- 1888 - Ed Morris of the Pittsburgh Alleghenys tossed his fourth consecutive shutout‚ a 1-0 win over the NY Giants, setting a NL record that lasted until 1968 when Don Drysdale threw six straight shutouts. Morris began his streak with 2-0 and 1-0 victories over the Phillies and a seven inning, 2-0 win over the Senators. And he did it in a hurry; it took him eight days to pitch four complete game whitewashes, all at Exposition Park. Morris went 29-23 on the year with a 2.31 ERA.
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| Ed Morris 1888 Goodwin/Old Judge |
- 1934 - The Pirates swept the Phils 6-1 and 4-1 in a Baker Bowl twin bill. Five Bucs had multiple hits in the opener, led by Tommy Thevenow and Tom Padden with three each. Arky Vaughan added a homer to back up Larry French’s six-hitter. In the nitecap, five Pirates again had multiple hits with Thevenow, Lloyd Waner, Arky Vaughan (he added another round-tripper), Gus Suhr and Earl Grace swatting a pair apiece to support Waite Hoyt’s four-hit outing. Pittsburgh outhit Philly 30-10 over the day.
- 1951 - The lowly Bucs rose up and once again smacked the league-leading Brooklyn Dodgers behind rookie Jack Merson. As Les Beiderman of the Pittsburgh Press wrote “Johnny Merson, playing in just his second major league game, staged a one-man riot at Forbes Field as the Pirates made the league-leading Dodgers dance to an 11-4 tune to the accompaniment of cheers of the 11,098 faithful. The 27 year old Merson...fired two singles, a double and a triple and drove in six big runs as the Pirates became the only team in the league to wind up with a seasons edge on the Dodgers, 12-10.” Frank Thomas added three hits including a homer to back up Mel Queen, who got the win with some strong relief work by Ted Wilks. The Bucs finished the year 64-90 and their showing against da Bums likely cost Brooklyn the pennant when they lost the Bobby Thompson “shot heard ‘round the world” playoff game to the NY Giants. As for Merson, he hit .360 in 13 games as a September call up, but batted just .246 the following season and after one game in 1953 was out of major league baseball.
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| Jack Merson 1952 TCMA |
- 1962 - The Pirates beat San Francisco 5-1 at Forbes Field‚ ending Jack Sanford’s win streak at 16 games. The Bucs broke a tie in the eighth inning by scoring four times, all with two outs, keyed by a two-run triple by Bob Bailey. The rookie had three RBI to pace the Bucco attack while Bob Friend’s five-hitter quieted the Giant bats.
- 1978 - Phil Garner hit his second grand slam in two games. Today’s was in the first inning off Woodie Fryman as the Pirates beat the Expos 6-1 at TRS. Yesterday’s was against Bob Forsch as the Bucs beat the Cards 7-4, also at TRS. Garner was the first player to hit slams in consecutive games since Brooks Robinson in 1962. Bruce Kison took the win with late help from Ed Whitson and Kent Tekulve.
- 1992 - Alex Coles used the old Roberto Clemente trick and threw out St. Louis pitcher Mark Clark at first base from right field as the Bucs edged the Cards 4-2 at Busch Stadium. Helping the cause were homers by Jeff King, Barry Bonds, and Andy Van Slyke. Paul Wagner got the win in relief of Randy Tomlin, with Danny Cox picking up a save.
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| Cutch 2016 Topps |
- 2016 - The Buc bats erupted for a 15-2 beatdown of the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. The Pirates hits five homers (Andrew McCutchen - 2, John Jaso, Sean Rodriguez & Jordy Mercer the others) and scored an amazing 15-of-17 runners. One was caught stealing, so Pittsburgh tied an MLB record that's been on the books since 1913 by leaving just one man LOB when scoring 15+ runs. The Bucs eight-run ninth matched their best inning of the year while 15 runs were the high water mark for runs scored in a game that season. Talk about using all three outs: the last 12 runs the Corsairs plated came with two away. The 15 runs were the most for the Bucs in a game against the Phils since June 1967.
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