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Events

• 1889 - After Buck Ewing hurts his thumb, Giants substitute catcher Willard Brown makes a critical throwing error as New York loses to Chicago, 4 - 3. New York is now tied with Boston for the National League lead.
• 1896 - Cleveland's Jesse Burkett gets three hits to finish the season at .410. The "Crab" becomes the first player to hit .400 in consecutive seasons.
• 1900 - At Boston's South End Grounds, Giants reliever Christy Mathewson fails to hold a 7 - 4 lead, and Boston wins, 8 - 7. It is Matty's third loss. The Giants will return the rookie to Norfolk rather than pay $1500, and Mathewson will be picked up by Cincinnati for $100.
• 1905:
  • Chicago White Sox P Ed Walsh hurls two victories over Boston, winning by scores of 10 - 5 and 3 - 1. When Doc White leaves the first game without retiring a batter in the 1st inning, Walsh comes in without warming up. He gives up five runs in the 1st, then blanks Boston the rest of the way.
  • Washington's Joe Stanley hits his second and last career homer and like his first, it's a grand slam.
  • At Philadelphia, A's starter Andy Coakley pitches seven innings and is behind, 4 - 2, against the Tigers when he departs. The A's knot the score up with runs in the 7th and 8th, and reliever Jimmy Dygert tosses the last three innings. When the Tigers score two in the 10th to win, the official scorer pins the loss on Coakley for pitching badly (later revisions will give the loss to Dygert, and Coakley's record of 20-7 will be the American League's best winning percentage).
  • The Giants top the Pirates, 9 - 5, with the help of eight walks and hit by pitch in six innings by usually steady Mike Lynch. Red Ames goes six innings to pick up the win, and Christy Mathewson tosses the last three innings of shutout ball.
• 1906:
  • After setting a major league record of being shut out for 48 consecutive innings, the A's finally score a run thanks to Harry Davis' two-run double. The Mackmen, however, still lose to the Cleveland Naps, 5 - 3.
  • In the second shortened no-hitter in three days, Lefty Leifield of Pittsburgh hurls a six-inning no-hitter against Philadelphia, winning, 8 - 0. Pittsburgh wins by a shutout in the first game as well.
  • Rookie OF Jack Cameron of Boston, after one relief appearance, gets a starting assignment against the Cardinals. Leadoff batter Tom O'Hara beats out an infield single. Al Burch's line drive hits Cameron in the head, and caroms back on a fly to C Jack O'Neill, who throws to Fred Tenney at 1B, doubling off O'Hara. Cameron retires with one assist and a headache. This is his last major league game.
• 1907 - After Cleveland's Addie Joss fired a one-hitter against the Highlanders yesterday, teammate Heinie Berger matches him today, also against hapless New York. This is the second time this century that teammates have thrown back-to-back one-hitters.
• 1908:
  • Ed Reulbach pitches two shutouts on the same day, whitewashing Brooklyn, 5 - 0, on a five-hitter and 3 - 0 on a three-hitter. The entire doubleheader is played in less than three hours. Big Ed allows five hits in the a.m. game, and is even stingier in the afternoon, yielding three hits and a walk. Kaiser Wilhelm and Jim Pastorius are the losing pitchers. Reulbach is the only pitcher in major league history to have performed this particular feat.
  • Washington's Walter Johnson loses, 5 - 4, to Cleveland when he makes a throwing error.
  • The Giants sweep the Reds, 6 - 2 and 3 - 1, behind victories by Christy Mathewson and Red Ames. For Matty, it is his 35th win.
  • Vic Willis tosses a six-hit shutout over Boston for a Pittsburgh win.
• 1911 - At Shibe Park, the A's clinch their second straight American League pennant, defeating the Tigers, 11 - 5. Frank Baker leads the offense with a homer and two doubles. Detroit, which led the A's by 12 games in May, will finish second, thirteen and a half games back.
• 1912:
  • Trailing 9 - 0 going into the 9th inning at Chicago, the Reds stage a terrific comeback against Jimmy Lavender. Lavender gives up five runs and is lifted with the bases loaded. Reliever Fred Toney then walks three straight before Larry Cheney is brought in. The Reds take an unlikely 10 - 9 lead as Cheney walks two straight. Reds pitcher Ralph Works catches the fever walking one Cub and hitting another. Reliever Rube Benton quickly relieves and follows suit, walking three batters in a row to give the Cubs the 11 - 10 decision.
  • The Giants clinch the National League flag with a sweep of the Braves, winning, 8 - 3 and 4 - 0. Christy Mathewson coasts to his 23rd win in the opener and Al Demaree, recently called up from Mobile where he was 25-10, shuts out the Braves on seven hits in the nitecap. Demaree strikes out nine in his first major league start.
• 1914:
  • Pete Alexander wins his ninth in a row for the Phils, beating the Reds, 7 - 4. Gavvy Cravath hits his 18th homer, off King Lear, and Sherry Magee clouts his 15th.
  • Meanwhile, the Giants split with the Pirates, winning and losing by 4 - 2 scores. Babe Adams wins the nitecap for the Bucs, shutting out the Giants in the last eight innings.
  • At Fenway Park, the Braves roll over the Cubs, 6 - 2 and 12 - 2. Lefty Tyler tops Hippo Vaughn in the opener, and Otto Hess beats Larry Cheney in the second game. The red hot Braves will sweep the four-game series with the Cubs.
• 1916 - Washington manager Clark Griffith excuses several regulars for the remaining games of the season so he can use some new players. Included in the excused is 25-game winner Walter Johnson. In a league-leading 371 innings pitched, he did not give up a home run, an all-time record.
• 1917 - The Braves' Jesse Barnes tops the Reds, 1 - 0, in the first of two games. Art Nehf follows with a 3 - 0 win to sweep Cincinnati.
• 1920:
  • Rube Marquard pitches his final victory as a Robin, a 4 - 2 win over his former team, the Giants, and allows just five hits. The Giants will lose tomorrow to Boston and the Robins will clinch the pennant.
  • Chicago's Eddie Cicotte tosses a seven-hitter in beating the Tigers, 8 - 1. The Sox stay a half-game in back of the Tribe.
  • In St. Louis, an overflow Sunday crowd of 30,000 watch the Indians top the Browns, 7 - 5, behind seven innings of strong relief by George Uhle. Joe Sewell knocks home four runs and Steve O'Neill contributes a drive that hits a mounted policeman's horse for a ground rule double.
