September 21

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1889 - Four St. Louis errors in the 9th inning give the Reds four runs, enabling Cincinnati to win, 5 - 4.
1892 - At Cleveland's League Park, John Clarkson of the Spiders beats the Pirates 3-2 to become the fifth pitcher in major league history to win 300 games. The 31-year old right-hander will compile a 328-178 record games during his 12 year Hall of Fame career in the big leagues.
1896 - Connie Mack announces he will leave Pittsburgh to manage Milwaukee in the Western League.
1901 - Tom Hughes of Chicago and Boston Beaneater Bill Dinneen pitch 16 scoreless innings before the Colts score in the 17th on an error, hit batter, force-out, and a single by Clarence Childs. Each pitcher gives up eight singles. This will stand as the longest shut out ever by a Cub pitcher. Hughes fans 13 in 17 frames. The 17 innings sets the major-league record for the longest game [at 60' 6"]. The record will be broken a number of times.
1901 - An AL record that still stands is set when Cleveland and Washington make 22 errors in a doubleheader, 16 by Cleveland. Washington wins both games 18-7 and 11-3.
1901 - In Cincinnati, Christy Mathewson allows just three hits in beating the Reds, 5-1. It is Matty's 20th win.
1903 - Christy Mathewson, pitching for the 3rd time in four games, keeps the Giants in 2nd place by beating Chicago's Clarence Currie, 8-3. For Matty, it is 30th win of the year.
1904 - The Reds sweep the Giants, winning 6-4 and 2-0 to stall the Giants clinching of the flag. The Reds rough up Christy Mathewson in the opener and Jack Harper scatters five hits for the shutout. New York has lost three in a row for the first time this season.
1906 - At Chicago, the White Sox lose a pair to New York before 20,000, their largest Friday afternoon crowd. Hal Chase has 22 putouts at 1B in the first game, tying the ML record.
1907 - Against the Reds, New York jumps to a 6-0 lead against Charlie Smith, and Christy Mathewson coasts to a 6-2 win. Fred Merkle makes his first appearance for the Giants, playing 2B.
1908 - In New York, Christy Mathewson allows just three hits-all in the 3rd inning-and no walks, but the Pirates win 2-1. Vic Willis goes one better, allowing just two New York hits for the victory.
1908 - Cleveland takes the AL lead, beating New York, while Detroit takes two at St. Louis. With two weeks to go, three 1/2 games separate four teams.
1909 - Rest seems to have cured Walter Johnson's sore arm, as the Nats' ace shuts out Detroit, 2-0, his first appearance since August 29th. He will finish the season at 13-25, 10 of the losses coming in shutouts. Five of the shutout losses were to the White Sox.
1910 - At Atlanta, Mobile and Atlanta break the "world's time record" for a 9-inning game, completing the match in 32 minutes. Mobile wins, 2 - 1. (as noted by R.J. Lesch, from The Sporting News). Both teams run in after each inning, hitters usually swing at the first pitch, though there is one walk and four stolen bases in the game.
1911 - In St. Louis, Hooks Wiltse wins the opener to extend the Giants win streak to 12 games. The Cards stop the skein in game two with an 8 - 7 win.
1911 - In Chicago, the Phils Grover Alexander fires his 4th straight shutout, beating the Cubs Ed Reulbach, 4 - 0. Alex also had shutouts on the 7th, 13th, and 17th.
1912 - Boston 3B Larry Gardner breaks his finger and will be out the rest of the season. He is expected to play in the World Series.
1914 - The White Sox score in the 4th inning on a Walter Johnson wild pitch, one of four that Johnson uncorks in the game. But he strikes out 12 batters in 13 innings as the Nats finally break through against Chicago's Red Faber for a 6 - 1 win. The record book gives Johnson all four wild pitches in the 4th inning, but it appears that Eddie Collins, who opened with a single, stole 2nd and advanced on a grounder to 3rd, scored the Pale Hose's only tally on a just one wild pitch.
1916 - Rookie Tris Speaker goes 4-for-6 and drives in a run as Cleveland edges Washington and Walter Johnson, 3 - 2.
