September 8

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1889 - Claiming they cannot count on their personal safety, the Browns fail to show up for the scheduled Sunday game with the Bridegrooms at Ridgewood. The forfeit pushes the Browns 41/2 games behind.
1901 - In a rare Sunday game (Sunday games are not outlawed in Chicago) before an estimated 20,000 fans, the largest AL crowd of the year, White Sox OF Dummy Hoy laces a 2-run single in the bottom of the 9th off Boston's Cy Young to give Chicago a 4-3 win.
1901 - The Players Protective Association instructs members to sign one-year contracts only, and not recognize the reserve clause.
1903 - New York's Christy Mathewson and Brooklyn's Bill Reidy hook up for the 3rd time in a week, and the rubber game ends in a tie, 4-4. The match is called by ump Tim Hurst after eight innings because of darkness.
1904 - The visiting Phillies stop the Giants win streak at 12 when the beat up Dummy Taylor to win, 9-8. Bill Duggleby is the victor. New York then wins the nitecap, 4-1 as Christy Mathewson notches his 30th victory, over Tom "Tully" Sparks. Darkness ends the game in the 7th inning.
1905 - Pittsburgh tallies 15 hits and eight walks against the Reds, but the Pirates leave a still-standing NL record 18 men on base. The Reds win, 8-3.
1906 - Boston Nationals Irv Young acts like Cy, allowing just Sherry Magee's safety in a one-hitter against the Phillies.
1906 - Brooklyn blanks the Giants in two games, winning 6-0 and 1-0 at Washington Park.
1908 - Boston's Cy Young defeats Washington, 3-1 for his 20th win.
1908 - The Pirates set a ML fielding record against the Cardinals by making only two assists, both by 2B Charlie Starr. The Bucs win, 2-0, with Honus Wagner driving in both runs.
1908 - Christy Mathewson's 30th win is a gem-an 11-inning 1-0 win over the Superbas' Nap Rucker. A single by Al Bridwell drives home Cy Seymour with the winning tally. New York stays a half-game ahead of Pittsburgh.
1914 - Bill James allows just three hits in beat the Giants, 8 - 3, and dropping New York to the 2nd spot.
1915 - Fred Clarke resigns as Pirates manager having won four pennants in 19 years.
1915 - In a twinbill at Philadelphia, the A's manage just one hit but beat Ernie Shore and the Red Sox, 1 - 0. Walsh's single is the only hit allowed. The Sox are more patient in the 2nd game, and walk 12 times off Cap Crowell to win 13 - 2.
1916 - Switch-hitter Wally Schang of the A's hits home runs from both sides of the plate against the Yankees, the first major leaguer to do so. Only a handful of people see the rare feat on a rainy day. The next AL player to hits home runs from both sides will be Johnny Lucadello in 1940.
1916 - In front the smallest crowd in American League history, A's catcher/outfielder Wally Schang, with 23 fans attending the game, becomes the first switch-hitter in major league history to homer from both sides of the plate in the same game.
1917 - The Yankees trade shutouts with the Senators, winning 2 - 0 before losing, 5 - 0. Doc Ayers wins the nitecap, his 2nd shut out in a row over the Yankees and the third time he's beaten them in eight days. Nick Cullop takes the loss for New York. In the opening game, Ray Caldwell fires his only shut out of the year.
1917 - Following yesterday's loss to Chicago, Browns owner Phil Ball accuses his players of laying down on the job because they dislike manager Fielder Jones. SS Doc Lavan and 2B Del Pratt sue him for $50,000 damages for alleged slanderous statements in St. Louis newspapers. Both are in the lineup, however, when Detroit beats the Browns, 1 - 0 in 12 innings. Ty Cobb triples off the RF fence in the 12th and scores on a sac fly.
1919 - Babe Ruth hits HR No. 26 off Jack Quinn in New York, breaking Buck Freeman's 1899 HR mark of 25.
1920 - On their way to Cleveland, the Yanks play an exhibition game against the Pirates and suffers injuries to starters, Muddy Ruel (split finger) and Ping Bodie (sprained ankle). With Carl Mays skipping the Indians series to avoid any scenes, New York is short handed.
