This Day In Baseball September 10

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The history of sports is both vast and rich, thanks to the existence of so many different events and the longevity associated with them. With so much history to cull through, We offer the opportunity to look back and see what memorable things happened or milestones were reached on September 10 in baseball history.

Events for September 10

Roger Connor becomes the first major leaguer to hit a grand slam

Hugh Nicol of the Cincinnati Redlegs steals six bases in one game, tying his own major league record

1889 – New York Giants pitcher Mickey Welch strikes out as the first pinch hitter in major league history.

9/10/1891 – Bill Dahlen of the Chicago Colts was called out for batting out of turn in the first inning of the game in Philadelphia against the Phillies. No further details are known.

In a doubleheader with the Orioles, the A's bring Rube Waddell in for eight innings of relief in the opening win. Rube comes back to pitch another two innings of relief in the nitecap to pick up his second win for the day. It won't happen again until 1915.

In a doubleheader with the Orioles, the A’s bring Rube Waddell in for eight innings of relief in the opening win. Rube comes back to pitch another two innings of relief in the nitecap to pick up his second win for the day. It won’t happen again until 1915.

A crowd of 15,250 cheer the first-place Giants to a pair of one-run wins over the Phillies. Roger Bresnahan’s 9th-inning triple scores two in the opener, as Hooks Wiltse earns his 11th straight win. Dummy Taylor wins the nitecap, 6 – 5, as the Giants finish four straight doubleheaders with five victories, a loss and a tie. New York leads the 2nd-place Cubsby 17 games.

The A’s Eddie Plank and Boston’s Cy Young face each other, with the Athletics prevailing, 1 – 0, in 13 innings.

Bull Durham of the Indianapolis Indians pitches and wins both ends of a doubleheader against the Toledo Mud Hens. This is the 5th doubleheader this season in which Durham has accomplished this feat. Previously he beat the Milwaukee Brewers (June 14), Columbus Senators (July 18), St. Paul Apostles (July 25), and the Louisville Colonels (August 8).

Detroit takes its 2nd straight extra-inning game from the White Sox, 6 – 5, in 11 innings, and the Naps beat the Browns, 5 – 2. The American League race leaves Detroit 75-52, Chicago 72-57, St. Louis 71-57.

Boston’s Smoky Joe Wood wins his 15th straight, with 9th-inning relief help from Charley Hall, beating the White Sox, 5 – 4. He scatters 12 hits and strikes out 5. There is some question about which pitcher should receive credit for the win, but American League president Ban Johnson will rule in favor of Wood.

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Philadelphia A’s rookie Stan Coveleski makes his first appearance in the majors and shuts out Detroit, 3 – 0.

September 10, 1913 - Honus Wagner is given a souvenir bat carved from a piece of wood taken from naval hero Oliver Perry's flagship Niagara, which was sunk in Lake Erie 100 years earlier.

Honus Wagner is given a souvenir bat carved from a piece of wood taken from naval hero Oliver Perry’s flagship Niagara, which was sunk in Lake Erie 100 years earlier.

Braves’ shortstop Johnny Evers is suspended for three days after swearing at umpire Mal Eason. The Boston captain, who has been banned by the league on several occasions this season, claims he was talking to the ball and not to the arbitrator.

Boston’s Babe Ruth wins his 15th of the year, stopping the visiting A’s, 7 – 2, on six hits. Ruth, 3rd in the American League in hitting, is 0 for 4 at the plate.

Rogers Hornsby makes his major league debut for the Cardinals

Rogers Hornsby makes his major league debut for the Cardinals

St. Louis (Federal League) pitcher Dave Davenport follows up his no-hitter of three days ago with a 2-hitter, beating Newark, 3 – 0.

Future Hall of Famer A.G. Spalding dies at the age of 65

1917 – A red-hot Grover Alexander, chasing thirty wins, beats the Braves, 5 – 2, for the Phils.

1918 – Players on both sides of the World Series threaten to strike unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners and $1,000 each for the losers. They back off, however, when told they will appear greedy while their countrymen are fighting a war. There are no fines, but no World Series rings or mementos are given out this year. On the field, Hippo Vaughncomes back with two days of rest and blanks the Red Sox, 3 – 0, on five hits in Game 5.

