Tim Keefe’s nineteen game winning streak ends when Gus Krock and the White Stockings defeat the Giants at the Polo Grounds, 4-2. The future Hall of Fame right-hander, who will amass 342 career victories, will finish the season with a 35-12 record. Read More August 14, 1888
Honored in pregame ceremonies at Shea Stadium by New York Congressman Herman Badillo and Puerto Rican Senate President Rafael Hernandez Colon, Roberto Clemente responds by driving in the first and last runs in the Pirates’ 3 – 2 win over New York. Willie Stargell provides the second run with his 47th homer, tying him with Atlanta’s Hank Aaron for the league lead. Centerfielder Mike Jorgensen is the Mets’ offense, answering Clemente’s 1st-inning RBI single with one of his own and Stargell’s 6th-inning solo shot with his own bases-empty blast in the bottom of the 7th. Immediately thereafter, however, Clemente doubles in the go-ahead run. This time, the Bucs wise up; when they walk Jorgensen in the 9th, the Mets cannot capitalize. Read More September 24, 1971
With Ty Cobb among the 49,055 fans in attendance at Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle cracks a two-run homer, his 35th, off the O’s Chuck Estrada to give New York a 2 – 0 lead in the 1st. Yogi Berra adds a home run. In the last of the 8th, Bobby Richardson’s hit off Estrada’s glove drives in two runs for a 5 – 3 New York win. Read More September 16, 1960