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Jack Flaherty prevails in pitchers' duel with series-opening win.
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Tigers 2 - White Sox 1: A nice win to welcome the Tigers home.
And quite possibly the silliest ending to a game all season.
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Tigers snap four-game skid, beat White Sox 2-1 in opener.
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Detroit Tigers sneak past Chicago White Sox in 2-1 win to snap four-game losing streak.
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Meet the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame's star-studded Class of 2024.
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Former Tigers stars Cecil Fielder and Pudge Rodriguez also are a part of the Class of 2024, voted on by current and former sports media members, and sports-industry executives and personalities, as well as thousands of Michigan and Detroit sports fans.

This class is the 70th in the history of the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame.
 
June 22 in Tigers and mlb history:

1903: Hall of Famer Carl Hubbell was born this day in Carthage, MO.

1909: The Detroit Tigers Baseball Club buys the rest of the vacant Bennett Field grounds as the site for a new ball park.

1912: Ty Cobb gets pinch hit for in an unusual scenario. With two outs in the 9th, and the Tigers down 11 - 3, Cobb is nowhere to be found, and George Mullin substitutes and flies out to end the game. It turns out Cobb is in the clubhouse showering.

1916: The St. Louis Browns selected Earl Hamilton off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

1916: Against the Giants, the Braves pull off a triple steal in the 11th inning, with Johnny Evers on the front end. It is the National League's only extra-inning triple steal; the American League's only triple swipe in extra time will come in 1941.

1926: The Cardinals pick up 39-year-old Grover Cleveland Alexander on waivers from the Cubs to help in the pennant chase. He'll be 9-7 down the stretch.

1928: Journeyman hurler Hank Johnson of the Yankees blanks the star-studded Athletics, 4 - 0.
In the game for Connie Mack's team are 7 future Hall of Famers; Ty Cobb, Mickey Cochrane, Al Simmons, Jimmie Foxx, Eddie Collins, Tris Speaker and Lefty Grove.

1929: The Chicago White Sox purchased Frank Sigafoos from the Detroit Tigers.

1930: Babe Ruth ties a major league record by hitting five homers in two games and six homers in three games. The Yankee outfielder hit three homers in the second game of the doubleheader yesterday, two homers in today's opener and one more in the nightcap.

1934: Detroit takes over first place, beating Washington, 11 - 3, dislodging the Yankees who lose, 4 - 1, to Cleveland.

1934: Bill Terry and Joe Cronin, managers of the 1933 pennant winners, are named to head the All-Star teams, establishing a precedent that is still followed.

1939: Barney McCosky and Earl Averill lead off with back-to-back home runs, but the Tigers lose 6-5 to the philadelphia athletics.

1941: Joe DiMaggio has 2 hits against the Tigers to extend his hitting streak to 35 games.

1947: Ewell Blackwell just misses pitching back-to-back no-hitters when Eddie Stanky of the Brooklyn Dodgers singles with one out in the 9th inning. Blackwell then gets Al Gionfriddo before Jackie Robinson bangs out a second single. Blackwell wins, 4 - 0, his ninth straight win, to improve to 11-2. Stanky's hit ends Blackwell's hitless-inning streak at 19.

1951: Willie Mays, 20, hits a 10th-inning home run, the first of his 22 extra-inning home runs, off 42-year-old Dutch Leonard of the Cubs. It is a three-run shot that gives the Giants a 9 - 6 win.

1959: Dodger southpaw Sandy Koufax fans 16 Phillies, to set a new record for a night game, and wins, 6 - 2.

1959: At Kansas City, Mickey Mantle drives in six runs with a triple and two homers to lead New York to a 13 - 6 win.

1961: On his birthday, Jake Wood, in his rookie year, celebrated turning 24 with a 2-run 2nd inning double that gave the Tigers a 3-2 lead. With Detroit down 4-3 in the 6th, he doubled & scored the tying run on a Dick McAuliffe single. Detroit went on to beat Wshington 6-4.

1962: Stan Musial becomes the all-time total bases leader passing Ty Cobb, by raising his total to 5,864, in the first game against the Phillies.

1966: Willie Horton hits a grand slam in the Tigers' 12-2 win over the senators.

