This date in baseball

1932 Brooklyn’s Johnny Frederick hit his sixth pinch home run of the season, a major league record, in the ninth inning to spark the Dodgers to a 4-3 triumph over the Chicago Cubs at Ebbets Field.

1947 Ralph Kiner of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit two home runs his seventh and eighth in four games for a major league record.

1962 Tom Cheney of the Washington Senators set a record by fanning 21 Baltimore Orioles in a 16-inning game, which he won 2-1.

1976 Minnie Minoso singled in three at-bats as the designated hitter for the Chicago White Sox. At 53, he became the oldest player to get a hit in a regulation game.

1979 Carl Yastrzemski got his 3,000th hit a ground single off Jim Beattie and the New York Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 9-2.

1984 Dwight Gooden broke the rookie strikeout record, striking out 16 Pittsburgh Pirates to give him 251, six more than Herb Score had in 1955. Gooden broke the record by striking out Marvell Wynne in the sixth inning.

1996 Seattle’s Alex Rodriguez set a major league record for a shortstop with his 88th extra base hit in an 8-5 victory over Kansas City.

1996 Bernie Williams drove in eight runs with two home runs and a single to lead the New York Yankees to a 12-3 victory over Detroit.

2002 Chicago outhit Cincinnati 2217 but lost to the Reds 15-12. The last major league team to get 22 hits and lose a nine-inning game was Oakland on April 27, 1980. The Athletics lost that game 2011 at Minnesota.

2006 Atlanta’s streak of 14 consecutive division titles ended when the New York Mets rallied to beat Florida 6-4.

2008 Jorge Cantu hit his 25th home run in Florida’s 2-1 victory over Washington, making the Marlins the first team in Major League history to have four infielders hit at least 25. Mike Jacobs (32), Dan Uggla (30), Hanley Ramirez (29) and Cantu have accounted for 116 of the Marlins 188 home runs this season.

2014 Baltimore Orioles slugger Chris Davis was suspended 25 games without pay following a positive test for an amphetamine, a punishment that will extend into the postseason and perhaps 2015.

2015 David Ortiz homered twice to become the 27th major leaguer to reach 500 home runs, and Boston beat Tampa Bay 10-4. Ortiz reached the milestone when he lined a shot to right-center on a 2-2 pitch from Matt Moore leading off the fifth. He connected for No. 499 in the first. It was the 50th multihomer game in his a 19-year career.

2015 Mike Moustakas hit two home runs, including a grand slam, and finished with a franchise-record nine RBI to lead Kansas City to a 14-6 win over Baltimore. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Matt Wisler, 25; Jose Urena, 26; Freddie Freeman, 28; Clayton Richard, 34.