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August 14 in Tigers and mlb history:

1901: The Detroit Tigers released Davey Crockett.
1901: The Detroit Tigers released Ed High.

1903: In Detroit, Cy Young picks up his 20th win as Boston wins, 6 - 3.

1908: The Detroit Tigers purchased Ed Lafitte from Jersey City (Eastern) for $5,000.

1908: The Nationals' Walter Johnson hurls a 1 - 0 victory over the White Sox, allowing just two hits, the first a 9th-inning single by Sox P Doc White.

1912: Tris Speaker runs his hitting streak to 20 games, lining a hit in the first game of today's twin bill with the Browns. This is Speaker's third long streak of the season; earlier he had streaks of 20 games and 30 games, the only player in history to have three such streaks in a year.

1915: In the first match-up of Babe Ruth and Walter Johnson, the Babe comes away the winner, 4 - 3. He also goes 2 for 3 and scores a Boston run in the come-from-behind victory. Ruth is hitting .370, 2nd in the American League behind Ty Cobb.

1919: Babe Ruth hits No. 17, the first of seven home runs in 12 days, which will include his 4th grand slam, an American League record until 1959.

1929: It is Charlie Gehringer Day in Detroit, and the popular 2B handles 10 chances in the field, hits three singles and a home run, and steals home in a 17 - 13 win over the Yankees.

1930: Hall of Fame manager Earl Weaver was born this day in St Louis, MO.

1933: Jimmie Foxx hits for the cycle and drives in nine runs to break the American League record, as the A's beat the Indians, 11 - 5. A record eight players will hit for the cycle this year.

1934: The largest weekday crowd in history watches as the Tigers sweep a pair at Yankee Stadium by scores of 9 to 5 and 7 to 3. It is the Tigers' 14th straight; Schoolboy Rowe has won 13 in succession on his way to 16 straight. 2B Charlie Gehringer is the hitting star of the day with 6 RBI in the twin bill. The next day the Yankees will end the Tiger streak.

1935: Schoolboy Rowe beats the Senators 18 - 2 and also goes 5 for 5 at the plate. His hits include a double and a triple, and he scores three and knocks in 3.

1937: Detroit star second baseman Charlie Gehringer collects a personal-high 12 total bases in one game with two singles, a double, and two home runs. It?s in one of two blowout victories Detroit has on the day over the Browns, 16-1 and 20-7.
In a doubleheader against the Browns, the Tigers set a major league record scoring 36 runs. The Tigers take the first game, 16 - 1, behind Elden Auker pitching a complete game four-hitter while hitting two homers. The nightcap sees Detroit win handily, 20 - 7, while slugging six homers. Pete Fox tallies eight times in the double win.

1937: The Detroit Tigers purchased Al Benton from Memphis (Southern Association).

1941: Jonas Gaines of the NNL Baltimore Elite Giants beats the NAL St. Louis Stars 3-1 in an interleague game at Hammond, Indiana, striking out 19 opposing batters, an all-time high for Negro league pitchers. However, since it was an interleague game, is will not be recognized as a record for any particular league.

1945: A Great Day in History, WWII was over.

1948: Rookie George Vico drives in seven runs to pace the Tigers to a 10 - 3 win over the Browns. Vico is one better than a cycle, collecting two doubles, a triple and homer to back Virgil Trucks' sparkling one-hit relief effort over 6+ innings.

1950: Before 60,120, the Indians turn back the Tigers, 3 - 2, in 10 innings, and reduce Detroit's first-place advantage to 2 1/2 games. Al Rosen ties the game in the 9th with a two-out home run. RF Bob Kennedy helps the Tribe's cause by starting a triple play from the outfield, recalling Tribe LF Charlie Jamieson's two triple plays of 1928.

1951: Ted Williams hits two home runs to take the American League lead, and the Red Sox pull off a triple play to beat the A's, 7 - 4. With his 25th home run, Ted reaches 100 RBIs.

1952: The Detroit Tigers traded Don Lenhardt, Dick Littlefield, Marlin Stuart and Vic Wertz to the St. Louis Browns for Bud Black, Jim Delsing, Ned Garver and Dave Madison.

