ON THIS DATE

1912 — Philadelphia second baseman Eddie Collins set a major league record with six stolen bases in the Athletics’ 9-7 win over the Detroit Tigers. Collins stole six more in a game on Sept. 22.

1918 — The Boston Red Sox beat the Chicago Cubs 2-1 behind the three-hit pitching of Carl Mays to win the World Series in six games. This was Boston’s third championship in a four-year stretch — 1915, 1916 and this season.

1936 — Philadelphia right-hander Hod Lisenbee tied a major league record for hits allowed in one game, giving up 26 in the Athletics’ 17-2 loss to the Chicago White Sox.

1949 — The New York Yankees sent 18 men to the plate in the third inning of the first game of a doubleheader against Washington. In the 50-minute half-inning, the Senators walked a major league-record 11 batters as the Yankees went on to a 20-5 win. New York won the second game 2-1 in 1 hour, 22 minutes.

1959 — The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-4, ending reliever Roy Face’s 22-game win streak. It was his lone loss of the season as he finished with an 18-1 record.

1974 — It took the St. Louis Cardinals 25 innings — 7 hours, 4 minutes — to beat the New York Mets 4-3. A record 202 batters went to the plate. Felix Millan and John Milner had 12 appearances apiece.

1985 — Cincinnati player/manager Pete Rose became the majors’ all-time hit leader with his 4,192nd hit, breaking Ty Cobb’s record. Rose lined a 2-and-1 pitch off San Diego Padres right-hander Eric Show to leftcenter field for a single in the first inning of the Reds’ 2-0 win. It was the 57th anniversary of Cobb’s last game in the majors.

1987 — New York Mets third baseman Howard Johnson, with 34 homers, became the first National League infielder to reach 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases in the same season. His 30th stolen base came in the fourth inning of the Mets’ 6-4, 10-inning loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.

1996 — San Diego third baseman Ken Caminiti broke his major league record by homering from both sides of the plate in a game for the fourth time this season. In the Padres’ 6-5 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates, Caminiti homered left-handed in the fifth inning, hitting a two-run shot. Batting righthanded in the seventh, he hit a solo shot to break his record set last year.

2001 — Sports came to a standstill after terrorism in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, with major league baseball postponing a full schedule of regular-season games for the first time since D-day in 1944.

2008 — St. Louis first baseman Albert Pujols drove in his 100th run of the season with a sixth-inning double in the Cardinals’ 3-2 loss to the Chicago Cubs, becoming the third major leaguer to reach the milestone in each of his first eight seasons. Pujols also extended his major league-record streak of reaching 30 homers and 100 RBIS in his first eight seasons, two more than any other player.

2014 — Miami right fielder Giancarlo Stanton sustained multiple facial fractures, dental damage and cuts that needed stitches after being hit in the face by a pitch. Stanton was hit under the left eye by a fastball from Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Mike Fiers in the fifth inning of the Marlins’ 4-2 loss.

2021 — Milwaukee right-hander Corbin Burnes and left-hander Josh Hader pitched a combined no-hitter in the Brewers’ 3-0 win over the Cleveland Indians. It was the majors’ record ninth no-hitter of the season.