June 22 in Tigers and mlb history:
1903: Hall of Famer Carl Hubbell was born this day in Carthage, MO.
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1909: The Detroit Tigers Baseball Club buys the rest of the vacant Bennett Field grounds as the site for a new ball park.
1912: Ty Cobb gets pinch hit for in an unusual scenario. With two outs in the 9th, and the Tigers down 11 - 3, Cobb is nowhere to be found, and George Mullin substitutes and flies out to end the game. It turns out Cobb is in the clubhouse showering.
1916: The St. Louis Browns selected Earl Hamilton off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
1916: Against the Giants, the Braves pull off a triple steal in the 11th inning, with Johnny Evers on the front end. It is the National League's only extra-inning triple steal; the American League's only triple swipe in extra time will come in 1941.
1926: The Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Cleveland Alexander on waivers from the Cubs to help in the pennant chase. He'll be 9-7 down the stretch.
1928: Journeyman hurler Hank Johnson of the Yankees blanks the star-studded Athletics, 4 - 0.
In the game for Connie Mack's team are 7 future Hall of Famers; Ty Cobb, Mickey Cochrane, Al Simmons, Jimmie Foxx, Eddie Collins, Tris Speaker and Lefty Grove.
1929: The Chicago White Sox purchased Frank Sigafoos from the Detroit Tigers.
1930: Babe Ruth ties a major league record by hitting five homers in two games and six homers in three games. The Yankee outfielder hit three homers in the second game of the doubleheader yesterday, two homers in today's opener and one more in the nightcap.
1934: Detroit takes over first place, beating Washington, 11 - 3, dislodging the Yankees who lose, 4 - 1, to Cleveland.
1934: Bill Terry and Joe Cronin, managers of the 1933 pennant winners, are named to head the All-Star teams, establishing a precedent that is still followed.
1939: Barney McCosky and Earl Averill lead off with back-to-back home runs, but the Tigers lose 6-5 to the philadelphia athletics.
1941: Joe DiMaggio has 2 hits against the Tigers to extend his hitting streak to 35 games.
1947: Ewell Blackwell just misses pitching back-to-back no-hitters when Eddie Stanky of the Brooklyn Dodgers singles with one out in the 9th inning. Blackwell then gets Al Gionfriddo before Jackie Robinson bangs out a second single. Blackwell wins, 4 - 0, his ninth straight win, to improve to 11-2. Stanky's hit ends Blackwell's hitless-inning streak at 19.
1951: Willie Mays, 20, hits a 10th-inning home run, the first of his 22 extra-inning home runs, off 42-year-old Dutch Leonard of the Cubs. It is a three-run shot that gives the Giants a 9 - 6 win.
1959: Dodger southpaw Sandy Koufax fans 16 Phillies, to set a new record for a night game, and wins, 6 - 2.
1959: At Kansas City, Mickey Mantle drives in six runs with a triple and two homers to lead New York to a 13 - 6 win.
1961: On his birthday, Jake Wood, in his rookie year, celebrated turning 24 with a 2-run 2nd inning double that gave the Tigers a 3-2 lead. With Detroit down 4-3 in the 6th, he doubled & scored the tying run on a Dick McAuliffe single. Detroit went on to beat Wshington 6-4.
1962: Stan Musial becomes the all-time total bases leader passing Ty Cobb, by raising his total to 5,864, in the first game against the Phillies.
1966: Willie Horton hits a grand slam in the Tigers' 12-2 win over the senators.
1967: Tigers beat Twins 5-2; Al Kaline homers twice w/ 3 RBIs.
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1970: Rod Carew, batting .376 for the Twins, injures his right knee during an attempted double play when Milwaukee's Mike Hegan slides into him. The injury will require surgery and sideline him until September. Harmon Killebrew's 5th-inning homer with two on enables the Twins to beat the Brewers, 4 - 3, behind Jim Kaat.
1973: The Detroit Tigers selected Bob Miller off waivers from the San Diego Padres.
1977: The Detroit Tigers released Luis Alvarado.
1977: The Red Sox bang five homers (George Scott, Jim Rice, Carlton Fisk with 2, and Butch Hobson), all off Jim Palmer, to beat Baltimore, 5 - 4. The Sox have now won 12 of their last 13 games and set homer records for eight games (29), seven games (26), and six games (24). The Sox reach 100 homers, the earliest they ever have.
1982: Red Sox rookie Wade Boggs hits his first major league home run in the bottom of the 11th inning to give Boston a 5 - 4 win over Detroit. Boggs will finally crack the starting lineup for good after tomorrow's game, in which regular 3B Carney Lansford severely sprains his ankle while unsuccessfully trying to stretch a triple into an inside-the-park home run. Boggs hits .390 in Lansford's absence and .349 for the season.
