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June 27 in Tigers and mlb history:
1903: The Pirates crush 15 hits off Iron Joe McGinnity, including four hits by Honus Wagner, but it takes the Bucs 11 innings to cut down the Giants. In the Pirates' next game, on the 30th against Brooklyn, Wagner will collect another four hits.
1911: White Sox ace Ed Walsh shuts out the Tigers, 3 - 0. Ty Cobb is held to an infield single and then is cut down stealing.
1913: Washington's Walter Johnson tops the A's, 2 - 0, to start a 14-game winning streak. He won't lose for another two months.
1914: The A's top Walter Johnson and Washington, 4 - 2. Eddie Collins is 2 for 4 with a run and RBI for the A's.
1916: Boston's Babe Ruth allows two runs in the first inning, but settles down to beat the A's, 7 - 2, while striking out 10.
1922: Detroit Stars pitcher Bill Force no-hits the St. Louis Giants 3 - 0, at Mack Park in a Negro National League game.
1930: At Philadelphia's Shibe Park, Jack Quinn becomes the oldest player to hit a home run in major league history. The A's pitcher is nine days shy of his 47th birthday when he connects for the solo shot. Jimmie Foxx and Al Simmons also homer as Quinn gets the win over the Browns. Quinn's record will be broken by Julio Franco over 75 years later.
1930: The Detroit Stars play the first professional baseball game under lights in city history. The Great Norman Turkey Stearnes 5th from the left.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDX90e0XUAIBkfi.jpg
1937: Detroit Lumbermen ~ Tommy Bridges, Charlie Gehringer, Hank Greenberg, Gee Walker at Fenway.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgshVLqUEAAScMv.jpg
1939: Tigers play the first ever night baseball game in Cleveland, lose 5 - 0. Bob Feller strikes out 13 Detroit Tigers for a complete game shutout.
1940: Bobo Newsom (10-1) wins his 10th in a row as the 2nd place Tigers whip St. Louis 2 - 1. Detroit manages just three hits, but two are homers by Hank Greenberg and Charlie Gehringer.
1950: At Toledo (American Association), Marlin Stuart of Toledo pitches a 1 - 0 perfect game against Indianapolis.
It is the second perfect game in league history. The Tigers will recall Stuart later in the season.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9mCaQjXoAE_qxG.jpg
1956: The Detroit Tigers signed Don Lee as an amateur free agent.
1958: Billy Pierce of the White Sox retires 26 Washington Senators in a row before pinch-hitter Ed FitzGerald loops a double to become the only baserunner. Pierce then fans Albie Pearson to win, 3 - 0. It is Pierce's 3rd straight shutout.
1959: Gus Zernial celebrated turning 36 by hitting a 2-run HR & a 3-run HR as the Tigers routed the orioles 12-2.
His first one was off Orioles starter Billy Hoeft, who was pitching in Detroit for the first time since being traded away by the Tigers in May.
1959: With the players voting, Hank Aaron gets a unanimous vote for the All-Star Game, making him the first player so selected.
1961: Tigers draw 57,271 fans for a twi-night doubleheader, the third largest crowd in Tiger Stadium history. Tigers drop both games to the White Sox to have their AL lead trimmed to a half game.
1963: Detroit's Norm Cash achieves a rarity by playing an entire game at 1B without a chance, as the Twins win.
16 fly balls: 1 foul popup: 6 Ks: 1 force at 2nd base.
1967: Al Kaline breaks his hand as he slams his bat into the bat rack after being struck out by Sam McDowell as the 2nd-place Tigers lose to Cleveland, 8 - 1. The future Hall of Famer will miss 28 games. This is the unfortunate reason the Tigers finish 1 game behind at the end of the 4 team race this season.
1967: Baltimore RF Frank Robinson is hurt in a second base collision with Al Weis, as the White Sox beat the Orioles, 5 - 0. Robinson suffers double vision and will miss 28 games.
1972: Mickey Lolich is staked to a 4 - 0 lead when the Tigers hit three consecutive 1st-inning home runs against New York's Wade Blasingame, making his American League debut.
Tony Taylor leads off with a walk before Aurelio Rodriguez, Al Kaline and Willie Horton slug homers to finish Blasingame.
Lolich, pitching on two days' rest, notches his 12th win, 5 - 2.
1977: The Giants' Willie McCovey smashes two home runs, one a grand slam, in the 6th inning to pace a 14 - 9 victory over the Reds. McCovey becomes the first player to twice hit two home runs in one inning (April 12, 1973 was the first time), and also becomes the all-time National League leader with 17 career grand slams. Andre Dawson, in 1978 and 1986, will also clout two round trippers in an inning twice.
