July 2 in Tigers and mlb history:
1888: The Detroit Wolverines signed Deacon McGuire as a free agent.
1909: The White Sox steal 12 bases in the course of a 15 - 3 win over St. Louis. Three are steals of home, including one by P Ed Walsh in the 6th inning, for a modern major league record.
1911: Detroit pounds out a 14 - 6 victory over Cleveland as Ty Cobb, hitting in his 40th straight game, has three hits and three runs.
Cobb collects 80 hits and bats .476 during his streak, which started on May 15.
1913: Christy Mathewson allows 13 hits but the Giants continue to pummel the Phils, winning 8 - 4. Matty gives up no walks to run his streak to 34 innings.
1914: Sam Crawford hits a single, double, & triple in the Tigers' 4-0 win over Cleveland. Tigers move to within one game of the Athletics in the American League.
1922: Cardinals second baseman Rogers Hornsby, speaking with Billy Evans in today's issue of the Pittsburgh Press, all but predicts that he will set a new National League single-season home run record this season: "When the season started, I didn't give the matter of home runs a thought, even though I made 21 last year. However, they started to come my way rather easily and now I have the home run fever. With the season less than half over, I have 18 to my credit. Back in 1884, so the records say, Ed Williamson, playing with Chicago, made 27 home runs. That record has stood the test of all the great hitters of the National League for 38 years. I would like to break that record, and feel that I am well on the way to set a new home-run mark for a season in the National League."
In fact, Hornsby is as good as his word; he'll catch Williamson within the month, passing him on August 5th and, in the end, he'll leave the long-dead NL single-season leader far behind with his final total of 42.
1933: Carl Hubbell pitches an entire 18-inning shutout for the Giants over the Cardinals to tie a record for the longest 1 - 0 game. He strikes out 12 and walks none, allowing only six hits in a duel with Tex Carleton, who goes the first 16 innings. In game 2, played in semi-darkness, Roy Parmelee wins 1 - 0, on a Johnny Vergez home run. The notoriously wild Giants pitcher does not issue a walk and strikes out 13.
1939: In a doubleheader with the Dodgers before 51,435 at the Polo Grounds, the fireworks start two days early.
The Dodgers take a uneventful opener, 3 - 2, but in the 4th inning of the nitecap, Dodger player-manager Leo Durocher ends the inning by grounding into a double play and spikes 1B Zeke Bonura as he crosses the bag. Bonura takes off after Durocher, chases him down the right field line, and throws his mitt at him. He finally wrestles him to the ground. Both players are ejected, and the Giants go on to win, 6 - 4. To Bonura's charge of intentional spiking, the Lip retorts, "If that big clown hadn't got his foot in my way, I wouldn't have been close to him."
1941: On a sweltering day in front of 52,832 fans at Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio breaks Wee Willie Keeler's 1897 major league record hitting streak of 45 with a three-run homer off Red Sox hurler Dick Newsome.
1950: Indian great Bob Feller wins his 200th major league game, 5 - 3, over Detroit in the second game of a doubleheader split. Detroit wins the opener, 8 - 5, for their only win in the four-game series.
1956: NBC pays $16.25 million for the Television and radio rights to the All-Star Game and the World Series. The players' pension fund will get 60 percent of the revenues.
1961: The Yankees hit five homers - number 28 by Mickey Mantle and numbers 29 and 30 by Roger Maris - to easily beat the Senators, 13 - 4.
1963: In one of baseball's most memorable pitching duels, the Giants' Juan Marichal and the Braves' Warren Spahn both hurl 15 scoreless innings before Willie Mays ends the marathon with a homer off Spahnie in the bottom of the 16th, giving San Francisco a 1- 0 win.
1966: The Detroit Tigers signed Tim Hosley as an amateur free agent.
1970: Detroit's Joe Niekro no-hits the Yankees until Horace Clarke singles in the 9th inning. The Tigers win, 5 - 0. This is the third time in the month that Clarke has broken up a no-hitter, having spoiled bids by Kansas City's Jim Rooker (June 4th) and Boston's Sonny Siebert (June 19th).