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Cleveland’s right-hander Ray Caldwell no-hits the Yankees in the first game of a doubleheader sweep in New York, 3-0

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.

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.

1922 - The Yankees play their farewell home game in the Polo Grounds. An estimated 40,000 overflow the stadium with another 25,000 turned away. Joe Bush beats the Philadelphia A's, 10 - 3, in the opener, and Waite Hoyt edges the A's in the second, 2 - 1. Plans are in the works to expand the park to 56,000 capacity, but this is the last regular season American League game at the Polo Grounds. The Yanks will play their next 18 games on the road, and then open in Yankee Stadium next spring.

1922 – The Yankees play their farewell home game in the Polo Grounds. An estimated 40,000 overflow the stadium with another 25,000 turned away. Joe Bush beats the Philadelphia A’s, 10 – 3, in the opener, and Waite Hoyt edges the A’s in the second, 2 – 1. Plans are in the works to expand the park to 56,000 capacity, but this is the last regular season American League game at the Polo Grounds. The Yanks will play their next 18 games on the road, and then open in Yankee Stadium next spring.

1924 – At the Polo Grounds, the Giants rip the Braves, 22 – 1, in the opener of a doubleheader. Frankie Frisch goes 6 for 6 before grounding out.

Ted Kluszewski was born on. September 10, 1924,

Ted Kluszewski was born on. September 10, 1924,

Bob Meusel, Babe Ruth, and Lou Gehrig hit successive homers in the 4th inning of Game One versus the A's, all off Dolly Gray. New York wins, 7 - 3. Then, Ruth and OF Ben Paschal hit back-to-back homers in the 4th inning of game 2, but New York loses, 5 - 4.

Bob Meusel, Babe Ruth, and Lou Gehrig hit successive homers in the 4th inning of Game One versus the A’s, all off Dolly Gray. New York wins, 7 – 3. Then, Ruth and OF Ben Paschal hit back-to-back homers in the 4th inning of game 2, but New York loses, 5 – 4.

1926 – In the Browns’ 5 – 4 win over the White Sox, pitcher Win Ballou stops Harry McCurdy’s consecutive hit streak at 10; Win also wins.

1928 – The Giants gain 1 1/2 games on the Cards and Cubs by winning two from Boston while the leaders lose. Fred Fitzsimmons wins the opener for the Giants, 4 – 1, and Joe Genewich wins the nitecap, 11 – 0.

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The first East/West Negro League All Star Game is played

Burleigh Grimes, in his second stint with the Pirates this year, picks up his 270th win, in relief in total 7 HOFers play for the Pirates

Burleigh Grimes, in his second stint with the Pirates this year, picks up his 270th win, in relief in total 7 HOFers play for the Pirates

1934 – Dizzy Dean wins his 25th game, beating the Phillies, 4 – 1. It is the fifth straight for the Cards, now four games behind.

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Hank Greenberg plays through Rosh Hashanah hits 2 homeruns

Chicago beat the Braves, 4 – 0, behind Charlie Root for their 7th straight win. Freddie Lindstrom is the batting star with a double and single to drive home a pair as Chicago stays a game behind the Cardinals and 1 1/2 ahead of the Giants. The Giants win a pair today, 4 – 3 and 4 – 2, over the Pirates, while the Cards score three in the 8th to edge the Phils, 4 – 2.

The Browns triumph, 8 – 6, over the A’s, handing the Mackmen their 13th straight loss. Jimmie Foxx is 2 for 3 for the A’s.

Washington’s Bobo Newsom scatters six hits to shut out the leading Tigers, 6 – 0. Schoolboy Rowe pitches six innings to take the loss.

1938 – Jimmie Foxx of the Red Sox hits 2 home runs in a game for the 9th time this season, breaking a record held by Babe Ruth and Hack Wilson.

1940 – Former major league infielder Sam Crane, serving time for the 1930 murder of his former sweetheart and her boyfriend, starts parole proceedings.

1941 – Johnny Schmitz makes his major league debut and notches a victory by throwing only one pitch in the 9th inning of the Cubs’ 5 – 4 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers.

