September 4 in Tigers and mlb history:
1913 - Cleveland lefty Vean Gregg strikes out Ty Cobb three times in a row, but Cobb doubles in the winning run in the 12th.
1916: In Detroit, the Coveleski brothers appear together in the same game for the only time in their careers. Stan starts for the Indians and gets knocked out in Detroit's 5-run first inning. Harry relieves later on in the game as Detroit wins 7 - 5.
1945 - Long-time Yankee batting practice pitcher Paul Schreiber, who last pitched in the majors in 1923 and the minors in 1931, relieves for the Yankees against Detroit in a Tiger rout. Schreiber gives up no hits in 3 1/3 innings, but the Tigers' Dizzy Trout wins 10 - 0.
1989 - Fred Lynn hits his 300th career home run to help the Tigers to a 5 - 1 win over Kansas City.
1991: Removing an asterisk which really never existed, the Statistical Accuracy Committee decides to put Roger Maris' 1961 home run season ahead of Babe Ruth's 60 mark instead of listing it separately as it was from 1962 until this year.
The eight-man panel also re-defines a no-hit game as one which ends after 9 or more innings with one team failing to get a hit, thereby removing 50 games from the list that had previously been considered hitless, including the 1959 performance of Harvey Haddix's 12 perfect innings against the Braves and Jim Maloney's 1965 1 - 0 loss to the Mets in 11 innings.
2011: The Tigers crush the White Sox, 18 - 2, behind Max Scherzer. Miguel Cabrera homers and drives in 4 runs, while Alex Avila has 4 hits. Over the last two days, the Tigers scored 26 unanswered runs against Chicago, coming back from 8 - 1 down yesterday to win, 9 - 8, then taking an 18 - 0 lead today before surrendering two 9th-inning runs.
2014 - Battling to stay alive in the AL Central, the Indians suffer a demoralizing loss after they rally from a 4 - 0 1st-inning deficit against defending Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer of the Tigers. They manage to force extra innings, but everything goes wrong in the 11th, when they allow 7 runs to lose, 11 - 4. It's their second straight crushing loss to the Tigers, after closer Cody Allen gave up a three-run, 9th-inning homer to J.D. Martinez in a 4 - 2 loss yesterday.
Tigers players birthdays:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/terryjo01.shtml
John Terry 1902.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/corrire01.shtml
Red Corriden 1912.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jatapa01.shtml
Paul Jata 1972.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/alexado01.shtml
Doyle Alexander 1987-1989.
Tigers players who passed away:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Turkey_Stearnes
http://baseballhall.org/hof/stearnes-turkey
Norm Turkey Stearnes Detroit Stars Negro Leagues 1923-1931, 1937.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hank_Greenberg
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/greenha01.shtml?redir
Hank Greenberg 1930, 1933-1941, 1945-1946.
from baseball reference
