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https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2022/09/03/deeper-discussions-40/
DEEPER DISCUSSIONS.
Totally Tigers

Justin Verlander is having one of the best years of his career after undergoing Tommy John surgery in 2020. He is leading MLB pitching stats in most categories and expected to be in the running for yet another Cy Young Award. He is currently 16-3 with a 1.84 ERA and .855 WHIP.

Verlander is being paid $25 mill this year and has a player option for another $25 mill for 2023. His value this year (for a full season) is actually worth $44.8 mill. This despite now going on the 10-day IL for a minor calf injury.

JV is considering opting out of his contract with the Astros considering how much value he brings to the team. He will probably command somewhere in the mid-30?s to low 40?s per year. Verlander will be 40 next season and expected to seek a shorter contract given his age.

Should the Tigers bring him back, especially since they now have Chris Fetter in charge of pitching?

Could he be a mentor for the young pitching staff?

Should the Tigers bring him back in an effort to undo Al Avila?s trade that was named the worst one ever completed by a team?

Or is JV simply too old and no longer fits on a rebuilding team? Is it too much money to offer when there are so many holes and needs on this roster?

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?

Should the Tigers bring back Justin Verlander?

1. Yes

2. No

VOTE
 
Tigers get their collective asses kicked 12 - 2.

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/ryan-kreidler-gets-first-major-league-hit-for-tigers
Kreidler gets first MLB hit, shows off 2-way value.
Tigers official site

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/royals-...nal,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=662803
Boxscore.

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2022/9...ecap-ryan-kreidler-michael-pineda-jason-foley
Royals 12, Tigers 2: Michael Pineda and Jason Foley were rocked
Other than Ryan Kreidler?s first two major league hits, this was another ugly watch.
Royals 12 - Tigers 2: Michael Pineda and Jason Foley were rocked.
Other than Ryan Kreidler?s first two major league hits, this was another ugly watch.
BYBTB

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...s-miguel-cabrera-could-heading-il/7990697001/
Tigers throttled by Royals; Miguel Cabrera placed on IL.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...ls-tucker-barnhart-ryan-kreidler/65472159007/
Detroit Tigers are crushed by Kansas City Royals, 12-2, but Tucker Barnhart hits first homer in 2022.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/09/royals-hit-4-home-runs-beat-tigers-12-2.html
Royals hit 4 home runs, beat Tigers 12-2.
Mlive
 
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September 4 in Tigers and mlb history:

1907: For his 32nd birthday tomorrow, Cleveland fans give manager Nap Lajoie a wagon-load of gifts, including a live black sheep. Addie Joss pitches a one-hitter against Detroit.

1908: In New York, Walter Johnson opens a series against New York by besting Jack Chesbro, 3 - 0, allowing six hits in the Washington win.

1912: Providence (International) purchased Ralph Works from the Detroit Tigers.

1913: Providence (International) purchased Lou North from the Detroit Tigers.

1913: Cleveland lefty Vean Gregg strikes out Ty Cobb three times in a row, but Cobb doubles in the winning run in the 12th.

1916: In Detroit, the Coveleski brothers appear together in the same game for the only time in their careers. Stan starts for the Indians and gets knocked out in Detroit's 5-run first inning. Harry relieves later on in the game as Detroit wins 7 - 5.

1916: Reds player-manager Christy Mathewson, pitching his only game not in a Giant uniform, beats his long-time nemesis Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown and the Cubs, 10 - 8. In the 25 contests in which the two legends have faced one another, Matty, by winning the last decision, takes a 13-12 advantage in their final meeting.

1922: At the start of the day, both New York teams are on top, and both Boston teams are on the bottom. But today, the Red Sox take two and knock the leaders off their perch as they sweep the Yankees, 4 - 3 and 6 - 5. Babe Ruth hits his last regular-season home run in the Polo Grounds. He gets it off Herb Pennock, who also gave up Ruth's first Yankee homer, also at the Polo Grounds.

