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Events

• 1889 - John Clarkson pitches and wins both games of a doubleheader for Boston over Cleveland, allowing just ten hits total in the 3 - 2 and 5 - 0 victories, which put Boston two games ahead of New York in the race.
• 1900:
  • Sammy Strang, a rookie 3B, breaks in with seven hits for the Chicago Orphans in a doubleheader against the Giants. Chicago catcher Johnny Kling and Giants pitcher Win Mercer collide at the plate in the 7th inning of the second game, and Mercer is carried off the field unconscious. Chicago coasts, 9 - 1 in the opener, with Mercer the loser to Jock Menefee. New York takes the nitecap, 7 - 6, when Luther Taylor fashions a seven-inning win over Jack Taylor.
  • The Reds commit 17 errors in a doubleheader at Brooklyn, losing 7 - 2 and 13 - 9, the most errors in one day by any team in the 20th century. Iron Man McGinnity closes both games for Brooklyn; he has worked in every game for a week.
  • The Chicago White Stockings roll by Cleveland, 12 - 4, to clinch the American League's first pennant. The AL is still considered a minor league, but will upgrade its status before next season.
  • Milwaukee takes two from Detroit by 2 - 1 scores, each game taking one hour, 20 minutes, the fastest time of the year.
• 1901 - Baltimore's Joe McGinnity hurls two more complete games, winning over Philadelphia, 4 - 3, and losing, 5 - 4. The A's reach McGinnity for ten hits in the nitecap.
• 1903:
  • Boston's Tom Hughes defeats the Highlanders, 10 - 1, for his 20th win of the year.
  • In St. Louis, Roger Bresnahan's 10th-inning sacrifice fly scores Jack Warner with the game winner, as New York wins, 4 - 3. Despite giving up 12 hits, Christy Mathewson is the winner over Jim Hackett.
• 1904 - Boston wins its second of 19 games against the Giants, and beats Christy Mathewson in the process, 3 - 1.
• 1905:
  • Cards pitcher Jack Taylor allows just three Pirate hits - all by Honus Wagner - and teammate Harry Arndt swipes home in the bottom of the 9th to give St. Louis a 2 - 1 victory. Wagner will spoil two more no-hitters by collecting the only hits: against Art Fromme on May 27, 1911 and facing Phil Douglas on October 2, 1914.
  • At the Polo Grounds, the Giants and Brooklyn split a twinbill. Christy Mathewson wins the opener, 3 - 2, when Bill Dahlen singles home the winner in the 9th. The second game is called after seven innings with Brooklyn leading, 8 - 5.
• 1907:
  • In a 2 - 0 win against the Highlanders at Hilltop Park, Washington's Walter Johnson strikes out five batters, though it will be recorded as four K's. Researchers in the 1990s will find the extra K, resulting in Johnson's lifetime total of 3,509. The issue crops up again on Opening Day, 2001, when Roger Clemens ties (or beats) the mark.
  • Boston loses to the Athletics, 7 - 1, to start a 16-game losing streak.
• 1908:
  • In the dogfight for the American League pennant, the White Sox play their fourth straight extra-inning game at Detroit, a total of 43 innings. The White Sox win their second straight, while the Browns lose their second in a row to Cleveland.
  • New York tops the Superbas, 6 - 3, for a sweep of the five-game series with Brooklyn. The Giants score four in the 8th, including a long triple by Christy Mathewson, to put the game away.
  • A day after beating the A's Eddie Plank, 2 - 1, Washington's Walter Johnson is forced to start again, this time replacing sore-armed Charlie Smith. Remarkably, Johnson records his fifth complete game victory in nine days.
• 1910:
  • At Oakland, Vean Gregg of Portland pitches a Pacific Coast League-record third one-hitter, a 2 - 0 win over Oakland.
  • At Toronto, Dick Rudolph (Eastern League) pitches ten hitless innings over Montreal. Rudolph wins in 12 innings, 2 - 1.
• 1911 - In the nightcap of a game billed as a pitchers' duel, Boston's Cy Young and the Giants' Christy Mathewson face each other before 10,000, Boston's largest crowd of the year. Young gives up three homers and nine runs in less than three innings. After the Giants build a 9 - 0 lead, John McGraw lifts Mathewson, who pitched just two innings, preferring to save his ace for the pennant race against Chicago and Philadelphia. This is the only time the two pitchers ever face each other. Mathewson adds to New York's scoring in the 3rd by swiping home. The Giants coast, 11 - 2. In the field, Matty also helps when, with Doc Miller on first base in the 2nd inning, a line drive to center by Hank Gowdy results in a double play (8-4-1-3). New York wins the first game, 9 - 3, and now lead the Cubs by two games.
• 1912 - The leading Giants split with the Cardinals, losing the opener when the Birds blast reliever Doc Crandall in the 9th to win, 4 - 2. Jeff Tesreau wins his sixth straight in the nitecap.
