This Day in Baseball - The Daily Rewind
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September
14, 1994 - The remainder of the baseball season is canceled by acting
commissioner Bud
Selig after 34 days of the
players' strike. The last 50 games of the season and post season were cancelled
due to the strike called by the Players Association and their leader Don Fehr.
The World Series would not be played for the first time in 90 years. The strike
was finally ended by a ruling from future Chief Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
September
14, 1923: Red Sox first baseman George Burns completes an unassisted triple
play against the Indians as he gathers in a Frank Brower line drive, tags Rube
Lutzke coming from first, and
beats Riggs Stephenson back to second.
September
14, 1980, in a 10 - 7 win over the Cubs, Lee Mazzilli homers to break a drought
for Mets. It is the team's first homer in 175 2/3 innings, going back to August
26 when Claudell Washington homered. This would be the longest drought for the
rest of the century.
September
14, 1990: Mariner Ken Griffey, Sr. and his son, Ken Griffey, Jr., become the
first father and son to hit homers in the same major league game. The
back-to-back blasts are given up by Angel hurler Kirk McCaskill.
September
14, 2002, Derek Lowe wins his 20th game as the Red Sox beat the Orioles, 6 - 4.
Lowe becomes the first pitcher in history to win 20 games the season after
saving 20. He is also the first to record at least 40 saves and later win 20
games. Dennis Eckersley and John Smoltz did it the other way around.
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