September 3

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Events, births and deaths that occurred on September 3.

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• 1889 - Indianapolis gets a last-second reprieve in the 9th inning when the ump calls time just before Con Daily apparently makes the last out of the game. Batting again, Daily singles home two runs to cap a 6-run rally to beat Boston, 8 - 7.
• 1894 - Taking over for the fired manager Ned Hanlon, Connie Mack leads the Pirates to a 22 - 1 rout of his former team, the Washington Senators.
• 1901:
  • The Orphans drub the Giants, 10 - 4, putting New York in last place. New York will next play Pittsburgh, hosting the Pirates in three straight doubleheaders. Pittsburgh will win all 6, scoring not less than 10 runs in each game. Not until the year 2000, when the Mariners lose seven straight from August 13-20, all by nine or more runs, will a team allow 9+ runs in seven straight games.
  • Baltimore P Joe McGinnity hurls two complete games against Milwaukee, winning 10 - 0 and losing 6 - 1. The Brewers manage 15 hits on the afternoon off McGinnity, who will set a 20th-century record for most hits allowed during a season (401).
  • Cleveland rookie Bill Cristall debuts with a 4 - 0 gem over Boston, a first in the fledgling American League. Cristall allows five hits in the game two win. Teammate Earl Moore shuts out faltering Boston on two hits in the opener to win, 1 - 0, over Ted Lewis.
• 1903:
  • On the heels of a string of rainouts, Hudson sweeps Poughkeepsie (Hudson River League) in the 20th century's only quadruple header, winning by scores of 2 - 1, 6 - 4, 3 - 1 and 4 - 2. Future Hall of Fame member Dan Brouthers is a member of the Poughkeepsie team.
  • Cleveland P Jesse Stovall hurls an 11-inning shutout in his first ML start, defeating Detroit 1 - 0. It is the longest shutout ever in a pitching debut.
  • Boston beats the A's, 6 - 5, in 12 innings as Cy Young earns his 25th win of the year.
• 1904 - Syracuse (New York State League) beats Scranton three times in a triple header.
• 1905 - Pittsburgh's Deacon Phillippe and Chicago's Bob Wicker hook up in an 10-inning scoreless duel, each allowing just three hits, before Chicago pushes across a run to win. In the nitecap, Lefty Leifield makes his ML debut and fires a 1 - 0 win over Chicago in a game stopped after six innings.
• 1906:
  • Ty Cobb is back in the Detroit lineup for the first time in six weeks. He has a single and steal, but he misplays a Charlie Hemphill fly ball into a home run, and the Tigers lose 1 - 0 to the Browns' Barney Pelty. Rain stops the game after seven innings.
  • The Philadelphia Giants win the Negro Championship Cup on Labor Day in Philadelphia before 10,000 fans, black baseball's largest crowd ever. Rube Foster pitches them to a 3 - 2 victory over the Cuban X-Giants, who have John Henry Lloyd in the lineup.
  • Kid Elberfeld, the hot-headed Tabasco Kid, assaults umpire Silk O'Loughlin and is forcibly removed by police in the first game of New York's 4 - 3 win over the Athletics. In the second game, New York baserunner Willie Keeler collides with SS Lave Cross trying to field a ground ball, and two runs score. O'Loughlin sees no interference, a call so hotly disputed by A's captain Harry Davis that, after eight minutes of arguing, the umpire forfeits the game to New York. For New York, it is a major-league record 5th straight doubleheader sweep in consecutive days.
  • At the Polo Grounds, the Giants flatten the Beaneaters twice, 4 - 0 and 3 - 2. Christy Mathewson wins his 17th in the opener, beating a wild Jeff Pfeffer. Cy Seymour completes the scoring with a solo homer in the 8th inning. Hooks Wiltse, in relief of Red Ames, wins the nitecap.
• 1907 - The Giants and Superbas split a doubleheader. New York takes the opener, 2 - 0, behind Dummy Taylor, then Brooklyn takes the nitecap 1 - 0, in seven innings, behind the 8-hit pitching of Jim Pastorius. The Superbas score on a single, two walks, and a wild pitch by Christy Mathewson.
• 1913 - Boston sidearmer Lefty Tyler spins a one-hitter over the Giants to win, 2 - 1. The Braves reach Christy Mathewson for eight hits and two runs.
