In 1918, in Game 4 of the World Series, Babe Ruth knocks in 2 runs with a triple in the fourth and pitches seven scoreless innings before the Cubs tie it in the eighth. An error and a wild pitch by Phil Douglas allows the Red Sox to win the game.

In 1965, in one of the greatest pitcher's duels ever, the Dodgers Sandy Koufax pitches a perfect game, for his fourth no-hitter of his career. He outduels his opponent, the Cubs Bob Hendley, who only allows one hit, a double by Lou Johnson, as Koufax strikesout out 14 Cubbies this day, winning 1-0. Koufax struck out the side in both the 8th and 9th innings to secure the masterpiece.

He actually struck out 8 of the last 11 he faced during the masterpiece !!

09.09.1909
Bill Dinneen, who won three games for the Boston Pilgrims in the 1903 World Series, is released by the St. Louis Browns and becomes an American League umpire -- a position he will hold through 1937.

09.09.1926
Trailing 6-3 at the end of eight innings, the Brooklyn Robins collect nine hits and add two walks to defeat the Philadelphia Phillies, 12-6. A National League record five Brooklyn pinch hitters all deliver, including pinch hitter Dick Cox, who gets two hits, scores twice, and has two RBI in a 9-run 9th inning. Pinch hitter Moose Clabaugh, fresh off his 62-home run season with the Tyler Trojans, bats twice in the 9th, collecting a hit. The six pinch hits sets a Major League record and the three pinch runners scoring ties the mark set in 1900. The Phillies use a record-tying five pitchers in the 9th with Waylon Dean taking the loss.

09.09.1990
Seattle Mariners pitcher Matt Young strikes out four batters in the first inning of a 3-1 win over the Boston Red Sox. He's the second pitcher in the 1990 season to strikeout four batters in an inning -- following Reds' lefty Tim Birtsas on June 4th.

09.09.1999
The San Diego Padres defeat the Montreal Expos, 10-3, in a game where they are nearly allowed four outs in the 7th inning. When Montreal's Reggie Sanders strikes out for the 3rd out, the umpires don't notice and the players do not leave the field. Phil Nevin comes to the plate and runs the count to 2-1 against Expos pitcher Ted Lilly before someone in the Montreal dugout points out the problem to home plate umpire Jerry Layne.

Out of all those people involved in the game, how does not 1 single person not realize that they got the 3rd out? That's crazy.

I remember that perfect game by Koufax against the Cubs. I was going to TJC at the time, and that night, I was laying in bed, listening to the game on my transistor radio.

I picked it up in about the 6th ining and listened to the rest of it. Talk about starting to feel old!!!! 1965!!!! That was a long time ago!!!!


NAME .......................... POS .. AB .. R . H .. RBI
Don Young .................... cf ..... 3 ... 0 .. 0 ... 0
Glenn Beckert .............. 2b ..... 3 ... 0 .. 0 ... 0
Billy Williams ................. rf ..... 3 ... 0 .. 0 ... 0
Ron Santo .................... 3b ..... 3 ... 0 .. 0 ... 0
Ernie Banks .................. 1b ..... 3 ... 0 .. 0 ... 0
Byron Browne ............... lf ...... 3 ... 0 .. 0 ... 0
Chris Krug ..................... c ..... 3 ... 0 .. 0 ... 0
Don Kessinger .............. ss ..... 2 ... 0 .. 0 ... 0
a-Joey Amalfitano ........ ph ...... 1 ... 0 .. 0 ... 0 STRUCK OUT - 26th out ...
Bob Hendley ................. p ....... 2 ... 0 .. 0 ... 0
b-Harvey Kuenn .......... ph ....... 1 ... 0 .. 0 ... 0 STRUCK OUT - 27th out ...
TOTALS ................................. 27 ... 0 .. 0 ... 0

TJC_fan -- do you remember which station you were listening to ??

Was it a "game-of-the-week" type of broadcast ?

A Tyler radio station doing a Dodgers-Cubs game seems revolutionary for 1965 !!

In 1965 at night he prob was picking up a superstation out of Chicago..this was back before the stations were forced to turn down power at night..that was a time when the Marshall station could be heard all over the southwest at night

True. True. I thought about something along those lines after I posted my comments 365 days ago ... it wasn't nessissarily a Tyler station


Ah -- the days of AM radio power ........... I was born 10-15 years too late

For some reasons I didn't go back to this topic until now .....

The game of the week was Pee Wee Reese and Dizzy Dean on tv.
We could pick up the St Louis Stations and of course, KTBB carried the Chicago White Sox before the Rangers got to town. I got to listen to a lot of White Sox-Yankees games, and especially Mickey Mantle .. my favorite player.

The station must have been a Chicago station, but I remember it being clear enough to listen to. I know that in the recent past, I've listened to 890 am out of Chicago late at night as I was coming home from Longview.

WOW -- now that's interesting.

I would have loved following the 1967 White Sox -- one of the most interesting teams in MLB history.

Cheapy, they had a guy named Wayne Causey at 2B who had a son named John who was a DB on the football team at Louisiana Tech from 1972 to 1974. Tech won won the Division II National Title in 1974.

SEPTEMBER 9, 1995
In the Japanese Central League, the visiting Yakult Swallows beat the Yomiuri Giants, 4-0, behind Terry Bross' no-hitter. Bross becomes the fourth foreign-born pitcher to toss a no-hitter in Japan -- joining Victor Starfin (Russia) in 1937; Gene Bacque (USA) in 1965 and Taigen Kaku (Taiwan) in 1985.

Cheapy ...

Seems like it was just a year ago that we posted on the Koufax perfect game, 9-9-08 ... 9-9-09. Man, it's been awhile since I've been able to get on Smoaky.com and look around. The Germans want more and more numbers from our Accounting department .... takes longer and longer this past year.