September 19

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1900 - St. Louis C Wilbert Robinson objects to umpire Jim Gaffney calling a Brooklyn runner safe at home, and throws the ball at the ump. Gaffney swings his mask at Robby and tosses him out of the game. Cardinals captain John McGraw refuses to put in another catcher, claiming one is injured and the other suspended. The ump forfeits the game to the Superbas. The Brooklyn fans object to the suspension of play and President Ebbets refunds money to those who want it.
1901 - All games are canceled out of respect for the funeral of President William McKinley, who died September 14th from gunshot wounds.
1903 - Jake Weimer picks up his 21st victory, allowing just four New York hits in beating the Giants, 3-0. Christy Mathewson allows just four hits as well, but four walks and two errors helped him to lose his 13th. The Cubs are a game behind the Giants.
1903 - Cleveland's Ed Killian loses to the Red Sox when he gives up a home run to Fred Parent. Killian will pitch 1001 innings before serving up another roundtripper, to Socks Seybold, on August 7, 1907.
1905 - At Philadelphia, the Phils stop the Giants, 3-2, then manage just two hits in losing 2-1 to Christy Mathewson. For Matty, it is his 11th straight win.
1906 - At Boston, Chicago clinches the NL pennant by topping Boston 3-1. Ed Reulbach is the winner.
1908 - Ed Reulbach pitches 10 innings in the 2nd game of a doubleheader against the Phils before the 0-0 game is called on account of darkness.
1908 - More than 30,000 fans in New York watch the Pirates snap a 2-2 tie in the 10th by scoring four runs.. Lefty Leifield picks up the win for Pittsburgh.
1910 - A game between Mobile and Atlanta (Southern Association) takes just 32 minutes to complete. The game is conducted as an experiment with batters swinging at every good pitch and little time taken between pitches. There are no strikeouts and one walk as Mobile wins 2 - 1.
1912 - At Cleveland, the Red Sox lose an unusual doubleheader to the Cleveland Naps. Cleveland takes the lidlifter, 9 - 3, when the game is called on account of rain after five innings. The rain stops and the second game begins, only to be called after six innings because of darkness. The Naps win, 6 - 0.
1912 - In New York, the Reds end Jeff Tesreau's win streak at 7, beating him, 2 - 1. The 2nd game ends in a 2 - 2 tie.
1913 - The Giants continue to both lead the league and sport cold bats, barely holding on to split with the Cardinals. Christy Mathewson drops the opener, 1 - 0, in 10 innings when Fred Snodgrass misplays a fly ball into a triple. New York takes the nitecap, 2 - 0.
1914 - Ed Lafitte pitches a 6 - 2 no-hitter for the Brooklyn Tip-Tops (FL) over the Kansas City Packers. Wildness costs him the two runs. He will lead the FL with 127 walks.
1914 - Before the Phils-Cards game, Alexander is presented with a check for $1,000 for winning 25 games. Alex proceeds to win his 25th, allowing just two hits while fanning 11.
1915 - In a Sunday game in St. Louis, the Phils win, 6 - 2, behind Grover Alexander.
1916 - At Philadelphia, the White Sox tie a major-league record when three pinch runners score in the 9th inning. The Sox win, 5 - 4, over the A's.
1916 - Phils ace Pete Alexander gives up two runs, both unearned, and loses to the Cubs, 2 - 0. Hippo Vaughn outduels Alex as the Phils fall two games behind Brooklyn.
1917 - In the first of two, the host Red Sox make eight errors to help the Tigers to a 5 - 2 win.
1920 - Behind Jim Bagby, the Indians top the Red Sox, 2 - 0, in a Sunday game at home. It is Bagby's 29th win of the year and keeps the Indians one 1/2 games ahead of Chicago.
1920 - In New York, Babe Ruth's movie opens at Madison Square Garden. It has been retitled Heading Home. In St. Louis, the Browns beat the Yankees 6 - 1. The White Sox top the A's to stay one 1/2 game behind the Tribe.