• 1914 - In Philadelphia, Grover Cleveland Alexander is awarded an automobile before the game as the Phillies' most popular player, then drives over the Giants' Rube Marquard for a 1 - 0 win.
• 1916 - Walter Johnson and Babe Ruth, both pitching on two days rest, square off. Washington scores two runs in the 9th when John Henry lines a bases-loaded double off Ruth to tie the game, 2 - 2. Boston scores in the 10th, but Washington tallies twice off Ernie Shore to win, 4 - 3. Johnson is the winner.
• 1924 - Chicago's Hack Miller hits a pinch home run in the 8th to tie the game with the Phils at six apiece. The Cubs go on to win, 10 - 8.
• 1925 - In Detroit's loss to Cleveland, 3 - 1, in 13 innings in the first game of a doubleheader, Detroit's Jackie Tavener hits a major league-record-tying three triples. Benn Karr goes the distance for the win. Detroit then takes the nitecap, 3 - 2.
• 1930 - The last bounce home run is hit by Robins catcher Al Lopez at Ebbets Field. The American League changed the rule in 1929.
• 1931 - At Boston, Eddie Durham and Detroit's Arthur "Red" Herring hook up in a 13-inning pitching duel, won by the Sox pitcher, 1 - 0.
• 1932:
  • With their 100th victory of the year, the Yankees clinch the American League pennant as George Pipgras beats the Indians at Cleveland Stadium, 8 - 3. Yankee manager Joe McCarthy, who captured a flag with the 1929 Cubs, becomes the first manager to win pennants in both the American and National Leagues.
  • In the bottom of the 9th, Johnny Frederick hits his major league record-setting sixth pinch-homer of the season off Burleigh Grimes, giving the Dodgers a 4 - 3 victory over the Cubs. Frederick's six pinch-hit home runs doubles the previous record of three held by Ham Hyatt in 1913, Cy Williams in 1928, and Pat Crawford in 1929. With just nine pinch-hits altogether, his home run percentage is a major league record.
• 1933 - The Dodgers are zero for the afternoon against the Pirates, as Heinie Meine tops them, 1 - 0, in the opener and Waite Hoyt wins the nitecap, 2 - 0.
• 1935:
  • Dizzy Dean wins his 26th, a 5 - 2 victory over New York's Carl Hubbell, to keep the Cardinals in first place by a game. But the Cards' Joe Medwick has his hitting streak stopped at 28 games
  • Charlie Grimm's Cubs continue their hot hitting, trouncing the Dodgers, 13 - 3. Augie Galan has four hits and five RBIs for the "Grimm Reapers."
• 1936 - Kid Elberfeld, at the age of 61, grounds out to third as he pinch-hits for the Fulton team in the Kitty League.
• 1942 - Mort Cooper wins his 20th game and eighth shutout, stopping Brooklyn, 3 - 0. St. Louis finally catches the Dodgers when Max Lanier wins the second game, 2 - 1.
• 1947 - Pirates' outfielder Ralph Kiner hits a record eight home runs in four games. Tony Lazzeri had hit seven round-trippers in four games in 1936.
• 1950:
  • The Yankees blow a six-run lead as Cleveland scores four in the 9th inning off Allie Reynolds to win, 8 - 7. Luke Easter's three-run home run - his second of the game - is the big blow, as the Yankees skid to second place, a half game behind Detroit and a half game ahead of Boston.
  • Ewell Blackwell gives up just one hit, a run-scoring double in the 4th to Gene Hermanski, but the Dodgers whip the Reds ace, 2 - 1. Carl Erskine allows three hits, including a double by Blackwell and a home run by Ted Kluszewski. Hermanski and Duke Snider drive in the two runs for Brooklyn.
• 1951 - In Cincinnati, Lloyd Merriman hits a bases-loaded triple in the 7th, off Carl Erskine, to give the Reds a 6 - 3 win. Dodger starter Don Newcombe leaves in the 1st inning with a pulled muscle in his pitching arm and Erskine takes the loss. The Dodgers are now five and a half games ahead of the idle Giants whose last game of the season in St. Louis is rained out, and the National League reschedules it for tomorrow afternoon as part of a doubleheader involving three different teams.
• 1953 - Carl Erskine defeats the Braves, 5 - 2, as the Dodgers clinch the pennant earlier than any other team in National League history up to that point.
• 1954 - A standing-room-only crowd of 84,587 at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, which establishes the record for the largest crowd to have ever watched a major-league baseball game, witness the pennant-bound Indians sweep a doubleheader from the Yankees, 4 - 1 and 3 - 2. On this bright sunny day, over 12,000 fans are without seats and stand 10-11 rows deep behind the outfield fences as well as 3-5 rows deep in walkways.
