2006: The Yankees bounce back from a 9-0 deficit to defeat the Rangers, 14-13. The comeback matches the biggest in Yankees history. Jorge Posada hits the walkoff homer with Johnny Damon aboard, and Mariano Rivera registers his first win of the year. 

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2006/B05160NYA2006.htm 

 

1985: Former Yankee pitcher Johnny Broaca dies at age 75.  

 

                         The 1936 Yankees – Broaca is in the top row, third from the left 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Broaca

 

1984: Dave Winfield delivers the first of the two walkoff homers that he will hit in a Yankee uniform. In the bottom of the 10th, with Don Mattingly aboard, Winfield blasts one into the left field seats off the A’s Bill Caudill for a 7-6 win.

  http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1984/B05160NYA1984.htm

1976: The Yankees send pitcher Larry Gura to Kansas City for catcher Fran Healy. Healy’s best moment will come as a mediator between Reggie Jackson and Billy Martin, and later in the radio booth‚ while Gura will help KC to the 1978 playoffs with a 16-4 record. 

 

 1964: At the Stadium‚ Mickey Mantle hits his 13th homer of the year‚ off Joe Grzenda‚ and New York pounds the A’s‚ 10-6.  

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1964/B05160NYA1964.htm

 

1957: The Yankees top Kansas City 3-0 behind Bob Turley’s four-hit shutout. Mickey Mantle has a single‚ two walks‚ and a homer to back Bob Turley’s 4-hit 3-0 shutout over the A’s. Turley helps his cause by starting a triple play. The Yanks now trail the White Sox by a half game. 

 http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1957/B05160NYA1957.htm

 

1956: On a blustery day in Cleveland‚ the Yankees beat the Indians 4-1. Mickey Mantle hits a homer off Bud Daley‚ while his pal Billy Martin is benched for the first time. Bobby Richardson takes his place at second. 

 http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1956/B05160CLE1956.htm  

 

1954: The Orioles draw a record Memorial Stadium crowd of 46‚796 for a doubleheader with the Yankees. Allie Reynolds wins the opener for New York‚ 2-0‚ on a 3-hitter‚ before Don Larsen stops the Yankees 6-2 in the nitecap. 

 http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1954/B05161BAL1954.htm

 

1953: At Yankee Stadium‚ White Sox lefty pitcher Tommy Byrne pinch-hits for slugger Vern Stephens and hits a grand slam off Yankees reliever Ewell Blackwell to climax a 5-run 9th inning and give Chicago the 5-3 win. Stephens has 10 career grand slams: Byrne now has two.

 http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1953/B05160NYA1953.htm

 

1951: At the Stadium, Mickey Mantle drives in four runs and scores three as New York rout the Indians‚ 11-3. Mantle connects for the first of his 206 homers at the Stadium‚ the blast coming off Dick Rozek. 

 

1941: The Yankees bench Phil Rizzuto and Jerry Priddy‚ putting back Joe Gordon and Frank Crosetti. New York then rally in the 9th to beat the White Sox‚ 5-4. Joe DiMaggio contributes a triple and a solo homer. 

 http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1941/B05160NYA1941.htm

 

1932: The Yankees record their 4th straight shutout to equal the record set by Cleveland and Boston in 1903 and 1906. Johnny Allen‚ George Pipgras‚ Red Ruffing‚ and Lefty Gomez are the hurlers. Lefty stops Cleveland on 5 hits to win‚ 8-0‚ New York’s fifth shutout in 7 games. 

 http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1932/B05160NYA1932.htm

 

1928: Billy Martin is born. 

http://www.baseballlibrary.com/ballplayers/player.php?name=Billy_Martin_1928

 

1927: Yankee left fielder Bob Meusel swipes second, third and home in the 3rd inning as New York top Detroit‚ 6-2. Lou Gehrig contributes a homer and 2 doubles to back Dutch Ruether’s pitching. 

 

 http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1927/B05160DET1927.htm

 

1921: Jacob Ruppert and T.L. Huston‚ the two owners of the Yankees‚ make their final payment for $500‚ 000 to complete the purchase of the Bronx property for the new Yankee Stadium. The sale was made by the William Waldorf Astor estate‚ owners of the property. 

 

1907: The Highlanders swap pitcher Walter Clarkson and outfielder Frank Delahanty – both siblings of future Hall of Famers – to Cleveland for pitcher Earl Moore. New York are hoping that Moore will return to the form he showed before a Highlander line drive injured his foot in August 1905. But after making  just six appearances this season‚ New York will waive him to the Phillies where he will regain his form in 1909. New York lose to Detroit today‚ 1-0. 

