The Denver Post

MILESTONE SOXESS.

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Red Sox pitcher Craig Kimbrel exits the Fenway Park field after defeating the Orioles for Boston’s franchiser­ecord 106th win Monday night. Adam Glanzman, Getty Images 1941 — Pete Reiser's homer and Whitlow Wyatt's fivehitter helped Brooklyn beat the Boston Braves 60 and clinch the Dodgers' first pennant in 21 years. 1955 — Detroit's Al Kaline, 20, at the age of 20, became the youngest player to win a batting title, finishing his second season witha.340average.Ty Cobb was one day older when he won the crown, batting .350 in 1907, also playing for Detroit.

1956 — Sal Maglie of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitched a 50 nohitter against the Philadelph­ia Phillies.

1960 — The New York Yankees clinched manager Casey Stengel’s 10th and last American League pennant with a 43 victory over Boston.

1965— Satchel Paige, 60, became the oldest player in the majors, taking the mound for the Kansas City A’s and pitching three scoreless innings vs. the Boston Red Sox. He gave up one hit, to Carl Yastrzemsk­i.

1965— Willie Mays, who hit 51 home runs in 1955, joined Ralph Kiner as only the National Leaguers to have more than one 50home run season. The milestone homer, a fourthinni­ng tworun blast off Bob Sadowski, helps the Giants to beat Milwaukee 75 at Candlestic­k Park.

1974— Dr. Frank Jobe transplant­ed a tendon from Tommy John's right wrist to the Dodger pitcher's left elbow. The revolution­ary ulnar collateral ligament reconstruc­tion allowed John to win an additional 164 games, more than half his career total of 288. 1980 — Oakland's Brian Kingman lost his 20th game when the A's were defeated by the Chicago White Sox 64. Kingman was the last 20game loser of this century. Kingman was the first pitcher to lose 20 games with a winning team since Dolf Luque went 1323 for the 1922 Cincinnati Reds.

1984 — Rusty Staub of the Mets became the second player to hit homers as a teenager and past his 40th birthday. Staub's gamewinnin­g home run off Larry Anderson to give the Mets a 64 victory over Philadelph­ia at Shea Stadium. Ty Cobb was the other major leaguer to accomplish the feat.

Wade Boggs went 4for5 for his seventh consecutiv­e 200hit season and Dwight Evans became the only major leaguer with 20 homers in each of the last nine years as the Boston Red Sox won 74 over New York.

1998 — The New York Yankees set the AL record for wins with their 112th, beating Tampa Bay 61 to break the victory mark held by the 1954 Cleveland Indians.

2001 — Richie Sexson and Jeromy Burnitz became the first teammates to hit three home runs apiece in a game as Milwaukee defeated Arizona 94.

2003 — Carlos Delgado became the sixth player to homer in four straight atbats in one game as Toronto beat Tampa Bay 108.

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