Sept. 2
Today in sports history
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1880: Two teams composed mostly of Boston department-store employees played the first known baseball game under electric lights at Nantasket Beach in Hull, Massachusetts. The nine-inning exhibition used three wooden light towers.
1927: Babe Ruth hit his 400th career home run as the New York Yankees defeated the Philadelphia Athletics 12-2 at Shibe Park, becoming the first major league player to reach the milestone.
1940: Byron Nelson captured the PGA Championship, defeating Sam Snead for his first PGA Championship and third major title.
1946: Ben Hogan won the Golden State Open, part of a six-tournament winning streak during his 13-win 1946 PGA Tour season.
1957: Milwaukee Braves first baseman Frank Torre scored six runs in a 23-10 rout of the Chicago Cubs, tying a Major League Baseball record.
1960: Wilma Rudolph won the Olympic women’s 100-meter final at the Rome Games, capturing the first of her three gold medals at the Olympics.
1960: New Zealand runner Peter Snell claimed the first of his three Olympic gold medals by winning the 800 meters at the Rome Olympics.
1960: Soviet sisters Tamara Press and Irina Press became the first sisters to win Olympic gold medals at the same games when Tamara captured the shot put a day after Irina won the 80-meter hurdles.
1965: Chicago Cubs star Ernie Banks hit his 400th career home run in a 5-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals, becoming the 11th major league player to reach the milestone.
1966: Roberto Clemente recorded his 2,000th career hit with a three-run home run off Ferguson Jenkins as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Chicago Cubs 7-3.
1972: Chicago Cubs pitcher Milt Pappas retired the first 26 San Diego batters before issuing a two-out walk in the ninth inning, then completed an 8-0 no-hitter against the Padres.
1986: The Houston Astros and Chicago Cubs combined to use 53 players in a marathon game suspended after 14 innings and completed the next day in the 18th inning, setting a major league record for players used in a single game.
1990: Toronto Blue Jays ace Dave Stieb threw the first no-hitter in club history, finally reaching the milestone after several previous bids had been broken up late.
1996: Boston’s Mike Greenwell drove in all nine Red Sox runs in a 9-8 win over Seattle, becoming the only player in MLB history to account for all of his team’s runs in a nine-run game.
1996: David Cone returned from surgery to repair an aneurysm in his pitching shoulder and threw seven hitless innings for the New York Yankees in a 5-0 victory over the Oakland Athletics.
2011: Dwight Phillips won his fourth world long jump championship, Vivian Cheruiyot completed the women’s 5,000- and 10,000-meter double and Veronica Campbell Brown captured the women’s 200 meters at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea.
2013: At age 64, Diana Nyad completed a 52-hour, 54-minute swim from Cuba to Key West, Florida, a crossing widely reported as the first from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage, though the swim was later denied ratification by the World Open Water Swimming Association.
2019: The Texas Rangers shut out the New York Yankees 7-0, ending New York’s streak of 220 consecutive games with at least one run scored, the second-longest such streak in major league history.
2023: Shedeur Sanders passed for a Colorado-record 510 yards and four touchdowns in his Buffaloes debut, leading a 45-42 upset of No. 17 TCU in Deion Sanders’ first game as Colorado’s coach.
2023: Son Heung-min, Erling Haaland and Evan Ferguson each scored three goals, tying the Premier League record for the most hat tricks recorded on a single day.
2025: Shohei Ohtani hit his 100th home run with the Los Angeles Dodgers, a 120-mph drive that became the hardest-hit Dodgers homer of the Statcast era. He became the fourth player to hit at least 100 homers in his first two seasons with a franchise.
— USA TODAY Network
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