1917 - In Boston, the White Sox clinch the pennant with a 2 - 1 win in 10 innings. Pinch-hitting in the bottom of the 10th, Babe Ruth grounds into a game-ending DP.
1919 - The Cubs beat the Braves 3-0 in 58 minutes. It takes the Dodgers 55 minutes to beat the Reds 3-1. Slim Sallee throws 65 pitches, topping Christy Mathewson's 69-pitch CG. One week later the Giants will close the season beating the Phils 6-1 in a record 51 minutes.
1920 - First-place Cleveland routs the Red Sox 12 - 1, and have a day off before meeting the 2nd place Sox, winners of their last six games.
1922 - The American League reinstates the MVP award, last given in 1914, appointing a committee of one writer from each city, headed by I.E. Sanborn of the Chicago Tribune. As a player-manager, Ty Cobb is not eligible, and the trophy goes to George Sisler. The National League will pick up the idea two years later.
1923 - Babe Ruth is the unanimous choice of the American League committee of baseball writers for the MVP award.
1925 - Pittsburgh OF Kiki Cuyler ties the National League record by getting his 10th consecutive hit, singling in his first two at bats, off Decatur and Ulrich, before he fouls out in his 3rd at bat, against the Phils' Art Decatur. The Pirates win the opener, 9 - 7. In the nitecap, a 14 - 4 Pirates win, Cuyler has his 3rd 4-for-4 game in his last four outings. He clouts two homers to back Kremer's pitching. Phils utility player Barney Friberg catches the 8th inning in the game, thus playing every position during the year; he will be featured in a Ripley's Believe it or Not cartoon.
1928 - At St. Louis, Boston's Red Ruffing smashes a 3-run homer in the 7th and pitches the Sox to a 5 - 3 win over the Browns.
1932 - Jimmie Foxx slugs #54 to lead the A's to an 8 - 4 win over the visiting Yankees. Simmons and McNair also homer off Red Ruffing as Sugar Cain is able to win.
1933 - With lefty Walter Stewart pitching, Washington eliminates the Yankees and clinches the American League pennant in a 2 - 1 home win over St. Louis.
1934 - The Deans shut out the Dodgers. After Dizzy gives up just 3 hits in a 13-0 victory, allowing no hits until the 8th, Paul wins a no-hitter 3-0. Diz says: "If'n Paul had told me he was gonna pitch a no-hitter, I'd of throwed one, too."
1935 - The Reds knock Paul Dean out of the game and beat the Cards, 9 - 7. It is the Reds first win in St. Louis this year after eight losses. The Cards now trail the Cubs by three 1/2.
1935 - The Detroit Tigers clinch the pennant with a double win over the St. Louis Browns, winning 6 - 2 and 2 - 0. Eldon Auker wins the nitecap with a complete game shutout, while Tommy Bridges takes the opener. The Tigers will coast the rest of the way, going 1 - 6, while the Yankees go 6 - 1.
1935 - At Wrigley, lefty Roy Henshaw edges the Pirates 4 - 3 to the delight of 39,000 fans.
1935 - Hal Trosky powers his 24th homer to lead the Indians to a 7 - 3 win over the White Sox. Joe Vosmik is 1-for-2 and continues to hold a slight lead at .348 in the AL batting race. After the Washington-Philadelphia twinbill today, Buddy Myer (0-for-4 today) is 2nd at .342 and Jimmie Foxx (0-for-9 today) is at .340, ending his 18-game hitting streak.
1939 - The NL announces that for the first time in the 20th century, games will be transferred from one city to another. The Dodgers' doubleheader in Philadelphia will be moved to Brooklyn in an effort to top one million paid attendance.
1940 - With the Tigers, Indians, and Yankees neck-and-neck, the Tigers boost their lead to 2 games, as Schoolboy Rowe shuts out Cleveland 5-0. Rowe, seemingly washed up after anchoring the staff through Tiger championships in the mid-1930s, will finish at 16-3.
1944 - The Cardinals finally clinch the NL flag with a 5-4 win over Boston. Twenty games ahead on September 1, the Cards then blew 15 of the next 20 games. They will finish with 105 victories and their 3rd title under Billy Southworth, whose clubs won 316 games in 3 years. Pittsburgh finishes 141Å½2 games behind.
