This Day in Baseball - The Daily Rewind
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September
12, 1911 - In a game billed as a pitchers' duel, Boston's Cy Young and the
Giants' Christy Mathewson face each other for the first time before 10,000,
Boston's largest crowd of the year. Young gives up three homers and nine runs
in less than three innings. With a 9 - 0 Giants lead, John McGraw lifts
Mathewson, who pitched just two innings, preferring to save his ace for the
pennant race against Chicago and Philadelphia. This would end up being the only
time the two pitchers ever face each other. The Giants coast to an 11–2 win.
September
12, 1979 - Carl Yastrzemski, an eighteen time All-Star, and the last
man to win the Triple Crown in major league baseball, reaches the 3000 hit milestone, singling
off Yankee Jim Beattie. Yaz had one of the longest careers in
major league history, appearing in 3,308 games over twenty-three seasons. He is
second on the all-time list for games played and third in at-bats.
September
12, 1984 - Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 batters in a 2 - 0 victory over the Pirates
to break Herb Score's major league rookie strikeout record of 245. Doc’s whiff of Marvell
Wynne raised his season total to 246 to set the new standard.
September
12, 1998 Cubs OF Sammy Sosa becomes the 4th player in history to reach the
60-home run mark for a season when he slugs number 60 off Valerio de los Santos
of the Brewers in the 7th inning of the 15-12 Chicago win.
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