• 1958 - The Giants sweep the Phillies, 5 - 2 and 19 - 2, as Willie Mays has six hits to raise his average to .333. Jim Davenport tops him with seven hits, including a three-run inside-the-park home run in the 1st inning of the second game, and scores seven runs.
• 1959 - Sam Jones' 20th victory of the season, 9 - 1 over the Phillies, puts the Giants back in first place by a game.
• 1960 - A crowd of more than 20,000 sees the first-place Pirates dump the Giants, 6 - 1, and sets a new Pittsburgh home attendance record of 1,521,251 - 4,230 more than the old mark set in 1948.
• 1961:
  • The Phillies drive Sandy Koufax from the mound in a nine-run 2nd inning and go on to defeat the Dodgers, 19 - 10. The loss drops Los Angeles to four and a half games behind the Reds. The big gun for the Phils is ex-Dodger Don Demeter, who hits a two-run homer in the 1st, singles in a run in the 2nd, adds a three-run home run in the 7th and a solo one in the 9th. Two other Phils homer while four Dodgers go deep.
  • At Milwaukee, the Reds' Joey Jay beats his old team, 1 - 0, for his 20th victory of the year. He's the Reds' first 20-game winner since Ewell Blackwell in 1947.
• 1962:
  • In the dugout in Cincinnati, Willie Mays collapses from nervous exhaustion. He is taken to the hospital and will miss four games. The Giants lose, 4 - 1, and will lose their next six to take them apparently out of the race.
  • Washington's Tom Cheney sets a major league mark with 21 strikeouts in a 16-inning game at Baltimore. Bud Zipfel's 16th-inning home run off Dick Hall gives the Senators a 2 - 1 win.
  • In Cleveland, Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle lead the way to a Yankee win, 5 - 2. Mantle hits a three-run homer in the 5th off Pedro Ramos, his second favorite all-time cousin (12 homers allowed).
• 1964:
  • The Orioles' Frank Bertaina and the A's Bob Meyer duel in the major leagues' fifth double one-hitter. Bertaina prevails, 1 - 0, his first big league win and only decision of the year. John Orsino's 8th-inning double and Doc Edwards' 5th inning two-bagger account for the hits. Baltimore sets a major-league record for fewest at-bats in a nine-inning game with 19, and both clubs go to the plate just 46 times. The last battle of matching one-hitters was June 21, 1956.
  • The Indians score six in the 1st, and outlast the White Sox, 11 - 10. For second-place Chicago, it is their fourth loss in six games. The loss goes to starter Ray Herbert, with Sam McDowell the victor.
• 1965 - Washington's Brant Alyea debuts with a pinch-hit home run on the first pitch from Rudy May in his first major league at bat. Yes, a major-league first. In Washington, 840 fans watch the Senators beat the Angels, 7 - 1.
• 1966 - Ron Perranoski of the Dodgers fans the first six batters he faces and earns a 3 - 2 win over the Mets and Tug McGraw. With the help of 2B Ron Hunt, Mets rookie SS Bud Harrelson picks off Lou Johnson with the hidden ball trick in the 6th.
• 1967 - The Reds rout the Pirates, winning, 15 - 7.
• 1969:
  • Juan Marichal (18-10) pitches a one-hitter, as the Giants beat the Reds, 1 - 0, but Atlanta takes the National League West lead by beating Houston, 4 - 3. Tommy Helms' 3rd-inning single is the only hit in what Marichal calls "my best game ever."
  • Pitchers Jerry Koosman and Don Cardwell both hurl 1 - 0 wins and drive in the winning runs, as the hot Mets sweep the Pirates. The Cubs, meanwhile, win, snapping their eight-game losing streak, but now trail by two and a half games.
• 1973 - Pitcher Jack Billingham hits a bases-loaded double to help his cause as the Reds beat the Dodgers, 7 - 3.
• 1974:
  • The Reds sweep a pair from the Braves and the two teams combine for a major-league record three grand slams. Cesar Geronimo hits one in the 2nd inning of the first game, as does the Braves' Darrell Evans. The Braves hang on for a 9 - 6 win, then take the second game by a 6 - 2 score. Johnny Bench hits the third grand slam of the day and drives in all six of the Reds' runs in that game. He will finish the year with 129 RBIs to top the National League, and his 315 total bases will also lead the league. He is the only catcher in major league history to lead a league in total bases (Bench caught 137 games, played 3B in 36 games and 1B in 5).
  • Detroit P John Hiller picks up his 17th win in relief, an American League record, as he beats Milwaukee, 9 - 7.
• 1976 - DH Minnie Minoso singles for the White Sox against the Angels' Sid Monge. Said to be 53, Minoso is considered the oldest player ever to collect a hit in the major leagues, although he is in reality three years younger than his listed age, as will later be discovered.
• 1978 - The Pirates break their five-game losing streak by beating the Phils, 5 - 1, to split the two-game series with their cross-state rivals. The Phils are now four games ahead of Pittsburgh in the National League East.
