1919 \u2014 Cleveland\u2019s Ray Caldwell pitched a no-hitter against the New York Yankees, a 3-0 victory by the Indians in the opening game of a doubleheader.<\/p>\n
1950 \u2014 Joe DiMaggio became the first player to hit three home runs in one game at Griffith Stadium, and the New York Yankees beat the Washington Senators 8-1.<\/p>\n
1967 \u2014 Joe Horlen of the Chicago White Sox beat the Detroit Tigers with a 6-0 no-hitter in the first game of a doubleheader.<\/p>\n
1969 \u2014 The New York Mets swept Montreal in a doubleheader at Shea Stadium, 3-2 in 12 innings and 7-1. The victories moved the Mets into first place in the NL East for their first time on top.<\/p>\n
1974 \u2014 Lou Brock tied Maury Wills\u2019 single-season stolen base record in the first inning against the Philadelphia Phillies. He broke the record with steal No. 105 in the seventh inning.<\/p>\n
1977 \u2014 Roy Howell hit two home runs, two doubles and a single and drove in nine runs, powering Toronto past the New York Yankees 19-3.<\/p>\n
1980 \u2014 Bill Gullickson struck out 18 \u2014 the most by a rookie \u2014 to lead the Montreal Expos past the Chicago Cubs 4-2.<\/p>\n
1997 \u2014 Mark McGwire joined Babe Ruth as the only players in major league history with consecutive 50-homer seasons by hitting a 446-foot shot off Shawn Estes in the third inning of St. Louis\u2019 game against at San Francisco. McGwire, who hit a major league-leading 52 homers for Oakland last season, became the first player with back-to-back 50-homer seasons since Ruth did it in 1927 and 1928.<\/p>\n
2000 \u2014 Arizona\u2019s Randy Johnson became the 12th player to reach 3,000 strikeouts, fanning a season-high 14 in seven innings in the Diamondbacks\u2019 4-3 loss to Florida in 12 innings.<\/p>\n
2003 \u2014 St. Louis\u2019 Tony La Russa became the eighth manager in major league history to reach 2,000 wins when the Cardinals beat Colorado 10-2. La Russa is 2,000-1,782 in 25 seasons with the Chicago White Sox, Oakland and St. Louis.<\/p>\n
2007 \u2014 Kurt Suzuki and Dan Johnson hit grand slams to power Oakland past Seattle 9-3.<\/p>\n
2013 \u2014 Mark Trumbo matched a team record with four extra-base hits, including back-to-back home runs with Josh Hamilton, and Los Angeles beat Toronto 12-6.<\/p>\n
2017 \u2014 Aaron Judge became the second major league rookie with a 40-homer season, going deep twice in New York\u2019s 16-7 rout of the Texas Rangers 16-7.<\/p>\n
2002 \u2014 42-year-old Albert Pujols, who has stated many times that he will retire at the end of the season, hits his 17th homer of the year and #696 of his career off J.T. Brubaker of the Pirates in the 6th inning of a 7 – 5 Cardinals win to tie Alex Rodriguez for fourth place on the all-time list.<\/p>\n
2024 \u2014 By leading off the bottom of the 1st with a homer off Taj Bradley at Citizens Bank Park, Kyle Schwarber sets a new record with his 14th leadoff homer of the season. The Phillies go on to defeat the Rays, 9 – 4. The previous record holder was Alfonso Soriano, who had hit 13 such long balls for the 2003 Yankees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1919 \u2014 Cleveland\u2019s Ray Caldwell pitched a no-hitter against the New York Yankees, a 3-0 victory by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[106,7268,1691,13102,5,42295,97932,24894,6952,8101,30274,44345,81,19795,5352,28033,9501,9496,18916,97930,97931,48959,763,97929,6253,282],"class_list":["post-801347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-aaron-judge","tag-albert-pujols","tag-alex-rodriguez","tag-alfonso-soriano","tag-baseball","tag-bill-gullickson","tag-dan-johnson","tag-j-t-brubaker","tag-joe-dimaggio","tag-joe-horlen","tag-josh-hamilton","tag-kurt-suzuki","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-lou-brock","tag-mark-mcgwire","tag-mark-trumbo","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-randy-johnson","tag-ray-caldwell","tag-roy-howell","tag-shawn-estes","tag-taj-bradley","tag-this-date-in-baseball-september-10","tag-tony-la-russa","tag-toronto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}