1967: Tigers beat Twins 5-2; Al Kaline homers twice w/ 3 RBIs.
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1970: Rod Carew, batting .376 for the Twins, injures his right knee during an attempted double play when Milwaukee's Mike Hegan slides into him. The injury will require surgery and sideline him until September. Harmon Killebrew's 5th-inning homer with two on enables the Twins to beat the Brewers, 4 - 3, behind Jim Kaat.

1973: The Detroit Tigers selected Bob Miller off waivers from the San Diego Padres.

1977: The Detroit Tigers released Luis Alvarado.

1977: The Red Sox bang five homers (George Scott, Jim Rice, Carlton Fisk with 2, and Butch Hobson), all off Jim Palmer, to beat Baltimore, 5 - 4. The Sox have now won 12 of their last 13 games and set homer records for eight games (29), seven games (26), and six games (24). The Sox reach 100 homers, the earliest they ever have.

1982: Red Sox rookie Wade Boggs hits his first major league home run in the bottom of the 11th inning to give Boston a 5 - 4 win over Detroit. Boggs will finally crack the starting lineup for good after tomorrow's game, in which regular 3B Carney Lansford severely sprains his ankle while unsuccessfully trying to stretch a triple into an inside-the-park home run. Boggs hits .390 in Lansford's absence and .349 for the season.

1983: The St. Louis Cardinals traded Doug Bair to the Detroit Tigers for a player to be named later. The Detroit Tigers sent Dave Rucker (July 5, 1983) to the St. Louis Cardinals to complete the trade.

1984: Tigers 7 - Brewers 3. Dave Rozema improves to 4-0. Willie Hernandez strikes out 5 for the save. Tigers are 50-18.

1987: The Seattle Mariners traded Karl Best to the Detroit Tigers for Bryan Kelly.

1987: Tom Seaver abandons his comeback attempt with the injury-riddled Mets and retires with a career Win-Loss record of 311-205, an ERA of 2.86, 3,640 strikeouts (3rd on the all-time list behind Nolan Ryan and Steve Carlton), and 61 shutouts (7th).

1988: The Detroit Tigers signed Ivan de Jesus as a free agent.

1988: Luis Salazar's single to center field scores Tom Brookens in the bottom of the 10th. The Tigers sweep the Yankees on three walk-off wins to open up a 2.5-game lead over them in the AL East.

1991: Mickey Tettleton of the Tigers becomes the 17th player to ever hit a ball out of Tiger Stadium in Detroit in the Tigers loss to the Angels.

1994: OF Ken Griffey Jr. leads the Mariners to a 12 - 3 win over the Angels by stroking his 31st home run of the season. In doing so, Griffey breaks Babe Ruth's record for most home runs before the end of June. Although the Yankee slugger needed only 63 games to reach 30 homers in 1928 and 68 games in 1930, Junior accomplishes the feat in the Mariners' 70th game of the season.

2005: The Detroit Tigers released Nelson Cruz.

2006 : With the Marlins, Miguel Cabrera hits a go-ahead single on an attempted intentional walk in a game vs. the orioles.

2007: The Detroit Tigers traded Mike Maroth to the St. Louis Cardinals for a player to be named later. The St. Louis Cardinals sent Chris Lambert (August 30, 2007) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

2009: Donald Fehr announces his retirement as head of the Major League Baseball Players Association after 25 years. He was in charge during the 1994 strike and the relative labor peace that followed. His resignation will be effective in March 2010, when the union's general counsel, Michael Weiner, takes over.

2010: Jamie Moyer serves up the 505th home run of his major league career, to Russell Branyan, in a 2 - 1 win over the Indians. Moyer ties Robin Roberts for the most homers surrendered in the majors.

2013: Max Scherzer improves his record to 11-0 with a 10 - 3 Tigers win over the Red Sox. Roger Clemens, in 1997, was the last pitcher to reach that mark.

2014: The Tigers scored seven runs in the 5th inning and finished the game with five doubles to complete a sweep of the Indians. Cabrera is 2 for 4 and has a home run and 3 rbi, Ian Kinsler is 3 for 5, Max Scherzer goes 6 innings allows 1 run with 8 K's.

