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If the Tigers were contending, would you feel differently about how baseball is played today? Explain.
 
September 15 in Tigers and mlb history:

1901: The Detroit Tigers roll over Cleveland behind Ed Siever with what was the most lopsided score in American League history 21 - 0 -- (equaled on August 13, 1939) -- until the Cleveland Indians beat the New York Yankees 22 - 0 on August 31, 2004 at Yankee Stadium. Detroit pounds out 24 hits off rookie Jack Bracken as Pop Dillon leads the way with four hits. The game is mercifully called after 7 1/2 innings to allow Cleveland to catch a train. Bracken's ERA is not helped by this outing and he will end this season, his only one in the majors, with a 6.21 mark, the highest in the deadball era.

1902: Chicago's infield combo of Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance pull off their first double play to back up Carl Lundgren's 6 - 3 win over the Reds.

1907: At the Browns-Tigers game in St. Louis, a soda bottle thrown by a fan, Hugo Dusenberg, fells umpire Billy Evans. The crowd beats up Hugo before the police come to his rescue; he is fined $100. Evans is carried from the field and hospitalized, but is not very seriously injured.
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1912: In the second game of a doubleheader, Boston's Joe Wood wins his 16th straight game as he bests the Browns, 2 - 1, in a game called after eight innings because of darkness. Wood scores the winning run in the 8th, scoring from third base on a wild pitch by Earl Hamilton.
Earlier in the year, Walter Johnson posted a streak of 16 straight wins.

1913: The Detroit Tigers drafted Ray Demmitt from Montreal (International) in the 1913 rule 5 draft.
1913: The Detroit Tigers drafted Harry Heilmann from Portland (Northwestern) in the 1913 rule 5 draft.
1913: The Detroit Tigers drafted Marty Kavanagh from York (Tri-State) in the 1913 rule 5 draft.
1913: The Detroit Tigers drafted Alex Main from Buffalo (International) in the 1913 rule 5 draft.
1913: The Detroit Tigers drafted Billy Purtell from Jersey City (International) in the 1913 rule 5 draft.
1913: The Detroit Tigers drafted Johnnie Williams from Sacramento (PCL) in the 1913 rule 5 draft.

1914: Cleveland's Nap Lajoie strokes his 3,000th hit, a single off Detroit's Pug Cavet, joining Honus Wagner and Cap Anson as the only players to reach that mark.

1916: The Detroit Tigers drafted Ben Dyer from Denver (Western) in the 1916 rule 5 draft.

1921: Babe Ruth hits home run No. 55 in New York's 10 - 6 win over the Browns. The Yanks take game 2, 13 - 5.

1921: Four A's pitchers help the Indians win 17 - 3, by contributing 16 walks. Among them is the starting pitcher Arlas Taylor, appearing in his only ML game. He fans one batter - Joe Sewell, the hardest batter to strike out in ML history.

1926: The Yankees beat the Indians, 6 - 4, as Bob Meusel drives home three runs with three sacrifice flies. This ties the major-league record set by Harry Steinfeldt in 1909. Bob Shawkey is the winning hurler.

1929: The Detroit Tigers purchased Billy Rogell from St Paul (American Association).

1931: The Philadelphia Athletics clinch the pennant, beating Cleveland at home, 14 - 3. Every starter for the A's has a hit and RBI. Eddie Rommel, veteran knuckleball pitcher for the A's, is the winning hurler, as Connie Mack wins his 3rd successive pennant. It is Mack's 9th, and last, American League championship. The A's went into first place for good on May 5, when they started a win streak of 17 straight games and 20 of their next 21. In mid-July they won 13 straight.

1936: Charlie Gehringer hits 2 doubles, en route to a career high and AL-best 60 doubles on the season in the Tigers 8 - 5 win over the athletics.
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1938: Brothers Lloyd and Paul Waner of the Pirates hit consecutive homers off Cliff Melton in the 5th inning at the Polo Grounds. Pirates P Jim Tobin puts Mel Ott in the record book, hitting him with a pitch 3 times. Tobin wins 7 - 2.
The Waners' feat marks the first time in major league history that brothers have gone deep back-to-back; the next time will come on April 23, 2013, courtesy of B.J. and Justin Upton of the Atlanta Braves.