1922 - The Yankees go back on top, this time to stay, beating the Senators, 8 - 1, behind Carl Mays. while the Browns lose to Detroit, 8 - 3. New York's win is triggered by Wally Pipp's 6th inning 3-run homer of Walter Johnson, the 2nd homer Wally has dinged off the Senator's ace in nine days.
1922 - Detroit beats the Browns, 8 - 3, on Bobby Veach's two homers off Urban Shocker. First baseman Lu Blue pulls off two unassisted DPs, tying the American League record, and both are off line drives by Johnny Tobin.
1924 - Washington, with a 2-game lead in the American League, beats the A's 8 - 4. Despite giving up solo home runs by Joe Hauser and Bing Miller, Walter Johnson's wins his 10th straight and his 20th of the year, For Hauser, trailing Babe Ruth in the home run race, it's his 3rd four bagger of the year off Johnson.
1925 - In the nightcap of a doubleheader at Fenway Park, Babe Ruth hits his 300th career home run of southpaw Buster Ross as the Yankees defeat the Red Sox, 7-4.
1925 - The Yanks top the Red Sox, 7 - 4, as Ruth pounds his 300th career homer, off Chester Ross.
1925 - In the first game of a doubleheader, Dazzy Vance tosses a one-hitter over the Phils to give Brooklyn a 1 - 0 win. The Dodgers complete the sweep with a 4 - 3 game two win.
1926 - The Phils trail the Dodgers, 4 - 2, going into the last of the 9th but rally to win, 8 - 4. The winning blow is Cy Williams grand slam, the 2nd Philley slam in three days.
1928 - The Phils take two from the Braves, winning 10 - 6 and 4 - 0. Earl Caldwell, who reported to the Phils yesterday, tosses the shutout in his first major league start.
1928 - In Boston, the A's get cheered by the Sox fans as they sweep a pair from the Crimson Hose and take over first place in the American League by a half game. Orwell is the winner in game 1, 7 - 6, in 10 innings. Earnshaw wins the nitecap, 7 - 4.
1928 - Behind Ruth's 3-run homer, the Yankees take the Senators, 6 - 3, but it is not enough as the Yanks drop to 2nd place.
1931 - Bill Harris, 31, who last pitched in the majors for the Reds, in 1924, makes his first appearance for Pittsburgh and shuts out Cincinnati, 3 - 0.
1932 - In the Pirates 12 - 2 loss to Brooklyn, Buc C Earl Grace makes a wild throw to end a streak of 110 consecutive errorless games. It is Grace's only error of the season for a NL record. Must be something in the air as seven E's are recorded.
1932 - The Yankees and Tigers replay protested August 1st game as the nightcap of a doubleheader, but end in a 7 - 7 tie. After the game, Babe Ruth experiences abdominal pains he believes are an appendicitis attack. He will be out of the lineup indefinitely. Sam Byrd, subbing for Ruth in the opener, collects five hits for the Yankees, including two home runs in a 5 - 4 win.
1935 - The Cards fail to increase their lead as they split with the Phils. In the opener, Dizzy Dean wins his 25th game, but the Birds lose 4 - 2 in the night cap when they strand 16 runners. St. Louis outhits the Phils 13 to 4. Rain washes out the Cubs game at Wrigley.
1935 - Trailing 5-1 in the ninth against the Indians, the Red Sox rally for two runs with no outs and have the bases loaded when Joe Cronin hits a line drive to third baseman Odell Hall. The ball deflects off Hall's head to shortstop Bill Knickerbocker who catches it in the air for the first out and throws to second, doubling up Billy Werber with second baseman Roy Hughes relaying to first base tripling up Mel Almada to complete the 5-6-4-3 triple play ending the rally and the game.
1935 - In the 2nd game of a twinbill, the A's Jimmie Foxx doubles in the 8th to break up Eldon Auker's no-hit bid. Detroit rolls, 15 - 1 collecting 20 hits. Foxx has a pair of homers in the opener, again in vain, as the Tigers win, 7 - 5. Cochrane has three hits in each game for Detroit. The sweep increases their AL lead to 10 games.
1939 - With his 12-1 victory over the Browns in St. Louis, Bob Feller becomes the youngest modern-era player to win 20 games.
1939 - Twenty-year-old Bob Feller becomes the youngest 20th-century pitcher to win 20 games, as Cleveland beats St. Louis 12-1.
