2nd

Don Mattingly sets a Yankees record with his 232nd hit of the season in a 6-1 win over the Red Sox, eclipsing the mark set by Earle Combs in 1927. Mattingly will finish the season with 238 hits and a .352 batting average.

Mike Scott strikes out 8 Giants in a 2-1 Astros victory to run his season total to 306, joining Sandy Koufax and J. R. Richard as the only NL pitchers to fan 300 batters in one season. Scott loses his bid for a 2nd consecutive no-hitter when Will Clark doubles in the 7th inning.

3rd

Baltimore loses to Detroit 6-3, assuring the Orioles of their first last-place finish since moving from St. Louis in 1954.

4th

On the next-to-last day of the season, Dave Righetti saves both ends of the Yankees doubleheader sweep of the Red Sox to give him a ML-record 46 saves. Bruce Sutter and Dan Quisenberry had shared the record with 45.

6th

The Orioles announce that 3B coach Cal Ripken, Sr., father of star SS Cal Ripken, Jr., will manage the club in 1987.

7th

In the ALCS opener, California behind Mike Witt downs Boston's 20-game winner Roger Clemens 8-1.

8th

Houston takes a 1-0 lead over the Mets in the NLCS as Mike Scott ties the NLCS record with 14 strikeouts. Glenn Davis's 2nd-inning solo HR off Dwight Gooden is the game's only run.

Angel errors and a lost fly ball in the late-afternoon sun hand the Red Sox a 9-2 victory in game 2.

9th

The Mets Bob Ojeda goes the distance even though giving up10 hits, as New York wins 5-1.

10th

The Angels score 5 runs in the 6th, 7th, and 8th innings to down the Red Sox 5-3.

The Royals announce that Dick Howser, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor in July, will return to manage the club next season.

11th

Trailing 3-0 entering the bottom of the 9th inning, California rallies for 3 runs off Roger Clemens and Calvin Schiraldi, and goes on to defeat the Red Sox 4-3 in 11 innings to take a 3-1 lead in the ALCS.

Len Dykstra's 2-run home run off Dave Smith with one out in the bottom of the 9th gives the Mets a 6-5 win over the Astros and a 2-1 lead in the NLCS.

12th

One loss away from elimination and trailing 5-2 entering the 9th, the Red Sox stage one of the most improbable comebacks in post-season history, a 7-6 over the Angels in 11 innings. After Don Baylor's 9th-inning home run reduces the deficit to 5-4, reserve outfielder Dave Henderson slugs a 2-out, 2-run home run off Donnie Moore to give Boston a 6-5 lead. California ties the score with a run in the bottom of the 9th but Henderson, who had appeared to be the goat when he dropped Bobby Grich's long fly ball over the fence for a home run in the 7th inning, delivers a sacrifice fly in the 11th for the winning run.

Mike Scott baffles the Mets for a 2nd time, yielding only 3 hits in a 3-1 Astros victory.

Norm Cash, 1961 AL batting champion, drowns in Lake Michigan, a victim of a boating accident. He was 51.

13th

The International Olympic Committee announces that baseball will become a full medal sport at the 1992 Summer Games.

14th

Boston scores 5 in the 3rd to beat California 10-4. The ALCS series is now tied at 3 apiece.

Breaking out of a 1-for-21 slump, Mets C Gary Carter drives in the winning run of the Mets 2-1 win in the bottom of the 12th, rendering meaningless Nolan Ryan's 9 innings of 2-hit, 12-strikeout pitching.

15th

In the longest game in post-season history, the Mets beat the Astros 7-6 in 16 innings to earn their first trip to the World Series since 1973. New York scores 3 runs in the top of the 9th to force extra innings. The Mets score 3 more runs in the top of the 16th and Houston answers with 2 of its own before Jesse Orosco fans Kevin Bass to end the game.

Boston routs California 8-1 in the 7th game of the ALCS and advances to the World Series. The game caps yet another heartbreaking failure for Angels skipper Gene Mauch, who in game 5 was one strike away from reaching his first World Series in 25 seasons as a ML manager. After the game, veteran 2B Bobby Grich retires.

18th

Boston wins game one of the World Series 1-0 when Tim Teufel botches Rich Gedman's routine grounder in the 7th inning, allowing Jim Rice to score the game's only run. Bruce Hurst and Calvin Schiraldi combine on a 4-hitter for the Red Sox.

19th

Boston has 18 hits against Doc Gooden and 4 relievers to give the Red Sox a 9-3 win.

21st

Len Dykstra's leadoff HR helps Bob Ojeda beat his old team 7-1 to give the Mets their first win.

22nd

Gary Carter hits 2 home runs to lead the Mets to a 6-2 win at Fenway Park and even the Series at 2-2.

23rd

Mets ace Dwight Gooden loses again as Bruce Hurst gives up 10 hits but wins 4-2 for Boston.

24th

Bill Russell, 38, announces his retirement. He was the last member of the Dodgers Garvey-Lopes-Russell-Cey infield and is 2nd on the club's all-time games-played list with 2,183.

25th

Trailing 5-3 with 2 out and no one on base in the bottom of the 10th inning, New York rallies to win game 6 of the World Series 6-5 and force a deciding 7th game. After Gary Carter, Kevin Mitchell, and Ray Knight single, Bob Stanley uncorks a wild pitch that permits the tying run to score, and a hobbled Bill Buckner lets Mookie Wilson's slow bouncer skip through his legs, allowing Knight to score the winning run.

27th

The Mets win game 7 of the World Series 8-5 at Shea Stadium. 3B Ray Knight, whose home run triggers a 3-run rally in the 7th inning, is named MVP.

28th

Former Phillies SS Larry Bowa is named manager of the Padres, replacing Steve Boros.

29th

Padres pitcher LaMarr Hoyt is arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border for possession of illegal drugs, the 3rd time he has been arrested on drug charges. He will be sentenced to 45 days in jail on December 16th.

30th

San Diego trades C Terry Kennedy and minor leaguer Mark Williamson to the Orioles for P Storm Davis.