September 2

From BR Bullpen


January	February
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
March	April
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
May	June
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
July	August
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
September	October
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
November	December
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Stats of players who were born this day
Stats of players who died on this day
Standings on this day
Permanent link to Today's Entry
Sources
Baseball Library Chronology
Today in Baseball History

Events, births and deaths that occurred on September 2.

[edit] Events

1880 - Using three towers illuminating light 100 feet above the playing field, teams from the department stores of Jordan Marsh and R.H. White stage the first night game.
1889 - In the afternoon game of a Labor Day doubleheader in Boston, Hardie Richardson hits a leadoff homer and P John Clarkson (36-13) makes it stand up for a 1 - 0 win.
1901 - Detroit sweeps a Labor Day doubleheader from Washington, picking up an AL record 21 infield assists in game 2. This is still the AL record. SS Kid Elberfeld has 12 assists to back up Roscoe Miller.
1902 - Cleveland pounds the Orioles, 23-7, collecting 23 hits off Bird pitcher Jack Katoll, a 10-game winner with the White Sox last season. Katoll goes the route.
1903 - Christy Mathewson walks three Superbas in the first inning and all score as Brooklyn beats their cross-town rivals, 4-1. Bill Reidy allows no Giants to score until the 9th.
1908 - In Philadelphia, Frank Corridon goes all the way to defeat Brooklyn, 2-1, in 17 innings. Corridon does not walk a batter.
1909 - Boston's Cliff Curtis pitches his first ML game and beats the Pirates, 1-0.
1909 - Detroit completes a sweep of every series against visiting eastern teams, winning their 14th in a row to regain first place by a half game en route to their 3rd straight pennant.
1912 - In a rainy doubleheader at the Polo Grounds, Red Sox ace Joe Wood tops the Yankees in the nitecap, 1 - 0, for his 30th win and his 13th straight victory. It is Wood's 8th shutout and 2nd in a row. Boston takes the opening squeeker, 2 - 1 to finish the year in New York with 10 wins in 10 tries. With three wins last year, and five wins in their first five road games with New York in 1913, Boston ties the major-league record for most consecutive wins on the road against one team (18).
1912 - Walter Johnson goes 10 innings against the A's, who beat the Big Train, 9 - 7.
1912 - Brooklyn's Tex Erwin cracks a 9th inning homer off Grover Cleveland Alexander to tie and the Superbas tip the Phils, 2 - 1 in 11 innings. In the nitecap, Eppa Rixey outpitches Nap Rucker to give the Quakers a 2 - 1 win in 12 innings.
1912 - At Boston, Christy Mathewson wins both games for the Giants in a 5 - 2, 6 - 1 sweep of the Braves. In the opener, Matty relieves Marquard in the 9th with score 2 - 2 and tosses three shutout innings. Larry Doyle ends it with a 3-run homer in the 12th. Matty coasts to his 19th win in the nitecap after the Giants chase Ed Doheny with five runs in the 3rd.
1914 - The National League lead seesaws. Beaten by Brooklyn 6 - 2 while the Braves win twice, the Giants drop out of first place for the first time since May 30. Tomorrow they sweep two from Brooklyn and retake the top spot.
1915 - Babe Ruth is hitless at bat, but pitches the Red Sox to an 8 - 3 win over the host Athletics. He strikes out 5.
1915 - The visiting Phillies sweep two from the Giants, winning 3 - 1 and 2 - 0. Jeff Tesreau and Christy Mathewson take the losses, while Pete Alexander is the shutout winner in the nitecap.
1917 - The first place White Sox take a pair from the Tigers, winning 7 - 2 and 6 - 5. The Sox bunch four in the 1st and three more in the 3rd to make the shine ball's leading proponent, Ed Cicotte, a winner over Willie Mitchell. In the nitecap, the Sox snap a tie in the 9th when Eddie Collins, with one stolen base already, swipes 2B and 3B after a walk. Joe Jackson's sac fly brings him home.
1918 - In Washington, the Senators end the year on a light note, by splitting with the A's. Philadelphia wins the opener and the Nats take the nitecap, 8 - 3. The 2nd game is Washington's traditional year-end laugher, and 43-year-old coach Nick Altrock finishes in relief, one of his five appearance in 1918. Altrock bats in the bottom of the 8th and Wickey McAvoy, a catcher playing first for the day, comes in to throw. Altrock finally lines one of his lobs into the outfield, rambles around the bases and"”according to Al Kermisch's description"”neglects 2B and 3B. Ump Billy Evans calls Altrock safe at home for the only homer by a Senator hit at home this season. For Altrock, it's been 14 years since his last round tripper. The game ends with General March throwing out the last ball; he'll toss out the first next year.
