On this day in Yankee history...
1904: Jack Chesbro registers his 41st victory of the season as the Highlanders defeat Boston 3-2. The 41 wins are a still standing modern major league record.
1927: Herb Pennock is handed an 8-0 lead and takes a perfect game into the 8th inning. The Yankee lefthander retires Glenn Wright, but Pie Traynor breaks the spell with a single and Clyde Barnhart doubles him home. Pennock settles for a three-hit 8-1 victory over the Pirates to give New York a commanding 3-0 edge in the World Series.
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1928: In the World Series, Lou Gehrig hits two home runs to lead the Yankees to a 7-3 victory over the Cardinals, giving them a 3-0 lead.
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1950: At the Stadium, rookie Whitey Ford, with
9th-inning help from Allie Reynolds, beats Bob Miller and the Phillies
5-2, as the Yankees complete the World Series sweep of the Phillies'
'Whiz Kids.' Jerry Coleman wins the Babe Ruth Award as Series MVP. The sweep of the Phils gives the Yankee franchise their 13th World Championship.
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1952: In Game 7 of the World Series, second baseman Billy Martin makes a dramatic running catch on a high infield pop with the bases loaded as the Yankees win their fourth consecutive World Championship by downing the Brooklyn Dodgers 4-2.
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1961:
At Crosley Field, Roger Maris puts the Yankees ahead 3-2 in the 9th
inning with a home run off the Reds' Bob Purkey. Luis Arroyo closes out
the win to put the Yankees ahead 2 games to 1.
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1988: The Yankees replace manager Billy Martin with Dallas Green. Martin compiled a 1253-1013 (.553) record piloting the Tigers, Twins, Yankees, Oakland A's and Rangers during his 19-year managerial career, which is now over.
2009:
In ALDS action, New York beat Minnesota 7-2 in the first postseason
game to be played at the new incarnation of Yankee Stadium. Just as before, Derek Jeter has a key hit, a game-tying home run off Brian Duensing in the 2nd inning. The Yankees and CC Sabathia roll from that point on, with Alex Rodriguez and Hideki Matsui, who blasts a two-run homer, collecting the key hits in the 5th inning.
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On this day in Yankee history...
1926: Babe Ruth hits three home runs to lead the Yankees to 10-5 victory over the Cradinals in Game 4 of the World Series. His 1st-inning curtain-raiser is a majestic 395-footer, exiting Sportsman's Park over
its right field bleacher roof. Home run number 2 clears the roof in
right center, carrying 515 feet, breaking a window on the other side of
Grand Avenue. Ruth's final foray, however, is the main attraction,
carrying deep into the never-before reached centerfield bleachers ,
far beyond the 430-foot mark. Estimated at 530 feet, it is deemed the
longest home run in World Series history. Ruth, however, not content to
dominate offensively, also delivers a crucial outfield assist, cutting
down a runner at the plate, ending the Cardinals' 3rd-inning rally. In
the words of broadcaster Graham McNamee, "Babe Ruth nor no other man ever made a better throw. Babe shot it like an arrow and Hank Severeid did
not have to move for it." If all this weren't enough, this also is the
game during which the Babe makes good on his alleged pre-game promise to
hit a home run for the bedridden young Johnny Sylvester.
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1960: Giddy following their team's Game 1 win over the heavily favoured Yankees, Pirate fans are in for a brutal reality check, as the Big Apple Goliath walks over Pittsburgh's David 16-3 to even the World Series at
one all. This utterly uncontested affair is little more than batting
practice for the Bombers, highlighted by two tremendous opposite field
blasts by Mickey Mantle, the
latter of which, measured at 478 feet, proves historic ~ the first time
within memory that any right-handed batter has hit a ball out of Forbes
Field to the right of dead center.
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1985: Phil Niekro becomes the 18th 300-game winner in ML history as he blanks the Blue Jays 8-0 on
the last day of the season. At age 46, the Yankee knuckleballer also
becomes the oldest pitcher to throw a shutout in the majors; he will eventually be passed by Jamie Moyer in 2010.
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On this day in Yankee history...