1960: The Yankees lose a doubleheader to Washington and fall to 3rd place in the American League, a half game behind the Orioles and White Sox. P Camilo Pascual's grand slam is the difference in a 5 - 4 first-game win. In the second game, Mickey Mantle, believing there are two outs, jogs to first base on a grounder to third.
The Senators turn a double play, with New York's Roger Maris suffering bruised ribs trying to break it up at second base. Maris will miss 18 games as a result. Mantle, believing there are two outs, jogs to first base on a grounder to third. Mantle is heavily booed, and manager Casey Stengel replaces him with Bob Cerv. The clubs set a major-league record by using 17 pinch hitters - 9 by the Yankees - in the doubleheader (more than 18 innings), while playing a major-league record 24 errorless innings.

1966: Denny McLain steals third base, the only stolen base of his career, and scores on a grounder in an 8 - 5 loss to the red sox.

1968: Bill Freehan's solo homer and Norm Cash's RBI triple lead the Tigers to a 3-0 win over the indians. Mickey Lolich pitches 5+ innings of scoreless relief for the win.

1972: In Atlanta, Johnny Bench drives in five runs on a home run, double and single, to lead the Reds to a 12 - 2 win over the Braves.

1971: Cardinals legend Bob Gibson hurls a no-hitter vs. the Pittsburgh Pirates.


1984: After getting swept in a doubleheader, the Tigers are 77-43. The Blue Jays sweep a doubleheader to pull within 7.5 games.

1984: The Detroit Tigers released Glenn Abbott.

1988: Detroit pounds Boston 18 - 6 at Fenway Park to end the Red Sox' American League-record home winning streak at 24 games, two shy of the major-league record held by the 1916 Giants. Roger Clemens gives up eight runs in 1 1/3 innings as the temperature hits 97 degrees. SS Alan Trammell, C Matt Nokes, and 1B Dave Bergman each knock in 2 runs, but RF Chet Lemon and DH Darrell Evans each have 5 rbi.

1991: Seattle's Randy Johnson tosses a one-hitter against the Oakland A's, losing the no-hitter in the 9th inning when Mike Gallego singles. He records his 11th win of the year with the 4 - 0 victory.

1991: San Diego's Fred McGriff hits a grand slam for the second game in a row, tying a major league mark. He is the 12th player - but just the third National Leaguer - to perform the feat, with Babe Ruth the only one to do so twice. His blast brings home all San Diego's runs in a 4 - 1 win over the Astros.

1998: The A's Rickey Henderson's stolen base in the 1st inning against the Tigers makes the 39-year-old the oldest player to steal 50 bases in a season.

1999: With his 20th stolen base in Chicago, Texas backstop Ivan Rodriguez becomes the first catcher in major league history with 20 homers and 20 stolen bases in the same season.

2000: The Tigers score eight runs in the 5th inning and go on to defeat the Mariners 15 - 4.

2007: The Detroit Tigers traded Jack Hannahan to the Oakland Athletics for Jason Perry.

2007: Bobby Cox is ejected by Ted Barrett for arguing a strike call against Chipper Jones. It is Cox's 132nd career major league ejection, breaking the record held for over 70 years by John McGraw.

2009: Tigers win 1-0 on a walk-off home run by Brandon Inge. Jerrod Washburn pitches a gem: 8 scoreless innings with 3 hits and 2 walks.

2012: The Tigers' Miguel Cabrera becomes the first player to reach 100 RBI this season and Doug Fister does not allow an earned run over 8 innings to even his record at 7-7 after a poor start as Detroit defeats Minnesota, 8 - 4.

2014: The Detroit Tigers signed Casey Crosby as a free agent.

2014: At their quarterly meeting in Baltimore, MD, Major League Baseball owners choose MLB Chief Operating Officer Rob Manfred to succeed Bud Selig as Commissioner. While a number of rounds of voting are necessary, the final vote is 30-0 in favor of Manfred. He is slated to take over from Selig on January 15, 2015.

2016: Michael Fulmer pitches a complete game 7 - 0 shutout over the rangers, the first by a Tigers rookie since Justin Verlander in 2006.

2017: The Detroit Tigers released Argenis Diaz.

2019: With his 3,167th hit, Albert Pujols passes countryman Adrian Beltre for most by a player from the Dominican Republic, and by any player born outside the United States.

2021: Arizona Dbacks rookie pitcher Tyler Gilbert hurls a no-hitter vs. the San Diego Padres in his first MLB start!


2022: The Detroit Tigers purchased Ricardo Sanchez from the Philadelphia Phillies.

