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Tigers magic number not to lose 100 games is now 2 More Wins.

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/harold-castro-hits-walk-off-single-for-tigers-over-royals
Harold Castro shows off with tying, walk-off hits.
Tigers official site

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/royals-...774#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=662774
Boxscore.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/royals-...#game_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=662774
Webvideo Highlights of The Tigers Win Over the royals.

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2022/9...-zack-greinke-harold-castro-spencer-torkelson
Tigers 4 - Royals 3: Hittin? Harold Castro walks it off against Kansas City.
Detroit couldn?t manage much at the plate against Zack Greinke, but the Tigers came back against the bullpen.
BYBTB

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...it-tigers-to-fourth-straight-win/69522204007/
Harold the Hero: Castro's clutch hits send Tigers to fourth straight win.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...kansas-city-royals-harold-castro/69523621007/
Harold Castro hits walk-off single in Detroit Tigers' 4-3 win over Royals in extra innings.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/0...huge-hits-as-tigers-rally-to-beat-royals.html
Harold Castro gets two huge hits as Tigers rally to beat Royals.
Mlive
 
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September 28 in Tigers and mlb history:

1885: Mox McQuery hits for the cycle for the Detroit Wolverines.
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1908: Tigers beat the senators 4 - 1 to retake first place for good. Tigers were 2.5 games back on Sept. 23, but will go on to win their second pennant by a half game over the indians.
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1919: In the shortest nine-inning game in major league history, lasting only 51 minutes, the New York Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 6 - 1.

1920: A grand jury indicted eight members of the Chicago White Sox on charges of fixing the 1919 World Series in the 'Black Sox Scandal.
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1941: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox goes 6 for 8 in a doubleheader against the Philadelphia Athletics to finish the season with a .406 batting average. No player has batted .400 since.
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1947: 74 Years Ago Today: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and Tris Speaker pose together at the first ever Old Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium.
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1951: Allie Reynolds pitches his second no-hitter of the season as the New York Yankees defeat the Boston Red Sox, 8 - 0, in the opener of a doubleheader. The Yankees clinch the American League pennant with an 11 - 3 victory in the nightcap.

1960: Ted Williams the legendary Red Sox outfielder played in his last game, ripping the final home run -- his 521st -- of his career in the final at-bat.
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1964: A record crowd of 59,203 at Tiger Stadium watches the Lions and Packers on a Monday night, an experiment that will help lead to Monday Night Football. Packers won 14 - 10.

1968: Denny McLain pitches 7 shutout innings but the Senators rally in the 9th to win 2 - 1 and ruin his bid for a 32nd win.

1972: Tigers lose to the Yankees 3 - 2, while the Red Sox beat the Royals. Tigers fall 1.5 games behind Boston with 6 to play. They will rally to win their first ever division title by 1/2 game over the red sox.

1974: Nolan Ryan pitches his third of seven career no-hitters, striking out 15 batters and beating the Minnesota Twins, 4 - 0, at Anaheim Stadium. He also walks eight to run his season total to 202 bases on balls, joining Bob Feller in 1938 as the only pitcher to walk more than 200 in a season. Ryan will again top 200 in 1977.

1975: For the first time in the major leagues, four pitchers share a no-hitter when Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Lindblad and Rollie Fingers of the Oakland Athletics combine to no-hit the California Angels, 5 - 0, on the final day of the season.

1976: Mark Fidrych shuts out the indians 4 - 0 for his 18th win in game one of a doubleheader.

1978: After 15 seasons with the Tigers, Mickey Stanley plays his final game in a loss to the red sox.
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1984: Tigers win in the 12th inning over the yankees 4 - 2 on Lou Whitaker's 2-run home run, tying the franchise record of 103 wins with 2 games to play.
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1988: Orel Hershiser of the Los Angeles Dodgers throws ten shutout innings against the San Diego Padres and extends his streak of scoreless innings to 59, breaking the record set by Don Drysdale in 1968.
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1988: Tigers eliminated from the AL East race. They will win out and finish one game back after a September swoon and near recovery.

1997: Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres ties Honus Wagner's record by winning his eighth National League batting title. Gwynn finishes at .372, becoming the first player to win four consecutive NL batting titles since Rogers Hornsby won six straight between 1920 and 1925.

