June 28 in Tigers and mlb history:
1903: At St. Louis, Cy Young shuts out the Browns in the opener, 1 - 0, pinning a tough loss on Red Donahue. Boston righty Long Tom Hughes follows with a 3 - 0 win in the nitecap. Jack Powell takes the loss.
1903: Detroit travels out of state for a home game - a Sunday match in Toledo, Ohio against the A's. Chief Bender tops the Tigers' Joe Yeager, 7 - 3, before a crowd of 4,500.
1906: Tigers call 46-year-old Sam Thompson out of retirement. Last played in 1898. Gets 2 RBIs.
1907: The last-place Washington Senators steal a record 13 bases off C Branch Rickey in a 16 - 5 win over New York. Rickey, acquired last February from the Browns, is pressed into service despite a bad shoulder because of an injury to starter Red Kleinow. Rickey's first throw to second base ends up in right field and the subsequent tosses are not much better.
1911: Just two and a half months after a fire destroyed the old Polo Grounds, the new grounds open for business. The old bleachers, seating 10,000, were untouched, but the new double-decker grandstand seats another 16,000. Only 6,000 fans show up for the inauguration as Christy Mathewson shuts out the Rustlers, 3 - 0, on nine hits. On the front end of a double steal, Mathewson swipes home in the 4th inning. While guests at the Highlanders' Hilltop Park, the Giants won 21 of 29 games.
1912: The Giants sweep another two from the Braves, winning 10 - 3 and 12 - 3. Christy Mathewson wins the opener, adding a steal of home in the 4th inning. This is the second time in a month that a Giants pitcher has stolen home: Red Ames did it May 22 against Brooklyn. The Giants will steal home 17 times this year to tie the National League mark set by Chicago last season.
1915: Recent University of Michigan graduate George Sisler makes his major league debut as a pinch hitter. Sisler stays on to pitch the last three innings, giving up no runs, in the Browns' 4 - 2 loss to the White Sox.
1916: Rogers Hornsby, playing his first full season for St. Louis, has a 5-hit day, with three singles and two doubles.
1922: Christy Mathewson, in a sanitarium for treatment of tuberculosis, throws out the first pitch for a game at Saranac Lake, NY.
1922: Walter Johnson wins another 1 - 0 battle, this one over the Yankees, for his third straight shutout and 97th in all. Johnson strikes out 9. Waite Hoyt loses a tough one, allowing just two hits in the first eight innings. Earl Smith's double in the ninth drives home the winner.
1925: Tris Speaker connects for the 658th double of his career, breaking Nap Lajoie's career record. He will go on to set the all-time record - still standing - with 792 doubles.
1927: Ty Cobb, Thomas Edison, and Connie Mack.
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1928: Babe Ruth slugs two home runs to lead the Yankees to a 10 - 4 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics. Ty Cobb appears in his 3,000th career game.
1931: Records for catching fly balls are set in a doubleheader as the A's beat the Tigers. The Detroit outfielders make 24 putouts, and Philadelphia adds 19 for a 2-team total of 43 in the two games.
1935: Hank Greenberg hits 3 home runs in a doubleheader. Tigers outscore the Browns 17-3 in a sweep to gain one game on the idle first place Yankees.
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1939: The Yankees hit eight home runs in the first game of a doubleheader with the A's, and five more in the nightcap. Both are major league records, as are the 53 total bases in a doubleheader. Joe DiMaggio, Babe Dahlgren and Joe Gordon each hit three homers. The Yankees win the opener, 23 - 2, and take the nightcap, 10 - 0.
1946: The Detroit Tigers released Joe Wood.
1949: After missing the first 69 games of the season because of an ailing heel, Joe DiMaggio wakes to find the pain has disappeared. He returns to the Yankee lineup with a single and a home run that help the Bombers beat the Red Sox, 6 - 4, in a night game at Fenway Park. He will hit four homers in a 3-game sweep.
1951: Monte Irvin clubs two homers off Ralph Branca as the Giants edge the Dodgers, 5 - 4. The second homer, a three-run shot in the 8th, gives the win to reliever Sheldon Jones.
1952: Stan Musial tops the All-Star balloting for the second year in a row.
1957: By stuffing the ballot box, Cincinnati fans elect 8 Redlegs as starters in the All-Star Game. Over protests from Redlegs fans, Commissioner Ford Frick names Stan Musial, Willie Mays and Hank Aaron to replace Cincinnati's Gus Bell, George Crowe and Wally Post in the starting lineup. In the final vote tally, Musial is the only non-Redleg who would have started.
1963: At Los Angeles, the Braves' Warren Spahn beats Don Drysdale, three-hitting the Dodgers, 1 - 0. It is the first time Spahn has beaten the Dodgers on their home grounds since August 21, 1948 (15 years). He had lost 14 straight: nine at Ebbets Field; four at Memorial Coliseum and one at Chavez Ravine.
1967: Relief ace Hoyt Wilhelm of the White Sox extends his major-league record for consecutive errorless games to 247. The White Sox win, 3 - 2, at Baltimore.
1968: An endorsement deal you'd never see today: Denny McLain paint.
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1976: The Detroit Tigers signed Joe Decker as a free agent.
1976: In what amounted to his national coming out party, Mark ?The Bird? Fidrych shuts down the Yankees at Tiger Stadium in a game broadcast on Monday Night Baseball. Fidrych improves his record to 8-1 as he goes the distance in a 5-1 Tiger triumph. After the game, adoring fans coax Fidrych out of the clubhouse for a curtain call.
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1987: The Tigers hit three straight home runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game against the Baltimore Orioles in dramatic fashion. Home runs from John Grubb, Matt Nokes, and the final homer is belted by Bill Madlock, his third of the game. In the 11th inning, Alan Trammell?s RBI- single wins the game 8 - 7.