 

 

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1941: Joe DiMaggio gets a single in 4 at bats against Ed Smith of the Chicago White Sox to start his 56-game hitting streak. Joe D’s hit goes unnoticed as the Yankees are thrashed 13-1. Taffy Wright homers and drives in 4 White Sox runs‚ the 8th straight game in which he’s driven in a run.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1941/B05150NYA1941.htm

 

On other 15ths of May…

1996: The Mariners spot the Yankees 4 runs‚ then hammer starter Jimmy Key and 5 other pitchers for 19 hits to win 10-5. Seven Mariners collect two or more hits‚ and Edgar Martinez drives in 4 runs. A wild Key takes his 5th straight loss‚ while Mariano Rivera records four outs to stretch his scoreless innings streak to 21 2/3. The Yanks will place Key on the 15 day DL.

 

1965: At Memorial Stadium‚ Mickey Mantle slices an opposite field homer in the 8th inning off Dick Hall to give New York a 3-2 win over the Orioles.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1965/B05150BAL1965.htm

1963: Down 4-0 to the Twins‚ Mickey Mantle hits a two run homer off Pedro Ramos to put the Yankees on the board. Mantle later scores the winning run as New York wins‚ 4-3.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1963/B05150NYA1963.htm

1955: At the Stadium, Irv Noren hits an inside-the-park grand slam in an 8-4 Yankee victory over the A’s. New York win the nitecap to sweep the A’s. Mickey Mantle goes 4-for-9 for the afternoon and is hitting .311.

 

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1955/B05151NYA1955.htm

1950: The Yankees sell veteran outfielder Johnny Lindell to the Cardinals and pitcher Clarence “Cuddles” Marshall to the Browns.

 

1935: Lou Gehrig steals home in a 4-0 Yankee win over the Tigers. It is the 15th and last time the Iron Horse will swipe the dish, always on the front end of a double steal.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1935/B05150DET1935.htm

1922: In a 4-1 win at the Polo Grounds‚ Ty Cobb beats out a grounder to Yankee shortstop Everett Scott. Veteran writer Fred Lieb scores it a hit in the box score he files with the Associated Press. But official scorer John Kieran of the New York Tribune gives an error to Scott. At the season’s end‚ the AL official records‚ based on AP box scores‚ list Cobb at .401. New York writers complain unsuccessfully‚ claiming it should be .399‚ based on the official scorer’s stats. Lieb will reverse himself at the end of the year‚ but Ban Johnson goes with the hit call.

 

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1922/B05150NYA1922.htm

1920: At New York,  the Yankees beat Cleveland‚ handing Stan Coveleski (7-1) his first loss of the year. Pitcher Jack Quinn hits a homer off Coveleski with a man on in the 8th to win‚ 2-0. Quinn allows just 4 hits with only one runner getting past first base. Babe Ruth is 0-for-1‚ though the official scorer’s card has him at 0-for-2‚ a discrepancy that will not be corrected till 2005.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1920/B05150NYA1920.htm

1912: Ty Cobb charges into the stands at Hilltop Park and attacks a crippled heckler named Claude Lueker. Other New York fans and Tigers mix it up before order is restored‚ and Ban Johnson suspends Cobb indefinitely for the incident. The visitors win the contest‚ 8-4.

 

1911:Ring Lardner writes in the New York Daily News: ‘They are using a new ball this year. It’s livelier and that means more hitting‚ and more hitting means longer games‚ and that’s the devil. It appears to be impossible to finish a game in less than two hours.’

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1996: Dwight Gooden‚ on the verge of being released by the Yankees just two weeks ago‚ twirls a no-hitter to sink the Mariners‚ 2-0. Dr. K walks two in the 9th‚ but retires Ken Griffey‚ Jr.‚ fans Jay Buhner‚ and induces Paul Sorrento to pop out to end it. Gerald Williams saves the no-hitter when he runs down a 400-foot Alex Rodriguez liner in the first inning and turns it into a double play. Gooden (2-3) has now thrown 16 straight innings of hitless ball.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA199605140.shtm

1967: Mickey Mantle becomes the 6th member of the 500-HR club in New York’s 6-5 win against Baltimore. Mantle connects batting left-handed off Stu Miller.

 
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYA/NYA196705140.shtml

 

On other 14ths of May…

2005: Kevin Brown allows 5 runs in 6 innings but still wins his 100th AL game as the Yankees pummel Oakland‚ 15-6. Brown has now won 100 games in each league‚ the 9th player to do so. He’s backed by homers from Derek Jeter‚ A-Rod‚ Jorge Posada‚ and Tino Martinez‚ who drives in 5 runs.

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1929: In Cleveland‚ fans have no trouble telling the players apart‚ as both teams wear numbers on their uniform backs for the first time in Major League history. The Indians beat the Yanks 4-3‚ despite a homer by New York’s Mark Koenig off Willis Hudlin in the 6th inning. Also in the 6th‚ Yankee catcher Bill Dickey records three assists. For New York‚ it is their 3rd loss after 6 straight wins.

