August 18 in Tigers and mlb history:
1902: Christy Mathewson shuts out Chicago, 5 - 0, to give New York its 4th straight win over the host Windy City squad. Jack Taylor takes the loss.
1906: Wee Willie Keeler strikes out for only the second time this season, both times by spitballer Ed Walsh of the White Sox.
1907: Detroit's first Sunday game at home since 1902, and the first at Bennett Park, is a 16 - 3 win over New York.
Trying to garner public support for legalizing Sunday baseball, the Tigers make a donation from gate receipts to local orphanages.
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1915: The Browns send pitchers Bill James and Grover Lowdermilk to the Tigers for 1B Baby Doll Jacobson.
1931: Paul Waner chalks up five hits to lead Pittsburgh to a 14 - 5 win over the Phils.
1931: In New York's 5 - 4 loss at Detroit, Lou Gehrig is hitless as he plays his 1,000th consecutive game. He is 307 short of Everett Scott's record streak.
1936: Tigers second baseman Charlie Gehringer gets his 2,000th hit.
1938: When Detroit's Billy Rogell walks his first time up, it is his seventh consecutive base on balls, a new American League record.
1942: After going 1-6 before the All-Star break, Carl Hubbell posts his 8th straight win, beating the Braves, 10 - 2. The 39-year-old veteran is backed by Mel Ott's three hits, including a home run into the LF stands at the Polo Grounds.
1942: In the second 1942 East-West Negro Leagues All-Star Game, the East romps, 9-2, with the West making six errors and Gene Bremer and Verdell Mathis pitching poorly. Willie Wells smacks three doubles for the victors.
1946: In the second 1946 East-West Game, the West wins by a 4-1 score behind four-hit pitching by Felix Evans, Dan Bankhead and Johnny Williams. Willie Grace raps three hits.
1948: Hank Greenberg and Leo Durocher pay their final respects to the great Babe Ruth (Yankee Stadium.
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1956: Redlegs OF Bob Thurman hits three consecutive home runs; Ted Kluszewski and Frank Robinson add two each, and Wally Post, one, in a 13 - 4 win over Milwaukee at Crosley Field. The eight homers tie a major-league record.
1959: At Milwaukee, the Dodgers stake Don Drysdale to a 5 - 1 lead after five innings, but the Braves chip away and finally tie it with a run in the 9th. The Dodgers make it 6 - 5 in the 11th but Hank Aaron takes Drysdale deep to tie it up. Drysdale is finally relieved and Los Angeles wins it in the 13th, 7 - 6.
1960: Facing just 27 batters, Lew Burdette pitches a 1 - 0 no-hitter against the Phillies. Tony Gonzalez, the only Phil to reach base, is hit by a Burdette pitch in the 5th inning but erased on a double play. The Milwaukee pitcher also scores the only run of the game.
1961: Ron Kline, purchased from the Angels on August 10, blanks the Red Sox on four hits to give the Tigers a 5 - 0 win. Bill Monbouquette fails for the 9th time to win his 9th, lasting just four innings and gives up homers to Billy Bruton and Rocky Colavito.
1964: Mickey Lolich strikes out 10 in a 3-hit 1 - 0 shutout of the angels.
1967: The Detroit Tigers released Jim Landis.
1967: A baseball tragedy occurs when Tony Conigliaro of the Red Sox is beaned by the Angels' Jack Hamilton. Hit on the left cheekbone, just below the eye socket, Conigliaro will miss the rest of this year and all of 1968. He is hitting .267 with 20 home runs and 67 RBI in 95 games. Despite the loss of Tony C, the Red Sox will sweep the 4-game series with the Angels. The sweep will still leave Minnesota in 1st place, with Boston, Detroit, and Chicago all within two games.
1972: Mickey Lolich regains first place for the Tigers as he bests the Angels and Nolan Ryan, 2 - 0. Pitching a complete game shutout, it is Lolich's 19th win.
1975: Earl Averill, Bucky Harris, Billy Herman, Judy Johnson and Ralph Kiner are inducted into the Hall of Fame.
1977: Dodger P Don Sutton throws his 5th one-hitter, tying the National League record, as he blanks the Giants, 7 - 0. The lone hit is Marc Hill's two-out single in the 8th.
1977: Jason Thompson became just the third Tigers player to hit a home run completely over the right-field roof of Tiger Stadium, joining Norm Cash and Jim Northrup. By the time Tiger Stadium closed, 32 balls had been hit fair over the right-field roof, and Thompson had two of them. But his blast 38 years ago today had something no other rooftop home run had: Thompson hit it off a pitcher who would go on to the Baseball Hall of Fame - Catfish Hunter of the New York Yankees.
1984: Detroit's Juan Berenguer goes 8 1/3 innings and strikes out 12 to give the Tigers a 4 - 3 victory over the Mariners. Kirk Gibson drives in three runs with his 20th homer of the year, and becomes the first Tiger ever to reach 20 in both homers and steals. Gibson's homer is his 15th game-winning RBI this year.
1987: in the midst of a career year, Alan Trammell appears on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
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1989: Guillermo (Willie) Hernandez makes his final career appearance after 13 seasons in the Tigers 7 - 3 win over the yankees.
1995: Yankees announcer, and former SS, Phil Rizzuto retires as team broadcaster after 39 years at the mike, reportedly because WPIX-TV refused to allow him to miss a game to attend teammate Mickey Mantle's funeral. Rizzuto eventually will return for the 1996 season.
1998: Alex Rodriguez goes 5-for-5 with 2 doubles and 2 home runs, but the Tigers win 7-6 over the mariners on birthday boy Bobby Higginson's grand slam.
2013: Miguel Cabrera hits his 40th home run of the season Max Scherzer pitched eight innings of two-run ball for his 18th win as the Tigers beat the royals 6 - 3.
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2015: The changes continue in Boston as the team announces that Dave Dombrowski, recently let go as General Manager of the Tigers, has been hired as Vice-President in charge of baseball operations. GM Ben Cherington hands over his resignation in the wake of the announcement.
2018: The Oakland Athletics traded players to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Mike Fiers. The Oakland Athletics sent Nolan Blackwood (minors) (August 18, 2018) and Logan Shore (minors) (September 19, 2018) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
Tigers players and coaches birthdays:
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Bob Kennedy 1956.
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Bob Humphreys 1962.
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Billy Consolo coach 1979-1992, 1995.
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Bob James 1982-1983.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bobby_Higginson
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Bobby Higginson 1995-2005.
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Justin Wilson 2016-2017.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Dan McGarvey 1912.
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George Harper 1916-1918.
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