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Blue Jays 9 - Tigers 1: The bullpen woes continue.
The Tigers briefly tied it, but the bullpen let this one get wildly out of control late.
BYBTB

Tigers' losing streak reaches five games, drop 9-1 decision to Jays.
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Detroit Tigers' offense, bullpen struggle again in 9-1 loss to Toronto Blue Jays.
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Tigers dropped by Jays in series opener.
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May 24 in Tigers and mlb history:

1880: Troy City rookie Roger Connor hits his first major league home run off Boston's Tommy Bond. He adds a triple and two singles as the Trojans beat the Red Caps 8 - 1. When Connor retires in 1897, he will have 136 homers a record that will stand until Babe Ruth breaks it in 1921.

1893: Catcher Connie Mack "misses " a short pop-up in front of home plate and starts a triple play in the 4th inning. He also drives in the winning run in the bottom of the 8th to lead Pittsburgh to an 8 - 7 win over St. Louis.

1901: At the Polo Grounds Christy Mathewson wins his 8th straight beating Cincinnati's Bill Phillips 1 - 0. Matty gives up just 3 hits.

1903: The Tigers avoid Detroit's Sunday ban on baseball by playing Washington at Grand Rapids in a game that draws 6000.
Detroit wins 5 - 4 behind George Mullin with John Deering in relief.

1907: Tigers beat the Senators 9-2 for their 8th win in 11 games, to pull within 2.5 games of league-leading Chicago. The Tigers will go on to win their first pennant.

1909: Under new manager Roger Bresnahan the Cardinals finally beat Christy Mathewson after losing to the Giants' ace 24 consecutive times.

1911: An abdominal ailment sidelines Nap Lajoie. He will get into only 90 games for the year and bat .365.

1916: Babe Ruth holds the Tigers to 4 singles in a shutout and goes 2-for-3 at the plate.

1918: Stan Coveleski of the Cleveland Indians pitches a 19-inning, complete game to defeat the New York Yankees 3 - 2. Former P 'Smokey' Joe Wood hits a home run in the 19th inning - his second of the game - to end the 3:45 marathon. For New York? Home Run Baker's 11 assists tie the American League record for a third baseman in an extra-inning game.

1919: The Boston Red Sox purchased Bill James from the Detroit Tigers.

1928: It's perhaps the game with the most prestigious dueling lineups when the Yankees and A's play today. The game includes 12 Hall of Famers, including Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Eddie Collins, Al Simmons, Jimmie Foxx, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Cochrane, and Tony Lazzeri.
The players in the lineups have a combined 22,356 hits.
This number does not include non-playing Hall of Famers Herb Pennock and Stan Coveleski, managers Miller Huggins and Connie Mack, nor umpire Tom Connolly.

1929: Chicago's Ted Lyons and Detroit's George Uhle go 21 innings before the Tigers get a run to win, 6 - 5, in the longest game - 3 hours and 31 minutes - ever seen to date at Comiskey Park.
Uhle is the winner tossing 20 innings with Vic Sorrell pitching the bottom of the 21st. Lyons the loser goes the distance and gives up 24 hits.
Charlie Gehringer drives in Roy Johnson with a sacrifice fly for the final run. No pitcher has matched either Lyons' or Uhle's marathon effort since. Les Mueller in 1945 will come the closest.

1930: Babe Ruth hits home runs in both games of a doubleheader, giving him nine homers in one week. New York sweeps 10 - 6 and 11 - 1. Newly-acquired Red Ruffing is the easy winner in the nitecap.

1933: Detroit's Tommy Bridges tosses a one-hitter in topping the Senators 3 - 1. Joe Kuhel's homer is the only Washington safety. It is the first time in the American League that a pitcher has allowed a home run in a one-hitter.

1935: The Cincinnati Reds host the Philadelphia Phillies in the first major league night game, winning, 2 - 1, before 25,000 fans. On the initiative of Larry MacPhail, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt throws the switch at the White House to turn on the lights. The Reds will play seven night games, one each against the other National League teams.
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1936: Tony Lazzeri, batting eighth for the New York Yankees, posts an American League record with 11 RBI while hitting three home runs - two of them grand slams - and a triple in a 25 - 2 rout of the Philadelphia Athletics. Another major league record is tied when Ben Chapman draws 5 walks as the Yanks are handed 16 bases on balls.

