June 22nd

On this day in Yankee history... 


1930: Babe Ruth ties a major league record by hitting five homers in two games and six homers in three games. The Bambino hit three homers in the second game of the doubleheader yesterday, two homers in today's opener and one more in the nightcap. 

1959: At Kansas City, Mickey Mantle drives in six runs with a triple and two homers to lead the Yankees to a 13-6 win. Moose Skowron adds his 4th homer in four days to move New York to three games out of first place. 

                     
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1961: Roger Maris leads the Yankees to an 8-3 thrashing of the A's by belting his 27th homer of the year. He adds two doubles and a single. Maris has now hit 20 homers in the past 30 days (May 24th to today), to tie the mark set by Ralph Kiner in 1947. 

                       
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1965: Ray Barker's major league record-tying second consecutive pinch hit home run is wasted in a first-game, 6-2 Yankee loss to the A's. Mickey Mantle adds a home run in the opener, but in the 4-2 nightcap win, he tries to score from second base on a wild pitch and snaps an upper-thigh hamstring. He will be out for three weeks. Ironically, the cover of the June 21st issue of Sports Illustrated features Mantle with the prescient headline 'New York Yankees: End of an Era?' 

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1977: It doesn't come easy, but the Yankees stop a five-game losing streak with a 12-11 win over Detroit. The Bombers are led by Graig Nettles, who belts a three-run homer, and Reggie Jackson with a two-run triple.  

  

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