1930: Rogers Hornsby returns to the Chicago lineup as the Cubs beat the Pirates. Hornsby had been absent since Memorial Day because of a broken ankle.

1935: Babe Ruth receives a lifetime pass for all National League games from NL President Ford Frick.

1945: Long-time Yankee batting practice pitcher Paul Schreiber, who last pitched in the majors in 1923 and the minors in 1931, relieves for the Yankees against Detroit in a Tiger rout. Schreiber gives up no hits in 3 1/3 innings, but the Tigers' Dizzy Trout wins 10 - 0.

1951: George "Sparky" Anderson hits an RBI double in the American Legion World Series at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium.

1961: Mickey Mantle misses the Labor Day doubleheader with a painful and swollen forearm, but the Yanks don't need him as they sweep a pair from the Senators, 5 - 3 and 3 - 2. The sweep moves the Yanks six games up on the slumping Tigers, who lose, 6 - 3, to the Orioles and trail, 4 - 1, in a game that is suspended. Mantle's replacement, Johnny Blanchard, breaks a 3 - 3 tie in the opener with an 8th-inning homer.

1968: Future Hall of Fame catcher Mike Piazza is born in Norristown, PA. A 62nd round draft choice in 1988, he will be the lowest-drafted player to be enshrined in Cooperstown after being elected in 2016.

1969:The Orioles lead off the 9th inning with 3 straight home runs, by Frank Robinson, Boog Powell, & Brooks Robinson, to rally to beat the Tigers and widen their division lead over Detroit to 13.5 games.

1979: Norman "Turkey" Stearnes dies at age 79 in Detroit. Here he is at Tiger Stadium months before his death. The Detroit Stars legend was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000.

1981: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later to the Minnesota Twins for Ron Jackson. The Detroit Tigers sent Tim Corcoran (September 4, 1981) to the Minnesota Twins to complete the trade.

1986: Hank Greenberg dies at age 75 in Beverly Hills, California.
Greenberg is still the Tigers franchise leader in slugging percentage (.616) and OPS (1,028), and holds the team's season records for home runs, RBIs, doubles, and extra base hits.

1987: Doyle Alexander celebrated turning 37 with his 4th straight win as a Tiger, as the offense roared to an 11-2 win in Texas. A toronto win kept the Tigers? AL East lead over the Jays at 1.5 games.

1989: Fred Lynn hits his 300th career home run to help the Tigers to a 5 - 1 win over Kansas City.

1991: Removing an asterisk which really never existed, the Statistical Accuracy Committee decides to put Roger Maris' 1961 home run season ahead of Babe Ruth's 60 mark instead of listing it separately as it was from 1962 until this year.
The eight-man panel also re-defines a no-hit game as one which ends after 9 or more innings with one team failing to get a hit, thereby removing 50 games from the list that had previously been considered hitless, including the 1959 performance of Harvey Haddix's 12 perfect innings against the Braves and Jim Maloney's 1965 1 - 0 loss to the Mets in 11 innings.

1993: New York Yankees pitcher Jim Abbott, born without a right hand, throws a no-hitter vs. the Cleveland Indians at Yankee Stadium.
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2011: The Tigers crush the White Sox, 18 - 2, behind Max Scherzer. Miguel Cabrera homers and drives in 4 runs, while Alex Avila has 4 hits. Over the last two days, the Tigers scored 26 unanswered runs against Chicago, coming back from 8 - 1 down yesterday to win, 9 - 8, then taking an 18 - 0 lead today before surrendering two 9th-inning runs.
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2014: Battling to stay alive in the AL Central, the Indians suffer a demoralizing loss after they rally from a 4 - 0 1st-inning deficit against defending Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer of the Tigers. They manage to force extra innings, but everything goes wrong in the 11th, when they allow 7 runs to lose, 11 - 4. It's their second straight crushing loss to the Tigers, after closer Cody Allen gave up a three-run, 9th-inning homer to J.D. Martinez in a 4 - 2 loss yesterday.

