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Alex Lange's dangerous curves provide sweet relief.
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Webvideo Highlights of the Tigers Win Over the angels.

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Tigers 4 - Angels 3: Tyler Alexander?s quality start helps hold off Los Angeles.
Detroit struck back on Saturday afternoon with a win over Los Angeles to even the weekend series.
BYBTB

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Tyler Alexander finds his 'groove,' Tigers score enough to even series against Angels.
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https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...t-tigers-score-los-angeles-angels/7855821001/
Detroit Tigers scratch out 4-3 win over L.A. Angels on Victor Reyes-led rally.
Freep

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Tigers get big hits, Tyler Alexander gets W in victory over Angels.
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August 21 in Tigers and mlb history:

1886: Jack Rowe hits for the cycle for the Detroit Wolverines.
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1901: In Baltimore, Orioles pitcher Joe McGinnity is tossed for spitting in the face of umpire Tom Connolly. When Detroit's Kid Elberfeld intervenes, he is decked by Baltimore's Mike Donlin. Bill Keister also gets involved, as do some fans, and the police, who arrest the players and a fan. Judge Harry Goldman, a part-owner of the O's, releases the players and fines the fan $100.

1905: The Giants run past the Pirates, 10 - 2, with Christy Mathewson defeating Deacon Phillippe. New York swipes five bases including a steal of home by Art Devlin.

1917: Now with the Philadelphia Phils, Chief Bender, 34, pitches his third straight shutout, winning 6 - 0 over the Cubs. In his last active season, Bender will turn in four shutouts and win eight with two losses and a 1.67 ERA. His mound partner from the glory days of the A's, Eddie Plank, will also close out his career, ending the season 5-6 for the St. Louis Browns with a 1.79 ERA.

1921: White Sox hurler Ted Lyons pitches a no-hitter, beating the Red Sox at Fenway Park, 6 - 0.

1926: At St. Louis, the largest crowd of the season cheer as the Browns sweep a pair from the Yankees, winning 5 - 4 and 10 - 0.

1931: Babe Ruth becomes the first major leaguer to hit 600 career home runs as the Yankees defeat the Browns, 11 - 7.
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1932: Wes Ferrell becomes the first 20th-century pitcher to win 20 or more games in each of his first 4 seasons, beating Washington, 11 - 5.

1934: Schoolboy Rowe gets his 15th straight win, en route to a career-high 24 wins.

1938: The West wins the 1938 East-West Game, 5-4, when Neil Robinson hits a 3-run inside-the-park homer between the legs of East CF Sammy Bankhead. Hilton Smith and Double Duty Radcliffe allow only one run in eight innings of relief for a struggling Sug Cornelius.

1945: Rudy York goes 3-for-5 with a home run, but the Tigers lose to the Athletics 7-6. They split a doubleheader while Washington wins to trim the Tigers' lead in the pennant race to one game.

1948: Representatives of Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela, meeting in Havana, agree to stage a 4-country round-robin 12-game tournament to be known as the Serie del Caribe (Caribbean Series) and to be launched in Cuba during February 1949. The Dominican Republic and Mexico will also later participate on a regular basis.

1951: Bob Feller wins his 20th, stopping the Senators, 4 - 0, and keeping the Indians a game ahead of the Yankees. Feller is the American League's first 20-game winner this season.

1953: Major league player representatives Ralph Kiner (National League) and Allie Reynolds (American League) hire labor leader John Norman Lewis at $15,000 per annum to give legal advice to players in their negotiations with the owners.

1960: In the 28th year of the Negro Leagues East-West Game, the last game at Chicago's Comiskey Park was played before approximately 5,000 spectators and almost no media coverage. The West squad beat the East 8-4. The game would be played for two more years in other cities before ending.

1961: In their first appearance in Boston since moving to Milwaukee, the Braves defeat the Red Sox, 4 - 1. Warren Spahn pitches the first inning, striking out rookies Chuck Schilling and Carl Yastrzemski. The exhibition game is for the benefit of the Jimmy Fund.

1968: Monte Irvin is named special assistant to Commissioner William Eckert.

1968: Jim Price hits a pinch hit walk-off home run in the 10th inning to beat the White Sox 3 - 2 at #TigerStadium.