• 1915:
  • Cleveland 1B Jay Kirke swings at a wild pitch for strike three and reaches first base. Cleveland beats the White Sox, who protest on the grounds that the rules did not permit Kirke to take first. The protest is upheld and the game ordered replayed.
  • Ernie Shore is victorious over the A's, 10 - 2, giving the first place Red Sox its 6th straight win.
• 1917:
  • In a twinbill that will resonate for years, the White Sox sweep a pair - 4 wins in the last two days - from the Tigers winning, 7 - 5 and 11 - 8, while the Yankees sweep a pair from the Red Sox. Chicago now leads the Red Sox by 6 1/2 games. Detroit takes the lead in the morning game, driving Red Faber from the mound in the 5th, but Ray Schalk's triple in the 8th seals the win for Chicago. In the afternoon contest, Detroit again chases Faber and scores seven runs in the 2nd and 3rd innings to take the lead, but Schalk's three-run homer in the 4th, off Bill James, puts Chicago in a lead they never relinquish. Ed Cicotte takes the p.m. game with six innings of relief, while Lefty Williams pitches three innings of hitless relief to win the a.m. game. The Sox run wild on the bases, stealing seven against Oscar Stanage in the opener and five against Archie Yelle in the second game. Two weeks from now, while staying at the Ansonia Hotel in New York, the White Sox will collect $45 from each player as a gift for the Tigers, allegedly as a thank you for beating the Red Sox. But suspicion will linger that some Tigers threw these two critical doubleheaders and Ty Cobb, though he had three hits, will be included in the accusations.
  • Phillies hurler Grover Cleveland Alexander goes the distance in both games of a doubleheader as Philadelphia sweeps the Robins, 5 - 0 and 9 - 3.
  • At Shibe Park, the A's host their biggest crowd in three years and celebrate by sweeping a pair from the Senators, 7 - 4 and 9 - 2. Joe Bush, reinstated today by Connie Mack after being suspended for two weeks, starts for the A's but is lifted after three because of wildness. Roy Grover and Amos Strunk have three hits apiece in the opener. In the second game, the Mackmen jump on Walter Johnson, knocking him off the rubber in the 3rd inning, and Jing Johnson coasts to the win.
• 1920 - At Cincinnati, Reds recruit Monty Swartz makes his big-league debut, hurling a 12-inning complete game, scattering 17 hits, and losing to the Cards, 6 - 3. He adds a 2 for 4 performance at the bat, but never plays another game in the ML.
• 1921 - Powered by Babe Ruth's 50th homer and the pitching of Carl Mays, the Yankees down the host Senators, 9 - 3.
• 1922 - The Giants pull off a 2nd inning triple play against the Phils. With runners on first and second base Jimmy Smith pops up and the infield fly rule is called. Although Smith is called out, Frankie Frisch fails to catch the ball, and the runners take off. Giants right fielder Ross Youngs picks the ball up and the relay catches runner Cliff Lee at third base for out number 2. 3B Heinie Groh's throw and relay catch Sam Leslie at first base for the third out. The Giants then break a 7 - 7 tie in the 9th when Frisch scores from second base on a muffed 6-3 play that Phils pitcher Jimmy Ring bobbles.
• 1925:
  • After a recent incident on a train, when Cubs manager Rabbit Maranville anointed various passengers from a spittoon, Chicago relieves the Rabbit of the burdens of managership. Chicago hastily appoints George Gibson, former skipper of the Pirates, as manager for the remainder of the season. The Cubs were 23-30 under Maranville, and Chicago will cut the last tie when they waive the veteran in November.
  • The first place Senators continue their march toward a second straight pennant with a 9 - 3 roughing up of Red Ruffing and the Red Sox. Roger Peckinpaugh leads the way, going 3 for 4 with a triple. Alex Ferguson, Yankee castoff, is the winner. The idle A's drop six games off the pace.
  • The Cardinals score five runs in the 9th to break the first-place Pirates' 9-game win streak, winning 9 - 3. Rogers Hornsby, the majors' leading hitter at .387, has three hits including his 37th homer of the year to pace the attack. Babe Adams, who takes over for Emil Yde in the 9th, is hammered for four hits and five runs, but the loss goes to Yde. Art Reinhart is the winner.
  • The second-place Giants top the Phillies 5 - 4 on Bill Terry's solo homer in the 10th inning. Starter Dutch Ulrich tees up the homer, losing to Art Nehf who pitches the last 6+ innings.
