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Tigers' bats go cold as Zimmermann struggles.
Castro has 4 hits, but laments missed catch.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2019/9...s-final-score-jordan-zimmermann-harold-castro
Athletics 10 - Tigers 2: Jordan Zimmermann struggled and the bats were quiet
A pretty unimpressive performance all around, really.
BYBTB

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...157#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=566157
Boxscore. Miggy with 2 more hits.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...ff-tigers-pitching-10-2-thrashing/2254049001/
A's blast three HRs off Tigers pitching in 10-2 thrashing.
Detnews

The three Tigers media sites have in recent time started adding game stories from the associated press instead of their own writers.
 
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September 8 in Tigers and mlb history:

1901: The Players Protective Association instructs members to sign one-year contracts only, and not recognize the reserve clause.

1908: Christy Mathewson's 30th win is a gem - an 11-inning 1 - 0 win over the Superbas' Nap Rucker. A single by Al Bridwell drives home Cy Seymour with the winning tally.

1916: In front the smallest crowd in American League history, with 23 fans attending the game, A's catcher/outfielder Wally Schang becomes the first switch-hitter in major league history to homer from both sides of the plate in the same game.

1917: Detroit beats the Browns 1 - 0 in 12 innings. Ty Cobb triples off the RF fence in the 12th and scores on a sacrifice fly by Bobby Veach.

1919: Babe Ruth hits home run No. 26 off Jack Quinn in New York, breaking Buck Freeman's 1899 home run mark of 25.

1922: Detroit beats the Browns 8 - 3, on Bobby Veach's two homers off Urban Shocker. First baseman Lu Blue pulls off two unassisted double plays, tying the American League record, and both are off line drives by Johnny Tobin.
Veach has 5 rbi in the game, Cobb with 2.
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1924: Washington, with a 2-game lead in the American League, beats the A's, 8 - 4. Despite giving up solo home runs by Joe Hauser and Bing Miller, Walter Johnson wins his 10th straight and his 20th of the year.

1932: The Yankees and Tigers replay their protested August 1 game as the nightcap of a doubleheader, but end in a 7 - 7 tie. After the game, Babe Ruth experiences abdominal pains he believes are an appendicitis attack. He will be out of the lineup indefinitely. Sammy Byrd, subbing for Ruth in the opener, collects five hits for the Yankees, including two home runs in a 5 - 4 win.

1935: The Cards fail to increase their lead as they split with the Phils. In the opener, Dizzy Dean wins his 25th game, but the Birds lose, 4 - 2, in the nightcap when they strand 16 runners. St. Louis outhits the Phils, 13 to 4.

1935: In the second game of a twinbill, the A's Jimmie Foxx doubles in the 8th to break up Elden Auker's no-hit bid. Detroit rolls, 15 - 1 collecting 20 hits. Foxx has a pair of homers in the opener, again in vain, as the Tigers win, 7 - 5. Mickey Cochrane has three hits in each game for Detroit.

1940: Johnny Mize hits homers # 38, 39 and 40 in the first game of a doubleheader becoming the first player to hit three homers in one game four times in his career. Despite the "Big Cat"'s heroics, the Cardinals drop a pair to the Pirates, 16 - 14 and 9 - 4.

1941: The New York Yankees traded Billy Hitchcock to the Detroit Tigers for players to be named later. The Detroit Tigers sent Tuck Stainback (December 4, 1941) and Boyd Perry (December 4, 1941) to the New York Yankees to complete the trade.

1946: With the Red Sox running away with the American League race, attention closes in on Bob Feller's strikeout pace. He reaches 300 today, a number reached by Walter Johnson and Rube Waddell twice each.

1946: In the minor leagues Bill Kennedy of Rocky Mount (Coastal Plain League) will be credited with 456 strikeouts, breaking the former mark of 418 set by the Tigers Virgil Trucks in the Alabama-Florida League in 1938.

1948: Paul Hinrichs of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

1949: First day-night doubleheader at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium. Tigers beat Cleveland 10-0 and 4-1.