San Francisco (Pacific Coast League) lefty Al Lien throws a 17-inning, 1 – 0, shutout over the Hollywood Stars.

9/10/1950: The Phillies’ Jackie Mayo homered in the bottom of the sixth inning before the game was called due to rain. Since the sixth inning had not been completed, the score (and stats) reverted back to the previous full inning because the lost homer left the Phillies still trailing, by a score of 3-2.

The Red Sox extend their home streak to 22 straight vs the A’s

Joe DiMaggio connects for 3 homeruns including 2 against Bob Feller

Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees hits three 400-foot home runs against the Washington Senators

Ray Katt commits a major league record four passed balls in one inning

Ray Katt commits a major league record four passed balls in one inning

1955 – OF Hank Bauer of the Yankees, pressed into emergency service as a catcher, permits a passed ball, setting up the winning run in a 9 – 8 loss to the White Sox.

Dick Stuart clouts a 10th-inning homer to give Bob Friend his 20th win of the year as the Pirates beat the Giants, 6 – 4.

In Cleveland, 50,021 fans turn out for “Back the Indians” night. It is Cleveland’s largest crowd since 1955, but the Yankees dampen the enthusiasm with an 8 – 3 win.

Mickey Mantle goes 5 for 6, including a home run, in a 12 - 1 romp over Kansas City's Ray Herbert.

Mickey Mantle goes 5 for 6, including a home run, in a 12 – 1 romp over Kansas City’s Ray Herbert.

Brothers Jim and Ed Bailey form the battery for the Cincinnati Reds in the 2nd game of a doubleheader against the Cubs. Jim is charged with the 6 – 3 loss in his major league debut.

Tim McCarver makes his major league debut at the age of 17 when he flies out to right field as a pinch-hitter in the ninth inning of the Cardinals’ 7-4 loss to Milwaukee at County Stadium. The high school backstop, who was scouted by Hall of Fame catcher Bill Dickey, turns down football scholarships from Notre Dame and Tennessee to play baseball.

1960 – In Detroit, Mickey Mantle unloads a cannon shot for three runs in the 6th inning, the ball clearing the RF roof and landing in the Brooks Lumber Yard across Trumbull Avenue. New York pins a 5 – 1 loss on Paul Foytackthat moves them a half game in first place ahead of Baltimore, losers today. In June, 1985, Mantle’s blow will retroactively be measured at 643 feet, and will be listed in The Guinness Book of World Records at that distance.

At Chicago, the Phillies score seven in the 7th, including Don Demeter’s grand slam, and notch six more in the 8th to beat the Cubs, 14 – 6. There is some solace for the Cubs as they introduce a pair of gems: Ken Hubbsdebuts with two hits and two runs and Lou Brock has one hit, one run and a pair of errors.

The Reds’ Bob Purkey allows just two hits in beating the visiting Cards, 5 – 2.

The Yankees sweep the Indians, 7 - 6 and 9 - 3, their 12th win in a row at home, and the Indians' 20th loss in a row at Yankee Stadium - Full Radio Broadcast

The Yankees sweep the Indians, 7 – 6 and 9 – 3, their 12th win in a row at home, and the Indians’ 20th loss in a row at Yankee Stadium – Full Radio Broadcast

Against Hank Aguirre, Mickey Mantle clouts a 4th-inning home run, the 400th of his career, to tie the game, 1 – 1. The Yanks score two in the 9th off Aguirre to beat Detroit, 3 – 1. The victory, combined with a Minnesota loss, gives the Yanks a 3 1/2 game lead over the Twins. The surprising Angels are in 3rd place, four games back.

The Angels’ Dean Chance loses his no-hit bid when Zoilo Versalles singles in the 8th inning for the only Twins hit. Chance wins, 5 – 0.

At New York, the Giants trail, 3 – 0, after 7 innings when manager Alvin Dark sends up three consecutive Alous to bat in the 8th. Pinch hitter Jesus Alou grounds out, pinch hitter Matty Alou strikes out, and leadoff hitter Felipe Alou bounces back to P Carlton Willey. The Giants lose, 4 – 2. Willie McCovey’s 38th homer and Orlando Cepeda’s 29th account for San Francisco’s scoring.

