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Tigers magic number to not lose 100 games is now at 4.

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/javier-baez-continues-dominance-of-white-sox-in-tigers-win
'It's all Javy': B?ez embraces villain role in Chicago.
Tigers official site

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Boxscore.

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Webvideo Highlights of the Tigers Win Over the whitesox.

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2022/9...stro-riley-greene-davis-martin-drew-hutchison
Tigers 7 - White Sox 2 : Hittin? Harold and Javier B?ez power Detroit to a series win.
Drew Hutchison was his usual decent self, but the top half of the lineup really got it done once again.
BYBTB

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...ut-another-nail-in-chicago-white/69516941007/
Hutchison holds the line, then Tigers bats explode to put another nail in White Sox coffin.
Detnews

B?ez had three hits and is hitting .354 and slugging near .600 with three doubles, two triples, four homers and 14 RBIs this month.

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...o-7-2-win-over-chicago-white-sox/69516927007/
Javier B?ez, Harold Castro swing Detroit Tigers to another win, 7-2, over Chicago White Sox.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/0...s-push-white-sox-to-brink-of-elimination.html
Javier Baez homers as Tigers push White Sox to brink of elimination.
Mlive
 
September 25 in Tigers and mlb history:

1901: At Boston, Cy Young wins his 33rd game, beating the White Stockings, 5 - 2.

1907: Pittsburgh's Honus Wagner steals four bases, including second base, third, and home in the 2nd inning against the Giants. Not to be outdone, his teammate Fred Clarke also swipes four bases for the only time in his career.

1908: Detroit's Ed Summers pitches two complete-game wins over the A's, winning the opener, 7 - 2. The second game is a 10-inning battle with another rookie, Biff Schlitzer, that ends 1 - 0 on a Claude Rossman drive for an inside-the-park home run. Summers allows just two hits. With the White Sox idle, the Tigers move to a half-game out of first.
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1910: Walter Johnson tosses the first of his two career one-runner games, missing a perfect game when a grounder skips by SS George McBride for a single. Johnson's one-hitter is good for a 3 - 0 victory over the Browns.

1912: In Boston, Smoky Joe Wood fires a two-hitter at New York, winning, 6 - 0. The Boston ace strikes out 10 in winning his 33rd game.

1917: Hall of Famer Phil Rizzuto was born this day in Brooklyn, NY.
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1922: The Giants beat St. Louis, 5 - 4, in 10 innings, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant and the Giants' 10th in 41 years in the National League.

1923: Rogers Hornsby is fined $500 and suspended indefinitely by the Cardinals when, feeling ill, he refuses to take the field for a game against the Robins, despite the team doctor's opinion that he is in condition to play. Raj is not needed as Jesse Haines tops Brooklyn, 4 - 1, for his 20th win.

1925: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later, Everett Spikes (minors), Dutch Leonard, Buck Redfern and cash and 3 players to be named to Vernon (PCL) for Jack Warner. The Detroit Tigers sent Bob Jones (September 25, 1925) to Vernon (PCL) to complete the trade.

1929: At Fenway Park, the game is halted during in the 5th inning as the umpires call time-out and have players from the Yankees and Red Sox gather at home plate. Bill McGowan, a respected ump, informs the teams that Bronx Bomber manager Miller Huggins has just died in New York and asks the crowd to stand for one minute of silence as the flag in center field is lowered to half-staff.

1932: Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th home run in the last game of the season to finish two short of Babe Ruth's 1927 record of 60. Foxx adds two singles but the A's lose, 2 - 1, to the Senators' Alvin Crowder. Crowder wins his 26th and 15th straight game, one short of the American League record held by Walter Johnson, Smoky Joe Wood and Lefty Grove. Foxx finishes with 169 RBIs while teammate Al Simmons ties for 2nd with 151.

1932: Paul Waner sets a new National League record with his 62nd double, as the Pirates defeat the Cardinals 7 - 1.

1934: The Detroit Tigers signed Cy Perkins as a free agent.

1934: Hank Greenberg removes himself from the Tigers lineup on Yom Kippur. He gets a standing ovation at his synagogue.
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1936: Joe Medwick sets a still-standing National League record with his 64th double.

1940: Bobo Newsom wins a clutch doubleheader for the Tigers, pitching 2 innings of relief in the opener against the White Sox, and going the distance in the nightcap for his 21st win.

1944: Going into the final Monday of the season, the Tigers hold a one-game lead over the Browns with the Yankees now out of the running. Russ Christopher of the A's beats the Tigers 2 - 1, to produce a tie for the lead.

1952: Hal Newhouser of the Tigers wins his 200th game. It is his last win for Detroit, who will release him in early 1953.
Newhouser is one of 4 pitchers to win 200 games with the Tigers (Dauss, Mullin, & Lolich).
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1954: A crowd of 14,175 Fenway faithful fans pays tribute to retiring Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams who is playing his last game at home. The Splendid Splinter's retirement will only last until May when his divorce is finalized with his contract being excluded from the settlement.