2017: J.D. Martinez of the Diamondbacks becomes the 18th player in major league history - and second this season after Scooter Gennett - to hit four homers in one game. He connects for a two-run shot off Rich Hill in the 4th, solo homers off Pedro Baez and Josh Fields in the 7th and 8th, respectively, and a two-run blast off Wilmer Font in the 9th to tie the record. Arizona defeats Los Angeles, 13 - 0 for its 11th straight win, while the Dodgers have lost 9 of their last 10.

2018: Several sources report that a severe fight breaks out between the two main members of the Tigers' television broadcast team, Mario Impemba and Rod Allen, at the end of tonight's game. The two have been working together for 17 years and it is not clear what caused the altercation. Both will be let go as the result of this incident.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/terryjo01.shtml
John Terry 1902.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/corrire01.shtml
Red Corriden 1912.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jatapa01.shtml
Paul Jata 1972.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/alexado01.shtml
Doyle Alexander 1987-1989.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/killere01.shtml
Red Killefer 1907-1909.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/maniocl01.shtml
Clyde Manion 1920-1924, 1926-1927.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Turkey_Stearnes
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https://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/...&tab=bat&mult=All&sort=Year_a&adv_sort=Year_a
https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/stearnes-turkey
Norman Turkey Stearnes Detroit Stars Negro Leagues 1923-1931, 1937.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hank_Greenberg
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/greenha01.shtml
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/hank-greenberg/
Hank Greenberg 1930, 1933-1941, 1945-1946.

Baseball Reference
 
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https://www.blessyouboys.com/2022/9/3/23336214/detroit-tigers-miguel-cabrera-josh-lester
Tigers to call up first baseman Josh Lester.
The latest addition to Detroit?s major league roster is Lester, a 28-year-old minor league stalwart.
BYBTB

The timing of this opportunity is fantastic for Lester, whose mediocre season-long numbers are dragged down by a poor start and belie a furious hot streak he?s been on for the past two months. Since the beginning of July, he?s cut his strikeout rate nearly in half from last season and is hitting the devil out of the ball. His .279/.325/.535 line is notable in that time span even for the robust offensive environment of the league he plays in and he?s still in the slightly sub-.300 BABIP range, indicating he hasn?t been getting overly lucky.

Add to that his 24 home runs ? fourth among active players in the Triple-A International League and tied for 37th among all minor leagues everywhere ? and it?s clear that Lester has conquered MiLB pitching. The problem, is that he hasn?t conquered it in ways that predict major league success.
 
The Tigers have DFAed Michael Pineda.
Reliever Luis Castillo called up from Toledo.
Tigers will take a look at younger starters down the stretch.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/09/tigers-designate-michael-pineda-for-assignment.html
Tigers Designate Michael Pineda For Assignment.
MLBTR

Soto gives up another earned run in the 8th. Over his last 15 games Soto has an ERA of 6.43 giving up 10 earned runs in 14.0 IP.

The DET BP was really terrific all season, however in AUG they were:
1-9
5.27 ERA 27/30
258 BAA 25/30
1.43 WHIP 24/30
63.5% strand rate 28/30
in other words..not good

2022 Detroit Tigers Highlights:
1. Miggy joining the 3,000 hit club.
2. Al Avila getting fired.
3. The season ending.
 
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https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/gregory-soto-takes-loss-for-tigers-after-tough-8th-inning
Soto's struggles with consistency resurface in finale.
Tigers official site

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/royals-...786#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=662786
Boxscore.

