This Day In Baseball September 13

Willie Mays 500th Homerun

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 13 in baseball history.

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Notable Events and Chronology for September 13

1845 – Alexander Cartwright presents the first set of baseball rules, 20 in total.

Cleveland’s one-arm pitcher Hugh Daily no-hits Philadelphia, 1-0. The fireballing Irish right-hander lost his left hand as a result of a gun accident earlier in his life.

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Old Hoss Radbourn pitches a complete doubleheader for Boston but fails to win either game

At the Polo Grounds, Christy Mathewson makes his first start, pitching a complete game loss to the Orphans.

At the Polo Grounds, Christy Mathewson makes his first start, pitching a complete game loss to the Orphans.

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Connie Mack sends up pinch-hitter Doc Powers to bat for Nap Lajoie, who is sulking and refuses to hit.

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“Baseball’s Sad Lexicon,” better known as “Tinker to Evers to Chance” plays their first game

Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown wins his 11th straight.

Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown wins his 11th straight.

Pittsburgh’s Nick Maddox makes his major league debut and tosses a nifty 4 – 0 shutout over the St. Louis Cards.

At Washington Park, Christy Mathewson tops Jim Pastorius, 2 – 1, striking out 11 Superbas batters. Dan McGann is 4 for 4 for New York, while teammate Jack Hannifin collects a single, double, triple and two walks in his five trips to the plate.

An error by Pittsburgh’s Charlie Starr accounts for all three Reds runs as the Pirates lose, 3 – 2. The loss drops the Pirates to 3rd place.

Lancaster (Ohio State League) P Walt “Smoke” Justis hurls his 4th no-hitter of the season, defeating Marion, 3 – 0. His other gems came on July 19th, August 2nd and September 8th. Justis had no record in two major league appearances with Detroit in 1905.

Browns pitcher Rube Waddell gives up a Detroit run in the first when Ty Cobb triples home Matty McIntyre, but ties the game when he singles a run home in the 2nd. Waddell allows nothing after that and the Browns win, 2 – 1, when Syd Smith singles in the winner in the bottom of the 11th.

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Ty Cobb clinches the American League home run title with his 9th round-tripper

1915 – The Kansas City Packers of the Federal League are the first major league team to play a game against inmates inside a prison as they visit the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, KS. They win handily, 23 – 1, as they play all of their regulars in the game.

1920 – Carl Mays, who started yesterday, opens today for the Yankees in Detroit. This time he is more effective, stopping Detroit on two runs. Babe Ruth hits his 49th home run and Mays drives in the final run of a 4 – 2 win.

The Browns announce that George Sisler has severely strained ligaments and cannot lift his right arm over his head. He might be out for the remainder of the season, jeopardizing the Browns’ pennant chances and Sisler’s 39-game hitting streak. Ironically, the injury occurred when Sisler tried to catch a throw on a hit by Ty Cobb, whose streak he is trying to break. Without Sisler, the Browns rally to beat the Tigers, 8 – 6. Baby Doll Jacobson, playing 1B, makes two errors.

The powerful Baltimore Orioles win their 4th straight International League pennant. The O’s are paced by Lefty Grove (18-8), in his third of five seasons (108-36) in Baltimore.

Pittsburgh sweeps a pair from the visiting Braves, winning 8 – 1 and 6 – 1. Wilbur Cooper and Johnny Morrison are the winners. Joe Genewich makes his major league debut in relief for the Braves. Genewich jumped from the sandlots, where he was making $5 a game pitching, directly to the Braves, bypassing the minors.

1923 – The White Sox buy OF Maurice Archdeacon from Rochester (International League) for $50,000. After batting .402 in 22 games, the little speed merchant will drop to .319, then to .111, then out of sight.

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The White Sox buy OF Maurice Archdeacon from Rochester (International League) for $50‚000.

Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance narrowly misses back-to-back no-hitters over Philadelphia

Brooklyn’s Dazzy Vance narrowly misses back-to-back no-hitters over Philadelphia

Babe Ruth hits 51st and 52nd homers in twin bill to help the New York Yankees to clinch pennant

Babe Ruth hits 51st and 52nd homers in twin bill to help the New York Yankees to clinch pennant

At Wrigley Field, the Cubs win 11 - 7 over the Braves when player-manager Rogers Hornsby cracks an 11th-inning pinch grand slam. This is the first extra-inning pinch grand slam in major league history. The Cubs take the second game, 8 - 1, behind Guy Bush's one-hitter, his second of the year. His first was against the Cards on August 9th.

