Also on this day in 2007 the Yankees started an inning by giving up eight runs to the Chicago White Sox in a single frame. The Yankees would answer in the bottom of the inning by scoring eight runs of their own to tie the game in an eventual 13-9 loss. This marks only the second time in major league history that eight or more runs were scored in the same inning by each team.
Finally on this day in 1979 the Yankees captain Thurman Munson is killed when the Cessna Citation I/SP jet he is learning to fly crashes near a Canton-Akron airport. The Yankees catcher had been learning to fly for over two years so he could get home to his family in Ohio during off days. Munson was 32.
Aug. 2nd, 1979 was a very dark day in the history of the Yankees. I was out of the country at the time and only learned of it 3 weeks or so after. I remember their was still a quitness around the team the day some of the guys and I went to a game as late as September. I read of Bobby Murcer and his heroics on the day of the funeral and it was out standing.
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