September 25

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1889 - The Brotherhood of Professional Base ball Players' organizational plan for a new Players' League is leaked to the press in New York. It calls for clubs to be owned jointly by players and capitalists.
1901 - At Boston, Cy Young wins his 33rd, beating the White Stockings, 5-2. Nixey Callahan takes the loss.
1901 - The first-place Pirates jump on Christy Mathewson for three runs in the first inning on their way to a 10-5 win over the Giants. The Bucs tally 14 hits off Matty to whip the visiting Giants.
1905 - After losing three in Chicago, the Giants open a critical series in Pittsburgh by winning, 10-4 behind Christy Mathewson's 30th victory. The Giants score five runs in the 1st inning on just one hit. Deacon Phillippe hits a record-tying three batters in the frame and Honus Wagner adds a throwing error. New York now leads by six 1/2 games.
1907 - In a game against the Giants. Pirates' third baseman Honus Wagner swipes four bases, including second, third, and home in the second inning. Fred Clarke also has four stolen bases for the Pittsburgh.
1907 - Pittsburgh's Honus Wagner steals four bases, including 2B, 3B, and home in the 2nd inning against the Giants. Not to be outdone, his teammate Fred Clarke also swipes four bases for the only time in his career.
1908 - The Senators score five runs in the 9th inning off Cleveland righthander Charlie Chech and beat the Naps, 6-1. Former Cleveland owner Frank DeHaas Robison, listening on the telephone to a friend's play-by-play account of the Washington rally collapses with a heart attack. He dies several hours later.
1908 - At the Polo Grounds, Rube Marquard makes his ML debut and the Reds rough up the Giants $18,000 rookie for seven hits and five runs in five innings.
1908 - Detroit's Ed Summers pitches two complete-game wins over the A's, winning the opener 7-2 The 2nd game is a 10-inning battle with another rookie Biff Schlitzer that ends 1-0 on a Claude Rossman drive for an inside-the-park home run. Summers allows just two hits. With the White Sox idle, the Tigers move to a half-game out of first.
1909 - Washington rookie Bob Groom loses his 15th consecutive game, an AL record that will be surpassed by John Nabors (1916) and Mike Parrott (1980) He will lead the AL with 26 losses.
1910 - Walter Johnson tosses the first of his two career one-runner games, missing a perfect game when a grounder skips by SS George McBride for a single. Johnson's one-hitter is good for a 3 - 0 victory over the Browns.
1910 - In game one of a DH at Philadelphia, the Chicago White Sox stop A's ace Jack Coombs' string of shutout innings at 53 with a run in the 7th. But Coombs beats Ed Walsh 3 - 1 in 14 innings. The Sox win the nitecap, 5 - 2.
1911 - Washington's Wid Conroy, in his final season, sets an American League record for total chances by a 3B with 13 in a 3 - 2 loss to Cleveland.
1911 - John C. Bender, brother of Philadelphia great Chief Bender, dies on the mound during a game played in Edmonton, Alberta.
1912 - In Boston, Smoky Joe Wood fires a 2-hitter at New York, winning 6 - 0. The Boston ace strikes out 10 in winning his 33rd game.
1916 - Boston's Babe Ruth is 2-for-3 and shuts out Cleveland, 2 - 0, on seven hits.
1916 - The Giants push their record win streak to 21 games by clipping the Cardinals, 1 - 0 and 6 - 2. The old record was set in 1884 when Providence won 20 straight.
1917 - The Cards beat the Series-bound Giants, 5 - 3. Ross Youngs debuts for the Giants, and the future Hall of Famer is 0-for-4.
1920 - The A's lose their 100th game, falling to the Red Sox, 4 - 2. Dugan has three doubles, and finishes the series with seven two base hits.
1920 - Behind Shoeless Joe Jackson's homer and two doubles and the pitching of Claude Williams, the White Sox beat host Cleveland 5 - 1, to shave the Indians lead down to a 1/2 game. Jackson is hitting .387.
1921 - At the Polo Grounds, the Yankees thrash the 2nd place Indians 21 - 7 to move a full game ahead of the Tribe. The Yanks knock out Caldwell in the 2nd and dust Mails for 10 runs in his two innings. Carl Mays goes the distance for the win.
1922 - The Giants beat St. Louis, 5-4 in 10 innings, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant and the Giants' 10th in 41 years in the National League.
1923 - Rogers Hornsby is fined $500 and suspended indefinitely by the Cardinals when, feeling ill, he refuses to take the field for a game against the Robins, despite the team doctor's opinion that he is in condition to play. Raj is not needed as Haines tops Brooklyn, 4 - 1, for his 20th win.
