August 15 in Tigers and mlb history:
1905: The Detroit Tigers released Herbert Jackson.
1907: Chief Bender wins his 11th straight for the Athletics, 4 - 2, over Cleveland, to tighten the pennant race with the Tigers. The Chief is helped by right fielder Socks Seybold who pulls off an unassisted double play. He'll pull off another on September 10th against Boston.
1911: Cy Young, 3-4 with Cleveland, is given his release. He returns to Boston and signs with the National League's Rustlers, where he will close out the year 4-5, and his pitching days with a 511-315 record, 750 complete games and 7,356 innings pitched.
1914: At the Polo Grounds, 32,000 watch as Lefty Tyler and Christy Mathewson throw goose eggs for nine innings. In the 10th, Red Smith singles and Hank Gowdy triples him home. Matty then wild pitches Gowdy home for 2 - 0 lead. New York loads the bases in the 10th with no outs, but Tyler slams the door with no Giants scoring. The Braves now trail by 3 1/2.
1916:
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1921: A major-league record streak of 10 straight hits by the Browns' George Sisler is stopped by Detroit in the 4th inning, but he goes 2 for 3 with a two-run homer in the 6th. The Browns win, 3 - 2.
1922: In a game between Chicago and Boston, 35 singles are hit - 21 by the White Sox, 14 by the Red Sox - an American League record. Chicago wins the hit parade, 19 - 11.
1927: Leading 1 - 0 and one out from a complete game no-hitter over the Memphis Red Sox, Chicago American Giants pitcher Webster McDonald allows an unearned run to score on errors, tying the game at 1 - 1 in a Negro National League game. McDonald loses the no-hitter in the 10th when he surrenders a single, and he loses the game, 2 - 1, when the Red Sox score in the 11th on back-to-back doubles. McDonald's near-classic just misses being part of the only back-to-back no-hitters in Negro Leagues history, as teammate Willie Powell had no-hit the Red Sox the day before.
1931: Lefty Grove wins his 15th straight, beating the Indians, 4 - 3.
1935: Marv Owen goes 3-for-3 with 2 doubles in a 6-3 win over the Senators.
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1945: Umpire Ernie Stewart is canned by American League President Will Harridge for "disloyalty." Stewart had complained about the pay and taken his case to Commissioner Happy Chandler. Bill McGowan is the top-paid umpire in the league at $9,000.
1945: Commissioner Happy Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette. Ford had been the World Series sponsor since 1934, paying $100,000 annually.
1950: The Red Sox defeat the Athletics, 8 - 3 and 9 - 4, to begin a streak in which they reel off 27 of 30, propelling themselves back into the pennant race. Walt Dropo is hospitalized, however, after being beaned by the A's Hank Wyse.
1955: Mickey Mantle homers from both sides of the plate in the same game for the second time in his career, tying the major-league mark. The Yanks beat the Orioles, 12 - 6, in the second game and sweep the doubleheader to move back into first place.
1960: The Detroit Tigers released Clem Labine.
1960: In the first of two games at Crosley Field, Two noted 'Tough Guys" Frank Robinson and Eddie Mathews exchange punches after Robbie slides in hard at third base in the 7th inning. Robbie comes out on the short end with a swollen eye, bloody nose, and jammed thumb, but comes back in the nitecap with a double and homer to lead the Reds to a 4 - 0 win. Thereafter, Mathews is forever known after this exchange never to be trifled with.
1961: Frank Malzone is 5 for 5 with a pair of homers in the Red Sox's 8 - 0 shellacking of the Indians. Gene Conley throws the shutout and hits a homer. Jackie Jensen and Carroll Hardy hit back-to-back home runs in the 5th.
1961: At Los Angeles, the 2nd-place Reds' Joey Jay (17-7) gives up three singles and two runs in the 1st and just three hits after that in subduing the first-place Dodgers, 5 - 2. Losing pitcher Sandy Koufax (13-8) almost adds another hit but is thrown out at first base by RF Frank Robinson. Announcer Vin Scully says, "Sandy forgot to run."