1951: At an Old Timer's Day at Yankee Stadium, former manager Joe McCarthy is honored. With the game scoreless in the 7th inning, Mickey Mantle belts a Bob Porterfield pitch into the last row of the RF bleachers, some 460 feet away to break the scoreless tie. Ed Lopat shuts out the Senators for 4 - 0 Yankee win

1951: The pennant race heats up, as Dodger ace Don Newcombe two-hits the Giants, 9 - 0, beating Jim Hearn. Jackie Robinson has three hits and three runs, scoring one run from third base when he provokes Hearn into wild pitching. Giants pitchers contribute 10 walks.

1955: The Detroit Tigers traded Ben Flowers to the St. Louis Cardinals for Bobby Tiefenauer.

1958: In a special meeting of American League owners in Chicago, IL, Washington owner Calvin Griffith succumbs to pressure from other AL owners and that night advises Minneapolis, MN officials that he is staying in Washington, DC.

1961: The Yanks rout the Indians 9 - 1, as Mickey Mantle hits home run #52, off Gary Bell. The Yanks win for their 9th straight while Detroit loses their 8th in a row to drop 10 games back. Tigers will win 101 games but finish second to the 109-win Yankees.

1961: The Detroit Tigers selected Vic Wertz off waivers from the Boston Red Sox.

1962: George "Sparky" Anderson of the Toronto Maple Leafs hits a go-ahead home run off future Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins to break a 2-2 tie as the Leafs beat the #Bisons 5-2.

1963: For the thirteenth and final time in his career, Braves' lefthander Warren Spahn has a twenty-win season as he beats the Phillies, 3 - 2.

1964: Bill Freehan goes 4-for-5 with a grand slam in the Tigers' 11-3 win over the Yankees.
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1967: The Tigers move into a first-place tie with the Twins, as Eddie Mathews and Jim Northrup hit home runs, and Mickey Lolich beats Tommy John 4 - 1, at Chicago.

1972: Mickey Lolich wins his 20th game of the year as Detroit tips the Orioles 4 - 3. The Tigers jump on Jim Palmer (18-8) for three runs in the 1st inning.

1972: Beating the Phils, 4 - 3, Fergie Jenkins wins his 20th, the 6th consecutive year he's reached the mark. This ties the Cubs club record set by Three Finger Brown, 1906-1911. Billy Williams' 2-run home run in the 6th ties it at 3 - 3, and a pair of doubles in the 8th wins it.

1974: Bill Freehan goes 4 for 5 with a grand slam and drives in a total of seven runs as the Tigers beat the Yankees 11-3 at New York. 1974 was the only season from 1964-75 that the Detroit catcher was not an All-Star; he also won five Gold Gloves in that stretch.

1979: Kirk Gibson makes his major league debut. Strikes out as a pinch hitter.
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1984: Tigers 10 - Blue Jays 4. Home runs by Darrell Evans and Johnny Grubb lead the way. Alan Trammell knocks in 3 more.

1995: The Detroit Tigers selected Steve Rodriguez off waivers from the Boston Red Sox.

1995: The Detroit Tigers traded Juan Samuel to the Kansas City Royals for a player to be named later. The Kansas City Royals sent Phil Hiatt (September 14, 1995) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

2006: The Milwaukee Brewers selected Chris Spurling off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

2008: Gary Sheffield hits a grand slam for the official 250,000th homer in major league history. The blow is Sheffield's 2nd homer of the day and his 13th career grand slam. Magglio Ordonez, Miguel Cabrera and Mike Hessman also homer as the Tigers outslug the A's 14 - 8.

2014: The Tigers score 6 runs in the third inning to give them a 9-5 win over the Royals and cut the royal's lead to a half game in the AL Central.
It's the Tigers' 9,000th win in franchise history.

2016: Tigers beat the orioles 4 - 3 on a home run by Victor Martinez.

