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August 2 in Tigers and mlb history:

1905: At Pittsburgh, the Giants win their 13th game in a row, beating the Pirates, 3 - 1, to take a 10 1/2 game lead over the Pirates. Christy Mathewson is the winner over Deacon Phillippe. Bucs star Honus Wagner is thrown out at first base in the 4th inning on a close play, then shows his displeasure by firing a ball near umpire George Bausewine during warmups the next inning. Bausewine responds by thumbing Honus out of the game. Wagner will be suspended for three games and fined $40.

1907: Senators rookie Walter Johnson makes his major league debut, losing to the Tigers, 3 - 2. Ty Cobb gets the first hit and first run off the future Hall of Famer with a bunt single.

1907: Three Finger Brown tops Christy Mathewson for the third time this season, allowing just four hits in shutting out the Giants, 5 - 0. The first-place Cubs paste Matty for nine hits, and will take four out of five games in the series with New York.

1909: The Detroit Tigers purchased Del Gainer from Grafton (Pennsylvania-West Virginia).

1910: Toronto (Eastern) purchased Ed Killian from the Detroit Tigers.

1911: Christy Mathewson allows 15 singles, but his teammates help with four double plays and the Giants top the Pirates, 8 - 4. Babe Adams takes the loss.

1913: It's Walter Johnson Day in Washington. President Wilson is on hand to help mark the Big Train's 6th anniversary in a Nationals uniform. Johnson is presented with a silver cup filled with 10-dollar bills ($674) and returns the favor with a 3 - 2 win over Detroit, his 24th win of the year.

1915: On the 8th anniversary of Walter Johnson's debut, the Big Train tops the Browns, 5 - 1. The losing pitcher is George Sisler, who has a single off Johnson.

1916: Phils star Grover Alexander wins his 20th of the season, pitching a 12-inning, 1 - 0 shutout over the Cubs. In the 12th, Alex intentionally walks two and then fans pitcher Mike Prendergast with the bases loaded. Bill Killefer strolls home with the winning run while the Cubs are arguing a call at third base. Alexander has now won more games than the cross-town A's (19).

1921: With the jurors lifting the men onto their shoulders, the eight White Sox players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series are acquitted by the jury. The next day, Commissioner Kenesaw Landis will say the overwhelming evidence clearly shows the Black Sox fixed the games with gamblers and all involved will be banned from playing professional baseball again.

1922: Ken Williams homers in his sixth straight game setting an American League record. The Browns left fielder's home run helps beat the Red Sox, 9 - 4.

1924: A's 1B Joe Hauser sets an American League record when he hits 3 homers and a double for 14 total bases. It will be broken by Ty Cobb's 16 total bases on May 5, 1925.

1927: Washington celebrates Walter Johnson Day on the 20th anniversary of his joining the team. He receives $14,764.05, a silver service, and a Distinguished Service Cross made of gold with 20 diamonds. But the Tigers kayo him in a 3-run 9th to win, 7 - 6.

1929: The A's spot the Tigers six runs in the 1st inning, then rally to win, 11 - 10. Harry Heilmann has four hits, including two homers, for the losers, as do Marty McManus and Dale Alexander. The Tigers outhit the A's, 13-10.
The A's victory increases their American League lead to 11 1/2 games over the Yankees.

1930: Negro Leagues Game Playing under Kansas City's portable light system, the Pittsburgh Grays' 44-year-old hurler, Smokey Joe Williams (27 strikeouts), spins a one-hitter to defeat the Monarchs' Chet Brewer (19 strikeouts, including 10 in a row starting in the 7th), 1 - 0 in a fiercely contested 12-inning matchup. Oscar Charleston scores the only run.

1933: The A's Mickey Cochrane hits for the cycle for the second time in his career, against the Yankees in a 16 - 3 drubbing.

1940: In Detroit, the Red Sox pound 14 hits in beating the Tigers, 12 - 9. Shortstop Joe Cronin is 4 for 5 and hits for the cycle, the 5th in Sox history. Cronin cycled in 1929, not the first player to cycle twice, but the first to do it a decade apart. His 8th-inning homer, off Archie McKain, follows a Doc Cramer triple and ices it for the Sox. Boston also gets homers from Dom DiMaggio and catcher Jimmie Foxx, his 23rd. Ted Williams, pinch-hitting in the 4th, draws a walk. Jack Wilson beats Tom Seats, with both pitching in relief.

