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August 17 in Tigers and mlb history:

1903: The Detroit Tigers released Heinie Smith.

1905: Christy Mathewson pitches his second straight 3 hit shutout against Chicago, this time beating Bob Wicker, 3 - 0.

1907: A match-up of Three Finger Brown and Christy Mathewson attracts a crowd of 20,000 at the Polo Grounds. Matty is unhittable for eight innings, with only a bunt single for the Cubs. But Chicago scores two in the 9th to tie as reliever Jack Pfiester matches Matty for the last three innings. Johnny Kling wins it, 3 - 2, for the Cubs in the 12th with a drive into the LF bleachers.

1909: Walter Johnson gives up four hits in topping the A's Chief Bender in 12 innings. The Nats win, 1 - 0, but the overwork will take its toll on the young ace. He will develop a sore arm and in his next two outings he will give up 27 hits.

1919: The Tigers draw a record 31,500 at home, but lose 4 - 2 to the Senators in 11 innings. Ten ground rule doubles are hit into the crowd lining the outfield.

1923: After 111 games, Babe Ruth is hitting .401 with 31 homers. He'll wind up with his highest batting average, .393. With 205 hits, a major league record 170 walks, and 4 times hit by pitches, Ruth will reach base a record 379 times.

1929: The Yankees buy P Lefty Gomez from San Francisco (Pacific Coast League) for delivery in September 1930.

1933: On his way to establishing the mark of playing in 2,130 consecutive games, Lou Gehrig quietly surpasses Everett Scott's previous record of 1,308 games.

1934: In game 2 of a double header, Schoolboy Rowe pitches a 3-hitter in New York for his 14th consecutive win as the Tigers win 2 - 0. “Rowe pitched one of the greatest games I ever saw,” said manager Mickey Cochrane.
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1937: Rudy York, in his first full season as the Tigers’ catcher, celebrated turning 24 by contributing a solo HR, a triple, 2 singles, a run & 3 RBI, as the Tigers beat Chicago 11-7.

1940: Jimmie Foxx homers in his 5th straight game as the Red Sox outslug the Senators, 12 - 9. Foxx's feat sets a club record.

1947: The great Hank Greenberg is at-bat in the 2nd inn Forbes Field. C Del Rice & umpire Al Barlick await.
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1948: An estimated crowd of 100,000 fans pass by the body of Babe Ruth which is on display at Yankee Stadium.

1948: A day after Babe Ruth dies, Yankee Tommy Henrich hits his fourth grand slam of the season tying one of the Bambino's records. The hit, off the Senators' Sid Hudson, to join Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Rudy York - and, later, Al Rosen and Ray Boone - for the American League record. Henrich, who broke in with the Yankees in 1937, had never hit a grand slam before this season. Bob Porterfield wins for New York, 8 - 1.

1950: In the American League's first Ladies Night Game, the Red Sox top the A's, 10 - 6, at Fenway Park. It is the 19th straight loss for the A's at Fenway Park, stretching back to a win on September 12, 1948. Bobby Doerr hits a first-inning grand slam off lefty Joe Murray in his major-league debut.

1957: Richie Ashburn, known for his ability to foul pitches off, hits spectator Alice Roth twice in the same at bat. The first one breaks her nose, and the second one hits her while she is being removed from her seat on a stretcher. Ironically, she is the wife of Earl Roth, the sports editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin. The Phils win, 3 - 1, over New York.

1966: Willie Mays takes second place on the all-time home run list with a 4th-inning blast off Ray Washburn. San Francisco is one-half game out of first place after beating the Cards, 4 - 3.

1967: The Houston Astros traded Eddie Mathews to the Detroit Tigers for players to be named later.
The Detroit Tigers sent Leo Marentette (December 10, 1968) and Fred Gladding (November 22, 1967) to the Houston Astros to complete the trade.
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1968: Tigers win 10-9 over the red sox on a Bill Freehan home run in the top of the 11th in Boston. Norm Cash goes 5-for-6 with a home run.
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1969: The Tigers tie a club record with six homers, and Denny McLain wins his 19th, beating the A's at Oakland 9 - 4.
Al Kaline homers in the 7th and 9th off relievers, but the first three Tigers homers come off starter Catfish Hunter.
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In the late 1950's, teammates and opponents started calling nice guy Al Kaline "The Silent Assassin".

