1936: Rookie Joe DiMaggio hit two homers in the fifth inning and added two doubles in an 18-4 New York Yankees’ victory over the St. Louis Browns.
1950: Wes Westrum of the New York Giants hit three home runs and a triple in a 12-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.
1955: Harmon Killebrew hit his first major league homer off Billy Hoeft of the Detroit Tigers at Griffith Stadium, but the Washington Senators lost 18-7.
1956: Led by Larry Doby’s three-run homers in the first inning of each game, the WHITE SOX win a double-header from the New York Yankees 14-2 and 6-3 before 47,255 at Comiskey Park to complete a four-game series sweep and cut the Yankees’ league lead to one game.
1962: Jack Reed, substitute outfielder for the New York Yankees, hit a homer off Phil Regan in the 22nd inning to give Jim Bouton a 9-7 victory over the Detroit Tigers. It was the only homer Reed hit in the majors.
1968: Jim Northrup tied a major league record by hitting two grand slams in a Detroit Tigers’ 14-3 rout of the Cleveland Indians.
1983: Don Sutton of the Milwaukee Brewers became the eighth pitcher in major league history to strike out 3,000 batters. Sutton’s 3,000th victim was Cleveland Indian Alan Bannister in the eighth inning as the Brewers won 6-2 at Milwaukee.
1984: Oakland A’s second baseman Joe Morgan hit his 265th home run, breaking Roger Hornsby’s career home-run record for second basemen.
1988: Doug Jones of the Cleveland Indians set a major league record with a save in his 14th consecutive appearance, preserving a 7-5 victory over the New York Yankees.
Today’s birthday: Doug Jones, 37.