1940 - Johnny Mize hits homers #'s 38, 39 and 40 in the first game of a doubleheader becoming the first player to hit three homers in one game four times in his career. Despite the 'Big Cat's' heroics, the Cardinals drop a pair to the Pirates, 16-14 and 9-4.
1940 - In the opener of a doubleheader, Johnny Mize of the St. Louis Cardinals rips 3 consecutive HRs, his second 3-homer game of the season. For "Big John," it is number 38 through 40 HR of the year. Pittsburgh still sweeps the 2 games.
1946 - Dodger Pete Reiser, even though still as injury-prone as he was before the war, steals 3 bases, including home, in an 11-3 Dodger victory over the Giants. It is his 7th steal of home this year. He will lead the ML with 34 steals despite missing more than 30 games due to injuries.
1946 - With the Red Sox running away with the AL race, attention closes in on Bob Feller's strikeout pace. He reaches 300 today, a number reached by Walter Johnson and Rube Waddell twice each. Can Feller beat Waddell's 347 of 1904? Boudreau finds plenty of innings for Feller to work as the season comes to an end and statisticians discover an error in the Aug 24th box score that shorted the fireballer one strikeout against the A's. Counting that one, Feller ends with 348. Alas! Waddell's old record of 347 was apparently based on the compilations of George Moreland, an early baseball historian, and listed in Little Red Book. TSN researchers later revise Waddell's total to 349.
1946 - In the minor leagues Bill Kennedy of Rocky Mount (Coastal Plain League) will be credited with 456 strikeouts, breaking the former mark of 418 set by Virgil Trucks in the Alabama-Florida League in 1938.
1947 - Starting P Johnny "Ox" Miller of the Cubs hits a game-winning grand-slam HR in a 4-3 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates, but does not go the required 5 innings to gain the win.
1950 - Russ Meyer snaps the Phils' 5-game losing streak with a 4 - 3 victory over the Dodgers.
1951 - At an Oldtimer's Day at Yankee Stadium, former manager Joe McCarthy is honored. With the game scoreless in the 7th inning, Mickey Mantle belts a Bob Porterfield pitch into the last row of the RF bleachers, some 460 feet away to break the scoreless tie. Ed Lopat shuts out the Senators for 4 - 0 Yankee win.
1951 - The pennant race heats up, as Dodger ace Don Newcombe 2-hits the Giants, 9 - 0, beating Jim Hearn. Jackie Robinson has three hits and three runs, scoring one run from 3B when he provokes Jim Hearn into wild pitching. Giants pitchers contribute 10 walks.
1952 - An umpire ejects Giants P Larry Jansen for throwing a beanball. Giants manager Leo Durocher is also suspended and fined $100. Jansen is fined just $25 because of his "excellent conduct record." Brooklyn splits the doubleheader, winning the opener 10-2 and losing the nightcap 3-2. The Dodger lead stays at 5 games.
1955 - Brooklyn clinches the pennant by beating the Braves 10-2 for their 8th straight win. They break their own ML record for the earliest clinching, set in 1953.
1955 - With a 10-2 win over the Braves at Milwaukee's County Stadium, the Dodgers clinch the National League pennant with a 17 game lead. It is the earliest date in history in which a team has captured a flag.
1958 - In a special meeting of American League owners in Chicago, Washington owner Calvin Griffith succumbs to pressure from other AL owners and that night advises Minneapolis officials that he is staying in Washington.
1958 - The Pirates RF Roberto Clemente hits three triples in a 4 - 1 win over Cincinnati. Rookie pitcher Curt Raydon (8-4) collects his only ML hit in the 5th to ignite a 3-run rally. This is also his last ML decision.
1961 - The Yanks rout the Indians 9 - 1 as Mickey Mantle hits #52, off Gary Bell. The Yanks win for their 9th straight while Detroit loses their 8th in a row to drop 10 game in back. The Tigers purchase vet Vic Wertz from the Red Sox to shore up the offense.
1962 - At Milwaukee, pitcher Chris Short, a career .126 hitter, has four hits against Warren Spahn as the Phillies top the ace left hander, 4 - 2.
1963 - For the thirteenth and final time in his career, Braves' lefthander Warren Spahn has a twenty-win season as he beats the Phillies, 3-2.