1955: Detroit Tigers Rightfielder Al Kaline becomes the youngest batting champ in history, as he takes the American League Batting Crown at age 20 with a .340 average. Ty Cobb was older by one day when he won in 1907.
The future all-time great will also lead the league in hits with 200, and total bases with 321. Kaline will finish 2nd in the MVP vote to Yankees catcher Yogi Berra, and win the Sporting News' American League Player of the year award.
Great Pictures of a 20 year old Al Kaline.
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1963: Stan Musial is named a vice president of the St. Louis Cardinals by owner August Busch. His number 6 is retired.

1965: At age 34, Willie Mays becomes the oldest player to slug 50 home runs in a season. The Giants center fielder was also the youngest to accomplish the feat, hitting 51 homers in 1955.

1965: Sandy Koufax blanks the Cardinals, 2 - 0. He fans 12 along the way, raising his record season total to 356. His shutout of St. Louis keeps Los Angeles a game behind the Giants.

1965: Satchel Paige baseball's oldest performer. At 59, Paige hurls the first three innings, garners one strikeout, and allows just one hit, to Carl Yastrzemski, in his first major league appearance since 1953. The Red Sox then jump on reliever Don Mossi for a 5 - 2 win.
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1967: In an afternoon game, the Angels top the leading Twins, 9 - 2 in Minnesota, to move the idle Red Sox into a first-place tie. Detroit loses, 2 - 0, to Yankee lefty Al Downing.

1968: In Mickey Mantle's last appearance at Yankee Stadium, he slices a two-out 1st-inning single off Cleveland's Luis Tiant, the only hit for the Yankees. Tiant tosses his 9th shutout of the year, tops in the American League, to win, 3 - 0. El Tiante's ERA drops to 1.60

1968: Tigers set a franchise record with their 103rd win a 4 - 3 win over the orioles.
Gates Brown's 3-run go-ahead home run in the 9th inning gives the Tigers the franchise-record 103rd win.
With the pennant in the bag, the Tigers will drop the last 3 games of the season.
The 1984 Tigers will break the franchise record with 104 wins.

1971: The Detroit Tigers signed Ed Glynn as an amateur free agent.

1971: With rookie C Tim Hosley hitting two homers and driving in five runs, the Tigers trip the Yankees, 10 - 7. Les Cain pitches six innings for the win. Cain finishes with a 10-9 record with 145 innings, but contends he is forced to pitch by Manager Billy Martin while he has a sore arm. Cain later claims that it did permanent damage to his arm and he sues the Tigers. In a landmark decision, the Michigan Bureau of Workman's Compensation will order the Tigers to pay Cain $111 a month for the rest of his life. A lump sum payment is later agreed upon.

1974: Dr. Frank Jobe performs the first reconstruction of the ulnar collateral ligament of the left elbow on Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Tommy John. The revolutionary procedure will become known as "Tommy John Surgery"
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1977: Detroit pounds out 18 hits against Boston's Reggie Cleveland, but they still lose 12 - 5.

1978: The Detroit Tigers released Charlie Spikes.

1979: Kirk Gibson hits his first career home run in a 3 - 2 win over the orioles.

1984: Tigers get their 102nd win 9 - 1 over the brewers. Howard Johnson hits a grand slam.

1984: Ex-Tiger Rusty Staub becomes the second player in major league history to hit a home run in both his teens and his 40s, joining Ty Cobb.

1989: Boston's Wade Boggs goes 4 for 5 in a 7 - 4 win over the Yankees to become the first player in major league history to achieve both 200 hits and 100 walks in four consecutive seasons. It is Boggs's 7th straight 200-hit season overall, extending his own modern major league record.

1998: Tigers hit 3 home runs in 4 at bats, by Juan Encarnacion, Frank Catalanotto, and Tony Clark in a 7 - 5 win over the blue jays.

2001: Tim Raines joins the odd couple of Ted Williams and Rickey Henderson as the only players in major league history to steal a base in four different decades as the Expos are shut out by the Mets, 2 - 0.

2007: Curtis Granderson hits an RBI triple. It's his 23rd 3-bagger of the season, the most in the major leagues since Dale Mitchell's 23 in 1949. Tigers beat the twin 8 - 0.

2008: Caral Gimbel, former wife of Hank Greenberg, dies in New York City at age 93. An accomplished equestrian rider, Caral was the daughter of the Gimbel family that owned Gimbels department stores made infamous in "Miracle on 34th Street".

2010: Miguel Cabrera jacks a two-run home run to right field, giving the Tigers a 7-5 lead in the bottom of the fourth inning. Game is tied and into extra innings when Brandon Inge hits a walk-off single in the 13th inning for an 11 - 10 win over the twins.

