On this day in Yankee history...
1922: The Yankees, who have been sharing the Polo Grounds with the Giants since 1913, break ground for construction of their own stadium in the Bronx.
1923: Babe Ruth breaks a 1-1 tie between the Yanks and the White Sox by clouting a two-run homer in the 15th inning. The blow breaks up a tense pitching duel between little Mike Cvengros and Herb Pennock, who goes all the way giving up just four hits. The Yanks have now won 12 of 13 contests in their western swing.
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1930: In Philadelphia, the Yankees and the A's launch a home run barrage as the Yankees take both games of a doubleheader, 10-1 and 20-13. Babe Ruth hits a pair of home runs in the opener, as does Ben Chapman and winning pitcher George Pipgras. The Yanks score nine runs in the first two innings of the second game, but the A's come back to tie it at 12 apiece. The Yanks win the assault, 20-13, as Tony Lazzeri goes 4 for 4, scores five runs, and knocks in 4. Ruth hits another in the second game, while Lou Gehrig powers three round trippers to drive in eight runs. On the A's side, Jimmie Foxx has two homers to drive in six runs. For the afternoon, the teams combine to hit 14 round trippers, a then-record 10 in the nitecap.
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1933: Joe Sewell strikes out for the first time this season in a 3-0 Yankee win behind Lefty Gomez over Cleveland. Sewell will fan only three more times in 524 at bats this year.
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1934: Though the Yankees lose to the Indians 5-1, the lone New York run is driven in by Lou Gehrig, who for the second time in his career has collected at least 1 RBI in 10 straight games.
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1943: Tommy John is born.
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1954: At the Stadium, Allie Reynolds tosses a seven-hit shutout of the Red Sox for a 7-0 win. Mickey Mantle provides the offense, going 4 for 5 with four RBIs. The Mick will knock in 10 runs in the three-game series against Boston.
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1962: Roger Maris, who went all of 1961 without receiving an intentional walk, gets four in a 12-inning, 2-1 win against the Angels to set an AL record. Maris receives five walks in all. Four Yankee pitchers (Whitey Ford, Jim Coates. Bud Daley and Bob Turley) combine to give up just one hit in 12 innings. Ford leaves after seven innings because of back spasms, and Coates gives up the lone hit, a one-out 9th-inning single to Buck Rodgers.
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1963: At the Stadium, the Yankees blow a 7-0 lead and allow the Kansas City A's to tie the game and send it into extra innings. Mickey Mantle leading off the 11th, is fooled by a Bill Fischer slow curve, then cannons the next offering to right, almost clearing the roof. "The hardest ball I ever hit," Mantle later comments, a ball that, by some accounts, is still rising when it strikes a foot below the top. It is conservatively estimated by Dr. James McDonald, a physicist who studies long-ball trajectories, that the ball would have traveled 620 feet if it had not struck the façade. "That was the only homer I ever hit that the bat actually bent in my hands," Mantle tells Dale Long, from whom he borrowed the cudgel.
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1999: The Yankees defeat the White Sox 10-2, Roger Clemens getting the win. The Rocket sets an AL record with 19 consecutive victories over the course of two seasons; he will extend the streak by one before losing. This win was delayed by a rainout and a stint on the DL.
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