2015: ESPN reveals it has obtained a copy of a notebook belonging to Pete Rose which contains evidence of regular betting on baseball games during the 1986 season. The notebook was seized during a police raid on one of Rose's associates in 1989, after Rose was banned from baseball by Commissioner Bart Giamatti, and had been under court-ordered seal since. Its content corroborate the contents of the Dowd Report, which led to Rose's suspension, and make it even less likely that current Commissioner Rob Manfred will reverse it, as Rose has pleaded for him to do.

2015: The Detroit Tigers released Josh Prince.

2016: Michael Fulmer allows one run, just his 3rd in 7 starts. Stephen Moya hits 2 home runs in Tigers 5 - 1 win over mariners.

2018: The Detroit Tigers signed Josh Thole as a free agent.

2020: MLB owners agree unanimously on a plan for a 60-game season beginning around July 24th - if everyone signs off on health and safety protocols.

2021: The Minnesota Twins selected Beau Burrows off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

2022: Drew Hutchison of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

2022: One day after setting a personal best as a hitter with 8 RBIs, Shohei Ohtani sets another one on the mound as he racks up 13 strikeouts in 8 scoreless innings in a 5 - 0 win over Kansas City.

2023: The Detroit Tigers signed Johan Camargo as a free agent.

Tigers players birthdays:

Walt Masterson 1956.

Jake Wood 1961-1967.

Estaban Yan 2004.

Ian Kinsler 2014-2017.

Tigers players who passed away:

Tom Doran 1905.

Marv Owen 1931, 1933-1937, Tigers minor league manager 1952-1954, scout 1950's - 1970's.

Paul Campbell 1948-1950.

Bubba Phillips 1955, 1963-1964.

Ron Kline 1961-1962.

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SATURDAY SURVEY.
Totally Tigers

The Detroit Tigers are struggling to score runs, especially with the loss of Kerry Carpenter to the IL. Although he is about to start re-habbing, it is still unknown how long he will be out.
It is also 5 weeks to the July trade deadline and the Tigers are expected to be sellers. Two of their better hitters – Mark Canha and Gio Urshela – have the potential to be traded.
But should they?

Should the Tigers allow them to leave and potentially weaken whatever little offense they have? Both players have contracts that expire after this year which means they are considered rentals and probably will not fetch a MLB-level player in return. Prospects are more likely but potentially 1 of them may fill a roster spot at some point during the 2025 season.

Or should the Tigers keep them in hopes that they can avoid an excessive number of losses by year’s end? Are the season’s final results more important than acquiring what may probably be prospects?
What do you think?

Should the Tigers trade or keep Gio Urshela and/or Mark Canha at the trade deadline?

1. Keep them.

2. Trade them.

VOTE
 
Reeling Tigers offense feeling effects without Carpenter.
Detroit's six runs are the lowest in a six-game stretch since 2005.
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White Sox 5 - Tigers 1: Alright, who hid all the bats?
This is getting ridiculous.
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Tigers offense shut down, squanders better outing from Maeda.
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Detroit Tigers lose 5-1 to MLB-worst Chicago White Sox, with just 6 runs in 6 games.
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June 23 in Tigers and mlb history:

1903: The Boston Americans take - and hold - the American League lead. They will finish 14 1/2 games ahead of the Philadelphia Athletics.

1904: The first-place Giants run their win streak to eight games, beating Boston, 6 - 2. Christy Mathewson allows nine hits, strikes out 9, and drives in two runs with a 6th inning single.

1906: At the Polo Grounds, the Giants whip the Phils, 5 - 0, in a match that takes one hour, 20 minutes. Christy Mathewson allows six hits in outpitching Lew Richie.

1909: At the Polo Grounds, Christy Mathewson wins a doubleheader against Boston. Matty relieves Rube Marquard in the opener with the score tied 4 - 4 in the 9th. After shutting down Boston, the Giants score a run for the 5 - 4 win. Matty then coasts in the nitecap to an 11 - 1 win.

1915: For the 5th time this month, and 6th time this year, Ty Cobb steals home, doing it in a 4 - 2 Tiger win over the St. Louis Browns. Cobb scores another run when Sam Crawford hits back to Browns P Grover Lowdermilk, who somersaults after catching the grounder and sits on the mound holding the ball. Cobb scores all the way from second base on the play.

