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July 1 in Tigers and mlb history:

1901: The Detroit Tigers released Emil Frisk.

1902: Playing his first game for Connie Mack's A's, Rube Waddell faces only 27 batters, blanking the Orioles, 2 - 0. The 25-year old southpaw strikes out the side three times by whiffing Billy Gilbert, Harry Howell and Jack Cronin in the 3rd (on just nine pitches) 6th, and 9th innings.

1903: Pitcher Cy Young drives home the only run in the 10th inning as the Boston Americans beat Chicago, 1 - 0.

1911: Ty Cobb, who had an infield single off Earl Hamilton in his last game on June 29th, repeats by beating out another infield hit against the St. Louis lefty. Again Detroit wins, this time 8 - 0.

1916: At age 42 years and 4 months, Honus Wagner is the oldest player to hit an inside-the-park home run. He connects for the Pirates in the 4th inning at Cincinnati.

1920: Walter Johnson pitches a no-hitter, his first, against the Red Sox at Fenway Park. An error by Bucky Harris costs him a perfect game, but Harris's hit drives in Washington's only run. The next day, Johnson comes up with the first sore arm of his life and is useless for the rest of the year, finishing 8-10.

1934: Bill Terry is the top vote-getter in the All-Star balloting. Babe Ruth leads all American League outfielders.

1936: Detroit collects 25 hits off three White Sox pitchers. Included in the pounding are 4 hit games each from 2B Charlie Gehringer, LF Goose Goslin, and RF Gee Walker who had 7 RBI in 21 - 7 win. Tommy Bridges is the complete game pitcher.

1941: Before 52,832 at Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio leads a sweep of the Red Sox, 7 - 2 and 9 - 2. The second game is called after 5 innings. DiMaggio has 2 hits in the first game and one in the second to tie Willie Keeler's major-league hitting streak of 44 games with the help of a difficult decision by the official scorer. Red Sox third baseman Jim Tabor makes a poor throw, but Joltin' Joe is given a hit by New York World Telegram's Dan Daniel. The Yankees have 25 hits in the two games but fail to hit a home run in the first game, ending their streak of 25 consecutive games with at least one dinger. The previous record, set by the Tigers in 1940, was 17 games.

1945: Away from the game for four years, Hank Greenberg makes a dramatic return in front of an emotional crowd of 47,700 at Briggs Stadium as he homers off Charlie Gassaway in his first game following being released from the Armed Forces. Hammerin' Hank's round-tripper helps the first-place Tigers beat the A's 9 - 5.
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1948: Brooklyn's Roy Campanella makes his debut, catching Ralph Branca. Campy doubles in his first at-bat, adds two singles, but the Giants win 6 - 4 over Branca.

1951: Veteran Bob Feller pitches the third no-hitter of his career, tying the record of Cy Young and Larry Corcoran, as he beats Detroit's Bob Cain, 2 - 1. Feller loses his shutout in the fourth when Johnny Lipon reaches on an error, swipes second base, goes to third on a errant pickoff, and scores on a sacrifice fly.

1951: Before 58,815 at Yankee Stadium, the Yanks top the Red Sox, 5 - 2, behind Eddie Lopat's 6-hitter. The win moves the Yankees ahead of the White Sox by four percentage points. Jerry Coleman homers off Mel Parnell, while Johnny Pesky connects for the Sox. Bobby Doerr singles for his 2,000th career hit.

1956: Mickey Mantle switch-hits home runs in the same game for the fourth time in his career. The Yankees win 8 - 6 over Washington.

1957: Cincinnati fans threaten to sue Commissioner Ford Frick unless Gus Bell, George Crowe and Wally Post are restored to the All-Star team. They finished first in the balloting thanks to vote-stuffing by Cincinnati fans, ahead of more deserving players.

1961: Rocky Colavito and Norm Cash each have 3 hits, and rookie Jake Wood's 2-run triple caps a 4-run 11th inning rally as the Tigers' win 11-8 in Baltimore to stay 2 games in front of the Yankees in the American League.

