September 17 in Tigers and mlb history:
1910: Detroit pitcher Ed Summers, a notoriously poor hitter, bounces two home runs into the stands in a 10 - 3 victory over the A's. The two homers, both off Harry Krause, will comprise his career total.
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1915: The Detroit Tigers drafted George Harper from Fort Worth (Texas) in the 1915 rule 5 draft.
1916: Tigers take first place on a walk-off win in the 10th inning and beat the philadelphia athletics 4 - 3.
1916: George Sisler out-duels the Senators' legend, Walter Johnson, 1 - 0. It will be Gorgeous George's last Major League pitching victory, but the former Browns hurler will become a member of the Hall of Fame as a first baseman in 1939.
1916: At Comiskey Park, Boston lefty Babe Ruth wins his 20th, beating Red Faber and the White Sox, 6 - 2. A crowd of 40,000 is on hand, the largest turnout to date in Chicago history.
1920: The Tigers' Bobby Veach and the Giants' George Burns hit for the cycle, the first time it has happened twice on the same day. It will be 88 years until the feat is duplicated by Adri?n Beltre and Stephen Drew. Veach has his cycle in the Tigers 14 - 13 win over boston and knocks in 6 runs. Ty Cobb has 4 walks and scores 4 runs.
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1922: Browns southpaw Hub Pruett, who has fanned Babe Ruth 9 of 10 times over the season, is reached for a home run by the Bambino, but he still beats the Yankees, 5 - 1. One day after being clubbed on the head with an empty bottle, Yankee CF Whitey Witt receives an ovation, but the partisan crowd in CF is quick to wave white hankies in the 8th inning for Yanks pinch-hitter Norm McMillan. Police make them stop. George Sisler has a single to extend his hitting streak to 41 games.
1923: The Giants' George Kelly sets a major-league record by homering in the 3rd, 4th and 5th innings against the Cubs' Vic Aldridge as New York rolls to a 13 - 6 win. Kelly adds a single and double to run his total bases to 15 for the game. Kelly has now hit a record six homers off cousin Aldridge this year, a mark off one pitcher that will be tied by Ted Williams (in 1941, off Johnny Rigney) and Ted Kluszewski (in 1954, off Max Surkont). Kelly is the first player to homer in three successive innings.
1928: Ty Cobb announces his retirement.
1930: With three consecutive home runs, Earl Averill drives in eight runs in a 13 - 7 Indians victory over the Senators in the doubleheader opener. He narrowly misses a fourth when the umpire rules a long drive foul. Averill then adds another homer in the second game to set an American League record with 11 RBIs in the twin bill.
1931: On his 32nd birthday, OF Earl Webb of the Red Sox ties and then sets the still-standing major-league record for two-base hits at 65. Earl doubles in the lidlifter, a 9 - 2 win over the visiting Indians, to tie George Burns' double record at 64. Burns set his record in 1926. In the second game, a 2 - 1 Sox loss, Webb doubles off Pete Jablonowski to set the record. He doubles tomorrow and will finish the season with 67. He would have had 68, but on August 4th, the league corrected a May 1st box score, turning what had been credited as a double into a single.
1934: The Yankees reach Detroit for a last-chance series and lose the opener, as veteran Al Crowder beats Lefty Gomez with a 3 - 0 shutout.
1937: Hall of Famer Orlando Cepeda, born this day in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
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1939: Ted Williams hits a home run off Thornton Lee, one of 31 homers he will hit in his rookie season. Williams will homer off Thornton's son, Don Lee, 21 years later.
1941: In front of only 3,585 fans in St. Louis, twenty-year-old Stan Musial makes his major league debut against the Braves going 2 for 4 with 2 RBIs. Musial, who started the season in the Western Association (Class C), will hit .426 in 12 games.
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1947: Jackie Robinson is named Rookie of the Year by The Sporting News two weeks before the season is over. At the year's end, he will have hit .297, led the league in stolen bases and sacrifices. He will have 14 bunt hits, and in a game against the Cubs in June, he scored from first base on a sacrifice.
1953: The Cubs' Ernie Banks goes 0 for 3 and makes an error in his first major league game, as the Phillies win, 16 - 4. He becomes the first black player for the Cubs.
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1955: Future Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson goes 2 for 4 in his first game as the O's top the Senators, 3 - 1.
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1956: The Chicago White Sox selected Dick Marlowe off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
1958: Despite a wind blowing in at Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle blasts a Jim Bunning pitch down the right field line over the roof onto Trumbull Avenue, some 500 feet away. The 2-run homer is all that Bunning allows as the Tigers win 5 - 2. Reno Bertoia playing 3B for the Tigers is the hitting star with 2 homeruns.
1961: An angry Mickey Mantle has words for Tigers ace Jim Bunning.
