September 27th

 On this day in Yankee history... 


1920: Carl Mays and the Yankees beat the A's 3-0, as Mays allows just four hits. It is his 3rd straight shutout of Philadelphia and his 10th straight win against them. Babe Ruth drives in all the runs on a pair of homers over the RF fence off Eddie Rommel, his 52nd and 53rd homers of the campaign. He hits two other liners to left and center that are close to the wall. 

                      
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1923: Lou Gehrig hits his first major league home run in an 8-3 win over the Red Sox at Fenway. 

 

 

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1927: Babe Ruth connects for a grand slam off Lefty Grove, while Lou Gehrig hits No. 46 in a 7-4 win over the A's. Ruth has 57 with three games to play. The grand slam is the Babe's second in three days. 



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1930: Lou Gehrig plays the last of 885 consecutive games at 1B. In the next game, the season's finale, he will take Babe Ruth's LF position. 


1931: Lou Gehrig hits a home run to tie Babe Ruth at 46 while the Yankees pound Lefty Grove 13-1, denying him his 32nd victory. Grove throws just three innings in the A's warmup for the World Series. Gehrig drives in two runs as he (184) and Ruth (163) combine to drive in 347 runs for the year, the most productive duo in history. Bill Dickey has four hits and ends the year with no passed balls, the only AL catcher to do so, while the Yankees are the only AL team to ever accomplish the feat. 

 

1938: In an 8-3 win over the Senators at the Stadium, Lou Gehrig hits his 493rd and final major league home run. 

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1998: Topping Tampa Bay 8-3, the Yankees win their seventh straight game to end the season with a .704 winning percentage. The Bronx Bombers (114-48) become the first team since the 1954 Indians (111-43) to play over .700 ball for an entire season. 

                           
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2009: The Yankees are assured of the best record in the American League after a 4-2 win over the Red Sox. Andy Pettitte picks up the win, and once again Mariano Rivera gets the save, in New York's 100th win of the year. The Bombers finish 9-9 against their divisional rivals, after dropping the first 8 contests between the two teams. 

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September 26th

 On this day in Yankee history... 


1921: Babe Ruth  hits home runs number 57 and 58 plus a double and a walk to beat the Indians 8-7, increasing the Yankee lead in the pennant race to two games. George Burns (below) 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. 

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1925: Bobby Shantz is born. 

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1952: The Yankee clinch their 4th straight pennant, an 11-inning 5-2 win at Philadelphia behind Ed Lopat and Johnny Sain.  

   
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1961: In the Yankees' 159th game, Roger Maris rips a Jack Fisher fastball into the short porch in right at the Stadium for his 60th home run of the season. New York beat Baltimore 3-2, though there are fewer than 8,000 fans on hand to witness the historic event. 

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1964: 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 8th 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 has had six hits in a row. 

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1997: Four Yankee pitchers combine to one-hit the Tigers for an 8-2 win. 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 explode for six runs in the 9th inning. 

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1998: The Yankees defeat the Devil Rays 3-1, giving David Cone his 20th win of the year. Cone sets a record for the most years (10) between 20-win seasons, having last won 20 for the Mets in 1988. Jim Kaat held the previous record at 9. Shane Spencer homers, his 6th in nine days and his 7th in the month, a Yankee rookie record. 

                         
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2008: The Yankees thrash the Red Sox 19-8 on a rainy night at Fenway. Back-up shortstop Cody Ransom hits two homers, while Robinson Cano drives in 5 runs and Brett Gardner 4 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. The Rays had never won 70 games in a season before this year. 

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2009: CC Sabathia wins his 19th game, giving up one hit in seven innings in a 3-0 Yankee victory over Boston. Newly-appointed Supreme Court judge Sonia Sotomayor, a lifelong Yankee fan better known in baseball circles for her ruling that ended the 1994-95 strike, throws the ceremonial first pitch to Jose Molina. 

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2013: In a 4-0 loss to Tampa Bay, Mariano Rivera makes his final appearance at Yankee Stadium. 

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September 25th

 On this day in Yankee history... 

1917: Phil Rizzuto is born 

  
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1921: At the Polo Grounds, the Yankees thrash the 2nd-place Indians 21-7 to move a full game ahead of the Tribe. The Yanks chase Ray Caldwell in the 2nd and dust Duster Mails for 10 runs in his two innings. Carl Mays goes the distance for the win. 

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1926: The Yankees take two from the Browns to clinch their fourth AL pennant, winning the opener 10-2 behind Herb Pennock. Babe Ruth's grand slam is the big blow. In the nitecap, Lou Gehrig homers in the 3rd inning off Milt Gaston, while Ruth matches him with a two-run home run in the 6th off Win Ballou. Ruth adds a solo shot in the 9th, his 46th, off Joe Giard to seal Waite Hoyt's 10-4 victory.

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1929: At Fenway Park, the game is halted during the 5th inning as the umpires call time-out and have players from the Yankees and Red Sox gather at home plate. Bill McGowan, a respected arbiter, informs the teams that Bronx Bomber manager Miller Huggins has just died in New York and asks the crowd to stand for one minute of silence as the flag in center field is lowered to half-staff. 

1934: Lou Gehrig plays his 1,500th consecutive game, a 5-0 shutout of the A's. His 48th homer is a career high. 

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1949: Despite 71 injuries that kept players out of games, Casey Stengel and his Yankees have been in first place all season. But today the Red Sox move into a tie for first place with a 4-1 victory over Allie Reynolds. Ted Williams hits his 43rd homer, and Mel Parnell wins his 25th game of the season. The lefty is 16-3 at Fenway Park this year. Joe DiMaggio listens to the game from a hospital, bedridden with pneumonia. The Yankees return to New York and are greeted at Grand Central Station by a huge crowd of fans, including Mrs. Babe Ruth, who predicts, "Whoever wins tomorrow should go all the way." 