  • In his last game of the season, Pittsburgh's Babe Adams walks one in an 8 - 0 loss to the Reds. He has walked 18 in 263 innings pitched, making him the stingiest pitcher ever for one season.
• 1921 - Babe Ruth hits home runs number 57 and 58 plus a double and a walk to beat the Indians, 8 - 7, and the Yankees take a two-game lead. George Burns adds a triple and three singles for New York in the come-from-behind win. The Indians load the bases in the 9th inning but Steve O'Neill strikes out on a Carl Mays fastball in the dirt to end it.
• 1924 - With the Yankees beating the A's, Boston tightens the race by edging the Senators, 2 - 1. September call-up Wade Lefler drives in Nemo Leibold in the 8th with a pinch double for the Nats' only run. Washington now leads by a game. For the Senators, the loss stops Walter Johnson's 13-game win streak and Sam Rice's 31-game hitting streak.
• 1925:
  • Philadelphia fans chip in to buy a new automobile for the A's player chosen by the press as MVP. The winner: Al Simmons with 30 points. Mickey Cochrane, a .331 hitter in his first year, is second.
  • With the pennant clinched, the Pirates get shut out for the second time in three days, losing twice to the visiting Giants. Fred Fitzsimmons stops the Bucs, 3 - 0, in the nitecap, beating Johnny Morrison. Zeke Barnes outpitches Vic Aldridge, 4 - 3, in the opener. To the dismay of the 25,000 on hand, the Bucs' leading batter Kiki Cuyler is hitless.
  • Cleveland sends rookie Ray Benge against Philadelphia and, in his first major league start, he stops the A's, 6 - 0.
• 1926:
  • The Browns beat the Yankees twice, 6 - 1 and 6 - 2, in a total time of two hours, seven minutes, a major-league record for a twinbill. The second game is the fastest in American League history: 55 minutes. The Yanks total 19 hits, while the Browns collect 26 in the two games. Babe Ruth has one at bat, then sits, and misses reliever George Sisler, who tosses two scoreless innings to finish for the Browns in the second game and, when the Browns score four in the 8th, picks up the victory. Ruth has 47 homers - twice as many as the runner-up, and also leads the AL with 139 runs, 155 RBI, and 144 bases on balls. Browns coach Jimmy Austin, 46 years old, participates in the nitecap and contributes to the win by knocking in a run with a double and then stealing home. He is not the oldest to steal a base (Arlie Latham, 50, in 1909), but he is the oldest to steal home. The Yankees use Fred Merkle in his final game. Merkle replaces Lou Gehrig at 1B in the 6th.
  • The Series-bound Cardinals lose to the Reds, 2 - 1, when Cincinnati scores two runs in the 9th. Pete Donohue wins his 20th for the Reds.
  • In his final day in a Tiger uniform, Ty Cobb watches his replacement in centerfield gets six hits in a twinbill with the Red Sox to become the new batting champ as Heinie Manush edges Babe Ruth, .378 to .372, for the title.
• 1927 - The Cubs play their last home date and report a season's attendance of 1,190,000, the first time the team goes over a million.
• 1928 - The Cardinals lose to Brooklyn, 6 - 1, but still hold a half-game lead over New York. Dazzy Vance sets down the Mound Citymen on five hits and strikes out seven to beat Clarence Mitchell.
• 1930 - Jesse Haines pitches the St. Louis Cards to a 10 - 5 pennant-clinching win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
• 1932 - In a doubleheader split with the Giants, Chuck Klein of the Phillies is 0 for 8 but closes the season with 38 home runs and 20 stolen bases to become the only player of the lively-ball era (1920 and after) to lead his league in these two departments. Klein also finishes second in RBIs (137), while teammates Don Hurst (143) and Pinky Whitney (124) finish first and third, respectively. In this century, only the 1915 Tigers and 1928 Yankees have had the top three RBI producers in a season.
• 1942 - Youngsters, admitted free for bringing scrap metal to aid the war effort, get restless and invade the field at the Polo Grounds in the 8th inning of the second game with the Giants leading, 5 - 2. Umpire Ziggy Sears forfeits the game, 9 - 0, to the Braves. Boston P Warren Spahn is not charged with a loss, although he was losing at the time of the forfeit. But he is given credit for a complete game, his only one in four appearances for the year.
• 1949 - Before 67,434 at Yankee Stadium, the Red Sox survive a rhubarb-filled, 7 - 6 win when Johnny Pesky scores on a disputed squeeze play. Leading by one game, the Sox move on to Washington for a three-game series before the last two games of the year with the Yankees.
• 1950 - Phils relief ace Jim Konstanty makes his 71st appearance, a major-league record, in the Phils' 8 - 7 win over the Braves in front of 1,987 Boston fans.
• 1951 - The Giants stay one game behind the Dodgers as Jim Hearn tops the Phillies, 10 - 1, and the Dodgers crush the Braves, 15 - 5. Roy Campanella drives home three runs in the 1st inning and Don Newcombe coasts to his 19th win. With a 13 - 3 lead in the 8th inning, Jackie Robinson steals home against rookie P Lew Burdette, infuriating the Braves.
• 1952 - The Yanks clinch their fourth straight pennant with an 11-inning, 5 - 2 win at Philadelphia behind Ed Lopat and Johnny Sain.
• 1953 - Billy Hunter becomes the last St. Louis Browns player to homer in a game. The Browns lose anyway, 6 - 3, to Chicago.
• 1954:
  • Going into the last day of the National League season, Don Mueller leads in hitting with .3426; Duke Snider is second at .3425, followed by Willie Mays at .3422. The Giants win in 11 innings over the Phillies' Robin Roberts, as Mays garners a single, double, and triple in four at-bats. He finishes at .345 while Mueller slips to .341, the same as Snider.
  • In his second start, rookie Brooklyn lefty Karl Spooner shuts out Pittsburgh, 1 - 0, on a Gil Hodges homer in the 8th. He fans 12 for a total of 27 strikeouts in his first two major league games, establishing a new record. Gil Hodges's 8th-inning homer, his 25th at Ebbets Field (a new club record), gives him 42 for the season, tying him with Duke Snider for the most by a Dodger.
