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On April 20, 1923, Reichle hit the only home run of his career, coming off of Waite Hoyt of the New York Yankees; [8] [a] it was also the first home run hit by a visiting player at Yankee Stadium, [3] which had officially opened two days earlier. For the season, Reichle batted .258 with 39 RBIs. [1]
On September 19, 1937, he hit the first home run into the center-field bleachers at Yankee Stadium. He led the AL by driving in 184 runs (third all-time, behind Hack Wilson in 1930 and Lou Gehrig in 1931), and in extra-base hits (103), while batting .337 with 200 hits.
Future Yankee manager Casey Stengel hit the first post-season home run in stadium history while playing with the opposing New York Giants. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] The only other teams to do so prior to the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals in (the new) Busch Stadium had been the Pittsburgh Pirates , who won the 1909 World Series in Forbes Field 's inaugural ...
In 1965, his first year back in Cleveland, Colavito led the Amercian League in games played (162), RBIs (108) and walks (93) and became the first outfielder in American League history to finish a ...
In 1964, Maris rebounded, appearing in 141 games and batting .281 with 26 home runs and 71 RBI. [15] Maris hit a home run in Game 6 of the 1964 World Series, in which the Yankees lost to the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games. [22] In 1965, his physical problems returned, and he had off-season surgery to remove a bone chip in his hand.
Freeman's two-run blast scored Shohei Ohtani and sucked the air out of Yankee Stadium.It marked a fifth straight World Series game in which Freeman hit a home run, a stretch dating to his World ...
But Fry — who delivered the crucial, go-ahead home run in Cleveland’s ALDS Game 4 win — did not deliver this time. Instead, he popped up the first pitch, a 97 mph high-and-tight fastball on ...
In Game 2, second baseman, Aaron Ward hit a home run. The Giants' one bright spot was "Old Casey" Stengel, who hit game-winning homers in each of the two Giants' victories. In typically eccentric Stengel fashion, one of them was inside-the-park at the cavernous Yankee Stadium, and his shoe came loose during his run around the bases.