1941: Ted Williams goes 2-for-3 vs Tigers at Fenway Park to raise his batting average to .412 and the Tigers beat the red sox 6 - 5.

1942: At Detroit, the Tigers sweep a pair from the Red Sox, 8 - 4 and 6 - 2, to knock Boston out of 2nd place. Dizzy Trout wins the opener, helping himself with a 3-run home run. Virgil Trucks wins the nitecap, giving up a 9th-inning home run to Ted Williams. Along with Jim Tabor, CF Dom DiMaggio has a homer in the opener, then adds an unassisted double play in the nitecap.

1942: At Yankee Stadium, Satchel Paige and Hilton Smith combine to pitch a one-hit shutout over the New York Cubans (Negro League). The Monarchs win, 9 - 0. In the first game of the twinbill, the Philadelphia Stars conquer the Baltimore Elite Giants, 7 - 4. Henry Spearman's grand slam sparks the Philley attack.

1950: Larry Doby hits three homers in a game as Cleveland beats Washington, 11 - 0. Besides tossing the shutout, Indians hurler Bob Lemon hits a home run.

1955: "Mr. Cub" Ernie Banks hits his 4th grand slam of the season, tying the major league record, as Bob Rush bests the Pirates, 12 - 4.

1959: Jim Bunning of the Tigers pitches the only "perfect" inning of the last four decades, striking out three Red Sox on nine pitches. Bunning wins, 3 - 0. The last American League hurler to strike out the side on nine pitches was Lefty Grove, in 1928.

1959: Giants 1B Willie McCovey hits the first of his 521 major league home runs, off Ron Kline, as San Francisco downs the Pirates, 5 - 3. Johnny Antonelli wins his 15th game.

1959: Billy Bruton of the Braves hits three triples in an 11 - 5 win over the Cardinals. Two of the triples are with the bases loaded, the only time it has happened in the National League in the 20th Century.

1961: The Kansas City Athletics traded Reno Bertoia and Gerry Staley to the Detroit Tigers for Bill Fischer and Ozzie Virgil.

1964: Detroit P Larry Sherry suffers a fractured left foot when struck by a liner off the bat of Leon Wagner in Cleveland's doubleheader sweep. Sherry will be out for rest of the year.

1970: The Detroit Tigers purchased Kevin Collins from the Montreal Expos.

1972: The Tigers purchase P Woodie Fryman from the Phillies. Fryman proves to be a key piece down the stretch to help the Tigers win a division title. Fryman, just 4-10 for Philadelphia, will go 10-3 with Detroit.
In two days, the Tigers will purchase C Duke Sims from the Dodgers for Detroit, Sims will hit .316 in 38 games.
The two veterans will spark Detroit to the American League Eastern Division title.

1981: Ernie Harwell honored with the Ford Frick award at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.

1984: Tigers 2 - Indians 1. Morris 1 R in 8 IP. Whitaker 2-run HR in 5th.

1985: Frank Tanana of the Tigers allows one hit (a home run by Ben Oglivie in the 5th) in beating the Brewers, 4 - 1. Tanana (6-10) strikes out eight while walking one.

1991: The Detroit Tigers released Rick Renteria.

1992: Rollie Fingers, Bill McGowan, Hal Newhouser and Tom Seaver are inducted in the Hall of Fame.

2001: The Detroit Tigers signed Bryce Florie as a free agent.

2004: The Detroit Tigers signed Benji Gil as a free agent.
2004: The Detroit Tigers signed Chad Meyers as a free agent.

2010: The Pittsburgh Pirates sent Brandon Jones to the Detroit Tigers as part of a conditional deal.

2013: The Detroit Tigers released Cesar Carrillo.

2014: The Tigers score in all eight innings in which they come to bat in defeating the Rockies, 11 - 5. The last major league team to do this was the Yankees in 2006. It's a first in Tigers history, at least since 1912, as inning-by-inning scores are not available for all games before that date.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/nancedo01.shtml
Kid Nance 1901.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jamesar01.shtml
Art James 1975.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/millema01.shtml
Matt Miller 2001-2002.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Al_Avila
Al Avila Assistant GM, GM 2002-2019.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lewisco01.shtml
Colby Lewis 2006.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dan_Brouthers
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/broutda01.shtml
Dan Brouthers Detroit Wolverines NL 1886-1888.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/curryji01.shtml
Jim Curry 1918.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/federal01.shtml
Al Federoff 1951-1952.

