1921 — Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees became baseball’s career home run leader by hitting his 120th off Cleveland’s Jim Bagby in the third inning. The Indians took the game 8-6.

2009 — Randy Johnson became the 24th major league pitcher to win 300 games by leading San Francisco to a 5-1 victory over the Washington Nationals in the first game of a doubleheader. 2012 — Mike ...

The Longhorns are on the brink of a national championship after a complete game shutout and moonshot home run.

They didn’t quite return the favor after Saturday’s beatdown at Dodger Stadium, but the New York Yankees are leaving Los Angeles with a win after all. The Yankees, after a wild 18-2 blowout loss on ...

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“I think, in 1972, he probably would have put Johnny ... He’s also the last guy with four hits in Game 7 of a World Series. Funny thing about baseball, though: Brett wouldn’t have played ...

It was the largest in a World Series-clinching win, surpassing 1925 Game 7, when the Pirates trailed by four ... Catfish Hunter in the 1974 World Series and Jack Billingham in the 1972 World Series.

The best two words in sports are “Game 7.” There’s no more exciting game than when the championship series goes to Game 7 for a winner-take-all contest. In MLB, there have been 40 Game 7s in ...

He won the first World Series game in Oakland franchise history against the heavily favored Reds in 1972, and again in Game 1 in 1973 against the Mets. He also started — and won — Game 7 ...

The team won its first World Series title in franchise history after beating the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 5, 5-0 ... the team's move to Arlington in 1972 and went all the way back to its ...