July 15th

On this day in Yankee history... 


1920: Babe Ruth ties his 1919 record of 29 home runs with a game-winner in the 13th to beat the St. Louis Browns 13-10. Two days later, he will break it by hitting two off White Sox hurler Dickie Kerr. 

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1964: Whitey Ford's 2-0 whitewashing of Orioles raises the Yankees into first place. 

                      http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1964/B07150NYA1964.htm   







1997: Despite a sluggish performance, Hideki Irabu wins his second major league start, leading the Yankees over the Indians 12-6. Irabu gives up five runs and nine hits in five innings, allowing homers to Tony Fernandez, Marquis Grissom and Matt Williams. Cecil Fielder, the Yanks' 270-pound DH, tries to score from first on a double and his head-first slide results in a broken right thumb. Fielder will miss eight weeks. 

                            https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1997/B07150NYA1997.htm






2014:  In his last All Star Game appearance, Derek Jeter leads off the night with a double and scores on a triple by Mike Trout. The Yankee captain goes 2 for 2, while Trout adds an RBI double in the 5th to win the game's MVP Award. 

                     https://www.baseball-reference.com/allstar/2014-allstar-game.shtml 





2017: It takes 16 innings for the Yankees to defeat  the Red Sox 4-1 at Fenway Park. The Yanks are trailing 1-0 in the top of the 9th after an excellent start by Chris Sale, but Matt Holliday ties the game with a homer off of Craig Kimbrel. A line drive single by Didi Gregorius against Doug Fister in the 16th finally puts New York ahead in a game that ends just short of six hours to complete. 

                      http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2017/B07150BOS2017.htm