This date in baseball
1911 Cy Young, 44, beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 1-0 for his 511th and final major league victory.
1936 The Detroit Tigers swept the St. Louis Browns 12-0 and 14-0 to record the biggest double shutout in major league history.
1954 Karl Spooner of Brooklyn became the first pitcher in the majors to strike out 15 in his first game as the Dodgers beat the New York Giants 3-0.
1966 The Baltimore Orioles clinched their first American League pennant in 22 years with a 6-1 victory over the Kansas City A’s. Their last pennant came in 1944 when they were the St. Louis Browns.
1968 Cesar Tovar played one inning at each position for the Minnesota Twins, becoming the second major leaguer in history to do it. Bert Campaneris of the Oakland A’s was the other.
1969 Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants became the second player to hit 600 career home runs — joining Babe Ruth. The two-run shot off San Diego’s Mike Corkins in the seventh inning gave the Giants a 4-2 victory.
1973 Baltimore’s Al Bumbry tied the major-league record with three triples as the Orioles beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-1 and clinched the American League East title.
1977 Bert Blyleven tossed a 6-0 no-hitter for Texas against the Angels at Anaheim Stadium.
1986 Fernando Valenzuela of Los Angeles became the first Mexican to win 20 games, beating the Houston Astros 9-2 while allowing two hits.
1990 Andre Dawson of the Chicago Cubs stole his 300th base in an 11-5 loss to the New York Mets to become the second player with 300 home runs, 300 steals and 2,000 hits. Willie Mays was the other.
1993 Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers faced three Seattle batters before hurting his right elbow. Ryan finished his career with 324 wins, 5,714 strikeouts and 7 no-hitters.
2000 Houston’s Jose Lima set an National League single-season record by allowing his 47th home run in the Astros’ 12-5 loss to Cincinnati. The major-league record for home runs allowed in a season is 50, set by Minnesota’s Bert Blyleven in 1986.
2003 Detroit set an AL record with its 118th loss, falling 12-6 to Kansas City. The 1916 Philadelphia Athletics (36117) set the record.
2003 Second baseman Alfonso Soriano broke a major league record by hitting his 13th leadoff home run of the year in the New York Yankees’ 10-inning loss to the Chicago White Sox.
2006 Alfonso Soriano became baseball’s first 40-40-40 player in Washington’s 3-2 victory over the New York Mets. Soriano hit his 40th double and stole his 41st base. With 45 home runs, he already was only the fourth major league player with 40 home runs and 40 steals in a season.
2018 The Atlanta Braves capped a most surprising season by clinching their first NL East crown since 2013, with Mike Foltynewicz taking a no-hitter into the seventh inning in a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.