September 9

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1901 - The White Sox sweep a doubleheader-and the 4-game series-with Boston by topping the Somersets, 4-3 and 6-4. Boston's Buck Freeman belts his 12th homer of the year. Chicago (75-46) now has a seven game lead over Boston (67-52).
1902 - John T. Brush sells the Cincinnati Reds to Julius and Max Fleischmann, George B. Cox, and August "Garry" Herrmann for $150,000. Brush then buys control of the Giants from Andrew Freedman.
1902 - In Philadelphia, 17,291 see the Athletics beat Baltimore twice, while 172 watch the Phils play Pittsburgh. With the A's 1902 attendance almost four times that of the Phillies, and the AL planning to oppose the weak Giants in New York, pressure mounts among NL directors for peace talks.
1904 - Cold weather keeps the crowd to 1,844 in New York as Joe McGinnity allows 12 Phillie hits but wins his 31st. The nitecap is called after five innings and no score.
1907 - The Giants play their 5th doubleheader in a week, splitting shutouts with Boston. New York takes the opener, 10-0, then Irv Young outpitches Christy Mathewson, 1-0, in the 7-inning nitecap.
1907 - Boston's Cy Young and the A's Rube Waddell battle to a 13 inning scoreless tie. Neither pitcher walks a batter.
1908 - In a 7-3 New York win, the Giants steal nine bases off Brooklyn's Billy Maloney, an OF pressed into service as a catcher. That's enough to make him quit the game. Following the game John McGraw makes his stage debut in a show at the Hippodrome. He has a small part in the show "Sporting Days."
1909 - Bill Dinneen, winner of three games in the first World Series, is released by the St. Louis Browns and becomes an AL umpire, a position he will hold through 1937.
1909 - George "Moon" Gibson of Pittsburgh catches his 112th consecutive game, breaking Chief Zimmer's 1890 record. His streak will end at 140.
1912 - At the Polo Grounds, the Giants sweep two from Brooklyn, 2 - 1 and 7 - 2. Jumbo Jeff Tesreau takes the opener and Christy Mathewson the nitecap.
1914 - In the opener at Boston, the Phils win their only game in the series, 10 - 3, behind Pete Alexander. In game two of a doubleheader, George A. Davis, a Harvard law student, pitches the only shutout of his brief career, a 7 - 0 no-hitter for the first-place Braves over the Phils. The spitballer walks the bases loaded with no outs in the 5th, but "he rose to the occasion to prove his perfect candidacy to a niche in the hall of stars," writes the Boston Post. Released by the Highlanders in 1912, Davis will be 3 - 3 this year and next, then hang up his glove to start a law practice.
1914 - Boston Braves' hurler George Davis no-hits the Phillies, 7-0 .
1915 - Sporting goods manufacturer A.G. Spalding, one of the original players, managers, and executives of the NL, dies at 65 in Point Loma, near San Diego, CA.
1915 - Boston's Lefty Tyler allows just one Brooklyn hit, but loses 1 - 0. Jeff Pfeffer is nearly as perfect, allowing two hits for the win. Brooklyn scores the lone run on a walk by Hy Myers, Gus Getz's single, a double steal, and a sac fly.
1916 - New York Giant William "Pol" Perritt beats the Phillies twice, winning 3 - 1 and 3 - 0.
1916 - Hippo Vaughn and Jimmy Lavender shut out the Pirates, 3 - 0 and 2 - 0, for a Cubs' doubleheader victory.
1916 - In Washington, Boston's Babe Ruth tops the Senators and Walter Johnson, 2 - 1. Ruth gives up four hits while Johnson allows 8. It is the Babe's 4th win this season versus Johnson. Washington wins the nitecap, 4 - 3, in 10 innings.
1917 - In Chicago, with the score tied 3 - 3 in the 10th inning between the Sox and the Indians, umpire Brick Owens forfeits the game to Chicago, 9 - 0, because of the 'dilatory tactics' of the Tribe. Chicago now leads the AL by seven games. The Cleveland players protest Owens ruling in the 10th when, with two on a no outs, he calls Jack Graney out on a close play. The ensuing argument delays the game ten minutes with several Indians rolling on the ground and tossing their mitts. When Chicago's first hitter, pitcher Dave Danforth, strikes out to open the bottom of the inning, Indian catcher Steve O'Neill fires the ball into CF, whereupon Owens calls the forfeit.