2003: Tigers win their season finale 9 - 4 over the twins, their 5th win in their final 6 games to avoid tying the 1962 Mets' record of 120 losses.
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2006: Tigers lose 8 - 6 to the twins, Twins tie Detroit atop the AL Central. After leading the division since May, the Tigers will fall to the wild card spot.

2009: Tigers honor the 25th anniversary of their 1984 championship.
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2010: The Detroit Tigers signed David Paulino as an amateur free agent.

2011: Jose Valverde completed a perfect season with his 49th consecutive save in 49 chances.
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2012: 2B Darwin Barney of the Cubs makes a wild throw to first base after fielding Justin Upton's ground ball in the 8th inning of the Cubs' 8 - 3 loss to the Diamondbacks. The miscue ends Barney's 141-game errorless streak, tying Placido Polanco's all-time record for a single season, set in 2007.

2014: Tigers clinch their fourth straight division title with a 3 - 0 win over the twins.

2022: Aaron Judge ties one of the most hallowed records in baseball - the 61 home runs hit by Roger Maris in 1961, which still stands as the American League record six decades later. He takes Tim Mayza deep with a man on base in the 6th inning of a game at Rogers Centre, breaking a
3 - 3 tie to lead the Yankees to an 8 - 3 win. While three players have exceeded that total in the National League, all were active in the steroids era and their accomplishment has been tainted as a result - which is not the case for Judge.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Paul_Easterling
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/e/eastepa01.shtml
Paul Easterling 1928, 1930.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dick_Gernert
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gernedi01.shtml
Dick Gernert 1960-1961.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dustabo01.shtml
Bob Dustal 1963.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/weberth01.shtml
Thad Weber 2012.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Riley_Greene
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/greenri03.shtml
Riley Greene 2022-present.

Tigers players who passed away:

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

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/u/urbanto01.shtml
Tom Urbani 1996.

Baseball Reference
 
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WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY.
Totally Tigers

Today, another opportunity for readers to discuss the hottest topics in a forum where thoughtful dialog and a variety of opinions are welcomed.

Let?s create some running conversational threads. And for those of you back in actual offices, here?s a question to take with you ? or use via Zoom ? as you talk to your co-workers.

Here is today?s topic:

New PoBO Scott Harris told us all to expect a lot of moves when he officially takes over next week. Those moves could be in the form of both personnel and roster re-imagining.

During his tenure, former GM Al Avila failed to make any strong signings or trades and it?s expected that Harris will attempt to offset some of the $243 million Avila spent on 5 free agents by attempting to trade 1 or more of them in order to revamp the roster so it is more effective. Here are those players:

Javier Baez ? 5 years left at $120 million
Andrew Chafin ? 1 year left at $6.5 million
Austin Meadows ? 2 years left (arbitration kicks in @ app. $5 mill/year)
Eduardo Rodriguez ? 4 years left $63 mill
Jonathan Schoop ? 1 year left @ $7.5 million

Some of these players will be more valuable as trade pieces than others. Some of them, due to either salary or performance, will be more or less tradeable.

For each of them, consider what each might generate in return should they be traded.

Additionally, there is the potential that the Tigers may have to eat a portion of their salaries in order to effect a trade.

Which one of these 5 players will bring back the best return in terms of receiving new talent if he were to be traded?

Which trade has the potential to boost the Tigers? roster the most?

Which trade may bring back the most players or the highest level of talent?
Which one of these players will bring back the best return if traded?

1. Javier Baez

2. Andrew Chafin

3. Austin Meadows

4. Eduardo Rodriguez

5. Jonathan Schoop

VOTE
 
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Tigers magic number not to lose 100 games is now 1 more win.

https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/miguel-cabrera-moves-up-mlb-all-time-rbi-list-in-tigers-win
Miggy's homer wins it, moves him past Yaz on RBI list.
Tigers official site

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/royals-...773#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=662773
Boxscore.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/royals-...#game_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=662773
Webvideo Highlights of The Tigers Win Over the royals.

