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August 25 in Tigers and mlb history:
1900: Criticism of administration in the National League continues. The Sporting News offers the new American League some editorial encouragement: "An organization opposed to the National League will be welcome because it will mean the elevation of the game if it is successful."
1902: Ban Johnson announces the American League's intention to have a New York team in 1903, with Clark Griffith as manager. The Baltimore franchise will be moved.
1909: Christy Mathewson stops the Pirates, 3 - 2, on five hits to notch his 20th victory of the season. It is the 7th season in a row in which Matty has hit 20 wins.
1913: Ty Cobb swipes home in the 5th inning to help the Tigers edge the Senators 6 - 5.
1915: The Red Sox win, 2 - 1 in 13 innings, to sweep the Tigers and solidify their hold on first place. Boston has now won seven straight and 19 of 21.
1921: With Cleveland waltzing to a 15 - 1 win over the Yankees, New York hurler Harry Harper, pitching in the 8th, plunks OF Charlie Jamieson in the ribs, Larry Gardner in the arm, and Steve O'Neill in the back. O'Neill throws the ball back at Harper, precipitating a bench-clearing brawl. New York OF Bob Meusel contributes four errors in the game. The Tribe takes over 1st place from the Yankees.
1922: In the first of a doubleheader before a sold-out Polo Grounds, the Browns beat the Yankees, 3 - 1, behind Urban Shocker. Waite Hoyt is the loser, but stops Ken Williams' hitting streak at 28 games. George Sisler hits in his 24th straight game. In game two, the Yankees jump to a 2 - 0 lead on Babe Ruth's 2-run triple, then extend it to 6 - 1 behind Joe Bush. The Browns close to 6 - 5, but that is it.
1922: In spite of a fourth-inning lead of 25 - 6, the Cubs need to hold on to defeat Philadelphia, 26 - 23, as the Phillies leave the bases loaded in the ninth. The total amount of runs, 49, is the major league mark for most tallies in one game.
1924: Walter Johnson hurls a seven-inning rain-shortened no-hitter against the Browns, winning by a score of 2 - 0.
1930: Tommy Bridges walks 12 St. Louis Browns, but Detroit still beats them 7 - 5.
1934: Schoolboy Rowe, Detroit's sensational rookie P, defeats the Senators 4 - 2, for his 16th win in a row tying the American League record held by Walter Johnson, Joe Wood, and Lefty Grove. Hank Greenberg's 2-run double in the ninth gives the Tigers the win in Washington.
1937: Cleveland's Bob Feller strikes out 16 Red Sox, one less than his own American League record, in an 8 - 1 victory.
1937: The Babe Meets The Brown Bomber! Baseball legend Babe Ruth and boxing legend Joe Louis pose together in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey.
1939: Red Rolfe scores for the Yankees in his 18th consecutive game, giving him a total of 30 runs.
1943: Detroit Tigers legend Hank Greenberg takes batting practice at Yankee Stadium wearing a borrowed #Yankees uniform before a #WWII War Bond exhibition game.
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1945: The Tigers' Joe Hoover will swipe only 19 bases in his career, but the most valuable one comes today. On the front end of a 3rd-inning double steal, Hoover steals home against the Browns for the game's only run.
1946: Rollie Fingers The HOF relief pitcher with the Athletics, Padres and Brewers was born in Steubenville, Ohio on this day.
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1952: Tiger Virgil Trucks (5-14) throws the second of his two no-hitters this season blanking the Yankees 1 - 0.
Phil Rizzuto's third inning at-bat is quickly scored as an error but is changed to a hit only to be reversed again in the sixth inning making the no-hitter a bit controversial. "Fire" Trucks also threw 4 no-hitters in the minors.
1956: To make room for Enos Slaughter, the Yankees give Phil Rizzuto his unconditional release. Through the instigation of Ballantine Beer, Rizzuto will be in the announcing booth next year, replacing Jim Woods.
1957: Al Kaline is 4 for 4 with 2 home runs and 4 RBI in the Tigers 7 - 2 win over the yankees.
1959: The White Sox take out pennant insurance, sending Bob Sagers and Harry Simpson packing to Pittsburgh in exchange for veteran Ted Kluszewski. Klu will hit .297 during the season and a torrid .391 in the World Series.
