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Theme: current events
Date: Oct 01, 2006
Chase Utley set a career and Phillies high for home runs by a second basemen when he hit his 29th of the season September 20. Name the player (who once stole 72 bases in a season) and mark Utley passed that was set in 1987.
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"All I know is, I pass people on the street these days, and they don?t know whether to say hello or to say goodbye."
by Billy Martin
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'17 - Philadelphia's Grover Cleveland Alexander went the distance in both games of the Phillies' 5-0 and 9-3 sweep of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
'57 - Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves recorded his 41st career shutout with an 8-0 victory over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Spahn's shoutout set a major league record for lefthanded pitchers.
'70 - Billy Williams of the Cubs asked to be kept out of the lineup, snapping his National League record of 1,117 consecutive games played. His record was broken in 1983 by Steve Garvey.
'81 - The Boston Red Sox and the Seattle Mariners played the longest game in Fenway Park's history, 19 innings, before the game was suspended with the score tied 7-7. The Mariners won 8-7 in 20 innings when the game resumed the next day.
'86 - Billy Hatcher's homer in the top of the 18th inning gave the Houston Astros an 8-7 victory over the Chicago Cubs. The two teams played 14 innings the day before and used a major league record 53 players in the game.
'90 - Bobby Thigpen set a major league record with his 47th save in a 4-2 Chicago White Sox victory over Kansas City. Thigpen broke the record set by Dave Righetti of the New York Yankees in 1986.
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| Outfielder Bob Crues of Amarillo in the Class C west Texas-New Mexico League, in 1948, would complete his season with a .404 batting average, 69 home runs, 254 runs batted in, and 228 hits in 140 games. Crues was 30 years old at the time and will never make it to the big leagues. |
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