1922 - Against the Senators Walter Johnson, Ken Williams hit his 39th home run of the year in the 4th, and Pat Collins, subbing for Sisler at 1B, adds another solo home run in the 7th to give the Browns a 2 - 1 lead. But the Senators rally to win, 4-3, with Walter Johnson earning the win over Elam Vangilder. Sisler pinch hits and strikes out. Washington will win again tomorrow, 5 - 0.
1924 - The Senators coast to a 15 - 9 win in St. Louis to stay even with the Yankees.
1925 - In St. Louis, the Cardinals rollover Brooklyn, 15 - 3, behind Wee Willie Sherdel. In the 7th inning, the Red Birds rub it in with two steals of home, tying a ML record. It's the last time it's been done in the National League. Oakland stole home twice in the 1st inning in May 28, 1980.
1925 - The Pirates pip the Braves, 2 - 1, as Cuyler has his second straight 4-for-4 game. The two teams total 23 hits "”Pittsburgh 13"”but score just three runs.
1925 - In the 2nd game of a twinbill, the White Sox take a 15 - 0 lead against Washington after five innings, but Chicago P Ted Lyons will have to pitch to 18 different batters as Senators manager Bucky Harris juggles his lineup and sends in pinch hitters. With a no-hitter going, Lyons continues to bear down. Finally, with two out in the 9th, Washington's Bobby Veach gets a base hit to break the no-hitter. The final is 17-0 for Lyons with Tom Zachary taking the loss. Washington outfielder Sam Rice's streak of nine hits in a row is stopped, but he will end the season with 182 singles, an American League record until 1980. Washington takes the opener, 3 - 2, behind Dutch Ruether.
1925 - Eppa Rixey becomes the 2nd Reds P to win 20, this season, beating the Phillies, 7 - 2. The Reds big three of Donohue, Rixey and Luque will finish 1-2-3 in innings pitched.
1925 - White Sox Ted Lyons loses his no-hit bid when Senator Bobby Veach hits safely with two outs in the ninth. Washington's outfielder Sam Rice's streak of nine consecutive hits is stopped.
1925 - At Chicago, the Cubs beat the Giants, 6 - 2, behind Sheriff Blake. Taking the loss is Jack Scott, the first of 10 straight losses the Cubs will hand him.
1926 - At Cleveland's League Park, a crowd of 31,000 watch the Yankees hold back the Indians, 8 - 3, in the final of a six game series. In the 7th, Ruth parks his 43rd homer of the year and Lou Gehrig follows with another home run, both off Emil Levsen. Gehrig adds three doubles and five RBIs to lead the Yankee charge. Dutch Ruether picks up the New York win.
1926 - The White Sox beat Boston 6 - 3, the same score as yesterday, to complete a five game sweep of the Bosox in Chicago.
1929 - Joe Sewell sets a major league record by playing in his 115th consecutive game without striking out. The Indian third baseman will be fanned only four times in 578-at-bats this season.
1931 - Lefty Grove becomes the first pitcher since 1920 to win 30 games when he beats the White Sox, 2-1.
1933 - The Yankees pile up 34 hits and drub the White Sox twice, 10 - 1 and 10 - 3. George Uhle and Charley Devans are the recipients of the offensive largesse. Joe Sewell has six hits for the afternoon, while Lou Gehrig has six RBIs. Gehrig hits #30 in game one, following immediately after Walker hits a homer. Lou is now even with Babe Ruth, who sat out the afternoon.
1933 - Although they lose to St. Louis 12 - 3, the Giants clinch the pennant when runner-up Pittsburgh splits a pair in Philadelphia.
1934 - Tom Yawkey decides to eliminate advertising on fences at Fenway Park.
1935 - Dizzy Dean tops Brooklyn 9 - 1 as Frisch and Charley Gelbert each have three hits for St. Louis.
1935 - The Cubs complete a 4-game sweep of the Giants, beating Carl Hubbell for their 16th straight win, 6 - 1. Billy Herman has three hits and is 11-for-18 in the series with the Giants. The 16 wins in a row is most in the NL since the 1924 Dodgers won 15. Giants manager Bill Terry tells reporters that, "the Cubs will win . . . they are playing way over their heads."
