cozy's season total.
- The Giants beat Pittsburgh 7 - 2, as the Giants steal eight bases with Larry Doyle swiping home twice. New York ties a ML mark with the three steals. Christy Mathewson is the winner on a 4-hitter over Howie Camnitz, increasing the Giants' lead to five games.
1912 - Despite being rained out in Cleveland, the Red Sox (97-41) clinch the pennant when the A's lose the first game of a doubleheader with Chicago. Red Sox president Jimmy McAleer informs the Highlanders that Boston will not play a rained out game with them.
1915 - In one of the best pitched games of the year, Ernie Shore goes all the way to give Boston a 1 - 0 win over Detroit in 12 innings.
1916:
- The Giants extend their win streak to 11 games by topping the Pirates in the opener of two. The nitecap is called after eight innings with the score tied 1 - 1.
- Washington's Claude Thomas makes his first major-league start and shuts out the A's, 1 - 0.
- Ernie Shore tops the White Sox, 4 - 3. The win, coupled with Detroit's loss, allows the Red Sox to reclaim first place by .003. Boston will win three in a row from Detroit.
1917:
- For the second time this month, a pitcher beats Brooklyn twice in one day, as the Cardinals' Bill Doak wins 2 - 0 and 12 - 4. With his 14th and 15th victories, Doak picked up a bonus check as well. In a salary dispute in the spring, the Cards and Doak agreed upon a bonus if the pitcher reached 15 wins, and another bonus if he won twenty. He'll win just one more.
- The Giants suspend team captain Buck Herzog for refusing to accompany the team on its western trip. Herzog will be traded after the season.
1920 - National League directors meet in New York, NY, joined by Jacob Ruppert, Cap Huston, Charles Comiskey, and Harry Frazee of the American League. They name a committee to draw up an agreement along the lines of Albert Lasker's proposal, and give the five AL clubs still backing Ban Johnson an ultimatum: come in by November 1 or the New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, and Boston Red Sox will pull out of the AL and join a 12-team NL (with a team in Detroit, MI to complete the roster). The AL five turns it down, and bluff and counterbluff blow through the autumn air.
1922 - Whitey Witt, his head bandaged from being hit by a bottle two days before, drives in two in the 9th for a 3 - 2 New York win, and they leave St. Louis 1 1/2 in front. They will finish one game on top, clinching the pennant on the 30th with a 3 - 1 win in Boston. George Sisler's 41-game hitting streak is stopped by New York's Joe Bush, the same pitcher he had started the streak against on July 27.
1925:
- At Pittsburgh, the Pirates stop the Braves, 9 - 7. Kiki Cuyler is 4 for 4 with a double and triple and two runs to start a hit streak.
- Five days after making a start in a 4 - 3 loss to the Browns, White Sox pitcher Dickie Kerr loses his only decision this year, 11 - 6, to Washington. It's the last decision of his brilliant but short career. Kerr (21-17 in 1920; 19-17 in 1921) turned down a Sox offer of $4,500 in 1922 and signed with a Texas semi-pro team for $5,000. Commissioner Landis suspended Kerr, and he didn't return to the ML till this month. Kerr was the winner of two games in the 1919 series.
1926 - At Dunn Field, the Indians win their 4th in a row, defeating the Yanks 3 - 1, behind George Uhle. The win cuts the Yankees' American League lead to 2 1/2 games over the Tribe.
1928 - The Braves and Cubs combine for National League-record eight double plays between them, but the Cubs win the game, 8 - 3. Sheriff Blake is the winner over Johnny Cooney.
1929 - A Pirates loss to the Braves clinches the National League pennant for the Cubs.
1930:
- The Cards finish a 3-game sweep of Brooklyn at Ebbets Field.
- The Yankees edge the Browns, 7 - 6, in 10 innings as pitcher Red Ruffing hits two home runs in the winning effort.
- The Philadelphia Athletics win the American League championship for the second year in a row, defeating the White Sox, 14 - 10.