  • Art Ditmar of the Athletics defeats the Yanks, 8 - 6, in the last game the franchise will play in Philadelphia before moving to Kansas City. Yankee C Yogi Berra plays his only career game at 3B. Mickey Mantle plays SS again in Casey Stengel's "power line-up."
• 1955 - The Red Sox beat the Yankees, 8 - 1, as Ted Williams goes 1 for 2. Williams finishes the season at .356, well ahead of Al Kaline's .340, but does not have enough at bats to win the batting title. The same thing happened in 1954. Williams was walked 136 times in 1954 and 71 times (an American League-leading 17 were intentional) this year. A rule change will be made to recognize plate appearances, not times at bat, to determine the batting champion.
• 1956:
  • Jim Lemon of the Senators sets a major league record for strikeouts by a batter in one season with 138. This surpasses Larry Doby's mark of 121, set in 1953. The Senators lose to the Red Sox, 8 - 4.
  • Charlie Beamon of the Orioles throws a 1 - 0 shutout against the Yankees in his first major league start.
  • Vic Wertz of the Indians hits four doubles and a single in an 8 - 4 win against the Athletics.
• 1958:
  • Corpus Christi (Texas League) agrees not to use black players in the Dixie Series with the Southern Association.
  • After today's doubleheader sweep of the Senators, Red Sox teammates Ted Williams and Pete Runnels are exactly tied for the American League batting leadership at .32258. Williams is 130 for 403, while Runnels is 180 for 558. Williams is 2 for 3 in the opener, with a home run, then sits in the second game. Runnels is 2 for 9 on the afternoon. The Nats lose, 6 - 4 and 3 - 1, to run their loss streak to 11.
• 1959:
  • At Milwaukee the Braves beat the Phillies, 3 - 2, behind Warren Spahn's 21st win. He passes Eppa Rixey as the winningest lefty in National League history.
  • The Cubs put the pennant race in a tie by blasting the Dodgers, 12 - 2, at Wrigley Field. The Cubs tally 18 hits in chasing Johnny Podres.
  • At St. Louis, Sam Jones pitches a seven-inning no-hitter, but National League President Warren Giles will rule it unofficial after rain wipes out the last 2 innings. Jones does gets credit for his 21st win, 4 - 0, and Willie Mays and Willie McCovey home runs account for the runs.
• 1961:
  • In New York's 159th game, Roger Maris rips a Jack Fisher fastball into the right field seats at Yankee Stadium for his 60th home run. New York beats Baltimore, 3 - 2. There are fewer than 8,000 fans on hand to view this historic event.
  • Cincinnati clinches its first National League pennant since 1940. Homers by Frank Robinson and pinch hitter Jerry Lynch, a tie-breaker in the 8th, give the Reds a 6 - 3 win at Chicago.
• 1962:
  • The Orioles' Dave McNally makes his first major league start and shuts out the A's, 3 - 0.
  • Pittsburgh's Earl Francis (9-8) gives up two hits in ten innings in beating the Reds, 1 - 0. Jim Maloney matches him for nine innings. Bob Friend pitches the 11th to earn his first save of the year after Bill Mazeroski and Willie Stargell double home the winning run. Bucs vet Bill Virdon steals his fifth base to go along with his 13 caught stealings, tying him for National League high with Maury Wills.
  • The Cubs lose their 101st, but the good news is that only 903 fans are on hand to see it. The Phils win, 5 - 3, their 18th win in 23 games. The Phils will win tomorrow, 8 - 0, behind Dennis Bennett, and only 607 fans will see that one.
• 1964:
  • The Reds belt the Mets, 6 - 1, for their seventh straight win, the longest winning streak in the National League this season. Marty Keough drives in half the runs with a single and double. The Reds are now a half-game back of the Phils.
  • At Shibe Park, the Braves and Phillies set a major league record by using 43 players in a nine-inning game. The Braves' 25 match the nine-inning high mark for National League clubs. Eight of the 25 are pitchers, tying a league mark, but still the stumbling Phils drop their sixth in a row, 6 - 4. The topper is Rico Carty's three-run triple in the top of the 9th against reliever Bobby Shantz, in for starter Art Mahaffey. Joe Torre again has three hits for Milwaukee, which shaves the Phils' lead to a half-game.
  • Behind rookie Mel Stottlemyre's two-hitter, the Yankees roll over the Senators, 7 - 0, for their 11th win in a row. Stottlemyre leads the offense with a major league record-tying five hits, the last pitcher to collect that many and just the eighth pitcher this century to do so (Jim Callahan of the White Sox did it twice). With a single in his last at bat in his last game, he's had six hits in a row.
• 1965:
  • Minnesota gains its first American League pennant by defeating Washington, 2 - 1. Jim Kaat (17-11) wins the clincher.
  • The Braves overcome Juan Marichal to beat the Giants, 3 - 2. Don Drysdale shuts out the Cards, 1 - 0, topping the 200 mark in strikeouts for a National League-record sixth straight season. The Giants and Dodgers are now deadlocked with seven games to play.
• 1967 - Cleveland's Luis Tiant beats the Red Sox, 6 - 3, despite Carl Yastrzemski's 43rd home run of the season. The Twins top the Angels, 7 - 3, behind two monster home runs by Harmon Killebrew, his 42nd and 43rd of the season. Mickey Lolich blanks the Yanks, 1 - 0, for Detroit to tighten the pennant race. The Twins (91-68) lead with Chicago (89-68) and the idle Red Sox (90-69) a game back, and Detroit (89-69) one and a half back.
• 1969 - Larry Shepard is fired as Pittsburgh manager. Alex Grammas will finish out the season as interim skipper.
• 1971:
  • Ernie Banks gets his 2,583rd hit, a 1st-inning single off the Phils' Ken Reynolds, but the Cubs lose, 5 - 1. It is the last hit of Banks's 19-year major league career.
  • Washington P Denny McLain loses his 22nd game of the season, dropping a 6 - 3 decision to the Red Sox.
  • Jim Palmer becomes the fourth member of the Orioles' pitching staff to notch his 20th victory, shutting out the host Indians, 5 - 0. He joins Dave McNally, Mike Cuellar and Pat Dobson in the hallowed circle. Only one other team in major league history (the 1920 White Sox) boasted four 20-game winners.
  • Willie Mays hits his 646th and last home run as a member of the San Francisco Giants. It comes off Steve Blateric in the 6th inning of the Giants' 12 - 5 win over the Cincinnati Reds at Riverfront Stadium.