2012: The Atlanta Braves traded a player to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Jeff Baker. The Atlanta Braves sent Greg Ross (minors) (September 25, 2012) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

2014: In his last-ever home game Derek Jeter provides a storybook ending with an opposite-field, game-ending single in the bottom of the 9th that gives the Yankees a 6 - 5 win over the Orioles.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

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Dick Harley 1902.

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Johnny Sain pitching coach 1967-1969.

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Ed Putman 1979.

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Sal Butera 1983.

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Steve Wapnick 1990.

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Kyle Ryan 2014-2017.

Tigers players who passed away:

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Ken Holloway 1922-1928.

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Ray Hayworth 1926, 1929-1938.

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Nolen Richardson 1929, 1931-1932.

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DEEPER DISCUSSIONS.
Totally Tigers

The Tigers newest leader, Scott Harris, is now the President of Baseball Operations. Hired last week, he is now on the job, spending 3 full weeks solely focusing on learning about the organization and meeting everyone. His plan is to fully understand how the franchise is being run and what each individual is contributing to the effort.

Harris transitions to decision-maker on October 6th, the first day of the off-season. He is expected to start making changes immediately. And there are lots of them to be made.

Including some very tough decisions.

Rest assured that Harris took the job after understanding and accepting what needs to be done and that some of what he does may be controversial.

One of those issues involves Miguel Cabrera. Miggy has $32 million left on his contract and an $8 mill buyout on top of it. Due to chronic injuries, Miggy is a shell of his former self and is relegated to playing DH. Over the course of the year, his playing time has diminished to where he was only capable of being in the lineup for 1 game out of each series. He is no longer able to use his right leg to drive balls and has turned primarily into a singles hitter.

But Miggy is a first-ballot Hall of Famer and baseball protocol dictates that those players should have some kind of farewell tour and official recognition before they retire. But he is a part-time player taking up a full roster spot and the Tigers desperately need to shake up their roster and lineup.

Speaking of the roster, Harris will need to shake it up in a significant way. It is expected that there will be lots of turnover. As a result, he will need to find a number of new players to fill those openings.

The Tigers are currently limited in viable replacements and it is believed that some significant trades will have to be made. Trades that may involve young talent that would bring back multiple players possessing a higher caliber of talent and potential.

It is not likely that Riley Greene will be on the trading block but other players, most notably pitchers, may. Men like Matt Manning and other promising and presumed starting rotation members.

Which of these moves ? determining Miggy?s future or trading top young talent ? will be the most difficult decision to make?
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 moves will be the most difficult one to make?

1. Determining Miguel Cabrera's future with the team.

2. Trading away top young talent to rebuild the roster.

VOTE
 
A.J. Hinch was the featured guest on this week?s episode of FanGraphs Audio, and one of the first things I asked the Detroit Tigers manager about was his bench coach. George Lombard is viewed by many as a future big-league manager, and according to Hinch, Lombard?s five years on the Los Angeles Dodgers coaching staff is a meaningful part of his resume.

?When I got this job, George was a natural choice to come be the bench coach,? said Hinch, whom the Tigers hired in October 2020. ?He?s a tireless worker, a fundamentalist in nature, a communicator, and he?d been with the Dodgers, which is always a great draw when you?re looking for high-end talent, both on the field and in the front office. They are so good at exposing their employees to higher-end learning.?

?When George got over here, the only thing he hadn?t done in the game was be close to the decision-making,? added Hinch. ?The two years I?ve had him next to me, he?s helped implement a style of play that I?m very proud of. He?s helped implement a player-review process that I?m very proud of?. His mind works well. The only thing he has to do is make decisions, and that?s really not going to come until he gets a desk of his own and he?s able to run a game a certain way.?

Multiple teams will be looking for a new manager between now and the beginning of next season. Lombard will almost certainly be on the majority of the short lists.

Fangraphs
 
https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/riley-greene-makes-highlight-catch-as-tigers-beat-white-sox
Riley Greene's latest leaping grab sets stage for sweep.
Tigers official site

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...661429#game_state=final,game_tab=,game=661429
Boxscore.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-...#game_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=661429
Webvideo Highlights of The Tigers Win Over the whitesox.

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2022/9...er-riley-greene-jonathan-schoop-harold-castro
Tigers 4 - White Sox 1: Sunday Sweep in the Windy City.
The Tigers completed the sweep of the White Sox to end their hopes of winning the division.
BYBTB

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...d-chicago-white-soxs-playoff-run/69517801007/
Tigers complete 'best trip of season' with sweep, end White Sox's playoff run.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...white-sox-al-central-elimination/69517391007/
Tigers eliminate Chicago White Sox from AL Central race with 4-1 win, series sweep.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/0...e-now-eliminated-from-playoff-contention.html
Tigers sweep White Sox, who are now eliminated from playoff contention.
Mlive
 
September 26 in Tigers and mlb history:

1903: The Tigers Billy Lush hits 3 triples in a loss to the new york highlanders.