1931:
- In a 4 - 3 loss to the Cardinals, the Giants' Mel Ott is beaned by Burleigh Grimes in the 5th inning. Ott suffers a brain concussion and, with the Cardinals clinching the pennant, he sits out the rest of the season.
- Lefty Grove wins his 30th game, beating the White Sox, 3 - 1, on five hits. He is the first to win 30 since Jim Bagby of Cleveland in 1920 and will be the last American League hurler to do so until Denny McLain in 1968.
1933:
- The Cards put off the Giants' flag conquest, by attacking Carl Hubbell in the 8th to win, 4 - 3. Tex Carleton is the winner when Leo Durocher drives home the last run with a triple.
- The 2nd-place Yankees split with the White Sox, winning, 6 - 1, on Johnny Allen's 2-hitter, before falling 4 - 3. Les Tietje, in his ML debut, stops the Bombers in the nitecap. Lou Gehrig clubs home runs #28 and #29: Jimmie Foxx leads the American League with 45.
1934 - Bobo Newsom of the Browns continues the unusual, losing a no-hitter with 2 out in the 10th inning. Two walks and a single produce the game's only run as Boston's Wes Ferrell hurls a 10-hit shutout 1 - 0.
1935 - With 30,000 fans watching at Wrigley Field, first-place Chicago tallies 20 hits in thrashing the Giants, 15 - 3. Charlie Root picks up the win. The win is Chicago's 15th straight.
1936 - Larry MacPhail abruptly quits as the Reds' general manager. He will be replaced by Warren Giles.
1937 - Pittsburgh OF Paul Waner establishes a 20th-century National League record with his 8th year of 200 or more hits.
1938 - Although they drop a doubleheader to the Browns, the Yankees clinch the pennant.
1940:
- The A's are mired deep in the cellar, but Connie Mack hits all the right buttons today. He sends 4 pinch hitters to the plate in the 9th inning versus Detroit, and all 4 deliver hits.
- The Reds clinch the National League flag, outdistancing the Dodgers and the late-rushing Cardinals. Bill McKechnie's Cincinnati team makes only 117 errors during the season, 18 less than any previous team. The .981 fielding mark is the best up to this time. The defense, plus the pitching of Bucky Walters, Paul Derringer, and reliever Joe Beggs, brings the 2nd straight NL flag to the Reds, despite multiple injuries to Ernie Lombardi. The big catcher went down again September 15, and the club turns to 39-year-old coach Jimmy Wilson for some of the backstopping. Wilson will end up as a World Series hero.
1943 - The Cardinals clinch the National League pennant. Howie Pollet, Max Lanier, and Mort Cooper will rank 1-2-3 in NL ERA, and Al Brazle at 1.53 and Harry Brecheen at 2.27 are near the same level. For hitting, Redbirds prime with Whitey Kurowski, Walker Cooper, and Stan Musial, who in his 2nd season hits .357 and has 220 hits, 347 total bases, 48 doubles, 20 triples.
1950 - At Ebbets Field, Dodgers Tommy Brown hits three home runs in his team's losing effort. He is the third Dodger this year to clout three homers in one game. The Cubs' Ron Northey hits his third lifetime pinch grand slam - a record - to give Chicago a 9 - 7 win.
1951:
- In St. Louis, the Cardinals cuff Ralph Branca for a 7 - 1 win over the Dodgers. It is Brooklyn's 4th loss in seven road games. Adding insult to injury, Stan Musial and Enos Slaughter pull off a double steal with Stan scoring.
- After a day off, the Giants edge the Reds, 6 - 5, in Cincy, though Dave Koslo is touched for 13 hits. Willie Mays has two of the three Giants errors, but George Spencer saves the game in his 55th appearance.
- In the first of two games today, Browns pitcher Tommy Byrne hits a grand slam off the Senators' Sid Hudson in the 9th inning to ice the game, 8 - 0. It's the first grand slam for the Browns this year. In the nitecap, Byrne cracks a 10th-inning pinch single to give the Browns a 3 - 2 victory,
- Cleveland beats Boston, 6 - 4, as Mike Garcia wins his 20th. With the Yanks losing to Billy Pierce and Chicago, 7 - 1, the Indians and Yankees are tied for first place. This is the 10th time the two teams have been in a tie for first place, surpassing the major-league record of nine set in the National League race of 1889 and the Federal League race of 1914.