• 1926 - In a 17 - 3 Giants cakewalk over the Braves, the Giants unload for a National League record 12 runs in the 5th inning. Young Mel Ott plays five innings and goes 3 for 3. He also steals a base. The 17-year-old star will hit .383 in 35 games this year. The Giants blow it open in the 5th inning, scoring 12 runs.
• 1927:
  • Doc Gautreau of the Boston Braves steals home twice in a game against Brooklyn to tie the major-league record. This feat will not be repeated until Vic Power does it in 1958.
  • Lefty Grove pitches his only shutout of the year, beating the Yankees 1 - 0.
• 1928:
  • The A's are set back as the Senators stop them twice, 6 - 1 and 5 - 4. Bump Hadley wins the opener, scattering six hits and striking out 8. Ty Cobb makes the last of his 4,191 hits, the 724th double of his career, as an A's pinch hitter in the 9th inning against Hadley. In the nitecap, Garland Braxton is the winner over George Earnshaw.
  • Pirates RF Adam Comorosky handles nine putouts, tying the record for that position.
• 1932:
  • Winning 3 - 0, Dizzy Dean stops the Cubs' winning streak in the second game of a doubleheader after Chicago wins its 14th straight in the opener. Diz fans seven to further increase his league-leading total. The Cubs take the opener, 5 - 4, in 11 innings
  • Against the Red Sox, Jimmie Foxx of the A's poles his 50th and 51st home runs to become the third player to reach 50 in a season, joining Babe Ruth and Hack Wilson. Foxx's 2nd homer, in the 9th, ties the game at 4 - 4, and Eric McNair follows with a game-winning home run.
• 1933:
  • At Boston, Dolf Luque comes to the aid of the Giants, pitching the last eight innings and knocking in the winning run in the 14th. The Giants shade the Braves, 4 - 3, then tie 4 - 4 as curfew ends the duel with two out in the 9th. Ben Cantwell pitches well in game two as all the Giants' runs are unearned. The Braves draw 40,000 today and 140,000 for the four games with first-place New York, more than they drew the entire season of 1928.
  • Bosox pitcher Ivy Andrews allows just four Senator hits through eight innings, then a single, walk and pinch-single by Cliff Bolton clips Ivy, 3 - 2. Monte Weaver wins, sending the Senators 8 1/2 games in the lead.
  • Wes Ferrell easily gains his 11th victory as the Indians scalp the White Sox, 11 - 3. Ferrell hits a homer and Joe Vosmik collects four hits for Cleveland.
  • At Cincinnati, the Reds clip the Pirates, 9 - 3, the first loss for the Bucs in nine games. The Pirates now trail the Giants by eight games. Red Lucas goes all the way for the win, as the Reds shell rookie Ralph Birkofer. After the game, Edd Roush's old-timers defeat Buck Herzog's Nine, 8 - 5, called after five innings on account of "tiredness." Ninety three old timers turn out and about half take a turn at the plate. Roush's squad includes Pat Duncan, Larry Kopf, Bill Rariden, and Rube Bressler, all stars on the 1919 Reds team. Donie Bush and Honus Wagner are the shortstops.
• 1934:
  • Labor Day doubleheaders define the standings for the final pennant surge. Detroit, rained out in Chicago, holds a 5-game lead over the Yankees, who split a pair with the A's. Lefty Gomez wins his 24th and 10th straight in the opener, and Jimmie Foxx hits his 40th homer in the second.
  • The Giants are rained out but move 6 games ahead of the Cardinals, as the Deans have a double disaster in Pittsburgh. Paul Dean loses the first game 12 - 2, and Dizzy Dean fails to hold the lead in the second game and is the losing pitcher with a final score of 6 - 5. The Cards drop to a tie with the Cubs, who split a pair with the Reds.
  • Washington's player-manager Joe Cronin collides with Boston's Wes Ferrell in a play at first base. Cronin fractures a bone in his arm and is out for the season. The Senators, last year's champs, will finish 7th.
• 1935 - Judge Landis rules against a $1,500 fine the Reds imposed on injured Chick Hafey, who had left the team for his home in California after asking to be placed on the voluntary disabled list. Hafey had chronic sinus and sight problems in addition to an injured shoulder. Landis grants Hafey's request and places him on the list.
• 1936 - Red Sox hurler Wes Ferrell ends Luke Appling's White Sox club-record 27-game hitting streak.
• 1938 - Rudy York of the Tigers hits his 4th grand slam, tying the ML season record.
