September 3

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1889 - Indianapolis (National League) 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 Colts drub the Giants, 10-4, putting New York in last place. New York will next play Pittsburgh, hosting the Pirates in three straight doubleheader. 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.
1901 - 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).
1901 - Cleveland rookie Bill Cristall debuts with a 4-0 gem over Boston, a first in the fledgling AL. 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 rain-outs, Hudson sweeps Poughkeepsie (Class-C Hudson River League) in the 20th century's only quadruple header, winning by scores of 2-1, 6-4, 3-1 and 4-2. [As pointed out by several historians including Bill Deane, there was one in 1889.] Hall of Famer Dan Brouthers is a member of the Poughkeepsie team in that 1903 through 1905.
1903 - 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.
1903 - Boston (AL) beats the A's, 6-5, in 12 innings as Cy Young earns his 25th win of the year.
1904 - Syracuse (Eastern 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 Charley Hemphill flyball into a home run, and the Tigers lose 1-0 to the Browns Barney Pelty. Rain stops the game after seven innings.
1906 - 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.
1906 - 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 2nd game, New York base runner 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.
1906 - 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 Big 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 spilt 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 George 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 1B. Cleveland beats the White Sox, who protest on the grounds that the rules did not permit Kirke to take 1B. The protest is upheld and the game ordered replayed.
1915 - 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 six 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 2nd game. The Tigers total 24 hits, just two less than the Sox, in losing 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 gift 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.
1917 - Phillies hurler Grover Cleveland Alexander goes the distance in both games of doubleheader as Philadelphia sweeps the Dodgers, 5-0 and 9-3.
1917 - Trying to keep the Phils in the race, Grover Alexander does double duty, beating Brooklyn 6 - 0 and 9 - 3 in a Labor Day twinbill. Rube Marquard and Allan Russell try and stop Pete in the opener, while Jack Coombs and George Smith pitch in the nitecap. Milt Stock lines a homer in the opener when Zack Wheat, hampered by a sore ankle, can't reach his drive. Dode Paskert's bases loaded triple in the 2nd game is the big blow. Alex will win 30 for the 3rd straight year, with a league-leading 1.86 ERA.
1917 - 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 2nd game, the Mackmen jump on Walter Johnson, knocking him off the rubber in the 3rd inning, and Jing Johnson coasts to the win.
1920 - In the Browns' 16 - 7 win over Chicago, George Sisler has three hits and gets his 257th hit of the season to set a ML record. His four total bases today gives him a major-league record 399 for the year. Sisler throws in three stolen bases and, acceding to the demands of the fans, also hurls a scoreless 9th inning in relief, striking out 2.
1920 - At Cincinnati, Reds recruit Dazzy 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 at-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 1B and 2B Jimmy Smith pops up and the infield fly rule is called. Although Smith is called out, 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 3B for out #2. 3B Heinie Groh's throw and relay catch Sam Leslie at 1B for the 3rd out. The Giants then break a 7 - 7 tie in the 9th when Frankie Frisch scores from 2B on a muffed 6 - 3 play that Phils pitcher Jimmy Ring bobbles.
1925 - After a recent incident on a train, when Cubs manager 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.
1925 - 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.
1925 - 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.
1925 - The second-placed Giants top the Phillies 5 - 4 on Billy Terry 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.
1927 - 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.
1928 - 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 2nd game of a doubleheader after Chicago wins its 14th straight in the opener. Diz fans seven to further increase his NL-leading total. The Cubs take the opener, 5 - 4, in 11 innings
1932 - Against the Red Sox, Jimmie Foxx of the A's poles his 50th and 51st home runs to become the 3rd 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 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.
1933 - Bosox pitcher Ivy Andrews allows just four Senator hits through eight innings, then a single walk and pinch-single by Joe Bolton clips Ivy, 3 - 2. Monte Weaver wins, sending the Senators eight 1/2 games in the lead.
1933 - 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.
1933 - 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 Reds 1919 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. Gomez wins his 24th and 10th straight in the opener, and Foxx hits his 40th HR in the 2nd.
