In a highlight mentioned on Saturday’s New York Yankees game broadcast when Aaron Hicks duplicated it, Mickey Mantle‘s drive in the gap in Chicago on May 20, 1958, in a 5-1 win went for his second (of three) inside-the-park home runs of the year. Mickey’s career total of six is a Yankee record.
Filling in for the ineffective and injured Chien-Ming Wang, young righthander Phil Hughes got the win when the team battered Baltimore in the Bronx 11-4 on May 20, 2009. Another tradition survived the trip across 161st Street as all the predominantly white uniforms in the stands confirmed it was Fleet Week in New York.