1953 - The St. Louis Cardinals appeal the U.S. claim for $215,025 in back taxes from 1947-49.
1954:
- The Indians clinch their 3rd pennant in history and the first since 1920 with a 3 - 2 win over the Tigers.
- The Giants' Don Mueller makes his 200th hit an inside-the-park home run, making him the first Giant to get 200 hits since Joe Moore in 1936. Willie Mays also has an inside-the park homer, as the Giants beat the Phils, 8 - 1.
1955 - In a 7 - 5 loss to Brooklyn, Willie Mays hits his 9th homer at Ebbets Field to tie Joe Adcock's mark.
1956:
- Mickey Mantle hits his 50th home run, only the 8th to do so, in the 11th off of Chicago's Billy Pierce, as New York wins 3 - 2 to clinch another pennant.
- Cleveland sweeps a doubleheader from Washington behind Herb Score and Mike Garcia, 1 - 0 and 6 - 0.
1958 - For the second time in a month, the first two leadoff hitters homer. This time it is KC's Bill Tuttle and Roger Maris connecting off Boston's Ted Bowsfield as the A's win, 4 - 1. Bob Cerv hits #37 for the A's and Pete Daley homers off winner Bud Daley for Boston's score.
1960:
- Pittsburgh's Vern Law joins the 20-win circle with a complete-game 5 - 3 win in the first game of a Sunday doubleheader at Cincinnati's Crosley Field.
- Don Zimmer, Ron Santo, and George Altman hit 6th-inning home runs as the Cubs beat the Dodgers, 5 - 2, at Wrigley Field. Chicago's biggest home run threat, Ernie Banks, sets a record by drawing his 27th intentional walk of the year.
- Before 53,876 fans, the Yankees sweep the Orioles, winning, 7 - 3 and 2 - 0. The Yankees sweep the 4-game series and the faltering Birds, now four back, will end up in 2nd place, eight games back. Ralph Terry's two-hitter in the nitecap beats Milt Pappas.
- Braves' hurler Lew Burdette faces the minimum 27 batters as he no-hits the Phillies, 1 - 0. Tony Gonzalez, who is hit by a pitch in the fifth inning, is erased on a double play.
- The surprising 4th-place Senators fall to a game above .500 when Ted Williams' 2-run home run off Pedro Ramos gives Boston a 2 - 1 win. Billy Muffett allows just three hits, including Jim Lemon's 38th home run, in a quick one hour, 40 minute win. A late collapse - 15 losses in the final 18 games - will drop Washington to 5th place, but that will still be the club's best finish in seven years. The club will continue its improvement in Minnesota.
1962:
- The Mets drop a pair to the visiting Colts 45s, 6 - 2 and 8 - 6, and also break the major-league record for homers allowed. Merritt Ranew and Dave Roberts connect for the Colts, the 188th and 189th homers allowed, breaking the A's mark set in 1956. Bob Aspromonte of the Colts sets a National League record for 3B with his 57th straight errorless game.
- At LA, the Aaron brothers lead the Braves to a 10 - 5 pounding of the Dodgers, and cutting the Dodger lead over the idle Giants to 3 1/2 games. Hank Aaron hits his 40th homer and Tommie Aaron accounts for three RBIs with three hits.
- At Washington's new ball park, D.C. Stadium, Mickey Mantle clouts the first home run there, and adds another, both off Washington starter Tom Cheney, to pace New York to a 7 - 1 win. Mick has five RBIs. Ralph Terry picks up his 22nd win, the most by a Yankee right-hander since 1928. The Yankee win, combined with a Twins loss, leaves New York (90-63) in 1st place by four games.
- Charlie Finley is denied permission to move the Athletics to Dallas-Ft. Worth.
1963:
- Rookie Dick Nen crushes St. Louis' pennant hopes with a 9th-inning game-tying home run off reliever Ron Taylor. Ron Perranoski wins 6 - 5 in 13 innings for a 3-game sweep of the threatening Cards. Nen's home run is his only hit in eight at bats with the Dodgers.
