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September 23, 1908 Giants Pitcher Christy Mathewson and Cubs P Three Finger Brown battle

in one of the most controversial game ever played. The score is 1-1 with two outs in the last of the 9th, when Fred Merkle's failure to touch second after an apparent game - winning hit by Al Bridwell costs the Giants a 2 - 1 win. The ump calls Merkle out and rules the game a tie.The base running gaffe, referred to as “Merkle's Boner”'is often blamed for the Giants loosing the pennant.

September 23, 1905 Eighteen year old Detroit rookie Ty Cobb, hits his first home run, an inside - the park blow, off Cy Falkenberg, in an 8 - 5 loss at Washington.

September 23, 1965 - A 20-game winner in 1964, Larry Jackson loses his 20th game of 1965,

as the Phillies sweep a twin bill from the Cubs. Jackson is the first pitcher since Murry Dickson of the 1951-1952 Pirates to follow a 20 - win season with 20 losses.

September 23, 1983 Steve Carlton becomes the 16th pitcher in major league history to win 300 games and the Phillies inch closer to the National League East title with a 6 -2 win over the Cardinals.

September 23, 1998 Sammy Sosa breaks an 0 for 21 slump, hitting his 64th and 65th home

runs as the Cubs build a 7 - 0 lead over the Brewers. With his eight total bases, “Slammin’ Sammy ” has now topped the 400 mark for the season.

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September 22, 1968 - Cesar Tovar plays one inning at each position for the Minnesota Twins, becoming only the second major leaguer in history to do it; Bert Campaneris of the Oakland Athletics was the first. He started the game on the mound, ironically facing Campaneris as the leadoff hitter. Scott Sheldon and Shane Halter later became the only other two men to accomplish this feat.

September22, 1911 - Cy Young, at age 44, beats the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1 - 0, for his 511th and final major league victory.

September22, 1993:Pitcher Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers faces just three Seattle batters before hurting his right elbow. Ryan finishes his career with 324 wins, 5,714 strikeouts and seven no hitters.

September22, 1969 - Willie Mays hits the 600th home run of his career. The historic homer off Mike Corkins of the Padres proves to be the game-winner in a 4 - 2 Giants victory at San Diego Stadium.

September22, 1990 - Andre Dawson of the Chicago Cubs steals his 300th base in an 11 - 5 loss to the New York Mets, Joining Willie Mays as the only players in major league history with 300 home runs, 300 steals and 2,000 hits.

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• September 21, 1958 At Fenway Park, the Red Sox complete a three-game sweep of the Senators, all by 2 - 0 shutouts.. Today's win, however, is marred when Ted Williams, after striking out looking with two aboard to end the third inning, flings his bat aside in a fit of anger. Unfortunately,the intended flip along the ground sails into the stands and striking, of all people, Boston GM Joe Cronin's 69-year-old housekeeper, Gladys Heffernan, in the head. "I didn't mean to throw the bat that way," explains the distraught Williams. "I started to flip it along the ground but the sticky stuff on my hands stuck to it and it left my hands on the fly instead. I was sick." Thankfully Heffernan was not badly hurt.
• September 21, 2001 A crowd of 41,235 at Shea Stadium witness the return of baseball to New York City for the first time since the terrorist attacks of September 11. Uplifting ceremonies before and during the game, which include singers Diana Ross, Marc Anthony and Liza Minnelli as well as bagpipers, pay tribute to victims of the tragedy.
• September 21, 1934 - The Dean Brothers shut out the Dodgers. After Dizzy Dean gives up just 3 hits in a 13 - 0 victory, allowing no hits until the 8th, Paul Dean wins a no hitter 3 - 0. Diz says: "If'n Paul had told me he was gonna pitch a no-hitter, I'd of throwed one, too."
• September 21, 1970 The A's Vida Blue no-hits the Twins 6 - 0, becoming the youngest pitcher to perform the feat since Paul Dean, 36 years ago to the day. An Oakland crowd of only 4,284 watches Blue's 2nd ML start.
• September 21, 1981 - Steve Carlton fans 12 Expos in 10 innings to break Bob Gibson's National League strikeout record. Carlton now has 3,128 K’s, but the Phillies lose to the Expos 1 - 0 in 17 innings.
• September 21, 1987 - With two stolen bases against the Cubs, Darryl Strawberry joins teammate Howard Johnson as a member of the 30/30 club. It is the first time in major league history players on the same team have hit 30 homers and have stolen 30 bases in the same year