Stan Musial becomes the first grandfather in big league history to hit a home run

Stan Musial becomes the first grandfather in big league history to hit a home run

In the Mets’ 4-2 victory over the Giants at the Polo Grounds, Carlton Willey retires the side in order, getting all three Alou brothers – Jesus, Matty, and Felipe – to make an out. The Dominican trio becomes the first three siblings to bat consecutively in the same inning.

Roberto Clemente provides a 420-foot footnote to a Sandy Koufax masterpiece. Roberto’s fourth career home run off Sandy is a typical Clemente clout off an atypical Koufax offering. “Koufax threw 133 pitches,” notes columnist Jim Murray. “3 were sliders, a pitch the Pirates didn’t know Sandy had picked up in the last ten days. Roberto Clemente hit one of them into Schenley Park and that moth-balled the slider for the night. But, as one of the Pirates observed, giving Koufax a new pitch is like giving Rockefeller a dime. Neither of them really needs it.”

The Big Unit is born in Walnut Creek California

The Big Unit is born in Walnut Creek California

Baltimore tops the Senators, 12 – 5, despite Brooks Robinson hitting into his second triple play. Brooks will hit into a record four triple killings by the time he hangs up his glove.

The Phils split a 2-game series with the Cards and build a 6-game lead in the National League on Chris Short’s 5 – 1 win. Short strikes out 12 throwing no curves to win his 16th.

With his office being responsible for all of the costs for teams not making it into the postseason, Baseball commissioner Ford Frick authorizes the Phillies, Yankees, White Sox, and Orioles to print tickets for the World Series. Due to a historic late-season collapse by Philadelphia, the surging Cardinals win the National League pennant on the last day of the season, and will play the Bronx Bombers in the Fall Classic.

 Ferguson Jenkins debuts with 4 1/3 innings of relief against the Cardinals and picks up his first victory

 Ferguson Jenkins debuts with 4 1/3 innings of relief against the Cardinals and picks up his first victory

The Orioles sweep a pair from Kansas City, 5 – 2 and 10 – 5. In game 2, the O’s get consecutive home runs by in 8th from Brooks Robinson, Curt Blefary, and Jerry Adair.

1966 – Cardinal P Dick Hughes tops the Pirates on Tim McCarver’s bases-loaded hit off the RF wall. Pittsburgh falls a game in back of the Dodgers.

In the first game of a doubleheader, White Sox Joe Horlen no-hits the Tigers, 6 – 0. Cisco Carlos, Hoyt Wilhelm, and Bob Locker combine to shut out Detroit in the second game.

Minnesota leads the tight American League race after edging the Orioles, 4 – 2, at Baltimore.

At Candlestick Park, San Francisco hurler Gaylord Perry’s 40-inning team record consecutive scoreless streak comes to an end as the Cubs score an unearned run in the seventh inning of a 2-1 victory over Fergie Jenkins and the Cubs. The future Hall of Famer will match his franchise mark with another string of scoreless innings in 1970.

Billy Williams hits three home runs in a game for the first time in his career. It’s all the Cubs’ scoring, as they beat the Mets, 3 – 1, behind Bill Hands. Added to two home runs on September 8, Williams has a major league-record-tying five over two straight games.

Don Wilson, who struck out 18 Reds on July 14, fans 16 Reds today while pitching the Astros to a 3 – 2 win in game 1. The Reds win the nitecap, 4 – 3.

At Shea Stadium, the Mets move into first place for the first time in their history. The Amazins, with their doubleheader sweep of Montreal, a 3-2 win in 12 innings in the opener and a 7-1 victory in the nightcap, take a one-game lead over the second-place Cubs, who dropped a 6-2 decision to the Phillies.

The Cubs drop a 6 – 2 decision to the Phils, and drop to 2nd place, one game back of New York. The Cubs are out of first place after 155 days atop the National League East.

Using a major-league record 27 players in one game, the Royals lose, 11 – 4, at California. Andy Messersmith faces 20 different batters in the complete game win, while Kansas City uses six pitchers. Bubba Morton plays just three innings but drives in five runs.