At Wrigley Field, the Cubs win 11 – 7 over the Braves when player-manager Rogers Hornsby cracks an 11th-inning pinch grand slam. This is the first extra-inning pinch grand slam in major league history. The Cubs take the second game, 8 – 1, behind Guy Bush’s one-hitter, his second of the year. His first was against the Cards on August 9th.

Yankee Tony Lazzeri steals second base, reaches third, then steals home in the 12th to give Lefty Gomez a 2 – 1 win over Detroit in the lidlifter. New York edges the Tigers, 4 – 3, in the nitecap although Earl Whitehill holds them to six hits. One of the hits is a 2-run home run by Lou Gehrig in the 6th.

After the Giants lose, 1 – 0, to Larry Benton in the opener, Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons pitches New York to a 9 – 4 nitecap win over the Reds. Bill Terry contributes two doubles and two home runs in the win.

Cardinal P Paul Derringer has his scoreless inning streak stopped at 33, but manages to beat the Phils, 6 – 2, on six hits.

1932 – Brooklyn’s Jack Quinn earns his 247th major league victory at age 49, pitching a complete game 6 – 5 win over the Cardinals. It is the final win of his career. Dizzy Dean fans nine in the nitecap, but the Cards lose, 3 – 1. Quinn will hold the record as oldest pitcher to win a game until April 17, 2012, when he will be eclipsed by Jamie Moyer.

The Yankees, with their 100th victory of the year, clinch the AL pennant when George Pipqras beats the Tribe at Cleveland Stadium, 9-3. Yankee skipper Joe McCarthy, who captured a flag with the 1929 Cubs, becomes the first manager to win pennants in both the American and National League.

White Sox veteran hurlers Sad Sam Jones age 41 and Red Faber age 44 are the starting pitchers in a doubleheader with the A’s at Philadelphia’s Shibe Park

With his fiancee, Edna Mae Skinner of Oklahoma, watching, Schoolboy Rowe halts the Tiger skid with a 2 – 0 win over Washington. He asks in a radio interview: “How’m I doing, Edna?”

Judge Landis sells the World Series broadcast rights to the Ford Motor Company for $100,000. Previously no fee had been charged.

Lefty Gomez pitches a 3-hitter against the Indians for his 25th win.

1935 – Friday the 13th brings bad luck to the Cards. Trailing the Giants, 10 – 6, in the last of the 9th, the Cards tie it up and then give the ball to Dizzy Dean. But the Giants score three in the 10th against the tired star to win, 13 – 10. With Larry French and the Cubs beating the Dodgers, 4 – 1, St. Louis now leads the National League by four percentage points.

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17-year-old Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians strikes out 17 Philadelphia A’s in a 5-2 victory

The Cardinals and Giants split a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds before 64,417, the largest crowd in the 60-year history of the National League.

1937 – Manager Charlie Dressen presses Reds GM Warren Giles for a contract renewal and is fired. Chief scout Bobby Wallace takes over the last-place team.

1938 – A special committee names Alexander Cartwright to Baseball’s Hall of Fame for originating the sport’s basic concepts. Henry Chadwick, inventor of the box score and the first baseball writer, is also honored.

1941 - The Dodgers' Whit Wyatt beats the Cards' Mort Cooper, 1 - 0, in St. Louis. Dixie Walker's double in the 8th is the first Dodger hit. Walker then relays a stolen sign to Billy Herman, who singles him home.

1941 – The Dodgers’ Whit Wyatt beats the Cards’ Mort Cooper, 1 – 0, in St. Louis. Dixie Walker’s double in the 8th is the first Dodger hit. Walker then relays a stolen sign to Billy Herman, who singles him home.

1942 – Chicago Cub SS Lennie Merullo makes a major league record 4 errors in the 2nd inning of the nightcap against the Boston Braves. Merullo’s son is born today and is named Boots. The Cubs win, 12 – 8, after losing the first game 10 – 6.

Only 281 patrons are in attendance at Crosley Field to watch the hometown Reds beat New York, 3-2. The Thursday crowd will be the smallest gathering of fans during the 58-year history of the Cincinnati ballpark.