2017: The Detroit Tigers turned a triple play in the sixth inning of the Sept. 8th game vs. Blue Jays in Toronto.
With a run in and runners on first and second, Drew VerHagen entered the game to replace Buck Farmer on the mound.
The first hitter VerHagen faced was Blue Jays centerfielder Kevin Pillar, who hit a grounder to Jeimer Candelario at third. Candelario had to range to his right to field the ball, where he then stepped on third, then threw to second.
Ian Kinsler took the throw and then relayed to Efren Navarro at first, where the throw beat Pillar by a half a step.
It's the first time the Tigers have turned a triple play since Aug. 1, 2001, against the Mariners.
Nick Castellanos with the grand slam, and Ian Kinsler homers. The Tigers win the game 5 - 4 over the blue jays.
The Tigers hit a grand slam and turn a triple play in the same game for the first time in franchise history.

2019: The Astros annihilate the Mariners 21 - 1. Gerrit Cole allows just 1 hit and no walks in 8 innings while striking out 15; it is his third straight game of 14+ strikeouts, something accomplished by only one other pitcher since 1908, by Pedro Martinez during his 1999 season.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sleatlo01.shtml
Lou Sleater 1957-1958.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wiseca01.shtml
Casey Wise 1960.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rivermi02.shtml
Mike Rivera 2001-2002.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ruffich01.shtml
Chance Ruffin 2011.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/parnebo01.shtml
Bobby Parnell 2016.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/willijo02.shtml
Johnnie Williams 1914.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/George_Zuverink
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/z/zuverge01.shtml
George Zuvernik 1954-1955.

Baseball Reference
 
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https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/tigers-fall-to-a-s-for-100th-loss-of-2019
Tigers fall to A's for 100th loss of 2019.
Tigers official site

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...it-tigers-score-oakland-athletics/2259545001/
Detroit Tigers suffer 100th loss in putrid offensive performance vs. Oakland A's.
Freep

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...158#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=566158
Boxscore.

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2019/9...-christin-stewart-daniel-norris-drew-verhagen
Athletics 3 - Tigers 1: Bats slumber as Tigers lose 100th game of the year.
Hey the pitching was fine!
BYBTB
 
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https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2019/09/08/tanks-a-lot/
Tanks A Lot.
Totally Tigers

It?s official, folks. If you didn?t know it by now, the baseball world is acknowledging it.

The Tigers are tanking. On purpose. And maybe have been doing it for much of the year.

Within just the past week, 2 publications and 3 MLB analysts said as much. But before we get into the ethics of tanking, let?s review some of the evidence.

Several MLB Radio shows (with former GMs as hosts), along with Christopher ?Mad Dog? Russo, called what the Tigers are doing ?disgraceful.? Several even went so far as to state that they are not even putting a MLB-caliber team on the field.

As further proof, well-known sports writer, David Schoenfield, just gave his report on which teams fielded the nine worst positions in MLB. Out of 30 teams, the Tigers earned razzies at 3 positions.

As he compared Candelario and Lugo at third base, he summed it up by stating ?I'm thinking the Tigers might be a ways away from contention.?

He talked about the revolving number of players at 2B and the signing of Gordon Beckham who hasn?t had a good year since 2009. ?The Tigers gave him 31 starts at second base. It's almost like they didn't even care.?

And you know where I?m going next?? Catcher.

Schoenfield described the struggles of Hicks, Greiner and now, Rogers. ?Did the Tigers have a plan at catcher? Not really. Why have a plan when you're not even trying to win?

Things got so bad that 36-year-old veteran Bobby Wilson, fresh off a .178 season with the Twins, entered the scene in June, hit .091 in 15 games and was then placed into a witness protection program.?

And now, loyal reader, Nocynic, (thank you!) alerted me to an article in Forbes.

Writer Jules Posner wrote ?If it wasn't clear if the Detroit Tigers were tanking before, it has become pretty clear the tank is on now. The main evidence that the Tigers not only have no interest in winning this season, but they are actively trying to lose games, is their lack of activity on the waiver wire.?

Let?s remember that the Tigers have been decimated by injuries this year. Losing most of their starting pitching and working with a 4-man rotation most of the year. Seven players alone out for the entire year. Comments by Ron Gardenhire about how thin the bench is.

