On this day in Yankee history...
1923: Formal transfer of Yankee co-owner T.L. Huston's interest in the club to Jacob Ruppert is completed for $1.5 million. Ten days later, Ruppert buys two more sets of uniforms so that his players can wear a clean outfit every day, an unprecedented move in the major leagues at the time.
1930: Babe Ruth hits three consecutive home runs in the first game of a doubleheader against the A's, then batting against Jack Quinn in the 9th, Ruth decides to hit right-handed. After two strikes, he
switches to lefty but strikes out. This is the first of two career
three-homer games for the Babe. Max Bishop draws five walks for the second time in his career (he is the only player to do this twice), and Jimmie Foxx homers to help the A's to a 15-7 victory. Ruth is homerless in the second game, a 4-1 Yankee loss, but Bishop has three more walks. Bishop will also walk eight times in a twinbill in 1934, the only player to collect more than six walks in an afternoon.
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1938: The Yankee position players have a power outage, but Spud Chandler supplies all the offense he needs, homering in the 8th to beat Thornton Lee and White Sox 1-0.
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1967: Whitey Ford makes his final major league appearance. Mickey Mantle hits his fifth homer in 6 games, but it is not enough to stave off a 9-4 defeat at the hands of the Tigers, who win their third consecutive game from the Yankees.
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1970: Clearly in a generous mood, Mel Stottlemyre hands out 11 walks to Washington in 8 1/3 innings, but the Senators are unable to score. Steve Hamilton gets the last two outs to preserve the 2-0 win. The 11 walks in a shutout ties the record set by Lefty Gomez, who did complete his 1941 whitewashing. Danny Cater's two-run homer in the 5th accounts for the scoring off Dick Such, making his first major league start.
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2004: In his first return to Texas since signing with the Yankees, Alex Rodriguez is roundly booed by fans at the Ballpark in Arlington. The fans continue to show their displeasure as New York's third baseman drives a 2-1 pitch over the fence during his 1st-inning at-bat. The Rangers will get the last laugh, however, winning the game 9-7.
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2009: Joba Chamberlain is knocked out of the game in the 1st inning with a bruised right knee after being hit by a line drive off the bat of Adam Jones. The Yankees still defeat the Orioles 7-4. as Robonson Cano drives in three runs. Alfredo Aceves pitches 3 1/3 scoreless innings in relief of Chamberlain to earn the Bronx Bombers' 9th straight win.
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2014: The Cubs' Jeff Samardzija, the ML ERA leader, pitches 7 scoreless innings against the Yankees, but Hector Rondon blows a 2-0 9th-inning lead to send the game into extras. In the 13th, Yankee pitcher Preston Claiborne lays down a perfect sacrifice bunt in his first major league plate appearance as part of a two-run rally, Jose Veras throws a wild pitch to let in a first run and back-up catcher John Ryan Murphy drives in another with a single as the Bronx Bombers end up on top, 4-2. Samardzija is 0-4 in spite of a 1.46 ERA.
On this day in Yankee history...
1897: Wilcy Moore is born.
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1946: Bobby Murcer is born
1948: Joe DiMaggio hits for the cycle, collecting six RBI in a 13-2 victory over the White Sox. DiMaggio hits two home runs, a triple, a double and a single, and
narrowly misses another extra-base hit when Chicago left fielder Ralph Hodgin makes a spectacular catch at the wall.
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1959: Bobby Shantz takes the loss as the Tigers defeat the Yankees 13-6 at the Stadium, dropping the New Yorkers to last place for the first time since 1940.
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1960: Pat Collins dies at the age of 63.
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1963: David Wells is born.
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2006: A uniform worn by Joe DiMaggio in his final World Series is sold for $195,500 during the second day of an auction of his memorabilia. The previous day, DiMaggio's 1947 AL MVP Award plaque was sold for $281,750, which included a 15 percent buyer's
premium. It was his third MVP award, but it is the only plaque. The
two-day auction features more than 1,000 items of DiMaggio memorabilia,
also including a leather-bound album featuring autographs from
DiMaggio's Yankee teammates and members of the Red Sox, a typed note signed by Frank Sinatra, and a signed photo of DiMaggio's former wife Marilyn Monroe. The auction is held by Hunt's Auctions Inc. in NYC. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Hollywood, FL.