The Boston Red Sox clinch the American League pennant, edging the Cleveland Indians, 1 - 0, on Ted Williams' inside-the-park home run

The Boston Red Sox clinch the American League pennant, edging the Cleveland Indians, 1 – 0, on Ted Williams’ inside-the-park home run

Don Black, while batting in the second inning of the Cleveland Stadium contest against St. Louis, suffers a cerebral hemorrhage

Don Black, while batting in the second inning of the Cleveland Stadium contest against St. Louis, suffers a cerebral hemorrhage

For the second time in his career, Ralph Kiner hits home runs in 4 consecutive at-bats

For the second time in his career, Ralph Kiner hits home runs in 4 consecutive at-bats

Sal Maglie's string of scoreless innings ends at 45, but he beats the Pirates, 3 - 1

Sal Maglie’s string of scoreless innings ends at 45, but he beats the Pirates, 3 – 1

The Cards play a rare doubleheader with two different teams

The Cards play a rare doubleheader with two different teams

Mickey Mantle drives a Virgil Trucks pitch deep into the RF upper deck to start the Yankee scoring. Witnesses say that if Mantle had hit it more to CF, the ball would have traveled 600 feet

Mickey Mantle drives a Virgil Trucks pitch deep into the RF upper deck to start the Yankee scoring. Witnesses say that if Mantle had hit it more to CF, the ball would have traveled 600 feet

OF Frank Carswell of the Buffalo Bisons wins the International League batting title with a .344 average. He also leads the league in home runs with 30 and has 101 RBI.

Warren Spahn strikes out 6 Pirates in a row en route to an 8 – 0 win in Boston.

Red Sox C Sammy White makes an unassisted double play.

Bob Trice becomes the first black player to appear for the A’s. The former Homestead Grays hurler will only pitch in three games for Philadelphia this season, 19 next year and a few more in 1956.

1954 – Redlegs slugger Ted Kluszewski scores a run in a 6 – 5 loss to the Pirates. Big Klu has scored in 17 consecutive games, a modern record.

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The Braves’ Warren Spahn becomes the first lefty to win 20 or more games nine times, as he beats St. Louis, 8 – 2

Glen Hobbie of the Cubs stops Ken Boyer’s hitting streak at 29 games. He was 41 for 117 for a .350 mark over the course of his streak. Hobbie allows just 4 hits in shutting out the Cards, 8 – 0.

The Braves’ Red Schoendienst returns to the line-up for the first time since being diagnosed as suffering from tuberculosis last November.

Thanks to one of Giants starter Mike McCormick’s strongest performances of the year, plus a St. Louis 6 – 5 squeaker over Milwaukee, Pittsburgh’s pennant run stalls briefly, their magic number frozen at 11. Struck out 13 times by the 6′ 2″ southpaw, the Pirates’ only genuine threat, reports Giants beat writer Bob Stevens, is “a momentarily frightening blast over the left-field wall by Roberto Clemente in the 7th.” It comes off a low and inside McCormick change-up, according to Jack Hernon of the Post-Gazette, and goes “a mile high, far over the left-field fence at the 406 mark with Gino Cimoli on the hassocks.” Clemente’s clout brings the Bucs back to within one shortly after Willie Mays’ audacious base-running and the ensuing Mazeroski miscue have sparked a tie-breaking, three-run 6th. Unfortunately for the Bucs, the usually reliable Elroy Face allows two 9th-inning add-on runs, making McCormick’s final frame a relatively ho-hum affair.

Nellie Fox hits a 2-out home run in the 11th to give the visiting White Sox a 6 – 5 win over the Senators. It is Nellie’s 2nd home run of the year.

Eighteen-year-old OF Danny Murphy becomes the youngest Cub to hit a home run

Eighteen-year-old OF Danny Murphy becomes the youngest Cub to hit a home run

The Dodgers end their historic affiliation with the Montreal Royals, citing low attendance as a factor for leaving the city where Jackie Robinson famously broke the color barrier in 1946. Next season, after an effort to keep the the team in the City of a Hundred Steeples, the Canadian franchise relocates to New York, playing as the Syracuse Chiefs, a farm team for the Minnesota Twins.

In Kansas City’s 5 – 4 win over the Angels, 17-year-old Ed Kirkpatrick pinch hits in the 9th for Los Angeles. He is the youngest player in the American League since Jim Derrington, in 1956, and no one younger will debut this century in the AL.

Washington OF Jim Piersall is arrested for going into the stands after a heckling fan prior to a game against Baltimore

Washington OF Jim Piersall is arrested for going into the stands after a heckling fan prior to a game against Baltimore

1963 – Jim Bouton’s 20th win, 2 – 0 at Minnesota, clinches the Yankees’ 28th pennant.

On Friday the 13th, hard luck hurler Roger Craig, en route to his 21st loss of the season, allows the lone run of the game to score after getting the first two outs in the ninth inning in the Mets’ 1-0 loss to Houston at the Polo Grounds. The defeat marks the fifth time the New York right-hander has dropped a 1-0 decision this season.

