September 4

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1902 - Chicago Cubs rookie Alex Hardy debuts with a 1-0 shutout victory over Brooklyn, and becomes the first 20th century NL pitcher to toss a shutout in his first game. It's happened twice already in the AL.
1902 - Dave Fultz steals 2B, 3B, and home in the 2nd inning against Detroit, as the A's romp 13-3.
1905 - In a rain-delayed doubleheader, the Giants trip the Phillies twice, 7-1 and 11-6. The opener doesn't start till 3:00 p.m. but Joe McGinnity wins easily. Christy Mathewson wins his 25th in the nitecap, despite spotting the Phils five runs in the 2nd inning. The Phillies match the gift in the 5th and 7th innings.
1906 - The Highlanders win their 5th doubleheader in a row-a record-as they tally a double shutout of Boston, 7-0 and 1-0. Their win streak will go through September eight and will stretch to 15 victories, propelling New York to a one 1/2 game lead in the AL.
1907 - For his 32nd birthday tomorrow, Cleveland fans give manager Nap Lajoie a wagon load of gifts, including a live black sheep. Addie Joss pitches a one-hitter against Detroit.
1908 - In New York, Walter Johnson opens a series against New York by besting Jack Chesbro, 3-0, allowing six hits in the Washington win.
1908 - The Giants sweep two more from the Doves, beating Boston 3-0 and 8-5. Joe McGinnity wins the first game, while three pitchers combine for the 2nd win. Red Ames is the victor.
1908 - In a game, the significance of which will not be recognized for another three weeks, the Pirates and Cubs are tied 0-0 in the last of the 10th at Pittsburgh. With two outs and the bases loaded, Pittsburgh's Owen Wilson singles to CF, scoring Fred Clarke with the winning run. Warren Gill, on 1B, does not get to 2B but stops short, turns, and heads for the dugout, a common practice. The Cubs' Johnny Evers calls for the ball from Jimmy Slagle, touches 2B, and claims the run does not count as Gill has been forced. The lone umpire, Hank O'Day, has left the field. When queried, he rules that Clarke had already scored, so the run counts. The Cubs protest to league president Harry Pulliam, but are denied. This is the first time the Cubs try this tactic, but not the last.
1908 - In the nitecap of a twinbill in Boston, Frank Arellanes tosses a one hitter and the Red Sox collect 13 hits to defeat the A's, 10-1. Light-hitting Simon Nicholls clubs his 4th homer of the year for the only A's hit.
1911 - Against the Braves, Giants Rube Marquard strikes out 14 batters in the 1st seven innings, but runs out of gas in the 8th and loses, 8 - 7.
1913 - Cleveland lefty Vean Gregg strikes out Ty Cobb three times in a row, but Cobb doubles in the winning run in the 12th.
1916 - At New York, the Yankees and Red Sox split. Boston wins the opener, 7 - 1, behind Babe Ruth, while New York scores in the 9th to win the nitecap, 4 - 3.
1916 - Reds' player-manager Christy Mathewson, pitching his only game not in a Giant uniform, beats his long-time nemesis Mordecai 'Three Finger' Brown and the Cubs, 10-8. In the 25 contests the two legends have faced one another, Matty, by winning the last decision, takes a 13-12 advantage in their final meeting.
1916 - In Detroit, the Coveleski brothers appear together in the same game for the only time in their careers. Stan starts for the Indians and gets knocked out in Detroit's 5-run first inning. Harry relieves later on in the game as Detroit wins, 7 - 5.
1916 - To help draw a Labor Day crowd, and because of their longtime rivalry, Christy Mathewson and Three Finger Brown agree to close out their careers in the same game. Matty, now the manager of the Reds, wins 10 - 8 in his only game not pitched in a Giants uniform. Mathewson and Brown dueled 25 times since 1903, with Brown, now back with the Cubs, winning 13 and losing 10; Matty is 11 - 13. Both pitcher stagger to the end today in the nitecap of a twinbill, with the Reds racking up 19 hits, three by Matty, off Brown, while the Cubs tally 15 of Mathewson, two hits by Brown. Vic Saier hits a 3-run home run off Matty, the 5th time he has hit a 4-bagger off him, the most Matty has given up to any one hitter. The Cubs score three in the 9th before Matty gets Fritz Mollwitz, representing the tying run, to pop out. Today's win the number 373 for Mathewson. The Cubs win the A.M. contest, 3 - 0.