1935 - The Cubs win their 16th consecutive game as they beat Carl Hubbell completing a four-game sweep of the Giants. The mark is the most since the 1924 Dodgers won 15 straight games.
1937 - Hank Greenberg's HR in Detroit's 8-1 win over New York is the first ever hit into the CF stands at Yankee Stadium.
1937 - Tigers' first baseman Hank Greenberg's becomes the first player to hit a homer into the center field bleachers at Yankee Stadium.
1939 - Ted Williams hits a HR off Thornton Lee, one of 31 HRs he will hit in his rookie season. Williams will homer off Thornton's son, Ron Lee, 21 years later.
1946 - Washington's Sherry Robertson leads off with a home run against Cleveland. It is his 2nd consecutive leadoff HR, having connected yesterday in Detroit.
1950 - Stan Musial hits a homer to pace the Cards to an 8 - 7 win against Boston. Musial will finish the year at .346 to win his fourth batting title.
1951 - At Wrigley Field, the Phils Bubba Church (15-10) defeats the Cubs, 5 - 1, for his 10th win in a row over the Cubs in his two years with Philadelphia. Bob Rush takes the loss.
1951 - Larry Doby of the Indians walks five times in a 15-2 cakewalk over the Red Sox in Boston. Early Wynn picks up his 20th win. Cleveland now returns home for with five of six games against Detroit; their record is 16 - 1 against the Tigers.
1951 - The Yankees are victorious when Mickey Mantle hits a 3-run homer off Chicago's Lou Kretlow to win, 5 - 3. A small crowd of 12,127 watch the game at the Stadium. The two teams have been tied now for 11 days. The Yanks now have nine games left, eight against Boston.
1951 - Indian Larry Doby walks five times in a 15-2 drubbing of the Red Sox as Early Wynn picks up his 20th victory.
1951 - In St. Louis, Preacher Roe is given a Cadillac by his neighbors from the Ozarks, then pitches a 3 - 0 five hitter over the Cards. Roe is now 21 - 2. Filling in for the ailing Campanella, backup catcher Mickey Livingston has two RBI.
1955 - Cubs' infielder Ernie Banks hit his fifth grand slam of the season to establish a new major league mark, but Rip Repulski's 12th inning homer off of Jim Davis proves to be the difference as the Cardinals beat Chicago, 6-5.
1955 - Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 5th grand slam of the season to set a new ML mark, but the Cubs lose 6-5 in 12 innings, to the Cardinals.
1956 - In a rain-shortened 6 inning game, Bob Lemon of the Indians wins 6-0 for his 20th victory of the year.
1956 - For the 3rd time in his career, P Don Newcombe hits 2 HRs in one game in a 17-2 laugher. The win puts the Dodgers a half game in front of the Braves.
1960 - Chicago's pennant hopes are damaged with a nitecap 7 - 6 loss to the Tigers, after they win the opener, 8 - 4. Pinch hitter Norm Cash scores the decisive run in game 2. Cash thus ends his year by grounding into no double plays, the 1st ALer since league records on this were started in 1940. Teammate Dick McAuliffe and Roger Repoz will duplicate this in 1968.
1961 - The Giants clobber Warren Spahn for four home runs, one of them a grand slam by Willie Mays, and then rally in the 8th and 9th to top the Braves, 11 - 10. The two teams combine for eight home runs and 57 total bases, but the short ball wins it -- Harvey Kuenn's tie breaking single in the 8th, and Ed Bailey's sacks full single in the 9th.
1962 - Walter Bond and John Romano twice hit back-to-back home runs for the Indians to help beat the Athletics., 10 - 9. They both hit doubles as well"”a ML first when added to the back-to-backs"” as Bond collects six RBIs and Romano 4. Dick Donovan gains his 20th win, though he is chased in the 6th.
1963 - At Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, 476 lonely fans watch the Angels and Orioles game. The Angels win, 7 - 2, behind Bo Belinsky.
1964 - The Colt 45s drop Harry Craft (61-88) as manager. He is replaced by Lum Harris.
