Chicago White Sox and Oakland A’s set a major league record by combining to use 51 players

Chicago White Sox and Oakland A’s set a major league record by combining to use 51 players

On September 19, 1972, In a 15-inning contest with Chicago, the A’s set an extra-inning record by using 30 players, including six second basemen and 10 pinch-hitters. Together the two clubs use 51 players, another record. Oakland still loses, 8 – 7. The A’s also establish a record by using every one of their 30 available…

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Lee May and Cesar Cedeno drive in five runs apiece as Houston storms back to win a 15-11 slugfest over the Dodgers

1972 – Lee May and Cesar Cedeno drive in five runs apiece as Houston storms back to win a 15-11 slugfest over the Dodgers. A four-run seventh overcomes a 10-8 Los Angeles lead then May ices it with a three-run double. Fred Gladding calms the chaos for his 17th save. 

Glen Beckert strands 12 men on base to set a new major league mark

Glen Beckert goes 0-for-6 in the Cubs’ 18-5 victory over the Mets at Wrigley Field, leaving 12 men on base to set a new major league mark. The Chicago second baseman leaves the bases loaded in the first and seventh, strands two runners twice when he bats two times in the team’s seven-run third, and fails to plate other teammates in the fifth and seventh, the first of his two plate appearances in the frame.

Phillies’ rookie third baseman Mike Schmidt hits his first career home run, breaking Expos’ Balor Moore’s 25 consecutive scoreless inning streak

Phillies’ rookie third baseman Mike Schmidt hits his first career home run, breaking Expos’ Balor Moore’s 25 consecutive scoreless inning streak

Phillies’ rookie third baseman Mike Schmidt hits his first career home run, breaking Expos’ Balor Moore’s 25 consecutive scoreless inning streak. Michael Jack Schmidt will finish his 18-year career with 548 round-trippers.

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9/16/1972 – Dwight Evans made his major league debut in the bottom of the sixth inning against the Cleveland Indians when he pinch ran for Reggie Smith. The Red Sox were leading at the time, 9-0 and Cecil Cooper had already been placed in the game as a pinch runner for Carl Yastrzemski. Yaz was batting third and Smith fourth in the original lineup. In the top of the seventh, both Cooper and Evans stayed in the game and three other defensive replacements were made by manager Eddie Kasko. With one out in the bottom of the eighth inning, Evans batted in Cooper’s spot but flew out. No protest was made by the Indians. The next legal batter should have been Phil Gagliano but Cooper came to the plate and also made an out to end the inning and the Sox went on to win 10-0. Thus, Dwight Evans’ first major league plate appearance was out of order!

9/16/1972 – Dwight Evans made his major league debut in the bottom of the sixth inning against the Cleveland Indians when he pinch ran for Reggie Smith. The Red Sox were leading at the time, 9-0 and Cecil Cooper had already been placed in the game as a pinch runner for Carl Yastrzemski. Yaz was batting third and Smith fourth in the original lineup. In the top of the seventh, both Cooper and Evans stayed in the game and three other defensive replacements were made by manager Eddie Kasko. With one out in the bottom of the eighth inning, Evans batted in Cooper’s spot but flew out. No protest was made by the Indians. The next legal batter should have been Phil Gagliano but Cooper came to the plate and also made an out to end the inning and the Sox went on to win 10-0. Thus, Dwight Evans’ first major league plate appearance was out of order!

Steve Carlton beats the Expos, 5 – 3, raising his record to 24-9. The rest of the Phillies pitchers have a combined record of 26-80.

Steve Carlton beats the Expos, 5 – 3, raising his record to 24-9. The rest of the Phillies pitchers have a combined record of 26-80.

Roberto Clemente’s final career regular-season home run – No. 240 – propels Pittsburgh to a 6 – 4 win over Chicago. It comes, appropriately enough, off Fergie Jenkins, Clemente’s old friend and frequent HR victim (most notably, on September 2, 1966), and within the “friendly confines” of his home away from home, launching pad for numerous RC rockets over the years—most famously, Wrigley’s scoreboard near-miss of May 17, 1959. Today’s blast is a two-run, tie-breaking bomb, “crashed deep into the center field seats,” as per Post-Gazettescribe Charley Feeney. “Clemente just hit everything I had,” admits Jenkins. “He hit a slider for a single, a fastball for a triple and another slider for the home run. He’s something.”

Roberto Clemente’s final career regular-season home run – No. 240 – propels Pittsburgh to a 6 – 4 win over Chicago. It comes, appropriately enough, off Fergie Jenkins, Clemente’s old friend and frequent HR victim (most notably, on September 2, 1966), and within the “friendly confines” of his home away from home, launching pad for numerous RC rockets over the years—most famously, Wrigley’s scoreboard near-miss of May 17, 1959. Today’s blast is a two-run, tie-breaking bomb, “crashed deep into the center field seats,” as per Post-Gazettescribe Charley Feeney. “Clemente just hit everything I had,” admits Jenkins. “He hit a slider for a single, a fastball for a triple and another slider for the home run. He’s something.”

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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, 1906-1911. Billy Williams’ 2-run home run in the 6th ties it at 3 – 3, and a pair of doubles in the 8th wins it.

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, 1906-1911. Billy Williams’ 2-run home run in the 6th ties it at 3 – 3, and a pair of doubles in the 8th wins it.

1972 – Tommy Harper and Rico Petrocelli club 3-run homers to pace the Red Sox to a 10 – 4 win over the Yankees and move into first place in the American League East ahead of the Tigers. Sonny Siebert adds a homer as he wins his 12th game.

1972 – Tommy Harper and Rico Petrocelli club 3-run homers to pace the Red Sox to a 10 – 4 win over the Yankees and move into first place in the American League East ahead of the Tigers. Sonny Siebert adds a homer as he wins his 12th game.

Holtzman-Ken-Oakland black arm band

Ken Holtzman and first baseman Mike Epstein wear black armbands on the sleeves of their uniforms to pay respect to the 11 Israeli Olympic athletes who were killed yesterday by terrorists in Munich

A’s southpaw Ken Holtzman and first baseman Mike Epstein wear black armbands on the sleeves of their uniforms to pay respect to the 11 Israeli Olympic athletes who were killed yesterday by terrorists in Munich. The action taken by the Jewish players, affirming the importance of their faith, is well received by the club, with Reggie Jackson wearing an armband in solidarity, along with skipper Dick Williams being fully supportive of the symbolic gesture made by the Oakland teammates.