On this day in Phillies history: a legendary southpaw’s 300th win and a beloved shortstop’s hitting streak, the longest in more than 100 years.
Some noteworthy things happened on this day in Philadelphia Phillies history. Let’s talk about two of them.
On September 23, 1983, Phillies great southpaw Steve Carlton accomplished an amazing feat — he recorded his 300th career win. The icing on the cake is that it was a 6-2 win against the team that traded him to the Phils — the St. Louis Cardinals.
Although Carlton ended the 1983 season with a 15-16 record, he still had a good ERA of 3.11 with 275 strikeouts over 283 2/3 innings pitched.
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Nicknamed Lefty, Carlton would go on to bring his win total up to 329 before he retired. He is a two-time World Series Champion (1967 Cardinals, 1980 Phillies), four-time Cy Young Award winner (1972, 1977, 1980, 1982 all with the Phils), and a 10-time All-Star (1968, 1969, 1971 with the Cardinals, and 1972, 1974, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982 with the Phillies). It’s no surprise that Carlton had his jersey number retired in 1989 and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994.
Needless to say, thanks, Cardinals!
On September 23, 2005, beloved shortstop Jimmy Rollins had an active hitting streak that was the longest in Phillies franchise history in more than 100 years. Just a few days later, Rollins tied the previous holder of the franchise record 31-game hitting streak, Ed Delahanty. Delahanty set that record back in 1899.
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Jimmy went on to accomplish a 38-game hitting streak spanning from 2005-2006, falling short of New York Yankees star Joe DiMaggio‘s very impressive 56-game hitting streak that he set in 1941, which is still the record today.
Rollins still holds the Phils’ ballclub hitting streak record and is the franchise all-time hits leader. Not too shabby, if you ask me!
Great memories and milestones in Phillies history, 22 years apart.