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July 31 in Tigers and mlb history:

1897: St. Louis hurler John Grimes establishes a major league record which still stands today by hitting six batters in a nine-inning game..

1912: A day after the Braves went 14 innings to beat St. Louis, they go 19 innings with the Pirates. Lefty Otto Hess goes all the way for Boston. The Pirates score three in the 19th, and the Braves come back with 2, losing, 7 - 6. Honus Wagner, who earlier stole home, drives in the final run for Pittsburgh. Wagner, at 38, is the oldest player in the National League.

1912: Ty Cobb sets a major league record with his 68th hit of the month.

1914: Red Sox owner Joe Lannin buys the Providence Grays (IL) and Melrose Park from the Detroit Tigers for $75,000. Detroit gets to pick one player from the Providence roster and they select P Red Oldham, overlooking Carl Mays. Detroit then purchases the Buffalo (IL) team.

1916: Babe Ruth fires a two-hitter, one each by Ty Cobb and George Burns, for a 6 - 0 win for the Red Sox over the Tigers.

1929: Babe Ruth hits a fungo 447 feet in an unofficial test, beating all trial competition records.

1935: Two American League pitchers each hit two home runs in a game. Wes Ferrell clouts a couple against Buck Newsom of the Browns and knocks in four runs in a 6 - 4 win for Boston. Mel Harder hits two for Cleveland but loses, 6 - 4, to the White Sox. No other hurlers will hit two homers this season.

1936: Led by Lou Gehrig, who clouts his 33rd homer, the Yankees down the Indians, 11 - 7, at League Park. The loss snaps the Tribe's five-game win streak, and leaves the Yankees 8 1/2 games ahead of Cleveland. Gehrig and Red Rolfe clout homers in the 5th to chase Mel Harder, but the Indians answer with three doubles by Earl Averill and a homer by Hal Trosky. Bump Hadley, with relief from Johnny Murphy, hangs on for his 9th win.

1936: Behind Lefty Grove and Jimmie Foxx, the visiting Red Sox top the White Sox, 7 - 3. Grove wins his 13th on seven hits, while Double X bangs his 30th homer, a triple and double.

1942: Charlie Gehringer?s final career home run is a pinch-hit homer in the bottom of the ninth. Detroit loses, though; the homer run turns a 7-4 deficit into a 7-6 loss.

1954: Using a borrowed bat, Dodger killer Joe Adcock hits 4 homers and a double for 18 total bases in the Braves' 15 - 7 victory at Ebbets Field. The 18 total bases is a major-league mark and, combined with the seven total bases from the day before, gives him a two-day tally of 25. The two-game total ties him with Ty Cobb.

1959: Earl Wilson, the first black pitcher to play for the Red Sox, hurls 3 2/3 innings, walking nine and leaves the game with a 4 - 0 lead.

1959: Al Kaline hits the first of two career inside the park home runs in a loss to the red sox.

1961: The 2nd All-Star Game of 1961 ends in a 1 - 1 tie at Fenway Park. Rocky Colavito homers for the American League run. Heavy rains end the exhibition after nine innings.

1962: The National League rejects Commissioner Ford Frick's proposal for interleague play in 1963.

1963: The Detroit Tigers released Joe Grzenda.

1968: Detroit's Dick McAuliffe becomes the only player in major league history to score all four runs in a 4 - 0 shutout against Washington. McAuliffe hits two homers, a double and a single in Denny McLain's 21st win of his 31-6 season.

1972: The Detroit Tigers released Ron Perranoski.

1972: White Sox slugger Dick Allen becomes the seventh major leaguer to hit two inside-the-park home runs in one game. The homers pace the White Sox over the Twins, 8 - 1.


1973: The Tigers win a pair from the Brewers, 6 - 5 and 9 - 4, and end Dave May's American League season-best hitting streak at 24 games.

1974: Ron Cey drives in eight runs to lead the host Dodgers to a 15 - 4 victory over the Padres.

1981: The fifty-day old baseball strike is settled as owners and players agree on a pooling system for free agent compensation. The All-Star game will mark the end of baseball's first-ever mid-season work stoppage.

1983: Brooks Robinson, Juan Marichal, George Kell and Walter Alston are inducted into the Hall of Fame, bringing the total number of Hall of Famers to 184.

1984: Game 1: Tigers 5 - Indians 1. The Tigers score 5 runs in the 2nd inning. Doug Baker hits a bases loaded triple, then gets demoted to make room for Alan Trammell, returning from injury.

1992: The Detroit Tigers signed Jeff Robinson as a free agent.

