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August 30 in Tigers and mlb history:

1904: Christy Mathewson and the visiting Giants top the Reds, 3 - 1, beating Noodles Hahn. Matty drives in one of the three runs scored in the 8th with a single and improves his record to 28-9.

1905: Making his Major League debut, Ty Cobb doubles off Highlander Jack Chesbro in a 5 - 3 Tiger victory at Detroit's Bennett Park.
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1912: Earl Hamilton no-hits the Tigers at Navin Field (Tiger Stadium), the first no-hitter in Browns/Orioles history.
Tigers are no-hit but not shut out: Ty Cobb scores after walking, advancing on an error, and coming home on double steal.

1913: The Giants score six runs against Grover Cleveland Alexander, but the Phillies come back from the 6 - 0 deficit to score eight against Christy Mathewson. With two outs in the top of the 9th, and the Phils leading 8 - 6 over New York, umpire Bill Brennan, acceding to a request by the wily John McGraw, orders Phils captain Mickey Doolan (Phils manager Red Dooin had been ejected during the 6-run 6th) to have spectators removed from the CF bleachers, where they are waving hats, newspapers, and handkerchiefs to distract the batters.
When Doolan refuses, Brennan forfeits the game, 9 - 0, to the Giants. Bedlam ensues and later, when the two umpires and Giants players try to board the train at the North Philadelphia Station, they are attacked by fans. The police draw their revolver to control the crowd.
The Phils protest the forfeit and National League president Thomas Lynch will reverse the umpire and rule the game an 8 - 6 Phils win. The Giants then appeal. NL directors say both Brennan and Lynch are wrong, and order the game completed from the point at which it was stopped. The game will be finished October 2nd, with the outcome the same.

1919: Down 7-0 in the 8th inning in St. Louis, the Tigers come back to win 8-7. Ty Cobb hits a home run and a double.
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1930: Hack Wilson returns to the Cubs lineup and drives in six runs on his 45th and 46th homers of the year to lead Chicago over the Cardinals, 16 - 4. For August, Hack hits 13 homers and drives in 53 runs.

1934: Tigers beat indians 6-1 to complete a 23-6 August that took them from tied for first place to 5 games ahead of the Yankees, en route to their first pennant in 25 years.

1947: The Boston Braves purchased Bobby Hogue from the Detroit Tigers.

1950: The Tigers drop out of first place for the first time since June 10 when they split a pair with the Senators, losing 3 - 2 in 11 innings, then taking the nitecap, 10 - 8.

1953: The Dodgers rip St. Louis, 20 - 4, with the help of two big innings. Dodger Jackie Robinson fans twice in the 3rd inning, while Gil Hodges walks twice in the 6th. Roy Campanella's five RBIs ties the National League season mark of most RBIs by a catcher (122).

1961: Mickey Mantle connects for home run number 47, off the Twins' Jim Kaat, as the Yanks win, 4 - 0.

1965: Following his doctor's advice, Casey Stengel announces his retirement as manager of the Mets. He will head up Mets scouting in California. Stengel ends a 25-year managerial career that included 10 pennants with the Yankees, followed by a dismal 175-404 with the expansion Mets. The 75-year-old Stengel has been in professional baseball since 1910.

1968: In the showdown in Detroit, 53,575 fans cheer as P Earl Wilson pitches a 4-hit 9 - 1 victory over 2nd-place Baltimore. Wilson adds four RBIs on two hits, including his 5th home run of the year. RF Jim Northrup, and 3B Don Wert have 2 rbi.

1979: The Chicago Cubs purchased Bruce Kimm from the Detroit Tigers.

1984: Jack Morris pitches a 4-hit complete game but the Tigers lose 2-1.

1986: Yankee hurlers Tommy John (43) and Joe Niekro (41) become the first 40+ pitchers since 1933 to start both ends of a doubleheader. John loses, 1 - 0, and Niekro pitches five innings for a 3 - 0 victory over the Mariners.

1995: Tiger teammates Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell tie an American League record by playing in their 1,914th game together, a 10 - 7 loss to the White Sox. The record was set by Kansas City's George Brett and Frank White.
The Tigers teammates will finish their great careers playing 1,918 games together.

2002: The Cincinnati Reds traded players to be named later and David Espinosa (minors) to the Detroit Tigers for Matt Boone (minors), Brian Moehler and cash. The Cincinnati Reds sent Noochie Varner (minors) (August 30, 2002) and Jorge Cordova (minors) (September 24, 2002) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

2002: After marathon negotiation sessions to avoid a players' strike just hours away, Bud Selig announces the players union and owners have reached a settlement on a new four-year Collective Bargaining Agreement without the need for a work stoppage. The new agreement, called "historic" by the Commissioner, gives the owners the economic restraints they wanted as the players are assured no teams will be contracted until the 2007 season, with a revenue-sharing plan to be gradually implemented during the span of the contract.

