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September 18 in Tigers and mlb history:

1903: Christy Mathewson relieves Dummy Taylor with the score knotted at 5 - 5 in the 7th. The Giants then push across two runs off Jack Sutthoff and Matty wins his 29th of the year.

1903: In the absence of official sanction, the presidents of the pennant-winning clubs in the National and American Leagues sign an agreement to meet in a best-of-nine series for the championship.

1908: The White Sox stay close to the top when Ed Walsh tops Walter Johnson to win, 1 - 0. The Sox manage just three hits off the Senators' ace.

1908: The largest crowd in the history of the National League - 35,000 - cheer as the Giants shove the Pirates to five games off the pace by sweeping a doubleheader. Christy Mathewson shuts out the Bucs in the first game, 7 - 0, for his 11th shutout and his 33rd win. Then the Giants collect 18 hits to take the nitecap, 12 - 7, as Hooks Wiltse and Joe McGinnity combine for the win.

1909: Before 35,409, the largest paid baseball attendance ever, Chief Bender beats Bill Donovan and the Tigers 2 - 0 at Philadelphia to keep the A's in the pennant race. The A's are 14-8 against Detroit this year, setting an American League record for most wins against the pennant winner. Ty Cobb is the Triple Crown winner with a .377 BA, nine home runs (all inside-the-park), and 107 RBI. He also will lead the American League with 216 hits, 116 runs, and 296 total bases. His 76 stolen bases make him the only player ever to win a Quadruple Crown.

1912: The Detroit Tigers purchased Henri Rondeau from the Washington Senators for $4,000.
1912: The Detroit Tigers traded Claud Derrick to the New York Highlanders for Red McKee.

1915: In one of the best pitched games of the year, Ernie Shore goes all the way to give Boston a 1 - 0 win over Detroit in 12 innings.

1920: National League directors meet in New York, NY, joined by Jacob Ruppert, Cap Huston, Charles Comiskey, and Harry Frazee of the American League. They name a committee to draw up an agreement along the lines of Albert Lasker's proposal, and give the five AL clubs still backing Ban Johnson an ultimatum: come in by November 1st or the New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, and Boston Red Sox will pull out of the AL and join a 12-team National League (with a team in Detroit, MI to complete the roster). The AL five turn it down, and bluff and counterbluff blow through the autumn air.

1930: The Philadelphia Athletics win the American League championship for the second year in a row, defeating the White Sox, 14 - 10.

1931: Lefty Grove wins his 30th game, beating the White Sox, 3 - 1, on five hits. He is the first to win 30 since Jim Bagby of Cleveland in 1920 and will be the last American League hurler to do so until Denny McLain in 1968.

1933: The 2nd-place Yankees split with the White Sox, winning, 6 - 1, on Johnny Allen's two-hitter, before falling, 4 - 3. Les Tietje, in his big league debut, stops the Bombers in the nitecap. Lou Gehrig clubs home runs #28 and #29: Jimmie Foxx leads the American League with 45.

1937: Pittsburgh OF Paul Waner establishes a 20th-century National League record with his 8th year of 200 or more hits.

1943: The Cardinals clinch the National League pennant. Howie Pollet, Max Lanier, and Mort Cooper will rank 1-2-3 in NL ERA, and Al Brazle at 1.53 and Harry Brecheen at 2.27 are near the same level. For hitting, Redbirds prime with Whitey Kurowski, Walker Cooper, and Stan Musial, who in his second season hits .357 and has 220 hits, 347 total bases, 48 doubles and 20 triples.

1947: Hank Greenberg makes his final career appearance, with the Pirates: goes 0-for-3 with 2 walks.

1955: Al Kaline has 3 hits for the second straight day, en route to winning the batting title with a .340 average, leading the league in hits 200, and Total Bases 321, all at age 20. Tigers beat the indians 10 - 3.
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1956: Mickey Mantle hits his 50th home run, only the 8th to do so, in the 11th off Chicago's Billy Pierce, as New York wins, 3 - 2, to clinch another pennant.

1960: Braves' hurler Lew Burdette faces the minimum 27 batters as he no-hits the Phillies, 1 - 0. Tony Gonzalez, who is hit by a pitch in the 5th inning, is erased on a double play.

1965: On Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium, 50,180 fans see Mantle play his 2,000th game. Joe DiMaggio and Bobby Kennedy are on hand as Mantle is given a barbecue grill in the shape of a prairie schooner and a six-foot Kosher salami weighing 100 pounds. In Mantle's first at bat, Detroit's Joe Sparma comes off the mound to shake his hand. Mick then flies out. Detroit wins 4 - 3 with reliever Denny McLain getting the win.