 

                                         The 1929 Yankees

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1929/B05130CLE1929.htm 

On other 13ths of May…

2001: The Yanks finally lose to a below .500 team as the Orioles double them up 10-5. Paul O’Neill hits a 2-out‚ 2-run homer in the 9th to tie‚ but the O’s score 5 runs off Mariano Rivera in the top of the 11th to win. The big hit in the worst blown save of the Yankee closer’s career is Jeff Conine’s HR.

 

2000: The Diamondbacks defeat the Padres‚ 6-2‚ as Todd Stottlemyre wins the 136th game of his career. His dad, Mel, won 164 games in a 10-year career spent entirely with the Yankees, and the two now become the first father-son duo to combine for 300 wins.

 

 

1997: Tino Martinez continues his hot hitting with a home run in the Yankees’ 7-run 6th inning‚ as New York beat the Twins 11-2. Bernie Williams belts a solo homer in the 5th to snap a 2-2 tie. Martinez’s homer‚ his 15th‚ leaves him one behind Ken Griffey and puts him in select Yankee company: only Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth (4 times) have hit 15 homers in the first 40 games of a season. The defending World Series champions have won 17 of their last 23‚ while the Twins lose for the 16th time in 20 games. 

1977: Ed Figueroa pitches his fourth straight complete game‚ and Thurman Munson cracks a 7th inning homer to lead New York to a 3-0 win over the Angels.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1977/B05130CAL1977.htm

1973: In the opener of a doubleheader at the Stadium, the Yankees tie a Major League  record by hitting 4 solo homers in a shutout game in which no other runs are scored. The mark was originally set by Cleveland on August 2‚ 1956. Roy White‚ Bobby Murcer‚ Ron Blomberg and Graig Nettles all go long in the 4-0 win over Baltimore. Mel Stottlemyre is the winner. The Yanks jump on Dave McNally for 5 runs in game 2 but score zero when Eddie Watts contributes 4 innings of relief.  The Orioles win‚ 9-6. 

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1973/B05131NYA1973.htm

1955: It’s Friday the 13th, and bad luck for the Tigers as Mickey Mantle homers from both sides of the plate for the first time in his career. In all‚ Mantle has 3 roundtrippers‚ the first two lefty against starter Steve Gromek‚ and the third off Bob Miller‚ all to the deep reaches of the bleachers in right center. The Mick adds a single to complete a total of 5 RBIs, accounting for all of his team’s runs as New York beat Detroit 5-2. Whitey Ford goes seven innings for the win. Mantle joins Tony Lazzeri (1927)‚ Ben Chapman (1932)‚ and Bill Dickey (1939) as the  only Yanks to hit three homers in a game at the Stadium. 

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1955/B05130NYA1955.htm

1951: At Philadelphia’s Shibe Park‚ Mickey Mantle hits his first rightyhomer‚ off Alex Kellner‚ in the majors‚ then makes the last out by
popping up his bunt attempt with the tying run on 3rd. The A’s win 5-4‚ then win the nitecap as well. Mantle has no homers in the 2nd game loss‚ but misses 2nd base on a hit.

 

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1951/B05131PHA1951.htm

1947: The Yankees pound the Browns 9-1 with Charlie Keller‚ Joe DiMaggio  and Johnny Lindell combining for consecutive homers off
starter Fred Sanford in the 6th inning. 

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1947/B05130NYA1947.htm

1946: The Yankees become the first Major League team to sign a contract with an airline to fly on a regular basis‚ as they take a United flight to 3jirl ~ St. Louis to take on the Browns. Red Ruffing a d four others choose to take the train.

 

1945: Atley Donald is victorious over the Indians 1-0 in 10 innings when New York break through against pitcher Red Embree. A walk‚ a bunt single‚ a sac bunt and a sac fly by Russ Derry plate the run. Atley is 13-1 against the Tribe‚ with his only loss coming on August 21‚ 1941 when Feller won‚ 2-0. Cleveland win the second game of the twinbill 4-2‚ behind Steve Gromek’s 7-hitter. 

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1945/B05131CLE1945.htm

1937: Joe DiMaggio replaces Lou Gehrig as the Yankees cleanup hitter and drives in three runs‚ as the Yankees trip the Browns‚ 4-2. Gehrig‚ hitting 5th gets a double after going hitless in his last 21 at bats. Tommy Henrich‚ making his second appearance‚ bats third. He collects a pair of singles. Winning pitcher Lefty Gomez is the only Yankee without a hit.

 

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1937/B05130SLA1937.htm

1934: Lou Gehrig victimizes Cleveland’s Lloyd Brown with a grand slam for the second time when he launches one his first time up in the game. Ben Chapman also homers and triples twice as the Yanks roll before a Sunday Stadium crowd of 35,000, 8-0. 

