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Today in Baseball History
September 28th
1897 Although he gives up 14 runs on 17 hits, Dave Wright of the Chicago Colts (Cubs) wins his first and only major league game. The 21-year old Dennison, Ohio native is the beneficiary of Chicago’s 11-run fifth inning when the club beats the Pirates,15-14.
1919 In the first game of a twin bill on the last day of the season, the Giants need only 51 minutes to defeat the Phillies, 6-1. The Polo Grounds contest is the shortest nine-inning game ever played in the major leagues.
1920 Eight White Sox players are indicted by the grand jury on charges of fixing the last season's World Series against the Reds. The eight members involved in the 'Black Sox Scandal' will be cleared of the charges by the court, but on the same day, the will be banned for life from baseball by Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball's first commissioner.
1923 At Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Bombers beat the Red Sox, 24-4. En route to their one-sided victory, New York bangs out thirty hits in the game to set an American League record.
1924 Rogers Hornsby finishes the season with a .424 batting average to lead the National League. The Cardinal second baseman easily outdistances Zack Wheat, who finishes second in the race batting .375 for the Dodgers.
1930 As a Yankee, Babe Ruth returns to the mound after a nine-year absence at Fenway Park and pitches a complete game beating the Red Sox at Fenway Park, 9-3. The last time the 'Bambino' took the mound, he defeated the A's at the end of the 1921 season.
1930 In a 13-11 season-finale victory over the Reds, Cubs outfielder Hack Wilson drives in his 189th and 190th run of the season to establish a new major league record. The total will be revised to 191 in 1999 after baseball's historian Jerome Holtzman finds a missing RBI in a game played in July of 1930.
1938 In the ninth inning at Wrigley Field, Gabby Hartnett's 'Homer in the Gloamin' gives the Cubs a 6-5 victory. Their ninth consecutive win proves to be significant in Chicago's quest of the National League pennant.
1941 Batting .399955, Ted Williams elects to play in a doubleheader against the A's on the final day of the season rather than to back into the coveted .400 average because the number is rounded up. The 'Splendor Splinter' comes through by going 6-for-8 in the twin bill to finish the season with .4057 mark (.406).
1947 As a benefit for the Babe Ruth Foundation, the first Old-Timers' Day game is played at Yankee Stadium. The event, which will become a prestigious tradition in the Bronx, is the brain child of Larry MacPhail, the club's general manager.
1948 A crowd of 60,405 attend Joe Early Night at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium. Early is a 26-year old night watchman who wrote Bill Veeck asking why an average fan never gets a 'Day', and the Indians' owner responded by giving the World War II veteran a day of his own.
1951 Yankees hurler Allie Reynolds no-hits the Red Sox, 8-0, enabling the Bronx Bombers to clinch a tie for their third consecutive pennant. It is the 'Chief' second no-hitter of the season, having also accomplishing the feat against the Indians in July.
1958 Going 7-for- 11 to end the season, Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams becomes the first 40-year old to lead the league in hitting and wins his sixth and final batting title. The 'Splendid Splinter's' .328 batting average beats out his teammate Pete Runnels, who goes 0-for-4 today and ends up the campaign with a .322 mark.
1958 On the last day of the season, Dave Philley establishes a big-league record by getting his eighth consecutive pinch hit. The seventh inning run-producing double helps the Phillies beat the Pirates at Forbes Field, 6–4.
1958 On the last day of the season, Richie Ashburn goes 3-for-4, including a tenth inning single, to capture his second batting crown. The Phillies center fielder, who also led the league in 1955, ends the season with a batting average of .350, three points higher than Giants slugger Willie Mays.
1960 In his last major league at bat, Ted Williams homers off Oriole hurler Jack Fischer. Despite the Fenway's Faithful thunderous ovation, the 'Splendid Splinter' refused to tip his hat the hometown fans.
1965 Dave Morehead takes the loss when the Angels beat the Red Sox at Fenway Park, 4-3. The defeat is the the right-hander's tenth consecutive defeat at the hands of Halos, establishing a new American League record.