1960: Boston's Vic Wertz's 2nd career grand slam, off Don Newcombe, as a pinch hitter ties the record set by Bill Skowron in 1957. Ted Williams hits his 516th home run in a 10 - 7 Boston win over Cleveland.
1961: Jim Bunning (15-9) allows just two hits while blanking the Senators 6 - 0, in a game called after eight innings because of rain. The win keeps the Tigers two games ahead of the Yankees.
1965: Moonlight Graham dies in Chisholm, MN. Graham played in one major league game, for the 1905 Giants, and did not get to bat. His character in W.P. Kinsella's Field of Dreams, later played by Burt Lancaster in the movie of the same name, will eventually make him a baseball household name.
1966: The owners approve a 55 percent raise in contributions to the players' pension fund. It will come from television, World Series, and All-Star Game money. Some money will also go to pay the salary of the Players' Association executive director.
1967: John Hiller throws his second straight complete game shutout in his second major league start, a 3 - 0 win over the royals.
1968: The Tigers ahead 5 - 0 fail to score with two on in the 4th inning when the Yanks bring in Rocky Colavito to pitch. The 35-year-old slugger retires Al Kaline and Willie Horton and tosses 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief to earn the win. In Rocky's only other appearance in 1958, he also faced Kaline, and the victory by a non-pitcher will be the last this century. Bill Robinson and Bobby Cox crash successive homers to tie the score and, after a walk, Rocky comes around to score the winning run. In the 8th Yankees reliever Lindy McDaniel ties the American League record for consecutive batters retired by setting down the first Tiger he faces, giving him 32 straight batters retired over four appearances. New York sweeps, winning 6 - 5 and then topping Mickey Lolich 5 - 4. The four losses in New York leaves the Tigers just five games ahead of the Orioles.
1978: Major League umpires stage a one-day strike in defiance of their contract, in order to gain recognition for their union as their bargaining agent with Major League Baseball. Semipro and amateur umps are pressed into service until a restraining order forces the strikers to return. The umpires will walk out again at the beginning of the 1979 season.
1979: Willie Horton has two homers, including his 9th career grand slam, to pace Seattle to an 8 - 4 win over Detroit. Champ Summers has a pair of homers for the Tigers.
1984: Tigers 5 - Angels 1. Jack Morris holds the Angels to one run over 8 innings for his 17th win. Ruppert Jones hits a 3-run home run, Lou Whitaker has 3 hits. Tigers are 85-45: they have gone 50-40 since their 35-5 start
1990: Cecil Fielder hits a home run over the left field roof of Tiger Stadium in the Tigers 14 - 4 pounding of the a's.
He would be the only Tiger ever to clear the left field roof.
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1991: The Detroit Tigers released John Moses.
1991: Lou Whitaker's RBI single in the bottom of the 9th scores Scott Livingstone for a walk-off win that keeps the Tigers in a tie for first place.
1996: The New York Yankees dedicate a new monument at Yankee Stadium to honor Mickey Mantle.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4YzqKqWsAARPyk?format=jpg&name=medium
2002: Al Kaline honored at Comerica Park for 50 years with the Tigers.
https://media.gettyimages.com/id/51...=eDYGK5XtMAsVZO6RUMkGRMi8Hw2koHWFQ7RjVcbyjU0=
2010: Felix Hernandez of the Mariners beats the Red Sox in the second game of a doubleheader, fanning nine. That makes him the fourth-youngest hurler to 1,000 career strikeouts, following Bob Feller, Bert Blyleven and Dwight Gooden. David Ortiz is his 1,000th victim.
2012: The Red Sox and Dodgers complete a huge blockbuster deal, with Boston getting rid of $260 million in future salary by sending 1B Adrian Gonzalez, P Josh Beckett, OF Carl Crawford and IF Nick Punto to Los Angeles. In return, they receive 1B James Loney and four prospects: Ps Rubby De La Rosa and Allen Webster, IF Ivan DeJesus and OF/1B Jerry Sands. Both Crawford and De La Rosa are recovering from Tommy John surgery and will not play until next season. Gonzalez makes the biggest immediate impact, hitting a three-run homer in his first at-bat as a Dodger to key an 8 - 2 win over the Marlins. For their part, the Sox blow a 9 - 3 lead and lose to Kansas City, 10 - 9, in 12 innings, with none of the new acquisitions in the line-up.
