This Date In Baseball

Thursday, Sept. 12, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.

Sept. 15

1912 -- Joe Wood of the Boston Red Sox pitched his 16th consecutive victory to tie Walter Johnson's record as he beat the St. Louis Browns 2-1.

1938 -- Brothers Lloyd and Paul Waner hit back-to-back homers for the Pittsburgh Pirates off Cliff Melton of the New York Giants. This was the only time brothers hit successive home runs in a major league game. It was Lloyd's last homer in the majors.

1946 -- The Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 2-0 in five innings when the game was called because of gnats. The insects became such a problem for the players, umpires and fans that the game had to be stopped.

1963 -- All three Alou brothers - Felipe, Matty and Jesus - played in the outfield at the same time for the San Francisco Giants in a 13-5 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

1969 -- St. Louis left-hander Steve Carlton struck out 19 Mets for a nine-inning game record. New York won the game 4-3 on two two-run homers by Ron Swoboda.

1979 -- Bob Watson of the Red Sox became the first player to hit for the cycle in both leagues as he led Boston to a 10-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. He hit for the cycle with the Houston Astros against San Francisco on June 24, 1977.

1990 -- Bobby Thigpen pitched one inning and became the first relief pitcher to record 50 saves in a season as the Chicago White Sox posted a 7-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox.

Today's birthday: Gaylord Perry, 58.

Sept. 16

1914 -- Roger Peckinpaugh, at age 23, was named to finish the season as manager of the New York Yankees.

1924 -- Jim Bottomley went 6-for-6 and batted in a record 12 runs as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 17-3. His hits included two home runs.

1960 -- Warren Spahn, 39, pitched a no-hitter and posted a Braves record with 15 strikeouts. Milwaukee beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-0.

1965 -- Dave Morehead of the Boston Red Sox pitched a 2-0 no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians at Fenway Park. The Red Sox have not pitched a no-hitter since.

1975 -- The Pittsburgh Pirates routed the Chicago Cubs in Wrigley Field 22-0. It was the most one-sided shutout since 1900. Rennie Stennett had seven hits, including two two-hit innings.

1987 -- Joe Carter of the Cleveland Indians became the ninth major leaguer to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases in the same season when he stole his career-high 30th base in the fourth inning of a 5-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners.

1988 -- Cincinnati's Tom Browning pitched the 14th perfect game in major league history as the Reds beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 1-0. Browning struck out eight and allowed only eight balls to be hit out of the infield.

Today's birthdays: Mark Parent, 35; Mickey Tettleton, 36; Tim Raines, 37; Orel Hershiser, 38.

Sept. 17

1930 -- Cleveland's Earl Averill drove in eight runs with three consecutive home runs to pace the Indians to a 13-7 victory over the Washington Senators in a doubleheader opener. Averill added another homer in the nightcap, which the Senators took 6-4, and set an American League record with 11 RBIs in the two games.

1968 -- Gaylord Perry of the San Francisco Giants pitched a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals for a 1-0 victory.

1984 -- At 38, Reggie Jackson became the 13th player in major league history to record 500 home runs. No. 500 came off Kansas City pitcher Bud Black. His homer came exactly 17 years after he got his first career hit.

1984 -- Rookie pitcher Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets struck out 16 Phillies in a 2-1 loss at Philadelphia. Five days earlier, Gooden fanned 16 Pittsburgh Pirates, tying a major league record for 32 strikeouts in two consecutive starts.

1988 -- Jeff Reardon became the first pitcher to save 40 games in both leagues as the Minnesota Twins beat the Chicago White Sox 3-1. Reardon, who saved 42 games for the Montreal Expos in 1985, pitched the ninth inning for his 40th save in 47 opportunities.

Today's birthday: John Franco, 37.

Sept. 18

1908 -- Bob Rhoades of the Indians pitched a no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox for a 2-1 victory in Cleveland.

1930 -- New York pitcher Red Ruffing hit two home runs as the Yankees edged the St. Louis Browns 7-6 in 10 innings.

1954 -- The Cleveland Indians clinched the American League pennant with a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers.

1963 -- The New York Mets lost their last game at the Polo Grounds 5-1 to the Philadelphia Phillies in front of a crowd of only 1,752.

