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On September 15 in Baseball History...
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  • 1904 - Giants rookie Hooks Wiltse wins his 12th straight game, setting a Major League mark for consecutive games won at the start of a career. It will be tied by relief hurler Butch Metzgerin 1976.

  • 1912 - Joe Wood of the Boston Red Sox pitched his 16th consecutive victory to tie Walter Johnson's record as he beat the St. Louis Browns 2-1.

  • 1922 - Catcher Butch Henline is the first National League player to hit three homers in a game since 1897, as the Phils beat the Cards 10-9. Henline's third home run tied the game in the ninth inning and Cliff Lee then hit the game-winning home run.

  • 1931 - The Philadelphia Athletics clinch the pennant, beating Cleveland at home. Eddie Rommel, veteran knuckleball pitcher for the A's, is the winning hurler, as Connie Mack wins his third successive pennant. It is Mack's ninth, and last, American League championship.

  • 1938 - Brothers Lloyd and Paul Waner hit back-to-back homers for the Pittsburgh Pirates [Box Score] off Cliff Melton of the New York Giants. This was the first time brothers hit successive home runs in a Major League game! It was Lloyd Waner's last homer.

  • 1946- The Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 2-0 in five innings when the game was called because of gnats. The insects became such a problem for the players, umpires and fans that the game had to be stopped.

  • 1963 - All three Alou brothers - Felipe, Matty and Jesus - played in the outfield at the same time for the San Francisco Giants in a 13-5 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

  • 1969 - St. Louis left-hander Steve Carlton struck out 19 Mets for a nine-inning game record. New York won the game 4-3 on two, two-run homers by Ron Swoboda.

  • 1977- The Orioles forfeit to the Blue Jays when manager Earl Weaver pulls his team off the field in the fifth inning citing a hazardous condition, a small tarpaulin held down by bricks on the bullpen mound.

  • 1979 - Bob Watson of the Red Sox became the first to hit for the cycle in both leagues as he led Boston to a 10-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. He hit for the cycle with the Houston Astros against San Francisco on June 24, 1977.

  • 1990 - Bobby Thigpen pitched one inning and became the first relief pitcher with 50 saves in a season as the Chicago White Sox beat the Red Sox 7-4.

  • 1995 - Cardinals shortstop Ozzie Smith sets a Major League record with his 1,554th double play in a 7-6 loss to the Dodgers.

  • 1996 - The Baltimore Orioles set baseball's season home run record with five against Detroit, including Mark Parent's record-breaking shot in the third inning and Brady Anderson's tenth leadoff homer of the year. The homers gave the Orioles 243, three more than the 1961 New York Yankees.

  • 1997 - Baltimore outfielder Eric Davis played five innings in the opening game of a day-night doubleheader against the Cleveland Indians, his first game since colon cancer surgery in June.

  • 1997 - Ken Griffey, Jr. hit his 51st and 52nd homers in Seattle's win over Toronto to become the sixth Major Leaguer to hit 100 or more home runs over two consecutive seasons. Jr. hit 49 homers last season.

  • 1998 - Ken Griffey, Jr. hit his American League leading fifty-seconnd homer and drove in five runs to become the fourth-youngest, at 28, to reach 1,000 RBIs, leading the Seattle Mariners over the Minnesota Twins 12-7.


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W.TN.Orange Blood said:
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If you throw out the Covid season, he is averaging 44 wins per season. If he keeps this up he will have the most wins in program history in his mid-50s. He has an opportunity to get well over 1k victories as the head coach for this program. They would have a statue built the moment he announced his retirement, if they hadn’t already built one while he is still coaching.
 
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VolPack22 said:
If you throw out the Covid season, he is averaging 44 wins per season. If he keeps this up he will have the most wins in program history in his mid-50s. He has an opportunity to get well over 1k victories as the head coach for this program. They would have a statue built the moment he announced his retirement, if they hadn’t already built one while he is still coaching.
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I Hope he stays around for 15 more years.
 
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