1944 - Reds OF Dain Clay has no chances in a 21-inning doubleheader.
1947 - The Braves' Warren Spahn delays the Dodgers' clinching the pennant by shutting them out 4-0 for his 20th win.
1950 - Warren Spahn of the Braves wins his 21st game, hurling a 2-hit, 5 - 0 win over the Cards.
1951 - Rookie P Jackie Collum of the Cardinals hurls a 6 - 0 two-hitter against the Cubs in his first start.
1951 - In Brooklyn, the Dodgers keep a woozy Campanella on the bench, preferring to rest him for the World Series. Rookie Clem Labine ignores Dressen's orders to take a full windup, preferring to pitch out of the stretch with the bases jammed in the 1st. Phils 3B Willie Jones then hits a grand slam and Labine ends up in Dressen's doghouse. The Phils win, 9 - 6, behind Robin Roberts.
1952 - Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella hits the last home run ever in Boston's Braves Field.
1954 - Rookie pitcher Bob Grim wins his 20th game as the Yankees defeat the Senators, 3-1.
1956 - 1B Bill Skowron has 5 hits, but the Yankees strand a record 20 base runners in losing to the Red Sox in Boston, 13-9. Mickey Mantle sends a 480-foot HR into the CF bleachers that lands a foot from the top. His 3 hits raise his average to .352, 4 points behind Ted Williams.
1956 - At Fenway Park, the Yankees strand 20 runners on base losing to the Red Sox, 13-7. The number of players left on base sets a big league record for a nine-inning game.
1957 - Gail Harris is the last player to hit a HR as a New York Giant, as they beat the Pirates 9-5 in the 2nd game of a doubleheader. Ruben Gomez gains the last New York Giants' victory.
1957 - The Cardinals tie a record by using 8 pitchers in one game, but lose 9-8 in 10 innings to the Redlegs and slip 5 games off the pace. Jerry Lynch's 8th-inning HR ties the game; the Redlegs set the NL mark with their 11th pinch-hit HR of the year.
1958 - The Braves clinch their 2nd straight pennant, beating the Reds, 6 - 5. Spahn wins his 21st.
1958 - At Fenway Park, the Red Sox complete a three game sweep of the Senators, all by 2 - 0 shut outs. The Boston winning pitchers were Tom Brewer, Frank Sullivan and Ike Delock. Today's win was marred when Ted Williams, in a fit of anger, flings his bat into the stands striking Joe Cronin's housekeeper, Gladys Heffernan, in the face. She is not badly hurt, and Williams is very apologetic. But American League President Will Harridge will fine Williams for a bat-throwing incident
1958 - The Cubs 1B Dale Long, a lefty, catches in the 9th inning in a 2 - 1 loss to the Dodgers. This time he wears a lefty catcher's mitt, not a 1B glove. The Cubs strand 15 runners as Sandy Koufax tops Bob Anderson: each pitch seven innings before relief.
1959 - The Braves Warren Spahn notches his 20th win, 8-6, and his 266th NL victory to tie Eppa Rixey of the Phils and Reds for the career high in wins by a lefthander. The Braves and the Dodgers are now tied for the lead in the 3-team pennant race.
1959 - Braves' lefty Warren Spahn wins his 20th game of the season for the tenth time in his career.
1961 - At New York, Roger Maris is held hitless in four at bats, as the Orioles win, 5 - 3, behind Bill Fischer's 3-hitter. All the runs off him are unearned. Maris is the only Yankee regular to play the entire game.
1963 - Kansas City beats New York, 5 - 3, despite homers by Berra and Mickey Mantle. For Yogi, it is his 358th and last home run.
1963 - Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew ties an American League record with four home runs in a doubleheader, a split with the Red Sox. Minnesota loses 11 - 2 after winning the opener 13 - 4. The Killer has three homers in the lid lifter.
1964 - John Tsitouris hurls a 1 - 0 shutout for the Reds over Art Mahaffey and the first-place Phillies, launching a 10-game Phils' losing streak. Rookie Chico Ruiz scores the only run when, with Frank Robinson at bat, he steals home with two out in the 6th inning.