1971: Mickey Lolich strikes out 10 in a loss to the white sox, en route to a career-high 308 Ks on the season.
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1973: The Detroit Tigers released Rich Reese.

1973 - At Shea Stadium, 42-year old New York Mets outfielder Willie Mays hits the 660th and final home run of his career off Reds lefty Don Gullett.

1977: Heck of a prediction about two Tigers minor leaguers in the Freep Sports section 43 years ago today.
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1980: The Tigers retired Al Kaline’s jersey number 6 in a ceremony held between games of a doubleheader against the Texas Rangers, George Kell emceed and also in attendance were Ed Katalinas, who signed the humble man later dubbed Mr. Tiger to a bonus contract off the Baltimore sandlots; Hall of Famer second baseman Charlie Gehringer and Kaline’s former teammate, Pat Mullin, who’d given him his No. 6 jersey.
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1981: Tigers score 12 runs without hitting a home run in a 12 - 2 thumping of the twins. Trammell, Whitaker, and Gibson knock in 8 runs between them.

1984: At Detroit, the Tigers draw 36,496 to break their attendance mark of 2,031,847 set in 1968. They also top the Mariners 6 - 2, behind Milt Wilcox. Alan Trammell returns to SS for the first time in 39 games and adds two hits.

1987: Alan Trammell appears on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
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1989: The Detroit Tigers signed Keith Atherton as a free agent.

2009: The Tigers obtain slugging 1B Aubrey Huff from the Orioles in a trade for Brett Jacobson. Huff is hitting .253 with 13 homers and 72 RBI. Huff will flop with the Tigers batting .189.

2010: Jim Thome ties the major league record for career walk-off home runs with his 12th, as the Twins beat the White Sox, 7 - 6. Thome catches Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Frank Robinson and Babe Ruth.

2011: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later, Francisco Martinez (minors), Charlie Furbush and Casper Wells to the Seattle Mariners for Doug Fister and David Pauley. The Detroit Tigers sent Chance Ruffin (August 17, 2011) to the Seattle Mariners to complete the trade.

2012: Prince Fielder hits a pair of two-run homers including a moon shot to center field, to lead Detroit to a 5 - 3 win over the Orioles; the second shot, off J.C. Romero in the 8th, breaks a 3 - 3 tie; the Tigers' other run is the result of a 1st-inning homer by the Tigers other big slugger, Miguel Cabrera.

2013: Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers hits a walk-off homer against Aaron Crow in the 9th inning for a 6 - 5 win over the Royals.

2016: The Detroit Tigers signed Pedro Ciriaco as a free agent.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/justiwa01.shtml
Walt Justis 1905.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mclaupa01.shtml
Pat McLaughlin 1937, 1945.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hub_Walker
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Hub Walker 1931, 1935, 1945.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Rudy_York
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Rudy York 1934, 1937-1945.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lemanda01.shtml
Dave Lemanczyk 1973-1976.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Matt_Anderson
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Matt Anderson 1998-2003.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mike_Maroth
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Mike Maroth 2002-2007.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Johnny_Lipon
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Johnny Lipon 1942, 1946, 1948-1952.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jimmy_Bloodworth
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bloodji01.shtml
Jimmy Bloodworth 1942-1943, 1946.

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https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/jordan-zimmermann-strong-in-return-for-tigers
Zimmermann impresses in return from IL.
Starter pitches five shutout innings, bullpen shines in 13-inning loss.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2019/8...-zimmermann-david-mckay-all-of-the-strikeouts
Rays 1 - Tigers 0: The Tigers struck out 24 times and still almost won.
The Tigers became just the 11th team in MLB history to strike out 24 times in one game.
BYBTB

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...724#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=566724
Boxscore.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...-13-th-lifts-rays-past-tigers-1-0/2044040001/
Oakland U's Brosseau singles home winning run, Rays beat Tigers 1-0 in 13 innings.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...-24-times-extra-innings-loss-rays/2043366001/
Detroit Tigers strike out 24 times in extra-innings loss to Rays.
Freep
 
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QUESTION OF THE WEEK.
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August 18 in Tigers and mlb history:

1902: Christy Mathewson shuts out Chicago, 5 - 0, to give New York its 4th straight win over the host Windy City squad. Jack Taylor takes the loss.

