Detroit Tigers Newsletter: Even their worst hitters have reasons to look ahead.
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Bunch of Hitless Wonders. Only Greene shows anything.

Boxscore.

Tigers 1 - Guardians 2: Greene and Flaherty shone in low-scoring loss
A win would have been better, though.
BYBTB

Tigers drop fourth straight, score just one run on Greene's homer against Guardians.
Detnews

Detroit Tigers' Riley Greene blasts leadoff home run in 2-1 loss to Cleveland Guardians.
Freep

Tigers squander chances (again) in series-opening loss to Guardians.
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May 7 in Tigers and mlb history:

1906: Wild Bill Donovan of the Tigers steals second, third, and home in the fifth inning against Cleveland. No wonder they call him wild. Added bonus: this wild baserunner is actually a star pitcher. Tigers 8-3 win in Cleveland.

1917: Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox allows only two hits as he outpitches Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators, 1 - 0, at Griffith Stadium. Ruth helps himself by driving in the winning run with a sacrifice fly.

1921: The Detroit Stars win their season opener 9-8. Charley Hill retires a runner at home plate for a game-ending double play.

1922: Ty Cobb has 5 hits for the first of a record 4 times on the season.
Ty Cobb laces out his 500th career double. By the time the "Georgia Peach" retires in 1928 he will have recorded another 224 and retires second all-time with 724 career doubles to old friend and teammate Tris Speakers' 793. Eventually Stan Musial and Pete Rose pass Cobb in the 700+ career doubles club.

1929: Hall of Fame manager Dick Williams was born this day in St Louis, MO.
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1940: The Brooklyn Dodgers become the first National League team to fly when they travel by air to Chicago from St. Louis.

1949: The Detroit Tigers traded Earl Rapp to the Chicago White Sox for Don Kolloway.

1957: Cleveland Indians pitcher Herb Score is hit on the right eye by a line drive off the bat of the Yankees' Gil McDougald in the 1st inning. The ball breaks Score's nose and damages his eye; he will miss the rest of the season.

1958: Tigers' Reno Bertoia becomes the first Italian-born major leaguer to hit a grand slam: the only one until the Mariners' Alex Liddi in 2012.
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1959: A crowd of 93,103 comes to the Los Angeles Coliseum on Roy Campanella Night to show their affection for the paralyzed former Dodger catcher. The Dodgers are beaten by the New York Yankees, 6 - 2, in an exhibition game that follows the ceremonies. The crowd is a record that will not be broken until the Dodgers return to the Coliseum for another exhibition contest on March 29, 2008.

1960: The Detroit Tigers traded Gail Harris to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Sandy Amoros.

1961: Game 1: Tigers 8, White Sox 6. Jake Wood hits a home run & a triple to drive in 3, finishing 2-for-3 with 2 walks. 4th straight win: Tigers are 15-5, up 2.5 in the AL.

1961: Game 2: Tigers 5 - White Sox 3. Rocky Colavito homers for the Tigers. Al Kaline finishes 2-for-5 with a double and a stolen base. Phil Regan strikes out 3 in a complete game win. Tigers are 16-5, up 2.5 in the AL.

1962: The Kansas City Athletics purchased George Alusik from the Detroit Tigers.

1963: Homer, Triple, and double! What a game for rookie Bill Freehan vs. the Yanks.

1967: Tigers' Joe Sparma (3-0) shuts out Orioles 4-0.

1968: Tommy Matchick hits a pinch hit 2-run double in the top of the 9th to give the Tigers a 2-1 over the Orioles and pull within 1.5 games of them in the American League. Mickey Lolich pitches 8 scoreless innings.

1984: Tigers 10 - Royals 3. Chet Lemon hits a double and triple to drive in 3 runs, Alan Trammell goes 3-for-5.
Juan Berenguer gets the win. Tigers improve to 23-4, and 12-0 on the road #Relive84
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1991: The Detroit Tigers released Tony Bernazard.

1995: Former All-Star outfielder Gus Bell dies at the age of 66. As the patriarch of a three-generation baseball family, Bell reached the 100-RBI mark four times while starring for the Cincinnati Reds. His son, Buddy, and his grandsons, David and Mike, later played in the major leagues.

2003: The Detroit Tigers signed Wendell Magee as a free agent.

2006: When Barry Bonds takes his position in left field, the Phillies fans in the stands behind him unfurl a section-long banner which says "Ruth did it on hot dogs & Beer - Aaron did it with class."

