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  • 1901 - Jimmy Sheckard becomes the first 20th-century player to hit grand slams in two consecutive games, as Brooklyn pounds Cincinnati 16-2. Frank Kitson homers and takes the victory. The 41 runs in two games is a franchise record.
  • 1903 - Bill Bradley of Cleveland hits for the cycle and adds an extra double for 12 total bases.
  • 1904:
  • 1906:
    • In the 2nd game of a doubleheader, Cardinals hurler Stoney McGlynn tosses a 7-inning no-hitter against Brooklyn. The game ends in a 1-1 tie.
    • The Cubs pound the Giants twice to complete a three-game sweep in New York. Chicago wins the opener 6-2, then jump on Christy Mathewson for 16 hits and 10 runs to win, 10-5 in eight innings. Jimmy Sheckard has four hits off Matty.
  • 1907 - Christy Mathewson shuts out the Pirates, 2-0, while Bill Klem continues his battle with the Giants by tossing four more, including John McGraw.
  • 1908:
    • Washington's Walter Johnson three-hits Cleveland to win, 2-1. The loss stops Cleveland's win streak at 10.
    • Harry Pulliam upholds Hank O'Day's delayed decision and declares the previous day's controversial game between the Giants and Cubs a tie, a decision nobody likes. The Cubs demand the game be forfeited to them as the crowd prevented play from continuing, although darkness would have soon ended it. Both teams appeal. Pulliam sees no inconsistency with the September 4th incident that was similar to Merkle's Boner and claims he has merely upheld his umpire on a question of fact in each case. Meanwhile, the Giants beat the Cubs 5-4, after almost blowing a 5-0 lead. Hooks Wiltse is relieved by Christy Mathewson, and the official scorer awards the win to Matty. The loss goes to Three Finger Brown, his first loss to Mathewson since June 13, 1905.
  • 1910 - In another matchup of aces, the Giants score four runs in the 1st inning off Three Finger Brown, who is lifted after six innings, trailing, 5 - 1. The Cubs rally against Christy Mathewson, and score two runs in both the 8th and 9th innings to tie. Larry Doyle, whose sloppy play helped the Cubs score, singles home the winning run for New York in the bottom of the 9th. Despite the Cubs tying the game after his departure, Brown is handed the loss.
  • 1911 - After 41 straight shutout innings, Grover Alexander is scored on by the Cards in the 6th inning.
  • 1913 - Christy Mathewson scatters 11 Brooklyn safeties, walks none, to beat Ed Reulbach, 2 - 1. It is Matty's 25th win. He will finish the year with 25 victories and 21 walks.
  • 1914 - At New York, the Cardinals win their 3rd game in a row over the stumbling Giants, 4 - 3. Cozy Dolan's 9th inning double off reliever Christy Mathewson drives home the winning score.
  • 1916:
    • At Cleveland's League Park, Marty Kavanagh hits the first-ever pinch hit grand slam in AL history. The infielder's historic homer proves to be the difference as the Indians beat the Red Sox, 5-3. The ball rolls through a hole in the fence and cannot be retrieved in time for a play at the plate. Kavanagh's blast comes off Boston's Dutch Leonard and ends Boston's 7-game win streak.
    • In the first game of a doubleheader, Browns 1B George Sisler pitches his second game in eight days, tossing a complete game, and losing 2 - 0 to the A's Harry Seibold.
  • 1917:
    • At the Polo Grounds, Slim Sallee tops the Cards, 2 - 1, and clinches the N.L. pennant for the Giants, their 6th under John McGraw. The New Yorkers manage just four hits (and six walks) off Bill Doak, but they come when needed.
    • Babe Ruth shuts out the champion White Sox, 3 - 0, scattering nine hits. The Babe is 0-for-3 at the plate.
    • The 3rd-place Indians finish their season with a 5 - 4 win over the A's, the 10th win in a row for the Tribe. Ray Chapman doubles, then steals 3B and home to lead the Indians.
  • 1919:
    • The White Sox' 6-5 win over St. Louis clinches the pennant; the final margin will be 3 1/2 games over the Indians.
    • The Brooklyn Robins defeat the Phillies twice on Fred Luderus Day in Philadelphia. The second game is the 525th in a row played by the Philadelphia 1B, who is presented with a diamond stickpin and gold watch between games to commemorate his endurance effort. He will end the season with a consecutive games streak of 553.