1905: Chicago White Sox P Ed Walsh hurls two complete game victories over Boston, winning by scores of 10 - 5 and 3 - 1. When Doc White leaves the first game without retiring a batter in the 1st inning, Walsh comes in without warming up. He gives up five runs in the 1st, then blanks Boston the rest of the way.

1907: After Cleveland's Addie Joss fired a one-hitter against the Highlanders yesterday, teammate Heinie Berger matches him today, also against hapless New York. This is the second time this century that teammates have thrown back-to-back one-hitters.

1908: Ed Reulbach pitches two shutouts on the same day, whitewashing Brooklyn, 5 - 0, on a five-hitter and 3 - 0 on a three-hitter. The entire doubleheader is played in less than three hours. Big Ed allows five hits in the a.m. game, and is even stingier in the afternoon, yielding three hits and a walk. Kaiser Wilhelm and Jim Pastorius are the losing pitchers. Reulbach is the only pitcher in major league history to have performed this particular feat.

1911: At Shibe Park, the A's clinch their second straight American League pennant, defeating the Tigers, 11 - 5. Frank Baker leads the offense with a homer and two doubles. Detroit, which led the A's by 12 games in May, will finish 2nd, 13 1/2 games back.

1912: The Giants clinch the National League flag with a sweep of the Braves, winning, 8 - 3 and 4 - 0. Christy Mathewson coasts to his 23rd win in the opener and Al Demaree, recently called up from Mobile where he was 25-10, shuts out the Braves on seven hits in the nitecap.

1916: Washington manager Clark Griffith excuses several regulars for the remaining games of the season so he can use some new players. Included in the excused is 25-game winner Walter Johnson. In a league-leading 371 innings pitched, he did not give up a home run, an all-time record.

1921: Babe Ruth hits home runs number 57 and 58 plus a double and a walk to beat the Indians, 8 - 7, and the Yankees take a two-game lead.

1925: Philadelphia fans chip in to buy a new automobile for the A's player chosen by the press as MVP. The winner: Al Simmons with 30 points. Mickey Cochrane, a .331 hitter in his first year, is second.

1926: In his final day in a Tiger uniform, Ty Cobb watches his replacement in centerfield gets 6 hits in a twin bill with the Red Sox to become the new batting champ as Heinie Manush edges Babe Ruth, .378 to .372, for the batting title.
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1926: Bob Fothergill becomes the second major league player to hit for a natural cycle: a single, double, triple, and home run in order in the Tigers game one 11 - 2 win of a doubleheader sweep of the red sox.
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1926: The Browns beat the Yankees twice, 6 - 1 and 6 - 2, in a total time of two hours, seven minutes, a major-league record for a twinbill. The second game is the fastest in American League history: 55 minutes. The Yanks total 19 hits, while the Browns collect 26 in the two games.
Babe Ruth has one at bat, then sits, and misses reliever George Sisler, who tosses two scoreless innings to finish for the Browns in the second game and, when the Browns score four in the 8th, picks up the victory. Ruth has 47 homers - twice as many as the runner-up, and also leads the AL with 139 runs, 155 RBI, and 144 bases on balls.
Browns coach Jimmy Austin, 46 years old, participates in the nitecap and contributes to the win by knocking in a run with a double and then stealing home. He is not the oldest to steal a base (Arlie Latham, 50, in 1909), but he is the oldest to steal home.

1934: Tigers score 22 runs in a doubleheader sweep of the White Sox to reach 99 wins.
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1945: Tigers split a doubleheader. Hal Newhouser shuts out Cleveland in an 11-0 win.
Tigers are one game up with one to play.

1948: At Briggs Stadium: An afternoon contest with Cleveland attracts 57,588, the greatest turnout ever for a single day game in Detroit.

1953: Al Kaline hits his first career home run, in a loss to the indians.

1955: The Red Sox beat the Yankees, 8 - 1, as Ted Williams goes 1 for 2. Williams finishes the season at .356, well ahead of Al Kaline's .340, but does not have enough at bats to win the batting title. The same thing happened in 1954. Williams was walked 136 times in 1954 and 71 times (an American League-leading 17 were intentional) this year.
A rule change will be made to recognize plate appearances, not times at bat, to determine the batting champion.

1958: After today's doubleheader sweep of the Senators, Red Sox teammates Ted Williams and Pete Runnels are exactly tied for the American League batting leadership at .32258. Williams is 130 for 403, while Runnels is 180 for 558. Williams is 2 for 3 in the opener, with a home run, then sits in the second game. Runnels is 2 for 9 on the afternoon. The Nats lose, 6 - 4 and 3 - 1, to run their loss streak to 11.