1966: The Twins beat the Yankees, 5 - 3, in 10 innings, on Bob Allison's pinch three-run homer, sending the Yankees to the cellar in the American League. In his last plate appearance of the year, Mickey Mantle whiffs and becomes the first player to strike out 1,500 times in his career.

1967: Boston rallies to beat the 1st place Tigers in Detroit. A Carl Yastrzemski home run, his 40th, ties the game 5 - 5 in the 9th inning and a solo home run by Dalton Jones wins it in the 10th. Hours later, Detroit will receive another blow when Denny McLain allegedly leaps off a couch and sprains his left ankle. He will not pitch until the last game of the year.
Minnesota keeps pace by beating Kansas City 2 - 0 behind Jim Kaat's 6-hitter. The White Sox lose 3 - 2 to the Angels when Rick Reichardt hits a 9th-inning RBI single. Boston, Detroit, and Minnesota are now tied for 1st, with Chicago in 4th place, a half-game back.

1976: In his last major league at-bat, future Hall of Fame Cleveland player-manager Frank Robinson strokes a pinch-hit single against the Orioles.

1984: The Tigers clinch the American League East championship with a 3 - 0 win over the Brewers as starter Randy O'Neal records his first ML win. Tom Brookens hits a solo home run. Willie Hernandez gets his 30th save.
Hernandez strikes out Jim Sundberg, and 48,810 fans erupt in celebration at #TigerStadium #Relive84
Roger Craig: "It looks like we finally have overcome the legend of the 1968 World Champions ... As great as the Tigers were in 1968, they are history. Now we're the heroes. ...
I never dreamed so many tears and so much champagne would flow on this night"
Detroit becomes the 4th team this century to be in first place every day of the season, joining the 1923 Giants, the 1927 Yankees, and the 1955 Dodgers.

1984: Tim Raines becomes the first player in major league history with four consecutive seasons of 70 or more stolen bases by swiping four in Montreal's 7 - 4 win over St. Louis.

1987: In Detroit's 7 - 6 win over the Brewers, Darrell Evans belts his 40th homer of the year. He is the first 40-year-old to hit 40 homers.
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1996: The Detroit Tigers selected Fernando Hernandez off waivers from the San Diego Padres.

2002: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later and Tom Farmer (minors) to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Hiram Bocachica. The Detroit Tigers sent Jason Frasor (September 18, 2002) to the Los Angeles Dodgers to complete the trade.

2006: Tigers beat the white sox 8 - 2. Magglio Ordonez goes 3-for-4 with a home run. Jim Thome becomes the second player to hit 40 home runs with 3 different teams.

2011: Justin Verlander pitches 8 shutout innings for his 24th win as the Tigers beat the a's 3 - 0.

2012: The Tigers defeat the red-hot Athletics, 12 - 2, but lose P Max Scherzer, who departs after two innings with shoulder fatigue. Miguel Cabrera homers twice, including a grand slam in the 8th, and drives in 6 runs en route to winning the Triple Crown. Prince Fielder and Jhonny Peralta also homer.

2013: The Detroit Tigers signed Justin Miller as a free agent.

2016: Miguel Cabrera gets his 2,500th career hit, the 4th youngest to do it, and the Tigers beat the indians 9 - 5.
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2017: J.D. Martinez becomes the first player to be named Player of the Week four times in one season.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/George_Uhle
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/u/uhlege01.shtml
George Uhle 1929-1933.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dejohma01.shtml
Mark DeJohn 1982.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/masonro01.shtml
Roger Mason 1984.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/earlsc01.shtml
Scott Earl 1984.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/holtch01.shtml
Chris Holt 2001.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/melusmi01.shtml
Mitch Meluskey 2002.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/turnbsp01.shtml
Spencer Turnbull 2018-present.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/burrobe01.shtml
Beau Burrows 2020.

Baseball Reference
 
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https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/spencer-turnbull-has-solid-outing-vs-indians
Turnbull figures out Tribe, hurls 5 strong innings.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2019/9...al-score-spencer-turnbull-yasiel-puig-walkoff
Indians 2 - Tigers 1: That?s 16 losses in a row.
Miscues cost the Tigers as the Indians make it 16 straight victories over Detroit.
BYBTB

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...nal,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=565392
Boxscore.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...ot-enough-end-tigers-skid-indians/2363016001/
Spencer Turnbull's strong start not enough to end Tigers' skid to Indians.
Detnews

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2019/0...gs-before-falling-to-indians-4-takeaways.html
Tigers battle to 10 innings before falling to Indians: 4 takeaways.
Mlive
 
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September 19 in Tigers and mlb history:

1901: All games are canceled out of respect for the funeral of President William McKinley, who died September 14th from gunshot wounds.