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2022/9...nning-max-castillo-harold-castro-gregory-soto
Royals 3 - Tigers 2: Royals break tie late, Tigers can?t respond.
Matt Manning wasn?t at his best, but it was the bullpen and repeated failures at the plate that blew it in the end.
BYBTB

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...s-kansas-city-royals-matt-manning/7993090001/
Another short outing for Matt Manning as Tigers come up short in the finale with Royals.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...-tigers-score-kansas-city-royals/65472805007/
Closer Gregory Soto can't lock down K.C. Royals in 3-2 loss for Detroit Tigers.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/0...gers-lose-lead-game-and-series-to-royals.html
Harold Castro homers, but Tigers lose lead, game and series to Royals.
Mlive
 
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September 5 in Tigers and mlb history:

1874: Hall of Fame second baseman Nap Lajoie ws born on this day in Woonsocket Rhode Island.
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1901: In the first of two in Detroit, Tiger ace Roscoe Miller puts on a disgraceful exhibition against the A's, lobbing in the ball, grinning as the A's batters hit it, and throwing a bunt into the stands to allow three runs to score. Miller settles down in the last three innings, allowing only a single, but the Tigers lose, 11 - 9. His performance is explained by writers in that he is in one of his sulks.

1904 - In front of 37,000 fans the Giants sweep the Beaneaters, beating Boston, 6 - 1 and 4 - 3. Christy Mathewson wins the opener, beating Kaiser Wilhelm, and is not scored upon until the 9th when Jim Delahanty and Tom Needham triple. Red Ames wins the nitecap. Following the Giant sweep, excited fans hoist John McGraw up to carry him to the Polo Grounds field house. But McGraw gets dropped during the excitement, sustaining a sprained ankle.

1905: The Detroit Tigers released Duff Cooley.

1905: When Boston beats the Athletics, 3 - 2, in 13 innings, they score the first runs off Rube Waddell in 44 innings. Waddell strikes out 17.

1910: Jack Coombs begins a streak of 53 shutout innings, topping Doc White's 46 shutout innings of 1904. Three years later Walter Johnson will top Coombs record with 55 2/3 innings. Years later, Don Drysdale in 1968 breaks the Big Train's record with 58 shutout innings. Finally, Orel Hershier in 1988 sets the record with 59 shutout innings.

1914: 19-year-old Babe Ruth hits his first professional HR with the minor league Providence Grays while pitching a 9-0 shutout vs. the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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1915: Browns slugger George Sisler pitches a complete game, but the Tigers win 6-5.

1918: Boston Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth hurls a 1-0 shutout vs. the Chicago Cubs at Comiskey Park (more seating than Wrigley Field) to win Game 1 of the World Series! The "Fall Classic" started a month earlier than usual due to WWI.
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1921: Walter Johnson breaks Cy Young's career strikeout mark by fanning seven Yankees to run his total to 2,287.
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1926: At Baltimore, the minor league Orioles embarrass the Yankees, 18 - 9, in an exhibition game. Babe Ruth is 0 for 5 and tangles with Mark Koenig in the dugout after the 8th inning. Ruth yells at Koenig, accusing him of loafing on several plays.

1935: Trailing the St. Louis Browns, 5 - 1, Lefty Grove is lifted for pinch-hitter Wes Ferrell who hits an RBI single as the Red Sox score six runs in the 6th inning en route to 9 - 5 win. Grove is the winning pitcher.

1936: Happy Birthday to Hall of Famer Bill Mazeroski born this day in Wheeling, WV.
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1940: Tigers beat indians 11-3 to cut their lead in the pennant race to 2 games. Hank Greenberg hits 2 doubles, Rudy York hits a home run and a double. The Tigers will go on to win the pennant by one game but lose the World Series in 7 games.
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1949: ?Cardinals? Stan Musial - Thirty days hath September? (TIME Magazine Cover).
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1951: Ralph Branca, despite twinges in his arm, pitches the Dodgers to a 5 - 2 win over the Phillies. Gil Hodges drives home four runs on a grand slam off Ken Johnson. It is Gil's 37th homer of year, setting a new Dodger record.

