This date in baseball
1903 Philadelphia's Chick Fraser pitched a 10-0 no-hitter against the Chicago Cubs in the second game of a doubleheader. The Cubs won the opener 6-5. Fraser struck out five and walked four. Peaches Graham, normally a catcher, was the loser in his only major league decision.
1908 Bob Rhoads of the Indians pitched a no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox for a 2-1 victory in Cleveland.
1930 New York pitcher Red Ruffing hit two home runs as the Yankees edged the St. Louis Browns 7-6 in 10 innings.
1954 The Cleveland Indians clinched the American League pennant with a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers.
1963 The New York Mets lost their last game at the Polo Grounds -- 5-1 to the Philadelphia Phillies before a crowd of 1,752.
1968 Ray Washburn threw a 2-0 no-hitter against the San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park, one day after the Giants' Gaylord Perry tossed a no-hitter against Washburn's St. Louis Cardinals.
1980 Minnesota's Gary Ward hit for the cycle in a 9-8 loss at Milwaukee. It was Ward's 14th career game and the home run was his first in the major leagues. The Brewers won the game in the bottom of the ninth on Gorman Thomas' two-out two-run home run.
1984 The Detroit Tigers clinched the American League East Division with a 3-0 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers, making the Tigers the fourth team in major league history to lead from start to finish. The other three teams were the 1923 New York Giants, 1927 New York Yankees and the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers.
1984 Montreal's Tim Raines became the first player in major league history with four consecutive seasons of 70 or more stolen bases by swiping four in the Expos' 7-4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.
1985 Boston catcher Rich Gedman hit for the cycle and drove in seven runs as the Red Sox rout the Toronto Blue Jays 13-1.
1987 Detroit's Darrell Evans became the first 40-year-old player in major league history to hit 30 home runs in a season as the Tigers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-6.
1996 Roger Clemens equaled his own major league record, fanning 20 batters and pitching a four-hitter to lead Boston over the Detroit Tigers 4-0.
2003 Atlanta clinched its 12th consecutive division title when second-place Florida was mathematically eliminated from the National League East race after a 5-4 loss to Philadelphia. The record title streak started in 1991, when the Braves won the NL West. They moved to the East Division in 1994 and trailed Montreal by six games when the strike stopped the season in August.
2006 The Los Angeles Dodgers hit four consecutive home runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game and Nomar Garciaparra's two-run home run in the 10th lifted Los Angeles to an 11-10 victory over the San Diego Padres.
2011 Erick Aybar went 4 for 4, with four extra-base hits and tied a franchise record by scoring five runs, leading the Los Angeles Angels to an 11-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles.
2012 Dusty Baker managed his 3,000th game, guiding the Cincinnati Reds against one of his former teams, the Chicago Cubs.
Today's birthdays Spencer Turnbull, 27; Ryne Sandberg, 60.
Sports on 09/18/2019