September 15 in Tigers and mlb history:
1901: The Detroit Tigers roll over Cleveland behind Ed Siever with what was the most lopsided score in American League history 21 - 0 -- (equaled on August 13, 1939) -- until the Cleveland Indians beat the New York Yankees 22 - 0 on August 31, 2004 at Yankee Stadium. Detroit pounds out 24 hits off rookie Jack Bracken as Pop Dillon leads the way with four hits. The game is mercifully called after 7 1/2 innings to allow Cleveland to catch a train. Bracken's ERA is not helped by this outing and he will end this season, his only one in the majors, with a 6.21 mark, the highest in the deadball era.
1902: Chicago's infield combo of Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance pull off their first double play to back up Carl Lundgren's 6 - 3 win over the Reds.
1907: At the Browns-Tigers game in St. Louis, a soda bottle thrown by a fan, Hugo Dusenberg, fells umpire Billy Evans. The crowd beats up Hugo before the police come to his rescue; he is fined $100. Evans is carried from the field and hospitalized, but is not very seriously injured.
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1912: In the second game of a doubleheader, Boston's Joe Wood wins his 16th straight game as he bests the Browns, 2 - 1, in a game called after eight innings because of darkness. Wood scores the winning run in the 8th, scoring from third base on a wild pitch by Earl Hamilton.
Earlier in the year, Walter Johnson posted a streak of 16 straight wins.
1913: The Detroit Tigers drafted Ray Demmitt from Montreal (International) in the 1913 rule 5 draft.
1913: The Detroit Tigers drafted Harry Heilmann from Portland (Northwestern) in the 1913 rule 5 draft.
1913: The Detroit Tigers drafted Marty Kavanagh from York (Tri-State) in the 1913 rule 5 draft.
1913: The Detroit Tigers drafted Alex Main from Buffalo (International) in the 1913 rule 5 draft.
1913: The Detroit Tigers drafted Billy Purtell from Jersey City (International) in the 1913 rule 5 draft.
1913: The Detroit Tigers drafted Johnnie Williams from Sacramento (PCL) in the 1913 rule 5 draft.
1914: Cleveland's Nap Lajoie strokes his 3,000th hit, a single off Detroit's Pug Cavet, joining Honus Wagner and Cap Anson as the only players to reach that mark.
1916: The Detroit Tigers drafted Ben Dyer from Denver (Western) in the 1916 rule 5 draft.
1921: Babe Ruth hits home run No. 55 in New York's 10 - 6 win over the Browns. The Yanks take game 2, 13 - 5.
1921: Four A's pitchers help the Indians win 17 - 3, by contributing 16 walks. Among them is the starting pitcher Arlas Taylor, appearing in his only ML game. He fans one batter - Joe Sewell, the hardest batter to strike out in ML history.
1926: The Yankees beat the Indians, 6 - 4, as Bob Meusel drives home three runs with three sacrifice flies. This ties the major-league record set by Harry Steinfeldt in 1909. Bob Shawkey is the winning hurler.
1929: The Detroit Tigers purchased Billy Rogell from St Paul (American Association).
1936: Charlie Gehringer hits 2 doubles, en route to a career high and AL-best 60 doubles on the season in the Tigers 8 - 5 win over the athletics.
1938: Brothers Lloyd and Paul Waner of the Pirates hit consecutive homers off Cliff Melton in the 5th inning at the Polo Grounds. Pirates P Jim Tobin puts Mel Ott in the record book, hitting him with a pitch 3 times. Tobin wins 7 - 2.
The Waners' feat marks the first time in major league history that brothers have gone deep back-to-back; the next time will come on April 23, 2013, courtesy of B.J. and Justin Upton of the Atlanta Braves.
1944: Former #Tigers manager Mickey Cochrane is appointed to active duty in the Pacific.
1946: In the first game at Griffith Stadium, Josh Gibson hits a home run into temporary bleachers that shorten the left-field fence, helping the Homestead Grays beat the New York Cubans 8-3, to sweep a season-ending Negro League double-header. It is Gibson's last career homer. After a few more games, the Grays close out their season, and Gibson will die from a reported stroke four months later.