1918 - Brooklyn ends the abbreviated season by splitting a doubleheader with the Phils, losing the 1st game 4 - 2 before taking the nitecap, 5 - 3.
1919 - The National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series. The lengthier WS is seen as a sign of greed and is abandoned after three years.
1920 - Shaken by the possible effects of the scandal surrounding baseball, club owners begin a series of meetings to reform the game. Albert D. Lasker, a Chicago advertising man and minority stockholder, of the Cubs, proposes a 3-man board of non baseball men, with the chairman to be paid $25,000 year. Among the names mentioned: Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, former president William Howard Taft, General George Pershing, Senator Hiram Johnson, General Leonard Wood, and ex - treasury secretary William McAdoo.
1920 - With the last two games rained out, fans get their money's worth in Pittsburgh as the Pirates and Reds, battling to determine 3rd place, play the century's only tripleheader. Starting at noon, the Reds win the first, 13 - 4, to clinch 3rd place. The Reds win game two as well, 7 - 3, with a number of players at odd positions: Reds put catcher Ivy Wingo at 2B, with pitchers Bressler, Ruether, Coumbe, and Eller at field positions. The Pirates take the finale 6 - 0, called after six innings because of darkness. The only "tribill" played this century is played in five hours. Clyde Barnhart, who made his major league debut ten days earlier, doubles in the first two games, and singles in the 3rd, the only player to hit in all three games. .
1920 - Jim Bagby wins his 31st game, clinching the pennant for the Indians with a 10 - 1 win over the Tigers. Tris Speaker contributes three hits to finish the year at .388, 2nd to George Sisler's .407. The Sox 10 - 7 victory over the Browns is not needed by the Indians. The Indians' victory is due primarily to a .303 team BA (the Browns lead the league at .308) and the pitching of Jim Bagby, 31-12, Stan Coveleski, 24-14, and Ray Caldwell, 20-10. A big boost came from Duster Mails, brought up from the Pacific Coast League at the end of August, who won seven without a loss on a 1.85 ERA. Despite the heavy hitting in the American League, there are ten 20-game winners; the White Sox have four of them"”Red Faber, Eddie Cicotte, Dickie Kerr, and Lefty Williams.
1921 - In Cincinnati, the Cubs Pete Alexander outpitches his former teammate Eppa Rixey to win, 7 - 0. Chicago is mired in 7th place.
1922 - At Detroit, the Browns win their 2nd in a row over the Tigers, 5 - 4. Hub Pruett allows three hits in four innings to win in relief. George Sisler hits in his 30th consecutive game.
1922 - Behind Alex Ferguson and Bill Piercy, the Red Sox twice shut out the Senators, winning 3 - 0 and 1 - 0.
1922 - Carl Mays wins his American League record 23rd straight game over the Athletics, although the Mackman knock him out of the box for the first time in his win streak. He leaves with one out in the 6th and the Yankees winning, 7 - 2. New York prevails, 11 - 6, in game 1, but the A's win the nitecap, 4 - 0, behind Hasty.
1925 - After losing Game One by a 6 - 3 score to the Phils, the Giants unload in a nitecap, 24 - 9 shelling. The hits keep coming"”30 to be exact in a record 58 at-bats"”at Baker Bowl. Four New Yorkers"”Southworth, Frisch, Irish Meusel, and Lindstrom"”each collect four hits apiece, while a ML record-tying ten batters each collect two hits each. Doc Farrell (2-for-3) who takes over for Travis Jackson at short in the 6th is the 10th. Ex-Phil Meusel drives home nine runs, while Rookie Fred Fitzsimmons allows 14 hits, including homers by Cy Williams, Johnny Mokan and Hal Carlson in the 8th frame. Phils starter Art Decatur is the loser.
1926 - In the first game of a twinbill between Chicago and St. Louis, Pete Alexander exacts revenge on the Cubs, whipping them 2 - 0. Charlie Root is the loser. The Cards take the nitecap, 9 - 1.
1927 - The Cardinals bring Rabbit Maranville back from the minors, buying him from Rochester (IL).
1928 - The Senators top the Yankees, 2 - 0, as Fred Marberry does it all, shutting down the Yanks and driving in both Nat runs. Bob Meusel's hit streak is stopped at six straight, The New York lead is now one 1/2 games over the A's, winners of an exhibition game in Lycoming, PA.