1990: Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan picks up career win #300 vs. the Milwaukee Brewers.


1993: The Expos retire Gary Carter's uniform number 8 prior to their game with Florida.

1994: Steve Carlton, Leo Durocher and Phil Rizzuto are inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame.

1994: Jeff Bagwell's 36th homer is the only Astro score in their 7 - 1 loss, but he ties a club record with 29 RBIs for the month. His 105 ribbies through July is the 4th-best in National League history.

1995: The Detroit Tigers traded David Wells to the Cincinnati Reds for a player to be named later, Dave Tuttle (minors) and C.J. Nitkowski. The Cincinnati Reds sent Mark Lewis (November 16, 1995) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

1996: The Dodgers obtain OF Chad Curtis from the Tigers in exchange for pitchers Joey Eischen and John Cummings. Curtis will lead off in place of the cancer-stricken Brett Butler.

1996: The New York Yankees traded Matt Drews (minors) and Ruben Sierra to the Detroit Tigers for Cecil Fielder.

1996: The California Angels traded Damion Easley to the Detroit Tigers for Greg Gohr.

1999: The Boston Red Sox traded Mike Maroth to the Detroit Tigers for Bryce Florie.

1999: The Florida Marlins traded Brandon Villafuerte to the Detroit Tigers for Mike Drumright (minors).

2000: The Detroit Tigers released Luis Polonia.

2002: Andy Van Hekken! Born OTD in 1979 in Holland, Mich. In 2002 he became the first Tiger to throw a complete game shutout in his major league debut since Schoolboy Rowe in 1932.

2005: Detroit sends Kyle Farnsworth to Atlanta for Roman Colon and Zach Miner.

2006: The Pittsburgh Pirates traded Sean Casey to the Detroit Tigers for Brian Rogers.

2009: The Detroit Tigers traded Luke French and Mauricio Robles to the Seattle Mariners for Jarrod Washburn.

2011: Two of the best pitchers in the American League face each other, as Detroit's Justin Verlander faces off against Los Angeles' Jered Weaver, both looking for their 15th win. Verlander takes a no-hitter into the 8th inning, while Weaver loses his cool after Carlos Guillen hits a 7th-inning homer; he throws a pitch over the head of the next batter, Alex Avila, and is ejected. Verlander and the Tigers prevail, 3 - 2.


2014: It is the Tigers who engineer the biggest blockbuster deal, however, as they pull CF Austin Jackson from their game with the White Sox in the middle of the 7th inning because he has just been traded to Seattle. They receive IF Nick Franklin in return, but immediately package him along with P Drew Smyly and SS prospect Willie Adames to Tampa Bay to reel in former Cy Young Award winner David Price.

2015: The Detroit Tigers traded Yoenis Cespedes to the New York Mets for Luis Cessa and Michael Fulmer.

2016: Miguel Cabrera with his 2nd home run and 4 RBI and career RBI 1,511 passes the great Mickey Mantle for 54th all-time.

2017: The Detroit Tigers traded Alex Avila and Justin Wilson to the Chicago Cubs for Isaac Paredes (minors), Jeimer Candelario and cash.

2018: The Detroit Tigers traded Kyle Dowdy and Leonys Martin to the Cleveland Indians for Willi Castro (minors).

2019: The Detroit Tigers traded Nicholas Castellanos and cash to the Chicago Cubs for Alex Lange (minors) and Paul Richan (minors).
2019: The Detroit Tigers traded Shane Greene to the Atlanta Braves for Joey Wentz (minors) and Travis Demeritte.

Tigers players, coaches, and managers birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Joe_Sugden
Joe Sugden Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Joe Sugden 1912.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Billy_Hitchcock
Billy Hitchcock Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Billy Hitchcock Managerial Record | Baseball-Reference.com
Billy Hitchcock 1942, 1946, 1953, coach 1955-1960, manager 1960.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Al_Aber
Al Aber Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Al Aber 1953-1957.

Harry Malmberg Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Harry Malmberg 1955.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Terry_Fox
Terry Fox Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Terry Fox 1961-1966.

Howard Bailey Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Howard Bailey 1981-1983.

Gabe Kapler Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Gabe Kapler 1998-1999.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Andy_Van_Hekken
Andy Van Hekken Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Andy Van Hekken 2002.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Leon_Durham
Leon Durham coach 2017.

Reese Olson Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Reese Olson 2023-present.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Billy_Pierce
Billy Pierce Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Billy Pierce 1945, 1948.

