On this day in Yankee history...
1921: In
Philadelphia, 33,000 fans ~ the largest crowd to watch a game in the
city since 1914 ~ see Carl Mays (below) win his 15th straight over
Connie Mack's A's as the Yankees prevail 7-2 in the first game of a
doubleheader. Bob Shawkey coasts home to a 13-7 win in the nitecap. Bob
Meusel homers in each game.
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1922: Everett Scott is nearing 1,000 consecutive games played,
but it takes an extra effort to keep the streak alive. He spends $40 to
hire a car to get to Chicago in time for the game after a train he is
on is wrecked.
1932:
Red Ruffing becomes the first ML pitcher to hit a game-winning home run
in extra innings since 1906 as the Yankees top the Senators 1-0 in 10.
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1957: Mickey Mantle goes
3 for 3 and drives in three runs as the Yankees edge the Red Sox 3-2.
Mantle improves his average to .384 while Ted Williams,
with 1 for 2, is at .388. A week later, Mantle will injure himself when
he angrily swings a golf club at a branch and gouges his shinbone. This
will effectively take him out of the running for a second
straight Triple Crown.
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1964: CBS buys 80% of the Yankees, the sale to take effect on November 2nd.
1973: Roy White homers from both sides of the plate as the Yankees blank the Angels 6-0.
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1978: The
Yankees erupt for five runs in the 7th inning to take a 5-3 lead over
the Orioles before heavy rains force a delay of the game. Thanks to the
stalling tactics of Earl Weaver and some slow-moving Baltimore
groundskeepers, the game is called, and
the score reverts to the last complete inning. This rule will be changed
in 1980, and the game today would have been suspended. The Orioles win
3-0, with Scott McGregor the winner.
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1980: The Yankees trade righty Ken Clay and a player to be named later to Texas for 41-year-old Gaylord Perry.
1995: Mickey Mantle dies at the age of 63.
2011: Back
in the line-up as DH after being benched for a week, Jorge Posada
drives in 6 runs, including 4 on a 5th-inning grand slam, and the
Yankees win 9-2 over the Rays. Phil Hughes is the winner over Jeremy
Hellickson, while Curtis Granderson hits his 33rd homer, catching Jose
Bautista of the Blue Jays atop the major league leader board.
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2016:
Rookies Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge hit back-to-back homers in their
respective first major league at-bats in the 2nd inning to lead the
Yankees to an 8-4 win over the Rays
No teammates had ever homered in their first at-bat in the same game,
let alone back-to-back. The Yankees hit three more homers later in the
day, by Starlin Castro, Aaron Hicks and Didi Gregorius, to put the game
away; in a sign that the team's youth movement is going well, not one of
these players is over 25.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2016/B08130NYA2016.htm
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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On this day in Yankee history...
1906:
With the Highlanders losing to the White Sox 8-1, New York third
baseman George Moriarty charges into the stands to attack a heckler
before police intercede.
1921:
Bob Shawkey gets the complete game win as the Yankees top the A's 7-3
to move one percentage point ahead of the Indians in the AL pennant
race.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1921/B08110PHA1921.htm
1923:
AL President Ban Johnson rules that Babe Ruth must give up his Sam
Crawford bat made to order for him by the future Hall of Famer. The bat
is 'four pieces of seasoned wood‚ carefully glued together.' On August
21st, Johnson rules that only one-piece bats will be allowed‚ a rule
that also affects Browns start Ken Williams‚ who is using a plugged
bat.
1929: Babe Ruth hits his 500th career home run, off Cleveland's Willis Hudlin.
1950: Hitting
just .279‚ Joe DiMaggio is benched for the first time in his career. He
is currently languishing in a 4 for 38 slump. His replacement‚ Cliff
Mapes, wallops a 7th-inning home run to give the Yankees a 7-6 win over
the A's.
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1952: At the Stadium, the
third-place Red Sox, trailing the leage-leading Yankees by 4 games,
manage just 2 hits off Allie Reynolds, as the Chief wins 7-0. For
Reynolds‚ it is his fourth two-hitter of the year. Mickey Mantle's 1st
inning homer off Sid Hudons is all the scoring New York needs‚ but
Mantle adds a double in the 4th and a 2-run homer in the 5th off Ralph
Brickner.
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1956:
Mickey Mantle becomes the first Yankee since Joe DiMaggio in 1937 to
hit 40 home runs in a season when he launches one off Baltimore's Hal
Brown on the way to a 10-5 New York win.
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1967: In the 2nd inning of a 5-3 win over the Indians, Al Downing strikes out the side on 9 pitches.
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1980: Reggie Jackson hits his 400th career home run, off Britt Burns, in the Yankees' 3-1 victory over the White Sox at the Stadium.
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1984: Melky Cabrera is born.
1998:
In his first start against the Twins since his perfect game in May,
David Wells this time surrenders four hits, but still blanks the
Minnesotans 7-0.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1998/B08110NYA1998.htm
2012: The
Yankees beat the Blue Jays 5-2 behind the pitching of Ivan Nova and a
three-run homer by Casey McGehee. Derek Jeter collects his
league-leading 150th hit of the season, joining Hank Aaron as the only
two players to have 17 seasons of 150 or more hits.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2012/B08110TOR2012.htm
2013: It's
an eventful afternoon at the Stadium as the Yankees defeat the Tigers
5-4. First, Alex Rodriguez hits his first homer of the year, off Justin
Verlander, in the 2nd and in the process passes Stan Musial for 5th
place on the all-time RBI list with 1,951. Then, leading off the 4th,
Alfonso Soriano also goes deep off Verlander for the 2,000th hit of his
career. The Yankees hand a 4-2 lead to Mariano Rivera, but for the
third straight time the Yankee closer blows the save by allowing solo
homers to Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez. However, Brett Gardner
homers in turn, off José Veras with two outs in the bottom of the inning to end the game.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2013/B08110NYA2013.htm
On this day in Yankee history...