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St. Louis becomes the first National League club to score in each inning since the Giants did it on June 1, 1923

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Dodgers walk off vs NY Mets – Full Radio Broadcast

Willie Mays 500th Homerun

Willie Mays 5th Player to 500 Homeruns

1967 – At Comiskey Park Cleveland and Chicago play a marathon 17-inning game, the White Sox ultimately winning, 1 – 0, on a game-ending RBI single by Rocky Colavito against his former squad. The contest features excellent starting pitching by Sonny Siebert and Gary Peters. Siebert goes 11 innings, allowing just 4 hits and 0 walks to Chicago batters. Peters also pitches 11 innings, yielding only 1 hit while walking 10 Indians.

Jerry Koosman ties the National League rookie record when he hurls his seventh shutout of the season

Jerry Koosman ties the National League rookie record when he hurls his seventh shutout of the season

Baltimore becomes the American League East champs when Tom Phoebus wins the clincher, 10 – 5, over Cleveland. Baltimore is 18 games ahead of Detroit with 17 to play.

Detroit is eliminated when they lose to the Senators, 11 – 6. The Nats score five in the 5th, three coming home on a Ken McMullen homer, one of his four hits in the game. Detroit rallies in the 6th on Willie Horton’s 3rd grand slam of the year, but McMullen knocks home another two runs to give Darold Knowles (7-3) the win over Tom Timmermann.

Bobby Bonds becomes the 4th member of the 30/30 club

Bobby Bonds becomes the 4th member of the 30/30 club

1969 – Larry Dierker tosses 8-2/3rds no-hit innings against Atlanta in quest of his 20th win. An infield single by Felix Millan breaks up the no-hitter but the game is still tied, 0-0. Dierker leaves in the 13th with a 2-0 lead, only to see ex-Astros Sonny Jackson and Bob Aspromonte key a three-run Atlanta rally for a nightmarish 3-2 defeat. Houston drops to fifth place, 4-1/2 games out of the N.L. West lead. 

At Wrigley Field, the Pirates lead the Cubs, 2 – 1, with two outs and no one on in the 9th when Willie Smith hits a routine fly to Matty Alou. Alou drops it and three singles later the Cubs have a 3 – 2 win. The victory puts the Cubs a game behind the Bucs and a half-game behind the Mets.

Kansas City sweeps a pair from Oakland, winning both by 8 – 7 scores. In the 11-inning opener, A’s SS Bert Campaneris sets an American League record by participating in six double plays. It will be tied in the National League.

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Frank Robinson 11th man to enter into 500 Homerun Club

The Reds’ Johnny Bench hits a 2-run homer in the bottom of the 10th to beat the Braves, 8 – 6. He hit a grand slam yesterday in a 7 – 5 win over Atlanta, and he’ll have 11 homers and 33 ribbies for September.

Frank Howard, who is not playing regularly for the Tigers, hits a 3-run homer off Dave McNally of the Orioles for a Detroit victory. It is his 13th career four-bagger off his favorite pitcher. He had hit one with the Rangers on July 18th, and 11 with the Senators from 1965 to 1971.

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.”

1973 – During an 8 – 6 win over the Padres, the Giants’ Tito Fuentes ties a major-league record by being hit by pitches three times.

In Atlanta, Johnny Bench drives in all six runs as the Reds win, 6 – 2.

The Phillies set a National League record by using 27 players during a 17-inning, 7 – 3, loss to the Cardinals. The Cards had set the record two days earlier.

With 16 games remaining, the enigmatic Dick Allen of the White Sox announces he is quitting the team. His 32 home runs, the last of which was hit August 16th, will still be enough to lead the American League.

1977 – The Dodgers’ Dusty Baker drives in a team-record five runs in one inning, the 2nd, as Los Angeles whips the Padres, 18 – 4. Los Angeles leads the NL West by 13 1/2 games.

At Tiger Stadium, the visiting Yankees defeat Detroit, 7-3, to take sole possession of first place for the first time this season. On July 19, the Bronx Bombers trailed the Red Sox by 14 games in the American East Division.

In addition to throwing a complete-game shutout to beat St. Louis, 2-0, for his 20th victory of the season, Phillies’ southpaw Steve Carlton also goes deep in the fifth inning of the Veterans Stadium contest. It’s the fourth time ‘Lefty’ has blanked his opponents and homered in the same game, becoming the first pitcher to have accomplished the feat in three different decades.

