On this day in Yankee history...
1915: In a 10-9 win over the White Sox, Yankee pitcher Ray Caldwell hits a pinch home run, his second in two days. He hit one yesterday in a 5-4 loss to the White Sox. No one else in the AL will repeat the feat until Joe Cronin in 1943. Tomorrow, Caldwell will hit another long ball‚ but he is on the mound in that game.
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1919: Jack Quinn shuts out the Tigers 7-0, while Yankee shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh goes 2 for 3 to start a 29-game hitting streak.
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1927: At the Stadium, Babe Ruth clouts two consecutive home runs (numbers 19 and 20) off Garland Buckeye‚ but his next time up Ruth is set upon by Indians catcher Luke Sewell who demands that the umpires inspect the Bambino's bat. The umps find nothing illegal‚ but the crowd of 30‚000 cheer the Babe‚ who strikes out. Tony Lazzeri adds a homer and New York win 6-4. George Burns is 3 for 3 with 2 doubles for the Tribe.
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1935: In their annual exhibition game at West Point, the Yankees blank the cadets 7-0. Jim DeShong applies the whitewash by going the distance.
1953: Behind the pitching of Jim McDonald and Allie Reynolds, the first-place Yankees beat the Tigers 6-3 to run its win streak to 14 games. New York get a game-winner from Mickey Mantle off Art Houtteman that crowns the roof in right center at Detroit. Mantle has now hit in 16 straight games‚ but will go hitless tomorrow‚ when he pulls a thigh muscle. Hitting .353 at the end of today‚ Mantle will hit just .255 the rest of the year. The Yankees get another tape-measure blast when Joe Collins hits a 2-out 7th inning homer that lands on the 98-foot high press box over the 370-foot sign.
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1961: The Yankees sweep two from the Angels‚ winning the opener 2-1 behind Ralph Terry's 5-hitter. Yogi Berra clouts a pair of solo homers. In the nitecap‚ Mickey Mantle's first inning homer‚ number 19‚ gives him the AL lead, but Roger Maris adds a pair of home runs‚ his 19th and 20th‚ as New York win 5-1. The Yanks have won 10 of their last 11 games.
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1974: Mel Stottlemyre makes his 272nd consecutive start, with no relief appearances, to set an AL record. In the 4th inning‚ Stottelmyre feels a pop in his right shoulder after throwing a curve ball to Frank Robinson. It is a tear in his rotator cuff: he will throw just 2 more innings‚ his career over at 32. Dick Lange is the winning pitcher.
1993: The Yankees-Brewers game at County Stadium is interrupted by some 100 seagulls who swoop down onto the field‚ apparently in search of moths hatching in the infield and outfield grass. The Yankees eventually win the game by a score of 5-4‚ winning in the 9th on a two-run pinch homer by Kevin Maas. While no players or seagulls are hurt‚ Wade Boggs calls the situation "terribly dangerous." The seagulls will return for tomorrow night's game‚ but the Brewers will be prepared for the birds. Gus the Wonder Dog‚ on loan from the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association‚ will keep them away.
http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1993/B06110MIL1993.htm
2003: Houston Astros pitchers Roy Oswalt, Peter Munro, Kirk Saarloos, Brad Lidge, Octavio Dotel and Billy Wagner combine for the first no-hitter against the Yankees in 45 years, winning 8-0, and stopping New York at 6,980 games with at least one hit. The Orioles' Hoyt Wilhelm accomplished the feat in 1958, 1-0. Houston's sextet also sets a record for the highest number of pitchers to participate in a no-hitter in major league history (there had been two no-hitters shared by four pitchers).
2010: Andy Pettitte records his 200th win in pinstripes in the Yankees' 4-3 win over the Astros at the Stadium. Whitey Ford (236) and Red Ruffing (231) are the only other members of this exclusive New York club.
http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2010/B06110NYA2010.htm
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