1973: The Detroit Tigers signed Ron LeFlore as an amateur free agent. LeFlore will play six seasons for the Tigers and make the All-Star team in 1976.
1978: Ron Guidry wins his 13th consecutive game, the best start in Yankee history, in beating Detroit, 3 - 2. With the Yankees down 2 - 0, Mickey Rivers' long drive to right is caught by a fan reaching down to take it away from Detroit's Mickey Stanley. The fan drops the ball and Stanley, waiting for an interference call, fails to retrieve it. Rivers motors for an inside-the-park homer and New York ties the game, 2 - 2, eventually winning it.
1985: Astros hurler Joe Niekro notches his 200th career victory. The Niekro brothers (Joe & Phil) will join the Perrys (Jim & Gaylord) as the only brothers to win at least 200 games per pitcher.
1989: Brewers OF Robin Yount, 33, collects his 2,500th hit in a 10 - 2 win over the Yankees. Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Hank Aaron and Mel Ott were the only players to reach that milestone at a younger age.
1993: Cecil Fielder hits a home run onto the left field roof of #Tiger Stadium and the Tigers beat the rangers 6 - 4.
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1995: Dodger righthander Hideo Nomo, who is leading the National League in strikeouts, becomes the first player from Japan to be selected for the major league All-Star Game.
1999: The Florida Marlins signed Miguel Cabrera as an amateur free agent. Dave Dombrowski, then the Marlins' GM, later said: "He was doing things with the bat that people at 16 don't do".
2000: The Detroit Tigers signed Mark Johnson as a free agent.
2002: The Tigers and White Sox tie their own major league record by hitting a combined 12 homers. Each team slugs six homers, with Robert Fick, Dmitri Young (2), Damion Easley, George Lombard, and Wendell Magee going deep for Detroit in Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The White Sox come out on top in the slugfest, 17-9.
2003: The Detroit Tigers released Ron Wright.
2005: In one of the most severe penalties ever imposed by the commissioner's office for on-field behavior, Kenny Rogers is suspended for 20 games and fined $50,000 for actions which sent a cameraman to the hospital and launched a police investigation. The veteran southpaw, who will appeal the decision, is selected by his peers to be a member of the American League All-Star squad scheduled to play next week in Detroit.
2007: The Detroit Tigers signed Hernan Perez as an amateur free agent.
2008: The Detroit Tigers signed Dixon Machado as an amateur free agent.
2012: The Detroit Tigers signed Willy Adames as an amateur free agent.
2012: The Detroit Tigers signed Domingo Leyba as an amateur free agent.
2015: The Detroit Tigers signed Trayvon Robinson as a free agent.
2017: Tigers honor Gary Sheffield with the Willie Horton African American Legacy Award. We're proud to recognize former Tigers outfielder Gary Sheffield as this year’s Willie Horton African American Legacy Award recipient.
2017: For the first time in 331 starts, Justin Verlander fails to record a strikeout. Verlander only lasts 3.1 innings in a loss to the indians.
2017: Mookie Betts homers twice and drives in 8 runs to lead the Red Sox to a 15 - 1 win over the Blue Jays, completing a three-game sweep at the Rogers Centre. It's only the fourth time in history that a lead-off hitter drives in that many runs.
2018: In an interleague meeting between top postseason contenders, ex-teammates, and former Cy Young Award winners, Rick Porcello of the Red Sox gets the better of his former teammate Max Scherzer of the Nationals when he surprises him with a bases-clearing double in the 2nd, the first extra-base hit of his career. Those 3 runs are the only ones Scherzer allows in 6 innings, but they are enough to saddle with a 4 - 3 loss.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Pat McGehee 1912.
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Gil English 1936-1937.
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Hal Wagner 1947-1948.
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Pete Burnside 1959-1960.
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Steve Sparks 2000-2003.
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Sean Casey 2006-2007.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Joe Yeager 1901-1903.
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