    • Boston's Waite Hoyt pitches nine perfect innings against the Yankees, but they come in between the 4th and the 13th in which he gives up hits. He loses 2-1 in the 13th.
  • 1920:
    • In the first game of a twinbill, Babe Ruth hits his 50th home run in the first inning, off the Senators Jose Acosta. He then adds number 51 in a 4-for-4 second game, a 2 - 1 win, to give the Yankees a sweep. The other three hits off loser Shaw are by Phelps.
    • At League Park, Duster Mails pitches Cleveland to a Friday afternoon 2 - 0 victory over the White Sox, dropping them to 1 1/2 games back. In the 5th, Mails walks three straight batters on 12 pitches, but stays in and strikes out the side. No Sox reach base after that.
  • 1921 - Harry Heilmann is 3-for-4 against Walter Johnson, but Washington wins the game over Detroit, 5 - 1. Ty Cobb is so incensed by the umpiring of Billy Evans that he challenges him to a fight. The two future Hall of Famers go at it with Cobb getting the best of Evans. George Hildebrand, the second ump assigned to the game, reports the incident to American League president Ban Johnson. When Johnson fails to act, Commissioner Landis steps in and suspends Cobb, but allows him to continue as a non-playing manager.
  • 1922:
    • Browns' pitcher Dixie Davis pitches both ends of the doubleheader against the Red Sox, scattering nine hits and losing the opener 2 - 1, then coasting to an 11 - 0 win in the nitecap.
    • Cardinals outfielder Rogers Hornsby hits home runs off Giant hurlers Jesse and Virgil Barnes. The homers served up by the brothers enables the Rajah to set the National League record for round trippers in a season with 42. Rosy Ryan, in relief of Hugh McQuillan, picks up the 10 - 6 Cards win.
  • 1923:
  • 1924:
  • 1925 - Washington takes two from Cleveland, 4 - 3 and 6 - 2, while the A's lose to St. Louis 6 - 4, and the Senators clinch their second pennant.
  • 1926 - At the Polo Grounds, the Cardinals clinch the pennant by beating the Giants 6 - 4 behind Flint Rhem and Bill Sherdel. Billy Southworth homers to help beat his old teammates, negating Bill Terry's 3-run home run off Rhem. The Cards are now ahead of Cincinnati by three games with two to play. The Reds lose to the Phillies today, 9 - 2.
  • 1927 - The Yankees win their 106th, 6-0 over Detroit, for a new AL high. They will win 110, a record until the 1954 Indians win 111.
  • 1928 - The Tigers draw 404 fans for their last meeting with the Red Sox, winning 8 - 0 behind Sam Gibson's 5-hitter. Pat Simmons is knocked out in the 7th when he gives up consecutive triples to Al Wingo, batting 9th, John Stone, and Charlie Gehringer. Harry Heilmann has a home run and double for Detroit. Jack Rothrock is busy for Boston playing LF, SS, and pitching a shutout last inning.
  • 1929:
  • 1931:
    • Lefty Grove wins his 31st, beating the Red Sox, 9 - 4, his 11th straight win over the Red Sox stretching back to May 26, 1930. Since July 25, 1930, Grove's record is 46 - 4, the best 50 decision streak in the century, as noted by Jim Kaplan.
    • The round-robin playoff among New York City's three ML teams, to raise money for the unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both the Giants and the Yankees at the Polo Grounds. Again, a near capacity crowd turns out and adds $48,000 to bring the fund to $108,000. In field events held between games, Babe Ruth, normally a left-handed hitter, bats right and wins the fungo hitting contest. He breaks the old distance record held by Big Ed Walsh. Ruth's drive lands in deep center field, 421 feet away. The old record, set 20 years earlier, was 419 1/2 feet.
  • 1932:
  • 1933:
    • Lefty Grove wins his 24th game, replacing starter Tim McKeithan after four innings and the A's leading 8 - 3. The final score is 11 - 4, with General Crowder taking the loss. But Grove's win is tainted. The Athletics "contrived" to give Grove the sure win, so that he could finish the season with more wins than National League star Carl Hubbell, who will finish with 23. American League President Will Harridge will reverse the official scorer's decision next week and give the win to McKeithan, but the league eventually returns the win to Grove.
    • Detroit's Tommy Bridges reaches the 9th inning with a no-hitter for the third time this season and the fourth time in two years. He yields a pair of hits, as Detroit beats the Browns 7 - 0. Despite the win, Bucky Harris resigns as manager of the Tigers.