1964: It's "Taxi Day" at Yankee Stadium and nearly 5,000 cabbies and their families are on hand as Kansas City runs up the meter to win, 5 - 4.

1968: Bill Freehan hits 2 home runs and Mickey Lolich strikes out 14 in a 5-1 win over the angels at Tiger Stadium.
10 Time Gold Glove winner in RF, the legendary Al Kaline, makes his first ever start at first base, goes 1-for-3 with an RBI single.

1968: A 1st-inning wild pitch that eludes backup catcher Johnny Edwards allows a run to break Bob Gibson's streak of 47 2/3 innings of scoreless pitching (in which he allows just 21 hits). The Cards beat Don Drysdale and the Dodgers in Los Angeles, 8 - 1. Gibson will pitch 23 innings before giving up another run.

1970: The return of Denny McLain following his suspension is witnessed by a gathering of 53,863 fans and 71 writers. He is knocked out of the box in the 6th inning, but the Tigers rally to beat the Yankees in the 11th 6 - 5.

1972: Roberto Clemente's 4th and 5th (out of 6) career home runs off his friend and fellow future Hall of Famer Ferguson Jenkins provide the Pirates with a sudden and devastating 4 - 3 walk-off win, against the Cubs at Three Rivers Stadium. Clemente hits Fergie's first pitch in the 7th inning over the left field fence to tie the game. After the Bucs fall behind, 3 - 2, his second homer is a game-ending blast with none out in the 9th.

1972: Nolan Ryan allows five hits and strikes out 16 in pitching the Angels to a 5 - 3 victory over the Athletics. Ryan has a RBI single and is helped by homers from Ken Berry and Leo Cardenas, off Steve Hamilton.

1972: Jim Northrup makes a leaping catch at the wall to start a game-ending double play, Tigers beat the orioles 2 - 0.
Mickey Lolich with the CG shutout. Al Kaline belts a home run.
The catch will be featured on the cover of the team's 1973 yearbook.
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1973: Mickey Lolich hurls his 35th shutout for Detroit, breaking the franchise record previously held by George Mullin. Lolich twirls a masterful four-hitter in blanking the Baltimore Orioles, 1-0 at Tiger Stadium in a game that takes less than two hours to complete.

1973: Luis Aparicio of the Red Sox steals the 500th base of his career in a 9 - 5 loss to Milwaukee. It is the highest total in the American League since Eddie Collins retired in 1930.

1982: Cal Ripken, Jr. is moved from third base to shortstop by Oriole manager Earl Weaver.

1983: Arbitrator Raymond Goetz rules that the 43 players who were on the disabled list during the 1981 players' strike are not entitled to their salaries for that period. The decision saves the club owners about $2.5 million.

1985: The Detroit Tigers signed Bob Stoddard as a free agent.

1997: At Tiger Stadium during the course of two games, June 30 and today, against the New York Mets, Bobby Higginson hits home runs in four consecutive official at-bats tying a big-league mark.

2005: The Detroit Tigers released Matt Roney.
2005: The Cleveland Indians sent Steve Green to the Detroit Tigers as part of a conditional deal.

2007: The Milwaukee Brewers traded Jose Capellan to the Detroit Tigers for Chris Cody (minors).

2012: Former Tiger Chris Pittaro inducted into the Professional Scouts Hall of Fame.

2014: Rick Porcello becomes the first Tiger since 1944 to throw a CG shutout without a walk or strikeout (17 groundouts, 10 flyouts) as Tigers beat the a's 3 - 0.
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2015: The Detroit Tigers released Xavier Avery.

2016: Michael Fulmer strikes out 10 over seven shutout innings, allowing just two hits and a walk to earn his eighth win
in Tigers 10 - 2 win over the rays. Victor Martinez hits 2 home runs with 6 rbi.
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2018: Josephine Gehringer, widow of Tigers Hall of Famer Charlie Gehringer, dies at age 100 in Beverly Hills, Michigan. Her husband died in 1993. He skipped his Hall of Fame induction for their wedding in 1949.

2023: The Detroit Tigers released Heath Hembree.

Tigers players birthdays:

Bert Cole 1921-1925.