1915: Philadelphia Athletics lefty Bruno Haas makes his debut against New York a memorable one as he walks a record 16 batters, and throws three wild pitches. He goes all the way in a 15 - 7 loss, his only major league decision. Haas breaks the American League record of 15 walks, set by Boardwalk Brown and ties Bill George's major league record. Haas will pitch in just five more games before ending up in the NFL as a halfback for Akron.

1917: In the first of two games at Boston, Babe Ruth starts for the Red Sox and walks the leadoff man, griping to plate umpire Brick Owens after each pitch. On ball 4, Ruth plants a right to the umpire's head, and is ejected.
Ernie Shore comes in to pitch. Ray Morgan is then caught stealing, and Shore retires all 26 men he faces in a 4 - 0 win, getting credit in the books for a perfect game (the ruling will later be changed, giving the two pitchers a combined no-hitter, but no perfect game). Boston's Dutch Leonard then beats Walter Johnson, 5 - 0, in the nitecap.
Ruth is suspended for his actions, a ban that will last nine days. He also is fined $100.

1927: With the help of a 3rd-inning triple play, the Tigers down the White Sox, 6 - 5, in 11 innings. Ted Lyons loses again, to reliever Earl Whitehill.

1927: At Boston, Lou Gehrig leads New York to an 11 - 4 victory by hitting three home runs, a first at Fenway Park. Gehrig hits a two-run homer in the 2nd, and solo shots in the 6th and 8th, off Danny MacFayden. He adds a single to his total as Dutch Ruether coasts to the win.

1930: With two outs in the 6th inning, Brooklyn makes 10 hits in succession against Pittsburgh to equal the major league record. The Robins begin the 7th inning with two more after the 6th inning ends with a runner tagged out at the plate. They win, 19 - 6. Babe Herman hits two home runs during the streak.

1930: Hack Wilson hits for the cycle with two singles, a double, triple, and homer, and drives in six as the Cubs whip the Phils, 21 - 8, at Wrigley Field.

1933: The Senators take over first place, winning their third in a row over the White Sox while the Yankees break even in St. Louis. Joe Cronin leads the way with his 5th consecutive multi-hit game. With his two hits today matching his output on the 18th, and 13 hits in the three games of the 19th, 21st and 22nd, Cronin sets the record for most hits in three games (13) as well as four games (15).

1935: Hank Greenberg hits a grand slam in the 9th, but the Tigers lose 12-7 to the senators.

1939: Hank Greenberg collects his 1,000th hit, a double in the Tigers 7 - 4 win over the Senators.

1940: Bobo Newsom wins his 9th in a row, stopping the Yankees on four hits. The Tigers move to a game and a half in back of the first-place Indians.

1940: In Cleveland, 56,659 watch the Indians split with Boston. Cleveland wins the opener, 4 - 1, for their 8th win in a row, then Boston wins the nitecap, 2 - 0, on two Jim Tabor home runs. In the first game, Ted Williams and Doc Cramer collide chasing a fly ball. Williams is knocked unconscious and the ball goes for an inside-the-park home run.

1943: Captain Hank Greenberg briefly re-joins the Tigers for batting practice.

1943: Tigers play a doubleheader with 350 armed guards stationed throughout Briggs Stadium due to racial unrest.
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1950: Eleven home runs - a major league record - drive in all the runs scored in a 10 - 9 Tiger win over the Yankees before 51,000 Detroit fans.
Detroit has four home runs in the 4th inning as Dizzy Trout, Jerry Priddy, Vic Wertz and Hoot Evers connect.
Pitcher Trout's home run, off Tommy Byrne, is his second lifetime grand slam.
Evers hits another home run, an inside-the-park 2-run game winner in the 9th off Joe Page to win it.
For New York, Hank Bauer connects for two homers, including one in the 4th inning. Joe DiMaggio, Jerry Coleman, Yogi Berra and pinch hitter Tommy Henrich also belt round trippers.
It is the first time that nine different players connect for homers in a game.

1951: Don Newcombe gives up a 1st-inning single to Ralph Kiner in beating the Bucs on a one-hitter, 13 - 1. The Dodgers jump on Bill Werle and successors for 16 hits, including homers by Carl Furillo and Rocky Bridges.

1957: Oriole Skinny Brown blanks the Tigers, 6 - 0, to start a string of four shutouts for the O's staff.

1958: The Detroit Tigers traded Vito Valentinetti to the Washington Senators for Al Cicotte.