On this day in Yankee history...
1930: George Pipgras tosses his third shutout of the season as the Yankees again support his pitching by bombing the host Red Sox 11-0. Babe Ruth hits an Ed Morris pitch over the right field bleachers, for one of the longest home runs ever at Fenway Park.
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1946: Reggie Jackson is born.
1956: Mickey Mantle hits home runs from both sides of the plate for the third time in his
career, setting a major league record. Mantle includes a perfect 4 for 4
day, helping New York to an 8-7 victory over the White Sox.
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1999: Joe Torre returns to the Yankee dugout for the first time this season season after being hospitalized for prostate cancer treatment. Don Zimmer was managing the team in the interim. The Red Sox spoil the occasion, however, by winning 6-3.
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2011: In action at Camden Yards, the Yankees and the Orioles are tied 1-1 in the 15th when the visitors score two runs off Mike Gonzalez, who is then ejected for beaning Chris Dickerson, shattering his batting helmet and sending him to the hospital. Out of pitchers, the O's have to bring in the next day's scheduled starter, Jeremy Guthrie, to complete the inning. Hector Noesi throws 4 scoreless innings to earn the win in his major league debut;
called up by the Yanks 16 days earlier, he had yet to pitch before the
marathon game forces Joe Girardi's hand. Trailing 4-1 in the bottom of the 15th, the Orioles then put two runners on base, but Matt Wieters' ground ball, headed for right field, just nips the foot of baserunner Brandon Snyder, who is called out, snuffing the O's best chance to tie the game.
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1961: Roger Maris hits his first home run of the year at Yankee Stadium, but the home side still falls to the Washington Senators 8-7.
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1998: David Wells pitches the 13th perfect game in modern major league history as the Yankees beat the Twins 4-0. Wells, whose 'perfecto' is the first by a Yankees pitcher since Don Larsen in the 1956 World Series, also sets an AL record by retiring 37 batters in a row, dating back to his start on May 12th against Kansas City. Minnesota shortstop Pat Meares flies out to right fielder Paul O'Neill to complete the perfect afternoon at the Stadium.
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2010: Another epic battle between the Yankees and the Red Sox at the Stadium ~ the Yanks take a 5-0 lead in the 1st inning against Daisuke Matsuzaka, but the Sox storm back to take the lead with five home runs, two by Victor Martinez, and one each by David Ortiz, J.D. Drew and Kevin Youkilis. Then, in the bottom of the 9th, Jonathan Papelbon gives up a pair of two-run homers, to Alex Rodriguez and Marcus Thames, and the Yankees end up on top 11-9.
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On this day in Yankee history...
1907: The Highlanders swap pitcher Walter Clarkson and outfielder Frank Delahanty ~ both siblings of future Hall of Famers ~ to Cleveland for pitcher Earl Moore. New York are hoping that Moore will return to the form he showed before a line drive injured his foot the previous season, limiting him to six games.
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1927: Bob Meusel steals second base, third base, and home in the 3rd inning as the Yankees top the Tigers 6-2. Lou Gehrig contributes a homer and two doubles to back Dutch Ruether's pitching.
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1928: Billy Martin is born.
1932: The Yankees record their fourth straight shutout to equal the record set by Cleveland and Boston in 1903 and 1906 respectively. Johnny Allen, George Pipgars, Red Ruffing and Lefty Gomez were the hurlers. Lefty stops the Indians on five hits to win, 8-0, New York's fifth shutout in seven games.
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1941: Yankee manager Joe McCarthy benches top prospects Phil Rizzuto and Jerry Priddy, putting Joe Gordon and Frankie Crosetti back in the lineup. New York then rally in the 9th to beat the White Sox 5-4.
