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Ronald Acu?a of the Atlanta Braves became the first player to reach 30 starts each at the leadoff and cleanup spots in a season since Ty Cobb in 1906.
 
https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/tigers-historic-record-vs-2019-indians
Tigers won't miss matchups with 2019 Tribe.
Tigers official site

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2019/9...dians-final-score-daniel-norris-drew-verhagen
Indians 7 - Tigers 0: Surprise! Cleveland won again.
The outcome was entirely predictable, but that does not make it feel any better.
BYBTB

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...393#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=565393
Boxscore.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...h-straight-loss-cleveland-indians/2371932001/
'Bad feeling': Tigers hit new low with 17th straight loss to Indians.
Detnews

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2019/0...-extending-record-losing-skid-vs-indians.html
Tigers swept in Cleveland, extending record losing skid vs. Indians.
Mlive

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id...t-18-1-tigers-historic-season-long-domination
Wait, the Indians went 18-1 against the Tigers? Inside the historic, season-long domination.
espn
 
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September 20 in Tigers and mlb history:

1913: Providence (International) purchased Charlie Grover from the Detroit Tigers.
1913: Chattanooga (Southern Association) purchased Charlie Harding from the Detroit Tigers.
1913: Chattanooga (Southern Association) purchased Lefty Lorenzen from the Detroit Tigers.
1913: Providence (International) purchased Eddie Onslow from the Detroit Tigers.
1913: Providence (International) purchased Al Platte from the Detroit Tigers.
1913: Nashville (Southern Association) purchased Erwin Renfer from the Detroit Tigers.

1915: #Tigers lose their 3rd of 4 games with Boston to fall 4 games behind them in the American League. Would win 100 games but finish 2nd to the Red Sox, who won 101 and went on to win the World Series.

1917: The Detroit Tigers drafted Joe Cobb from Cumberland (Blue Ridge) in the 1917 rule 5 draft.

1919: On Babe Ruth day at Fenway Park, the Bambino ties Ned Williamson's major league mark of 27 home runs in a season with a game-winner off Lefty Williams of the Chicago White Sox.

1922: Rogers Hornsby is stopped by Burleigh Grimes of Brooklyn after hitting in 33 straight games.

1924: At age 37, Grover Cleveland Alexander wins his 300th game as the Chicago Cubs beat the New York Giants, 7 - 3 in 12 innings. He will finish with 373 victories during his 20-year career.

1924: Ty Cobb gets his 200th hit by going 2-for-4 with a double, and adds 2 stolen bases in the Tigers 6 - 5 win over the yankees.

1927: Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees hits his 60th home run of the season, off Washington Senators pitcher Tom Zachary breaking the record he set in 1921.

1931: Lou Gehrig drives in four runs to break his old American League RBI mark of 175, set in 1927. By the season's end he will have a total of 184.

1939: Joe Louis defeats Bob Pastor in his only bout at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium.
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1951: The owners elect National League President Ford Frick as the third baseball commissioner for a seven-year term at $65,000 per annum.

1953: Second baseman Gene Baker, the other half of the Kansas City Monarchs double play duo along with shortstop Ernie Banks, joins his former Negro League teammate making his major league debut with the Chicago Cubs. Ernie hits his first major league home run against Gerry Staley, but the St. Louis Cardinals win, 11 - 6.

1955: New York Giants slugger Willie Mays hits two home runs against the Pittsburgh Pirates, giving him 50 for the year and making him the seventh player in major league history (at this time) to accomplish this.

1958: Recently-acquired Orioles knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm pitches a 1 - 0 no-hitter against the New York Yankees at Memorial Stadium, with the only run coming on a home run by battery mate Gus Triandos. It will be the last time in the 20th century the Yankees will fail to get a hit in a game.