• 1979 - Carl Yastrzemski reaches the 3000 hits milestone when he singles off Yankee Jim Beattie.
• 1981 - Red Sox rookie Bob Ojeda no-hits the Yankees for eight innings at Yankee Stadium before Rick Cerone and Dave Winfield lead off the 9th with back-to-back doubles. Reliever Mark Clear preserves a 2 - 1 win.
• 1982:
  • For the second time this season, Milwaukee gets three consecutive home runs - from Cecil Cooper, Ted Simmons, and Ben Oglivie - in a losing cause, as the Yankees win, 9 - 8. Six homers are hit in the game. Curt Kaufman wins his first major league decision and his only one as a Yank.
  • With Minnesota leading 7 - 4 in the bottom of the 4th, Terry Felton relieves Twins starter Brad Havens. Felton leaves in the bottom of the 6th with one out, runners on first and second and his team clinging to a 7 - 6 lead. Both runners score and by the time the Royals are through, instead of his first major league win, Felton ends up charged with his 16th (and final) career loss. Kansas City wins royally, 18 - 7, one of the biggest comebacks of the decade. John Pacella, who takes over in the 8th, surrenders back-to-back dingers, tosses two wild pitches, and allows six runs. Willie Aikens adds a pair of homers for KC.
• 1984 - Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 batters in a 2 - 0 victory over the Pirates to break Herb Score's major league rookie strikeout record of 245. Doctor K's whiff of Marvell Wynne raised his season total to 246 to set the new mark.
• 1986:
  • In his first major league at bat, Oakland's Terry Steinbach homers at Cleveland. It comes off Greg Swindell in a 9 - 3 victory. Mike Witt (18-8) is the winner.
  • The Twins fire manager Ray Miller and replace him with coach Tom Kelly.
• 1988 - Baltimore's Eddie Murray collects his 2,000th career hit in a 6 - 1 loss to Boston, and Atlanta's Dale Murphy drives in his 1,000th career run in a 5 - 4 loss to Los Angeles.
• 1989 - The Indians fire manager Doc Edwards and replace him for the remainder of the season with scout John Hart.
• 1990 - Yankees starter Steve Adkins doesn't allow a hit in his major league debut, but he walks eight batters in just 1 1/3 innings, as Texas wins, 5 - 4. Adkins walks the first three batters, then retires the side. After a fly out in the 2nd, he walks the next five before being lifted, two shy of Dolly Gray's consecutive walk record.
• 1991 - Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan wins his tenth game, beating the Twins, 4 - 3, and becoming just the second pitcher ever to reach double figures in wins in 20 different seasons. Don Sutton did it in 21 seasons. The win, Ryan's 312th of his career moves him past Tom Seaver into 14th place on the career list. Jack Morris is the complete game loser.
• 1993:
  • Tony Gwynn, who hasn't played since September 5th, undergoes arthroscopic knee surgery. Gwynn's batting average is a league-leading .358.
  • Paul Molitor drives in his 100th run of the year in the Blue Jays' 4 - 1 win over California. He thus becomes at age 37 the oldest player in major league history to post his first 100-RBI season.
  • In a 9 - 2 win, Houston's Jeff Bagwell is struck on the left hand by a pitch from the Phils' Ben Rivera. He suffers a broken bone and will miss the last 20 games, snapping his consecutive game streak at a club-record 304.
  • The Twins defeat the Rangers, 4 - 2, on Nolan Ryan Appreciation Night in Arlington, TX. Ryan takes the loss for Texas.
• 1994 - At Harrisburg, Bill Pulsipher of Binghamton (Eastern League) fires a 2 - 0 playoff no-hitter against Harrisburg. Binghamton evens the series at a game apiece and will win it, three to one.
• 1996 - Rockies OF Ellis Burks steals his 30th base of the season, making him the 19th player in history to join the 30-30 club. He hits his 37th homer of the season and drives in five runs in Colorado's 16 - 8 win over Atlanta.
• 1996:
  • Milwaukee trounces Texas, 15 - 4, led by 2B Fernando Vina who goes 5 for 6, with a triple, two home runs, three RBIs, and four runs scored.
  • In an 8 - 5 win over the Royals, the Mariners' Alex Rodriguez sets a major league shortstop record with his 88th extra-base hit.
  • With two home runs and a single, Yankee center fielder Bernie Williams has eight RBI, helping the Bronx Bombers defeat the Tigers, 12 - 3.
• 1997:
  • Florida C Charles Johnson sets a major league record by playing his 160th straight game without committing an error. The previous mark was set by Rick Cerone. The Marlins lose the game, however, 1 - 0 to the Giants.
  • The Mets tie the game in the 8th and use 23 players before losing to the Expos, 3 - 2, in 15 innings. The loss goes to Joe Crawford, the second time this season he has lost by allowing a run in the 15th.