1966 - The players almost outnumber the fans at Wrigley Field, as the Cubs draw just 440 for a game with the Reds. Chicago wins 9 - 3 behind Ken Holtzman, with Sammy Ellis taking the loss.
1967 - Gary Bell beats his old team Cleveland to give Boston a 6 - 5 win.
1968 - At Yankee Stadium, Red Sox pitcher Ray Culp fires his 3rd successive shutout, stopping the Yankees on one hit, 2 - 0. Roy White's single in the 7th is the only hit. It's Culp's 15th win of the year.
1968 - Pittsburgh's Dock Ellis pitches a complete game win over the Cubs, winning 5 - 1. Phil Niekro allows four runs to take the loss. Cubs reliever Jophrey Brown goes two innings, allowing the other run, in his only ML appearance. His next appearance will be in the opening scene of the movie Jurrasic Park when he is eaten by a raptor. As noted by Scott Flatow, Brown tossed two no-hitters in the minors, losing them both.
1970 - The Braves trade veteran Hoyt Wilhelm to the Cubs. In December the Cubs will trade him back to Atlanta.
1970 - The A's Vida Blue no-hits the Twins 6 - 0, becoming the youngest pitcher to perform the feat since Paul Dean, 36 years ago to the day. The only base runner against Blue is Harmon Killebrew, who walks in the 4th inning. Bert Campaneris, who helps Blue with a leaping catch on Mitterwald in the 5th, adds a triple and home run. An Oakland crowd of only 4,284 watches Blue's 2nd ML start.
1971 - Dave McNally shuts out the Yankees 5 - 0 for his 20th win. It is the 4th straight 20-win year for the Oriole ace.
1971 - For the fourth consecutive season, Dave McNally wins his 20th game as he shuts out the Yankees, 5-0.
1972 - The American League East is a virtual tie as Detroit's Joe Coleman posts his 18th win, a critical 10 - 3 defeat of first-place Boston. Coleman strikes out 10 and knocks in three runs.
1972 - The Pirates clinch the National League East title with a 6 - 2 victory over the Mets.
1973 - Jim Rice's 3-run home run is the key blow as Pawtucket (International League) defeats Tulsa (American Association) 5 - 2 to win the Junior World Series.
1973 - At Los Angeles, Tony Perez has five hits to lead the Reds to a 4 - 1 win over the Dodgers. Tony's last hit is a 3-run homer in the 10th.
1973 - The Mets complete an amazing climb from last place to first, as a 10 - 2 win over the Pirates raises their record to a modest 77-77. They will finish 82-79, 11/2 games ahead of St. Louis, and 21/2 ahead of Pittsburgh.
1975 - During a 6 - 5 win over Detroit, Boston rookie star Jim Rice breaks his arm, sidelining him for the rest of the year, including the World Series. The Red Sox maintain their 31/2 game lead over the Orioles.
1975 - Red Sox outfielder Jim Rice breaks his arm during a 6-5 victory over the Tigers. The rookie sensation will miss the remainder of the season including the World Series.
1976 - In LA, the Reds clinch the National League West title with a 9 - 1 pasting of the Dodgers.
1978 - The Cubs tie an National League record by using 27 players during a 14-inning 3 - 2 loss to the Pirates. Pittsburgh's margin comes when Rennie Stennett walks in the 14th and pinch runner Matt Alexander steals 2nd. When C Doug Rader's throw goes into CF, Alexander heads for 3rd where the center fielder's throw hits him in the back, allowing him to score. The Pirates are now one 1/2 games behind the Phils.
1979 - Royal infielder U.L. Washington homers from both sides of the plate during a 13 - 4 win over the A's. These are the first homers of Washington's 3-year career.
1981 - Steve Carlton fans 12 Expos in 10 innings to break Bob Gibson's National League strikeout record (Carlton now has 3,128), but the Phillies lose to the Expos 1 - 0 in 17 innings. Montreal's Bryn Smith retires just one batter, but picks up his first ML victory.
1982 - Playing against the Royals at Anaheim Stadium, outfielders Fred Lynn and Brian Downing crash through the LF fence while trying to catch a fly ball. Lynn makes the catch and it is ruled an out, the umpires reasoning that it is the same as if he had tumbled into the seats. California wins, 2 - 1, when Daryl Sconiers singles home the winner in the 9th.