1944: Former Tigers manager Mickey Cochrane is appointed to active duty in the Pacific.

1946: In the first game at Griffith Stadium, Josh Gibson hits a home run into temporary bleachers that shorten the left-field fence, helping the Homestead Grays beat the New York Cubans 8-3, to sweep a season-ending Negro League double-header. It is Gibson's last career homer. After a few more games, the Grays close out their season, and Gibson will die from a reported stroke four months later.

1950: Ted Williams returns to the Red Sox lineup and raps a home run and three singles in a 12 - 9 defeat of the Browns. The Red Sox will come within two games of the first-place Yankees this week, but will end up in third place, behind both New York and Detroit.

1950: For a ML-record sixth time, Johnny Mize hits three home runs in one game, but the Yankees lose 9 - 7 at Detroit. Mize matches Babe Ruth's mark of doing it in both leagues, but the Babe only had two three-homer games.
With the victory, the Tigers recapture first place from New York.

1952: In a Cold War move, the Russians decry the American game of baseball by citing their own game of "lapka" as being the progenitor of baseball. They call American players "slaves." The State Department links the Soviet claim as the founders of baseball as part of its "Hate America" campaign.

1960: Giants great Willie Mays ties a major league mark by hitting three triples in an 8 - 6 victory over the Phillies.

1961: The Yankees set a new American League record for most homers in a season as they split a doubleheader in Detroit, winning 11 - 1 and losing 4 - 2. Circuit blows by Bill Skowron and Yogi Berra in the opener help Whitey Ford win his 24th and increase New York's homer total to 222. This breaks the old mark set by the 1947 Giants and tied by the 1956 Reds. Norm Cash and Steve Boros homer in the nitecap to back Ron Kline's 7-hitter.

1961: With 10 strikeouts in an 11 - 2 win against the Braves, Sandy Koufax has 243 strikeouts, most ever for a National League lefty. Sandy will lead the NL with 269 Strikeouts for the season.

1967: Willie Horton hits a walk-off single in Tigers 5 - 4 win over the senators. The Tigers move into a three-way tie for first place in the American League.
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1968: The Tigers hit 5 home runs, 2 each by Jim Northrup, Bill Freehan, and one by Willie Horton, in a 13-0 thrashing of Oakland. The Tigers staff has now pitched nine straight complete games as Lolich did not allow a man past 2nd base.
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1969: Denny McLain records his 9th shutout, a Tiger record, beating New York, 2 - 0 at Yankee Stadium.
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1974: Cleveland's Gaylord Perry works hard for his 20th win, beating Baltimore's Ross Grimsley, 1 - 0. Perry will go 21-13 and is the last Indian pitcher this century to win 20.

1984: Tigers beat the Blue Jays 2-1 on a solo home run by Ruppert Jones to cut their Magic Number to 4.
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1996: Frank Thomas breaks the White Sox mark for home runs established by Carlton Fisk in 1993. His 215th homer comes off Tim Wakefield in a 9 - 8 loss to the Red Sox.

1999: Baseball owners vote to merge the administrative operations of the American and National leagues. National League President Leonard Coleman, concluding his job has become irrelevant, announces his resignation effective after the World Series. He will become a senior adviser to Commissioner Bud Selig.

2000: The Tigers outlast the Red Sox, 7 - 6. The two teams combine to use a league record-tying 42 players in the contest.

2002: In his final season, the Tigers celebrate Ernie Harwell Day, and unveil his statue at Comerica Park.
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2005: Curtis Granderson hits his first career inside-the-park-home run and the Tigers beat the angels 8 - 6.

2006: The Detroit Tigers selected Matt Stairs off waivers from the Texas Rangers.

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

2017: Tigers win on a walk-off by Mikie Mahtook and the Tigers beat the white sox 3 - 2.

Tigers players and executives birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dubucje01.shtml
Jean Debuc 1912-1916.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ed_Katalinas
https://schuylkillbaseball.wordpress.com/players-2/ed-katalinas/
Ed Katalinas scout 1950's-1960's, scouting director 1960, 1963-1979.
Signed Al Kaline, Vic Wertz, Ray Oyler, Don Wert, and Jim Northrup.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/paceljo01.shtml
John Pacella 1986.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cardoja01.shtml
Javier Cardona 2000-2001.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kaneha01.shtml
Harry Kane 1903.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/beckehe01.shtml
Heinie Beckendorf 1909-1910.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/taylobi03.shtml
Bill Taylor 1957-1958.