1954: Hank Aaron goes 4 for 4 in a 9 - 7 triumph over the Cubs, but breaks his ankle in the second game of a doubleheader and is lost for the remainder of the season.

1955: In an 11 - 4 win over the Phillies, Dodger pitcher Don Newcombe hits his seventh homer establishing a National League record for home runs by a pitcher in a season. The victory is Newk's 20th of the season.

1960: The first-place Pirates split with the Braves, winning, 9 - 7, before losing, 7 - 1. The Bucs rout Warren Spahn in the opener scoring seven runs in the 4th after the Braves have knocked out starter Bob Friend. Bob Buhl is the winner in the nitecap, scattering seven hits. Chuck Cottier has three doubles and three RBIs to back Buhl. Harvey Haddix is the loser and gives way to Diomedes Olivo, who makes his major league debut in relief. At age 41, or thereabouts, Olivo is the oldest rookie in major league history except for Satchel Paige. The International League MVP pitches two runless innings.

1961: The Yanks top Washington, 6 - 1, sending the Senators to their 20th defeat in their last 21 games. Mickey Mantle's homers for his 51st. The Yanks win, coupled with a Detroit doubleheader loss, puts New York ahead by 7 1/2 games.

1967: Joe Sparma pitches a 2-hit shutout vs Kansas City, Tigers remain 1.5 GB.
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1968: The Tigers and the Cardinals were given the go-ahead today to print World Series tickets by the Commissioner of Baseball. William Eckert also set the ticket prices for the Series: $12 for box seats; $8 reserved; $6 for pavilion (Detroit only); $2 unreserved bleachers & standing room.

1968: Gene Mauch is named manager of the new Montreal National League club, which is officially named the Expos.

1971: Tigers manager Billy Martin uses 6 pinch hitters in the 7th inning, tying a major league record for pinch hitters in an inning. The Tigers score 4 runs but lose 6-5 to the Yankees.

1983: Jack Morris gets his 200th strikeout of the season, en route to a career high and AL-best 232 in a loss to the indians.

1984: Cal Ripken's 1st-inning error lets in Alan Trammell with a run, and that's it as the Tigers beat Baltimore 1 - 0. Juan Berenguer is the winner with Willie Hernandez picking up his 28th save. Mike Flanagan goes all the way in the loss. Detroit's magic number is now 15.

1995: The Detroit Tigers released Mike Moore.

1995: Cal Ripken ties Lou Gehrig's all-time mark by appearing in his 2,130th consecutive game.

2003: Mike Maroth becomes the first major league pitcher since 1980 to tally 20 losses in a season in a Tigers loss to the blue jays.

2008: The Detroit Tigers released Anastacio Martinez.

2016: The Oakland Athletics selected Donn Roach off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

2016: Miguel Cabrera homers twice to reach 300 home runs as a Tiger and moves to 42nd all-time with 439 on his career in the Tigers 5 - 3 win over the white sox.

2017: The New York Times reports that the Red Sox are being investigated for possible sign-stealing during a series against their eternal rivals the Yankees last month. The team's assistant athletic trainer is suspected of having used a smart watch to capture signs and relay them to players on the field. While trying to decode the other team's signs is a long-standing tradition in baseball, using any type of electronic equipment to do so is strictly prohibited.

2017: JaCoby Jones and John Hicks each hit 2 home runs in a 13-2 drubbing of the Royals.
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Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lepinpe01.shtml
Pete LePine 1902.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sheame01.shtml
Merv Shea 1927-1929, 1939.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/maierbo01.shtml
Bob Maier 1945.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/beardge01.shtml
Gene Bearden 1951.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/belarwa01.shtml
Wayne Belardi 1954-1956.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/richiro01.shtml
Rob Richie 1989.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hank_Aguirre
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/aguirha01.shtml
Hank Aguirre 1958-1967.