1912:
Hal Chase hits a 3-run home run to lead the Highlanders to an 8-6
victory over the Washington Senators at Hilltop Park, in the last game
that the New Yorkers will play at the venue. It is also the last time
they will play under their present name ~ in 1913, they will move to the
Polo Grounds and change their name to the Yankees.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1912/B10050NYA1912.htm
1921: NYC is
host to the first one-city World Series since 1906, as the Yankees,
playing the first postseason game in franchise history, take on the
Giants. Carl Mays needs only 86 pitches to set the Giants down on five hits, four of them by Frankie Frisch, as Babe Ruth drives in the first run of the Series in the opening inning of the 3-0 Yankee win.
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1928: Lou Gehrig unloads a three-run homer in the 1st inning of Game 2 of the World Series. Grover Cleveland Alexander, the hero of the 1926 Series between the Yankees and the Cardinals, is driven from the game in the 3rd inning as New York cruise 9-3, taking a 2-0 lead in games.
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1939: In
Game 2 of the World Series, Yankee starter Monte Pearson takes a
no-hitter into the 8th inning as he shuts out the Reds 4-0. Babe
Dahlgren hits a home run and a double as the Yankees take a 2-0 Series lead.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1939/B10050NYA1939.htm
1941: In the World Series, Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Mickey Owen drops a third strike on Tommy Henrich in what would have been the final out of a Dodgers victory against the Yankees. Given a second chance, the Bombers then rally for a 7-4 win to take a 3-1 Series lead.
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1953: The Yankees edge the Dodger 4-3 in Game 6 of the World Series. Billy Martin collects his 12th Series hit, a single to center in the bottom of the 9th inning, to give the Yankees their fifth World Championship in a row. Carl Furillo had tied it up in the top of the 9th with a two-run home run.
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1996: Bernie Williams homers from each side of the plate and Cecil Fielder breaks a tie with a 7th-inning single as the Yankees beat the Rangers 6-4 to win the ALDS 3-1 and advance to the LCS.
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On this day in Yankee history...
1910: Frankie Crosetti is born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Crosetti
1922: For the first time, the entire World Series will be broadcast over the radio. Writer Grantland Rice does the announcing of the Giants-Yankees Series for station WJZ in Newark, NJ, whose signal is relayed to WGY in Schenectady, NY.
1928: Game 1 of the World Series between the Yankees and the Cardinals is a swift execution before 61,425 fans at the Stadium. Babe Ruth has a single and double, and scores two runs, one on Bob Meusel's 4th-inning home run, and Lou Gehrig is 2 for 4 with two RBI off Bill Sherdel. Pitcher Waite Hoyt limits the Redbirds to three hits, one a solo home run by Jim Bottomley in the 7th inning, for a 4-1 victory.
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1939: The World Series begins at the Stadium, with the Reds playing in the postseason for the first time since their infamous 1919 match-up against the White Sox. With the Yankees heavy favorites, the game is tied 1-1 until the last of the 9th inning, when Bill Dickey singles home the winning run.
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1961: Whitey Ford third straight postseason shutout, with home runs by Elston Howard and Bill Skowron, gives the Yankees a 2-0 win in Game 1 of the 1961 World Series against the Reds at the Stadium.
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1972:
In action against the Brewers, Larry Gowell hits a double in his only
major league at bat. It is the last hit by an AL pitcher before the
league adopts the designated hitter rule in 1973. Milwaukee win 1-0.
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1980: The Yankees clinch their fourth AL East title in five seasons, beating the Tigers 5-2. Reggie Jackson hits his 41st home run of the season and will share the league home run crown with Ben Oglivie of the Brewers.
