August 5 in Tigers and mlb history:
1886: The Detroit Wolverines purchased Pete Conway from the Kansas City Cowboys.
1912: At Comiskey Park, Walter Johnson relieves Carl Cashion with two outs in the 8th and stops the White Sox. Johnson throws another two innings of hitless ball and drives in the winning run to give Washington an 8 - 7 win. Johnson has now won 9 out of 10 decisions against the White Sox this season.
1922: Rogers Hornsby sets a new National League single-season home run record with his 28th, eclipsing a 38-year-old mark set by Ed Williamson of the Chicago White Stockings in 1884.
1923: Kansas City Monarchs Hall of Fame pitchers Jos? M?ndez and Bullet Rogan combine for a no-hitter against the Milwaukee Bears, winning 7-0 at Kansas City's newly-opened Muehlebach Field. M?ndez pitches five perfect innings before being relieved by Rogan. Rogan walks the second man he faces, the only baserunner allowed in the game.
1929: Despite three triples by Charlie Gehringer, the Senators overwhelm the Tigers 21 - 5. Sam Rice and Buddy Myer each have four hits and four runs as every hitter in the lineup hits a safety. Gehringer will go on to lead the American League that season in hits, doubles, triples, and stolen bases.
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1931: Detroit P Tommy Bridges has a brush with baseball immortality when he retires the first 26 Washington Senators to face him, before surrendering a hit to pinch hitter Dave Harris. The Tigers win the game 13 - 0. Charlie Gehringer has 4 hits with 2 rbi, CF John Stone and RF Earl Webb have 2 hits each and 5 RBI between them. But Tommy Bridges also with 2 hits and rbi, is the pitching star here as he also struck out 7 senators.
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1934: While three teammates stand watching, a fly ball by Jimmie Foxx drops for a double, the only hit given up by Lefty Gomez in the 3 - 1 win by the Yankees over the A's.
1935: In a rain-soaked game between the Yankees and the Red Sox, Lou Gehrig leaves in the fourth inning with another lumbago attack. The teams engage in stalling and hurry-up tactics, and American League President John Heydler fines managers Joe Cronin and Joe McCarthy $100 each.
1937: Hank Greenberg hits his 100th career home run, at Shibe Park in the Tigers 5 - 3 win over the philadelphia athletics.
1942: White Sox 1B Don Kolloway's 2-out steal of home in the 5th inning is the only run of the game against Tiger lefty Hal Newhouser. Sore-armed Thornton Lee is the winner. There are seven games played today, and five end in shutouts.
1949: The Detroit Tigers traded Luis Aloma to the Chicago White Sox for Alex Carrasquel.
1955: After playing 274 straight games at 2B, Nellie Fox is given a day off by White Sox manager Marty Marion. Fox will come back the next day and play in 798 consecutive games.
1957: The Detroit Tigers signed George Thomas as an amateur free agent (bonus baby).
1959: Mickey Mantle breaks up a scoreless pitching duel between Detroit's Don Mossi and Bobby Shantz by belting an 8th-inning homer with one on. New York wins at home 3 - 0.
1959: Willie McCovey hits two home runs and Willie Mays another as the Giants whip the Braves' Bob Buhl, 4 - 1, to move into first place.
1964: After weeks of negotiating, Ford Frick tells the league presidents and club owners he will not run for another term as commissioner.
1969: Tigers win 4 - 3 over the twins on a Don Wert walk-off single in the 13th inning.
1969: Willie Stargell becomes the first player to hit a home run completely out of Dodger Stadium. The 512-foot, 7th-inning, bases-empty blast breaks a 3 - 3 tie, helping the Pirates defeat Los Angeles, 11 - 3. The 2,500th career hit of Roberto Clemente and a two-run homer from Bill Mazeroski figure prominently in Pittsburgh's seven-run 9th inning. Taking a no-decision in what will prove to be his final Major League appearance is Dodger starter Don Drysdale, pitching with a torn rotator cuff, which, despite assurances that it is "something I'm going to have to learn to pitch with," will lead to his retirement within less than a week.
1972: Tiger shortstop Ed Brinkman commits an error, ending his major league record of 72 games and 331 total chances without making a misplay.
1973: Braves knuckleballer Phil Niekro no-hits the Padres, 9 - 0, and improves his record to 11-4. He walks three and strikes out four in recording the first no-hitter by the franchise in Atlanta.
1979: Willie Mays, Warren Giles, and Hack Wilson are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
1983: The Detroit Tigers released Bill Fahey.