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1960: The Yankees clinch their 25th pennant with a 4-3 victory over the Red Sox, Ralph Terry getting the win, and Luis Arroyo the save. It is Casey Stengel's 10th pennant in 12 years at New York.    

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1962: Whitey Ford beats Washington 8-3, as the Yankees clinch their 27th pennant in franchise history. Ralph Houk becomes the 5th manager to capture pennants in each of his first two seasons. 

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1968: In Mickey Mantle's last appearance at Yankee Stadium, he slices a two-out 1st-inning single off Cleveland's Luis Tiant, the only hit for the home side. Tiant tosses his 9th shutout of the year, tops in the AL, to win 3-0. 

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1985: Rickey Henderson steals his 75th base of the season in the Yankees' 10-2 win over Detroit, breaking the club record of 74 set by Fritz Maisel in 1914. 

                  

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1990: The Yankees tie a major league record when their first eight batters all hit safely on the way to a 15-3 rout of the Orioles. Anthony Telford allows the first six hits to take the loss. The Yanks hit six homers in the game, including Kevin Maas' 20th. 

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1996: The Yankees clinch the AL East title by pounding out 20 hits in a 19-2 win over the Brewers in the opening game of a doubleheader. The Bombers score 10 runs in the 2nd inning after plating four in the opening frame. Tino Martinez leads the attack with five RBI, and David Cone (7-2) is the easy winner. New York also take the nitecap 6-2. 

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1998: By downing the Devil Rays 6-1, the Yankees set an AL record with their 112th win. The 1906 Cubs, who went 116-36, are the only team with more victories in a season. 

                 
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2014: In his final home game, Derek Jeter provides a storybook ending with an opposite-field, game-ending single in the bottom of the 9th that gives the Yankees a 6-5 win over the Orioles. His hit off Evan Meek sends pinch runner Antoan Richardson racing home from second base, after David Robertson had given up three runs in the top of the inning to tie the score, making Captain Clutch's final heroic moment possible. 

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2017: By hitting two homers in an 11-3 win over the Royals, Aaron Judge reaches the 50 mark for the season, breaking the rookie record of 49 set by Mark McGwire in 1987. 

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September 24th

 On this day in Yankee history... 


1920: In the first game of a twinbill, Babe Ruth hits his 50th home run in the 1st inning, off the Senators' Jose Acosta. He then adds number 51 in the second game, going 4 for 4 in 2-1 win to give the Yankees a split. The other three hits off loser Jim Shaw are by Del Pratt (below).   

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1927: The Yankees win their 106th game, a 6-0 whitewash of Detroit, for a new AL season high. They will go on to win 110, a record until the 1954 Indians win 111.  

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1929: Tom Zachary bests the Red Sox 5-3 to raise his record to 12-0. He also sets a major league record for most wins without a loss in a season that still stands.  

 

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1932: In a battle of Boston graduates, Harvard beats Boston College. Charlie Devens, former Harvard hurler, makes his major league debut for the Yankees and beats the Red Sox. The loss goes to Ed Gallagher, former BC pitcher who exits in the 5th. Babe Ruth swats his 41st homer of the year in the 9th and Lou Gehrig belts his 34th in the 5th. 

 
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1950: 66,924 fans are on hand for Johnny Mize Day at the Stadium, as the Yankees top the fading Red Sox 9-5 to go 4 games up on Boston and 2 1/2 ahead of Detroit. Phil Rizzuto contributes a single, double, and a home run, while Yogi Berra adds 4 hits, including a triple. Joe DiMaggio's hit streak reaches 15. New York will win 5 of their next 7, while the Tigers will only manage to go 4-3. 

 
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1957: The idle Yankees clinch their 23rd pennant and 8th under Casey Stengel, as the A's tip the White Sox 6-5.   

1972: In the nitecap of a twinbill sweep of the Indians, Sparky Lyle sets an AL record and ties the major league mark by saving his his 35th game. The Yankees win 8-3, after notching a 5-4 win in the opener when they score two unearned runs on five Indian errors in the 11th. Thurman Munson steals second base by kicking the ball out of Frank Duffy's glove and going to third on the error. Duffy then boots a grounder and throws wildly for two more miscues. Catcher Gerry Moses then picks up a squibber and fires over 1B and RF Del Unser's throw to the plate is over Moses' head for error number 5. 

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1978: Ron Guidry (23-3) tosses his third two-hit shutout of the month, 4-0 over the Indians.  The two Tribe safeties are by Duane Kuiper, the second time this year that he has recorded the only hits in a game. The Yankee ace also two-hitted the Red Sox on September 9th (7-0) and the 15th (4-0). It is Guidry's 9th shutout of the year, a Yankee record, and just one short of the AL record for southpaws set by Boston lefty Babe Ruth in 1916. The Red Sox stay one game back of New York by topping Toronto 7-6. 

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2002: Thanks to Jason's two home runs in the Yankees' 6-0 blanking of the Devil Rays, the Giambi brothers (Jason 40 and Jeremy 20) pass the DiMaggio siblings for the highest single-season total for homers with 60. The DiMaggios ( Joe 46 and Vince 13) went yard 59 times in 1937.  

  
   
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2012: On the way to  6-3 win over Minnesota, Curtis Granderson becomes the fifth Yankee to hit 40 homers in back to back seasons. 

    
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