IN THE NEWS: In the first game of a doubleheader, Ted Williams homers off Don Lee of the Senators. Williams had homered against Lee's father, Thornton, 20 years earlier. Boston sweeps, winning the first 41 and the 2nd game, 32.
Milt Pappas stops New York on three hits -- 2 by Tony Kubek -- to give Baltimore a 50 lead in the first of a 3-game showdown. The Orioles now trail New York by .003.
The Orioles hand the Yankees a second straight shut out winning 20 and replacing the Yanks in 1st place by a game. Robinson has both RBIs to back Jack Fisher's 7-hitter. During the game in Baltimore, plate umpire Larry Napp is struck by foul balls three times. Charley Berry finishes the game behind the plate, as Napp is carried off the field.
Al Cicotte of the Toronto Maple Leafs (IL) pitches an 11-inning no-hitter against Montreal.
IN THE NEWS: After a major-league record 798 consecutive games at 2B, the White Sox' Nellie Fox is hospitalized with a virus. Fox would have gone 1,072 straight games had manager Marty Marion not rested him on August 5, 1955. Billy Goodman replaces Fox as the Sox split a doubleheader with the Tigers, losing 64 before winning 54.
After 30 straight scoreless inning, the Yankees finally score but the Orioles extend their win streak to seven by topping New York again, 62. With two outs in the 7th, Yankee 1B Moose Skowron singles to break up Chuck Estrada's no-hitter, but Wilhelm, in relief, preserves the win.
Woodie Held hits two homers and a double and drives in six runs to pace the Indians to a 10-2 win over the A's. Jimmy Piersall also homers.
IN THE NEWS: The first-place Pirates split with the Braves, winning 97 before losing, 71. The Bucs rout Spahn in the opener scoring seven runs in the 4th after the Braves had knocked out starter Bob Friend. Bob Buhl is the winner in the nitecap, scattering seven hits. Chuck Cottier has three doubles and three RBIs to back Buhl. Haddix is the loser and gives way to Diomedes Olivo, who makes his ML debut in relief. At age 41, or thereabouts, Olivo is the oldest rookie in ML history except for Satchel Paige. The IL MVP pitches two runless innings.
IN THE NEWS: Pittsburgh's All-Star SS Dick Groat suffers a broken wrist when hit by a Lew Burdette pitch. The Pirates captain, 2nd in the batting race, will be sidelined until the final weekend of the season. Dick Schofield, his replacement, has three hits, as the Bucs rally for a 53 win. Roy Face finishes a Pittsburgh win for the 30th time in 1960.
In his final game at Yankee Stadium, Ted Williams thumps his 518th career homer to lead Boston to a 71 win. Billy Muffett's shut out is ruined when he serves up a homer to Mickey Mantle with two outs in the 9th.
IN THE NEWS: At Crosley Field, Frank Robinson homers in the 15th inning as the Reds edge the Dodgers, 43, Marshall Bridges is the winner in relief, pitching six innings of shutout, and allowing two hits while striking out 7.
IN THE NEWS: In Detroit, Mickey Mantle unloads a cannon shot for three runs in the 6th inning, the ball clearing the RF roof and landing in the Brooks Lumber Yard across Trumbull Avenue. New York pins a 51 loss on Paul Foytack that moves them a half game in first place ahead of Baltimore, losers today. In June, 1985, Mantle's blow was retroactively measured at 643 feet, and will be listed in The Guinness Book of World Records at that distance.
IN THE NEWS: A crowd of more than 20,000 sees the first-place Pirates dump the Giants 61 and sets a new Pittsburgh home attendance record of 1,521,2514,230 more than the old mark set in 1948.
IN THE NEWS: Eighteen-year-old OF Danny Murphy becomes the youngest Cub to hit a home run when he clouts a 3-run homer off Bob Purkey, but the Reds win 86 in Cincinnati. Murphy will play just 49 games for the Cubs from 1960 to 1962. He will come back as a pitcher for the White Sox in 1969 and 1970.
Nellie Fox hits a 2-out home run in the 11th to give the visiting White Sox a 6-5 win over the Senators. It is Nellie's 2nd home run of the year.
IN THE NEWS: Willie Mays ties the modern major-league record with three triples in a game against the Phillies. His 3-bagger off Turk Farrell gives the Giants an 86 win in 11 innings. Mays also strokes a double and single. The last National Leaguer to hit three treys in a game was Roberto Clemente, in 1958.
IN THE NEWS: Warren Spahn, 39 years old, notches his 11th 20-win season with a no-hitter against the Phillies winning 4-0. Spahn also sets a Milwaukee club record with 15 strikeouts in handing the last-place Phils their 90th loss of the year.
