On this day in Yankee history...
1928: A total of 85,265 jam the Stadium to watch the Yankees sweep a doubleheader from the A's, 3-0 and 7-3. The Yankees had blown a 13 1/2 game lead over Philadelphia to fall 1 1/2 games behind ~ with the sweep, they move back in from by half a game, and will stay there. George Pipgras is the winner in the first game while the Yankee star of the nitecap is Bob Meusel, who takes an Ed Rommel knuckleball out of the park for a grand slam in the 8th. Waite Hoyt is the winner.
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Off the field, Urban Shocker dies of pneumonia in Denver, CO, where he had gone for his health. Only now does it become known that the Yankee pitcher had suffered from an enlarged heart and was unable to sleep lying down for two years. Shocker, who never had a losing season, was 18-6 in 1927, but appeared in only one game in 1928.
1932: Lou Gehrig hits a grand slam and drives in 8 runs, but all in vain as the Tigers beats the Yankees 14-13 in 14 innings. The Iron Horse has reached this RBI feat twice before. Frankie Crosetti strikes out four times in the game, including twice in one inning.
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1936: The Yankees sweep a doubleheader from the Indians, 11-3 and 12-9, to become the first ML team to clinch a pennant in the second week of September.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1936/B09091CLE1936.htm
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1938: Lou Gehrig plays in his 2,100th consecutive game.
1951: The Yankees hit five homers ~ 4 off the Senators' Dick Starr ~ to win 7-5. Mickey Mantle's leadoff homer on the first pitch, which starts the scoring, slams against the bottom of the flag holder on the top of the right field stands. Vic Raschi then wins the nitecap, 2-0, in a game called after the 6th inning because of 'darkness.' Though Yankee Stadium has lights, by AL rules they cannot be used on Sunday. The Yanks (88-49) remain virtually tied with the Indians (88-51).
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1951/B09091NYA1951.htm
1953: Mickey Mantle's 2-run home run off Chicago's Billy Pierce caps a 7-run 5th inning, as the Yankees win 9-3 at the Stadium. Returning to CF after the 5th, Mantle is photographed blowing a huge bubble with a wad of gum. Casey Stengel will publicly rebuke the Mick, who will apologize for the indiscretion. However, Mantle does get an endorsement fee from the Bowman Gum company.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1953/B09090NYA1953.htm
1961: On Whitey Ford Day at the Stadium, Roger Maris hits his 56th homer, off Cleveland's Mudcat Grant, as the Yankees come from behind to win 8-7. New York score four in the 9th to enable Luis Arroyo to pick up his 12th relief win in a row.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1961/B09090NYA1961.htm
1978: Ron Guidry (21-2) gives up two singles in the 1st inning and that's it. The Yankees send 12 runners to the plate and scores seven runs in the 4th inning to win 7-0 against Dennis Eckersley and cut Boston's division lead to a single game. For Guidry, it is his 7th shutout of the year, and the first lefty shutout at Fenway Park since Ken Holtzman fired one on August 5, 1974.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1978/B09090BOS1978.htm
1999: Catfish Hunter dies of ALS at the age of 53.
2009: Derek Jeter ties the Yankee franchise record for hits held by Lou Gehrig with his 2,721st in the 7th inning against the Rays. Jorge Posada belts a three-run pinch homer in the 8th to give the Yanks a 4-2 win.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2009/B09090NYA2009.htm
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