1969 – Jim Wynn’s homer and Denis Menke’s bases-loaded double spark an 8-1 win over the Dodgers. Denny Lemaster scatters six hits. The Astros are tied for fourth in the tight N.L. West, but are just two games out of first place.

Cleveland whips the Senators, 13 – 4. Frank Howard, with no walks today, hits two homers for Washington. Cleveland pitchers will walk Howard 30 times this season, 12 intentionally.

Lee May hits a 1st-inning grand slam off Joe Moeller, and the Reds roll to a 13 – 4 win over the host Dodgers.

Atlanta’s Earl Williams, zeroing in on NL Rookie of the Year honors, makes his 31st home run one prodigious and almost perfectly symmetrical complement to its April 18th counterpart. Just as Williams’ third home run was the first ever to reach the upper deck in newly opened Veterans Stadium, his third-from-last is the fourth, and what will prove to be final, upper-decker in the history of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (preceded, in order of appearance, by Willie Smith, Willie McCovey and Hank Aaron). The 6th-inning solo shot provides the first run, and Aaron’s 11th-inning walk-off the final two (bridged by Williams’ 8th-inning, game-tying sac fly), in Atlanta’slate/extra-inning, three-time-come-from-behind 7 – 5 win over the division-leading Giants.

Houston’s Jack Billingham scores his 2nd straight 1 – 0 victory, beating Cincinnati five days after victimizing San Francisco.

Against the Giants, Hank Aaron connects for his 37th homer (career #710) in the 3rd inning, and then is lifted in the 4th when he doesn’t feel well. Infielder Marty Perez pinch hits for Aaron. Davey Johnson adds his 40th homer of the year.

The Brewers reach 70 wins for the first time in franchise history, besting the Tigers. Jim Colborn goes all the way for his 19th win and Dave May hits his 25th home run of the year.

Cubs pinch hitters Carmen Fanzone and Jim Tyrone each clout homers against the Pirates, but the Bucs win, 12 – 4.

Former batting champion Alex Johnson, purchased by the Yankees from the Texas Rangers yesterday, arrives in Boston during the Red Sox-Yankee game. With the score tied 1 – 1 in the 12th, Johnson socks a pinch-homer to win it for New York, 2 – 1.

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Cool Papa Bell after Lou Brock broke the single-season stolen base record in 1974

1976 – Nolan Ryan hurls a 3-hit, 3 – 2, victory for California, fanning 18 White Sox batsmen. Bart Johnson is the losing pitcher.

White Sox knuckleballer Wilbur Wood hits three batters in the 1st inning on the way to a 6 – 1 loss to the Angels. All of Wilbur’s plunks are consecutive, tying a record set by Dock Ellis three years ago.

Roy Howell of the Toronto Blue Jays drives in nine runs against the New York Yankees

1978 – The Red Sox throw 22-year-old Bobby Sprowl at the Yankees and the lefty lasts just two-thirds of an inning, walking three and allowing one hit. The Yankees take the lead and top the Red Sox, 7 – 4, behind Ed Figueroaand Rich Gossage. Boston collects just five hits, including Fred Lynn’s 21st homer. The Yankees outhit the Red Sox 67-21, and outscored them 42-9, in a four-game sweep that will become known in lore as the “Boston Massacre”. It leaves the teams in a tie for first place, and caps a remarkable Yankee march to the top from 4th place and 14 games out.

Bill Gullickson strikesout 18 batters, the most strikeouts ever recorded by a rookie in a major league game

Bill Gullickson strikesout 18 batters, the most strikeouts ever recorded by a rookie in a major league game

Houston moves into a 1st place tie with the Dodgers in the NL West by beating Los Angeles, 6 – 5.

The Phillies' Marty Bystrom makes his first major league start and beats the Mets, 5 - 0.

The Phillies’ Marty Bystrom makes his first major league start and beats the Mets, 5 – 0.

The Dodgers call up Fernando Valenzuela

The Dodgers call up Fernando Valenzuela

1980 – Jose Cruz slams a 12th-inning homer off Rick Sutcliffe at the Dome to cap a furious 6-5 victory over Los Angeles to tie the Dodgers for the N.L. West lead. Two Astros were thrown out at the plate earlier trying to score the winning run. Cruz had ignited two rallies that forced a 3-3 tie in regulation. Cesar Cedeno contributes four hits. 