1983: American League president Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees manager Billy Martin for the second time this season because of continuing abuse of umpires. Martin is suspended for two games for calling umpire Dale Ford "a stone liar" after a July 31st game with the White Sox. He earned a 3-game suspension earlier this year for kicking dirt on umpire Drew Coble.
1984: Game 2: Royals 4 - Tigers 0. Royals score 4 in the 1st but Juan Berenguer goes the distance after that. Alan Trammell hits a single & double as DH.
Tigers' 4th straight loss drops them to 72-38, reducing their lead to 8.5 games
1986: After Detroit wins the opener 6 - 5, game two starts off with Detroit's first two hitters - Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell - belting homers off Cleveland's Jose Roman. It is the 3rd time in a month this has occurred. Whitaker hits another as Detroit wins the shootout 11 - 9.
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1990: Hall of Fame induction ceremonies for Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan are rained out in Cooperstown, NY. The ceremony will be conducted the following day at a local high school.
1991: The Detroit Tigers signed John Moses as a free agent.
2000: Billy McMillon hits 2 home runs in his Tigers debut and the Tigers beat the twins 4 - 3.
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2001: Detroit falls to Oakland by a score of 5 - 1. In doing so, the Tigers tie a major league record by scoring only one run in their 5th consecutive game. The last of the seven teams who did so were the 1968 Los Angeles Dodgers.
2001: Dave Winfield, Kirby Puckett, Bill Mazeroski, and Negro League star Hilton Smith are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
2001: Trailing the Mariners, 14 - 2, the Indians, score 12 times beginning in the 7th inning to tie the score. Cleveland will win the game in the 11th inning, 15 - 14 making it the third time (after the 1911 Tigers and 1925 A's) a team has won after being behind by 12 runs.
2002: In a make-up game against the Angels, the Tigers host "Silent Night". The fans hear no electronic, video and commercial enhancements during Detroit's 6 - 3 loss to Anaheim at Comerica Park.
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2003: Justin Verlander pitches for Team USA against Nicaragua in the preliminary round of the Pan American Games in the Dominican Republic.
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2005: Albert Pujols becomes the first player to connect for 30 home runs in each of his first five big league seasons. The St. Louis Cardinals first baseman has hit 190 homers during this five-year span from the start of his career, equaling Eddie Mathews' total (1952-1956) and with 25 fewer than Ralph Kiner (1946-1950).
2007: Tom Glavine becomes the 23rd pitcher and fifth left-hander to win 300 games in the major leagues with an 8 - 3 victory over the Cubs. Glavine allows two runs in 6 1/3 innings for his 10th win of the year against 6 losses.
2012: The Chicago Cubs traded Jeff Baker to the Detroit Tigers for players to be named later. The Detroit Tigers sent Marcelo Carreno (minors) (October 16, 2012) and cash (October 16, 2012) to the Chicago Cubs to complete the trade.
2012: The Tigers rally for 5 runs with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning to pull out a 10 - 8 win over the Indians. Cleveland leads, 8 - 5, with two outs and nobody on in the 10th when Chris Perez opens the floodgates by walking Alex Avila and Andy Dirks. Austin Jackson doubles in a run and Omar Infante follows with a two-run single that ties the game. Miguel Cabrera then hits his 27th homer to cap the wild win. Darin Downs earns his first major league victory.
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2013: Major League Baseball hands out 13 suspensions in the Biogenesis Laboratories scandal, in one of the largest disciplinary actions in major league history. Alex Rodriguez is suspended for 211 games - until the end of the 2014 season - but decides to appeal, the only one of the 13 to do so. Seven major leaguers are handed 50-game suspensions that effectively end their season, while five minor leaguers are also disciplined. Ironically, Rodriguez plays his first game of the season for the Yankees following off-season hip surgery; he goes 1 for 4 and is mercilessly booed as New York goes down, 8 - 1, in Chicago.
2018: The Red Sox complete a four-game sweep of the Yankees thanks a stunning 9th-inning comeback against closer Aroldis Chapman who allows three runs by walking the bases loaded with two outs, then allows a two-run single to J.D. Martinez and sees the tying run score on an error by 3B Miguel Andujar. Andrew Benintendi then gives Boston a 5 - 4 win with a run-scoring single in the 10th. Boston now has a lead of 9 1/2 games after the two teams were neck-and-neck until late June.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Sam Gibson 1926-1928.
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Vic Frazier 1933-1934.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dave_Rozema
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Dave Rozema 1977-1984.
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Guido Knudson 2015.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ducky_Holmes_(holmedu01)
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Ducky Holmes 1901-1902.
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Red McKee 1913-1916.
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