Louis Brower 1931.

Boots Poffenberger 1937-1938.

Ron Nischwitz 1961-1962, 1965.

Jamie Walker 2002-2006.

Tigers players who passed away:

Herb Hall 1918.

Ray Scarborough 1953.

Baseball Reference
 
MID-SEASON SURVEY: THE PLAYER.
Totally Tigers

We are taking this holiday week to assess the first half of the Tigers 2024 season. Every day, we will pose a new question for readers to consider and then cast their votes. Of course, comments that address the day’s topic (3 sentences max) are always welcome.

Here is today’s poll:
Which player's poor performance keeps you awake the most at night?

1. Javier Baez

2. Casey Mize

3. Spencer Torkelson

VOTE
 
BYB Roundtable: Assessing the Detroit Tigers after the 2024 halfway point.
After a strong start to the season, the Motor City Kitties have crawled past the 81-game mark struggling.
BYBTB
 
Shelby Miller's unraveling has created creeping black hole in Tigers' bullpen.
Shelby Miller's near blowup against the Angels is a perfect representation of where the Tigers bullpen is now.
MCBTB
 
July 2 in Tigers and mlb history:

1888: The Detroit Wolverines signed Deacon McGuire as a free agent.

1909: The White Sox steal 12 bases in the course of a 15 - 3 win over St. Louis. Three are steals of home, including one by P Ed Walsh in the 6th inning, for a modern major league record.

1911: Detroit pounds out a 14 - 6 victory over Cleveland as Ty Cobb, hitting in his 40th straight game, has three hits and three runs.
Cobb collects 80 hits and bats .476 during his streak, which started on May 15.

1913: Christy Mathewson allows 13 hits but the Giants continue to pummel the Phils, winning 8 - 4. Matty gives up no walks to run his streak to 34 innings.

1914: Sam Crawford hits a single, double, & triple in the Tigers' 4-0 win over Cleveland. Tigers move to within one game of the Athletics in the American League.

1922: Cardinals second baseman Rogers Hornsby, speaking with Billy Evans in today's issue of the Pittsburgh Press, all but predicts that he will set a new National League single-season home run record this season: "When the season started, I didn't give the matter of home runs a thought, even though I made 21 last year. However, they started to come my way rather easily and now I have the home run fever. With the season less than half over, I have 18 to my credit. Back in 1884, so the records say, Ed Williamson, playing with Chicago, made 27 home runs. That record has stood the test of all the great hitters of the National League for 38 years. I would like to break that record, and feel that I am well on the way to set a new home-run mark for a season in the National League."
In fact, Hornsby is as good as his word; he'll catch Williamson within the month, passing him on August 5th and, in the end, he'll leave the long-dead NL single-season leader far behind with his final total of 42.

1931: Babe Ruth homers to drive in a run for the 11th consecutive game as the Yankees drub Detroit, 12 - 1. Ruth has 18 RBI in the string.

1933: Carl Hubbell pitches an entire 18-inning shutout for the Giants over the Cardinals to tie a record for the longest 1 - 0 game. He strikes out 12 and walks none, allowing only six hits in a duel with Tex Carleton, who goes the first 16 innings. In game 2, played in semi-darkness, Roy Parmelee wins 1 - 0, on a Johnny Vergez home run. The notoriously wild Giants pitcher does not issue a walk and strikes out 13.

1939: In a doubleheader with the Dodgers before 51,435 at the Polo Grounds, the fireworks start two days early.
The Dodgers take a uneventful opener, 3 - 2, but in the 4th inning of the nitecap, Dodger player-manager Leo Durocher ends the inning by grounding into a double play and spikes 1B Zeke Bonura as he crosses the bag. Bonura takes off after Durocher, chases him down the right field line, and throws his mitt at him. He finally wrestles him to the ground. Both players are ejected, and the Giants go on to win, 6 - 4. To Bonura's charge of intentional spiking, the Lip retorts, "If that big clown hadn't got his foot in my way, I wouldn't have been close to him."