1925 - For the first time in history and the only time in the National League, teammates hit bases-loaded triples in the same game. Reds catcher Walker, in the 3rd, and Bressler in the 5th connect at home in the 18 - 7 win over Brooklyn. Jakie May is the winning pitcher before just 534 fans at Redlands Field. The A's will accomplish the feat next season.
1926 - The Yankees take two from the Browns to nail down the American League flag, winning the opener 10 - 2 behind Herb Pennock. Ruth's grand slam is the big blow. In the nitecap, Lou Gehrig homers in the 3rd inning, off Milt Gaston, while Ruth matches him with a 2-run home run in the 6th off Win Ballou. Ruth adds a solo shot in the 9th, his 46th, off Joe Giard to seal the Waite Hoyt 10 - 4 victory. Despite the score, the game is played in a new AL record 55 minutes. The National League record is 51 minutes, on September 28, 1919.
1926 - In the first of two games in Chicago, Sox RF Bill Barrett breaks a 1 - 1 tie with a 9th inning solo homer of Washington's Walter Johnson to give the win to Tommy Thomas, 2 - 1. The Senators take the 2nd game, 3 - 2, behind Firpo Marberry.
1927 - The Cardinals win two to move into second, while the Pirates take two from Chicago.
1929 - At Fenway Park, the game is halted during in the fifth inning as the umpires called time-out and have players from the Yankees and Red Sox to gather at home plate. Bill McGowan, an respected ump, informs the teams Bronx Bomber manager Miller Huggins has just died in New York and asks the crowd stands for one minute of silence as the flag in center field is lowered to half-staff.
1929 - Three days after turning the team over to coach Art Fletcher, Yankee manager Miller Huggins dies from blood poisoning at New York's St. Vincent Hospital. He was 49. On the day of his funeral in Cincinnati, the AL will cancel all games.
1929 - After turning over the team over to Art Fletcher and checking into the hospital, Yankee manager Miller Huggins dies suddenly at the age of 50 as a result of erysipelas. "Hug', who won six pennants and three World Series in his 12 years as skipper of the Bronx Bombers, will be elected to the Hall of Fame in 1964.
1930 - Joe McCarthy, not receiving the support of Cubs owner William Wrigley, resigns as manager. Rogers Hornsby is named to finish the season.
1930 - Harry Hooper, former Red Sox and White Sox star OF, is named baseball coach at Princeton University.
1931 - Sam Rice drops a fly ball and the Yankees rally for five runs in the 8th to beat the Senators, 8 - 3. Ruth has two solo homers to help in the win. The 3rd place Yanks now trail the Nats by a 1/2 game.
1931 - The A's 19-year-old rookie Lew Krausse makes his ML debut a dandy one, twirling a 4-hitter to beat Boston, 7 - 1.
1932 - Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th home run in the last game of the season to finish two short of Ruth's 1927 record of 60. Foxx adds two singles but the A's lose, 2 - 1, to the Senators Alvin Crowder. Alvin Crowder wins his 26th and 15th straight game, one short of the AL record held by Walter Johnson, Smoky Joe Wood, and Lefty Grove. Foxx finishes with 169 RBIs while teammate Al Simmons ties for 2nd with 151.
1932 - Paul Waner sets a new NL record with his 62nd double, as the Pirates defeat the Cardinals 7 - 1. The 2nd place Pirates will be the first team to finish above .500 (86-68) while scoring fewer runs (701 to 711) than their opponents. The NL won't see it again in a full season until the 1984 Mets, while it won't happen in the AL until 1948.
1933 - The Giants travel to Ossining for a 9 - 3 win over the Sing Sing prison team. Alabama Pitts, the prison's football star, has two doubles in the 7-inning game. Pitts will be offered a baseball contract in May 1935, but later the offer will be rescinded after a public uproar.
1933 - In a closed practice, the Series-bound Senators test the less-lively National League ball. Joe Cronin finds it "rides plenty," hitting three of the first four pitches into the stands. "I'm in the wrong league," he says.
1934 - Lou Gehrig plays his 1,500th consecutive game. His 48th HR is a personal high.
1934 - Diz wins his 28th, beating the Pirates 3-2. The Giants lead is cut to one game when the Phillies rally in the 9th for a 5-4 win.
1935 - In a showdown series with the 2nd place Cardinals in St. Louis, the Cubs edge the Cardinals 1 - 0. Paul Dean strikes out the first four Cub batters before young Phil Cavarretta. drives a home run on top the roof in RF for the only score of the game. Lon Warneke gives up just two hits and walks none in winning his 20th game. It is the Cubs' 19th straight win, and they are now assured of at least a tie for the pennant.
