June 26th

 

On this day in Yankee history... 


1920: Lou Gehrig receives his first national mention when, as a high school junior for NYC's School of Commerce, he steals the show in a high school championship game against Lane Tech at Wrigley Field in Chicago. His grand slam in the 8th gives the New York team a 12-8 victory. Scouts watch open-mouthed as the ball sails out of the park and onto Waveland Avenue.  

1961: In Los Angeles, Angel reliever Art Fowler, who has allowed just one hit in his last 12 innings, serves up a 9th-inning home run to Moose Skowron, as the Yankees win 8-6. Mickey Mantle adds an earlier homer, off Ken Mcbride, and Whitey Ford wins his 13th of the year. Yogi Berra collects his 2,000th career hit; to celebrate the achievement, a huge cake is  rolled out.  

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1974: Derek Jeter is born. 

1977: In front of 55,039 fans, the Yankees complete a 3-game sweep of the Red Sox, avenging the three losses last week to the Sox at Fenway Park. New York takes a 4-1 lead into the 9th, but the Sox tie the game. In the bottom of the 9th, Paul Blair bounces a bases-loaded ball over the head of Butch Hobson at third base to pin the loss on reliever Bill Campbell. 

                         
                        
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1979: The Yankees reacquire Bobby Murcer from the Cubs in exchange for pitcher Paul Semall and cash. Murcer will once again thrive in Yankee Stadium, hitting .273 with eight home runs.  

2009: Brett Gardner collects five hits, including a triple and a homer, as the Yankees beat the Mets 9-1 before a record-breaking crowd at Citi Field. Alex Rodriguez hits home run number 564 of his career, passing Reggie Jackson on the all-time list; Jackson was 6th at the time of his retirement in 1987,  but falls to 12th now. Three errors by the Mets' infield in the 2nd lead to four runs. 

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June 25th

 On this day in Yankee history...      

1903: In Chicago the White Sox opt to bat first against the visiting Highlanders, but the head start proves to be not much of an advantage as the two teams battle to an 18-inning 6-6 tie, with a cumulative 30 hits between them.  

1934: In beating the White Sox 13-2, pitcher Johnny Broaca strikes out 5 times, a dubious achievement that will not repeated by a Yankee until Bernie Williams in 1991. Lou Gehrig contributes to the rout by hitting for the cycle for the first time in his career. 

                       
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1977: Mike Torrez outduels Luis Tiant to give the Yankees a 5-1 win over the Red Sox. Graig Nettles' 3-run homer is the big blow. New York now trail the Sox by 3 games. 

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1984: At the Stadium, Dave Winfield hits five singles and drives in four runs to lead the Yankees to a 7-3 win over the Tigers. Ron Guidry (6-5) is the beneficiary of Winfield's barrage. Winfield is now hitting .750 against Detroit this year, and has three five-hit games this month, tying a record set by Ty Cobb. 

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1985: After a bat boy was hit by a Butch Wynegar line drive foul ball yesterday, Yankees officials enact a new rule mandating the team's bat boys wear protective helmets during all games. 

  


1999: At Camden Yards, the Yankees top the Orioles 9-8. Shane Spencer hits a go-ahead solo home run in the 9th off Mike Timlin, who will take the loss. Tino Martinez also contributes 4 hits for Nw York. In the 8th, the O's Jesse Orosco makes his 1,051th relief appearance, breaking Kent Tekulve's major league record.

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June 24th

 

On this day in Yankee history... 


1908: Charging the Highlander ownership with refusing to spend money to build the team, manager Clark Griffith resigns; shortstop Kid Elberfeld replaces him as player-manager following today's 6-6 tie with the A's. New York continue to fade, and will finish last with 103 losses. 

1934:  After going hitless in his last 21 at bats, Babe Ruth hits a grand slam in a 5-0 Yankee win over the White Sox. 

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1936: Rookie phenom Joe DiMaggio ties three major-league records in New York's 10-run 5th inning against the Chicago, hitting 2 home runs for 8 total bases. With 2 doubles, he equals the modern record of four long hits in a game. The Yankees beat the White Sox 18-4. 

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1958:The Yankees erupt for five runs in the 4th inning off Early Wynn to beat the White Sox 6-2 at Comiskey Park. Mickey Mantle's drive into the CF bleachers leads off the inning, followed by a single, a walk, Jerry Lumpe's first major league home run, and a home run by Norm Siebern. Ryne Duren strikes out six of the last nine batters to preserve Bob Turley's win. 

  

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1962: A marathon between the Yankees and the Tigers concludes in the 22nd inning when Jack Reed's home run ~ the only one of his major league career ~ gives New York and Jim Bouton a 9-7 victory. Reed replaced Joe Pepitone in the 13th. For the Tigers, Phil Regan takes the loss, while Rocky Colavito has seven hits. Bobby Richardson ties a ML mark by going to the plate 11 times. At an even seven hours, the game is the slowest extra-inning contest ever played in the AL, and it is the longest game in innings in Yankee history. 