  • 1934:
  • 1935:
  • 1936:
    • The AL batting crown is decided when Luke Appling of the White Sox goes 4-for-4 in the second game of a doubleheader with Cleveland. Runner-up Earl Averill is held hitless. Appling will coast to a 10-point margin at .388.
    • The Giants clinch the pennant, winning 2-1 in the 10th of the opening game of a doubleheader with the Boston Bees. P Hal Schumacher singles in the winning run.
  • 1939 - OF Johnny Cooney of the Boston Bees, playing at the Polo Grounds, hits his first HR after 15 years as P/OF in the ML. Tomorrow he will repeat the feat, hitting his last HR in what will be a 20-year career.
  • 1940 - George Caster of the Philadelphia Athletics allows 6 home runs in one game against the Boston Red Sox. Ted Williams, Jimmie Foxx, Joe Cronin and Jim Tabor connect in the 6th inning. Foxx's HR is his 500th.
  • 1943 - A crowd of 314, the smallest in Wrigley Field history, see Andy Pafko make his Cubs debut. Pafko drives in 4 runs with a double and a single in 3 at bats, as the Cubs top the Phillies 7-4 in a 5-inning downpour.
  • 1946 - Disappointing on the field, the Yankees nevertheless finish their home season with a 2,309,029 attendance. The best previous draw was the 1929 Cubs at 1,485,166. Total ML attendance was 18.5 million, 80 percent more than 1945.
  • 1949:
  • 1950:
    • Mental lapses crush Tiger hopes. Due to heavy smoke from a Canadian forest fire, Detroit puts on the lights in a Sunday afternoon contest with the Indians. Cleveland's only score in nine innings is pitcher Bob Lemon's home run in the fourth, as the match is tied 1 - 1 on Johnny Lipon's HR. Lemon opens the 10th with a triple, and two intentional walks follow. With the bases loaded and one out, C Aaron Robinson thinks he has a shot at a double play by just stepping on home. Because of the haze, he does not see 1B Don Kolloway remove the force after fielding the ball hit by slugger Luke Easter, and the Indians win 2 - 1.
    • 66,924 fans are on hand for Johnny Mize Day at Yankee Stadium, as the Yankees top the fading Red Sox 9 - 5 to go 4 games up on Boston and 2 1/2 ahead of Detroit. Phil Rizzuto contributes a single, double, and home run, while Yogi Berra adds 4 hits including a triple. Joe DiMaggio's hit streak reaches 15. New York will win 5 of their next 7, while the Tigers will manage to go 4 - 3.
    • P Erv Palica of the Dodgers is the star today pitching a 2-hitter in an 11-0 win over Philadelphia, and hitting a fifth inning grand slam off Bubba Church of the Phils. The win cuts the Phillies' lead to five games. The Phils will win two out of three in Boston to put the Braves out of the race.
  • 1951 - The Giants score with two outs in the 9th inning to edge the Braves' Chet Nichols, 4 - 3. Eddie Stanky drives home the winner with a single off 3B Sibby Sisti's glove Dave Koslo wins in relief.
  • 1954 - Phillie Murry Dickson loses his 20th game of the season 1-0 to New York's Don Liddle. It marks the third consecutive season he leads the NL in losses.
  • 1955:
    • The Giants fail to renew manager Leo Durocher's contract. He resigns and is replaced by Bill Rigney.
    • The Washington Senators lose their 99th and 100th games of the season, the first time the franchise has ever reached the century mark. The Orioles do the damage 1-0 and 8-5.
  • 1956 - NL President Warren Giles waives the 12:50 a.m. curfew for games that may affect the outcome of the pennant race. Brooklyn wins the postponed game, but loses the regular game to Pittsburgh 6-5.
  • 1957:
  • 1958 - The Red Sox close out their home schedule with a 7 - 5 loss to the Yankees. Mickey Mantle cracks his 42nd homer of the year to put him three ahead of Rocky Colavito, who will finish at 42 home runs.
  • 1959 - The Phillies P Humberto Robinson says that gambler Harold Friedman offered him $1,500 to throw a game with the Reds. The pitcher ignores him and hurls a 7-2 win. Friedman is held on bail. Commissioner Ford Frick later commends Robinson for promptly reporting to him.