1961: In New York's 159th game, Roger Maris rips a Jack Fisher fastball into the right field seats at Yankee Stadium for his 60th home run. New York beats Baltimore, 3 - 2. There are fewer than 8,000 fans on hand to view this historic event.
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1961: Bill Freehan makes his major league debut with 2 hits, and Jake Wood hits his 14th triple, a career high in his rookie season that led the major leagues in a loss to the kansas city athletics.
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1966: Tigers win 2 - 1 over the angels on a Gates Brown pinch hit RBI single in the 9th. Denny McLain reaches 20 wins for the first time in his career.

1967: Cleveland's Luis Tiant beats the Red Sox, 6 - 3, despite Carl Yastrzemski's 43rd home run of the season. The Twins top the Angels, 7 - 3, behind two monster home runs by Harmon Killebrew, his 42nd and 43rd of the season. Mickey Lolich blanks the Yanks, 1 - 0, for Detroit to tighten the pennant race. The Twins (91-68) lead with Chicago (89-68) and the idle Red Sox (90-69) a game back, and Detroit (89-69) one and a half back.

1971: Ernie Banks gets his 2,583rd hit, a 1st-inning single off the Phils' Ken Reynolds, but the Cubs lose, 5 - 1. It is the last hit of Banks's 19-year major league career.

1971: Jim Palmer becomes the fourth member of the Orioles' pitching staff to notch his 20th victory, shutting out the host Indians, 5 - 0. Only one other team in major league history (the 1920 White Sox) boasted four 20-game winners.
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1971: Willie Mays hits his 646th and last home run as a member of the San Francisco Giants. It comes off Steve Blateric in the 6th inning of the Giants' 12 - 5 win over the Cincinnati Reds at Riverfront Stadium.

1971: 50 years ago today, Mickey Lolich struck out his 300th batter of the season. He?s still the only Tigers pitcher to do that.
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1973: Darrell Evans hits his 40th home run, with the Braves: he will hit 40 with the Tigers in 1985 to become the first major league player to hit 40 in both leagues.

1975: Gates Brown's final career appearance. Strikes out as a pinch hitter in a loss to the brewers.

1978: "One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story" airs on CBS.
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1981: At the Astrodome, Astro Nolan Ryan becomes the first pitcher to throw five no-hitters, defeating the Dodgers, 5 - 0. Ryan had shared the record of four with Dodger great Sandy Koufax, but had not pitched a no-hitter since June 1, 1975. The 34-year-old Ryan strikes out 11 and retires the last 19 batters in a row while lowering his league-leading ERA to 1.74.
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1984: Chet Lemon hits a single, double, & a triple. Tigers lose 7 - 5 to the brewers to fall to 102-56.
Hank Greenberg says he's pulling for a Tigers - Cubs World Series rematch.
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1987: Tigers suffer their second straight walk-off to lose to first-place Toronto, wounding their playoff hopes and leaving them in need of a dramatic final-weekend rally.
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1993: Tigers sweep a doubleheader in Baltimore 9 - 4 and 6 - 5. They won't win both games of a doubleheader again until 2002.

1997: Four Yankees pitchers combine to one-hit the Tigers, winning by a score of 8 - 2. Andy Pettitte starts and allows a two-run single to Travis Fryman in the 3rd inning, giving Detroit a 2 - 1 lead. Pettitte leaves after four frames and is succeeded by Brian Boehringer (3 innings), Mariano Rivera (1 inning), and Jeff Nelson (1 inning). Rivera receives credit for the win when New York explodes for six runs in the 9th inning.

1998: Rickey Henderson, 39, steals his 66th base of the season. The all-time stolen base leader is the oldest player to ever steal more than 50 bases in a season.

2006: Tigers beat the Blue Jays 4-3 for their 95th win. It will be their last win of the season: they will lose their final five games to fall from the division lead to the wild card.

2007: Michael Young collects 200 hits for the 5th year in a row, matching the record held by Charlie Gehringer for a middle infielder.

2010: Tigers set a Comerica Park record with their 52nd home win 5 - 1 over the twins. Miguel Cabrera hits his 38th home run. The Tigers will finish 52-29 at home & 29-52 on the road.
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2012: The Tigers beat the Royals, 5 - 4, and when the White Sox lose to Cleveland, 6 - 4, they take sole possession of first place in the AL Central for the first time since July 24th. In the 5th inning, Alex Gordon robs Detroit's Miguel Cabrera of a home run by catching a ball over the left field fence; the catch may turn out to be costly, as Cabrera is putting in the most serious bid for a Triple Crown since Carl Yastrzemski's 1967 feat.

2013: Bud Selig announces that he will step down as Commissioner at the end of 2014, having been in the job in an acting capacity since 1992 and formally since 1998. The Commissioner who stuck his head in the sand when he caused the strike in 1994 and brought us players using PED's, has his new shithead lined up as the next commissioner to crap on the fans and players with Rob Manfred, next up as commissioner of baseball.

