September 2 in Tigers and mlb history:
1901: Detroit sweeps a Labor Day doubleheader from Washington, picking up an American League record 21 infield assists in game 2. This is still the AL record. SS Kid Elberfeld has 12 assists to back up Roscoe Miller.
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1909: Detroit completes a sweep of every series against visiting eastern teams, winning their 14th in a row to regain first place by a half game en route to their 3rd straight pennant.
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1912: In a rainy doubleheader at the Polo Grounds, Red Sox ace Joe Wood tops the Highlanders in the nitecap, 1 - 0, for his 30th win and his 13th straight victory. It is Wood's 8th shutout and second in a row. Boston takes the opening squeaker, 2 - 1 to finish the year in New York with 10 wins in 10 tries. With three wins last year, and five wins in their first five road games with New York in 1913, Boston ties the major league record for most consecutive wins on the road against one team (18).
1912: At Boston, Christy Mathewson wins both games for the Giants in a 5 - 2, 6 - 1, sweep of the Braves. In the opener, Matty relieves Rube Marquard in the 9th with the score at 2 - 2 and tosses three shutout innings. Larry Doyle ends it with a 3-run homer in the 12th. Matty coasts to his 19th win in the nitecap after the Giants chase Ed Doheny with five runs in the 3rd.
1916: The Cleveland Indians purchased Marty Kavanagh from the Detroit Tigers.
1917: The first-place White Sox take a pair from the Tigers, winning, 7 - 2 and 6 - 5. The Sox bunch four in the 1st and three more in the 3rd to make the shine ball's leading proponent, Ed Cicotte, a winner over Willie Mitchell. In the nitecap, the Sox snap a tie in the 9th when Eddie Collins, with one stolen base already, swipes second and third base after a walk. Joe Jackson's sac fly brings him home.
1919: The National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series. The lengthier series is seen as a sign of greed and is abandoned after three years.
1922: At Detroit, the Browns win their second in a row over the Tigers, 5 - 4. Hub Pruett allows three hits in four innings to win in relief. George Sisler hits in his 30th consecutive game.
1929: The Cubs beat the Cards twice, 11 - 7 and 12 - 10, before 81,000 fans at Wrigley Field. A crowd of 38,000 sees the morning game and 43,000 watch the afternoon game. Rogers Hornsby has two home runs and Hack Wilson has one.
1932: Lew Krausse of the A's shuts out the Red Sox, 15 - 0. Five days later Krausse will injure his arm in an exhibition game against the Stroudsburg Poconos and though only 20 years old, his big league career will be over.
In 1961, Lew Krausse, Jr. will pitch a shutout for the Kansas City A's in his major league debut, giving the Krausses (father and son) back-to-back shutouts twenty-nine years apart.
But Lew Krausse Jr. will forever be remembered by this Tigers fan as a dirty rotten bastard who intentionally threw at and hit Al Kaline breaking his arm on May 25, 1968 in Game 2 of a doubleheader.
1955: Cubs middle infielder Ernie Banks sets the record for home runs hit by a shortstop by hitting his 40th dinger in a 12 - 2 rout of the Cardinals. 'Mr. Cub' will extend the record finishing this season with 44 and will hit 48 in 1958.
1955: Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle celebrate Billy Martin's return from the army; Ford throws 6 innings of no-hit ball against Washington before Carlos Paula spoils it in the 7th with Washington's only hit. The Yanks win, 4 - 2, as Mantle hits his 36th home run, a 3-run shot. Mantle is 10 homers ahead of rivals Al Kaline and Ted Williams. New York stays a half-game behind the White Sox, who beat the 3rd-place Indians. Billy Martin will hit .300 in September, and New York will go on a 17-6 tear to win the pennant by 3 games.
1958: At Yankee Stadium, New York snaps a scoreless tie with Boston when Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle crash back-to-back 6th-inning homers off Dave Sisler. Mantle has hit three this year off Sisler. New York wins, 6 - 1. Mantle, with 38 homers, leads the American League. Mantle and Berra will hit back-to-back homers 12 times together, and homer in the same game 50 times before they are through.
1960: Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams homers off Senator right-hander Don Lee. At the beginning of his career Williams hit several home runs off Lee's dad, Thornton.
1961: Against Detroit's Frank Lary, Roger Maris doubles and takes third base on a misplay. Mickey Mantle, hurting from a pulled muscle in his forearm, lays down a perfect drag bunt to score Roger. Maris then blasts homers his next two trips to the plate, and Elston Howard adds a three-run homer, for a 7 - 2 win.