Baseball Reference
 
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https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...errin/70500339007/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot
'Days of Roar' Tigers Podcast: What to expect from Detroit Tigers at MLB trade deadline. 61 minutes. Posting here at about 4:00 pm was on the freep at 3:00 pm.
Freep

On this episode: On today's pod, Mark & Evan talk the Detroit Tigers struggles last week, Miguel Cabrera's farewell to the Miami Marlins and the looming MLB trade deadline. Later in the show, the guys are joined by Mike Ferrin, co-host of "Power Alley" on MLB Network Radio, for additional trade deadline analysis. The trio go over the state of the Tigers rebuild, which prospects stand out and why E-Rod's opt-out clause may be complicating his trade value.
 
Top Tiger hitters for the month of July by wRC+ (min. 50 PA).
1. Riley Greene - 165
2. Miguel Cabrera - 114
3. Spencer Torkelson - 111
4. Kerry Carpenter - 108
5. Jake Rogers - 91
6. Matt Vierling - 91

Top Tiger pitchers in the month of July by FIP (Fielding Independent Pitching) (min. 10 IP)
1. Tarik Skubal - 1.34
2. Jason Foley - 2.37
3. Michael Lorenzen - 2.39
4. Tyler Holton - 2.59
5. Eduardo Rodriguez - 3.23
(league average FIP is 4.21)
Why use FIP?
FIP is similar to ERA, but it focuses solely on the events a pitcher has the most control over -- strikeouts, walks, hit-by-pitches and home runs. It entirely removes results on balls hit into the field of play.
 
https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2023/07/31/special-edition-the-trade-deadline/#like-23081
SPECIAL EDITION: THE TRADE DEADLINE.
Totally Tigers

I?m writing this blog exactly 24 hours before the trade deadline. And so far, all?s quiet on the Midwestern Front.

But things are bubbling below the surface. Multiple reports of negotiations going on. And not just with one team.

So far, Scott Harris has not uttered Al Avila?s famous line about there not being any interest shown by other teams.

Multiple journalists are reporting that a variety of franchises are interested in Eduardo Rodriguez and Michael Lorenzen.

So why is this taking so long?

There are actually multiple reasons.

First, those trades rarely take little time to happen. GMs start conversations weeks in advance as they explore options and plant seeds with other teams.

As we know from this year, there are a significant number of organizations who were on the bubble about whether they were sellers or buyers. They were going to make up their minds as late as this past weekend.

Which is why Scott Harris is being smart and waiting. He wants to gather as many viable customers as possible. And then play them off against each other.

That?s what smart GMs (or PoBOs) do. We just forgot what it looked like for the past 8 years....
 
August 1 in Tigers and mlb history:

1888: The Detroit Wolverines released Deacon McGuire.

1901: Kid Nichols, in relief, and Christy Mathewson face each other for the second time in three days, with Matty winning this outing. Nichols relieves in the 7th with the score, 5 - 5, but New York scores four runs to take a 9 - 5 lead. Boston retaliates with three runs to put Matty on the ropes, but he escapes with a 9 - 8 win.

1902: Sam Crawford signed with the Tigers. He also signed with the Reds. Presidents of the Al and NL agree to allow Crawford to the Tigers.

1903: The Giants, losers of 11 of 13 games, get a big boost today as Iron Joe McGinnity asks to pitch both ends of a doubleheader. He lives up to his name, winning both from Boston, 4 - 1 and 5 - 2, giving up just six hits in each game. Five Giants (some sources say eight) are nicked by pitches in the two games, while the two teams combine to plunk six (or 11).

1905: Cleveland "loans" catcher Jay Clarke to Detroit. He'll be returned to Cleveland, August 11. He's the third catcher this year to be sold, then returned to his original team.

1913: The Detroit Tigers purchased Lou North from Jackson (Southern Michigan).

1924: Dazzy Vance strikes out seven consecutive batters to establish a major league record as the Brooklyn Robins defeat the Cubs, 4 - 0.

1928: Babe Ruth hits home run No. 42 and is four weeks ahead of his 1927 pace.

1929: Grover Cleveland Alexander wins his 372nd game to tie Christy Mathewson's National League record for wins (the record has since been amended to 373 wins). The Cards top the Robins, 5 - 2.

1937: Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle against the Browns, as the Yankees win, 14 - 5. It is the second time he has performed this feat in his career.

1937: Tigers slugger Hank Greenberg is greeted by the batboy after a solo HR at Fenway Park. Catcher is Moe Berg. (Red Sox 11, Tigers 4).

1938: Al Munro Elias, founder of the Elias Sports Bureau and for many years the official statistician of the National League and International League, dies in New York City at age 67.