1942: At Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo one of the most memorable games in Japanese League history takes place a 28-inning marathon that ends in a 4 - 4 tie between Nagoya and Taiyo. It takes 3 hours and 47 minutes and both starters Michio Nishizawa of Nagoya and Jiro Noguchi of Taiyo go all the way: Nishizawa throws 311 pitches and Noguchi, 344. Games are not allowed to end in a tie because the teams have to show off their fighting spirit according to historian Yoichi Nagata. Because this is the last day of the spring schedule in the three-part season (spring summer and fall) closing ceremonies and awards are scheduled so officials order the umpire to end the game. Nagoya uses only 9 players and Taiyo 10. Despite the war the game is noted in The Sporting News.

1945: The Tigers lose Al Benton who has 5 wins and 3 shutouts when he is hit on the ankle in the 4th frame by a line drive off the bat of Bobby Estalella. The A's score 4 in the 5th to win? 7 - 2. There is great confusion in the 2nd inning, when Irv Hall and George Kell bat out of turn for the A's: Kell, batting 6th in the lineup card handed to umpire Eddie Rommel, comes up in place of Hall, who is batting 5th. He strikes out, so Tigers manager Steve O'Neill does not point out the mistake, validating Kell's at-bat. But Hall then steps to the plate when the 7th hitter, 1B Dick Siebert, should have followed Kell. Hall singles, O'Neill appeals, and Rommel calls him out to end the inning. However, no one can then agree on who is to lead off the 3rd (if the rule had been properly applied, Siebert would have been the one called out to end the 2nd and number 8 hitter Frankie Hayes should have been next up). Rommel decides that Kell should be next. Both managers protest the decision, although no one seems to be sure who should have been the proper batter. When American League President Will Harridge rules on the protest filed by O'Neill (who claims, wrongly, that Siebert should have led off the 3rd), he dismisses the protest - but for the wrong reasons - indicating that he is just as confused as everyone else. The perplexing rule will be clarified in 1957.

1946: The New York Yankees announce the resignation of manager Joe McCarthy. He is replaced by Bill Dickey. McCarthy resigns because of reported gall bladder trouble. During his 15-year run with the Yankees, he guided them to eight American League pennants and seven World Series titles.

1951: Cleveland whips the Senators, 16 - 0 with Bob Feller pitching a two-hitter. Larry Doby has a homer and 4 RBIs to lead the Tribe.

1952: Jimmy Piersall and New York's Billy Martin first exchange insults before a game in Boston then exchange punches in the tunnel under the stands. It takes coaches Bill Dickey and Oscar Melillo along with starter Ellis Kinder to break up the fight. Piersall goes to the clubhouse to change his bloody shirt and gets into another brawl with teammate Mickey McDermott. He sits as Ellis Kinder stops the Yanks 5 - 2.

1955: Pittsburgh's highly touted Rule 5 acquisition, rookie outfielder Roberto Clemente, debuts his new uniform number, 21 (as reported by Pittsburgh Press beat writer Les Biederman). Originally number 13, he replaces the previous 21, outfielder Earl Smith, who was optioned to New Orleans of the Southern Association on May 3rd. Clemente is the 15th and final Pirate to wear number 21, which will be retired in 1973, following his fatal airplane crash on New Year's Eve, 1972.

1956: Mickey Mantle goes 5 for 5 with an intentional walk in an 11 - 4 win against the Tigers. Mantle is hitting .421.

1958: The Tigers buy Bob "Hurricane" Hazle from the Braves. Hazle, hitting .170, became expendable when Billy Bruton returned to action today.
Bruton, who last played on July 11 of last year, appears in the 9th inning of the Braves' 6 - 3 win over the Cardinals.

1958: The Detroit Tigers snap a nine-game losing streak and break the New York Yankees' 10-game win streak with a 3 - 2 win behind Frank Lary.
Al Kaline's RBI double in the 7th puts Detroit up for good. Frank "The Yankee Killer" Lary strikes out 6 in a complete game win. Lary is now 11-4 against the Bronx Bombers.

1962: The Tigers score their first 4 runs on homers then score the winner on a passed ball in the 11th to beat the Orioles 5 - 4. Charlie Lau misses a Hoyt Wilhelm knuckler to allow Dick McAuliffe to score.
Jim Bunning pitches the first 9 innings for Detroit and is accused by O's manager Billy Hitchcock of notching the ball with his belt buckle.