1917 - Grover Alexander beats New York's Jeff Tesreau, 4 - 1. Ferdie Schupp takes the nitecap, 2 - 1 for New York, beating the Phils Eppa Rixey.
1918 - Finners Quinlan, an OF who last played in 1915, is wounded fighting in a battle at Argonne Wood, France. He loses an eye and his right leg.
1918 - In game 4, Ruth bats in two runs on a triple in the 4th and pitches seven scoreless innings before the Cubs tie it in the 8th, ending Ruth's World Series record of 29 2/3 scoreless innings. Shufflin' Phil Douglas relieves Lefty Tyler for Chicago in the last of the 8th and throws away the game, first by a wild pitch, then with an error. Ruth is the winning pitcher, but Mays relieves with two on and no out in the 9th.
1920 - Several hours before the start of game 4, Brooklyn's Rube Marquard, a Cleveland native, is arrested when he tries to sell a World Series ticket to an undercover cop for $350. He will be found guilty and fined a dollar and court costs ($3.80). For their first World Series game on the lakefront, 25,734 Indians fans watch their home team score two in the first and two in the 3rd off Leon Cadore (15-14) and Al Mamaux. Cleveland wins game 4, 5 - 1.
1921 - An American League record for total runs and hits is made when Chicago beats Detroit 20 - 15. Each team has 20 hits.
1922 - Baby Doll Jacobson collects three triples to lead the Browns to a 16 - 0 whitewash of the Tigers. The victory, the most lopsided in Browns' history, goes to pitcher Elam Vangilder. St. Louis totals 20 hits with Ken Williams hitting a homer in his 5th straight game, his 37th of the year. Sisler has three hits to keep his hit streak alive, as the Browns keep pace with New York, winners in 10 innings against Washington.
1922 - Danville's Otto Pahlman (III League) has his 50-game hitting streak stopped. Now in 2nd place, he'll end the century with the 4th longest streak ever in the minors.
1923 - In an IL game, the Syracuse Stars are leading 3 - 2 in the 7th and final inning when ump George Magerkurth calls a Baltimore runner safe, giving the Orioles a last chance at bat. Stars manager Frank Shaughnessy protests and the fans agree with him by pouring out onto the field, and the ump awards the forfeit win to the O's.
1924 - At the Polo Grounds, Brooklyn ace Dazzy Vance wins his 13th in a row, beating the Giants and pulling the Robins within a half game of the top.
1926 - Trailing 6 - 3 at the end of eight innings, Brooklyn then makes nine hits and adds two walks to win going away, 12 - 6. A National League record five Brooklyn pinch hitters all deliver, including pinch hitter Dick Cox, who gets two hits, scores twice, and has two RBI in a 9-run 9th inning. Pinch hitter Moose Clabaugh bats twice in the 9th, collecting a hit: the six pinch hits sets a major-league record and the three pinch runners scoring ties a ML mark set in 1900. The Phils use a record-tying five pitchers in the 9th with Waylon Dean taking the loss. The Phils are again paced by Cy Williams, who clubs two homers in his first two at-bats (three in a row), before striking out in his next.
1928 - At Ebbets Field, the Robins come from behind to edge the Giants, 3 - 2, behind Dazzy Vance. Harvey Hendrick dinks a 2-run homer in the 8th, off Larry Benton, to tie, and Jake Flowers singles with two out in the 9th to drive home the winner. The ecstatic fans respond by covering the field with straw hats.
1928 - A total of 85,265 jam Yankee Stadium to watch the Yankees sweep two from the A's, 3 - 0 and 7 - 3, to move back into first place to stay. George Pipgras is the winner in the first game while the Yankee star of the nitecap is Bob Meusel, who takes an Ed Rommel knuckler out of the park for a grand slam in the 8th. Waite Hoyt is the winner.
1928 - At age 38, Yankee P Urban Shocker dies of pneumonia in Denver, where he had gone for his health. Only now does it become known that he had suffered from an enlarged heart and was unable to sleep lying down for two years. Shocker, who never had a losing season, was 18-6 in 1927 but appeared in only one game in 1928.