1912: At Cleveland, the Red Sox lose an unusual doubleheader to the Cleveland Naps. Cleveland takes the lidlifter, 9 - 3, when the game is called on account of rain after five innings. The rain stops and the second game begins, only to be called after six innings because of darkness. The Naps win, 6 - 0.

1914: Before the Phils-Cards game, Grover Cleveland Alexander is presented with a check for $1,000 for winning 25 games. Alex proceeds to win his 25th, allowing just two hits while fanning 11.

1916: At Philadelphia, the White Sox tie a major-league record when three pinch runners score in the 9th inning. The Sox win, 5 - 4, over the A's..

1917: Detroit Tigers at Boston Red Sox, doubleheader game one
The Tigers beat the Red Sox at Fenway Park by a score of 5-2 in the first game, in one hour and 58 minutes total.
Five Hall of Famers played in the game: Ty Cobb and Harry Heilmann for the Tigers and Harry Hooper, Babe Ruth, and Herb Pennock for the Red Sox. Bill James was the lone native Detroiter. There were only three extra-base hits: two doubles and a triple. Cobb stole his 45th base of the season. The Red Sox made 9 errors.
James, the starting pitcher for Detroit, pitched a complete game, despite giving up nine hits. He faced 38 batters over nine innings.
1917: Detroit Tigers at Boston Red Sox, doubleheader game two
Detroit beat Boston 1-0 in the second match, with a game duration of one hour and 20 minutes. Both starting pitchers completed their games — Hooks Dauss (he had the best name in this game by far) for the Tigers and Carl Mays for the Red Sox. Tigers third baseman Bobby Veach hit a triple, the only extra-base hit of the game. Veach also had the only stolen base.

1922: Against the Senators' Walter Johnson, Ken Williams hit his 39th home run of the year in the 4th, and Pat Collins, subbing for George Sisler at 1B, adds another solo home run in the 7th to give the Browns a 2 - 1 lead. But the Senators rally to win, 4 - 3, with Johnson earning the win over Elam Vangilder. Sisler pinch hits and strikes out.

1926: At Cleveland's League Park, a crowd of 31,000 watch the Yankees hold back the Indians, 8 - 3, in the final of a six-game series. In the 7th, Babe Ruth parks his 43rd homer of the year and Lou Gehrig follows with another home run, both off Emil Levsen. Gehrig adds three doubles and five RBIs to lead the Yankee charge. Dutch Ruether picks up the New York win.

1929: Joe Sewell sets a major league record by playing in his 115th consecutive game without striking out. The Indians third baseman will be fanned only four times in 578 at-bats this season.

1931: Lefty Grove becomes the first pitcher to win 30 games since Jim Bagby did it in 1920 when he beats the White Sox, 2 - 1.

1933: The Yankees pile up 34 hits and drub the White Sox twice, 10 - 1 and 10 - 3. George Uhle and Charlie Devens are the recipients of the offensive largesse. Joe Sewell has six hits for the afternoon, while Lou Gehrig has six RBIs. Gehrig hits home run #30 in the first game, following immediately after Dixie Walker hits a homer. Lou is now even with Babe Ruth, who sat out the afternoon.

1937: Tigers first baseman Hank Greenberg becomes the first player to hit a homer into the center field bleachers at Yankee Stadium. Detroit wins 8 - 1.
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1937: In a benefit game played at the Polo Grounds, "Schoolboy" Johnny Taylor, pitching for a chosen All-Star Negro National League team, no-hits Satchel Paige and his "Dominican All-Stars", 2 - 0. Paige's team had won the Denver Post Tournament and had taken the Dominican League title earlier in the year.

1951: The Yankees are victorious when Mickey Mantle hits a three-run homer off Chicago's Lou Kretlow to win, 5 - 3. A small crowd of 12,127 watch the game at the Stadium. The two teams have been tied now for 11 days. The Yanks now have nine games left, eight against Boston.

1955: Cubs infielder Ernie Banks hits his fifth grand slam of the season to establish a new major league mark, but Rip Repulski's 12th-inning homer off Jim Davis proves to be the difference as the Cardinals beat Chicago, 6 - 5.

1956: For the third time in his career, P Don Newcombe hits two home runs in one game, in a 17 - 2 laugher. The win puts the Dodgers a half game in front of the Braves.