1936 - Joe Medwick sets a still-standing NL record with his 64th double.
1940 - Bobo Newsom wins a clutch doubleheader for the Tigers, pitching 2 innings of relief in the opener against the White Sox, and going the distance in the nightcap for his 21st win.
1940 - Walker Cooper, recently called up from Columbus (AA), and Mort Cooper, pitching in relief, make up a brother battery in the Cards, 4-3 win over the Reds.
1941 - Combined with a Cardinal defeat, the Dodgers win their first pennant in 21 years when they beat the Braves, 6-0 .Whitlow Wyatt's throws a five-hitter and Pete Reiser hits a homer in the winning cause.
1942 - With the Giants' 3rd-place finish secure, OF Hank Lieber pitches a complete-game 9-1 loss against the Phillies at the Polo Grounds. He yields 9 hits and strikes out 5 in his only ML pitching appearance. The Phils score 5 of their runs without a hit.
1944 - Going into the final Monday of the season, the Tigers hold a one-game lead over the Browns with the Yankees now out of the running. Russ Christopher of the A's beats the Tigers 2-1 to produce a tie for the lead.
1946 - The Phils score 5 in the 9th to beat the Dodgers 11-9, a loss that will haunt the Dodgers at the season's end. Phils 1B Frank McCormick makes his first error of the season after a ML record 131 straight errorless games.
1946 - Handling 13 chances without an error against the Braves in an 8-0 loss, Giants SS Buddy Kerr runs his errorless streak to 254 chances, breaking Eddie Miller's 1940 record.
1947 - Giants rookie Larry Jansen wins his 21st game of the season, beating the Braves Red Barrett 2-1. It is Jansen's 10th win in a row, all complete games.
1949 - The Cardinals, in first place for 2 months, win their final home game, and the Dodgers lose to Philadelphia, maintaining the Cards 111Å½2 game lead.
1949 - Despite 71 injuries that kept players out of games, Casey Stengel and his Yankees have been in first place all season. But today the Red Sox move into a tie for first place with a 4-1 victory over Allie Reynolds. Ted Williams hits his 43rd HR, and Mel Parnell wins his 25th game of the season. The lefty is 16-3 at Fenway this year. Joe DiMaggio listens to the game from a hospital, bedridden with pneumonia. The Yankees return to New York and are greeted at Grand Central Station by a huge crowd of fans, including Mrs. Babe Ruth, who predicts, "Whoever wins tomorrow should go all the way."
1950 - Both Mel Parnell and rookie Harry Taylor of the Red Sox shut out Philadelphia, winning 8 - 0 and 3 - 0. Parnell throws a 3-hitter, and Taylor allows only two hits in the nightcap to win his first major-league game.
1951 - At Crosley Field, Reds catcher Johnny Pramesa clouts a grand slam in the 14th inning to defeat the Cardinals, 7 - 3.
1951 - The Dodgers continue to slide. After the Dodgers lose two out of three in Philadelphia, Boston sweeps two from Brooklyn. Warren Spahn wins the opener 6 - 3 over Branca, his 4th straight loss, and Jim Wilson coasts to a 14 - 2 three-hit win in the 2nd game. Earl Torgeson drives in six runs in the nitecap. Meanwhile, the Giants win 5 - 1 over Robin Roberts and the Phils to move a single game in back of the Dodgers.
1952 - Hal Newhouser of the Tigers wins his 200th game. It is his last win for Detroit, who will release him in early 1953.
1954 - Duke Snider joins teammate Gil Hodges in the 40-HR club, giving the Dodgers two 40-HR sluggers in 2 straight seasons. The Dodgers win 10-5.
1954 - Although they lose 100 games, the same as in the previous season when the club was in St. Louis, the Orioles draw over a million fans.
1954 - Early Wynn 2-hits the Tigers 11-1 for his league-leading 23rd win as the Indians notch their 111th victory, a new AL record eclipsing the 110 wins of the 1927 Yankees.
1954 - A crowd 14,175 Fenway faithful fans pay tribute to retiring Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams who is playing his last game at home. The 'Splendid Splinter's retirement will only last until May when his divorce is finalized with his contract being excluded from the settlement.
1955 - Detroit OF Al Kaline becomes the youngest batting champ in history, as he takes the AL crown at age 20.
1955 - Bobby Hofman underscores the tone of the season for the Giants as he lines into a season-ending triple play against the Phillies in a 3-1 loss. The Giants win the opener 5-2, as Willie Mays belts his 51st HR of the year.