1971: Mickey Lolich allows six hits as Detroit beats the Brewers 7 - 2. It is Lolich's 20th win of the year.

1980: After giving up a first-inning single to Rob Wilfong, Jack Morris one-hits the twins for a 4 - 2 Tigers win at Met Stadium. He still managed to give up two unearned runs on Roy Smalley rbi groundouts in the first and ninth innings.

1981: Tigers win over the rangers 7 - 4, Yankees lose, Tigers move into a half game lead in the AL East.

1982: Brewer reliever Rollie Fingers become the first player in major league history to record 300 career saves as Milwaukee defeat the Mariners, 3 - 2.

1984: At Detroit, Lance Parrish cracks a first-inning grand slam off Lary Sorensen, Darrell Evans goes 4-for-5 with a 3-run home run, and the Tigers drive by the A's 12 - 6. Milt Wilcox goes six innings for the win. Tigers are 83-44.

1987: Dale Murphy hits his 300th career home run as Atlanta beats Pittsburgh, 5 - 4. He stroked his 1500th hit on August 5.
Andre Dawson belts his 39th and 40th home runs of the season and Lee Smith picks up his 30th save in Chicago's 7 - 5 win over the Astros.

1991: Cecil Fielder and fellow slugger Skeeter Barnes each go 3-for-5 with a home run in the Tigers' 12-9 win in Chicago.
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1993: The Tigers trade OF Rob Deer to the Red Sox for a player to be named. Deer will homer tomorrow in his first at bat for the Sox.

1993: The Detroit Tigers signed Joe Boever as a free agent.

1996: The Detroit Tigers released Mark Parent.

1997: Curtis Pride of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2011: The Tigers score 7 runs off Cleveland's Ubaldo Jimenez in the 3rd, including homers from Delmon Young and Victor Martinez, but the Indians slowly claw back. In the 4th, both benches are warned when Tigers starter Rick Porcello throws a pitch behind Asdrubal Cabrera shortly before being chased from the game. In the 6th, Tigers manager Jim Leyland is ejected by third base umpire Alan Porter for arguing a tag play at the base on Wilson Betemit.
Detroit closer Jos? Valverde then pitches the 9th with a one-run lead, but puts the first two men he faces on base courtesy of a walk and a hit-by-pitch. After Jack Hannahan's successful sacrifice bunt, he gets pinch-hitter Matt LaPorta to fly to short center field; CF Austin Jackson then unloads a superb throw to the plate that nails Kosuke Fukudome trying to score from third base, for a spectacular game-ending double play. Detroit completes a three-game sweep with the 8 - 7 win and Valverde has now been perfect in all 37 of his save opportunities this year.

2013: With a 1st-inning single off Toronto's R.A. Dickey, Ichiro Suzuki gets his 4,000 hit between Japan (1,278) and the United States (2,722). He is only the third player to reach the milestone at such a high level, following Ty Cobb and Pete Rose, who both collected all their hits in the United States major leagues. Only one other Japanese player, Isao Harimoto, had 3,000 hits.

2014: David Price allows 1 hit and 1 unearned run in a 1-0 loss to his former team, the Rays. He becomes the first pitcher in major league history to lose a complete game one-hitter with no walks and no earned runs.

2015: The Detroit Tigers released Marc Krauss.

2016: The Detroit Tigers released Bobby Parnell.

2018: Zach McAllister of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2018: JaCoby Jones receives the Tigers #HeartandHustle Award from Al Kaline.

2019: In spite of pitching a two-hitter against his former team the Tigers, Houston's Justin Verlander ends up on the losing end of a 2 - 1 decision as both hits are solo homers, by John Hicks and Ronny Rodriguez. Hicks' blast to lead off the 9th breaks a 1 - 1 tie while four pitchers limit the Astros to a single run. The game ends as Robinson Chirinos, trying to complete a cycle, is gunned down at third base trying to stretch a double into a triple.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stalege01.shtml
Gerry Staley 1961.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cedenan01.shtml
Andujar Cedeno 1996.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/crowde01.shtml
Dean Crow 1998.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/J.D._Martinez
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/martijd02.shtml
J.D. Martinez 2014-2017.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/molledu01.shtml
Dustin Molleken 2016.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/postle01.shtml
Lew Post 1902.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/smithru01.shtml
Rufus Smith 1927.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/u/uhlbo01.shtml
Bob Uhl 1940.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kernsru01.shtml
Russ Kerns 1945.