1960: Boston Red Sox outfielder Carroll Hardy pinch-hits for Ted Williams, who is forced to leave the game after fouling a ball off his ankle, and grounds into a double play.
On May 31, 1961, Hardy will pinch hit for rookie Carl Yastrzemski, making him the only player to go in for both future Hall of Famers.
Hardy also hit his first major league home run pinch-hitting for Roger Maris when both were at Cleveland, on May 18, 1958).

1961: The 155th Yankees game of the season (including a tie) is Roger Maris' last chance to beat the 60 home run mark set by Babe Ruth in compliance with Commissioner Ford Frick's statement, for the record to be broken Maris must do it in the same number of games as Ruth. Maris' 59th home run of the year, off Jack Fisher, is short of the record, but helps the Yankees beat Baltimore, 4 - 2 to clinch their 26th American League pennant.

1962: Al Kaline hits a 2-run home run off Jim Kaat for his 1,500th career hit in the Tigers 5 - 1 win over the twins.

1968: Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees hits the 536th and final home run of his major league career, a solo shot against Jim Lonborg of the Boston Red Sox in a 4 - 3 loss at Yankee Stadium.

1968: Jim Northrup hits 2 home runs: Tigers win their 10th straight and 100th of the year in a 6 - 3 win over the senators. Al Kaline is 4 for 4 with a home run and double.
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1974: Tom Veryzer goes 3-for-3 with 2 walks & drives in 3 on a 2-run home run, a 2-out bases-loaded 2-single, & an insurance RBI single in the 9th inning to give the Tigers an 8-5 win in Milwaukee.
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1977: Tigers rally in the 10th, tie it on a Jason Thompson home run, and win 5 - 4 over the indians on a John Wockenfuss walk-off single.

1980: Steve Kemp hits a grand slam and a 2-run triple in the Tigers 13 - 3 win over the indians.

1983: Tigers get 10 straight hits and score 11 runs in the first inning against the Orioles, tying an American League record set in 1901 for runs to start a game and go on to a 14 - 1 win over the orioles.

1988: Wade Boggs of the Boston Red Sox becomes the first major leaguer in the 20th century to get 200 hits in six consecutive seasons as Boston pounds the Toronto Blue Jays 13 - 2. Boggs also joins Lou Gehrig as the only players to get 200 hits and 100 walks in three consecutive years.

1988: Chet Lemon hits his 200th career home run, a walk-off 2-run shot to give the Tigers a 3 -1 win over Cleveland. Darrell Evans hits his 400th home run, his last at #TigerStadium.
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1998: Cal Ripken, Jr. takes himself out of the starting lineup and does not play in the Baltimore Orioles' loss to the New York Yankees, ending his consecutive games played streak at 2,632. After nearly 16 years, Ripken says he decided the time was right to end the streak, which began on May 30, 1982.

2014: The Royals lose a key home game to the Tigers, 3 - 2, as Max Scherzer defeats James Shields. With the score tied 1 - 1 in the 6th, the Royals have a run taken back when the Tigers make a successful appeal play against Salvador Perez, who fails to retouch third base before going home following a line-out and an error. The Tigers then score twice in the 7th, with a two-out pinch single by Tyler Collins the key blow. The Royals manage to cut the lead by one in the 8th and place two men on with one out in the 9th, but Joe Nathan induces two ground outs to get the save, dealing a serious blow to Kansas City's postseason hopes.
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2016: Matt Boyd struck out seven over eight innings and home runs by James McCann and Miguel Cabrera powered the Tigers to an 8-1 win over the twins. Miguel Cabrera hits a 2-run home run to pass Joe DiMaggio in career RBIs.

Tigers players and managers birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Chuck_Dressen
https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/dressch01.shtml
Chuck Dressen manager 1963-1966.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Tom_Tresh
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/treshto01.shtml
Tom Tresh 1969.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ribande01.shtml?redir
Dennis Ribant 1968.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/tatajo01.shtml
Jordan Tata 2006-2007.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/schialo01.shtml
Lou Schiappacasse 1902.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/morgach01.shtml
Chet Morgan 1935, 1938.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/archige01.shtml
George Archie 1938.

Baseball Reference
 
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