1906: Wee Willie Keeler strikes out for only the second time this season, both times by spitballer Ed Walsh of the White Sox.

1907: Detroit's first Sunday game at home since 1902, and the first at Bennett Park, is a 16 - 3 win over New York.

1915: The Browns send pitchers Bill James and Grover Lowdermilk to the Tigers for 1B Baby Doll Jacobson.

1931: Paul Waner chalks up five hits to lead Pittsburgh to a 14 - 5 win over the Phils.

1931: In New York's 5 - 4 loss at Detroit, Lou Gehrig is hitless as he plays his 1,000th consecutive game. He is 307 short of Everett Scott's record streak.

1936: Tigers second baseman Charlie Gehringer gets his 2,000th hit.

1938: When Detroit's Billy Rogell walks his first time up, it is his seventh consecutive base on balls, a new American League record.

1942: After going 1-6 before the All-Star break, Carl Hubbell posts his 8th straight win, beating the Braves, 10 - 2. The 39-year-old veteran is backed by Mel Ott's three hits, including a home run into the LF stands at the Polo Grounds.

1942: In the second 1942 East-West Negro Leagues All-Star Game, the East romps, 9-2, with the West making six errors and Gene Bremer and Verdell Mathis pitching poorly. Willie Wells smacks three doubles for the victors.

1946: In the second 1946 East-West Game, the West wins by a 4-1 score behind four-hit pitching by Felix Evans, Dan Bankhead and Johnny Williams. Willie Grace raps three hits.

1948: Hank Greenberg and Leo Durocher pay their final respects to the great Babe Ruth (Yankee Stadium.
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1956: Redlegs OF Bob Thurman hits three consecutive home runs; Ted Kluszewski and Frank Robinson add two each, and Wally Post, one, in a 13 - 4 win over Milwaukee at Crosley Field. The eight homers tie a major-league record.

1959: At Milwaukee, the Dodgers stake Don Drysdale to a 5 - 1 lead after five innings, but the Braves chip away and finally tie it with a run in the 9th. The Dodgers make it 6 - 5 in the 11th but Hank Aaron takes Drysdale deep to tie it up. Drysdale is finally relieved and Los Angeles wins it in the 13th, 7 - 6.

1960: Facing just 27 batters, Lew Burdette pitches a 1 - 0 no-hitter against the Phillies. Tony Gonzalez, the only Phil to reach base, is hit by a Burdette pitch in the 5th inning but erased on a double play. The Milwaukee pitcher also scores the only run of the game.

1961: Ron Kline, purchased from the Angels on August 10, blanks the Red Sox on four hits to give the Tigers a 5 - 0 win. Bill Monbouquette fails for the 9th time to win his 9th, lasting just four innings and gives up homers to Billy Bruton and Rocky Colavito.

1964: Mickey Lolich strikes out 10 in a 3-hit 1 - 0 shutout of the angels.

1967: The Detroit Tigers released Jim Landis.

1967: A baseball tragedy occurs when Tony Conigliaro of the Red Sox is beaned by the Angels' Jack Hamilton. Hit on the left cheekbone, just below the eye socket, Conigliaro will miss the rest of this year and all of 1968. He is hitting .267 with 20 home runs and 67 RBI in 95 games. Despite the loss of Tony C, the Red Sox will sweep the 4-game series with the Angels. The sweep will still leave Minnesota in 1st place, with Boston, Detroit, and Chicago all within two games.

1972: Mickey Lolich regains first place for the Tigers as he bests the Angels and Nolan Ryan, 2 - 0. Pitching a complete game shutout, it is Lolich's 19th win.

1975: Earl Averill, Bucky Harris, Billy Herman, Judy Johnson and Ralph Kiner are inducted into the Hall of Fame.