- The last ML game at the Polo Grounds draws 1,752 fans to see Philadelphia beat New York 5 - 1. Jim Hickman hits the final New York home run in the historic park, and Chris Short beats Craig Anderson.
1965:
- Larry Jackson of the Cubs beats the Mets, 4 - 3, for his 11th straight win over New York.
- On Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium, 50,180 fans see Mantle play his 2,000th game. Joe DiMaggio and Bobby Kennedy are on hand as Mantle is given a barbecue grill in the shape of a prairie schooner and a six-foot Kosher salami weighing 100 pounds. In Mantle's first at bat, Detroit's Joe Sparma comes off the mound to shake his hand. Mick then flies out. Detroit wins, 4 - 3, with reliever Denny McLain getting the win.
1966:
- The Twins beat the Yankees, 5 - 3 in 10 innings, on Bob Allison's pinch three-run homer, sending the Yankees to the cellar in the American League. In his last plate appearance of the year, Mickey Mantle whiffs and becomes the first player to strike out 1,500 times in his career.
- Kansas City and Washington battle with Washington winning 1 - 0 behind Phil Ortega. Blue Moon Odom blanks the Senators for 8 1/3 innings to run the A's scoreless string to 45 1/3 innings. The American League record of 47 was set by Cleveland in 1948.
1967:
- Bob Gibson pitches St. Louis to a 5 - 1 win and its 2nd pennant of the decade.
- Boston rallies to beat the 1st place Tigers in Detroit. A Carl Yastrzemski home run, his 40th, ties the game 5 - 5 in the 9th inning and a solo home run by Dalton Jones wins it in the 10th. Hours later, Detroit will receive another blow when Denny McLain leaps off a couch and sprains his left ankle. He will not pitch until the last game of the year.
- Minnesota keeps pace by beating Kansas City 2 - 0 behind Jim Kaat's 6-hitter. The White Sox lose 3 - 2 to the Angels when Rick Reichardt hits a 9th-inning RBI single. Boston, Detroit, and Minnesota are now tied for 1st, with Chicago in 4th place, a half-game back.
1968 - Sixteen hours after Gaylord Perry's feat, Ray Washburn of the Cards makes ML history by hurling a 2nd consecutive no-hitter in one park. Run-scoring hits by Mike Shannon and Curt Flood at Candlestick Park down the Giants, 2 - 0.
1970 - The Cubs sweep a pair from Montreal, winning 3 - 2 and 5 - 4. Fergie Jenkins wins his 20th in game 1, helped by Billy Williams' 40th homer of the year. Phil Regan is the victor in game 2.
1971 - San Diego's Clay Kirby allows just one hit - a wind-blown homer in the 8th by Willie McCovey - in beating the Giants, 2 - 1. Despite the loss, the Giants retain their 2-game edge over the Dodgers. The Padres score their first run on a squeeze by Enzo Hernandez. For Hernandez, his bunt gives him 12 RBIs: his 12 RBIs in 549 at bats is the fewest in history by anyone with 500 at bats.
1975 - The New York Mets defeat the Chicago Cubs, 7 - 5, at Shea Stadium. Dave Kingman sets a team record with his 35th home run of the season to win it in the ninth inning. Rusty Staub becomes the first Mets' player to reach 100 RBIs in a season with a 2-run homer in the fifth.
1976:
- In his last major league at-bat, future Hall of Fame Cleveland player-manager Frank Robinson strokes a pinch-hit single against the Orioles.
- The Phillies finally win, topping the host Cubs, 4 - 1, as Jay Johnstone leads with four hits. It is the first-place Phillies' 6th win in their last 24 games.
- Tom Seaver cuts down the Pirates for the 2nd time in six days, this time winning 6 - 2 at Shea Stadium. Dave Kingman belts his 35th homer and Ed Kranepool adds another for the Mets.