Currently, the Tigers have 3 part-time starting pitchers along with Matthew Boyd and Jordan Zimmermann. You?d think they would want to bolster their roster.

Yet, at the waiver deadline, the Tigers were the only team to do absolutely nothing. Even the lowly Orioles were actively trying to improve their team. Or as Schoenfield put it ?(the Orioles) are trying to cobble together a Major League team in order to survive the season and identify any potential assets.?

The question asked is why the Tigers didn?t take a flier on any of the names available. Despite having the worst record in baseball which guarantees them priority over every team in claiming a player, they selected no one because it meant that they would have to pick up their salaries, too.

That wallet, folks, is slammed shut and padlocked.

But they did pick up 4 players off waivers this year. And all of them had one thing in common. Minor league contracts.

They also signed 5 more players in-season as the injuries and losses piled up. They, too, were signed to minor league contracts.

You do get what you pay for in most cases.

Does this sound like a team that wants to win?

It was reported that Al Avila had a better offer 2 years ago for J.D. Martinez from Boston but he refused to deal with Dave Dombrowski and took a lesser deal with the Diamondbacks instead.

Does this sound like a GM who wants to win?

I know what you?re thinking?.. It?s all about the first-round draft pick! We need to be baseball?s worst team!

But should purposely losing be an acceptable form of behavior? Is it even ethical? And is it worth the mental damage put on the current players, manager and his coaches for enhancing such a losing environment?

The goal of tanking, at the very least, comes at the cost of the quality and the on-field product the Tigers put out every day. It is akin to making a faulty product, knowing it is faulty, yet selling it anyway ? and not caring about those who purchase it.

The Tigers have broken their promise to the fans. The promise of putting out a MLB-level product. The promise of putting out something of even limited quality. They created a faulty product and even ensured it would get worse. And they sold it, and continue to sell it, to fans under faulty advertising.

Despite the lack of a MLB-level product on the field, the Tigers are asking major league prices. In fact, in some cases, they are asking for even more money than in years past when the Tigers were winning consistently.

Fans go to ballgames with the hope that their team will win. But Detroit is stacking the deck against that. And they are (excuse the language but there is only one way to say it) screwing the fans who have supported them. Simply put, the fans are paying major league prices and receiving a minor league product.

Rule changes dating to 2011 have only increased the number of teams who have and are taking the tanking approach. But is it even legal?

If you refer to the Major League rulebook, Rule 21(a), you will read (condensed for clarity purposes)

(a) MISCONDUCT IN PLAYING BASEBALL. Any person connected with a Club who shall fail to give his best efforts towards the winning of any baseball game with which he is or may be in any way concerned, or who shall intentionally lose or attempt to lose, or who shall solicit or attempt to induce any player or person connected with a Club to lose or attempt to lose, shall be declared permanently ineligible.

This rule doesn?t simply apply to players. It also applies to owners, GMs and Front Offices. It?s also why baseball went after owner Mark Cuban.

So does the end result justify the means? Is it noble to fleece the fans and flaunt baseball?s rules in order to get that #1 draft pick?

And once you get that top draft pick, there?s no guarantee that player will meet elite expectations. Especially if we?re talking about the Tigers? player development system which hasn?t turned out a solid athlete in a decade. The same one, btw, who was just traded to the Cubs.

Totally Tigers
 
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September 9 in Tigers and mlb history:

1907: Boston's Cy Young and the A's Rube Waddell battle to a 13-inning scoreless tie. Neither pitcher walks a batter.

1911: Ty Cobb's sac fly scores the only run in the Tigers' 1-0 win over the White Sox.

1921: An American League record for total runs and hits is made when Chicago beats Detroit, 20 - 15. Each team has 20 hits. Ralph Young, Ty Cobb each have 3 hits and 4 runs scored. Harry Heilmann and Bobby Veach knock in 4 apiece.