• 1998:
  • Cubs OF Sammy Sosa becomes the fourth player in history to reach the 60-home run mark for a season when he slugs number 60 off Valerio de los Santos of the Brewers in the 7th inning of the 15 - 12 Chicago win.
  • Mark McGwire draws his 152nd walk of the season, to break the National League mark set by Barry Bonds, as the Astros defeat the Cardinals, 3 - 2.
  • Philadelphia rides five hits by SS Alex Arias, including three doubles, to a 13 - 4 win over the Pirates.
• 1999:
  • Before a crowd of 50,027, the Red Sox finish their three-game series at Yankee Stadium with a 4 - 1 win for a sweep. It is the first three-game sweep at Yankee Stadium for the Red Sox since 1986.
  • Bobby Rose drives in his 135th run of the season. The Yokohama BayStars second baseman now holds the record for RBI by gaijin in Nippon Pro Baseball.
• 2000:
  • In a 5 - 4 loss to the Diamondbacks, Dodger Dave Hansen breaks Johnny Frederick's 1932 major league record for pinch-hit home runs in a single season with his seventh of the year - 68 years to the day after Frederick set his record. Craig Wilson will match Hansen's feat next year.
  • Suspended New York Yankee Darryl Strawberry is sentenced to two years' house arrest after admitting he violated probation by driving under the influence of medication and leaving the scene of an accident.
  • The Cubs' Kerry Wood pitches his second career complete game, winning 2 - 1 over the Reds. Two unearned runs do in Osvaldo Fernandez.
• 2002 - A jury, and not a judge or umpires, will decide whether Alex Popov actually controlled Barry Bonds's record-setting 73rd home run ball in his glove. Popov, who lost possession the ball valued at approximately $1 million after being mobbed by fans, claims it should belong to him and not Patrick Hayashi, who ended up with the historic souvenir.
• 2005 - Making his season debut with just 20 games left in the regular schedule, Barry Bonds returns to the Giants' lineup with a bang, lining a double in his first at-bat and barely missing hitting his 704th career homer. The 41-year-old slugger had been placed on the disabled list at the start of the season due to an infection following knee surgery.
• 2008 - The Marlins make history in a 2 - 1 win over the Nationals, becoming the first team to have four infielders hit 25 or more homers. Jorge Cantú hits his 25th, joining Mike Jacobs (32), Dan Uggla (30) and Hanley Ramírez (29). Despite the power, Florida is barely over .500 at 75-72.
• 2009:
  • In a rare win for the Orioles over the Yankees, 7 - 3, Brian Roberts hits a grand slam and his club-record 51st double of the year.
  • Rookie 3B Casey McGehee of the Brewers continues to impress, belting two homers and driving in six runs on four hits in a 9 - 2 win over the Diamondbacks. He has 15 homers, 57 RBI and a .306 batting average for the year, putting in first or tied for first among National League rookies in all three triple crown categories.
• 2010:
  • The Giants defeat the Padres, 6 - 1, and the two teams are now tied for the lead in the NL West. Tim Lincecum, who went through a rough patch in August, putting up an 0-5 record with a 7.82 ERA, wins his third straight September start and drives in two runs with a single. However, the Giants lose OF Andres Torres for two weeks as he undergoes an emergency appendectomy.
  • The Phillies take the lead in the NL East on Roy Oswalt's four-hit complete game shutout of the Mets, 3 - 0. Oswalt is now 6-1, 1.98, since being acquired from Houston at the trading deadline. Meanwhile, the Cardinals' Albert Pujols bangs two homers against Tim Hudson as the Braves lose, 7 - 3, to fall one game back of the Phils.
• 2011 - The Diamondbacks continue to roll, defeating the Dodgers, 7 - 2, for their 17th win in their last 20 games. They are now tied with the Brewers for the second-best record in the National League. Joe Saunders picks up the win over Ted Lilly. J.J. Putz registers his 39th save in an excellent comeback season after Bryan Shaw loads the bases with two outs in the 9th.
• 2012:
  • The A's record their 12th straight win on the road in beating the Angels, 4 - 1. Rookie A.J. Griffin improves to 6-0 on the year; he is the first A's pitcher to win his first six career decisions since Jim Nash started out 7-0 with the 1966 Kansas City Athletics.
  • The Yankees remain tied with the Orioles in the AL East with a 5 - 4 win over Boston. SS Derek Jeter has to leave the game in the 8th inning with a strained hamstring, although the injury does not appear to be serious. An inning earlier, Boston's Dustin Pedroia also exited the game, but for a different reason: his wife Kelli, who is attending the game at Fenway Park, goes into labor to deliver the couple's second child.