  • 1960 - Mickey Mantle's 11th inning homer off Ted Wilks gives New York a 6 - 5 win over the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Mantle had driven in the game's first run with a drag bunt in the first.
  • 1961:
    • A dropped fly ball by Ken Hunt in the 10th gives the Tigers two runs and a 7 - 5 win over the Angels. Hunt had tied the game in the 8th with a home run. Rookie Howie Koplitz wins his first ML game, after going 23-3 with a no-hitter for Birmingham (SA). Koplitz will wins his first seven decisions in the Bigs over four years but an arm injury will limit him to a 9 - 7 record.
    • At Cincinnati, the Giants stage a 9-run 4th to rip the Reds, 12 - 5. Orlando Cepeda hits his 45th homer of the year, a grand slam, to climax the frame. Cepeda will hit one more home run this year and finish with 39 walks, the first National League player with more than 40 homers and fewer than 40 walks. Hal Trosky has done it in the American League.
    • Minnesota's Joe Altobelli hits a one out 7th inning homer, the only hit off Washington's Dick Donovan, who wins, 4 - 1. Jim Kaat loses his 16th.
  • 1963:
  • 1965 - At Candlestick Park, Tony Cloninger throws a 4-hitter to give the Braves an 8 - 2 win over the Giants. In Southern California, the Dodgers win 4 - 3 over the Cards to reduce the Giants' lead to one game.
  • 1967 - The Twins crunch the Yankees 9 - 2 as Dean Chance scatters nine hits for his 20th victory. The White Sox hold off the Indians 5 - 1, while Boston racks up 18 hits in an 11 - 7 win over the Orioles. The Tigers lose a tough one. Going into the bottom of the 9th in Washington, Detroit nursed a 4 - 2 lead, only to lose it 5 - 4. The loss drops Detroit to 4th, 1 1/2 games behind Minnesota, Chicago a game back, and Boston a half game.
  • 1968:
    • The Giants beat the Astros, 5 - 4 with Willie Mays driving in three runs. Mays hits a solo homer in the 1st and drives in the tying and winning runs in the 8th with a perfect bunt. With runners on 2B and 3B, Mays bunts and Doug Rader attempts a barehand pickup but misses the ball.
    • Manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack during New York's game with the Braves. He is hospitalized, and Rube Walker takes the helm for the rest of the season. The Aaron brothers, Tommie and Hank, pull off a double steal for the Braves, with Hank scoring. The pair combine for five hits in a 7 - 3 win over the Mets.
    • Steve Blass records his 3rd shutout in a row, defeating the Reds, 2 - 0, and beating Gary Nolan. For Nolan, it is his first defeat after seven straight wins, while Blass wins his 9th straight for the Pirates.
  • 1969 - Gary Gentry four-hits the Cardinals, 6-0, helping the Mets become the first team to clinch a National League East title. Donn Clendenon and Ed Charles hit home runs. As the game ends, a large number of the 54,928 fans pour onto the field ripping up huge chunks of sod. Seven fans suffer fractures in the celebration.
  • 1970 - The Cubs stop the Cards, 7 - 1, behind Ken Holtzman's 7-hitter, and stay 2 1/2 games in back of the Pirates. Chicago will lose its next two games and Pittsburgh will clinch the divisional title on the 27th.
  • 1971:
    • Al Downing becomes a 20-game winner for the first time in his career, as the Dodgers whip the Braves, 2 - 0. Willie Davis has three hits, one a homer, and scores both runs. LA trails the Giants by two games.
  • 1971 - Wasting a heroic pitching effort by starter Clay Kirby, the Padres lose to the Astros 2 - 1 in 21 innings. Kirby hurls 15 innings and strikes out 15 men.
  • 1972 - In the nitecap of a twinbill sweep over the Indians, Sparky Lyle sets an American League record and ties the ML mark by saving his 35th game. The Yanks win, 8 - 3, after gaining a 5 - 4 win in the opener when they score two unearned runs on five Indian errors in the 11th. Thurman Munson steals 2B by kicking the ball out of Frank Duffy's glove and going to 3B on the error. Duffy then boots a grounder and throws wildly for two more E's. Catcher Gerry Moses then picks up a squibber and fires over 1B and RF Del Unser's throw to the plate is over Moses' head for error 5.
  • 1973:
    • Montreal sweeps a doubleheader from the 1st place Pirates, winning 5 - 4 and 3 - 0. Pittsburgh is now a half game ahead of the Mets in the National League East.