Baseball Reference
 
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The Tigers pulled out an 8-4 victory today over the equally troubled Orioles, but the win didn?t come without a fair share of bummer news. Baseball legend Miguel Cabrera was lifted for a pinch hitter in the seventh inning, and the club announced after the game that the former Triple Crown winner is dealing with right knee soreness; Cabrera has been dealing with chronic pain in that knee all season.

Across 1200 plate appearances since the beginning of the 2017 season, Cabrera owns a .273/.347/.405 batting line; his wRC+ of an even 100 indicates that he has been the perfect exemplar of a league-average hitter over that time frame.
Of course, it is without the slightest bit of schadenfreude that one would point out how far those marks have fallen since Cabrera?s heyday. Miggy garnered MVP votes in every season ranging from 2003-2016; in that same span, he made ten All-Star games, won two MVP awards, and took home seven Silver Slugger trophies. Jason Beck of MLB.com indicates that Cabrera is considered ?day-to-day? for the time being.

MLBTR
 
https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/miguel-cabrera-sore-knee-flares-up
Cabrera plans to play despite sore knee.
Garcia gets chance to show his stuff; Reyes hits first Comerica homer.
Tigers official site

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...t-strengthen-spot-no-1-pick-draft/2335631001/
Tigers lose to Orioles but strengthen spot for No. 1 pick in draft.
Detnews

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/orioles...583#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=565583
Boxscore.

Something I've noticed the past few weeks, is that the Tigers media sites including BYBTB have become late in posting their game day summaries.
For those of you that read all of them, I will edit and post when they become available.

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...it-tigers-baltimore-orioles-score/2335195001/
Detroit Tigers observations: Early offense wasted in 8-2 loss to Orioles.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/sports/2019/09/orioles-win-to-extend-lead-on-last-place-tigers.html
Orioles win to extend lead on last-place Tigers.
Mlive

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/tigers-edwin-jackson-lose-to-orioles
Jackson sets tone for Tigers: 'Keep battling'.
Wins have been hard to come by for the veteran clubhouse leader.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2019/9...s-bad-matt-hall-harold-castro-grayson-greiner
Orioles 8 - Tigers 2: Detroit moves closer to No. 1 pick in 2020 MLB draft.
The Tigers now have a 4 1⁄2 game ?lead? over Baltimore for next year?s top pick.
BYBTB
 
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September 16 in Tigers and mlb history:

1885: The Detroit Wolverines purchased Hardy Richardson, Jack Rowe, Deacon White and Dan Brouthers from the Buffalo Bisons for $7000 (sum was for entire team). These are the players who were known as "The Big Four" and led the Detroit Wolverines to win the 1887 World Series.

1904: The Giants sweep two from Brooklyn as Christy Mathewson wins the opener, 2 - 1, allowing just four hits. Two of the hits, a triple and homer, are by rookie Emil Batch. Joe McGinnity wins the nitecap, 5 - 3.

1905: The Highlanders find themselves a little short on infielders so RF Willie Keeler, who is lefthanded, plays 2B in both games of a twin bill. The talented Keeler played two games at shortstop for New York in 1893.

1910: Christy Mathewson stops the Bucs on five hits, as the Giants top Pittsburgh, 3 - 1, to move a half-game behind the 2nd-place Pirates.

1911: Boston's Smoky Joe Wood and rookie Buck O'Brien toss back-to-back shutouts to beat Cleveland. Wood wins, 6 - 0, and O'Brien follows with a 3 - 0 win.

1911: At Forbes Field, Rube Marquard, with relief from Christy Mathewson, beats the Pirates, 6 - 2. Before the game the Giants' mascot, Victory Faust, strikes out Honus Wagner on three pitches, to the delight of the 20,000 fans.

1912: The Detroit Tigers drafted Claud Derrick from Baltimore (International) in the 1912 rule 5 draft.
1912: The Detroit Tigers drafted Marc Hall from Omaha (Western) in the 1912 rule 5 draft.
1912: The Detroit Tigers drafted Fred House from Kewanee (Central Association) in the 1912 rule 5 draft.
1912: The Detroit Tigers drafted Al Klawitter from Portland (PCL) in the 1912 rule 5 draft.