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2022/9...-manning-will-vest-daniel-lynch-daniel-norris
Tigers 2 - Royals 1: The bullpen does some heavy lifting.
It turned into an impromptu Bullpen Day for the Tigers with a very late switcheroo, but they made a Miggy home run hold up.
BYBTB

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...reras-homer-manning-late-scratch/69524759007/
Tigers win fifth straight on Cabrera's homer; Manning's season over.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...pen-make-early-impact-in-2-1-win/69526273007/
7 relief pitchers, Miguel Cabrera carry Detroit Tigers to 2-1 win over Kansas City Royals.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/0...ore-game-but-bullpen-steps-up-in-2-1-win.html
Tigers lose starter before game, but bullpen steps up in 2-1 win.
Mlive
 
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September 29 in Tigers and mlb history:

1879: Baseball's reserve clause is born. National League owners, seeking to limit player salaries, led by Boston's Arthur Soden come to a secret agrerement whereby five players on each team will be "reserved" - off-limits to all other clubs. The reserve clause will be in effect for the 1880 season. The owners tell the newspapers that they have agreed upon a uniform contract with no salary advances.

1908: Ed Walsh of the Chicago White Sox beats the Boston Red Sox twice in Boston by scores of 5 - 1 and 2 - 0. Walsh allows only seven hits and one walk against fifteen strikeouts in the two games.

1913: The Washington Senators beat the Philadelphia Athletics, 1 - 0, to give Walter Johnson his 36th win of the year.

1919: Arnold Rothstein decides to finance the World Series fix. The plan calls for Nat Evans to give a $40,000 advance to Sport Sullivan to give to the players, with an additional $40,000 to be put in a safe at the Hotel Congress in Chicago, IL. Evans takes $29,000 and bets on the Cincinnati Reds, giving Chick Gandil only $10,000.

1920: Babe Ruth hits his major league record 54th home run on the last day of the season. Only one other team in the American League will hit more than 44 homers.
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1927: Babe Ruth ties his own home run record with #59 on the season. Ruth will break the record tomorrow.

1928: The New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers combine for an American League-record 45 hits in a nine-inning game. The Tigers get 27 of the hits in a 19 - 10 win. Charlie Gehringer goes 5-for-6 with a double and a home run.
The Tigers tied the 27-hit mark in a 2004 game but have never topped it.
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1934: Babe Ruth hits his last homer as a Yankee. #659 as a Yankee and #708 of his career comes off Syd Cohen in Washington, DC.

1936: The Brooklyn Dodgers drafted Luke Hamlin from the Detroit Tigers in the 1936 rule 5 draft.

1939: Hal Newhouser makes his major league debut in a loss to the indians. The HOFer will pitch 15 of his 17 seasons with the Tigers winning an even 200 games and is elected the Hall Of Fame in 1992.

1942: Satchel Paige of the Kansas City Monarchs pitches 5 2/3 innings of hitless relief against the Washington-Homestead Grays, winning 9 - 5 in Philadelphia in the 1942 Colored World Series, finishing a four-game sweep of the Grays.

1947: Joe McCarthy comes out of retirement, accepting the managing job of the Boston Red Sox for 1948. When asked about Ted Williams, McCarthy responds "A manager who cannot get along with a .400 hitter ought to have his head examined."

1950: Tigers are eliminated from the pennant race by Cleveland with 2 games to play. It will be the Tigers' last contending team until the 101 win Tigers team of 1961.

1954: Willie Mays makes his famous running catch off the bat of Cleveland's Vic Wertz in Game one of the World Series.
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1957: Ted Williams becomes the oldest batting champ when the 39-year old finishes the season with a .388 average.

1957: The New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers play their last games as New York teams. The Giants lose to the Pittsburgh Pirates at the Polo Grounds, 9 - 1, while the Dodgers lose to the Philadelphia Phillies at Shibe Park, 2 - 1.
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1961: The Tigers get their 99th win on rookie Jake Wood's 2-run single in the 10th inning.
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1967: Chicago Cubs legend Fergie Jenkins gets his 20th win of the year with a 4-1 victory vs. the Cincinnati Reds - beginning a streak of six consecutive 20 win seasons!
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1968: The Tigers finish a memorable season with a 3 - 2 loss at home to the senators. They finish the year at 103-59 and head to St. Louis to face the Cardinals in game 1 of the World Series.

1972: Jim Northrup goes 4-for-4 with a double and 5 RBIs in an important 12 - 5 win for the Tigers over the brewers down the stretch.

1974: Lou Brock steals his 118th and last base on the final day of the season.

1974: The Tigers honor Al Kaline in a pregame ceremony to commemorate his recent 3,000th hit and say farewell before his retirement.
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1978: Jim Rice doubles and singles against the Toronto Blue Jays in Fenway Park. Rice is the first American Leaguer to amass 400 total bases since Joe DiMaggio in 1937.