1940: The Detroit Tigers released Red Kress.

1941: Yankees southpaw Lefty Gomez breaks the major league mark for walks in a shutout by issuing 11 walks in a 9 - 0 victory over the Browns.

1943: Player losses to the military have taken some of the competition out of Cards-Brooklyn confrontations, but the brawling doesn't stop. A duster aimed at Stan Musial by Dodger P Les Webber clears both benches.

1945: At the Polo Grounds, Mel Ott hits his historic 500th career home run off Braves hurler Johnny Hutchings as the Giants beat Boston, 9 - 2. Master Melvin is the third major leaguer to reach this career milestone.

1948: At Cleveland, the Tribe sweep a pair from the Red Sox, 12 - 2 and 6 - 1, to move into 2nd place in the American League. Bob Lemon coasts to his 14th win in the opener, beating Ellis Kinder. Larry Doby drives in four runs. Cleveland RF Hank Edwards dislocates his shoulder crashing into the fence making a spectacular catch of Stan Spence's home run bid. Sam Zoldak wins the nightcap. The Sox drop from 1st to 4th place with the double loss; Cleveland, New York and Boston are each a game back of the A's.

1953: Warren Spahn of the Braves allows just an infield hit to Richie Ashburn in the 4th in beating Philadelphia, 5 - 0.
It is Spahn's 31st career shutout.

1954: The Dodgers' Clem Labine beans Joe Adcock in the 4th. Though he is wearing a batting helmet, Adcock is taken out of the game as a precautionary measure. His helmet apparently saves him from a serious injury. He will appear in the starting line-up the next day.
Gene Conley reciprocates by knocking down Jackie Robinson in the 6th. Robinson ends up scrapping with Eddie Mathews. The Braves win, 10 - 5, their 10th win in a row, as Conley runs his record to 10-5.

1955: "In This Issue - Conversation Piece: Ted Williams" (Sports Illustrated - August 1, 1955) Check out the early use of a shin guard on Ted's right leg, he was ahead of his time.

1957: The Detroit Tigers purchased Johnny Groth from the Kansas City Athletics.

1962: Drawing a combined 32 bases on balls in a doubleheader, the Tigers (20) and A's (12) tie an American League record. The Tigers sweep, winning the opener 6 - 5, with three runs in the 9th, then taking the nightcap 9 - 1 behind Howie Koplitz's (1-0) complete game effort.

1964: With the Tigers trailing 1-0 in the 9th in Cleveland, Gates Brown leads off with a single and the Tigers take the lead on back-to-back singles by Dick McAuliffe & Don Demeter, and go on to win 2-1.

1969: Dick Williams pulls Carl Yastrzemski from the Boston lineup after one at-bat and fines him $500 for "dogging it." Jim Lonborg allows just three hits over eight innings, but the A's rally in the 9th for three runs and beat the Sox, 4 - 3.

1972: Tigers manager Billy Martin gets a warning for stalling tactics in an attempt to force a rainout. Tigers threw to first base where the runner wasn't leading off, purposefully let a fly ball drop and held a relay throw in an eventual 9 inning loss to the brewers.

1973: Thurman Munson and Carlton Fisk brawl at Fenway Park. With a 2 - 2 score in the top of the 9th, Munson, attempting to score from third on a missed bunt by Gene Michael, crashes into Fisk and they both come up swinging. Boston wins, 3 - 2, in the bottom of the inning.


1974: Detroit's Woodie Fryman stops Milwaukee, 2 - 0, giving up just one hit, a 7th-inning single to Bobby Mitchell.

1982: Hank Aaron, the holder of the career home run record (755) and RBI record (2,297); Frank Robinson, the first player to win the MVP in both leagues and the first black manager in the majors; Travis Jackson, an outstanding offensive and defensive shortstop for the Giants during the 1920s; and former commissioner Happy Chandler, who provided leadership in breaking baseball's color line, are inducted in the Hall of Fame.

1993: Reggie Jackson is inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame.

1994: Hostilities between the owners and players heat up. The owners withhold $7.8 million they are obligated to pay the players' pension and benefit plans.

1998: By homering from both sides of the plate for the third time this season, Tiger switch-hitter Tony Clark sets an American League record as Detroit defeats the Devil Rays 8 - 0.

2001: For the 33rd time in the team's history, the Tigers turn a triple play as Mariner Mark McLemore lines out to second baseman Damion Easley, who throws to shortstop Deivi Cruz to double up Tom Lampkin. Cruz then relays the ball to first baseman Shane Halter, catching Ichiro Suzuki off first to complete Detroit's first triple killing since July 3, 1992, when the victim was also Seattle.