1928 - Chicago's Alex Metzler breaks up a pitching duel Ted Lyons and Willis Hudlin by cracking an 8th inning pinch homer off tie Cleveland, 1 - 1. The Sox get one more, then explode for eight runs in the 9th inning to coast, 10 - 1. This is Metzler's 3rd and last roundtripper of the year and he will tie Bill Barrett for the team lead. His 55 RBIs will be 2nd on the Sox.
1928 - The Cards blow a 7 - 3 lead and lose to Pittsburgh, 8 - 7. Their lead is cut to two 1/2 games. Pete Alexander blows the lead, but the loss goes to reliever Art Reinhart. Hafey and Bottomley homer for the Cards, but the Bucs answer with the seven hits from the Waners. Paul, leading the National League with .381, has four of them.
1931 - To raise funds to help the unemployed in the Depression, the Yankees, Giants, and Robins agree to a series of benefit games. Sixty thousand fans, paying regular prices, raise $59,000 in the first matchup, as Babe Ruth homers and the Yankees beat the Giants 7 - 2.
1932 - The Tigers beat the Yankees 14 - 13 in a 14-inning game in which Lou Gehrig hits a grand slam and drives in eight runs. He has reached this RBI feat twice before. Frankie Crosetti strikes out four times in the game, including twice in one inning. Detroit also tops the Yanks, 4 - 1, in five innings to finally complete the protested game of August 1st, and the tie of yesterday. The Yanks score their lone run in the 3rd inning off Buck Marrow with their only two hits of the game.
1933 - Joe Hauser, Minneapolis (AA), hits two home runs to set all-time record of 69. Hauser also set the International League record mark at 63, with Baltimore in 1930.
1934 - In one of the most memorable games in the Negro League history, Pittsburgh Crawfords' Satchel Paige duals the Philadelphia Stars' Slim Jones to a 1-1 stalemate, called after 9 innings due to darkness. Paige strikes out 12, and Jones, 9, before 30,000 at Yankee Stadium.
1935 - With the Cardinals' Phil Collins losing to Curt Davis and the Phils, 4 - 3, the Cubs win their 5th and 6th straight games. Chicago tops the Braves, 5 - 1 and 2 - 1, behind the pitching of Larry French and Tex Carleton, cutting the Cardinal lead to a single game.
1936 - The Yankees sweep the Indians 11-3 and 12-9 to clinch the pennant on the earliest date ever.
1936 - With a doubleheader sweep over the Indians, the Yankees clinch their eighth pennant. The Bronx Bombers will finish the season 19.5 games ahead of the Tigers.
1938 - Lou Gehrig plays his 2,100th consecutive game and has 4 hits to bring his average over .300.
1939 - Jimmie Foxx is operated on for appendicitis, and will be out for the season. His 35 HRs will still win the title.
1945 - In the second game of the a doubleheader, Philadelphia A's Dick Fowler tosses a 1-0 no-hitter against the Browns.
1945 - Dick Fowler of the Philadelphia Athletics returns from 3 years with the Canadian Army and pitches a no-hitter, walking 4 and beating the St. Louis Browns 1-0 in the 2nd game of a doubleheader. A triple by Hal Peck leads to the winning run in the 9th. It is Fowler's first start since his return and his first ML shutout. The no-hitter is the first by an Athletic since 1916.
1948 - At the Polo Grounds, Dodger Rex Barney no-hits the Giants, 2-0.
1948 - Hard-throwing Rex Barney of the Brooklyn Dodgers survives a one-hour rain delay plus showers in the 6th, 8th, and 9th innings and hurls a no-hitter, beating the New York Giants 2-0. It is Barney's 10th win in 2 months, and keeps the 3rd-place Dodgers 31Å½2 games behind the NL-leading Braves.
1949 - Despite terrorizing the NL with bat and baserunning during the season, Jackie Robinson is picked off base by Dave Koslo, the 4th time this year Giants pitchers have nabbed him.
1950 - Sal Maglie of the Giants hurls his fourth consecutive shutout, tying a major-league record, and beats the Dodgers 2 - 0. Alvin Dark's two HRs provide the runs.