1964 - The Yanks move a half game ahead of the rained-out O's by defeating the A's, 8 - 3. Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris homer and Ralph Terry pitches effectively in relief of Al Downing.
1964 - The Dodger-Phils matchup in Los Angeles goes 15 innings, when with two outs in the bottom of the 16th, Willie Davis singles, steals 2nd, and takes 3rd on a wild pitch. With rookie reliever Morrie Steevens making his first ML appearance, Davis swipes home to give the Dodgers the 4 - 3 win. His steal of home is the latest in any game in the National League and ties Hal Trosky's 16th-inning swipe of home in a 1944 game. The Phils now lead by five 1/2.
1964 - In the 1st game of a doubleheader, the Reds stun the Cardinals 7 - 5 when Frank Robinson connects for a 3-run 9th inning home run off Bob Gibson. The Cards take the 2nd, 2 - 0, scoring both runs on C Don Pavletich's throwing error on a double steal. Ray Sadecki wins his 18th.
1966 - Drysdale stops the Phils, 6 - 1, for a needed Dodgers win.
1966 - Dan Topping sells his 10 percent stock interest in the Yankees to CBS and resigns as club president. CBS executive Mike Burke succeeds him.
1967 - Wes Westrum (57-94) resigns as manager of the Mets following a 4 - 3 loss to the Dodgers. Coach Salty Parker takes over and will be 4-7 for the rest of the season. Two days later the board of directors announces it will try to obtain Gil Hodges as manager.
1967 - Boston rallies again to beat Detroit 4 - 2, scoring three runs in the 9th inning. Jose Santiago (10 - 4) wins for the 2nd time in two days. The loss drops Detroit from 1st place down to 4th. Dave Boswell throws a 2-hitter to give the Twins an 8 - 2 win over the Royals. Joel Horlen wins his 18th game, a 3 - 0 blanking of the Angels, to leave the Sox in 3rd place, a half-game behind the co-leaders, Boston and the Twins.
1968 - Denny McLain's 31st win is overshadowed by Mickey Mantle's 535th homer. McLain allegedly calls C Jim Price out and tells him to inform Mantle he's throwing the slugger nothing but fastballs. The home run gives Mantle undisputed hold of 3rd place on the all-time home run list. Mantle tips his cap to Denny as he rounds 3B. Pepitone, the next batter, signals where he would like the ball, and McLain dusts him. The Tigers win the game, 6 - 2, the 12th straight complete game for the Tigers staff.
1969 - Hank Bauer is fired as manager of the Athletics. John McNamara takes over.
1970 - The Giants Gaylord Perry retires the first 19 batters and settles for 3-hitter in beating the Padres, 3 - 0. It is Perry's 4th straight shut out.
1970 - Boston's Billy Conigliaro connects for a 4th inning home run off Washington's Jim Hannan, and in the 7th frame, brother Tony Conigliaro wallops a solo shot off Joe Grzenda. The Red Sox win 11 - 3 after taking the first game, 7 - 3. The brothers also homered in the same game on July 4. Billy will end the year with 18 home runs, while Tony will connect for 36. Frank Howard is frustrated with five strikeouts in game 1.
1970 - Syracuse (International League) beats Omaha (American Association) 5 - 3 in 11 innings, thereby winning the Junior World Series.
1971 - Dodgers Al Downing and Don Sutton hurl shutouts during a 12 - 0, 4 - 0 doubleheader triumph over the Braves. The Dodgers have 19 hits in the opener, including four by Davis. LA now trails the Giants by one 1/2 games.
1972 - The Twins Cesar Tovar hits for the cycle as Minnesota beats Texas, 5 - 3.
1972 - In a 15-inning contest with Chicago, the A's set an extra-inning record by using 30 players, including six second baseman and 10 pinch hitters. Together the two clubs use 51 players, another record. Oakland still loses, 8 - 7.
1973 - Braves' Davey Johnson hits his 43rd (42nd as a second baseman) homer tying Rogers Hornsby's record for the most home runs for a second baseman.