Baseball Reference
 
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https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/kody-clemens-first-career-strikeout-against-shohei-ohtani
Kody Clemens, Roger's son, records 1st K ... vs. Ohtani!
Tigers official site

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...434#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=663434
Boxscore.

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2022/9...ut-the-tigers-are-unwatchable-tyler-alexander
Angels 10 - Tigers 0: Trout and Ohtani brutalize Tyler Alexander.
The lefty got no help from his teammates in another pretty unwatchable performance all around.
BYBTB

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...lanked-angels-19th-shutout-season/7996120001/
'We did a lot wrong': Tigers fall to Angels 10-0 for 19th shutout of season.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...-angels-shohei-ohtani-mike-trout/65474007007/
Detroit Tigers shut out again as Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout lead Angels, 10-0.
Freep
 
September 6 in Tigers and mlb history:

1912: In an ace pitching duel, Smokey Joe Wood of the Boston Red Sox bests Senators legend Walter Johnson, 1 - 0, for his 30th (14th consecutive) victory in a season in which he will win 34. The Red Sox's only run is the result of back-to-back doubles by Tris Speaker and Duffy Lewis; the first two-bagger should have been an easy fly out, but the ball lands into an area cordoned off by a rope to section off the overflow Fenway Park crowd.
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1915: The Detroit Tigers purchased Grover Lowdermilk from the St. Louis Browns.

1916: At Detroit? Ty Cobb's speed is too much for St. Louis and the Tigers win 4 - 3. In the 10th inning? Cobb beats out a hit to short? steals second base and continues to third on a low throw. Bobby Veach then grounds sharply to George Sisler at 1B? forcing Cobb to return to third. But when Sisler jogs over to touch the bag Cobb dashes for home, beating the throw.

1919: Jack Tobin goes 5 for 5 to pace the St. Louis Browns to a 12 - 10 win over the Tigers. Ty Cobb notches three hits and Harry Heilmann hits two triples and a single for Detroit.

1927: At Fenway Park? the Yankees and Red Sox split a pair? with New York rolling to a 14 - 2 win in the opener behind Babe Ruth. Lou Gehrig takes the home run lead with a 5th-inning homer off Tony Welzer. But the Babe responds with two homers? in the 6th and 7th? the former a drive over the centerfield fence that is called "the longest ever hit at Fenway". Both shots also come against Welzer. Ruth hits his 3rd of the day? number 47? in the nitecap? off Jack Russell? but the terrier nips New York? 5 - 2. There will be 34 homers hit at Fenway this season? but only 5 by the Sox. Ruth will hit 8? Gehrig 6? the only New York home runs hit there.

1930: In the first game of a doubleheader? Ted Lyons of Chicago beats Wes Ferrell of Cleveland? 2 - 1? ending Ferrell's winning streak at 13. It's Ferrell's first defeat since losing to Detroit on July 4 by a run. Lyons drives in the winning run with a triple to win his 20th on the year. Cleveland wins the nitecap? 4 - 2. Only 2 bases on balls are issued in the doubleheader.

1931: Homestead Grays ace Smokey Joe Williams fashions a 2-hit? 6 - 2 win over the St. Louis Stars in the Negro National League Championship Series. The Grays will win in 6 games.

1936: At Fenway Park, the Yankees drop a pair to the Red Sox, 14 ? 5, and 4 ? 2. In the opener, Wes Ferrell coasts to a win, allowing 14 hits and occasionally lobbing the ball to the plate. Jimmie Foxx's 37th homer starts the scoring. Yankees second baseman Tony Lazzeri's homer in game two deprives Lefty Grove of a shutout.

1940: Detroit's Bobo Newsom wins his 18th and hands Cleveland its 5th straight loss? topping the Tribe 10 - 5. C Birdie Tebbetts has 2 rbi, 3B Billy Sullivan also has 2 rbi and scores 3 runs, and LF Hank Greenberg hits his 28th homerun.
The Tigers will overtake the Indians in a season-ending series with them to win the pennant by one game.
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1944: In a rare night game allowed by American League president Will Harridge, after wet grounds delayed the afternoon game? the Tigers edge the host White Sox 3 - 2 to stay close to the Browns and Yankees. Only 1?216 fans are on hand.