1929 - The Cubs beat the Cards twice 11-7 and 12-10, before 81,000 fans at Wrigley Field. A crowd of 38,000 fans sees the morning game and 43,000 watch the afternoon game. Rogers Hornsby has two HRs and Hack Wilson has one.
1932 - The Yankees keep their scoring streak alive by scoring in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Senators, 1 - 0. Gehrig triples off Firpo Marberry to score Ruth.
1932 - In St. Louis the Cubs win streak reaches 13 as Cuyler's 5th homer in six games leads the way to an 8 - 5 victory. Mark Koenig adds a round tripper for Chicago.
1932 - Lew Krausse, Sr. of the A's shut out the Red Sox, 15-0. Five days later Krausse will injure his arm in an exhibition game against the Stroudsburg Poconos and though only 20 years old, his big league career is over. As historian Lyle Spatz notes, in 1961, Lew Krausse, Jr. pitches a shutout for the KC A's in his major league debut, giving the Krausses (father and son) back-to-back shutouts twenty-nine years apart.
1935 - With the Cubs splitting two with the 7th-place Reds at Wrigley, Chicago is just two 1/2 in back of the Cards. Chicago wins 31 in the opener as Lon Warneke tops Tony Freitas, then lose 4 - 2 to Gene Schott. Bill Lee takes the loss.
1935 - Veteran P Dick Coffman (5-11) and Browns manager Hornsby get into a shoving match shortly after their train leaves St. Louis for a road trip. Coffman is cut from the team and put off the train at Edwardsville, IL, and will not play again this year.
1935 - The first-place Cards open a 30-game home stand by sweeping a Labor Day doubleheader from the Pirates. Paul Dean wins his 16th game, 4 - 3 in the opener, then Dizzy cops his 23rd in the nitecap, 4 - 1. The Cards are two games up on the rained-out Giants.
1937 - For the second time this season, the first 2 batters in a game--the White Sox Boze Berger and Mike Kreevich--hit HRs.
1939 - Nine players hit homers, as the Giants beat the Dodgers 10-6 in the opener of a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds, falling one short of the record for two teams in one game set in 1923.
1939 - When Babe Dahlgren strikes out while being given an intentional walk and George Selkirk and Joe Gordon try to steal home on successive pitches by trotting to the plate, Red Sox fans throw a barrage of garbage onto playing field at Fenway Park to protest the Yankees making deliberate outs to take advantage of the 6:30 Sunday curfew. Umpire Cal Hubbard rules the Boston crowd's action makes it impossible to continue the game and awards the game as a forefit to the Yankees with a 9-0 'official' score.
1948 - Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Pirates $2,000 for violating the NL bonus rule. Pittsburgh signed M. L. Lynch as a scout while offering his son Danny a $6,000-a-year contract. Chandler interprets this as an attempt to influence the young second baseman's decision. Danny Lynch is declared a free agent and signs with the Cubs.
1950 - Phil Cavarretta leads off the ninth with a single, the Cubs lone hit against the Reds Ewell Blackwell. The Whip strikes out 10 in winning, 5 - 1.
1950 - At Philadelphia, Mel Parnell registers his ninth straight win over the A's as the Red Sox win 9 - 3.
1951 - Tony Ponce of the Phoenix Senators (Southwest International League) hurls his 38th consecutive complete game in beating Yuma 4 - 2 for his 25th win of the season.
1951 - Ken Raffensberger fires a one-hitter at the Cubs to win 7 - 0 and gain a split for the Reds. The only hit is a 3rd-inning scratch single by Eddie Miksis that arguably would have rolled foul. Bob Rush shuts out the Reds in the nitecap to top Howie Fox, 3 - 0.
1951 - The Cleveland Indians Harry Simpson, Al Rosen and Luke Easter hit consecutive home runs in the first inning, as Cleveland beats the Browns 5 - 1.
1951 - Don Mueller hits two more home runs, giving him five in two days, to tie an ML mark. His 2nd homer, again off Phil Haugstad, comes a minute after he learns he is a new father. Bobby Thomson adds his 25th homer and Jim Hearn beats the Dodgers 11 - 2. After Mueller's 2nd homer, Haugstad decks Thomson and hits Mays with a pitch, evoking a warning from Al Barlick. Barlick had earlier thumbed Branca and Dick Williams in the 5th inning, Newcombe in the 6th when he objected to a call, and Jackie Robinson and rookie Clem Labine. Dressen then clears his bench to avoid any more thumbings. The Giants move to five games behind Brooklyn. The Dodgers are suspicious of the losses at the Polo Grounds, and later there are revelations about signs being flashed to Giant batters from the CF scoreboard. Did it happen? Sal Yvars later said, "yes," while Mueller remarked, "as for my home runs and the sign stealing, this has been much talked about and I would prefer not to comment." On the Dodgers side, Buzzie Bavasi denied it occurred, but Clyde Walker concluded, "it did happen."