1966 At Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Larry Jaster throws a four-hitter blanking Don Sutton and the Dodgers, 2-0 . It’s the southpaw’s fifth shutout against Los Angeles this season equaling a post-1900 major league mark held by Senators Tom Hughes (against the Indians in 1905,) and Grover Cleveland Alexander of the Phillies (against the Reds in 1916.)
1968 Blanked by the combined efforts of Angel hurlers Marty Pattin and Jim McGlothlin, the White Sox lose their ninth 1-0 decision of the season. The defeat ties an American League record, matching the mark established by the 1914 Yankees.
1974 At Anaheim Stadium, Angel Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 batters as he no-hits the Twins, 4-0. It is the third of seven the Alvin, Texas native will toss during his career.
1975 In a tune-up for the ALCS against the Angels, A's pitchers Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Lindblad and Rollie Fingers share a no-hitter. It is the first time four pitchers have accomplished such a feat.
1976 At Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Giants hurler John Montefusco no-hits the Braves, 9-0. The 'Count' is almost perfect giving up just a leadoff walk to Jerry Royster in the fourth inning.
1979 Garry Templeton becomes the first big league collect 100 or more hits from both sides of the plate. Batting from the left side, the Cardinals switch-hitting shortstop accomplishes the feat with a single off right-hander Juan Berenguer in a 6-2 loss to the Mets at Busch Stadium.
1979 In a twin bill at Busch Stadium, Cardinal infielder Garry Templeton collects three hits against the Mets to become the first player to get 100 hits from each side of the plate. The St. Louis shortstop bats just right-handed during the last nine games to establish the unprecedented switch-hitting mark.
1982 Although the Twins stake Terry Felton to a 3-0 lead in the night cap of a twin bill, the Blue Jays tie the score knocking out the hard-luck pitcher from his last major league game. The no-decision leaves the 24-year old right hander with a lifetime mark of 0-16, a major league record for most career losses without recording a victory.
1982 At Toronto's Exhibition Stadium, right hander Jim Clancy is perfect until he faces Randy Bush leading off the ninth inning. The Twins designated hitter ruins the bid for perfection with a broken-bat single to right field, and the Blue Jays starter has to settle for a one-hitter beating Minnesota, 3-0.
1987 Royals' Kevin Seitzer becomes the first rookie in 23 years to collect 200 hits in a season. Dick Allen and Tony Oliva both accomplished the feat in 1964.
1988 In his last start of the regular season, Dodger Orel Hershiser tosses 10 shutout frames to extend his streak to 59 breaking Don Drysdale record of 58 consecutive scoreless innings.
1988 In Seoul, South Korea, Jim Abbott, born without a right hand, goes the distance en route in a 5-3 victory over Japan to win the Olympic Gold medal for the United States. After the game, the Japanese players, in a display of great respect, line up to congratulate the former University of Michigan pitcher who had just beat them.
1995 A fan takes exception when a Cub reliever gives up two-run, pinch-hit home run to James Mouton giving the Astros a eighth inning 9-7 lead. As the Houston pinch hitter rounds the bases, the 27-year old spectator runs out of the stands and heads toward the mound where he is immediately pinned by Randy Myers, who in addition to his pitching prowess, is well trained in the martial arts.
1995 Greg Harris becomes the first post-1900 major leaguer to pitch ambidextrously. The Expos reliever, in his ninth inning appearance blanks the Reds facing four batters, two as a righty (natural side) and the other two as a southpaw.
1996 Rockies' Ellis Burks becomes the fourth player to hit 40+ home runs and swipe 30 bases in a single season.
1997 With his 40th home runs, catcher Mike Piazza sets a single season Los Angeles Dodger record. Duke Snider holds the franchise record slugging 43 round-trippers for Brooklyn in 1956.
1998 In the first National League playoff since 1980, the Cubs beat the Giants, 5-3, in a one-game showdown to take the National League's wild card berth.
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