 

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1934/B05130NYA1934.htm

 

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1925: Yogi Berra is born.  Happy birthday to a national treasure!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra

On other 12ths of May…

2009: Chien-Ming Wang, who has been struggling ever since coming back from a baserunning foot injury in ’08, is sent from the Yanks to AAA Scranton-Wilkes Barre to try to build some arm strength in the minors.

2002:  The Yankees top Minnesota on Mother’s Day‚ 10-4‚ giving Joe Torre his 1‚500th career win as manager.

2001: The Yankees extend their hard-to-say major league record of 15 straight wins since the start of a season over teams with a below .500 record. They beat the Orioles‚ 8-5‚ on Derek Jeter’s 3-run HR in the 8th. David Justice and Bernie Williams also homer for NY.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2001/B05120NYA2001.htm

1996: The Yankees fall behind 8-0 to the White Sox at Comiskey Park, and then make it all the way back to win, 9-8. The comeback is completed by a 5- run Yankee 6th, keyed by 2-run doubles from Paul O’Neill and Joe Girardi.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1996/B05120CHA1996.htm

1982: The Yankees send infielder Larry Milbourne, along with minor leaguers John Pacella and Pete Filson, to the Twins in exchange for catcher Butch Wynegar and pitcher Roger Erickson and cash. The Twins’ frugal owner‚ Calvin Griffith‚ is roundly criticized for the deals‚ in which he appears to be unloading high-salaried veterans at the expense of a winning ball club.

1946: A crowd of 69‚401‚ the largest in Stadium history‚ watch the Yankees give the Red Sox 2 unearned runs and manage just 3 hits off Mickey Harris‚ and lose to Boston‚ 3-1. The Sox get just 3 hits off loser Spud Chandler.

Mickey Harris with Ted Williams and Rudy York before the game.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1946/B05120NYA1946.htm

1940: Behind the six-hit pitching of Red Ruffing‚ the Yankees beat the Bosox‚ 4-0‚ and stop New York’s 8-game losing skid. New York (7-14) are still in last place while Boston (16-6) sit atop the AL.

1935: Felipe Alou, who played at first base and in the outfield for the Yankees in the early ’70s, is born. Happy 77th, F.A.!

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/aloufe01.shtml

1933: The Yankees sell pitcher George Pipgras and rookie shortstop Bill Werber to the Red Sox for $100,000.

1930: The Yankees waive pitcher Tom Zachary to the Boston Braves.

1919: After a scoreless 12-inning game the day before‚ the Yankees and Senators complete 27 innings of action with no decision‚ going 15 innings in a 4-4 draw. Yankee lead off hitter George Halas goes hitless for the second day in a row and ends his Major League career with just 22 at bats. He will decide to start the NFL instead.

1915: Yankee outfielder Roy Hartzell hits into a triple play, but his mates top the Indians anyway, 4-2.

1911: Playing against the Yankees at Detroit, Ty Cobb scores a run from first on a short single to right‚ scores from second on a wild pitch‚ then doubles home two runs in the 7th to tie the game. When New York catcher Ed Sweeney vehemently argues the call at the plate‚ the rest of the infield gathers‚ leaving Cobb untended at second. With no time out having been called‚ Cobb strolls to third base‚ and then ambles down the line to observe the continuing argument. When he spots an opening in the circle of players‚ he quickly slides in with what will prove to be the winning run. The Tigers take the game 6-5.

1897: Joe Dugan, third baseman for the Murderers’ Row Yankees, is born.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/duganjo01.shtml

2006: The Yankees take the field at the Stadium against the Red Sox a bit undermanned, Gary Sheffield having been placed on the disabled list the day before with what was hoped to  be a minor wrist injury. Things take a still nastier turn eight pitches in, when left fielder Hideki Matsui charges a soft liner off the bat of Mark Loretta and breaks his own right wrist on a diving attempt at the catch. A Loretta infield single in the seventh will also be the turning point in the game, as the Sox come from behind for a 5-3 win. Both Matsui and Sheffield will be lost for much of the year.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2006/B05110NYA2006.htm

2000: The Devil Rays defeat the Yankees‚ 1-0‚ behind the pitching of Steve Trachsel‚ who hurls the first 7 innings. Trachsel‚ who defeated the Red Sox 1-0 in his last start‚ becomes the 1st AL pitcher in 24 years to win back-to-back 1-0 games. (Editor’s note: If Trachsel’s name rings a bell with trivia fans, it’s because he gave up Mark McGwire’s 62nd home run to break Roger Maris’ record in 1998).

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2000/B05110NYA2000.htm

1990: Citing a no-trade clause in his contract‚  Dave Winfield refuses to report to the Angels after being traded for Mike Witt. Winfield will eventually accept the trade on May 16th‚ ending his often stormy relationship with  George Steinbrenner.