1955 - At the age of 20, Al Kaline becomes the youngest player to win a batting title. The Tigers' outfielder finishes the season with .340 average.
1956 - In the wake of the Ted Williams spitting incident, the Massachusetts State Legislature passes a bill to fine fans for profanity during a game. The bill is later killed.
1956 - At Ebbets Field, Sal Maglie of the Dodgers no-hits the Phils 5-0 for his 12th win against 4 losses. The win keeps Brooklyn 1Å½2 game behind the Braves who beat Cincinnati 7-1.
1956 - Dodger Sal Maglie, 39, no-hits the Phillies, 5-0, at Ebbets Field. The 'Barber's' gem helps Brooklyn to keep pace in the pennant race with the Braves and Reds.
1960 - Ralph Terry clinches the Yankees' 25th pennant with a 4 - 3 win over the Red Sox. Luis Arroyo saves the win. It is Casey Stengel's 10th pennant in 12 years at New York.
1960 - For the first time since 1927, the Pirates are headed for the World Series. While the Bucs lose 4 - 2 to the Braves, the 2nd-place Cardinals are mathematically eliminated by 20-game loser Glen Hobbie's 5 - 0 win for the Cubs. A gigantic torch light victory parade in Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle at midnight celebrates the pennant.
1960 - Defeating the Red Sox, 4-3, the Yankees clinched the American League. It will be 70-year old Casey Stengel's tenth and last pennant as he will let go by the Yankees and be replaced by Ralph Houk next season.
1962 - The Dodgers, hosting 8th-place Houston, lose in 10 innings 3 - 2. Dick Farrell hands 10-game winner Ed Roebuck his 1st loss of the year. The Dodgers now lead by just two games.
1962 - Whitey Ford beats Washington 8 - 3, as the Yankees clinch the American League pennant. Ralph Houk becomes the 5th manager to capture pennants in each of his first two seasons.
1962 - The Giants keep pace as Billy Pierce beats St. Louis 6 - 3. Pierce runs his record at Candlestick to 11 - 0.
1963 - Stan Musial is named a vice president of the Cardinals by owner August Busch. His number six is retired.
1964 - Dean Chance beats the Twins' Jim Kaat 1 - 0 to become the Angels first 20-game winner. Chance's five 1 - 0 wins in 1964 ties the major-league record held by four pitchers (Reb Russell; W. Johnson; Bush; Hubbell).
1964 - The 1st-place Phils, just three 1/2 games in the lead after dropping three games at home to the Reds (9 - 2 and 6 - 4) throw Jim Bunning at the Braves. Bunning lasts six innings but the Braves topple the host Phils, 5 - 3, as Joe Torre belts two triples to drive home three runs. In the 2nd contest, the woes continue as the Phillies lose 7 - 5 in 11 innings. Chris Short goes eight innings for Philley before exiting with a 3 - 3 tie. Torre slams a two run homer in the 10th, but the Phils match it, before losing it in the 11th. Torre had three hits in the nitecap with three RBIs.
1964 - At Shea, Jim Maloney fires a one-hitter in the Reds, 3 - 0, win over the Mets. Joe Christopher's 2nd-inning single is the only hit.
1965 - The Twins Mudcat Grant one hits the Senators to win, 5 - 0. Don Blasingame's double in the 3rd is the only hit for Washington; it is the 4th time that Blasingame has collected the only hit for his team.
1965 - Sandy Koufax blanks the Cardinals 2 - 0. He fans 12 along the way, raising his record season total to 356. His 2 - 0 shutout of St. Louis keeps Los Angeles a game behind the Giants.
1965 - Another Kansas City publicity stunt makes the great Satchel Paige baseball's oldest performer. At 59, Paige hurls the first three innings, garners one strikeout, and allows just one hit, to Carl Yastrzemski in his first ML appearance since 1953. The Red Sox jump on reliever Don Mossi for a 5 - 2 win.
1965 - At age 34, Willie Mays becomes the oldest player to slug 50 home runs in a seasons. Giant center fielder was also the youngest to accomplish the feat hitting 51 homers in 1955.
1965 - In Houston, the Reds Jim Maloney allows two hits in beating Houston, 1 - 0.
1965 - At the alleged age of 60, Satchel Paige becomes the oldest player ever to appear in a major league game. Pitching for the Kansas City A's, he blanks the Red Sox for three innings striking out one and giving up just one hit to Carl Yastrzemski.
1965 - The Giants top the Braves 7 - 5, led by Willie Mays's 50th home run of the year.