Tigers players birthdays:

Kyle Graham Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Kyle 'Skinny' Graham 1929.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Mark_Fidrych
Mark Fidrych Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Mark Fidrych – Society for American Baseball Research
Mark Fidrych 1976-1980.

www.baseball-reference.com

Colt Keith Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com

Check out the latest Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More of Colt Keith. Get info about his position, age, height, weight, draft status, bats, throws, school and more on Baseball-reference.com
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Colt Keith 2024-present.

Tigers players and coaches who passed away:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Pat_Mullin
Pat Mullin Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Pat Mullin 1940-1941, 1946-1953, scout 1957-1963, coach 1963-1966.
Last Tigers player to wear #6 before Al Kaline.

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The Dodgers are in 1st place by 8.5 games, playing over .600 baseball. Yet Eduardo Rodriguez told the media the reason he stayed in Detroit instead of going to LA was because the Tigers were making a run for the division title and he wanted to be part of it. Get out your waders.

Detroit is 12 games under .500 and 8 games out of 1st place. A very misplaced attempt on ERod's part to change the dialog and deflect from his rep as being "difficult" on the failed trade. Worst of all, he assumes Tiger fans are ignorant.
 
2019 19th round draft pick Kerry Carpenter?s Detroit Tigers career thus far:

- 355 ABs
- 21 HRs
- .837 OPS
- .273 BA
- 2.2 WAR

Are you convinced he is a building block for the Detroit Tigers moving forward?
 
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...ont-office-moves-art-of-pitching/70591547007/
'Days of Roar' Tigers Podcast: Detroit Tigers' front office moves, and the art of pitching. 63 minutes.

On this episode: This week, Evan's feeling a little "The Godfather Part III" as the Detroit Tigers manage to pull him back in after last week's rant and Mark is surprised by his defense of the front office on a certain lack of moves. Later in the pod, the guys take a deep dive on Matt Manning and pitching.
 
August 15 in Tigers and mlb history:

1905: The Detroit Tigers released Herbert Jackson.

1907: Chief Bender wins his 11th straight for the Athletics, 4 - 2, over Cleveland, to tighten the pennant race with the Tigers. The Chief is helped by right fielder Socks Seybold who pulls off an unassisted double play. He'll pull off another on September 10th against Boston.

1911: Cy Young, 3-4 with Cleveland, is given his release. He returns to Boston and signs with the National League's Rustlers, where he will close out the year 4-5, and his pitching days with a 511-315 record, 750 complete games and 7,356 innings pitched.

1914: At the Polo Grounds, 32,000 watch as Lefty Tyler and Christy Mathewson throw goose eggs for nine innings. In the 10th, Red Smith singles and Hank Gowdy triples him home. Matty then wild pitches Gowdy home for 2 - 0 lead. New York loads the bases in the 10th with no outs, but Tyler slams the door with no Giants scoring. The Braves now trail by 3 1/2.

1916: Boston Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth outduels Walter Johnson in 13 innings for a 1-0 win over the Washington Senators at Fenway Park.
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1916: Newspaper story on Ty Cobb.
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1921: A major-league record streak of 10 straight hits by the Browns' George Sisler is stopped by Detroit in the 4th inning, but he goes 2 for 3 with a two-run homer in the 6th. The Browns win, 3 - 2.

1922: In a game between Chicago and Boston, 35 singles are hit - 21 by the White Sox, 14 by the Red Sox - an American League record. Chicago wins the hit parade, 19 - 11.

1927: Leading 1 - 0 and one out from a complete game no-hitter over the Memphis Red Sox, Chicago American Giants pitcher Webster McDonald allows an unearned run to score on errors, tying the game at 1 - 1 in a Negro National League game. McDonald loses the no-hitter in the 10th when he surrenders a single, and he loses the game, 2 - 1, when the Red Sox score in the 11th on back-to-back doubles. McDonald's near-classic just misses being part of the only back-to-back no-hitters in Negro Leagues history, as teammate Willie Powell had no-hit the Red Sox the day before.

1931: Lefty Grove wins his 15th straight, beating the Indians, 4 - 3.

1935: Marv Owen goes 3-for-3 with 2 doubles in a 6-3 win over the Senators.

1945: Umpire Ernie Stewart is canned by American League President Will Harridge for "disloyalty." Stewart had complained about the pay and taken his case to Commissioner Happy Chandler. Bill McGowan is the top-paid umpire in the league at $9,000.

1945: Commissioner Happy Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette. Ford had been the World Series sponsor since 1934, paying $100,000 annually.

