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September 28 in Tigers and mlb history:

1908: #Tigers beat the senators 4 - 1 to retake first place for good. Tigers were 2.5 games back on Sept. 23, but will go on to win their second pennant by a half game over the indians.

1919: In the shortest nine-inning game in major league history, lasting only 51 minutes, the New York Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 6 - 1.

1941: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox goes 6 for 8 in a doubleheader against the Philadelphia Athletics to finish the season with a .406 batting average. No player has batted .400 since.

1947: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DK0fRwfW4AEinnk.jpg
70 Years Ago Today: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and Tris Speaker pose together at the first ever Old Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium.

1960: Ted Williams the legendary Red Sox outfielder played in his last game, ripping the final home run -- his 521st -- of his career in the final at-bat.

1964: A record crowd of 59,203 at #TigerStadium watches the Lions and Packers on a Monday night, an experiment that will help lead to Monday Night Football. Packers won 14 - 10.

1968: Denny McLain pitches 7 shutout innings but the Senators rally in the 9th to win 2 - 1 and ruin his bid for a 32nd win.

1972: Tigers lose to the Yankees 3 - 2, while the Red Sox beat the Royals. Tigers fall 1.5 games behind Boston with 6 to play. They will rally to win their first ever division title by 1/2 game over the red sox.

1974: Nolan Ryan pitches his third of seven career no-hitters, striking out 15 batters and beating the Minnesota Twins, 4 - 0, at Anaheim Stadium. He also walks eight to run his season total to 202 bases on balls, joining Bob Feller in 1938 as the only pitcher to walk more than 200 in a season. Ryan will again top 200 in 1977.

1975: For the first time in the major leagues, four pitchers share a no-hitter when Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Lindblad and Rollie Fingers of the Oakland Athletics combine to no-hit the California Angels, 5 - 0, on the final day of the season.

1976: Mark Fidrych shuts out the indians 4 - 0 for his 18th win in game one of a doubleheader.

1978: After 15 seasons with the #Tigers, Mickey Stanley plays his final game in a loss to the red sox.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DK1esjWW4AAMFB9.jpg

1984: Tigers win in the 12th inning over the yankees 4 - 2 on Lou Whitaker's 2-run home run, tying the franchise record of 103 wins with 2 games to play.

1988: Orel Hershiser of the Los Angeles Dodgers throws ten shutout innings against the San Diego Padres and extends his streak of scoreless innings to 59, breaking the record set by Don Drysdale in 1968.

1988: Tigers eliminated from the AL East race. They will win out and finish one game back after a September swoon and near recovery.

1997: Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres ties Honus Wagner's record by winning his eighth National League batting title. Gwynn finishes at .372, becoming the first player to win four consecutive NL batting titles since Rogers Hornsby won six straight between 1920 and 1925.

2003: #Tigers win their season finale 9 - 4 over the twins, their 5th win in their final 6 games to avoid tying the 1962 Mets' record of 120 losses.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DK0ai4RXUAIeKdK.jpg

2006: Tigers lose 8 - 6 to the twins, Twins tie Detroit atop the AL Central. After leading the division since May, the Tigers will fall to the wild card spot.

2010: The Detroit Tigers signed David Paulino as an amateur free agent.

2012: 2B Darwin Barney of the Cubs makes a wild throw to first base after fielding Justin Upton's ground ball in the 8th inning of the Cubs' 8 - 3 loss to the Diamondbacks. The miscue ends Barney's 141-game errorless streak, tying Placido Polanco's all-time record for a single season, set in 2007.

2014: #Tigers clinch their fourth straight division title with a 3 - 0 win over the twins.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Paul_Easterling
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/eastepa01.shtml
Paul Easterling 1928, 1930.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dick_Gernert
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gernedi01.shtml
Dick Gernert 1960-1961.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dustabo01.shtml
Bob Dustal 1963.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/weberth01.shtml
Thad Weber 2012.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/corrire01.shtml
Red Corriden 1912.