1984 - Rookie Jim Traver makes his debut in Baltimore, first by singing the national anthem before the Red Sox game, then by DHing. The Red Sox are unimpressed, clipping the Orioles 8-0. Traver had sung the national anthem a number of times before minor league games.
1985 - In a Boston 7 - 6 win over Detroit, Wade Boggs ties Speaker's club mark of 222 hits in the 2nd inning with a single. His 5th inning single, his 185th, sets a new American League record for singles breaking the mark set by Willie Wilson in 1980. Wade will end with 187, a mark that will stand until 2001.
1986 - In his ML debut, San Diego's Jimmy Jones pitches a one-hitter against the Astros, allowing only a 3rd-inning triple to opposing pitcher Bob Knepper on the way to a 5 - 0 win. He's the first National League pitcher to debut with a one-hitter since Juan Marichal.
1986 - Another rookie, the Phils Marvin Freeman wins his first ML game, beating the Mets in New York, 7 - 1. Marvin has another cause for celebration: his daughter Paris is born today.
1987 - With two stolen bases against the Cubs, Darryl Strawberry joins teammate Howard Johnson as a member of the 30-30 club. It is the first time in major league history players on the same team have hit 30 homers and have stolen 30 bases in the same year.
1987 - Darryl Strawberry joins Howard Johnson as the first teammates ever to achieve 30 homers and 30 steals in the same season, stealing two bases in the Mets 7 - 1 win at Chicago. Strawberry is only the 10th member of the 30-30 club, but the 4th to accomplish the feat this season. The sinning pitcher is Doc Gooden, who had his 10-game win streak over Chicago snapped in August; however, today's win will start him on another 12-game win streak over the Cubs.
1990 - The Padres fire Jack McKeon, who has been the San Diego GM for 10 years.
1992 - Oakland P Dennis Eckersley becomes the 2nd pitcher in history to record 50 saves in a season as he preserves the Athletics' 6 - 5 win over Chicago. The White Sox' Bobby Thigpen had 57 saves in 1990.
1993 - The Rockies win their 63rd game of the year, beating the Padres, 15 - 4. Colorado (63-90) is now slightly ahead of the expansion Marlins (62-89). Andres Galarraga is 4-for-6 to raise his average to .381 but must get 502 plate appearances to beat the idle Tony Gwynn for the battling title.
1993 - At Montreal, the Braves swamp the red hot Expos, by a score of 18 - 5 as the two teams combine to use a record 13 pinch hitters. The Expos, winners of 19 of their last 22 games, and fighting to catch the Phils, use four pinch batters, the Braves a record 9. In the 7th, Bobby Cox decides to rest his regular and sends a record six pinch hitters to the plate, including the first five batters, another record.
1996 - The International Baseball Association approves the participation of professional baseball players in the summer Olympic Games to be held in the year 2000.
1996 - Christie's Fine Art Auctioneers sell a 1910 T-206 Honus Wagner baseball card to an anonymous buyer for $640,000, including the $60,500 auction house fee.
1997 - The Cubs beat the Phils, 11 - 3, but Curt Schilling racks up eight K's to match J.R. Richard for the most strikeouts by a National League righty (313). He'll finish with 319 strikeouts. Ryne Sandberg, in his final game at Wrigley, is 2-for-3 before leaving for a pinch runner in the 5th. He makes a curtain call in the 7th when Harry Caray sings. Kevin Tapani wins his 6th straight start.
1997 - The Expos put a dent in Denny Neagle's possible Cy Young Award as they twice unload back-to-back homers to beat the Braves, 7 - 1. Neagle retires the first 12 batters before giving up a single, then homers to Rondell White and Hemsley Muelens. In the 6th David Segui and White hit consecutive homers.
1997 - Brad Radke goes 10 innings to win his 20th as the Twins beat the Brewers, 2-1.
1997 - The 1st-place Giants top the Padres, 8 - 5 when Stan Javier snaps a 9th inning tie with a 2-run triple. In the 4th, Bobby Bonds legs out an inside-the-park homer when his fly ball in the sun bounces off Greg Vaughn's knee.