1977: Dodger P Don Sutton throws his 5th one-hitter, tying the National League record, as he blanks the Giants, 7 - 0. The lone hit is Marc Hill's two-out single in the 8th.

1977: Jason Thompson became just the third Tigers player to hit a home run completely over the right-field roof of Tiger Stadium, joining Norm Cash and Jim Northrup. By the time Tiger Stadium closed, 32 balls had been hit fair over the right-field roof, and Thompson had two of them. But his blast 38 years ago today had something no other rooftop home run had: Thompson hit it off a pitcher who would go on to the Baseball Hall of Fame - Catfish Hunter of the New York Yankees.

1984: Detroit's Juan Berenguer goes 8 1/3 innings and strikes out 12 to give the Tigers a 4 - 3 victory over the Mariners. Kirk Gibson drives in three runs with his 20th homer of the year, and becomes the first Tiger ever to reach 20 in both homers and steals. Gibson's homer is his 15th game-winning RBI this year.

1989: Guillermo (Willie) Hernandez makes his final career appearance after 13 seasons in the Tigers 7 - 3 win over the yankees.

1995: Yankees announcer, and former SS, Phil Rizzuto retires as team broadcaster after 39 years at the mike, reportedly because WPIX-TV refused to allow him to miss a game to attend teammate Mickey Mantle's funeral. Rizzuto eventually will return for the 1996 season.

1998: Alex Rodriguez goes 5-for-5 with 2 doubles and 2 home runs, but the Tigers win 7-6 over the mariners on birthday boy Bobby Higginson's grand slam.

2013: Miguel Cabrera hits his 40th home run of the season Max Scherzer pitched eight innings of two-run ball for his 18th win as the Tigers beat the royals 6 - 3.

2018: The Oakland Athletics traded players to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Mike Fiers. The Oakland Athletics sent Nolan Blackwood (minors) (August 18, 2018) and Logan Shore (minors) (September 19, 2018) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kennebo01.shtml
Bob Kennedy 1956.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/humphbo01.shtml
Bob Humphreys 1962.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Billy_Consolo
Billy Consolo coach 1979-1992, 1995.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jamesbo01.shtml
Bob James 1982-1983.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bobby_Higginson
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Bobby Higginson 1995-2005.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wilsoju10.shtml
Justin Wilson 2016-2017.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dan_McGarvey
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcgarda01.shtml
Dan McGarvey 1912.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/harpege02.shtml
George Harper 1916-1918.

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From 1955-1964, Detroit Tigers right-hander Frank Lary went 28-13 against the Yankees. Making that especially notable is that New York won nine American League pennants over that 10-year period, and against all other teams, Lary went 98-100.
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Well that sucked.

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/matthew-boyd-dazzles-but-tigers-lose-to-rays
Boyd's strong effort wasted in walk-off loss.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2019/8...inal-score-matt-boyd-joe-jimenez-victor-reyes
Rays 5 - Tigers 4: Matthew Boyd?s dominance goes to waste in a crusher.
Boyd shook off the rust after a few rough outings but the bullpen could not hold on to get him the win.
BYBTB

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/gameday/...state=final,game_tab=play-by-play,game=566725
Boxscore.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...ampa-bay-rays-win-walk-off-single/2046006001/
Tigers cough up three-run lead, Rays win on walk-off single.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...troit-tigers-score-tampa-bay-rays/2046143001/
Detroit Tigers bullpen collapses in 2nd straight walk-off loss to Rays.
Freep
 
August 19 in Tigers and mlb history:

1900: In American League action, Rube Waddell throws two complete games as Milwaukee sweeps a doubleheader from the Chicago White Stockings, 2 - 1 and 1 - 0. After throwing 17 innings in the first game, the colorful southpaw is coaxed by skipper Connie Mack, who promises him a few days off to go fishing to pitch the nightcap, he hurls a five-inning one-hitter.

1901: Kid Nichols and Christy Mathewson square off for the third time in seven days, with Nichols winning easily, 11 - 6. New York makes four errors, but a tired Matty is pasted for 13 hits while striking out just one.