1922: Baby Doll Jacobson collects three triples to lead the Browns to a 16 - 0 whitewash of the Tigers. The victory, the most lopsided in Browns history, goes to pitcher Elam Vangilder. St. Louis totals 20 hits with Ken Williams hitting a homer in his 5th straight game, his 37th of the year. George Sisler has three hits to keep his hitting streak alive, as the Browns keep pace with New York, winners in 10 innings against Washington.

1924: At the Polo Grounds, Brooklyn ace Dazzy Vance wins his 13th in a row, beating the Giants and pulling the Robins within a half game of the top.

1928: A total of 85,265 jam Yankee Stadium to watch the Yankees sweep two from the A's, 3 - 0 and 7 - 3, to move back into first place to stay. George Pipgras is the winner in the first game while the Yankee star of the nitecap is Bob Meusel, who takes an Ed Rommel knuckler out of the park for a grand slam in the 8th. Waite Hoyt is the winner.

1931: To raise funds to help the unemployed in the Depression, the Yankees, Giants, and Robins agree to a series of benefit games. Sixty thousand fans, paying regular prices, raise $59,000 in the first match-up, as Babe Ruth homers and the Yankees beat the Giants 7 - 2.

1932: The Tigers beat the Yankees 14 - 13 in a 14-inning game in which Lou Gehrig hits a grand slam and drives in eight runs. He has reached this RBI feat twice before. Frankie Crosetti strikes out four times in the game, including twice in one inning. Detroit also tops the Yanks 4 - 1 in five innings to finally complete the protested game of August 1st, and the tie of yesterday. The Yanks score their lone run in the 3rd inning off Buck Marrow with their only two hits of the game.

1933: Joe Hauser, Minneapolis (American Association), hits two home runs to set all-time record of 69. Hauser also set the International League record mark at 63, with Baltimore in 1930.

1934: In one of the most memorable games in Negro League history, the Pittsburgh Crawfords' Satchel Paige duels the Philadelphia Stars' Slim Jones to a 1 - 1 stalemate, called after 9 innings due to darkness. Paige strikes out 12, and Jones, 9, before 30,000 at Yankee Stadium.

1938: The Detroit Lions play their first home game at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium: they beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 16-7.

1937: The Detroit Tigers purchased Woody Davis from Toronto (International).

1938: Lou Gehrig plays his 2,100th consecutive game and has 4 hits to bring his average over .300.

1939: Jimmie Foxx is operated on for appendicitis, and will be out for the season. His 35 home runs will still win the title.

1950: The Tigers and White Sox finally finish a game that started in April. The game was originally scheduled as the nitecap of a doubleheader on April 30th, but was halted by darkness after 9 innings deadlocked at 7 - 7. Rescheduled for August 10th, the contest was halted in the 7th with the score 1 - 1. Art Houtteman finally settles it with a 1 - 0, 12-inning win. Hoot Evers triples and scores on a single by Johnny Groth. The league leaders fail to cash in by losing the nitecap 5 - 4, cutting their lead to a half game over New York and a game ahead of Boston.

1951: Sal Maglie wins his 20th game to give the Giants a 2 - 1 win over the Dodgers' Ralph Branca. Monte Irvin's two-run homer in the 4th gives New York all its scoring, The Dodgers score in the 8th on a double by Duke Snider and a triple by Jackie Robinson. But 3B Bobby Thomson snags a ground ball, tags Robby, and throws to first for a double play.

1953: Mickey Mantle's 2-run home run off Chicago's Billy Pierce caps a 7-run 5th inning, as New York wins, 9 - 3, at Yankee Stadium. Returning to CF after the 5th, Mantle is photographed blowing a huge bubble with a wad of gum. Manager Stengel will publicly rebuke the Mick, who will apologize for the indiscretion. However, Mantle does get an endorsement fee from the Bowman Gum company.

1965: Sandy Koufax's perfect game against the Cubs bests Bob Hendley's one-hit effort, 1 - 0. It is the Dodgers southpaw's record fourth no-hitter.

