This date in baseball

1941 En route to 56, Joe DiMaggio hit in his 32nd consecutive game, going 3-for-3, including a home run, against the Chicago White Sox.

1942 Paul Waner got hit number 3,000 a single off Rip Sewell but the Boston Braves lost to the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-6.

1952 Brooklyn Dodger Carl Erskine pitched a 5-0 no-hitter against the Chicago Cubs at Ebbets Field.

1961 Roger Maris’ ninth-inning home run off Kansas City’s Jim Archer was his 25th of the year, putting him seven games ahead of Babe Ruth’s pace in 1927.

1973 Cincinnati’s Pete Rose and Willie Davis of the Los Angeles Dodgers both collected their 2,000th hits. It was a single for Rose against the San Francisco Giants and a home run for Davis against the Atlanta Braves.

1974 Steve Busby of the Kansas City Royals hurled his second no-hitter in 14 months and gave up just one walk in beating the Brewers 2-0 at Milwaukee.

1977 The Boston Red Sox hit five home runs in an 11-1 victory over the New York Yankees. The five home runs gave the Red Sox a major league record 16 in three games. Boston hit six homers on the 17th and five on the 18th, also against the Yankees. In the series the Yankees had no homers.

2001 Ellis Burks hit three home runs in a 10-9 Cleveland loss to the Twins.

2015 Alex Rodriguez homered for his 3,000th career hit as the New York Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers 7-2. Out of baseball last year while serving a drug suspension, Rodriguez became the 29th player in major league history to reach 3,000 hits.