This date in baseball

1952 Warren Spahn of the Boston Braves struck out 18 Cubs in a 3-1, 15-inning loss to Chicago. Spahn also hit a home run.

1953 The New York Yankees swept Cleveland, 6-2 and 3-0, to extend the team’s winning streak to eighteen consecutive games.

1963 Duke Snider hit his 400th career home run to highlight a 10-3 victory by the New York Mets over the Cincinnati Reds at Crosley Field.

1965 Jim Maloney of the Cincinnati Reds struck out 18 and no-hit the New York Mets for 10 innings, but Johnny Lewis’ leadoff home run in the 11th inning gave the Mets a 1-0 victory.

1969 Reggie Jackson knocked in 10 runs with two home runs, a double and two singles in Oakland’s 21-7 victory over the Red Sox in Boston. In the eighth, he drove in three runs with a single when he easily could have made second base.

1974 Nolan Ryan struck out 19 batters in 12 innings to give the California Angels a 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox in 15 innings. Cecil Cooper of the Red Sox struck out six times.

1978 Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds had two hits in a 3-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs to start his 44-game hitting streak.

1995 Mike Benjamin went 6 for 7, setting a major league record with 14 hits in three games, and drove in the winning run in the 13th inning as the San Francisco Giants beat the Chicago Cubs 4-3.

2002 Cincinnati’s Aaron Boone hit two home runs, one to tie the game in the ninth inning and one to win it in the 11th off Pittsburgh closer Mike Williams, as the Reds beat the Pirates 4-3.

2002 With all 14 interleague games and one National League game taking place in National League parks, the designated hitter was not employed anywhere in the majors.

2005 Seattle’s Ichiro Suzuki became the third player since 1900 to reach 1,000 hits in fewer than 700 games when he singled in the bottom of the first inning in Seattle’s 3-1 victory over Philadelphia. Suzuki’s 1,000th hit came in his 696th game. Chuck Klein reached the mark in 1933 in 683 games, and Lloyd Waner reached it in 1932 in 686 games.

2007 Craig Monroe tied the major league record for strike outs in a nine inning game when he whiffed five times in Detroit’s 6-5 loss to Milwaukee.