1950 - The Red Sox advance to within a half-game of the second place Yankees by walloping the A's, 8 - 3 and 11 - 3. All the Boston runs in the opener are unearned. In game two, a 7-run second inning allows Walt Masterson to coast home as Zarilla, Stephens, and Doerr all homer. Dom DiMaggio steals his 15th: his 15 stolen bases will lead the AL, the lowest total in history.
1950 - The Tigers and White Sox finally finish a game that started in April. The game was originally scheduled as the nitecap of a Doubleheader, April 30, but was halted by darkness after 9 innings deadlocked at 77. Rescheduled for August 10, the contest was halted in the seventh with the score 1 - 1. Art Houtteman finally ends it with a 1 - 0, 12 inning win. Hoot Evers triples and scores on a single by Johnny Groth. The league leaders fail to cash in by losing the nitecap, 5 - 4, cutting their lead to a half game over New York and a game ahead of Boston.
1951 - Sal Maglie wins his 20th game to give the Giants a 2 - 1 win over the Dodgers' Ralph Branca. Monte Irvin's two-run homer in the 4th gives New York all its scoring, The Dodgers score in the 8th on a double by Snider and a triple by Jackie Robinson. But 3B Bobby Thomson snags a ground, tags Robby, and throws to first for a DP. The Dodgers still lead the Giants by five 1/2 games.
1951 - The Indians use three 9th-inning bunts to edge the Browns, 4 - 3. Hegan leads off with a bunt that rolls foul, but then drives a single past the pulled-in 3B Jack Maguire. Two more bunts and a sac fly give Mike Garcia his 19th win. Reliever Satchel Paige takes the loss.
1951 - The Yanks hit five homers"”4 off the Nats' Dick Starr"”to win, 7 - 5. Mickey Mantle's leadoff homer on the first pitch, which starts the scoring, slams against the bottom of the flag holder on the top of the right field stands. Vic Raschi then wins the nitecap, 2 - 0, in a game called after the 6th inning because of "darkness." Though Yankee Stadium has lights, unlike the National League, these cannot be used on Sunday. The Yankees (88-49) remain virtually tied with the Indians (88-51).
1952 - The Cardinals Stan Musial gets his 2,000th hit, off Curt Simmons, as the Cardinals lose 4-2.
1953 - Mantle's 2-run HR off Chicago's Billy Pierce caps a 7-run 5th inning, as New York wins 9-3 at at Yankee Stadium. Returning to CF after the 5th, Mantle is photographed blowing a huge bubble with a wad of gum. Manager Stengel will publicly rebuke the Mick, who will apologize for the indiscretion. However, Mantle does get an endorsement fee from the Bowman Gum company
1955 - After losing the opener to the Cubs, the Dodgers win the nitecap 16-9 as pitcher Clem Labine gets his 3rd HR of the year. Labine has just 3 hits all year, but all 3 are HRs. The Dodgers lead is now 161Å½2 games.
1958 - The Cardinals beat the Cubs, 8 - 7, with Jim Brosnan earning the win over his old team. Don Elston takes the loss. Ernie Banks hits his 1st home run in St. Louis in two years while Eddie Kasko cracks a grand slam.
1958 - Athletics 1B Preston Ward hits three home runs in a row in an 8 - 6 win against Baltimore.
1960 - Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams hits career homer 511 tying him with Mel Ott for third on the all-time home run list behind Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx.
1961 - On Whitey Ford Day at Yankee Stadium, Roger Maris hits his 56th homer, off Cleveland's Mudcat Grant, as the Yanks come from behind to win, 8 - 7, New York scores four in the 9th to enable Luis Arroyo to pick up his 12th relief win in a row.
1962 - Boston's Lou Clinton makes four stellar grabs in the outfield and adds a homer, triple and single as the Red Sox trip the Yankees, 9 - 3 in 16 innings at the Stadium. Dick Radatz takes over for Hal Kolstad and pitches nine innings of relief before leaving in the 16th for a pinch hitter.
1964 - The Seattle Post-Intelligenter reports that Cleveland GM Gabe Paul has requested economic surveys of the Seattle market in anticipation of a possible Indians' move to the Northwest.