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• September 20, 1919 - On Babe Ruth day at Fenway Park, the Bambino ties Ned Williamson's major league mark of 27 home runs in a season with a game-winner off Lefty Williams of the Chicago White Sox. Ruth also scores the winning run in both ends of the doubleheader. Ironically, it will be the last game he plays for the Boston Red Sox in Fenway as the sale of the century would have the Bambino in pinstripes for the remainder of his career. On the same date eight years later, Ruth would again raise the single season home run mark by hitting his 60th bomb of the season off Senators pitcher Tom Zachary.
• September 20, 1955 - New York Giants slugger Willie Mays hits two home runs against the
• Pittsburgh Pirates, giving him 50 for the year and making him the seventh player in major league history to accomplish this.
• September 20, 1958 - Recently-acquired Orioles knuckleballer, Hoyt Wilhelm pitches a 1-0
• no-hitter against the New York Yankees at Memorial Stadium. The Bronx Bombers would not go hitless in a game again in the 20th Century.
• September20, 1968 - Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees hits the 536th and final home run of his major league career. The parting shot of this storied career came at the expense of Jim Lonborg of the Boston Red Sox in a 4 - 3 loss at Yankee Stadium.
• September 20, 1980 - In memory of Thurman Munson, a bronze plaque in Monument Park is dedicated to the deceased New York Yankees catcher and team Captain who died tragically in a plane crash in 1979.
• September 20, 1998 - Cal Ripken, Jr. takes himself out of the starting lineup and does not play in the Baltimore Orioles' loss to the New York Yankees, ending his consecutive games played streak at 2,632. After nearly 16 years, Ripken said he decided the time was right to end the streak, which began on May 30, 1982.

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• September 19, 1968 – Detroit Tigers Pitcher Denny McLain's 31st win is overshadowed by Mickey Mantle's 535th homer which was good enough for 3rd on the all time list. McLain called Catcher Jim Price to the mound to have him inform Mantle he’d be seeing nothing but fastballs and Mantle delivered. Mantle tipped his cap to Denny as he rounded third base. Joe Pepitone, the next batter, signaled where he would like the ball, and McLain dusted him. The Tigers won the game, 6 - 2, the 12th straight complete game for the Tigers staff.
• September 19, 1970 Boston's Billy Conigliaro connects for a 4th inning home run off the Senators Jim Hannan, and in the 7th frame, brother Tony Conigliaro wallops a solo shot. The brothers also homered in the same game on July 4. Billy will end the year with 18 home runs, while Tony will connect for 36.
• September 19, 1973 The Brave’s' Davey Johnson hits his 43rd homer, 42nd as a second baseman tying Rogers Hornsby's record for the most home runs for a second baseman.
• September 19, 1983 Phillies 2B Joe Morgan celebrates his 40th birthday by going 4 for 5 with two home runs in a 7 - 6 win over the Cubs. He's the 2nd player to celebrate his 40th birthday with a dinger: Bob Thurman was the first in 1957.
• September 19, 1998 Mariners SS Alex Rodriguez hits his 40th home run of the season, off Jack McDowell of the Angels, to become the 3rd player in history to have 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in the same season. Jose Canseco and Barry Bonds are the others. The Mariners lose the game however, 5 - 3.

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• September 18, 1975 - The New York Mets defeat the Chicago Cubs, 7 - 5 at Shea Stadium. Rusty Staub becomes the first Mets' player to reach 100 RBIs in a season with a 2-run homer in the fifth. Dave Kingman sets a team record with his 35th home run of the season to win it in the ninth inning. Kingman would also hit his 35th homer of the year on this date in 1976 when he was named to the National League All Star Team for the first time.
• September 18, 1962 At LA, the Aaron brothers lead the Braves to a 10 - 5 pounding of the Dodgers, and cutting the Dodger lead over the idle Giants to 3 1/2 games. Hank Aaron hits his 40th homer and Tommie Aaron accounts for three RBIs with three hits.
• September 18, 1986 - For the second time in his career, Reggie Jackson belts three homers
• in a game, scoring four times with seven RBIs against Kansas City. At the age of 40 years four months, Reggie joins Stan Musial and Babe Ruth as the only player over 40 to accomplish the feat.
• September 18, 1996 Roger Clemens fans 20 Detroit Tigers without walking a single batter, tying his record for most strikeouts in a 9-inning game. The Rocket holds the Tigers to four hits en route to a 4 - 0 shutout.

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September 17, 1968 Detroit clinches the American League pennant with a 2 - 1 win over the Yankees. Detroit is ahead 1 - 0 when Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey phones Tiger general manager Jim Campbell with the news that the Sox have beaten the Orioles, clinching the pennant for the Tigers. Campbell keeps the score off the radio and the scoreboard, fearing the news will send fans rampaging onto the field.

Don Wert singles home the winner in the 9th and the fans tear down the left field screen as Campbell suspected.

September 17, 1912 - Casey Stengel of the Dodgers makes an impressive major league debut against the Pirates. The likable Brooklyn outfielder from Kansas City collects four hits, drives in two runs and swipes a pair of stolen bases in the 7 - 3 win.

