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This meeting in baseball

September 21

1934 Daffy Dean of St. Louis Cardinals pitched a no-hitter against the Brooklyn Dodgers for a 3-0 victory in the second game of an Ebbets Field doubleheader. Daffy’s brother Dizzy held Brooklyn hitless until the eighth inning in the opener and won 13-0.

1947 Boston’s Johnny Pesky had two hits in each game of a double and finished the day with 202 hits. Pesky surpassed the 200-hit mark for the third time in as many major league seasons. He is the only player to lead a league in hitting in his first three seasons in the game.

1964 Manager Gene Mauch’s first Phillies lose 1-0 to the Cincinnati Reds on Chico Ruiz’s sixth-inning home run. It was the first of 10 straight losses for Philadelphia, a streak that cost them the National League pennant.

1970 Oakland’s Vida Blue pitches a no-hitter in his eighth major league start, beating Minnesota 6-0.

In 1995, Colorado’s John Vander Wal set a major league record 26th hit of the season with a seventh-inning home run against San Francisco.

2000 Colorado’s Jeff Cirillo doubles twice in a 13-4 win over San Diego, giving him 51 doubles on the year. Cirillo and Todd Helton (57) became the seventh pair of teammates in major league history to hit 50 doubles in the same season.

2001 Albert Pujols hits a grand slam and doubles in a run in a 9-5 St. Louis over Pittsburgh. The grand slam gave him the major league record for extra base hits by a rookie (83), one more than Johnny Frederick’s total for Brooklyn in 1929.

In 2001, Texas Rangers shortstop Alex Rodriguez hit his 47th home run, tying the major league record for home runs in a season by a shortstop. Chicago Cubs legend Ernie Banks set the record in 1958.

2006 David Ortiz hits his 51st and 52nd home runs, breaking the Red Sox record for most home runs in a season with 50 set in 1938 by Jimmie Foxx. The home runs also set the major league record by a designated hitter at 45, two more than he hit when he set the record last season.

2008 Baseball bid farewell to Yankee Stadium, home of baseball’s most famous team. What started with a Babe Ruth home run on an April afternoon in 1923 ended with Mariano Rivera retiring Brian Roberts on a groundout to first baseman Cody Ransom, completing a 7-3 victory over Baltimore.

2013 Matt Carpenter broke Stan Musial’s team record for doubles by a left-handed hitter in a season, and the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 7-2. Carpenter’s fifth-inning double was his 54th of the season, one more than Musial’s 1953 total.

2016 rookie Gary Sanchez hit two more home runs and drove in five runs to lead the New York Yankees to an 11-5 rout of the Tampa Bay Rays. Sanchez hit a home run for the fourth straight game. The catcher hit a three-run shot in a four-run second off Alex Cobb and added his 19th home run in 43 games this season in a solo drive in the sixth against Justin Marks. Including two games last season, Sanchez became the first player in major league history to hit 19 home runs in his first 45 games. Wally Berger, with the Boston Braves in 1930, went deep 19 times in his first 51 games.

— The Associated Press