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.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1932/B09240BOS1932.htm
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.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1972/B09241CLE1972.htm
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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.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1978/B09240CLE1978.htm
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.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2002/B09240NYA2002.htm
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.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2012/B09240MIN2012.htm
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