At Yankee Stadium, New York snaps a scoreless tie with Boston when Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle crash back-to-back 6th-inning homers off Dave Sisler. Mantle has hit three this year off Sisler. New York wins, 6 – 1. Mantle, with 38 homers, leads the American League. Mantle and Berra will hit back-to-back homers 12 times together, and homer in the same game 50 times before they are through.

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On September 2, 1958 — At Yankee Stadium, New York snaps a scoreless tie with Boston when Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle crash back-to-back 6th-inning homers off Dave Sisler. Mantle has hit three this year off Sisler. New York wins, 6 – 1. Mantle, with 38 homers, leads the American League. Mantle and Berra will hit back-to-back homers 12 times together, and homer in the same game 50 times before they are through.

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Sources:
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