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September 13 in Tigers and mlb history:
1907: At Washington Park, Christy Mathewson tops Jim Pastorius, 2 - 1, striking out 11 Superbas batters.
1909: Ty Cobb clinches the American League home run title with his 9th round-tripper. It is an inside-the-park drive against the Browns. In fact, all his nine home runs this season are inside-the-park, including two on July 15th. Only Sam Crawford (12 in 1901) has hit more inside-the-park homers in a year than Cobb.
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1922: The Browns announce that George Sisler has severely strained ligaments and cannot lift his right arm over his head. He might be out for the remainder of the season, jeopardizing the Browns' pennant chances and Sisler's 39-game hitting streak. Ironically, the injury occurred when Sisler tried to catch a throw on a hit by Ty Cobb, whose streak he is trying to break. Without Sisler, the Browns rally to beat the Tigers, 8 - 6. Baby Doll Jacobson, playing 1B, makes two errors.
1924: Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance shuts out the Reds, 2 - 0, for his 14th win in a row.
1925: Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance narrowly misses back-to-back no-hitters over Philadelphia, pitching a 10 - 1 no-hitter five days after a 1 - 0 one-hitter. The Phils' lone run is scored by Chicken Hawks, who reaches second base on an error. Five days earlier it was Hawks' 2nd-inning single that ruined Vance's no-hitter. On June 17, 1923, Vance lost a no-hitter with two out in the 9th. In the second game, the Phils win, 7 - 3, behind Hawks' grand slam.
1927: Babe Ruth hits two home runs, to bring his season's total to 52, and the Yankees win a pair from Cleveland to clinch the American League pennant with a 98-41 record and 17-game lead. It is Miller Huggins' fifth pennant, tying him with Connie Mack.
1934: With his fiancee, Edna Mae Skinner of Oklahoma, watching, Schoolboy Rowe halts the Tiger skid with a 2 - 0 win over Washington. He asks in a radio interview: "How'm I doing, Edna?"
1934: Lefty Gomez pitches a 3-hitter against the Indians for his 25th win.
1934: Judge Landis sells the World Series broadcast rights to the Ford Motor Company for $100,000. Previously no fee had been charged.
1936: The Cardinals and Giants split a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds before 64,417, the largest crowd in the 60-year history of the National League.
1936: Indians teenage pitching phenom Bob Feller ties the major league record and sets a new American League record by striking out 17 batters as he two-hits the A's, 5 - 2. After the season, "Bullet Bob" will return to his Van Meter, Iowa home to graduate from high school.
1938: A special committee names Alexander Cartwright to Baseball's Hall of Fame for originating the sport's basic concepts. Henry Chadwick, inventor of the box score and the first baseball writer, is also honored.
1946: The Boston Red Sox clinch the American League pennant, edging the Cleveland Indians, 1 - 0, on Ted Williams' inside-the-park home run, the only one of his career. Williams punches the ball over the shift when LF Fat Pat Seerey pulls in behind the SS position. The Boston margin at the season's end will be 12 games.
1948: The Philadelphia Phillies selected Hal Wagner off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
1949: For the second time in his career, Ralph Kiner hits home runs in 4 consecutive at-bats, over 2 games. He performed the same feat in 1947. The 2 homers today are numbers 33 and 34 for the season. Kiner's 1949 total will include 25 on the road, 29 at Forbes Field, 14 of them in the bullpen enclosure still known as Greenberg Gardens (which will become known as Kiner Korner).
1951: Yankees leadoff hitter Mickey Mantle drives a Virgil Trucks pitch deep into the RF upper deck to start the Yankee scoring. Witnesses say that if Mantle had hit it more to CF, the ball would have traveled 600 feet. Mantle then K's three times, as Trucks drives over New York for a 9 - 2 Detroit win. Trucks adds a pair of RBIs.
1958: The Braves' Warren Spahn becomes the first lefty to win 20 or more games nine times, as he beats St. Louis, 8 - 2. Eddie Plank and Lefty Grove each won 20 games eight times.
1960: Nellie Fox hits a 2-out home run in the 11th to give the visiting White Sox a 6 - 5 win over the Senators. It is Nellie's 2nd home run of the year.