1959: The Yankees ride two-run homers from Mickey Mantle, Hank Bauer and Gil McDougald to a 10 - 2 win over Kansas City.

1961: Ernie Banks voluntarily takes the bench as a sore knee brings his 717 consecutive games played streak to an end. The streak started August 26, 1956. The Bank-less Cubs still win, 5 - 3, over the Braves at Wrigley Field. Joe Adcock, who applied the hidden ball trick last August 31st to George Altman, nabs another Cub, Billy Williams, in the 8th.

1962: Mickey Mantle returns to the Yankee lineup and homers against Paul Foytack. But it is not enough as Detroit wins, 5 - 4.

1962: Larry Doby becomes one of the first players with major league experience to sign with a Japanese team.
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1963: A major league fielding record is set by Boston's 1B Dick Stuart aka "Dr. Strange Glove" handles three 1st-inning grounders and tosses to P Bob Heffner for putouts each time. Stuart's teammates and Fenway Park fans give him a standing ovation. The Yankees beat the Sox, 8 - 0.
Heffner is just the second pitcher to have three putouts in an inning: Boston's Jim Bagby (1940) is the other. Rick Reuschel in 1975 will be the next.

1965: The Detroit Tigers selected Orlando Pena off waivers from the Kansas City Athletics.

1967: The Cincinnati Reds purchased Jake Wood from the Detroit Tigers.

1968: Tigers split a doubleheader in Cleveland: Luis Tiant shuts Tigers out in Game 1, Dick Tracewski's 3-run homer gives them a 4-1 win in Game 2.

1969: Jim Price hits a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 9th, his second walk-off hit in two weeks, and Tigers beat the yankees 6 - 5.
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1971: Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Rick Wise hits 2 HRs and hurls a no-hitter vs. the Cincinnati Reds at Riverfront Stadium.


1974: Los Angeles Dodgers closer Mike Marshall completes a sweep of the Giants, winning today, 4 - 3. Marshall was the winner in yesterday's 3 - 2 win, and also on the 21st in another 4 - 3 victory. Not till California's Chuck McElroy, in 1996, will another pitcher sweep a series.

1984: The Detroit Tigers released Don Gordon.

1984: Milt Wilcox pitches the Tigers 5 - 1 win over the Brewers.
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1985: Frank Tanana pitches 7 shutout innings against the Yankees in his Detroit Tigers debut and the Tigers win 3 - 1.

1988: George Steinbrenner fires Billy Martin for the fifth time, replacing him with Lou Piniella. In 1985, Piniella was fired and replaced by Martin. In 1987, Martin was fired and replaced by Piniella. New York's 40-28 record is the 4th best in the big leagues, but the Yankees have just completed a 2-7 road trip.

1994: The Senate Judiciary Committee fails to approve antitrust legislation by a vote of 10-7. According to Donald Fehr, executive director of the Major League Players Association, the action leaves the players with little choice but to strike.

1998: The Detroit Tigers traded Bip Roberts to the Oakland Athletics for a player to be named later. The Oakland Athletics sent Jason Wood (July 18, 1998) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.

2001: The Detroit Tigers traded Dave Mlicki to the Houston Astros for Jose Lima.

2003: The Cleveland Indians sent Ron Wright to the Detroit Tigers as part of a conditional deal.

2012: Jim Thome hits a walk-off homer off Tampa Bay's Jake McGee in the bottom of the 9th to give the Phillies a 7 - 6 win. It is Thome's 609th career homer, tying him with Sammy Sosa for 7th place on the all-time list, and the 13th in walk-off fashion, the most in history; five players have hit 12, and all are Hall of Famers: Jimmie Foxx, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Frank Robinson and Babe Ruth.

2016: The Tigers win the game as Cameron Maybin comes in to score on a wild pitch by Steve Cishek in the bottom of the 10th and beat the mariners 5 - 4.
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2017: The Detroit Tigers released Francisco Rodriguez.

2020: Following protracted negotiations there is now agreement to start an abbreviated 60-game season on July 23rd or 24th after the Players Association ratifies the proposed safety protocols. Players are to report to their team's home city on July 1st to resume "spring" training.

2022: The Miami Marlins purchased Ryan Lavarnway from the Detroit Tigers.

