August 20 in Tigers and mlb history:
1905: The Tigers purchase Ty Cobb from minor league Augusta, for a reported $500.
1909: The St. Louis Browns traded Tom Jones to the Detroit Tigers for Claude Rossman.
1912: In Washington, Walter Johnson wins his American League-record 15th straight, downing Cleveland, 4 - 2. Big Train is topped in the nightcap when Washington hurler Carl Cashion tosses a 6-inning no-hitter, winning, 2 - 0. The only baserunners reach on two errors by SS George McBride. Johnson's effort takes one hour and 55 minutes, while Cashion's six innings finish in just 65 minutes; the game is called to allow Cleveland to catch a train to Boston. Cashion will win only 11 other games in his major league career.
1921: The Washington Senators selected Donie Bush off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
1923: A four-piece bat used by Babe Ruth is banned by American League president Ban Johnson because of the glue used on it. A protest is made against the Browns' Ken Williams for using a bat with a wooden plug in it. Johnson rules that all bats must be one piece with nothing added except tape extending to 18 inches up the handle.
1926: The Giants lose their fifth in six games, 6 - 2 in St. Louis. Frankie Frisch misses a sign that costs a run. After the game, berated by John McGraw in front of the team, Frisch buys a ticket to New York and leaves the team. Fined $500, McGraw's favorite, and heir apparent, is through with the Giants.
1931: At St. Louis, Lou Gehrig hits his 33rd homer in the 4th to tie Babe Ruth for the major league lead, but the Babe answers in the 9th with his 34th, a grand slam over the RF roof, to give the Yanks a 7 - 3 win over the Browns. Lefty Gomez almost has New York's first shutout of the season, but he weakens in the 9th.
1933: Powered by Turkey Stearnes' 41st home run, the Chicago American Giants (Negro Leagues) defeat the Nashville Elite Giants in a twin bill for their 28th consecutive victory.
1938: Lou Gehrig hits a 1st-inning grand slam, the 23rd and last of his career for a still-standing record. It comes off Buck Ross in an 11 - 3 victory over the A's.
1945: Detroit's Hal Newhouser shuts out the A's, 4 - 0, for his 20th win of the year. Hank Greenberg has his 15-game hitting streak stopped, but Roy Cullenbine and Doc Cramer add home runs.
1946: Prior to the start of the game against the Senators in Washington, using the U.S. Army's Sky Screen Chronograph, Bob Feller's fastball is clocked at 98.6 miles-per-hour, breaking Yankee hurler Atley Donald's 1939 speed record of 94.7 mph.
1950: In the 1950 East-West Game, a record four future major leaguers make pitching appearances, throwing 10 of the 18 innings. The West wins, 5 - 3, behind 3 hits, a run, 2 RBI and two steals by Jesse Douglas. In a losing cause, Junior Gilliam homers - he will become the only player to hit homers in both an East-West Game and All-Star Game.
1954: The Detroit Tigers traded Earl Harrist and cash to Seattle (PCL) for Van Fletcher.
1958: Al Kaline belts two 3 run homers with 6 RBI as the Tigers beat the senators 7 - 1.
1960: Ted Williams draws the 2,000th walk of his career in the Red Sox's split of a twi-night doubleheader with Baltimore. Williams joins Babe Ruth as the only batters to collect 2,000 walks. The Splendid Splinter also clouts home runs number 514 and 515 in the game.
1961: At Cleveland's Municipal Stadium, both Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris homer in the twinbill sweep. Mantle's 1st-inning three-run homer, and Maris's in the 3rd inning, make it easy for Ralph Terry. In the nightcap, Bill Skowron hits his 21st in the 2nd inning and the Yanks win, 5 - 2.
1962: The Tigers remain three games behind New York by sweeping a pair from the visiting Red Sox 6 - 1 and 7 - 6.
1964: Tigers draw their smallest ever night crowd: 2,173 in a loss to the angels.
1965: Eddie Mathews hits his 28th home run as the Braves win, 4 - 3, at Pittsburgh. The duo of Mathews and Hank Aaron, from 1954 to this year, becomes the top home run tandem in major league history, passing the
Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig total of 772 home runs while playing together for the New York Yankees.