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DEEPER DISCUSSIONS.
Totally Tigers

Offense continues to go down all across the board in MLB, hitting historic levels not seen since the mid-1960?s.

There are 2 major contributing factors ? launch angles and the shift.

Players are now being taught to use launch angle techniques in order to lift the ball and hit home runs more easily. They are no longer being coached to make as much contact as possible. But while launch angles create more home runs ? and as studies show ? are tied to more wins ? they also significantly increase striking out.

Rod Carew, one of the game?s best hitters, has made eradicating the launch angle his primary mission. He believes it has ruined the game, creating an all-or-nothing approach to scoring. He says that teaching launch angles is not a one-size-fits-all and ignores each hitter?s talents and strengths. He says that hitters are not focusing on what they do best and that the purpose of the game should be getting on base.

Defensively, the shift also accounts for a downturn in offense by moving players well beyond their traditional defensive positions to cover areas where batters are most likely to hit balls. Theo Epstein joined the Commissioner?s Office to specifically address how to overcome this strategy in an attempt to return the game to producing more action and scoring.

Starting next year, the rules surrounding the shift will be modified. Teams will no longer will be allowed to have more than two infielders on one side of second base. This would also mean that if the 3Ber and SS are to the left of 2B, then the 2Ber must remain on the right side of 2B.

If you could eliminate just one of these strategies, which one would it be?

Today?s blog addresses this dilemma and allows readers to share their thoughts in more detail. And hopefully, to actively engage with others by responding to their posts and creating back-and-forth discussion threads. The more the merrier!

For this one blog only, you?ve got 6 sentences max to share your thoughts.
Of course, you can respond to as many other readers as you want.

TT will supply the ammunition. One thought-provoking question. Several options provided. One hard choice to be selected. One vote.
Ready?

Which one of these baseball strategies would you eliminate?

1. Focus on using launch angles in hitting.

2. Employing the shift in the field.

VOTE
 
Johnny B. Wockenfuss, one of the most-popular Tigers of the early 1980s, has died at 73. RIP.

He suffered from dementia for four years. Family attributes that to the collisions at home plate. In a 2011 interview with me, he lobbied for the collision ban that went into effect a few years later.

Tony Paul

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...ed-kids-all-over-michigan-dies-73/7861616001/
Johnny Wockenfuss, whose batting stance was copied by kids all over Michigan, dies at 73.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...-wockenfuss-dies-willie-hernandez/7860529001/
Longtime Detroit Tigers utilityman John Wockenfuss dies at 73.
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https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/riley-greene-hits-448-foot-home-run-off-shohei-ohtani
Tigers treat Halos to Riley Greene Day in finale.
Tigers official site

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/angels-...805#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=662805
Boxscore.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/angels-...#game_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=662805
Webvideo Highlights of the Tigers Win Over the angels.

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2022/8...-shohei-ohtani-eduardo-rodriguez-riley-greene
Tigers 4 - Angels 0: E-Rod outduels Shohei Ohtani.
Eduardo Rodriguez pitched five shutout innings in his major league return, while Shohei Ohtani floundered.
BYBTB

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...oit-tigers-win-los-angeles-angels/7860114001/
First-pitch homer by Riley Greene sparks Tigers to shutout win over Shohei Ohtani, Angels.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...e-los-angeles-angels-riley-greene/7860976001/
Detroit Tigers' Riley Greene takes Shohei Ohtani deep in 4-0 win over Angels.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/08/tigers-knock-out-ohtani-early-beat-angels-4-0.html
Tigers knock out Ohtani early, beat Angels 4-0.
Mlive
 
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August 22 in Tigers and mlb history:

1905: Umpire John Sheridan forfeits a game to Washington in the 11th when the Tigers refuse to resume play after a lengthy dispute. Washington is ahead 2 - 1 at the time of the forfeiture.