2023: The Detroit Tigers released Brendon Davis.

Tigers players birthdays:

Al Clauss 1913.

Bubba Floyd 1944.

Aaron Robinson 1949-1951.
November 10, 1948: Traded by the Chicago White Sox to the Detroit Tigers for Billy Pierce and $10,000.
Top 5 dumbest trades by Detroit.

Tom Haller 1972.

Tigers players who passed away:

Al Bashang 1912.

George Boehler 1912-1916.

Ross Reynolds 1914-1915.

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DEEPER DISCUSSIONS.
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It’s been almost a month since the Detroit Tigers sent Spencer Torkelson down to Toledo. He had a quick run picking up his offensive skills but once again, he’s struggling to hit with only a couple singles in 19 at-bats late in the week.
Earlier, when he was hitting well, A. J. Hinch told the press that Tork would not be coming back soon and that they were looking to see what changes he was making at the plate instead of his stats.

In a recent national interview, Spencer made some worrisome comments about his struggles that included referrals to his mental approach as well as (sic) “thinking about other stuff” when at the plate. None of his comments gave us hope that things were turning around anytime soon.

There is a decent chance that Tork will not be returning to Detroit this year. In addition to his offensive struggles, his defensive skills continue to rank at the very bottom of MLB. The Tigers have stated that he also needs to work and improve on both sets of skills before coming back.
Given this, what should the Tigers do about the hole at first base?
Should they take a risk and believe that Torkelson will return next season?

Both Mark Canha and Gio Urshela have experience at 1B there but their contracts expire after this year. Urshela in particular has done a solid job of covering 1B.
Both Canha and Urshela are veterans and 2 of the better hitters on the team.

Should they extend Urshela’s contract for the 2025 season? Of course, 3B is his best position and the Tigers currently don’t have a solid heir for that spot yet. He could play both 1B and 3B.

Or should the Tigers take a significant risk and move players around to untested positions?
Colt Keith is trying to adapt to 2B but his DRS so far is poor. Jace Jung is trying to learn 3B and he is also struggling defensively.
Should the Tigers move Keith to 1B and bring up Jung to cover 2B? It would leave no one to take over 3B.
Is it wise to move 2 untested rookies to these crucial positions? And who would cover 3B?

Today’s blog addresses this question and allows readers to share their thoughts in more detail. And hopefully, to actively engage with others by responding to their posts and creating back-and-forth discussion threads. The more the merrier!
For this one blog only, you’ve got 6 sentences max to share your thoughts. Of course, you can also respond to other readers.
TT will supply the ammunition. One thought-provoking question. Several options provided. One hard choice to be selected. One vote.
Ready?

What should the Tigers do about 1st base for 2025?

1. Bring Spencer Torkelson back.

2. Extend Gio Urshela. Have him cover 1B.

3. Move Keith to 1B and Jung to 2B.

VOTE
 
Tigers rout White Sox in finale, giving Olson ample run support.
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Video highlights of the Tigers win over the white Sox.

Boxscore.

Tigers' anemic offense comes to life to pummel White Sox, take series.
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Detroit Tigers' offense blasts off in 11-2 win over Chicago White Sox.
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Right-hander Reese Olson shut down the White Sox while receiving run support from the Tigers, virtually for the first time all season — the Tigers scored nine runs with him in the game Sunday after averaging 1.5 with him on the mound in 14 previous starts. The 24-year-old made it count, allowing two runs on four hits with zero walks and three strikeouts across 6⅓ innings and throwing 97 pitches to pick up his second victory this year.
 
June 24 in Tigers and mlb history:

1905: At the Polo Grounds, the Giants beat Boston, 2 - 1, in 12 innings, with Christy Mathewson getting the win. With two outs in the 12th, Matty hits a fly ball to CF Rip Cannell, who drops the ball. Catcher Frank Bowerman, on first base, chugs around with the winning run.

1908: Honus Wagner does it all today, smacking a home run and double, then breaking a 3 - 3 tie with an 8th-inning single. He ends his scoring with a steal of home as the Pirates win, 5 - 3, over the Reds.

1913: Ty Cobb and a whole lot of straw hats.
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1914: Washington's Walter Johnson is en route to a 2 - 1 home win over the A's when newsboys come through the stands hawking the latest edition of the papers headlining the wedding that evening of the ace to Hazel Roberts. The fiancee is supposedly spotted by the crowd, but the real Ms. Roberts slips by unnoticed.

