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This Date in Baseball - Yankees tie 2002 Rangers record by homering in their 27th straight game
June 24 1936 — Rookie Joe DiMaggio hit two homers in the fifth inning and added two doubles in the New York Yankees' 18-4 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 at Griffith Stadium, but the Detroit Tigers beat the Washington Senators 18-7. 1962 — Jack Reed, a substitute outfielder, hit a homer off Phil Regan in the 22nd inning to give the New York Yankees a 9-7 win over the Detroit Tigers in a game that lasted 7 hours, 22 minutes. It was the only homer Reed hit in the majors. 1968 — Jim Northrup tied a major league record by hitting two grand slams in one game as the Detroit Tigers beat the Cleveland Indians 14-3. 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's Alan Bannister in a 3-2 win over the Indians. 1984 — Oakland's Joe Morgan hit his 265th home run as a second baseman, breaking Roger Hornsby's career home run record for that position. Morgan's homer off Frank Tanana was the 267th of his career and led the A's to a 4-2 win over Texas. 1993 — Carlton Fisk of the White Sox, plays his 2,226th and final major league game, surpassing Bob Boone's record of 2,225 for most games caught. 1993 — The Marlins obtain OF Gary Sheffield and P Rich Rodriguez from the Padres for P Trevor Hoffman, Andres Berumen and Jose Martinez. The Fish will give Sheffield a four-year contract extension in September. 1994 — Jeff Bagwell hit three homers, two in one inning to tie a major league record, as the Houston Astros beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 16-4. 1997 — Randy Johnson of the Seattle Mariners struck out 19 batters — one short of Roger Clemens' major league record for a nine-inning game. He became the first AL left-hander to fan 19, but the Oakland Athletics won 4-1. 2002 — Both starters in the first game of the Anaheim-Texas doubleheader — Joaquin Benoit and Aaron Sele — threw 96 pitches, 53 strikes and 43 balls. Benoit and the Rangers won 8-5. 2003 — Brad Wilkerson hit for the cycle, going 4-for-4 with four RBIs, in Montreal's 6-4 win over Pittsburgh. It was the first cycle in the majors this season and was performed in sequence — single, double, triple and homer. 2014 — Brothers B.J. and Justin Upton tied the major league record for brothers homering in the same game as teammates, accomplishing the feat for the fourth time, in Atlanta's 3-2 win over Houston. Other brothers who had homered in the same game four times were Jeremy and Jason Giambi for the Oakland A's and Vladimir and Wilton Guerrero for the Montreal Expos. 2015 — Pavin Smith homered and drove in three runs and Brandon Waddell turned in another strong College World Series pitching performance, leading Virginia over Vanderbilt 4-2 for the school's first baseball national championship. 2017 — Three different Oakland A's players, Matt Olson, Jaycob Brugmand and Franklin Baretto, hit their first career home run in a 10-2 win over the White Sox. 2019 — The Yankees tie a record belonging to the 2002 Rangers by homering in their 27th straight game on their way to defeating the Blue Jays. 2018 — The Dodgers set a National League record with seven solo home runs in an 8-7 win over the Mets. 2021 — The Chicago Cubs throw the first combined no-hitter in franchise history beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-0. It was the seventh no-hitter of the season. _____
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Today in Chicago History: Death penalty abolished in Illinois
Here's a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on March 9, according to the Tribune's archives. Is an important event missing from this date? Email us. Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago) High temperature: 69 degrees (2021) Low temperature: 5 degrees (1984) Precipitation: 1.6 inches (1998) Snowfall: 5 inches (1999) 1981: The Chicago White Sox signed Carlton Fisk, the first superstar acquisition of the new ownership group headed by Eddie Einhorn and Jerry Reinsdorf. Yet no contract was signed until nine days later. Fisk, a 33-year-old All-Star with the Boston Red Sox, was declared a free agent on Feb. 12 that year because of a technicality after Red Sox management failed to mail him his contract by the mandated Dec. 20 deadline. April 14, 1981: New White Sox catcher Carlton Fisk greets Chicago fans with a resounding grand slam But not only did the Sox pursue Fisk, they reeled him in with a five-year, $2.9 million deal, shocking Red Sox nation and the entire baseball world. Einhorn, a successful TV executive before buying the White Sox, later told Sports Illustrated that stealing Fisk from Boston was like 'stealing Acapulco cliff diving from ABC.' Fisk wound up playing until age 45, when the White Sox released him in Cleveland in 1993 shortly after he broke the major-league record for most games caught. When the White Sox refused to let him enter the clubhouse to wish his former teammates good luck in the '93 playoffs, his relationship with the organization became strained. Despite the feud, Reinsdorf agreed to retire Fisk's No. 72 in a ceremony in 1997. 2011: Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law a bill banning the death penalty in Illinois. 'It is impossible to create a perfect system, free of all mistakes,' Quinn said moments after signing the death penalty ban into law. 'I think it's the right and just thing to abolish the death penalty and punish those who commit heinous crimes — evil people — with life in prison without parole or any chance of release.' The move came a decade after former Gov. George Ryan established a moratorium on death sentences after a string of men were let off death row after DNA evidence called their guilt into question. Subscribe to the free Vintage Chicago Tribune newsletter, join our Chicagoland history Facebook group, stay current with Today in Chicago History and follow us on Instagram for more from Chicago's past. Have an idea for Vintage Chicago Tribune? Share it with Kori Rumore and Marianne Mather at krumore@ and mmather@
