At Wrigley, pitcher Fergie Jenkins leads the Cubs to a 52 win over Montreal by clouting two home runs and driving in three runs. Bill Stoneman takes the loss.
IN THE NEWS: Cesar Cedeno's 200-foot fly ball falls for a grand slam, following a collision of Dodgers 2B and RF. The Astros win 93.
Sonny Siebert hits and pitches the Red Sox to a 30 win over the Orioles. Siebert hits two home runs, the last American League pitcher to do so.
Royals P Ron Theobold pitches a one-hitter against the Brewers but still loses 10, as Milwaukee scores a 2nd inning run without a hit. Marty Pattin pitches his 5th shutout of the season.
IN THE NEWS: Owner Phil Wrigley takes out newspaper ads criticizing the Cubs players who want to dump manager Leo Durocher. A postscript adds, "If we could only find more team players like Ernie Banks." Banks will play his last game on September 26th.
IN THE NEWS: In Los Angeles, the Reds lose to the Dodgers, 21, and almost lose SS Woody Woodward. A 10-pound sack of flour dropped from a passing airplane, explodes 15 feet from where Woodward is positioned in the 9th inning.
IN THE NEWS: Astros pitcher J.R. Richard makes his ML debut, striking out 15 Giants in a 53 win.
The Tigers tie a major-league record by using six pinch hitters in the 7th inning, but lose 65 to the Yankees anyway.
Cardinal pitcher Jerry Reuss is a winner, 125, in a duel with Chicago's Fergie Jenkins. Jenkins gives up home run to Matty Alou in the contest and now all three Alou brothers have hit dingers off him.
IN THE NEWS: Kansas City's Amos Otis collects four hits and five SBs in a 43 win over Milwaukee. Darrell Porter's wild throw on a steal allows Otis to score the winning run.
Jim Northrup goes 5-for-5 with two home runs in a 32, 11-inning Tiger win over Washington.
In the resumption of the August one protested game, the Cards and Phils resume play with the Cards leading in the 12th, 63, with two runners. Stranding the runners, the Phils then rally for three runs to tie, but St. Louis scores another three in the 13th to win, 96. Stan Williams wins his 1st National League game since 1962. The Cards then take the regularly scheduled game, 75, in 10 innings.
IN THE NEWS: Frank Robinson of the Orioles homers in each game of a doubleheader split with Detroit, becoming the 11th member of the 500-HR club with his 2nd shot. The O's win the opener, 91, behind Dave McNally's 13th consecutive win. The Tigers use 17 hits to win the nitecap, 105, for Scherman, who pitches eight 2/3 innings in relief of Joe Niekro.
IN THE NEWS: The Dodgers beat the first-place Giants 65 to climb within one game of first place in the National League Western Division. Bobby Bonds has two homers for SF, but Manny Mota's pinch hit double in the 9th drives in three runs.
IN THE NEWS: At Shea Stadium, Mike Jorgensen hits a 2-out single in the 7th to break Burt Hooton's no hit bid, and Ken Singleton follows with a homer to tie the match at 22. But Billy Williams clocks a pinch homer in the 9th and Hooton finishes the 32 victory with 15 strikeouts, notching his first ML win. In opener of the twi-night DH, Bill Hands beats Jerry Koosman, 62. Hands starts the Cubs' scoring with a 2-run single in the 2nd.
At Houston, the Braves win, 42, as Aaron belts his 44th homer of the year. The RBI is his 1,954th, tying him with Ty Cobb for 3rd place on the all-time list. In the 9th inning, Larry Yount is announced as the new pitcher for Houston. While taking his warmup pitches, Yount injures his arm and must be replaced in what proves to be his only ML appearance. Larry's brother Robin Yount will begin a more successful ML career in 1974.
The Giants suffer their 3rd straight loss and their 10th in 11 games, losing to the Reds, 42. The Giants maintain their 1-game lead in the West.
IN THE NEWS: At New York, lefty Juan Pizarro shuts out the Mets and Tom Seaver, 10. Pizarro does it all, clubbing a solo homer to win his own game. It's Pizarro's 2nd shutout in a row and Seaver's first loss after seven straight wins. Tom's last loss was August 1, also to Pizarro.
At Candlestick, George Foster hits an 8th inning grand slam to pace the Reds to an 81 win over the Giants.
IN THE NEWS: San Diego's Clay Kirby allows just one hit -- a wind-blown homer in the 8th by Willie McCovey -- in beating the Giants, 21. Despite the loss, the Giants retain their 2-game edge over the Dodgers. The Padres score their first run on a triple by Barton in the 3rd and a squeeze by Enzio Hernandez, and score the winner on an unearned run in the 8th off Perry. For Hernandez, his bunt gives him 12 RBIs: his 12 RBIs in 549 at bats is the fewest in history by anyone with 500 at bats. Kirby lost a no-hitter five days ago when Houston's Johnny Edwards doubled in the 8th with one out. He then lost the game , 32, on an unearned run in the 9th.