2006: The Detroit Tigers signed Mauricio Robles as an amateur free agent.

2006: Carlos Guillen stretches a single into a double to become the tenth Tiger to hit for the cycle in the Tigers 10 - 4 win over the rays.


2009: Rookie Andrew McCutchen homers three times and drives in 6 runs to lead the new-look Pirates to an 11 - 6 win over Washington. Pittsburgh has traded away 6 regulars over the last week and won their first two games since the deals. McCutchen is the first Pirate rookie ever to go deep three times in a contest.

2009: The Oakland Athletics retire Rickey Henderson's uniform number 24, to mark his recent induction into the Hall of Fame. Rickey says that he is "very, very humbled".

2016: The trading deadline is pushed back by one day because the traditional date of July 31st falls on a Sunday this year, and teams take full advantage of the extra 24 hours as they conclude 18 trades today, involving a total of 49 players. Among the most active teams are the Rangers, who acquire C Jonathan Lucroy and P Jeremy Jeffress from Milwaukee and OF Carlos Beltran from the Yankees, giving up five prospects in return. Milwaukee also sends RP Will Smith to the Giants, who acquire P Matt Moore from Tampa Bay in a separate deal. The Dodgers land P Rich Hill and OF Josh Reddick from Oakland and P Jesse Chavez from Toronto, the latter in return for P Mike Bolsinger. Toronto also swaps P Drew Hutchison with Pittsburgh to land P Francisco Liriano, and obtain P Scott Feldman from Houston. The Mets are also active, acquiring OF Jay Bruce from Cincinnati and repatriating P Jon Niese from Pittsburgh, while the Cubs land P Joe Smith from the Angels.

2019: MLB hands out a bevy of suspensions following one of the most violent on-field brawl in recent years which occurred on July 30th in a game between the Reds and Pirates. The longest suspensions go to Pirates pitcher Keone Kela who gets 10 games for starting the whole fracas by throwing at the head of Derek Dietrich, and to Reds P Amir Garrett, who distinguished himself by taking wild swings at opponents, who gets 8. Cincinnati manager David Bell will be out for 6 games after returning to the field following a prior ejection to take part in the fisticuffs, and OF Yasiel Puig who gets 3 games after joining in the fight in spite of having been traded shortly beforehand. Others being punished include Pirates manager Clint Hurdle and players Jose Osuna, Kyle Crick and Jared Hughes. A number of other players escape with only fines. There had already been a total of 9 ejections during the game itself.

2023: The Astros swing the biggest deal before today's trading deadline, repatriating ace starter Justin Verlander from the Mets in return for two prospects. In the game that follows the announcement, they then defeat Cleveland, 2 - 0, behind a masterful effort by Framber Valdéz who pitches a complete game no-hitter, facing the minimum 27 batters (the only baserunner, who reaches via walk, is erased in a double play) and needing just 93 pitches to achieve the feat. Martin Maldonado is behind the dish for a no-hitter for the third time, second most ever, but his first by a single pitcher, while the last Astros pitcher to achieve the feat by himself had been Verlander, back in 2019.

2023: The Detroit Tigers purchased Eddys Leonard (minors) from the Los Angeles Dodgers.
2023: The Philadelphia Phillies traded Hao-Yu Lee (minors) to the Detroit Tigers for Michael Lorenzen.

Tigers players birthdays:

Slim Love Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Slim Love 1919-1920.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Milt_May
Milt May Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Milt May 1976-1979.

Brian Bohanon Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Brian Bohanon 1995.

Kevin Jarvis Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Kevin Jarvis 1997.

Gregg Jefferies Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Gregg Jefferies 1999-2000.

Nick Ramirez Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Nick Ramirez 2019-2020.

Tigers players, coaches, or managers who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Don_Heffner
Don Heffner Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Don Heffner 1944, coach 1961.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jack_Tighe
Jack Tighe Managerial Record | Baseball-Reference.com
Jack Tighe coach 1942, 1955-1956, manager 1957-1958, scout 1958-1960.
Tigers minor leagues player and manager 1930's/1940's/1950's/1960's.

