August 2 in Tigers and mlb history:
1905: At Pittsburgh, the Giants win their 13th game in a row, beating the Pirates, 3 - 1, to take a 10 1/2 game lead over the Pirates. Christy Mathewson is the winner over Deacon Phillippe. Bucs star Honus Wagner is thrown out at first base in the 4th inning on a close play, then shows his displeasure by firing a ball near umpire George Bausewine during warmups the next inning. Bausewine responds by thumbing Honus out of the game. Wagner will be suspended for three games and fined $40.
1907: Senators rookie Walter Johnson makes his major league debut, losing to the Tigers, 3 - 2. Ty Cobb gets the first hit and first run off the future Hall of Famer with a bunt single.
1907: Three Finger Brown tops Christy Mathewson for the third time this season, allowing just four hits in shutting out the Giants, 5 - 0. The first-place Cubs paste Matty for nine hits, and will take four out of five games in the series with New York.
1909: The Detroit Tigers purchased Del Gainer from Grafton (Pennsylvania-West Virginia).
1910: Toronto (Eastern) purchased Ed Killian from the Detroit Tigers.
1911: Christy Mathewson allows 15 singles, but his teammates help with four double plays and the Giants top the Pirates, 8 - 4. Babe Adams takes the loss.
1913: It's Walter Johnson Day in Washington. President Wilson is on hand to help mark the Big Train's 6th anniversary in a Nationals uniform. Johnson is presented with a silver cup filled with 10-dollar bills ($674) and returns the favor with a 3 - 2 win over Detroit, his 24th win of the year.
1915: On the 8th anniversary of Walter Johnson's debut, the Big Train tops the Browns, 5 - 1. The losing pitcher is George Sisler, who has a single off Johnson.
1916: Phils star Grover Alexander wins his 20th of the season, pitching a 12-inning, 1 - 0 shutout over the Cubs. In the 12th, Alex intentionally walks two and then fans pitcher Mike Prendergast with the bases loaded. Bill Killefer strolls home with the winning run while the Cubs are arguing a call at third base. Alexander has now won more games than the cross-town A's (19).
1921: With the jurors lifting the men onto their shoulders, the eight White Sox players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series are acquitted by the jury. The next day, Commissioner Kenesaw Landis will say the overwhelming evidence clearly shows the Black Sox fixed the games with gamblers and all involved will be banned from playing professional baseball again.
1922: Ken Williams homers in his sixth straight game setting an American League record. The Browns left fielder's home run helps beat the Red Sox, 9 - 4.
1924: A's 1B Joe Hauser sets an American League record when he hits 3 homers and a double for 14 total bases. It will be broken by Ty Cobb's 16 total bases on May 5, 1925.
1927: Washington celebrates Walter Johnson Day on the 20th anniversary of his joining the team. He receives $14,764.05, a silver service, and a Distinguished Service Cross made of gold with 20 diamonds. But the Tigers kayo him in a 3-run 9th to win, 7 - 6.
1929: The A's spot the Tigers six runs in the 1st inning, then rally to win, 11 - 10. Harry Heilmann has four hits, including two homers, for the losers, as do Marty McManus and Dale Alexander. The Tigers outhit the A's, 13-10.
The A's victory increases their American League lead to 11 1/2 games over the Yankees.
1930: Negro Leagues Game Playing under Kansas City's portable light system, the Pittsburgh Grays' 44-year-old hurler, Smokey Joe Williams (27 strikeouts), spins a one-hitter to defeat the Monarchs' Chet Brewer (19 strikeouts, including 10 in a row starting in the 7th), 1 - 0 in a fiercely contested 12-inning matchup. Oscar Charleston scores the only run.
1933: The A's Mickey Cochrane hits for the cycle for the second time in his career, against the Yankees in a 16 - 3 drubbing.
1940: In Detroit, the Red Sox pound 14 hits in beating the Tigers, 12 - 9. Shortstop Joe Cronin is 4 for 5 and hits for the cycle, the 5th in Sox history. Cronin cycled in 1929, not the first player to cycle twice, but the first to do it a decade apart. His 8th-inning homer, off Archie McKain, follows a Doc Cramer triple and ices it for the Sox. Boston also gets homers from Dom DiMaggio and catcher Jimmie Foxx, his 23rd. Ted Williams, pinch-hitting in the 4th, draws a walk. Jack Wilson beats Tom Seats, with both pitching in relief.
1941: Ted Williams goes 2-for-3 vs Tigers at Fenway Park to raise his batting average to .412 and the Tigers beat the red sox 6 - 5.
