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August 21 in Tigers and mlb history:

1901: In Baltimore, Orioles pitcher Joe McGinnity is tossed for spitting in the face of umpire Tom Connolly. When Detroit's Kid Elberfeld intervenes, he is decked by Baltimore's Mike Donlin. Bill Keister also gets involved, as do some fans, and the police, who arrest the players and a fan. Judge Harry Goldman, a part-owner of the O's, releases the players and fines the fan $100.

1953 - Major league player representatives Ralph Kiner (National League) and Allie Reynolds (American League) hire labor leader John Norman Lewis at $15,000 per annum to give legal advice to players in their negotiations with the owners.

1971: Mickey Lolich allows six hits as Detroit beats the Brewers 7 - 2. It is Lolich's 20th win of the year.

1984: At Detroit, Lance Parrish cracks a first-inning grand slam off Lary Sorensen, and the Tigers drive by the A's 12 - 6. Milt Wilcox goes six innings for the win.

1993: The Tigers trade OF Rob Deer to the Red Sox for a player to be named. Deer will homer tomorrow in his first at bat for the Sox.

2011: The Tigers score 7 runs off Cleveland's Ubaldo Jimenez in the 3rd, including homers from Delmon Young and Victor Martinez, but the Indians slowly claw back. In the 4th, both benches are warned when Tigers starter Rick Porcello throws a pitch behind Asdrubal Cabrera shortly before being chased from the game. In the 6th, Tigers manager Jim Leyland is ejected by third base umpire Alan Porter for arguing a tag play at the base on Wilson Betemit. Detroit closer Jos? Valverde then pitches the 9th with a one-run lead, but puts the first two men he faces on base courtesy of a walk and a hit-by-pitch. After Jack Hannahan's successful sacrifice bunt, he gets pinch-hitter Matt LaPorta to fly to short center field; CF Austin Jackson then unloads a superb throw to the plate that nails Kosuke Fukudome trying to score from third base, for a spectacular game-ending double play. Detroit completes a three-game sweep with the 8 - 7 win and Valverde has now been perfect in all 37 of his save opportunities this year.

Tigers players birthdays:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl...talege01.shtml
Gerry Staley 1961.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cedenan01.shtml
Andujar Cedeno 1996.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/crowde01.shtml
Dean Crow 1998.

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Tigers option Coke to Triple AAA.
DETROIT -- Throughout this season, the Tigers have tried to find the best way to help Phil Coke regain his dominance from last year's playoffs. The team's newest plan is to send him down to Triple-A Toledo until rosters expand on Sept. 1.

After Tuesday's loss to the Twins, Detroit optioned Coke to Toledo and recalled left-hander Jose Alvarez to fill the void in the bullpen. Coke will still be eligible for the playoff roster.
"I'm not happy. I don't know who would be," Coke said. "I've been in the big leagues for five years and I'm being sent down to work on things, and understandably so. I haven't been doing the job that has been handed to me, per my past performances. I can't fault them for the decision that was made."

After being a part of the Tigers closer-by-committee plan in April, Coke has primarily been used in lefty-versus-lefty situations since the All-Star break. In the first half of the season, Coke had an 0-5 record with a 5.83 ERA in 29 1/3 innings. After moving to a situational role in the second half, he has a 1.35 ERA in 6 2/3 innings while striking out six and walking none.

"I figured it would've happened in the first half, not right now, especially since the velocity's been back," Coke said. "I've gotten a lot of key outs recently. I've been on a decent run, no earned runs. I mean, I've given up three or four inherited [runs]. Sometimes those things happen, but right now it's not something we can afford as a team."

Despite being successful in his new role, Coke wasn't comfortable with it.
"It's not something that I'm really happy about -- no matter what I was doing on the field," Coke said. "Whether I was dominating, if I was out there for one guy, it was really annoying because of being a competitor. I mean, you want to go out there and you want to do everything you can."

The Tigers want Coke to work on his command at Toledo and emphasized that he has been pitching better lately and will be back with the team in two weeks.

"The key is to go down there and really try to accomplish what we're trying to accomplish, by making good pitches," manager Jim Leyland said. "He's going to be back here. He's very much a part of our team. This is an opportunity to go down and see what he does, and also maybe an opportunity to look at Alvarez out of the bullpen and see what he looks like against a left-hander."

Alvarez has made five spot starts for the Tigers this season, but he has struggled the second time through the lineup. At Toledo, lefties were batting .164 against him in 110 at-bats, while he struck out 32 and walked four.

"He's using his changeup a lot against righties and lefties, and he has a plus changeup," catcher Brayan Pena said. "He's a guy who throws a lot of strikes. He's a guy who keeps you in the ballgame. He's a guy who will give you a lot of innings. He can use those offspeed [pitches] against righties and lefties, and I think he's going to be very good for us."
from the Tigers official site
 
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