The Orioles (83-58) and Yankees (82-57) open a crucial four games series with the O's just .002 in back of New York. But Lopez and Roger Maris crack homers to back Whitey Ford's 42 win over the Birds. The two runs off Ford were the first the Birds have scored off him at the Stadium in 33.2 innings. Shantz rescues Whitey in the 9th.
17th With Ty Cobb among the 49,055 fans in attendance at Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle cracks a 2-run homer, his 35th, off the O's Chuck Estrada to give New York a 20 lead in the first. Berra adds a home run. In the last of the 8th, Bobby Richardson's hit off Estrada's glove drives in two runs for a 53 New York win.
IN THE NEWS: Don Zimmer, Ron Santo, and George Altman hit 6th-inning home runs as the Cubs beat the Dodgers 52 at Wrigley Field. Chicago's biggest home run threat, Ernie Banks, sets a record by drawing his 27th intentional walk of the year.
The surprising 4th-place Senators fall to a game above .500 when Ted Williams' 2-run home run off Pedro Ramos gives Boston a 21 win. Muffett allows just three hits, including Jim Lemon's 38th home run, in a quick one hr: 40 minute win. A late collapse15 losses in the final 18 gameswill drop Washington to 5th place, but that will still be the club's best finish in seven years. The club will continue its improvement in Minnesota.
Pittsburgh's Vern Law joins the 20-win circle with a complete-game 53 win in the first game of a Sunday doubleheader at Cincinnati's Crosley Field.
Before 53,876 fans, the Yankees sweep the Orioles, winning, 73 and 20. The Yankees sweep the 4-game series and the faltering Birds, now four back, will end up in 2nd place, eight games back. Ralph Terry's two hitter in the nitecap beats Milt Pappas.
IN THE NEWS: Chicago's pennant hopes are damaged with a nitecap 76 loss to the Tigers, after they win the opener, 84. Pinch hitter Norm Cash scores the decisive run in game 2. Cash thus ends his year by grounding into no double plays, the 1st ALer since league records on this were started in 1940. Teammate Dick McAuliffe and Roger Repoz will duplicate this in 1968.
IN THE NEWS: Boston OF Carroll Hardy pinch-hits for Ted Williams, who is forced to leave the game after fouling a ball off his ankle and grounds into a DP. It is the only time Williams has been pinch hit for; Hardy also pinch hit for Roger Maris when both were at Cleveland. The Orioles win 54 when Brooks Robinson pulls away from a pitch and accidentally bloops an RBI single in the 8th.
In Milwaukee, Jay Hook gives up just two hits as the Reds win, 80, and chill the Braves pennant hopes.
First place Pittsburgh sweeps a pair from the Phillies, winning 71 and 32. The Bucs lead by six games. Bob Friend wins the opener and sets a new club record for strikeouts, beating Hendrix' mark of 176 set in 1912.
IN THE NEWS: Mickey Mantle's 11th inning homer off Ted Wilks gives New York a 65 win over the Red Sox at Fenway. Mantle had driven in the games first run with a drag bunt in the first.
IN THE NEWS: For the first time since 1927, the Pirates are headed for the World Series. While the Bucs lose 42 to the Braves, the 2nd-place Cardinals are mathematically eliminated by 20-game loser Glen Hobbie's 50 win for the Cubs. A gigantic torch light victory parade in Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle at midnight celebrates the pennant.
Ralph Terry clinches the Yankees' 25th pennant with a 43 win over the Red Sox. Luis Arroyo saves the win. It is Casey Stengel's 10th pennant in 12 years at New York.
IN THE NEWS: At Fenway, in his final ML plate appearance, against Baltimore's Jack Fisher (12-11), Ted Williams picks out a 1-1 pitch and drives it 450 feet into the right-CF seats behind the Boston bullpen. It is Williams' 521st and last home run, putting him 3rd on the all-time list. Williams stays in the dugout, ignoring the crowd's cheers, but when he trots out to LF in the 9th, he is replaced immediately by Carroll Hardy. The Splendid Splinter retires as a standing crowd roars. The Sox rally for two runs in the 9th, featuring a double by Vic Wertz, to give the 7th-place Red Sox a 54 victory.
The Yanks win their 12th of 15 straight, taking a 63 victory over the Senators. Mickey Mantle swats homers 39 and 40, off Chuck Stobbs, to insure his home run title over Roger Maris. Since August 15th, Mick has hit 13 to Roger's 4.
IN THE NEWS: The Yankees beat the Red Sox, 65, and set an new American League record for homers with 192. Tony Kubek and Jesse Gonder hit the homers today as the Bombers win their 13th straight.