August 24 in Tigers and mlb history:
1904: In Chicago, Christy Mathewson blanks the Cubs on three hits and the Giants defeat Buttons Briggs, 3 - 0. The second game is called after 10 innings with the score 2 - 2. Chicago fans show their feelings towards the Giants by tossing bottles onto the field. RF George Browne is hit on the leg and is almost hit in the head while chasing a fly ball. John McGraw tells ump Bob Emslie that he will not allow his team to continue play until all the broken glass is cleared, and by the time that occurs it is too dark to continue play.
1904: The Highlanders' Willie Keeler collects two home runs against the St. Louis Browns in a 9 - 1 win at New York. Both drives are inside-the-park.
1905: The Detroit Tigers purchased Ty Cobb from Augusta (South Atlantic).
In less than a week, Ty Cobb will begin his ascent on the Major Leagues Baseball records book that ends after 24 seasons and Cobb holding over 90 Major League records with many still standing today.
1905: The Giants win their 12th straight over the Reds, as Christy Mathewson wins easily, 8 - 0. Matty allows two scratch hits. The second game is called on account of darkness, 6 - 6, after nine innings.
1909: At Detroit, A's catcher Paddy Livingston throws out Ty Cobb trying to steal third base during an intentional walk to Sam Crawford. Cobb intentional spikes 3B Frank Baker on his bare hand during the play, prompting howls of protest from the Athletics. The Tigers win, 7 - 6, and A's manager Connie Mack will complain to Ban Johnson about Cobb's dirty play. Cobb gets a warning from the American League president.
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1910: Atop the Washington Monument, White Sox pitcher Ed Walsh throws 23 balls before C Billy Sullivan snares one, then catches two more, 555 feet below. It duplicates Gabby Street's catch of August 21, 1908. The estimated speed of the ball is 161 feet per second. On the field Walsh will be 18-20 despite a league-leading 1.27 ERA, the only time a pitcher with a losing record loses 20 and leads either league in ERA. Nolan Ryan will duplicate this in 1987 with the Houston Astros.
1913: In Chicago, Walter Johnson wins his 14th straight, a 2 - 1 decision over the White Sox. Johnson fans the side in the 8th inning, then with two on and two out in the 9th, strikes out Eddie Collins.
1914: In the second game of a twinbill at Washington, Detroit's Hooks Dauss and four Nats pitchers combine to plunk a record seven batters, a major-league record that will remain unmatched until 1971. Hooks hits three while Jim Shaw, Jack Bentley, Harry Harper, and Jim Stevens hit four. The Tigers win 11 - 0, and take the opener as well 3 - 1.
1916: Babe Ruth fires his 7th shutout of the year, stopping Detroit on three hits as Boston wins, 3 - 0.
1918: Ty Cobb makes a speech to the crowd between games of a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds announcing he will enter military service and retire from baseball after the season. After serving overseas, Cobb will return to play ten more seasons.
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1922: The Browns collect 20 hits and score nine runs in the first two innings to stun the Red Sox, 13 - 2. Ken Williams extends his hitting streak to 28 games, but will be stopped here.
1930: New York's Fred Lindstrom has his 24-game hitting streak stopped as the Giants lose to the Cubs, 3 - 2. The game is tied 2-all in the bottom of the 9th, when the Cubs load the bases with two out. With the count 0 and 2, Danny Taylor the runner on 3rd, races safely home as surprised Giant reliever Joe Heving watches and then completes his deliberate windup with a wide pitch.
1938: Signed by the Tigers and beginning his pro career in 1938 with the Detroit Tigers,
Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter - the highest season total in organized ball this century - for Andalusia in an Alabama-Florida League game. Virgil "Fire" Trucks will go on to win 177 games over a 17 years in the majors, spent mostly with the Detroit Tigers, and only have two losing seasons in the bigs. Becoming a two-time All-Star and throwing a pair of no-hitters during his career both in 1952.
1940: In the Tigers' 12 - 1 victory at Fenway Park, Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams pitches the last two innings against Detroit, allowing one run on three hits.
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1943: The Philadelphia Athletics drop their 20th game in a row, losing to Chicago, 6 - 5. This ties the American League record. They dodge the bullet in game two by scoring 8 runs in the 2nd inning to win, 8 - 1.
1945: Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from the Navy and attracts a home crowd of 46,477, who watch him strike out 12 and yield only four hits in a 4 - 2 win over Detroit's Hal Newhouser.
1948: The second 1948 East-West Game is held at Yankee Stadium. The East wins, 6-1, behind five-hit pitching by Max Manning, Dave Barnhill and Joe Black. 13 players in this contest would spend time in the major leaguers, a record for an East-West Game.
1951: New York Yankees rookie Mickey Mantle wears #7 for the first time. After being sent down to the minors for six weeks, Mickey returned to the team to find that the #6 he previously wore had been given to Bobby Brown.
1951: Against Cleveland's Early Wynn, Gene Woodling cracks his 3rd homer off the Tribe ace this year, as the Yanks win, 2 - 0. Woodling went deep on Wynn on June 24, July 24 and today.