IN THE NEWS: Dodgers Al Downing and Don Sutton hurl shutouts during a 120, 40 doubleheader triumph over the Braves. The Dodgers have 19 hits in the opener, including four by Davis. LA now trails the Giants by one 1/2 games.
IN THE NEWS: The Senators beat the Indians 86 in 20 innings, thus completing a suspended game begun six days earlier in Cleveland. The two teams finish the 20 frames with 30 walks issued, an American League record for an extra-inning game. Washington pitchers hand out 19 walks. The two teams combine on another AL record as they strand 25 base runners, and the teams combine for record four runs in the 20th inning. In the nitecap, the Indians win, 31, handing Denny McLain his 21st defeat. Meanwhile, Senators owner Bob Short is given permission to move his team to Texas, where they will become the Rangers, a nickname adopted on November 23rd.
IN THE NEWS: Wasting a heroic pitching effort by starter Clay Kirby, the Padres lose to the Astros 21 in 21 innings. Kirby hurls 15 innings and strikes out 15 men.
The Orioles clinch their division as Mike Cuellar wins his 20th game 92 over the Indians. In game two of the doubleheader, Pat Dobson cards his 20th win, a 70 shutout.
Al Downing becomes a 20-game winner for the first time in his career, as the Dodgers whip the Braves, 20. Davis has three hits, one a homer, and scores both runs. LA trails the Giants by two games.
The Phils' Randy Lersch snaps an 11-game losing streak, beating the Cubs, 61.
IN THE NEWS: With rookie C Tim Hosley hitting two homers and driving in five runs, the Tigers trip the Yankees, 107. Les Cain pitches six innings for the win. Cain finishes with a 109 record with 145 innings, but contends he is forced to pitch by Manager Billy Martin while Cain has a sore arm. Cain later claims that it did permanent damage to his arm and he sues the Tigers. In a landmark decision, the Michigan Bureau of Workman's Compensation will order the Tigers to pay Cain $111 a month for the rest of his life. A lump sum payment was later agreed upon.
IN THE NEWS: Jim Palmer becomes the 4th member of the Orioles 1971 pitching staff to notch his 20th victory, shutting out the host Indians, 50. Only one other team in ML historythe 1920 White Soxboasted four 20-game winners.
Washington P Denny McLain loses his 22nd game of the season, dropping a 63 decision to the Red Sox.
Ernie Banks gets his 2,583rd hit, a first-inning single off the Phils Ken Reynolds, but the Cubs lose 51. It is the last hit of his 19-year ML career.
IN THE NEWS: Arbitrator Lewis Gill rules that Alex Johnson was "emotionally incapacitated" during events leading to his June suspension, and that he should be treated the same as a physically disabled player. Johnson wins nearly $30,000 in back salary from the Angels.
Baltimore achieves 108 wins for the season with doubleheader victories at Boston 102 and 54. The Orioles become only the 3rd team to win 100 games in three straight seasons.
IN THE NEWS: In the 6th inning of the Expos 65 win over the Cubs, Ron Hunt is hit by a Milt Pappas pitch. It is the 50th HBP for Hunt in 1971, setting a ML record.
The Astros light up Al Downing and the Dodgers, 110 as Forsch scatters 10 hits. LA doesn't lose ground on the Giants and the Padres win, 41, in 10 innings. Nate Colbert's 3-run homer is the winner.
IN THE NEWS: The Giants win the Western division title by one game over the Dodgers, beating the Pirates, 51. Juan Marichal allow five hits in the win. The Dodgers 21 win over the Padres leaves them short.
The Senators draw 14,000 for their final game in Washington, with another 4,000 crashing. Dick Bosman gives up homers to Bobby Murcer, Roy White, and Rusty Torres and the Nats are down 51 in the 6th. Mike Kekich then grooves a fastball for Frank Howard, who parks his 26th homer, and thanks ThurmanMunson as he crosses the plate. The Senators take a 75 lead, and after Murcer makes the 2nd out in the 9th, fans swarm onto the field, causing the game to be forfeited to the Yanks, 90. All records stand but reliever Paul Lindblad losses the W by not recording the 3rd out, batter Horace Clarke. Of the Senators, Jeff Burroughs will be the last to retire, finishing up in 1985.
Chicago finishes the season by edging the last-place Brewers, 21, on Bill Melton's 33rd home run of the year. Melton is the first American League home run leader in Sox history.