1966 - In a matchup of Jewish pitchers, the Cubs Ken Holtzman outduels Sandy Koufax, to win 2 - 1. The Dodgers go hitless over the first eight innings. Holtzman, who spent much of the season in military service, will finish the year at 9 - 0, the first pitcher since Howie Krist (10 - 0) in 1940 to win that many without a loss.
1967 - At Forbes Field, the Reds Jim Maloney pitches a 2-hitter to beat the Pirates, 3 - 0. All the scores come on solo homers"”2 by Mack Jones and one by Lee May.
1967 - In an afternoon game, the Angels top the leading Twins, 9 - 2 in Minnesota, to move the idle Red Sox into a 1st-place tie. Detroit loses, 2 - 0, to Yankee lefty Al Downing.
1968 - In Mantle's last appearance at Yankee Stadium, he slices a two-out first inning single off Cleveland's Luis Tiant, the only hit for the Yankees. Tiant tosses his 9th shutout of the year, tops in the AL, to win, 3 - 0. El Tiante's ERA drops to 1.60; the previous low for an Indian pitcher was Stan Coveleski's 1.87 in 1917.
1969 - John Allyn buys 50 percent of the White Sox from brother Arthur Allyn, giving him complete control of the club.
1970 - In the White Sox 5 - 1 win over the Brewers in game 1, Luis Aparicio sets a major-league record for most games at shortstop, 2,219. Ed Herrmann hits a 3-run home run for the Sox. The Brewers win game 2, 3 - 2.
1970 - At Pittsburgh, Willie Stargell throws out a runner in the 8th and singles home the winner in the 9th to give the Pirates a 4 - 3 win over the Mets. The Bucs increase their National League East lead to three 1/2 games over the Mets and Cubs, losers to the Phils.
1971 - With rookie C Tim Hosley hitting two homers and driving in five runs, the Tigers trip the Yankees, 10 - 7. Les Cain pitches six innings for the win. Cain finishes with a 10 - 9 record with 145 innings, but contends he is forced to pitch by Manager Billy Martin while Cain has a sore arm. Cain later claims that it did permanent damage to his arm and he sues the Tigers. In a landmark decision, the Michigan Bureau of Workman's Compensation will order the Tigers to pay Cain $111 a month for the rest of his life. A lump sum payment was later agreed upon.
1973 - It's Willie Mays Day in Flushing as the Mets honor the 'Say-Hey Kid' in an emotional ceremony at Shea Stadium.
1973 - The Mets beat the Expos 2 - 1 on Willie Mays Night at Shea Stadium. "The "˜Say Hey' Kid" had announced his retirement five days earlier.
1974 - Pittsburgh regains 1st place by edging the Cardinals 13 - 12 in 11 innings at Busch Stadium. Pittsburgh scored four times in the 9th to take a 12 - 9 lead, but St. Louis scored three times to tie it.
1974 - In a revolutionary surgical operation, Dr. Frank Jobe repairs Tommy John's damaged ulnar collateral ligament by replacing the elbow tendon of the pitching arm with a tendon from the right wrist. The procedure, now known as Tommy John surgery, give the southpaw, who was unlikely ever be able to pitch again, an opportunity to win an additional 164 victories.
1977 - Detroit pounds out 18 hits against Boston's Reggie Cleveland, but they still lose 12 - 5. Carlton Fisk, Butch Hobson and Carl Yastrzemski all homer for Boston, giving the Sox a total of 210.
1979 - Frank Tanana pitches a 4 - 1 victory over the Royals to clinch the first-ever American League West title for the Angels.
1979 - Behind the solid pitching of Frank Tanana, the Angels defeat the Royals, 4-1, to win their first American League West title.
1979 - Mickey Mahler and Rick Mahler hurl in the same game as the Braves fall to the Astros 8 - 0. It is the most recent instance of brothers pitching for the same team in the same game.
1980 - In a 6 - 4 loss to the White Sox, Oakland's Brian Kingman (7-20) loses his 20th game. Kingman will finish 8 - 20, the last 20-game loser of the century and the first to pitch for a winning team (Oakland will be 79 - 82) since Dolf Luque.
1980 - San Diego's Jerry Mumphrey steals his 50th base of the season in a 5 - 3 loss to the Reds, making the Padres the first team in major-league history to have three players with 50 steals in the same season"”Mumphrey, Ozzie Smith, and Gene Richards.
1981 - The Phils drub the Cubs, 9 - 2, behind Mike Schmidt and Gary Matthews. Mathews drives in five runs while Schmidt adds his 11th homer in his last 12 games at Wrigley. He has hit 33 there.