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1970: In a doubleheader with the Indians at the Stadium, Bobby Murcer ties Lou Gehrig's record of four straight homers. The Yankees lose the opener 7-2 despite Murcer's 9th-inning home run off Sam McDowell. Murcer next connects off the second game's starter, Mike Paul, hitting a solo shot in the 1st inning. A walk follows in the 4th, then a two-run homer off Paul in the 5th, and a game-tying homer in the 8th, off Fred Lasher. New York score in the bottom of the 9th to salvage a 5-4 win. 

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1977: Before 54,940 at the Stadium, Roy White launches a dramatic two-out two-run homer in the bottom of the 9th to give the Yankees a 5-5 tie with the Red Sox. Reggie Jackson delivers a bases-loaded single in the 11th inning to give New York the walkoff win. White's key hit comes after Bill Campbell retires the first two Yankees in the 9th and then gives up a triple to Willie Randolph. Sparky Lyle picks up the win, handing Boston their first loss in eight games. 

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1986: Phil Hughes is born 

                       
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1997: Tino Martinez collects two singles, a double, and a pair of home runs while driving in four as the Yankees top the Tigers 12-9. Chad Curtis adds 5 RBI for New York. 

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2011:  In a 4-2 Yankee loss to the Rockie, A.J. Burnett becomes the first Yankee pitcher to strike out 4 batters in one inning. The right-hander starts the 6th inning by fanning Colorado hitters Chris Iannetta and Carlos Gonzalez, and when Chris Nelson reaches first base after swinging at a wild pitch for a third strike, he faces Todd Helton and strikes him out swinging to end the frame. 
  

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June 23rd

 On this day in Yankee history... 

1915: Philadelphia A's lefty Bruno Haas makes his ML debut against the Yankees a memorable one as he walks a record 16 New Yorkers, and throws three wild pitches. He goes the distance in a 15-7 loss, his only major league decision. Haas breaks the AL mark of 15 walks, set by Boardwalk Brown, and ties Bill George's major league record. Haas will pitch in just five more games before ending up in the NFL as a halfback for Akron. 

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1927: At Boston, Lou Gehrig leads the Yankees to an 11-4 victory by hitting three home runs, a first at Fenway Park. Gehrig hits a two-run homer in the 2nd, and solo shots in the 6th and 8th, off Danny MacFayden. He adds a single to his total as Dutch Ruether coasts to the win. 

 
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1932: Lou Gehrig plays his 1,103rd consecutive game in a Yankee uniform, equaling Joe Sewell's record with one team (Cleveland). 



1957: Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi of Japan, wearing a Yankee cap, is one of 63,787 fans at the Stadium to see New York split a doubleheader with Chicago, winning the first game 9-2 and dropping the second 4-3. Mickey Mantle goes 6 for 9 as the Yankees maintain their 1 1/2 game lead over the White Sox. Mantle is leading the AL in hitting and homers and is one behind the Senators' Roy Sievers in RBI. 

              
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1959: The Yankees ride two-run homers from Mickey Mantle, Hank Bauer and Gil McDougald to a 10-2 win over the Kansas City A's.  

  

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1988: George Steinbrenner fires Billy Martin for the fifth time, replacing him with Lou Piniella. In 1985, Piniella was fired and replaced by Martin. In 1987, Martin was fired and replaced by Piniella. New York's 40-28 record is the 4th best in the big leagues, but the Yankees have come off a 2-7 road trip. 

 1996: The Yankees complete a four-game sweep from the Indians in Cleveland for the first time since 1964. 

1997: David Cone strikes out 16, his highest total in six years, and Cecil Fielder hits a three-run homer as the Yankees win 5-2. Cone, who had shoulder surgery to repair an aneurysm in May, 1996, allows four hits, including homers by Bob Hamelin and Damion Easley, in 8 innings of work.  

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2001: The Yankees move to shore up their bullpen by getting Jay Witasick from the Padres for infield prospect D'Angelo Jimenez. The Yanks' first choice, Expos hurler Ugueth Urbina, failed a physical and will end up with the Red Sox instead.  

June 22nd

 

On this day in Yankee history... 


1930: Babe Ruth ties a major league record by hitting five homers in two games and six homers in three games. The Bambino hit three homers in the second game of the doubleheader yesterday, two homers in today's opener and one more in the nightcap. 

1959: At Kansas City, Mickey Mantle drives in six runs with a triple and two homers to lead the Yankees to a 13-6 win. Moose Skowron adds his 4th homer in four days to move New York to three games out of first place. 

                     
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1961: Roger Maris leads the Yankees to an 8-3 thrashing of the A's by belting his 27th homer of the year. He adds two doubles and a single. Maris has now hit 20 homers in the past 30 days (May 24th to today), to tie the mark set by Ralph Kiner in 1947. 

                       
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1965: Ray Barker's major league record-tying second consecutive pinch hit home run is wasted in a first-game, 6-2 Yankee loss to the A's. Mickey Mantle adds a home run in the opener, but in the 4-2 nightcap win, he tries to score from second base on a wild pitch and snaps an upper-thigh hamstring. He will be out for three weeks. Ironically, the cover of the June 21st issue of Sports Illustrated features Mantle with the prescient headline 'New York Yankees: End of an Era?' 

