August 16 in Tigers and mlb history:
1887: The Detroit Wolverines beat the Chicago White Stockings 5-3 to retake first place for good, en route to their first National League pennant.
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1903: Toledo native George Mullin, pitching for the Tigers, helps the attendance today (6,000) as the Tigers take on New York in a Sunday game. in Toledo. Mullin is racked for eight runs, but Detroit scores 12, led by the hitting of Sam Crawford, who is 5 for 6.
1910: The Tigers top the Senators 8 - 3, with Ty Cobb stealing home for the second time in his career. It comes in the 4th inning with Bob Groom on the mound.
1911: At Brooklyn, Honus Wagner suffers a serious ankle injury rounding first in the 1st inning. He will miss 13 games, play one at first base, then miss another 12. With Wagner out, the Pirates will lose eight of 13 and drop out of the race.
1915: The Detroit Tigers purchased Babe Ellison from Clinton (Central Association).
1915: In the second game of a doubleheader, Tiger rookie Bernie Boland no-hits Cleveland through 26 batters before Ben Paschal singles, his first and only hit of the year. Boland wins 3 - 1.
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1924: Ty Cobb slides into third base vs. Washington Senators at Griffith Stadium. Tigers beat Senators 5-2.
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1930: Lefty Grove (20-4) wins his 6th in a row, beating the Browns in Philadelphia, 4 - 2. Grove drives in the first two runs in the 2nd off Dick Coffman, who gives up nine hits in the loss. The Browns net 10 hits off Grove.
1940: Jimmie Foxx smashes two homers to help the Red Sox beat the Senators. The two round trippers move him ahead of Lou Gehrig on the all-time list with a total of 495.
1942: In the first 1942 East-West Game, the East wins yet again, 5 - 2. Leon Day retires all seven batters he faces, five of them by strikeout for the East, while Satchel Paige bombs for the West.
1947: Hank Greenberg, now a Pirate in the last season of his career, hits the last of his 35 career multi-home run games. Ralph Kiner hits three successive home runs for the host Pittsburgh Pirates, in a 12 - 7 win over the Cardinals in a game in which the two clubs bang out a major-league record 10 homers (since topped).
Two other Bucs, Hank Greenberg and Billy Cox, and one Cardinal, Whitey Kurowski, each contribute two home runs to set a major-league record for most players with two or more homers in a game.
Kiner matches the major league mark of seven home runs in four games, six in three games, five in two games, and four in consecutive at bats. By the end of the month, Big Ralph will still trail Johnny Mize 39 to 43 in a head-to-head home run competition that will only be matched by Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle in 1961. Starters Roger Wolff and the Cards' Ken Burkhart both exit in the 1st inning.
1948: Babe Ruth dies of throat cancer at age 53 in New York. He will lie in state at Yankee Stadium and be viewed by more than 100,000 mourners.
1954: In a throwing contest between Jimmy Piersall and Willie Mays before a Red Sox-Giants charity game in Boston, Piersall hurts his arm. He starts the game but leaves midway. He wakes up the following morning with a sore arm that stays with him a year, and he will never throw quite as well again.
1957: The Tigers release longtime journeyman swingman pitcher Steve Gromek.
1961: Roger Maris ties an American League record with his 7th home run in his 6th straight game, as New York beats Chicago, 5 - 4, in the 9th inning. His two blasts off Billy Pierce give him 48, three more than Mickey Mantle.
1962: For the second night in a row, Frank Robinson clouts two homers to power the Reds to a 7 - 1 win over the Braves. Robby now has nine homers in eight games, and 11 in the last 12.
1964: Sandy Koufax pitches a 3 - 0 shutout win against St. Louis, but he will miss the rest of the season because of an elbow injury suffered when he slid into second base against Milwaukee back on August 8th.
1966: The Detroit Tigers signed Mike Roarke as a free agent.
1966: Willie Mays hits his 534th home run, matching Jimmie Foxx's record for right-handed batters, as Gaylord Perry beats the Cardinals, 3 - 1.
1968: Detroit's Denny McLain is 16-0 on the road after blanking the Red Sox, 4 - 0 in Boston. Tigers catcher Bill Freehan is hit by a pitch in three consecutive plate appearances, painfully tying a major league record. He will be hit a record-tying 24 times this season.