1915: In the 2nd inning of game one of a doubleheader versus Detroit, the crowd sees the Senators score a run with no times at bat, the only time it's ever happened. Chick Gandil and Merito Acosta walk; Rip Williams sacrifices, and George McBride hits a sacrifice fly, scoring Gandil, and the Tigers catch Acosta off second base when OF Bobby Veach throws to Ossie Vitt. Washington's Walter Johnson goes on to win and snap the Tigers' 9-game win streak.

1926: After three games with the Tigers are rained out at home, Connie Mack and Tom Shibe decide that Sunday baseball is entitled to be played. Armed with a court injunction preventing police from interfering, they play the first Sunday game ever seen in Philadelphia. A light rain holds the crowd to 10,000, but Lefty Grove sets down the White Sox, 3 - 2, without incident. A court later rules Sunday baseball still illegal; it will be 1934 before that law changes in Philadelphia.

1927: The Yankees lose their fourth straight for the first time, 9 - 4 to the Indians, despite Babe Ruth's 40th home run. Detroit wins its 13th straight, moving up to second, 12 1/2 games back.

1931: Newark (International) purchased George Quellich from the Detroit Tigers.

1933: Hank Greenberg has the first of 35 multi-home run games. He also gets the first of his six career walk-off home runs. Tigers beat the senators 10 - 8.
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1934: Rudy York makes his big league debut with the Tigers.

1934: P Wes Ferrell hits two home runs in a 10-inning, 3 - 2 win for the Red Sox over the White Sox. It is the second time this season he has a pair of homers, and the third in his career. He will hit 2 home runs in a game 6 times before he finishes.

1938: Carl Hubbell has an arm operation for bone chips in his elbow and is finished for the season.

1939: Happy Birthday Yaz! Boston RedSox legend Carl Yastrzemski was born in Southampton, NY on this day.
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1939: The Detroit Tigers purchased Clay Smith from the Cleveland Indians.

1946: Clubs approve a change to a 168-game schedule, but they will rescind the decision at another meeting on September 16. Television is first recognized, with clubs given rights to their own games. Players jumping to outlaw leagues will not be allowed to apply for reinstatement for five years.

1947: The first Little League World Series tournament is held in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
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1948: The Dodgers steal eight bases, including a 5th-inning triple steal with Jackie Robinson on the front end. But the Braves win, 4 - 3, to move two games ahead of second-place Brooklyn. In the last 19 steal attempts against the Braves, no Dodger has been thrown out.

1951: The Dodgers sweep a pair of 10-inning games from St. Louis, with Clyde King picking up both come-from-behind victories. King goes three innings in game one and one inning in game two. Jackie Robinson is 5 for 6 in the nitecap including a 2-out single in the 10th off Al Brazle.
Andy Pafko has a homer in the nitecap, while Stan Musial hits his 29th in the first game. Carl Furillo has three hits on the afternoon and a pair of assists in game 1, bringing his season total to 21. The Dodgers have now won 14 straight from the Cards.

1959: The Redlegs' Frank Robinson hits three home runs in a row against St. Louis, as the Redlegs win 11 - 4. Robby has six RBIs.

1961: Roger Maris, in his record-setting season, becomes the first player to hit his 50th home run in the month of August. The 26-year old all-star outfielder connects off Ken McBride as the Yankees lose to the Angels, 4 - 3.

1965: Juan Marichal thinks Johnny Roseboro throws too close to his head returning the ball to Sandy Koufax and attacks the Dodger catcher with his bat. The Los Angeles backstop suffers cuts on the head during the 14-minute brawl.

1967: Indian pitcher Luis Tiant has 16 strikeouts in a 3 - 2 win over California.

1968: Jim Merritt loses his shutout in the 9th inning when Mickey Mantle parks a pinch homer at the Metrodome.
The Twins win, 3 - 1. Mick's homer ties him with Jimmie Foxx for 3rd place on the all-time list.

1968: In a game marred by a fight between Dick McAuliffe and Tommy John, the Tigers beat the White Sox 4-2. Mickey Lolich won in his first start since July 28th. Back to back HRs by Al Kaline and Willie Horton gave the Tigers the lead that Don McMahon made hold up.
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1972: The Tigers and A?s have another brawl in the 7th inning of a loss, setting up bad blood in that year?s ALCS showdown between them.

1974: Before a crowd of 35,866, the largest in 18 years at Fenway Park, the Red Sox turn back the A's, 3 - 0. Luis Tiant wins his 20th for Boston this year. Boston (70-54) now leads the American League East by seven games.

