On this day in Yankee history...
1927: With the score tied 2-2 in the eighth, Mark Koenig triples and Babe Ruth hits home run № 60 off Tom Zachary for a 4-2 win. In the ninth, Walter Johnson makes his final appearance as a player. He pinch-hits for Zachary and flies out to Ruth. Ruth hits 17 homers in September, the highest month's home run output until Rudy York's 18 in August 1937.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1927/B09300NYA1927.htm
1934: Babe Ruth is hitless in his final game in a Yankee uniform.
1947: At the Stadium, the Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers play the first World Series game broadcast on television. Frank 'Spec' Shea gets the start for the Bombers, and 21-year-old Ralph Branca of the Dodgers becomes the youngest pitcher ever to start a Series opener. Shea and the home side win 5-3.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1947/B09300NYA1947.htm
1953: The Yankees defeat the Dodgers 9-5 in the first game of the World Series. Carl Erskine is ineffective, walking the first 3 batters, who then score on a Hank Bauer triple. The Dodgers tie it up 5-5, and Clem Labine gets the loss in relief.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1953/B09300NYA1953.htm
1960: The Yankees beat the Red Sox 6-5, and set a new AL record for homers with 192. Tony Kubek and Jesse Gonder hit the homers today as the Bombers win their 13th straight.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1960/B09300NYA1960.htm
1970: The Yankees finish their best season in 6 years, as Fritz Peterson's 20th win of the campaign gives the Bombers their 93rd. The Red Sox are the 4-3 losers.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1970/B09300BOS1970.htm
1971: With the Yankees in town, the Washington Senators draw 14,000 for their final home game, with another 4,000 crashing the gate. Dick Bosman gives up homers to Bobby Murcer, Roy White and Rusty Torres, and the Nats are down 5 - 1 in the 6th. Mike Kekich then grooves a fastball for Frank Howard, who launches his 26th homer, and thanks Thurman Munson as he crosses the plate. The Senators take a 7-5 lead, and after Murcer makes the 2nd out in the 9th, fans swarm onto the field, causing the game to be forfeited to the Yanks 9-0. All records stand but reliever Paul Lindblad loses the win by not recording the third out, batter Horace Clarke. Of the Senators, Jeff Burroughs will be the last to retire, finishing up in 1985.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1971/B09300WS21971.htm
1978: The Yankees clinch a tie for the AL East title, blanking the Indians 7-0 behind Ed Figueroa's 20th win.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1978/09301978.htm
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