1983 - Baltimore clinches the American League East title with a 5 - 1 win over Milwaukee, as Storm Davis and Tippy Martinez combine on a 6-hitter.
1984 - At Shea, the Mets Rusty Staub homers to become the second player to homer as a teenager and also at the age of 40. Ty Cobb is the only other. Staub's blast, a 2-run pinch homer climaxes a 4-run 9th inning as the Mets beat Philly, 6 - 4.
1984 - Red Sox manager Ralph Houk, 65, announces he will retire at the end of the season.
1984 - Mets' Rusty Staub becomes only the second player to hit home run as a teenager and one after his 40th birthday. Ty Cobb was the first major leaguer to accomplish the feat.
1985 - Mike Greenwell hits his first ML home run, in the top of the 13th inning, to give the Red Sox a 4 - 2 win at Toronto.
1985 - With the score tied 4 - 4 in the bottom of the 9th. Davey Lopes walks, steals 2B and 3B and scores on a pinch single by Bill Spiers as the Cubs beat the Mets, 5 - 4. Gary Carter's grand slam accounts for all the Mets scoring. Lopes has three steals in the game to give him 47 (in just 275 at bats) and he sets the record most stolen bases by a player over 40. The record was set by Honus Wagner in 1914 with 23. Lopes is officially recorded at 39 but when he signed at age 22 he was afraid he was too old so he set his age back a year.
1985 - Rickey Henderson steals his 75th base of the season in the Yankees 10 - 2 win over Detroit, breaking the club record of 74 set by Fritz Maisel in 1914.
1986 - In George Bamberger's last game as manager of the Brewers, Teddy Higuera beats Baltimore 9 - 3 to become the major leagues' 3rd 20-game winner this season. Tom Trebelhorn replaces Bamberger, who is retiring voluntarily.
1986 - Houston's Mike Scott pitches a 2 - 0 no-hitter against the Giants at the Astrodome, clinching the National League West title for the Astros. It is the first time a pennant has ever been decided by a no-hitter, and the 3rd consecutive game in which Astros pitchers have allowed two hits or less.
1987 - In a 5-3 loss to the Dodgers, Padres' catcher Benito Santiago sets a major league record for rookies by hitting safely in his 27th consecutive game.
1987 - In the Padres 5 - 3 loss to the Dodgers, Padres catcher Benito Santiago hits in his 27th straight game to tie the major-league record for rookies.
1989 - Boston's Wade Boggs goes 4-for-5 in a 7 - 4 win over the Yankees to become the first player in ML history to achieve both 200 hits and 100 walks in four consecutive seasons. It is Boggs's 7th straight 200-hit season overall, extending his own modern ML record. Dwight Evans also puts his name in the record books by belting his 20th homer. He is the only current player with 20 or more homers in each of the last nine years,
1989 - Red Sox announce the team will not exercise its option on Jim Rice next season. Bob Stanley, the club's all-time save leader with 173, reports he will call it quits after this season.
1989 - The Red Sox say that they will not exercise their option on Jim Rice's contract next season, while Bob Stanley, the team's all-time save leader with 132, announces his retirement.
1989 - Wade Boggs extends his own modern major league record when he collects his 200th hit for the seventh consecutive season. The Red Sox third baseman goes 4-for-5 as Boston beats the Yankees, 7-4.
1989 - At Montreal, the Cubs blow a chance to clinch a tie in the National League East, losing 4 - 3 in 10 innings, but back into the tie anyway when St. Louis lost later on (as noted by Don Mankowski). Andre Dawson homers twice off Bryn Smith, his second a bizarre inside-the-park blow to give the Cubs a 3-2 lead. Dawson flies deep to CF Dave Martinez, who catches the ball but suffers a painful muscle-pull doing so and drops to the ground. Dawson keeps running as Martinez's teammates surround him. The ball is finally thrown in after Dawson touches home plate. Although at no time did the ball touch the ground or the fence, the umpires award Dawson a homer over the howls of protest. Martinez misses the remainder of the series.
1990 - The Oakland A's clinch their 3rd consecutive American League West title by beating Kansas City 5 - 0. Dave Stewart (22 - 10) goes the distance for the win.
1990 - The Yankees tie a major-league record when their first eight batters all hit safely in a 15 - 3 rout of the Orioles. Anthony Telford allows the first six hits to take the loss. The Yanks hit six homers in the game.
1990 - Tough day at the office for Terry Mulholland. The Phillies P allows just two Card baserunners -- Bernard Gilkey's leadoff triple and double later -- and loses 1 - 0.