1968 -- Ray Washburn tossed a 2-0 no-hitter against the San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park, one day after the Giants' Gaylord Perry tossed a no-hitter against Washburn's St. Louis Cardinals.

1984 -- The Detroit Tigers clinched the American League East Division with a 3-0 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers, making the Tigers only the fourth team in major league history to lead from start to finish. The other three teams were the 1923 New York Giants, 1927 New York Yankees and the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers.

1987 -- Detroit's Darrell Evans became the first 40-year-old player in major league history to hit 30 home runs in a season as the Tigers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-6.

Today's birthdays: Ryne Sandberg, 37.

Sept. 19

1925 -- Ted Lyons lost his bid for a no-hitter when Bobby Veach singled with two outs in the ninth inning. The Chicago White Sox routed the Washington Senators 17-0.

1926 -- The St. Louis Cardinals pounded the Philadelphia Phillies 23-3 in the first game of a doubleheader and beat them again in the nightcap 10-2.

1949 -- Ralph Kiner of the Pittsburgh Pirates became the first National League player to hit 50 home runs in two different seasons.

1955 -- Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs set a major league record with his fifth grand slam homer of the season in a 12-inning, 6-5 loss to the St. Louis Cards.

1968 -- Denny McLain won his 31st game, the most in the American League since Lefty Grove's 31 in 1931. The Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees 6-2 while Mickey Mantle hit his 535th and next-to-last career homer.

1973 -- Frank Robinson hit his first home run in Arlington Stadium as a member of the California Angels. It was the 32nd major league ballpark in which he had homered.

1984 -- Pete Rose reached the 100-hit plateau for the 22nd consecutive year, an all-time record. He also tied the National League record for doubles with 725 as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Atlanta Braves 4-2.

Today's birthdays: Pedro Munoz, 28; Jim Abbott, 29; Randy Myers, 34; Duke Snider, 69.

Sept. 20

1902 -- Chicago's Jim Callaghan tossed the White Sox' first no-hitter for a 2-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers.

1908 -- Frank Smith of the Chicago White Sox tossed his second career no-hitter for a 1-0 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics.

1924 -- Grover Cleveland Alexander won his 300th game as the Chicago Cubs beat the New York Giants 7-3 in 12 innings.

1927 -- Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees hit his 60th home run off Tom Zachry of the Washington Senators to break his own major league record of 59 set in 1921.

1958 -- Hoyt Wilhelm of the Baltimore Orioles pitched a 1-0 no-hitter against the New York Yankees at Memorial Stadium, with the only run coming on a home run by Gus Triandos.

1968 -- Mickey Mantle hit his last home run in the major leagues, a solo shot against Jim Lonborg of the Boston Red Sox, to finish his career with 536 homers.

1969 -- Bob Moose of the Pittsburgh Pirates pitched a 4-0 no-hitter against the New York Mets at Shea Stadium.

1988 -- Wade Boggs became the first player this century to get 200 hits in six consecutive seasons as the Boston Red Sox pounded the Toronto Blue Jays 13-2. Boggs joined Lou Gehrig as the only players to get 200 hits and 100 walks in three consecutive years.

Sept. 21

1934 -- Daffy Dean of the St. Louis Cardinals pitched a no-hitter against the Brooklyn Dodgers for 3-0 victory in the nightcap of an Ebbets Field doubleheader.

1964 -- Manager Gene Mauch's first-place Phillies lost 1-0 to the Cincinnati Reds on Chico Ruiz's steal of home by in the sixth inning. It was Philadelphia's first of 10 straight losses, a streak which cost them the National League pennant.

1970 -- Oakland A's phenom Vida Blue pitched a no-hitter in his eighth major league start, beating the Minnesota Twins 6-0.

1973 -- Tom Seaver beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-2 as the Mets reached the .500 mark and went into first place after being 12 1/2 games back.

1981 -- Steve Carlton struck out Andre Dawson in the third inning for his 3,118th career strikeout to lead the all-time National League list, but the Philadelphia Phillies lost to the Montreal Expos 1-0 in 17 innings.

1986 -- No. 1 draft pick Jimmy Jones pitched a one-hitter in his major league debut to give the San Diego Padres a 5-0 victory against the Houston Astros.

Today's birthdays: Jason Christiansen, 27; Cecil Fielder, 33.

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