1950: Ted Williams returns to the Red Sox lineup and raps a home run and three singles in a 12 - 9 defeat of the Browns. The Red Sox will come within two games of the first-place Yankees this week, but will end up in third place, behind both New York and Detroit.
1950: For a ML-record sixth time, Johnny Mize hits three home runs in one game, but the Yankees lose 9 - 7 at Detroit. Mize matches Babe Ruth's mark of doing it in both leagues, but the Babe only had two three-homer games.
With the victory, the Tigers recapture first place from New York.
1952: In a Cold War move, the Russians decry the American game of baseball by citing their own game of "lapka" as being the progenitor of baseball. They call American players "slaves." The State Department links the Soviet claim as the founders of baseball as part of its "Hate America" campaign.
1960: Giants great Willie Mays ties a major league mark by hitting three triples in an 8 - 6 victory over the Phillies.
1961: The Yankees set a new American League record for most homers in a season as they split a doubleheader in Detroit, winning 11 - 1 and losing 4 - 2. Circuit blows by Bill Skowron and Yogi Berra in the opener help Whitey Ford win his 24th and increase New York's homer total to 222. This breaks the old mark set by the 1947 Giants and tied by the 1956 Reds. Norm Cash and Steve Boros homer in the nitecap to back Ron Kline's 7-hitter.
1967: Willie Horton hits a walk-off single in Tigers 5 - 4 win over the senators. The Tigers move into a three-way tie for first place in the American League.
1968: The Tigers hit 5 home runs, 2 each by Jim Northrup, Bill Freehan, and one by Willie Horton, in a 13-0 thrashing of Oakland.
The Tigers staff has now pitched nine straight complete games as Lolich did not allow a man past 2nd base.
1969: Denny McLain records his 9th shutout, a Tiger record, beating New York, 2 - 0 at Yankee Stadium.
1974: Cleveland's Gaylord Perry works hard for his 20th win, beating Baltimore's Ross Grimsley, 1 - 0. Perry will go 21-13 and is the last Indian pitcher this century to win 20.
1984: #Tigers beat the Blue Jays 2-1 on a solo home run by Ruppert Jones to cut their Magic Number to 4.
1996: Frank Thomas breaks the White Sox mark for home runs established by Carlton Fisk in 1993. His 215th homer comes off Tim Wakefield in a 9 - 8 loss to the Red Sox.
1999: Baseball owners vote to merge the administrative operations of the American and National leagues. National League President Leonard Coleman, concluding his job has become irrelevant, announces his resignation effective after the World Series. He will become a senior adviser to Commissioner Bud Selig.
2000: The Tigers outlast the Red Sox, 7 - 6. The two teams combine to use a league record-tying 42 players in the contest.
2002: In his final season, the Tigers celebrate Ernie Harwell Day, and unveil his statue at Comerica Park.
2006: The Detroit Tigers selected Matt Stairs off waivers from the Texas Rangers.
2017: The Los Angeles Angels traded a player to be named later and Grayson Long (minors) to the Detroit Tigers for Justin Upton. The Los Angeles Angels sent Elvin Rodriguez (minors) (September 15, 2017) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
Tigers players and executives birthdays:
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Jean Debuc 1912-1916.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ed_Katalinas
https://schuylkillbaseball.wordpress.com/players-2/ed-katalinas/
Ed Katalinas scout 1950's-1960's, scouting director 1960, 1963-1979.
Signed Al Kaline, Vic Wertz, Ray Oyler, Don Wert, and Jim Northrup.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/paceljo01.shtml
John Pacella 1986.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cardoja01.shtml
Javier Cardona 2000-2001.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Harry Kane 1903.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/beckehe01.shtml
Heinie Beckendorf 1909-1910.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/taylobi03.shtml
Bill Taylor 1957-1958.
from Baseball Reference
