This date in baseball

1916 Longtime pitching rivals Christy Mathewson and Mordecai Brown closed their careers, by special arrangement, in the same game.

1923 Sam Jones of the New York Yankees pitched a 2-0 no-hitter against Philadelphia Athletics without striking out a batter. New York’s Babe Ruth had the only strikeout of the game.

1927 Lloyd and Paul Waner became the first brothers to hit home runs in the same game, leading Pittsburgh to an 8-4 victory over Cincinnati. Both homers came off Dolf Luque in the fifth inning. Both were bounce home runs allowed until 1931 that would now be ground-rule doubles.

1928 The Boston Braves started a grueling string in which they played nine consecutive doubleheaders, a major league record.

1941 The New York Yankees clinched the pennant on the earliest date in baseball history with a 6-3 victory over Boston.

1966 Los Angeles became the first team in major league history to draw more than 2 million at home and on the road when the Dodgers beat the Reds 8-6 before 18,670 fans in Cincinnati.

1985 Gary Carter became the 11th major leaguer to hit five home runs in two games. He hit two solo home runs to lead the New York Mets past San Diego 9-2 after smashing three home runs the night before.

1993 One-handed Jim Abbott threw the New York Yankees’ first no-hitter in 10 years, a 4-0 victory over the Cleveland Indians.

1995 Robin Ventura became the eighth player in major league history and the first in 25 years to hit two grand slams in one game, powering the Chicago White Sox past Texas 14-3.

1998 The New York Yankees reached 100 victories on the earliest date in major league history five days before the 1906 Chicago Cubs and 1954 Cleveland Indians with an 11-6 victory over the Chicago White Sox. The 2006 Cubs set the major league record for fewest games to reach 100 victories (132).

2002 The Oakland Athletics set an AL record by winning their 20th consecutive game. They somehow blew an 11-run lead before pinch-hitter Scott Hatteberg homered in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat Kansas City 12-11.