• 1972:
  • Pittsburgh's Steve Blass and Roberto Clemente each close in on a cherished goal: the former, a 20-win season, the latter a 3,000-hit career. Blass notches his 19th victory – and No. 100 of his career – while Clemente raps two hits in a 5 - 1 breeze over the Phillies.
  • Yutaka Fukumoto steals his 105th base of the season, breaking Maury Wills' modern world record.
• 1973:
  • In front of a home crowd of 4,804, Jim Colborn wins his 20th for the Brewers, defeating the Yankees, 5 - 2. George Scott chips in with two RBIs, giving him 100 for the year. Colborn is the Brewers' first 20-game winner and the first in Milwaukee since Tony Cloninger did it for the Braves in 1965.
  • The Twins' Bert Blyleven posts his second one-hitter of the season, beating the A's, 4 - 1. Angel Mangual's single in the 5th is the only hit.
• 1975:
  • At Veterans Stadium, the Phils top the Mets, 4 - 3, in 12 innings in a game delayed twice by rain. In the second game the Mets are ahead in the 3rd when the third rain delay finally washes the game away. Only 200 fans are on hand when the game is called at 3:15 a.m.
  • Luis Tiant and Reggie Cleveland toss 4 - 0 shutouts at the Indians in both ends of a doubleheader. These are the first back-to-back Red Sox shutouts since 1956 and the second in 42 years. Don Aase and Cleveland will repeat the twinbill shutout on September 5, 1977 beating the Blue Jays at Toronto, 8 - 0 and 6 - 0.
  • At Wrigley Field, the Expos edge the Cubs, 3 - 2, with Dale Murray picking up his 15th win, all in relief. His 15 victories is tops on the staff.
  • By beating J.R. Richard and the Astros, 3 - 2, Burt Hooton sets a Dodger record for starting pitchers by winning his 12th consecutive game.
• 1976 - In the last big league games at Jarry Park, the Phillies beat the Expos, 4 - 1, in the first game of a doubleheader to clinch the National League East title. Philley also takes the nitecap, 2 - 1. Following the second game, Dick Allen jumps the team in protest of the fact that veteran Tony Taylor is not listed on the post-season roster.
• 1977 - In a 9 - 5 win at St. Louis, the Expos run in a record four pinch-runners in the 9th inning.
• 1978:
  • In a duel of aces, Dennis Eckersley tops Dave Rozema, scattering seven Tiger hits to win, 4 - 1. Eck's record at Fenway Park is now 10-1. The Sox have 14 hits, led by Jim Rice's 44th homer of the year. The Yankees top the Blue Jays, 4 - 1, to keep a one-game lead over Boston.
  • Baltimore's Mike Flanagan has a no-hitter against Cleveland with two outs in the 9th inning when Gary Alexander homers and two singles follow. Don Stanhouse comes in to save the 3 - 1 Orioles win.
• 1979:
  • Dennis Leonard shuts out California, 4 - 0, and Royals SS Frank White hits for the cycle.
  • Atlanta's Phil Niekro notches his 20th win of the season by beating his brother Joe, the National League's only other 20-game winner this season, 9 - 4. The Niekro brothers are the second pair (the other was Jim Perry and Gaylord Perry) to win 20 games in the same year, and Phil Niekro, who finishes at 21-20, is the first pitcher since Wilbur Wood in 1973 to win and lose 20 games the same year, and the first NL pitcher to do so since 1905. No one has done it since.
• 1981 - At the Astrodome, Astro Nolan Ryan becomes the first pitcher to throw five no-hitters, defeating the Dodgers, 5 - 0. Ryan had shared the record of four with Dodger great Sandy Koufax, but had not pitched a no-hitter since June 1, 1975. The 34-year-old Ryan strikes out 11 and retires the last 19 batters in a row while lowering his league-leading ERA to 1.74.
• 1982 - Down 1 - 0 to the Braves in the 3rd, Padres OF Gene Richards hits a long fly ball down the left field line that Terry Harper spears at the last second. But Harper's momentum carries him out of bounds where he hits the railing, dropping the ball. Meanwhile the speedy Richards circles the bases. The umpire rules Harper did not hold the ball long enough for an out and he is charged with a four-base error (later overruled by the League office to an inside-the-park home run for Richards). The Padres win the game, 3 - 2.
• 1983 - The Cardinals' Bob Forsch pitches his second career no-hitter, 3 - 0 against the Expos. Forsch allows just two baserunners while becoming the first Cardinal and 25th pitcher overall to throw more than one no-hitter.
• 1984 - Philadelphia's Juan Samuel breaks Tim Raines's record for steals by a rookie with his 72nd in a 7 - 1 loss to the Mets. Raines had set the record of 71 in the strike-shortened 1981 season. The second-place Mets are the first team to finish above .500 and score fewer runs than their opponents in a full season since the 1932 Pirates.
• 1985 - The Cards' John Tudor picks up his 20th win of the season with his Major League-leading tenth shutout, a 5 - 0 four-hitter against the Phillies. It's the most in ten years and the most by a lefty since Sandy Koufax in 1963.
• 1986 - California clinches the American League West title with an 8 - 3 win over Texas. Brian Downing belts two home runs for the Angels.
• 1987 - Benito Santiago extends his hitting streak to 28 games in a 3 - 1 loss to the Dodgers, setting a new major-league record for rookies. Pittsburgh's Jimmy Williams had held the record with a 27-game streak in 1899.
• 1988 - The Dodgers beat the Padres, 3 - 2, to clinch the National League West title and earn a playoff date with the Mets, who won ten of their 11 meetings this season.
• 1989 - The Cubs become the first team to clinch a division title this season, wrapping up the National League East with a 3 - 2 win over the Expos. Mitch Williams strikes out Mike Fitzgerald to win the game.
• 1992:
  • The Mets lose to the Pirates, 19 - 2, as the Bucs collect 20 hits, including homers by Barry Bonds and Andy Van Slyke. Van Slyke adds a triple and Lloyd McClendon has a homer and four RBIs. IF Bill Pecota pinch hits and pitches the last inning for New York, becoming the first position player ever to hurl an inning for the Mets. He gives up one hit and one run.
  • Richard Seitz, creator of the APBA baseball game, dies at the age of 77.
