September 6 in Tigers and mlb history:
1912: In an ace pitching duel, Smokey Joe Wood of the Boston Red Sox bests Senators legend Walter Johnson, 1 - 0, for his 30th (14th consecutive) victory in a season in which he will win 34. The Red Sox's only run is the result of back-to-back doubles by Tris Speaker and Duffy Lewis; the first two-bagger should have been an easy fly out, but the ball lands into an area cordoned off by a rope to section off the overflow Fenway Park crowd.
1915: The Detroit Tigers purchased Grover Lowdermilk from the St. Louis Browns.
1916: At Detroit‚ Ty Cobb's speed is too much for St. Louis and the Tigers win 4 - 3. In the 10th inning‚ Cobb beats out a hit to short‚ steals second base and continues to third on a low throw. Bobby Veach then grounds sharply to George Sisler at 1B‚ forcing Cobb to return to third. But when Sisler jogs over to touch the bag Cobb dashes for home, beating the throw.
1919: Jack Tobin goes 5 for 5 to pace the St. Louis Browns to a 12 - 10 win over the Tigers. Ty Cobb notches three hits and Harry Heilmann hits two triples and a single for Detroit.
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1927: At Fenway Park‚ the Yankees and Red Sox split a pair‚ with New York rolling to a 14 - 2 win in the opener behind Babe Ruth. Lou Gehrig takes the home run lead with a 5th-inning homer off Tony Welzer. But the Babe responds with two homers‚ in the 6th and 7th‚ the former a drive over the centerfield fence that is called "the longest ever hit at Fenway". Both shots also come against Welzer. Ruth hits his 3rd of the day‚ number 47‚ in the nitecap‚ off Jack Russell‚ but the terrier nips New York‚ 5 - 2. There will be 34 homers hit at Fenway this season‚ but only 5 by the Sox. Ruth will hit 8‚ Gehrig 6‚ the only New York home runs hit there.
1930: In the first game of a doubleheader‚ Ted Lyons of Chicago beats Wes Ferrell of Cleveland‚ 2 - 1‚ ending Ferrell's winning streak at 13. It's Ferrell's first defeat since losing to Detroit on July 4 by a run. Lyons drives in the winning run with a triple to win his 20th on the year. Cleveland wins the nitecap‚ 4 - 2. Only 2 bases on balls are issued in the doubleheader.
1931: Homestead Grays ace Smokey Joe Williams fashions a 2-hit‚ 6 - 2 win over the St. Louis Stars in the Negro National League Championship Series. The Grays will win in 6 games.
1936: At Fenway Park, the Yankees drop a pair to the Red Sox, 14 – 5, and 4 – 2. In the opener, Wes Ferrell coasts to a win, allowing 14 hits and occasionally lobbing the ball to the plate. Jimmie Foxx's 37th homer starts the scoring. Yankees second baseman Tony Lazzeri's homer in game two deprives Lefty Grove of a shutout.
1940: Detroit's Bobo Newsom wins his 18th and hands Cleveland its 5th straight loss‚ topping the Tribe 10 - 5. C Birdie Tebbetts has 2 rbi, 3B Billy Sullivan also has 2 rbi and scores 3 runs, and LF Hank Greenberg hits his 28th homerun.
1944: In a rare night game allowed by American League president Will Harridge, after wet grounds delayed the afternoon game‚ the Tigers edge the host White Sox 3 - 2 to stay close to the Browns and Yankees. Only 1‚216 fans are on hand.
1948: In the twinbill split between the Tigers and the Browns, the 2 teams set an American League mark by using 37 players in game 2‚ an 11 - 10 St. Louis win. Ted Gray wins the opener 8 - 1. Pat Mullin, Bob Swift, and Dick Wakefield each have homeruns in the win.
1948: The Boston Braves increase their lead to 4 games as Warren Spahn lasts 14 innings to beat Da Bums‚ 2 - 1. Spahn twice picks off Jackie Robinson in his 5-hitter. In the 7-inning nitecap‚ Johnny Sain wins‚ 4 - 0. Bill Salkeld and Mike McCormick bat out of turn 3 times in game 2 and not till the latter's single in the 5th is the irregularity noticed. The umps then rule he's out of turn and he loses his hit; Salkeld's two earlier hits stand. The crowd of 40‚000 pushes the Braves attendance over the 1.3 million mark‚ a new high. Spahn and Sain will start 11 of the next 16 games, and start of the verse, "Spahn and Sain and pray for rain".
1950: Don Newcombe misses pitching complete games in a doubleheader for the Brooklyn Dodgers by leaving in the 7th inning of the second game, trailing the Philadelphia Phillies, 2 - 0. Newcombe won the first game, 2 - 0.
1953: The feuding continues‚ as the Dodgers beat the Giants, 6 - 3, but lose Carl Furillo‚ the National League's leading hitter at .344‚ for the rest of the regular season. Furillo is hit on the wrist by a Ruben Gomez pitch in the 2nd and is restrained from charging the mound. He goes to first base and‚ with a 3-2 count on the next batter‚ Furillo races from first into the dugout to swing at Leo Durocher‚ who ordered the beaning. In the melee‚ a Giants player steps on Furillo's left hand‚ breaking a finger. Furillo will not play again till the World Series‚ but his .344 will lead the NL in hitting. Roy Campanella homers in the 2nd inning and sets the major league mark for home runs by a catcher. His 38th tops the 37 hit by Cubs C Gabby Hartnett in 1930.
