Sept. 1
Today in sports history
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1893: Scotland’s Willie Auchterlonie captured the Open Championship at Prestwick Golf Club, winning by two strokes for his lone major title.
1906: Philadelphia Athletics rookie Jack Coombs and Boston Americans pitcher Joe Harris each went the distance in a 24-inning game, which Philadelphia won 4-1. Coombs struck out 18 and allowed one run.
1931: Yankees slugger Lou Gehrig hit his third grand slam in four days and homered in a sixth straight game during New York’s victory over Boston.
1946: Patty Berg won the inaugural U.S. Women’s Open at Spokane Country Club, becoming the first champion in the history of the championship.
1963: San Francisco Giants star Willie Mays recorded his 2,000th major league hit with an RBI double during a 7-3 victory over the Milwaukee Braves.
1964: San Francisco Giants reliever Masanori Murakami debuted against the New York Mets and became the first Japanese-born player in Major League Baseball.
1971: The Pittsburgh Pirates fielded the first all-Black and Latino starting lineup in modern major league history in a win over the Philadelphia Phillies 10-7 at Three Rivers Stadium.
1973: Heavyweight champion George Foreman defended his WBA and WBC titles by knocking out José Roman in the first round.
1975: Tom Seaver became the first pitcher in Major League Baseball history to record 200 strikeouts in eight consecutive seasons.
1984: Mississippi Valley State star Jerry Rice caught 17 passes for 294 yards and five touchdowns against Kentucky State, setting a Division I-AA single-game receiving yardage record.
1985: Bill Elliott won the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway and became the first NASCAR driver to collect the $1 million Winston Million bonus by winning three of the season’s four crown-jewel races.
1987: Michael Chang became the youngest male player ever to win a match at the U.S. Open.
1989: Chris Evert became the first player to win 100 career matches at the U.S. Open.
1996: The Baltimore Ravens defeated the Oakland Raiders 19-14 before a Memorial Stadium-record crowd of 64,124 in the first regular-season game in Ravens history. The team had moved from Cleveland.
1996: Kenya’s Daniel Komen ran 7 minutes, 20.67 seconds in Rieti, Italy, setting what was then the men’s 3,000-meter world record.
1999: The NHL approved Mario Lemieux’s purchase of the Pittsburgh Penguins, making him the first player in North American sports to own the team he used to play for.
2007: Appalachian State stunned No. 5 Michigan 34-32 at Michigan Stadium, becoming the first FCS team to defeat a ranked FBS team since the NCAA created the I-A/I-AA split in 1978. Corey Lynch blocked a potential winning field goal on the final play.
2007: Boston Red Sox rookie Clay Buchholz pitched a no-hitter in his second major league start, striking out nine in a victory over the Baltimore Orioles.
2016: FIFA conducted its first official “semi-live” Video Assistant Referee (VAR) test during France’s 3-1 friendly victory over Italy in Bari.
2019: Houston’s Justin Verlander struck out 14 and pitched his third career no-hitter in a 2-0 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays, becoming the sixth major league pitcher to throw at least three no-hitters.
2024: Britain’s Elliot Giles ran 3 minutes, 51.3 seconds in Düsseldorf, Germany, to set a men’s road-mile world record.
2024: Scottie Scheffler shot a final-round 67 to win the Tour Championship by four strokes and capture his first FedEx Cup, earning golf’s $25 million season prize.
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