1964: St. Louis becomes the first National League club to score in each inning since the Giants did it on June 1, 1923. They coast, 15 - 2, at Wrigley Field with Curt Simmons improving his record to 15-9. Dick Ellsworth goes to 14-15 for Chicago. Julian Javier, Lou Brock and Mike Shannon homer for the Birds. A dropped pop-up in the top of the 9th secures St. Louis' place in history.
1965: At the Astrodome facing Don Nottebart, Giant outfielder Willie Mays becomes the fifth player in major league history to hit 500 career home runs. The "Say Hey Kid" will hit a league-leading and career-high 52 home runs en route to his second MVP season. Juan Marichal gets his 22nd victory, a 5 - 1 decision over Houston. It is the 11th straight win for San Francisco.
1969: Detroit is eliminated when they lose to the Senators, 11 - 6. The Nats score five in the 5th, three coming home on a Ken McMullen homer, one of his four hits in the game. Detroit rallies in the 6th on Willie Horton's 3rd grand slam of the year, but McMullen knocks home another two runs to give Darold Knowles (7-3) the win over Tom Timmermann.
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1971: Frank Robinson of the Orioles homers in each game of a doubleheader split with Detroit, his 499th & 500th home runs. The O's win the opener, 9 - 1, behind Dave McNally's 13th consecutive win. The Tigers use 17 hits to win the nitecap, 10 - 5, for Fred Scherman, who pitches 8 2/3 innings in relief of Joe Niekro.
1972: Frank Howard, who is not playing regularly for the Tigers, hits a 3-run homer off Dave McNally of the Orioles for a Detroit victory. It is his 13th career four-bagger off his favorite pitcher.
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1983: Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals three bases in a 6 - 5 win over Texas to give him 101 for the season and a major league-record three consecutive seasons with 100 or more.
1987: Alan Trammell homers for 2nd straight game. Will finish with 28 HRs, 105 RBIs, .343 average, all career highs.
Tigers beat the brewers 5 - 1.
1989: Jack Morris gets his 162nd and final win of the 1980s, the most of any major league pitcher during that decade.
Obligated to point out he was 12th in WAR over the same span.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsPlkwUW8AEUYPb?format=jpg&name=small
1995: Tigers Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell set a new American League record for joint appearances - 1,915 games.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsPnR8nXYAAy4ZY.jpg
Whitaker hits a walk-off home run, the last long ball #244 of his distinguished Tigers and ML career in the Tigers 5 - 3 win over the brewers.
1997: In St. Louis, Tony Gwynn reaches 200 hits for the fifth time in his career in the Padres' 8 - 3 win over the Cardinals.
2001: Due the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Major League Baseball postpones all games through September 17th. The 91 missed games, the most regular-season contests not played since World War I forced the cancellation of the final month of the 1918 season, are re-scheduled for the week after the regular season was supposed to end, meaning the World Series is likely to extend into November for the first time in history.
2002: The U.S. Senate passes a resolution honoring beloved Tiger broadcaster Ernie Harwell who is retiring at the end of the season. The 84-year-old has been a major league baseball announcer for 55 years.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsPo_TuWIAAwY2m.jpg
2011: Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers continue to steamroll over opponents. Verlander picks up his 23rd win - the first pitcher to reach that total since Barry Zito in 2002 - when he pitches 7 shutout innings over the White Sox for a 5 - 0 win. Verlander has won his last 11 starts, something no one has done for the Bengals since Hal Newhouser in 1946. The win is also Detroit's 11th straight this month.
2011: Mariano Rivera becomes the second pitcher to record 600 saves, one year after Trevor Hoffman, in preserving New York's 3 - 2 win over Seattle with a scoreless 9th inning. "Mo" is only one save behind Hoffman's all-time record, as Hoffman retired after last season.
2013: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later and Danry Vasquez (minors) to the Houston Astros for Jose Veras. The Detroit Tigers sent David Paulino (September 13, 2013) to the Houston Astros to complete the trade.
Tigers players birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/suscege02.shtml
George Susce 1958-1959.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cruzne01.shtml
Nelson Cruz 1999-2000.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/frenclu01.shtml
Luke French 2009.
Tigers players and coaches who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wardha01.shtml
Hap Ward 1912.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/comstra01.shtml
Ralph Comstock 1913.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/clausal01.shtml
Al Clauss 1913.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/piercja01.shtml
Jack Pierce 1975.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Alex_Grammas
Alex Grammas coach 1980-1991.
Baseball Reference
1907: At Washington Park, Christy Mathewson tops Jim Pastorius, 2 - 1, striking out 11 Superbas batters.
