October 8 in Tigers and mlb history:
1887: The Detroit Wolverines finish 79-45 to win their first and only National League championship. The team had Hall of Famers; Dan Brouthers, Sam Thompson, Deacon White, and Ned Hanlon.
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1887: Donie Bush born in Indianapolis. Tigers SS 1908-21. His 52 SB was AL rookie record till 1992. Led Tigers in OBP in 1909 WS.
1904: Jimmy Barrett becomes 1st MLB player to play 162 games in a season. Tigers had 154-game schedule but 10 ties.
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1907: Tigers play their 1st-ever World Series game, in Chicago. Game ends in 3-3 tie after 12 innings.
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1908: The Chicago Cubs win the National League pennant when Mordecai Brown beats Christy Mathewson 4 - 2, in the replay of the disputed game of September 23rd when Fred Merkle failed to touch second base.
1909: Pirates win Game 1 of the World Series at Forbes Field, 4-1. The Tigers jump out to a 1-0 lead in the first but Fred Clarke ties it with a home run in the 4th. Rookie Babe Adams gets the start and holds the Tigers to 6 hits. Honus Wagner goes 1-for-3 with a double.
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1911: Ty Cobb finishes the season with a batting average of .420. Only two players have matched that mark since (George Sisler, .420 in 1922, Rogers Hornsby, .424 in 1924). Cobb also leads the American League in Runs 147, Hits 248, Doubles 47, Triples 24, RBI 127, Stolen Bases 83, Slugging .621 OPS 1.088 OPS+ 196, and Total Bases 367.
He misses winning the Triple Crown by 1 home run.
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1915: The Philadelphia Phillies win their first-ever World Series game behind Grover Cleveland Alexander, 3 - 1. Boston Red Sox rookie Babe Ruth grounds out as a pinch hitter in the 9th inning of the opener. Ruth will sit out the rest of the Series, and the Phillies won't win another game in the Fall Classic until Game 1 of the 1980 World Series.
1919: Ed Cicotte pitches Game 7 of the World Series, and the Chicago White Sox play like they mean it. Joe Jackson and Happy Felsch drive in two runs each for a 4 - 1 win to cut the Cincinnati Reds' lead to four games to three in the best-of-nine Series.
1927: In Game 4 of the World Series, facing elimination at Yankee Stadium, the Pirates are tied with the Yankees, 3 - 3, in the bottom of the 9th inning. Reliever Johnny Miljus fans Lou Gehrig and Bob Meusel with the bases loaded, but a two-strike wild pitch to Tony Lazzeri allows Earle Combs to score the winning run for the Yankees and capture the World Series.
1930: George Earnshaw finishes off the Cardinals, 7 - 1, to win the World Series for the Philadelphia Athletics. Earnshaw is clearly the pitching star of the Series with two victories and a 0.72 ERA.
1934: Daffy Dean outduels Schoolboy Rowe and hits the game-winning RBI: Cardinals win 4-3 to force Game 7 in the World Series.
1940: With only one day off, Bobo Newsom comes back for the Tigers and nearly has enough to win Game Seven of the World Series. Cincinnati Reds Paul Derringer gives up seven hits in the first six innings but sets the Tigers down in order in the final three frames for the 2 - 1 win, giving the Reds the Series.
Thousands of fans greet the Tigers at Michigan Central Station after the tough Game 7 loss in Cincinnati.
1945: Stan Hack's double makes a tricky bounce over left fielder Hank Greenberg's shoulder with two outs in the 12th inning to score runner Bill Schuster and give the Chicago Cubs an 8 - 7 win in Game Six to even the World Series with Detroit.
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1956: Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitches the only perfect game in World Series history for a 2 - 0 triumph over the Brooklyn Dodgers. Sal Maglie, the opposing pitcher, gives up five hits.
Babe Pinelli is the home plate umpire for Don Larsen's perfect game. Pinelli was the starting third baseman on the 1920 Tigers.
1961: The New York Yankees' Whitey Ford sets a World Series record for consecutive scoreless innings by extending his streak to 32 innings in a 7 - 0 triumph over the Cincinnati Reds in Game 4. The mark had previously been held by Babe Ruth.
1972: In Game 2 of the American League Championship Series, Bert Campaneris, a rotten bastard scumbag for the ages, of the Oakland Athletics throws his bat at Detroit Tigers pitcher Lerrin LaGrow after being hit by a pitch.
Both players are ejected and Campaneris is suspended for the rest of the series. Tigers manager Billy Martin has to be restrained by several Tigers players and umpires from going after campaneris.
1974: The Detroit Tigers released Ike Brown.
1978: Two of the most beloved Tigers in team history, Hall of Famer Alan Trammell and '76 Rookie of the Year Mark Fidrych.
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1982: The Detroit Tigers released Rick Peters.
1982: The Detroit Tigers released Jerry Turner.
1984: Off day. World Series starts tomorrow in San Diego.
San Diego native Alan Trammell returns home: #Relive84
1985: The Detroit Tigers released Bob Stoddard.
1987: Tigers take 2-0 lead before Twins score 6 runs off Jack Morris to win Game 2 of the ALCS. Chet Lemon goes 2-for-4 with a home run. Ex-Tiger Juan Berenguer gets the save.
1993: The Detroit Tigers released Dave Johnson.
2004: The Detroit Tigers selected Colby Lewis off waivers from the Texas Rangers.
2008: Francis Beltran of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2011: The Texas Rangers take the first game of the 2011 ALCS over the Detroit Tigers with a rain-soaked 3 - 2 win over ace Justin Verlander in Arlington. They score two early runs against the 24-game winner; one on a solo homer by Nelson Cruz in the 4th, before Verlander leaves after a 5th-inning rain delay. Rangers starter C.J. Wilson who has to depart early, but five relievers allow only a hit and a walk in the last 4 1/3 innings; Alexi Ogando, the man they call wart face, is the winner.
2013: The ALDS will require a decisive 5th game after the Tigers defeat the Athletics, 8 - 6, in Game 4. Facing elimination, Detroit manager Jim Leyland uses ace starter Max Scherzer in relief in the 7th; he allows a run in that inning but escapes a none out, bases loaded jam in the 8th while his teammates score 5 runs over those two innings to give him the win.
2018: The Red Sox humiliate the Yankees in Game 3 of the Division Series at New Yankee Stadium, winning 16 - 1. The Sox score 7 times in the 4th, chasing Luis Severino, to build a comfortable lead, and keep adding to it as Brock Holt hits for the cycle, becoming the first player ever to do so in a postseason game. Nathan Eovaldi pitches 7 innings for the win.
Tigers players and coaches birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Donie_Bush
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bushdo01.shtml
Donie Bush 1908-1921.
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Bob Gillespie 1944.
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Don Pepper 1966.
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Wally Moses coach 1967-1970.
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Mike Chris 1979.
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Enos Cabell 1982-1983.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Al Klawitter 1913.
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