1965 - The Angels waive Lu Clinton and both the Indians and the Athletics claimed him. Since the rule on waivers is that the team lowest in the standings gets first dibs, Clinton joins the Athletics (as noted by Merritt Clifton). He arrives in mid-game and appears as a pinch-hitter, striking out, as California beats the A's, 7 - 2. He and the Athletics then learned after the game that Clinton has been awarded to the Indians because the Athletics' claim was filed after the 24-hour claiming period had expired. Charlie Finley knew this before Clinton reported to the Athletics, but manager Haywood Sullivan, fed up with Finley's second-guessing, didn't answer the telephone during the game, and therefore didn't find out.
1965 - Sandy Koufax's perfect game against the Cubs bests Bob Hendley's one hit effort, 1-0. It is the Dodger's southpaw record fourth no-hitter .
1965 - In LA, a duel between Dodger Sandy Koufax and Bob Hendley of the Cubs is perfect until Dodger LF Lou Johnson walks in the 5th. Following a sacrifice, Johnson steals 3B and scores on C Chris Krug's wild throw. Johnson later gets the game's only hit, a 7th-inning single. Koufax's 4th no-hitter in four years is a perfect game. One hit by two clubs in a completed 9-inning game is also a record, as is the one runner left on base. The two base runners in a game is a ML record. For Chicago pitchers, it is the 2nd one-hitter they've thrown against LA this year and lost.
1967 - Sox starter Gary Peters takes a 3 - 0 lead into the 9th inning, but a 7-run 9th keeps Detroit tied for first place with the Twins with a 7 - 3 win at Chicago. Chicago is now in 4th place, two games in back, with the Red Sox in 3rd place just a half-game behind.
1968 - Joe Gordon is hired to manage the Kansas City Royals.
1968 - Joe Gordon is hired to manage the Royals.
1969 - Atlanta's Phil Niekro joins the 20-win circle for the first time with a 2 - 1 defeat of the Dodgers. The victory pulls the Braves into 3rd place, 1 1/2 games from the National League West lead.
1969 - With a 3 - 2 win, Tom Seaver hands Chicago its 6th straight loss, giving the Mets a sweep of two games. New York now trails the Cubs by one-half game.
1970 - Pitching in his 2nd ML game, Reds rookie Milt Wilcox pitches a 5 - 0 shutout over the Dodgers in LA.
1970 - Bowie Kuhn hands Denny McLain his third suspension of the year, this one is for carrying a gun, plus other unspecified charges, and ends McLain's season with a 3-5 record.
1970 - California's Alex Johnson becomes the 3rd player in history to put one into the CF bleachers at Comiskey Park when he connects in the 6th against Chicago's Billy Wynne in a 2 - 1 loss in eight innings. The Sox also win the opener, 11 - 4, to break their eight game losing streak. Bill Melton leads to 5-homer offense with a pair and five RBIs.
1973 - The Rangers fire manager Whitey Herzog. The White Rat will be replaced by Billy Martin.
1974 - At Fenway, the Yankees beat the Red Sox, 6 - 3, for their first win in Boston since July 31 of last year. The Yankees have won two of 24 games at Fenway since 1972.
1975 - The Cubs Bill Madlock suffers an "incomplete fracture" of his right thumb when hit by a Bruce Kison pitch in a 6 - 5 win over the Pirates.
1976 - At Texas, Rod Carew hits a pinch grand slam in the 7th, off Hargan for the Twins, as Minnesota wins, 6 - 0. It is Carew's 3rd grand slam of the year, Dave Goltz twirls the shutout.
1976 - George Brett is 5-for-5 to lead the Royals to a 6 - 5 win over the Angels in 10 innings.
1977 - In the second game of a doubleheader loss in Boston, Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell debut together. They will hold down the 2B and SS jobs in Detroit for a record 19 years. Boston prevails today, 5 - 1 and 8 - 6.
1978 - Ron Guidry (21 - 2) gives up two singles in the 1st inning and that's it. New York sends 12 runners to the plate and scores seven runs in the 4th inning to win 7 - 0 against Dennis Eckersley and cut the Boston lead to a single game. For Guidry, it is his 7th shutout of the year, and the first lefty shutout in Fenway since 1974 (Ken Holtzman, August 5th). With the Brewers' victory over the Twins, Milwaukee trails by just four 1/2 games.