1948: In the twinbill split between the Tigers and the Browns, the 2 teams set an American League mark by using 37 players in game 2? an 11 - 10 St. Louis win. Ted Gray wins the opener 8 - 1. Pat Mullin, Bob Swift, and Dick Wakefield each have homeruns in the win.

1948: The Boston Braves increase their lead to 4 games as Warren Spahn lasts 14 innings to beat Da Bums? 2 - 1. Spahn twice picks off Jackie Robinson in his 5-hitter. In the 7-inning nitecap? Johnny Sain wins? 4 - 0. Bill Salkeld and Mike McCormick bat out of turn 3 times in game 2 and not till the latter's single in the 5th is the irregularity noticed. The umps then rule he's out of turn and he loses his hit; Salkeld's two earlier hits stand. The crowd of 40?000 pushes the Braves attendance over the 1.3 million mark? a new high. Spahn and Sain will start 11 of the next 16 games, and start of the verse, "Spahn and Sain and pray for rain".

1950: Don Newcombe misses pitching complete games in a doubleheader for the Brooklyn Dodgers by leaving in the 7th inning of the second game, trailing the Philadelphia Phillies, 2 - 0. Newcombe won the first game, 2 - 0.

1953: The feuding continues? as the Dodgers beat the Giants, 6 - 3, but lose Carl Furillo? the National League's leading hitter at .344? for the rest of the regular season. Furillo is hit on the wrist by a Ruben Gomez pitch in the 2nd and is restrained from charging the mound. He goes to first base and? with a 3-2 count on the next batter? Furillo races from first into the dugout to swing at Leo Durocher? who ordered the beaning. In the melee? a Giants player steps on Furillo's left hand? breaking a finger. Furillo will not play again till the World Series? but his .344 will lead the NL in hitting. Roy Campanella homers in the 2nd inning and sets the major league mark for home runs by a catcher. His 38th tops the 37 hit by Cubs C Gabby Hartnett in 1930.

1959: The Dodgers set a record for a Coliseum doubleheader when 39?432 fans show up for two games with the Cubs. Sandy Koufax runs his streak to 41 strikeouts in three games? for another major league record? but loses the opener, 3 - 0 on a 3-run homer by Ernie Banks in the 9th. The Dodgers lose the second game, 5 - 3? also on a 3-run 9th-inning homer? to drop 3 games behind the Giants.

1961: Roger Maris connects for home run #54? off Tom Cheney of the Senators? as the Yankees win? 8 - 0? behind Whitey Ford's 5-hitter. Ford is now 23-3. Johnny Blanchard hits a pair of homers? each time following a walk to Mickey Mantle? and Moose Skowron and Bob Hale also homer.

1967: After the Tigers sweep the A's 8 - 5 and 6 - 3 and the White Sox down the Angels, 3 - 2.
Earl Wilson goes the distance in Game 2 to become the first pitcher in the majors to reach 20 wins on the season. Jerry Lumpe hits a home run and a double.
The top 4 American League teams are separated by a single percentage point. Chicago and Minnesota are 78-61 for .561; Boston and Detroit are 79-62 for .560

1968: Denny McLain notches win number 28? beating the Twins 8 - 3. The Tigers score 4 runs off Jim Kaat before the first out is recorded. The big blast is recorded by LF Willie Horton and his 3 run homer.

1972: Behind Mickey Lolich's 20th win? Detroit beats the Orioles in Baltimore 4 - 3, in the tight pennant race. Lolich had failed in 5 previous outings to win his 20th.