1961: Tigers sweep a doubleheader against the Orioles to cut the Yankees' lead to 2 games.
Game 1: Frank Lary pitches a 4-hit shutout, Norm Cash hits his 30th home run of the year.
Game 2: Trailing 2-0 in the 9th, Tigers rally and win on an Al Kaline walk-off single.
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1964: Mayor Richard Daley declares "Ernie Banks Day" in Chicago and 26,000 fans cheer the Cubs' slugger. Banks then goes hitless as Pittsburgh wins, 5 - 4.
1971: Vida Blue raises his record to 22-4 as the A's beat the Yankees, 6 - 4. Blue scatters 10 hits and scores the tie-breaking run on a wild pitch.
1975: Frank Tanana pitches an 8 - 0 shutout as the Angels hand the Tigers their 19th straight loss.
1984: The Tigers cuff Tommy John for ten hits in six innings to beat the Angels 8 - 3. Dan Petry (15-5) scatters eight hits in eight innings, and Dave Bergman backs him with two triples and three RBIs. With Cleveland beating Toronto twice, the Tigers' lead is now nine games.
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1992: Texas P Bobby Witt walks 10 Tigers in 4 2/3 innings, as Detroit strolls past the Rangers 10 - 3. No one has walked this many in this few innings.
1995: The Houston Astros traded a player to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Mike Henneman. The Houston Astros sent Phil Nevin (August 15, 1995) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
2001: The Tigers defeat the Angels 5 - 1, as Detroit OF Roger Cedeno leads the team with five hits.
2010: Albert Pujols becomes the first player to hit 30 homers in his first 10 seasons with a 1st-inning shot off Ryan Dempster of the Cubs, but the Cardinals lose, 9 - 7, in spite of scoring 5 runs in the 9th. Pujols has also hit over .300 and driven in over 100 runs each season he has played so far, and is on pace to reach those totals once again.
2011: The Minnesota Twins traded Delmon Young to the Detroit Tigers for a player to be named later and Cole Nelson (minors). The Detroit Tigers sent Lester Oliveros (August 16, 2011) to the Minnesota Twins to complete the trade.
2013: At the quarterly owners meeting held in Cooperstown, NY, Commissioner Bud Selig announces a plan to expand video review, which is now limited to home runs, significantly. Under the proposal, a manager will have the right to request up to three reviews per game - one in the first six innings and two in the last three - and will not otherwise be allowed to argue such "reviewable" calls. A number of decisions will remain non-reviewable, however. The plan still needs to be fleshed out, in particular by defining which calls are reviewable and which are not, before being submitted for formal approval at the next winter meetings. The Player's Union and Umpires Association will also need to agree to the changes.
2014: The Tampa Bay Rays shut out the Yankees, 5 - 0, behind Alex Cobb, to reach the .500 mark at 62-62. What is remarkable is that they were 18 games below .500 on June 10th, making them only the fourth team in history to return to parity from such a deficit. The 1899 Louisville Colonels were 22 games below before reaching .500 for the all-time record.
2015: The Detroit Tigers released Mike Belfiore.
2016: The Detroit Tigers released Jeff Ferrell.
2019: A game between the Athletics and Astros turns into a impromptu Home Run Derby as the two teams combine for 10 homers in a 7 - 6 Oakland win. Four players hit a pair of long balls: Matt Chapman and Matt Olson for Oakland, and Michael Brantley and Carlos Correa for Houston, only the 5th time this has happened in the majors. The 10 homers are a record for the Oakland Coliseum.
Tigers players and announcers birthdays:
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Jack Warner 1905-1906.
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Joe Casey 1909-1911.
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Van Patrick Tigers announcer 1949, 1952-1959, Lions announcer 1950-74.
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Barney Schultz 1959.
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Arlo Brunsberg 1966.
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Duffy Dyer 1980-1981.
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Chris Brown 1989.
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Roberto Novoa 2004.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Guy Tutwiler 1911, 1913.
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Doc Daugherty 1951.
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Jerry Lumpe 1964-1967.
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