June 30 in Tigers and mlb history:
1894: Future Hall of Famer Fred Clarke sets a record by going 5 for 5 with a double in his first major league game, but Louisville squanders his performance in a 13 - 6 loss to Philadelphia. Clarke will be appointed manager in just three years.
1901: Pete Dowling of Cleveland throws the first no-hitter in American League history, 7 - 0 against his former team, Milwaukee - except hardly anyone notices. This is because most game reports credit him with a one-hitter, the single safety being hit in the 7th inning by Wid Conroy on a ball that 3B Bill Bradley fails to snag. However, the official scorer soon reverses his decision, charging Bradley with an error, and Milwaukee's papers give the hurler proper credit, but they're reach is not wide enough to prevent Dowling's feat to be largely lost in the mists of history until it is re-discovered in the 21st century.
1902: Cleveland is the first American League team to hit three consecutive home runs in one inning as Nap Lajoie, Piano Legs Hickman and Bill Bradley connect in the 6th off St. Louis, with all the hits ending in the LF bleachers at St. Louis. The last two come on the first pitch thrown. Jack Harper tees up the gopher balls in the 17 - 2 loss.
1904: Christy Mathewson blanks Boston, 3 - 0, despite allowing eight hits. The Giants have now won 14 in a row.
1905: Nap Lajoie is sidelined by blood poisoning from neglect of a spike wound. He will play in only 65 games, losing a chance to lead the American League in batting for the 5th straight year.
1908: Cy Young's third career no-hitter is an 8 - 0 Boston win over New York. Cy almost duplicates his perfect game of 1904, walking just one batter - leadoff hitter Harry Niles. Niles is then caught stealing and the next 26 batters make out. Cy also tallies three hits and drives in half the Pilgrims' runs off Rube Manning. At 41 years and 3 months, he is the oldest pitcher to turn the no-hit trick. Nolan Ryan will beat him in 1990 at the age of 43.
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1910: The Washington Senators purchased Heinie Beckendorf from the Detroit Tigers.
1913: Tigers skipper Hughie Jennings manages his 1,000th game. His record is 552-436.
1917: The Tigers split with the host Browns, losing the opener before winning, 5 - 3. Ty Cobb warms up in the first game with two hits, then slugs an opposite field grand slam and a triple in the second game. The slam clears the LF bleachers.
1918: In the 10th inning, Babe Ruth hits his 11th homer to beat Walter Johnson, 3 - 1, and boost the Red Sox back into first place. Ruth is playing CF when not pitching.
1927: The Tigers edge the Indians, 6 - 5, beating George Uhle for the 5th time this year.
1927: A crowd of 3,000 at Yankee Stadium see the Yanks hand the Red Sox their 12th straight loss, beating the visitors, 13 - 6 on 19 safeties. Lou Gehrig takes over the home run lead when he clouts his 25th in the first inning, a bounce home run off Slim Harriss, but Babe Ruth, back in the lineup, golfs his 25th in the 4th, also off Slim. Gehrig has three hits and also swipes home. New York (49-20) wins its 5th straight while Boston loses its 12th straight.
1931: The Athletics buy veteran Waite Hoyt from Detroit.
1934: In a 4 - 3, 10-inning loss to the Browns, Tiger CF Gee Walker is picked off base twice in the same frame, earning him a 10-day suspension for his ineptitude. After Hank Greenberg singles, Walker reaches base on a error, but then gets caught off base when C Rollie Hemsley fires to first base. Greenberg attempts to draw a throw by running to third base and is thrown out, with Walker taking second. Moments later, with Walker standing six feet off the bag "as brave as a boy on a burning deck" (writer Charles P. Ward's description), pitcher Jack Knott's throw to SS Alan Strange nabs him. Mickey Cochrane is so furious he suspends Walker and fines him $20 - the 6th time this season that he has earned a $20 fine. Gee's next appearance won't come until July 16 when he pinch-hits for Cochrane.
1935: At St. Louis, leadoff hitter Pete Fox leads the Tigers to a twinbill drubbing of the Browns, as Detroit rolls, 18 - 1 and 11 - 6. Fox drives in 10 runs, six in the opener when he hits his second grand slam of the month. Fox has eight hits, five in the nitecap, and scores four runs in each game. Schoolboy Rowe coasts in the opener and Alvin Crowder is the nitecap winner.
1948: In his first full season as a pitcher, Bob Lemon of the Cleveland Indians pitches a no-hitter, beating the Detroit Tigers, 2 - 0 in front of 49,628 at Briggs Stadium. Lemon has only two scares: Dale Mitchell makes a miraculous catch of a George Kell drive in the fourth and Ken Keltner makes a great stop behind third base in the 5th. The Tigers' home was the last park in the junior circuit to use lights, installing illumination only two weeks ago.
1952: Satchel Paige is named to the All-Star team.
1953: Braves slugger Eddie Mathews has five straight hits in a 10-inning, 6 - 4 win over the Reds.
1956: Al Kaline could have hit for the cycle if he just didn?t hit so well: He has a home run, a triple and two doubles, but no singles, and the Tigers beat the kansas athletics 14 - 2.
1958: The Detroit Tigers sign amateur free agent Mickey Lolich. Starting in 1963 through 1975, Lolich will win 207 games for the Tigers, and is still the all-time leader in Strikeouts by a Tigers pitcher with 2,679.
1959: The Giants' Sam Jones throws a 2 - 0 one-hitter against the Dodgers, allowing only Jim Gilliam's controversial single in the 8th, a grounder that SS Andre Rodgers has difficulty picking up. Willie Mays's 2-run home run against Don Drysdale accounts for all the scoring.