2008: Trailing 9-8 to Boston in the bottom of the 9th, the Tigers rally on an RBI groundout by Curtis Granderson and a walk-off single by Placido Polanco.

2009: The Dodgers' star outfielder Manny Ramirez is suspended for 50 games for testing positive for a banned substance. He is the most prominent player yet caught under Major League Baseball's PED policy implemented in 2005.

2010: On the other side of the age scale, Jamie Moyer still baffles opposing hitters at age 47. He tosses a two-hit shutoutas the Phillies defeat the Braves, 7 - 0. He is the oldest pitcher to record a shutout in major league history; the mark was held by Hall of Famer Phil Niekro who was 46 at the time of his last whitewash on October 6, 1985. He also becomes the first hurler to toss shutouts in four different decades.

2011: Justin Verlander pitches the second no-hitter of his career when the Tigers shut down the Blue Jays, 9 - 0.
Only an 8th-inning walk to J.P. Arencibia, who is then erased in a double play, keeps Verlander from a perfect game. Verlander becomes the 28th pitcher in major league history with two no-hitters.

2014: Tigers beat the Astros 3-2 on a 2-run home run by Miguel Cabrera and solo shot by Victor Martinez for their 8th straight win.

2016: Miguel Cabrera goes 4-for-5 but the Tigers give up 5 home runs & lose to the rangers 10 - 5.

2017: The Detroit Tigers released James Loney.

2022: Less than two weeks after getting his 3,000th hit, Miguel Cabrera reaches another milestone with his 600th career double, only the 18th player to that total. Only two others - Hank Aaron and Albert Pujols - have compiled his combination of 3,000 hits, 600 doubles and 500 home runs.

Tigers players birthdays:

Allan Travers 1912.

Tigers players who passed away:

Bill Coughlin 1904-1908.

Boom Boom Beck 1944.

Larry Foster 1963.

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ANATOMY OF A SERIES.
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Tigers To Option Parker Meadows, Select Ryan Vilade.
MLBTR

Parker Meadows to be optioned to Triple-A Toledo.
Outfielder Ryan Vilade is reportedly set to be called up on Tuesday.
BYBTB

Detroit Tigers expected to option Parker Meadows to Triple-A Toledo, call up Ryan Vilade.
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Ryan Garko joins to discuss Detroit Tigers' player development department; top prospect Max Clark shares what he's working on. 77 minutes.

It's a packed show today as Mark and Evan welcome on to the podcast Ryan Garko, Detroit Tigers' vice president of player development. Before the guy's get to the interview, Mark and Evan cover the impressive play of Riley Greene. Could the outfielder swing his way into the MVP discussion? The "Days of Roar" crew also continue to monitor Spencer Torkelson's lack of quality performance and they note recent comments made by A. J. Hinch on the matter. Later in the pod, Evan interviews Max Clark and delves into how the young player is progressing in the minor leagues.

TMLR Podcast with Brandon Day: Week Six and the bats are still sleeping. 75 minutes.
Our weekly podcast series on the Tigers organization and the farm system continues.
BYBTB

Tigers call on hot-hitting Mud Hens OF to jump-start ice-cold lineup.
The Tigers yet again blew a great start by Jack Flaherty. But this time they're trying to do something about it.
MCBTB

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2024/05/2-former-tigers-swap-roster-spots-on-tampa-bay-rays.html2 former Tigers swap roster spots on Tampa Bay Rays.
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Michigan to Celebrate Marian Ilitch Day on May 8.
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Injuries & Moves: Meadows optioned to Triple-A Toledo.
Tigers official site

Tarik Skubal's lost performance against Yankees draws Max Scherzer-Tigers AL Cy Young parallel.
MCBTB

Are Detroit Tigers talking about Spencer Torkelson to Triple-A Toledo? Here's what A.J. Hinch says.
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Ibáñez (2 HR's), Vilade (3 RBIs) fuel Tigers' 11-run breakout.
Tigers official site

Boxscore. Maeda is a mayday.

Video Highlights of the Tigers win over the indians/guardians.

