September 26 in Tigers and mlb history:
1903: The Tigers Billy Lush hits 3 triples in a loss to the new york highlanders.
1905: Chicago White Sox P Ed Walsh hurls two complete game victories over Boston, winning by scores of 10 - 5 and 3 - 1. When Doc White leaves the first game without retiring a batter in the 1st inning, Walsh comes in without warming up. He gives up five runs in the 1st, then blanks Boston the rest of the way.
1907: After Cleveland's Addie Joss fired a one-hitter against the Highlanders yesterday, teammate Heinie Berger matches him today, also against hapless New York. This is the second time this century that teammates have thrown back-to-back one-hitters.
1908: Ed Reulbach pitches two shutouts on the same day, whitewashing Brooklyn, 5 - 0, on a five-hitter and 3 - 0 on a three-hitter. The entire doubleheader is played in less than three hours. Big Ed allows five hits in the a.m. game, and is even stingier in the afternoon, yielding three hits and a walk. Kaiser Wilhelm and Jim Pastorius are the losing pitchers. Reulbach is the only pitcher in major league history to have performed this particular feat.
1911: At Shibe Park, the A's clinch their second straight American League pennant, defeating the Tigers, 11 - 5. Frank Baker leads the offense with a homer and two doubles. Detroit, which led the A's by 12 games in May, will finish 2nd, 13 1/2 games back.
1912: The Giants clinch the National League flag with a sweep of the Braves, winning, 8 - 3 and 4 - 0. Christy Mathewson coasts to his 23rd win in the opener and Al Demaree, recently called up from Mobile where he was 25-10, shuts out the Braves on seven hits in the nitecap.
1916: Washington manager Clark Griffith excuses several regulars for the remaining games of the season so he can use some new players. Included in the excused is 25-game winner Walter Johnson. In a league-leading 371 innings pitched, he did not give up a home run, an all-time record.
1921: Babe Ruth hits home runs number 57 and 58 plus a double and a walk to beat the Indians, 8 - 7, and the Yankees take a two-game lead.
1925: Philadelphia fans chip in to buy a new automobile for the A's player chosen by the press as MVP. The winner: Al Simmons with 30 points. Mickey Cochrane, a .331 hitter in his first year, is second.
1926: In his final day in a Tiger uniform, Ty Cobb watches his replacement in centerfield gets 6 hits in a twin bill with the Red Sox to become the new batting champ as Heinie Manush edges Babe Ruth, .378 to .372, for the batting title.
Bob Fothergill becomes the second major league player to hit for a natural cycle: a single, double, triple, and home run in order in the Tigers game one 11 - 2 win of a doubleheader sweep of the red sox.
1926: The Browns beat the Yankees twice, 6 - 1 and 6 - 2, in a total time of two hours, seven minutes, a major-league record for a twinbill. The second game is the fastest in American League history: 55 minutes. The Yanks total 19 hits, while the Browns collect 26 in the two games.
Babe Ruth has one at bat, then sits, and misses reliever George Sisler, who tosses two scoreless innings to finish for the Browns in the second game and, when the Browns score four in the 8th, picks up the victory. Ruth has 47 homers - twice as many as the runner-up, and also leads the AL with 139 runs, 155 RBI, and 144 bases on balls.
Browns coach Jimmy Austin, 46 years old, participates in the nitecap and contributes to the win by knocking in a run with a double and then stealing home. He is not the oldest to steal a base (Arlie Latham, 50, in 1909), but he is the oldest to steal home.
1934: Tigers score 22 runs in a doubleheader sweep of the White Sox to reach 99 wins.
1945: #Tigers split a doubleheader. Hal Newhouser shuts out Cleveland in an 11-0 win.
Tigers are one game up with one to play.
1948: At Briggs Stadium: An afternoon contest with Cleveland attracts 57,588, the greatest turnout ever for a single day game in Detroit.
1953: Al Kaline hits his first career home run, in a loss to the indians.
1955: The Red Sox beat the Yankees, 8 - 1, as Ted Williams goes 1 for 2. Williams finishes the season at .356, well ahead of Al Kaline's .340, but does not have enough at bats to win the batting title. The same thing happened in 1954. Williams was walked 136 times in 1954 and 71 times (an American League-leading 17 were intentional) this year.
A rule change will be made to recognize plate appearances, not times at bat, to determine the batting champion.
1958: After today's doubleheader sweep of the Senators, Red Sox teammates Ted Williams and Pete Runnels are exactly tied for the American League batting leadership at .32258. Williams is 130 for 403, while Runnels is 180 for 558. Williams is 2 for 3 in the opener, with a home run, then sits in the second game. Runnels is 2 for 9 on the afternoon. The Nats lose, 6 - 4 and 3 - 1, to run their loss streak to 11.
