September 12 in Tigers and mlb history:
1900: The Reds commit 17 errors in a doubleheader at Brooklyn, losing 7 - 2 and 13 - 9, the most errors in one day by any team in the 20th century. Iron Man McGinnity closes both games for Brooklyn; he has worked in every game for a week.
1908: New York tops the Superbas, 6 - 3, for a sweep of the five-game series with Brooklyn. The Giants score four in the 8th, including a long triple by Christy Mathewson, to put the game away.
1908: A day after beating the A's Eddie Plank, 2 - 1, Washington's Walter Johnson is forced to start again, this time replacing sore-armed Charlie Smith. Remarkably, Johnson records his 5th complete game victory in nine days.
1911: Ty Cobb has 3 hits, including a triple in the 13th inning that sets up the game-winning run in the Tigers' 9-6 win in Cleveland.
1911: In the nightcap of a game billed as a pitchers' duel, Boston's Cy Young and the Giants' Christy Mathewson face each other before 10,000, Boston's largest crowd of the year. Young gives up three homers and nine runs in less than three innings. After the Giants build a 9 - 0 lead, John McGraw lifts Mathewson, who pitched just two innings, preferring to save his ace for the pennant race against Chicago and Philadelphia. This is the only time the two pitchers ever face each other. Mathewson adds to New York's scoring in the 3rd by swiping home. The Giants coast, 11 - 2. In the field, Matty also helps when, with Doc Miller on first base in the 2nd inning, a line drive to center by Hank Gowdy results in a double play (8-4-1-3). New York wins the first game, 9 - 3, and now lead the Cubs by two games.
1916: Walter Johnson and Babe Ruth, both pitching on two days rest, square off. Washington scores two runs in the 9th when John Henry lines a bases-loaded double off Ruth to tie the game, 2 - 2. Boston scores in the 10th, but Washington tallies twice off Ernie Shore to win, 4 - 3. Johnson is the winner.
1923: Harry Heilmann goes 2-for-5 with a double and a triple to raise his batting average to .395 in the Tigers 6 - 4 win over the senators. "Slug" will finish at .403 to win the AL batting title.
1925: In Detroit's loss to Cleveland, 3 - 1 in 13 innings in the first game of a doubleheader, Detroit's Jackie Tavener hits a major league-record-tying three triples. Benn Karr goes the distance for the win. Detroit then takes the nitecap 3 - 2.
1929: Dale "Moose" Alexander goes 2-for-4 to raise his batting average to .353 in the Tigers 2 - 1 win over the red sox. Dale will finish at .343, a #Tigers rookie record that still stands.
1932: With their 100th victory of the year, the Yankees clinch the American League pennant as George Pipgras beats the Indians at Cleveland Stadium, 8 - 3. Yankee manager Joe McCarthy, who captured a flag with the 1929 Cubs, becomes the first manager to win pennants in both the American and National Leagues.
1936: Charlie Gehringer hits two doubles, en route to an AL-best 60 doubles on the season, in the Tigers 10 - 1 win over the yankees.
1939: The Detroit Tigers selected Cotton Pippen off waivers from the Philadelphia Athletics.
1947: Pirates' outfielder Ralph Kiner hits a record eight home runs in four games. Tony Lazzeri had hit seven round-trippers in four games in 1936.
1953: Carl Erskine defeats the Braves, 5 - 2, as the Dodgers clinch the pennant earlier than any other team in National League history up to that point.
1954: A standing-room-only crowd of 84,587 at Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, which establishes the record for the largest crowd to have ever watched a major-league baseball game, witness the pennant-bound Indians sweep a doubleheader from the Yankees, 4 - 1 and 3 - 2. On this bright sunny day, over 12,000 fans are without seats and stand 10-11 rows deep behind the outfield fences as well as 3-5 rows deep in walkways.
1958: The Giants sweep the Phillies, 5 - 2 and 19 - 2, as Willie Mays has six hits to raise his average to .333. Jim Davenport tops him with seven hits, including a 3-run inside-the-park home run in the 1st inning of game 2, and scores seven runs.
1962: In the dugout in Cincinnati, Willie Mays collapses from nervous exhaustion. He is taken to the hospital and will miss four games. The Giants lose, 4 - 1, and will lose their next six to take them apparently out of the race.
1969: Juan Marichal (18-10) pitches a one-hitter, as the Giants beat the Reds, 1 - 0, but Atlanta takes the National League West lead by beating Houston, 4 - 3. Tommy Helms' 3rd-inning single is the only hit in what Marichal calls "my best game ever."
1974: Detroit P John Hiller picks up his 17th win in relief, an American League record, as he beats Milwaukee 9 - 7.
Tom Veryzer hits a walk-off 2-run home run in the 10th inning.
1976: DH Minnie Minoso singles for the White Sox against the Angels' Sid Monge. Said to be 53, Minoso is considered the oldest player ever to collect a hit in the major leagues, although he is in reality three years younger than his listed age, as will later be discovered.
1976: Mark Fidrych shuts out the Yankees 6 - 0 at Yankee Stadium.
1979: Carl Yastrzemski reaches the 3000 hits milestone when he singles off Yankee Jim Beattie.
1980: Mark Fidrych leaves the game with shoulder pain after 6 pitches. He will make just 2 more starts for the #Tigers.
Tigers beat the indians 6 - 3.
1983: Lou Whitaker goes 3-for-5, en route to a career-high batting average of .320 on the year. Tigers beat the indians 5 - 1.
1983: Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell are profiled in Sports Illustrated.
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1991: Texas Ranger Nolan Ryan wins his 10th game, beating the Twins, 4 - 3, and becoming just the second pitcher ever to reach double figures in wins in 20 different seasons. Don Sutton did it in 21 seasons. The win, Ryan's 312th of his career moves him past Tom Seaver into 14th place on the career list.
1995: The Milwaukee Brewers traded a player to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Kevin Wickander. The Milwaukee Brewers sent Derek Hacopian (minors) (September 12, 1995) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
1997: Jody Reed of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1999: Before a crowd of 50,027, the Red Sox finish their 3-game series at Yankee Stadium with a 4 - 1 win for a sweep. It is the first 3-game sweep at Yankee Stadium for the Red Sox since 1986.
2007: The Detroit Tigers signed Bruce Rondon as an amateur free agent.
2012: Miguel Cabrera goes 3-for-5 in the Tigers' 8-6 win over the White Sox. #Tigers pull within one game of the Sox in the Central.
2015: David Ortiz of the Red Sox becomes the 27th member of the 500 home run club by going deep twice, both times off Matt Moore, in a 10 - 4 win over the Rays.
Tigers players birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Boss_Schmidt
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Charles 'Boss' Schmidt 1906-1911.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/peplope01.shtml
Pepper Peploski 1913.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/olsenol01.shtml
Ole Olsen 1922-1923.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kellech01.shtml
Charlie Keller 1950-1951.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/freesge01.shtml
George Freese 1953.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mickey_Lolich
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Mickey Lolich 1963-1975.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/madissc01.shtml
Scotti Madison 1985-1986.
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Mark Thurmond 1986-1987.
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Masao Kida 1999-2000.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Pop_Dillon
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dillopo01.shtml
Pop Dillon 1901-1902.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bolanbe01.shtml
Bernie Boland 1915-1920.
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Augie Johns 1926-1927.
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Lou Kretlow 1946, 1948-1949.
from Baseball Reference
