THIS DATE IN BASEBALL

Sept. 6

1905: Frank Smith of the Chicago White Sox pitched a no-hitter against the Detroit Tigers in a 15-0 victory in the second game of a doubleheader. The score is the most lopsided margin of victory for a no-hitter in AL history. 1912: Smokey Joe Wood of the Red Sox, on his way to a 34-win season, beat Washington’s Walter Johnson 1-0 at Boston. The victory was Wood’s 14th consecutive, two shy of Johnson’s AL record of 16 straight.

1924: Urban Shocker of the St. Louis Browns pitched two complete games against the Chicago White Sox and

won both, 6-2.

1943: Philadelphia A’s pitcher Carl Scheib, 16, became the youngest player to appear in an American League game. 1950: Don Newcombe missed pitching complete games in a doubleheader for the Brooklyn Dodgers by leaving in the seventh inning of the second game trailing the Philadelphia Phillies 2-0. Newcombe had won the first game 2-0.

1976: Los Angeles catcher Steve Yeager was seriously injured when the jagged end of a broken bat struck him in the throat while he was waiting in the on-deck circle.

1981: Fernando Valenzuela of the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-0 to tie a National League

record of seven shutouts by a rookie pitcher. 1995: Cal Ripken played in his 2,131st consecutive major league game to surpass Lou Gehrig’s 56-year record. Ripken receive da22-m inute standing ovation and went 2-for-4, including a homer, in Baltimore’s 4-2 win over California. 1996: Eddie Murray hit his 500th home run, joining Hall of Famers Hank Aaron and Willie Mays with at least 3,000 hits and 500 homers. Murray homered off Felipe Lira in the seventh inning of the Baltimore Orioles’ 5-4, 12-inning loss to Detroit.

2000: Scott Sheldon of the Texas Rangers became the third player to play all nine positions in one game when he did it in a 13-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox. Sheldon joined Bert Campaneris (Sept. 8, 1965) and Cesar Tovar (Sept. 22, 1968) as true utility players.

2001: Barry Bonds became the fifth player to hit 60 home runs in a season, connecting in the second inning of San Francisco’s game against Arizona. He joined Babe Ruth, Roger Maris, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.

2002: The Oakland Athletics’ 20-game winning streak ended when Brad Radke pitched the Minnesota Twins to a 6-0 victory at the Metrodome. 2006: Anibal Sanchez, a 22-year-old rookie, threw an o-hitter in his 13th career start to end the longest no-hit gap in major league history. Florida beat Arizona 2-0. 2007: Rick Ankiel homered twice and had a career-high seven RBIs, leading

the St. Louis Cardinals to a 16-4 victory over Pittsburgh in a game shortened to eight innings because of rain. 2008: Alfonso Soriano, homered three times at the top of Chicago’s retooled batting order, and the first-place Cubs emerged from its longest losing streak of the season w itha1 4-9 win over Cincinnati.

2009: Ichiro Suzuki got his 2,000th hit

in the majors. He became the secondfastest player to reach the mark, doing it in 1,402 games; Al Simmons did it in 1,390. The 35-year-old Suzuki also got 1,278 hits while playing in Japan.

2013: Yusmeiro Petit’s bid for a perfect game was broken up by Eric Chavez’s two-out single in the ninth inning. The right-hander got the next batter to close out the San Francisco Giants’ 3-0 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

2013: Mike Napoli hit a tying grand slam in the seventh, Shane Victorino

had a go-ahead homer one inning later and the Boston Red Sox rallied past the New York Yankees 12-8. One night earlier, the Yankees took an 8-7 lead with a six-run seventh: only to lose 9-8 in 10 innings on Victorino’s tiebreak

ing single. New York lost consecutive games when scoring at least eight runs for the first time since September 1949. The last time it happened with

both games at home was 1911 against Cleveland.