1977:
- Spoiling Brooks Robinson Night in Baltimore, Boston's Ted Cox goes 4 for 4 in his first ML game, a 10 - 4 win over the Orioles. Cox will get two more hits tomorrow before making an out against the Yankees, setting a major-league record for straight hits at the start of a career.
- After losing five of his last six decisions, Chicago's Rick Reuschel notches his 20th victory beating the Mets, 6 - 5. Reuschel leaves after six innings because of a blister, but racks up two hits and three ribbies at the plate.
1979 - Yanks manager Billy Martin reportedly pays rookie P Bob Kammeyer $100 to hit former Yankee Cliff Johnson with a pitch in Cleveland's 16 - 3 rout of the Yankees. Johnson belts two homers as does Toby Harrah and the two combine for nine RBIs. The loss goes to Paul Mirabella but Kammeyer gives up all eight Tribe scores in the 4th inning without recording an out.
1980:
- At Milwaukee, the Twins lose 9 - 8 to the Brewers, wasting Gary Ward's hitting for the cycle.
- Willie Wilson steals second and third base in the 2nd inning of Kansas City's 5 - 2 win over the Angels, giving him an American League-record 28 consecutive stolen bases without being caught. Ron LeFlore had set the previous record in 1978.
1981 - The Brewers top the Orioles, 5 - 1, to move into 1st place in the American League East by 1/2 game.
1984:
- Tim Raines becomes the first player in ML history with four consecutive 70-stolen-base seasons by stealing four in Montreal's 7 - 4 win over St. Louis.
- The Tigers clinch the American League East championship with a 3 - 0 win over the Brewers as starter Randy O'Neal records his first ML win. Detroit becomes the 4th team this century to be in first place every day of the season, joining the 1923 Giants, the 1927 Yankees, and the 1955 Dodgers.
1985 - Catcher Rich Gedman hits for the cycle and drives in seven runs as the Red Sox rout Toronto, 13 - 1.
1986 - For the second time in his career, Reggie Jackson belts three homers in a game in a 18 - 3 laugher over Kansas City. At the age of 40 years, four months, Reggie joins Stan Musial and Babe Ruth as the only 40+ player to accomplish the feat. Reggie scores four times and has seven RBIs
1987 - In Detroit's 7 - 6 win over the Brewers, Darrell Evans belts his 40th homer of the year. He is the first 40-year-old to hit 40 homers.
1988 - Baltimore's Bob Milacki allows one hit over eight innings in his ML debut and Tom Niedenfuer pitches the 9th to complete a 2 - 0 one-hitter against the Tigers.
1990 - In Toronto, the Red Sox beat the Jays, 6 - 3, to cut Toronto's lead to two games over Baltimore. Boston has now won four out of five in the SkyDome, but has a 15-game losing streak to the Blue Jays at Fenway Park.
1991:
- San Diego's Tony Gwynn undergoes arthroscopic surgery to repair cartilage damage in his left knee. Gwynn has missed 11 of the Padres' last 17 games. He has just four hits in his last 27 at bats and has fallen behind Hal Morris in the batting race.
- Despite Cal Ripken's 30th homer of the year, Baltimore loses to Boston, 7 - 5. With 42 doubles already, Cal is the first SS in ML history to top 30 home runs and 40 doubles in the same year.
- In Toronto's 5 - 3 win over Seattle, Toronto's Rob Ducey is knocked unconscious in a collision at the plate with Seattle C Scott Bradley. Unlike most catchers, Bradley keeps his mask on for throws from the OF, and Ducey hits his head on the mask.
1992 - Pittsburgh's Barry Bonds hits his 30th home run of the season off Philadelphia's Terry Mulholland in the Pirates' 5 - 2 win over the Phillies. Bonds thus becomes the 5th player in history to have a pair of 30-HR, 30-stolen bases seasons. The others include his father, Willie Mays, Howard Johnson, and Ron Gant.
1993 - Trailing by two runs with two outs in the bottom of ninth, Mike Stanley hits a pop fly to left for the apparent third out, but time had been called just as the pitch was delivered due to a fan running out onto the Yankee Stadium field. Given a second chance, the Yankee catcher singles which is followed by a Wade Boggs's hit, a walk to Dion James, and a Don Mattingly single driving in two runs to beat the Red Sox, 4 - 3.