1952 - Yankee hurlers Tom Gorman and Ewell Blackwell shut the Red Sox out 5-0 and 4-0 in a doubleheader.
1952 - In the 2nd game of a doubleheader, Washington's Mike Fornieles makes his ML debut and pitches a one-hit, 5-0 shutout against the A's.
1954 - Dodger Russ Meyer beats the Cubs for the 16th consecutive time, dating back to 1950.
1954 - Mickey Vernon of the Senators gets his 2,000th hit. He also hits his 19th HR (he will add one more before the end of the season) for a team record for left-handers. Teammate Roy Sievers also sets a team record by hitting his 23rd HR. He will hit one more before the end of the season.
1955 - After sitting out since August 7th with a broken rib, SS Alvin Dark of the Giants falls and breaks his shoulder in a game against the Phillies.
1955 - Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle celebrate Billy Martin's return from the army; Ford throws 6 innings of no-hit ball against Washington before Carlos Paula spoils it in the 7th with Washington's only hit. The Yanks win 4-2 as Mantle hits his 36th HR, a 3-run shot. Mantle is 10 HRs ahead of rivals Al Kaline and Ted Williams. New York stays a half game behind the White Sox, who beat the 3rd-place Indians. Billy Martin will hit .300 in September, and New York will go on a 17-6 tear to win the pennant by 3 games.
1955 - Cubs' middle infielder Ernie Banks sets the record for home runs hit by a shortstop by hitting 40th dinger in a 12-2 rout of the Cardinals. 'Mr. Cub' will extend the record finishing this season with 44 and will hit 48 in 1958.
1957 - The Braves sweep the Cubs 23-10 and 4-0. The Braves' Bob Hazle has 4 hits in the first game, and teammate Frank Torre scores 6 runs to tie the ML record.
1958 - At Yankee Stadium, New York snaps a scoreless tie with Boston when Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle crash back-to-back 6th inning homers off Dave Sisler. Mantle has hit three this year of Sisler. New York wins, 6 - 1. Mantle, with 38 homers, leads the American League. Mantle and Berra will hit back-to-back homers 12 times together, and homer in the same game 50 times before they are through.
1958 - Minneapolis approves a $9 million bond issue to expand Metropolitan Stadium to 41,000 seats. City alderman Byron Nelson predicts it is a "dead cinch" that Washington will move there.
1960 - Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams homers off Senator right-hander Don Lee. At beginning of his career Williams hit several home runs off of Lee's dad, Thornton.
1960 - Milt Pappas stops New York on three hits -- 2 by Tony Kubek -- to give Baltimore a 5 - 0 lead in the first of a 3-game showdown. The Orioles now trail New York by .003.
1960 - In the first game of a doubleheader, Ted Williams homers off Don Lee of the Senators. Williams had homered against Lee's father, Thornton, 20 years earlier. Boston sweeps, winning the first 4 - 1 and the 2nd game, 3 - 2.
1961 - Against Detroit's Frank Lary, Roger Maris doubles and takes 3B on a misplay. Mickey Mantle, hurting from a pulled muscle in his forearm, lays down a perfect drag bunt to score Roger. Maris then blasts homers his next two trips to the plate, and Elston Howard adds a three-run homer, for a 7 - 2 win.
1961 - Milwaukee manager Chuck Dressen (71-58) is axed and executive vice president Birdie Tebbetts becomes the new skipper.
1962 - Stan Musial's 3,516th hit jumps him over Tris Speaker and into 2nd place behind Ty Cobb, but the Mets beat the Cards 4 - 3. Although The Man will continue on to 3,630 hits, he cannot overtake Cobb and, in time, Pete Rose and Hank Aaron will surpass him as well.
1963 - At the Polo Grounds, Pete Rose hits the first pitch of the game from Jay Hook for a homer. It's the only score as the Reds win, 1 - 0. Jim Maloney strikes out 13 Mets in the win.