1978: Ron LeFlore sets an American League record with his 27th straight successful stolen base attempt as Detroit beats the Twins 7 - 3. He began the streak on July 16.
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1982: Ernie Banks becomes the first Cub to have his uniform number (14) retired.
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1984: Tigers score at least 11 runs for the 3rd straight game. Tigers score 11 without a home run and only 3 XBH and beat the a's 11 - 4.
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1985: The Detroit Tigers released Doug Bair.

1989: Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan records his 5,000th career strikeout! The victim: Oakland A's batter Rickey Henderson.
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1997: The Tigers pound the Brewers 16 - 1, with the aid of 23 hits and an 11-run 7th inning. Bobby Higginson gets five hits for Detroit, while Travis Fryman and Tony Clark drive in four runs apiece.

2002: As part of a 3-team trade: The Oakland Athletics sent a player to be named later, Franklyn German and Carlos Pena to the Detroit Tigers.
The New York Yankees sent Jason Arnold (minors), John-Ford Griffin and Ted Lilly to the Oakland Athletics.
The Detroit Tigers sent Jeff Weaver to the New York Yankees. The Detroit Tigers sent cash to the Oakland Athletics.
The Oakland Athletics sent Jeremy Bonderman (August 22, 2002) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

2007: The Rangers rout the Orioles, 30 - 3, to set an American League record for runs. They score 9 more in the nightcap to set the AL record for runs in a doubleheader, breaking the previous mark of 36 held by the 1937 Tigers. The 1950 Red Sox and 1955 White Sox had previously held the single-game AL record of 29. No team had scored 30 in the major leagues since the Chicago Colts in 1897. Travis Metcalf, just back from the minors, drives in 8 in the twin bill. In the first game, Metcalf and Marlon Byrd both homer. David Murphy goes 5 for 7 with 5 runs. #8 hitter Jarrod Saltalamacchia and #9 hitter Ramon Vazquez both homer twice and drive in 7. Every Ranger scores at least once with Murphy and Saltalamacchia both crossing home five times. Vazquez scores the 30th run with a 3-run 9th-inning homer off Paul Shuey.

2011: Detroit's Justin Verlander continues his dominance on the mound, earning his major league-leading 19th win in the Tigers' 5 - 2 victory over the Rays. It is his 7th consecutive winning start. Alex Avila, hitting .424 in August, hits a two-run homer off Jeff Niemann in the 2nd to send the Tigers on their way.
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2019: The Royals make a special trip to Fenway Park on what was a scheduled off-day in order to play the final innings of their game of August 7th against the Red Sox that was suspended by rain with the teams in a 4 - 4 tie in the top of the 10th. To ensure there will be fans present to cheer them on, the Sox put on a special admission price of $5 for adults and free for children 18 and under, with all profits going to the Jimmy Fund, the team's charity of choice. It works as over 16,000 people turn up to see 12 minutes of action before Brock Holt ends it by driving in Chris Owings, pinch-running for Christian Vazquez, from second base on a base hit to left with one out in the bottom of the 10th. Both teams then need to rush out to catch a plane, with K.C. headed to Cleveland, OH and Boston to San Diego, CA. Meanwhile children in the stands are allowed to run the bases and can go home happy.

2021: Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers becomes the 28th member of the 500 Home Run Club with a solo homer off Steven Matz of the Blue Jays.
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2022: The Detroit Tigers released Wily Peralta.

Tigers, and Detroit Stars, and Detroit Wolverines players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ned_Hanlon
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hanlone01.shtml
Ned Hanlon Detroit Wolverines 1881-1888.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bashaal01.shtml
Al Bashang 1912.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gatewbi01.shtml
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Bill-Gatewood/
https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/player.php?playerID=gatew01bil
Bill Gatewood Detroit Stars 1920-1921.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/schanwa01.shtml
Wally Schang 1931.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bairdo01.shtml
Doug Bair 1983-1985.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jeff_Weaver
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/weaveje01.shtml
Jeff Weaver 1999-2002.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wolfra02.shtml
Randy Wolf 2015.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/carpery01.shtml
Ryan Carpenter 2018-2019.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hutchdr01.shtml
Drew Hutchison 2021-2022.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lochhha01.shtml
Harry Lochhead 1901.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/cutshge01.shtml
George Cutshaw 1922-1923.