1941: On a sweltering day in front of 52,832 fans at Yankee Stadium, Joe DiMaggio breaks Wee Willie Keeler's 1897 major league record hitting streak of 45 with a three-run homer off Red Sox hurler Dick Newsome.

1947: Roy Cullenbine draws a walk, beginning a streak of 22 consecutive games with a base on balls: still a major league record.

1950: Indian great Bob Feller wins his 200th major league game, 5 - 3, over Detroit in the second game of a doubleheader split. Detroit wins the opener, 8 - 5, for their only win in the four-game series.

1956: NBC pays $16.25 million for the Television and radio rights to the All-Star Game and the World Series. The players' pension fund will get 60 percent of the revenues.

1961: The Yankees hit five homers - number 28 by Mickey Mantle and numbers 29 and 30 by Roger Maris - to easily beat the Senators, 13 - 4.

1963: In one of baseball's most memorable pitching duels, the Giants' Juan Marichal and the Braves' Warren Spahn both hurl 15 scoreless innings before Willie Mays ends the marathon with a homer off Spahnie in the bottom of the 16th, giving San Francisco a 1- 0 win.
Juan Marichal, SF Giants (227 pitches) vs. Warren Spahn, Braves (201 pitches). There's no way we'll ever see a major league game like this again.

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1966: The Detroit Tigers signed Tim Hosley as an amateur free agent.

1970: Detroit's Joe Niekro no-hits the Yankees until Horace Clarke singles in the 9th inning. The Tigers win, 5 - 0. This is the third time in the month that Clarke has broken up a no-hitter, having spoiled bids by Kansas City's Jim Rooker (June 4th) and Boston's Sonny Siebert (June 19th).

1973: The Detroit Tigers signed Ron LeFlore as an amateur free agent. LeFlore will play six seasons for the Tigers and make the All-Star team in 1976.

1978: Ron Guidry wins his 13th consecutive game, the best start in Yankee history, in beating Detroit, 3 - 2. With the Yankees down 2 - 0, Mickey Rivers' long drive to right is caught by a fan reaching down to take it away from Detroit's Mickey Stanley. The fan drops the ball and Stanley, waiting for an interference call, fails to retrieve it. Rivers motors for an inside-the-park homer and New York ties the game, 2 - 2, eventually winning it.

1985: Astros hurler Joe Niekro notches his 200th career victory. The Niekro brothers (Joe & Phil) will join the Perrys (Jim & Gaylord) as the only brothers to win at least 200 games per pitcher.

1989: Brewers OF Robin Yount, 33, collects his 2,500th hit in a 10 - 2 win over the Yankees. Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Hank Aaron and Mel Ott were the only players to reach that milestone at a younger age.

1993: Cecil Fielder hits a home run onto the left field roof of Tiger Stadium and the Tigers beat the rangers 6 - 4.

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1995: Dodger righthander Hideo Nomo, who is leading the National League in strikeouts, becomes the first player from Japan to be selected for the major league All-Star Game.

1999: The Florida Marlins signed Miguel Cabrera as an amateur free agent. Dave Dombrowski, then the Marlins' GM, later said: "He was doing things with the bat that people at 16 don't do".

2000: The Detroit Tigers signed Mark Johnson as a free agent.

2002: The Tigers and White Sox tie their own major league record by hitting a combined 12 homers. Each team slugs six homers, with Robert Fick, Dmitri Young (2), Damion Easley, George Lombard, and Wendell Magee going deep for Detroit in Chicago?s Comiskey Park. The White Sox come out on top in the slugfest, 17-9.

2003: The Detroit Tigers released Ron Wright.

2005: In one of the most severe penalties ever imposed by the commissioner's office for on-field behavior, Kenny Rogers is suspended for 20 games and fined $50,000 for actions which sent a cameraman to the hospital and launched a police investigation. The veteran southpaw, who will appeal the decision, is selected by his peers to be a member of the American League All-Star squad scheduled to play next week in Detroit.

2007: The Detroit Tigers signed Hernan Perez as an amateur free agent.

2008: The Detroit Tigers signed Dixon Machado as an amateur free agent.