1946: In the first 1946 East-West Game, the East wins, 6 - 3. It is the first East-West Game since Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in organized baseball (he has yet to make his debut in the major leagues). Howard Easterling gets three hits and Barney Brown tosses three perfect innings.

1950: The Red Sox defeat the Athletics, 8 - 3 and 9 - 4, to begin a streak in which they reel off 27 of 30, propelling themselves back into the pennant race. Walt Dropo is hospitalized, however, after being beaned by the A's Hank Wyse.

1951: Al Rosen belts a 1st-inning grand slam to jump start the Indians to a 9 - 4 win over the Browns, their 13th in a row. For Rosen, it is his fourth slam of the year, just the 9th player to accomplish the feat. Ned Garver gives up seven runs in the 1st inning in losing to Early Wynn.

1955: Mickey Mantle homers from both sides of the plate in the same game for the second time in his career, tying the major-league mark. The Yanks beat the Orioles, 12 - 6, in the second game and sweep the doubleheader to move back into first place.

1960: The Detroit Tigers released Clem Labine.

1960: In the first of two games at Crosley Field, Two noted 'Tough Guys" Frank Robinson and Eddie Mathews exchange punches after Robbie slides in hard at third base in the 7th inning. Robbie comes out on the short end with a swollen eye, bloody nose, and jammed thumb, but comes back in the nitecap with a double and homer to lead the Reds to a 4 - 0 win. Thereafter, Mathews is forever known after this exchange never to be trifled with.

1961: Frank Malzone is 5 for 5 with a pair of homers in the Red Sox's 8 - 0 shellacking of the Indians. Gene Conley throws the shutout and hits a homer. Jackie Jensen and Carroll Hardy hit back-to-back home runs in the 5th.

1961: At Los Angeles, the 2nd-place Reds' Joey Jay (17-7) gives up three singles and two runs in the 1st and just three hits after that in subduing the first-place Dodgers, 5 - 2. Losing pitcher Sandy Koufax (13-8) almost adds another hit but is thrown out at first base by RF Frank Robinson. Announcer Vin Scully says, "Sandy forgot to run."

1961: Tigers sweep a doubleheader against the Orioles to cut the Yankees' lead to 2 games.
Game 1: Frank Lary pitches a 4-hit shutout, Norm Cash hits his 30th home run of the year.
Game 2: Trailing 2-0 in the 9th, Tigers rally and win on an Al Kaline walk-off single.

1964: Mayor Richard Daley declares "Ernie Banks Day" in Chicago and 26,000 fans cheer the Cubs' slugger. Banks then goes hitless as Pittsburgh wins, 5 - 4.

1965: The Beatles Play Shea Stadium! ~ Their legendary concert draws over 55,000 screaming fans! #FabFour #Mets #MLB #History


1971: Vida Blue raises his record to 22-4 as the A's beat the Yankees, 6 - 4. Blue scatters 10 hits and scores the tie-breaking run on a wild pitch.

1975: Earl Weaver is ejected twice by umpire Ron Luciano. The fiery Baltimore manager is thrown out in the first game of a doubleheader and is tossed again before the start of the second game.

1975: Frank Tanana pitches an 8 - 0 shutout as the Angels hand the Tigers their 19th straight loss.

1984: The Tigers cuff Tommy John for ten hits in six innings to beat the Angels 8 - 3. Dan Petry (15-5) scatters eight hits in eight innings, and Dave Bergman backs him with two triples and three RBIs. With Cleveland beating Toronto twice, the Tigers' lead is now nine games.

1991: Lou Whitaker hits 2 home runs in the Tigers' 6-4 win over the White Sox.

1992: Texas P Bobby Witt walks 10 Tigers in 4 2/3 innings, as Detroit strolls past the Rangers 10 - 3. No one has walked this many in this few innings.

1995: The Houston Astros traded a player to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Mike Henneman. The Houston Astros sent Phil Nevin (August 15, 1995) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

1999: The Angels defeat the Tigers, 10 - 2, as Chuck Finley becomes the first pitcher in history to strike out four batters in an inning twice in his career. Finley previously fanned four Yankees in Anaheim's game with the New Yorkers on May 12th. Both instances occurred in the 1st inning.

2001: The Tigers defeat the Angels 5 - 1, as Detroit OF Roger Cedeno leads the team with five hits.