    • The Reds clinch another NL West crown, beating the Padres, 2 - 1, in Cincinnati. Dick Baney, making his second ML start, is the winner.
  • 1974:
  • 1975 - Tom Seaver's bid for a no-hitter is again spoiled in the 9th by a little-known Cub batter. This time it is Joe Wallis who lines a 2-out single in the 9th for Chicago's first hit. Seaver retires the next hitter, but the score through nine innings is 0 - 0. The Cubs tally two more hits in the 10th, but fail to score. When Skip Lockwood relieves Seaver in the 11th, Chicago finally scores to win, 1 - 0.
  • 1976 - Chicago Cub Bill Madlock suffers a bruises and a slight concussion when he is mugged in New York City. Chicago then gets mugged by the Mets 4 - 3.
  • 1977 - Jack Brohamer becomes the first White Sox player since Ray Schalk in 1922 to hit for the cycle as Chicago whips the Mariners, 8 - 3. Brohamer also adds a double.
  • 1978 - Ron Guidry (23 - 3) gains his 3rd 2-hit shutout of the month, 4 - 0 over the Indians. The two Indian hits are by Duane Kuiper, the 2nd time this year that he has recorded the only hits in a game. The Yankees ace also two-hitted the Red Sox on September 9th (7 - 0) and 15th (4 - 0). It is Guidry's 9th shutout of the year, a Yankee record, and just one short of the American League record for southpaws set by Boston lefty Babe Ruth in 1916. The Red Sox stay one game in back of New York by topping Toronto 7 - 6.
  • 1979:
  • 1980 - The Braves, with 24,897 watching, beat the Astros 4 - 2 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, pushing the Braves over the one million attendance mark for the season. The 11 other National League teams have already reached that milestone, making this the first season ever in which all the teams in one league have done so.
  • 1982 - In the completion of a game suspended on July 9th, the Tigers beat Cleveland 4 - 3 when reliever Ed Glynn uncorks a wild pitch with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the 18th inning.
  • 1983 - In the 9th inning of Atlanta's 3 - 2 win over Los Angeles, Braves OF Dale Murphy walks, steals 2B, and scores the winning run on Rafael Ramirez's single. The stolen base makes him only the 6th player in ML history to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in the same season.
  • 1984 - Rick Sutcliffe pitches a 2-hitter in a 4 - 1 win over Pittsburgh to clinch the National League East title for the Cubs, who will be making their first post-season appearance since 1945. The win is Sutcliffe's 14th in a row. Sutcliffe strikes out nine Bucs, including Joe Orsulak for the final out.
  • 1985 - Expos OF Andre Dawson slugs three home runs, including a pair of 3-run shots in a 12-run 5th inning, to lead Montreal to a wild 17 - 15 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Dawson joins Willie McCovey as the only players to hit two home runs in one inning on two different occasions, and his six RBIs in one inning ties the major-league record last accomplished by Jim Ray Hart in 1970. The Expo outfielder also went yard twice in the same frame on July 30, 1978.
  • 1988:
  • 1988:
    • Toronto's Dave Stieb is one out away from a no-hitter when Julio Franco's apparent game-ending grounder takes a bad hop over 2B Manny Lee's head and Stieb is forced to settle for a 1 - 0 one-hitter. It is the 7th no-hitter broken up in the 9th inning this season.
  • 1991 - Howard Johnson of the Mets strokes his 37th home run of the season to set a new National League record for switch-hitters, in NY's 10-8 loss to Pittsburgh. Johnson himself had set the previous mark in 1987. He will finish the year with 38 homers and 117 RBIs, becoming the first switch-hitter to lead the NL in driving home runs.
  • 1992:
    • Rookie center fielder Kenny Lofton establishes an Indian record stealing his 62nd base of the season.
    • At the age of 40, Dave Winfield drives in four runs with a homer and a two-run double becoming the oldest player to drive in 100 runs. The future Hall of Famer's offensive outburst helps the Blue Jays beat the Orioles, 8-2.
    • Baseball's executive council rescinds the National League realignment announced by Fay Vincent earlier this year. Vincent has since resigned from his post.
  • 1993 - Defeating the Cincinnati Reds 9-2, the Rockies set a National League record for wins by an expansion team. Colorado's 65th win of the season surpasses the mark established by the Houston Colt .45s in 1962.