1982: The Braves tie the major-league record with seven double plays in a 2 - 0, 14-inning win over Cincinnati. Mario Soto pitches 10 shutout innings for the Reds but gets no decision. The loss starts the Reds on a streak where they'll lose 20 out of 23 games.
1984: Yankees 5 - Tigers 4. Yankees score 3 in the bottom of the 8th. Tigers drop 2 of 3 in New York but leave with a 10-game lead.
1987: Darrell Evans slugs a two-run home run in the 1st inning off Mike Boddicker for his 2,000th career hit, but his Tigers lose to Baltimore, 4 - 2.
1999: The Seattle Mariners traded players to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Brian Hunter. The Seattle Mariners sent Andy Van Hekken (June 27, 1999) and Jerry Amador (minors) (August 26, 1999) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
2004: Carlos Pena hits a walk-off grand slam to give the Tigers a 9-5 win over the D-backs and their second straight walk-off win.
2014: Instead of throwing out the first pitch, Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell turn a ceremonial first double play as part of the 30th anniversary celebration of the 1984 championship.
2015: The Detroit Tigers signed Alberto Gonzalez as a free agent.
2018: The Tigers fire pitching coach Chris Bosio for making "insensitive comments" in violation of team policy, although the precise nature of these comments is not disclosed. He is replaced by bullpen coach Rick Anderson.
2019: The starters for the 2019 All-Star Game are named, at the conclusion of the fans' vote. For the first time, this voting is two-tiered, with today's winners the victors of a second round of strictly on-line voting among the three top finishers at each position, after the more traditional ballots have been counted. The results are well-balanced, with only one team managing as many of three players elected - the Astros with 3B Alex Bregman and OFs George Springer and Michael Brantley - and are generally representative of who have been the best players so far this year.
2021: A little over a week after MLB has begun to systematically examine pitchers for foreign substances to improve grip, a first victim is caught: Hector Santiago of the Mariners is ejected after umpires discover an unknown sticky substances on his glove. The glove is impounded and sent for further analysis, while Santiago protests his innocence, claiming that he was only using rosin to prevent perspiration from dripping unto his hands. He will be issued a ten-game suspension.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Charlie Wheatley 1912.
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Lou Kretlow 1946, 1948-1949.
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Dick Marlowe 1951-1956.
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Gus Zernial 1958-1959.
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Nelson Simmons 1984-1985.
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Oscar Salazar 2002.
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Jim Johnson 2014.
Tigers players who passed away:
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Phil Page 1928-1930.
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Alex Garbowski 1952.
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Sandy Amoros 1960.
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1903: The Pirates crush 15 hits off Iron Joe McGinnity, including four hits by Honus Wagner, but it takes the Bucs 11 innings to cut down the Giants. In the Pirates' next game, on the 30th against Brooklyn, Wagner will collect another four hits.
1911: White Sox ace Ed Walsh shuts out the Tigers, 3 - 0. Ty Cobb is held to an infield single and then is cut down stealing.
1913: Washington's Walter Johnson tops the A's, 2 - 0, to start a 14-game winning streak. He won't lose for another two months.
1914: The A's top Walter Johnson and Washington, 4 - 2. Eddie Collins is 2 for 4 with a run and RBI for the A's.
1916: Boston's Babe Ruth allows two runs in the first inning, but settles down to beat the A's, 7 - 2, while striking out 10.
1922: Detroit Stars pitcher Bill Force no-hits the St. Louis Giants 3 - 0, at Mack Park in a Negro National League game.
1930: At Philadelphia's Shibe Park, Jack Quinn becomes the oldest player to hit a home run in major league history. The A's pitcher is nine days shy of his 47th birthday when he connects for the solo shot. Jimmie Foxx and Al Simmons also homer as Quinn gets the win over the Browns. Quinn's record will be broken by Julio Franco over 75 years later.
1930: The Detroit Stars play the first professional baseball game under lights in city history. The Great Norman Turkey Stearnes 5th from the left.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDX90e0XUAIBkfi.jpg
1937: Detroit Lumbermen ~ Tommy Bridges, Charlie Gehringer, Hank Greenberg, Gee Walker at Fenway.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgshVLqUEAAScMv.jpg
1939: Tigers play the first ever night baseball game in Cleveland, lose 5 - 0. Bob Feller strikes out 13 Detroit Tigers for a complete game shutout.
1940: Bobo Newsom (10-1) wins his 10th in a row as the 2nd place Tigers whip St. Louis 2 - 1. Detroit manages just three hits, but two are homers by Hank Greenberg and Charlie Gehringer.
1950: At Toledo (American Association), Marlin Stuart of Toledo pitches a 1 - 0 perfect game against Indianapolis.