Baseball Reference
 
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https://247sports.com/mlb/tigers/Ar...2018-Surprises-and-Disappointments-122590453/
Bourbon and Baseball BS Podcast - Episode 5: Fall Ball, Buy/Sell. almost 2 hours.
TigsTown

In the latest podcast, Paul and Mark talk about the year that was relative to their expectations of how the season would go, the shifting philosophy in the organization around off-season instruction, who they're buying and selling off the big league club after this year, and what were a few pleasant surprises and disappointments down on the farm.


Specific topics include;
Mark insisting on drinking beer in each episode after we named it bourbon.

The 2018 season coming to a close, our thoughts relative to expectations and the impact off-season additions like Mike Fiers and Leonys Martin had.

The organization's evolving approach to player development and their focus on the Fall Instructional League.

Buy/Sell on the current state of the big league club's young talent, including JaCoby Jones, Jeimer Candelario and Michael Fulmer.

Reader question from mastigsfan: Three pleasant surprises and three disappointments from the 2018 minor league season, excluding Alex Faedo (spoiler alert: we talked about Faedo anyway).
 
2009: Sports Illustrated features the Tigers' connection with their city, including continuing the sponsorship of the center field fountain at no cost to General Motors in the midst of its bankruptcy.
https://www.si.com/vault/2009/09/28/105860310/tigertown
TIGER TOWN.
NO CITY HAS BEEN HARDER HIT BY THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN THAN DETROIT, AND THAT FORCED TIGERS OWNER MIKE ILITCH TO TAKE A MOST DRASTIC MEASURE: HE RAISED THE PAYROLL AND REINVESTED DRAMATICALLY IN HIS FRANCHISE. WHAT'S UNFOLDED THIS SUMMER, ONE YEAR REMOVED FROM A LAST-PLACE FINISH, HAS LIFTED A CITY.
SI
 
https://www.mlive.com/tigers/index.ssf/2018/09/tigers_brewers_game.html#incart_river_index
Tigers can't play spoiler in opener, falling to Brewers in front of sell-out crowd.
Mlive

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/.../detroit-tigers-milwaukee-brewers/1465094002/
Nicholas Castellanos' gaffe gives Brewers 6-5 win over Detroit Tigers.
Freep

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...brink-lose-deflected-home-run-8th/1462896002/
Tigers push Brewers to brink, lose on deflected home run.
Detnews

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/nicholas-castellanos-cant-hang-on-in-defeat/c-296482868
Castellanos can't hang onto HR; Tigers lose.
Wisconsin native Zimmermann struggles vs. Brewers.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2018/9...istian-yelich-nicholas-castellanos-dawel-lugo
Brewers 6 - Tigers 5: Just out of reach.
The Brew Crew bats triumphed despite the bullpen?s best efforts.
BYBTB

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...797#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=531797
Boxscore.
 
September 29 in Tigers and mlb history:

1879: Baseball's reserve clause is born. National League owners, seeking to limit player salaries, led by Boston's Arthur Soden come to a secret agrerement whereby five players on each team will be "reserved" - off-limits to all other clubs. The reserve clause will be in effect for the 1880 season. The owners tell the newspapers that they have agreed upon a uniform contract with no salary advances.

1908: Ed Walsh of the Chicago White Sox beats the Boston Red Sox twice in Boston by scores of 5 - 1 and 2 - 0. Walsh allows only seven hits and one walk against fifteen strikeouts in the two games.

1913: The Washington Senators beat the Philadelphia Athletics, 1 - 0, to give Walter Johnson his 36th win of the year.

1919: Arnold Rothstein decides to finance the World Series fix. The plan calls for Nat Evans to give a $40,000 advance to Sport Sullivan to give to the players, with an additional $40,000 to be put in a safe at the Hotel Congress in Chicago, IL. Evans takes $29,000 and bets on the Cincinnati Reds, giving Chick Gandil only $10,000.

1920: Babe Ruth hits his major league record 54th home run on the last day of the season. Only one other team in the American League will hit more than 44 homers.

1927: Babe Ruth ties his own home run record with #59 on the season. Ruth will break the record tomorrow.

1928: The New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers combine for an American League-record 45 hits in a nine-inning game. The Tigers get 28 of the hits in a 19 - 10 win.