1967: White Sox starter Gary Peters takes a 3 - 0 lead into the 9th inning, but a 7-run 9th including 2 on a Willie Horton single, keeps Detroit tied for first place with the Twins with a 7 - 3 win at Chicago.
Chicago is now in 4th place, two games back, with the Red Sox in 3rd place just a half-game behind.

1970: Bowie Kuhn hands Denny McLain his third suspension of the year, this one for carrying a gun, plus other unspecified charges, and ends McLain's season with a 3-5 record.

1971: The Detroit Tigers signed John Hiller as a free agent.

1977: In the second game of a doubleheader loss in Boston, Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell debut together. They will hold down the 2B and SS jobs in Detroit for a record 19 years and a record for teammates of 1,918 games played together.
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1978: Ron Guidry (21-2) gives up two singles in the 1st inning and that's it. New York sends 12 runners to the plate and scores seven runs in the 4th inning to win, 7 - 0, against Dennis Eckersley and cut the Boston lead to a single game. For Guidry, it is his 7th shutout of the year, and the first lefty shutout in Fenway Park since Ken Holtzman fired one on August 5, 1974.

1984: Tigers win 7 - 2 and complete a sweep of the second place Blue Jays to all but lock up the AL East.
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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: Bruce Sutter joins Rollie Fingers and Rich Gossage as the only pitchers to save 300 games as Atlanta beats San Diego, 5 - 4, in 11 innings.

1990: Tiger RF Scott Lusader loses the battle to bright sun and soggy turf and makes three errors (two fielding and one throwing) in the 1st inning against the White Sox. It's a first in the American League since 1925. The Sox score seven runs in the inning and coast home 13 - 3, snapping the Tigers' 7-game winning streak.

1992: Milwaukee OF Robin Yount gets the 3,000th hit of his career in his team's 5 - 4 loss to the Indians. He also becomes only the 2nd player in history to record 200 home runs, 200 stolen bases and 100 triples, duplicating Willie Mays' feat.

1993: The Major Leagues vote to divide each league into three divisions, and add another round of playoffs featuring two wild card teams.

1997: Detroit P Scott Sanders hurls a one-hit, 4 - 0 shutout over the Rangers. 2B Domingo Cedeno's single is the only Texas hit.

1998: the Gem Theatre reopens at Madison & Brush after being moved to make way for Comerica Park.
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2002: The Detroit Tigers released Jose Paniagua.

2004: Royals wallop the Tigers 26-5.

2007: Todd Helton hits his 35th double of the season, this one against Joe Thatcher, in a 4 - 2 Rockies win. It makes him the first major leaguer ever to hit 35 or more doubles 10 years in a row; even the legendary Tris Speaker had only had 9 such seasons in a row.

2009: Derek Jeter ties the New York Yankees franchise record for hits held by Lou Gehrig, with his 2,721st hit in the 7th against the Rays. He will pass Gehrig in two days.

2014: The Tigers are again even with the Royals in the AL Central following a 4 - 2 win over their rivals. Max Scherzer is the winner while J.D. Martinez and Rajai Davis both go deep. In the 9th, Tigers closer Joe Nathan escapes a two-on, none out jam with two strikeouts around picking Jarrod Dyson off second base.

2016: Tigers win over the orioles on a home run by Victor Martinez.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/eubanjo01.shtml
John Eubank 1905-1907.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Waite_Hoyt
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hoytwa01.shtml
Waite Hoyt 1930-1931.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/thomabu01.shtml
Bud Thomas 1939-1941.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/proctji01.shtml
Jim Proctor 1959.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sandere01.shtml
Reggie Sanders 1974.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/micelda01.shtml
Dan Miceli 1997.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Edwin_Jackson
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jacksed01.shtml
Edwin Jackson 2009, 2019.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/altener01.shtml
Ernie Alten 1920.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/collior02.shtml
Orlin Collier 1931.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Doc_Cramer
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cramedo01.shtml
Doc Cramer 1942-1948.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/donohji01.shtml
Jim Donohue 1961.