Baseball Reference
 
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https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/tigers-trade-michael-lorenzen-acquire-hao-yu-lee
Tigers nab Phillies' No. 5 prospect for Lorenzen.
Tigers official site

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/08/phillies-nearing-deal-for-michael-lorenzen.html
Phillies To Acquire Michael Lorenzen.
MLBTR

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2023/8...hael-lorenzen-hao-yu-lee-philadephia-phillies
Tigers trade Michael Lorenzen to Philly for infield prospect Hao-Yu Lee.
Harris deals with Dombrowski again, this time for 20-year-old High-A second base prospect Hao-Yu Lee.
BYBTB

https://motorcitybengals.com/posts/trade-tigers-trade-michael-lorenzen-to-phillies-01h6s93ak2j6
Tigers trade Michael Lorenzen to Phillies.
The Detroit Tigers have traded Michael Lorenzen to the Phillies.
MCBTB

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...iladelphia-phillies-for-prospect/70505188007/
Tigers ship Michael Lorenzen to Phillies for prospect Hao-Yu Lee.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...phia-phillies-ha-yu-lee-prospect/70495810007/
Detroit Tigers trade Michael Lorenzen to Philadelphia Phillies for prospect Hao-Yu Lee.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2023/08/tigers-trade-starter-to-phillies-for-infield-prospect.html
Tigers trade starter to Phillies for infield prospect.
Mlive
 
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https://www.mlb.com/news/dodgers-rumors-latest-trades-and-signings
E-Rod blocks trade to Dodgers.
MLB.com

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/08/eduardo-rodriguez-vetoed-trade-to-dodgers.html
Eduardo Rodriguez Vetoed Trade To Dodgers.
MLBTR

https://motorcitybengals.com/posts/...odriguez-vetoed-trade-to-dodgers-01h6se6yqqq8
Tigers SP Eduardo Rodriguez vetoed trade to Dodgers.
Eduardo Rodriguez invoked his no-trade clause to stay in Detroit.
MCBTB

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...s-angeles-dodgers-detroit-tigers/70508997007/
Eduardo Rodriguez reportedly exercises no-trade clause in Detroit Tigers deal with Dodgers.
Freep
 
https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/eduardo-rodriguez-remains-with-tigers-after-trade-deadline
With E-Rod speculation over, it's business as usual for Tigers.
Tigers official site

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-vs-pirates/2023/08/01/717178/final/box
Boxscore and lowlights.

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2023/8...es-at-least-the-view-was-great-recap-august-1
Tigers 1 - Pirates 4: At least the view was great.
Neither the best nor the worst game we?ve seen this season.
BYBTB

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...lat-after-trade-deadline-tension/70510855007/
"Today is a hard day for everybody:' Tigers come out flat after trade deadline.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...-pittsburgh-pirates-matt-manning/70510658007/
Detroit Tigers' offense mostly quiet in 4-1 loss to Pittsburgh Pirates.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2023/08/tigers-lose-to-pirates-4-1-on-night-of-trade-deadline.html
Tigers lose to Pirates on night of trade deadline.
Mlive
 
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August 2 in Tigers and mlb history:

1905: At Pittsburgh, the Giants win their 13th game in a row, beating the Pirates, 3 - 1, to take a 10 1/2 game lead over the Pirates. Christy Mathewson is the winner over Deacon Phillippe. Bucs star Honus Wagner is thrown out at first base in the 4th inning on a close play, then shows his displeasure by firing a ball near umpire George Bausewine during warmups the next inning. Bausewine responds by thumbing Honus out of the game. Wagner will be suspended for three games and fined $40.

1907: Senators rookie Walter Johnson makes his major league debut, losing to the Tigers, 3 - 2. Ty Cobb gets the first hit and first run off the future Hall of Famer with a bunt single. The Big Train took the 3-2 Loss going 8 IN, w/6 H, 2R, & 3Ks. Future Tiger HOF'ers greeted the teenager w/the 1st hit - a bunt single by Ty Cobb & the 1st HR by Sam Crawford.

1907: Three Finger Brown tops Christy Mathewson for the third time this season, allowing just four hits in shutting out the Giants, 5 - 0. The first-place Cubs paste Matty for nine hits, and will take four out of five games in the series with New York.

1909: The Detroit Tigers purchased Del Gainer from Grafton (Pennsylvania-West Virginia).

1910: Toronto (Eastern) purchased Ed Killian from the Detroit Tigers.

1911: Christy Mathewson allows 15 singles, but his teammates help with four double plays and the Giants top the Pirates, 8 - 4. Babe Adams takes the loss.

1913: It's Walter Johnson Day in Washington. President Wilson is on hand to help mark the Big Train's 6th anniversary in a Nationals uniform. Johnson is presented with a silver cup filled with 10-dollar bills ($674) and returns the favor with a 3 - 2 win over Detroit, his 24th win of the year.

1915: On the 8th anniversary of Walter Johnson's debut, the Big Train tops the Browns, 5 - 1. The losing pitcher is George Sisler, who has a single off Johnson.