1991 - Falcons defensive back Deion Sanders rejoins the Atlanta Braves for the remainder of the season to help the Braves' pennant drive. Sanders still wants to play in the Falcons' game on the 29th against New Orleans.
1991 - John Kruk hits a grand slam and solo homer to provide all the scoring as the Phils edge the Cubs, 5 - 4.
1992 - The Mariners and Rangers use a major league - record 54 players, 29 by the Mariners, in Seattle's 4 - 3 win in 16 innings. The previous mark was 53 set in 1986. Seattle also goes into the record books by using 11 different pitchers; the previous mark was 10. The first sub was pitcher Rich DeLucia, who did not enter until the 7th inning. and issues the first walk. The frustrated Rangers strand 20 runners, helped by a club record of 18 strikeouts. After Omar Vizquel drives home the winning run, Brian Fisher picks up the save, his first since 1989 and the last of his career.
1993 - Cincinnati P Jose Rijo shuts out the Rockies, 6-0, on one hit. Charlie Hayes' broken bat single in the 2nd inning is Colorado's only hit.
1995 - Cubs' P Frank Castillo 1-hits the Cardinals, winning by a score of 7-0. Castillo strikes out 13, walks 2, and allows only a triple to OF Bernard Gilkey.
1996 - In a 7 - 5 win over the Dodgers, Barry Bonds goes 1 - 1 and receives an intentional walk, giving him a new National League record of 149 walks in a season. He also swipes two bases giving him 39. The Dodgers get a homer from Eric Karros, his 34th, and a 2-run pinch homer from Billy Ashby. Of Ashby's nine homers, five have been pinch hits, one short of Johnny Frederick's record. The Giants win clinches a tie for the NL West.
1996 - The Yankees clinch the American League East title by pounding out 20 hits in a 19-2 win over the Brewers in the opening game of a doubleheader. The New Yorkers score 10 runs in the 2nd inning after plating four in the opening frame. Tino Martinez leads with five RBIs and David Cone (7-2) is the easy winner. The Yanks take the nitecap, 6 - 2.
1996 - Jim Leyland loses his last home game as the Pirates manager but receives four standing ovations. The Bucs 4th error leads to the go ahead run in the 11th as the Cards win, 8 - 7.
1997 - Donning uniform number 43 to honor recently fired manager Cito Gaston, Joe Carter becomes the Blue Jay's career home run leader hitting his 203rd in a 4-3 victory over the Orioles. George Bell had been Toronto's home run leader.
1997 - The Astros clinch their first division 11 years by beating the Cubs, 9-1. Houston wins the National League Central despite only being five games over .500.
1997 - The Astros cinch the National League Central flag with a 9 - 1 win over the Cubs. Mike Hampton is the winner.
1998 - With a 6-1 win over the Devil Rays, the Bronx Bombers set an American League record with their 112th win. The 1906 Cubs, who went 116-36, are the only team with more victories than the 1998 Yankees.
1998 - Ken Griffey, Jr. hits his league-leading 56th homer of the season and 350th of his career becoming the youngest player ever to reach the 350 mark.
1998 - By hitting a 462-foot blast at the Astrodome, Sammy Sosa hits #66 (and his final homer of the season) to take the lead in the HR race. Less than an hour later, however, Mark McGwire also hits his 66th in the Cardinals' 6-5 victory over the Expos to tie the Cub outfielder in the historic home run race.
1998 - The fading Mets (88 - 72) lose another to the Braves, 6 - 5, as Dennis Martinez, the 3rd of seven pitchers, is the winner. Meanwhile, the rampaging Giants (88 - 72) top the Rockies to move into a tie for the National League wild - card.
1998 - In the 3rd inning of a 7 - 5 Tiger win, Toronto starter Woody Williams serves up consecutive homers to Juan Encarnacion and Frank Catalanotto, walks a batter, and tees up another gopher for Tony Clark.
1998 - The home run race continues unabated as Sammy Sosa blasts his 66th homer in the 4th inning at Houston, and Mark McGwire responds in the 5th inning with his 66th in the 5th inning at Busch Stadium. Sosa's solo shot ties the game at 2 - 2, but the Astros score in each in the next four innings to win, 6 - 2. Kevin Tapani fails in his bid to win his 20th. The Cards top the Expos, 6 - 5, as McGwire adds another single and J.D. Drew a pair of homers.
1998 - The Yankees win, 6 - 1 over the Devil Rays and set an American League record for most wins in a season, 112. The 1954 Indians held the record at 111. Orlando Hernandez improves his record to 12 - 4.
1998 - Ken Griffey hits home run #56, and drives in five runs, to lead Seattle to a 15 - 4 victory over Texas.