1965: Detroit All-Star SS Dick McAuliffe is lost for the season with a broken bone in his left hand suffered diving into first base, as the 3rd-place Tigers sweep a doubleheader at Boston. The Tigers win 2 - 0 and 3 - 2.
1967: John Hiller pitches a 4-hit shutout. Willie Horton and Al Kaline go deep for the Tigers in a 4 - 0 win over the indians.
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1968: John Hiller pitches one-hit 7 - 0 shutout of the White Sox at Tiger Stadium. Gates Brown with a home run.
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1972: The Angels score nine runs in the 4th inning but Detroit counters with eight runs in the 6th to win the wild affair, 11 - 9. Aurelio Rodriguez touches off the comeback with a double and ends the scoring with another extra base hit, a 3-run homer. In between are six singles and a sac fly.
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1974: Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Tigers, and records the fastest fastball ever at 100.9 mph in an 11 inning 1 - 0 Tigers win. Mickey Lolich with the Complete Game Shutout. Ben Oglivie singled, stole second, and scored on a Bill Freehan single. Lolich wrote about this game in his book (which is mainly about 1968, but touches upon his career as a whole).
He called it the best regular season game of his career.
1980: Tom Brookens, the Tigers' number-8 hitter, goes 5 for 5 with a triple and a home run and also starts a triple play in an 8 - 6 win over Milwaukee.
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1984: The Tigers blast the A's 14-1, tying their season high for runs.
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1986: Tigers Walt Terrell is one out away from a no-hitter when Wally Joyner doubles. Terrell settles for a one-hit 3 - 0 win over the Angels.
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1995: Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker in their final home game together.
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1996: the Tigers win a 16-11 shootout with the White Sox at Tiger Stadium. Melvin Nieves hits 2 home runs. Mark Lewis hits two doubles. Bobby Higginson and Andujar Cedeno also go deep for Detroit.
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2000: The winningest pitcher in franchise history is honored by the Yankees during Whitey Ford Day ceremonies at Yankee Stadium. The crafty lefty holds the team record for victories (236), innings pitched (3,170 1/3), strikeouts (1,956) and shutouts (45).
2003: The Detroit Tigers selected John Ennis off waivers from the Atlanta Braves.
2005: Losing to the A's at Oakland's McAfee Coliseum, 4 - 0, the Royals establish a franchise record losing their 19th consecutive game and tie the club's mark by dropping their 12th straight road game. The 38-82 squad needs two more defeats to match the American League record of 21 losses accomplished by the 1988 Orioles, and four more will tie the major league mark of 23 endured by 1961 Phillies.
2006: The Chicago Cubs traded Neifi Perez to the Detroit Tigers for Chris Robinson.
2008: The World Umpires Association and Major League Baseball sign an agreement allowing the use of instant replay, with hopes that it will be in place by next August. WUA president John Hirschbeck says he told his members it would be a tool to help make sure they got the calls correct.
2009: The Baltimore Orioles selected Chris Lambert off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
2011: the Tigers honor 1984 AL MVP Guillermo (Willie) Hern?ndez at Fiesta Tigres.
2011: After a stint with the AAA Toledo Mud Hens and exactly one month after having been designated for assignment, Brandon Inge is back in the Tigers' line-up and homers in his first at-bat and doubles in a run his next time up as Detroit defeats Cleveland, 10 - 1, increasing its lead in the AL Central to 3 games.
2015: Alfredo Simon of the Tigers allows only a 5th-inning double to Rougned Odor in shutting out the Rangers, 4 - 0, his first career shutout and complete game.
2015: The Detroit Tigers purchased Randy Wolf from the Toronto Blue Jays.
2017: Justin Verlander's no-hitter is broken up in the 6th inning by former Tiger Curtis Granderson in a 6 - 1 win for the Tigers.
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Tigers players birthdays:
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Ross Reynolds 1914-1915.
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Beau Bell 1939.
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George Zuverink 1954-1955.
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Jose Paniagua 2002.
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Gene Kingsale 2003.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Gene Host 1956.
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