September 27th

On this day in Yankee history... 


1920: Carl Mays and the Yankees beat the A's 3-0, as Mays allows just four hits. It is his 3rd straight shutout of Philadelphia and his 10th straight win against them. Babe Ruth drives in all the runs on a pair of homers over the RF fence off Eddie Rommel, his 52nd and 53rd homers of the campaign. He hits two other liners to left and center that are close to the wall. 

                      
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1927: Babe Ruth connects for a grand slam off Lefty Grove, while Lou Gehrig hits No. 46 in a 7-4 win over the A's. Ruth has 57 with three games to play. The grand slam is the Babe's second in three days. 



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1930: Lou Gehrig plays the last of 885 consecutive games at 1B. In the next game, the season's finale, he will take Babe Ruth's LF position. 


1931: Lou Gehrig hits a home run to tie Babe Ruth at 46 while the Yankees pound Lefty Grove 13-1, denying him his 32nd victory. Grove throws just three innings in the A's warmup for the World Series. Gehrig drives in two runs as he (184) and Ruth (163) combine to drive in 347 runs for the year, the most productive duo in history. Bill Dickey has four hits and ends the year with no passed balls, the only AL catcher to do so, while the Yankees are the only AL team to ever accomplish the feat. 

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1998: Topping Tampa Bay 8-3, the Yankees win their seventh straight game to end the season with a .704 winning percentage. The Bronx Bombers (114-48) become the first team since the 1954 Indians (111-43) to play over .700 ball for an entire season. 

                           
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2009: The Yankees are assured of the best record in the American League after a 4-2 win over the Red Sox. Andy Pettitte picks up the win, and once again Mariano Rivera gets the save, in New York's 100th win of the year. The Bombers finish 9-9 against their divisional rivals, after dropping the first 8 contests between the two teams. 

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