This Date in Baseball, September 27 - Mark McGwire gives baseball a new magic number, hitting 70 HRs in a season
1935 — The Chicago Cubs clinched the NL pennant and won their 21st consecutive game with a doubleheader sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals. The Cubs won the pennant with the opening-game victory.
1967 — Philadelphia’s Jim Bunning tied the National League record with his fifth 1-0 loss of the season. 1993 — Randy Myers became the first NL reliever with 50 saves in a season as the Chicago Cubs beat Los Angeles 7-3. 1998 — The New York Yankees won their seventh straight game and ended their incredible regular season with 114 victories. With a .704 winning percentage, the Yankees became the first team since the 1954 Cleveland Indians to play .700 ball over an entire season.
2012 — R.A. Dickey became the first knuckleballer to win 20 games in more than three decades, matching his career high with 13 strikeouts and leading the New York Mets to a 6-5 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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