September 8 Todd Hundley joins Mickey Mantle

This Day in Baseball - The Daily Rewind

• September 8, 2007 - Alex Rodriguez continues to lead the Yankees in their playoff hopes with an 11-5 win over the Kansas City Royals. He homers twice off rookie pitcher Brian Bannister. The first of the homers is his 49th of the year and breaks
• the record for homers by a third baseman. Previously, Mike Schmidt and Rodriguez (2005) had shared the record at 48 homers. Rodriguez already held the single-season record for shortstops, giving him the high watermark at two positions.
• September8, 2008 Gary Sheffield hits a grand slam for the official 250,000th homer in MLB history. The blow is Sheffield's 2nd homer of the day and his 13th career grand slam.
• September8, 1998 Mark McGwire breaks Roger Maris' single-season home run mark by clouting his 62nd of the year off Steve Trachsel in the 4th inning of the Cardinals' 6 - 3 win over the Cubs in St. Louis.
• September8, 1985 - Reds' player-manager, Pete Rose gets two hits at Wrigley Field off Cubs' hurler Reggie Patterson, including a historic single to tie Ty Cobb's career record of 4,191 hits. The game will be suspended due to darkness enabling Rose to break the record at home.
• September 8, 1996 Todd Hundley joins Mickey Mantle as the only other switch hitter to hit 40 homers in a season. His 40th home run also breaks Darryl Strawberry's Met club record for most homers in a single season.
• September 8, 1916 - In front the smallest crowd in American League history, A's catcher/outfielder Wally Schang, with 23 fans attending the game, becomes the first switch-hitter in major league history to homer from both sides of the plate in the same game.

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