• 2013 - The Yankees defeat the Orioles, 6 - 5, as their newest player, SS Brendan Ryan, acquired in a trade three days earlier, scores the winning run in the 9th. He opens the inning with a single and reaches third when O's closer Jim Johnson throws Chris Stewart's bunt into center field. Johnson then bounces a pitch to the screen to allow Ryan to score. The loss is a letdown for Baltimore, as Danny Valencia had tied the game with a three-run homer off David Robertson in the 8th.
• 2014:
  • The Orioles move closer to clinching the AL East title with a doubleheader sweep of the Yankees, 2 - 1 and 5 - 0. But they also get bad news as slugger Chris Davis is handed a 25-game suspension for testing positive for amphetamines.
  • The French national team continues to show progress. Having stunned the Netherlands in the Yoshida Tournament, they upset the host German national team, 3 - 2, on the first day of the 2014 European Championship. René Leveret homers over the scoreboard off Luke Sommer in the 5th and Jacques Boucheron drives in Pierre Turettes with the winner. Pierrick Lemestre saves the game in relief of Owen Ozanich.
• 2015:
  • David Ortiz of the Red Sox becomes the 27th member of the 500 home run club by going deep twice, both times off Matt Moore, in a 10 - 4 win over the Rays.
  • The Blue Jays sweep a doubleheader against the Yankees at New Yankee Stadium to increase their lead in the AL East to four and a half games. In the first game, seven homers are hit, including a pair by Jose Bautista, but the game is decided in the 11th inning when Toronto scores four runs on only one hit as Bryan Mitchell and Chasen Shreve combine for five walks and a hit batsman to lose, 9 - 5. In the nitecap, New York starter Ivan Nova can't get out of the 2nd inning and the Blue Jays prevail, 10 - 7, after a lengthy rain delay. Marcus Stroman is the winner in his first game since suffering a knee injury in spring training. For the Yankees, Brett Gardner hits three homers in the twinbill, including a pair of three-run shots in the second game, but it's all for naught.
• 2016 - The major league ERA leader, Kyle Hendricks of the Cubs, takes a no-hit bid into the 9th inning in a start against the Cardinals, but Jeremy Hazelbaker leads off the frame with his 12th homer to break it up. Still, Hendricks records his 15th win, 4 - 1, and lowers his ERA to 2.03 as the Cubs' magic number to clinch the NL Central is down to three.
• 2017 - The Indians tie the American League record for consecutive victories when they defeat Detroit, 2 - 0, for their 20th straight win. The record had been set by the 2002 Oakland Athletics in the season depicted in the book and movie Moneyball. Corey Kluber pitches a five-hit shutout to lead Cleveland while Francisco Lindor hits a lead-off homer off Matt Boyd in the 1st.
• 2018 - A couple of pitchers take no-hit bids deep into their respective starts today. For the Rays, Blake Snell doesn't allow the Indians a hit until the 7th when José Ramírez hits his 38th homer, a solo shot, but comes out on top, 3 - 1, for his 19th win. Minnesota's Jake Odorizzi does even better, getting through 7 1/3 inning before Greg Bird of the Yankees laces a run-scoring double. He is also a 3 - 1 winner.
• 2019 - Kyle Lewis of the Mariners homers for the third straight game after having made his major league debut on September 10th. He joins Trevor Story who is the only other player to have accomplished this feat.
• 2021:
  • With the European Championship expanding from 12 teams to 16, one entrant in the 2021 European Championship is a newcomer to the top tournament in Europe. Slovakia stands little chance against the defending champion Dutch national team. Martin Brunegraf gets Slovakia's first hit but they manage only two others and strike out 18 times in a 11 - 0, seven-inning mercy rule loss. Junior Martina drives in four, while Mike Bolsenbroek gets the victory. Marko Vykoukal allows one unearned run in two innings to take the loss, but is his team's top hurler today.
  • Max Scherzer of the Dodgers becomes the 19th pitcher in history to reach 3,000 strikeouts when he fans Eric Hosmer of the Padres in the 5th inning. Not content with that mark, Scherzer has one of his greatest days: he records the third immaculate inning of his career in the 3rd, joining Sandy Koufax and Chris Sale as the only pitchers to do so, and takes a perfect game into the 8th before Hosmer doubles with one out to break the spell. He will be the only baserunner Scherzer allows in eight scoreless innings as he strikes out nine and ends up an 8 - 0 winner.
• 2022 - Mike Trout homers for the seventh straight game, off Konnor Pilkington of the Guardians, but in an outcome that is typical of their season, the Angels still lose, 5 - 4. Trout is one away from the record of eight games, held by Dale Long, Don Mattingly and Ken Griffey Jr. and has 35 homers, second in the AL behind runaway leader Aaron Judge in spite of playing in just 100 of his team's 141 games so far this year.