  • 1995 - Montreal P Carlos Perez is arrested in Atlanta and charged with the rape of a 20-year-old woman.
  • 1996:
  • 1997:
  • 1998:
    • Red Sox reliever Tom Gordon records his 42nd consecutive save establishing a major league record. Boston clinches the AL wild card spot behind a pair of homers and four runs scored by Nomar Garciaparra.
    • Shortstop Gary DiSarcina leads Anaheim to a 10 - 6 win over Oakland with five hits, including two doubles, and a pair of RBIs.
  • 1999:
    • The Indians swamp the Blue Jays, 18-4. OF Manny Ramirez drives home eight runs, on a single and two homers, for Cleveland.
    • The Rangers beat the Athletics, 12-4, as Texas OF Juan Gonzalez strokes three home runs. Gonzalez adds a single and drives home five runs for the Rangers.
    • The Astros defeat the Brewers, 9-4. Astros OF Bill Spiers is attacked by a fan in the 6th inning of the contest. His teammates leave the bench and bullpen to aid Spiers, who suffers a welt under his left eye and a bloody nose. He remains in the game, however. His assailant is charged with two counts of assault after being taken into custody.
  • 2000 - The White Sox lose to the Twins, 6-5 in 10 innings, but still clinch the AL Central as Kansas City defeats Cleveland, 9-0.
  • 2001:
    • Jamie Moyer (19 - 5) wins his 10th straight as the Mariners beat the Rangers, 9 - 3. The win snaps the M's 4-game losing streak. Moyer's win is his 150th.
    • Former Major Leaguer Tuffy Rhodes, playing for the Kintetsu Buffaloes, hits his 55th homer to tie Sadaharu Oh's Japanese League single season home run record. His homer, off hard-throwing Daisuke Matsuzaka comes at home and gives the Buffaloes a 7 - 6 win over the Seibu Lions. Tuffy will hit no more as he'll see few good pitches from here on out.
    • In Los Angeles, Barry Bonds walks in his first two at bats and then slugs his 67th homer in the 7th inning to give the Giants a 2 - 1 win over the Dodgers. Bonds hit a pair in his last two at bats the previous day. Bonds now has 35 homers on the road, a ML record.
    • Larry Walker is 4-for-4 with two homers to pace the Rockies to a 15 - 11 win over the Padres. Todd Helton hits his 44th and drives in 4, and Juan Uribe has four hits, as the Rockies score in all eight innings they go to bat. The Pads' Rickey Henderson is 4-for-5 with three runs scored, leaving him three shy of Ty Cobb's runs record.
    • The Marlins score a 2nd inning run on Javy Lopez's throwing error, and Brad Penny and two relievers hold on to beat the Braves, 1 - 0. The Braves drop into a tie for 1st place in the NL East with the idle Phillies.
    • Pittsburgh rookie Craig Wilson ties the major-league record for pinch-hit home runs in a season by hitting his 7th in the Pirates' 7 - 6 win over the Cubs. Dave Hansen of the Dodgers set the mark the previous season.
  • 2002:
    • The Astros have their first rain delay at home since July 15, 1976. To save time, officials decide to cover the Minute Maid field with a tarp during the 19-minute delay rather than use the retractable roof.
    • Thanks to Jason's two home runs in the Yankees 6-0 whitewash of the Devil Rays, the Giambi brothers (Jason 40, Jeremy 20) pass the DiMaggio siblings for the highest single-season total for homers with 60. The DiMaggios (Joe 46, Vince, 13) went yard 59 times in 1937.
  • 2005 - Averaging more than 50,000 fans per game, the Yankees become the third franchise in major league history, and the first since the 1994 strike, to pass the four-million attendance mark. The 1993 Colorado Rockies and the 1991-1993 Toronto Blue Jays are the other teams which have reached the milestone.
  • 2008 - The Pirates come to terms with first-round pick Pedro Alvarez. Alvarez had previously given his verbal agreement to a deal but agent Scott Boras claimed it was after the deadline. Major League Baseball had placed Alvarez on the restricted list and the MLBPA filed a grievance, resulting in the case being sent to an arbitrator. Before a decision could be made, Pittsburgh and Alvarez again reached an agreement. The MLBPA therefore dropped its appeal.
  • 2009 - Justin Verlander strikes out 11 in 7 innings as Detroit hosts Cleveland, 6 - 5. It is the Indians' 11th straight loss, one short of the franchise record set in 1931.

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