This date in baseball
1927 Babe Ruth hit his 60th home run of the season in the eighth inning off Tom Zachary to lead the New York Yankees to a 4-2 victory over the Washington Senators.
1934 Dizzy Dean beat the Cincinnati Reds 9-0 for his 30th victory of the year as the St. Louis Cardinals clinched the National League pennant.
1934 New York’s Babe Ruth played his final game as a Yankee, going 0 for 3 with a walk, in a 5-3 loss to the Washington Senators at Griffith Stadium.
1945 Hank Greenberg’s grand slam in the top of the ninth inning gave the Detroit Tigers a 6-3 victory over the St. Louis Browns and the American League pennant on the last day of the season.
1947 In the first televised World Series, the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-3 in the opening game.
1951 Jackie Robinson homered in the 14th inning to give the Brooklyn Dodgers a 9-8 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies, tying the New York Giants for first place in the National League and forcing a playoff.
1962 Willie Mays homered to give the San Francisco Giants a 2-1 victory over the Houston Colt 45s in the season’s final day. That, coupled with the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 1-0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals, forced a playoff for the NL pennant.
1972 Roberto Clemente doubled off Jon Matlack during Pittsburgh’s 5-0 victory over the New York Mets. The hit was the 3,000th and last for the Pirates star, who was killed in a plane crash during the offseason.
1984 California’s Mike Witt tossed 97 pitches in a perfect game against the Texas Rangers, winning 1-0.
1988 Dave Stieb of the Toronto Blue Jays lost a no-hit bid with two outs in the ninth for the second consecutive start and finished with a 4-0 one-hitter over the Baltimore Orioles.
1992 George Brett became the 18th player to get 3,000 hits in the Kansas City Royals’ 4-0 victory over the California Angels at Anaheim. Brett went 4 for 5 and got the milestone with a single in the seventh off rookie reliever Tim Fortugno.
2007 The New York Mets missed the playoffs when Tom Glavine was tagged for seven runs during the first inning of a season-ending 8-1 loss to Florida. No major league team had owned a lead of seven games or more with 17 to play and failed to finish in first place. New York, which had that margin on Sept. 12, matched the largest lead blown in September.
2014 The Kansas City Royals overcame a 7-3 lead to force extra innings and outlasted Oakland 9-8 in 12 innings in the AL Wild Card playoff. This was the first wild card game to go extra innings.
2017 Detroit’s Andrew Romine became the fifth player in baseball history to play all nine positions in one game, helping the Tigers to a 3-2 win over Minnesota.