Births

• 1840 - Nick Young, manager, umpire, executive (d. 1916)
• 1851 - Fred Ehlen, outfielder (d. 1934)
• 1855 - Jud Birchall, outfielder (d. 1887)
• 1858 - Frank Bahret, outfielder (d. 1888)
• 1859 - Eddie McGunnigle, umpire (d. 1934)
• 1867 - John Dolan, pitcher (d. 1948)
• 1875 - John Gochnauer, infielder (d. 1929)
• 1878 - Walter Ball, pitcher (d. 1946)
• 1878 - Bill Cristall, pitcher (d. 1939)
• 1880 - Boss Schmidt, catcher (d. 1932)
• 1882 - Si Bennett, minor league outfielder (d. 1960)
• 1884 - Bob Groom, pitcher (d. 1948)
• 1885 - Fred Luderus, infielder (d. 1961)
• 1885 - John Quinn, catcher (d. 1956)
• 1888 - Patsy McGaffigan, infielder (d. 1940)
• 1891 - Fred Kelly, USA national team outfielder (d. 1974)
• 1891 - Pepper Peploski, infielder (d. 1972)
• 1893 - Anthony Mahoney, pitcher, manager (d. 1924)
• 1894 - Ole Olsen, pitcher (d. 1980)
• 1896 - Buck Wheat, minor league catcher (d. 1953)
• 1903 - Len Dondero, infielder (d. 1999)
• 1907 - Ollie Bejma, infielder (d. 1995)
• 1907 - Spud Chandler, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1990)
• 1908 - Jim McLeod, infielder (d. 1981)
• 1916 - Jack Balestreri, minor league player (d. 2012)
• 1916 - Ralph Hamner, pitcher (d. 2001)
• 1916 - Charlie Keller, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1990)
• 1917 - Russ Christopher, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1954)
• 1918 - Al Libke, outfielder (d. 2003)
• 1920 - Andy Seminick, catcher; All-Star (d. 2004)
• 1920 - Leroy Sutton, pitcher (d. 1984)
• 1922 - Richard Klaus, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1993)
• 1924 - George Bradshaw, catcher (d. 1994)
• 1924 - Bubba Church, pitcher (d. 2001)
• 1925 - Mario Ariosa, outfielder; Salón de la Fama (d. 1992)
• 1925 - Stan Lopata, catcher; All-Star (d. 2013)
• 1926 - George Freese, infielder (d. 2014)
• 1926 - Alex Zych, minor league pitcher (d. 2014)
• 1928 - Len Matarazzo, pitcher (d. 2015)
• 1929 - Tom Herrin, pitcher (d. 1999)
• 1929 - Albert Stephens, pitcher (d. 2006)
• 1933 - Dave Stenhouse, pitcher; All-Star (d. 2023)
• 1934 - Albie Pearson, outfielder; All-Star (d. 2023)
• 1938 - Arthur Patchin Jr., minor league catcher (d. 1993)
• 1938 - Claude Ruel, minor league player (d. 2015)
• 1940 - Rich Barry, outfielder (d. 2021)
• 1940 - Mickey Lolich, pitcher; All-Star
• 1943 - Floyd Wicker, outfielder
• 1947 - John Montague, pitcher
• 1949 - Tommy Cason, minor league outfielder
• 1951 - Jon Niederer, scout (d. 2009)
• 1951 - Jeff Sovern, minor league catcher
• 1953 - Greg Keatley, catcher
• 1953 - Takeshi Miyazaki, Japanese national team infielder
• 1956 - Mark Thurmond, pitcher
• 1957 - Mario Ramirez, infielder (d. 2013)
• 1958 - Ming-Hsien Li, Taiwan national team infielder
• 1959 - Hans Lemmink, Hoofdklasse infielder
• 1959 - Scotti Madison, infielder
• 1960 - Trench Davis, outfielder
• 1960 - Juan Francisco Rodríguez, minor league infielder and manager
• 1963 - Keith Hughes, outfielder
• 1963 - Mike Roesler, pitcher
• 1963 - Thom Brennaman, broadcaster
• 1967 - Tae-hyeong Kim, KBO catcher and manager
• 1967 - Pat Listach, infielder
• 1968 - Masao Kida, pitcher
• 1968 - Keith Thomas, minor league player
• 1969 - Hilly Hathaway, pitcher
• 1969 - Mike Stefanski, coach
• 1970 - John Hrusovsky, minor league player
• 1970 - Tito Navarro, infielder
• 1970 - Aldo Pecorilli, minor league utility player
• 1975 - Ryan Ballard, minor league catcher
• 1975 - Luis Castillo, infielder; All-Star
• 1975 - Mark L. Johnson, catcher
• 1975 - Sébastien Rouchon, Division Elite infielder
• 1976 - James Rowson, coach
• 1976 - Tarek Shaer, Bundesliga infielder