Tigers 11 - Guardians 7: You want runs, you got ‘em.
Oh, it was an old-fashioned slugfest, alright. But the Tigers bullpen was absolutely lights-out and saved the day.
BYBTB

Detroit Tigers' new sparkplug bat ignites an offensive firestorm.
The Detroit Tigers have had a lot of struggles on offense this year and optioned outfielder Parker Meadows to Toledo on Tuesday. He was replaced on the roster by outfielder Ryan Vilade.
MCBTB

'It's been a great day': Ibáñez has career night in Tigers' 11-7 win over Guardians.
Detnews

Detroit Tigers gash Guardians, 11-7, with Andy Ibáñez's two homers, Ryan Vilade's key hits.
Freep

Andy Ibanez sparks 11-run eruption as Tigers top Guardians.
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May 8 in Tigers and mlb history:

1858: Hall of Famer Dan Brouthers was born this day in Sylvan Lake, New York. Playing mainly with Buffalo and Detroit of the N.L. Brouthers led the league five times in on-base percentage and seven times in slugging percentage. He also led the league twice in Runs, tree times in Hits, three times in doubles, five times in batting average, eight time each in OPS and OPS+, and four times in total bases. A hard hitting first baseman Brouthers was voted into the Hall of Fame in 1945.
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1878: Providence Grays centerfielder Paul Hines catches a fly by Jack Burdock and starts a triple play, racing in to touch third base before Jack Manning can return, then throwing to second to nab Ezra Sutton. Some eyewitnesses contend that Sutton had passed third and was out when Hines touched the base, making it the only unassisted triple play by an outfielder. This contradicts the version by Manning, Jim O'Rourke and others present, which has been accepted generally as the correct account.

1893: Hall of Famer Edd Roush was born this day in Oakland City, IN. A career .323 batting average, Roush was a two-time batting champion who played eighteen years, mostly with the Cincinnati Reds. He appeared in the 1919 World Series fixed by the Black Sox.
Roush was also second in the league in batting twice, once closely behind Zack Wheat and once behind Rogers Hornsby. He also finished third twice behind Hornsby.
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1900 - John McGraw and Wilbert Robinson end their holdout and sign with the Cardinals. Both contracts have the reserve clause crossed out, freeing McGraw to return to Baltimore in the American League in 1901.

1901: Negro League legend Norman Turkey Stearnes was born in Nashville Tn. "Cool Papa Bell said, 'If Turkey is not in the Hall of Fame, then no one deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.' He was enshrined in Cooperstown in 2000. Stearnes was second only to Willie Wells in WAR among Negro League position players between 1920-1948.
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1901: In a letter to American League team owners, Ban Johnson says that the rule requiring clubs to cut their players to 14 will not be enforced until May 20th.

1901: In their long-delayed American League home opener, Boston defeats Philadelphia's Bill Bernhard, 12 - 4, behind Cy Young, who has jumped from the St. Louis Cardinals. Boston is led by Buck Freeman, who has a single, triple and homer. Young complains that he does not like the rule against pitchers warming up, but he will still lead the AL with his 1.62 ERA. His 33 wins are 41.8 percent of his team's 79 victories; a post-1900 record, it will stand until Steve Carlton wins 45.8 percent of the Phils' 59 wins in 1972. Young also complains about catchers: "I do not like the league rule compelling the catcher to stand behind the bat all the time. It handicaps a pitcher. I cannot extend myself as I would like."

1907: Christy Mathewson tosses his second straight shutout, stopping the visiting Pirates, 4 - 0 on four hits.

1911: The Phillies' Grover Cleveland Alexander records his first shutout, stopping Brooklyn, 5 - 0, on three hits. Alex fans nine to run his record to 3-1. Alexander will lead the league in Shutouts 7 times and finish with 90 for his career second to Walter Johnson.

1914: When the Senators relieve with Walter Johnson, the A's greet him with six runs in three innings to drive the "Big Train" from the mound. Johnson throws the one and only beanball of his career, a fastball at the head of Frank "Home Run" Baker, a particular nemesis of Johnson's. The beanball misses Baker, whom Johnson calls "the most dangerous batter that I ever faced." Baker had hit .385 against the Nats ace up till this game in 4 seasons; he'll hit just .207 off him in the next nine years. When the dust settles, the game ends in a 9 - 9 tie.

1921: Ty Cobb hits a home run, a triple, and two doubles but no single, so no cycle.

1926: The Yankees score seven in the 2nd but lose to Detroit, 14 - 10, knocking themselves out of the lead; Washington moves into first.

1926: A three-alarm blaze burns down Fenway Park's grandstand roof and left field bleachers. The Boston Red Sox, desperately in need of cash, use most of the insurance proceeds to pay for operations and leave a vacant lot where the bleachers once stood.
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1927: At Detroit, Marty McManus singles in two runs in the 9th to lead the Tigers to a 3 - 2 win over the Red Sox.
Fatty Fothergill goes hitless for the first time this season to end his 18-game hitting streak.

