August 30 in Tigers and mlb history:
1904: Christy Mathewson and the visiting Giants top the Reds, 3 - 1, beating Noodles Hahn. Matty drives in one of the three runs scored in the 8th with a single and improves his record to 28-9.
1905: Making his Major League debut, Ty Cobb doubles off Highlander Jack Chesbro in a 5 - 3 Tiger victory at Detroit's Bennett Park.
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1912: Earl Hamilton no-hits the Tigers at Navin Field (Tiger Stadium), the first no-hitter in Browns/Orioles history.
Tigers are no-hit but not shut out: Ty Cobb scores after walking, advancing on an error, and coming home on double steal.
1913: The Giants score six runs against Grover Cleveland Alexander, but the Phillies come back from the 6 - 0 deficit to score eight against Christy Mathewson. With two outs in the top of the 9th, and the Phils leading 8 - 6 over New York, umpire Bill Brennan, acceding to a request by the wily John McGraw, orders Phils captain Mickey Doolan (Phils manager Red Dooin had been ejected during the 6-run 6th) to have spectators removed from the CF bleachers, where they are waving hats, newspapers, and handkerchiefs to distract the batters.
When Doolan refuses, Brennan forfeits the game, 9 - 0, to the Giants. Bedlam ensues and later, when the two umpires and Giants players try to board the train at the North Philadelphia Station, they are attacked by fans. The police draw their revolver to control the crowd.
The Phils protest the forfeit and National League president Thomas Lynch will reverse the umpire and rule the game an 8 - 6 Phils win. The Giants then appeal. NL directors say both Brennan and Lynch are wrong, and order the game completed from the point at which it was stopped. The game will be finished October 2nd, with the outcome the same.
1919: Down 7-0 in the 8th inning in St. Louis, the Tigers come back to win 8-7. Ty Cobb hits a home run and a double.
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1930: Hack Wilson returns to the Cubs lineup and drives in six runs on his 45th and 46th homers of the year to lead Chicago over the Cardinals, 16 - 4. For August, Hack hits 13 homers and drives in 53 runs.
1934: Tigers beat indians 6-1 to complete a 23-6 August that took them from tied for first place to 5 games ahead of the Yankees, en route to their first pennant in 25 years.
1942: The Giants' Mel Ott collects his 2,500th hit in a 5 - 5 tie in Chicago in game 2.
1947: The Boston Braves purchased Bobby Hogue from the Detroit Tigers.
1950: The Tigers drop out of first place for the first time since June 10 when they split a pair with the Senators, losing 3 - 2 in 11 innings, then taking the nitecap, 10 - 8.
1953: The Dodgers rip St. Louis, 20 - 4, with the help of two big innings. Dodger Jackie Robinson fans twice in the 3rd inning, while Gil Hodges walks twice in the 6th. Roy Campanella's five RBIs ties the National League season mark of most RBIs by a catcher (122).
1960: Boston 2B Pete Runnels goes 6 for 7, as the Red Sox edge the Tigers in the 15-inning opener of a twin bill. His 15th-inning double brings Frank Malzone home with the winning run to win, 5 - 4. Runnels has three more hits in the nightcap victory, 3 - 2 in 10 innings. His six hits are the most in an American League game since July 8, 1955. With 9 for 11 in the doubleheader, Runnels ties the major league record.
1961: Mickey Mantle connects for home run number 47, off the Twins' Jim Kaat, as the Yanks win, 4 - 0.
1965: Following his doctor's advice, Casey Stengel announces his retirement as manager of the Mets. He will head up Mets scouting in California. Stengel ends a 25-year managerial career that included 10 pennants with the Yankees, followed by a dismal 175-404 with the expansion Mets. The 75-year-old Stengel has been in professional baseball since 1910.
1968: In the showdown in Detroit, 53,575 fans cheer as P Earl Wilson pitches a 4-hit 9 - 1 victory over 2nd-place Baltimore. Wilson adds four RBIs on two hits, including his 5th home run of the year. RF Jim Northrup, and 3B Don Wert have 2 rbi.
1976: At Fenway Park, Jim Rice clouts a 5th-inning home run against Texas, the 100th homer this year for the Sox. They now have hit 100 homers or more for 31 straight years.