• 1979 - Warren Hanna, minor league catcher
• 1979 - Tsuyoshi Kawagishi, NPB pitcher
• 1979 - Victor Kleine, minor league player
• 1980 - Sean Burroughs, infielder
• 1980 - Efren Espinoza, minor league infielder and manager
• 1980 - Maicer Izturis, infielder
• 1980 - Apichat Ngamying, Thai national team infielder
• 1980 - Kevin Richardson, catcher
• 1981 - Franquelis Osoria, pitcher
• 1982 - Carmen Pignatiello, pitcher
• 1982 - Mariano Gomez, minor league player
• 1982 - Jason Urquidez, minor league pitcher
• 1983 - Edgar Omana, minor league pitcher
• 1983 - Clayton Richard, pitcher
• 1984 - Jorge Jimenez, minor league infielder
• 1985 - Josh Davies, minor league infielder
• 1985 - Kyle Fernandes, minor league pitcher
• 1986 - Steve Garrison, pitcher
• 1986 - Kyle Weiland, pitcher
• 1987 - Jhonny Medrano, minor league infielder
• 1988 - Yordanka Rodriguez, Cuban women's national team catcher
• 1989 - Tomáš Duffek, Extraliga pitcher
• 1989 - Freddie Freeman, infielder; All-Star
• 1991 - Jose Urena, pitcher
• 1992 - Andrew Faulkner, pitcher
• 1992 - Isaac Silva, minor league pitcher
• 1992 - Matt Wisler, pitcher
• 1993 - Keynan Middleton, pitcher
• 1994 - Tyler Danish, pitcher
• 1995 - Jordy van den Heuvel, First Division pitcher
• 1996 - Kyle Bradish, pitcher
• 1996 - Chee-Ar Lui, Hong Kong women's national team catcher
• 1996 - Cal Stevenson, outfielder
• 1997 - Konnor Pilkington, pitcher
• 1997 - Hao-Wei Shen, CPBL outfielder
• 1997 - Ho-Fung Wong, Hong Kong national team pitcher
• 1998 - Samir Caraballo, minor league infielder

Deaths

• 1881 - Chub Sullivan, infielder (b. 1856)
• 1905 - Billy Taylor, infielder (b. 1870)
• 1915 - Ormond Butler, manager; umpire (b. 1854)
• 1918 - Ernie Beam, pitcher (b. 1867)
• 1931 - Raoul Dumouchel, writer (b. 1870)
• 1931 - Pop Dillon, infielder (b. 1873)
• 1933 - Omer Newsome, pitcher (b. 1900)
• 1935 - Ed Beecher, outfielder (b. 1859)
• 1945 - Cy Pieh, pitcher (b. 1886)
• 1945 - Dave Zearfoss, catcher (b. 1868)
• 1949 - Sherry Smith, pitcher (b. 1891)
• 1951 - Lave Winham, pitcher (b. 1881)
• 1955 - Dick Adkins, infielder (b. 1920)
• 1956 - Tod Sloan, outfielder (b. 1890)
• 1957 - Homer Thompson, catcher (b. 1891)
• 1962 - Spottswood Poles, outfielder (b. 1887)
• 1966 - Parson Perryman, pitcher (b. 1888)
• 1966 - Bill Summers, umpire (b. 1895)
• 1967 - Rollie Zeider, infielder (b. 1883)
• 1968 - Charlie Conway, outfielder (b. 1886)
• 1968 - Don Rudolph, pitcher (b. 1931)
• 1969 - Ed Schorr, pitcher (b. 1891)
• 1971 - Bo Briggery, infielder (b. 1908)
• 1973 - Bernie Boland, pitcher (b. 1892)
• 1975 - Augie Johns, pitcher (b. 1899)
• 1977 - Tex Carleton, pitcher (b. 1906)
• 1980 - Ole Olsen, pitcher (b. 1894)
• 1985 - Steamboat Struss, pitcher (b. 1909)
• 1986 - Jim Shilling, infielder (b. 1914)
• 1990 - Jim Romano, pitcher (b. 1927)
• 1993 - Granny Hamner, infielder; All-Star (b. 1927)
• 1994 - Hunter Lane, infielder (b. 1900)
• 1997 - Mat Erwin, minor league catcher (b. 1973)
• 2007 - Lou Kretlow, pitcher (b. 1921)
• 2009 - Don Griffin, minor league catcher and manager (b. 1922)
• 2011 - Bill Cash, catcher; All-Star (b. 1919)
• 2012 - Omar Carrero, Cuban league pitcher (b. 1950)
• 2012 - Martin Hernandez, minor league pitcher (b. 1965)
• 2014 - Lew Randall, minor league outfielder (b. 1937)
• 2015 - Alex Monchak, infielder (b. 1919)
• 2016 - Adolfo Álvarez, winter league executive (b. 1930)
• 2018 - Hal Haydel, pitcher (b. 1944)
• 2018 - Billy O'Dell, pitcher; All-Star (b. 1932)
• 2020 - Rudy Kinard, minor league infielder (b. 1949)
• 2022 - Harry Booth, college coach (b. 1941)