» April 30, 1901: At Baker Bowl, the Giants edge the Phils, 3-2, behind Christy Mathewson's 3-hitter.
» July 24, 1903: At Baker Bowl, Bill Duggleby holds the Giants to five hits and the Phils hand Mathewson his 2nd loss in four days, winning 3-0.
» April 18, 1904: At Baker Bowl, the Giants win their 4th in a row, with Joe McGinnity picking up the win in relief. Christy Mathewson is ineffective, but he escapes without a loss as the Giants rally to win, 7-6.
» April 24, 1905: At Baker Bowl, Giants manager John McGraw lets Christy Mathewson hit with two on in the 9th, and the ace promptly singles in two runs to give the Giants a 5-4 lead. Matty then checks the Phils in the bottom of the 9th for the win over Bill Duggleby.
» July 4, 1905:
At Baker Bowl, the Phillies split with the Giants, winning the first game 2-0 as Jack Sutthoff outpitches Christy Mathewson. Sutthoff allows just three hits. Joe McGinnity earns the split in the nitecap with a 6-3 victory. The Giants are now seven games ahead of the Pirates.
» October 12, 1905: With two days rest, Christy Mathewson allows his first and only walk in 27 innings, in a 4-hit 9-0 romp at Baker Bowl. The Giants cook Andy Coakley for nine runs on eight hits and five walks. The A's add four errors, three by 2B Danny Murphy. The Giants now lead 2-1.
» April 12, 1906:
With Christy Mathewson sidelined with diphtheria, Red Ames pitches the opener for the Giants, a 3-2 win over the Phils at Baker Bowl.
» August 30, 1906:
At Baker Bowl, the Phils and Giants swap shutouts. The Quakers win the opener, 2-0, when Tom Sparks allows just three hits to outpitch Christy Mathewson. Iron Joe McGinnity then blanks the hosts, 1-0, to hand Bill Duggleby the loss.
» April 26, 1907: At soggy Baker Bowl, Christy Mathewson scatters nine hits to beat the Phils, 4-3, in eight innings. The Giants tally 14 hits, led by Spike Shannon's four. New York bats in the 9th without scoring, and the Phils put tying run on 2B before the rain pours down. Umpire Charles Rigler then calls the game. The Giants have now won two in a row, but the streak will grow.
» June 27, 1907: At Baker Bowl, Christy Mathewson and Hooks Wiltse combine to beat the Phillies, 2-0. Lew Moren pitches a fine game but loses. The Giants, playing .625 ball, are still 10 games in back of the Cubs. New York buys the contract of Larry Doyle for $4500 from Mattoon (Kitty L.).
» September 6, 1907: At Baker Bowl, the Giants sweep the Phillies, winning 6-5 and 2-0. Joe McGinnity relieves in the opener with runners on 2nd and 3rd with no outs in the 9th and retires the side to preserve Dummy Taylor's win. Christy Mathewson then beats Lew Moren in a 7-inning nitecap for his 20th win. Moren's wild throw in the 3rd accounts for the scores.
» May 28, 1910: Christy Mathewson scatters 10 hits and edges the Phils, 3–2 at Baker Bowl. Fred Snodgrass doubles off Jim Moroney for two runs in the 5th inning to give the Giants the edge.
» July 3, 1911: At Baker Bowl, the Phillies jump on Christy Mathewson and pin the Giants, 7–3. New York holds a one-game lead over the Cubs.
» April 25, 1912: At Baker Bowl, Christy Mathewson subdues the Phillies on seven hits to beat Tom Seaton, 3–1. Two of the Phils' safeties are by 17-year-old infielder Gene Steinbrenner, the only hits of his brief ML career.
» June 9, 1914: At Baker Bowl, Honus Wagner joins Cap Anson as the only members of the 3,000 hit club when collects a 9th-inning double off the Phillies' Erskine Mayer, and scores the Bucs lone run. It comes in Wagner's 2,332nd game. Nap Lajoie will join the club in September. (Later calculations put the date at June 30th or July 4th). Wagner also shows his skills by tricking Hans Lobert to try and take 3B and then tagging him out at 2B; With the Phils up 3–0, in the 8th he nabs Beals Becker at 2B with a hidden ball trick.