Baseball Reference
 
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Ex-Tigers G.M. and Executive President of Baseball Operations,
fired by boston red sox.

https://www.mlb.com/news/dave-dombrowski-leaving-red-sox
Red Sox part ways with Dave Dombrowski.
MLB.com

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...troit-tigers-fired-boston-red-sox/2261697001/
Dave Dombrowski, former GM of Tigers, fired by Red Sox.
Detnews

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/27573900/red-sox-fire-dombrowski-one-season-title
Red Sox fire Dombrowski one season after title.
espn

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/09/red-sox-part-ways-with-dave-dombrowski.html
Red Sox Part Ways With Dave Dombrowski.
MLBTR
 
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September 9 in Tigers and mlb history:

1911: Ty Cobb's sac fly scores the only run in the #Tigers' 1-0 win over the White Sox.

1921: An American League record for total runs and hits is made when Chicago beats Detroit, 20 - 15. Each team has 20 hits. Ralph Young, Ty Cobb each have 3 hits and 4 runs scored. Harry Heilmann and Bobby Veach knock in 4 apiece.

1922: Baby Doll Jacobson collects three triples to lead the Browns to a 16 - 0 whitewash of the Tigers. The victory, the most lopsided in Browns history, goes to pitcher Elam Vangilder. St. Louis totals 20 hits with Ken Williams hitting a homer in his 5th straight game, his 37th of the year. George Sisler has three hits to keep his hitting streak alive, as the Browns keep pace with New York, winners in 10 innings against Washington.

1931: To raise funds to help the unemployed in the Depression, the Yankees, Giants, and Robins agree to a series of benefit games. Sixty thousand fans, paying regular prices, raise $59,000 in the first match-up, as Babe Ruth homers and the Yankees beat the Giants 7 - 2.

1932: The Tigers beat the Yankees 14 - 13 in a 14-inning game in which Lou Gehrig hits a grand slam and drives in eight runs. He has reached this RBI feat twice before. Frankie Crosetti strikes out four times in the game, including twice in one inning. Detroit also tops the Yanks 4 - 1 in five innings to finally complete the protested game of August 1st, and the tie of yesterday. The Yanks score their lone run in the 3rd inning off Buck Marrow with their only two hits of the game.

1933: Joe Hauser, Minneapolis (American Association), hits two home runs to set all-time record of 69. Hauser also set the International League record mark at 63, with Baltimore in 1930.

1934: In one of the most memorable games in Negro League history, the Pittsburgh Crawfords' Satchel Paige duels the Philadelphia Stars' Slim Jones to a 1 - 1 stalemate, called after 9 innings due to darkness. Paige strikes out 12, and Jones, 9, before 30,000 at Yankee Stadium.

1938: The Detroit Lions play their first home game at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium: they beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 16-7.

1937: The Detroit Tigers purchased Woody Davis from Toronto (International).

1938: Lou Gehrig plays his 2,100th consecutive game and has 4 hits to bring his average over .300.

1939: Jimmie Foxx is operated on for appendicitis, and will be out for the season. His 35 home runs will still win the title.

1950: The Tigers and White Sox finally finish a game that started in April. The game was originally scheduled as the nitecap of a doubleheader on April 30th, but was halted by darkness after 9 innings deadlocked at 7 - 7. Rescheduled for August 10th, the contest was halted in the 7th with the score 1 - 1. Art Houtteman finally settles it with a 1 - 0, 12-inning win. Hoot Evers triples and scores on a single by Johnny Groth. The league leaders fail to cash in by losing the nitecap 5 - 4, cutting their lead to a half game over New York and a game ahead of Boston.

1953: Mickey Mantle's 2-run home run off Chicago's Billy Pierce caps a 7-run 5th inning, as New York wins, 9 - 3, at Yankee Stadium. Returning to CF after the 5th, Mantle is photographed blowing a huge bubble with a wad of gum. Manager Stengel will publicly rebuke the Mick, who will apologize for the indiscretion. However, Mantle does get an endorsement fee from the Bowman Gum company.

