Compiled by PAUL MONTELLA
By The Associated Press
Oct. 4
1906 -- The Chicago Cubs won their 116th game of 152 played for a winning percentage (.763) since unmatched. The Cubs were 60-15 on the road for an .800 winning percentage.
1925 -- Fans saw the unusual spectacle of two managers, both famous hitters, pitch against each other in the season finale. Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers threw one perfect inning and George Sisler of the St. Louis Browns worked two scoreless frames in Detroit's 11-6 victory.
1941 -- The New York Yankees took a 2-1 lead in the World Series with a 2-1 win over Brooklyn. Freddie Fitzsimmons held the Yankees to four hits through seven innings. With two outs in the seventh, opposing pitcher Marius Russo hit a line drive off Fitzsimmons' knee that broke the kneecap. The ball caromed to shortstop Pee Wee Reese to end the inning. Hugh Casey came out to pitch in the eighth for Brooklyn and gave up two runs, and Russo hung on to win.
1948 -- The Cleveland Indians beat the Boston Red Sox 8-3 in a one-game AL playoff. The pitching of Gene Bearden and the hitting of Lou Boudreau were chiefly responsible for the championship victory.
1955 -- The Brooklyn Dodgers won their first World Series with Johnny Podres blanking the Yankees 2-0.
1964 -- The St. Louis Cardinals clinched the NL pennant with an 11-5 triumph over the New York Mets to end the closest pennant race in NL history.
1969 -- The major leagues staged the first divisional championships, with the New York Mets beating the Atlanta Braves 9-5 and the Baltimore Orioles edging the Minnesota Twins 4-3 in 12 innings in the opening games.
1987 -- The Detroit Tigers took advantage of one of the great collapses in baseball history to win the AL East title, beating the Toronto Blue Jays 1-0 behind the six-hit pitching of Frank Tanana. The Blue Jays lost their last seven games of the season, including three straight in the season-ending series in Detroit.
1999 -- The New York Mets, behind the pitching of Al Leiter, clinched the last remaining postseason berth by beating the Cincinnati Reds 5-0 in a one-game playoff for the NL wild card.
2001 -- Texas' Alex Rodriguez hit his 52nd homer in a 16-1 loss at Seattle to become the fourth player with 50 home runs and 200 hits in the same season, joining Babe Ruth (1921), Hack Wilson (1930) and Jimmie Foxx (1932).
2005 -- Reggie Sanders hit a grand slam and set an NL division series record with six RBIs to help St. Louis beat San Diego 8-5 in the first game of their division series.
2009 -- Minnesota defeated Kansas City 13-4 to force a one-game playoff with Detroit. The slumping Tigers beat the Chicago White Sox 5-3.
2009 -- Alex Rodriguez homered twice and drove in an AL-record seven runs in a 10-run sixth inning as New York pounded Tampa Bay 10-2. Rodriguez hit a three-run homer off Wade Davis, giving the Yankees a 3-2 lead. He added his 18th career grand slam later in the inning after Andy Sonnanstine issued an intentional walk to league co-home run champion Mark Teixeira to load the bases.
2011 -- Adrian Beltre hit three straight home runs and the Texas Rangers powered themselves back into the AL championship series, beating the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 to win their playoff series. Beltre became just the seventh player to homer three times in a postseason game.
2011 -- Rookie Paul Goldschmidt hit a grand slam and tied a franchise postseason record with five RBIs to lead Arizona to an 8-1 win and cut Milwaukee's lead to 2-1 in the best-of-five NL division series. It was only the third rookie slam in postseason history, following the Yankees' Gil McDougald in Game 5 of the 1951 World Series and the Yankees' Ricky Ledee in Game 4 of the 1999 AL championship series.
2013 -- Jon Lester allowed three hits in 7 2-3 innings and the Boston Red Sox took advantage of poor Tampa Bay defense in a five-run fourth to beat the Rays 12-2 in Game 1 of the AL division series. Every Boston starter got a hit and scored a run, the first time a team had done that in the postseason since 1936. Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio and the Yankees did it in the World Series.
Today's birthdays: Casey Kelly, 25; Lonnie Chisenhall, 26; Drew Stubbs, 30; Kurt Suzuki, 31; Jered Weaver, 32; Tony Gwynn, Jr., 32; Joe Thatcher, 33; Kyle Lohse, 36.
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