1905: The Tigers purchase Ty Cobb from minor league Augusta, for a reported $500. and the rest is history.

1910: At Cincinnati, the Giants win, 9 - 3, beating Jack Rowan. Christy Mathewson allows nine hits in coasting to his 20th win of the year and his 17th straight victory over the Reds.

1911: Thirty-five thousand gather at the not-yet-completed Polo Grounds to watch the Reds finally get to Christy Mathewson after 22 straight losses, beating him for the first time since May 1908. Matty, after saving the 5 - 4 opener for Hooks Wiltse with two scoreless frames, starts the nightcap, goes five innings, and loses, 7 - 4. Mike Mitchell leads the Reds in the nitecap by hitting for the cycle off Matty, and adding a double.

1915: Red Faber pitches the White Sox to a 2 - 1 win over the Red Sox, beating Rube Foster. With the Tigers' win over the A's, Boston and Detroit are virtually tied for 1st.

1917: Coaching at third base in a 1 - 1 game against Washington, Ty Cobb gives baserunner George Burns a shove when Burns stops at third on a long hit; Burns keeps going and scores the winning run. Clark Griffith protests, and Ban Johnson upholds him, as the rules now ban coaches from touching a runner. The game is replayed, and Washington wins 2 - 0.

1918: Walter Johnson beats St. Louis, 4 - 3, in 14 innings. The Big Train will work in 15 extra-inning games, including two of 18 innings, one of 16 innings, and another of 15 innings.

1921: At the age of 34, Ty Cobb becomes the youngest player to collect 3000 hits when he singles off Red Sox hurler Elmer Myers in a 10 - 0 Tigers win. It takes Cobb just 2,135 games to do that.
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LF Bobby Veach is 4 for 4, and the Tigers bang out 19 hits. Only RF Harry Heilmann is hitless but still batting .403 on the season.

1930: In the first of two, Chicago's Hack Wilson connects off Phils P Les Sweetland for his 43rd home run, tying Chuck Klein's National League record set last year. In RF, Klein waves to Wilson as he circles the bases. The Phils hold on for a 9 - 8 win with Claude Willoughby the winner over rookie Bud Teachout. The second game ends in a 6 - 6 tie after 16 innings.

1931: At Chicago, Lefty Grove (25-2) wins his 16th consecutive game, 4 - 2, tying the American League record set by Walter Johnson and Joe Wood in 1912. Grove holds the Sox scoreless till the 9th, while the A's score in the 2nd, 3rd and 8th off Red Faber. Grove has completed games in all but one of the wins.

1938: Hank Greenberg hits 3 home runs in a doubleheader, including a walk-off shot in Game 1, raising his season total to 41. Tigers sweep the browns 8 - 7, and 7 - 4.
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1941: Hal Newhouser walks 10 batters in a game for the only time but wins anyway: Tigers 12 - Yankees 3.

1945: In game two of a doubleheader against the Reds, 37-year-old slugger Jimmie Foxx makes his first major league start, pitching the first seven innings for the Philadelphia Phillies. He leaves with a 4 - 1 lead, and Andy Karl saves Foxx's only decision, a 6 - 2 final. Double X's ERA in 10 appearances is 1.52.

1950: The Gillette Safety Razor Co. pays $800,000 for TV rights to the World Series. Radio rights will add another $175,000 more.

1951: Wearing uniform number 1/8, forty-three inch tall Eddie Gaedel walks on four pitches from Tigers' Bob Cain in his only major league appearance. Bill Veeck's idea of playing the midget was legal at the time but is later outlawed.

1955: Robin Roberts of the Phils defeats Don Newcombe of the Dodgers, 3 - 2, to become the first 20-game winner of the year.

1961: Tigers beat the Red Sox 3-2 on a walk-off single by Bubba Morton.

1968: Bob Gibson pitches the Cardinals to a 2 - 0 win over the Phillies. Gibson strikes out Dick Allen four times, the 7th time this season the Phils' slugger has K'ed four times. He will strike out a career-high 161 times this season.