2012: The Detroit Tigers signed Willy Adames as an amateur free agent.
2012: The Detroit Tigers signed Domingo Leyba as an amateur free agent.

2015: The Detroit Tigers signed Trayvon Robinson as a free agent.

2016: The Detroit Tigers signed Wenceel Perez as a free agent.

2017: Tigers honor Gary Sheffield with the Willie Horton African American Legacy Award. We're proud to recognize former Tigers outfielder Gary Sheffield as this year?s Willie Horton African American Legacy Award recipient.

2017: For the first time in 331 starts, Justin Verlander fails to record a strikeout. Verlander only lasts 3.1 innings in a loss to the indians.

2017: Mookie Betts homers twice and drives in 8 runs to lead the Red Sox to a 15 - 1 win over the Blue Jays, completing a three-game sweep at the Rogers Centre. It's only the fourth time in history that a lead-off hitter drives in that many runs.

2018: In an interleague meeting between top postseason contenders, ex-teammates, and former Cy Young Award winners, Rick Porcello of the Red Sox gets the better of his former teammate Max Scherzer of the Nationals when he surprises him with a bases-clearing double in the 2nd, the first extra-base hit of his career. Those 3 runs are the only ones Scherzer allows in 6 innings, but they are enough to saddle with a 4 - 3 loss.

2019: The Yankees' record streak of consecutive games with at least one home run ends at 31 in a 4 - 2 loss to the Mets that coincides with 1B Luke Voit, one of the major contributors to the streak, going on the injured list with an abdominal strain. Michael Conforto is the hero for the Mets, with a go-ahead two-run double off Zack Britton in the 8th.

2023: Reserves and pitchers for the 2023 All-Star Game are announced. Clayton Kershaw and Salvador Perez are among those who are habitués of the mid-summer classic, with their tenth and eighth appearances respectively. The Braves will have their entire starting infield represented, while the Blue Jays, who went 0 for 5 in the run-off voting earlier this week, get four players nominated. There are 26 first-time All-Stars, not counting anyone who may be named as an injury replacement in the coming days. Eight different birth countries are represented, including a record eight players born in Cuba.

Tigers players and coaches birthdays:

Pat McGehee 1912.

Gil English 1936-1937.

Hal Wagner 1947-1948.

Pete Burnside 1959-1960.

Steve Sparks 2000-2003.

Sean Casey 2006-2007.

Robin Lund coach.
2023-present.

Tigers players who passed away:

Joe Yeager 1901-1903.

Baseball Reference
 
MID-SEASON SURVEY: THE BIGGEST SURPRISE.
Totally Tigers

We are taking this holiday week to assess the first half of the Tigers 2024 season. Every day, we will pose a new question for readers to consider and then cast their votes. Of course, comments that address the day’s topic (3 sentences max!) are always welcome.
Here is today’s poll:

What has been the biggest surprise for you this year?

1. How little offense is being generated.

2. Flaherty, Olson and Skubal

3. Struggles of #1 draft picks

4. Performance of Ibanez and Perez

VOTE
 

Days of Roar Tigers Podcast: First-half report card for players Detroit Tigers added in offseason plus Mike Ferrin talks trade deadline. 62 minutes.

Mark and Evan break down another week of losing from the Detroit Tigers, then examine the six players added by president of baseball operations Scott Harris in the offseason, including Jack Flaherty for $14 million and Mark Canha for $11.5 million. After that, Mike Ferrin, co-host of MLB Network Radio's "Power Alley," joins the podcast. He says the 2024 season "feels like a missed opportunity" by the Tigers because they didn't do enough to improve the offense in the offseason. To wrap up, Mark and Evan look ahead to some of the storylines in the second half of the season.
 
Skubal (7 K's) bolsters All-Star resume in Tigers' loss.
Tigers official site

Boxscore.