It is the second perfect game in league history. The Tigers will recall Stuart later in the season.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9mCaQjXoAE_qxG.jpg
1956: The Detroit Tigers signed Don Lee as an amateur free agent.
1958: Billy Pierce of the White Sox retires 26 Washington Senators in a row before pinch-hitter Ed FitzGerald loops a double to become the only baserunner. Pierce then fans Albie Pearson to win, 3 - 0. It is Pierce's 3rd straight shutout.
1959: Gus Zernial celebrated turning 36 by hitting a 2-run HR & a 3-run HR as the Tigers routed the orioles 12-2.
His first one was off Orioles starter Billy Hoeft, who was pitching in Detroit for the first time since being traded away by the Tigers in May.
1959: With the players voting, Hank Aaron gets a unanimous vote for the All-Star Game, making him the first player so selected.
1961: Tigers draw 57,271 fans for a twi-night doubleheader, the third largest crowd in Tiger Stadium history. Tigers drop both games to the White Sox to have their AL lead trimmed to a half game.
1963: Detroit's Norm Cash achieves a rarity by playing an entire game at 1B without a chance, as the Twins win.
16 fly balls: 1 foul popup: 6 Ks: 1 force at 2nd base.
1967: Al Kaline breaks his hand as he slams his bat into the bat rack after being struck out by Sam McDowell as the 2nd-place Tigers lose to Cleveland, 8 - 1. The future Hall of Famer will miss 28 games. This is the unfortunate reason the Tigers finish 1 game behind at the end of the 4 team race this season.
1967: Baltimore RF Frank Robinson is hurt in a second base collision with Al Weis, as the White Sox beat the Orioles, 5 - 0. Robinson suffers double vision and will miss 28 games.
1972: Mickey Lolich is staked to a 4 - 0 lead when the Tigers hit three consecutive 1st-inning home runs against New York's Wade Blasingame, making his American League debut.
Tony Taylor leads off with a walk before Aurelio Rodriguez, Al Kaline and Willie Horton slug homers to finish Blasingame.
Lolich, pitching on two days' rest, notches his 12th win, 5 - 2.
1977: The Giants' Willie McCovey smashes two home runs, one a grand slam, in the 6th inning to pace a 14 - 9 victory over the Reds. McCovey becomes the first player to twice hit two home runs in one inning (April 12, 1973 was the first time), and also becomes the all-time National League leader with 17 career grand slams. Andre Dawson, in 1978 and 1986, will also clout two round trippers in an inning twice.
1982: The Braves tie the major-league record with seven double plays in a 2 - 0, 14-inning win over Cincinnati. Mario Soto pitches 10 shutout innings for the Reds but gets no decision. The loss starts the Reds on a streak where they'll lose 20 out of 23 games.
1984: Yankees 5 - Tigers 4. Yankees score 3 in the bottom of the 8th. Tigers drop 2 of 3 in New York but leave with a 10-game lead.
1987: Darrell Evans slugs a two-run home run in the 1st inning off Mike Boddicker for his 2,000th career hit, but his Tigers lose to Baltimore, 4 - 2.
1999: The Seattle Mariners traded players to be named later to the Detroit Tigers for Brian Hunter. The Seattle Mariners sent Andy Van Hekken (June 27, 1999) and Jerry Amador (minors) (August 26, 1999) to the Detroit Tigers to complete the trade.
2004: Carlos Pena hits a walk-off grand slam to give the Tigers a 9-5 win over the D-backs and their second straight walk-off win.
2014: Instead of throwing out the first pitch, Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell turn a ceremonial first double play as part of the 30th anniversary celebration of the 1984 championship.
2015: The Detroit Tigers signed Alberto Gonzalez as a free agent.
2018: The Tigers fire pitching coach Chris Bosio for making "insensitive comments" in violation of team policy, although the precise nature of these comments is not disclosed. He is replaced by bullpen coach Rick Anderson.
2019: The starters for the 2019 All-Star Game are named, at the conclusion of the fans' vote. For the first time, this voting is two-tiered, with today's winners the victors of a second round of strictly on-line voting among the three top finishers at each position, after the more traditional ballots have been counted. The results are well-balanced, with only one team managing as many of three players elected - the Astros with 3B Alex Bregman and OFs George Springer and Michael Brantley - and are generally representative of who have been the best players so far this year.
2021: A little over a week after MLB has begun to systematically examine pitchers for foreign substances to improve grip, a first victim is caught: Hector Santiago of the Mariners is ejected after umpires discover an unknown sticky substances on his glove. The glove is impounded and sent for further analysis, while Santiago protests his innocence, claiming that he was only using rosin to prevent perspiration from dripping unto his hands. He will be issued a ten-game suspension.
Tigers players birthdays:
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Jim Johnson Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More | Baseball-Reference.com
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