1928: Grover Alexander beats the Reds for the third time in eight days.

1933: Arky Vaughan hits for the cycle, as the Pirates beat the Dodgers, 15 - 3.

1934: After being hitless in his last 21 at bats, Babe Ruth hits a grand slam in a 5 - 0 Yankee win over the White Sox.

1936: Rookie Joe DiMaggio ties three major-league records in New York's 10-run 5th inning against the White Sox, hitting 2 home runs for 8 total bases. With 2 doubles, he equals the modern record of four long hits in a game. New York beats St. Louis, 18 - 4.

1938: View of Walter O. Briggs, owner of the Detroit Tigers, watching a baseball game.
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1938: Hank Greenberg hits a 3-run home run & a 2-run homer, his 19th & 20th of the season, to lead the Tigers to a 12-8 win over the Yankees.
Hammerin' Hank will go on to challenge Babe Ruth's season record of 60 home runs, finishing with 58.
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1947: The Dodgers win, 4 - 2, over the Pirates, as Jackie Robinson swipes home for the first of 19 times in his career.

1950: Art Houtteman pitches Detroit to a 4 - 1 win over the Yankees. Yogi Berra's homer is the only Yankee score, as New York loses its 4th straight and 8th in 12 games. Detroit now leads the American League by three games.

1950: 19-year-old Willie Mays makes his minor league debut with the Trenton Giants of the Interstate League! "The Say Hey Kid" winds up hitting .353 BA in 81 games.
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1953: The Braves sign 17-year-old Joey Jay from Middletown, Connecticut, making him the first Little League player to make it to the major leagues.

1955: In an 18 - 7 loss to the Tigers, Senator 18-year old rookie third baseman Harmon Killebrew hits his first major league home run off Billy Hoeft.

1955: Already down six, en route to an 8 - 2 drubbing by Milwaukee, the Dodgers debut Brooklyn-born bonus baby, Sandy Koufax. Working a scoreless but labor-intensive 5th and 6th, Koufax puts Braves on every base?via hit, walk and error (his own)?before recording his first major league out by blowing a 3-2 fastball past Bobby Thomson.
Writing more than a decade later, Koufax will recall this undeniably thrilling moment as "probably the worst thing that could have happened to me, getting my first out by striking out a big hitter; because that became my pattern for five years, trying to get out of trouble by throwing harder and harder and harder."
(Conversely, the 4-pitch walk which immediately preceded Thomson?issued to one Henry Louis Aaron?will, in almost the same breath, be viewed by Sandy as "probably the smartest thing I did all year. There have been many times since when I wished I had been wild enough to walk Henry Aaron. I'm usually backing up third as I am wishing it.")

1958: The Yankees erupt for five runs in the 4th inning off Early Wynn to beat the White Sox, 6 - 2, at Comiskey Park. Mickey Mantle's clout into the CF bleachers leads off the inning, followed by a single, walk and Jerry Lumpe's first major league home run, and a home run by Norm Siebern. Ryne Duren strikes out six of the last nine batters to preserve Bob Turley's win.

1959: The Detroit Tigers signed Don Bryant as an amateur free agent.

1960: Willie Mays hits two home runs, singles, steals home, and makes 10 putouts to lead the Giants in a 5 - 3 win at Cincinnati. Mays has three RBI and three runs scored.

1961: Rookie shortstop Dick McAuliffe hits a 2-run home run with 2 outs in the top of the 9th: Tigers beat the indians 5-4.
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1962: A marathon between the Tigers and Yankees concludes in the 22nd inning when Jack Reed's home run - his only one in the big leagues - gives New York and Jim Bouton a 9 - 7 victory. Reed replaced Joe Pepitone in the 13th. For the Tigers, Phil Regan takes the loss and Rocky Colavito has seven hits. Bobby Richardson ties a mark by going to the plate 11 times. At an even seven hours, the game is the slowest extra-inning contest in league history and it is the longest game in innings in Yankee history.

1962: Led by a grand slam from Hank Foiles and four RBIs on two home runs from Frank Robinson, the Reds outslug the Dodgers, 12 - 10, at Dodger Stadium.