1916 - Pirates Frank Miller and Wilbur Cooper shut out the Cardinals 7 - 0 and 2 - 0.
1917 - The Phillies Joe Oeschger and Brooklyn's Jeff Pfeffer face off to a 14-inning scoreless tie. Pfeffer gives up just three hits, while Oeschger allows just 6.
1917 - The Yankees split a pair with Boston, losing 4 - 2 to Babe Ruth in the opener, then beating Carl Mays, 7 - 3. Ruth allows no hits until the 6th inning and just five hits overall.
1917 - The rampaging White Sox use an 8-run 8th inning to beat the Browns, 13 - 6. Red Faber is the winner over reliever Tom Rogers.
1918 - Rain delays the start of Wednesday's World Series opener.
1920 - In Boston, 33,000 are on hand for a doubleheader and to see Ruth return to the Yankee lineup. The Babe hits his 45th in the opener to give New York a 5 - 3 win. In the nitecap, Carl Mays pitches to a mixture of boos and cheers. Mays takes a 5 - 3 lead into the 9th, then he fails to back up home on a play at the plate. A loose ball allows Joe Bush to score the winning run and Boston wins 6 - 5.
1920 - Brooklyn's Leon Cadore gives up 12 hits but coasts to a 10 - 0 shutout over the Braves.
1920 - Eddie Collins has two hits in the nitecap against the Browns, as the White Sox win 5 - 2. Collins has hit safely since August 21, and will ring up a 22-game hitting streak through September 13.
1922 - At the start of the day, both New York teams are on top, and both Boston teams are on the bottom. But today, the Red Sox will take two and knock the leaders off their perch as they sweep the Yankees, 4 - 3 and 6 - 5. Babe Ruth hits his last regular season home run, in the Polo Grounds. He gets it off Herb Pennock, who also gave up Ruth's first Yankee homer, also at the Polo Grounds.
1922 - At home, the Browns win decisively, beating the Indians, 10 - 3 and 13 - 2. Urban Shocker wins his 23rd in the morning and Ken Williams hits his 33rd. Sisler is 4-for-4 in the opener and 3-for-5 in game two to run his hit streak to 34 straight games. Vangilder is the winner in the nitecap.
1923 - Yankee Sam Jones no-hits the Athletics, 2 - 0, beating Bob Hasty. Babe Ruth makes the only strikeout of the game as he slips a point behind Detroit's Harry Heilmann in the batting race. Not till Ken Holtzman's no-hitter in 1969, will another pitcher record a no-hitter with no strikeouts.
1923 - In a twilight charity game, Babe Ruth plays 1B for Philadelphia's Ascension Catholic Club. Ruth scores the only run in a 2 - 1 loss to the Lit Brothers.
1924 - The Brooklyn Robins take a twin bill from the Braves sweeping their fourth doubleheader in four consecutive days. Between September 1-3, the Brooks beat the Phillies six times.
1924 - Dazzy Vance chalks up his 12th straight win, and 24th on the year, beating the Braves, 4 - 1. it's also the Robins' 12th straight win. Dutch Ruether then wins the nitecap, 9 - 1, giving Brooklyn a National League-record four doubleheader sweeps in four days. The Phils were swept for six straight on September 1, 2, and 3.
1926 - The Reds take first place by beating the Cards, 5 - 0. Pete Donohue beats Wee Willie Sherdel. Tomorrow the teams will reverse positions again when the Cards win, 7 - 3.
1927 - The Pirates beat the Reds and open a 2-game lead in the NL.
1928 - The Boston Braves start a streak of playing nine consecutive doubleheaders establishing a major league record.
1928 - With yesterday's Labor Day DH rained out, the Braves will play a record nine consecutive doubleheaders between now and the 15th: Brooklyn today and the 5th; Philadelphia on the 7th and 8th; New York on the 10th, 11th, 13th, and 14th; and the Cubs on the 15th. Starting with the Phils on the 8th, they will lose five of them in a row"”a record, including all four to the Giants. They start the streak by dropping both games today to Brooklyn: the Robins win the opener, 3 - 2, behind Jake Flowers 10th-inning homer for Dazzy Vance's 19th win; Brooklyn takes the nitecap, 9 - 2, as Babe Herman and Del Bissonette wallop 4th-inning homers.