1934 - In the NL, the Giants are rained out but move 6 games ahead of the Cardinals, as the Deans have a double disaster in Pittsburgh. Paul loses the first game 12-2, and Dizzy fails to hold the lead in the 2nd 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.
1934 - Washington's player-manager Joe Cronin collides with Boston's Wes Ferrell in a play at 1B. 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 fans litter the field with cushions and debris. Umpire Cal Hubbard forfeits the game to the Yankees, but AL President Will Harridge subsequently overrules him and fines the Yankees for their tactics.
1941 - The Yankees clinch the American League flag (third straight) on the earliest date in major league history as the Bronx Bombers beat the Red Sox, 6-3.
1944 - After losing 13 of 17 games and dropping from first place, the Browns turn back their principal rival, the Tigers, behind Jack Kramer. Two days later, neither St. Louis nor Detroit is at the AL top. It's the Yankees, who have come from nowhere.
1947 - Rookie Bill McCahan of the Philadelphia Athletics no-hits the Washington Senators 3-0. 1B Ferris Fain allows the only runs when his toss to McCahan on an easy grounder in the 2nd inning goes wide. McCahan, the former Duke University star, was the losing pitcher when Don Black threw his no-hitter July 10th. The Senators have not suffered a no-hitter since Ernie Shore pitched his 26-out perfect game in 1917.
1947 - 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. The Dodgers (84 - 47) lead is six games over the Giants (79 - 54).
1951 - 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 Ashburn and Swish Nicholson bring the Phils back. Dave Koslo salvages a 2nd 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 3B. He is credited with a double.
1951 - 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.
1952 - Harry Byrd of the Philadelphia Athletics one-hits the Yankees 3-0.
1954 - Ted Williams of the Red Sox hits his 362nd HR to put him in 5th place on the all-time list.
1954 - The Yankees snap Bob Lemon's 11-game win streak to beat the Indians 3-2 and move to 31Å½2 games from first place. Mantle's gigantic blast into the RF upper deck in the 6th started 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. Their lead is still 31Å½2 games.
1957 - Warren Spahn of the Braves hurls his 41st shutout, the most by a NL lefthander, as he beats Chicago 8-0.
1957 - The Braves' Warren Spahn's 8-0 blanking of the Cubs sets a major league record for shutout thrown by lefty. The future Hall of Famer (1965) has now held his opponents scoreless 41 times.
1957 - The Dodgers play their last game in Jersey City, 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 2nd 1 - 0 win against Los Angeles in 1960.
1960 - The Orioles hand the Yankees a second straight shut out winning 2 - 0 and replacing the Yanks in 1st place by a game. Robinson has both RBIs to back Jack Fisher's 7-hitter. During the game in Baltimore, plate umpire Larry Napp is struck by foul balls three times. Charley Berry finishes the game behind the plate, as Napp is carried off the field.
1960 - 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 2nd homer of the day. Elston Howard wins it with a 3-run drive into the LF stands and Detroit leaves town four 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, the Los Angeles Angels change their name to the California Angels.
1965 - Preparing a move to Anaheim, the Angels change their name from Los Angeles to California.
1965 - 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.
1965 - 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.
1966 - The Dodgers become the first team to draw two million fans at home and two million on the road as 18,670 Crosley Field patrons watch Los Angeles beat the their home town Reds, 8-6.
1967 - Before a Twins crowd of 43,494, Detroit's Earl Wilson pitches a 5 - 0 shutout to narrow the Twins lead to 1/2 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.
1969 - 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 at 1,117. Steve Garvey will better the mark in 1983.
1970 - After an National League record 1,117 consecutive games, Billy Williams asks to sit one out. Without Williams, the Cubs beat the Phillies 7 - 2.
1970 - 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 26th.
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 Pete Alexander in 1917.
1972 - 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 makes 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.
1975 - 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. The Reds score 10 runs in the 4th inning to ice the game: on the 2nd, they scored seven in the 5th to beat the Padres, 10 - 4.