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1995: Jim Leyritz hits a two-run home run in the 15th inning to give the Yankees a dramatic victory and a two games to none ALDS lead over Seattle.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1995/B10040NYA1995.htm
2005: Mike Mussina pitches scoreless ball through the 6th inning, and rookie Robinson Cano lines a three-run double in the 1st as the Yankees defeat Bartolo Colón and the L.A. Angels 4-2 in the opening game of their ALDS.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2005/B10040ANA2005.htm
2010: Alex Rodriguez sets an AL record with 7 RBI in the 6th inning of the Yankees' 10-2 win over the Rays, with homers off Wade Davis and Andy Sonnanstine, the second a grand slam. The Yankees finish the regular season with 243 home runs, a franchise record.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2009/B10040TBA2009.htm
2011: The Yankees tie their ALDS with Detroit at two games each with a 10-1 rout at Comerica Park. Due to the suspension of Game 1 which cost the two teams an off-day, Joe Girardi elects to start the erratic A.J. Burnett against Rick Porcello, but
he responds with a solid performance. Burnett gives up a run in 5 2/3
innings after issuing three walks in the 1st. New York put the game away
by beating up Detroit's bullpen for 6 8th-inning runs.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2011/B10040DET2011.htm
On this day in Yankee history...
1909: Johnny Broaca is born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Broaca
1947:
In game 4 World Series action, Yankee starter Bill Bevens takes a
no-hitter into the 9th inning with two out before Dodger pinch-hitter
Cookie Lavagetto doubles in two runs for a 3-2 Brooklyn victory.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1947/B10030BRO1947.htm
1951: Dave Winfield is born.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Winfield
2017: The postseason opens with the AL Wild Card game between the Twins and the Yankees at the Stadium. As
expected, the Yankees win, 8-4, although the game doesn't go according
to script: the Twins score 3 runs in the 1st and chase starter Luis
Severino after only one out, after he gives up long balls to Brian Dozier and Eddie Rosario. But Twins starter Ervin Santana is not any better, as he allows a three-run blast to Didi Gregorius in the bottom of the 1st and is taken out after two innings, having given up another homer to Brett Gardner.
The Yankees then win the battle of the bullpens, as their relievers
ring up 13 strikeouts in 8 innings, while the Yankees continue to score,
including a two-run shot by Aaron Judge off Jose Berrios in the 4th.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2017/B10030NYA2017.htm
On this day in Yankee history...
1949: The Yankees win the AL pennant by defeating the Red Sox 5-3. Jerry Coleman's bases loaded triple provides the winning margin, while Ted Williams falls short of both the batting title and the Triple Crown.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1949/B10020NYA1949.htm
1978: Bucky Dent's unlikely home run helps the Yankees beat the Red Sox in a dramatic one-game playoff at Fenway Park. With the visitors trailing by two runs in the seventh inning, Dent smacks a three-run shot off Mike Torrez into the screen above the Green Monster. The Yankees hold on for a 5-4 victory and the AL East title.
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2012: On the penultimate day of the regular season, the Yankees maintain their one-game lead over the Orioles in the AL East when Raul Ibanez homers off Boston'sAndrew Miller in the bottom of the 12th inning to give New York a 4-3 win.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2012/B10020NYA2012.htm
On this day in Yankee history...
1932: Babe Ruth, as legend has it, calls his home run against Chicago Cubs pitcher Charlie Root in the 5th inning of Game 3 of the World Series, won by the Yankees 7-5 at Wrigley Field. Ruth and Lou Gehrig each hit two homers for the Yankees.
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1961: At the Stadium, Roger Maris hits his 61st home run of the season, against Tracy Stallard of the Red Sox. The homer eclipses Babe Ruth's 34-year-old single-season home run record, and produces the only run in the 1-0 Yankee win.
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1961/B10010NYA1961.htm
1964: Roberto Kelly is born.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Roberto_Kelly
1978: On the last day of the season, the Indians beat
the Yankees 9-2, while the Red Sox win their 8th straight, blanking the
Blue Jays 5-0, setting the stage for a one-game playoff at Fenway Park
tomorrow.
2015: The Yankees record their 10,000th win in franchise history, and it also clinches a wild card slot for the Bronx Bombers. They defeat the Red Sox 4-1 on a rain-drenched evening at the Stadium. All
four runs come courtesy of the long ball, a two-run shot by Carlos
Beltran, and solo dingers by Greg Bird and Rob Refsnyder. CC Sabathia gets the win and the Yankees' bullpen ties a major league record when Josh Rutledge strikes out against Dellin Betances to end the game, their 589th victim of the season.
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