1930 - Rogers Hornsby returns to the Chicago lineup as the Cubs beat the Pirates. Hornsby had been absent since Memorial Day because of a broken ankle.
1933 - In a Labor Day twin bill, Joe Hauser, Minneapolis (AA), hits three home runs to reach 65, a new professional record.
1935 - The Cards score four in the 8th, then Dizzy Dean picks up a save in the 9th to beat the Braves, 5 - 3. Jess Haines, who fails for the 11th time to win his 200th game, is lifted after seven for Bill Walker who promptly tees up Wally Berger's 30th homer of the year. Walker gives up two hits but is the winning pitcher.
1935 - Babe Ruth receives a lifetime pass for all National League games from NL prexy Ford Frick.
1935 - The 3rd place Cubs get two home runs, including a grand slam, from Augie Galan to beat the Phillies at Wrigley Field. Larry French is the winner, 8 - 2, for his 13th victory.
1935 - Carl Hubbell subdues the Reds, 6 - 4, for his 20th win of the season. King Carl scatters 12 hits including three apiece by Cuyler and Riggs. Dick Bartell gets three hits for the Terrymen, who remain two in back of the Cards.
1937 - Mike Kreevich of the White Sox ties a ML record with 4 doubles.
1939 - After Labor Day games, the Reds lead the Cards by 4 games. In the AL, the Yankees are 141Å½2 ahead.
1941 - The Yankees clinch their third straight pennant when they beat the Red Sox, 6-3. It is the earliest date history a team has captured a flag.
1941 - The New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 6-3 to clinch the AL pennant, the earliest date in ML history. The Yankees need only 136 games, giving them a 91-45 record.
1945 - Long-time Yankee batting practice pitcher Paul Schreiber, who last pitched in the ML in 1923 and the minors in 1931, relieves for the Yankees against Detroit in a Tiger rout. Schreiber gives up no hits in 31Å½3 innings, but the Tigers Dizzy Trout wins 10-0.
1950 - Don Bessent of LaGrange (Georgia-Alabama League) pitches a 14-0 playoff no-hitter over Carrollton.
1950 - Giant hurlers Jim Hearn and Sal Maglie hurl twin shutouts over the Phils, winning 2 - 0 and 9 - 0. Coupled with a shut out loss to the Giants yesterday, the Phils have not scored in three games at home.
1950 - Reds OF Johnny Wyrostek drives in eight runs in a doubleheader sweep of the visiting Cardinals, 5 - 4 and 8 - 4.
1953 - Despite consecutive HRs by Wes Westrum, Al Corwin, and Whitey Lockman in the 3rd, the Giants lose to the Dodgers 8-6 in a game marred by beanballs and disagreements on calls. Following a Clem Labine brushback on Giants IF Bobby Hofman, Larry Jansen throws at Duke Snider and Roy Campanella in the 8th.
1955 - Mickey Mantle's first-inning 3-run HR allows Bob Turley to coast to an 8-3 win over Washington. This is Mantle's last HR of the year.
1958 - At the Coliseum, the Giants score eight in the 1st inning off Johnny Podres and Stu Miller then coasts to a 13 - 3 win. The Giants take the season series from the Dodgers, 16 - 6.
1960 - After 30 straight scoreless inning, the Yankees finally score but the Orioles extend their win streak to seven by topping New York again, 6 - 2. With two outs in the 7th, Yankee 1B Moose Skowron singles to break up Chuck Estrada's no-hitter, but Wilhelm, in relief, preserves the win.
1960 - Woodie Held hits two homers and a double and drives in six runs to pace the Indians to a 10-2 win over the A's. Jimmy Piersall also homers.
1960 - After a major-league record 798 consecutive games at 2B, the White Sox' Nellie Fox is hospitalized with a virus. Fox would have gone 1,072 straight games had manager Marty Marion not rested him on August 5, 1955. Billy Goodman replaces Fox as the Sox split a doubleheader with the Tigers, losing 6 - 4 before winning 5 - 4.
1961 - In Minnesota, the White Sox and Twins split a pair of 9 - 5 decisions in a day-nite DH. Harmon Killebrew hits his 39th homer in the opener to back Schroll's six innings of spotty pitching. Al Smith has four hits and four ribbies in the nitecap. Numberless rookie Joe Horlen makes his ML debut in relief and picks up the win. The only road uniform available has no number on it (as noted by Maxwell Kates).
