August 12th

On this day in Yankee history... 


1918: At Fenway Park, the Yankees win their 10th of 15 games this year with the league leaders by beating Boston 2-1. Getting his opportunity because of the war‚ lefty Hank Robinson is making his first major league start since 1915. He allows just 3 hits in besting Babe Ruth, who gives up 4 safeties. Jack Fournier (below) scores the winning run on a squeeze bunt, while Ruth‚ hitless on the afternoon‚ pops out to end the game. 

                            https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1918/B08120BOS1918.htm     







1939: At Shibe Park, the Yankees shell the A's 18-4 as Steve Sundra (6-0) coasts to the win. Babe Dahlgren has 4 hits‚ including a solo homer in the 6th and a grand slam an inning later. He drives in 6 runs. Joe Gordon adds his 18th homer of the year. 

                           https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1939/B08120PHA1939.htm     








1953: Playing without an injured Mickey Mantle ~ out for 10 days with a sprained knee ~ the Yankees explode for 28 hits off Washington Senators' pitching, two shy of the AL record. New York roll to a 22-1 victory. Rookie Steve Kraly, relieving Whitey Ford, gives up a run to avert the largest shutout win in history. Ford has 4 hits‚ and Yogi Berra and Billy Martin collect 5 RBI each, while Hank Bauer scores 5 runs. 

                       https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1953/B08120WS11953.htm     








1964: Mickey Mantle sets a major league record when he hits a home run from both sides of the plate in a game for the 10th time in his career. Mantle hits a left-handed shot off Ray Herbert over the 461-foot marker in center field that lands 15 rows into the bleachers, 502 feet from home plate. 

  

                       https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1964/B08120NYA1964.htm   








1994: In first place in the AL East, the Yankees' drive to their first division title in 14 years is halted by a Major League Baseball players' strike. 

2016: Alex Rodriguez plays his final game for the Yankees, going 1 for 4 with a 1st-inning RBI double off Chris Archer of the Rays in a 6-3 win. The Yankees indulge him by letting him play at his old position, third base, in the 9th; he then leaves the game to the crowd's applause after one out, ending his career only 4 homers short of 700. 

                       https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2016/B08120NYA2016.htm