2013: New York Yankees legend Mariano Rivera gets emotional as Andy Pettitte and Derek Jeter take him out of his final ballgame at Yankee Stadium.
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2018: Matthew Boyd notches 3 strikeouts to finish the season with 159, the most by a Tigers lefthander since Mickey Lolich in 1974.

2019: The Twins become the first team ever to hit 300 homers in a season, as Jonathan Schoop connects in the 7th inning off Jose Cisnero in a 10 - 4 win over the Tigers. Willians Astudillo adds another long ball the following inning as Minnesota just beats out the Yankees to the mark; both teams had hit 299 homers at the start of the day.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sullijo05.shtml
Joe Sullivan 1935-1936.

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Walt Streuli 1954-1956.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcraeno01.shtml
Norm McRae 1969-1970.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/stewale01.shtml
Lefty Stewart 1921.

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Turning the Corner Tigers Podcast 83: Detroit Tigers Scott Harris First Impressions. 67 minutes.
With Cody Stavenhagen & Kieran Steckley

The Detroit Tigers introduced a new front office head man. The Athletic's Cody Stavenhagen and co-host Kieran Steckley discuss Scott Harris' press conference. Other topics include Jace Jung's inspiration (41:00) and Home Run Chase etiquette.
 
September 27 in Tigers and mlb history:

1907: After leading the American League most of the month, the Athletics (83-54) are beset by pitching problems as Detroit (86-56) comes into Philadelphia for a three-game showdown. Detroit win the first game, 5 - 4, to take over 1st place.

1908: The Tigers take over first place with a Sunday 5 - 2 win over the A's behind righty George Mullin..

1912: Eddie Plank goes 19 innings for the A's against Bob Groom and Walter Johnson of the Nationals, and takes a 5 - 4 loss when Eddie Collins' wild throw lets the winning run score. Johnson relieves Bob Groom at the end of the 9th, and pitches 10 innings of scoreless relief.

1914: Cleveland's Napoleon Lajoie doubles against the Yankees for his 3000th career hit to become the second modern major leaguer to reach the milestone.

1917: The Red Sox play a benefit game against an American League all-star team and Babe Ruth and Rube Foster combine for a 2 - 0 shutout.
The AL squad features Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, and Joe Jackson in the outfield.
More than $14,000 is raised for the family of sports writer Tim Murnane, who died February 13th. Murnane had played and managed in Boston in the 19th century. Actress Fanny Brice helps sell programs and former heavyweight champ John L. Sullivan coaches 3B for the Sox. Ruth wins the fungo hitting contest with a drive of 402 feet, while Joe Jackson has the longest throw at an impressive 396 feet.

1920: Shoeless Joe Jackson gets his last major league hit, a double off the Tigers' Hooks Dauss, before being suspended due to the investigation of the 1919 World Series.

1925: In a doubleheader split with the Braves in St. Louis, the Cards' player-manager, Rogers Hornsby, hits his 38th and 39th home runs of the year, along with a single, double, and triple to push his average to .403. In batting practice tomorrow, Hornsby will foul a ball off his foot splitting his toenail, and will sit the last three games. The Rajah calls reporters into the clubhouse to view his bloody toe, "because some of those in the East may say I'm stalling because I want to save my .400 average."
Hornsby will be the only player-manager to win the triple crown, which he does by topping .400 for the 3rd time in four years, while his 39 home runs and 143 RBI are National League highs. His .756 slugging average will be the NL record until topped by steroid user Barry Bonds in 2001.

1927: Babe Ruth connects for a grand slam off Lefty Grove while Lou Gehrig hits No. 46 in a 7 - 4 win over the A's. Ruth has 57 with three games to play. The grand slam is the Babe's second in three days.

1928: For a remarkable 2nd time in five weeks, Lefty Grove strikes out three batters on nine pitches, this time victimizing the White Sox (Moe Berg, Tommy Thomas and Johnny Mostil) in the 7th inning. Grove also starts the A's scoring with a solo home run and wins, 6 - 3, his 6th straight win over Chicago and his 24th of the year. Not until Jim Bunning, in 1959, will another American League hurler strike out the side on nine pitches.

1930: In Yankee Stadium, Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays hits what his biographer John Holway will call "perhaps the longest home run ever hit in the House that Ruth Built," and Gibson himself describes as hit "on a line into the bullpen in deep left field." The Pittsburgh Courier's guess-timate is 430 feet while the Amsterdam News says 460. The bullpen in question extends quite a long way, and could easily accommodate anything from a 415-footer to a 500-plus-foot blast.