1963 - With the Senators ahead 5 - 3 on 4th-inning homers by Don Zimmer and Ed Brinkman, Nats starter Ed Hobaugh hits his only career home run in the same frame off Cleveland's Jerry Walker. The Tribe knocks out Hobaugh but the Senators hold on to win, 8 - 7. Hobaugh's homer comes on his last official at bat: in his one more plate appearance, he draws a walk. Hobaugh joins Buster Narum this year as the first pitchers to have more homers than wins in a year. It'll be matched this century by Dave Eiland in 1992.
1964 - Milt Pappas keeps Baltimore in first place with a one-hit 2 - 0 win against Minnesota. Zoilo Versalles gets the single in the 8th for the only hit.
1964 - Lee Stange ties a major-league record with four strikeouts in the 7th inning, as the Indians beat Washington 9 - 0.
1964 - Boston's Bill Monbouquette pitches a one-hitter, but loses 2 - 1 to Minnesota. Versalles spoils a no-hitter for the 2nd time in one week with a 6th-inning home run.
1965 - The Cubs beat St. Louis 5 - 3 at Wrigley Field, as Ernie Banks hits his 400th home run, a three-run shot off Curt Simmons, in the 3rd. Simmons teed up the 400th home run of Willie Mays in 1963. Banks will end the season with 28 home runs and 106 RBI. Ron Santo and Billy Williams will also knock in over 100 runs, the only team with three such sluggers, but the Cubs will finish 8th.
1965 - At Wrigley Field, Ernie Banks hits his 400th career home run off Cardinal hurler Curt Simmons helping Chicago to defeat St. Louis, 5-3.
1965 - The Twins beat the Red Sox, 8 - 7, but get little help from Bob Allison who strikes out five times.
1965 - The Dodgers Claude Osteen tops the Pirates, 7 - 1,beating 14-game winner Bob Veale. The Bucs will next lose a pair to the Braves to drop Pittsburgh from the race.
1965 - Mickey Mantle hits a 1st inning homer with two on as New York scores five runs on their way to an 8 - 1 win over the Angels. Whitey Ford is the winner.
1966 - Phillies ace Jim Bunning continues his whammy over the Mets by shutting them out, 6 - 0. It's Bunning's 8th complete game in as many starts against them, and his 5th shutout. The Mets have scored a total of four runs off Bunning.
1966 - The Pirates take over 1st place by topping the Cubs 7 - 5 on a Roberto Clemente home run, his 2000th career hit. Clemente's home run gives him 101 RBIs for the year, the 1st time he's topped 100. Bob Veale is the winner over Fergie Jenkins.
1967 - Washington's Bob Priddy loses his 1 - 0 lead to the Yankees when Mickey Mantle clouts a 2-run pinch homer in the 8th and New York wins, 2 - 1. Mel Stottlemyre is the winner, allowing six hits and no walks. For Mantle, it is his 14th game-winning hit of the year, eight of them home runs.
1967 - Minnesota takes the American League lead on Dave Boswell's 5 - 0 victory over Denny McLain and Detroit.
1968 - In the last PCL game played in Seattle, Jim Bouton of the Seattle Angels (a combined PCL team of the Pilots and California Angels) tops Spokane, 4 - 1.
1968 - With Julian Javier hitting a homer in the 10th, the Cardinals defeat the Reds, 1 - 0. Bob Gibson picks up his 12th shutout and 20th win. Gary Nolan pitches the first nine innings for the Reds, with Abernathy taking the loss in relief.
1969 - Ralph Houk signs a new 3-year contract with the Yankees at $65,000 a season, the highest managerial salary in either league, and Joe Pepitone is reinstated.
1970 - In the first six innings, Rangers starter Sam McDowell walks six Nats batters, five intentionally. Three of the intentional passes go to Frank Howard in his first three at bats, twice when he leads off the inning. McDowell moves to 1B in the 6th inning, with two on and no outs, and Dean Chance comes in allowing both runners to score. McDowell comes back to the mound to finish, losing 4 - 1 to Dick Bosman.
1970 - Detroit's Gene Lamont homers in his first ML at bat, but the Red Sox this time hold the lead and beat the Tigers 10 - 1 in the nitecap. Cal Koonce is the CG winner, adding two RBIs with his 2nd hit of the year. The Tigers win the opener, 6 - 4, scoring two unearned runs in the 8th.
1970 - That old black magic works for Gary Nolan as he outpitches Juan Marichal to beat the Giants, 2 - 0. Before the game Reds teammate Angel Bravo gives Nolan a rubber ball to carry during the game, assuring him that he'll pitch a low-hit game as a result. Nolan allows three hits.