1964: Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins hits the longest home run in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium, a 471-foot shot to left-center off right-hander Milt Pappas.
Seven shutouts in both leagues tie the major league record for blankings in one day.

1965: Bill Freehan hits 2 home runs to drive in 5 in the Tigers' 8-3 win in Chicago.
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1984: Jack Morris leads the Detroit Tigers to their 17th straight road win, setting an American League record.
Morris allows four hits and Detroit beats the California Angels, 5 - 1. Morris allows 4 hits in 9 innings to win? and he is backed by homers from Lance Parrish and Alan Trammell. Almost unfathomably, the 1984 Tigers swept 12 of their first 16 series.

1992: The Detroit Tigers signed Jamie Moyer as a free agent.

2004: Tigers get 27 hits in a 17-7 drubbing of the Royals. Only one of the hits is a home run: a 3-run shot by Carlos Pena in the top of the 9th inning.

2007: Carlos Guillen hits 2 home runs and Jeremy Bonderman allows only 4 hits over 8 innings as the Tigers shut out the Angels 12-0.

2008: Magglio Ordonez hits 2 home runs and a double in the Tigers' 19-3 rout of the Twins.

2011: The Detroit Tigers released Chris Oxspring.

2013: Anibal Sanchez throws no-hit ball until the 9th inning, when Joe Mauer breaks up his bid for a no-no with a one-out single to center. He strikes out the final two hitters but has to settle for a one-hit shutout as Detroit beats Minnesota, 6 - 0, the Twins' 10th straight loss. Miguel Cabrera's streak of four straight games with a homer ends, but he has two more RBI as he pursues his bid for another Triple Crown.
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2020: Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Nationals decide to hold a virtual ceremony to unveil their 2019 World Series rings. The date is selected as it marked the start of the team's remarkable turnaround in 2019, as they were 19-31 that day, but began to reverse course with a 12-10 win over the Marlins. The ceremony was to be broadcast on social media and cable television, but is postponed at the last minute as players object, preferring that the ceremony be held when the team can be physically reunited.

Tigers players birthdays:

Milt Jordan 1953.

Dave Machemer Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
Dave Machemeer 1979.

Danny Bautista 1993-1996.

Brad Penny 2011.

Tigers players who passed away:

Charlie Grover 1913.

Bob Miller 1953-1956
One of four major leaguers with the name, Bob Miller was noteworthy for breaking into the Major Leagues as a $60,000 "Bonus Baby" at age 17 in 1953. He remains the youngest pitcher to start a game in Detroit Tigers history, doing so after turning 18 on September 22nd that year. Although the Tigers were not a particularly young team overall, fellow rookies on the team included Al Kaline (a reported $35,000 bonus) and Reno Bertoia, both 18 at the time. Of the three, Miller received by far the most money for signing with Detroit.
 
FIVE FOR FRIDAY.
Totally Tigers

It’s Friday and the start of a long holiday weekend. No better time to turn our attention to the quirkier parts of the Detroit Tigers.
I’ve got 5 questions I’m dying to get answered. None of them having anything to do with the team’s performance this year. (We’re taking a mental health break today.) But relevant nonetheless.
 

Motor City Metrics Tigers Podcast: The Tigers Get Royally Screwed. 61 minutes.
The guys recap the series against Kansas City as the Royals young core of players outplayed the Tigers and Alex Lange heads to Toledo.
 
Colt Keith hits long-awaited first homer in Tigers' win over Blue Jays.
Tigers official site

Boxscore.

Video highlights of the Tigers win over the bluejays.

Tigers 6 - Blue Jays 2: The Keith and Carp Show.
Losing streak? Gone! Home runs? You bet! Stellar relief pitching? Ehhh, mostly.
BYBTB

Tigers end 5-game losing streak, Keith hits first homer in 6-2 win over Jays.
Detnews

Kenta Maeda throws five scoreless innings in Detroit Tigers' 6-2 win over Blue Jays.
Freep

Colt Keith’s first career homer helps Tigers snap 5-game skid.
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May 25 in Tigers and mlb history:

1906 - Martin Dihigo is born in Matanzas, Cuba. Over the course of his career, Dihigo will make seamless transitions between all nine positions and play in several countries. As a hitter he will lead the Negro Leagues in home runs in 1926 and 1935; as a pitcher he will win more than 300 games and defeat Satchel Paige while touring Cuba. He will be elected to the American Hall of Fame in 1977, becoming the only player in history to be inducted to the American, Cuban, Dominican, Mexican and Venezuelan Halls of Fame.
He will later add yet another honor as one of the inaugural inductees in the Latin American Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010.