• 1939 - With the Sunday curfew impending, the Yankees stall to avoid a loss in Boston. Irate Fenway Park fans litter the field with cushions and debris. Umpire Cal Hubbard forfeits the game to the Yankees, but American League President Will Harridge subsequently overrules him and fines the Yankees for their tactics.
• 1944 - After losing 13 of 17 games and dropping from first place, the Browns turn back their principal rival, the Tigers, behind Jack Kramer.
• 1947:
  • Rookie Bill McCahan of the Philadelphia Athletics no-hits the Washington Senators 3 - 0. McCahan, the former Duke University star, was the losing pitcher when Don Black threw his no-hitter on July 10. The Senators had not suffered a no-hitter since Ernie Shore pitched his 26-out "perfect game" in 1917.
  • At Fenway Park, Tommy Henrich and Joe DiMaggio lead the way with four hits each as the Yankees bang out a total eighteen hits, all singles, defeating the Red Sox, 11 - 2.
• 1950 - Havana (Florida International League) wins its fifth straight pennant. Miami, managed by Pepper Martin, finishes second.
• 1951:
  • At Ebbets Field, the Dodgers sweep the Braves, winning both games 7 - 2, behind Carl Erskine and Clem Labine. Roy Campanella collects six straight hits, including his 30th and 31st homers, before being stopped.
  • In a Labor Day doubleheader at the Polo Grounds, the Phils' Robin Roberts stops New York, 6 - 3, in the opener. The Giants blow a 3 - 0 1st inning lead when homers by Richie Ashburn and Bill Nicholson bring the Phils back. Dave Koslo salvages the second game, winning 3 - 1 over Niles Jordan. Willie Mays makes another rookie error in the 2nd. After an apparent inside-the-park home run, Phils 3B Tommy Brown appeals, and Mays is called out for failing to touch third base. He is credited with a double.
  • Newly-acquired pitcher Johnny Sain tosses a 5-hitter to beat the A's, 3 - 1. The A's top the Yankees in the nitecap, 3 - 2.
• 1952:
  • Dick Littlefield of the Browns 2-hits the White Sox, but loses 1 - 0.
  • Harry Byrd of the Philadelphia Athletics one-hits the Yankees 3 - 0.
• 1954:
  • Ted Williams of the Red Sox hits his 362nd home run to put him in 5th place on the all-time list.
  • The Yankees snap Bob Lemon's 11-game win streak to beat the Indians 3 - 2 and move to 3 1/2 games from first place. Mickey Mantle's gigantic blast into the RF upper deck in the 6th starts the Yankee scoring.
• 1956 - The Braves set a home night-game record by drawing 47,604 to see a doubleheader split with the Redlegs, winning the first 3 - 2 and losing the second 7 - 5.
• 1957:
  • Warren Spahn of the Braves hurls his 41st shutout, the most by a National League lefthander, as he beats Chicago, 8 - 0.
  • The Dodgers play their last game in Jersey City, NJ, as Don Drysdale loses to Philadelphia 3 - 2 in 12 innings. Brooklyn ends with an 11-4 mark in New Jersey.
• 1958 - The Yankees spot Boston a 5 - 3 lead before Mickey Mantle homers in the 8th and Yogi Berra cracks a 3-run homer in the 9th to win it, 8 - 5. Mantle and Berra each have 85 RBIs for the year.
• 1960:
  • A battle of lefthanders features Sandy Koufax of the LA Dodgers against Mike McCormick of the San Francisco Giants. Felipe Alou's home run gives McCormick a 1 - 0 win, his second such win against Los Angeles in 1960.
  • The Orioles hand the Yankees a second straight shutout, winning 2 - 0 and replacing the Yanks in 1st place by a game. During the game in Baltimore, plate umpire Larry Napp is struck by foul balls three times. Chuck Berry finishes the game behind the plate, as Napp is carried off the field.
  • Al Cicotte of the Toronto Maple Leafs (IL) pitches an 11-inning no-hitter against Montreal.
• 1961 - After taking the first two games against Detroit, New York is down 5 - 4 in the 9th when Mickey Mantle ties the game with his second homer of the day. Elston Howard wins it with a 3-run drive into the LF stands and Detroit leaves town 4 1/2 games in back of New York. Mantle is now at 50 home runs, with Roger Maris at 53, the first teammates in history to hit 50.
• 1962 - At Los Angeles, Jack Sanford of the Giants wins his 20th game and 14th straight, 7 - 3.
