September 19 in Tigers and mlb history:
1912: At Cleveland, the Red Sox lose an unusual doubleheader to the Cleveland Naps. Cleveland takes the lidlifter, 9 - 3, when the game is called on account of rain after five innings. The rain stops and the second game begins, only to be called after six innings because of darkness. The Naps win, 6 - 0.
1916: At Philadelphia, the White Sox tie a major-league record when three pinch runners score in the 9th inning. The Sox win, 5 - 4, over the A's.
1917: Detroit Tigers at Boston Red Sox, doubleheader game one
The Tigers beat the Red Sox at Fenway Park by a score of 5-2 in the first game, in one hour and 58 minutes total.
Five Hall of Famers played in the game: Ty Cobb and Harry Heilmann for the Tigers and Harry Hooper, Babe Ruth, and Herb Pennock for the Red Sox. Bill James was the lone native Detroiter. There were only three extra-base hits: two doubles and a triple. Cobb stole his 45th base of the season. The Red Sox made 9 errors.
James, the starting pitcher for Detroit, pitched a complete game, despite giving up nine hits. He faced 38 batters over nine innings.
1917: Detroit Tigers at Boston Red Sox, doubleheader game two
Detroit beat Boston 1-0 in the second match, with a game duration of one hour and 20 minutes. Both starting pitchers completed their games ? Hooks Dauss (he had the best name in this game by far) for the Tigers and Carl Mays for the Red Sox. Tigers third baseman Bobby Veach hit a triple, the only extra-base hit of the game. Veach also had the only stolen base.
1926: At Cleveland's League Park, a crowd of 31,000 watch the Yankees hold back the Indians, 8 - 3, in the final of a six-game series. In the 7th, Babe Ruth parks his 43rd homer of the year and Lou Gehrig follows with another home run, both off Emil Levsen. Gehrig adds three doubles and five RBIs to lead the Yankee charge. Dutch Ruether picks up the New York win.
1929: Joe Sewell sets a major league record by playing in his 115th consecutive game without striking out. The Indians third baseman will be fanned only four times in 578 at-bats this season.
1931: Lefty Grove becomes the first pitcher to win 30 games since Jim Bagby did it in 1920 when he beats the White Sox, 2 - 1.
1933: The Yankees pile up 34 hits and drub the White Sox twice, 10 - 1 and 10 - 3. George Uhle and Charlie Devens are the recipients of the offensive largesse. Joe Sewell has six hits for the afternoon, while Lou Gehrig has six RBIs. Gehrig hits home run #30 in the first game, following immediately after Dixie Walker hits a homer. Lou is now even with Babe Ruth, who sat out the afternoon.
1937: Tigers first baseman Hank Greenberg becomes the first player to hit a homer into the center field bleachers at Yankee Stadium. Detroit wins 8 - 1.
1951: The Yankees are victorious when Mickey Mantle hits a three-run homer off Chicago's Lou Kretlow to win, 5 - 3. A small crowd of 12,127 watch the game at the Stadium. The two teams have been tied now for 11 days. The Yanks now have nine games left, eight against Boston.
1955: Cubs infielder Ernie Banks hits his fifth grand slam of the season to establish a new major league mark, but Rip Repulski's 12th-inning homer off Jim Davis proves to be the difference as the Cardinals beat Chicago, 6 - 5.
1956: For the third time in his career, P Don Newcombe hits two home runs in one game, in a 17 - 2 laugher. The win puts the Dodgers a half game in front of the Braves.
1960: Chicago's pennant hopes are damaged with a nitecap 7 - 6 loss to the Tigers, after they win the opener 8 - 4. Pinch-hitter Norm Cash scores the decisive run in game 2. Cash thus ends his year by grounding into no double plays, the first American Leaguer to do this since league records on this were started in 1940. Teammate Dick McAuliffe and Roger Repoz will duplicate this in 1968.
1961: The Giants clobber Warren Spahn for four home runs, one of them a grand slam by Willie Mays, and then rally in the 8th and 9th to top the Braves, 11 - 10. The two teams combine for eight home runs and 57 total bases, but the short ball wins it - Harvey Kuenn's tie-breaking single in the 8th, and Ed Bailey's sacks-full single in the 9th.
1967: Boston rallies again to beat Detroit, 4 - 2, scoring three runs in the 9th inning. Jose Santiago (10-4) wins for the second time in two days.
The loss drops Detroit from 1st place down to 4th. Dave Boswell throws a two-hitter to give the Twins an 8 - 2 win over the Athletics. Joel Horlen wins his 18th game, a 3 - 0 blanking of the Angels, to leave the Sox in 3rd place, a half-game behind the co-leaders, Boston and the Twins.
1968: Denny McLain's 31st win is overshadowed by Mickey Mantle's 535th homer. McLain allegedly calls C Jim Price out and tells him to inform Mantle he's throwing the slugger nothing but fastballs. The home run gives Mantle undisputed hold of 3rd place on the all-time home run list. Mantle tips his cap to Denny as he rounds third base.
Joe Pepitone, the next batter, signals where he would like the ball, and McLain dusts him.
The Tigers win the game 6 - 2, the 12th straight complete game for the Tigers staff.
1976: Catfish Hunter notches his 200th career victory as the Yankees stop Milwaukee, 2 - 1. Since 1901, only Christy Mathewson and Grover Cleveland Alexander have hit the 200 mark before their 31st birthday, but arm trouble will limit Catfish to 224 wins. He'll win 17 this year, after five straight 20-win seasons.
1980: At Tiger Stadium, Al Kaline becomes the first player in franchise history to have his uniform number retired. The First Ballot Hall of Famer, who wore the number 6, played rightfield like he invented it for Detroit from 1953 to 1974.
1984: #Tigers get their 98th win beating the brewers 4 - 2. Nelson Simmons goes 3-for-4.
1998: #Tigers win 8 - 7 over the twins on a Damion Easley home run, their third straight walk-off win in which they trailed in the 9th inning.
2001: Major League Baseball and the Players Association announce the creation of the MLB-MLBPA Disaster Relief Fund. The organizations will each donate $10 million to aid the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
2002: The #Tigers take batting practice with a temporary fence in left field at Comerica Park. They will move the left field wall closer during the offseason.
Their game is rained out in the second inning, erasing a 9-run 1st by the Twins.
2011: Mariano Rivera throws a perfect 9th inning in the Yankess' 6 - 4 win over the Twins, striking out rookie Chris Parmelee for the final out, to record the 602nd save of his career. He passes Trevor Hoffman for the all-time lead in the category.
2012: Derek Jeter collects his 200th hit of the season, tying Lou Gehrig who also recorded 200 hits eight times for the Yankees.
2015: Ian Kinsler has his winning run in the 9th overturned on replay, then homers in the 11th for a walk-off 6 - 5 win
over the royals.
2018: The Oakland Athletics traded players to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Mike Fiers. The Oakland Athletics sent Nolan Blackwood (minors) (August 18, 2018) and Logan Shore (minors) (September 19, 2018) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
Tigers players birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ralph_Young
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/y/youngra01.shtml
Ralph Young 1915-1921.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/reibefr01.shtml
Frank Reiber 1933-1936.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/shoopro01.shtml
Ron Shoop 1959.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/nagelru01.shtml
Russ Nagleson 1970.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/goodan01.shtml
Andrew Good 2005.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/grissma01.shtml
Marv Grissom 1949.
from Baseball Reference