1909: Ty Cobb clinches the American League home run title with his 9th round-tripper. It is an inside-the-park drive against the Browns. In fact, all his nine home runs this season are inside-the-park, including two on July 15th. Only Sam Crawford (12 in 1901) has hit more inside-the-park homers in a year than Cobb.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EEWHwvMXUAEMZ4y?format=png&name=small
1922: The Browns announce that George Sisler has severely strained ligaments and cannot lift his right arm over his head. He might be out for the remainder of the season, jeopardizing the Browns' pennant chances and Sisler's 39-game hitting streak. Ironically, the injury occurred when Sisler tried to catch a throw on a hit by Ty Cobb, whose streak he is trying to break. Without Sisler, the Browns rally to beat the Tigers, 8 - 6. Baby Doll Jacobson, playing 1B, makes two errors.
1924: Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance shuts out the Reds, 2 - 0, for his 14th win in a row.
1925: Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance narrowly misses back-to-back no-hitters over Philadelphia, pitching a 10 - 1 no-hitter five days after a 1 - 0 one-hitter. The Phils' lone run is scored by Chicken Hawks, who reaches second base on an error. Five days earlier it was Hawks' 2nd-inning single that ruined Vance's no-hitter. On June 17, 1923, Vance lost a no-hitter with two out in the 9th. In the second game, the Phils win, 7 - 3, behind Hawks' grand slam.
1927: Babe Ruth hits two home runs, to bring his season's total to 52, and the Yankees win a pair from Cleveland to clinch the American League pennant with a 98-41 record and 17-game lead. It is Miller Huggins' fifth pennant, tying him with Connie Mack.
1934: With his fiancee, Edna Mae Skinner of Oklahoma, watching, Schoolboy Rowe halts the Tiger skid with a 2 - 0 win over Washington. He asks in a radio interview: "How'm I doing, Edna?"
1934: Lefty Gomez pitches a 3-hitter against the Indians for his 25th win.
1934: Judge Landis sells the World Series broadcast rights to the Ford Motor Company for $100,000. Previously no fee had been charged.
1936: The Cardinals and Giants split a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds before 64,417, the largest crowd in the 60-year history of the National League.
1936: Indians teenage pitching phenom Bob Feller ties the major league record and sets a new American League record by striking out 17 batters as he two-hits the A's, 5 - 2. After the season, "Bullet Bob" will return to his Van Meter, Iowa home to graduate from high school.
1938: A special committee names Alexander Cartwright to Baseball's Hall of Fame for originating the sport's basic concepts. Henry Chadwick, inventor of the box score and the first baseball writer, is also honored.
1946: The Boston Red Sox clinch the American League pennant, edging the Cleveland Indians, 1 - 0, on Ted Williams' inside-the-park home run, the only one of his career. Williams punches the ball over the shift when LF Fat Pat Seerey pulls in behind the SS position. The Boston margin at the season's end will be 12 games.
1948: The Philadelphia Phillies selected Hal Wagner off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
1949: For the second time in his career, Ralph Kiner hits home runs in 4 consecutive at-bats, over 2 games. He performed the same feat in 1947. The 2 homers today are numbers 33 and 34 for the season. Kiner's 1949 total will include 25 on the road, 29 at Forbes Field, 14 of them in the bullpen enclosure still known as Greenberg Gardens (which will become known as Kiner Korner).
1951: Yankees leadoff hitter Mickey Mantle drives a Virgil Trucks pitch deep into the RF upper deck to start the Yankee scoring. Witnesses say that if Mantle had hit it more to CF, the ball would have traveled 600 feet. Mantle then K's three times, as Trucks drives over New York for a 9 - 2 Detroit win. Trucks adds a pair of RBIs.
1958: The Braves' Warren Spahn becomes the first lefty to win 20 or more games nine times, as he beats St. Louis, 8 - 2. Eddie Plank and Lefty Grove each won 20 games eight times.
1960: Nellie Fox hits a 2-out home run in the 11th to give the visiting White Sox a 6 - 5 win over the Senators. It is Nellie's 2nd home run of the year.
1964: St. Louis becomes the first National League club to score in each inning since the Giants did it on June 1, 1923. They coast, 15 - 2, at Wrigley Field with Curt Simmons improving his record to 15-9. Dick Ellsworth goes to 14-15 for Chicago. Julian Javier, Lou Brock and Mike Shannon homer for the Birds. A dropped pop-up in the top of the 9th secures St. Louis' place in history.