9/13/1982: In the first game of a doubleheader in Boston, Toby Harrah hit a high fly down the left field line that hit the pole just above the wall. Third base umpire Maloney ruled that the ball hit the yellow line on the wall and was in play. The pitcher was Oil Can Boyd; Harrah was the third batter Boyd faced in his debut after retiring the first two.

Dan Quisenberry breaks John Hiller’s all-time single-season save record, recording the final two outs of the Royals’ 4 – 3 win over the Angels for his 39th save of the season.

Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals three bases in a 6 - 5 win over Texas to give him 101 for the season and a major league-record three consecutive seasons with 100 or more.

Oakland’s Rickey Henderson steals three bases in a 6 – 5 win over Texas to give him 101 for the season and a major league-record three consecutive seasons with 100 or more.

Mets C Mike Fitzgerald becomes the 48th player in major league history to hit a home run in his first at-bat, connecting for a solo shot off Tony Ghelfi in the 2nd inning of New York’s 5 – 1 win over Philadelphia.

Mike Fitzgerald becomes the 48th major leaguer to hit a home run in his first big league at bat. The Mets rookie backstop’s second-inning homer of Tony Ghelfi contributes to a 5-1 victory over Philadelphia at Veterans Stadium.

Recording his 39th save, Royals’ closer Dan Quisenberry breaks John Hiller’s single-season record. The submariner gets the last two outs in a 4-3 victory over the Angels.

Mike Fitzgerald becomes the 48th major leaguer to hit a home run in his first big league at bat. The Mets rookie backstop’s second-inning homer of Tony Ghelfi contributes to a 5-1 victory over Philadelphia at Veterans Stadium.

Recording his 39th save, Royals’ closer Dan Quisenberry breaks John Hiller’s single-season record. The submariner gets the last two outs in a 4-3 victory over the Angels.

1985 – The Rangers trade P Dave Stewart to the Phillies for pitcher Rick Surhoff, whose brother B.J. Surhoff was the first pick in the amateur draft in June.

1986 – The Rangers set a club record with seven home runs in a 14 – 1 rout of Minnesota. Five of the home runs come off Twins starter Bert Blyleven, who will yield a major league-record 50 this season.

The Rangers, in a 14-1 trouncing of Minnesota at the Metrodome, hit a team record seven home runs, including blasts from Darrell Porter (2), Ruben Sierra (2), Steve Buechele, Pete O’Brien, and Pete Incaviglia. Minnesota’s starter Bert Blyleven is tagged for five of the round-trippers, which raises his gopher ball total to 44 this season, establishing a new American League record.

Jim Rice has hat stolen by fan

Jim Rice cap stolen by Yankee Fans

1987 – Chicago’s Floyd Bannister faces the minimum 27 batters in a 2 – 0 one-hitter against Seattle, striking out 10 while walking none. Hard-luck loser Mark Langston pitches a 2-hitter for the Mariners.

1989 – Fay Vincent is elected baseball’s 8th commissioner, succeeding the late Bart Giamatti, whom he served as deputy commissioner.

Jack Morris, earning his 162nd win since the start of the 1980 season, beats the Tribe at Cleveland Stadium, 3-1. During the eighties, the Tiger right-hander compiles the most victories (162-119) during the decade, but will never finish higher than third place in the Cy Young Award balloting during the ten-year span.

Fay Vincent becomes baseball’s eighth commissioner, succeeding the late Bart Giamatti, who died of a heart attack 12 days ago. During the first year of his brief three-year tenure in office, the Waterbury, Connecticut native will oversee the postponement of this season’s World Series due to the Loma Prieta earthquake, the expulsion of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and the owners’ lockout during spring training in 1990.

Fay Vincent becomes baseball’s eighth commissioner, succeeding the late Bart Giamatti, who died of a heart attack 12 days ago. During the first year of his brief three-year tenure in office, the Waterbury, Connecticut native will oversee the postponement of this season’s World Series due to the Loma Prieta earthquake, the expulsion of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and the owners’ lockout during spring training in 1990.

Toronto OF Joe Carter drives in a run in the Blue Jays’ 7 – 6 victory over the A’s, becoming the first player in history to reach the 100 plateau in three consecutive seasons with three different teams. Nine players had collected 100 RBI with three teams, but none consecutively.

A 55-ton concrete beam crashes onto an empty public walkway at Olympic Stadium in Montreal. The Expos will reschedule, playing their final 13 home games on the road while the stadium is repaired and growing cracks in concrete ribs supporting the stadium are checked out.