1984: Tigers set franchise record with their 104th win an 11 - 3 beat down of the yankees.
Juan Berenguer gets his 11th win. Home runs by Larry Herndon, Lance Parrish, and Dwight Lowry.
The record still stands: the closest they've gotten since is 98 wins in '87 and 95 in 2006 and 2012.

1986: Bert Blyleven surrenders three homers to the Cleveland Indians, giving him 49 on the year, breaking the major league record of 46 set by Robin Roberts in 1956.

1996: Alan Trammell goes 2-for-4 with an RBI in his final game, a loss to the brewers. He hits a single in 10th and is lifted for a pinch runner at Tiger Stadium as the fans stand in unison to give the Tigers icon a standing ovation.
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2002: Ernie Harwell calls his final game as the voice of the Tigers a 1 - 0 loss to the blue jays.
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2003: Gene Kingsale of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2004: Major League Baseball officially announces that the Montreal Expos franchise will move to Washington, DC in 2005.
Hours after this, the Expos play their final game in Montreal, a 9 - 1 loss to the Florida Marlins before a crowd of 31,395 at Olympic Stadium.

2009: Tigers honor the 1984 world championship team on the 25th anniversary of their title.
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2014: Kevin Whelan of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2016: The Tigers are rained out, setting up a potential sequence of 5 games in 5 cities in 5 days.

2017: Nicholas Castellanos becomes the 10th player in Tigers history to have a 100-RBI season at age 25-or-younger in a loss to the twins.

2019: The Tigers win on a 3-run home run by John Hicks in the top of the 9th in Chicago.
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2022: Another day, another incredible performance by Shohei Ohtani. Today, he takes a no-hitter into the 8th inning before giving up a single to Conner Capel with two outs, on his way to winning his 15th of the year, 4 - 2 over the Athletics. The Angels' two-way superstar also shines at the plate, going 2 for 4 with an RBI and extending his hitting streak to 14 games - the longest in the majors at this time.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rensato01.shtml
Tony Rensa 1930.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/anderbo01.shtml
Bob Anderson 1963.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/reeseri01.shtml
Rich Reese 1973.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/crawfji01.shtml
Jim Crawford 1976-1978.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Rob_Deer
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/deerro01.shtml
Rob Deer 1991-1993.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/c/clarkje02.shtml
Jermaine Clark 2001

Tigers players and announcers who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rowanja01.shtml
Jack Rowan 1906.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Van_Patrick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Patrick
Van Patrick announcer 1949, 1952-1959.

Baseball Reference
 
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TRULY OFFENSIVE.
Totally Tigers

Ever since he was hired, we?ve been discussing new PoBo Scott Harris? philosophy about how to build a successful baseball organization. In his press conference, he referred to 3 main concepts. The last one, he said, was the most important one and the key to winning.

It?s controlling the strike zone ? on both sides of the plate. It is the quickest way to improving the team.

Today, we?re going to look at the Tigers? offensive game?

? and just how very far they have to go.
 
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https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/javier-baez-homers-to-lead-tigers-to-big-win-over-royals
B?ez, brigade of young bats roll to 6th straight win.
Tigers official site

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/royals-...772#game_state=final,game_tab=box,game=662772
Boxscore.

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/royals-...#game_state=final,game_tab=videos,game=662772
Webvideo Highlights of The Tigers Win Over the royals.

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2022/9...re-eduardo-rodriguez-javier-baez-willi-castro
Tigers 10 - Royals 3: A second straight sweep in the AL Central.
Doesn?t mean much now, but the Tigers have won six straight over AL Central opponents.
BYBTB

https://motorcitybengals.com/2022/09/29/detroit-tigers-sweep-royals-avoid-100-loss-season/
Detroit Tigers sweep Royals, avoid 100-loss season.
MCBTB

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...-season-long-six-game-win-streak/69527447007/
Tigers sweep Royals, equal season-long six-game win streak.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...-tigers-score-kansas-city-royals/69527944007/
Tigers pound Royals, 10-3, for series sweep, sixth straight victory.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2022/0...p-royals-and-wont-lose-100-games-in-2022.html
Tigers win 6th straight, sweep Royals and won?t lose 100 games in 2022.
Mlive
 
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Celebrate Willie Horton's 80th Birthday.
Tigers official site

The Detroit Tigers Foundation is hosting a fundraiser to honor Tigers legend Willie Horton for his 80th birthday October 18th. Fans who donate $80 to the Detroit Tigers Foundation will receive a signed copy of Horton?s new book.*

The fundraiser will run from through October 31, 2022 and there are only 200 books available, so support the Detroit Tigers Foundation and get your signed book from Horton today!