1998 - Mo Vaughn has two hits, including his 39th homer, to stay atop the AL batting race and lead the Red Sox to a 8 - 3 win over the visiting Orioles.
1999 - Its payback time as the Rangers score eight runs in the 2nd inning on their way to beating the Athletics, 10-4.
2000 - At Jacobs Field, the Indians play both the White Sox and the Twins in the first three-team doubleheader since 1951. The Tribe wins the opener 9-2, but losses the second game, to Minnesota, 4-3.
2000 - The Indians play the 2nd 3-team doubleheader since 1900 at Jacobs Field in Cleveland. The Tribe defeats the Chicago White Sox, 9-2, in the opener, then loses the 2nd game to the Minnesota Twins, 4-3. The last 3-team doubleheader was in 1951.
2000 - The Braves defeat the Expos, 6-0, as Tom Glavine becomes the NL's 1st 20-game winner. Glavine's 20th career shutout gives his 20 victories in a season for the 5th time in his career.
2001 - In the Brewers 9-4 victory over the Diamondbacks, Richie Sexson and Jeromy Burnitz both hit three home runs. It is the first time in major league history two teammates have hit three homers in the same game.
2001 - The hot Oakland A's slug the Angels, 9 - 3, using an 8-run 7th inning. It's the A's 13th home win in a row. Jeremy Giambi has a 3-run pinch double in the big frame. Angels SS David Eckstein ties the major league rookie record with his 20th HBP, tying the mark set by Frank Robinson, in 1956.
2001 - The Brewers blast six home runs as they defeat the Diamondbacks, 9 - 4. Jeromy Burnitz and Richie Sexson each hit three homers for Milwaukee, becoming the first teammates ever to accomplish the feat in the same game. Twice they hit back-to-back home runs, the 2nd time teammates have done it this year.
2001 - Seattle tops Texas, 13 - 2, setting an AL record for road victories with its 56th of the season.
2001 - The Pirates rout the Cubs, 13 - 1. Craig Wilson after getting hits in each of the final three innings of Pittsburgh's last game, gets hits in each of the first three innings against Chicago, giving him hits in six consecutive innings, against six different pitchers, a ML mark. Cubs pitchers fan 10 Pirates, giving them 1,250 Ks for the year for a new ML mark.
2001 - Tim Raines joins the odd couple of Ted Williams and Rickey Henderson as the only players in ML history to steal a base in four different decades as the Expos are shut out by the Mets, 2 - 0.
2002 - Completing the worst season in the franchise's 34-year history, the Milwaukee Brewers replace Wendy Selig - Prieb as president and Dean Taylor as general manager. Ulice Payne takes over as president while Doug Melvin replaces Taylor. Milwaukee (56-106) is one of four teams this year to lose 100 games, a first in major league history. Kansas City will finish 62 - 100, Detroit (55 - 106) and Tampa Bay (55 - 106). The last season with three 100 - game losers was 1985 (Cleveland, Pittsburgh and San Francisco).
2002 - The Braves beat the Phillies, 7 - 1, as OF Andruw Jones clouts three home runs and drives home four runs.
2002 - For only the second time since 1900 three teams have play in a twin bill, as the Indians beat the White Sox in the opener, 9-2, and lose the nightcap to the Twins, 4-3 at the Jake. In 1951 at Sportsman's Park, the Cardinals played host to the Giants (win 6-4) and Braves (lose, 2-0).
2002 - Casey Fossum gives up solo homers to Frank Thomas and Joe Crede, but the Red Sox score four in the 6th off Jon Garland to beat Chicago, 4 - 2. Fossum helps his cause by snaring a pop bunt in the first inning and trotting to 1B to complete an unassisted DP.
2003 - Sammy Sosa becomes the first National Leaguer to have at least 100-RBIs nine seasons in a row. The Cubs' right fielder surpasses Mel Ott and Willie Mays who had accomplished the feat eight straight seasons, and joins Rafael Palmeiro and Jimmie Foxx as the only players in major league history to hit 35 home runs and 100 RBI for nine consecutive seasons.
2003 - Carlos Delgado becomes the 15th player in big-league history and only the fifth American Leaguer player to hit four home runs in one game. The Blue Jays' first baseman's first homer was the 300th of his career and his barrage gives him 41 for the season.
2007:
- Prince Fielder hits home runs off of Braden Looper and Kip Wells to give him 50 home runs this season. The 23-year-old slugger becomes the youngest major leaguer to reach the 50-homer level.
- Neal Huntington is hired as General Manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates. He replaces Dave Littlefield.