  • Greg Vaughn's home run in the 6th is the difference in the Brewers' 2 - 1 win over the A's. Milwaukee's Pat Listach draws a walk after taking 17 pitches from A's starter Ron Darling. He's cut down stealing. Reliever Jesse Orosco is the winner over his former Met teammate.
• 1993:
  • The Rockies set a season attendance record, reaching 4,483,350 as they defeat the Reds, 12 - 7.
  • Seattle P Randy Johnson strikes out Ruben Sierra of the Athletics for his 300th strikeout of the season, making him the 12th pitcher this century to reach that mark. The Mariners lose to the Athletics, 3 - 2, in 12 innings.
• 1994 - The Baltimore Orioles fire manager Johnny Oates.
• 1996 - Oakland C Terry Steinbach hits a 6th-inning home run in a 7 - 5 victory over Seattle, giving the Athletics their 241st home run of the season. They become the second team this season to surpass the mark formerly held by the 1961 Yankees.
• 1997:
  • Four Yankees pitchers combine to one-hit the Tigers, winning by a score of 8 - 2. Andy Pettitte starts and allows a two-run single to Travis Fryman in the 3rd inning, giving Detroit a 2 - 1 lead. Pettitte leaves after four frames and is succeeded by Brian Boehringer (3 innings), Mariano Rivera (1 inning), and Jeff Nelson (1 inning). Rivera receives credit for the win when New York explodes for six runs in the 9th inning.
  • In the 7th at Shea Stadium, Atlanta SS Rafael Belliard hits his first homer in a decade, off Brian Bohanon, to tie the Mets at 6 apiece. His last came on May 5, 1987, off Eric Show of the Padres. Atlanta wins, 7 - 6, in 11 innings.
• 1998:
  • Mark McGwire stands alone atop the home run leader board as he parks #67 and #68 at Busch Stadium, but his Cards lose, 7 - 6, to Montreal. McGwire's main pursuer, Sammy Sosa, has no homers but a pair of hits and scores the game-winning run as the Cubs edge Houston, 3 - 2. Gary Gaetti has two RBIs while Jeff Bagwell hits his 34th for the Astros.
  • The hot Giants rip the Rockies, 8 - 4, to stay tied with the Cubs for the wild card. Orel Hershiser wins his 11th, despite allowing eight hits in 5+ innings. One of the hits is Larry Walker's 23rd homer, and he adds another two hits to run his average to .362.
  • The Yankees defeat the Devil Rays, 3 - 1, for David Cone's 20th win of the year. Cone sets a record for the most years (ten) between 20-win seasons, having won 20 for the Mets in 1988. Jim Kaat held the previous record at nine. Shane Spencer homers, his sixth in nine days and his seventh in the month, a Yankee rookie record.
  • Phillies P Curt Schilling strikes out seven batters to reach the 300 mark in the season. He thus becomes the fifth pitcher in major league history to fan 300 or more in consecutive seasons. Florida wins in the 10th, 4 - 3, on Dave Berg's two-out double. The Phillies also lose the nightcap, 1 - 0, in 13 innings.
  • Juan Samuel, playing in his final major league game, pinch runs, steals third and scores the winning run in the 13th inning for the Toronto Blue Jays against the Detroit Tigers.
  • Rickey Henderson, 39, steals his 66th base of the season. The all-time stolen base leader is the oldest player to ever steal more than 50 bases in a season.
  • Dennis Eckersley gets a standing ovation from the Fenway Park crowd as he appears in his 1,071st game, breaking Hoyt Wilhelm's record for most appearances. It will be the Eck's final game, When the Red Sox refuse arbitration after the season, Eckersley will retire on December 10th.
• 1999 - The Cardinals lose to the Reds, 7 - 5, despite Mark McGwire's 60th home run of the season. McGwire joins Sammy Sosa as the only players in history to reach the 60-homer mark twice. "Big Mac" will end the season with 147 RBIs on 145 hits, the only player in major league history (with 100 hits in a season) to have more ribbies than hits. Jay Buhner, in 1995, came closest with 121 RBIs and 123 hits.
• 2000 - The Braves defeat the Mets, 7 - 1, to clinch first place in the NL East for their record ninth straight division title (not counting 1994 when they were in second place when the strike ended the season early).
• 2001:
  • The Kintetsu Buffaloes clinch their first Pacific League title in 12 years (and their final one, as they will merge with the Orix Blue Wave after the 2004 season). They do so in dramatic fashion: they trail Orix, 5 - 2, going into the bottom of the 9th but rally against Masanobu Okubo, loading the bases. Masataka Nashida calls on Hirotoshi Kitagawa to bat for Kenji Furukubo, the last remaining player from the 1989 Kintetsu club. Kitagawa delivers a grand slam, only the sixth pinch-hit, come-from-behind, sayonara grand slam in NPB history (and the first pennant-clinching one).
  • Philadelphia's Randy Wolf hurls a one-hitter against the Reds, defeating Cincinnati by a score of 8 - 0. The Reds' only hit is Raul Gonzalez's first major league hit in the opening inning.
• 2002 - Livan Hernandez (12-16) pitches a masterful two-hitter as the Giants beat the Padres, 6 - 0. Hernandez is tied with Ben Sheets for most losses in the National League. The Giants stay three games ahead of Los Angeles for the wild card spot. Reggie Sanders connects twice for homers, and Barry Bonds walks in his 16th straight game to tie Jack Clark's National League record set in 1987. He's walked 194 times; he'll end the year with 198 passes, a new major-league record topping Babe Ruth's mark set in 1923. Bonds will finish with a .582 on-base percentage, easily topping the old mark of .553 by Ted Williams in 1941.
• 2007:
  • Michael Young collects 200 hits for the fifth year in a row, matching the record held by Charlie Gehringer for a middle infielder.
  • For the first time in four years, a major league umpire is suspended. Mike Winters will be out for the remainer of the season for baiting Milton Bradley during a confrontation. The Commissioner's office says Winters used profane language during the incident.
• 2008:
  • The Brewers move one game ahead of the Mets in the National League Wild Card race with a 5 - 1 win against the Cubs. Rickie Weeks' three-run home run in the 7th is the big blow for the Brew Crew. Seth McClung pitches four innings of scoreless relief for the win.