2010: Albert Pujols becomes the first player to hit 30 homers in his first 10 seasons with a 1st-inning shot off Ryan Dempster of the Cubs, but the Cardinals lose, 9 - 7, in spite of scoring 5 runs in the 9th. Pujols has also hit over .300 and driven in over 100 runs each season he has played so far, and is on pace to reach those totals once again.

2011: The Minnesota Twins traded Delmon Young to the Detroit Tigers for a player to be named later and Cole Nelson (minors). The Detroit Tigers sent Lester Oliveros (August 16, 2011) to the Minnesota Twins to complete the trade.

2011: Jim Thome hits two home runs for the Twins in their 9 - 6 win over Detroit to become the 8th player to reach 600 home runs. Thome hits a two-run homer off Rick Porcello in the 6th for number 599, then a three-run shot against Daniel Schlereth in the 7th to reach the mark.

2013: At the quarterly owners meeting held in Cooperstown, NY, Commissioner Bud Selig announces a plan to expand video review, which is now limited to home runs, significantly. Under the proposal, a manager will have the right to request up to three reviews per game - one in the first six innings and two in the last three - and will not otherwise be allowed to argue such "reviewable" calls. A number of decisions will remain non-reviewable, however. The plan still needs to be fleshed out, in particular by defining which calls are reviewable and which are not, before being submitted for formal approval at the next winter meetings. The Player's Union and Umpires Association will also need to agree to the changes.

2014: The Tampa Bay Rays shut out the Yankees, 5 - 0, behind Alex Cobb, to reach the .500 mark at 62-62. What is remarkable is that they were 18 games below .500 on June 10th, making them only the fourth team in history to return to parity from such a deficit. The 1899 Louisville Colonels were 22 games below before reaching .500 for the all-time record.

2015: The Detroit Tigers released Mike Belfiore.

2016: The Detroit Tigers released Jeff Ferrell.

2019: A game between the Athletics and Astros turns into a impromptu Home Run Derby as the two teams combine for 10 homers in a 7 - 6 Oakland win. Four players hit a pair of long balls: Matt Chapman and Matt Olson for Oakland, and Michael Brantley and Carlos Correa for Houston, only the 5th time this has happened in the majors. The 10 homers are a record for the Oakland Coliseum.

Tigers players and announcers birthdays:

Jack Warner Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Jack Warner 1905-1906.

Joe Casey Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Joe Casey 1909-1911.

Van Patrick - Wikipedia
Van Patrick Tigers announcer 1949, 1952-1959, Lions announcer 1950-74.

Barney Schultz Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Barney Schultz 1959.

Arlo Brunsberg Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Arlo Brunsberg 1966.

Duffy Dyer Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Duffy Dyer 1980-1981.

Bob James Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Bob James 1982-1983.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Chris_Brown
Chris Brown Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Chris Brown 1989.

Roberto Novoa Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Roberto Novoa 2004.

Tigers players who passed away:

Guy Tutwiler Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Guy Tutwiler 1911, 1913.

Harold Daugherty Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Doc Daugherty 1951.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Jerry_Lumpe
Jerry Lumpe Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Jerry Lumpe 1964-1967.

Baseball Reference
 
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Turning the Corner Tigers Podcast Episode 124. Detroit Tigers Looking Forward. 60 minutes.
During a winning week, the Detroit Tigers are acting like there's still a chance. The Athletic's Cody Stavenhagen and co-host Kieran Steckley discuss why and what it means. Topics include Kerry Carpenter, Eduardo Rodriguez, Riley Greene, Max Clark, Jackson Jobe, Matt Manning and more.
 
https://www.mlb.com/tigers/news/miguel-cabrera-career-home-run-509
With No. 509, vintage Miggy moves up all-time HR list.
Tigers official site

https://www.mlb.com/gameday/tigers-vs-twins/2023/08/15/716983/final/box
Boxscore with highlights and Lowlights. Cisnero blows.

https://www.blessyouboys.com/2023/8...wins-miggys-still-got-it-game-recap-august-15
Tigers 3 - Twins 5: Miggy?s still got it, but so do the Twins.
Cabrera went deep but the Tigers were still bested by the Twins.
BYBTB

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Twins spoil Cabrera's milestone homer, beat Tigers 5-3 with grand slam.
Detnews

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/...recap-minnesota-twins-alex-faedo/70599858007/
Two relievers squander Alex Faedo's splendid start in Detroit Tigers' 5-3 loss to Twins.
Freep

https://www.mlive.com/tigers/2023/08/miguel-cabrera-homers-but-tigers-fall-to-twins.html
Miguel Cabrera homers, but Tigers fall to Twins.
Mlive
 
August 16 in Tigers and mlb history:

1887: The Detroit Wolverines beat the Chicago White Stockings 5-3 to retake first place for good, en route to their first National League pennant.