1922: After being thrown out at second base trying to stretch a single, New York's Babe Ruth throws dirt in the face of umpire George Hildebrand and then goes after a fan. Ruth is ejected, and eventually fined $500 and suspended one game by American League president Ban Johnson.

1935: Babe Ruth shows flashes of his past glory by hitting the final three home runs of his career in the Boston Braves' 11 - 7 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. In addition to a 5th-inning single, Ruth hits homers in the 1st inning against Red Lucas, 3rd inning against Guy Bush and 7th inning off Bush again. In addition, his final homer is the first in Forbes Field's history to clear its right field roof.

1937: Tiger catcher/manager Mickey Cochrane is beaned in the head by a pitch from New York?s Bump Hadley. Cochrane is unconscious for seven days and nearly dies as a result.
The future Hall of Famer never plays another game in the big leagues, though he returns to manage Detroit the next season.
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While his professional playing career was over, Mickey Cochrane remained active in baseball and coached the US Navy Great Lakes Bluejackets Team during WWII.
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1951: Willie Mays debuts for the New York Giants, striking out in the 1st inning against Bubba Church. Mays goes 0 for 5, but makes three good plays in the field.

1953: Ralph Kiner hits the 300th home run of his career, off Al Corwin of the New York Giants at Forbes Field. Kiner is the 12th player to reach the mark.

1968: One day short of the six year anniversary (5-26-1962) of Al Kaline's worst injury breaking his collarbone on 9th inning game saving catch,
Oakland A's scumbag pos pitcher Lew Krause hits Al in his right arm fracturing it. Kaline will be lost to the Tigers until July 1.
Denny McLain strikes out 8 with 1 walk in a complete game win, his 7th of the season. Tigers win 2-1.
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1975: Mickey Lolich wins his 200th game for the Tigers, becoming just the third pitcher to win that many for Detroit. In a rain-shortened game in Chicago, Lolich beats the White Sox, 4-1 with seven innings of work. The lefty will win 207 games for the Tigers, third all-time behind Hooks Dauss and George Mullin.

1979: The Cincinnati Reds traded Champ Summers to the Detroit Tigers for a player to be named later. The Detroit Tigers sent Sheldon Burnside (October 25, 1979) to the Cincinnati Reds to complete the trade.

1983: Kirk Gibson scores on a memorable inside-the-park home run and the Tigers beat the blue jays 6 - 2.

1984: Mariners beat the Tigers 7-3 in Seattle. The Tigers' AL-record road winning streak is snapped at 17. Tigers are 35-6.

2001: The Detroit Tigers signed Lyle Mouton as a free agent.

2006: The Detroit Tigers released Matt Mantei.

2006: Tigers trail 6-0 after the 1st inning but rally to win 13-8 and hand the Royals their 13th straight loss.

2013: The Tigers welcome members of the 1968 team to Comerica Park to celebrate the 45th anniversary of their world championship.
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Detroit Tigers honor 1968 World Series championship team; Al Kaline: 'It seems like only yesterday'.

2014: The Tigers posthumously honor Bill Bruton with the African American Legacy Award. The outfielder played for the Tigers from 1961-64 and died in 1995. Bruton was one of the first African American players to be a regular starter for the Tigers.
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2018: Tigers honor usher Bill Fundaro for 50 years at Tiger Stadium and Comerica Park.

2021: By working home plate in a game between the Cardinals and White Sox, one of the worst umpires in baseball history Joe West, sets a new career record with 5,376 games as an umpire, passing Bill Klem, whose last game was in 1941. He already held the record for most seasons worked, as this year is his 44th (Klem and Bruce Froemming had 37), but Klem's record of having been the home plate umpire for 3,548 games is untouchable.