1973 - In San Francisco, Fred Norman pitches a 2-hitter as the Reds beat the Giants, 5 - 1.
1973 - Chicago's Ron Santo and Billy Williams celebrate their long association together by each hitting their 20th homer of the season in an 8 - 6 win over Montreal. It is number 325 for Santo and 376 for Williams in more than 2,000 games together.
1973 - The Angels down the Rangers 6 - 2 and 9 - 4 at Arlington Stadium. Frank Robinson homers in the 32nd different park of his ML career"”a record.
1976 - Catfish Hunter notches his 200th career victory as the Yankees stop Milwaukee 2 - 1. Since 1901, only Christy Mathewson and Pete Alexander have hit the 200 mark before their 31st birthday, but arm trouble will limit Catfish to 224 wins. He'll win 17 this year, after five straight 20-win seasons.
1977 - Former catcher Paddy Livingston dies at age 97, in Cleveland, OH. He was the last surviving player from the American League's first season (1901).
1977 - With two singles in his first two at bats, Ted Cox ties and then breaks Senators' Cecil Travis 1933 record of five consecutive hits at the start of a career. The Red Sox rookie designated hitter had gone 4-for-4 in Baltimore yesterday and is 6-for-6 in his first six major league plate appearances.
1978 - The Phils lose to Montreal, 5 - 2, and now lead the Pirates by one game with 12 to play. Rookie Scott Sanders stops the Quakers. The Phils are 19-18 since August 12.
1978 - During a 12 - 11 win over the Cubs, the Pirates' 38-year-old, lead-footed Willie Stargell attempts to steal 2B. The Cubs' SS waits with the ball as Stargell slides 10 feet short of the base, signaling "time-out." The Pirates led 11 - 2 in the 7th, but the Cubs rally and tie it in the 9th. Dave Parker homers in 11th off Bruce Sutter to give the Bucs their 7th straight win and 30th in their last 38 since August 12. Besides his two homers, Parker adds two run scoring singles.
1980 - At Tiger Stadium, Al Kaline becomes the first player in franchise history to have his uniform number retired. The Hall of Famer, who wore the number 6, roamed the outfield for Detroit from 1953 to 1974.
1980 - The Reds light up Jerry Reuss (17-6) for eight runs in two innings, en route to a 10 - 7 win over the Dodgers. Reuss serves up a grand slam to Johnny Bench, the 9th slam off him this year, a National League record. Steve Garvey and Ron Cey solo for the Dodgers.
1981 - Reds reliever Joe Edelen allows just one hit in six innings of shutout relief as the Reds down the Dodgers, 7 - 3. Dodger 2B Jack Perconte ties the major-league record with 12 assists.
1982 - Mariner rookie Orlando Mercado becomes third player to hit a grand slam for his first major league hit. Bill Duggelby (1898 - first at bat) and Bobby Bonds (1968 - third at bat) were the other two players to accomplish the feat.
1982 - Milwaukee scores nine runs in the 8th to roll over the Yankees, 14 - 1. Don Sutton is the victor. Gorman Thomas has a double"”his 2nd"”and home run in the big inning and Paul Molitor adds a home run then as well.
1983 - Denver (AA) beats Portland (PCL) 5 - 4 to give the Tidewater Tides (IL) the championship in the first AAA World Series. Manager Davey Johnson's Tides won three of their four games in the double round-robin tournament to edge 2nd-place Portland, which finished 2 - 2.
1983 - Phillies 2B Joe Morgan celebrates his 40th birthday by going 4-for-5 with two home runs in a 7 - 6 win over the Cubs. He will go 4-for-5 again tomorrow in an 8 - 5 win over the Cubs. He's the 2nd player to celebrate his 40th birthday with a dinger: Bob Thurman was the first, in 1957.
1985 - Vince Coleman steals his 100th base of the season and teammate Tom Herr drives in his 100th run, but the Cardinals lose to the Phillies 6 - 3.
1986 - Joe Cowley's final win in the majors is a no-hitter as the White Sox beat the Angels, 7-1. The Henryville, Tennessee native will finish his career with the Phillies the following year with 0-4 record.
