 The next three seasons he averaged a 2.89 ERA, with a career-best 2.21 in 1908, and an 18–15 mark the same year.On August 3, 1906, Hughes became the first pitcher in the modern era (1901 and later) to pitch a shutout and hit a home run that accounted for the only run in the game, when he hit a solo shot in the 10th inning off St. Louis Browns pitcher Fred Glade, at Sportsman's Park II, to give Washington a 1–0 victory.Since then, the feat has been matched only by Gene Packard (1915) in the Federal League, Red Ruffing (1932), Spud Chandler (1938) and Early Wynn (1959) in the American League, and Jim Bunning (1965), Juan Pizarro (1971), Bob Welch (1983), and Noah Syndergaard (2019) in the National League.