August 8 in Tigers and mlb history:
1903: The New York Giants' Joe McGinnity repeats his feat from August 1st, when he defeats the Brooklyn Superbas in both ends of a doubleheader, 6 - 1 and 4 - 3. A week earlier he beat the Boston Beaneaters, 4 - 1 and 5 - 2. McGinnity also is credited with a steal of home in the second game while Brooklyn is arguing a disputed call at third base. Brooklyn P Henry Schmidt is so upset about the steal that he throws the ball out of the park? a toss that gets him tossed from the game. On August 31st? Iron Joe will beat the Phillies twice. He has now done double work five times? including two losses on each of the two occasions at Baltimore in 1901. The combination of his 434 innings pitched and 31 wins? with Christy Mathewson's 366 innings pitched and 30 wins? will make them the century's most productive one-season duo.
1903: Furious when an old black ball is put into play when Cleveland is at bat in the last of the 11th and his objections are ignored by umpire Tom Connolly? Naps manager Nap Lajoie hurls the ball over the grandstand? suffering the loss of the game to Detroit by forfeit. Detroit was leading 6 - 5.
1914: Tris Speaker of the Boston Red Sox records an unassisted double play against the Detroit Tigers - his second of the season. Tiger runner Harry Heilmann is doubled off second base in the 4th inning when a hit-and-run play becomes a line drive to Speaker. Boston wins? 5 - 2. Speaker previously accomplished the feat against the Philadelphia Athletics on April 21st. This is a record for outfielders.
1920: Detroit Tigers pitcher Howard Ehmke wins the American League's shortest game ever when he defeats the New York Yankees 1 - 0, in one hour and thirteen minutes. With no outs and two on in the 5th inning? the Yanks fail to capitalize as Ping Bodie falls for the hidden ball trick applied by 2B Ralph Young.
1924: Babe Ruth has a pair of homers - his 37th and 38th - plus a triple and 2 walks? but it is not enough as the Yankees fall to Cleveland? 10 - 8. Joe Bush and Bob Shawkey do the bleeding.
1929: Rogers Hornsby cracks a 4th-inning homer - one of his 4 hits - as Chicago edges the Reds, 1 - 0, at Wrigley Field. Charlie Root allows 7 hits in beating rookie Benny Frey.
1943: Ty Cobb - born in 1886 - came to watch a 1943 baseball game between the Ford All-Stars and the Navy Great Lakes team, coached by fellow former Tiger Mickey Cochrane.
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1945: The Detroit Tigers selected George Caster off waivers from the St. Louis Browns.
1945: A line drive of the bat of Hank Greenberg fractures the skull of pitcher Jim Wilson, resulting in two hours of surgery. Wilson will recover and pitch in the majors until 1958.
1948: In Cleveland? 73?484 fans watch the Indians and Yankees square off for 2 games. Trailing in the opener? an ailing Lou Boudreau hits a bases-loaded pinch single in the 7th to tie the game? and Satchel Paige wins it in relief? 8 - 6. Steve Gromek goes 7 innings in the nitecap to give the Indians a 2 - 1 win over rookie Bob Porterfield? making his major league debut.
1954: The Dodgers score a National League-record 13 runs in the 8th off Cincinnati in Ebbets Field to win, 20 - 7. Twelve of the runs are unearned and an NL-record 12 are tallied with two outs and no one on. Gil Hodges gets a triple and a home run in 3 at bats in the inning? while Clem Labine? who has a career .100 BA? walks twice. Jackie Robinson drives in 3 runs with a single as Duke Snider scores from first base. Roy Campanella? Jim Gilliam? and Don Hoak all homer for Brooklyn in the game to pin the loss on Karl Drews.
1954: The Yankees spot the host Tigers a four-run lead? tie it up? then watch as Detroit wins it, 10 - 8, in 10 innings. Mickey Mantle has one homer? off Billy Hoeft? and just misses on a titanic opposite field drive that curves foul before leaving the stadium. A 2-run walk-off home run by Jim Delsing.
1956: Mickey Mantle's opposite-field homer? off Camilo Pascual in the 1st inning, jump starts the Yankees to a 12 - 2 win over the Senators. Mantle is now 9 games ahead of Babe Ruth's 1927 pace.