1960: At Fenway Park, SS Don Buddin pulls some fancy footwork to lead the BoSox to a win against the Tigers. With the score tied in the 8th, Buddin is caught in a rundown between third base and home, but he eludes Detroit catcher Red Wilson to score. Wilson argues that Buddin left the base line, and earns an ejection by Red Flaherty for his views. The Red Sox score three more runs and win, 11 - 7. Ted Williams has a home run, off Jim Bunning, and Rocky Colavito answers with two homers.
1961: Whitey Ford (14-2) tops the Senators, 5 - 1, to give the 2nd place Yankees their 22nd win of the month. Roger Maris drives in three runs and Mickey Mantle lines a shot over CF Willie Tasby that rebounds for an inside-the-park home run. Ford becomes the first pitcher in American League history to win eight games in one month.
1962: With the aid of 13 strikeouts and a Frank Howard home run, Sandy Koufax no-hits Bob Miller and the Mets, 5 - 0 in Los Angeles. Sandy starts off the game by fanning the side on nine pitches in the 1st inning, the first National League pitcher to strike out the side on nine pitches since Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance, in 1924. It will be the first of four career no-hitters thrown by Koufax.
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1978: Larry Doby becomes the second black major league manager, replacing Bob Lemon as skipper of the White Sox. Chicago has a 34-40 record at the time, and will go 37-50 the rest of the way.
1983: The Detroit Tigers traded Pat Underwood to the Cincinnati Reds for Wayne Krenchicki.
1984: Tigers 4 - Twins 3. Dan Petry goes 8 1/3 for his 11th win. Dave Bergman has a home run and Willie Hernandez gets his 14th save.
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1986: Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson makes his professional baseball debut with the Memphis Chicks of the AA Southern League and goes 1 for 4 with two strikeouts.
1987: Yokohama Bay Stars (Japan Central) purchased John Pacella from the Detroit Tigers.
1989: the Tigers beat the Orioles 16-5. Mike Heath had 4 hits, 2 home runs, 3 RBI and 4 runs scored. Chet Lemon homered and drove in 5.
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1993: 70-year-old Minnie Minoso appears as a DH for the St. Paul Saints in a game against Thunder Bay in the independent Northern League. Minoso grounds back to pitcher Yoshi Seo in his only at bat.
1997: Seattle's Ken Griffey Jr., who missed the last two All-Star Games with injuries, is elected for the 8th straight year. Griffey tops all players with 3,514,340 votes. Orioles 3B Cal Ripken, picked to play in his 15th All-Star Game, is second with 2,571,985 votes.
1997: Bobby Higginson belts three home runs and drives in seven runs and Justin Thompson allows four hits in eight innings as Detroit kicks the Mets, 14 - 0. It is the most lopsided shutout in Mets history. Detroit hits more homers (6) than the Mets have hits (5), and it is the most home runs given up by Mets' pitchers since April 29, 1978.
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2004: For the third straight game, the Tigers win thanks to walk-off home run. Following the lead of teammates Eric Munson and Carlos Pena in the two previous games, Dmitri Young hits a two-run dinger in the 11th inning to beat the Indians 9 - 7.
2008: Demolition of Tiger Stadium begins.
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2014: Mike Hessman of the Toledo Mud Hens takes Jake Brigham of the Indianapolis Indians deep for his 259th International League home run.
This breaks Ollie Carnegie's IL home run record, Carnegie having last played in the circuit 69 years earlier.
2014: The Tigers pay tribute to the 1984 World Series Champs during a pregame ceremony including members of the team. Instead of throwing out the first pitch, Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell turn a ceremonial first double play.
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2014: Rajai Davis hammers a walk-off grand slam in the 9th to give the Tigers a 5-4 win over the Athletics.
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2016: Tigers score 8 runs in the 9th inning to win 10-7. Cameron Maybin finished off an eight-run, 9th-inning comeback with a bases-clearing double to break a tie in the 10th.
2017: The major leagues conclude the month of June with a record of 1,101 homers hit during the month. This beats the previous record of 1,069 set in May 2000. The sluggers doing the most damage are rookie Cody Bellinger, who led all batters with 13, George Springer, who hit 11, and Justin Smoak and another rookie, Aaron Judge, smashing 10 each. 77 batters had multi-homer games, including a four-homer game by the unlikely Scooter Gennett on June 6th.
2020: Minor League Baseball officially announces the cancellation of its season, as Major League Baseball will not make players available to minor league teams this year. Teams will instead keep a "taxi squad" of eligible players ready to be added to the major league roster if the need arises. The decision was pretty much inevitable in any case, as minor league teams are dependent on gate receipts to cover most operating expenses, and did not have the option of playing games solely for a television audience as their major league counterparts are now preparing to do.
2021: Trea Turner celebrates his 28th birthday by becoming the 5th player in history to hit for the cycle for the third time in a 15 - 6 Nationals win over Tampa Bay.
2022: The Pirates are the first team in major league history to have three batters have three-homer games in the same month, as Michael Perez goes deep three times in an 8 - 7 win over the Brewers. This comes exactly one day after Bryan Reynolds did so against the Nationals, and two weeks after Jack Suwinski had done the same, capped with a walk-off homer, against the Giants on June 19th. In fact, the record for an entire season is four such games, accomplished three times.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Davy Jones 1906-1912, 1918.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Joe Lake 1912-1913.
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Lee Dressen 1918.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Firpo_Marberry
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Firpo Marberry 1933-1935.
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Don Kolloway 1949-1952.
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Don Buddin 1962.
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