1970: Fergie Jenkins homers and his teammates add another six as Chicago coasts over San Diego, 12 - 2. Jim Hickman (2), Glenn Beckert, Johnny Callison, Joe Pepitone, and Billy Williams also hit round trippers for Chicago. Six of the Cub homers are solo shots and San Diego adds a solo homer: the seven solo homers by two teams sets a National League record and ties the major league mark set on April 29, 1962.

1974: Reds 2B Joe Morgan drives in seven runs as Cincinnati rolls over Philadelphia, 15 - 2. Morgan has a grand slam and a three-run homer, then leaves after three innings when the Reds build a 14 - 0 lead.

1980: Jon Matlack holds George Brett hitless, snapping his hitting streak at 30 consecutive games, but Kansas City rallies for three runs in the 9th to beat Texas, 4 - 3. Brett batted .467 during the streak and knocked in 42 runs.

1987: Kirk Gibson and Darrell Evans go deep for Detroit, and Walt Terrell holds the Twins to 1 run in a complete game 7 - 1 Tiger's victory. After falling 11 games back in the division race in May, the Tigers now take sole possession of first place.
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1987: Paul Molitor collects four hits to extend his hitting streak to 34 games and tie Dom DiMaggio for 11th on the all-time list. The Brewers beat Cleveland, 13 - 2. Rob Deer has a grand slam for the Brewers, and tomorrow will hit another to become just the 11th player in history to hit grand slams in consecutive games.

1992: Mariners 2B Bret Boone makes his major league debut against the Orioles. By doing so, he becomes the first third-generation player in the major leagues, following in the footsteps of his grandfather Ray, and his father Bob. Boone goes 1 for 4 and drives in a run in Seattle's 10 - 8 victory.

1999: The Detroit Tigers released Walt McKeel.

2005: Carlos Pe?a hits 2 home runs and an RBI single in the Tigers' 9-5 win over the Blue Jays

2007: John Smoltz sets the career Atlanta Braves franchise record for strikeouts. He whiffs Mark Reynolds in the 3rd inning of a 6 - 2 win, one of 13 K's on the day as he passes Phil Niekro's old mark of 2,912.

2007: Greg Maddux moves up the historical charts, as he ties Tim Keefe for 9th all-time with 349 wins. He allows one run, two hits and no walks in six innings in a 5 - 3 win over the Astros. Maddux aids his cause with two hits in two at-bats.

2010: The specter of the 2000s steroid scandal is still around. Today, former pitching great Roger Clemens is indicted on six counts of perjury for allegedly lying during Congressional hearings on PED use in February 2008 when he testified that he had never used banned substances. A number of former teammates and associates have since come forward to provide testimony that contradicts his statements made under oath.

2015: In his 1st MLB at-bat, Daniel Norris becomes the first AL pitcher to hit a home run at Wrigley Field. Norris is the first Tigers pitcher with a HR and a walk in the same game since 1970. 15th time that's happened in club history.

2017: Alan Trammell throws out the first pitch at Comerica Park.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jim_Finigan
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/finigji01.shtml
Jim Finigan 1957.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lashefr01.shtml
Fred Lasher 1967-1970.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/harpete01.shtml
Terry Harper 1987.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/palmeda01.shtml
David Palmer 1989.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/adamsau01.shtml
Austin Adams 2019.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/z/zamloca01.shtml
Carl Zamloch 1913.

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https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/travis-demeritte-ronny-rodriguez-homer-vs-astros
Tigers show spirit in opener vs. Houston.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2019/8...dwin-jackson-start-cabrera-gardenhire-ejected
Tigers 4, Astros 5: Cabrera, Gardenhire ejections spark almost-rally, near-non-loss.
A closer game never felt so far away.
BYBTB

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...664#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=565664
Boxscore.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...st-cabrera-gardenhire-tossed-loss/2050418001/
Fiesty Tigers can't overcome Astros' 4-run first; Cabrera, Gardenhire tossed in loss.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...troit-tigers-houston-astros-score/2021961001/
Detroit Tigers' rally falls short in entertaining 5-4 loss to Astros.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2019/0...-opener-after-cabrera-gardenhire-ejected.html
Tigers fall to Astros in opener after Cabrera, Gardenhire ejected.
Mlive
 
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