July 28 in Tigers and mlb history:
1890: Giants pitcher Mickey Welch beats the Pirates, 4 - 2, to become baseball's third 300-game winner. The 31-year old Brooklyn native will win only seven more games before ending his 13-year career next season.
1903: Boston's Vic Willis outpitches Christy Mathewson to beat the Giants, 5 - 3. 3B Ed Gremminger solves Matty, banging out a single, double, home run and sacrifice to lead Boston.
1908: Walter Johnson's recuperation from his operation from an infection behind the right ear seems complete as he pitches 15 innings against the Browns with neither team scoring. Washington pulls out a 2 - 1 victory in the 16th as Johnson strikes out 15, the Big Train's highest strikeout total for his career. He will win 11 of his next 13 decisions.
1917: In a doubleheader at St. Louis, the Red Sox sweep, winning both games by 3 - 2 scores, the second in 11 innings. In the 20 innings, not one Red Sox batter strikes out. Another oddity is in the second game, as Ernie Shore is called out twice for interference when hit with a batted ball.
1922: Rogers Hornsby ties the National League single-season home run record with his 27th, matching the 38-year-old mark set by Ed Williamson of the Chicago White Stockings in 1884.
1923: Ray Boone was born. The 1st of 3 generations in the family to play in the Majors. Busted out in 1953 after a trade to Detroit, hitting .296 26 114 .909 for the season. 1st of 4 straight years with 20 HR, averaging .295 23 99 .873 & making 2 All-Star Games.
1931: The White Sox record an American League-record 12 hits in the 8th inning against the Yankees. They score 11 runs as Bob Fothergill homers and triples to win, 14 - 12.
1936: In the 6th inning of a 16 - 6 Yankee win in Detroit, the Tigers' Goose Goslin drives a ball in the gap in right center. RF Joe DiMaggio and CF Myril Hoag, in for a slumping Jake Powell, sprint for the ball and collide, the ball bounding by for an inside-the-park home run. Both players are knocked unconscious but appear unhurt: Dimaggio stays in though but Hoag is replaced. Hoag will play tomorrow and collect a single, then collapse in his hotel room on the 30th with a brain clot. Hoag will be operated on successfully at Harper Hospital and will be out the rest of the season, but he'll return to play six more years. New York wins the game on 20 hits, scoring four runs in each of the first two innings, and three apiece in the 4th and 5th. Lou Gehrig's two doubles, single and home run number 31 with two aboard pace the visitors. Tommy Bridges is the loser while Johnny Murphy, who relieves Monte Pearson in the 4th, is credited with the win.
1948: Detroit's Dizzy Trout shuts out the Red Sox 13 - 0, to stop Boston's win streak at 13 games. Hoot Evers paces the Tigers 18-hit attack with four hits.
1949: Detroit pitcher Dizzy Trout hits a 9th-inning grand slam against the Senators to help the Tigers to a victory.
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1949: A 12 for 25 run raises Jackie Robinson's National League-leading batting average to .364. Jackie will tail off from that mark but will win the batting title at .342.
1951: Charlie Gehringer succeeds Billy Evans as General Manager of the Detroit Tigers. He will continue in this capacity for the Tigers into 1953.
1952: Rogers Hornsby, after being fired by the St. Louis Browns, replaces another former Brownie manager, Luke Sewell, as manager of the Cincinnati Reds.
1958: For the sixth time in his career, Mickey Mantle hits home runs from both sides of the plate. New York beats the Athletics, 14 - 7.
1962: After mysteriously disappearing off the team bus in New York two days ago with teammate Gene Conley to use the rest room, prodigal infielder Pumpsie Green returns to the Red Sox and is fined.
1968: Dave McNally outduels Mickey Lolich to give Baltimore a much-needed win over the Tigers, 5 - 1.
1971: Orioles 3B Brooks Robinson, a sixteen-time gold glove winner, commits three errors. Thanks to Frank Robinson's 9th-inning three-run walk-off home run off Rollie Fingers, the Orioles prevail and beat the A's, 3 - 2.
1974: Tigers are down 3-1 and one out in the 9th inning in Cleveland, Mickey Stanley hits a 3-run home run, and the Tigers go on to win 6-3.
A Day in the Sun for Mickey Stanley! Best game of his career (per WPA); 7.28.74 at CLE. 2-5, but all the fireworks in the 9th. Down 3-1, w/ 1 out, Stanley comes up w/ 2 on and hits his 7th HR of the year. Tigers add 2 more, and Hiller closes out the 9th.
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1975: Former Detroit Tiger Eddie Onslow, age 84, displays a plaque presented to him by the ball club.