1931: Lou Gehrig hits a home run to tie Babe Ruth at 46 while the Yankees pound Lefty Grove, 13 - 1, and deny him his 32nd victory. Grove throws just three innings in the warmup for the World Series. Gehrig drives in two runs as he (184) and Ruth (163) combine to drive in 347 runs for the year, the most productive duo in history.

1932: The Detroit Tigers drafted Bots Nekola from the New York Yankees in the 1932 rule 5 draft.

1935: All American League games are rained out today.

1938: Hank Greenberg again hits 2 homers, extending his record to 11 times in the same season.
The 58th home run is an inside-the-park home run ending in a close play at plate.
They are the last he will hit this season, as he falls 2 short of Babe Ruth's 1927 record of 60.
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1940: Besides Bobo Newsom (21-5), Schoolboy Rowe (16-3), and Tommy Bridges (12-9), the Tigers' pitching staff combines for a losing record. Needing one victory to gain the title, manager Del Baker decides to withhold Newsom and Rowe and picks Floyd Giebell, an obscure rookie just called in from Buffalo. Giebell shuts out the Indians 2 - 0, to beat Bob Feller who gives up just 3 hits. Not eligible for the World Series, Giebell will never win another game in the major leagues.
During the game, unruly Cleveland fans shower the field with fruit and vegetables. At one point, a basket of green tomatoes is dropped onto Tigers C Birdie Tebbetts' head while he sits in the bullpen.
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1941: Ted Williams starts the day with a .401 batting average and refuses Boston manager Joe Cronin's suggestion that he sit out the rest of the season to preserve his average. Against the A's he hits one single in 4 at bats to drop his average to .3995.

1942: Charlie Gehringer makes his final career appearance for the Tigers in a loss to the indians.

1949: Hall of Famer Michael Jack Schmidt, born this day in Dayton, OH.
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1952: The Braves' Eddie Mathews hits 3 home runs as Boston breaks a 10-game losing streak and beats Brooklyn, 11 - 3.

1953: The St. Louis Browns play their final major league game as the Browns and lose their 100th game, 2 - 1, to the White Sox in 11 innings.
They would leave town and become the Baltimore Orioles the following season. In this classic final team photo, Satchel Paige is standing next to Don Larsen in the back row.
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1953: In a fitting finale, the St. Louis plays their last game as the Browns and lose their 100th game, 2 - 1, to the White Sox in 11 innings. Next season the team will move to Baltimore and will become the Orioles.

1953: Harvey Kuenn hits 2 singles in the Tigers 7 - 3 season finale win over the indians to finish with 167, still a #Tigers rookie record. Kuenn will be named AL Rookie of the Year.
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1961: On the anniversary of Hank Greenberg's 58th home run, Rocky Colavito hits his 45th home run of the season in the Tigers 10 - 2 win over the kansas city athletics, the second-most in franchise history until Cecil Fielder hit 51 in 1990.

1961: Sandy Koufax (18-13) fans seven Phils in the course of a 2 - 1 loss to set a National League record for strikeouts in a season: 269. This surpasses Christy Mathewson's 267 in 1963, which was accomplished in 367 innings pitched, as opposed to Koufax's remarkable 255. Both runs off Sandy are unearned. In 1965 Sandy will set the record for a Lefthanded pitcher with 382 Strikeouts.

1967: Where the pennant race stood OTD in '67. The Tigers' disappointing finish would fuel their drive to the championship in 1968.
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1967: Philadelphia's Jim Bunning loses a major league-record-tying 5th 1 - 0 decision for the year, as Houston's Mike Cuellar outlasts the veteran in 11 innings.

1968: Facing Lee Stange at Fenway Park, Mickey Mantle flies out in his final plate appearance, before being replaced by Andy Kosco.

1968: Detroit Tigers manager Mayo Smith sitting at his desk, and there is the black rotary dial phone, that Tiger great Denny McLain used to phone in his bets! Denny told that anecdote in an interview with 1984 champion Lance Parrish on Episode 75 of the NoFilterSports podcast.
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1972: Trailing 5 - 1, the Tigers score three in the 8th and two in the 9th to beat the Yankees and Sparky Lyle. Duke Sims singles in the winning run.
It's another multi-hit game for Al Kaline with 2 hits and 2 rbi.
Kaline carries the team on his back batting .376 for the month (29 for 77), 5 doubles, 4 homeruns, and 11 rbi, but more important the the last 10 games of the season, Kaline ends the year with a 10 game hitting streak (21 for 41) as the Tigers win 8 of 10 to clinch the AL East.

1973: California Angels pitcher Nolan Ryan sets the single-season major league record with 383 K's.
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1975: With the Orioles, Jim Northrup gets a pinch hit in his final career at bat.

1983: Tim Raines becomes the first player since Ty Cobb to steal 70 bases and drive in 70 runs in the same season, going 3 for 4 with a home run, a stolen base, and four RBI in Montreal's 10 - 4 win over St. Louis.