1979 - The first place Orioles romp to their 7th win in a row, larruping the Red Sox, 16 - 4. Rick Dempsey hits a grand slam for the Birds in their 6-run 6th, and Al Bumbry adds a home run in the same frame. Jim Rice homers for the Bosox. Sox C Bob Montgomery is 1-for-2 in his last ML game. He is the last ML batter to wear a hard liner in his cap instead of a batting helmet.
1980 - Reds fireballer Mario Soto strikes out 15 Braves in a 7 - 1 Reds win in Atlanta.
1983 - Oakland's first two batter, Rickey Henderson and Mike Davis, line homers off Toronto's Jim Clancy. It turns out to be the margin of difference in a 7 - 5 win.
1983 - White Sox Britt Burns pitches a one-hit 11 - 0 win over the Angels. California's sole hit is Mike Brown's single with two out in the 7th. Sox teammates Carlton Fisk, Tom Paciorek, and Greg Luzinski make it easy for Britt by clouting consecutive homers in the first inning.
1987 - Nolan Ryan strikes out 16 Giants in eight innings during Houston's 4 - 2 victory to take over the ML strikeout lead with 226. Ryan will finish the season with 270 strikeouts, tops in the major leagues.
1987 - Striking out 12 of the final 13 hitters and a total of 16, Nolan Ryan beats the Giants, 4-2. The 'Ryan Express' whiffs Mike Aldrette to end the seventh inning notching his 4,500th career strikeout.
1988 - Bruce Sutter joins Rollie Fingers and Rich Gossage as the only pitchers to save 300 games as Atlanta beats San Diego 5 - 4 in 11 innings.
1989 - California's Devon White steals four bases including 2B, 3B, and home in the same inning in the Angels 8 - 5 win over Boston. The Angels score three in the 8th to break a tie.
1990 - Oops. Tiger RF Scott Lusader loses the battle to bright sun and soggy turf and makes three errors (2 fielding and one throwing) in the first inning against the White Sox. It's a first in the American League since 1925. The Sox score seven runs in the inning and coast home 13 - 3, snapping the Tigers' 7-game winning streak.
1990 - Oakland beats New York 7 - 3 to complete a 12-game sweep of the Yankees this year. The season sweep is a first for the Yankees.
1990 - The Cubs Luis Salazar singles in the tying run in 8th, then doubles in the winner in the 10th to give Chicago a 3 - 2 win over St. Louis. The Cubs now lead the Cards by one 1/2 games. Yesterday, the Cubs blew a 7 - 2 lead to lose 9 - 8 to the Cards.
1990 - Seattle's Matt Young strikes out four batters in the first inning of a 3 - 1 win over the Red Sox. He's the 2nd pitcher this year to K four batters in an inning.
1991 - At Cleveland, Eric Bell debuts with three innings of scoreless relief, and leaves in the 8th with the score, 3 - 3. The Sox score a run and win, 4 - 3.
1992 - Philadelphia P Curt Schilling tosses a 1-hit, 2 - 1 victory over the Mets. The lone hit is a home run by Bobby Bonilla in the 5th inning.
1992 - Milwaukee OF Robin Yount gets the 3,000th hit of his career in his team's 5 - 4 loss to the Indians. He also becomes only the 2nd player in history to record 200 home runs, 200 SBs and 100 triples, duplicating Willie Mays' feat.
1992 - Brewer owner Bud Selig is selected by the owners to serve as acting baseball commissioner until a permanent successor can be found. It will take nearly six years to name a permanent commissioner and it will be Selig.
1992 - Milwaukee owner Bud Selig is chosen as chairman of the major league's executive council, effectively becoming the interim baseball commissioner. Tomorrow he is appointed acting commissioner.
1992 - At County Stadium in front of 47,589 fans, Robin Yount becomes the 17th player and third youngest to reach the 3000 career hit milestone when he singles off of Indian reliever Jose Mesa in a 5-4 defeat to Cleveland.
1993 - The major leagues vote to divide each league into three divisions, and add another round of playoffs featuring two wild-card teams.