• 1963 - Cubs 3B Ron Santo ties the modern National League record for errors in an inning at 3B with three to help the Giants beat Chicago 16 - 3.
• 1965:
  • In preparation of their move to Anaheim, CA the Los Angeles Angels change their name to the California Angels.
  • The Mets top the Cards 6 - 3 behind the slugging of Jim Hickman, who cranks three home runs off Birds' pitcher Ray Sadecki. Hickman is the first Mets player to hit three home runs in a game.
  • The Reds roll over the visiting Phils, 16 - 7.
• 1966 - Charlie Vaughan, 18-year-old Braves pitcher, beats the Astros 12 - 2 for his first and only ML win. Vaughan will make one other major league appearance, in relief, in 1969.
• 1967 - Before a Twins crowd of 43,494, Detroit's Earl Wilson pitches a 5 - 0 shutout to narrow the Twins' lead to half a game over the Tigers. The win is Wilson's 19th.
• 1969:
  • Collared his first four times up, Tommy Davis hits a double in the 9th inning to stretch his hit streak to 31 games. The double drives in the winning run as LA tops the Mets 5 - 4. The Mets had tied in the 8th when Tommie Agee and Donn Clendenon each homered with a man on.
  • The Reds' Jim Maloney stops the slumping Cubs on two hits to win, 2 - 0. Bill Hands takes the loss. It's Maloney's 9th career two-hitter; he's thrown three no-hitters and five one-hitters. The Cubs' lead slips to four games.
• 1970:
  • Cubs outfielder Billy Williams asks to sit out, thus ending his National League record for consecutive games played at 1,117. Steve Garvey will better the mark in 1983.
  • The Twins' Leo Cardenas hits a Wally Bunker pitch in the 8th inning off the foul pole, but the umps rule it a foul ball. Manager Bill Rigney and Bob Allison argue that is should be a homer and get tossed for their efforts. Cardenas then strikes out. Phil Roof and Roberto Pena homer to lead the Brewers, to an 8 - 3 victory.
• 1971 - Owner Phil Wrigley takes out newspaper ads criticizing the Cubs players who want to dump manager Leo Durocher. A postscript adds, "If we could only find more team players like Ernie Banks." Banks will play his last game on September 26.
• 1972:
  • Steve Carlton shuts out the Braves 8 - 0 for his 8th whitewash of the season. This is the most for a Phillies pitcher since Grover Alexander in 1917.
  • Hal McRae's 2-run pinch homer in the 9th gives the Reds a 4 - 3 win over the visiting Expos.
• 1973 - After 11 years at the helm (944-806 .539), Ralph Houk resigns as Yankee skipper. The 'Major' will manage the Tigers next season
• 1974 - The Giants' John Montefusco making his ML debut, homers in his first official time at bat, off Charlie Hough, and pitches nine innings of relief to earn a 9 - 5 victory over the Dodgers.
• 1975:
  • On the final pitch of his Hall of Fame career, Cardinals great Bob Gibson gives up a grand slam to Pete LaCock. It will be LaCock's only bases-loaded homer of his career.
  • After missing two games because of the flu, Dodger Steve Garvey returns to the lineup in a 13 - 2 loss to the Reds, launching a National League record streak of 1,207 consecutive games played. The Reds score 10 runs in the 4th inning to ice the game.
• 1976:
  • The Brewers crush the Tigers and Mark Fidrych, 11 - 2, as Mike Hegan hits for the cycle and drives in six runs.
  • Rangers catcher Jim Sundberg records three assists in the 5th inning of a 4 - 1 win over the Royals. He becomes only the 7th perpetrator of this feat in ML history.
• 1977 - Japanese superstar Sadaharu Oh hits his 756th career homer to surpass Hank Aaron as the All-time career home run leader in professional baseball.
• 1978 - Lee Mazzilli homers from both sides of the plate as the Mets down the Dodgers 8 - 5.
• 1979 - The Orioles win a pair from Toronto, 2 - 1 in 11 innings, and 5 - 1. Eddie Murray provides the game-winning hit in the bottom of the 11th. Tippy Martinez (9-2) is the winner. Mike Flanagan is the winner in the nitecap, the major's first 20-game winner this year.
• 1981 - The Red Sox and the Mariners play nineteen innings to a 7 - 7 tie. The game ends with the Mariners winning 8 - 7 in 20 innings when the suspended game is resumed the next day, making it the longest game played in Fenway Park history.
