Today in sports history, September 11

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1862: Tom Morris Sr. successfully defended his title at Prestwick, winning the British Open and becoming one of golf’s first dominant champions.

1890: John Ball won the British Open at Prestwick, becoming the first English golfer and first amateur to capture the championship.

1912: Philadelphia Athletics star Eddie Collins stole six bases against Detroit, establishing a modern major league single-game record.

1918: The Boston Red Sox defeated the Chicago Cubs 2-1 in Game 6 to win the World Series, four games to two, for their fifth championship and last until 2004.

1926: The United States defeated France to win the Davis Cup for a seventh consecutive year, extending one of tennis’ great international dynasties.

1927: Babe Ruth hit his 50th home run of the season for the New York Yankees, continuing his march toward the record-setting 60-homer campaign.

1928: Ty Cobb made the final plate appearance of his Hall of Fame career, closing a major league tenure that produced a record 4,191 hits at the time of his retirement.

1937: Anita Lizana of Chile defeated Jadwiga Jędrzejowska at Forest Hills to become the first Latin American player to win a Grand Slam singles title.

1946: The Brooklyn Dodgers and Cincinnati Reds played to a scoreless 19-inning tie at Ebbets Field, the longest scoreless game in major league history. Cincinnati’s Johnny Vander Meer pitched 15 innings and struck out 14.

1951: Florence Chadwick became the first woman to swim the English Channel from England to France, completing the crossing in 16 hours, 19 minutes. She also became the first woman to swim the Channel in both directions, having crossed from France to England in 1950.

1974: The St. Louis Cardinals outlasted the New York Mets 4-3 in 25 innings at Shea Stadium, ending the 7-hour, 4-minute game after 3 a.m. when Bake McBride scored from first on an errant pickoff play.

1985: Pete Rose singled off San Diego’s Eric Show for his 4,192nd career hit, surpassing Ty Cobb to become Major League Baseball’s all-time hits leader. Later, research would adjust Cobb’s total to 4,191.

1988: Mats Wilander captured the U.S. Open men’s singles title, earning his third Grand Slam championship of the season and seventh major overall.

1991: Atlanta’s Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers and Alejandro Peña combined to no-hit the San Diego Padres, recording the first combined no-hitter in Braves history.

1999: Seventeen-year-old Serena Williams defeated top-ranked Martina Hingis 6-3, 7-6 (7-4) to win the U.S. Open, the first Grand Slam singles title of her career. She became the first Black woman since Althea Gibson in 1958 to capture a Grand Slam singles title.

2001: Major League Baseball postponed its entire 15-game schedule after the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, marking the first full postponement of the major league schedule since D-Day in 1944. Numerous other professional and college events also were postponed or canceled.

2005: Eighteen-year-old Samuel Wanjiru of Kenya completed the Rotterdam Half Marathon in a world-record 59 minutes, 16 seconds.

2005: Roger Federer defeated Andre Agassi to win the U.S. Open, claiming his second consecutive title at Flushing Meadows.

2009: Derek Jeter collected his 2,722nd career hit, passing Lou Gehrig to become the New York Yankees’ all-time hits leader.

2010: Kim Clijsters successfully defended her U.S. Open women’s singles championship for her third title in New York.

2016: Stan Wawrinka upset Novak Djokovic to win the U.S. Open, earning the third Grand Slam singles title of his career.

2017: Beth Mowins called the Los Angeles Chargers-Denver Broncos game for ESPN, becoming the first woman since Gayle Sierens in 1987 to call play-by-play for an NFL regular-season game and the first woman to call a nationally televised NFL game.

2021: Eighteen-year-old Emma Raducanu defeated Leylah Fernandez 6-4, 6-3 to win the U.S. Open, becoming the first qualifier to capture a Grand Slam singles championship. She won all 20 sets she played across qualifying and the main draw.

2022: Arizona pitcher Zac Gallen extended his scoreless streak to a franchise-record 44⅓ innings, the seventh-longest streak in major league history.

2022: Albert Pujols hit his 697th career home run, a go-ahead, two-run shot in the ninth inning of St. Louis’ 4-3 victory over Pittsburgh, to pass Alex Rodriguez for sole possession of fourth place on MLB’s career list.

2022: Carlos Alcaraz, 19, defeated Casper Ruud in the U.S. Open final to win his first Grand Slam title and become the youngest men’s world No. 1 in ATP rankings history.

— USA TODAY Network

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