September 10th

 

On this day in Yankee history... 


1921:  Catcher Wally Schang has five of the Yankees' 21 hits as the New Yorkers wallop the A's 19-3. A major league record-tying five Yankees collect two hits in the 9th inning: Schang, Carl Mays, Elmer Miller, Roger Peckinpaugh and Babe Ruth. Ruth's 2nd hit, a single, hits Peck for the 3rd out. Winning pitcher Mays gives up 13 hits to Philadelphia in winning his 16th straight against them. 

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1922: The Yankees play their final home games at the Polo Grounds. An estimated 40,000 overflow the stadium for the doubleheader with the A's, with another 25,000 turned away. Joe Bush (below) beats Philadelphia 10-3 in the opener, and Waite Hoyt edges the visitors 2-1 in the nitecap. Plans are in the works to expand the park to 56,000 capacity, but these are  the last regular season AL games at the Polo Grounds. The Yanks will play their next 18 games on the road, and then open in their own stadium in the Bronx next spring. 

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1934: Roger Maris is born. 

 









1950: Joe DiMaggio becomes the first major leaguer to hit 3 home runs in a game at Washington D.C.'s Griffith Stadium, on the way to an 8-1 Yankee win. 

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1959: Mickey Mantle goes 5 for 6, including a home run, in a 12 - 1 romp over Kansas City's Ray Herbert. 

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1960: At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle unloads a cannon shot for three runs in the 6th inning, the ball clearing the right field roof and landing in the Brooks Lumber Yard across Trumbull Avenue. The Yankees pin a 5 - 1 loss on Paul Foytack that moves them a half game into first place ahead of the Orioles, losers today. In June 1985, Mantle's blow will retroactively be measured at 643 feet, and will be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records at that distance.

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1962: Against Hank Aguirre, Mickey Mantle clouts a 4th-inning home run, the 400th of his career, to tie the game 1-1. The Yankees score two in the 9th off Aguirre to beat the Tigers 3-1. The victory, combined with a Minnesota loss, gives the Yanks a 3 1/2 game lead over the Twins. 

 
                       https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1962/B09100DET1962.htm          










1963: Randy Johnson is born. 

1978:  The Red Sox throw 22-year-old Bobby Sprowl at the Yankees, and the lefty lasts just two-thirds of an inning, walking three and allowing one hit. The Yankees take the lead and top the Red Sox 7-4 behind Ed Figueroa and Rich Gossage. Boston collects just five hits, including Fred Lynn's 21st homer of the year. The Yankees outhit the Sox 67-21, and outscored them 42-9, in a four-game sweep that will become known in lore as the 'Boston Massacre'. It leaves the teams in a tie for first place, and caps a remarkable Yankee march to the top from 4th place and 14 games out. 

 

                        https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1978/B09100BOS1978.htm    







2010: The Yankees are on the losing end of history, as they and the Rangers set a major league record by using a combined 19 pitchers in a 13-inning game, won 6-5 by Texas. Scott Feldman, normally a starter, records the win by pitching a scoreless 13th inning as the 11th hurler used by Texas, which itself ties a major league record. The Rangers win the game when Nelson Cruz leads off the bottom of the 13th inning with a homer off Chad Gaudin.