2007: The St. Louis Cardinals traded a player to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Mike Maroth.
The St. Louis Cardinals sent Chris Lambert (August 30, 2007) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

2007: The Chicago Cubs traded a player to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Craig Monroe and cash.
The Chicago Cubs sent Clay Rapada (August 30, 2007) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

2013: The Latino Baseball Hall of Fame announces its 15 newest members, namely Teddy Higuera, Mike Cuellar, Tony Armas, Juan Gonzalez, Matty Alou, Tony Fernandez, Silvio Garcia, Vic Davalillo, Vic Power, Felipe Montemayor, Santos Amaro, Julian Javier, Humberto Robinson, Cookie Rojas and Rennie Stennett.

2016: In his major league debut, JaCoby Jones hits a go-ahead RBI double and Ian Kinsler (4 RBI) and J.D. Martinez homer in Tigers 8 - 4 win over the white sox.

2017: Justin Verlander gets his first career RBI and his last win as a Tiger in a 6 - 2 win over the rockies.

2019: The autopsy results for Tyler Skaggs, who was found dead in his hotel room a suburb of Dallas, TX on July 1st are released. They reveal that the death was the result of an overdose of opioids, something which has become an epidemic in North America in recent years. Another shocking development is that Skaggs's family alleges that an employee of the Angels was involved in supplying the drugs, something which police is now investigating.

2019: Ten-year minor league veteran Chace Numata is seriously injured in a skateboarding accident in Erie, PA, where he was concluding his season as a catcher with the Erie SeaWolves. He is found unconscious and bleeding from the head in the small hours of the morning by a passing motorist and will die in hospital two days later. According to security footage, his motorized skateboard stopped suddenly and sent him falling forward.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Steve_Partenheimer
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/partest01.shtml
Steve Partenheimer 1913.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/perripo01.shtml
Pol Perritt 1921.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bing_Miller
Bing Miller coach 1938-1941.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bakerst01.shtml
Steve Baker 1978-1979.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/o'neara01.shtml
Randy O'Neal 1984-1986.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bob_Jones_(jonesbo01)
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jonesbo01.shtml
Bob Jones 1917-1925.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/phillja02.shtml
Jack Phillips 1955-1957.

Baseball Reference
 
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https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/tigers-home-woes-continue-in-loss-to-twins
Tigers' home struggles on historic pace.
Detroit needs 5 wins in final 16 home games to avoid infamous record.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2019/8...jackson-matt-hall-ronny-rodriguez-jake-rogers
Twins 13 - Tigers 5: Edwin Jackson gets rocked in yet another home loss.
Jackson didn?t make it through the third inning as the Twins rolled to an easy win in the series opener.
BYBTB

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/twins-v...574#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=565574
Boxscore.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...s-no-match-division-leading-twins/2163413001/
Bullied and beaten: Reeling Tigers no match for division-leading Twins.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...roit-tigers-minnesota-twins-score/2136670001/
Detroit Tigers observations: Ragged, uninspiring play in another home loss.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2019/08/tigers-drop-series-opener-to-twins-13-5.html
Tigers drop series opener to Twins, 13-5.
Mlive
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2019/08/30/the-saturday-survey-46/
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!

Which statement below most supports Nick Castellanos? huge month of offensive productivity with the Cubs?

Analytics can?t measure competitive fire and emotion.

He needed a change of scenery.

The pennant race must be inspiring him.

Relieved to be out of dire situation in Detroit.

Better coaching with the Cubs.

All of the above.

Other.

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August 31 in Tigers and mlb history:

1903: 'Iron Man' Joe McGinnity wins his 3rd doubleheader this month, stopping the Phils twice, 4 - 1 and 9 - 2 and handing losses to Chick Fraser and Bill Duggleby. Iron Joe strikes out nine batters in the opener to win. The two games total three hours and three minutes,

1906: Beset by injuries, the Tigers call 46-year-old Sam Thompson out of retirement; he drives in two runs in a 5 - 1 win over the Browns. Thompson, who last played in the majors in 1898, appears in eight games and bats .226.
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1909: The A.J. Reach Company is granted a patent for its cork-centered baseball, which will replace the hard rubber-cored one. This change will be particularly apparent in the National League in 1910 and 1911.