1998 - Jim Abbott (4 - 0) continues his comeback with the White Sox, beating the Twins, 7 - 1 with six innings of pitching.
1998 - Tony Tarasco clubs a pinch grand slam in the 7th to lift the Reds to a 8 - 5 win over the Phils.
1998 - Pittsburgh C Jason Kendall steals his 26th base of the season to set a new National League record for catchers. The previous mark was set by John Stearns in 1978. The Pirates lose to the Giants, however, 8 - 1.
1999 - The Red Sox defeat the Blue Jays, 3-0, as Pedro Martinez fans 12 for his 22nd win. He joins Randy Johnson as the only pitchers to strike out at least 300 in both leagues, and breaks Roger Clemens club mark of 291 strikeouts.
2000 - In a 10-3 victory over the Marlins, Expo right fielder Vladimir Guerrero establishes a franchise single-season home run record by hitting his 43rd round tripper.
2000 - The Giants edge the Diamondbacks, 8-7, to clinch the NL West.
2000 - The Blue Jays defeat the Yankees, 3-1, as former Yankee David Wells becomes the majors' first 20-game winner.
2001 - Ranger infielder Alex Rodriguez hit his 47th home run tying the major league record for home runs in a season by a shortstop. The Cubs' legend Ernie Banks established the record in 1958.
2001 - A crowd 41,235 at Shea Stadium witness the return of baseball to New York City for the first time since terrorist attacks of September 11. Uplifting ceremonies before and during the game, which include singers Diana Ross, Marc Anthony Lisa Minnelli as well as bagpipers, pay tribute to victims of the tragedy. Mike Piazza's eighth inning home run gives the Mets a 3-2 dramatic victory over the Braves.
2001 - The Mets donate their day's pay, which totals approximately $500,000, from tonight's game with the Braves at Shea to a rescue fund for the families of the firefighters and policemen killed in the World trade Center terrorist attacks. The contest is the first professional baseball game played in New York since the tragedy.
2001 - Yankees closer Mariano Rivera blows a save, giving up a 2-run single to Jerry Hairston and the Orioles prevail, 7 - 6.
2001 - The Brewers fall to the Reds, 5 - 2. In the process, they set a new major-league record for most strikeouts in a season with 1,272. The old mark of 1,268 was set by the Detroit Tigers in 1996.
2001 - The Cardinals defeat the Pirates, 9 - 5, as Albert Pujols hits his 1st career grand slam. The homer gives him a new ML rookie record for extra base hits in a season with 83. The old mark of 82 was set by Brooklyn's Johnny Frederick in 1929.
2002 - Florida's Brad Penny goes to 3 - 0 this year against the Braves, winning 6 - 4. Kevin Millar, who's 25-game hit streak was stopped yesterday, has an RBI in the 8th.
2002 - The Rockies collect 20 hits and crush the Diamondbacks, 15 - 8, as OF Juan Pierre strokes five base hits. The Snakes blow a 5-run lead, but need just one win to clinch the National League West. They also lose P Brian Anderson who is forced to leave the game after suffering a broken foot when he is hit by a line drive off the bat of Ben Petrick in the 3rd.
2002 - The Yankees beat the Tigers, 3 - 2, to clinch the American League East for the 5th straight year.
2002 - Behind Wade Miller's 12th straight win, Houston beats the Cardinals, 6 - 3. Miller's streak ties a club record. Lance Berkman has a double and homer, driving in three runs, and Eli Marrero hits a home run for the 3rd straight game. Miller's batterymate Brad Ausmus collects his 1000th career hit, but also ties the NL record with his 30th GIDP of the season. Ernie Lombardi had 30 GIDP to set the mark.
2005 - At Shea Stadium, Mudcat Grant and Al Downing welcomes Marlins' southpaw Dontrelle Willis to the "Black Aces", a fraternity of African-American to win 20 games in a big league season. Beating the Nationals earlier in the month, the D-Train became the 13th black to accomplish the feat and will join the Aces' foundation to help in promoting baseball in African-American community.
2007 - Lance Berkman hits a home run for the 7th straight September 21st. This is a record for a single date; Lou Gehrig had homered on June 8 six years in a row.