You will be prompted to enter your MLB.com login or create a free account to access the donation form.

* A $10 shipping fee is added per book.
 
September 30 in Tigers and mlb history:

1907: An overflow crowd lines the outfield at Philadelphia's Columbia Park for the showdown doubleheader between the A's and Tigers. In the first game, the home team gets off to a 7 - 1 lead against 25-game winner Bill Donovan. But Rube Waddell, who relieves in the 2nd, fails to hold the lead. A 2-run home run by Ty Cobb ties it 8 - 8 in the 9th.
Both teams score once in the 11th; an umpire's ruling costs Philadelphia the game in the 14th: Harry Davis hits a long fly into the crowd in left-centerfield, ordinarily a ground-rule double. As Tiger CF Sam Crawford goes to the crowd's edge, a policeman stands up and moves, either to interfere or to get out of the way. Home plate umpire Silk O'Loughlin says there is no interference, then reverses his ruling when base umpire Tom Connolly offers a different opinion.
When play resumes, the Athletics' Danny Murphy hits a long single that would have scored Davis. The game is called because of darkness in the 17th, a 9 - 9 tie. The second game is never played. The Tigers, in first place, leave for Washington where they will win 4. They will finish 1 1/2 games in front.
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1915: Red Sox win, Tigers lose: Red Sox clinch the pennant.

1916: In his 153rd game, Tiger 3B Ossie Vitt raises his season total chances to 615, a mark that will stand for 21 years.

1917: Detroit's future Hall of Fame OF Sam Crawford retires from major league baseball at 37. In addition to his career-record 312 three-base hits, he has hit 50 inside-the-park home runs. He will play in the Pacific Coast League for several more years.
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1921: It is Rogers Hornsby Day at Sportsman's Park, and the Cardinal star celebrates by pounding out a home run and two doubles against Pittsburgh to lead the third-place Cardinals to a 12 - 4 win. Hornsby will go hitless in his last two games, dropping his final average to .397 for the year, still the best in the National League. Teammates Austin McHenry and Jack Fournier will be 2nd and 3rd in hitting in the circuit.

1926: Hall of Famer Robin Roberts was born this day in Springfield, IL.
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1927: With the score tied 2 - 2 in the eighth, Mark Koenig triples and Babe Ruth hits home run number 60 off Tom Zachary for a 4 - 2 win. In the ninth, Walter Johnson makes his final appearance as a player. He pinch-hits for Zachary and flies out to Ruth. Ruth hits 17 homers in September, the highest month's home run output till Rudy York's 18 in August 1937.
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1928: In Washington's 9 - 1 win over the Browns, Washington OF Goose Goslin, for the third day in a row, gets two hits, one a 9th inning looping single, to edge Browns OF Heinie Manush .379 to .378 for the batting title. It is Goose's only title in his 18-year career. Nats' ace Sam Jones volunteers to pitch to stop Manush, while George Blaeholder tries the same for St. Louis. Blaeholder gets Goslin in his first two at bats, but Goose then hits a 5th-inning home run.

1934: Tigers sweep a doubleheader over the browns 10 - 6 and 6 - 2, setting franchise records with 101 wins, 957 runs, 349 doubles, and the infield of Greenberg, Gehringer, Rogell, and Owen set a Major League record 462 RBI on the season. The runs and doubles records still stand as Tigers records, and the ML RBI record also still stands.
The Tigers infield was given the nickname "The Battalion Of Death".
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1934: Babe Ruth is hitless in his last game in a Yankee uniform.

1934: Coach Charley O'Leary scores a run as a pinch hitter for the Browns at age 52 - the oldest ML player ever to do so.

1934: Dizzy Dean clinches the pennant with his 30th win, 9 - 0 over the Reds, as the Dodgers again beat the Giants, 8 - 5.

1941: The Detroit Tigers drafted Roy Henshaw from the New York Giants in the 1941 rule 5 draft.
1941: The Detroit Tigers drafted Don Ross from the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1941 rule 5 draft.
1941: The New York Giants drafted Sal Maglie from the Detroit Tigers in the 1941 rule 5 draft.

