Benito Santiago sets the modern (post-1900) major league record for rookies with a first-inning single, extending his streak to 27 consecutive games with a hit. The 22 year-old Padres catcher surpasses the previous standard by set in 1943 by White Sox outfielder Guy Curtright, and ties James Williams, who established the all-time longest hitting streak by a freshman while playing for the 1899 Pirates.
Bill Madlock collects his 2,000th career hit as the Tigers beat Boston, 4 – 0, on Doyle Alexander’s two-hitter.
Albert Hall, needing a three-bagger to complete the cycle, hits a bases-empty, two-out triple in the bottom of the ninth inning, and will score the decisive run on Dave Smith’s wild pitch, giving Atlanta a 5-4 walk-off victory over the Houston. The 29 year-old outfielder is the first Braves’ player to hit for the cycle since 1910, when Bill Collins accomplished the rare feat.
September 22, 1987 – Teddy Higuera wins his 7th straight as the Brewers down the Yankees‚ 7-2 in the first of 2 games. Robin Yount drives in 4 runs with a homer and double. Yount drives home another 5 in game 2‚ including his 20th homer of the season‚ but it is not enough…
1987 – Wade Boggs of the Boston Red Sox reaches the 200 hit mark for the fifth straight season in an 8 – 5 loss to the Detroit Tigers.
Chicago sends Dickie Noles to the Tigers for a player to be named later. Next month, the right-handed pitcher is returned to the Cubs as that player to be named later.
Howard Johnson breaks a 53 year-old National League record when he strokes his 36th home run as a switch hitter in the Mets’ 7-1 victory over Chicago at Wrigley Field. The New York third baseman’s historic homer, the team’s franchise-high seventh grand slam of the season, surpasses the mark established by Cardinals’ first baseman Ripper Collins in 1934 but is far less than the major league record of 54 set in 1961 by Yankees slugger Mickey Mantle.
1987 – In Detroit’s 7 – 6 win over the Brewers, Darrell Evans belts his 30th homer of the year. He is the first 40-year-old to hit 30 homers.
Darryl Strawberry, in a slugfest which the Mets will lose 10-9 to Pittsburgh, gets the team off to a good start when he slams a three-run home run off Brian Fischer in the top of the first inning at Three Rivers Stadium. The New York right fielder’s round-tripper, his 37th of the season, establishes a new franchise record for homers, previously set by Dave Kingman on this date in 1975.
In a 6 – 4 win, California’s Bob Boone catches his 1,919th major league game to break the record held by Hall of Fame member Al Lopez.
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