1986 - White Sox pitcher Joe Cowley, who had been demoted to the minors earlier in the season, pitches an ugly no-hitter against the Angels. Cowley walks seven batters and allows a sacrifice fly as Chicago wins 7 - 1. For Cowley, this win is his high note, as he won't record another big league victory, going 0 - 4 with the Phils in 1987.
1988 - Oakland clinches the American League West title with a 5 - 3 win over the 2nd-place Twins.
1989 - San Diego's Mark Davis becomes the 7th pitcher ever to save 40 games in a season by nailing down the Padres' 5 - 1 win over the Reds. He will finish the season with 44 saves, one shy of Bruce Sutter's National League record.
1990 - Doug Drabek wins his 20th game and Barry Bonds hits his 30th and 31st home runs, as Pittsburgh beats Chicago 8 - 7. Two days later Bonds will steal his 50th base of the season.
1995 - San Diego pummels Colorado, 15-4, as 3B Ken Caminiti drives home eight runs with four hits, including a pair of homers, again from each side of the plate. Caminiti has now hit a pair of homers, right and left-handed, in three of his last four games. He's the only major leaguer to ever to do it three times in a month. Jody Reed has four hits and four runs for the Pads. Andres Galarraga connects for his 30th homer, giving the Rockies four players with 30+ homers. This matches the 1977 Dodgers.
1995 - Cleveland OF Albert Belle strokes three home runs the team's 8-2 win over the White Sox, giving him five home runs over two consecutive games to tie a major league mark.
1997 - Matt Williams must have an honest face, because he's pulls the hidden ball trick for the third time, nabbing rookie Jed Hansen, in the Indians' 6-2 win over the Royals in game 2, Williams uses the same ploy in all three instances. He asks the runner if he would step away from the bag so that he can brush off the dirt. The runners comply, and Williams slaps the tag on. The Royals win the opener, 10 - 3.
1997 - The White Sox tie Boston, 4 - 4 at Fenway on Albert Belle's 9th inning grand slam, off Tom Gordon, then win in the 10th on Frank Thomas' single. The Red Sox had tied the game in the bottom of the 9th on pinch homers by Curtis Pride and Scott Hatteberg. Boston wastes Butch Henry's seven 2/3 shutout innings, while Mike Sirotka's one run in eight innings goes unrewarded. Nomar Garciaparra has a pair of doubles to break Ted Williams' Red Sox rookie record for total bases. His total is 348 on his way to 365. Tony Oliva set the American League rookie record in 1964 with 374.
1997 - Marlins' C Charles Johnson ties Buddy Rosar's mark for consecutive games without an error (117), but does make his only passed ball of the year, as the Marlins defeat the Mets, 5-2, Johnson will finish the year with 124 games without an E.
1998 - Indian Manny Ramirez belts two homers to raise his five-game total to eight becoming only the second player in history to do so. Frank Howard accomplished the feat twice in 1968.
1998 - Mariner shortstop Alex Rodriguez becomes the first infielder in major league history to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases.
1998 - Mariners SS Alex Rodriguez hits his 40th home run of the season, off Jack McDowell of the Angels, to become the 3rd player in history to have 40 home runs and 40 SBs in the same season. Jose Canseco and Barry Bonds are the others. The Mariners lose the game, however, 5 - 3.
1998 - Texas strikes two home run marks today. Mike Simms of the Rangers hits his 16th home run of the year to tie the major league mark for most home runs with less than 200 at bats in a season. Eddie Robinson of the Yankees and Bob Thurman of the Reds accomplished the feat in 1955 and 1957, respectively. Juan Gonzalez belts his 300th career homer, off Jimmy Haynes, but the Rangers lose to Oakland, however, 8 - 4.
1998 - Braves lefty Tom Glavine wins his 20th, shutting out Arizona, 5 - 0. The victory gives the Braves their 2nd straight season of 100 wins, the first team in two decades to accomplish that. The Phils of 1976-77 posted identical 101 - 61 marks.