1934: Babe Ruth announces that this year will be his final season as a player. He says he will
seek a managerial role and will pinch-hit, but will then go back on his
decision to play briefly with the Boston Braves in 1935.
1935: George Selkirk drives
in eight runs, one short of Jimmie Foxx's AL record, with two home runs
and a single in an 18-7 Yankee drubbing of the A's.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1935/B08101NYA1935.htm
1957: Mickey Mantle blasts
a 460-foot homer to become the first player to clear the center-field
hedge at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore as the Yankees beat the Orioles
6-3.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1957/B08100BAL1957.htm
1977: Billy Martin installs
Reggie Jackson as the Yankees' regular clean-up hitter. The Yanks beat
the A's 6-3, as Ron Guidry outpitches Vida Blue. Graig Nettles belts his
26th homer of the season. New York will win 40 of its final 53 games on
the way to a World Series title, with Jackson contributing 13 home runs
and 49 RBIs.
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1986: The Yankees hold Billy Martin Day at the Stadium Day and retire uniform number 1 to honour their scrappy second baseman and four-time manager.
1995: Catcher Mike Stanley hits three homers and drives in seven runs, but it's not enough to prevent the Yankees from losing to the Indians 10-9.
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2005: After
being released from the hospital, an 18-year-old fan appears in
court to face criminal charges of trespassing, reckless endangerment,
and criminal mischief stemming from his 40-foot plunge last night from
the upper deck of Yankee Stadium into the netting behind home plate.
George Steinbrenner called the incident "... the only exciting thing
that happened today," after his struggling club lost to the first-place
White Sox.
On this day in Yankee history...
1919: Ralph Houk is born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Houk
1939: Red Rolfe begins
an eighteen-game scoring streak. The Yankee third baseman and New
Hampshire native will score thirty runs during this period of time.
1940: Steve
Sundra posts his first win of the year for the Yankees. a 2-0 shutout
of the A's. At 51-51, the team seem certain to be out of the running for
their
5th straight championship. However, they will go 37-15 the rest of the
way and actually make the top for a few hours on September 11th. The
Yanks will ultimately finish 3rd, though, losing three straight to the
Browns on September 15th and 16th.
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1992: Rookie pitcher Sam Militello allows just one hit in seven innings as he beats the Red Sox 6-0 in his major league debut.
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2001: Ted Lilly is
suspended for six games for hitting Anaheim's Scott Spiezio in the head
with a pitch in a game last Sunday. Joe Torre rips into MLB dean of
discipline Frank Robinson for the decision. Lilly was not thrown out of
the game by the umpires when the incident occurred.
2009: The
Yankees complete a four-game sweep of the Red Sox with a 5-2 win at the
Stadium. Andy Pettitte and Jon Lester keep the game scoreless for six
innings until Alex Rodriguez leads off the bottom of the 7th with a home
run. Victor Martinez gives Boston the lead with a two-run shot off Phil
Coke in the 8th, breaking a 31-inning scoring drought. In the bottom of
the 8th, Johnny Damon and Mark Teixeira hit back-to-back long balls
against Daniel Bard to put the Yanks ahead, and Nick Swisher delivers a
two-run single to seal the deal.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2009/B08090NYA2009.htm
On this day in Yankee history...
1913: The
Yankees pick up third baseman Fritz Maisel from Baltimore of the
International League for $12‚000 plus third baseman Ezra Midkiff (who is
hitting .197) and outfielder Bert Daniels (.216). Maisel will become
the greatest Yankee base stealer of his era.
1920:
The Yankees are on the losing end of the American League's shortest
9-inning game ever, as they are blanked 1-0 by Tigers' pitcher Howard
Ehmke. With
no one out and two on in the 5th inning‚ the Yanks fail to capitalize
as Ping Bodie falls for the hidden ball trick applied by second baseman
Ralph Young.
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1953: Yankee southpaws
Whitey Ford and Bob Kuzava hurl respective 1-0 and 3-0 shutouts against
the White Sox. Kuzava takes a no-hitter into the 9th before giving up a
double to Bob Boyd.
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1956: Mickey Mantle's opposite-field
homer off Camilo Pascual in the 1st inning, jump starts the Yankees to a
12-2 win over the Senators. Mantle is now 9 games ahead of Babe Ruth's
1927 pace.
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1970: The Yankees honour Casey Stengel at Old Timers' Day at the Stadium, retiring the former manager's number 37.
1972: The Yankees sign
a 30-year lease to play in a renovated Stadium starting in 1976; they
will share Shea Stadium with the Mets while the renovations are carried
out in 1974 and '75.
1973: Facing
Texas, Yankee starter Fritz Peterson injures himself fielding a bunt
single by leadoff hitter Dave Nelson and is replaced by Fred Beene.
Beene pitches 9 innings‚ allowing 4 hits and winning 3-2 on Gene
Michael's two-out single in the 9th off starter Jim Merritt.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1973/B08080NYA1973.htm
1995: Ruben Sierra drives
in 7 runs to lead New York to an 11-4 win over Baltimore. The three
hits by the Yankee DH include a single‚ double and home run.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1995/B08080NYA1995.htm
1996: Darryl Strawberry launches a pair of homers to lead the Yankees to an 8-4 win over the White Sox. Strawberry now has 5 homers in his last 9 at bats.
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