1995 Robin Ventura becomes the eighth player to hit two grand slams in the same game. The third baseman's blasts in the fourth and fifth...
1991 The Statistical Accuracy Committee re-defines a no-hit game as one ending after nine or more innings with one team failing to get a hit....
1969 After thirty-one games, the third-longest consecutive game hitting streak in National League history ends when Dick Kelley and Gary Ross...
1941 The Yankees, who will finish 17 games ahead of the second-place Red Sox, clinch their third straight pennant when they beat Boston at...
1923 Sam Jones no-hits the A's, 2-0 at Shibe Park. The Yankee hurler does not strike out any Philadelphia batters, a feat not repeated until...
This Day in Baseball History September 4th 1906 The Highlanders beat the Boston Americans, 1-0, at Huntington Avenue Grounds, ending a run in...
SEPTEMBER 4 BASEBALL BIRTHDAYS ************************************** 1941 Ken Harrelson (MLB All Star; AL RBI leader 1968; Kansas City A's,...
Willie Cornelius, pitcher for the Chicago American Giants, was born #OTD in 1906. A 4-time All-Star, he led the league in shutouts in 1930, and in...
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2009 Jorge Posada's homer and four RBIs contribute to the Yankees' 7-5 victory over Toronto at the Rogers Centre. The Bronx backstop's...
2007 Mets right-hander Pedro Martinez, making his first start of the season, whiffs Reds hurler Aaron Harang to become the 15th major league...
2000 Kenny Lofton's first-inning run ties a 1939 major league record set by the Yankees' Red Rolfe, scoring in his eighteenth consecutive game....
1990 Bobby Thigpen, breaking the mark established by Dave Righetti with the Yankees in 1986, sets a major league record with his 47th save when...
1981 The Red Sox and the Mariners play nineteen innings to a 7-7 tie. The game ends with the Mariners winning 8-7, thanks to a Joe Simpson RBI...
1970 Cubs outfielder Billy Williams asks to be benched, thus ending his National League record for consecutive games at 1,117, a mark Steve...
1961 Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris become the first teammates to each hit fifty home runs in the same season when 'the Mick' goes deep twice,...
1947 Tommy Henrich and Joe DiMaggio lead the way with four safeties each when the Yankees collect eighteen hits in their 11-2 rout of the Red...