1975 - Pitcher Bob Gibson gives up the last hit of his career, a pinch grand slam to Pete LaCock of the Cubs. Chicago beats the Cards, 11 - 6.
1976 - The Brewers crush the Tigers and Mark Fidrych, 11 - 2, as Mike Hegan hits for the cycle and drives in six runs.
1976 - 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.
1977 - Sadaharu Oh hits the 756th home run of his career to surpass Hank Aaron's total and make him the most prolific home run hitter in professional baseball history.
1978 - Lee Mazzilli homers from both sides of the plate as the Mets down the Dodgers 8 - 5.
1978 - At Dodger Stadium, Lee Mazzilli becomes the first Mets player to hit a home run from both sides of the plate in one game. The centerfielder's first (off T. John) and seventh (off C. Hough) inning blasts pace the last place club to a 8-5 victory.
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.
1986 - 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.
1986 - After using a record 53 players in a 14-inning affair yesterday, the Astros edge the Cubs in the 18th inning, 8-7, thanks to Billy Hatcher's home run.
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, as notes historian Joe Dittmar. 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 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.
1990 - Bobby Thigpen sets a major league record with his 47th save as Chicago defeats the Royals, 4-2. The White Sox reliever breaks Yankee Dave Righetti's mark established in 1986.
1991 - Three months after undergoing eight 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.
1991 - Milwaukee's Jim Gantner has a double and hits his 1st 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.
1991 - In a game in Montreal, shortstop Jeff Blauser breaks a 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.
1992 - 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.
1995 - The Mets outslug the Giants, 11 - 6, despite Barry Bonds hitting the Giants 11,00th 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.
1996 - 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.
1997 - 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, while the loss leaves SF one 1/2 games behind the Giants.
1999 - The Rangers beat the White Sox, 10 - 4 and now have five players with 20+ home run for the 1st time in team history: Rafael Palmeiro (41), Juan Gonzalez (32), Ivan Rodriguez (31), Lee Stevens (22), Todd Zeile (20). Rusty Greer (18) will join them.
1999 - 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.
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.
1999 - 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 in 1999, with a 220-237 record since he took over in 1997. Maddon also served as interim manager at the end of the 1996 season, with a 8-14 record.
2000 - Kenny Lofton's first inning run ties a 1939 major league record set by 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 (8/1/90 & 5/3/92).
2000 - The Indians defeat the Orioles, 12-11 in 13 innings. Cleveland OF Kenny Lofton scores a run in the 1st inning, tying the major league record by scoring in his 18th consecutive game. Red Rolfe set the mark in 1939. Lofton's streak will be stopped tomorrow. The Cleveland OF also steals five bases in the contest, tying a franchise single-game record, and hits a walk-off home run in the 13th to win the game.
2000 - 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 1-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.
2001 - 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.
2001 - Cardinals P Bud Smith becomes the 16th rookie in history to hurl a no - hit game, stifling the Padres by a count of 4 - 0. Smith fans seven in his gem in his 11th ML start. Smith threw a pair in the minors within a month last year.
2002 - Three Rangers pitchers combine to 1 - hit the Orioles, winning by a score of 7 - 1. Starter Aaron Myette was ejected after throwing two pitches and replaced by Todd Van Poppel who threw two hitless innings. Van Poppel was in turn replaced by rookie Joaquin Benoit who did not give up a hit until Jerry Hairston's leadoff triple in the 9th. Benoit got credit for a 7 - inning save, the longest since saves were first recorded in 1969.
2002 - Pittsburgh P Salomon Torres makes his 1st 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.
2002 - 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, Michigan native was 5 - 0 at Toledo (AAA) before his promotion.
2002 - Losing their 15th straight game at Shea Stadium, the Mets pass the dubious mark set by the 1911 Braves to establish a new National league record for consecutive losses at home.
2002 - The Mets lose the 1st game of their doubleheader against the Marlins, 3 - 2, but bounce back to take the nightcap, 11 - 5. The loss in the opener sets a new National League record for consecutive home losses with 15.
2007 - Out for most of the year following shoulder surgery, Pedro Martinez finally makes it until 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.