1903: Toledo native George Mullin, pitching for the Tigers, helps the attendance today (6,000) as the Tigers take on New York in a Sunday game. in Toledo. Mullin is racked for eight runs, but Detroit scores 12, led by the hitting of Sam Crawford, who is 5 for 6.

1910: The Tigers top the Senators 8 - 3, with Ty Cobb stealing home for the second time in his career. It comes in the 4th inning with Bob Groom on the mound.

1911: At Brooklyn, Honus Wagner suffers a serious ankle injury rounding first in the 1st inning. He will miss 13 games, play one at first base, then miss another 12. With Wagner out, the Pirates will lose eight of 13 and drop out of the race.

1915: The Detroit Tigers purchased Babe Ellison from Clinton (Central Association).

1915: In the second game of a doubleheader, Tiger rookie Bernie Boland no-hits Cleveland through 26 batters before Ben Paschal singles, his first and only hit of the year. Boland wins 3 - 1.

1915: At Boston, Smoky Joe Wood fires a 1 - 0 shutout over Washington. The Nationals have lost all 11 games at Fenway Park this year.

1918: Trailing the Senators 6-0 in the top of the 9th, the Tigers rally to tie the game, and go on to win 8-7 in 16 innings, handing Washington a crushing loss that "practically ended that team's pennant chances" in what will be a war-shortened season.

1924: Ty Cobb slides into third base vs. Washington Senators at Griffith Stadium. Tigers beat Senators 5-2.

1930: Lefty Grove (20-4) wins his 6th in a row, beating the Browns in Philadelphia, 4 - 2. Grove drives in the first two runs in the 2nd off Dick Coffman, who gives up nine hits in the loss. The Browns net 10 hits off Grove.

1940: Jimmie Foxx smashes two homers to help the Red Sox beat the Senators. The two round trippers move him ahead of Lou Gehrig on the all-time list with a total of 495.

1942: In the first 1942 East-West Game, the East wins yet again, 5 - 2. Leon Day retires all seven batters he faces, five of them by strikeout for the East, while Satchel Paige bombs for the West.

1947: Hank Greenberg, now a Pirate in the last season of his career, hits the last of his 35 career multi-home run games. Ralph Kiner hits three successive home runs for the host Pittsburgh Pirates, in a 12 - 7 win over the Cardinals in a game in which the two clubs bang out a major-league record 10 homers (since topped).
Two other Bucs, Hank Greenberg and Billy Cox, and one Cardinal, Whitey Kurowski, each contribute two home runs to set a major-league record for most players with two or more homers in a game.
Kiner matches the major league mark of seven home runs in four games, six in three games, five in two games, and four in consecutive at bats. By the end of the month, Big Ralph will still trail Johnny Mize 39 to 43 in a head-to-head home run competition that will only be matched by Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle in 1961. Starters Roger Wolff and the Cards' Ken Burkhart both exit in the 1st inning.

1948: Babe Ruth dies of throat cancer at age 53 in New York. He will lie in state at Yankee Stadium and be viewed by more than 100,000 mourners.
"Babe Ruth will never be gone, he's still here...he's always here."
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1954: In a throwing contest between Jimmy Piersall and Willie Mays before a Red Sox-Giants charity game in Boston, Piersall hurts his arm. He starts the game but leaves midway. He wakes up the following morning with a sore arm that stays with him a year, and he will never throw quite as well again.

1954: The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published! The front cover shows Milwaukee Braves slugger Eddie Mathews in mid-swing, along with New York Giants catcher Wes Westrum & umpire Augie Donatelli at County Stadium!

1957: The Tigers release longtime journeyman swingman pitcher Steve Gromek.

1961: Roger Maris ties an American League record with his 7th home run in his 6th straight game, as New York beats Chicago, 5 - 4, in the 9th inning. His two blasts off Billy Pierce give him 48, three more than Mickey Mantle.

1962: For the second night in a row, Frank Robinson clouts two homers to power the Reds to a 7 - 1 win over the Braves. Robby now has nine homers in eight games, and 11 in the last 12.