1963 - Braves P Warren Spahn (20-5) ties Christy Mathewson's National League record with his 13th 20-win season by notching a 3 - 2 victory in Philadelphia. Gene Oliver's 2-run home run in the 8th, off Dallas Green, is the deciding blow. At 42, Spahn becomes the oldest 20-game winner.
1964 - Phils' first baseman Frank Thomas fractures his right thumb sliding back into 1B in the 3 - 2 loss to the Dodgers. The Phils are six games ahead, but Thomas's loss will be felt keenly when the Phils begin to slide. Art Mahaffey takes the loss, lasting just a 1/3 of an inning. Thirty-six-year-old Jim Brewer wins his first ML start.
1965 - Against the Angels, A's Bert Campaneris becomes the first major leaguer to play all nine positions in a single game.
1965 - Bert Campaneris plays all nine positions against the Angels in a promotion to hype poor attendance at Kansas City. When Campy takes the mound in the 8th inning, the first batter he faces is his cousin Jose Cardenal, who pops out. Campy allows one run, and leaves the game in the 9th after a collision with Angels C Ed Kirkpatrick at home plate when Campy is catching. Rene Lachemann replaces Campy as catcher. The Angels win it in the 13th inning 5 - 3, with the win going to Campy's batterymate Aurelio Monteagudo.
1965 - The Giants take over 1st place for the 1st time this season as reliever Masanori Murikami win 3 - 1 in Los Angeles, dropping the Dodgers to 2nd place by .002 percentage points. The Giants have now won four straight and will win their next 10.
1966 - The Red Sox fire manager Billy Herman (64-82) and Pete Runnels is named interim pilot. Herman will sign on as a scout for the California Angels.
1967 - The Tigers move into a first-place tie with the Twins, as Eddie Mathews and Jim Northrup hit home runs, and Mickey Lolich beats Tommy John 4 - 1 at Chicago.
1967 - Despite a brilliant relief effort by Dick Kelley, the Braves lose a 4 - 1 decision at Philadelphia. Kelley ties the National League record for relievers with six consecutive strikeouts.
1969 - At Shea Stadium, the Mets top the Cubs 3 - 2 on Tommie Agee's 2-run home run. Jerry Koosman beats Bill Hands and strikes out 13 Cub batters. Chicago has now lost five in a row and leads the Mets by one 1/2 games.
1972 - In the first game of a doubleheader with the Cardinals, the Mets win 8 - 2 as John Milner collects a homer, double, and three singles in five at-bats. Milner had another home run in the 1st inning of game 2, but the Cards turn around, using a pair of homers in the 13th to win, 9 - 4.
1972 - Mickey Lolich wins his 20th game of the year as Detroit tips the Orioles, 4 - 3. The Tigers jump on Jim Palmer (18-8) for three runs in the 1st inning. Seelbach pitches the last three 1/3 innings of shutout ball for the save.
1972 - Beating the Phils 4 - 3, Fergie Jenkins wins his 20th, the 6th consecutive year he's reached the mark. This ties the Cubs club record set by Three Finger Brown, 1906-11. Billy Williams 2-run home run in the 6th ties it at 3 - 3, and a pair of doubles in the 8th wins it.
1975 - Johnny Bench belts a 2-run homer in the 8th as the Reds beat the Padres, 3 - 2.
1975 - The Astros outslug the Braves, 9 - 6, with Jose Sosa picking up his only career win. The loss goes to Frank LaCorte, making his ML debut.
1976 - In a twinbill, the Expos Joe Kerrigan wins a pair from the Cardinals with two innings of relief work in both games. Montreal wins, 7 - 5 and 8 - 7.
1977 - Cubs' relief pitcher Bruce Sutter strikes out the first six batters he faces including three men in the ninth on nine pitches.
1977 - At Toronto, Red Sox sluggers Carlton Fisk and George Scott club back-to-back homers in the 2nd inning, setting a record. It is the 16th time this season that Sox hitters have hit back-to-back homers, breaking the record of 15 set by the 1964 Twins. Boston wins, 7 - 2.
1977 - At Wrigley, Cubs reliever Bruce Sutter strikes out the first six men he faces, including three batters (Ellis Valentine, Gary Carter, and Larry Parrish) on nine pitches in the 9th inning. The Cubs score in the 10th against Montreal's Joe Kerrigan, and Sutter picks up the win, 3 - 2.