• 1983 - Trailing 5 - 3, the Indians erupt for 10 runs in the top of the 9th inning and go on to defeat Oakland 13 - 6. The A's set a major-league record by using six pitchers in the inning. Pinch hitter Chris Bando has two hits in the frame and Gorman Thomas connects for a double and homer in the inning for the second time in three years. He is the only man to do it twice.
• 1984 - Bruce Sutter breaks the National League record for saves in a season with his 38th in the Cardinals' 7 - 3 win over the Mets.
• 1986:
  • Pitching in the 3rd inning against the Mets, Giants rookie Terry Mulholland snags a hard grounder off Keith Hernandez but can't retrieve the ball from the webbing of his glove. Thinking fast, Mulholland runs towards first and tosses his mitt to 1B Bob Brenly for the out. The Giants come up short, losing 4 - 2.
  • In a two-day, 18-inning marathon the Cubs and Astros set a major-league record by using 53 players, including 17 pitchers, tying the number used three weeks ago. Chicago loses this game as well 8 - 7.
• 1988 - Dennis Eckersley sets an A's record with his 37th save of the season in Oakland's 5 - 4 win over New York. Eckersley will save 45 games this season, one shy of Dave Righetti's ML record.
• 1989 - It is 100 degrees in Texas and the Royals and Rangers are equally hot as seven batters get hit by pitches, the 3rd time this century this has happened. The Royals put the game out of reach with a 3-run homer by Bo Jackson in the 7th to win, 13 - 2. When Mike Macfarlane is plunked in the 8th, the 5th Royal hit, he rushes the mound and tackles reliever Craig McMurtry.
• 1990 - The White Sox's Bobby Thigpen tops Dave Righetti's major-league record with his 47th save of the season in Chicago's 4 - 2 win over the Royals. Thigpen will finish the season with a superlative 57 saves.
• 1991:
  • Three months after undergoing 8 1/2 hours of surgery to remove two blood clots from his right forearm, White Sox rookie Roberto Hernandez makes his ML debut, limiting the Royals to one hit in seven innings. The Sox win, 5 - 1. The other medical story in the game is the return of Bo Jackson, following his hip transplant surgery. Bo is hitless.
  • Milwaukee's Jim Gantner has a double and hits his first homer since 1987, a streak of 1762 at bats without a dinger. In two days he'll hit another. With two outs in the 9th, Robin Yount bangs a 3-run home run off Oakland's Dennis Eckersley for a 5 - 3 win.
  • In a game in Montreal, shortstop Jeff Blauser breaks his big left toe and will be out for two weeks. The Braves will call up SS Rico Rossy to replace him.
• 1992:
  • Baseball owners vote 18 9, with one abstention, calling for the resignation of Commissioner Fay Vincent.
  • Toronto gets 10 consecutive hits, to tie an American League record, in the 2nd inning of its 16 - 5 win over Minnesota.
• 1993 - Team owners vote to split the leagues into three divisions and add a wild card round to the playoffs for the 1994 season.
• 1994 - With two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, the Jackson Generals overcome a 1 - 0 deficit as Tom Nevers and Jeff Ball hit back-to-back homers. The dramatic decisive Game 5 victory over the Shreveport Captains at Mississippi's Smith-Wills Stadium enables the Astros AA farm club to capture the Texas League East championship series.
• 1995:
  • The Yankees drop a 10 - 9 decision to the Athletics as SS Tony Fernandez hits for the cycle. Fernandez scores three runs and has three ribbies for NY.
  • The Mets outslug the Giants, 11 - 6, despite Barry Bonds hitting the Giants' 11,000th franchise homer. Barry's father hit the 8,000th franchise homer 24 years ago, on September 3, 1971.
• 1996:
  • Ron Gant hits two doubles and scores three times as the Cards move into the National League Central lead with a 12 - 3 win over the Astros.
  • Marquis Grissom opens the game with a leadoff home run off the Reds' Dave Burba, but its the only Braves hit in the Reds' 5 - 1 win. The 1st-place Braves have now lost four straight.
• 1997:
  • 2B Mike Lansing's 3rd-inning home run is Montreal's only hit, but it's enough to give the Expos a 1 - 0 win over the Red Sox. Aaron Sele and Tom Gordon baffle the Expos the rest of the way, but Carlos Perez allows only two hits himself in blanking Boston.