September 17, 1979 - The Royals' George Brett collects his 20th triple of the season in a 16 - 4 romp over the Angels. Brett becomes the 6th player ever and the first since Willie Mays in 1927, to collect 20 doubles, 20 triples and 20 home runs in the same season. He will finish with totals of 42, 20 and 23.

September 17, 1985 Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 batters for the second straight start to tie the major-league record of 32 strikeouts in consecutive games, but balks home the winning run in the 8th inning of a 2 - 1 loss to the Phillies. It is Gooden's 5th straight outing with 10 or more strikeouts.

September 17, 1986 - The Mets clinch the National League East title with a 4 - 2 win over the Cubs at Shea Stadium as Dwight Gooden tosses a 6-hitter. The Mets will win 108 games this season, most in the National League since the 1975 Reds.

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• September 16, 1968: One day after seeing their team mathematically eliminated, Candlestick Park's patrons show up in 'record' numbers, the smallest crowd to see a Giants game in San Francisco. The 2,361 fans witnessed the rare sight of Willie Mays being restrained from charging into the stands to confront two hecklers. 'Nice catch, Willie,' they jeered from the front row after Mays made a spectacular catch in the fourth.'For a $100,000 bum you're finally earning your money'." As Mays approached the dugout, he went after the two men but was intercepted by Bobby Bonds and manager Herman Franks. The two hecklers were ejected from the park.
• September 16, 1960: At the age of thirty-nine, Warren Spahn pitches a no-hitter beating the Phillies, 4 - 0. The crafty lefty sets an all-time Braves record with 15 strikeouts.
• September 16, 1993 - At the age of 41, the Twins' Dave Winfield becomes the 19th major leaguer to collect 3000 hits as he singles to left off A's ace Dennis Eckersley in a 5 - 1 home victory over Oakland.
• September 16, 1996: Steve Finley's lead-off home run in the 11th gives the Padres a 2 - 1
• win over the host Giants. SF's only run is Barry Bonds 40th homer, and he joins Hank Aaron and Jose Canseco as the only players with 40 home runs and 30 stolen bases in a season.
• September 16, 1998 Ken Griffey, Jr. steals his 20th base of the season in a 4 - 1 victory over Oakland. He becomes just the 3rd player in history to record at least 50 home runs and at least 20 stolen bases in the same season. Willie Mays and Brady Anderson are the others.

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• September 15, 1990: Despite solo homers in the 5th by brothers Billy Ripken and Cal Ripken, both off David Wells, the Orioles lose 4 - 3 to Toronto. The brothers would homer together once more in 1996, again in the same inning. The Ripken Brothers joint stint in Baltimore, while managed by their father Cal Sr. from 1987 to 1988, marked the first time a father has managed two of his sons on the same team in the bigs.
• September 15, 2003: With his 2,063rd career base on balls, Barry Bonds passes Babe Ruth on the all-time walks list. The Giant left fielder now only trails Rickey Henderson, who has 2,190 free passes.
• September 15, 1960 - Giants superstar Willie Mays ties a major league mark by hitting three triples in an 8-6 victory over the Phillies.
• September 15, 2003 Rafael Palmeiro joins Jimmie Foxx as the only players to hit 35 homers and drive in 100 runs in nine consecutive seasons. The Hall of Fame member Foxx accomplished the feat playing for the A's and Red Sox from 1932 to 1940.
• September 15, 1961: The Yankees set a new American League record for most homers in a season as they split a doubleheader in Detroit, winning 11 - 1 and losing 4 -2. Round Trippers by Bill Skowron and Yogi Berra in the opener help Whitey Ford win his 24th and increase New York's homer total to 222.

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• September 14, 1994 - The remainder of the baseball season is canceled by acting commissioner Bud Selig after 34 days of the players' strike. The last 50 games of the season and post season were cancelled due to the strike called by the Players Association and their leader Don Fehr. The World Series would not be played for the first time in 90 years. The strike was finally ended by a ruling from future Chief Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
• September 14, 1923: Red Sox first baseman George Burns completes an unassisted triple play against the Indians as he gathers in a Frank Brower line drive, tags Rube Lutzke coming from first, and beats Riggs Stephenson back to second.
• September 14, 1980, in a 10 - 7 win over the Cubs, Lee Mazzilli homers to break a drought
• for Mets. It is the team's first homer in 175 2/3 innings, going back to August 26 when Claudell Washington homered. This would be the longest drought for the rest of the century.
• September 14, 1990: Mariner Ken Griffey, Sr. and his son, Ken Griffey, Jr., become the
• first father and son to hit homers in the same major league game. The back-to-back blasts are given up by Angel hurler Kirk McCaskill.
• September 14, 2002, Derek Lowe wins his 20th game as the Red Sox beat the Orioles, 6 - 4.
• Lowe becomes the first pitcher in history to win 20 games the season after saving 20. He is also the first to record at least 40 saves and later win 20 games. Dennis Eckersley and John Smoltz did it the other way around.

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