1981: Former Yankee outfielder Sammy Byrd dies at the age of 74. Byrd began his ML career by playing in the Bronx from 1929 to 1934, Babe Ruth’s last years with the club, and he often ran for the Bambino late in games, earning him the nickname ‘Babe Ruth’s legs.’

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/byrdsa01.shtml

1966: The Yankees purchase shortsatop Dick Schofield from the Giants: they’ll trade him to the Dodgers on September 10 for pitcher Thad Tillotson.

1965: Mel Stottlemyre stops the Red Sox 5-3 at Fenway‚ and Mickey Mantle reaches base 4 times‚ once on his 6th homer of the year.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1965/B05110BOS1965.htm

1963: The Yankees trounce the Orioles‚ 13-1‚ beating Milt Pappas. Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris each homer‚ the first time this year they’ve done it together.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1963/B05110BAL1963.htm

1950: Airplane travel is still a baseball rarity‚ but a railroad strike forces the Yankees and four other clubs – the Red Sox‚ Dodgers‚ Giants‚ and Reds – to fly  to play their next scheduled games. The Senators‚ with short hops in the prospect‚ will take the bus.

1946: The Yankees end a 15-game Red Sox winning streak‚ as Ernie ‘Tiny’ Bonham beats Tex Hughson and Boo Ferriss 2-0 before 52‚011 at the Stadium. Tommy Henrich hits a homer and accounts for both runs. The Red Sox are 21-4‚ 4 1/2 games ahead of the Yanks. The 15-game streak is still a Red Sox record.

‘Tiny’ Bonham
1940: The Red Sox top the Yankees 9-8 with 2 runs in the bottom of the 11th after New York had taken the lead on Tommy Henrich’s second HR of the game. Joe McCarthy benches Frankie Crosetti‚ hitting .150‚ but New York (6-8) still lose their 8th in a row at home to drop into last place. Meanwhile‚ Boston take their 6th straight. With Crosetti’s benching‚ he ends his consecutive games played at 420‚ the longest current streak in the majors.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1940/B05110NYA1940.htm

1939: The Yankees set down the Browns‚ 10-8‚ jumping on rookie Ewald Pyle for three hits before he exits. Pyle is subbing for Bobo Newsom‚ out with a skinned finger. Russ ‘the Fresno Flinger’ Van Atta‚  follows‚ and the Yanks score nine runs in four innings to put the game out of reach. Bill Dickey has three hits to extend his hitting streak to 13 games. Lou Gehrig does not play‚ but takes infield practice and warms up Monte Pearson using a righty glove. New York now lead by 1 1/2 games.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1939/B05110SLA1939.htm

1937: Tommy Henrich makes his Major League debut. The future mainstay of the Yankee outfield goes 1 for 4, but White Sox pitcher Monte Stratton scatters 7 hits in subduing the Yankees 7-2. Henrich‚ recently signed‚ was called up to take the place of Jake Powell‚ out with appendicitis.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1937/B05110CHA1937.htm

1927: In St. Louis‚ Babe Ruth belts his second homer in 2 days and his eighth of the year‚ off Ernie Nevers‚ as the Yanks win 4-2. The shot passes to the left of the center field flagpole in Sportsman’s Park‚ the longest ball to date ever hit there. Not sparing the purple prose, Martin Haley in the St. Louis Post Dispatch writes: ‘Homeric Herman careened the animated leather for a sky-scraping bulls-eye into the distant center-field bleachers‚ the ball clattering up the icy seats at the point where the left-center and dead-center field sections conjoin.’

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1927/B05110SLA1927.htm

1919: In the first legal Sunday game in New York for the Yankees‚ and after a 12 inning duel between Washington’s Walter Johnson and New York spitballer Jack Quinn‚ neither team score. The Big Train allows a single in the first and then retires the next 28 batters before giving up a walk in the 10th. In a misinterpretation of the new rules‚ the game is called at 6 p.m. by New York owner Jacob Ruppert.

1904: In the opener of a 4-game series with the visiting Cleveland Blues‚ the New York Highlanders prevail‚ 4-2‚ on a 2-run homer by Kid Elberfeld and a pair of run-scoring singles by Deacon McGuire (below). The New Yorkers will take 3 of the 4 games to move into a tie for second place.

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1936: Joe DiMaggio makes his Yankee Stadium debut.

 

 

The much-heralded rookie also hits his first ML home run‚ off the A’s George Turbeville. Lou Gehrig has 4
hits and two RBIs to pace the Yanks to a 7-2 win.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1936/B05100NYA1936.htm

On other 10ths of May…

2007: The Yankees get their first glimpse this year of The Remarkable Wang and his Amazing Non-sinking Sinker, as C.M.allows 11 hits and 7 runs through the 7th inning. Southpaw reliever Sean Henn suffers through an equally forgettable seven-run 8th in the 14-2 Texas drubbing, topped off by former Met Victor Diaz’s grand slam.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2007/B05100NYA2007.htm

1996: David Cone undergoes surgery to remove an aneurysm in his pitching arm.