55-ton piece of concrete falls from the rafters of Montreal’s Olympic Stadium onto the playing field

1992 – Cleveland’s Kenny Lofton steals his 53rd and 54th bases breaking the American League rookie record of 53 set by Donie Bush in 1909. Lofton will swipe a league-high 66 bases, 12 ahead of another rookie, Pat Listach, and lead AL center fielders with 14 assists. He scores both runs today, including the winner in the 9th, to beat the White Sox, 2 – 1. Eric Plunk is the winner with Steve Olin picking up his 25th save.

The Astros’ game against the Rockies in Colorado is postponed when the Denver area is hit by a late-summer storm which deposits more than five inches of snow. Just 24 hours before game time, it had been 92 degrees.

Royals C Mike Macfarlane twice is charged with throwing errors to first base following strikeouts in Kansas City’s 9 – 0 win over Chicago.

Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell, appearing in the same game for the 1,915th time, set an American League record for joint appearances

Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell, appearing in the same game for the 1,915th time, set an American League record for joint appearances

1996 – Toronto C Charlie O’Brien unveils a hockey-style catcher’s mask in the game against the Yankees. The mask is a success, but the Blue Jays lose to the New Yorkers, 4 – 1. Andy Pettitte wins his 21st.

Alex Rodriguez became the first player in Mariners history to collect 200 hits in a season. The 20 year-old Seattle shortstop, who gets an RBI single off Minnesota’s Travis Miller in the first inning to reach the milestone, will finish the season with 215 hits and a Major League leading .358 batting average.

Alex Rodriguez became the first player in Mariners history to collect 200 hits in a season. The 20 year-old Seattle shortstop, who gets an RBI single off Minnesota’s Travis Miller in the first inning to reach the milestone, will finish the season with 215 hits and a Major League leading .358 batting average.

Dante Bichette joins his teammate Ellis Burks as a member of the 30/30 club when he homers in the sixth inning of Colorado’s 6-3 victory over Houston at Coors Field. The Rockies join the 1987 New York Mets as the only teams in history to have two 30-30 players (Howard Johnson and Darryl Strawberry) during the same season.

In St. Louis, Tony Gwynn reaches 200 hits for the fifth time in his career in the Padres’ 8 – 3 win over the Cardinals. Greg Vaughn has a three-run double to lead the attack.

The Mets, down 6 – 0 with one strike to go in the bottom of the 9th, rally to tie the Expos. Carl Everett ties the game with a grand slam. Two innings later, Bernard Gilkey hits a three-run homer to end it, 9 – 6. Facing Dustin Hermanson, the Mets manage just one hit through the first eight innings, and that is a blooper by Carlos Mendoza, his first major league hit. Two singles and two relievers later the Mets tie it. John Franco is the winner over Steve Kline.

The Dodgers drop a 5 – 1 decision to the Astros as Tom Candiotti’s knuckleball does all sorts of tricks in the 1st inning. Candiotti hits three Houston batters in the frame, and another to lead off the 2nd, to tie a major league mark. C Mike Piazza also records two passed balls in the inning as the Astros score four of their five runs.

Sammy Sosa hits his 61st and 62nd home runs of the season against the Milwaukee Brewers

Sammy Sosa hits his 61st and 62nd home runs of the season against the Milwaukee Brewers

Arizona defeats the Reds, 5 – 0, behind the one-hit pitching of Andy Benes. Gregg Olson picks up the last two outs for the save, as 1B Sean Casey gets the only hit for Cincinnati.

Sammy Sosa also eclipses a National League record for the most home runs hit at one park by one player

Sammy Sosa also eclipses a National League record for the most home runs hit at one park by one player

Mike Hampton joins Jose Lima as the team’s first 20-20 pair of aces.

The International League cancels the Governors’ Cup playoff in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attack. Louisville held a 1 – 0 over Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.

Due to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Major League Baseball postpones all games through September 17. The 91 missed games, the most regular-season contests not played since World War I forced the cancellation of the final month of the 1918 season, have been re-scheduled for the week after the regular season ends, meaning the World Series is likely to extend into November for the first time in history.

Oriole infielder Mike Bordick establishes a new American League record playing his 96th consecutive errorless game at shortstop. The mark was held by former teammate Cal Ripken Jr..

The U.S. Senate passes S. Res. 327, a resolution honoring Tiger broadcaster Ernie Harwell, who is retiring at end of the season. The 84 year-old has been a major league baseball announcer for 55 years.

After signing a one-day contract, Ken Daneyko grounds out to short in his professional baseball debut with the Newark Bears. The former New Jersey Devils defenseman, who was honored by the team before the game, plays DH against the Pennsylvania Road Warriors in a game started in a driving rainstorm and called immediately after his at bat.