1983: The St. Louis Cardinals traded Doug Bair to the Detroit Tigers for a player to be named later. The Detroit Tigers sent Dave Rucker (July 5, 1983) to the St. Louis Cardinals to complete the trade.
1984: Tigers 7 - Brewers 3. Dave Rozema improves to 4-0. Willie Hernandez strikes out 5 for the save. Tigers are 50-18.
1987: The Seattle Mariners traded Karl Best to the Detroit Tigers for Bryan Kelly.
1987: Tom Seaver abandons his comeback attempt with the injury-riddled Mets and retires with a career Win-Loss record of 311-205, an ERA of 2.86, 3,640 strikeouts (3rd on the all-time list behind Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton), and 61 shutouts (7th).
1988: The Detroit Tigers signed Ivan de Jesus as a free agent.
1988: Luis Salazar's single to center field scores Tom Brookens in the bottom of the 10th. The Tigers sweep the Yankees on three walk-off wins to open up a 2.5-game lead over them in the AL East.
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1991: Mickey Tettleton of the Tigers becomes the 17th player to ever hit a ball out of Tiger Stadium in Detroit in the Tigers loss to the Angels.
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1994: OF Ken Griffey Jr. leads the Mariners to a 12 - 3 win over the Angels by stroking his 31st home run of the season. In doing so, Griffey breaks Babe Ruth's record for most home runs before the end of June. Although the Yankee slugger needed only 63 games to reach 30 homers in 1928 and 68 games in 1930, Junior accomplishes the feat in the Mariners' 70th game of the season.
2005: The Detroit Tigers released Nelson Cruz.
2006 : With the Marlins, Miguel Cabrera hits a go-ahead single on an attempted intentional walk in a game vs. the orioles.
2007: The Detroit Tigers traded Mike Maroth to the St. Louis Cardinals for a player to be named later. The St. Louis Cardinals sent Chris Lambert (August 30, 2007) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
2009: Donald Fehr announces his retirement as head of the Major League Baseball Players Association after 25 years. He was in charge during the 1994 strike and the relative labor peace that followed. His resignation will be effective in March 2010, when the union's general counsel, Michael Weiner, takes over.
2010: Jamie Moyer serves up the 505th home run of his major league career, to Russell Branyan, in a 2 - 1 win over the Indians. Moyer ties Robin Roberts for the most homers surrendered in the majors.
2013: Max Scherzer improves his record to 11-0 with a 10 - 3 Tigers win over the Red Sox. Roger Clemens, in 1997, was the last pitcher to reach that mark.
2014: The Tigers scored seven runs in the 5th inning and finished the game with five doubles to complete a sweep of the Indians. Cabrera is 2 for 4 and has a home run and 3 rbi, Ian Kinsler is 3 for 5, Max Scherzer goes 6 innings allows 1 run with 8 K's.
2015: ESPN reveals it has obtained a copy of a notebook belonging to Pete Rose which contains evidence of regular betting on baseball games during the 1986 season. The notebook was seized during a police raid on one of Rose's associates in 1989, after Rose was banned from baseball by Commissioner Bart Giamatti, and had been under court-ordered seal since. Its content corroborate the contents of the Dowd Report, which led to Rose's suspension, and make it even less likely that current Commissioner Rob Manfred will reverse it, as Rose has pleaded for him to do.
2015: The Detroit Tigers released Josh Prince.
2016: Michael Fulmer allows one run, just his 3rd in 7 starts. Stephen Moya hits 2 home runs in Tigers 5 - 1 win over mariners.
2018: The Detroit Tigers signed Josh Thole as a free agent.
2020: MLB owners agree unanimously on a plan for a 60-game season beginning around July 24th - if everyone signs off on health and safety protocols.
2021: The Minnesota Twins selected Beau Burrows off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
2022: Drew Hutchison of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2022: One day after setting a personal best as a hitter with 8 RBIs, Shohei Ohtani sets another one on the mound as he racks up 13 strikeouts in 8 scoreless innings in a 5 - 0 win over Kansas City.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Walt Masterson 1956.
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Jake Wood 1961-1967.
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Estaban Yan 2004.
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Ian Kinsler 2014-2017.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Tom Doran 1905.
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Marv Owen 1931, 1933-1937, Tigers minor league manager 1952-1954, scout 1950's - 1970's.
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Paul Campbell 1948-1950.
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Bubba Phillips 1955, 1963-1964.
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Ron Kline 1961-1962.
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