Tigers 3 - Twins 5: A close game decided by home runs.
Skubal had a nice outing but the offense couldn’t help him get to a win.
BYBTB

Tigers tripped up by Twins in series opener, 5-3.
Detnews

Tarik Skubal goes 6 innings, but Detroit Tigers can't stop Twins late in 5-3 loss.
Freep
 
July 3 in Tigers and mlb history:

1906: At Cleveland, the Naps top the Tigers in game called after six innings on account of rain. To underscore the soggy conditions, Detroit outfielder Germany Schaefer plays the last few innings wearing a raincoat over his uniform.
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1912: Walter Johnson picks up a win and is given a rare rest in the 6th inning as Washington coasts to a 10 - 2 win over the Highlanders. Johnson will rack up an American League record 16 straight wins before he is beaten.

1912: The Giants' Rube Marquard nips Nap Rucker, 2 - 1, to capture his 19th straight game this season. With two end-of-year wins in 1911, he has 21 in a row in regular season play. Both marks are records.

1913: The Red Sox tally 15 hits off Washington's Walter Johnson, but lose, 1 - 0, in 15 innings. This a major league frustration record for most hits in a shutout.

1917: After managing for five games, Honus Wagner resigns as manager. Czech born Hugo Bezdek is named as his replacement, his qualifications include being the football coach at Penn State.

1924: George Sisler, Babe Ruth, and Ty Cobb.
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1929: The Cubs and Reds turn nine double plays, tying the Detroit-Washington 1925 mark.

1931: The Philadelphia Athletics selected Waite Hoyt off waivers from the Detroit Tigers.

1939: Johnny Mize equals a National League record with four extra-base hits - a double, a triple, and two home runs - in the Cards' 5 - 3 win over the Cubs.

1940: Buffalo (International) purchased Lynn Nelson from the Detroit Tigers.

1947: The Indians purchase Larry Doby from the Newark Eagles. In two days, the twenty-two-year-old will become the first black to play in the American League.
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1951: Giants rookie Willie Mays blasts a 13th-inning solo homer off the Phillies' Jocko Thompson to give New York a win. It is Willie's second extra-inning homer in two weeks: he will hit another on July 7th.

1953: The Detroit Tigers purchased Eddie Kazak from the Cincinnati Reds.

1954: Harvey Kuenn hits a walk-off home run in the 11th inning to give the Tigers a 1-0 win over Cleveland.
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1960: Before 50,556 fans in New York, the Yankees sweep two from the Tigers winning 7 - 6 and 6 - 2.
In the opener, Ryne Duren fans Charlie Maxwell with the bases loaded and two outs in the 9th. Detroit is ahead 2 - 1 in the night cap when Norm Cash argues at length about a call at first base, and finally gets tossed. When play resumes, Pete Burnside serves up a 3-run homer to Mickey Mantle, batting righty.

1966: Pitcher Tony Cloninger hits two grand slams and drives in nine runs, as the Braves rout the Giants at Candlestick Park, 17 - 3. Cloninger is the first National League player to slam two in a game, and the first pitcher ever, and his nine RBIs are a major-league record for pitchers, breaking Vic Raschi's mark of 7. The National League record for pitchers was 5, held by several; the last hurler to collect five RBIs in a game was Cloninger himself, who had five on June 16th against the Mets.

1967: In St. Louis the fans get boxing with their baseball in the Cards' 7 - 3, win over the Reds. Bob Gibson pitches inside to Tony Perez in the 5th inning, and the pair exchange words after Perez flies out. Both benches empty but there is no fighting until the Reds bullpen, led by Bob Lee, show up. It takes 12 minutes before the police are needed to restore order.

1968: Luis Tiant registers 19 K's in 10 innings, as Cleveland beats Minnesota, 1 - 0. Tiant sets two modern major league records - most strikeouts in a 10-inning game; and 32 strikeouts in consecutive games - and ties the modern major-league record of 41 strikeouts in three successive appearances. He will top the American League in ERA with 1.60.

1968: Denny McLain strikes out 10 in a 4-hitter for his 15th win as the Tigers beat the angels 5 - 2. Willie Horton and Dick Tracewski hit home runs.
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1973: Brothers Gaylord Perry (Indians) and Jim Perry (Tigers) pitch against each other for the only time in their careers. Neither finishes the game, but Gaylord is charged with the 5 - 4 loss. Two Norm Cash home runs help Detroit.
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1974: Pitching in his major league-record 13th consecutive game for the Dodgers, Mike Marshall saves Tommy John's 4 - 1 win over the Reds in the first game of a doubleheader. Marshall will get a rest in the second game, but will pitch in a record 106 games this year.