1944: Hal Newhouser wins his 29th as Detroit whips Washington 7 - 3. Newhouser becomes the fifth pitcher in major league history to lead both leagues in wins, ERA, and strikeouts.
Detroit Tigers left-hander Hal Newhouser went 25-9 with 29 complete games and 63 earned runs allowed in 1945 winning a second consecutive MVP Award.
In 1946, Newhouser went 26-9 with 29 complete games and 63 earned runs allowed and just missed winning a third MVP Award.

"Prince" Hal will win his first of two consecutive MVP awards.
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1945: Hank Greenberg hits a pennant-winning grand slam on the final day of the season. The Tiger left fielder's ninth-inning bases-full homer beats the Browns 6 - 3 clinching the American League flag for Detroit over the second-place Senators.
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1951: The Tigers drive over the slumping Tribe 2 - 1 behind Virgil Trucks' 13th win of the year.

1956: New York Yankees legend Mickey Mantle wins the American League Triple Crown! "The Mick" finishes his historic season with a league-leading 52 HR - 130 RBI - .353 BA.
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1956: The great Jackie Robinson plays in his last regular season game with the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field. Fun Fact: His final hit was a home run.
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1960: Tigers 2 - White Sox 0. Jim Bunning (11-14) outduels Early Wynn (13-11).

1962: At Yankee Stadium, Chicago's Ray Herbert tops New York, 8 - 4. Mickey Mantle, batting leadoff to give him needed at bats, is 2 for 3 and qualifies for 2nd place in hitting (.321) with 502 plate appearances. He also hits a home run, giving him eight straight seasons of 30+ homers.

1965: Tigers 2 - Indians 0. Mickey Lolich (14-9) fires a 3-hitter; Gates Brown hits his 9th home run.
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1965: Don Drysdale (23-12) pitches a 3-hitter and blanks the Braves 4 - 0. Los Angeles has now won 13 straight games, seven by shutouts.

1967: Boston beats the Twins, 6 - 4, to tie Minnesota for first place. Carl Yastrzemski's 3-run home run gives him the American League-lead with 44, but Harmon Killebrew answers with his 44th for the losers.
Meanwhile, Detroit, which had games rained out on the 28th and 29th, plays two with the Angels. Mickey Lolich wins the opener, 5 - 0, his 3rd straight shutout, and Detroit takes a seemingly safe 6 - 2 lead into the 8th inning of the nitecap. The Angels then bat around, scoring six runs, to hand Detroit a devastating 8 - 6 loss. Detroit now trails Minnesota and Boston by a half-game.

1968: The Tigers final game of the season drew 24,198 customers to bring the final season total to 2,031,847, a new franchise record.

1968: The Chicago White Sox purchased Bob Christian from the Detroit Tigers.

1968: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later to the New York Yankees for John Wyatt. The Detroit Tigers sent Jim Rooker (September 30, 1968) to the New York Yankees to complete the trade.

1971: The Detroit Tigers released John Hiller.

1972: The Tigers take their 3rd in a row from Milwaukee as John Hiller throws a 5-hitter. Aurelio Rodriguez's 3-run home run is the margin in the 5 - 1 win.
Al Kaline goes 4-for-5 with a double and a home run. The Tigers now return home to face the Red Sox in a 3-game series that will determine which team wins the East.
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1972: Roberto Clemente doubles off the Mets' Jon Matlack to become the eleventh major leaguer to collect 3000 hits. The hit, sadly, will be the Pirate right fielder's last, as he will die in a plane crash on New Year's Eve attempting to bring relief aid to earthquake-stricken Managua, Nicaragua.
How does Roberto rate Willie? "The greatest"... with one colorful caveat. One very happy coincidence vis-?-vis Clemente's 3,000th hit [cited above] is the fact that on hand both to witness his achievement and to welcome him into this exclusive club is none other than Clemente's old friend, mentor, role model and rival Willie Mays, currently a New York Met, if, sadly, a largely inactive one. Following a post-game photo session with this dynamic duo, the Pirate superstar reiterates his long held and frequently stated conviction regarding Mays, complete with a more specific version of his customary qualification: "Willie Mays is the greatest player I've ever seen," insists Clemente, speaking with Charley Feeney of the Post Gazette.
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1973: Last pitch at the old Yankee Stadium. Mike Hegan flies out against John Hiller and the Tigers beat the yankees 8 - 5.

1979: With his 5th-inning, solo HR, Willie Stargell passes Honus Wagner as the Pittsburgh Pirates' all-time RBI leader, bringing his career total thus far to 1,476.