1971 - Royals P Ron Theobold pitches a one-hitter against the Brewers but still loses 1 - 0, as Milwaukee scores a 2nd inning run without a hit. Marty Pattin pitches his 5th shutout of the season.
1971 - Sonny Siebert hits and pitches the Red Sox to a 3 - 0 win over the Orioles. Siebert hits two home runs, the last American League pitcher to do so.
1971 - Cesar Cedeno's 200-foot fly ball falls for a grand slam, following a collision of Dodgers 2B and RF. The Astros win 9 - 3.
1972 - Rookie Dave Downs of the Phils stops the Braves, 3 - 0, in his first ML start.
1972 - Milt Pappas of the Cubs hurls a no-hit game in beating the Padres 8 - 0. Pappas has a perfect game until pinch-hitter Larry Stahl walks with two outs in the 9th inning. Pappas and C Randy Hundley both said of the pitches to Stahl, "They were so close I don't know how Stahl could take them, but they were balls." Pappas later commented on the plate umpire, "he had a chance to become famous as the umpire in the twelve perfect game history, but he blew it." Pappas retires former Cub Gary Jestadt to finish the game.
1972 - After retiring twenty-six consecutive Padres batters, Cubs hurler Milt Pappas walks Larry Stahl on a 3-2 pitch. 'Gimpy' retires the next batter, Gary Jestadt, to preserve his 8-0 no-hitter.
1972 - Coming to bat in the top of the 8th inning trailing 8-0, the Mets score seven runs and add another four tallies in the ninth to stun Astros, 11-8. It's the Amazin's biggest come-from-behind victory in franchise history.
1973 - Montreal's Hal Breeden gets two triples and two home runs in a 12 - 0 win over Philadelphia.
1973 - The Tigers fire Billy Martin due to continuous differences with the front office.
1974 - A controversial call against the Reds helps the Astros win 4 - 3. Johnny Bench's single in the 7th scores one run and the 2nd base runner Joe Morgan is called out, negating the tying run, though replays seem to show him safe. The Cincinnati City Council will pass a resolution stating their shock and dismay at the "atrocious call."
1974 - Boston pitchers Luis Tiant and Bill Lee each allow just one run in a Labor Day doubleheader, yet both lose games to Baltimore. Ross Grimsley and Mike Cuellar toss twin 1 - 0 shutouts.
1975 - Johnny LeMaster homers in his first ML at bat for the Giants during a 7 - 3 win over Dodgers. In 12 years and 3,191 at bats, LeMaster will hit only 22 home runs, but this first hit is a ML record"”an inside the park homer. Brian Downing two years ago was the first player to hit his first homer inside the park.
1978 - Ken Henderson's 3-run pinch homer in the 12th paces the Reds to a 6 - 3 win over the Cardinals.
1979 - With his 145th career pinch-hit, Dodger Manny Mota sets a major league record.
1981 - The Indians John Denny stops Oakland, 2 - 0, for his 2nd straight shutout.
1985 - A's Jose Canseco strikes out in his first major league at-bat.
1986 - The Astros and Cubs play 14 innings and use a major league record 53 players in the game.
1987 - In a game in which the Astros beat the Cubs 10-1, Kevin Bass becomes the first National Leaguer to homer from both sides of the plate twice in one season.
1987 - Tom Candiotti pitches his 2nd one-hitter of the season, but also walks seven batters and makes an error as the Indians lose to Detroit 2 - 1. Matt Nokes' single with two out in the 8th is the Tigers' only hit. Feller, in 1954, is the last Tribe hurler to lose a one-hitter.
1987 - For the second time this season, Houston's Kevin Bass drills homers from each side of the plate. He totals three homers for the 2nd time in a month as the Astros drub the Cubs, 10 - 1.
1987 - The parent Phillies don't find Dave Bresnahan's potato gag yesterday funny either, and release him. Bresnahan, hitting .149, explains, "We were 27 games out, what the hell?" Tomorrow night, their last game of the season, the Williamsport Bills will admit any fan for a $1 and a potato. On each potato, Bresnahan autographs, "this spud's for you."
1990 - Blue Jay Dave Stieb pitches the ninth no-hitter of the season beating the Indians 3-0, a major league record. Previously Stieb had lost three no-hit bids after two outs were recorded in the ninth.
1990 - In the year of no-hitters, Dave Stieb pitches the 9th and final one of the season, blanking Cleveland 3 - 0. It is the first no-hitter in Blue Jays' history, and the first for Stieb after four close-calls which were ended by 9th-inning hits. Stieb K's nine in beating Bud Black.