2013: Miguel Cabrera hits a moon shot to the left field upper deck at Citi Field for his 42nd home run of the year in the Tigers 11 - 3 win over the mets.
2021: In the longest major league game since the introduction of the tiebreaker rule before the 2020 season, the Dodgers need 16 innings to defeat the Padres, 5 - 3, after almost six hours of playing time. After five scoreless extra frames in spite of the presence of a designated runner on second base every time, the Dodgers finally take a 3 - 1 lead in the top of the 15th, only to see Fernando Tatis Jr. tie it with his 35th homer of the year off Corey Knebel in the bottom of the inning, necessitating yet another inning. A.J. Pollock finally provides the margin of victory with a two-run homer off Daniel Camarena and the Padres fail to score against Shane Greene.
2023: Having already pitched a no-hitter earlier this month, Framber Valdéz of the Astros tosses seven hitless innings against the Tigers before being removed from the game, having thrown 114 pitches. Pinch-hitter Kerry Carpenter breaks the spell with a one-out single off Bryan Abreu in the 8th. Detroit then stages a remarkable comeback in the 9th: after the first two batters strike out against Ryan Pressly, three consecutive singles tie the score at 1 - 1 and rookie Parker Meadows ends the game with his first career homer, a three-run walk-off shot.
Tigers players birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Justin_Upton
Justin Upton Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Justin Upton 2016-2017.
Tigers players who passed away:
George Disch Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
George Disch 1905.
Red Donahue Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Red Donahue 1906.
Waite Hoyt - BR Bullpen
Waite Hoyt Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Waite Hoyt 1930-1931.
Jim Brideweser Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Jim Brideweser 1956.
Baseball Reference
1900: Criticism of administration in the National League continues. The Sporting News offers the new American League some editorial encouragement: "An organization opposed to the National League will be welcome because it will mean the elevation of the game if it is successful."
1902: Ban Johnson announces the American League's intention to have a New York team in 1903, with Clark Griffith as manager. The Baltimore franchise will be moved.
1909: Christy Mathewson stops the Pirates, 3 - 2, on five hits to notch his 20th victory of the season. It is the 7th season in a row in which Matty has hit 20 wins.
1913: Ty Cobb swipes home in the 5th inning to help the Tigers edge the Senators 6 - 5.
1915: The Red Sox win, 2 - 1 in 13 innings, to sweep the Tigers and solidify their hold on first place. Boston has now won seven straight and 19 of 21.
1921: With Cleveland waltzing to a 15 - 1 win over the Yankees, New York hurler Harry Harper, pitching in the 8th, plunks OF Charlie Jamieson in the ribs, Larry Gardner in the arm, and Steve O'Neill in the back. O'Neill throws the ball back at Harper, precipitating a bench-clearing brawl. New York OF Bob Meusel contributes four errors in the game. The Tribe takes over 1st place from the Yankees.
1922: In the first of a doubleheader before a sold-out Polo Grounds, the Browns beat the Yankees, 3 - 1, behind Urban Shocker. Waite Hoyt is the loser, but stops Ken Williams' hitting streak at 28 games. George Sisler hits in his 24th straight game. In game two, the Yankees jump to a 2 - 0 lead on Babe Ruth's 2-run triple, then extend it to 6 - 1 behind Joe Bush. The Browns close to 6 - 5, but that is it.
1922: In spite of a fourth-inning lead of 25 - 6, the Cubs need to hold on to defeat Philadelphia, 26 - 23, as the Phillies leave the bases loaded in the ninth. The total amount of runs, 49, is the major league mark for most tallies in one game.
1924: Walter Johnson hurls a seven-inning rain-shortened no-hitter against the Browns, winning by a score of 2 - 0.
1930: Tommy Bridges walks 12 St. Louis Browns, but Detroit still beats them 7 - 5.
