September 17th

 On this day in Yankee history... 


1904: More than 23,000, reputedly the largest crowd in Boston history, show up for a showdown twinbill with the New York Highlanders. New York score three runs in each of the first two innings against Bill Dineen. Jack Chesbro (35-8) holds on for a 6-4 win, his 7th win in a row. New York briefly take over 1st place. But Cy Young tops New York 4-2 in the nitecap, beating Ned Garvin, recently acquired from Brooklyn. 

1928: Wilcy Moore, one of the Yankee pitching heroes of 1927, goes home with a sore arm after having worked just 60 innings all season. 

1951: The Yankees break a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the 9th when, with the bases loaded, Phil Rizzuto squeezes home Joe DiMaggio with the winning run. The score, off Cleveland's Bob Lemon, gives Eddie Lopat his 20th win of the year. The Yanks now lead Cleveland by a game and Boston by 2 1/2.  

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1961:  In Detroit, Roger Maris triples off Terry Fox in the 7th to put the Yankees ahead. The Tigers tie it and the score remains even until the 12th, when Maris faces Fox again with Tony Kubek on second. Maris steps out of the box to watch a long skein of Canadian geese fly over Tiger Stadium, then steps in back in and belts the first pitch for his 58th homer of the year. 

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1964: The Yankees beat the Angels 6-2, locking on to first place for good with a 2-percentage-point lead over the idle White Sox and Orioles. Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle have three hits each. Mantle's include his 2,000th career hit and his 450th home run, his 31st of the year. The Bombers have won two in a row and will run their win streak to 11 games. 

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1998: Red Hoff, the longest-lived ex-major leaguer, dies at the age of 107. While making his debut with the New York Highlanders in 1911, he struck out the first batter he ever faced ~ Ty Cobb. 

2002: The Yankees lose to the Devil Rays 9-7, but otherwise it's a day of milestones. Bernie Williams scores his 100th run in the loss to reach that mark for the 7th straight year. He is the 4th Yankee to score 100 this year, the first Yankee team to have that many since 1941. Williams and Derek Jeter combine to tie the major-league record for consecutive years for teammates both scoring 100+ runs.  

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2011: Mariano Rivera ties Trevor Hoffman's major league record with his 602nd career save in the Yankees' 7-6 win over the Blue Jays. Rivera is backed by home runs from Alex Rodriguez, playing in his first game since aggravating a wrist injury on September 9th, and Curtis Granderson, who becomes the first Yankee CF since Mickey Mantle in 1961 to hit 40 home runs in a season.  

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