1991 - Three months after an operation that replaced a vein in his arm with one from his leg, White Sox pitcher Roberto Hernandez holds the Royals hitless for six innings before Bill Pecota leads off the 7th with a double, the only hit Hernandez allows in Chicago's 5 - 1 win over KC. In the same game, Bo Jackson makes his miraculous return to the majors following a career-threatening football injury. He hits a sacrifice fly to drive in a run against his former team. Bo will end the year hitting .225 in 23 games, with three homers and 14 RBIs.
1992 - Phillies P Terry Mulholland sets a major league record with his 14th pickoff of the season, as he catches Pete Incaviglia of the Astros off base in the 6th inning. Houston wins the game by a score of 3 - 2.
1994 - According to acting commissioner Bud Selig, September 9th is the tentative deadline for canceling the rest of the season is no agreement is reached between the owners and players.
1996 - David Cone makes a dramatic return to the mound after his May operation to remove an aneurysm in his pitching arm by pitching seven no-hit innings. The Yankees beat the A's 4-0 as Mariano Riveria gives up one hit to Jose Herrera in the eighth.
1996 - Mike Greenwell of the Red Sox, who has spent much of the year on the DL, drives in all nine runs in Boston's 10-inning, 9-8 win over the Mariners. No other player has ever driven in nine or more runs for his team's total score.
1996 - In his first game back in action since undergoing surgery for an aneurysm in his pitching shoulder in May, Yankees' P David Cone hurls seven hitless innings in New York's 5-0 victory over the Athletics. Mariano Rivera gives up one hit in two innings as he finishes up for Cone. Cone's remarkable return sends Kenny Rogers to the bullpen.
1996 - It's seems like old timers day as the Cardinals whip the Central-leading Astros, 8 - 7. Willie McGee, playing for Ron Gant, has four hits and three RBI, while Ozzie Smith has three hits, three RBI, and four runs.
1997 - Trailing 12-7, the Rangers score six runs in the bottom of the 9th to pull out a 13-12 victory over the Dodgers. Juan Gonzalez and Lee Stevens each poke four hits for Texas.
1998 - Sammy Sosa hits home run #56 as the Cubs defeat the Reds, 4 - 2.
1998 - At Pro Player Stadium, Cardinal slugging first baseman Mark McGwire hits home runs # 58 and #59 surpassing Jimmie Foxx, who hit 58 in 1932 and Hank Greenberg who also hit 58 six years later.
1998 - Slammin' Sammy Sosa hits his 56th homer to tie Hack Wilson's 68-year-old club record and helps the Cubs to beat the Reds, 4-2 .
1998 - Nomar Garciaparra's ninth-inning grand slam gives the Red Sox a 7-3 victory over the Mariners. Boston's slugging shortstop joins Mark McGwire as one of only five players to hit 30 homers in each of his first two seasons.
1998 - Mark McGwire hits two home runs against the Marlins for the 2nd consecutive day to set a new major league mark for homers in a season by a righthanded batter with 59. The Cardinals defeat the Marlins by a score of 14 - 4.
1999 - Setting off a very enthusiastic ovation at Camden Yards, Cal Ripken, Jr. becomes the 29th major leaguer to hit 400 career home run. The Oriole third baseman connects off Devil Ray's right-hander Rolando Arrojo.
1999 - Well drilling in Toronto. Starter David Wells of the Blue Jays is opposed by Bob Wells of the Minnesota Twins who strikes out Jays rookie Vernon Wells. Toronto wins, 6 - 1.
1999 - The Orioles defeat the Devil Rays, 11-6, as 3B Cal Ripken hits the 400th home run of his big league career. Ripken is the 29th player to reach the mark.
2000 - The White Sox defeat the Angels, 13-6, as C Charles Johnson drives home seven runs on a 3-run homer, a 3-run double, and an RBI single.
2001 - In the first game of a DH, New Haven pitcher Jimmy Journall makes his 1st Eastern League start a memorable one, tossing a no hitter to beat Bowie. Journall, co-pitcher of the year in the Carolina League, finishes the year with a 12-game win streak.
2001 - In a 11-7 loss to Columbus, Toledo gives up three runs on a unusual 4-base error (as noted by John Lewis). With runners on 1st & 2nd, catcher Dave Lindstrom pounces on a sacrifice bunt by Kary Bridges, starts to throw to third, then stops and rushes a too-high throw to first. The ball goes through the Toledo bullpen area to the fence about 60 feet from the fair pole allowing Bridges to easily circle the bases.