Baseball Reference
 
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https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/tyler-alexander-loses-in-texas-homecoming
Alexander falls short in Texas homecoming.
Tigers show perseverance with near comeback in ninth.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2019/8...meritte-mlb-debut-jake-rogers-tyler-alexander
Rangers 5 - Tigers 4: Oh yeah, the offense is still bad.
The Tigers looked like a team without Nicholas Castellanos in a mistake-filled loss in Texas.
BYBTB

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...r-hard-hold-off-late-tigers-rally/1898059001/
No storybook ending for Tigers' Tyler Alexander in homecoming loss to Rangers.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...etroit-tigers-texas-rangers-score/1907878001/
Detroit Tigers observations: Travis Demeritte triples in debut.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2019/0...t-is-a-triple-but-tigers-fall-to-rangers.html
Travis Demeritte?s 1st MLB hit is a triple, but Tigers fall to Rangers.
Mlive

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...818#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=566818
Boxscore.

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/tigers-travis-demeritte-makes-mlb-debut
Demeritte triples in MLB debut vs. Texas.
Key return in Greene trade was Rangers' 1st-round pick in 2013.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2019/8...avis-demeritte-first-career-hit-texas-rangers
Watch Travis Demeritte leg out a triple for his first career hit.
Demeritte flashed his plus speed to take the extra base.
BYBTB

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...is-demeritte-detroit-tigers-trade/1907086001/
Detroit Tigers' Travis Demeritte debuts: I'm a little guy who packs a punch.
Freep
 
August 3 in Tigers and mlb history:

1904: The New York Highlanders loaned Monte Beville to the Detroit Tigers.

1914: Yankee catcher Les Nunamaker throws out three Tigers trying to steal second base. It will be the only time a backstop has accomplished the feat in a single inning this century.

1921: The Detroit Tigers purchased Allen Conkwright from Bloomington (Three-I).

1923: No games are played following the death of President Warren G. Harding in San Francisco on August 2. The schedule will also be canceled a week later on the day of his funeral.

1930: At Washington, the Senators divide a pair with Boston, winning 11 - 2 and losing 7 - 1. Joe Judge manages the Nats with Walter Johnson in mourning, Senator players will act as pall bearers at Mrs. Johnson's funeral tomorrow.

1931: The A's Lefty Grove beats the Senators, 3 - 2, giving up 11 hits. Grove has now won 13 straight games.

1948: Before 72,434 in Cleveland, ancient Satchel Paige makes his first start, pitching seven innings against the Senators before being relieved. Paige picks up the win, 5 - 3.

1950: The Detroit Tigers purchased Hank Borowy from the Pittsburgh Pirates for $15,000.

1955: Frank Lary of the Tigers beats Washington 3 - 0 on a complete game 2-hitter with 0 strikeouts.

1959: For the first time in major league history a second All-Star Game is played in the same season. The American League posts a 5 - 3 victory at the Los Angeles Coliseum as the White Sox's Nellie Fox singles in the decisive run.

1960: Frank Lane trades managers with Detroit GM Bill DeWitt. The Indians' manager Joe Gordon (49-46) is traded for Tigers Jimmy Dykes (44-52).

1969: Willie Horton hits a walkoff grand slam to give the Tigers 6-2 win over White Sox at Tiger Stadium.

1980: Al Kaline, Duke Snider, Chuck Klein, and Tom Yawkey are inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=j_D36fI8EAQ

1985: The Detroit Tigers signed Mickey Mahler as a free agent.

1986: Willie McCovey, Bobby Doerr, and Ernie Lombardi are inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.

1992: Tigers president Bo Schembechler and team chairman Jim Campbell are both fired by fax.

1995: The Senate Judiciary Committee sends a bill calling for the partial repeal of baseball's antitrust exemption to the full Senate. The vote is just 9-8.

1996: Tigers beat the Mariners 6-3 on a walk-off 3-run home run by Brad Ausmus at Tiger Stadium.

1997: Phil Niekro, Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox, and Willie Wells are inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

1999: The Major League Umpires Association files unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board to block the American League and National League from using minor league replacements in the wake of the union's mass resignation strategy.

2009: Justin Verlander of the Tigers gives up 5 runs to the Orioles in the 1st inning, before settling down. Brian Roberts leads off the game with a home run, and four more runs score before the second out is recorded.
Detroit scores three in the bottom of the inning, on doubles by Placido Polanco and Miguel Cabrera. Cabrera then homers to tie the game in the 5th. With two outs in the bottom of the 9th, Clete Thomas homers to deepest center field off Danys Baez to give Detroit the comeback 6 - 5 win, which extends its lead over the idle White Sox to 2 games in the AL Central.