1967: White Sox starter Gary Peters takes a 3 - 0 lead into the 9th inning, but a 7-run 9th including 2 on a Willie Horton single, keeps Detroit tied for first place with the Twins with a 7 - 3 win at Chicago.
Chicago is now in 4th place, two games back, with the Red Sox in 3rd place just a half-game behind.

1970: Bowie Kuhn hands Denny McLain his third suspension of the year, this one for carrying a gun, plus other unspecified charges, and ends McLain's season with a 3-5 record.

1971: The Detroit Tigers signed John Hiller as a free agent.

1977: In the second game of a doubleheader loss in Boston, Tiger rookies Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell debut together. They will hold down the 2B and SS jobs in Detroit for a record 19 years and a record for teammates of 1,918 games played together.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DmgqhpwX0AA5q0d.jpg

1984: Tigers win 7 - 2 and complete a sweep of the second place Blue Jays to all but lock up the AL East.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cr7iektWYAAJG92?format=jpg&name=small

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.

1990: Tiger RF Scott Lusader loses the battle to bright sun and soggy turf and makes three errors (two fielding and one throwing) in the 1st inning against the White Sox. It's a first in the American League since 1925. The Sox score seven runs in the inning and coast home 13 - 3, snapping the Tigers' 7-game winning streak.

1992: Milwaukee OF Robin Yount gets the 3,000th hit of his career in his team's 5 - 4 loss to the Indians. He also becomes only the 2nd player in history to record 200 home runs, 200 stolen bases and 100 triples, duplicating Willie Mays' feat.

1993: The major leagues vote to divide each league into three divisions, and add another round of playoffs featuring two wild card teams.

1997: Detroit P Scott Sanders hurls a one-hit, 4 - 0 shutout over the Rangers. 2B Domingo Cedeno's single is the only Texas hit.

1998: the Gem Theatre reopens at Madison & Brush after being moved to make way for Comerica Park.
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2002: The Detroit Tigers released Jose Paniagua.

2004: Royals wallop the Tigers 26-5.

2007: Todd Helton hits his 35th double of the season, this one against Joe Thatcher, in a 4 - 2 Rockies win. It makes him the first major leaguer ever to hit 35 or more doubles 10 years in a row; even the legendary Tris Speaker had only had 9 such seasons in a row.

2009: Derek Jeter ties the New York Yankees franchise record for hits held by Lou Gehrig, with his 2,721st hit in the 7th against the Rays. He will pass Gehrig in two days.

2014: The Tigers are again even with the Royals in the AL Central following a 4 - 2 win over their rivals. Max Scherzer is the winner while J.D. Martinez and Rajai Davis both go deep. In the 9th, Tigers closer Joe Nathan escapes a two-on, none out jam with two strikeouts around picking Jarrod Dyson off second base.

2016: Tigers win over the orioles on a home run by Victor Martinez.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/eubanjo01.shtml
John Eubank 1905-1907.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Waite_Hoyt
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hoytwa01.shtml
Waite Hoyt 1930-1931.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/thomabu01.shtml
Bud Thomas 1939-1941.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/proctji01.shtml
Jim Proctor 1959.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sandere01.shtml
Reggie Sanders 1974.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/micelda01.shtml
Dan Miceli 1997.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Edwin_Jackson
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jacksed01.shtml
Edwin Jackson 2009, 2019.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/altener01.shtml
Ernie Alten 1920.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/collior02.shtml
Orlin Collier 1931.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Doc_Cramer
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cramedo01.shtml
Doc Cramer 1942-1948.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/donohji01.shtml
Jim Donohue 1961.

from Baseball Reference
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Never realized Hiller was a free agent pickup.
 
Mitchrapp said:
Never realized Hiller was a free agent pickup.
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https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/John_Hiller
Prior to the 1971 season is when Hiller had the heart attack.

June 16, 1962: Signed by the Detroit Tigers as an amateur free agent.

August 31, 1971: Released by the Detroit Tigers.

September 9, 1971: Signed as a Free Agent with the Detroit Tigers.

September 30, 1971: Released by the Detroit Tigers.

July 8, 1972: Signed as a Free Agent with the Detroit Tigers.
 
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