1912: The Red Sox run their record to 87-37 with a 2 - 1 win over the A's. Following the game, Connie Mack says he never realized how strong the Sox were, and concedes the pennant to them. There are 30 games left for Boston.

1916: The Browns beat the Red Sox and Babe Ruth, 2 - 1. Ruth makes two hits and scores the lone run but pops out to end the game.

1917: At Fenway Park, Babe Ruth wins his 20th, beating the A's, 5 - 3. Ruth gives up six hits and walks 5.

1918: The Red Sox clinch the pennant, winning the first of a twin bill from the A's 6 - 1, as Babe Ruth wins his ninth game in his last 11 starts.

1927: The Yankees open a home stand by beating the Red Sox, 10 - 3. Babe Ruth hits home run number 43 and leads Lou Gehrig by 2. With an 89-37 record, the Bronx Bombers now lead the second-place A's by 17 games.

1928: The Detroit Tigers purchased Frank Barnes and Heinie Schuble from Houston (Texas) for $50,000.

1931: The Detroit Tigers traded Marty McManus to the Boston Red Sox for Muddy Ruel.

1931: Wes Ferrell of Cleveland hits two home runs, as he beats the White Sox, 13 - 5, at Chicago. He will end his career with a record 37 home runs as a hurler, plus one as a pinch hitter.

1931: In his attempt to break Walter Johnson's consecutive game winning streak of 17 games, Lefty Grove loses as Browns hurler Dick Coffman throws a three-hit shutout against the A's. Reserve Jimmy Moore, playing in place of the absent Al Simmons, misjudges a fly ball which leads to the decisive run and subsequently to Lefty's meltdown in the locker room.

1932: Detroit P Chief Hogsett hits two homers, as the Tigers end Tony Freitas' winning streak at 10 with a 5 - 4 victory over the A's.
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1937: Detroit's rookie Rudy York sets a new record for home runs in a month, hitting his 17th and 18th to eclipse Babe Ruth's mark set in September 1927. He knocks in seven runs against Pete Appleton as Detroit beats Washington, 12 - 3.
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1943: Detroit's Rudy York hits two home runs to bring his August home run total to 17, one less than his 1937 record for home runs in a single month, which he also set in August.

1948: The Red Sox keep their precarious hold on 1st place with an 8 - 4 win over the Tigers. Mel Parnell is the complete game winner. Ted Williams has two hits, scores two runs and steals a base.

1950: Gil Hodges becomes the fourth major leaguer in the century to hit four home runs in one game as Brooklyn routs the Braves, 19 - 3. The Dodger first baseman also ties the major league record for total bases with 17.

1953: The Detroit Tigers signed Reno Bertoia as an amateur free agent (bonus baby).

1957: Steve Dalkowski, legendary minor league fastballer pitching for Kingsport (Appalachian League), strikes out 24, walks 18, hits four batters, and throws six wild pitches in a row. He loses, 9 - 8.

1959: Sandy Koufax fans 18 Giants to set a National League mark in a 5 - 2 Dodger win. The game is witnessed by a crowd of 82,974 spectators (60,194 of whom have paid admission), the largest ever for a regular-season game.

1960: The Detroit Tigers purchased Dick Gernert from the Chicago Cubs.

1963: Trailing 8-6 in the 9th, the Tigers rally on back-to-back RBI singles by Norm Cash and Bubba Phillips to win 9-8 over the indians.
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1967: The New York Mets purchased Bill Graham from the Detroit Tigers.

1968: Tigers purchase Elroy Face from the Pirates the same day he ties Walter Johnson's record of 802 appearances with one team.

1968: Orioles beat the #Tigers 5-1 to cut Detroit's lead to 6 games with one month to play.

1971: The Detroit Tigers released John Hiller.

1972: The Detroit Tigers purchased Frank Howard from the Texas Rangers.
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1974: Johnny Bench drives in seven runs with a bases-loaded double and grand slam to lead the Reds to a 10 - 3 win over Montreal.

1977: Hank Aaron's mark of 755 career home runs is tied by Sadaharu Oh of the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Pro Baseball.

1988: Arbitrator George Nicolau rules against the Major League owners in the "Collusion II" case, agreeing with the players' contention that the owners conspired to fix the free agent market after the 1986 season. Twelve players will be granted no-risk free agency after the season, as well as monetary compensation.

1988: The Detroit Tigers traded players to be named later and Chris Hoiles to the Baltimore Orioles for Fred Lynn. The Detroit Tigers sent Cesar Mejia (minors) (September 9, 1988) and Robinson Garces (minors) (September 9, 1988) to the Baltimore Orioles to complete the trade.