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1930: In a game between the Yankees and the Tigers at the Stadium, the outfielders of both teams make a total of only 2 putouts for an AL record that has never been equalled. The NL record for outfield idleness is one chance (Pittsburgh versus Brooklyn‚ August 26‚ 1910). Detroit’s George Uhle strikes out 8 in winning‚ 5-4‚ and dropping the Yanks to 7th place. Henry Johnson (7 innings) and George Pipgras are the New York hurlers.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1930/B05090NYA1930.htm

On other 9ths of May…

2008: Don’t say we didn’t warn you… The Yankees recall kei Igawa from AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on May 9, optioning righty reliever Chris Britton to AAA to make room for the embattled Japanese southpaw. Igawa takes the mound against  the Tigers in Comerica Park and allows 6 runs on 11 hits in 3 innings. A spirited Yankee rally in the 9th falls short in the 6-5 loss.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2008/B05090DET2008.htm

1999: The Yankees defeat the Mariners 6-1. Reliever Mike Stanton makes his 1st major league start for New York, ending his major league record streak of 552 consecutive relief appearances prior to his first start. The previous record of 443 was set by Gary Lavelle of the Giants.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1999/B05090NYA1999.htm

 

1989: The Yankees beat the Rangers 5-3 at the Stadium, with Jesse Barfield contributing a 2-run homer. For the first time since April 10th‚ no Major League games are shutouts‚ ending a streak of 29 consecutive days with at least one whitewashing.

 http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1989/B05090NYA1989.htm

1981: For the second night in a row, Yankee pitching surrenders a walkoff homer to Seattle’s Tom Paciorek. The second shot is a 3-run dinger off Ron Davis giving the Mariners a 6-5 win over the visiting Bombers.  The previous night‚ Paciorek led off the 9th with a homer off Rudy May to give Seattle a 3-2 win.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1981/B05090SEA1981.htm

 

1966: At Minneapolis‚ the 6-20 Yankees edge the Twins‚ 3-2. Roger Maris‚ Mickey Mantle and Joe Pepitone‚ with the
game-winner in the 9th inning‚ hit homers for New York.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1966/B05090MIN1966.htm

1964: At Cleveland, Pedro Ramos gives up 4 home runs to New York – Tony Kubek‚ Mickey Mantle‚ Joe Pepitone‚ and Hector Lopez -as the Yanks win 6-2.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1964/B05090CLE1964.htm

1958: After six straight home rainouts‚ the Yanks play their first home night game of the year‚ against Washington. Mickey Mantle breaks a 2-2 tie in the 3rd with an inside-the-park solo homer off Pedro Ramos. New York roll to a 9-5 win.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1958/B05090NYA1958.htm

1953: At Fenway, the first place Yanks beat the Red Sox 6-4.  Mickey Mantle hits one homer off Bill Werle and is robbed of another when Jimmy Piersall  makes a sensational catch at the Sox bullpen in right-center field.

1949: Vic Raschi tosses a 5-hitter at Detroit, but the Tigers still set back the first-place Yankees 4-1‚ as Bengal hurler Ted Gray matches the performance of his opposite number. Dick Wakefield’s solo homer off Raschi completes the scoring by the home side.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1949/B05090DET1949.htm

1944: Joe McCarthy returns to the Yankee dugout after missing much of spring training and the early season due
to illness.

 

 

2009:  In his first game of the season after missing six weeks because of hip surgery, Alex Rodriguez hits the first pitch he sees from Baltimore’s Jeremy Guthrie for a three-run home run in a 4-0 Yankees win that ends a five-game losing streak. CC Sabathia pitches a four-hit shutout in his best performance since signing a free agent contract over the winter. 

 

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2009/B05080BAL2009.htm

2003: The Yankees jump on the Mariners for 10 runs in the 3rd inning, Alfonso Soriano topping off a barrage of singles with a two-run homer, on their way to a 16-5 victory.  David Wells now goes to 5-0.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2003/B05080SEA2003.htm

1996: Recent Yankee acquisition Dwight Gooden wins his first American League game, pitching his new club to a 10-3 victory over the Tigers at home in the Bronx.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1996/B05080NYA1996.htm

1994: Jose Tartabull‚ Mike Stanley‚ and Gerald Williams go deep back-to-back-to-back for the Yankees in the 6th inning of NY’s 8-4 win
over Boston.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1994/B05080NYA1994.htm

1991: Howard Spira is found guilty of trying to extort money from George Steinbrenner. Spira had already received $40‚000 from the Yankee owner.

