September 13 in Tigers and mlb history:
1845: Alexander Cartwright presents the first set of baseball rules, 20 in total.
1902: The legendary Chicago Cubs infield trio of "Tinker to Evers to Chance" play their first game together.
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1907: At Washington Park, Christy Mathewson tops Jim Pastorius, 2 - 1, striking out 11 Superbas batters.
1909: Ty Cobb clinches the American League home run title with his 9th round-tripper. It is an inside-the-park drive against the Browns. In fact, all his nine home runs this season are inside-the-park, including two on July 15th. Only Sam Crawford (12 in 1901) has hit more inside-the-park homers in a year than Cobb.
1922: The Browns announce that George Sisler has severely strained ligaments and cannot lift his right arm over his head. He might be out for the remainder of the season, jeopardizing the Browns' pennant chances and Sisler's 39-game hitting streak. Ironically, the injury occurred when Sisler tried to catch a throw on a hit by Ty Cobb, whose streak he is trying to break. Without Sisler, the Browns rally to beat the Tigers, 8 - 6. Baby Doll Jacobson, playing 1B, makes two errors.
1924: Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance shuts out the Reds, 2 - 0, for his 14th win in a row.
1925: Brooklyn's Dazzy Vance narrowly misses back-to-back no-hitters over Philadelphia, pitching a 10 - 1 no-hitter five days after a 1 - 0 one-hitter. The Phils' lone run is scored by Chicken Hawks, who reaches second base on an error. Five days earlier it was Hawks' 2nd-inning single that ruined Vance's no-hitter. On June 17, 1923, Vance lost a no-hitter with two out in the 9th. In the second game, the Phils win, 7 - 3, behind Hawks' grand slam.
1927: Babe Ruth hits two home runs, to bring his season's total to 52, and the Yankees win a pair from Cleveland to clinch the American League pennant with a 98-41 record and 17-game lead. It is Miller Huggins' fifth pennant, tying him with Connie Mack.
1934: With his fiancee, Edna Mae Skinner of Oklahoma, watching, Schoolboy Rowe halts the Tiger skid with a 2 - 0 win over Washington. He asks in a radio interview: "How'm I doing, Edna?"
1934: Lefty Gomez pitches a 3-hitter against the Indians for his 25th win.
1934: Judge Landis sells the World Series broadcast rights to the Ford Motor Company for $100,000. Previously no fee had been charged.
1936: The Cardinals and Giants split a doubleheader at the Polo Grounds before 64,417, the largest crowd in the 60-year history of the National League.
1936: Indians teenage pitching phenom Bob Feller ties the major league record and sets a new American League record by striking out 17 batters as he two-hits the A's, 5 - 2. After the season, "Bullet Bob" will return to his Van Meter, Iowa home to graduate from high school.
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1938: A special committee names Alexander Cartwright to Baseball's Hall of Fame for originating the sport's basic concepts. Henry Chadwick, inventor of the box score and the first baseball writer, is also honored.
1946: Joe DiMaggio's 2-run home run off Hal Newhouser gives the Yankees the 5-4 win, eliminating the Tigers and delivering the pennant to Boston. Here's a great shot of DiMaggio sliding into third at Briggs Stadium on a different play.
1946: The Boston Red Sox clinch the American League pennant, edging the Cleveland Indians, 1 - 0, on Ted Williams' inside-the-park home run, the only one of his career. Williams punches the ball over the shift when LF Fat Pat Seerey pulls in behind the SS position. The Boston margin at the season's end will be 12 games.
1948: The Philadelphia Phillies selected Hal Wagner off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.
1949: Schoolboy Rowe makes his last career appearance, with the Phillies in Pittsburgh. Tied the American League record for consecutive wins with 16 for the Tigers in 1934.
1949: For the second time in his career, Ralph Kiner hits home runs in 4 consecutive at-bats, over 2 games. He performed the same feat in 1947. The 2 homers today are numbers 33 and 34 for the season. Kiner's 1949 total will include 25 on the road, 29 at Forbes Field, 14 of them in the bullpen enclosure still known as Greenberg Gardens (which will become known as Kiner Korner).
1951: Yankees leadoff hitter Mickey Mantle drives a Virgil Trucks pitch deep into the RF upper deck to start the Yankee scoring. Witnesses say that if Mantle had hit it more to CF, the ball would have traveled 600 feet. Mantle then K's three times, as Trucks drives over New York for a 9 - 2 Detroit win. Trucks adds a pair of RBIs.
1954: Redlegs slugger Ted Kluszewski scores a run in a 6 - 5 loss to the Pirates. Big Klu has scored in 17 consecutive games, a modern record.
1958: The Braves' Warren Spahn becomes the first lefty to win 20 or more games nine times, as he beats St. Louis, 8 - 2. Eddie Plank and Lefty Grove each won 20 games eight times.
1960: Nellie Fox hits a 2-out home run in the 11th to give the visiting White Sox a 6 - 5 win over the Senators. It is Nellie's 2nd home run of the year.
