This date in baseball

1904 Jack Chesbro got his 41st victory of the season as New York defeated the Boston Red Sox 3-2.

1928 Lou Gehrig’s two home runs led the New York Yankees to a 7-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series, giving them a 3-0 lead.

1945 Hank Greenberg’s three doubles led Detroit to an 8-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs, giving the Tigers a 3-2 lead in the World Series.

1952 Billy Martin’s running catch on a high infield pop with the bases loaded in the seventh inning snuffed a Brooklyn Dodgers rally and the New York Yankees went on to win Game 7 of the World Series 4-2.

1961 New York’s Roger Maris won the third game of the World Series with a ninth-inning home run off the Reds’ Bob Purkey. The Yankees won 3-2 at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field.

1984 The San Diego Padres won the National League pennant with a 6-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs in the final game of the playoffs. The Padres won three consecutive after dropping the first two games.

1995 Edgar Martinez of the Seattle Mariners hit a tie-breaking grand slam in the eighth inning and drove in seven runs, most in a postseason game, to lead the Mariners past the New York Yankees 11-8 and send the American League playoff series to a decisive Game 5.

1998 Chuck Knoblauch argued for an interference call at first base instead of picking up the ball while Enrique Wilson rounded the bases and scored to break a 1-1 tie in the 12th inning of the Cleveland Indians’ 4-1 victory at New York in Game 2 of the American League championship series.

2001 San Diego’s Rickey Henderson became the 25th player with 3,000 hits with a bloop double in a 14-5 loss to Colorado. Teammate Tony Gwynn ended his 20-year career by grounding out to shortstop in the ninth inning. Gwynn left the game with eight National League batting titles, a .338 lifetime average and 3,141 hits.

AP/PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS Chicago Cubs’ second baseman Javier Baez heads back to the dugout after striking out against Washington’s Stephen Strasburg in the third inning.