This date in baseball
JUNE 9
1901 The New York Giants set a major league record with 31 hits in beating Cincinnati 25-13. Al Selbach of the Giants went 6 for 7 with 2 doubles and 4 singles while scoring 4 runs.
1906 Boston snapped a 19-ga m e losing streak by beating the St. Louis Cardinals 6-3.
1914 Honus Wagner of the Pittsburgh Pirates got the 3,000th hit of his career off Philadelphia’s Erskine Mayer in a 3-1 loss to the Phillies at the Baker Bowl. Wagner’s hit, a double, ca m e in the ninth inning. Wagner joined Cap Anson as the only members of the 3000-hit club. 1935 The St. Louis Cardinals became the 10th team in major league history to score a run in every inning in a 13-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
1946 Commissioner Happy Chandler i m posed five-year suspensions on players who ju m ped to the Mexican League and three-year suspensions for those who broke the reserve clause.
1946 The New York Giants’ Mel Ott became the first manager to be ejected in both ends of a doubleheader. The Pittsburgh Pirates won both ga m es, 2-1 and 5-1.
1963 Playing the first Sunday night game in major league history because of excessive heat during the day, the Houston Colt .45s handed the San Francisco Giants their seventh consecutive loss in Houston 3-0. Turk Farrell and Skinny Brown pitched the shutout.
1966 Rich Rollins, Zoilo Versalles, Tony Oliva, Don Mincher and Harmon Killebrew hit ho m e runs in the seventh inning for the Minnesota Twins in a 9-4 victory over the Kansas City Athletics.
1979 California’s Nolan Ryan struck out 16 batters as the Angels beat the Detroit Tigers 9-1. It was the 21st time in his career he struck out 15 or more batters in one game.
1986 Chicago pitcher Tom Seaver (306) and California Angels hurler Don Sutton (298) had the highest composite win total (604) for opposing pitchers since 1926, when Walter Johnson (406) faced Red Faber (197). Sutton pitched a two-hit shutout to beat the White Sox 3-0.
1990 Eddie Murray of the Los Angeles Dodgers tied Mickey Mantle’s record by homering from each side of the plate in the same game for the 10th time in his career. The Dodgers beat the Padres 5-4 in 11 innings.
1998 Cecil Fielder of the Angels and Ya m il Benitez of the Dia m ondbacks each hit grand slams in the same inning in Anahei m ’s 10-8 victory over Arizona. It was the first time both teams hit grand slams in the same inning since 1992. 2008 Ken Griffey Jr. became the sixth player in baseball history to reach 600 home runs with a drive off Mark Hendrickson in the first inning of the Cincinnati Reds’ 9-4 victory over the Florida Marlins.
2014 Lonnie Chisenhall had 9 RBI and 3 home runs in a 5-hit game, Michael Brantley scored 5 ti m es and the Cleveland Indians beat the Texas Rangers 17-7.
2015 Chris Heston pitched the first no-hitter in his 13th career start, leading the San Francisco Giants over the New York Mets 5-0. The rookie allowed three baserunners — all on hit batters. He also had a two-run single for his first big league RBI and finished with two more hits than the Mets.