April 11 in Tigers and mlb history:
1907: Ty Cobb goes 2-for-4 with a SB and scores both runs in a 2-0 Opening Day win vs Cleveland. George Mullin throws a 3-hit shutout.
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1907: On Opening Day, New York Giants catcher Roger Bresnahan wears shin guards for the first time in a major league game. The leg guards, usually used in cricket, come in handy, protecting Bresnahan from a fifth-inning foul tip. Other catchers will soon follow Bresnahan's lead and wear similar shin guards.
1912: New York Giants pitcher Rube Marquard begins a 19-game winning streak with an 18 - 3 triumph over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1917: Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox pitches a three-hitter in shutting down the New York Yankees on Opening Day. Ruth's performance marks the start of good things to come. He will win 24 games this year, while leading the American League with 35 complete games.
1928: Baseball legends Lou Gehrig, Tris Speaker, Ty Cobb & Babe Ruth pose before Opening Day at Shibe Park in Philadelphia.
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1958: The Cincinnati Redlegs purchased Jim Fridley from the Detroit Tigers.
1959: On Opening Day, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale hits a home run, becoming the first pitcher to hit more than one career homer in opening games. Drysdale's historic blast doesn't prevent the Dodgers from losing their game, 6 - 1, to the Chicago Cubs.
1961: Jake Wood hits a 2-run home run in his debut at Tiger Stadium, but Tigers lose on Opening Day.
1961: The Los Angeles Angels play the first game in franchise history, defeating a strong Baltimore Orioles team, 7 - 2. For the Angels, Ted Kluszewski hits two home runs and Eli Grba pitches a complete game.
1962: The New York Mets play their first game and lose, 11 - 4, to the Cardinals in St. Louis. Gil Hodges and Charlie Neal provide bright spots for the Mets, hitting the first two home runs in the new franchise's history.
1963: Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves becomes the all-time winningest left-handed pitcher in major league history. Spahn's 6 - 1 victory over the New York Mets gives him 328 career wins, moving him ahead of Eddie Plank as the all-time winningest left-hander.
1964: The Washington Senators selected Pete Craig off waivers from the Detroit Tigers as first-year waiver pick.
1965: The Detroit Tigers released Billy Hoeft.
1966: The Detroit Tigers purchased Mike Marshall from the Philadelphia Phillies.
1966: Emmett Ashford becomes the first black umpire in major league history. Ashford, who had started his professional career 15 years earlier in the low minor leagues, makes his big league debut on Opening Day at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC.
1968: Gates Brown leads off the bottom of the 9th with a pinch hit home run to give the Tigers a 4 - 3 win over the red sox and their first of 103 wins for the season.
1975: Hank Aaron returns to Milwaukee as a member of the Brewers. A crowd of 48,160 fans watches Aaron drive in a run in the Brewers' victory over the Cleveland Indians. Aaron starred for the Milwaukee Braves before the franchise moved to Atlanta, GA. in 1966.
1984: AP off-day story: Al Kaline's work with Kirk Gibson paying off. #Relive84
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1991: The Detroit Tigers signed Danny Leon as a free agent.
1996: Atlanta Braves pitcher Greg Maddux ends his major league record for consecutive road victories with a 2 - 1 loss to San Diego. Maddux had been 18-0 with an 0.99 ERA in 20 regular-season road starts since losing at Montreal on June 27, 1994.
1997: To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the integration of baseball, Sharon Robinson, Jackie Robinson's daughter, and Pumpsie Green each throw out the first pitch at Fenway Park. In 1959, Green became the first black player to appear in a Boston Red Sox uniform, making the Red Sox the last team to integrate in the major leagues.
2008: The Detroit Tigers released Aaron Fultz.
2008: For the third time in the past six years, Major League Baseball adopts a stricter steroids policy. Increased testing is instituted and more power is given to outside administrators. Players named in the Mitchell Report are given amnesty and suspensions for Jose Guillen and Jay Gibbons are eliminated.
2011: In his second major league start, Alexi Ogando pitches seven scoreless innings in a win over Detroit and ace Justin Verlander as the Rangers improve their best-in-baseball record to 9-1. Ogando has not allowed a run in 13 innings this year. Miguel Cabrera hits his 300th double, becoming the second major leaguer to tally that many before his 28th birthday (Joe Medwick was the first).
2018: Today's MLB action is marred by a couple of bench-clearing brawls. In the Yankees' 10 - 7 win over Boston, Tyler Austin charges the mound after Joe Kelly drills him with a 97 mph fastball in the 7th; he suspects that the pitch is in retaliation for a hard slide he made into SS Brock Holt, in the 3rd, which also cleared the two benches. Both Austin and Kelly are ejected, as are Yankees third base coach Phil Nevin and reliever Tommy Kahnle.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Barney McCosky 1939-1942, 1946.
May 18, 1946: Traded by the Detroit Tigers to the Philadelphia Athletics for George Kell.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mike_Kilkenny
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Mike Kilkenny 1969-1972.
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John Martin 1983.
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Sid Monge 1984.
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Sean Bergman 1993-1995.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Charlie_Furbush
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Charlie Furbush 2011.
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Pete Kozma 2018.
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Jose Cisnero 2019-present.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Sailor Stroud 1910.
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