1981 – The Reds send P Doug Bair to the Cards for P Joe Edelen and 2B Neil Fiala.

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California Angels acquire future Hall of Famer Don Sutton from the Oakland A’s

Both teams charge onto the Shea Stadium field when George Foster is hit with a first-inning pitch thrown by Cardinal starter Danny Cox, who appeared annoyed by the Mets’ hitter stepping out of the box several times during the at-bat. Minutes after the bench-clearing incident and order is restored, Howard Johnson hits a grand slam to give New York an eventual 5-4 win and a one-game lead over the Redbirds in the tight NL East race.

Keith Hernandez receives a two-minute standing ovation from the Mets fans in his first game back at Shea after testifying in a Pittsburgh courtroom. The New York first baseman, who responds with a run-producing single against his former team, admitted on the witness stand to having used cocaine while playing for the Cardinals.

1986 – Eric Davis leads the Reds to a 14 – 2 pasting of the host Giants by belting three home runs, scoring 5 runs and knocking in 4. His first two homers are off starter Vida Blue.

1987 – Glenn Davis smashes three home runs and drives in five but the Astros fall to San Diego, 8-7. Alan Ashby also homers and hits a sacrifice fly in the ninth to tie it but Rob Nelson’s pinch-hit single in the bottom of the frame settles the issue. 

Orel Hershiser shuts out the Reds, 5 - 0, to become a 20-game winner for the first time.

Orel Hershiser shuts out the Reds, 5 – 0, to become a 20-game winner for the first time.

1989 – Five days after hitting a home run for the Yankees in a 12 – 2 win over the Mariners, Deion Sanders returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown in his NFL debut with the Atlanta Falcons. Sanders hit .234 in 14 games for New York this year in his first attempt at playing two sports professionally.

Cubs rookie Steve Wilson strikes out 10 batters in five innings, and relievers add eight more to help beat the Cards 4 – 1. Fellow rookie Dwight Smith contributes a 2-run home run. Chicago leads St. Louis by 2 1/2 games and Montreal by 4.

1990 – In the first head-to-head match-up of pitchers named Abbott, Jim Abbott’s Angels beat Paul Abbott’s Twins, 3 – 1. Minnesota’s Carmen Castillo pinch hits late in the game to complete the successful “Abbott and Castillo” revival.

1992 – The Reds’ Glenn Braggs closes out his career by clouting a homer in his last at bat, off Steve Avery. Braggs tears cartilage in his right knee on the swing, and is forced to leave the game. Atlanta eventually wins, 3 – 2.

Cardinals vice chairman Fred Kuhlman tells reporters that a “security check” had revealed serious issues involving the two out-of-state investors, Vince Piazza and Vincent N. Tirendi, part of the six-man group trying to buy the Giants and move the franchise to Florida. The candid reply to the press will cost baseball more than $6 million to settle a suit that includes a letter of apology from acting Commissioner Bud Selig to Vince Piazza, whose son Mike started his major league career with the Dodgers nine days before his father’s rejection by the MLB owners.

In the Dodgers’ 5 – 4 win over the Reds, Brett Butler breaks his hand on a bunt attempt when he is hit by a pitch. The 39-year-old Butler, who battled back from cancer surgery, is out for the year after playing five games.

The Expos use nine pitchers in a vain attempt to stop the Cubs. Chicago wins, 10 – 3. The nine pitchers in a regulation game matches the major league mark set by the 1949 Browns, who used nine in a season-ending promotion.

In a 7-6 loss to the Giants, Cardinal Mark McGwire becomes only the second player in major league history to hit 50 home runs in consecutive seasons

In a 7-6 loss to the Giants, Cardinal Mark McGwire becomes only the second player in major league history to hit 50 home runs in consecutive seasons

The American Association plays its final game tonight in Des Moines, IA with the Buffalo Bisons defeating the Iowa Cubs for the final league title. The Association’s existing teams will merge with the International Leagueand the perhaps “to-be-newly named” Pacific Coast League in 1998.