1971: Harmon Killebrew, who has a higher percentage of his hits (28.6%) go for home runs than any other player, collects his annual triple in a 11 - 2 win over the Indians. It marks his 8th season when he will hit exactly one three-bagger.
1975: The Tigers finally end a 19-game losing streak with an 8-0 win over California with Ray Bare's 2-hit complete game shutout in Anaheim. Bill Freehan has 4 hits with a double & a triple to drive in 3 runs.
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1978: The Kansas City Royals selected Steve Foucault off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
1978: Boston's Luis Tiant wins his 200th major league game, beating Nolan Ryan and the Angels, 4 - 2. Jim Rice's 2-run home run is the difference.
1981: Trailing the yankees 4-1 in the bottom of the 9th, Tigers rally and win 5 - 4 on Kirk Gibson walk-off 3-run home run.
1982: The Detroit Tigers signed Rey Palacios as an amateur free agent.
1982: Richie Hebner returns to the Pirates, who buy the veteran from the Tigers.
1984: Tigers 8 - Angels 7, 12 innings. Tigers led 5-0 after 2, then trailed 7-5. Alan Trammell tied in the 8th with a 2-run single, Barbaro Garbey hit a walk- off double in the 12th.
Tigers are 79-43 after splitting a 4-game series.
1987: Lou Whitaker hits 3 doubles and Alan Trammell hits a single, double, and triple. Tigers score 5 runs in the 7th inning to win 10-6 in Kansas City and stay a half game back of the Blue Jays in the AL East.
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1989: Tigers beat the Orioles 4-0. Frank Tanana strikes out 10 in a 2-hit complete game. Dave Bergman hits a home run and a double.
1991: Tony Phillips hits a home run and an RBI single to lead the Tigers past ace Jimmy Key and the Blue Jays.
The Tigers' 5-2 win win moves them to within one game of Toronto in the AL East.
1992: The Tigers beat the Rangers 6-0 as Frank Tanana beat his old flame throwing partner from California, Nolan Ryan. Ryan allowed 5 runs on only 3 hits, walking 7 in 4.2 innings. Frank Tanana pitched 8 shutout innings. Mickey Tettleton, Cecil Fielder and Mark Carreon all homered.
2002: The Detroit Tigers selected Jason Beverlin off waivers from the Cleveland Indians.
2002: After four days of delaying the decision, the executive board of the Major League Baseball Players Association votes 57-0 to set an August 30 strike date. All eight previous negotiations since 1972 have resulted in work stoppages in the national pastime.
2005: Tigers give up 7 runs in the top of the 10th, then get 4 back on a grand slam by Craig Monroe in a wild 10-7 loss to the Red Sox.
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2009: Derek Jeter hits an RBI double off Seattle's Doug Fister in the 3rd for his 2,674th hit as a shortstop, surpassing Luis Aparicio's all-time leading total for the position. The Yankees lose the game, however, 10 - 3, as Fister records his first win in the majors.
2011: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later and Cole Nelson (minors) to the Minnesota Twins for Delmon Young. The Detroit Tigers sent Lester Oliveros (August 16, 2011) to the Minnesota Twins to complete the trade.
2016: The Atlanta Braves traded Erick Aybar to the Detroit Tigers for Kade Scivicque (minors) and Mike Aviles.
2017: Ian Kinsler's 46th career leadoff homer ties him with Jimmy Rollins for the 4th-most in major league history in a loss to the rangers.
2018: The Tigers honor Aretha Franklin at Comerica Park.
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2018: Mike Hessman is elected to the International League Hall of Fame. With Toledo in 2015, the former Tiger set the all-time minor league home run record, retiring with 433.
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2020: With an 8 - 5 win over the Tigers, the Indians have now beaten their division rivals 20 straight times, dating back to April 2019. It is the second longest winning streak against one opponent since at least 1901, with only the Baltimore Orioles defeating the Kansas City Royals in the first 23 games played between the two teams in 1969 and 1970 having gone longer.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Baby Doll Jacobson 1915.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bob_Fothergill
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Bob 'Fatty' Fothergill 1922-1930.
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Billy Rhiel 1932-1933.
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Damian Jackson 2002.
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Roger Cedeno 2001.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Akil_Baddoo
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Akil Baddoo 2021-present.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Billy Rhiel 1932-1933.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Earl_Averill
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Earl Averill 1939-1940.
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