June 21 in Tigers and mlb history:
1911: Grover Cleveland Alexander wins for the second day in a row, hooking up with Brooklyn's Doc Scanlan for a 15-inning operation, won by the Phils, 2 - 1.
1914: Against Detroit P George Boehler, Walter Johnson connects for a 5th-inning grand slam that is the difference as Washington wins, 7 - 3.
1916: Rube Foster of the Red Sox no-hits the Yankees 2 - 0, for the first no-hitter in Fenway Park, beating Bob Shawkey, 2 - 0. Harry Hooper leads the offense with three hits. Red Sox president Joseph Lannin hands Rube a $100 bonus and each of his Sox teammates receive a gold-handled pocket knife engraved with the date.
1936: Detroit Tigers player manager Mickey Cochrane checks out of the hospital and goes to a Wyoming ranch to recover his health.
1938: Red Sox 3B Pinky Higgins extends his consecutive hit string to 12 with eight hits in a doubleheader split with Detroit. He is 4 for 4 in each game, a Boston win in the opener. Detroit wins the nitecap 5 - 4, with Rudy York catching both games. Tomorrow, Pinky will strike out against Vern Kennedy in his first at-bat, ending the streak.
1939: The New York Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement, based on the report that he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The 36-year-old star will remain with the team as captain.
1941: The Detroit Tigers signed Dick Wakefield as an amateur free agent.
1941: Lefty Grove's Fenway Park consecutive win streak, which started on May 3, 1938, ends at 20 games with a 13 - 9 loss to the St. Louis Browns.
1942: The white sox Ted Lyons wins his 250th career game, 6 - 5, over the Red Sox. A week later, he will beat New York's Red Ruffing to match the Yankee hurler's 251 career wins. The White Sox veteran will finish the season with 20 complete games in 20 starts, lead the AL with a 2.10 ERA, then enter the Marine Corps at age 42.
1945: The Tigers and A’s battle to a 1-1 24-inning tie.
1946: Hall of Famer Hal Newhouser wins his 100th game. His record: 100-72. He’ll post more wins before his 30th birthday than any pitcher in the lively ball era.
1950: Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit, a 7th-inning single off the Indians' Marino Pieretti, as the Yanks win, 8 - 2. DiMaggio joins Luke Appling and Wally Moses as the only active players with 2,000 or more hits.
1958: Frank Lary pitches his third straight shutout, beating the Yankees' Duke Maas 1 - 0. Al Kaline throws out Maas trying to score at the plate and hits his 7th home run to extend his hitting streak to 18 games.
1958: White Sox lefty Billy Pierce hurls a two-hitter against the Orioles, winning 1 - 0 over Billy Loes. It's the Sox's 5th shutout in their last six games.
1959: Milwaukee's Hank Aaron hits three two-run home runs at Seals Stadium to power the Braves to a 13 - 3 win over the Giants. It's the only 3-homer game of Aaron's career.
1960: The Detroit Tigers signed Jim Rooker as an amateur free agent.
1960: The Detroit Tigers traded Ray Semproch and cash to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Clem Labine.
1960: Whitey Ford outduels Yankee Killer Frank Lary to give New York a 6 - 0 win in Detroit. Mickey Mantle is 3 for 5 with two homers off Lary.
1964: On Father's Day at Shea Stadium, Ex-Tigers pitcher Jim Bunning fans 10, drives in two runs, and pitches the first perfect game (excluding Don Larsen's 1956 World Series effort and Harvey Haddix's 1959 extra-inning loss) since Charlie Robertson's on April 30, 1922. Philadelphia beats the Mets, 6 - 0.
Bunning also becomes the first pitcher to win no-hitters in both leagues, and Gus Triandos becomes the first catcher to catch a no-hitter in each league. Bunning throws just 90 pitches in winning his second no-hitter. The next time Bunning faces the Mets he will shut them out.
1966: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later and Don Demeter to the Boston Red Sox for Joe Christopher and Earl Wilson. The Detroit Tigers sent Julio Navarro (June 21, 1966) to the Boston Red Sox to complete the trade.
1966: Satchel Paige makes his final professional pitching appearance, going the first two innings for the Peninsula Grays (Carolina League) against the Greensboro Yankees. Satch gives up two runs. Peninsula's regular catcher, Johnny Bench, takes the night off.
1969: Willie Horton powers two homers, one a grand slam, and drives in six runs to lead the Tigers to a 9 - 5 win over the visiting Senators. Mickey Lolich (8-1) is the winner, allowing just four hits.
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1970: Cleveland wins the first game against Detroit, but Detroit's Cesar Gutierrez then goes 7 for 7 with six singles and a double to tie a record set in 1892, in a 12-inning 9 - 8 nitecap win. Mickey Stanley's home run wins it for the Tigers. Gutierrez, wearing #7, starts the game hitting .218, and was 0 for 18 before today. Gutierrez will collect just seven hits in all of 1971, and 128 hits for his career.
1972: Bob Gibson wins his 211th game, passing Jesse Haines as the Cards' biggest winner, in St. Louis's 14 - 3 win over the Padres. Gibson cracks a 3-run homer in the 7th before exiting.
1974: The Braves fire manager Eddie Mathews, the only man to play for the Braves in Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta. Clyde King is hired to replace him.
1986: Bo Jackson, college football's Heisman Trophy winner in 1985 and the first pick (by Tampa Bay) in the NFL draft, stuns observers nationwide by signing with the Kansas City Royals instead.
1988: With two outs in the 9th inning, Detroit Tigers SS Alan Trammell blasts a grand slam to give the Tigers a 7 - 6 win over the New York Yankees.
1994: Lou Whitaker smashes a walk-off grand slam, the sixth of eight career walk-off homers for him. Eight is a lot for someone with fewer than 250 homers.
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1997: The host Detroit Tigers blast the Boston Red Sox, 15 - 4. The Sox, trailing by 12 runs, try OF Darren Bragg at 3B, and put IF Mike Benjamin on the mound for the 9th. Benjamin retires all three batters he faces, the only one of five Sox hurlers to do so.
2012: The Detroit Tigers signed John Lindsey as a free agent.
2013: The Detroit Tigers signed Jon Link as a free agent.
2015: J.D. Martinez hits three homers and drives in 6 runs in Detroit's 12 - 4 win over the 2015. Martinez victimizes Masahiro Tanaka twice and adds the third off Danny Burawa, making his big league debut for New York.
Tigers players birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Tom_Jones
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jonesto01.shtml
Tom Jones 1909-1910.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pentzge01.shtml
Gene Pentz 1975.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/runyase01.shtml
Sean Runyan 1998-2000.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bakerje03.shtml
Jeff Baker 2012.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/marteje01.shtml
Jefry Marte 2015.
from Baseball Reference
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