2001 - The Yankees defeat the Red Sox, 1 - 0, as P Mike Mussina comes within a strike of hurling a perfect game. Pinch-hitter Carl Everett's two - out, two - strike single in the 9th inning ruins Mussina's gem. It is the 3rd time in his career that the righty has taken a perfect game into the 8th inning. The Yankees score the only run of the contest in the top of the 9th on Enrique Wilson's double. Opposing hurler David Cone, who takes the loss, is the most recent pitcher to toss a perfecto. The Yankees sweep of the Red Sox was the first history by a team that did not score in the first seven inning of any of the games. In a move that enrages many players, Red Sox GM Dan Duquette abruptly relieves pitching coach John Cumberland of his duties just minutes after the game. A visibly angry Cumberland, who was promoted from bullpen coach to pitching coach last month when Joe Kerrigan became manager, said Duquette told him he was being reassigned to the team's training facility in Fort Myers, Fla. I'm not going, Cumberland said. That's official, that's for damn sure. That's OK. We've had a lot of good people leave this organization, and now it's going to be me because I'm not going to be reassigned.
2001 - With two outs and two strikes, Red Sox pinch hitter Carl Everett singles in the bottom of the ninth to break up Mike Mussina's bid for a perfect game. The Yankee right-hander beats Boston 1-0 for his fourth career one-hitter.
2002 - The A's defeat the Royals, 7 - 6, for their 19th straight victory to match the longest winning streak in American League history. The 1906 White Sox and the 1947 Yankees both reached 19.
2002 - The Cubs beat the Brewers, 17 - 4, to salvage a split in their doubleheader after Milwaukee takes the opener by a score of 4 - 2 on solo homers by Ron Belliard (2), Eric Young and Jose Hernandez. Glendon Rusch wins his 8th straight over the Cubs. Chicago P Kerry Wood ties a major-league record in the second game by fanning four Brewers in the 4th inning. Wood also homers off Andrew Lorraine, one of five gophers he serves up. Another is Sammy Sosa's 494th homer, moving him ahead of Lou Gehrig on the all-time list.
2002 - Pittsburgh's Salomon Torres (1 - 0), pitching in the majors for the first time since July 20, 1997, starts and goes 8.1 scoreless innings against the Braves. He also collects his first hit since 1994. as the Pirates win, 3 - 0. Torres, 30, retired as an active player in 1997 and served as Montreal's pitching coach in the Dominican Summer League before signing with Pittsburgh in January. Fortunately for the Braves, only 18,931 fans, the smallest crowd in Turner Field history, see the game.
2002 - Four pitchers post their first win of the year:
2002 - Jon Rausch (1 - 1), the tallest pitcher in major league history, lowers his career ERA from 9.82 to 9.72 with two ER in two IP in his first appearance since May 2. The White Sox win, 5 - 4, as Jose Valentin hits a pair of homers, the 2nd snapping a tie.
2002 - Braden Looper (1 - 5) in his 66th relief appearance of the year, extends the Mets home losing streak to 15 in the 12 - inning first game of a doubleheader. Florida wins 3 - 2. Preston Wilson ties the game in the 9th with a home run, and Juan Encarnacion wins it with an RBI double. The Mets take the nitecap, 11 - 5, overcoming back-to-back home runs in the 2nd by Derrek Lee and Mike Lowell. Mike Piazza drills a pinch 3-run home run. The win snaps the Mets home loss streak at 15 games, a National League record set the 1911 Braves. They last won at home on July 31.
2002 - The Dodgers pummel the Diamondbacks, 19 - 1, with only a 9th inning score preventing them from tying the team mark for most lopsided shutout ever. The 24 hits ties the mark for the team in Los Angeles. They score eight of their runs in the 7th inning, with Beltre and Kinkade homering in the frame. The last hit for LA is the first ML homer by Dave Ross, and it comes off Mark Grace, who pitches the 9th inning.
2003 - In an effort to make the perception of the team younger and hipper, the Blue Jays unveiled their fourth logo in the franchise's 27-year history. The new look for the 2004 season adds black and silver trimming to a newly stylized bird while eliminating the red maple leaf backdrop and the word Blue.
2007 - In a 5-3 win by the Orix Buffaloes, Tuffy Rhodes and Greg LaRocca both make history. Rhodes cracks his 400th home run, the 14th player and first foreigner in Nippon Pro Baseball history to reach that mark. LaRocca is plunked for the 23rd time this year to set a new Pacific League record.