Sep 15, 2017 | Baseball, MLB, News
NEW YORK TIMES ST. LOUIS-Steve Carlton of the St. Louis Cardinals set a major league record tonight by striking out 19 New York Mets. But the Mets still won the game, 4‚3, on a pair of two-run home runs by Ron Swoboda and extended their lead to 41/2 games with 15 to...
Sep 11, 2017 | Baseball, MLB, News
NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK [Wednesday]-In a dazzling display of virtuoso pitching by a 19-year-old rookie, Dwight Gooden fired the Mets to a 2‚0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates tonight, struck out 16 batters and hurtled past strikeout records set by Tom Seaver, Nolan...
Sep 10, 2017 | Baseball, MLB, News
NEW YORK TIMES CINCINNATI-Ten miles from the sandlots where he began playing baseball as a boy, Pete Rose, now 44 years old and in his 23rd season in the major leagues, stepped to the plate tonight in the first inning at Riverfront Stadium. He came to bat on this...
Sep 8, 2017 | Baseball, MLB, News
NEW YORK TIMES Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched a perfect game tonight in a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs and became the first pitcher in baseball history to pitch four no-hitters in his career. Outpitching Bob Hendley in a brilliant duel between...
Sep 6, 2017 | Baseball, MLB, News
NEW YORK TIMES BALTIMORE-In the brightest, most dramatic development of a season damaged by an unresolved labor dispute, Cal Ripken defied the odds of probability and baseball reality tonight, playing in his 2,131st consecutive game. That was one more game than Lou...
Aug 26, 2017 | Baseball, MLB, News
NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK-The pennant fever hit Flatbush today when 33,535 of the most hopeful fans in any major league city swarmed into Ebbets Field to see the double-header with the league-leading Reds. Their temperature dropped a bit when Bill McKechnie’s men...