1957: Club President Walter O'Malley offically announces that the Brooklyn Dodgers will play in Los Angeles in 1958.
1963: Tigers beat Red Sox 6-5 on Rocky Colavito's RBI single off Dick Radatz (12-4) in 10th.
1964: Tigers beat the A's 4 - 3 on Jake Wood's RBI single in the 13th inning.
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1966: Tigers win 4 - 3 over the senators on a Willie Horton 2-run single in the 12th inning.
1968: Tigers rout Cleveland 13-1 for their 5th straight win. Denny McLain improves to 23-3. Called upon to pinch hit while eating a hot dog, Gates Brown stuffs it in his back pocket, then ruins it by sliding into second base.
1969: The Detroit Tigers traded Don McMahon to the San Francisco Giants for a player to be named later. The San Francisco Giants sent Cesar Gutierrez (September 2, 1969) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
1969: Tigers beat the white sox 7 - 3 on a home run by Willie Horton and a 2-run triple by Bill Freehan.
1970: The New York Yankees honor Casey Stengel at Old Timers Day in Yankee Stadium. Stengel's number 37 is retired
1972: Frank Howard goes 3-for-4 with a double and a home run on his birthday to lead the Tigers to a 6-5 win.
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1991: The Detroit Tigers fan a team record 21 times in a 14-inning 4 - 0 win over the Blue Jays. Mark Salas hits a 3-run pinch homer off Tom Henke in the top of the 14th. Mickey Tettleton follows one out later with another homer. Starters Bill Gullickson and Tom Candiotti match zeroes for 7 innings.
2001: Tigers P Nate Cornejo makes his major league debut against Rangers P Joaquin Benoit. It is the first time since August 21? 1990? that both starting pitchers are making their big league debuts. The Tigers tie a modern record by scoring 13 runs in the 9th inning to snap a 6 - 6 tie and roll 19 - 6. Damion Easley gets 6 hits? including 2 in the 9th? to tie an American League and team record? last done by Ty Cobb. The winning pitcher is former Ranger Danny Patterson? who faces one batter in the 8th.
2004: The Red Sox defeat the Tigers 11 - 9? despite 7 Detroit home runs. Tim Wakefield records the win for Boston despite tying a major league record by allowing 6 of the homers. Wakefield is the 6th modern pitcher to yield 6 round-trippers? but the first since Philadelphia's George Caster did so 64 years ago against the Red Sox. The last pitcher to give up 6 homers and still win the game was Brooklyn's Hollis Thurston in 1932.
2005: The Tigers defeat the Blue Jays 9 - 8? in 12 innings despite getting out hit 20 to 15. DH Rondell White, and RF Magglio Ordonez both have 2 rbi. SS Carlos Guillen hits a homerun. Tigers win on a Vance Wilson basers-loaded infield single in the 12th inning.
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2009: Albert Pujols is the first player in the majors to reach 100 RBI this year with a three-run double in St. Louis' 5 - 3 win over Pittsburgh. Pujols reaches the milestone for the 9th straight season. Only Hall of Famer Al Simmons has had a longer such streak, with 11 seasons of 100 or more RBI from the start of his career.
2013: Detroit wins its 12th straight game, 10 - 3 over Cleveland, completing a four-game sweep of its closest rivals in the AL Central. Max Scherzer improves to 17-1. The last pitcher to have such a mark was Roger Clemens in 2001, and only two others, Don Newcombe (1955) and Roy Face (1959), who both had records of 18-1 at one point, have done it since Rube Marquard started the 1912 season 19-0.
2020: The Tigers start off their game against the Pirates with a roar, as Niko Goodrum, Miguel Cabrera, C.J. Cron and Jeimer Candelario all homer off Derek Holland before an out is recorded in the 1st inning, leading to five runs. There is a scary moment in the 6th, as RF Gregory Polanco and 1B Phillip Evans collide at full speed while going after a foul ball hit by Cabrera. Evans gets the worst of it and has to be evacuated from the field on a stretcher.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Jack Smith 1912.
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Ken Holloway 1922-1928.
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Marlin Stuart 1949-1952.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Frank_Howard
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Frank Howard 1972-1973.
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Mike Ivie 1982-1983.
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Alexis Gomez 2005-2006.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Ralph Works 1909-1912.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Red_Wilson
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Red Wilson 1954-1960.
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