The Rangers overcome a 5-run deficit in the 9th inning to defeat the Dodgers, 13 – 12. Rusty Greer drives in the winner with a 2-out single, the 4th time this year he’s done it in the Rangers’ final at-bat.

The Indians score 12 runs in the 4th inning – one short of the American League record for the inning – on their way to a 14 – 6 win over the White Sox.

Pedro Martinez hurls an impressive one-hitter for his 21st victory of the year strikes out 17 batters

Pedro Martinez hurls an impressive one-hitter for his 21st victory of the year strikes out 17 batters

The Rockies call up John Cangelosi from the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, where he has played the past month. The veteran needs 12 days of major league service to reach his 10-year pension.

Umpires opposed to union chief Richie Phillips announce plans to form a new union and seek certification to represent all umpires.

1999 – Ricky Gutierrez rips four hits and drives home the tying run in the bottom of the ninth before Carl Everett sends the crowd away happy with a two-run homer in the 13th for a 6-4 triumph over the Cubs, Houston’s eighth straight win. It’s Carl’s second homer of the night. Billy Wagner, the seventh Astro pitcher, gets the win. 

2000 – The Marlins defeat the Diamondbacks, 4 – 3, in 12 innings. Randy Johnson strikes out 14 Florida players in seven innings, including Mike Lowell to end the 4th for his 3,000th career strikeout. He is the 12th hurler to reach the milestone. Johnson’s 1st strikeout of the game gives him 300 for the 3rd consecutive year. Only Nolan Ryan has reached 300 Ks more times (6).

On his 37th birthday, Diamondback southpaw Randy Johnson becomes the 12th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters. Florida third baseman Mike Lowell is the ‘Big Unit’s’ historic victim, whiffing on four pitches to end the fourth inning. The lefty’s first strikeout of the game, his 300th of the season, ties Nolan Ryan for accomplishing the feat in three consecutive years.

2001 – The Cardinals shut out the Brewers, 8 – 0, as Darryl Kile pitches six innings for the win. Mark McGwire hits his 24th homer. Jamey Wright is the loser and also fails to plunk any batters, ending his possible major-league record of hitting a batter in 10 straight games.

A game after their 10-game win streak ends, the Angels inch closer to the first place A’s with a 6 – 5 win at Anaheim. The A’s blow a 4 – 0 lead but the Angels tie in the 4th and go ahead on Shawn Wooten’s 2-run double in the 6th. The Angels lead the Mariners by six games in the wild card race.

Alex Rodriguez breaks the home run record for shortstops he established last season. The Ranger infielder slugs his major league leading 52nd and 53rd home runs of the season, helping Texas to defeat the Mariners, 3-2.

Javy Lopez homers off Phillies’ righty Vicente Padilla to give the Braves a franchise-record 216 home runs for the season. The 1996 Orioles hold the major league mark with 257, and the Astros established the National League record at 249 in 2000.

Craig Biggio becomes 13th player to reach 600 doubles in his career

Craig Biggio becomes 13th player to reach 600 doubles in his career

Francisco Rodriguez becomes the youngest pitcher to notch his 100th career save when he retires the side in order in the ninth inning of the Angels’ 4-3 victory over Toronto. The 24 year-old right-handed closer breaks the previous mark held by Gregg Olson, who accomplished the feat with Baltimore in 1992.

2007 – Troy Tulowitzki homers off of Kyle Lohse. It is his 20th home run of the season and gives him the record for National League rookie shortstops. Ernie Banks had held the record with 19 for 53 years.

At Safeco Field, A’s backstop Kurt Suzuki and DH Dan Johnson both hit grand slams in the team’s 9-3 victory over Seattle. The Oakland catcher’s bases-loaded homer comes in the top off the second inning off Horacio Ramirez, with his teammate accomplishing the same feat with two outs in the ninth off Ryan Rowland-Smith.

Hitting his 20th home run of the season, Troy Tulowitzki of the Rockies breaks Ernie Banks’ National League rookie record for most home runs by a shortstop in a single season. The Cubs Hall of Famer, who compiled a total of 512 homers, hit 19 dingers as a freshman in 1954.