1935: Reds backstop Ernie Lombardi equals the major-league record with four straight doubles, all in consecutive innings (6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th) and each off a different pitcher: Syl Johnson, Orville Jorgens, Euel Moore and Frank Pearce. The slow-footed Lombardi also has a "long single" in the 23-hit, 15 - 4 win over the Phillies in the first game.

1937: Washington's Bobo Newsom, who will pitch in four decades, hits his only major-leaguer homer. It comes in Detroit off Tiger ace Schoolboy Rowe as the "Talkative One" wins, 8 - 3.

1946: At Griffith Stadium, Detroit 2B Eddie Mayo snags a 3rd-inning liner off the bat of Gil Torres to start a triple play. The ball is deflected by P Hal Newhouser, but Mayo grabs it before it hits the ground. It is the second time in a year that Mayo has started a triple play off Torres; in the 2nd inning of the nitecap on July 20, 1945, Mayo grabbed a Torresline drive to start the triple killing.

1946: Hot-hitting Boston SS Johnny Pesky becomes the first player in American League history to score six runs in one game, as the Red Sox beat the White Sox, 14 - 10. Mickey Harris is the winner, despite giving up 17 hits in 8 2/3 innings. Boo Ferriss retires Taffy Wright for the last out and the Sox have now won 13 straight.

1947: A movement among Cardinal players to protest the first meeting with Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers is aborted by a clubhouse talk from owner Sam Breadon, according to a story by writer Stanley Woodward. League president Ford Frick had warned the team that if a strike occurred, any player involved would be suspended. Cardinal manager Eddie Dyer denies there was any strike talk.

1948: At Griffith Stadium, Larry Doby pounds a 408-foot homer to center field, which hits the loudspeakers 35 feet high, to help the Indians top the Senators, 6 - 1. Larry's ball bounces back onto the field and is initially declared in play. The 8th-inning three-run homer is the longest home run in the Stadium since Babe Ruth's shot in 1922, and is the first of Doby's four career inside-the-park homers. World War II veteran Gene Bearden makes his first start, allowing just three Nat hits. He walks four in the 9th inning to allow the lone run, as Washington finally scores after three straight shutouts.

1953: After 13 straight losses to New York, the Red Sox win a dramatic 11-inning, 2 - 1 thriller at Fenway Park. Billy Goodman's homer off starter Johnny Sain gives starter Hal Brown the win. Dick Gernert's 2nd-inning home run is the other Boston score. In Boston's previous win over New York, August 9, 1952, all the scores came on solo homers.

1957: At Comiskey Park, Boston slugger Ted Williams hits three home runs, all off Bob Keegan, and drives in all the runs as the Red Sox stop Chicago, 4 - 1.

1959: Frank Bolling is in an 0-for-19 slump, manager Jimmie Dykes lets him bat in the bottom of the 9th with 2 on and the Tigers down 2. Bolling comes through with a triple and scores on an error to give the Tigers a 5-4 walk-off win.

1960: Chicago White Sox slugger Ted Kluszewski becomes the first MLB player to have a typo on his jersey.
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1961: The new National League entry in New York is officially named the "Mets." Not Metropolitans, just Mets. At a ceremony at the Savoy Hilton, owner Joan Payson swings a bottle of champagne and, after three unsuccessful whacks, turns the job over to a waiter who uses a bottle opener. The "Mets" was the choice among the 10 finalists: Continentals, Burros, Mets, Skyliners, Skyscrapers, Bees, Rebels, NYBs, Avengers, and Jets. The original list was 644 names from 9,613 suggestions. The Metropolitans nickname had been used by the New York American Associationteam in the 1880s.

1962: Al Kaline hits a home run and a triple and 4 RBI in the Tigers' 10-1 win over the Angels at Dodger Stadium.
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1963: Pirates LF Willie Stargell's first major league homer and Cubs P Bob Buhl's first major league hit in 88 at-bats highlight a 9 - 5 Chicago win over Pittsburgh.

1963: The Braves acquire Chico Fernandez from the Tigers for Lou Johnson and cash, then turn around and swap him to the Mets for Larry Foss.

1963: A Stan Musial home run against the Dodgers gives him 1,357 extra-base hits, surpassing Babe Ruth's major league record. He will get 20 more; his record will later be broken by Hank Aaron.