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August 23 in Tigers and mlb history:

1910: Chicago's Ed Walsh tops Walter Johnson, 1 - 0, the 3rd straight time Walsh has beaten the Big Train and Washington by that score.

1910: Left fielder Fred Clarke makes a record-tying four OF assists for Pittsburgh against the Phils, as the Bucs win 6 - 2. The Pirates get one more for a National League record five outfield assists.

1911: Ty Cobb endorses Lewis 66 Rye.
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1912: The Tigers fall to Walter Johnson, 8 - 1, Big Train's 16th win in a row. He is now 29-7.

1916: Ty Cobb goes from first to third on a teammate's single to LF, then swipes home when A's 3B Charlie Pick holds the ball. Detroit wins 10 - 3.

1930: The Yankees buy Frank Crosetti from the San Francisco Seals but allow him to play another season in the Pacific Coast League before reporting. The Yankees will make a similar arrangement for Joe DiMaggio, buying him from the Seals but waiting a year before acquiring him in 1936.

1931: Lefty Grove is frustrated in his effort to win a record-breaking 17th game in a row, as Jimmy Moore misjudges a routine fly ball by Ski Melillo, turning it into a 2-out double, to allow the game's lone run. The volatile Grove is outraged and unforgiving, not at Moore, but that Al Simmons, the regular OF, missed the game. Dick Coffman of the Browns allows just three hits to win, 1 - 0.

1936: Seventeen-year-old Bob Feller makes his first start and strikes out 15, one less than the American League record, as Cleveland beats St. Louis, 4 - 1.
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1936: The East uses a balanced offense to thump the West, 10-2, in the 1936 Negro Leagues East-West Game.
Leroy Matlock got the win and Sug Cornelius the loss while Cool Papa Bell went 3 for 3.
This photo shows ?Team East?, which includes future HOF?ers Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Judy Johnson, Biz Mackey and Cool Papa Bell!
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1942: Walter Johnson pitching to Babe Ruth is the pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for the New York-Washington game at Yankee Stadium that provides $80,000 for Army-Navy relief. Ruth hits the fifth pitch into the right-field stands, and then adds one more shot before circling the bases. Sixteen relief games contribute $523,000 during the season.
In the doubleheader between the Senators and the Yankees, the Senators win the opener, 7 - 6 and New York cops the nitecap, 3 - 0, in 5 1/2 innings.
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1956: Led by Nellie Fox's seven straight hits, the White Sox sweep the Yankees. Mickey Mantle has a bunt single, triple and home run in the 6 - 4 nightcap loss but trails Fox in season hits, 158 to 155. But the Mick still leads in the Triple Crown race.

1958: In a 10 - 1 win over Milwaukee, Gil Hodges hits his 14th career grand slam to establish a new National League record.

1962: Steve Boros matches the American League record for most errors in an inning by a 3B with 4, but Detroit beats Cleveland 8 - 5 as Al Kaline hits two home runs.
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1963: Warren Spahn's 601st start is a modern National League record. Grover Alexander had the previous record of 600. The Braves beat the Dodgers, 6 - 1.

1966: Rare footage from The Beatles concert at Shea Stadium during their final U.S. tour.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1562057535221338113

1968: Stan Bahnsen outpitches Earl Wilson to give the host Yankees a 2 - 1 win over Detroit. The two teams then battle for 19 innings, before the second game is suspended by curfew with the score 3 - 3. The game will be finished tomorrow. In the long tie, Lindy McDaniel retires 21 straight Tiger batters, six on strikeouts. In his last three relief appearances, he has retired 30 batters in a row.
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1972: Chicago's Dick Allen becomes the 4th major league player (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, and Alex Johnson are the others) to hit one into the CF bleachers in Comiskey Park when he connects off New York's Lindy McDaniel. The 2-run homer in the 7th ices the 5 - 2 win for the Sox. This year, all the Chicago Wednesday games are in the afternoon, and Harry Caray announces them while sitting in the CF bleachers. Allen's drive misses Caray by just a few rows.