1934: Schoolboy Rowe, Detroit's sensational rookie P, defeats the Senators 4 - 2, for his 16th win in a row tying the American League record held by Walter Johnson, Joe Wood, and Lefty Grove. Hank Greenberg's 2-run double in the ninth gives the Tigers the win in Washington.
1937: Cleveland's Bob Feller strikes out 16 Red Sox, one less than his own American League record, in an 8 - 1 victory.
1937: The Babe Meets The Brown Bomber! Baseball legend Babe Ruth and boxing legend Joe Louis pose together in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey.
1939: Red Rolfe scores for the Yankees in his 18th consecutive game, giving him a total of 30 runs.
1943: Detroit Tigers legend Hank Greenberg takes batting practice at Yankee Stadium wearing a borrowed #Yankees uniform before a #WWII War Bond exhibition game.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4YqZIQXMAAHNdY?format=png&name=900x900
1945: The Tigers' Joe Hoover will swipe only 19 bases in his career, but the most valuable one comes today. On the front end of a 3rd-inning double steal, Hoover steals home against the Browns for the game's only run.
1946: Rollie Fingers The HOF relief pitcher with the Athletics, Padres and Brewers was born in Steubenville, Ohio on this day.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4YBbMoWoAAp1WF?format=jpg&name=medium
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4V3pDYW8AAmdIl?format=jpg&name=small
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4V30NyXAAA-Wsi?format=jpg&name=360x360
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4V316qXQAEC-mW?format=jpg&name=small
1952: Tiger Virgil Trucks (5-14) throws the second of his two no-hitters this season blanking the Yankees 1 - 0.
Phil Rizzuto's third inning at-bat is quickly scored as an error but is changed to a hit only to be reversed again in the sixth inning making the no-hitter a bit controversial. "Fire" Trucks also threw 4 no-hitters in the minors.
1956: To make room for Enos Slaughter, the Yankees give Phil Rizzuto his unconditional release. Through the instigation of Ballantine Beer, Rizzuto will be in the announcing booth next year, replacing Jim Woods.
1957: Al Kaline is 4 for 4 with 2 home runs and 4 RBI in the Tigers 7 - 2 win over the yankees.
1959: The White Sox take out pennant insurance, sending Bob Sagers and Harry Simpson packing to Pittsburgh in exchange for veteran Ted Kluszewski. Klu will hit .297 during the season and a torrid .391 in the World Series.
1960: Boston's Vic Wertz's 2nd career grand slam, off Don Newcombe, as a pinch hitter ties the record set by Bill Skowron in 1957. Ted Williams hits his 516th home run in a 10 - 7 Boston win over Cleveland.
1961: Jim Bunning (15-9) allows just two hits while blanking the Senators 6 - 0, in a game called after eight innings because of rain. The win keeps the Tigers two games ahead of the Yankees.
1965: Moonlight Graham dies in Chisholm, MN. Graham played in one major league game, for the 1905 Giants, and did not get to bat. His character in W.P. Kinsella's Field of Dreams, later played by Burt Lancaster in the movie of the same name, will eventually make him a baseball household name.
1966: The owners approve a 55 percent raise in contributions to the players' pension fund. It will come from television, World Series, and All-Star Game money. Some money will also go to pay the salary of the Players' Association executive director.
1967: John Hiller throws his second straight complete game shutout in his second major league start, a 3 - 0 win over the royals.
1968: The Tigers ahead 5 - 0 fail to score with two on in the 4th inning when the Yanks bring in Rocky Colavito to pitch. The 35-year-old slugger retires Al Kaline and Willie Horton and tosses 2 2/3 innings of scoreless relief to earn the win. In Rocky's only other appearance in 1958, he also faced Kaline, and the victory by a non-pitcher will be the last this century. Bill Robinson and Bobby Cox crash successive homers to tie the score and, after a walk, Rocky comes around to score the winning run. In the 8th Yankees reliever Lindy McDaniel ties the American League record for consecutive batters retired by setting down the first Tiger he faces, giving him 32 straight batters retired over four appearances. New York sweeps, winning 6 - 5 and then topping Mickey Lolich 5 - 4. The four losses in New York leaves the Tigers just five games ahead of the Orioles.