As reported by Dick Heller in the New York Times:

‘Though the George Steinbrenner-Howard Spira association has been overshadowed in public memory by Pete Rose’s ongoing ban for gambling, it remains one of the less savory episodes in recent sports history.  

 

Dave Winfield and Steinbrenner became mortal enemies after the Yankees signed him to a 10-year, $15 million contract as a free agent in 1981. When Winfield failed to spark the Yankees to pennants, as Reggie Jackson had as the legendary “Mr. October” in the
late 1970s, Steinbrenner derisively tagged him “Mr. May.”

    
That didn’t bother Winfield as much as Steinbrenner’s refusal to honor a contractual agreement to pay $300,000 to Winfield’s charitable foundation. This set off a series of lawsuits between owner and player, but Steinbrenner clearly overstepped his bounds when he hired Spira to do his dirty work.
     As a 21-year-old go-fer for Winfield, Spira once had unlimited access to the slugger. But after Winfield refused to loan Spira $15,000 to pay off sizable gambling debts, his former aide approached Steinbrenner. The Yankees’ owner, meanwhile, had
tried various tactics to discredit Winfield, a quiet man who was elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame in 2001 after a superb 22-year career. Once he forced an audit that purportedly showed the foundation spent $6 for every $1 it gave away. The two men continued to haggle in court and the media. Steinbrenner apparently figured Spira would give him more ammunition.
     Steinbrenner later claimed in a Playboy magazine interview that he paid Spira $40,000 because “he was harassing my
family; my daughters were scared; he was harassing people who were close to me.”
     The interviewer asked Steinbrenner whether he had been afraid.    
“You’re [darn] right I was! And after that, there was a death threat at my hotel. … Now, everybody says, ‘Yeah, but look at Howard Spira. He’s a little guy.’ But Sirhan Sirhan was a little guy. Lee Harvey Oswald was a little guy…I was scared stiff… I told him to take the $40,000 [and go away].”

1964: In Cleveland‚ there are tornado warnings‚ but New York supply all the damage when Mickey Mantle connects for a 3-run homer off Tommy John in the 4th inning to lead New York to a 10-3 win.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1964/B05080CLE1964.htm

1956: Mickey Mantle clouts an Early Wynn pitch in the 6th to tie the Indians at 2-2‚ and New York edge the Tribe 4-3 

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http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1956/B05080NYA1956.htm

1953: After 13 straight losses to the Yankees‚ the Red Sox win an 11-inning 2-1 thriller at Fenway. Billy Goodman’s homer off starter
Johnny Sain gives starter Hal Brown the win. Dick Gernert’s 2nd inning HR is the other Boston score. In Boston’s last win over New York‚ August 9‚ 1952‚ all the scores came on solo homers.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1953/B05080BOS1953.htm

1949: Behind the 2-hit pitching of Tommy Byrne‚ the Yanks roll over Detroit 12-0. Gene Woodling scores 5 runs

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http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1949/B05080DET1949.htm

1927: A game with the Yankees draws a record 52‚000 to Comiskey Park but Waite Hoyt spoils the party by winning one of his league-leading 22 games‚ 9-0‚ the 2nd straight shutout of the Sox. Batterymate Pat Collins (below) homers in the 7th‚ while Lou Gehrig adds a pair of triples.

 

                

1926: The Yankees score 7 in the 2nd but lose to Detroit 14-10‚ knocking themselves out of the lead; Washington move into first.

                                    The 1926 Yankees

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1926/B05080NYA1926.htm

1915: The procession of Yankees to the plate in the 4th inning of a 10-3 romp over the Red Sox at the Polo Grounds reaches 16 batters as the homesiders plate all their runs in that frame.

Meanwhile, the Times headlines: ‘BALL GRABBERS, READ THIS. Guy Clarke Fined $3 for Taking Ball Hit Into Polo Grounds Bleachers. “It isn’t safe to try to get away with a ball when a home run is hit into the bleachers at the Polo Grounds. Yesterday in the ninth inning Peckinpaugh of the Yankeeshit a home run into the left field bleachers and the ball was grabbed by Guy Clarke, a chauffeur, of 68 West Ninety-eighth Street, who tried to get away with the prize. Tom Kelly, one of the park policemen, tried to persuade Clarke to give it up but he refused, so he was arrested by a policeman who was summoned from outside of the park.” “In the Night Court, Magistrate Sims told Clark that he had no more right to take a baseball at the Polo Grounds than he had to take his (the magistrate’s) watch. James McIlravy of the park police stated to the court that between twenty-five and thirty balls were lost at the grounds each week.” “Clark was fined $3.”

 

The red-letter day -

1921: Bob Meusel becomes the first Yankee to hit for the cycle. He connects for a 2-run third inning home run off Walter Johnson, and his triple with 2 on beats the Senators 6-5 in the 9th. Babe Ruth strikes out 3 times against Johnson‚ then poles a homer in the 8th that lands in a tree outside of right field. Former President Woodrow Wilson is on hand for the action in Washington.