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1951: Mickey Mantle drives in four runs and scores three as New York rout Cleveland 11-3. Mantle connects for the first of his 206 homers at Yankee Stadium, the blast coming off Dick Rozek.
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1956: On a blustery day in Cleveland, the Yankees top the Indians 4-1. Mickey Mantle hits a homer off Bud Daley, while his pal Billy Martin is benched for the first time. Bobby Richardson takes his place at 2B.
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1957: The Yankees beat the Kansas City A's 3-0 behind Bob Turley's four-hit shutout. Mickey Mantle has a homer off Alex Kellner, the 11th time in his last 12 at-bats he has reached base safely. That night a group of Yankees celebrate Billy Martin's 29th birthday in raucous fashion. An ensuing fight at a Manhattan nightclub ~ soon to become infamous as the 'Battle of the Copacabana' ~ leads to $5,500 in fines and the eventual trade of Billy to Kansas City. Hank Bauer allegedly starts the brawl by hitting a patron, although Bauer denies it. The Yanks fine Bauer, Mantle, Martin, Whitey Ford and Yogi Berra $1,000 each and Johnny Kucks $500.
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2010: The Twins stun the Yankees with an 8th-inning grand slam by Jason Kubel against Mariano Rivera for a 6-3 win at Yankee Stadium. Rivera had converted a record-tying 51 consecutive save opportunities at home and had not given up a grand slam since 2002; the runs are also the first he gives up this season.
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On this day in Yankee history...
1922: In a 6-1 win at the Polo Grounds, Ty Cobb beats out a grounder to Yankee SS Everett Scott. Veteran writer Fred Lieb scores it as a hit in the box score he files with the Associated Press. But official scorer John Kieran of the New York Tribune gives an error to Scott. At the season's end, the AL official records, based on AP box scores, list Cobb at .401. New York writers complain unsuccessfully, claiming
it should be .399, based on the official scorer's stats. Lieb will
reverse himself at the end of the year, but league president Ban Johnson goes with the hit call.
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1935: Lou Gehrig steals home in a 4-0 Yankee win over the Tigers. It is his 15th and last steal of home, all of which were part of double steals.
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1941: Joe DiMaggio gets a single in four at bats against Eddie Smith of the White Sox to start his 56-game hitting streak. The base hit goes unnoticed as the Bronx Bombers get bombed themselves, 13-1.
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1955: Yankee outfielder Irv Noren hits an inside-the-park grand slam in an 8-4 victory over the A's to complete doubleheader sweep at the Stadium. Mickey Mantle is 4 for 9 for the afternoon and is hitting .311.
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1963: With the Yankees down 3-0 to the Twins, Mickey Mantle hits a two-run homer off Pedro Ramos to put his club on the board. Mantle later scores the winning run as New York win 4-3.
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1965: At Memorial Stadium, Mickey Mante slices an opposite field homer in the 8th inning off Dick Hall to give the Yankee a 3-2 win over the Orioles.
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1969: Hideki Irabu is born.
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1996: The Yankees outbid four other American teams and sign Japanese pitcher Katsuhiro Maeda to a $1.5 million contract. The Yanks obtain the fastballer from the Sebu Lions for more than $350,000. Maeda, who has his hair dyed orange, was 0-2 with the Lions from 1993 through 1995 but refused to sign for the 1996 season unless he was traded to a U.S. team.
2014: In his first major league outing, Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom does something no other member of the pitching staff has been able to do yet this season: get a hit. His 3rd-inning single off Chase Whitley of the Yankees
breaks a record 0-for-64 drought by Mets pitchers at the plate this
season. DeGrom, who had been an infielder his first two years in
college before becoming a pitcher, also pitches very well, allowing 1
run in 7 innings, but is a hard-luck 1-0 loser, as Whitley, Dellin Betance, Adam Warren and David Robertson combine for a three-hit shutout. Whitley, who is also making his big league debut, gives up no runs in 4
2/3 innings and also collects his first hit, off deGrom.
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