This Day in Baseball - The Daily Rewind
Sports:Baseball
On the seventh day of September 1978, the
Boston Red Sox lead was just four games over a charging Yankee team who arrive
in Boston for a crucial 4-game series, which would become known as the “Boston
Massacre”. The Yanks dominate game one with a 15 - 3 rout as Willie Randolph
accounts for five of the runs. On July 24, the Red Sox held a 14 game lead in
the AL East but played only 25 - 24 ball leading up to this series. The Yankees,
in that same time frame had won 35 of 49. When the bloodshed was over on
September 9th, the Yankees pounded out 42 runs and 67 hits. Boston
managed just nine runs and 21 hits. The Sox also committed a dozen errors. The
Yankees won all four games by an average margin of over eight runs.
September
7, 1998 - In the first inning at Busch Stadium, Cardinal first baseman Mark
McGwire ties Roger Maris' single-season home run mark hitting his 61st in a
nationally-televised Labor Day game against the Cubs. Big Mac hits his historic
homer on his dad's 61st birthday.
September 7, 1927 - After blasting three
home runs in a doubleheader split with the Red Sox the day before, Babe Ruth
hits two more in a 12-10 win, giving him a record-tying 5 in 3 games. He leads
Lou Gehrig 49 homers to 45.
September
7, 1955 - Whitey Ford continues his mastery with his second consecutive
one-hitter, beating the A's 2-1. Jim Finigan hits a 2-out single in the 7th for
the A's only hit. Ford is the 5th ML pitcher to throw consecutive one-hitters.
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free