Sept. 6
Today in sports history
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1883: The Chicago White Stockings scored a major league-record 18 runs in the seventh inning of a 26-6 victory over the Detroit Wolverines.
1905: Chicago White Sox pitcher Frank Smith threw a no-hitter in a 15-0 victory over the Detroit Tigers, then the largest margin in an American League no-hitter.
1912: Boston’s Smoky Joe Wood defeated Washington’s Walter Johnson 1-0 in a celebrated pitchers’ duel, earning his 14th consecutive victory on his way to later matching Johnson’s American League record of 16 straight wins.
1920: Heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey knocked out Billy Miske in the third round to retain his title in a bout remembered as the first prizefight broadcast by radio.
1920: Bill Tilden captured his first U.S. National Championships men’s singles title, beginning a run of six consecutive championships.
1943: Carl Scheib debuted for the Philadelphia Athletics at age 16 years, 8 months, becoming the youngest pitcher in American League history.
1946: The All-America Football Conference opened regular-season play as the Cleveland Browns routed the Miami Seahawks 44-0 before more than 60,000 fans in Cleveland.
1952: Philadelphia Phillies ace Robin Roberts pitched a 17-inning complete game against the Boston Braves for his major league-leading 23rd victory.
1953: Brooklyn Dodgers star Roy Campanella hit his 38th home run of the season, breaking Gabby Hartnett’s major league record for home runs by a catcher.
1955: Hungary’s Laszlo Tabori and Denmark’s Gunnar Nielsen each ran 3 minutes, 40.8 seconds in Oslo to equal the world record in the 1,500 meters.
1960: Australia’s Herb Elliott won the Olympic 1,500-meter title in Rome in a world-record 3 minutes, 35.6 seconds.
1960: American Otis Davis won the Olympic 400-meter final in a world-record 44.9 seconds, edging Germany’s Carl Kaufmann in a photo finish.
1960: American Rafer Johnson held off UCLA teammate C.K. Yang of Taiwan in the final event to win the Olympic decathlon.
1963: Major League Baseball marked its 100,000th game as the Washington Senators defeated the Cleveland Indians 7-2. Future All-Star Tommy John made his major league debut for Cleveland.
1975: Chris Evert rallied past Evonne Goolagong 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 to win her first of six U.S. Open women’s singles championships.
1995: Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. played in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking Lou Gehrig’s major league record, and homered in a 4-2 victory over the California Angels.
1996: Baltimore’s Eddie Murray hit his 500th career home run, becoming the third player to combine 500 homers with 3,000 hits.
1998: Indianapolis Colts rookie Peyton Manning made his NFL debut and threw his first career touchdown pass, a fourth-quarter completion to Marvin Harrison, in a 24-15 loss to the Miami Dolphins.
2001: San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds hit his 60th home run of the season, becoming the fifth player in major league history to reach 60.
2009: Seattle’s Ichiro Suzuki collected his 2,000th major league hit in his 1,402nd game, reaching the milestone faster than every player except Al Simmons.
2014: Japan’s Kei Nishikori upset top-seeded Novak Djokovic in the U.S. Open semifinals and became the first Asian-born man to reach a Grand Slam singles final.
2020: Top-ranked Novak Djokovic was defaulted from the U.S. Open after a ball he struck in frustration hit a line judge, producing the tournament’s first men’s singles default of the Open era.
2025: Aryna Sabalenka defeated Amanda Anisimova 6-3, 7-6 (3) to win her second consecutive U.S. Open women’s singles title, becoming the first woman to defend the championship since Serena Williams in 2014.
— USA TODAY Network
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