1921 – Catcher Wally Schang has five of the Yankees’ 21 hits as the New Yorkers wallop the A’s, 19 – 3. A major league record-tying five Yankees collect two hits in the 9th inning: Schang, Carl Mays, Elmer Miller, Roger Peckinpaugh, and Babe Ruth. Ruth’s 2nd hit, a single, hits Peck for the 3rd out. Winning P Mays gives up 13 hits to Philadelphia in winning his 16th straight over them.

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1921 – Catcher Wally Schang has five of the Yankees’ 21 hits as the New Yorkers wallop the A’s, 19 – 3. A major league record-tying five Yankees collect two hits in the 9th inning: Schang, Carl Mays, Elmer Miller, Roger Peckinpaugh, and Babe Ruth. Ruth’s 2nd hit, a single, hits Peck for the 3rd out. Winning P Mays gives up 13 hits to Philadelphia in winning his 16th straight over them.

Walter Johnson,surpass Cy Young’s major league mark of 2,803 career strikeouts.

Walter Johnson,surpass Cy Young’s major league mark of 2,803 career strikeouts.

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Walter Johnson, in an 11-inning complete-game losing effort against Philadelphia, fans seven A’s batters to surpass Cy Young’s major league mark of 2,803 career strikeouts. In 1927, the ‘Big Train’ will finish his 21-year tenure with the Senators with 3,509 punch outs, a record which will last for 62 seasons when it is broken by Nolan Ryan in 1983.