1983: The Detroit Tigers signed Scott Medvin as an amateur free agent.

1983: Jack Morris strikes out 9 en route to a career high and AL-best 232 Ks and the Tigers beat the orioles 9 - 2.

1984: Jack Morris takes a no-hitter into the 6th inning, but gets no decision in the Tigers' loss, falling short in his bid for 20 wins.
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1986: Jack Morris shuts out the Yankees, 1 - 0, in 10 innings, raising his record to 20-8.

1998: Bobby Higginson homers off Roy Halladay with 2 out in 9th to breakup a no-hitter. It was Halladay's 2nd career start.

1999: Tiger Stadium hosted its 6,873th and final regular season game. The Detroit Tigers moved for the following season to Comerica Park.
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1999: With each of the Tigers wearing the uniform numbers of all-time great Detroit players at their position (OF Gabe Kapler, standing in for Ty Cobb, wears no number) the Tigers defeat the Royals, 8 - 2, in the last game ever played at Tiger Stadium. Robert Fick's grand slam in the 8th brings the capacity crowd of 43,356 to its feet. Al Kaline called it the night before.
Luis Polonia and Karim Garcia also homer as Brian Moehler beats Jeff Suppan. At 7:07 p.m.: Todd Jones strikes out Carlos Beltran for the final out at Tiger Stadium. It's the park's 11,111th and final home run.

2003: With a startling rally, the Tigers avoid equaling the modern major league record of 120 losses set by the expansion 1962 Amazin' Mets. It takes one of the biggest comebacks in franchise history as Detroit beats the Twins, 9 - 8, on a wild pitch in the bottom of the 9th after trailing by eight runs earlier in the contest.
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2012: Doug Fister of the Tigers strikes out 9 consecutive batters in defeating the Royals, 5 - 4, setting a new American League record. With the White Sox's 3 - 2 loss to the Rays, Detroit now leads the AL Central by two games.

2014: With the Reds, former Tiger Ram?n Santiago hits a 10th-inning walk-off grand slam.
He is the only player in major league history to hit an ultimate grand slam in his final career at-bat.
Currently Tigers third-base coach.

2016: Justin Verlander strikes out 12 in 7+ shutout innings and the Tigers crush the indians 12 - 0. Miguel Cabrera has a home run (35), a double and 5 RBI.
Tigers remain one game back in the race for the 2nd wild card.

2017: For the 10th straight year, Major League Baseball sets a new record for most strikeouts in a season, ending the day with 39,168, almost 200 more than the previous record of 38,982 set in 2016, with four days of games left. This goes hand-in-hand with the home run record set earlier this month.

2020: Major League Baseball concludes its abbreviated 2020 season, with the postseason field set as the Phillies and Giants are eliminated with losses today. For the first time, two postseason teams have sub-.500 records: the Astros who finish second in the AL West, and the Brewers, who limp into the final wild card slot in the NL, both with records of 29-31. Happiest are the Cardinals whose 5 - 2 win over the Brewers means they won't need to play a make-up doubleheader against the Tigers today, their place in the postseason having been secured by finishing second in the NL Central.

2022: Weirdness shows up during a game between the Marlins and Mets with significant postseason implications. With the Marlins holding a 6 - 3 lead in the 8th, New York's Jeff McNeil hits a two-out single, and then first base umpire John Tumpane steals the show, calling three successive balks on pitcher Richard Bleier while Pete Alonso is at bat, claiming Bleier has failed to come to a full stop, allowing McNeil to score. Marlins manager Don Mattingly is ejected after the third call, and Bleier, who had never committed a balk in seven prior major league seasons and claims he has done nothing different in this game, is also tossed after getting Alonso to ground out and then letting Tumpane know he is not impressed. The Marlins hold on for a 6 - 4 win, and combined with an 8 - 2 win by the Braves over the Nationals, New York and Atlanta are now tied atop the NL East.

Tigers players and executives birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gibsofr01.shtml
Frank Gibson 1913.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gagnoch01.shtml
Chick Gagnon 1922.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/billijo02.shtml
Josh Billings 1927-1929.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wyattwh01.shtml
Whit Wyatt 1929-1933.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/casalje01.shtml
Jerry Casale 1961-1962.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wickeda01.shtml
Dave Wickersham 1964-1967.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bill_Lajoie
Bill Lajoie Scout 1969-1973, Scouting Director 1974-1978, Assistant General Manager 1979-1983, General Manager 1984-1990.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/suthega01.shtml
Gary Sutherland 1974-1976.

Tigers players and coaches who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/ferrycy01.shtml
Cy Ferry 1904.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jaegech01.shtml
Charlie Jaeger 1904.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/barnefr01.shtml
Frank Barnes 1929.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Gates_Brown
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brownga01.shtml
https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/Gates-Brown/
Gates Brown 1963-1975, coach 1978-1984.

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