May 21st

 On this day in Yankee history... 


1923:  Formal transfer of Yankee co-owner T.L. Huston's  interest in the club to Jacob Ruppert is completed for $1.5 million. Ten days later, Ruppert buys two more sets of uniforms so that his players can wear a clean outfit every day, an unprecedented move in the major leagues at the time. 

1930: Babe Ruth  hits three consecutive home runs in the first game of a doubleheader against the A's, then batting against Jack Quinn in the 9th, Ruth decides to hit right-handed. After two strikes, he switches to lefty but strikes out. This is the first of two career three-homer games for the Babe. Max Bishop draws five walks for the second time in his career (he is the only player to do this twice), and Jimmie Foxx homers to help the A's to a 15-7 victory. Ruth is homerless in the second game, a 4-1 Yankee loss, but Bishop has three more walks. Bishop will also walk eight times in a twinbill in 1934, the only player to collect more than six walks in an afternoon.  

       

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1938: The Yankee position players have a power outage, but Spud Chandler supplies all the offense he needs, homering in the 8th to beat Thornton Lee and White Sox 1-0.  

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1941: Bobby Cox is born 

 

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1967: Whitey Ford makes his final major league appearance. Mickey Mantle hits his fifth homer in 6 games, but it is not enough to stave off a 9-4 defeat at the hands of the Tigers, who win their third consecutive game from the Yankees. 

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1970: Clearly in a generous mood, Mel Stottlemyre hands out 11 walks to Washington in 8 1/3 innings, but the Senators are unable to score. Steve Hamilton gets the last two outs to preserve the 2-0 win. The 11 walks in a shutout ties the record set by Lefty Gomez, who did complete his 1941 whitewashing. Danny Cater's two-run homer in the 5th accounts for the scoring off Dick Such, making his first major league start. 

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2004: In his first return to Texas since signing with the Yankees, Alex Rodriguez is roundly booed by fans at the Ballpark in Arlington. The fans continue to show their displeasure as New York's third baseman drives a 2-1 pitch over the fence during his 1st-inning at-bat.  The Rangers will get the last laugh, however, winning the game 9-7.

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2009: Joba Chamberlain is knocked out of the game in the 1st inning with a bruised right knee after being hit by a line drive off the bat of Adam Jones. The Yankees still defeat the Orioles 7-4. as Robonson Cano drives in three runs. Alfredo Aceves pitches 3 1/3 scoreless innings in relief of Chamberlain to earn the Bronx Bombers' 9th straight win. 

 
                          http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2009/B05210NYA2009.htm  




2014: The Cubs' Jeff Samardzija, the ML ERA leader, pitches 7 scoreless innings against the Yankees, but Hector Rondon blows a 2-0 9th-inning lead to send the game into extras. In the 13th, Yankee pitcher Preston Claiborne lays down a perfect sacrifice bunt in his first major league plate appearance as part of a two-run rally, Jose Veras throws a wild pitch to let in a first run and back-up catcher John Ryan Murphy drives in another with a single as the Bronx Bombers end up on top, 4-2. Samardzija is 0-4 in spite of a 1.46 ERA. 

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