  • The Yankees crush the Red Sox, 19 - 8, on a rainy night at Fenway Park. Back-up shortstop Cody Ransom hits two homers while Robinson Cano drives in five runs and Brett Gardner four more in the rout. Boston's loss means that Tampa Bay officially clinches the AL East division title. It is the first time since 1997 that neither Boston nor New York has won the AL East. Tampa Bay had never won 70 games in a season before this year.
• 2009:
  • Team Canada win its first medal ever in a global international senior-level competition, taking the Bronze at the 2009 Baseball World Cup. They beat a Puerto Rican team loaded with former major leaguers, 6 - 2. Trystan Magnuson gets the historic win, while Jimmy Van Ostrand drives in three.
  • CC Sabathia wins his 19th game, giving up one hit in seven innings in a 3 - 0 Yankees victory over Boston. Newly-appointed Supreme Court judge Sonia Sotomayor, a lifelong Yankees fan better known in baseball circles for her ruling that ended the 1994 strike, throws the ceremonial first pitch to Jose Molina.
  • Adam Wainwright also notches win number 19, as St. Louis beats Colorado, 6 - 3, to clinch the NL Central title.
  • The Dodgers also clinch a spot in the postseason with an 8 - 4 victory over Pittsburgh, highlighted by a two-run pinch single by Jim Thome. Manager Joe Torre leads a team to the playoffs for the 14th straight year, tying a record held by Bobby Cox of the Atlanta Braves.
  • Minnesota continues its late surge, winning its 11th in 12 games, 11 - 6 over Kansas City. Denard Span collects four hits and six RBI in the win.
• 2010:
  • Yakult Swallows outfielder Norichika Aoki takes Kenichi Nakata deep for his 200th hit of the year. He becomes the first Nippon Pro Baseball player with multiple 200-hit seasons, having previously accomplished the feat in 2005.
  • In Sweden, the Karlskoga Bats win the 2010 Elitserien title, topping Stockholm BSK three games to two in the finals. Christoffer Johansson is named MVP.
  • The 2010 Korea Baseball Organization regular season ends. Dae-ho Lee becomes the first two-time Triple Crown winner, easily leading in average (.364), homers (44) and RBI (133).
  • Fortitudo Bologna wins the 2010 European Cup, topping Heidenheim Heidekoepfe, 2 - 1, in ten innings in the finale. Heidenheim becomes the first German team to win a medal at a European Cup with their silver; Markus Winkler throws nine shutout innings today to try to get them the gold. Juan Pablo Angrisano drives in Jairo Ramos Gizzi with the winner. Bologna takes its third European Cup, its first since 1985.
  • Chao-Hao Tseng of the La New Bears makes his 67th appearance of the 2010 CPBL season, breaking Chien-San Kao's CPBL record for games pitched in a year. Tseng had broken Matt Perisho's CPBL hold record earlier in the month.
• 2011:
  • Ozzie Guillen announces he is stepping down as manager of the Chicago White Sox, which he led to a World Series title in 2005, in order to become manager of the Miami Marlins next season. The White Sox will receive compensation in the form of minor league players as Guillen is under contract for 2012.
  • The Rays defeat the Yankees, 5 - 2, behind James Shields' 16th win of the year, and catch the Red Sox in the American League wild card race. The Rays trailed the Red Sox by nine games as late as September 2nd. For their part, the Sox lose, 6 - 3, to Baltimore and are a woeful 6-19 in September. In the game, Vladimir Guerrero passes Julio Franco for most hits by a player from the Dominican Republic with 2,586. Vlad hits a single off Josh Beckett as part of a four-run outburst which sinks Boston in the 6th inning.
• 2012:
  • CC Sabathia strikes out ten batters over eight innings to lead the Yankees over the Twins, 8 - 2. But the Yankees can't put any additional distance between themselves and the second-place Orioles, who remain one and a half games behind, as the Birds hit seven homers in routing the Blue Jays, 12 - 2. Chris Davis and Manny Machado both hit two long balls for the O's, while Nate McLouth leads off the bottom of the 1st by going yard, and Jim Thome and Mark Reynolds get the other two. The seven homers tie a club record accomplished thrice, last on August 26, 1985.
  • The Tigers beat the Royals, 5 - 4, and when the White Sox lose to Cleveland, 6 - 4, they take sole possession of first place in the AL Central for the first time since July 24th. In the 5th inning, Alex Gordon robs Detroit's Miguel Cabrera of a home run by catching a ball over the left field fence; the catch may turn out to be costly, as Cabrera is putting in the most serious bid for a Triple Crown since Carl Yastrzemski's 1967 feat.
• 2013:
  • Bud Selig announces that he will step down as Commissioner at the end of 2014, having been in the job in an acting capacity since 1992 and formally since 1998.
  • There are some wild games in the American League, but at the end of the day, the wild card standings are unaffected. Tampa Bay shuts out New York, 4 - 0, at New Yankee Stadium as Mariano Rivera tosses 1 1/3 inning in his last-ever appearance at home. Cleveland retains its hold on the second wild card by surviving a 9th-inning scare, which sees a comfortable 6 - 1 lead turn into a 6 - 5 win over the Twins as embattled closer Chris Perez fails once again, and Texas keeps pace at one game back as Jurickson Profar hits a walk-off homer in the 9th for a 6 - 5 win over the Angels.
  • Ryosuke Kikuchi of the Hiroshima Carp has his 497th assist of the season at 2B, breaking the record held by Masahiro Araki since 2005.
• 2014:
  • The Royals clinch a spot in the postseason for the first time since 1985 with a 3 - 1 win over the White Sox which ends the longest postseason drought in the majors. Following Detroit's 11 - 4 loss to Minnesota, the Royals still have a shot at winning the AL Central title, trailing the Tigers by only one game.
  • The Diamondbacks continue their house-cleaning. One day after naming Dave Stewart as the team's new GM, they fire manager Kirk Gibson. Bench coach Alan Trammell will complete the season as interim manager, even though he is also dismissed, his departure being only effective at the end of the season.
  • The Indians set a major league record for most strikeouts in a season when Corey Kluber records number 1,429 in a 1 - 0 win over the Rays. The record was set by the Tigers only last year. Kluber strikes out 11 in eight innings to finish the year with 18 wins.
• 2016:
  • The Marlins honor José Fernandez, killed in a boat crash a day earlier, before their game with the Mets and announce that his uniform number, 16, is being [retired number|retired]]. They then go on to beat the Mets, 7 - 3. Dee Gordon, known as scrap hitter, leads off the game with a home run to the upper deck, his first and only one of the year, while 1B Justin Bour legs out the first triple of his career in an emotional contest full of unusual happenings.