1915: In the first of an important four-game series at Fenway Park, the Tigers (90-48) and Red Sox (90-44) square off. Detroit knocks out starter Rube Foster, then rookie reliever Carl Mays keeps throwing at Ty Cobb till he hits the Tiger star on the wrist. Cobb slings his bat at Mays in retaliation, and the crowd reacts by throwing bottles at Cobb. The next inning, Cobb catches a fly ball for the final out and then needs a police escort to leave the field. The Tigers win 6 - 1.
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1922: George Sisler ties Ty Cobb's 1911 record by hitting in his 40th straight game. The streak will end at 41.

1924: Jim Bottomley goes 6 for 6, including two homers, and bats in a record twelve runs as the Cardinals beat the Dodgers, 17 - 3. The previous mark of 11 RBIs in one game was established in 1892 by today's opposing Dodger manager, Wilbert Robinson.

1926: Charlie Gehringer hits his 17th triple: still a Tigers rookie record.
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1937: Future Hall of Fame member Martin Dihigo pitches the first professional no-hit, no-run game on Mexican soil, a 4 - 0 victory against Nogales at Veracruz. In 1938, Dihigo will lead the Mexican League in four categories: ERA (0.90), wins (18-2), strikeouts (184), and batting (.387).

1946: The Detroit Tigers released Tommy Bridges.

1948: Joe DiMaggio hits his 300th career home run, joining Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mel Ott, Jimmie Foxx, Rogers Hornsby, Chuck Klein and Hank Greenberg as the only major leaguers to reach this milestone.

1950: Rookie Whitey Ford tosses a six-hitter to give the Yankees the rubber game in Detroit, 8 - 1, and move them back into first place. Joe DiMaggio hits his 30th homer and the Yanks score seven runs in the 9th as Ford drives to his seventh win without a loss. The Red Sox will follow the Yankees into Detroit and sweep three from the Tigers.

1951: At Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio's long triple off Bob Feller scores two runs in the 5th and Allie Reynolds holds on for a 5 - 1 New York win. The Yanks take over first place for good by a margin of .003 points over Cleveland.

1958: "The Yankee Killer" Frank Lary is the 3rd pitcher to beat them seven times in the same season, as the Tiger star defeats them, 4 - 2. Ed Walsh (9-1 in 1908) and Ed Cicotte (7-1 in 1916) were the others.
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1960: At the age of 39, Warren Spahn pitches a no-hitter beating the Phillies, 4 - 0. The crafty lefty sets an all-time Braves record with 15 strikeouts.

1960: With Ty Cobb among the 49,055 fans in attendance at Yankee Stadium, Mickey Mantle cracks a two-run homer, his 35th, off the O's Chuck Estrada to give New York a 2 - 0 lead in the 1st. Yogi Berra adds a home run. In the last of the 8th, Bobby Richardson's hit off Estrada's glove drives in two runs for a 5 - 3 New York win.

1961: At Detroit, Roger Maris connects for #57, off Frank Lary, to stay a game ahead of Babe Ruth's 1927 home run pace. But Lary wins his 21st, 10 - 4, over Ralph Terry, with help from Norm Cash, who belts his 37th homer and a triple. Al Kaline adds four hits and a sac fly.

1964: The Detroit Tigers signed Dick Drago as an amateur free agent.

1964: Phillies pitcher Jim Bunning (17-4), starting on two days' rest after pitching 10 innings in Houston, loses to the Colt .45s, 6 - 5.
Bunning had won eight in a row. Manager Gene Mauch will be highly criticized for his overuse of his top pitchers down the stretch as Philadelphia blows its season-long lead.

1967: Norm Cash drives in five runs and John Hiller goes the distance, enabling Detroit to take the American League lead with a 9 - 1 win over the Yankees.