1972: The California Angels selected Bill Gilbreth off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

1976: Dodgers catcher Steve Yeager is seriously injured when the jagged end of a broken bat strikes him in the throat. Yeager is waiting in the on-deck circle when the end of teammate Bill Russell's bat comes off when he is hitting. The Dodgers beat the Padres? 4 - 1.

1981: Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela beats the St. Louis Cardinals, 5 - 0, to tie a National League record of seven shutouts by a rookie pitcher.

1982: Veteran first baseman Willie Stargell, whose uniform number 8 is retired, is saluted by 38,000 fans on his day at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium. The 41-year-old slugger delivers a pinch-hit single in the Pirates' 6 - 1 win over the Mets.

1985: At Texas? Carlton Fisk blasts two three-run homers and drives in 7 runs to lead the White Sox to a 12 - 1 rout of the Rangers. Tomorrow, Fisk will record his 300th double and 900th RBI.

1993: The Detroit Tigers released Willie Fraser.

1995: Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles plays in his 2,131st consecutive Major League game to surpass Lou Gehrig's 56-year record. When the game becomes official in the middle of the 5th inning, Ripken takes a victory lap around Camden Yards during the 22-minute standing ovation from the sell-out crowd, including President Bill Clinton.
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1996: Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the 15th player in major league history to hit 500 home runs. Murray homers off Felipe Lira in the 7th inning of the Orioles' 5 - 4, 12-inning loss to Detroit at Camden Yards. Murray also joins Hank Aaron and Willie Mays as the only big leaguers to reach this milestone and also have at least 3,000 hits.
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1998: The Detroit Tigers selected Will Brunson off waivers from the Los Angeles Dodgers.

2000: After reaching an agreement with the law firm Morgan, Lewis and Bockis LLP, Major League Baseball can now use the URL www.mlb.com. The law firm registered the mlb.com in 1994 and refused to release the domain name, making it necessary for the sport to use www.majorleaguebaseball.com.

2001: The Detroit Tigers signed Frankie De La Cruz as an amateur free agent.

2003: Kevin Witt's double in the 8th inning breaks up Roy Halladay's no-hitter. Halladay goes the distance in the Blue Jays' 1-0 win in 10 innings, becoming the first pitcher to throw a complete game extra-inning shutout since Jack Morris in the 1991 World Series.

2005: The Detroit Tigers released Matt Beech.

2006: The Detroit Tigers released Dmitri Young. Young spent a month in a rehab center this summer for alcohol and drug abuse, and later this month will be sentenced to a year's probation for assaulting a former girlfriend.

2007: The Angels beat the Indians, 10 - 3. Garret Anderson drives in three runs to give him 11 straight games with at least one RBI. This marks a new record in the history of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim franchise. Fred Lynn (1984) and Wally Joyner (1986) had shared the old record of 10.

2009: After striking out in his first three at-bats, Brandon Inge hits a grand slam off Russ Springer in the 9th inning to give Detroit a 5 - 3 win over Tampa Bay.

2009: Ichiro Suzuki gets his 2,000th Major League hit, a double off Gio Gonzalez in the 1st inning. He is the second fastest to the milestone, taking 1,402 games, 12 more than Hall of Famer Al Simmons.

2017: JaCoby Jones and John Hicks each hit 2 home runs in a 13-2 drubbing of the Royals.
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2018:The Detroit Tigers released Josh Smoker.
2018: The Detroit Tigers selected Dustin Peterson off waivers from the Atlanta Braves.

2020: Hall of Famer Lou Brock, who held the career and single-season stolen bases records before they were broken by Rickey Henderson, and a member of the 3,000 hit club, passes away at age 81.

Tigers players birthdays:

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Jack Phillips 1955-1957.

Tigers players who passed away:

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Eddie Ainsmith 1919-1921.

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Sammy Hale 1920-1921.

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Barney McCosky 1939-1942, 1946.
Traded to the Philadelphia A's for HOF third baseman George Kell in May of 1946.

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Barney Schultz 1959.

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