This Date in Baseball
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Compiled by PAUL MONTELLA Sept. 19
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The Seattle Mariners&#39; Ichiro Suzuki has broken one of baseball&#39;s oldest hitting records - most base hits in a season, set 84 years ago by Hall of Famer George Sisler.
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AARON: 755  BONDS: 747  WEDNESDAY: Struck out as pinch-hitter in ninth.  TODAY: Off day  (c) 2007 Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning.
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Carlton Fisk in 1975. David Ortiz in 2004. Twelfth inning both times. Hold on to those tickets for this afternoon's fifth game of the American League Championship Series. The left-for-dead Red Sox are still breathing.
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1915 &#151; Boston opened Braves Field with a 3-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Mets begin their National League division series in New York today, with the identity of the Mets' starter still a question mark after Orlando Hernandez injured his calf yesterday. Also on tap today are the second games in the A's-Twins and Tigers-Yankees series. The Cardinals-Padres series has the day off.
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1908 &#151; Bob Rhoads of the Indians pitched a no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox for a 2-1 victory in Cleveland.
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This article was reported by Lee Jenkins, Juliet Macur and Bill Pennington and written by Mr. Jenkins. During a year that baseball would like to forget, the scene was set for its free fall.
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1916 &#151; The Boston Red Sox won the World Series in five games with a 4-1 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers. Ernie Shore pitched a three-hitter for Boston.
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The big-barreled ash-wood bat wielded by baseball legend Ruth to help beat fierce rivals Boston Red Sox 4-1 in the inaugural game at Yankee Stadium on April 18, 1923, was the top item in a baseball memorabilia sale at Sotheby&#39;s.
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1908 &#151; In a crucial game with the Chicago Cubs, Fred Merkle of the New York Giants failed to touch second base as the apparent winning run crossed home plate. This resulted in a great dispute and the game was eventually declared a tie and played over on Oct. 8 after the Cubs and Giants ended the season in a tie.
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AMERICAN BASEBALL: Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners has 10 games to beat George Sisler&#39;s record of 257 hits in a season set with the St.
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Joe Torre always says that nothing restores order like a well-pitched ballgame. Consider order restored. Mike Mussina tossed eight brilliant innings of three-hit ball
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Why does the World Series start at 8:35 p.m. on Wednesday, 8:29 on Thursday, and 8:40 on Monday? Is it linked to the lunar calendar? The tide table? Sunset in the Rockies? Joe Buck's biorhythms?
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1920 &#151; Shortstop Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head with pitch in the fifth inning by New York's Carl Mays. Chapman suffered a fractured skull and died the next day. It is the only field fatality in major league history.
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1911 &#151; Danny Murphy of Philadelphia had four hits as the Athletics beat the New York Giants 13-2 to win the World Series in six games. The A's put the game out of reach with a seven-run seventh inning.
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He had been here before. On March 20, 2006, Daisuke Matsuzaka started and went four innings against Cuba in Japan's World Baseball Classic championship victory