1964: St. Louis becomes the first National League club to score in each inning since the Giants did it on June 1, 1923. They coast, 15 - 2, at Wrigley Field with Curt Simmons improving his record to 15-9. Dick Ellsworth goes to 14-15 for Chicago. Julian Javier, Lou Brock and Mike Shannon homer for the Birds. A dropped pop-up in the top of the 9th secures St. Louis' place in history.
1965: At the Astrodome facing Don Nottebart, Giant outfielder Willie Mays becomes the fifth player in major league history to hit 500 career home runs. The "Say Hey Kid" will hit a league-leading and career-high 52 home runs en route to his second MVP season. Juan Marichal gets his 22nd victory, a 5 - 1 decision over Houston. It is the 11th straight win for San Francisco.
1969: Detroit is eliminated when they lose to the Senators, 11 - 6. The Nats score five in the 5th, three coming home on a Ken McMullen homer, one of his four hits in the game. Detroit rallies in the 6th on Willie Horton's 3rd grand slam of the year, but McMullen knocks home another two runs to give Darold Knowles (7-3) the win over Tom Timmermann.
1971: Frank Robinson of the Orioles homers in each game of a doubleheader split with Detroit, his 499th & 500th home runs. The O's win the opener, 9 - 1, behind Dave McNally's 13th consecutive win. The Tigers use 17 hits to win the nitecap, 10 - 5, for Fred Scherman, who pitches 8 2/3 innings in relief of Joe Niekro.
1972: Frank Howard, who is not playing regularly for the Tigers, hits a 3-run homer off Dave McNally of the Orioles for a Detroit victory. It is his 13th career four-bagger off his favorite pitcher.
1978: Yankees beat the Tigers to take over first place from Boston, after trailing the Red Sox by 14 games in July.
1983: Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals three bases in a 6 - 5 win over Texas to give him 101 for the season and a major league-record three consecutive seasons with 100 or more.
1987: Alan Trammell homers for 2nd straight game. Will finish with 28 HRs, 105 RBIs, .343 average, all career highs.
Tigers beat the brewers 5 - 1.
1989: Jack Morris gets his 162nd and final win of the 1980s, the most of any major league pitcher during that decade.
He was 12th in WAR over the same span.
1995: Tigers Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell set a new American League record for joint appearances - 1,915 games.
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Whitaker hits a walk-off home run, the last long ball #244 of his distinguished Tigers and ML career in the Tigers 5 - 3 win over the brewers.
1997: In St. Louis, Tony Gwynn reaches 200 hits for the fifth time in his career in the Padres' 8 - 3 win over the Cardinals.
2001: Due the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Major League Baseball postpones all games through September 17th. The 91 missed games, the most regular-season contests not played since World War I forced the cancellation of the final month of the 1918 season, are re-scheduled for the week after the regular season was supposed to end, meaning the World Series is likely to extend into November for the first time in history.
2002: The U.S. Senate passes a resolution honoring beloved Tiger broadcaster Ernie Harwell who is retiring at the end of the season. The 84-year-old has been a major league baseball announcer for 55 years.
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2011: Justin Verlander and the Detroit Tigers continue to steamroll over opponents. Verlander picks up his 23rd win - the first pitcher to reach that total since Barry Zito in 2002 - when he pitches 7 shutout innings over the White Sox for a 5 - 0 win. Verlander has won his last 11 starts, something no one has done for the Bengals since Hal Newhouser in 1946. The win is also Detroit's 11th straight this month.
2011: Mariano Rivera becomes the second pitcher to record 600 saves, one year after Trevor Hoffman, in preserving New York's 3 - 2 win over Seattle with a scoreless 9th inning. "Mo" is only one save behind Hoffman's all-time record, as Hoffman retired after last season.
2013: The Detroit Tigers traded a player to be named later and Danry Vasquez (minors) to the Houston Astros for Jose Veras. The Detroit Tigers sent David Paulino (September 13, 2013) to the Houston Astros to complete the trade.
2017: The Indians set a new American League record with their 21st consecutive win when they defeat the Tigers, 5 - 3.
Detroit manages to take a 1 - 0 lead against Mike Clevinger in the 1st, but in the bottom of the inning, Jay Bruce hits a three-run homer off Buck Farmer and Cleveland nurses that lead until the end of the game. The win also ties the major league record of 21 consecutive wins, set by the 1935 Chicago Cubs.
Tigers players birthdays:
George Susce Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
George Susce 1958-1959.
Nelson Cruz Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Nelson Cruz 1999-2000.
Luke French Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Luke French 2009.
Tigers players and coaches who passed away:
Hap Ward - BR Bullpen
Hap Ward Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Hap Ward 1912.
Ralph Comstock Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Ralph Comstock 1913.
Al Clauss Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Al Clauss 1913.
Jack Pierce Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Jack Pierce 1975.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Alex_Grammas
Alex Grammas coach 1980-1991.
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