1961 - Mickey Mantle misses the Labor Day doubleheader with a painful and swollen forearm, but the Yanks don't need him as they sweep a pair from the Senators, 5 - 3 and 3 - 2. The sweep moves the Yanks six games up on the slumping Tigers, who lose 6 - 3 to the Orioles and trail 4 - 1 in a game suspended. Mantle's replacement John Blanchard breaks a 3 - 3 tie in the opener with an 8th inning homer.
1961 - At LA, Don Drysdale stops the Giants, 4 - 0, allowing just two hits. The Dodgers are now two games in back of the first-place Reds.
1961 - After losing, 4 - 3, the Royals outkick the Angels, 13 - 7 in game 2, using an 11-run 6th inning. KC collects seven hits, four walks, three errors and a stolen base for their big inning. Norm Siebern and winning pitcher Joe Nuxhall homer in the frame.
1962 - Houston finally defeats Philadelphia, 4 - 1, in their final meeting of the season. The Phillies had won all 17 previous contests.
1964 - The Yankees overcome two homers by Ken Harrelson to beat the host A's, 9 - 7, in 10 innings. Mickey Mantle and Elston Howard hit back-to-back homers in the 4th inning for New York. With the Orioles losing today, Baltimore (81-54) and Chicago (82-55) are virtually tied for first, with New York (77-56) three games back.
1965 - At Yankee Stadium, the Red Sox sweep two from the Yankees, winning 1 - 0 and 7 - 2. Mickey Mantle's homer in the 2nd game, off Dennis Bennett, is the only bright spot for New York.
1965 - The Reds score three runs in the 9th to edge the Phillies, 5 - 4. Deron Johnson drives in the last two runs with a single.
1966 - When 18,670 patrons show up in Cincinnati to watch the Reds lose to Los Angeles, 8-6, the Dodgers become the first team in major league history to attract more than 2 million fans at home and 2 million on the road.
1966 - Chris Short shuts out the Mets, 5 - 0, the 5th complete game win in a row for the Phillies' pitchers.
1967 - In the first of two at Wrigley, Chuck Hartenstein and the Cubs top the Dodgers, 2 - 1, in 11 innings. Don Sutton takes the loss and is now 0 - 7 against Chicago.
1968 - The Dodgers Don Sutton allows just three hits and strikes out 12 to beat the Phils, 3 - 0.
1969 - After hitting in 31 straight games, the 3rd-best streak (since 1900) in National League history, the Dodgers Willie Davis is stopped in a 3 - 0 loss to San Diego. Al Ferrara drives in all three runs.
1969 - After thirty-one games, the third longest consecutive game hitting streak in National League history ends as Dodger Willie Davis is stopped by Dick Kelley and Gary Ross in a 3-0 loss to the Padres.
1969 - Down 4 - 1 in the 9th against the Tigers in Detroit, Baltimore gets consecutive home runs from Frank Robinson, Boog Powell, and Brooks Robinson off Earl Wilson to tie. Tom Timmermann then gives up the winning run on a double, sac fly, and Baltimore chop as the O's win, 5 - 4.
1971 - In Los Angeles, the Reds lose to the Dodgers, 2 - 1, and almost lose SS Woody Woodward. A 10-pound sack of flour dropped from a passing airplane, explodes 15 feet from where Woodward is positioned in the 9th inning.
1972 - Luis Tiant (10 - 4) pitches his 4th straight shutout, beating the Brewers, 2 - 0, in the opener. Yaz's 2-run home run accounts for the scoring. The Red Sox lose the nitecap, 6 - 2, as four former Hubmen do the damage. O'Brien and Lahoud homer, Boomer Scott has three hits and Brett is the winner.
1972 - The Yankees split with the Orioles, losing 43 before winning 5 - 2. The split leaves the Yankees(69-61) in 4th place, just one-half game out of first place. The Orioles (69-60) are tied with Detroit for the lead. Andy Etchebarren's 3-run homer in the first game, off Fritz Peterson, is the big blow while the Yankees take the night cap behind the three hits, including a homer, of Bobby Murcer.
1972 - The Cubs top the Mets, 2 - 0, as Fergie Jenkins posts his 19th win. The Cubs then drop the second game, 7 - 2, to Gary Gentry, who strikes out 8.