  • The Cubs win their 100th game of the season by defeating the Pirates, 12 - 2. Javier Baez hits a grand slam and drives in six runs to lead the attack. It is the first 100-win season for the Cubbies since 1935.
• 2017 - In an otherwise meaningless game, Pirates OF Andrew McCutchen hits the first grand slam of his career off Kevin Gausman in the 2nd inning of a 10 - 1 Bucs win over the Orioles. It took McCutchen over 5,000 at-bats, during which he slugged 201 homers, before connecting for the first time with the bases loaded. He completes his night's work with an RBI double in the 2nd, a single in the 5th after which he comes in to score, and a three-run homer in the 7th to finish with eight RBIs, one shy of the franchise record.
• 2018:
  • The Cubs and Brewers both clinch a postseason slot with wins today, although which of the two teams will finish first in the NL Central and which will host the Wild Card Game remains up in the air, as only a half-game separates them.
  • German Marquez of the Rockies ties a modern major league record by striking out the first eight batters he faces in a 14 - 0 win over the Phillies. Marquez now shares the mark with Jim Deshaies and Jacob deGrom. Colorado has won six straight and leapfrogs over the Dodgers in a tight NL West race.
• 2019 - The Twins become the first team ever to hit 300 homers in a season, as Jonathan Schoop connects in the 7th inning off Jose Cisnero in a 10 - 4 win over the Tigers. Willians Astudillo adds another long ball the following inning as Minnesota just beats out the Yankees to the mark; both teams had hit 299 homers at the start of the day.
• 2021 - Boston Massacre Redux? The Yankees complete a three-game sweep of the Red Sox at Fenway Park to take first place in the tight American League wild card race, one game ahead of Boston and two ahead of Toronto, with Seattle still in the mix, with one week left to play. Like the infamous series in September of 1978 when they won four straight games in Boston in dominating fashion, the Bronx Bombers flaunt their power, with Giancarlo Stanton hitting huge home runs high above the Green Monster on consecutive nights, today's keying a 6 - 3 win in a nationally televised game. Stanton's 8th-inning blast off former teammate Adam Ottavino follows a two-run double by Aaron Judge and proves to be the knockout punch.
• 2023:
  • Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson, a life-long member of the Baltimore Orioles and considered by many as the greatest fielding third baseman of all time, dies at age 86.
  • RF Seiya Suzuki of the Cubs commits a crucial error, dropping a routine fly ball that would have ended the 8th inning, instead opening the doors for Atlanta to score twice and win, 7 - 6. The loss clinches the NL Central title for the Brewers, in spite of a 4 - 1 loss to St. Louis. The Cubs led 6 - 0 in the middle of the 6th and can't really blame Suzuki, as he has been red hot this month, slugging .731 in 24 games.

Births

• 1821 - William Van Cott, executive (d. 1908)
• 1847 - Al Martin, infielder (d. 1926)
• 1850 - Gus Schmelz, manager (d. 1925)
• 1876 - Tom Asmussen, catcher (d. 1963)
• 1878 - Henry Fox, pitcher (d. 1947)
• 1880 - Bert Humphries, pitcher (d. 1945)
• 1886 - Jim Rutherford, outfielder (d. 1956)
• 1889 - George Anderson, outfielder (d. 1962)
• 1890 - Bob Coleman, catcher, manager (d. 1959)
• 1891 - Tinsley Ginn, outfielder (d. 1931)
• 1892 - William Daley, owner (d. 1971)
• 1895 - Bernie Neis, outfielder (d. 1972)
• 1895 - Lonnie Torian, pitcher (d. 1969)
• 1904 - Jess Cortazzo, pinch hitter (d. 1963)
• 1905 - Pat Caraway, pitcher (d. 1974)
• 1905 - Johnny Hodapp, infielder (d. 1980)
• 1905 - Emilio Navarro, infielder (d. 2011)
• 1905 - Steel Arm Tyler, pitcher (d. 1970)
• 1909 - Leo Ogorek, minor league outfielder (d. 1982)
• 1910 - Joe Sullivan, pitcher (d. 1985)
• 1911 - Al Helfer, broadcaster (d. 1975)
• 1912 - Grey Clarke, infielder (d. 1993)
• 1915 - Johnny Johnson, pitcher (d. ????)
• 1916 - Danny Escobar, minor league outfielder (d. 1985)
• 1917 - Thurman Tucker, outfielder; All-Star (d. 1993)
• 1918 - Walt Chipple, outfielder (d. 1988)
• 1920 - Tadayoshi Kajioka, NPB pitcher (d. 2003)
• 1921 - George Eshelman, umpire (d. 1999)
• 1921 - John Johnson, minor league executive (d. 1988)
• 1921 - Clarence Maddern, outfielder (d. 1986)
• 1924 - Clarence Bruce, infielder (d. 1990)
• 1924 - Eddie Erautt, pitcher (d. 2013)
• 1924 - Tony Morales, minor league infielder (d. 2014)
• 1925 - Bobby Shantz, pitcher; All-Star
• 1926 - Tite Figueroa, pitcher (d. 1986)
• 1926 - Mel McGaha, manager (d. 2002)
• 1927 - Charles Aspromonte, minor league outfielder (d. 2018)
• 1928 - Al Lary, pitcher (d. 2001)
• 1929 - Doug Minnis, college coach (d. 2019)
• 1928 - John Thomas, British Hall of Fame catcher (d. 2012)
• 1932 - Edward Miller, minor league infielder
• 1933 - Roy Wright, pitcher (d. 2018)
• 1935 - Jaime Barroso, Venezuelan national team infielder
• 1935 - Walt Streuli, catcher (d. 2017)
• 1945 - Dave Duncan, catcher; All-Star