1978: With the Tigers down a run with 2 outs in the 9th, Lou Whitaker hits his first career home run to give Tigers a walk-off 4 - 3 win over Seattle. Whitaker would be named the AL Rookie of the Year.
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1979: At Texas, the Boston Red Sox pull off a 1st-inning triple play - 9-4-3 - against the Rangers. It's Boston's third triple play of the year (July 23rd and May 10th) tying a major-league record, and it's needed as the Sox win, 1 - 0. Dennis Eckersley beats Fergie Jenkins.
1985: Lou Brock, Enos Slaughter, Arky Vaughan and Hoyt Wilhelm are inducted into the Hall of Fame in a ceremony in Cooperstown, New York. Wilhelm is the first pitcher to be inducted because of his role as a reliever.
1985: Darrell Evans hits his 300th career home run, off Ken Schrom, to lead Detroit to a 3 - 2 win over the Twins.
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1989: The Detroit Tigers traded Keith Moreland to the Baltimore Orioles for Brian Dubois.
1990: The Detroit Tigers signed Walt Terrell as a free agent.
1991: Dennis Martinez of the Expos tosses the 13th perfect game in major league history (excluding those of Harvey Haddix and Ernie Shore), setting down all 27 Dodgers to face him in a 2 - 0 win. Martinez strikes out five in the contest.
1992: The Detroit Tigers signed John Cangelosi as a free agent.
1993: Detroit 3B Travis Fryman strokes five safeties as he hits for the cycle in the Tigers' 12 - 7 loss to the Yankees.
He is the first Tiger to cycle in 43 years, when Hoot Evers and George Kell accomplished the feat.
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1994: The Tigers beat the Mariners 4-2 in 11 innings. Mickey Tettleton hit a walk-off 2-run homer against Bobby Ayala to win it. Joe Boever improved to 9-2 on the season with 1.1 shutout.
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1994: Texas P Kenny Rogers hurls a perfect game, defeating the Angels, 4 - 0. Rogers fans 8 in the 11th regular season perfect game of the 20th Century. He becomes the first left-hander in American League history to toss a perfecto and the 14th pitcher in history.
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1994: The Players Association executive board approves of August 12 as the date for a strike.
1995: Alan Trammell and Lou Whitaker set an American League record with their 1,915th appearance as teammates.
Whitaker hits a walk-off home run, the last long ball of his career. The first and last home runs of Whitaker's career were walk-off homers.
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2001: The Twins get P Todd Jones from the Tigers in exchange for P Mark Redman.
2006: The Detroit Tigers released Tike Redman.
2009: In his first start since throwing a perfect game on July 23rd, Mark Buehrle retires the first 17 batters he faces to set a new major league mark of 45 consecutive batters retired. The previous mark of 41 was set by Jim Barr in 1972 and tied by Buehrle's teammate, Bobby Jenks, in 2007. The Twins still manage to beat the White Sox, 5 - 3.
2010: With the trading deadline approaching, a few clubs are making moves. The Tigers, reeling from a number of injuries, obtain 3B Jhonny Peralta and cash from Cleveland for minor league P Giovanni Soto.
2013: It is an unusual induction ceremony at Cooperstown as the writers did not elect a single player to the Hall of Fame and, for the first time since 1965, the ceremony is conducted without a single living inductee present. Instead, those in attendance hear tributes about three great figures from the 19th and early 20th century: player Deacon White, umpire Hank O'Day and owner Jacob Ruppert.
2016: The Detroit Tigers released Lendy Castillo.
2018: The Detroit Tigers selected Josh Smoker off waivers from the Pittsburgh Pirates.
2020: In the first meeting between the Dodgers and Astros since details of the Astros' sign-stealing came out, Joe Kelly - who wasn't even on the Dodgers at the time the Astros' actions probably cost the Dodgers the 2017 World Series - decides to mete out justice by throwing at Alex Bregman and Carlos Correa. His gesture leads to benches clearing, something not seen kindly by major league authorities in these days of forced distanciation, and will cost Kelly a steep eight-game suspension. Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts is also suspended for a game.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Bob Wood 1904-1905.
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Hank Perry 1912.
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John Glaiser 1920.
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Ben Steiner 1947.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ted_Lepcio
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Ted Lepcio 1959.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/davisbr04.shtml
Brendon Davis 2022.
Tigers players and scouts who passed away:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Marty_Kavanagh
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Marty Kavanaugh 1914-1916, 1918.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Lu_Blue
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bluelu01.shtml
Lu Blue 1921-1927.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Steve_Souchock
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/souchst01.shtml
Steve Souchock 1951-1955, scout 1988-1995.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/castifr01.shtml
Frank Castillo 1998.
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