1980: A's OF Rickey Henderson sets the American League single-season stolen base record with his 97th in a 5 - 1 win over the White Sox, breaking Ty Cobb's record of 96 set in 1915. Henderson will finish the season with 100 stolen bases.

1984: Tigers lose to the yankees and finish their historic season at 104-58. The Tigers started 35-5 and went 69-53 the rest of the way. Finished 15 games ahead of the second place Blue Jays.

1984: The ML umpires announce that they will go on strike at the two LCS scheduled to begin October 2 in an effort to improve their pay and job security and to change the method by which post-season assignments are determined.
MLB officials say the games will go on as scheduled using amateur umpires if necessary.

1986: The Detroit Tigers signed Ron Rightnowar as an amateur free agent.

1989: Nolan Ryan strikes out 13 Angels in a 2 - 0 three-hitter to raise his season total to 301. It is his 6th 300-strikeout season, but first since 1977.

1990: The Detroit Tigers released Jody Davis.

1990: The Detroit Tigers traded Mike Wilkins (minors) to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Mike Munoz.

1991: Lou Whitaker goes 4-for-5 with a home run in the Tigers' season finale. Pete Incaviglia and Mickey Tettleton each hit 2-run home runs in the first inning to give the Tigers a 4-0 lead in an 8-3 win over the Orioles.
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1992: George Brett of the Royals gets the 3,000th hit of his career, stroking four safeties in Kansas City's 4 - 0 win over California. Moments later, Brett is picked off base.
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2002: The Tigers fire manager Luis Pujols.

2002: Ryan Jackson of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2003: The Detroit Tigers signed Rhiner Cruz as an amateur free agent.

2003: Ernie Young of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2007: Magglio Ord??ez has three hits to clinch the American League batting title.
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2012: Prince Fielder's two-run homer off Jared Burton in the 8th gives the Tigers a 2 - 1 win over the twins. It's his 30th homer of the year, making him and his father Cecil Fielder the second father-son duo to both go deep 30 times in a season for the same franchise; previously, only Bobby Bonds and Barry Bonds of the Giants had done it.

2014: Tigers announce their four-man rotation for the ALDS. It consists of 3 Cy Young winners and one future Cy Young winner.
Tigers announce starting rotation for ALDS:
Game 1: Max Scherzer
Game 2: Justin Verlander
Game 3: David Price
Game 4: Rick Porcello

2016: Justin Upton finishes the month with 12 home runs, the most by a Tiger in a month since Miguel Cabrera May 2013, in the Tigers 6 - 2 win over the braves. Also with homeruns are Ian Kinsler #28 and two by Miguel Cabrera for #38 on the season.

2017: Andrew Romine of the Tigers becomes the 5th player to play all nine positions in a game, doing so on the road against the Twins. He only spends a third of an inning as the catcher - the only position he had never played before - but still manages to allow a passed ball. As a pitcher, however, he retires the only batter he faces, Miguel Sano, with the Tigers hanging on to a 3 - 2 lead in the bottom of the 8th. That will be the final score, as the Tigers get a rare win to close an awful month of September that saw them go 6-23.

2019: Austin Adams of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.
2019: Bobby Wilson of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

Tigers players, coaches, and managers birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/t/taylobe02.shtml
Ben Taylor 1952.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Frank_Skaff
https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/skafffr01.shtml
Frank Skaff coach 1965-1966, 1971, manager 1966.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Johnny_Podres
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/podrejo01.shtml
Johnny Podres 1966-1967.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/blessik01.shtml
Ike Blessitt 1972.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gonzada01.shtml
Dan Gonzales 1979-1980.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/lusadsc01.shtml
Scott Lusader 1987-1990.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/desiljo01.shtml
John DeSilva 1993.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/José_Lima
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/l/limajo01.shtml
Jose Lima 1994-1996, 2001-2002.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Carlos_Guillén
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/guillca01.shtml
Carlos Guillen 2004-2011.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Danny_Worth
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/worthda01.shtml
Danny Worth 2010-2014.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Travis_Demeritte
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/demertr01.shtml
Travis Demeritte 2019-2020.

Tigers players and coaches who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Del_Pratt
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/prattde01.shtml
Del Pratt 1923-1924.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Ed_Brinkman
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brinked01.shtml
Eddie Brinkman 1971-1974, coach 1979.

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