1974 - Don Wilson has a no-hitter through eight innings, but is lifted for a pinch-hitter by Houston manager Preston Gomez. Reliever Mike Cosgrove gives up a leadoff single to Tony Perez, and the Astros lose to the Reds 2 - 1. Jack Billingham, who has a sac bunt in the 2-run 5th, is the winner. Gomez made the same mistake in San Diego on July 21, 1970. The Reds score both runs in the 5th inning on two walks, a sac bunt and a 2-base throwing error by Roger Metzger.
1974 - The Orioles top the Red Sox, 6 - 0, for their 3rd straight shutout over Boston. The Sox manage just eight hits in the three games.
1974 - After pitching eight no-hit innings against the Reds, Don Wilson is pulled from the game by Astros' manager Preston Gomez in favor of a pinch hitter. Mike Cosgrove gives up a hit to Tony Perez in the ninth and Houston loses, 2-1.
1974 - California's Andy Hassler hands out 10 walks but still shuts out the Red Sox, 6 - 0. It is the 3rd time this year a California pitcher has been this generous with bases on balls.
1976 - The Reds Pat Zachary gives up a pair of singles in the 2nd in pitching a 5 - 1 two-hitter against the Braves.
1978 - Behind Ron Guidry's 20th win, the Yankees take the first game against Detroit 9 - 1. New York scores eight in the 7th. Detroit wins the 2nd 5 - 4 to keep New York five games behind Boston.
1978 - The Pirates' Dorian Boyland has a 1-2 count in his first ML AB when the Mets make a pitching change. Rennie Stennett pinch-hits, taking the 3rd strike. The strikeout is charged to Boyland, watching the completion of his historic AB from the bench. The Pirates sweep the doubleheader from the Mets to move within a game of the 1st place Phils. The Bucs take the 1st game 7 - 4 and then win 7 - 0 behind Jim Bibby.
1978 - In his first major league at-bat, Dorian Boyland strikes out sitting on the bench. The Pirate rookie is removed with a 1-2 count when the Mets make a pitching change and pinch hitter Rennie Stennett takes the third strike.
1978 - At Baltimore, the Orioles top the Red Sox, 4 - 1, behind Jim Palmer. Rookie Bob Sprowl pitches credibly in his ML debut, but takes the loss.
1981 - In the conclusion of the longest game in Fenway Park history, the Mariners beat the Red Sox 8 - 7 in 20 innings on Joe Simpson's run-scoring triple. The game began on September 3rd, but was suspended after 19 innings.
1982 - At Baltimore, Jim Palmer one-hits the Twins 3 - 0 for Baltimore to get his 11th consecutive victory. The only hit is Gary Gaetti's 2-out single in the 5th inning. It is Palmer's 2nd career one-hitter against the Twins.
1985 - Following a three-homer game last night, Gary Carter ties a major league record by hitting two solo homers to become the 11th player in major league history to hit five home runs in two games.
1985 - One day after hitting three home runs in an 8 - 3 win over the Padres, Gary Carter hits two more to lead the Mets to a 9 - 2 win at San Diego, tying the major-league record of five home runs in two games. He is the 13th player to accomplish the feat.
1988 - Cincinnati's Danny Jackson becomes the National League's first 20-game winner by shutting out the Cubs on six hits as the Reds romp 17 - 0. Calvin Schiraldi is the loser.
1989 - Fred Lynn hits his 300th career home run to help the Tigers to a 5 - 1 win over Kansas City.
1991 - Infielders Shane Turner and Tommy Shields both play all nine positions for the Rochester Red Wings in their season finale, an 8 - 0 win against Syracuse of the Class AAA International League.
1991 - Lou Gehrig's 1938 Yankee road uniform brings $220,000 at a memorabilia auction in San Francisco, becoming the most expensive non-card sports memorabilia item ever sold. A Honus Wagner card goes for $125,500 while an autographed Gehrig bat sells for $47,500.
1991 - Removing an asterisk which really never existed, the Statistical Accuracy Committee decides to put Roger Maris '61 home run season ahead of Ruth's 60 mark instead of listing it separately as it was from 1962 until 1991. The eight man panel also re-defines a no-hit game as one which ends after 9 or more innings with one team failing to get a hit thereby removing 50 games from the list that had previously been considered hitless, including the 1959 performance of Harvey Haddix's 12 perfect innings against the Braves and Jim Maloney's 1965 1-0 loss to the Mets in 11-innings.