1965: Tigers win 4-3 on Al Kaline's home run in the 15th inning in Baltimore.
A major league-record streak of 438 chances accepted without an error and 89 straight errorless games by Baltimore 2B Jerry Adair ends with his 8th-inning fumble in the 15-inning loss to the Tigers.
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1966: Frank Robinson powers the first ball ever hit completely out of Baltimore's Memorial Stadium.

1967: The Detroit Tigers purchased Bill Heath from the Houston Astros.

1968: Oakland's Catfish Hunter pitches a perfect game against the Twins, winning 4 - 0. The 22-year old righthander hurls the first American League regular-season perfecto in 46 years. He strikes out 11, including Harmon Killebrew three times, and drives in three of the A's four runs, the other coming on a two-out, bases-loaded walk to 1B Danny Cater in the 8th inning. Only 6,298 fans are in attendance.
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1968: Jim Northrup homers in the 1st inning & makes a diving catch on a Brooks Robinson line drive with the bases loaded in the 8th to preserve the Tigers 3-1 win in Baltimore.
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1973: Ralph Miller, the last living 19th century ballplayer, dies in Cincinnati at 100 years of age. He is the first former major leaguer to become a centenarian.

1973: For the second time in his career, Pirate Willie Stargell poles one out of Dodger Stadium. His blast off Andy Messersmith hits the right field pavilion roof 470 feet away. His first home run, a 506-foot shot, came off Alan Foster on August 5, 1969. No other player has hit a fair ball out of the stadium. Los Angeles wins, 7 - 4.

1979: During an 8 - 7 loss to Texas, Kansas City loses two regulars, both as a result of being hit by pitches from Ed Farmer. OF Al Cowens suffers a fractured jaw and will miss 21 games; 2B Frank White sustains a broken hand and will sit out 33 contests. Farmer will be traded three times in the next 12 months. On June 20, 1980, Cowens will hit a grounder off Farmer and charge the mound in retaliation for today's game.

1984: With the Tigers trailing 2-1 in the 7th, Alan Trammell hits a grand slam to give Detroit the 5-2 win in Kansas City.
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1995: The Detroit Tigers signed Joe Hall as a free agent.

2004: Tigers blow a 14-4 lead, give up 10 runs in the 5th inning, and lose 16-15 in 10 innings in Texas. The two teams combine for 18 runs in the 5th inning, one short of a major league record.

2009: Curtis Granderson robs Grady Sizemore of a game-winning home run bottom of the 9th and Tigers win 1 - 0.

2010: The Detroit Tigers released Jason Waddell.

2016: Justin Verlander passes Jack Morris to move to 2nd place on the Tigers' all-time strikeout list. JV trails only Mickey Lolich. The record strikeout comes against former Tiger Prince Fielder.

2018: The Detroit Tigers released James Russell.

2018: Ground breaks on The Corner, a redevelopment on the site of Tiger Stadium at Michigan & Trumbull.
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2022: The Detroit Tigers purchased Manuel Garcia (minors) from the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Tigers and Detroit Wolverines NL players birthdays:

Dan Brouthers Detroit Wolverines N.L. 1886-1888.

John Skopec 1903.

Norman 'Turkey' Stearnes Detroit Stars Negro Leagues 1923-1931, 1937.

Alfredo Simon 2015.

Wily Peralta 2021-2022.

Tigers players who passed away:

Eddie Onslow 1912-1913.

Slick Coffman 1937-1939.

George Susce 1958-1959.

Leo Marentette 1965.

Vern Holtgrave 1965.

John Young 1971.

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WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY.
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On Monday, the Detroit Tigers released their new City Connect uniforms. They will be worn during Friday home games, approximately 12 times this year.
City Connect is a brand name of Nike. It is part of a contract Nike signed with MLB to produce “alternate uniforms.” A veiled attempt to try to attract more fans, especially the younger ones. Oh, and to create another revenue stream. Only the Yankees and Athletics have opted out from having these new uniforms.
It will be the first time the Tigers will not be wearing white at home.

These new togs are meant to be fun. To mix it up a little.
The Tigers’ new uniform is a mix of black and dark blue and showing no logos other than the Nike swoosh. The cap says “Detroit” and the jersey shows “Motor City.” The pattern on the jerseys is meant to imitate tire tracks. (Insert your Saturday morning cartoon memories here.)

What fans will not see is the “tiger eyes” picture under the bill of the cap and the numbers/codes showing the area code, year the team was founded and the years of World Series championships. That is, unless you buy a replica.
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