1961: In New York's 159th game, Roger Maris rips a Jack Fisher fastball into the right field seats at Yankee Stadium for his 60th home run. New York beats Baltimore, 3 - 2. There are fewer than 8,000 fans on hand to view this historic event.
1961: Bill Freehan makes his major league debut with 2 hits, and Jake Wood hits his 14th triple, a career high in his rookie season that led the major leagues in a loss to the kansas city athletics.
1966: Tigers win 2 - 1 over the angels on a Gates Brown pinch hit RBI single in the 9th. Denny McLain reaches 20 wins for the first time in his career.
1967: Cleveland's Luis Tiant beats the Red Sox, 6 - 3, despite Carl Yastrzemski's 43rd home run of the season. The Twins top the Angels, 7 - 3, behind two monster home runs by Harmon Killebrew, his 42nd and 43rd of the season. Mickey Lolich blanks the Yanks, 1 - 0, for Detroit to tighten the pennant race. The Twins (91-68) lead with Chicago (89-68) and the idle Red Sox (90-69) a game back, and Detroit (89-69) one and a half back.
1971: Ernie Banks gets his 2,583rd hit, a 1st-inning single off the Phils' Ken Reynolds, but the Cubs lose, 5 - 1. It is the last hit of Banks's 19-year major league career.
1971: Jim Palmer becomes the fourth member of the Orioles' pitching staff to notch his 20th victory, shutting out the host Indians, 5 - 0. Only one other team in major league history (the 1920 White Sox) boasted four 20-game winners.
1971: Willie Mays hits his 646th and last home run as a member of the San Francisco Giants. It comes off Steve Blateric in the 6th inning of the Giants' 12 - 5 win over the Cincinnati Reds at Riverfront Stadium.
1973: Darrell Evans hits his 40th home run, with the Braves: he will hit 40 with the #Tigers in 1985 to become the first major league player to hit 40 in both leagues.
1975: Gates Brown's final career appearance. Strikes out as a pinch hitter in a loss to the brewers.
1981: At the Astrodome, Astro Nolan Ryan becomes the first pitcher to throw five no-hitters, defeating the Dodgers, 5 - 0. Ryan had shared the record of four with Dodger great Sandy Koufax, but had not pitched a no-hitter since June 1, 1975. The 34-year-old Ryan strikes out 11 and retires the last 19 batters in a row while lowering his league-leading ERA to 1.74.
1984: Chet Lemon hits a single, double, & a triple. #Tigers lose 7 - 5 to the brewers to fall to 102-56.
1987: Tigers suffer their second straight walk-off to lose to first-place Toronto, wounding their playoff hopes and leaving them in need of a dramatic final-weekend rally.
1993: Tigers sweep a doubleheader in Baltimore 9 - 4 and 6 - 5. They won't win both games of a doubleheader again until 2002.
1997: Four Yankees pitchers combine to one-hit the Tigers, winning by a score of 8 - 2. Andy Pettitte starts and allows a two-run single to Travis Fryman in the 3rd inning, giving Detroit a 2 - 1 lead. Pettitte leaves after four frames and is succeeded by Brian Boehringer (3 innings), Mariano Rivera (1 inning), and Jeff Nelson (1 inning). Rivera receives credit for the win when New York explodes for six runs in the 9th inning.
1998: Rickey Henderson, 39, steals his 66th base of the season. The all-time stolen base leader is the oldest player to ever steal more than 50 bases in a season.
2006: Tigers beat the Blue Jays 4-3 for their 95th win. It will be their last win of the season: they will lose their final five games to fall from the division lead to the wild card.
2007: Michael Young collects 200 hits for the 5th year in a row, matching the record held by Charlie Gehringer for a middle infielder.
2010: Tigers set a Comerica Park record with their 52nd home win 5 - 1 over the twins. Miguel Cabrera hits his 38th home run. The Tigers will finish 52-29 at home & 29-52 on the road.
2012: The Tigers beat the Royals, 5 - 4, and when the White Sox lose to Cleveland, 6 - 4, they take sole possession of first place in the AL Central for the first time since July 24th. In the 5th inning, Alex Gordon robs Detroit's Miguel Cabrera of a home run by catching a ball over the left field fence; the catch may turn out to be costly, as Cabrera is putting in the most serious bid for a Triple Crown since Carl Yastrzemski's 1967 feat.
2013: Bud Selig announces that he will step down as Commissioner at the end of 2014, having been in the job in an acting capacity since 1992 and formally since 1998.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Joe Sullivan 1935-1936.
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Walt Streuli 1954-1956.
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Norm McRae 1969-1970.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Lefty Stewart 1921.
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