1991 - After 30 years, the asterisk attached to Roger Maris' 61 home runs in 1961 is removed by an 8-man Committee for Statistical Accuracy. Regarding the expunging of the asterisk, historian Bill Deane later points out, "It was an easy job: the asterisk never existed. Maris's record was, from 1962 until 1991, listed separately from Ruth's and was never actually defined by 'some distinctive mark.'" The committee also defines a no-hit game as one which ends after nine or more innings with one team failing to get a hit. This removes 50 games from the list that had previously been considered no-no's, mostly shortened games, but also including Harvey Haddix's 12 perfect innings against the Braves in 1959 and Jim Maloney' 1965 1 - 0 loss in 11-innings. Another casualty is Ernie Shore's 27 straight outs in 1917, a game in which he relieved Ruth with a runner on and no outs in the 1st. It is now a combined no-hitter.
1992 - Yankees OF Roberto Kelly ties a major league record by reaching base on catcher's interference for the 7th time this year. Pittsburgh's Dale Berra set the mark in 1983. Texas C Ivan Rodriguez is the latest victim of Kelly in NY's 6 - 3 victory.
1993 - Yankees P Jim Abbott tosses a no-hitter against the Indians, defeating them by a score of 4-0.
1993 - Pinstripe pitcher Jim Abbott no-hits Indians at Yankee Stadium, 4-0. The Flint, Michigan native who was born without a right hand, becomes the first Yankee in a decade to throw a no-hitter.
1993 - The Phillies lose to the Reds by a score of 6-5. In doing so, they set a new National League record by not being shut out in 151 consecutive games. The major league mark of 308 is held by the Yankees.
1995 - Robin Ventura becomes the eighth player to hit two grand slams in one game helping White Sox to beat the Rangers, 14-3.
1995 - Chicago 3B Robin Ventura becomes the 8th player in history to hit two grand slams in a single game, doing so in the 4th and 5th innings of the White Sox 14-3 win over the Rangers. The last to do it was Frank Robinson in 1970. Ventura adds a double and a walk.
1995 - Ron Maurer of the Triple-A Albuquerque Dukes plays all nine positions in his team's 4-2 loss to Las Vegas.
1995 - Toronto DH Paul Molitor strokes five hits and brings home three runs to lead the Blue Jays to a 6-1 win over the Royals. His hits include three singles, a double, and a home run.
1996 - Babe Dahlgren, the man who replaced Lou Gehrig at first base to end the streak, dies in Arcadia, California. In the game, he goes 2-for-4, including a home run, in a 22-2 victory over the Tigers at Briggs Stadium.
1996 - Andy Pettitte wins his 20th as the Yankees prevail over the A's, 10 - 3. Paul O'Neill and Tino Martinez solo in the 4th inning. The Yanks last 20-game winner was Ron Guidry in 1985.
1996 - In pursuit of his 7th batting title, Tony Gwynn is 4-for-4 in the Padres 2-1 win over the Phils. Gwynn, hitting .352, needs to average nearly five at bats in the final 22 games to qualify for the batting title.
1997 - Rookie C Bobby Estalella cracks three home runs and drives home four as he leads the Phillies to a 6-4 win over Montreal.
1998 - Defeating the White Sox, 11-6, the Yankees win their 100th game on the earliest date in major league history besting the 1906 Chicago Cubs and 1954 Cleveland Indians by five days. The 1906 Cubs set the major league record for fewest contests to reach 100 victories accomplishing the milestone 132 games.
1998 - The Yankees (100 - 38) win their 100th game of the season, defeating the White Sox, 11 - 6. It is the earliest any American League team has ever reached the 100 - win mark. The 1906 Cubs needed 132 games to reach the 100-win mark. Bernie Williams leads NY with a pair of homers and four RBIs.
1998 - With his Giants down 6 - 0, Barry Bonds, with 23 stolen bases so far, attempts to steal 2B but is thrown out. Ellis Burks then hits a home run and the Giants end up losing, 8 - 5. Bonds ends the game with a National League record of 15 straight times reaching base.
1998 - Sammy Sosa's 57th home run leads the Cubs to a 5 - 2 win over Pittsburgh. Sosa surpasses Hack Wilson's club record set 68 years ago.