1967: Mickey Mantle breaks a 3 - 3 tie in the 9th with a home run off Detroit's Fred Gladding to give 9th-place New York a 4 - 3 win.

1968: After being benched the day before after a 1 for 20 slump, Detroit RF Jim Northrup becomes the 6th American League player to hit two grand slams in one game, connecting in the 5th inning off Eddie Fisher and in the 6th off Billy Rohr, as the Tigers bomb Cleveland, 14 - 3.
Denny McLain is the victor. First baseman Willie Smith pitches the last three innings, walking just one and allowing one hit and no runs.
Detroit's Don Wert is taken to the hospital following a 6th inning beaning which shatters his batting helmet. He will miss just a few games.
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1969: Richie Allen is fined $2,500 and suspended indefinitely when he fails to appear for the Phillies twi-night doubleheader game with the Mets. Allen had gone to New Jersey in the morning to see a horse race and got caught in traffic trying to return. He will stay suspended until July 20th. Allen picked up a $1000 fine in May when, for two straight days, he reportedly arrived at the ballpark after the game had started. Without Allen, the Phils drop a pair, 2 - 1 and 5 - 0.

1971: The Mets' Tom Seaver smashes an 8th-inning homer off Montreal's Bill Stoneman to win his own game, 2 - 1.

1980: Richie Hebner hits a bases-loaded double and bases-loaded single for 6 rbi in the Tigers 9 - 4 win over the indians.
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1983: Milwaukee's Don Sutton strikes out Alan Bannister in the 8th inning of a 3 - 2 win over Cleveland to become the 8th pitcher in major league history with 3,000 career strikeouts.

1984: After missing two starts, Jack Morris (12-3) stops the Brewers, 7 - 1. The Tigers have drawn 165,000 fans for the 4-game series with Milwaukee. Ruppert "Rooftop" Jones hits a 3-run home run over the RF roof of Tiger Stadium, and Lance Parrish homers. Jack Morris pitches 6 one-hit innings for his 12th win. With 3 straight wins, the #Tigers (52-18) stretch their lead to 8.5 games.
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1989: The Detroit Tigers signed Danny Bautista as an amateur free agent.

1991: California's Dave Winfield goes 5 for 5 and hits for the cycle as the Angels defeat Kansas City, 9 - 4. In so doing, he becomes the oldest player in history (39) to accomplish the feat.

1993: Carlton Fisk of the White Sox, plays his 2,226th and final major league game, surpassing Bob Boone's record of 2,225 for most games caught. Fisk reluctantly retires with 3,999 total bases, the most ever for a catcher. The Sox will exacerbate Fisk's bitterness by refusing to allow him into the locker room after the Sox make the playoffs this year. When the Sox retire Fisk's #72 in 1997, Fisk will request that Jerry Reinsdorf and GM Ron Schueler not be there for the ceremony, and when he goes into Cooperstown he will wear a Red Sox cap.
A clerical error about three games caught in 1981, in which Fisk relieved, initially gives him a total of 2,229 games caught. This error will appear on Fisk's Hall of Fame plaque when he is inducted, the 5th edition of Total Baseball, and the 1997 edition of The Sports Encyclopedia - Baseball. Other records books correctly show him with 2,226 games caught lifetime. SABR historian Wayne McElreavy and others note the discrepancy and the plaque and subsequent editions of the record books will correct the total to 2,226.

1998: The Detroit Tigers traded Dave Roberts and Tim Worrell to the Cleveland Indians for Geronimo Berroa.

2000: The Detroit Tigers released Allen McDill.

2000: The Tigers trim the Indians 14 - 8, in the second game of a day-night doubleheader behind OF Bobby Higginson's three home runs and six RBIs.
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2013: The Detroit Tigers signed Joe Jimenez as an amateur free agent.

2014: The Detroit Tigers purchased Daniel Schlereth from the Pittsburgh Pirates.

2017: With his 2nd hit of the day, Adri?n Beltr? (2,964) passed Sam Crawford for 32nd on all-time hit list. Next up: Sam Rice (2,985).

2019: Carlos Torres of the Detroit Tigers granted free agency.

Tigers players birthdays:

George Harper 1916-1918.

Tigers players who passed away:

Jack Burns 1903-1904.

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