1934: Babe Ruth hits his last homer as a Yankee. #659 as a Yankee and #708 of his career comes off Syd Cohen in Washington, DC.

1936: The Brooklyn Dodgers drafted Luke Hamlin from the Detroit Tigers in the 1936 rule 5 draft.

1939: Hal Newhouser makes his major league debut in a loss to the indians. The HOFer will pitch 15 of his 17 seasons with the Tigers winning an even 200 games and is elected the Hall Of Fame in 1992.

1942: Satchel Paige of the Kansas City Monarchs pitches 5 2/3 innings of hitless relief against the Washington-Homestead Grays, winning 9 - 5 in Philadelphia in the 1942 Colored World Series, finishing a four-game sweep of the Grays.

1947: Joe McCarthy comes out of retirement, accepting the managing job of the Boston Red Sox for 1948. When asked about Ted Williams, McCarthy responds "A manager who cannot get along with a .400 hitter ought to have his head examined."

1950: Tigers are eliminated from the pennant race by Cleveland with 2 games to play. It will be the Tigers' last contending team until the 101 win Tigers team of 1961.

1954: Willie Mays makes his famous running catch off the bat of Cleveland's Vic Wertz in Game one of the World Series.

1957: Ted Williams becomes the oldest batting champ when the 39-year old finishes the season with a .388 average.

1957: The New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers play their last games as New York teams. The Giants lose to the Pittsburgh Pirates at the Polo Grounds, 9 - 1, while the Dodgers lose to the Philadelphia Phillies at Shibe Park, 2 - 1.

1968: The Tigers finish a memorable season with a 3 - 2 loss at home to the senators. They finish the year at 103-59 and head to St. Louis to face the Cardinals in game 1 of the World Series.

1972: Jim Northrup goes 4-for-4 with a double and 5 RBIs in an important 12 - 5 win for the Tigers over the brewers down the stretch.

1974: Lou Brock steals his 118th and last base on the final day of the season.

1978: Jim Rice doubles and singles against the Toronto Blue Jays in Fenway Park. Rice is the first American Leaguer to amass 400 total bases since Joe DiMaggio in 1937.

1984: Tigers set franchise record with their 104th win an 11 - 3 beat down of the yankees.
Juan Berenguer gets his 11th win. Home runs by Larry Herndon, Lance Parrish, and Dwight Lowry.
The record still stands: the closest they've gotten since is 98 wins in '87 and 95 in 2006 and 2012.

1986: Bert Blyleven surrenders three homers to the Cleveland Indians, giving him 49 on the year, breaking the major league record of 46 set by Robin Roberts in 1956.

1996: Alan Trammell goes 2-for-4 with an RBI in his final game, a loss to the brewers. He hits a single in 10th and is lifted for a pinch runner at Tiger Stadium as the fans stand in unison to give the Tigers icon a standing ovation.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DK5OJ3PWAAAxo4E.jpg

2002: Ernie Harwell calls his final game as the voice of the Tigers a 1 - 0 loss to the blue jays.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DoBfPnjXoAEmTrl.jpg

2003: Gene Kingsale of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2004: Major League Baseball officially announces that the Montreal Expos franchise will move to Washington, DC in 2005.
Hours after this, the Expos play their final game in Montreal, a 9 - 1 loss to the Florida Marlins before a crowd of 31,395 at Olympic Stadium.

2009: Tigers honor the 1984 world championship team on the 25th anniversary of their title.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DoSHmbEUYAAPEUz.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DoSHmbEUwAAgUVI.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DoSHmbiXoAcNiWc.jpg

2014: Kevin Whelan of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rensato01.shtml
Tony Rensa 1930.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/anderbo01.shtml
Bob Anderson 1963.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/reeseri01.shtml
Rich Reese 1973.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/crawfji01.shtml
Jim Crawford 1976-1978.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Rob_Deer
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/deerro01.shtml
Rob Deer 1991-1993.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/clarkje02.shtml
Jermaine Clark 2001

Tigers players and announcers who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rowanja01.shtml
Jack Rowan 1906.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Van_Patrick
Van Patrick announcer 1949, 1952-1959.

from Baseball Reference
 
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