At Oakland’s Network Associates Coliseum, a female fan suffers a broken nose, facial lacerations, and a possible concussion as she is hit with a plastic chair thrown by Ranger reliever Frank Francisco. The altercation between fans and the several Rangers players, which takes place in the field box seats between the Texas dugout and bullpen, occurs with two outs in the ninth inning after Texas’ Alfonso Soriano’s second homer of the game ties the game 5-5.

During the six-run second inning uprising by San Diego, each Dodger outfielder commits an error. The fielding of Ricky Ledee (lf), Jose Cruz Jr. (right field), and Jayson Werth (cf) contributes to the 6-4 loss to the first place Padres.

In the Padres’ 10-0 rout of Cincinnati at Great American Ball Park, Mike Piazza hits his last home run as a catcher to extend his record to 396, the most ever hit by a major league backstop. The 37 year-old receiver surpassed Carlton Fisk in 2004 to establish the major league mark with his 352nd round-tripper while playing behind the plate for the Mets.

With a single in the first inning, a double in the second, and triple in the fourth, Gary Matthews blasts a homer in the sixth to complete the cycle in order in his first four at bats. The Texas center fielder, son of a former major leaguer, is only the third Ranger player to hit for the cycle, with Oddibe McDowell (1985) and Mark Teixeira (2004) being the others.

After 13 years on the job, Terry Ryan announces his resignation as Twins general manager will be effective at the end of the month. The 53 year-old, who will serve as the team’s senior advisor to the GM, saw his team win the AL Central last season for the fourth time since 2001.

Francisco Rodriguez, striking out Raul Ibanez on a 3-2 changeup in the Angels’ 5-2 victory over the Mariners, earns his 58th save to break the single-season record. K-Rod surpasses the mark established in 1990 by White Sox closer Bobby Thigpen.

The Marlins become only the second major league team to have three infielders hit 30 home runs in the same season when Hanley Ramirez goes deep in Florida’s 4-2 victory over the Nationals at Dolphin Stadium. The Florida shortstop joins teammates first baseman Mike Jacobs and second baseman Dan Uggla to match the feat accomplished in 2001 by A’s infielders Jason Giambi, Eric Chavez, and Miguel Tejada.

2008 – Hurricane Ike, a massive Category 2 storm, crashes into Galveston Island doing damage throughout the upper Texas and Louisiana coasts. Minute Maid Park survives with little damage but Houston fans learn that a key three-game series with the Cubs delayed by Ike will be moved to Milwaukee. The Astros have crept within 2-1/2 games of the Brewers in the wild card race after winning 14 of their last 15 before the weather disaster but lose five straight when forced to hit the road. Ultimately, they finish third in the Central Division with an 86-75 record. 

Philadelphia sweeps New York, 5 – 4 and 1 – 0, in a day/night doubleheader that draws almost 90,000 fans to Citizens Bank Park. In the nitecap, Pedro Martinez reminds the crowd of his glory days by shutting out the Mets over 8 innings before Ryan Madson comes in to finish the game. The only blight on Philly’s day are the continuing struggles of closer Brad Lidge, who gives up two runs in the 9th in saving the opening win.

Cory Luebke comes within four outs of throwing a no-hitter in the 2009 Baseball World Cup. Facing Team Canada, Luebke fans 10 and has his gem spoiled by a Chris Robinson single. The USA goes on to a 8 – 0 rout.

Ichiro Suzuki becomes the first player in major league history to collect 200 hits in nine consecutive seasons when he beats out an infield single in the Mariners’ 5-0 nightcap victory over Texas at the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. The right-fielder had been tied with Wee Willie Keeler, who had eight straight years with 200 or more hits playing for the National League franchises in Baltimore and Brooklyn from 1894-1901.

Reid Brignac hits a walk-off homer in the 11th inning to lead the Rays to a 1 – 0 win over the Yankees and puts Tampa Bay into first place in the AL East. Brignac enters the game in the 9th inning, after Carl Crawford is ejected for arguing a called third strike, but his blast off Sergio Mitre ends a great pitching duel that started with CC Sabathia and David Price facing each other.

The Padres stop the Rockies’ 10-game winning streak with a 6 – 4 win at Coors Field. Miguel Tejada drives in 4 runs and Ernesto Frieri records his first career win in relief of rookie Cory Luebke, while Heath Bell earns his 41st save of the year.