1995 - In the Japan-Central League, the visiting Yakult Swallows beat the Yomiuri Giants 0, behind Terry Bross's no hitter. Bross becomes only the second foreign-born pitcher to pitch a no-hitter.
1997 - Boston loses to the Yankees, 8-6, despite two RBIs for Nomar Garciaparra. The ribbies give Garciaparra' 87 on the year, for a new major league record for leadoff men. Harvey Kuenn held the old mark with 85 in 1956 for Detroit.
1997 - Detroit P Scott Sanders hurls a 1-hit, 4-0 shutout over the Rangers. 2B Domingo Cedeno's single is the only Texas safety.
1997 - Hall of Famer Richie 'Whitey' Ashburn passes away of an apparent heart attack in his New York hotel room following broadcasting a Mets-Phillies game last night. The former Phillies Whiz Kid was an excellent contact hitter who once fouled off 14 pitches in one at-bat.
1997 - Red Sox rookie shortstop Nomar Garciaparra breaks the major league record for RBIs by a lead-off batter with his two ribbies in a 8-6 loss to the Yankees. Tiger Harvey Kuenn established the mark in 1956 with 85.
1998 - In Toronto's 6 - 3 loss to the Indians in 13 innings, the Jays' Alex Gonzalez strikes out six times. Tribe starter Dwight Gooden K's him the first three times, with three relievers add strikeouts.
1998 - By defeating the Boston, 7-5, the Yankees move 20.5 games ahead of second-place Red Sox and clinch the American League East title. It is the earliest date in American League history in which a flag has been captured.
1999 - In Baltimore's 6 - 5 win over the Twns, Albert Belle drives in his 100th run, the 9th season in a row he's had 100+ RBIs. On the minus side, Cal Ripken, Jr. grounds into his 324th double play to top Carl Yastrzemski for the all-time lead.
1999 - The Padres defeat the Expos, 10-3, in a game where they are nearly allowed four outs in the 7th inning. When Montreal's Reggie Sanders strikes out for the 3rd out, the umpires don't notice and the players do not leave the field. Phil Nevin comes to the plate and runs the count to 2-1 against Expos P Ted Lilly before someone in the Montreal dugout points out the problem to home plate ump Jerry Layne.
1999 - In the Cubs 5 - 3 loss to the Reds, Sammy Sosa hits his 59th homer. Sosa has more homers than the Cubs have wins: 56. They've lost 31 of their last 39 games.
2000 - The Astros kick the Cubs, 14-4, hitting a team-record seven home runs in the process. Richard Hidalgo, Lance Berkman, and Tim Bogar each hit a pair, with Daryle Ward adding another.
2001 - The Giants squeak by the Rockies, 9 - 4 in 11 innings. Barry Bonds hits three home runs in a game for the 2nd time this season, giving him 63 for the year, besting Roger Maris' mark of 61 for lefthanded hitters.
2002 - The Diamondbacks beat the Padres, 5 - 2, as Randy Johnson reaches 300 strikeouts for the 5th consecutive season, extending his ML record.
2002 - For the fifth straight season, Diamondback southpaw Randy Johnson records 300 strikeouts breaking his own record of four consecutive years. The feat also ties the 'Big Unit' with Nolan Ryan having a total of six 300 strikeout seasons.
2002 - Barry Bonds' 610th career home run is the longest dinger ever hit in the three-year history of Pac Bell Park. The 491-foot sails over fans heads who are waiting in a food line in the center field bleachers.
2007:
- Curtis Granderson swipes his 20th base of the season. He had previously accumulated 20 doubles, 20 triples and 20 homers. This makes him the 3rd 20-20-20-20 player in MLB history, following Wildfire Schulte in 1911 and Willie Mays in 1957.
- The Brewers become the third team in MLB history to open a game with three homers in a row. Rickie Weeks, J.J. Hardy and Ryan Braun connect against Phil Dumatrait in a 10-5 win over the Reds.
- Todd Helton hits his 35th double of the season, this one against Joe Thatcher, in a 4-2 Rockies win. It makes him the first major leaguer ever to hit 35 or more doubles 10 years in a row; even the legendary Tris Speaker had only had 9 in a row.