1978: Major League umpires stage a one-day strike in defiance of their contract, in order to gain recognition for their union as their bargaining agent with Major League Baseball. Semipro and amateur umps are pressed into service until a restraining order forces the strikers to return. The umpires will walk out again at the beginning of the 1979 season.
1979: Willie Horton has two homers, including his 9th career grand slam, to pace Seattle to an 8 - 4 win over Detroit. Champ Summers has a pair of homers for the Tigers.
1984: Tigers 5 - Angels 1. Jack Morris holds the Angels to one run over 8 innings for his 17th win. Ruppert Jones hits a 3-run home run, Lou Whitaker has 3 hits. Tigers are 85-45: they have gone 50-40 since their 35-5 start
1990: Cecil Fielder hits a home run over the left field roof of Tiger Stadium in the Tigers 14 - 4 pounding of the a's.
He would be the only Tiger ever to clear the left field roof.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9plmrQX...jpg&name=small
1991: The Detroit Tigers released John Moses.
1991: Lou Whitaker's RBI single in the bottom of the 9th scores Scott Livingstone for a walk-off win that keeps the Tigers in a tie for first place.
1996: The New York Yankees dedicate a new monument at Yankee Stadium to honor Mickey Mantle.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4YzqKqWsAARPyk?format=jpg&name=medium
2002: Al Kaline honored at Comerica Park for 50 years with the Tigers.
https://media.gettyimages.com/id/51...=eDYGK5XtMAsVZO6RUMkGRMi8Hw2koHWFQ7RjVcbyjU0=
2010: Felix Hernandez of the Mariners beats the Red Sox in the second game of a doubleheader, fanning nine. That makes him the fourth-youngest hurler to 1,000 career strikeouts, following Bob Feller, Bert Blyleven and Dwight Gooden. David Ortiz is his 1,000th victim.
2012: The Red Sox and Dodgers complete a huge blockbuster deal, with Boston getting rid of $260 million in future salary by sending 1B Adrian Gonzalez, P Josh Beckett, OF Carl Crawford and IF Nick Punto to Los Angeles. In return, they receive 1B James Loney and four prospects: Ps Rubby De La Rosa and Allen Webster, IF Ivan DeJesus and OF/1B Jerry Sands. Both Crawford and De La Rosa are recovering from Tommy John surgery and will not play until next season. Gonzalez makes the biggest immediate impact, hitting a three-run homer in his first at-bat as a Dodger to key an 8 - 2 win over the Marlins. For their part, the Sox blow a 9 - 3 lead and lose to Kansas City, 10 - 9, in 12 innings, with none of the new acquisitions in the line-up.
2013: Miguel Cabrera hits a moon shot to the left field upper deck at Citi Field for his 42nd home run of the year in the Tigers 11 - 3 win over the mets.
2021: In the longest major league game since the introduction of the tiebreaker rule before the 2020 season, the Dodgers need 16 innings to defeat the Padres, 5 - 3, after almost six hours of playing time. After five scoreless extra frames in spite of the presence of a designated runner on second base every time, the Dodgers finally take a 3 - 1 lead in the top of the 15th, only to see Fernando Tatis Jr. tie it with his 35th homer of the year off Corey Knebel in the bottom of the inning, necessitating yet another inning. A.J. Pollock finally provides the margin of victory with a two-run homer off Daniel Camarena and the Padres fail to score against Shane Greene.
2023: Having already pitched a no-hitter earlier this month, Framber Valdéz of the Astros tosses seven hitless innings against the Tigers before being removed from the game, having thrown 114 pitches. Pinch-hitter Kerry Carpenter breaks the spell with a one-out single off Bryan Abreu in the 8th. Detroit then stages a remarkable comeback in the 9th: after the first two batters strike out against Ryan Pressly, three consecutive singles tie the score at 1 - 1 and rookie Parker Meadows ends the game with his first career homer, a three-run walk-off shot.
Tigers players birthdays:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Justin_Upton
Justin Upton Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Justin Upton 2016-2017.
Tigers players who passed away:
George Disch Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
George Disch 1905.
Red Donahue Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Red Donahue 1906.
Waite Hoyt - BR Bullpen
Waite Hoyt Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Waite Hoyt 1930-1931.
Jim Brideweser Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Jim Brideweser 1956.
Baseball Reference
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