1978 - New York continues its rampage of Boston by scoring two runs in the 1st inning and six more in the 2nd inning. Boston makes seven errors to ease the Yankees to a 13 - 2 romp. Reggie Jackson hits a 3-run homer and Lou Piniella adds a double, triple and homer to back Jim Beattie's pitching. Dwight Evans and Carlton Fisk both make a pair of errors. New York is now two games in back.
1978 - In a 5 - 3 win at Wrigley Field, Phillies RF Bake McBride handles 11 chances, tying the National League mark for right fielders. It was last matched by the Cubs Swish Nicholson, in 1945, in the same park.
1979 - Greg Nettles hits an 8th inning home run to help the Yankees and Ron Guidry beat Detroit, 5 - 4. It is Guidry's 10th straight win.
1979 - In Oakland's 2 - 1 win over the White Sox, A's Rob Picciolo (.234 career) gets his only intentional walk as the Sox elect to pitch to rookie Rickey Henderson. Rickey walks in a run to beat the Sox. Picciolo will have just 25 career walks in nine seasons (as noted by Dave Smith).
1980 - Commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins indefinitely as a result of his August 25th drug arrest in Toronto. On September 22nd, the suspension will be overturned by arbitrator Raymond Goetz, the first time ever a commissioner's decision is overruled by an arbitrator.
1980 - Commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspends Ferguson Jenkins as a result of the pitcher's drug arrest on August 25th.
1981 - Citing his "lack of communication" with the players, the Expos fire manager Dick Williams and replace him with Jim Fanning, who has been an executive with the club since it joined the National League in 1969.
1981 - Houston's Cesar Cedeno is fined $5,000 but not suspended after attacking a fan during the Astros 3 - 2 loss to the Braves. Witnesses said that three men in the box seats had been loudly berating Cedeno's wife and making remarks about the 1973 incident in which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the accidental shooting death of a young woman in the Dominican Republic.
1983 - Yankees OF Steve Kemp will miss the rest of the season with a fractured cheekbone after being struck in the face by an Omar Moreno line drive during batting practice in Milwaukee. Kemp hit just .242 with 12 home run and 49 RBI in the first year of his 5-year, $5.45 million contract. New York wins today, 6 - 5.
1984 - The Yankees break a 4 - 4 tie with two runs in the 6th to roll over the Red Sox, 12 - 6. Toby Harrah paces the 15-hit attack with four hits, and Dave Winfield one of the game's 12 doubles to extend his hitting streak to 20 games, which is and will be a career high. Joe Cowley (7 - ) is the winner.
1985 - At Wrigley Field off Cubs' hurler Reggie Patterson, Pete Rose gets two hits, including a historic single to tie Ty Cobb's career record of 4,191 hits. The game will be suspended due to darkness which will enable the Reds' player-manager to break the record at home.
1987 - With the Cubs in 5th place in the National League East (68-68, 13 games behind), the club fires manager Gene Michael and replaces him with Frank Lucchesi.
1988 - National League president Bart Giamatti is unanimously elected baseball's 7th commissioner, and will succeed Peter Ueberroth next season.
1989 - Kansas City's George Brett singles for his 2,500th career hit in a 6 - 0 win over the Twins.
1990 - Darryl Strawberry, the Mets all-time home run leader (252), ends his eight-year tenure with New York and signs a five -year free-agent deal with his hometown Dodgers.
1992 - Yankees OF Danny Tartabull goes 5 - for - 5 with two homers and a double, and drives in nine runs as New York defeats Baltimore, 16 - 4. Scott Sanderson is the winner.
1992 - The Blue Jays top the visiting Royals, 5 - 0, behind Jimmy Key's complete game shutout. Following the game, Toronto rookie C Mike Maksudian wins $800 from his teammates, who bet that he wouldn't eat a live locust. Maksudian, who claims to have eaten moths, grasshoppers, frogs, lizards, roaches and aquarium fish, swallowed the one 1/2 inch long insect, but declined an offer of $2,000 to swallow a rat.
1993 - The Pirates trade OF Lonnie Smith to the Orioles in exchange for two minor league players to be named.
1993 - Houston's Darryl Kile no-hits the Mets, winning by a score of 7-1. He fans nine and walks 1. Mets 3B Butch Huskey becomes the 3rd player in history to make his major league debut on the losing end of a no-hitter. Byron Browne and Don Young of the Cubs did so in Sandy Koufax's perfect game in 1965.