 

 

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1921/B05070WS11921.htm

 

On other 7ths of May…

2009: At the Stadium, Carl Crawford and Evan Longoria hit back-to-back homers off Mariano Rivera in a 9th inning that began with the teams tied 6-6. The Yanks were behind early, but came back to level the match on Johnny Damon’s two-run double and two-run home run, A rare Mariano meltdown makes it all for naught, though.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2009/B05070NYA2009.htm

2006: The Yankees defeat the Rangers, 8-5, to give Joe Torre his 1,000th win as Yankee manager. He is the fourth man in the job to reach the level, joining Joe McCarthy, Casey Stengel, and Miller Huggins.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2006/B05070TEX2006.htm

1996: The first-place Yankees score 8 runs in the 6th inning to beat the hapless Tigers‚ 12-5. Paul O’Neill goes 2-for-3 to raise his average to .384‚ and Ruben Sierra drives home 4 runs. After the game‚ the Yankee players learn that clubhouse leader David Cone has an aneurysm in the front of his right shoulder that will require surgery on May 10th. Cone has been experiencing numbness in his pitching hand as a result.

 

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1996/B05070NYA1996.htm

1970: Roy White homers from both sides of the plate in a 7-3 Yankee win over Oakland.

 

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1970/B05070OAK1970.htm

1966: With the Yankees off to a 4-16 start, General Manager Ralph Houk fires Johnny Keane and reinstalls himself in the dugout. New York will win 13 of the next 17 under Houk.

 

1959: The Los Angeles Coliseum is jammed by 93‚103 on Roy Campanella Night for an exhibition game between the Dodgers and the Yankees. This is the largest crowd in ML history. The Yanks win 6-2.

1957: As the Yankees take the Indians in Cleveland, Gil McDougald hits a wicked line-drive in the 1st inning that strikes the Tribe’s Herb Score in the right eye. Score‚ with a broken nose and lacerations‚ is carried off the field on a stretcher. Bob Lemon relieves and wins the game‚ 2-1. Score will return the following year, but his mechanics will never be the same.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1957/B05070CLE1957.htm

1955: Powered by Elston Howard’s first Major League homer‚ and Mickey Mantle’s tie breaker to straightaway center in the 8th‚ the visiting Yanks move past the Red Sox 9-6. The Yanks spot Boston a 5-0 lead before roaring back with three in the 9th.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1955/B05070BOS1955.htm

1954: At the Stadium, Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra go ‘back to back and belly to belly’ in the 7th to pin a 2-0 loss on the A’s Morrie Martin.

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1954/B05070NYA1954.htm

1939: Joe Gordon (below) smacks two homers and Red Rolfe one to pace the Yankees to a 15-4 hosing of the White Sox.

 

          

Red Ruffing once again finds himself sitting on a cushion – in his last start,  the Yanks scored 22 against Detroit. 

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1939/B05070CHA1939.htm

1929: Yankee southpaw (and birthday boy) Tom Zachary wins a 6-5 game in relief at St. Louis‚ the first of his 12 victories without a loss for the year‚ a ML record. No pitcher will win more games in a season without losing one. His batterymate‚ rookie Bill Dickey‚ helps out with his first major league homer‚ off General Crowder.

 

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1929/B05070SLA1929.htm

1927: At Comiskey Park‚ Lou Gehrig christens the new right field pavilion by parking a 9th inning grand slam there‚ off Ted Lyons. It is the 1st homer in the remodeled park. The Yankees coast to an 8-0 win behind Herb Pennock.

 

 

1915: At the Polo Grounds, the Yankees pound the Red Sox‚ 10-3‚ scoring all of their runs in the 4th inning. Sixteen Yanks come to the plate in the frame. Ray Caldwell gets the win for the home side

1913: New York’s Ray Keating tosses a one-hitter against the Tigers‚ allowing just a 2nd inning single to Chas Deal. Ty Cobb strikes out his first two times up‚ then calls it quits for the day. The Yankees win 6-0.

          Ray Keating 

1906: During the Highlanders’ 7-2 win over visiting Washington‚ home plate umpire Tim Hurst punches New York manager Clark Griffith in the mouth after Griffith accidentally steps on his shoe during a 10-minute argument following a close play in the 5th inning. Griffith is tossed today but Hurst will be suspended for 5 days.

 

 
          Clark Griffith

1903: At the Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds, the New York and Boston AL franchises play each other for the first time. Lewis ‘Snake’ Wiltse (below) gets the ball for the Highlanders, while Bill Dineen gets the start for the future Red Sox, currently known as the Americans. Boston win 6-2 in 1 hour 38 minutes.