1959: The Dodgers set a record for a Coliseum doubleheader when 39‚432 fans show up for two games with the Cubs. Sandy Koufax runs his streak to 41 strikeouts in three games‚ for another major league record‚ but loses the opener, 3 - 0 on a 3-run homer by Ernie Banks in the 9th. The Dodgers lose the second game, 5 - 3‚ also on a 3-run 9th-inning homer‚ to drop 3 games behind the Giants.
1961: Roger Maris connects for home run #54‚ off Tom Cheney of the Senators‚ as the Yankees win‚ 8 - 0‚ behind Whitey Ford's 5-hitter. Ford is now 23-3. Johnny Blanchard hits a pair of homers‚ each time following a walk to Mickey Mantle‚ and Moose Skowron and Bob Hale also homer.
1967: After the Tigers sweep the A's 8 - 5 and 6 - 3 and the White Sox down the Angels, 3 - 2.
Earl Wilson goes the distance in Game 2 to become the first pitcher in the majors to reach 20 wins on the season. Jerry Lumpe hits a home run & a double.
The top 4 American League teams are separated by a single percentage point. Chicago and Minnesota are 78-61 for .561; Boston and Detroit are 79-62 for .560
1968: Denny McLain notches win number 28‚ beating the Twins 8 - 3. The Tigers score 4 runs off Jim Kaat before the first out is recorded. The big blast is recorded by LF Willie Horton and his 3 run homer.
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1972: Behind Mickey Lolich's 20th win‚ Detroit beats the Orioles in Baltimore 4 - 3, in the tight pennant race. Lolich had failed in 5 previous outings to win his 20th.
1972: The California Angels selected Bill Gilbreth off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
1976: Dodgers catcher Steve Yeager is seriously injured when the jagged end of a broken bat strikes him in the throat. Yeager is waiting in the on-deck circle when the end of teammate Bill Russell's bat comes off when he is hitting. The Dodgers beat the Padres‚ 4 - 1.
1981: Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela beats the St. Louis Cardinals, 5 - 0, to tie a National League record of seven shutouts by a rookie pitcher.
1982: Veteran first baseman Willie Stargell, whose uniform number 8 is retired, is saluted by 38,000 fans on his day at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium. The 41-year-old slugger delivers a pinch-hit single in the Pirates' 6 - 1 win over the Mets.
1985: At Texas‚ Carlton Fisk blasts two three-run homers and drives in 7 runs to lead the White Sox to a 12 - 1 rout of the Rangers. Tomorrow, Fisk will record his 300th double and 900th RBI.
1993: The Detroit Tigers released Willie Fraser.
1995: Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive Major League game to surpass Lou Gehrig's 56-year record. When the game becomes official in the middle of the 5th inning, Ripken takes a victory lap around Camden Yards during the 22-minute standing ovation from the sell-out crowd, including President Bill Clinton.
1996: Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the 15th player in major league history to hit 500 home runs. Murray homers off Felipe Lira in the 7th inning of the Orioles' 5 - 4, 12-inning loss to Detroit at Camden Yards. Murray also joins Hank Aaron and Willie Mays as the only big leaguers to reach this milestone and also have at least 3,000 hits.
1998: The Detroit Tigers selected Will Brunson off waivers from the Los Angeles Dodgers.
2000: After reaching an agreement with the law firm Morgan, Lewis and Bockis LLP, Major League Baseball can now use the URL
www.mlb.com. The law firm registered the mlb.com in 1994 and refused to release the domain name, making it necessary for the sport to use
www.majorleaguebaseball.com.
2001: The Detroit Tigers signed Frankie De La Cruz as an amateur free agent.
2005: The Detroit Tigers released Matt Beech.
2006: The Detroit Tigers released Dmitri Young. Young spent a month in a rehab center this summer for alcohol and drug abuse, and later this month will be sentenced to a year's probation for assaulting a former girlfriend.
2009: After striking out in his first three at-bats, Brandon Inge hits a grand slam off Russ Springer in the 9th inning to give Detroit a 5 - 3 win over Tampa Bay.
2009: Ichiro Suzuki gets his 2,000th Major League hit, a double off Gio Gonzalez in the 1st inning. He is the second fastest to the milestone, taking 1,402 games, 12 more than Hall of Famer Al Simmons.
2017: JaCoby Jones and John Hicks each hit 2 home runs in a 13-2 drubbing of the Royals.
2018:The Detroit Tigers released Josh Smoker.
2018: The Detroit Tigers selected Dustin Peterson off waivers from the Atlanta Braves.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Jack Phillips 1955-1957.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Eddie Ainsmith 1919-1921.
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Sammy Hale 1920-1921.
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Barney McCosky 1939-1942, 1946.
Traded to the Philadelphia A's for HOF third baseman George Kell in May of 1946.
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Barney Schultz 1959.
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