1979: The Chicago Cubs purchased Bruce Kimm from the Detroit Tigers.
1984: Jack Morris pitches a 4-hit complete game but the Tigers lose 2-1.
1984: Jim Rice grounds into his 33rd double play of the season, establishing a new major league mark. The Red Sox outfielder breaks a 1954 record set by another Boston flycatcher, Jackie Jensen.
1986: Yankee hurlers Tommy John (43) and Joe Niekro (41) become the first 40+ pitchers since 1933 to start both ends of a doubleheader. John loses, 1 - 0, and Niekro pitches five innings for a 3 - 0 victory over the Mariners.
1995: Tiger teammates Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell tie an American League record by playing in their 1,914th game together, a 10 - 7 loss to the White Sox. The record was set by Kansas City's George Brett and Frank White.
The Tigers teammates will finish their great careers playing 1,918 games together.
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2001: 3B Bill Mueller's walk-off home run gives the Cubs a 5 - 4 victory over the Marlins. 1B Fred McGriff hits a 3-run home run as he reaches 80 RBIs for the 14th straight season, becoming only the 2nd player in major league history to do so. Hank Aaron holds the record with 17 straight years.
2002: The Cincinnati Reds traded players to be named later and David Espinosa (minors) to the Detroit Tigers for Matt Boone (minors), Brian Moehler and cash. The Cincinnati Reds sent Noochie Varner (minors) (August 30, 2002) and Jorge Cordova (minors) (September 24, 2002) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
2002: After marathon negotiation sessions to avoid a players' strike just hours away, Bud Selig announces the players union and owners have reached a settlement on a new four-year Collective Bargaining Agreement without the need for a work stoppage. The new agreement, called "historic" by the Commissioner, gives the owners the economic restraints they wanted as the players are assured no teams will be contracted until the 2007 season, with a revenue-sharing plan to be gradually implemented during the span of the contract.
2007: The St. Louis Cardinals traded a player to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Mike Maroth.
The St. Louis Cardinals sent Chris Lambert (August 30, 2007) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
2007: The Chicago Cubs traded a player to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Craig Monroe and cash.
The Chicago Cubs sent Clay Rapada (August 30, 2007) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
2011: Rookie Mike Trout hits two homers as the Angels whip the Mariners, 13 - 6. The 20-year-old drives in 5 runs and the Angels score 8 in the 5th inning to give Jerome Williams his second victory in a week, after he had gone 6 years between wins.
2013: The Latino Baseball Hall of Fame announces its 15 newest members, namely Teddy Higuera, Mike Cuellar, Tony Armas, Juan Gonzalez, Matty Alou, Tony Fernandez, Silvio Garcia, Vic Davalillo, Vic Power, Felipe Montemayor, Santos Amaro, Julian Javier, Humberto Robinson, Cookie Rojas and Rennie Stennett.
2016: In his major league debut, JaCoby Jones hits a go-ahead RBI double and Ian Kinsler (4 RBI) and J.D. Martinez homer in Tigers 8 - 4 win over the white sox.
2017: Justin Verlander gets his first career RBI and his last win as a Tiger in a 6 - 2 win over the rockies.
2019: The autopsy results for Tyler Skaggs, who was found dead in his hotel room a suburb of Dallas, TX on July 1st are released. They reveal that the death was the result of an overdose of opioids, something which has become an epidemic in North America in recent years. Another shocking development is that Skaggs's family alleges that an employee of the Angels was involved in supplying the drugs, something which police is now investigating.
2019: Ten-year minor league veteran Chace Numata is seriously injured in a skateboarding accident in Erie, PA, where he was concluding his season as a catcher with the Erie SeaWolves. He is found unconscious and bleeding from the head in the small hours of the morning by a passing motorist and will die in hospital two days later. According to security footage, his motorized skateboard stopped suddenly and sent him falling forward.
Tigers players and coaches birthdays:
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Steve Partenheimer 1913.
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Pol Perritt 1921.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bing_Miller
Bing Miller coach 1938-1941.
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Steve Baker 1978-1979.
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Randy O'Neal 1984-1986.
Tigers players who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bob_Jones_(jonesbo01)
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Bob Jones 1917-1925.
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Jack Phillips 1955-1957.
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