» October 1, 1914:
Phils slugger Gavvy Cravath belts his ML-record 19th homer, off Brooklyn's Pat Ragan. All of Gavvy's homers this year have come at Baker Bowl, a ML-record for the 20th century, topped only by Chicago's Fred Pfeffer in 1884 (26). Cravath also leads NL outfielders with 34 assists in right field.
» October 9, 1915: Playing game two in tiny Baker Bowl in Philadelphia, Boston's 19-game winner Rube Foster allows the Phils three hits and drives in the winning run to break a 1–1 tie in the 9th against Erskine Mayer. The Sox win, 2–1. President Wilson and his fiancé watch the game, the first President to attend a World Series.
» April 18, 1916: Phillies star Pete Alexander blanks the Braves on five hits at Baker Bowl to win 4–0. Dick Rudolph takes the loss. It is Pete's first shutout of the year; 15 will follow.
» September 16, 1916:
At Baker Bowl, Grover Cleveland Alexander is coasting with a two hit, 6–0 lead in the 8th over the Cubs, when weak-hitting Steve Yerkes lines a single followed by manager Joe Tinker's only hit of the year. On a DP grounder, 1B Fred Luderus pulls his foot of the bag and Chicago goes on to score three runs. Second-place Philadelphia wins, 6–3, to pull with one 1/2 games of Brooklyn.
» October 2, 1917:
In the nitecap of two games at Baker Bowl, Pete Alexander downs the Series-bound Giants, 8–2 for his 30th win. Alex adds two doubles in winning his last game ever in a Phils uniform. The Quakers will sell the star to the Cubs in December. In the opener, a 5–2 NY win, the Giants Jesse Barnes, a lifetime .214 hitter, walks twice in an inning, the only pitcher ever to do so.
» December 29, 1917: The Phils keep swapping with the Cubs, this month sending OF Dode Paskert, a 7-year veteran, to Chicago for left-handed slugger Cy Williams. Williams will flourish in Baker Bowl, and will hit 222 homers for the Phils over the next 13 years. Paskert will not enjoy the same success in the Windy City.
» May 30, 1922:
With the score at 8–8 in the bottom of the 10th inning in game two of a Giants-Phils twin bill at Baker Bowl, C Butch Henline bats with Cy Williams on 1B and Curt Walker on 3B. Henline lines an apparent 3-run home run into the LF stands, and Walker scores the winning run. Henline reaches 2B before heading for the CF clubhouse, but as Williams had not scored at that point, Henline is credited with just a double, making the final score 9–8. The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin noted that, "it would have been a home run if Henline had completed the circuit, but they were serving ice cream and frankfurters in the clubhouse and when he reached second base his feet naturally strayed through center field."
» September 15, 1922: C Butch Henline is the first National League player to hit three homers in a game since 1897, as the Phils beat the Cards 10–9. Henline's 3rd home run tied the game in the 9th inning and Cliff Lee then hit the game-winning home run. Lee ends the year with 17 homers—all at Baker Bowl. Only Gavvy Cravath, in 1914, and Mel Ott will have more homers in a season this century coming all at home.
» April 30, 1923: Phils OF Fred "Cy" Williams starts an unprecedented
slugging spree, going 2-for-4 in a 12-3 loss
to the Braves. In 15 games in the Baker Bowl, he will
accumulate 65 total bases on 11 singles, 5 doubles,
11 home runs, and 29 RBI. He will lead the NL with
41 HRs, equal to Ruth's AL top total, but his BA will
drop to .293, his only sub-.300 mark during a 7-year
stretch.
» May 11, 1923: The Phils and Cards bash a record 10 home runs out of cozy Baker Bowl as the Phils outkick the Cards, 20–14; Cy Williams has three homers and seven RBIs while teammate Johnny Mokan adds two homers, a double, and seven RBIs. Les Mann belts two for St. Louis, and losing pitcher Bill Sherdel connects. In all, 23 batters hit safely with the two teams combining for 79 total bases. Williams now has 12 homers, tops in the Majors.