In a 3-2 Astros loss at Citizens Bank Park, Charlton Jimerson, pinch hitting for Roger Clemens, homers off Phillies’ southpaw Cole Hamels. The sixth-inning blast to center field makes the Houston rookie the third player in franchise history to hit a home run in his first major league at-bat.

With a 4-2 victory over the visiting Yankees, the Angels clinch the division flag on the earliest date in the history of the American League West. The Halos, the first club this season to secure a postseason spot, have finished in first place four times in the past five seasons.

SS Ian Desmond has a memorable major league debut as he homers and drives in 4 runs in Washington’s 8 – 7 victory over Philadelphia. The Nats lead 8 – 2 coming into the 9th, but a pinch grand slam by Matt Stairs and a run-scoring double by Shane Victorino bring the Phils within one. Ron Villone ends the comeback attempt by inducing Ryan Howard to ground into a game-ending double play.

The Rockies win their 8th straight game with a 5 – 1 defeat of Cincinnati, highlighted by Garrett Atkins’ two-run homer. After a 9-1 homestand, the Rox have a 4 1/2 game lead in the wild card race and are only 2 games behind Los Angeles in the NL West.

2010 – The Yankees and Rangers set a major league record by using a combined 19 pitchers in a 13-inning game, won, 6 – 5, by the Rangers in Arlington, TX. Scott Feldman, normally a starter, records the win by pitching a scoreless 13th inning as the 11th hurler used by Texas, which itself ties a major league record. The Rangers win the game when Nelson Cruz leads off the bottom of the 13th inning with a homer off Chad Gaudin.

Dan Haren pitches a four-hit shutout, denying CC Sabathia his bid for his 20th win of the year, as the Angels blank the Yankees, 6 – 0. The win moves the Halos to within 1 1/2 games of the AL West-leading Texas Rangers. The Angels score their last 5 runs off rookies Hector Noesi and George Kontos, after Sabathia departs after 6 innings, trailing, 1 – 0. Jorge Posada is pressed into service behind the plate for the first time this season for the Yankees after Russell Martin leaves the game with a bruised thumb in the 2nd inning.

The Rays are also making a playoff push, beating the Red Sox, 6 – 5, to cut another game off their lead in the Wild Card race. Rays closer Jeff Farnsworth suffers a blown save when he gives up back-to-back homers to Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Jacoby Ellsbury with one out in the 9th inning to tie the game at 5-all. Farnsworth then issues a double to Dustin Pedroia and walks Adrian Gonzalez, but Cesar Ramos then steps in to get the Rays out of the jam. In the bottom of the 11th, the Rays win the game when Desmond Jennings hits a lead-off triple and Evan Longoria drives him in with a single.

2013 – Clay Buchholz is victorious in his return to the mound for the Red Sox after being out since June with a strained neck. He gives up no runs over five innings to improve to 10-0 on the year as the Sox blank the Rays, 2 – 0.

With three doubles and a home run, Mark Trumbo ties a franchise record with four extra-base hits and becomes the first player in Angels’ history to collect five hits and score five runs in the same game. The Anaheim first baseman’s ten total bases, however, yield only two RBIs in the Halos’ 12-6 victory over Toronto at the Rogers Centre.

2015 – The last-place Phillies fire General Manager Ruben Amaro Jr. Such a decision was widely expected after the Phillies hired Andy MacPhail to be the team’s new President in June.

2016 – Rich Hill throws seven perfect innings against the Marlins, but is pulled by Dodgers manager Dave Roberts because of concern over a previous blister problem. Joe Blanton takes over in the 8th, but after two outs he gives up a single to Jeff Francoeur. Dee Gordon adds another single with two outs in the 9th, but the Dodgers win, 5 – 0. In the 7th, RF Yasiel Puig had kept Hill’s bid alive with a superb diving catch, depriving Martin Prado of a likely extra-base hit. It’s the second time Roberts removes a pitcher with a no-hit bid going late in a game, having done the same to rookie Ross Stripling back in April.

The Nationals become the first team to clinch a postseason slot this season, after a 3 – 2 win over the Phillies combined with the Marlins’ 10 – 8 loss to the Braves. It is the first time in franchise history that the Nats win back-to-back division titles.

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