2022: Anaheim City Council votes unanimously to cancel the sale of Angel Stadium and surrounding land to Los Angeles Angels owner Arte Moreno, following the resignation of Mayor Bill Sidhu on corruption charges a few days earlier. The $350 million sale had been agreed in December 2019 but not yet finalized, and was at the center of an FBI investigation that led to accusations that Sidhu had provided insider information to the team and in return demanded kickbacks in the form of campaign contributions. The city councillors are now no longer convinced that the proposed deal reflects the city's best interests, and are willing to risk a breach of contract lawsuit from Moreno in order to examine a potential deal again, starting from scratch.

Tigers players birthdays:

Joey Eischen 1996.

Bill Haselman 1999.

Randall Simon 2001-2002.

Tigers players who passed away:

Bill James 1915-1919.

Al Lakeman 1954.

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SATURDAY SURVEY.
Totally Tigers

In a short period of time, the Detroit Tigers have gone from several wins above .500 and 2 games out of 1st place to a 5-game losing streak and sit in 4th place, 10 games out and 4 games under .500.

As has been the case, the lack of offense is their #1 problem. Overall, the team is hitting .231/.301/.364/.655 (through Thursday). Out of their regular 8 positional players, only 2 of them are hitting over .250, 1 is under .200 and 5 are hitting between .207 and .235.

PoBO Scott Harris has repeatedly said that “the kids need to play” but given the current situation, should he be modifying this strategy given its failure so far?
Or will the team’s hitting get better as the younger players gain more experience? Do they need to continue to wait this out?

Or is this simply one of those stretches in which the team plays poorly and then rebounds for awhile?
How concerned about the team’s performance for the year overall should we be?

Or should the team pivot and start to shuffle the lineup, bringing up another player or two from Toledo in the hope that there may be another Wenceel Perez ready to break out?
What should Harris do?

What should the Tigers do about the current roster?

1. Keep the current roster and hope that more experience will improve offense.

2. Shuffle the roster and give a prospect or two the chance to help improve offense.
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When the Tigers bullpen is rolling you would never think twice about Tyler Holton closing, but with a 5.37 ERA in May..it was a ballsy move..Hinch makes players have a standard of execution..if you can't meet it you're gone.

Final line for Tigers starter Reese Olson: 6.1 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 4 K. 93 pitches, 59 strikes.Olson has a 1.92 ERA with 19 walks and 47 strikeouts across 56.1 innings in 10 starts this season. He has a 0.77 ERA in his past six starts, a stretch of 35 innings.

Zack McKinstry since 6/1/23 .206/.264/.306 57 wRC+ 6.4 BB% 437 PA. time to move on.

Greene just keeps missing FB down the middle after FB down the middle its not late..its not an accurate swing..and its been a month of this..and its not changing..

no team in baseball misses more FB in the hitting zone..or has so many just quick innings than the Tigers
..and the futility has been going on for a few seasons.

It was an off day for Spencer Torkelson, who is in an 0-for-19 slump (and hitting .135 in his past 10 games).
Tigers have not been afraid recently to demote players.. think Torkelson has maybe 40 to 50 more AB before it's a possibility..

Before 5/25 the normally very reliable Andrew Chafin has allowed runs in 4 of his last 5 outings and for May
5 IP 12 H 7 R 6 ER 3 BB 3.00 WHIP.

Parker Meadows at TOL 16/53 .302 3 2B 2 3B 3 HR 7 BB.

In a desperate attempt to increase offense, the Detroit Tigers have signed OF Patrick Lee to a minor league contract. He comes from the Frontier League. The Tigers continue their glacial pace of trying to solve the lack of run production.
 
Reese Olson's gem rewarded as historic winless streak ends.
Tigers official site

Boxscore.

Video highlights of the Tigers win over the bluejays.

Tigers 2 - Blue Jays 1: Reese Olson dominates again.
Kerry Carpenter homered for the second straight day.
BYBTB

Tigers starter Olson's effort finally pays with his first victory of season.
Detnews

Detroit Tigers pitcher Reese Olson records first win in 2-1 victory over Toronto Blue Jays.
Olson has a 1.92 ERA with 19 walks and 47 strikeouts across 56⅓ innings in 10 starts this season, though his personal record is 1-5 due to a lack of run support. He has a 0.77 ERA in his past six starts, a stretch of 35 innings.
Freep

Reese Olson gets first win as Tigers beat Jays in nailbiter.
Mlive
 
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