1942: At Detroit, the Tigers sweep a pair from the Red Sox, 8 - 4 and 6 - 2, to knock Boston out of 2nd place. Dizzy Trout wins the opener, helping himself with a 3-run home run. Virgil Trucks wins the nitecap, giving up a 9th-inning home run to Ted Williams. Along with Jim Tabor, CF Dom DiMaggio has a homer in the opener, then adds an unassisted double play in the nitecap.
1942: At Yankee Stadium, Satchel Paige and Hilton Smith combine to pitch a one-hit shutout over the New York Cubans (Negro League). The Monarchs win, 9 - 0. In the first game of the twinbill, the Philadelphia Stars conquer the Baltimore Elite Giants, 7 - 4. Henry Spearman's grand slam sparks the Philley attack.
1950: Larry Doby hits three homers in a game as Cleveland beats Washington, 11 - 0. Besides tossing the shutout, Indians hurler Bob Lemon hits a home run.
1955: "Mr. Cub" Ernie Banks hits his 4th grand slam of the season, tying the major league record, as Bob Rush bests the Pirates, 12 - 4.
1959: Jim Bunning of the Tigers pitches the only "perfect" inning of the last four decades, striking out three Red Sox on nine pitches. Bunning wins, 3 - 0. The last American League hurler to strike out the side on nine pitches was Lefty Grove, in 1928.
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1959: Giants 1B Willie McCovey hits the first of his 521 major league home runs, off Ron Kline, as San Francisco downs the Pirates, 5 - 3. Johnny Antonelli wins his 15th game.
1959: Billy Bruton of the Braves hits three triples in an 11 - 5 win over the Cardinals. Two of the triples are with the bases loaded, the only time it has happened in the National League in the 20th Century.
1961: The Kansas City Athletics traded Reno Bertoia and Gerry Staley to the Detroit Tigers for Bill Fischer and Ozzie Virgil.
1964: Detroit P Larry Sherry suffers a fractured left foot when struck by a liner off the bat of Leon Wagner in Cleveland's doubleheader sweep. Sherry will be out for rest of the year.
1970: The Detroit Tigers purchased Kevin Collins from the Montreal Expos.
1972: The Tigers purchase P Woodie Fryman from the Phillies. Fryman proves to be a key piece down the stretch to help the Tigers win a division title. Fryman, just 4-10 for Philadelphia, will go 10-3 with Detroit.
In two days, the Tigers will purchase C Duke Sims from the Dodgers for Detroit, Sims will hit .316 in 38 games.
The two veterans will spark Detroit to the American League Eastern Division title.
1981: Ernie Harwell honored with the Ford Frick award at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
1984: Tigers 2 - Indians 1. Morris 1 R in 8 IP. Whitaker 2-run HR in 5th.
1985: Frank Tanana of the Tigers allows one hit (a home run by Ben Oglivie in the 5th) in beating the Brewers, 4 - 1. Tanana (6-10) strikes out eight while walking one.
1991: The Detroit Tigers released Rick Renteria.
1992: Rollie Fingers, Bill McGowan, Hal Newhouser and Tom Seaver are inducted in the Hall of Fame.
2001: The Detroit Tigers signed Bryce Florie as a free agent.
2004: The Detroit Tigers signed Benji Gil as a free agent.
2004: The Detroit Tigers signed Chad Meyers as a free agent.
2010: The Pittsburgh Pirates sent Brandon Jones to the Detroit Tigers as part of a conditional deal.
2013: The Detroit Tigers released Cesar Carrillo.
2016: The Detroit Tigers signed Jason Foley as an amateur free agent.
2014: The Tigers score in all eight innings in which they come to bat in defeating the Rockies, 11 - 5. The last major league team to do this was the Yankees in 2006. It's a first in Tigers history, at least since 1912, as inning-by-inning scores are not available for all games before that date.
2020: The first major league doubleheader consisting of two seven-inning games is played today between the Reds and Tigers, with the Reds recording a sweep, 4 - 3 and 4 - 0. However, it's unheralded Tyler Alexander of the Tigers who grabs the headlines in the opener as he strikes out 9 consecutive batters, setting a new major league record by a reliever, tying the American League record by any pitcher, and falling one shy of Tom Seaver's major league record. His is also the first 10-strikeout game by a reliever since Randy Johnson set the major league record with 16 back in 2001.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Kid Nance 1901.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jamesar01.shtml
Art James 1975.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/millema01.shtml
Matt Miller 2001-2002.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Al_Avila
Al Avila Assistant GM, GM 2002-2020.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lewisco01.shtml
Colby Lewis 2006.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dan_Brouthers
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/broutda01.shtml
Dan Brouthers Detroit Wolverines NL 1886-1888.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/curryji01.shtml
Jim Curry 1918.
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Al Federoff 1951-1952.
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