1964: Sandy Koufax pitches a 3 - 0 shutout win against St. Louis, but he will miss the rest of the season because of an elbow injury suffered when he slid into second base against Milwaukee back on August 8th.

1965: At Fenway Park, Earl Wilson is all the Boston offense as he bangs a pair of two-run home runs. But the righty still takes the loss to the White Sox, 5 - 4.

1966: The Detroit Tigers signed Mike Roarke as a free agent.

1966: Willie Mays hits his 534th home run, matching Jimmie Foxx's record for right-handed batters, as Gaylord Perry beats the Cardinals, 3 - 1.

1968: Philadelphia's Richie Allen ties a National League record by drawing five bases on balls in one game, but the Dodgers win, 7 - 5.

1968: Detroit's Denny McLain is 16-0 on the road after blanking the Red Sox, 4 - 0 in Boston. Tigers catcher Bill Freehan is hit by a pitch in three consecutive plate appearances, painfully tying a major league record. He will be hit a record-tying 24 times this season.

1971: Harmon Killebrew, who has a higher percentage of his hits (28.6%) go for home runs than any other player, collects his annual triple in a 11 - 2 win over the Indians. It marks his 8th season when he will hit exactly one three-bagger.

1975: The Tigers finally end a 19-game losing streak with an 8-0 win over California with Ray Bare's 2-hit complete game shutout in Anaheim. Bill Freehan has 4 hits with a double & a triple to drive in 3 runs.

1978: The Kansas City Royals selected Steve Foucault off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

1978: Boston's Luis Tiant wins his 200th major league game, beating Nolan Ryan and the Angels, 4 - 2. Jim Rice's 2-run home run is the difference.

1981: Trailing the yankees 4-1 in the bottom of the 9th, Tigers rally and win 5 - 4 on Kirk Gibson walk-off 3-run home run.

1982: The Detroit Tigers signed Rey Palacios as an amateur free agent.

1982: Richie Hebner returns to the Pirates, who buy the veteran from the Tigers.

1984: Tigers 8 - Angels 7, 12 innings. Tigers led 5-0 after 2, then trailed 7-5. Alan Trammell tied in the 8th with a 2-run single, Barbaro Garbey hit a walk- off double in the 12th.
Tigers are 79-43 after splitting a 4-game series.

1987: Lou Whitaker hits 3 doubles and Alan Trammell hits a single, double, and triple. Tigers score 5 runs in the 7th inning to win 10-6 in Kansas City and stay a half game back of the Blue Jays in the AL East.

1987: Tim Raines goes 5 for 5 and hits for the cycle to lead the Expos to a 10 - 7 win over Pittsburgh.

1989: Tigers beat the Orioles 4-0. Frank Tanana strikes out 10 in a 2-hit complete game. Dave Bergman hits a home run and a double.

1991: Tony Phillips hits a home run and an RBI single to lead the Tigers past ace Jimmy Key and the Blue Jays.
The Tigers' 5-2 win win moves them to within one game of Toronto in the AL East.

1992: The Tigers beat the Rangers 6-0 as Frank Tanana beat his old flame throwing partner from California, Nolan Ryan. Ryan allowed 5 runs on only 3 hits, walking 7 in 4.2 innings. Frank Tanana pitched 8 shutout innings. Mickey Tettleton, Cecil Fielder and Mark Carreon all homered.

1998: On the day Akil Baddoo was born the Tigers beat the Athletics 6-4. One of the few bright spots for the A?s was a HR by their rookie catcher, who would go on to hit 32 career dingers. His name was AJ Hinch.

2002: The Detroit Tigers selected Jason Beverlin off waivers from the Cleveland Indians.

2002: During opening ceremonies of the Little League World Series at Volunteer Stadium, the 1955 Little League Team from Charleston, SC, is honored. The fourteen boys from the Cannon Street YMCA team, who were banned from their own state's post-season tournament 47 years ago due their skin color, were invited to Williamsport at the time as guests after the other 61 South Carolina all-white leagues were told by Little League officials the winner of their state finals would not be permitted to participate in the tournament because they refused to play a duly-franchised league.

2002: After four days of delaying the decision, the executive board of the Major League Baseball Players Association votes 57-0 to set an August 30 strike date. All eight previous negotiations since 1972 have resulted in work stoppages in the national pastime.

2005: Tigers give up 7 runs in the top of the 10th, then get 4 back on a grand slam by Craig Monroe in a wild 10-7 loss to the Red Sox.

