October 3 in Tigers and mlb history:
1904: Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants strikes out 16 Cardinals in a 3 - 1 Giants victory. His 16 strikeouts set a new record as he finishes the game in one hour and 15 minutes.
1909: Ty Cobb becomes the first player to win the major league Triple Crown, Batting .377 with 9 Home runs and 107 RBIs. Cobb also leads the league in Runs 116, Hits 216, OBP .431 Slugging .517 OPS .947 OPS+ 193 Total Bases 296.
#Tigers set an American League record with 98 wins.
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1915: Ty Cobb steals third and scores on a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning to provide the winning margin in Detroit?s 6-5 win on the final day of the season. The victory is the 100th for the second-place Tigers, the first time the team has won that many in a season. Sam Crawford, Bobby Veach, and Cobb finish 1-2-3 in the AL in RBIs.
1920: In a 16 - 7 win over the White Sox, George Sisler of the St. Louis Browns collects his 257th hit of the season to set a major league record that will last until the 21st century. He also pitches a scoreless 9th inning in relief for St. Louis.
1928: The Detroit Tigers drafted Frank Sigafoos from Portland (PCL) in the 1928 rule 5 draft.
1934: Dizzy Dean wins the opening game of the World Series 8 - 3. Detroit Tigers manager Mickey Cochrane held back his ace pitcher, Schoolboy Rowe, and veteran General Crowder is ineffective as Joe Medwick goes 4 for 4, including a home run. The Tigers make five errors.
1935: Tigers score 4 runs in the first inning, including a Hank Greenberg 2-run home run, to win 8-3 and even the World Series with the Cubs at one game apiece.
1937: Hank Greenberg's RBI single gives the #Tigers a 1-0 win in their season finale. Greenberg's 184th RBI sets a franchise record that still stands. #HammerinHank
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Greenberg single-season mark is third all-time behind Lou Gehrig's 185 and Hack Wilson's 191
1937: The Detroit Tigers released Goose Goslin.
1937: The Detroit Tigers released Jack Russell.
1939: The Detroit Tigers drafted Tom Seats from the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1939 rule 5 draft.
1940: In the World Series, Jimmy Ripple's two-run home run in the third inning of Game Two provides the winning margin as the Cincinnati Reds end the National League's 10-game Series losing streak with a 5 - 3 win over the Tigers.
1945: The Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs face each other in the World Series for the fourth time. Hank Borowy pitches a six-hitter and Hal Newhouser allows eight runs in three innings as the Cubs win 9 - 0.
1948: Tigers beat the indians 7 - 1. Hal Newhouser's 5-hitter against Cleveland forces the Indians into a one-game playoff with Boston. Vic Wertz hits three doubles.
1951: Ernie Harwell calls Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard Round the World." His call is on NBC TV but is not recorded and is forgotten.
1966: Tigers hire Mayo Smith as manager. Will lead them to the 1968 World Championship.
1968: In Game Two of the World Series, Mickey Lolich of the Detroit Tigers ties the Series 1-1. Lolich pitches a six-hitter and hits his first major league home run to defeat the Cardinals 8 - 1. Homeruns also came from big bats of Willie Horton (1), Norm Cash (1). Tigers RF Al Kaline has 2 hits and scores 2 runs in the rout.
1972: the Tigers clinch the AL East with a 3-1 win over the Boston Red Sox. Woodie Fryman defeats Luis Tiant and Al Kaline delivers the game-winning hit.
1974: Frank Robinson becomes the first black manager in the major leagues, as the Cleveland Indians name him to replace Ken Aspromonte for the 1975 season.
1976: Hank Aaron singles in his last major-league at bat and drives in his 2,297th run as the sixth-place Brewers lose to the Tigers, 5 - 2.
1976: Bill Freehan makes his final career appearance for the Tigers in Milwaukee, going 1-for-3 in the Tigers 5 - 2 win over the brewers.
1981: Brewers beat the #Tigers 2 - 1 to eliminate them and clinch the second-half division title in a strike-shortened season.
1984: Tigers beat the Royals 5-3 in 11 innings to take a commanding 2-0 lead in the ALCS.
1987: Alan Trammell singles in Jim Walewander with the winning run in the bottom of the 12th inning to move the Tigers one game ahead of the Toronto Blue Jays in the AL East. The next day Detroit will clinch the division crown.
1990: Cecil Fielder becomes the 11th player to hit 50 homers in a season. The big Tiger slugger belts two homers against New York in Yankee Stadium, as Detroit wins 10-3 in the final game of the season.
1990: George Brett of the Kansas City Royals becomes the first player in major league history to win a batting title in three different decades. Brett goes 1 for 1 in Kansas City's 5 - 2 loss to the Cleveland Indians to win the American League batting title with a .329 average. Brett also won AL batting titles in 1976 and 1980.
1995: Rudy Pemberton of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
1996: The Detroit Tigers selected Glenn Dishman off waivers from the Philadelphia Phillies.
2002: The Detroit Tigers released Jacob Cruz.
2005: The Tigers introduce Jim Leyland as their new manager. Leyland, who came up through the Detroit organization as a player and minor league manager, replaces the fired Alan Trammell. The Tigers will win the pennant in Leyland?s first season.
2005: Jason Smith of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2006: Don Kelly of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2011: Detroit takes a 2-1 lead in their ALDS with a 5 - 4 win over the Yankees. Justin Verlander gives up two runs in the 1st inning, but then settles down. The Tigers score twice in the 3rd off CC Sabathia, then Jhonny Peralta puts them ahead with an RBI double in the 5th. The Yankees tie the game at 4 in the 7th on Brett Gardner's two-run double, but Delmon Young hits a solo homer off Rafael Soriano in the bottom of the inning to make Verlander a winner.
2012: Miguel Cabrera goes 0 for 2 in a 1 - 0 Tigers win to end the season but still winds up as Major League Baseball's first Triple Crown winner since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967. Cabrera led the American League with a .330 average, 44 homers and 139 RBI. He survives a late charge by Curtis Granderson.
2014: The Orioles once again victimize the Tigers' bullpen in the 8th inning to win Game 2 of the ALDS, 7 - 6. Trailing 6 - 3, they score four runs against Joba Chamberlain and Joakim Soria after scoring 7 off three relievers in the same inning the previous night and now lead the series, two games to none.
2015: Max Scherzer of the Nationals pitches his second no-hitter of the season, 2 - 0 over the Mets, also striking out 17 batters. Only an error by SS Yunel Escobar keeps him from a perfect game. He is only the fifth pitcher, and the first since Nolan Ryan in 1973, to throw two no-hitters in a season, and his game score of 104 is the highest since Kerry Wood's 20-strikeout performance in 1998. The 17 Ks set a new Nationals team record, and tie Ryan's record for most in a no-hitter.
2016: Logan Kensing of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2016: Alex Presley of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2017: Edward Mujica of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2018: Dixon Machado of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2018: Jacob Turner of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Fred House 1913.
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Joe Wood 1943.
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Chuck Scrivener 1975-1977.
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Steve Foucault 1977-1978.
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Junior Felix 1994.
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Tim Hyers 1996.
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Eric Munson 2000-2004.
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Matt Young 2012.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Delos Drake 1911.
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Pinky Hargrave 1928-1930.
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John Cerutti 1991.
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