» August 28, 1925:
Although Baker Bowl is considered a bandbox by some, the aggressive Kiki Cuyler of the Pirates hits two inside-the-park HRs there in a victory over the Phils.
» September 2, 1925: After losing Game One by a 6–3 score to the Phils, the Giants unload in a nitecap, 24–9 shelling. The hits keep coming—30 to be exact in a record 58 at-bats—at Baker Bowl. Four New Yorkers—Southworth, Frisch, Irish Meusel, and Lindstrom—each collect four hits apiece, while a ML record-tying ten batters each collect two hits each. Doc Farrell (2-for-3) who takes over for Travis Jackson at short in the 6th is the 10th. Ex-Phil Meusel drives home nine runs, while Rookie Fred Fitzsimmons allows 14 hits, including homers by Cy Williams, Johnny Mokan and Hal Carlson in the 8th frame. Phils starter Art Decatur is the loser.
» May 14, 1927: During a game between the Phils and Cards, a section of 10 rows in the RF stands at Baker Bowl collapses from the weight of the crowd and hundreds of fans fall on those below. There are many injuries, but the one death that occurs is caused by the crowd stampede, not the stands collapsing. Philadelphia is leading 12–4 in the top of the 7th—4 runs coming on Russ Wrightstone's 2nd grand slam of the year—when the tragedy occurs, and the game is called. The Phils 12 remaining home games in May will be played at Shibe Park.
» May 4, 1929:
At Baker Bowl, Cubs pitcher Pat Malone holds the Phillies scoreless, and collects three singles and two RBI to win easily, 16–0. Hack Wilson and Kiki Cuyler each hit two doubles, and Rogers Hornsby homers. The Cubs take the 2nd game as well, 9–7.
» May 17, 1929: At Baker Bowl, the Robins hang on to edge the Phillies, 14–13. Chuck Klein hits a 2-run homer in the 9th, but the Phils leave the bases full when George Susce grounds out. O'Doul is 4-for-4 with four runs scored, while for Brooklyn, Babe Herman has four hits, including a homer.
» May 18, 1929: Brooklyn and Philadelphia score a ML-record 50 runs in a doubleheader at Baker Bowl. The Robins (Dodgers) win the opener 20–16, and the Phils take the 2nd game 8–6, despite a Dodgers triple play. Highlights include Brooklyn's Johnny Frederick tallying five runs in the opener, which combined with his three yesterday, gives him a ML-record eight in two games. Both Frederick and teammate Babe Herman collect five hits in the slugfest. Chuck Klein homers in each game, #'s seven and 8.
» July 6, 1929:
After losing 11 in a row, including a 10-6 loss in the opener, the Cardinals break out in the second game. They score 10 in the first and 10 more in the fifth to wallop the Phils 28-6 on 28 hits. The run and hit totals are NL records. The Cardinals (43) and Phillies (30) combine for a ML-tying 73 hits in the doubleheader at cozy Baker Bowl.
» July 10, 1929:
The Pirates outslug the Phillies 15-9 at the Baker Bowl. Pittsburgh hits five HRs; the Phils, four, with one HR coming in each inning, a virtually insurmountable record.
» May 30, 1931:
Despite the Baker Bowl's reputation as a home run haven, no one had hit a ball over the stadium wall since 1922. But Wally Berger, Boston Braves slugger, clears it in a 10–9 loss to the Phillies.
» July 4, 1934: When Dodgers manager Casey Stengel comes out to the mound to remove P Boom Boom Beck from the game in Philadelphia's Baker Bowl, the frustrated Beck turns and fires the ball at the tin wall in RF. Dodgers OF Hack Wilson, not paying attention to the happenings, hears the ball, hurries to retrieve it, and fires a strike to 2B to prevent the imaginary runner from advancing.
» May 30, 1935:
Babe Ruth plays only the first inning of the opener of a doubleheader between Boston and Philadelphia at Baker Bowl, going 0-for-1. It is his final ML appearance. The Phils win 11–6 and 9–3.
» June 30, 1938: The Phillies play their final game in the Baker Bowl, losing 14–1 to the Giants. They will play future games in A's-owned Shibe Park. Hank Lieber hits the last homer in the park, while Slick Castleman is the last winning pitcher.
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