1999 - Cincinnati scores nine runs in the 5th inning on the way to a 22-3 blowout over Philadelphia. The Reds tie an National League record by hitting nine home runs in the contest -- 2 by C Eddie Taubensee and one apiece by Aaron Boone, Dmitri Young, Jeffrey Hammonds, Greg Vaughn, Pokey Reese, Brian Johnson, and Mark Lewis. Chad Ogea, in two 2/3 innings, allows three dingers; he has now served up a league high 35. Stan Belinda of the Reds earns a save for Pete Harnisch (14-8); he benefits from the rule that mandates a save be awarded if a pitcher works three innings in relief.
1999 - The Reds set a National League record with nine homers with as they rout the Phillies, 22-3. Eddie Taubensee (2), Greg Vaughn, Jeffrey Hammonds, Aaron Boone, Dimitri Young, Pokey Reese, Brian Johnson and Mark Lewis all go yard for Cincinnati.
1999 - The Red Sox defeat the Mariners, 4-0, as Pedro Martinez wins his 20th game, striking out 15 batters in eight innings of work.
2000 - The Red Sox honor Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk. The New Hampshire resident, who played his first nine seasons with Boston, joins Bobby Doerr (1), Joe Cronin (4), Carl Yastrzemski (8) and Ted Williams (9) in having his number (27) be retired at Fenway.
2000 - In the Red Sox win over the Mariners, 5-1, Carl Everett of the Sox became only the sixth major-league switch-hitter to drive in 100 runs in both leagues when he knocked in his 100th ribbie of the year. Everett drove in 108 runs for the Houston Astros last season. The other five 100-100 switches were Ted Simmons, Ken Singleton, Eddie Murray, Bobby Bonilla and J.T. Snow. Pedro Martinez is the big star, striking out 11 in eight innings to go 7 - 0 over the M's. Jamie Moyer loses his 6th in a row, though not his fault as a routine fly ball by Jose Offerman to Mike Cameron becomes a 3-run triple when the center fielder stumbles. Prior to the game, Boston retires Hall of Fame C Carlton Fisk's uniform No. 27.
2000 - The Rockies trim the Cubs, 6-2, as rookie OF Juan Pierre gets five hits.
2000 - The A's defeat the Blue Jays, 10-0. Mike Stanley goes 5-for-5 for Oakland, including a double and home run, and drives home five runs.
2001 - The first-place Braves draw just 3,613 fans in Montreal as they beat the Expos, 3 - 2. Andruw Jones hits a leadoff homer in the 9th for the difference. The crowd is the smallest at Olympic Stadium in 17 years.
2001 - The Marlins Josh Beckett debuts with a 6-inning one hit effort as the Fish beat the Cubs, 8 - 2. Beckett, who was 14 - 1 in the minors, also adds a double. Kevin Millar has a grand slam and Preston Wilson a 3-run homer.
2001 - The Mariners cinch a tie for the playoffs with a 3 - 2, 11-inning win over Tampa Bay. The win gives the M's a 99-39 record.
2001 - The Blue Jays roll over the sleep-walking Yankees, 14 - 0. Andy Pettitte lasts just three innings in losing to Chris Carpenter, who goes the distance allowing six hits while striking out 11.
2002 - The Athletics set an American League record by defeating the Royals, 12 - 11, for their 20th straight win. Oakland blows an 11 - 0 lead, but score in the bottom of the 9th for the victory.
2002 - Aaron Myette, ejected yesterday for two pitches behind Melvin Mora, starts today's game, allowing six of the 11 walks in an 8 - 3 loss to Baltimore. According to the New York Times, it is the first back to back start by a pitcher since Steve McCatty in 1980 [though five pitchers -- Dennis Martinez (Baltimore), Bert Blyleven (Cleveland), Pete Vuckovich (Milwaukee), Rick Langford (Oakland), and Juan Eichelberger (San Diego) -- made the last start before the 1981 strike and the first start after].
2002 - In front of 55,528 fans at Coliseum, the A's set an American League record by extending winning streak to 20 consecutive games. After blowing an 11-run lead to the Royals, Scott Hatteberg's bottom of the ninth inning walk off home run gives Oakland the historic victory, 12-11.
2003 - In his first at-bat after his arrest Pittsburgh for felony counts of sexual assault and related charges, Ramon Castro receives a supportive ovation from the Florida fans as he approaches the batter box as a pinch-hitter. The Marlin catcher connects for a home run in the 5-1 victory against the Pirates.
2007 - Francisco Cordero saves his 40th game. This sets a new Milwaukee Brewers record for a season, topping the mark shared by Dan Kolb and Derrick Turnbow.