  • A's blue chip rookie Ben Grieve debuts with a club-record-tying three doubles for five RBIs in a 12 - 3 win over the Giants. Grieve had 136 ribbies in 127 minor league games. Brad Rigby wins his first ML game.
• 1999:
  • The Rangers beat the White Sox, 10 - 4 and now have five players with 20+ home run for the first time in team history. Rusty Greer, who now has 18, will later become the 6th.
  • The U.S. District Court upholds the resignations of 22 ML umpires that they made in the aboritive negotiations with their union on July 14, 1999.
  • In Baltimore's 11 - 6 win over Tampa Bay, Cal Ripken, Jr. clubs his 400th career homer, off Rolando Arrojo. He's the 20th player to hit 400 homers.
  • Terry Collins resigns as Angels manager and Joe Maddon is named interim for the remainder of the season. The Angels were 51-82 under Collins this year, with a 220-237 record since he took over in 1977. Maddon also served as interim manager towards the end of the 1996 season, with an 8-14 record.
• 2000:
  • Kenny Lofton's first inning run ties a 1939 major league record set by the Yankees' Red Rolfe for scoring in eighteen consecutive games. The speedy Indian outfielder, besides hitting the game-winning homer in the 13th, also steals five bases tying Cleveland's single-game record set by Alex Cole.
  • The Mariners defeat the Red Sox, 5 - 0. Paul Abbott does not allow a hit until one out in the 8th inning. He combines with Jose Paniagua on the one-hitter.
• 2001:
  • The Indians defeat the White Sox, 6 - 3, as Jose Canseco steals the 200th base of his career. He becomes just the 9th player in history to have that many steals and 400 home runs.
  • On Labor Day, in just his 11th start, Cardinals' freshman hurler Bud Smith no-hits the Padres, 4 - 0. The 21-year-old becomes the 18th rookie since 1900 to throw a complete game without giving up a hit.
• 2002:
  • Three Rangers pitchers combine to one-hit the Orioles, winning by a score of 7 - 1. Starter Aaron Myette is ejected after throwing two pitches and replaced by Todd Van Poppel who throws two hitless innings. Van Poppel is in turn replaced by rookie Joaquin Benoit who does not give up a hit until Jerry Hairston's leadoff triple in the 9th. Benoit gets credit for a 7-inning save, the longest since saves were first recorded in 1969.
  • Pittsburgh P Salomon Torres makes his first ML appearance since 1997 as he defeats the Braves, 3 - 0. Torres retired in 1997, became a coach in the Dominican Republic, then began his comeback in January.
  • Andy Van Hekken (1-0), with a fastball topping out in the mid-80s, becomes the first American Leaguer to throw a complete game shutout in his debut since Mike Norris in 1975, and the first Tiger since Schoolboy Rowe in 1933. He stops Cleveland 4 - 0. The Holland, MI native was 5-0 at Toledo (AAA) before his promotion.
  • Losing their 15th straight game at Shea Stadium, the Mets pass the dubious mark set by the 1911 Boston Rustlers to establish a new National League record for consecutive losses at home.
• 2007 - Out for most of the year following shoulder surgery, Pedro Martinez finally makes it into a game in the majors in 2007. He strikes out Aaron Harang in the second inning to give him 3,000 strikeouts in the major leagues, the 15th player to reach that level.
• 2008:
  • Instant replay is used for the first time in a major league game. Alex Rodriguez homers to left off Troy Percival in the 9th as part of a 8 - 4 Yankee win over the Rays. Brian Runge calls it a homer and has his call upheld upon review.
  • Sung-keun Kim becomes the second manager in the Korea Baseball Organization to reach 1,000 wins. Kim's SK Wyverns rout the Woori Heroes 8 - 0 to improve his career mark to 1,000-892-49 in 17 seasons (he had taken time away from Korea to serve as a Chiba Lotte Marines coach). Kim trails only Eung-ryong Kim (1,476) in career wins.
• 2009:
  • Jorge Posada hits his 20th homer and drives in 4 runs as New York defeats Toronto, 7 - 5. The Yankees now have 7 players with 20 or more homers on the year, matching a record set by three other teams. Derek Jeter currently has 17 home runs and may yet lead the Bronx Bombers to a new record.
  • Former All-Star pitcher Jerry Koosman is sentenced to a 6-month prison term for failing to pay federal income taxes in 2002, 2003 and 2004.