• 1947 - Norm McRae, pitcher (d. 2003)
• 1949 - Norm Caig, Canadian national team catcher
• 1950 - Bill Moran, pitcher
• 1953 - Jim Gideon, pitcher
• 1957 - Kelvin Moore, infielder (d. 2014)
• 1957 - Doug Sisk, pitcher
• 1957 - Steve Righetti, minor league infielder
• 1959 - Rich Gedman, catcher; All-Star
• 1961 - Steve Buechele, infielder
• 1963 - Marty Baier, minor league infielder (d. 1985)
• 1963 - Calvin Jones, pitcher (d. 2022)
• 1964 - Dave Martinez, outfielder; manager
• 1964 - Joe Skalski, pitcher
• 1965 - Doug Piatt, pitcher
• 1966 - Scott Duff, minor league pitcher (d. 1999)
• 1967 - Rudy Garbalosa, college coach
• 1967 - Brian Traxler, infielder (d. 2004)
• 1968 - Brian Shouse, pitcher
• 1969 - Nguyen Boulet, Cuban league outfielder
• 1969 - Clint Davis, minor league pitcher
• 1969 - Brian Looney, pitcher
• 1969 - Ming-Tsun Yin, CPBL outfielder
• 1970 - Matt Murray, pitcher
• 1972 - Fumiya Nishiguchi, NPB pitcher
• 1974 - Jorge DeLeon, minor league player
• 1974 - Aquiles Pinales, minor league player
• 1974 - Chin-Sho Shih, CPBL catcher
• 1976 - Jay Pecci, minor league infielder and manager
• 1977 - Aaron Myette, pitcher
• 1979 - Yurendell de Caster, infielder
• 1979 - Alan Webb, minor league pitcher
• 1979 - Ron Wojciak, minor league catcher
• 1982 - Daniel De Sutter, First Division infielder
• 1982 - Matt Goodson, minor league pitcher
• 1982 - Jean Granado, minor league pitcher
• 1982 - Eric Hollis, minor league catcher
• 1982 - Daniel McCutchen, pitcher
• 1982 - Koby Perez, scout
• 1983 - Anthony Contreras, minor league infielder and manager
• 1983 - Scott Lewis, pitcher
• 1983 - Taira Uematsu, coach
• 1984 - Wirfin Obispo, NPB pitcher
• 1985 - Rob Musgrave, minor league pitcher
• 1985 - Jamie McOwen, minor league outfielder
• 1985 - Diamillette Quiles, Puerto Rican women's national team infielder
• 1986 - Sean Doolittle, pitcher; All-Star
• 1987 - Tyler Weeden, minor league catcher
• 1988 - Chris Archer, pitcher; All-Star
• 1988 - Owen Dew, minor league player and coach
• 1988 - Matt Gedman, minor league infielder
• 1988 - Yudai Ono, NPB pitcher
• 1989 - Colin Walsh, outfielder
• 1990 - Brooks Pounders, pitcher
• 1990 - Eric Ruth, minor league pitcher
• 1991 - Cody Chartrand, Bundesliga pitcher
• 1991 - Miguel Aguilar, pitcher
• 1992 - Dante Bichette, Jr., minor league infielder
• 1992 - Rina Taniyama, Japanese women's national team pitcher
• 1992 - David Villegas, minor league pitcher
• 1993 - Wei-Chieh Huang, pitcher
• 1993 - Jordan Luplow, outfielder
• 1993 - Lance Myers, minor league infielder and manager
• 1995 - Albert Abreu, pitcher
• 1995 - Hrvoje Tadić, Croatian national team infielder
• 1996 - Ryosuke Aizawa, Japanese national team outfielder
• 1996 - Suppakorn Lin, Thai national team pitcher
• 1996 - Matt Waldron, pitcher
• 1997 - Shean Michel, minor league outfielder
• 2001 - Hideki Nagaoka, NPB infielder
• 2002 - Chun-Lam Mok, Hong Kong national team pitcher

Deaths

• 1884 - Jim Egan, outfielder (b. 1858)
• 1890 - Jerrie Moore, catcher (b. 1855)
• 1894 - Nick Reeder, infielder (b. 1867)
• 1896 - John Curran, catcher (b. 1852)
• 1901 - Billy Carlin, umpire (b. 1856)
• 1912 - Cherokee Fisher, pitcher (b. 1845)
• 1915 - Ed Cushman, pitcher (b. 1852)
• 1929 - John Whiting, pre-MLB infielder (b. 1841 or 1842)
• 1932 - Henry Gruber, pitcher (b. 1863)
• 1942 - Joe Giannini, infielder (b. 1888)
• 1943 - Roy Largent, scout (b. 1879)
• 1947 - John McFarlin, infielder (b. 1907)
• 1948 - Hosea Allen, pitcher (b. 1918)
• 1948 - Elmer Leifer, infielder/outfielder (b. 1893)
• 1950 - John Scheneberg, pitcher (b. 1887)
• 1953 - Bill Cunningham, outfielder (b. 1895)
• 1958 - Raleigh Aitchison, pitcher (b. 1887)
• 1958 - Bessie Largent, scout (b. 1882)
• 1961 - Vern Hughes, pitcher (b. 1893)
• 1964 - Paul Zahniser, pitcher (b. 1896)
• 1968 - Bud Clancy, infielder (b. 1900)
• 1970 - Art Hancock, pitcher/infielder (b. 1905)
• 1972 - Jesse Baker, pitcher (b. 1888)
• 1974 - Lefty Stewart, pitcher (b. 1900)
• 1976 - Buddy Crump, outfielder (b. 1901)
• 1976 - Rip Russell, infielder (b. 1915)
• 1977 - Ernie Lombardi, catcher; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1908)
• 1980 - Andy O'Connor, pitcher (b. 1884)
• 1980 - Goro Taniguchi, college pitcher; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1901)
• 1984 - Walt Bashore, outfielder (b. 1909)
• 1997 - Woody English, infielder; All-Star (b. 1906)
• 1997 - Hiroshi Hagiwara, NPB outfielder (b. 1924)
• 2002 - Al Kvasnak, outfielder (b. 1921)
• 2004 - Victor Cruz, pitcher (b. 1957)
• 2005 - William Rautzhan, minor league infielder (b. 1922)
• 2006 - Hisayuki Tanaka, Japanese national team infielder (b. 1947)
• 2008 - Michael Bajo, minor league pitcher (b. 1919)
• 2009 - Rafael Sangil, minor league pitcher (b. 1922)
• 2014 - Nobuyuki Kagawa, NPB catcher (b. 1961)
• 2020 - Jay Johnstone, outfielder (b. 1945)
• 2020 - Hal Raether, pitcher (b. 1932)
• 2021 - Don Dahlke, minor league infielder (b. 1928)
• 2023 - Brooks Robinson, infielder; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1937)