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1987: Don Baylor moves ahead of Ron Hunt on the all-time hit-by-pitch list when the Yankees' Rick Rhoden plunks him during a 6 - 2 loss to the Red Sox. It is the 244th time that Baylor has been hit by a pitch. He'll end with 267, putting him 3rd on the list behind turn-of-the-century star Hughie Jennings.
1989: The Tigers beat the Yankees 6-5 in 10 innings. Fred Lynn hits a 2-run homer in the 2nd. Tracy Jones homered in the 8th. In the 10th, Lou Whitaker hit his 16th home run of the season, a walk-off against Dave Righetti.
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1990: Nelson Mandela speaks at Tiger Stadium.
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1996: KISS plays Tiger Stadium.
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1997: For the second time in three days, a Tiger steals four bases with Boston C Scott Hatteberg behind the plate.
This time it is Damion Easley doing the stealing in Detroit's 9 - 2 victory. Tomorrow, Hatteberg will start on the bench, but will come in when Bill Haselman breaks his finger.
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1997: Yankees P David Wells starts the game against Cleveland wearing Babe Ruth's autographed cap from the 1934 season. Manager Joe Torre makes him take it off after the 1st inning since it doesn't conform to the team's current uniform. Without the cap, Wells blows a 3 - 0 lead as the Indians go on to a 12 - 8 victory.
1999 - Hack Wilson ups his RBI total for the 1930 season to 191. 69 years after the season, an RBI is added to his batting record by the commissioner's office, which also gives Babe Ruth six additional walks, raising his career-record total to 2,062.
"There is no doubt that Hack Wilson's RBI total should be 191," commissioner Bud Selig says. "I am sensitive to the historical significance that accompanies the correction of such a prestigious record, especially after so many years have passed, but it is important to get it right."
The missing RBI comes from the second game of a doubleheader between Wilson's Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Reds on July 28, 1930 in which Charlie Grimm was wrongly credited with two RBIs and Wilson with none. Ruth's walk total is now 2,062. Ted Williams is second, trailing by 43, and Rickey Henderson of the New York Mets is third, 134 behind Ruth.
2000: The Detroit Tigers released Mark Johnson.
2006: The Detroit Tigers signed Dustan Mohr as a free agent.
2007: Frank Thomas hit his 500th home run. He is the 21st member of the 500 home run club. He connects with a 3-run shot in the first against Carlos Silva, going 396 feet to left field. The hit is the difference in a 5 - 4 victory by the Jays.
2007: Craig Biggio ties his career high with five hits to reach 3,000 for his career. He is the 27th player to have accumulated that many. It is one day shy of the 19th anniversary of his first major league hit, a June 29 single. Biggio becomes the first player to reach 3,000 hits in a five-hit game. Biggio is 5 for 6 overall in Houston's 8 - 5 win in 11 innings.
2008: The Los Angeles Dodgers win a game without the benefit of a hit when they are thwarted by Angels pitchers Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo over 8 innings. In the 6th inning, Matt Kemp reaches first base on an error by Weaver, steals second and advances to third on a throwing error by catcher Jeff Mathis, then scores the game's only run on a sacrifice fly by Blake DeWitt. The last team to win a game without registering a base hit were the Cleveland Indians who beat Boston's Matt Young under similar circumstances on April 12, 1992. It is the fifth time since 1900 that a major league team has won a game without a hit.
2009: Mariano Rivera earns his 500th career save as the Yankees complete a 3-game sweep of the Mets with a 4 - 2 win at Citi Field. Rivera, who is the second pitcher to reach the milestone after Trevor Hoffman, also draws a bases-loaded walk in the 9th for his first career RBI.
2010: Tigers' Joel Zumaya pitched his last MLB game today. Despite several comeback attempts, he finished his career w/147 ERA+ in 209 IP.
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2011: The Mets hit grand slams in consecutive innings against the Tigers, after going entire the 2010 season without one.
2012: Montage of fans' photos of their Tigers caps forming the Old English "D," by the Detroit Free Press.
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2013: Having already matched Roger Clemens' 1997 feat of winning his first 11 decisions of the season, the Tigers' Max Scherzer becomes the first pitcher since Clemens in 1986 to roll off 12 straight wins at the start of the year. Scherzer defeats the Rays, 6 - 3, although he is still two wins shy of Roger, who began his breakout season with 14 straight W's. In support of Scherzer's pitching, Miguel Cabrera has a four-hit game, including a pair of homers against Alex Colome.
2016: On the 30th anniversary of Mark Fidrych's unforgettable win on 'Monday Night Baseball,' Ann, Jessica, and David Fidrych throw out the first pitch at Comerica Park.
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2017: The Detroit Tigers released Dustin Molleken.
2019: Police in the Dominican Republic announce that they have arrested the prime suspect in the shooting of David Ortiz on June 9th. They believe the affair was a case of mistaken identity and that the shots were intended for a cousin of the crime's sponsor, who was sitting next to Ortiz at the bar, but that the henchmen hired to do the job got confused. The suspect has links to the Mexican Gulf Cartel.
Tigers players and coaches birthdays:
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Frank Scheibeck 1906.
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Fred Gladding 1961-1967, coach 1976-1978.
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Tom Fletcher 1962.
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Orlando McFarlane 1966.
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Greg Keagle 1996-1998.
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Chris Spurling 2003, 2005-2006.
Detroit Tigers and Negro Leagues Detroit Stars players and managers who passed away:
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Bruce Petway Detroit Stars Negro Leagues 1919-1925, manager 1922-1925.
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Mickey Cochrane 1934-1937, manager 1934-1938.
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Billy Baldwin 1975.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mike_Kilkenny
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Mike Kilkenny 1969-1972.
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