May 30 in Tigers and mlb history:
1894: Bobby Lowe of the Boston Beaneaters becomes the first player to hit four home runs in one game, in a 20 - 11 win over the Reds in the second game of a doubleheader. Lowe hits two of his homers in the 3rd inning.
1904: The Detroit Tigers purchased Frank Huelsman from the Chicago White Sox.
1919: Ty Cobb hits 2 doubles and a triple as Tigers beat the st. louis browns 6 - 2.
1925: Rogers Hornsby is named manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, replacing Branch Rickey, who remains as general manager. Hornsby will be the only player-manager to win the Triple Crown, which he does by topping a .400 batting average for the third time in four years, hitting .403 with 39 home runs and 143 RBI.
1927: In his first appearance of the season, Walter Johnson pitches the last shutout of his major league career, number 110, in a Washington Senators 3 - 0 victory over the Boston Red Sox.
1928: Charlie Gehringer triples and scores on a sac fly in the 12th to give the #Tigers the 6 - 5 win over the indians.
1930: The New York Yankees traded Waite Hoyt and Mark Koenig to the Detroit Tigers for Ownie Carroll, Harry Rice and Yats Wuestling.
1935: Babe Ruth makes his last major league appearance. He plays only the first inning of the opener of a doubleheader between the Boston Braves and Philadelphia Phillies at the Baker Bowl. Phillies pitcher Jim Bivin retires Ruth on an infield grounder in the Babe's final major league at-bat.
1937: Hank Greenberg enjoys the only five-hit game of his career. He’s 5-for-5 with a walk, four runs, two homers, and five RBIs in the Tigers 18 - 3 win over the st. louis browns.
1940: Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants throws 87 pitches in a 7 - 0 one-hitter against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Hubell faces the minimum 27 batters, as Johnny Hudson, who singles for the only hit, is caught stealing.
1944: Tigers pitcher Dizzy Trout does something quite rare for a hurler: Belt a walk-off home run.
1956: Mickey Mantle hits a home run that comes within a foot-and-a-half of leaving Yankee Stadium. It hits the face of the upper deck in right field, 370 feet from home plate and 117 feet in the air. Mantle also becomes the first player in major league history to hit 20 home runs by the end of May as the Yankees beat the Washington Senators.
1961: Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and Bill Skowron each hit two home runs to lead the New York Yankees to a 12 - 3 rout of the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. Yogi Berra also homers for New York. Ralph Terry is the winning pitcher, Gene Conley the loser.
1964: The New York Mets purchased Frank Lary from the Detroit Tigers. An All-Star in '60 and '61, Lary led the AL in complete games 3 out 4 seasons from '58-'61.Lary finished his 11 years with the Tigers with a 123 - 110 record, and known as the "Yankee Killer" was 28 - 13 vs. the yankees.
1966: Denny McLain throws his second one-hitter of the season, giving up only a 5th-inning 2-run double, and the Tigers beat the kansas city athletics 5 - 2.
1967: The Detroit Tigers returned Ethan Blackaby to the California Angels following previous purchase.
1967: New York Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford announces his retirement from baseball because of an elbow injury. His final appearance was a start in Detroit on May 21, but he lasted just one inning for the Yankees. He finishes his major league career with a 236-106 record.
1968: Bill Freehan and Jim Northrup hit home runs for the Tigers in a 7-3 win in Anaheim. Tigers are 27-16, 1.5 games ahead of the Orioles in the AL.
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1970: All-Star voting is returned to the fans, as computerized punch-card ballots appear in stores and ballparks coast to coast. Since 1958 the All-Star squads had been selected by managers, coaches, and players.
1971: Willie Mays hits his 638th major league career home run with the Giants franchise, adding in the process his National League record 1,950th run scored.
1972: The Texas Rangers traded Norm McRae to the Detroit Tigers for Dalton Jones.
1980: Former star Tigers fireman John Hiller announces his retirement. After missing the 1971 season with a heart attack, Hiller comes back and pitches for the Tigers the rest of his career finishing 15 seasons with Detroit with 125 Saves including his 1973 season of 38 saves in 65 games and 60 games finished with 125 IP and a 1.02 whip.
1980: Tigers hit 5 home runs in a 12-1 rout of the angels. Tigers score 5 runs in the 6th on home runs by Lance Parrish, Richie Hebner, and Kirk Gibson. Hebner nearly clears the right field roof.
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1982: Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles begins his major league record consecutive games played streak by starting at third base (his position for the first 27 games during the streak), appearing eighth in the batting order against the Toronto Blue Jays.
1984: Tigers win 2-1, take 2 of 3 in Oakland. #Tigers are 37-9.
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2006: Craig Biggio ties Hank Aaron for ninth place on the major league career doubles list with his 624th in the Astros' 6 - 3 victory over St. Louis. Biggio now has 2,850 hits, two more than Brooks Robinson for 40th place in the all-time list. Just yesterday, Biggio became the 23rd major leaguer to reach 10,000 at-bats.
2010: Max Scherzer becomes the first pitcher since 1900 to strike out 14 batters in less than 6 innings as the Tigers beat the oakland a's 10 - 2.
2011: The Tigers beat the Twins, 7 - 6, on a controversial 8th-inning double by Alex Avila. Avila hits a low line drive down the third base line that rolls into foul territory; two fans stretch over the railing and attempt to grab the ball, which goes past them, skips on the concrete base of the stands, and bounces into another group of fans, hitting one in the chest, before ending its run back in foul territory. Umpire Gary Darling calls fan interference and sends runner Jhonny Peralta, who was on first base, all the way home, ruling that the first spectators deflected the ball's trajectory and that Peralta would have otherwise scored. Twins manager Ron Gardenhire comes out to argue but loses the argument, is ejected, and Peralta's run is the deciding one in the game.
2013: Miguel Cabrera hits 2 doubles, one of which is his 400th career double in a 1 - 0 loss to the pirates.
2017: Jim Leyland is named to the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame.
2018: Tigers score 5 runs in the 6th inning following the appearance of a navigationally challenged goose at Comerica Park, and beat the Angels 6-1.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Ed Rakow 1964-1965.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/colebe01.shtml
Bert Cole 1921-1925.
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