1960: Chicago's pennant hopes are damaged with a nitecap 7 - 6 loss to the Tigers, after they win the opener 8 - 4. Pinch-hitter Norm Cash scores the decisive run in game 2. Cash thus ends his year by grounding into no double plays, the first American Leaguer to do this since league records on this were started in 1940.
Future Teammate with the Tigers Dick McAuliffe and Roger Repoz will duplicate this in 1968.

1961: The Giants clobber Warren Spahn for four home runs, one of them a grand slam by Willie Mays, and then rally in the 8th and 9th to top the Braves, 11 - 10. The two teams combine for eight home runs and 57 total bases, but the short ball wins it - Harvey Kuenn's tie-breaking single in the 8th, and Ed Bailey's sacks-full single in the 9th.

1967: Boston rallies again to beat Detroit, 4 - 2, scoring three runs in the 9th inning. Jose Santiago (10-4) wins for the second time in two days.
The loss drops Detroit from 1st place down to 4th. Dave Boswell throws a two-hitter to give the Twins an 8 - 2 win over the Athletics. Joel Horlen wins his 18th game, a 3 - 0 blanking of the Angels, to leave the Sox in 3rd place, a half-game behind the co-leaders, Boston and the Twins.

1968: Denny McLain's 31st win is overshadowed by Mickey Mantle's 535th homer. McLain allegedly calls C Jim Price out and tells him to inform Mantle he's throwing the slugger nothing but fastballs. The home run gives Mantle undisputed hold of 3rd place on the all-time home run list. Mantle tips his cap to Denny as he rounds third base.
Joe Pepitone, the next batter, signals where he would like the ball, and McLain dusts him.
The Tigers win the game 6 - 2, the 12th straight complete game for the Tigers staff.
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1976: Catfish Hunter notches his 200th career victory as the Yankees stop Milwaukee, 2 - 1. Since 1901, only Christy Mathewson and Grover Cleveland Alexander have hit the 200 mark before their 31st birthday, but arm trouble will limit Catfish to 224 wins. He'll win 17 this year, after five straight 20-win seasons.

1980: At Tiger Stadium, Al Kaline becomes the first player in franchise history to have his uniform number retired. The First Ballot Hall of Famer, who wore the number 6, played Rightfield like he invented it for Detroit from 1953 to 1974.

1984: Tigers get their 98th win beating the brewers 4 - 2. Nelson Simmons goes 3-for-4.

1998: Tigers win 8 - 7 over the twins on a Damion Easley home run, their third straight walk-off win in which they trailed in the 9th inning.
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2001: Major League Baseball and the Players Association announce the creation of the MLB-MLBPA Disaster Relief Fund. The organizations will each donate $10 million to aid the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

2002: The Tigers take batting practice with a temporary fence in left field at Comerica Park. They will move the left field wall closer during the offseason.
Their game is rained out in the second inning, erasing a 9-run 1st by the Twins.

2011: Mariano Rivera throws a perfect 9th inning in the Yankess' 6 - 4 win over the Twins, striking out rookie Chris Parmelee for the final out, to record the 602nd save of his career. He passes Trevor Hoffman for the all-time lead in the category.

2012: Derek Jeter collects his 200th hit of the season, tying Lou Gehrig who also recorded 200 hits eight times for the Yankees.

2015: Ian Kinsler has his winning run in the 9th overturned on replay, then homers in the 11th for a walk-off 6 - 5 win
over the royals.

2018: The Oakland Athletics traded players to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Mike Fiers. The Oakland Athletics sent Nolan Blackwood (minors) (August 18, 2018) and Logan Shore (minors) (September 19, 2018) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ralph_Young
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/y/youngra01.shtml
Ralph Young 1915-1921.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/reibefr01.shtml
Frank Reiber 1933-1936.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/shoopro01.shtml
Ron Shoop 1959.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/nagelru01.shtml
Russ Nagleson 1970.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/goodan01.shtml
Andrew Good 2005.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/grissma01.shtml
Marv Grissom 1949.

Baseball Reference
 
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Mickey Lolich's mom touts the nutritional benefits of Little Caesars pizza in an ad in the Tigers' 1970 yearbook, via DailyFungo.
Back then--if you believe Mickey's mom--Little Caesars' sauce was made with "ocean-ripened tomatoes".
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EE1qsSkWsAAmbn2?format=jpg&name=medium

The story goes that Mike Illitch once walked into Lolich's donut store and offered to franchise it, but Lolich turned him down.
 
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