On this day in Yankee history...
1917: Phil Rizzuto is born
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Rizzuto
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. Despite the score, the game is played in a new AL record 55 minutes.
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1929: At Fenway Park, the game is halted during in 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.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1985/B09250NYA1985.htm
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.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1998/B09250NYA1998.htm
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.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2014/B09250NYA2014.htm
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.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2017/B09250NYA2017.htm
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