1968: Tigers top Yankees 9-1; John Hiller (9-5) scatters 8 hits, strikes out 7. Norm Cash hits a single, double, and a home run. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnPHrIpVYAA2SUT.jpg

1968: One day after seeing their team mathematically eliminated, Candlestick Park's patrons show up in "record" numbers, the smallest crowd to see a game since the team moved to San Francisco in 1958. The story of today's 8 - 4 Giants win over Cincinnati, the latest installment in the two teams' ongoing battle for second-best, will itself be second best (at least as judged by tomorrow's sports page editors) as compared to the following unfortunate incident.
UPI reports: "A gathering of only 2,361, the smallest in San Francisco's major league history, was on hand and witnessed the rare sight of Willie Mays engaged in a shouting match with two spectators. Mays, in fact, had to be restrained from charging into the stands to confront the two hecklers, both Air Force sergeants dressed in civilian clothes. 'Nice catch, Willie,' they jeered from the front row after Mays made a spectacular catch in the 4th.
'For a $100,000 bum you're finally earning your money'". "Mays was approaching the dugout in the middle of the 4th when he went after the two men," adds AP. "He was intercepted by Bobby Bonds and manager Herman Franks and the sergeants were ejected from the park."

1972: Joe Coleman wins his 17th game and Dick McAuliffe clouts two home runs and drives in four to lead Detroit to a 6 - 2 win in Milwaukee. This is Detroit's 5th win in a row and keeps them a percentage point behind Boston.

1983: Lou Whitaker goes 3-for-5 with 2 doubles, en route to a career-high 40 doubles on the season in a loss to the red sox.
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1984: Tigers get their 95th win 8 - 3 over the blue jays. Home runs by Castillo, Brookens, and Herndon.

1985 - Detroit's Nelson Simmons hits a home run from each side of the plate, the first Tiger to do so. But the Orioles answer with six homers of their own in overpowering the Tigers, 14 - 7. Cal Ripken hits his 2nd homer of the game in the 8th, and Eddie Murray and Fred Lynn follow with successive homers.
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1993: At the age of 41, the Twins' Dave Winfield becomes the 19th major leaguer to collect 3000 hits as he singles to left off A's ace Dennis Eckersley in a 5 - 1 home victory over Oakland.

1996: A 5th-inning triple off Royals pitcher Jose Rosado gives the Twins' Paul Molitor 3000 hits. He will become the first major leaguer to accomplish this milestone in a season in which he collects 200 hits. It is the first time a three-bagger is a career 3000th hit.

1998: Detroit rookie P Sean Runyan makes his 84th appearance of the season in the Tigers' 2 - 1 loss to Toronto.
He breaks Mike Myers' rookie record of 83 set in 1996.

1998: Ken Griffey, Jr. steals his 20th base of the season in a 4 - 1 victory over Oakland. He becomes just the third player in history to record at least 50 home runs and at least 20 stolen bases in the same season. Willie Mays and Brady Anderson are the others.

2009: Ernie Harwell delivers a farewell address at Comerica Park.
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2011: Tigers clinch their first division title since 1987 in a 3 - 1 win over the a's.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/v/valenvi01.shtml
Vito Valentinetti 1958.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mickey_Tettleton
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tettlmi01.shtml
Mickey Tettleton 1991-1994.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pittach01.shtml
Chris Pittaro 1985.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/parenma01.shtml
Mark Parent 1996.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/beckhgo01.shtml
Gordon Beckham 2019.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Herman_Long
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/longhe01.shtml
Herman Long 1903.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dealch01.shtml
Charlie Deal 1912-1913.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/walkefr01.shtml
Frank Walker 1917-1918.

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https://www.blessyouboys.com/2019/9/16/20868025/detroit-tigers-podcast-fangraphs-dan-szymborski
Bless You Boys Tigers Blog BYBTB Podcast 57: Projecting on the Tigers with Dan Szymborski of FanGraphs. 80 minutes.
The BYB staff talks baseball from a Tigers perspective.

Host Brandon Day is joined by Dan Szymborski, creator and operator of the ZIPS Projection System and writer for FanGraphs. We commiserated over the duel misery of the Tigers and Orioles franchises and took a look at the Tigers rebuild. The discussion ranges over projecting baseball players, the future of sports gambling, the impact of data on player development, and a host of tangents and digressions from Tom Selleck to Len Koenecke.

You can find his latest piece on the Tigers? season here and you?ll find his work at ESPN as well as at FanGraphs.
 
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