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Today in Yankees History Sept 05, 2020
Yankees lose again to Baltimore 6-2, now 21-18.
Cole loses 3rd straight. What's wrong with this $350 million dollar pitcher?
| 1977 | The Indians' first “I Hate the Yankees Hankee” promotion proves to be quite successful when the team sweeps a twin bill from Bronx Bombers, 4-3 and 5-4, in front of 28,184 enthusiastic patrons at Cleveland Stadium. The Tribe had previously lost their previous six games with New York this season. |
| 1989 | Deion Sanders, the fifth player selected overall in the 1989 NFL Draft, hits a home run as the Bronx Bombers rout the Mariners at the Kingdome, 12-2. Five days later, in his NFL debut with the Atlanta Falcons, the Yankee rookie returns a punt 68 yards for a touchdown. |
| 1995 | When the game becomes official in the bottom of the fifth inning, Cal Ripken receives a standing ovation for over five minutes from the sellout crowd at Oriole Park at Camden Yards as he ties Yankee legend Lou Gehrig's record of 2,130 consecutive games.  |
| 2007 | In a 10-2 rout of the Mariners at the Stadium, Alex Rodriguez becomes the fourth player in Yankees history to homer twice in one inning. Before the game, the limping third baseman had gone to a hospital to have his sore right ankle examined and needed to talk his way into the lineup upon returning to the ballpark. |
| 2007 |   Unknown at the time, Bob Sheppard works his last game at Yankee Stadium, a task he has performed over 4,500 times since becoming the team's P.A. announcer in 1951. The 96 year-old 'Voice of God' is replaced by his longtime substitute Jim Hall and Paul Olden, who will fill the position when the team moves to the new ballpark in 2009. 2004 Bob Sheppard Baseball Card(Topps All-Time Fan Favorites #15) |
| 2010 | Bill Mazeroski looks on as four Pirates teammates unveil a 14-foot, 2,000-pound statue commemorating his walk-off home run in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series. The work includes an actual section of the left-center field wall, which the second baseman homered over at the 406 mark off Yankee hurler Ralph Terry in the Pirates' 10-9 victory.    1960 World Series Hero  William Stanley Mazeroski (born September 5, 1936) is an American former baseball second baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1956–1972 and hit one of the epic home runs in major league history, a dramatic ninth-inning blast that decided the 1960 World Series and remains the only walk-off homer in a seventh game.[1] Nicknamed "Maz" and "The Glove," the latter for his unparalleled brilliance in the field, he turned the most double plays (1,706) at second base in MLB history and was a Gold Glove Award winner eight times. Mazeroski took part in 10 All-Star Games [a] and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001. Mazeroski was a key member of two Pirates World Series championship teams in the 1960 and 1971 seasons. He and Roberto Clemente were the last remaining Pirate players from the 1960 World Series winners in 1971, when the Pirates won the World Series against the Baltimore Orioles in seven games. Mazeroski spent his entire playing career with the Pirates before he joined the staff of manager and ex-teammate Bill Virdon as a third base coach in the 1973 season. He served in the same capacity with the Seattle Mariners in the 1979 and 1980 campaigns. The home run of all home runs[edit]Mazeroski forged his legacy in the 1960 World Series, when he slammed two game-winning home runs, the last on October 13 in Game 7 off New York Yankees pitcher Ralph Terry at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. After the Yankees had rallied with two runs to tie the score at 9-9 in the top of the ninth inning, at precisely 3:36 p.m. local time, Mazeroski slammed Terry's second pitch over the left-center field wall just to the left of the 406-foot marker. The legendary blast gave the Pirates their first World Series championship in 35 years and set off a wild celebration in Pittsburgh that lasted for days. "The home run took a while to sink in because all I could think of was, 'We beat the Yankees! We beat the Yankees!'" Mazeroski told reporters in the jubilant home team clubhouse afterward. Fourteen-year-old schoolboy Andy Jerpe retrieved the ball amid the cherry trees in Schenley Park, which was adjacent to the ballpark. Mazeroski signed the ball for him in the clubhouse, but the keepsake was lost during a neighborhood game a short time later.[2][3] In the fourth inning of Game 1, with Don Hoak on base, Mazeroski hit a two-run homer off Jim Coates that cleared the left-field scoreboard. It extended Pittsburgh's lead to 5–2 and proved to be the difference in a 6–4 victory. He hit .320 with team highs of five RBI, four runs scored and two home runs in the series.  Bill Mazeroski 2010
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