1916: Phils star Grover Alexander wins his 20th of the season, pitching a 12-inning, 1 - 0 shutout over the Cubs. In the 12th, Alex intentionally walks two and then fans pitcher Mike Prendergast with the bases loaded. Bill Killefer strolls home with the winning run while the Cubs are arguing a call at third base. Alexander has now won more games than the cross-town A's (19).

1921: With the jurors lifting the men onto their shoulders, the eight White Sox players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series are acquitted by the jury. The next day, Commissioner Kenesaw Landis will say the overwhelming evidence clearly shows the Black Sox fixed the games with gamblers and all involved will be banned from playing professional baseball again.

1922: Ken Williams homers in his sixth straight game setting an American League record. The Browns left fielder's home run helps beat the Red Sox, 9 - 4.

1924: A's 1B Joe Hauser sets an American League record when he hits 3 homers and a double for 14 total bases. It will be broken by Ty Cobb's 16 total bases on May 5, 1925.

1927: Washington celebrates Walter Johnson Day on the 20th anniversary of his joining the team. He receives $14,764.05, a silver service, and a Distinguished Service Cross made of gold with 20 diamonds. But the Tigers kayo him in a 3-run 9th to win, 7 - 6.

1929: The A's spot the Tigers six runs in the 1st inning, then rally to win, 11 - 10. Harry Heilmann has four hits, including two homers, for the losers, as do Marty McManus and Dale Alexander. The Tigers outhit the A's, 13-10.
The A's victory increases their American League lead to 11 1/2 games over the Yankees.

1930: Negro Leagues Game Playing under Kansas City's portable light system, the Pittsburgh Grays' 44-year-old hurler, Smokey Joe Williams (27 strikeouts), spins a one-hitter to defeat the Monarchs' Chet Brewer (19 strikeouts, including 10 in a row starting in the 7th), 1 - 0 in a fiercely contested 12-inning matchup. Oscar Charleston scores the only run.

1933: The A's Mickey Cochrane hits for the cycle for the second time in his career, against the Yankees in a 16 - 3 drubbing.

1940: In Detroit, the Red Sox pound 14 hits in beating the Tigers, 12 - 9. Shortstop Joe Cronin is 4 for 5 and hits for the cycle, the 5th in Sox history. Cronin cycled in 1929, not the first player to cycle twice, but the first to do it a decade apart. His 8th-inning homer, off Archie McKain, follows a Doc Cramer triple and ices it for the Sox. Boston also gets homers from Dom DiMaggio and catcher Jimmie Foxx, his 23rd. Ted Williams, pinch-hitting in the 4th, draws a walk. Jack Wilson beats Tom Seats, with both pitching in relief.

1941: Ted Williams goes 2-for-3 vs Tigers at Fenway Park to raise his batting average to .412 and the Tigers beat the red sox 6 - 5.

1942: At Detroit, the Tigers sweep a pair from the Red Sox, 8 - 4 and 6 - 2, to knock Boston out of 2nd place. Dizzy Trout wins the opener, helping himself with a 3-run home run. Virgil Trucks wins the nitecap, giving up a 9th-inning home run to Ted Williams. Along with Jim Tabor, CF Dom DiMaggio has a homer in the opener, then adds an unassisted double play in the nitecap.

1942: At Yankee Stadium, Satchel Paige and Hilton Smith combine to pitch a one-hit shutout over the New York Cubans (Negro League). The Monarchs win, 9 - 0. In the first game of the twinbill, the Philadelphia Stars conquer the Baltimore Elite Giants, 7 - 4. Henry Spearman's grand slam sparks the Philley attack.

1950: Larry Doby hits three homers in a game as Cleveland beats Washington, 11 - 0. Besides tossing the shutout, Indians hurler Bob Lemon hits a home run.

1955: "Mr. Cub" Ernie Banks hits his 4th grand slam of the season, tying the major league record, as Bob Rush bests the Pirates, 12 - 4.

1959: Jim Bunning of the Tigers pitches the only "perfect" inning of the last four decades, striking out three Red Sox on nine pitches. Bunning wins, 3 - 0. The last American League hurler to strike out the side on nine pitches was Lefty Grove, in 1928.

1959: Giants 1B Willie McCovey hits the first of his 521 major league home runs, off Ron Kline, as San Francisco downs the Pirates, 5 - 3. Johnny Antonelli wins his 15th game.

1959: Billy Bruton of the Braves hits three triples in an 11 - 5 win over the Cardinals. Two of the triples are with the bases loaded, the only time it has happened in the National League in the 20th Century.