1976: A sign marking Tiger Stadium as a state historic site is unveiled.
The sign was stolen after Tiger Stadium closed and has never been found.
From left: Al Kaline, Hal Newhouser, Billy Rogell, and Charlie Gehringer.
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1981: The Minnesota Twins traded Ron Jackson to the Detroit Tigers for a player to be named later. The Detroit Tigers sent Tim Corcoran (September 4, 1981) to the Minnesota Twins to complete the trade.

1981: Rick Peters hits a pinch hit walk-off single to give the Tigers their 9th straight win 5 -4 over the rangers.
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1983: The Detroit Tigers purchased Glenn Abbott from the Seattle Mariners for $100,000.

1998: Giants OF Barry Bonds hits his 26th homer, the 400th of his career, off Kirt Ojala of the Marlins in the Giants' 10 - 5 victory. He thus becomes the first player in major league history with more than 400 career home runs and 400 career steals.

1999: The Yankees score six runs in the 1st inning on their way to a 21 - 3 victory over the Rangers. 3B Scott Brosius (6) and C Joe Girardi (7) - the 8th and 9th batters in the New York lineup - drive in 13 of the Yankee runs.
Derek Jeter scores his 100th run of the year, the first Yank to string together four straight seasons of 100+ runs since Mickey Mantle did it in nine straight seasons (1953-1961).

1999: Joining Babe Ruth and Mark McGwire, Mariner outfielder Ken Griffey, Jr. becomes the third player in major league history to hit 200 homers in a four-season span. Junior's 39th helps Seattle beat the Indians, 4 - 1.

2000: At Comerica Park, fans flee their seats as swarms of small insects invade the stands during the 1st inning.
The six-legged pests do not affect the players, and the game continues uninterrupted with the Tigers edging the Mariners, 6 - 5.
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2003: Tigers lose their 11th straight a 14 - 8 loss to the angels. It will be their longest losing streak in a 119-loss season.

2007: The Detroit Tigers traded Craig Monroe and cash to the Chicago Cubs for a player to be named later. The Chicago Cubs sent Clay Rapada (August 30, 2007) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

2012: The San Diego Padres selected Thad Weber off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

2012: Justin Verlander strikes out 12 in 9 innings; Tigers win 3 - 2 over the blue jays on Alex Avila walk-off single in the 11th.

2019: For the second time this year, Jacob deGrom strikes out at least 13 batters and also homers in a game, limiting the Braves to 1 run over 7 innings. However, his long ball is the only offense for the Mets tonight, who go on to lose the game, 2 - 1, in 14 innings on Billy Hamilton's first hit with Atlanta. DeGrom records his 200th K of the year in the game, as New York's pitchers combine for a total of 26, tying the major league record for an extra-inning game. Before deGrom did it twice in a season, no pitcher had ever struck out 13 or more batters and homered in the same game more than once in his career. For Atlanta, Ronald Acuna becomes the second youngest player to record a 30-30 season, after Mike Trout.

2021: The two hottest teams in the majors meet in an interleague game when the Braves host the Yankees at Truist Park, with both teams having won their last nine games, something that had not happened in 120 years. It's the New Yorkers who have the upper hand, winning, 5 - 1. Giancarlo Stanton and Dansby Swanson traded solo homers in the 2nd, then Stanton drives in 2 runs with a two-out double in the 6th to provide the winning margin.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/downsre01.shtml
Red Downs 1907-1908.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/elderhe01.shtml
Heinie Elder 1913.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pageph01.shtml
Phil Page 1928-1930.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/George_Kell
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kellge01.shtml
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/George-Kell/
George Kell 1946-1952, tv broadcaster 1959-1996.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Raúl_Casanova
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/casanra01.shtml
Raul Casanova 1996-1998.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mantoje01.shtml
Jeff Manto 1998.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcdilal01.shtml
Allen McDill 2000.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bautide01.shtml
Denny Bautista 2008.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/fordge01.shtml
Gene Ford 1905.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hank_Borowy
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/borowha01.shtml
Hank Borowy 1950-1951.

Baseball Reference
 
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The Tigers have announced the following roster moves:

*Placed INF Jonathan Schoop on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to August 21, with a right ankle sprain.
*Recalled INF Zack Short from Triple A Toledo.
 
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