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1977: It doesn't come easy, but the Yankees stop a five-game losing streak with a 12-11 win over Detroit. The Bombers are led by Graig Nettles, who belts a three-run homer, and Reggie Jackson with a two-run triple.  

   

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June 21st

 On this day in Yankee history... 

1928: Yankee pitcher Hank Johnson hurls a 4-0 shutout against a Philadelphia A's lineup that includes seven future Hall of Famers: Ty Cobb, Mickey Cochrane, Al Simmons, Jimmie Foxx, Eddie Collins, Tris Speaker and Lefty Grove. 

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1939: The Yankees officially announce the retirement of Lou Gehrig. The Iron Horse will remain team captain and continue to travel and suit up with the club for the rest of the season. 

1960: Whitey Ford tops 'Yankee Killer' Frank Lary to give New York a 6-0 win in Detroit. Mickey Mantle goes 3 for 5 with two homers off Lary.  

 
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1964: The Yankees move into first place by eight percentage points over Baltimore, as they outpitch the White Sox to take both ends of a doubleheader, 2-0 and 2-1. Home runs by Mickey Mantle and Elston Howard win it for Jim Bouton in the opener against Juan Pizarro, and an error wins the nightcap in the 17th. The Yankees sweep 4, giving up just one run in 41 innings, and take nine games from Chicago in 11 days. 

           
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June 20th

 

On this day in Yankee history... 


1913: After the Yankees win the opener of a doubleheader 9-3, Washington Senators starter Bert Gallia hits three of the first four batters he faces in the 1st inning of the nightcap. Three more New York batters are plunked, by relievers Joe Engel (2) and Tom Hughes (1), for a record six. The outcome is the same, however, as the Yanks win again by a 9-3 score. New York leadoff hitter Bert Daniels puts his name in the record book when he gets hit three times. 

                      
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1916: Tilly Walker's home run over the LF wall is the only home run the Red Sox will hit at Fenway Park this season, but it is the lone Boston score today as the Yankees win 4-1. Inserted as a defensive replacement late in the game, Boston shortstop Everett Scott starts a string of 1,307 consecutive games, all played at short. He will end the streak as a Yankee on May 6, 1925. It will be the longest until Lou Gehrig surpasses it. 

  

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1934: The AL-leading Yankees sweep a pair from the Indians at the Stadium, 3-2 and 3-0. New York tie the first game on Frank Crosetti's solo homer in the 8th off Bob Weiland, then win it on Lou Gehrig's 18th in the 9th. Lefty Gomez, in relief of Johnny Broaca, is the winner. In game 2, Hal Trosky's single is the only hit off Red Ruffing, who also knocks in a run. 

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1946: A Fortune magazine story gives some rare details of baseball finances, showing the Yankees had a revenue of $1.6 million and profit of $306,000, cut to $201,000 after minor league losses, the previous season. Of the gross income, $896,000 is from home ticket sales.  

1950: Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit, a 7th-inning single off the Indians' Marino Pieretti on the way to an 8-2 Yankee win. DiMaggio joins Luke Appling and Wally Moses as the only active players with 2,000 or more hits. Eddie Lopat is the winning pitcher, running his record against Cleveland to 25-6. 

 
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1956: At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle launches two Billy Hoeft pitches into the bleachers in right center, something no other player had done since the seats were built in the late 1930s. The Yankees win 4-1.  

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1983: Bobby Murcer retires as an active player. 

1989: The Yankees trade Rickey Henderson back to the A's for outfielder Luis Polonia and journeymen pitchers Eric Plunk and Greg Cadaret. 

2010: The Yankees are back in first place in the AL East, one game ahead of the surging Red Sox and slumping Rays, after CC Sabathia pitches 8 scoreless innings as the Bronx Bombers shut out the Mets and Johan Santana 4-0.  All the runs come on a Mark Teixeira grand slam. 

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June 19th

 On this day in Yankee history... 

1903: Lou Gehrig is born. 

1941: Joe DiMaggio hits in his 32nd consecutive game, en going 3 for 3, including a home run, against the White Sox on the way to 7-2 Yankee win. 

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1961: Roger Maris hits a 9th-inning home run off Kansas City A's pitcher Jim Archer, his 25th of the year, putting him seven games ahead of Babe Ruth's pace in 1927.  

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1979: At the Stadium, 36,211 fans show up to witness the return of Billy Martin as Yankee manager in a 5-4 loss to the Blue Jays. Martin was named to replace Bob Lemon the previous day, and begins his second stint as Yankee skipper a season earlier than previously announced. 

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2015: Alex Rodriguez joins the 3,000 hit club with a 1st-inning homer off Justin Verlander of Detroit. He becomes the 29th member of the club, and the third to do so with a long ball, after Wade Boggs and former teammate Derek Jeter, who in 2011 was the last player to collect the milestone hit.  

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