1995 - With a 3-2 victory over the Orioles at Jacobs Field, the Indians reach the post season for the first time in 41 years by clinches the American League Central Division. The Tribe, which post a 100-44 record with Mike Cosgrove as the skipper, win the division by the largest margin as they finish 30 games ahead.
1995 - The Indians defeat the Orioles, 3-2, to clinch the American League Central Division title in their 123rd game of the season. It is the fastest that any team has ever won a title. The Tribe now leads 2nd-place KC by 23 1/2 games.
1995 - The Tigers trade IF Juan Samuel to the Royals in exchange for a player to be named.
1996 - Todd Hundley joins Mickey Mantle as the only other switch hitter to hit 40 homers in a season. His 40th home run also breaks Strawberry's Met club record for most homers in a single season.
1996 - In the Indians DH split with the Mariners, Jim Thome knocks in his 100th run in opener, a 15 - 4 win. Thome reaches the 30 homer, 100 runs, 100 runs, 100 walks"”just the 2nd Indian to ever do that. Al Rosen in 1950 was the other. Charles Nagy (15-4) wins game 1, while the M's prevail 6 - 5 in the nitecap.
1996 - A Gary Sheffield fifth inning home run against the Expos' Pedro Martinez breaks the major league home run record for a season; the previous record of 4,458 was set 1987.
1998 - Mark McGwire breaks Roger Maris' single - season home run mark by clouting his 62nd of the year off Steve Trachsel in the 4th inning of the Cardinals' 6 - 3 win over the Cubs in St. Louis.
1998 - Cardinal first baseman Mark McGwire connects off of Cub hurler Steve Trachsel and sends a 341-foot line-drive over the left field fence for his historic 62nd home run breaking the single-season home run record set in 1961 by Roger Maris. Big Mac's historic homer comes in the fourth inning of a national televised game.
1998 - Phillies rookie Marlon Anderson hits a pinch home run in his 1st major league at bat to become the 14th player in history to do so. The Phils and Mets combined for nine homers"”Philadelphia has a team-record 7"”in the 16-4 Phils win. Four different players homer twice"”Jermaine Allensworth for New York and Rico Brogna, Kevin Sefcik, and Bobby Estalella for the Phils.
1999 - Arizona defeats Milwaukee, 9-1, as OF Steve Finley strokes three home runs and drives home six runs.
1999 - The Astros score nine runs in the 6th inning on their way to a 10-2 victory over the Phillies.
2000 - The Astros defeat the Cubs, 13-10, as Houston 2B Julio Lugo has the first 5-hit game of his career.
2000 - The Yankees calcimine the Red Sox, 4-0, behind Roger Clemens. A scary moment occurs in the 9th inning when Boston P Bryce Florie is hit in the face with a line drive off the bat of Ryan Thompson. The Red Sox hurler never loses consciousness and leaves the field with blood streaming down his face. Florie suffers a fractured cheekbone and a fracture of the orbital socket, the bone that surrounds the eye, and retinal damage. He will undergo surgery .
2001 - Shawon Dunston hits the Giants' 14th pinch hit home run of the season to tie the Diamondbacks for the big league record. SF defeats Colorado, 7 - 3.
2002 - When Rafael Palmeiro goes yard against the Devil Rays in the sixth inning the Rangers establish a new a major league record by hitting a home run in their 26th consecutive game.
2002 - The Mariners score eight runs in the 11th inning and go on to defeat the Royals, 16 - 9. This ties the American League mark for most runs by a team in the 11th, last tied in 1991.
2002 - The Rangers set a major-league record by homering in their 26th consecutive game as Texas falls to Tampa Bay, 6 - 3. Rafael Palmeiro's solo shot in the 6th inning is the record - breaker. The streak will be ended at 27 games on the 10th.
2007 - Alex Rodríguez continues to lead the Yankees in their playoff hopes. He homers twice off of Brian Bannister. The first of the homers is his 49th of the year and breaks the record for homers by a third baseman. Previously, Mike Schmidt (48 in 1980) and Rodriguez (2005) had shared the record. The Yankees win, 11-5. Rodriguez had already held the single-season record for shortstops, giving him the highwater mark at two positions.