1965: At the Astrodome facing Don Nottebart, Giant outfielder Willie Mays becomes the fifth player in major league history to hit 500 career home runs. The "Say Hey Kid" will hit a league-leading and career-high 52 home runs en route to his second MVP season. Juan Marichal gets his 22nd victory, a 5 - 1 decision over Houston. It is the 11th straight win for San Francisco.
1969: Detroit is eliminated when they lose to the Senators, 11 - 6. The Nats score five in the 5th, three coming home on a Ken McMullen homer, one of his four hits in the game. Detroit rallies in the 6th on Willie Horton's 3rd grand slam of the year, but McMullen knocks home another two runs to give Darold Knowles (7-3) the win over Tom Timmermann.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsPghycXYAA2pyJ?format=jpg&name=small
1971: Frank Robinson of the Orioles homers in each game of a doubleheader split with Detroit, his 499th & 500th home runs. The O's win the opener, 9 - 1, behind Dave McNally's 13th consecutive win. The Tigers use 17 hits to win the nitecap, 10 - 5, for Fred Scherman, who pitches 8 2/3 innings in relief of Joe Niekro.
1972: Frank Howard, who is not playing regularly for the Tigers, hits a 3-run homer off Dave McNally of the Orioles for a Detroit victory. It is his 13th career four-bagger off his favorite pitcher.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsPiWShXgAI4Kqd?format=jpg&name=small
1983: Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals three bases in a 6 - 5 win over Texas to give him 101 for the season and a major league-record three consecutive seasons with 100 or more.
1987: Alan Trammell homers for 2nd straight game. Will finish with 28 HRs, 105 RBIs, .343 average, all career highs.
Tigers beat the brewers 5 - 1.
1989: Jack Morris gets his 162nd and final win of the 1980s, the most of any major league pitcher during that decade.
Obligated to point out he was 12th in WAR over the same span.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsPlkwUW8AEUYPb?format=jpg&name=small
1995: Tigers Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell set a new American League record for joint appearances - 1,915 games.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsPnR8nXYAAy4ZY.jpg
Whitaker hits a walk-off home run, the last long ball #244 of his distinguished Tigers and ML career in the Tigers 5 - 3 win over the brewers.
1997: In St. Louis, Tony Gwynn reaches 200 hits for the fifth time in his career in the Padres' 8 - 3 win over the Cardinals.
2001: Due the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Major League Baseball postpones all games through September 17th. The 91 missed games, the most regular-season contests not played since World War I forced the cancellation of the final month of the 1918 season, are re-scheduled for the week after the regular season was supposed to end, meaning the World Series is likely to extend into November for the first time in history.
2002: The U.S. Senate passes a resolution honoring beloved Tiger broadcaster Ernie Harwell who is retiring at the end of the season. The 84-year-old has been a major league baseball announcer for 55 years.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsPo_TuWIAAwY2m.jpg
2011: Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers continue to steamroll over opponents. Verlander picks up his 23rd win - the first pitcher to reach that total since Barry Zito in 2002 - when he pitches 7 shutout innings over the White Sox for a 5 - 0 win. Verlander has won his last 11 starts, something no one has done for the Bengals since Hal Newhouser in 1946. The win is also Detroit's 11th straight this month.
2011: Mariano Rivera becomes the second pitcher to record 600 saves, one year after Trevor Hoffman, in preserving New York's 3 - 2 win over Seattle with a scoreless 9th inning. "Mo" is only one save behind Hoffman's all-time record, as Hoffman retired after last season.
2013: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later and Danry Vasquez (minors) to the Houston Astros for Jose Veras. The Detroit Tigers sent David Paulino (September 13, 2013) to the Houston Astros to complete the trade.
Tigers players birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/suscege02.shtml
George Susce 1958-1959.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cruzne01.shtml
Nelson Cruz 1999-2000.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/frenclu01.shtml
Luke French 2009.
Tigers players and coaches who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wardha01.shtml
Hap Ward 1912.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/comstra01.shtml
Ralph Comstock 1913.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/clausal01.shtml
Al Clauss 1913.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/piercja01.shtml
Jack Pierce 1975.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Alex_Grammas
Alex Grammas coach 1980-1991.
Baseball Reference
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