1976: In a game against the Orioles, Mark Fidrych tosses a four-hit shutout to defeat Baltimore ace Jim Palmer and improve his record to 9-1. A sell-out crowd of 51, 032 watches the game at Tiger Stadium. Rusty Staub hit a 3-run homer in the 1st and Jason Thompson homered in the 4th.

1977: On his 24th birthday, Angel Frank Tanana records his 14th straight complete game in beating the A's, 6 - 4, and raising his record to 12-5. His overworked arm will plague him for the rest of the season, and he will wind up 15-9.

1992: The Tigers turn their first triple play 23 years in their 6-4 win over the Mariners in the first game of a doubleheader at Tiger Stadium. With runners on first and third, Seattle?s Omar Vizquel hits a line drive to Detroit third baseman Skeeter Barnes, who catches the ball and doubles off the runner at third. Barnes proceeds to throw the ball across the diamond to first baseman Cecil Fielder, who tags the bag before that runner can return.
Lou Whitaker hits his 200th home run, becoming just the 8th second baseman in major league history to reach that milestone.
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1993: Detroit's Cecil Fielder becomes the third player in history to homer onto the left field roof at Tiger Stadium, doing so in the Tigers loss to the Rangers. Harmon Killebrew and Frank Howard are the only other players to accomplish the feat.

1994: The Indians retire Larry Doby's uniform number, 47 years after he broke the American League color line.

2006: The Detroit Tigers signed Jose Ortega as an amateur free agent.

2009: Albert Pujols, the major league home run leader, hits his fourth grand slam of the year, a team record, as the Cardinals dispose of the Reds, 7 - 4. He now has 350 career dingers, becoming the third-youngest to reach the mark, after Alex Rodriguez and Ken Griffey Jr.

2010: The Detroit Tigers released Ruddy Lugo.

2013: Max Scherzer of the Tigers gets lucky win number 13, a 6 - 2 win over the Blue Jays that improves his record to 13-0 on the year. It is the best start by a pitcher since Roger Clemens began the 1986 season 14-0.
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2016: Ian Kinsler hits his 200th career home run in the Tigers 5 -1 win over the rays.

2020: The Detroit Tigers released Kolton Ingram.
2020: The Detroit Tigers released Chris Smith.
2020: The Detroit Tigers released Spenser Watkins.

2020: With the release of its schedule for the abbreviated upcoming season, Major League Baseball announces the cancellation of the 2020 All-Star Game, which was supposed to take place in Dodger Stadium on July 14th. It will be the first season without an All-Star Game since World War II. The 2021 game remains scheduled to be played in Atlanta, GA, meaning Dodger Stadium will get its shot in 2022.

2022: The Detroit Tigers released Ricardo Pinto.

2023: Ronald Acuña Jr. records his 40th steal of the year in Atlanta's 4 - 2 win over the Guardians, the ninth straight victory by the Braves. He has already also hit 20 homers and driven 50 runs, a combination that is unprecedented by any player before the All-Star break.

2023: The Detroit Tigers released Trevor Rosenthal.

Tigers players birthdays:

Jack Dalton 1916.

Luke Hamlin 1933-1934.

Phil Meeler 1972.

Frank Tanana 1985-1992.

Logan Kensing 2016.

Tigers players who passed away:

Rufe Gentry 1943-1944, 1946-1948.

Baseball Reference
 
MID-SEASON SURVEY: TEAM MVP.
Totally Tigers

We are taking this holiday week to assess the first half of the Tigers 2024 season. Every day, we will pose a new question for readers to consider and then cast their votes. Of course, comments that address the day’s topic (max of 3 sentences) are always welcome.
Here is today’s poll:

Who is the team's MVP so far this year?

1. Kerry Carpenter

2. Riley Greene

3. Tarik Skubal

VOTE
 
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