2010: The Oakland Athletics selected Jeff Larish off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

2013: Juan Berenguer, World Champion with the Tigers in 1984, is inducted into the Hispanic Heritage Baseball Museum Hall of Fame in a ceremony at Comerica Park.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDVf1gdXgAAdTme.jpg

2013: Max Scherzer improves to 16-1 in the Tigers 3-0 win over White Sox.

2015: Mike Hessman of the Toledo Mud Hens hits his 433rd home run in the minor leagues, passing Buzz Arlett for most all-time in the U.S.-based minors. Four players whose careers were largely in Mexico have hit more. Among these, Hector Espino remains the all-time leader with 484.

2015: Adrian Beltre hits for the cycle for the third time in his career when he gets all four hits by the end of the 5th inning in the Rangers' 12 - 9 win over the Astros. The last player to hit three cycles was Babe Herman, who hit his third in 1933; Bob Meusel and John Reilly are the only other members of this exclusive club.

2016: JD Martinez returns from placed on the disabled list June 17 to pinch hit in the eighth inning vs. the White Sox Chris Sale, hits the first pitch he sees in 7 weeks for a home run and the Tigers win 2 - 1.

Tigers players, coaches, and announcers birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Harry_Heilmann
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/heilmha01.shtml
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/7257f49c
Harry Heilmann 1914, 1916-1929, radio/tv announcer 1934-1950.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jim_Hegan
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/heganji01.shtml
Jim Hegan 1958, coach 1974-1978.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/meyerda01.shtml?redir
Dan Meyer 1974-1976.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mageewe01.shtml?redir
Wendell Magee 2000-2002.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/joycema01.shtml
Matt Joyce 2008.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mccoypa01.shtml
Pat McCoy 2014.

Baseball Reference
 
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https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2019/08/02/the-saturday-survey-42/
THE SATURDAY SURVEY.
Totally Tigers

The Saturday Survey offers another way for readers to weigh in on a relevant topic. So here is a poll to gauge the pulse of our baseball-lovin? peeps.

As always, we welcome your comments, so please vote and then submit your reasons ( 4 sentences max!) for how you voted in the usual comment box. Don?t forget to come back later and view the results!

Now that Matthew Boyd will stay a Tiger for the rest of the year, what does the future hold for him?

He will be traded in the off-season.

He will be dealt at the July trade deadline in 2020.

He will stay a Tiger and they will build the rotation around him.

Other.

Vote.
 
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...e-jimenez-first-crack-closer-role/1912507001/
With Shane Greene gone, Tigers giving Joe Jimenez first crack at closer role.
Detnews

Since being selected to the All-Star team last year, he?s been wildly inconsistent. He had a 7.78 ERA and a 1.42 WHIP after the break last year. He got off to a slow start this season and was removed from the eighth-inning set-up role twice.

Overall, he?s given up a career-high nine home runs in 42 innings. The percentage of pitches hitters have barreled up against him (11.9) is in the bottom-four percentile in baseball.

Jimenez is trending in a good direction. He has allowed two hits and one run in his last seven outings, with eight strikeouts. But one of the two hits came in the eighth inning last Sunday in Seattle ? a two-out, two-strike game-tying home run by Domingo Santana.

Opponents are hitting .198 against his heater and .175 against his slider. His stuff is still worthy of the role. He just needs to sharpen his focus and command.
 
https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/matthew-boyd-tigers-lose-walk-off-to-rangers
Tigers voice frustration after walk-off loss.
Odor homers off Ramirez in 10th after 2-strike check swing.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2019/8...brera-matt-boyd-travis-demeritte-rougned-odor
Rangers 5 - Tigers 4: Rougned Odor downs Detroit with a 10th inning blast.
Boyd was very good again, and Miggy homered, but it wasn?t enough.
BYBTB

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...824#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=566824
Boxscore.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...-lose-rangers-walk-off-homer-10th/1913940001/
'Horrendous:' Tigers steamed at missed call preceding Rangers' walk-off homer.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...etroit-tigers-texas-rangers-score/1914075001/
Detroit Tigers drop fly ball, later lose to Rangers on walk-off HR in 10th.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2019/08/rangers-rally-in-10th-inning-to-beat-tigers.html
Rangers rally in 10th inning to beat Tigers.
Mlive
 
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