1954: Robin Roberts is lifted in the seventh as the Braves finally knock out the Phillies ace, winning 5 - 1. Roberts had pitched 13 straight complete games against the Braves over three years, with a 12-1 record.
1957: The Dodgers use eight pitchers in one game, tying the National League record, in a 13 - 7 loss to first-place Milwaukee. Johnny Podres leaves after giving up three home runs in the fourth. Hank Aaron hits the first grand slam of his career.
1961: Ageless Satchel Paige signs with Portland (Pacific Coast League). In 25 innings for the Beavers, he will have a 2.88 ERA.
1969: At St. Louis, Hank Aaron belts a 14th inning 3-run homer to give the Braves a 4 - 1 win over the Cards. There are no stolen bases in the game, though Bob Didier and Tim McCarver throw out six would-be thieves between them.
1971: Ernie Banks hits the final home run of his career as the Cubs beat the Reds, 5 - 4. Mr. Cub's 512th home run comes in the first inning off Jim McGlothlin.
1976: At Tiger Stadium Bill Freehan hits his 200th and final home run in a 12 - 7 loss to the White Sox. The Detroit catcher will finish his career with 100 homers hit at home and the other 100 homers hit on the road.
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1983: Jack Morris strikes out 9, on route to career high and AL-best 232 on the season in the Tigers 5 - 2 win over the rangers.
1989: After weeks of legal wrangling, Commissioner Bart Giamatti permanently bans Pete Rose from baseball for his alleged gambling on major league games. Although the 5-page document signed by both parties includes no formal findings, Giamatti says that he considers Rose's acceptance of the ban to be a no-contest plea to the charges.
Coach Tommy Helms is named Rose's interim replacement as Cincinnati manager.
1990: Alan Trammell hits 3 doubles and Cecil Fielder has 2 two-baggers, but the Tigers lose to Oakland 6-4.
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1991: Skeeter Barnes hits a home run and an RBI single in the Tigers' 7-2 win over Seattle.
With the Blue Jays' one-run loss to the Yankees, the Tigers move into a tie for first place in the AL East for the first time since April.
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1999: Mariner Ken Griffey, Jr. becomes only the 7th player to hit 40 homers in four consecutive seasons.
2004: Bud Selig, citing how disruptive a delay in the major league schedule would be on pennant races, says it is unlikely that major league players will ever be able to take part in the Olympics. The baseball commissioner hopes a "World Cup", which begins in 2006, will serve as a substitute for the Summer Games.
2006: Sean Casey is thrown out at first base from left field in a Tigers loss to the white sox.
2007: Carlos Guillen hits a walk-off home run in the 11th inning. The game started after 4-hour rain delay and ended at 3:30 a.m. with the Tigers winning 9 - 6 over the yankees.
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2013: In the first-ever regular season rematch of All-Star Game starting pitchers, Max Scherzer hits an RBI double off Matt Harvey. Scherzer becomes the 3rd MLB pitcher to win 19 of his first 20 starts (Rube Marquard, 1912, & Roger Clemens, 2001) and Tigers win 3 - 0.
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2014: Tigers set a franchise record with 60 hits in a four-game series, against the Twins. Rajai Davis and Victor Martinez go deep in a 13-4 win.
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2017: 100-year-old George Mogill throws out the first pitch at Comerica Park.
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2017: A game between the Tigers and Yankees at Comerica Park is marred by a series of brawls and eight ejections. Things start to get ugly in the 6th when New York pitcher Tommy Kahnle throws a pitch behind Miguel Cabrera's head. Kahnle gets ejected, as does manager Joe Girardi who comes out to protest, and C Austin Romine and Cabrera after they get into a heated argument that see the two exchange blows and end up wrestling on the ground as both benches empty.
After both teams score three runs in the 7th, Dellin Betances hits Detroit's James McCann with a fastball in the head, and Betances and coach Rob Thomson are both tossed. In the 8th, the Tigers' Alex Wilson plunks Todd Frazier and is ejected as well, along with manager Brad Ausmus.
When the dust settles, the Tigers win the game, 10 - 6. Five participants will receive suspensions as a result: 7 games for Cabrera for inciting the initial brawl, 4 games for Wilson, 1 for Ausmus, 4 games for Yankees player Gary Sanchez for throwing punches during the brawl, and 2 for Romine.
MLB's head of discipline and yankee's friend Joe Torre refuses to suspend Kahnle or Bettances for their headhunting tactics, nor does Torre suspend Aaron Judge for his part in piling on Cabrera while on the ground and throwing punches to Cabrera's throat and back with the two herniated disc.
2019: The Detroit Tigers signed Matt Wotherspoon as a free agent.
2020: The Pittsburgh Pirates selected Carson Fulmer off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Frank Secory 1940.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hal_Woodeshick
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Hal Woodeshick 1956, 1961.
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Tony Bernazard 1991.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Neil Berry 1948-1952.
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Leo Cristante 1955.
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