1998 - Cleveland OF Manny Ramirez hits two home runs"”his 44th and 45th"”in the Tribe's 7 - 6 loss to Kansas City. In doing so, he ties a major league mark with eight home runs in five games.
1998 - The Giants score seven runs in the 3rd inning, and six more in the 4th, as they demolish the Dodgers by a score of 18 - 4. Bill Mueller and Jeff Kent bang grand slams in the two frames, just the 2nd time (April 26, 1970) in Giants history that two players have hit grand slams in a game.
2000 - In the Reds 7 - 3 loss to the Giants, Ken Griffey Jr. pinch hits his 400th home run. He is the first to reach the mark with a PH. Livan Hernandez is the winner as Bonds knocks in a run and Jeff Kent adds three hits.
2000 - After a 16 - 3 loss to Toronto, New York manager Joe Torre has a team meeting, and blisters the Yankees for poor play. It won't help as they lose their next seven games"”15-4, 2-1, 11-1, 11-3, 13-2, 9-1, 7-3.
2000 - The Pirates bash the Phillies, 12-8, scoring nine runs in the 6th inning.
2000 - A Dodger fan, in addition to other court ordered decisions, has been banned from attending home games for 18 months because he threw coffee in the face of a Met fan cheering a grand slam hit by catcher Todd Pratt.
2001 - Tampa Bay defeats Boston, 12 - 2, scoring a season - high eight runs in the 6th inning. Aubrey Huff has a career - high five RBIs for the Devil Rays.
2001 - Going wire to wire in first, the Mariners become the 1st team to clinch a playoff berth by downing the Angels, 5 - 0, for their 106th win of the year.
2001 - The Cardinals beat the Brewers, 8 - 2, as Matt Morris wins his 20th game of the season. Albert Pujols drives in three runs for St. Louis to set a new NL rookie mark with 120 for the season. The old mark of 119 was set by Wally Berger of the Boston Braves in 1930.
2001 - Defeating White Sox, 6-3, Roger Clemens becomes the first major league pitcher to have season won-loss record of 20-1. The five-time Cy Young Award winner has won his last16 decisions.
2001 - Cardinal freshman Albert Pujols sets a National League rookie mark with 120 RBIs. The 21-year-old infielder broke the mark of 119 established in 1930 by Wally Berger of the Boston Braves.
2001 - Major League Baseball and the Players Association announce the creation of the MLB-MLBPA Disaster Relief Fund. The organizations will each donate $10 million to aid the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
2001 - Major League Baseball and the Players Association donate $10 million and announce the creation of the MLB - MLBPA Disaster Relief Fund to aid victims of last week's terrorist attacks in the United States.
2001 - Roger Clemens wins his 20th game of the year against only one defeat, hurling the Yankees to a 6 - 3 win over the White Sox. The 39 - year - old Clemens is the first pitcher in history to start a year 20 - 1.
2002 - Minnesota rookie OF Mike Ryan gets two hits, scores two runs, and drives home two runs, all in the 1st inning of his ML debut. Unfortunately, the game is rained out after two innings and all records are washed away.
2002 - In Chicago, the Royals top the White Sox, 2 - 1. In the 9th inning of the contest, KC 1B coach Tom Gamboa is attacked by two shirtless fans that jump out of the stands. He suffers several minor cuts, and the father, William Ligue, Jr., and son pair are arrested and charged with assault.
2002 - Toronto beats Baltimore, 9 - 3, as Blue Jays OF Shannon Stewart gets five hits, including a double and home run.
2002 - The Expos beat the Marlins behind Bartolo Colon. Colon becomes just the 2nd pitcher in ML history to win 10 games in both leagues in a single season, joining Hank Borowy who turned the feat for the Yankees and Cubs in 1945.
2002 - In his major league debut, Twins' rookie Mike Ryan strokes two singles, scores two runs and drives in two runs in the nine-run first inning against the Tigers. Unfortunately, the game is rained out in the second inning meaning none of the statistics will be official.
2002 - The Braves defeat the Phillies, 6 - 0, as Bobby Cox becomes the 12th manager in ML history to reach the 1,800 - win mark.