2009: Derek Jeter hits an RBI double off Seattle's Doug Fister in the 3rd for his 2,674th hit as a shortstop, surpassing Luis Aparicio's all-time leading total for the position. The Yankees lose the game, however, 10 - 3, as Fister records his first win in the majors.

2011: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later and Cole Nelson (minors) to the Minnesota Twins for Delmon Young. The Detroit Tigers sent Lester Oliveros (August 16, 2011) to the Minnesota Twins to complete the trade.

2016: The Atlanta Braves traded Erick Aybar to the Detroit Tigers for Kade Scivicque (minors) and Mike Aviles.
2016: The Detroit Tigers signed Keider Montero as a free agent.

2017: Ian Kinsler's 46th career leadoff homer ties him with Jimmy Rollins for the 4th-most in major league history in a loss to the rangers.

2018: The Tigers honor Aretha Franklin at Comerica Park.

2018: Mike Hessman is elected to the International League Hall of Fame. With Toledo in 2015, the former Tiger set the all-time minor league home run record, retiring with 433.

2020: With an 8 - 5 win over the Tigers, the Indians have now beaten their division rivals 20 straight times, dating back to April 2019. It is the second longest winning streak against one opponent since at least 1901, with only the Baltimore Orioles defeating the Kansas City Royals in the first 23 games played between the two teams in 1969 and 1970 having gone longer.

Tigers players birthdays:

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Baby_Doll_Jacobson
Baby Doll Jacobson Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Baby Doll Jacobson 1915.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Bob_Fothergill
Bob Fothergill Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Bob 'Fatty' Fothergill 1922-1930.

Billy Rhiel Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Billy Rhiel 1932-1933.

Damian Jackson Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Damian Jackson 2002.

Roger Cedeño Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Roger Cedeno 2001.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Akil_Baddoo
Akil Baddoo Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Akil Baddoo 2021-present.

Tigers players who passed away:

Billy Rhiel Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Billy Rhiel 1932-1933.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Earl_Averill
Earl Averill Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Earl Averill 1939-1940.

Baseball Reference
 
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WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY.
Totally Tigers

Players behaving badly appears to be the theme of this week. To be more accurate, it?s more like star players behaving badly.

Now that Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer have been traded, Mets players are unloading on them. Both being described as ?difficult.?

They called JV a ?diva? and someone only concerned with himself, while ignoring the rest of the team. Max, as we know, flamed team ownership and management, and was caught surprised when he was immediately traded. Just this week, he had another meltdown on the mound with his new team when things didn?t go his way. Three episodes and counting so far this year.

We now know that both did not get along when they were with the Tigers and there were problems with 3 out of the 5 starting pitchers during those last playoff years.

It has been insinuated that the issues surrounding these 2 players with both the Tigers and Mets negatively impacted their team chemistry.

Of course, there have been plenty of other incidents of star players causing disruptions and distractions to their organizations. Enough to disrupt the balance of personalities and performance to various degrees.

And this week, another alleged scandal involving one of baseball?s best players ? Wander Franco. He is now on unpaid leave while MLB investigates. (Nothing is yet official and the subject is a delicate one so we will not be getting into the details of what supposedly transpired. Nor will we be approving any comments today that delve into this subject matter as a result.)

Over a year ago, the Tampa Bay Rays made their first really big investment by signing Franco to a 12-year contract that is worth a maximum of $223 mill. He is their best player.

But there have been some red flags. Bad decisions, immaturity or attitude problems depending upon whom you ask. One in particular that teed off teammates and got him benched for multiple days. Yet despite instances over the past 2 years, he got the mega-contract anyway.

And now, if things go really south, the Rays could be taking a really big hit both competitively and financially.

It?s a huge risk when extreme talent, personality issues and really big bucks collide. For some, the risk pays off. For others, it can cost a team dearly.

Which brings us to ask how important a player?s personal make up is in comparison to his talent.

Is having a difficult/demanding personality worth having on a team esp. when their talent is significant?

Or is the price created by their behavior too much of a cost when it comes to the overall roster and team performance?

What would you do if faced with a similar situation? Is it all about getting the talent or are there other factors to consider?

How should big talent and personality be addressed when giving out mega-contracts?

1. Talent is the only thing that matters.

2. Bad behavior and ?me first? attitude are deal breakers.

3. Both talent and behavior require equal scrutiny before a contract is offered.

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