1961: The Kansas City Athletics traded Reno Bertoia and Gerry Staley to the Detroit Tigers for Bill Fischer and Ozzie Virgil.

1963: The Mostest Pitcher: Most Wins, Most Shutouts, Most Strike-outs - The Dodgers Sandy Koufax" (LIFE Magazine - August 2, 1963).

1964: Detroit P Larry Sherry suffers a fractured left foot when struck by a liner off the bat of Leon Wagner in Cleveland's doubleheader sweep. Sherry will be out for rest of the year.

1970: The Detroit Tigers purchased Kevin Collins from the Montreal Expos.

1972: The Tigers purchase P Woodie Fryman from the Phillies. Fryman proves to be a key piece down the stretch to help the Tigers win a division title. Fryman, just 4-10 for Philadelphia, will go 10-3 with Detroit.
In two days, the Tigers will purchase C Duke Sims from the Dodgers for Detroit, Sims will hit .316 in 38 games.
The two veterans will spark Detroit to the American League Eastern Division title.

1979: Yankees C Thurman Munson, 32, perishes at Canton, Ohio, in a crash of the plane he was piloting. A crowd of 51,151 will attend the memorial tribute at Yankee Stadium tomorrow.



1981: Ernie Harwell honored with the Ford Frick award at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.

1982: Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals his 100th base of the season in a 6 - 5 win over Seattle, tying the American League record he set last season and leaving him with 56 games to break Lou Brock's single-season record of 118. Henderson is the first player ever to steal 100 bases twice since the modern definition of a stolen base was put in place.

1984: Tigers 2 - Indians 1. Morris 1 R in 8 IP. Whitaker 2-run HR in 5th.

1985: Frank Tanana of the Tigers allows one hit (a home run by Ben Oglivie in the 5th) in beating the Brewers, 4 - 1. Tanana (6-10) strikes out eight while walking one.

1991: The Detroit Tigers released Rick Renteria.

1992: Rollie Fingers, Bill McGowan, Hal Newhouser and Tom Seaver are inducted in the Hall of Fame.

1994: The Tigers scored 5 runs in the top of the 9th to beat the Indians 12-9. Mickey Tettleton hit a 2-run homer in the inning. Milt Cuyler had 3 hits and 3 RBI.

2001: The Detroit Tigers signed Bryce Florie as a free agent.

2004: The Detroit Tigers signed Benji Gil as a free agent.
2004: The Detroit Tigers signed Chad Meyers as a free agent.

2010: The Pittsburgh Pirates sent Brandon Jones to the Detroit Tigers as part of a conditional deal.

2013: The Detroit Tigers released Cesar Carrillo.

2014: The Tigers score in all eight innings in which they come to bat in defeating the Rockies, 11 - 5. The last major league team to do this was the Yankees in 2006. It's a first in Tigers history, at least since 1912, as inning-by-inning scores are not available for all games before that date.

2016: The Detroit Tigers signed Jason Foley as an amateur free agent.

2020: The first major league doubleheader consisting of two seven-inning games is played today between the Reds and Tigers, with the Reds recording a sweep, 4 - 3 and 4 - 0. However, it's unheralded Tyler Alexander of the Tigers who grabs the headlines in the opener as he strikes out 9 consecutive batters, setting a new major league record by a reliever, tying the American League record by any pitcher, and falling one shy of Tom Seaver's major league record. His is also the first 10-strikeout game by a reliever since Randy Johnson set the major league record with 16 back in 2001.

2021: The Detroit Tigers selected Nivaldo Rodriguez off waivers from the Houston Astros.

2022: Broadcaster Vin Scully, the voice of the Dodgers for six decades and considered by many to have been the greatest ever at his profession, dies at 94; he had described his last game at the end of the 2016 season.

2022: The Atlanta Braves traded Kris Anglin (minors) to the Detroit Tigers for Robbie Grossman.
2022: The Minnesota Twins traded Sawyer Gipson-Long (minors) to the Detroit Tigers for Michael Fulmer.

Tigers players birthdays:

William Nance Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Kid Nance 1901.

Art James Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Art James 1975.

Matt Miller Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Matt Miller 2001-2002.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Al_Avila
Al Avila Assistant GM, 2002-2015, GM 2015-2022.

Colby Lewis Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Colby Lewis 2006.

Tigers players who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Dan_Brouthers
Dan Brouthers Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Dan Brouthers Detroit Wolverines NL 1886-1888.

Jim Curry Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Jim Curry 1918.

Al Federoff Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Al Federoff 1951-1952.

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