It took him eight tries since he recorded his last win on July 24th, but 45-year-old Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield, the major leagues’ active win leader, finally records victory number 200. He pitches 6 innings and leaves with a 6 – 5 lead over the Blue Jays, then his teammates get to work padding that cushion, as the game ends 18 – 6. In the 9th inning, P Junichi Tazawa makes his return to the majors two years after an injury interrupted a promising major league debut.

Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers continue to steamroll over opponents. Verlander picks up his 23rd win – the first pitcher to reach that total since Barry Zito in 2002 – when he pitches 7 shutout innings over the White Sox, for a 5 – 0 win. Verlander has won his last 11 starts, something no one has done for the Bengals since Hal Newhouser in 1946. The win is also Detroit’s 11th straight this month.

After getting the first two outs on strikeouts, Mariano Rivera records his 600th career save when catcher Russell Martin throws out Ichiro Suzuki trying to steal second base for the final out of the game. The 41 year-old Yankee closer is one save shy of tying Trevor Hoffman’s major league career record.

Dustin Pedroia and Jacoby Ellsbury become first red sox teammates to have 20./20 seasons

Dustin Pedroia and Jacoby Ellsbury become first red sox teammates to have 20./20 seasons

Dillon Gee becomes the first Mets rookie to win 13 games in a season in 27 years when New York defeats Washington, 6-3. In 1984, Dwight Gooden compiled a 17-9 record as a freshman in 31 starts for the team.

In a pregame ceremony before a nationally televised game with Boston, the Yankees celebrate the 50th anniversary of Roger Maris’s record-breaking 61st home run. The festivities include New York captain Derek Jeter carrying to home plate the bat that the Rajah used to hit the Tracy Stallard pitch on October 1, 1961, and Sal Durante, the 19 year-old fan who caught the historic homer in the right field stands, bringing the ball onto the field.

Chris Davis hits his 50th homer of the year off Steve Delabar in the 8th to lead the Orioles to a 5 – 3 win over Toronto. Davis joins Babe Ruth and Albert Belle as the only players to hit 50 dingers and 40 doubles in the same season.

It may be too little too late, but the Nationals are finally getting hot, winning their 7th straight and 18th in 23 games, 6 – 1 over the Phillies. They are now 4 1/2 games back of a wild cardslot, but time is running out. Ross Ohlendorf, making an emergency start in place of ace Stephen Strasburg, picks up the win.

In a much anticipated start, Atlanta rookie David Hale sets a franchise record with nine strikeouts in his major league debut, but does not collect the victory when San Diego stages a late rally off the bullpen to overcome a three-run deficit to beat the Braves at Turner Field, 4-3. The 25 year-old right-hander from Marietta, GA surpasses the previous mark of eight shared by Bob Dresser (1902) and Kenshin Kawakami (2009).

2014 – The Dodgers crush the Giants, 17 – 0, setting a record for most runs by a visiting team at AT&T Park. The Dodgers’ 24 hits are the most by any team at the ballpark. Zack Greinkepitches 6 scoreless innings and adds a double and homer, while Hanley Ramirez has four hits and Matt Kemp goes 3 for 3.

2015 – The Mets win their seventh straight in dramatic fashion as Daniel Murphy hits a game-tying three-run homer off Ryan Kelly of the Braves with two out in the 9th. They then score three runs in the 10th, benefiting from an ill-timed throwing error by 3B Hector Olivera, to win, 10 – 7. It is their first four-game sweep of the Braves since 1989, while the Braves have lost 12 straight at home for the first time since 1931.

The Braves extend their franchise-record home-game losing streak, dropping a dreadful 10-7 ten-inning decision to the Mets for their 12th consecutive loss at Turner Field. Atlanta was leading 7-4 before Daniel Murphy’s three-run tied the game after the first two batters were retired in the top of the ninth inning .

2015 – Down 3-0 with nobody on and two outs in the ninth, the Astros create a Hollywood ending in Anaheim. After Preston Tucker homered off Huston Street, George Springer tripled and Jose Altuve singled him home. Carlos Correa slapped a base hit before pinch-hitter Jed Lowrie drove a pitch into the right field seats for a 5-3 miracle finish. Chad Qualls claims the win in relief. Houston keeps a 1-1/2 game lead over the Rangers in the Wild West. 

2017 – The Indians set a new American League record with their 21st consecutive win when they defeat the Tigers, 5 – 3. Detroit manages to take a 1 – 0 lead against Mike Clevinger in the 1st, but in the bottom of the inning, Jay Bruce hits a three-run homer off Buck Farmer and Cleveland nurses that lead until the end of the game. The win also ties the major league record of 21 consecutive wins, set by the 1935 Chicago Cubs.

 

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