[edit] Births

• 1864 - Harry Decker, catcher
• 1869 - Bill Armour, manager (d. 1922)
• 1871 - Billy Goeckel, infielder (d. 1922)
• 1872 - Guy McFadden, infielder (d. 1911)
• 1873 - Mike Kahoe, catcher (d. 1949)
• 1876 - Jerry Donovan, catcher (d. 1938)
• 1876 - Dusty Miller, outfielder (d. 1950)
• 1877 - George Stone, outfielder (d. 1945)
• 1883 - Art Fromme, pitcher (d. 1956)
• 1885 - Ed Konetchy, infielder (d. 1947)
• 1891 - Katsy Keifer, pitcher (d. 1927)
• 1902 - Bill Moore, pitcher (d. 1984)
• 1910 - Jack Redmond, catcher (d. 1968)
• 1911 - Lindsay Deal, outfielder (d. 1979)
• 1913 - Kerby Farrell, infielder, manager (d. 1975)
• 1915 - Eddie Stanky, infielder, manager; All-Star (d. 1999)
• 1915 - Lefty West, pitcher (d. 1979)
• 1917 - Frank Jelincich, outfielder (d. 1992)
• 1920 - Sandy Consuegra, pitcher; All-Star
• 1922 - Morrie Martin, pitcher
• 1924 - Bill Greason, pitcher
• 1931 - Tom Brewer, pitcher; All-Star
• 1936 - Steve Boros, infielder, manager
• 1947 - Bill Gilbreth, pitcher
• 1951 - Alan Bannister, infielder
• 1951 - Dave Campbell, pitcher
• 1952 - Jim Sieval, Hoofdklasse infielder (d. 2009)
• 1953 - Mike Paxton, pitcher
• 1955 - Don Kainer, pitcher
• 1960 - Rene Gonzales, infielder
• 1962 - Dave Clark, outfielder
• 1963 - Ced Landrum, outfielder
• 1963 - Eric Plunk, pitcher
• 1967 - Luis Gonzalez, outfielder; All-Star
• 1969 - Tom Thobe, pitcher
• 1970 - Dave Berg, infielder
• 1970 - Chad Fox, pitcher
• 1970 - Craig Wilson, infielder
• 1975 - Justin Siegel, minor league player
• 1977 - Nate Robertson, pitcher
• 1981 - Jake Woods, pitcher
• 1983 - Matt Capps, pitcher
• 1985 - Troy Patton, pitcher
• 1985 - Jim Gallagher, minor league infielder
• 1987 - Rafael Quintero, minor league player

[edit] Deaths

• 1893 - Bill Vinton, pitcher (b. 1865)
• 1895 - Henry Austin, outfielder (b. 1844)
• 1913 - Charlie Householder, infielder (b. 1854)
• 1921 - Jim Clinton, outfielder, manager (b. 1850)
• 1923 - Jack Barnett, outfielder (b. 1879)
• 1924 - Herman Pitz, catcher (b. 1865)
• 1933 - Ed Cartwright, infielder (b. 1859)
• 1935 - Mike Ryan, infielder (b. 1868)
• 1940 - Johnny Welch, pitcher (b. 1906)
• 1945 - Dusty Miller, outfielder (b. 1868)
• 1948 - Bert Husting, pitcher (b. 1878)
• 1950 - Jim Connor, infielder (b. 1863)
• 1950 - Frank Pearce, pitcher (b. 1905)
• 1952 - Bert Daly, infielder (b. 1881)
• 1953 - Jack Pfiester, pitcher (b. 1878)
• 1955 - Hal Schwenk, pitcher (b. 1890)
• 1959 - Emmett Bowles, pitcher (b. 1898)
• 1960 - Armando Marsans, outfielder (b. 1887)
• 1963 - Tony DeFate, infielder (b. 1895)
• 1964 - Hank Ritter, pitcher (b. 1893)
• 1965 - Rudy Leopold, pitcher (b. 1905)
• 1969 - Bill Culp, pitcher (b. 1887)
• 1972 - Tom Fisher, pitcher (b. 1880)
• 1975 - Irv Medlinger, pitcher (b. 1927)
• 1989 - Rip Sewell, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1907)
• 1990 - Marshall Bridges, pitcher (b. 1931)
• 2000 - Clyde Sukeforth, catcher, manager (b. 1901)
• 2001 - Carl Lind, infielder (b. 1903)
• 2004 - Frenchy Uhalt, outfielder (b. 1910)