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Chicago 6 - Detroit 2: Miguel Cabrera homers (again), but Tigers do little else.
from the freep

http://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2013/08/detroit_tigers_open_series_7.html
Miguel Cabrera homers for fourth consecutive game as Detroit Tigers suffer 6-2 loss to White Sox.
from Mlive

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/...Fister-Tigers?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Sports
Sloppy fifth inning against White Sox does in Doug Fister, Tigers.
from the Tigers official site

http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/mlb/g...013_08_12_detmlb_chamlb_1&mode=recap&c_id=det
Fister's unbeaten streak ends in Chicago.
Right-hander allows four runs over six innings; Miggy hits 37th homer.
http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/mlb/g...mlb_1#gid=2013_08_12_detmlb_chamlb_1&mode=box
Boxscore.
from the Tigers official site

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Tigers Webvideo highlights from tonights game.
 
August 13 in Tigers and mlb history:

1900 - A mechanical pitching machine is used in a game between the Memphis Chicks and the Nashvilles. The invention of Princeton professor Charles Hinton, the early pitching gun strikes out two and allows three hits in two innings.

1902: In the 6th inning of a game with the Tigers, Harry Davis of the A's attempts a double steal with Dave Fultz, who is on third base. But Davis does not draw a throw as he goes into second, and Fultz cannot score. So, on the next pitch, he "steals" first base. The next time he steals second, he does draw a throw and Fultz scores from third. This double steal maneuver will be attempted in later years by Fred Tenney (July 31, 1908), and Detroit's Germany Schaefer (September 4, 1908), before being made illegal.

1908 - Cy Young Day is celebrated by 20,000 in Boston. He pitches briefly against an All-Star team that includes Jack Chesbro, Hal Chase, Willie Keeler, Harry Davis and George Mullin. The game is interrupted several times for presentations to the great hurler, including a great loving cup from the American League for all his accomplishments.

1911: Ty Cobb, apparently believing the Tigers can no longer win the pennant race, begins a vacation.

1934 - In a preview of the World Series, the Cardinals play the Tigers in an exhibition game in Detroit. The Deans refuse to make the trip, having both pitched the day before. Dizzy is fined $100 and Paul $50.

1947 - At Sportsman's Park, pinch-hitter Willard Brown of the Browns becomes the first black player to hit a home run in the American League. The historic homer, a pinch-hit inside-the-parker off future Hall of Fame hurler Hal Newhouser, helps the Browns beat the Tigers 6 - 5.

1954 The White Sox top the Tigers, 1-0 in 16 innings. Al Aber goes the distance (15.1 innings) in the loss for a Game Score of 101. Jack Harshman gets a complete-game shutout win for a Game Score of 109.

1969: With a unanimous vote, the major league owners elect Commissioner Bowie Kuhn to a seven-year term.

1972 - Bengals manager Billy Martin literally picks his starting lineup out of a hat in an attempt to halt the Tigers' 4-game losing streak. The ploy works as Detroit defeats Cleveland 3 - 2. Using a regular lineup in the nightcap, the Tigers lose 9 - 2.

1984 - At Cooperstown, the Tigers beat the Atlanta Braves, 7 - 5 in the annual Hall of Fame Game.

1995: Flags fly at half-mast at Yankee Stadium as Yankee legend Mickey Mantle dies of liver cancer at the age of 63 in Dallas, Texas.

2007 - Placido Polanco plays his 144th consecutive game at second base without an error. This breaks Luis Castillo's record, set earlier this season. The two streaks overlapped for many months. The Tigers still lose 7 - 2, dropping them to 8 wins in their past 25 games and a tie for first place with the Indians.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...ashbja01.shtml
Jarrod Washburn 2009.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Roman_Colon
http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...olonro01.shtml
Roman Colon 2005-2006.

from baseball reference
 
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August 13, 2013 the 80th anniversary: Vic Sorrell?s 17-inning win.
Eighty years ago, Detroit pitcher Vic Sorrell had the game of his life. After some shaky moments early, he won the 1933 version of the Chicago marathon. It wasn?t a running marathon, but a pitching one?and Vic Sorrell threw a 17-inning complete game to lead the Tigers to victory.

Wait, a 17-inning effort? Yowzers?that?s pretty good. It?s rare enough nowadays to see anyone go nine innings, let alone into extra frames. It?s been more than 20 years since anyone went 11 innings in a game?Dave Stewart did it last, on Aug. 1, 1990. No one?s gone 12 innings since knuckleballer Charlie Hough threw 13 innings back in 1986.

Even in the 1970s, when men were men and so were the pitchers, no one ever topped 15 innings in an outing. Even the famous 1963 Warren Spahn-Juan Marichal 1-0 duel in 1963 was a 16-innning game.

For 17 innings, you have to go back to 1955. Vern Law threw 18 for the Pirates.

So 17 innings has been done since Vic Sorrell?s big day, but it was always rare. In fact, since 1930, just 10 times has a pitcher thrown at least 17 innings in a game?and only three times more than 17 innings. (One of those three times happened before Vic Sorrell?s never-ending performance.)

So even if you account for the fact that 1933 was a very different time from now, 17 innings was still a performance to respect.

Initially, Aug. 13, 1933 didn?t look like anything special. In fact, if anything distinguished Sorrell?s pitching in the early phases of the game, it was his inability to hold a lead. After Detroit took a 1-0 lead in the top of the fourth, Sorrell coughed it right back, giving up a pair in the bottom of the frame.

When Detroit tied it 2-2 in the seventh, Sorrell let the Sox take a 3-2 lead right after the seventh inning stretch. When Detroit pushed a pair across the plate against Chicago starter Jake Miller in the eighth for a 4-3 Tiger advantage, Sorrell immediately surrendered two runs to Chicago in the bottom of the eighth.

Maddeningly, he?d let the Sox take the lead three times?including twice late. Admittedly, two of the five runs he?d allowed were unearned due to a pair of Tiger errors, but still, this was far from the stuff of pitching legends. By modern standards there?s no way Sorrell would pitch the bottom of the ninth?if there even would be one. Then again, by modern standards, Sorrell wouldn?t have survived the eighth. But this was one day the old ways made for some memorable baseball.

In fact, the Tigers did score a run to tie it 5-5 in the ninth off reliever (and future Hall of Famer) Ted Lyons. And this time, Sorrell held the lead. He?d already let his teammates down repeatedly and he wasn't going to do it again. If that meant he had to wear out the durable Ted Lyons, then that?s just what he was going to do.

Inning after inning passed, but neither team could find that extra run. They had their opportunities?both teams would collect 17 hits on the day?but no one could bunch them together. And Sorrell, after wearying in the late innings of regulation, had found his second wind.

Finally, in the top of the 17th, the Tigers pushed another run across for a 6-5 lead. In the bottom of the 17th, Sorrell came out to shut down Chicago. Twice earlier in the day he came out with a newly earned one-run lead, and both times he?d surrendered two runs to give the lead back. But the third time would be the charm for Sorrell ? he shut down Chicago for another goose egg on the scoreboard. And Detroit had won, 6-5.

Sorrell had allowed 17 hits, but 15 were singles, and the other two doubles. He?d walked just four batters. And when it?s mostly singles you?re giving up, you can keep the other side from scoring.
It was a hard-earned win for Vic Sorrell?and he earned it 80 years ago today.
Chris Jaffe from the Hardball Times
 
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