1988: The Detroit Tigers traded Mark Lee and Rey Palacios to the Kansas City Royals for Ted Power.

1989: Arbitrator Thomas Roberts orders the Major League owners to pay $10.5 million in damages as a result of their collusion against free agents after the 1985 season.

1993: The Los Angeles Dodgers traded Eric Davis to the Detroit Tigers for a player to be named later. The Detroit Tigers sent John DeSilva (September 7, 1993) to the Los Angeles Dodgers to complete the trade.

1998: Oakland OF Rickey Henderson scores the 2,000th run of his career in the Athletics' 15 - 6 loss to Cleveland.
He joins Ty Cobb, Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Pete Rose, and Willie Mays as the only players to reach the milestone.

1999: Tigers break a 6-6 tie with 8 runs in the 7th inning to beat the Rangers 14-6 at Tiger Stadium.
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2001: The Detroit Tigers sent Lyle Mouton to the Houston Astros as part of a conditional deal.

2004: The Detroit Tigers sent Mike Difelice to the Chicago Cubs as part of a conditional deal.

2012: The Detroit Tigers traded Jeff Baker to the Atlanta Braves for a player to be named later. The Atlanta Braves sent Greg Ross (minors) (September 25, 2012) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

2012: Miguel Cabrera goes 3-for-4 with a home run and a double, en route to the Triple Crown and MVP in the Tigers 7 - 4 win over the white sox.

2016: JaCoby Jones becomes the first player in Tigers history to hit three doubles in his first two career games. Jones hits 2 doubles in the Tigers 3 - 2 win over the white sox.

2017: The Day Of Salary Dump Infamy: In a flurry of deals to beat the September 1 deadline for postseason eligibility, the Tigers trade All-Star OF Justin Upton to the Angels in return for Grayson Long and a player to be named later, and then send Ace Star P Justin Verlander to Houston for three prospects.

2017: The Detroit Tigers traded Justin Upton to the Los Angeles Angels for a player to be named later and Grayson Long (minors).
The Los Angeles Angels sent Elvin Rodriguez (minors) (September 15, 2017) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

2017: The Day Of Salary Dump Infamy: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later, Justin Verlander and cash to the Houston Astros for Daz Cameron (minors), Franklin Perez (minors) and Jake Rogers (minors).
The Detroit Tigers sent Juan Ramirez (minors) (October 13, 2017) to the Houston Astros to complete the trade.

2019: The Atlanta Braves purchased Caleb Thielbar from the Detroit Tigers.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/glaseno01.shtml
Norman Glaser 1920.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/burnsja02.shtml
Jack Burns 1936.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/nahorbi01.shtml
Bill Nahorodny 1983.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/maddemo01.shtml
Morris Madden 1987.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hideo_Nomo
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/nomohi01.shtml
Hideo Nomo 2000.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/louxsh01.shtml
Shane Loux 2002-2003.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ramon_Santiago
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/santira01.shtml
Ramon Santiago 2002-2003, 2006-2013, coach 2018.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hicksjo02.shtml
John Hicks 2016-2019.

Tigers players and coaches who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kirkeja01.shtml
Jay Kirke 1910.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wilsomu01.shtml
Mutt Wilson 1920.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/shiveiv01.shtml
Ivey Shiver 1931.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/engligi01.shtml
Gil English 1936-1937.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hal_Naragon
Hal Naragon coach 1967-1969.

Baseball Reference
 
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https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/matthew-boyd-strikes-out-11-in-win
Boyd K's 11 on a big night for Tigers' bats.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2019/8...nal-score-ronny-rodriguez-el-filino-matt-boyd
Tigers 10 - Twins 7: Ronny Rodriguez leads Tigers attack in win.
The Tigers offense came alive thanks to a two homer game from Ronny Rodriguez and a seven run third inning.
BYBTB

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/video/cody-stashak-in-play-run-s-to-ronny-rodriguez
Webvideo Highlights of the Tigers win over the twins.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/twins-v...575#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=565575
Boxscore.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...igers-beat-twins-snap-6-game-skid/2183566001/
Boyd strikes out 11, gives up 4 HRs; Tigers beat Twins to snap 6-game skid.
Detnews

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2019/0...record-but-tigers-finish-august-with-win.html
Twins break MLB home run record, but Tigers finish August with win.
Mlive
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2019/08/31/question-of-the-week-33/
QUESTION OF THE WEEK.
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