1961: In Detroit, Roger Maris triples off Terry Fox in the 7th to put the Yanks ahead. Detroit ties it and, then in the 12th, Maris faces Fox again with Tony Kubek on second base. Maris steps out of the box to watch a long skein of Canadian geese fly over Tiger Stadium, then steps in a belts the first pitch for his 58th homer of the year.
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1963: Sandy Koufax gets his 11th shutout, a modern major league season record for a lefty. His 8 strikeouts give him 306, a National League record, as the Dodgers top the Cards, 4 - 0.
1964: The Yankees whip the Angels, 6 - 2, to lock on to first place for good with a 2-percentage-point lead over the idle White Sox and Orioles. Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle each have three hits. Mantle's include his 2,000th career hit and his 450th home run, his 31st of the year.
1968: Detroit clinches the American League pennant with a 2 - 1 win over the Yankees. Detroit is ahead 1 - 0 when Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey phones Tiger general manager Jim Campbell with the news that the Sox have beaten the Orioles, clinching the pennant for the Tigers. Campbell keeps the score off the radio and the scoreboard, fearing the news will send fans rampaging onto the field. Don Wert singles home PH Al Kaline who walked earlier in the inning with the winner in the 9th and the fans tear down the left field screen.
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So we asked some of our National Anthem performers to help us sing Go Get 'Em Tigers just like it was done after wins in 1968.
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1972: Dick McAuliffe hits 2 home runs to lead the Tigers to their 5th straight win, a 6 - 2 win over the brewers, moving them into a tie for first place.
1976: At Milwaukee's County Stadium, 40,383 fans are on hand to celebrate "Hank Aaron Day." Among those gathered are commissioner Bowie Kuhn and Jack Ford, representing his father Gerald. Hank goes hitless in five at-bats, and the first-place Yankees spoil the night by winning, 5 - 3, in 11 innings.
1979: The Royals' George Brett collects his 20th triple of the season in a 16 - 4 romp over the Angels. Brett becomes the 6th player ever, and the first since Willie Mays in 1957, to collect 20 doubles, 20 triples and 20 home runs in the same season. He will finish with totals of 42, 20 and 23.
1981: Dodger rookie sensation Fernando Valenzuela sets the National League rookie mark with his eighth shutout of the season. The record had been shared by Irv Young (1905), Grover Cleveland Alexander (1911) and Jerry Koosman(1968). He ties the major league mark of Russ Ford (1910) and Reb Russell (1913).
1984: Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 batters for the second straight start to tie the major-league record of 32 strikeouts in consecutive games, but balks home the winning run in the 8th inning of a 2 - 1 loss to the Phillies. It is Gooden's 5th straight outing with 10 or more strikeouts.
1984: the Tigers get their 96th win on a Lou Whitaker grand slam and Lance Parrish's team-leading 30th home run to trim their Magic Number to one. #35thof84.
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1993: The Rockies defeat the Dodgers, 12 - 3, as they surpass the four million mark in attendance, setting a new single-season record.
1999: An incident that will help speed the firing of Orioles gemeral manager Frank Wren occurs today. Cal Ripken Jr. is delayed in traffic and calls the team's traveling secretary to assure him that he'd be arriving at the airport within the next 10 minutes. At Wren's order, however, the plane takes off without Cal, who arrives at the gate a few minutes later and has to make his own travel arrangements. When Wren is fired after the season, Orioles management blames him for operating in "such an unreasonable, authoritarian manner".
The O's defeat the Twins, 8 - 3, as Jesse Orosco preserves Mike Mussina's 15th win. For Orosco, it is major-league record 1,072 appearance. He had been tied with Dennis Eckersley.
2011: Mariano Rivera ties Trevor Hoffman's Major League record with his 602nd career save in the Yankees' 7 - 6 win over the Blue Jays.
2013: Miguel Cabrera hits his 44th home run of the season, his second straight year with 44 home runs in the Tigers 6 - 3 win over the mariners.
2016: After a first inning injury to starter Carlos Carrasco , Cleveland sets a major league record by using 9 pitchers in a shutout win against the Tigers.
2017: In a rare highlight for the Tigers this season, Matt Boyd comes within one out of throwing a no-hitter, giving up a two-out double to Tim Anderson of the White Sox in the 9th. He then retires the next batter to complete a 12 - 0 one-hitter.
Boyd became the 6th Tiger to lose a no-hitter with 2 outs in the 9th. Pictured with Boyd: Wilcox, Galarraga, and Tommy Bridges.
2018: For the second time this season, Christian Yelich of the Brewers hits for the cycle, this time in an 8 - 0 win over the Reds. His earlier cycle, on August 29th, had also come against the Reds, making him the first player in history to accomplish the feat twice against one team in a season. Overall, he is just the fifth player to hit two cycles in one season.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Earl Webb 1932-1933.
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Bob Uhl 1940.
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Chuck Daniel 1957.
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Wayne Krenchicki 1983.
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Casey Crosby 2012.
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