1962: Stan Musial's 3,516th hit jumps him over Tris Speaker and into 2nd place behind Ty Cobb on the all-time list. Although Stan The Man will continue on to 3,630 hits, he cannot overtake Cobb and, in time, Pete Rose and Hank Aaron will surpass him.
1963: Tigers get back-to-back RBIs by Rocky Colavito and Al Kaline in the 3rd inning and Hank Aguirre holds the Yankees the rest of the way in a 2-1 win.
1965: The Cubs beat St. Louis, 5 - 3, at Wrigley Field, as Ernie Banks hits his 400th home run, a three-run shot off Curt Simmons in the 3rd. Simmons teed up the 400th home run of Willie Mays in 1963. Banks will end the season with 28 home runs and 106 RBI. Ron Santo and Billy Williams will also knock in over 100 runs, the only team with three such sluggers, but the Cubs will finish 8th.
1966: Phillies ace Jim Bunning continues his whammy over the Mets by shutting them out, 6 - 0. It's Bunning's 8th complete game in as many starts against them, and his 5th shutout. The Mets have scored a total of four runs off Bunning.
1967: Twins shut out the Tigers to take a half game lead over Boston and a 2.5 game lead over Detroit.
1969: The San Francisco Giants traded a player to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Don McMahon. The San Francisco Giants sent Cesar Gutierrez (September 2, 1969) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
1970: Detroit's Gene Lamont homers in his first major league at bat, but the Red Sox this time hold the lead and beat the Tigers. The Tigers win the opener, 6 - 4, scoring two unearned runs in the 8th.
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1972: Bill Freehan and Mickey Stanley hit home runs in the 11th inning in Oakland to give the Tigers' a 3 - 1 win and their 4th 11th-inning win in the last 8 games. The Tigers and Yankees are a half game behind Baltimore, with Boston 1 game out.
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1973: The Tigers fire Billy Martin due to continuous differences with the front office.
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1980: Mark Fidrych gets his first win since 1978 in Tigers 11 - 2 win over the white sox.
1984: Tigers beat the a's 6 - 3. Dan Petry wins his 16th and Willie Hernandez with Save 27.
1986: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later and Ken Hill to the St. Louis Cardinals for Mike Heath.
The Detroit Tigers sent Mike Laga (September 2, 1986) to the St. Louis Cardinals to complete the trade.
1987: Tom Candiotti pitches his second one-hitter of the season, but also walks seven batters and makes an error as the Indians lose to Detroit 2 - 1. Matt Nokes' single with two out in the 8th is the Tigers' only hit.
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1988: The Detroit Tigers signed Chris Bando as a free agent.
1994 - According to acting commissioner Bud Selig, September 9 is the tentative deadline for canceling the rest of the season if no agreement is reached between the owners and players in the labor conflict.
2000: The Tigers honor Detroit Stars legend and new HOFer Turkey Stearnes at Comerica Park.
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2001: The Detroit Tigers traded C.J. Nitkowski and cash to the New York Mets for a player to be named later. The New York Mets sent Kyle Kessel (minors) (December 13, 2001) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
2012: Justin Verlander allows a homer to lead-off hitter Alejandro de Aza, but then settles down, as the Tigers win, 4 - 2, over the White Sox. They are now even with Chicago atop the AL Central. Delmon Young hits a three-run homer off Chris Sale, who is charged with the loss.
2014: J.D. Martinez hits a game-winning 3-run home run in the 9th and the Tigers beat the indians 4 - 2.
2016: Tigers win on a Miguel Cabrera RBI single in the 9th his 4th RBI of the game and beat the royals 7 - 6.
2019: By shutting out the Yankees, 7 - 0, the Rangers put an end to a streak of 220 games during which the Bronx Bombers had not been shut out, the second longest in history, behind the Babe Ruth/Lou Gehrig team of 1931-1933 that still holds the all-time record with 308 games. Rangers ace Mike Minor does the bulk of the work, keeping the Yanks scoreless for 7 1/3 innings.
2020: The family of Hall of Famer Tom Seaver announces that he has passed away on August 31st at age 75, after suffering from Lewy body dementia for some time, a condition aggravated by COVID-19. One of the greatest pitchers of all time, he remains the biggest icon in the history of the New York Mets.
Tigers players birthdays :
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Fred Payne 1906-1908.
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Luke Walker 1974.
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Nate Snell 1987.
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Johnny Paredes 1990-1991.
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Dusty Ryan 2008-2009.
Tigers players who passed away :
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Joe Hoover 1943-1945.
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