1995:
- Gary Sheffield follows up his 5 for 5 performance of yesterday with three hits in three at bats - 8 straight hits - for seven RBIs, in Florida's 13 - 10 loss to Philadelphia. Sheffield, who was on the disabled list, will hit 10 homers and a club record 27 RBI in September.
- The owners hire New York City labor commissioner Randy Levine as their chief labor negotiator.
1996:
- Boston's Roger Clemens fans 20 Detroit Tigers, without walking a single batter, to tie his record for most strikeouts in a 9-inning game. The Rocket holds the Tigers to four hits en route to a 4 - 0 shutout.
- Cincinnati OF Kevin Mitchell is suspended by the Reds for the final 13 games of the season. After receiving permission to stay behind in San Diego on an off day, Mitchell did not show up in Pittsburgh as expected yesterday or today, precipitating the suspension.
1997 - At San Francisco, Brian Johnson homers in the 12th inning to give the Giants a 6 - 5 win over the Dodgers and a tie for the lead in the National League West. Rod Beck gives up three singles in the 10th, but K's Todd Zeile and gets Eddie Murray on a double play.
1998:
- The White Sox sell C Chad Kreuter to the Angels.
- Mark McGwire hits home run #64 as he leads the Cardinals to a 5 - 2 win over the Brewers.
- Houston's Randy Johnson loses his no-hit bid in the 7th but improves his National League record to 9-1, beating the Pirates, 5 - 2. The Big Unit allows four hits.
- Frank Thomas notches his 100th RBI - the 8th straight year he's reached that level - by clouting a 2-run home run in Chicago's 11 - 9 win over Boston. Thomas' home run is one of seven in the game in which 32 hits are registered.
1999:
- The Rangers defeat the Devil Rays, 6 - 1. Tampa Bay P Jim Morris makes his ML debut by fanning Royce Clayton in the 8th inning. At 36, he becomes the oldest rookie pitcher since Diomedes Olivo (age 40) with Pittsburgh in 1960. Morris was a high school baseball coach and science teacher just four months ago when he tried out at the urging of his players. His life story will be turned into a movie.
- Slammin' Sammy Sosa becomes the first player in major league history to hit 60 homers twice. The Cub outfielder hits his milestone round-tripper off Brewer hurler Jason Bere.
2000:
- Pitching a one-hitter against the Yankees, Indian hurler Bartolo Colon nearly ends the longest streak in major league history of a team being held hitless by its opponents. The Bronx Bombers have not been denied a hit in a game since Hoyt Wilhelm did it on September 9, 1958 spanning a total of 6,637 contests.
- The Braves defeat the Mets, 6 - 3, as Greg Maddux extends his scoreless streak to 29 innings.
2001 - The Rockies came back from a 6 - 0 deficit in the first inning, in which they make five errors, and pound Curt Schilling to defeat the Diamondbacks 10 - 9. The Rocks win it on dramatic back-to-back homers by Todd Helton and Jeff Cirillo off Byung-Hyun Kim in the bottom of the 9th. The D-Backs' lead over San Francisco is now just 1 1/2 games.
2002 - The Diamondbacks trounce the Padres, 10 - 3, as 1B Greg Colbrunn hits for the cycle. Colbrunn adds a 2nd home run among five hits and drives home four runs for Arizona. Colbrunn is the first player to hit two home runs in a game while hitting for the cycle since George Brett (May 28, 1979).
2007 - The second Bricktown Showdown is played and the Sacramento River Cats top the Richmond Braves, 7 - 1. Kazuhito Tadano gets the win while Blaine Boyer takes the loss. Lou Merloni drives in four to win the MVP award while Brant Colamarino hits a 2-run homer.
2009:
- Ichiro Suzuki hits a two-out, two-run homer off Yankee closer Mariano Rivera to give Seattle a 3 - 2 win.
- Scott Kazmir pitches 6 scoreless innings for his first win with the Angels, 2 - 0 over Texas. Vladimir Guerrero hits a home run.